UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
ARE AFTER THE FACTS
Chapel Committee Send Out Questionaire to Feel Religious Pulse of Students
DO YOU WANT RELIGION?
Or Do You Want Religion—For The Other Man?
Do you want a daily, religious chapel service that will get you out of your house and give dawn and give you an ample space to show just what your religion is worth?
Or are you strong for religion—for the other fellow?
Or would you do away with daily religious service altogether?
Where do you stand, anyway?
The chapel committee has taken the warpaint. It is out for facts. When it comes back it is going to have a lot of them. It is sending out to all students in the University the following letter and questionnaire:
February 14, 1916.
To Students of the University.
You are willing, of course, to give at least ten minutes of your time for the good of the University—five minutes to read this letter and five minutes to mark your reentry and drop it into a University (not a U. S.) mail box.
Last year an eight o'clock chape service was established as a public recognition of religion in the life of University and as an agency for develop students and faculty. No record was made of the attendance last year and so we have no definite bsis for comparison with the attendance during the semester just closed. An accurate estimate of the last semester and the average attendance was seventy-four. In planning its work for the present semester the Committee desires very much to find out if the attendance last semester represents a number of students and faculty who responded upon to support a seryt-
The Committee has tried to keep the services up to a high standard. All of the leaders have been able men and some of them have been men of exceptional ability. Through the Kansan and by posted notices, publicity in newspapers regarding leaders and subjects. That is how to maintain a simple religious service without "special features" or "special" advertising.
Do you believe that such a service ought to be maintained? If so, are you able to do your part toward supporting it or are you opposed to such a service? These are questions regarding which it is important that we know your attitude. Do you not give us the desired information, you enclosed card and MAIL IT NOW?
Very truly yours,
THE CHAPEL COMMITTEE,
THE QUESTIONAIRE
Mark an X in the square opposite the statements which indicate your attitude.
I favor a daily chapel service
that allows us to report it by
attending an average
I favor a daily chapel but am not willing to support it by attending.
w offering a daily chapel and am
lading to attend, but it is impossible
I am indifferent as to whether
or not a chapel service is mainl
tained.
I am opposed to a daily chapel service.
(Your name)
"We want the facts," said Prof. U. G. Mitchell, chairman of the committee, in discussing the matter today, and we hope the students will be able to find information. We want to know how many believe in such a service to the extent of supporting it, how many believe in it theoretically only and how many believe in it openly indifferent or opposed, when the question is put clearly before them.
A RELIGIOUS SERVICE
"Although our committee is called the 'Chapel Committee' and the 'Morning Prayers' is currently referred to as 'Morning Chapel', it is, of course, not the same as our old-time 'Chapel' which we know in many ways a crowded house) and not the same as the 'Chapel' at many other institutions. In such 'Chapel' services
religion generally occupies but a fraction of the time. Our 'Morning Prayers' is solely and entirely a religious service.
TAKES STAMINA
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1916.
"We knew, when this service was established, that it would not appeal to all students, and that it would require some stamina to get out to a daybreak service when the thermometer dropped below zero. But with these considerations, the attendance she large as we had hoped for, and some of the committee think that many of the students have not been reached by the methods of publicity heretofore employed. In order to remove all of this respect and to secure accurate information to which to base our plans for the remainder of the year, we are sending this letter to every student.
REPLIES CONFIDENTIAL
"The information obtained is meant for the use of the committee only but possibly some of the general results may be given out. We hope that each student will sign the reply in the book and sign it on the numbered so that we can identify replies and determine whose cards, if any, fail to return."
Plain Tales from the Hill
Mr. W. W. Lyon of Augusta, visited his sons, Dandridge and Garrett, who are freshmen in the College, Thursday. Mr. Lyon was well pleased with the University and said that he had no idea that the school was as large as it is. He is engaged in playing horses to ship to Europe. He would think that Kansas is at least a second to Kentucky, if they spent a little time looking over the fine stock of the state.
Glenn Swagger, who reads Latin every morning before breakfast as a diversion, says he knows of no better way to do it than the day right. He rises at half past six, and spends an hour reading either Horace, or Virgil.
Oapl Holmes, a senior in the College, is confined to her home at 1042 Tennessee with a well-developed case of la gripe.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary mining fraternity, announces the pledging of Elmer W. Smith, sophomore Engineer, of Norton.
Joyce Brown, College '18, spent the week end with her parents, who live on a farm near Olathe.
Leonard Holben and Lester Dick freshmen Pharmics who are taking chemistry, have fitted up a private laboratory in their room at 1017 Indiana with a complete set of chemicals and apparatus used in chemistry 1. They intend to gain in time and convenience by not having to climb the Hill when they want to put in extra time.
Elmer Smith, has returned to continue his studies on the heliophysicist's left school in October, having on his account of business.
Leonard Holben, a freshman Engineer last fall, who was forced to leave school on account of sickness just before Christmas is now enrolled as a Pharmic. Pharmacy was Holben's first choice; he was simply giving Engineering a try. While at home he persuaded his cousin, Lester Dick, to try K. U. Dick is now a Pharmic, too.
Certain animals are immune to certain diseases, according to F. H. Billings, Professor of Bacteriology. The only animal other than man which will take the measles is the monkey, wich the Professor says, might be considered another proof as to our ancestry.
Warren B. Hanson of Wolf's Book Store, attended several sessions of the Merchants' Short Course. Mr. Hanson recently won a prize for window decorting, offered by the Carter Ink company, but says that he can still learn something about the subject.
The Pi Gamma Sigma sorority entertained Saturday night for the faculty of the department of education and the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity.
Morris Jones, a member of the 11:30 freshman gym class, had serious difficulty in breathing for a minute or two Wednesday when he was hit by a "medicine" ball. H. A. Lorenzo applied respiration methods, and Jones was all right in a few minutes.
H. M. Cowan, a graduate of the College in 1911, and a member of the Delta Tau fraternity, was here visiting the Merchants' Short Course. Mr. Cowan taught the secretary of the Merchants' Association of Abilene. "I enjoyed the week immensely," he said. "The round table with the secretaries certainly very valuable for us." Cowan left Saturday to attend the autumn sale show in Kansas City.
LAWRENCE GETS PLAY
Forbes-Robertson Won't Go To Kansas City Because He Has Already Been There
HIS LAST AMERICAN TOUR
American Theater Will Lose a Great Man and a Great Actor
the reason why Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson is coming to Lawrence instead of Kansas City on February 15, is that he has played in Kansas City already. Like Shakeson, he will appear only once as the rule to play only once in a place. Although he will appear in Topeka and St Joseph, Lawrence is the only town in this part of the country that the Humet." The other towns will see "The Passing of the Third Floor Back" or "The Light That Failed."
Ordinarily when a great artist is to be seen, Lawrence people pay railroad fare to Kansas City; but in this case a large number of Kansas City people are doing their ordering early at the Bowersock. Miss Barbara Wheater, a pianist and artist, of Kansas City, is bringing up a class of art students to see him. An entire class in English literature is coming down from Washburn. A great many of the near-by high schools will have students here also. Mr Sherman Wiggins, of the local school, says that, "the day after tickets are all gone." The sale has been very rapid," he said, "as the public is quick to take advantage of an opportunity like this."
When Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson appears on the stage of the Bowersock as Hamlet, Kansas will see him for the last time—and in his greatest and most famous role. A recent article in the *Bellman* says that Forbes-Robertson offers enormous scope, but for a reason and acting. It has great variety. It passes from grave to gay and then back again. It is popular now, and was very popular in Shakespeare's time, partly because of the references the various topics of the day, but larger than those of humanity at large in one person. Any thinks at all of life thinks he has in himself a certain amount of Hamlet."
It was during his farewell season in London while playing the role that Forbes-Robertson was knighted. On that last night long after the curtain had fallen, and the actor had made a speech, the applause ran on and on all along in the gallery started "Auld Leng." The Forbes-Robertson is now making his farewell tour of America and at the close of the season will retire to his home and his painting—for he is an artist as well as an actor.
WRESTLED AND MADE LOVE
His first visit to America was in 1885 when he led a leading man for Mary Anderson, then the artistic stage. With her he was seen as Pipquion, Romeo, Orlando, Ingoman, and Claude Melnotte. Of his Orlando the critic of the New York World wrote: "The Orlando of Mr. Forbes-Robertson was much the best of several roles. To a most intelligent reading of the novel, it is an advantage of a singularly graceful and athletic figure, and it is saying a great record to that wrestling was quite as good as his love-making."
PLAYERS WHO WERE IN A NIGHT
Players whose names go back to that event night in 1851 John Hare produced Pineiro "The Profilogue" will recall the sensational success Forbes-Robertson achieved in that play. He won in a single night a plate win, rank of English actors and he woke up the most talked of man of the day. From that time on Forbes-Robertson became a prominent figure on the English stage. With Hare he appealed to his fans with Bountiful "Diplomacy," "Castle," Buckingham in "Henry VIII," as Lancelot in "King Arthur," and with Mrs. Patrick Campbell in "Michael the Lost Angel," "For the Crown," "The School for Scandal," and in "Magda" and "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray."
In the spring of 1897 Forbes-Robertson made his first appearances as Othello and Hamlet. The latter ran in the London Lyceum Theater for one season, and has been his greatest success and one of the glories of the English stage.
ANOTHER POP CONCERT
WON FAME IN A NIGHT
In 1902 he produced Kipling's "The Light That Failed" and appeared for the first time in America in Hamlet for The Times of Vienna. In 1908 he undertook the Papez play of *Third Floor Back*, hardly expecting it to be a success. It ran for three years and is at the present included in the Library of Congress's "Hamlet" and "The Light That Failed."
"THIRD FLOOR BACK"
The farewell tour of the English provinces began in the fall of 1911 at Bostington and lasted until March of the war, immediately he hisbast last London son befitting historic London Theater with the plays "Hamlet," "The Merchant
Choral Union Will Give Third Entertainment in Gymnasium February 18
Star Accompanist on Program Mrs. Herman Olcott to Sing
CARL PREYER WILL SING
NUMBER 93.
The third concert of the Lawrence Choral Union will be held in Robinson Symnasmium Thursday, February 18,
at 8:15.
In the program the Choral Union will be assisted by Mrs. Herman Olctt, contralto, who has sung in the New York, Oratario; Mr. Carl A. Downing, bartonist; and Mr. William B. Downing, bartonist; who will attend the weekly chapel in the days when it was held, will remember the crowds that attended when Mr. Preyer appeared. This will be the first appearance of Mr. Preyer since he was a member of the Arthur Nevin will act as conductor and Arthur J. Anderson, as accompanist.
The purpose of this organization, as stated in the editorial columns of the Kansan Friday, is to popularize the importance of college admission. The price of admission for the concert will be only twenty-five cents. The Union hopes that its efforts will meet with the same success as have similar attempts in Kansas City and other large cities.
...Stanford
Chorns.
The program is as follows: God is our Hope and Strength.
Aria, "Amour! viena aider" (from Samson et Dalila) . . . Saint-Saens. M. Herman Olcott Sonata Op. 27, No. 2. . . . Beethoven Adagio Sostenuto. Allegretto. Prostro Ariatto. Mr. Carl A. Preyer "What would I do for my Queen?" (from Opera Esmeralda.) . . . A. Goring Thomas
Intermission
A. Goring Thomas
Mr. William B. Downing
The Day Closes...Sullivan.
Chorus.
(a.) Humoreske . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preyer
(b.) Gavotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gluek Brahms
(c.) Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . De Busy
Mr. Carl A. Preyer
(a.) My Love is Come . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mariziak
(b) My Laddie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thayer
(c) Were I a Prince Egyptian.
(d) A Little Song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chadwick
(m) Mrs. Hare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Voorhis
Ave Verum. . . . .
Herman Olcott
JUNIOR MIXER TO BE HELD
FIOR MIXER TO BE HELD
AT EAGLES WEDNESDAY
The big feature of this year's Junior Smoker to be held at Eagle's Hall next Wednesday evening will be several boxing and wrestling bouts by the University's best athletes. This will take the place of the usually uninteresting work done by outside talent.
Aside from this Bill Weber, chairman of the smoker committee, announces that there will be many surprises on the program. Prof. Merle Thorpe and Prof. H. T. Hill will be the head-liners. Then there will be stunts, cigars, cider and doughnuts.
Tags can be procured from the following men: Blondie Jones, Bill Weber, Earl Nixon, Dick Holden, and Kenneth Uhls.
Chancellor Is Ill
Chancellor Frank Strong is still confined to his home with an attack of the grip that shows indications this morning of developing into bronchitis. The chancellor has been confined to his home for a week now, but expects to be on the hill again in a few days.
The regular meeting of the board of Administration will be held at the office of Chancellor Frank Strong Thursday and Friday. The Board will go to Rosedale Saturday for a meeting there at Bell Memorial Hospital. Nothing except routine business will be brought up.
The Weather
Monday - night, eight and
Tuesday, warmer eastight.
Board Meets This Week
The Weather
of Venice," the *Light That Failed*," the *Passing of the Third Floor Back*, and "Caesar and Cleopatra." This season lasted for eleven weeks, during which the immense theater was packed with wildly enthusiastic crowds. But his London season was paired with him because his last tour of America, a land that he lives and the one that has given him in a great degree his success.
HIS NINTH AND LAST TOUR Forbes-Robertson is now on his ninth and farewell tour of the United States. He will never be seen again on the Air Force theater he will have lost not only a great star but also a great man—with the retirement of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson.
Send the Daily Kansan home
Plain Tales from the Hill
Howard Martin, freshman, who tor
the past two summers has been ad-
vance man for the Redpath-Horner
Chautauquas, of Kansas City, will
again take up his work with them in
June. All Mr. Martin has to do is
to organize and put the town behind
the movement, and see that the talent is properly ad-
venture, and attend to such minor details
make a season successful for the tal-
ent and the company, and then, the
talent does the rest.
The Kappa, Kappa Gamma sorority held initiation Thursday night for the following pledges: Dorothy McCamish, Ruth Foster, Luce Smith, Marjorie Dumm, Ruth Moore, Esther Moore, and Mildred Pitts.
G. G. Wilson, who owns a general merchandise business at Viola, says that anyone, no matter what his line of business, ought to derive great benefit from attending the lectures Short Course. Mr. Wilson is also favorably impressed with what he has seen of the University itself.
L. A. Smith, '18 College, is suffering from a broken nose which he received in a boxing suit in Robin son gymnasium.
Prof. C. A. Dykstra, to judge from his recent utterances in the classroom, is in league with the Engineers to heap calumny upon the heads of the poor defenseless Laws. In giving some instructions to his American Government class Thursday morning regarding the whereabouts of differences, he is reported to have said, "you may be found either in Spooner or the Law. Go first to Spooner, and if the books are in use and everybody busy there, go over to the Law library. They are not busy there."
Miss Helen Keith, who was last year one of the assistant librarians in Spooner, is just out of the Simmons Hospital after an operation for oesophageal cancer. Miss Keith is the daughter of Dr. E. R. Keth of Lawrence.
William "Skully" Waugh. '15 of Eskridge, spent the week-end visiting Lawrence friends, and returned to his home today. He says the oil boom, which has been prevalent in the southwestern part of the state struck Wabausee county and the town where he have leased many acres of land near Eskridge and Council Grove. No drilling has been done yet.
R. S. Potter, a junior in the School of Medicine and a member of the Acacia fraternity, has withdrawn from the University on account of illness.
Among the company of Red Cross nurses and physicians who sailed for London on the Rotterdam, a neutral vessel, Feb. 2, was Miss Odo Kepke, a sister of Herbert Kepple, '19 Engineer. Miss Kepple is a trained nurse, a graduate of Mercy Hospital, Chicago, '14 at which place she has been employed since her graduation. The Red Cross company expect to resume operations enough to secure their uniforms and that they France, where they will take up their work at headquarters situated at about thirty miles from Paris.
Lafe Bressette and Hugh Owens, medical students at the University Hospital at Rosedale, were in Lawrence last week-end for the Phi Bros. Bressette that I went to one of the students that Rosedale this month and he says that all of this semester's beginners are having their taste of K. U. sickness (that is sickness to get back on) and there's a deplorable scarcity of girls that town and the eating place rank far below those here.
The Glee Club will practice Wednesday, February 16 at five o'clock in Fraser 313. This practice will be restricted to the cantata, "The Spanish Gypsies," the parts of which ae been assigned.
The engagement of Tom Mulloy and Ruby Whitcroft was announced at the Kappa Sigma formal Friday night. Ruby Whitcroft, Mu Phi Epsilon, has appeared quite frequently in concerts this year as a vocalist. Tom Mulloy, Kappa Sigma, is president of the Middle Laws.
Allemannia held initiation Friday evening for Marguerite Sowers, Lena Rogers, and Adolph Boese. The initiation was followed by an informal leap year dance. The men report a fine time.
Prof. F. W. Blackmar, chosen as delegate of the First Methodist church of Lawrence, will go to the Methodist conference to be held at Indiana University in March. He will represent the students of the University.
Maurice Darby, junior. College has withdrawn from school in order to assist his father on his farm near Washington.
GUMBINER WINS PRIZE
Is Awarded $50 In Dramatic Club Play Contest—Names is Second
JUDGES COULDN'T AGREE
Award Committee Had Hard Time Choosing Best Play
"Copying the Grape's," by Alton Gumbiner, a middle Law, won the $50 prize offered by the Dramatic Club for the best student play. The play was written and adapted to Arthur A. Names, a special in the College, for "Jimmy Jayhawk"
The Play Conetst Committee has had considerable trouble deciding on the winner, the members of the committee disagreeing on whether it should be awarded to Alton Gumbiner or Arthur Names. Several meetings were held but the committee could not reach a decision until Saturday morning, when after two and one-half hours was decided by a majority vote to give the first prize to Mr. Gumbiner and second prize to Mr. Names.
The judges were: Prof. Arthur MacMurray, Prof. H. T. Hill, Prof. William Wattles, Prof. Willard Wattles, James McNaught, Don Bannett and Dorothy McKown.
"Copying the Grapes," is a farce comedy of college life, full of good local material, with an insight into the material. The plot given briefly is as follows:
A COLLEGE FARCE
A young man who has lost his money on the Nebraska game, writes home for money. His father refuses to send it, so hearing the dramatic club is offering a $50 prize and decides to try for it, although he has never written a play. It is then 11 p.m. and the contest closes at 8 the next morning. He must write all records come to see him, one of whom proves that he heart stopping for an hour to see him on her way to Kansas City.
While they are talking, a burglar appears, takes their jewelry, and keeps them there for some time, then proceeds to smoke the best cigars, the police finally arrive, and instead of taking the burglar, decide to take the jewelery themselves. The student has been busy writing all these lines as they happen, finishes the play by noon, and plays the contest committee, thus defeating the purpose of his rival, who has planned the burglary. The play ends with his being awarded the prize, and writing his sweetheart that he will present at Christmas. It is divided into a prologue, two acts and an epilogue.
SENIORS MAY PRESENT IT
SENIORS MAY PRESENT IT
A meeting of te Senior Play Committee held sometime this week, will decide whether on not the play will be presented by the senior class. The members of this committee are Don Burnett, Dorothy McKown and James McNaught.
MRS. BROWN NOW HAS A
LIST OF 26 CHAPERONES
As a result of invitations sent out by Mrs. Eustace Brown, Adviser of Women, soliciting the wives of the faculty members who would act as chaperones for University dances and social affairs, a list of twentysix is on file in Mrs. Brown's office in Fraser Hall.
These women gladly volunteered to chaperone dances, according to Mrs. Brown, and the matter of securing a chaperone for parties will be simpler from now on. The parties giving the dance invite the chaperones and may find the authorized list at Mrs. Brown's office.
The matter of giving three days notice before the date a dance is scheduled to occur is causing no trouble whatever and Mrs. Brown says that the only difficulty had been in a misunderstanding of the rule. The difficulty of securing a chaperone at a late hour was assigned as the main reason for requiring the three day announcement.
Bess Murphy and Agnes Hertzler were honor guests at a dinner given to celebrate his birthday anniver-
cement of Alpha Omega
Thursday evening. The table were prettily decorated with red and green candles.
MORNING PRAYERS
Week Feb. 14-18
Leaden. Rev. J. B. Hunley, pastor
Laenhoe Jake Christian Church,
Kansas
General theme, "The Higher Life." Daily Subjects;
Tuesday—"The Infusion of Life"
Wednesday—"The Transformation of
Thursday.—'The Transmission of Life'
Friday-"The Glorification of Life."