UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
LOOK OUT FOR GRIPPE
NUMBER 68
Warning and Instructions for Prevention Issued by Health Committee
A second epidemic of the gripe or a flaring up of the first is occurring again among the students at the University. One case gives promise of going into pneumonia. According to reports there are fifty people dying in Chicago daily from complications of the gripe. The disease is seldom fatal but the ease with which it runs in pneumonia, meningitis and heart affections makes it most dangerous. As there is no specific cure for the new member of the University Health Committee has offered the following directions toward preventing others from contracting the disease.
WATCH THROAT AND MOUTH
HOW TO AVOID THE GRIPPE
HOW TO AVOID THE GRIPE "The first essential in the prevention of gripe is to avoid contact with infected people or with carriers of the disease. Practically it may be in either of the two classes. While it is impossible to evade all personal contact yet this should be reduced to a minimum. Public gatherings such as are seen at the moving picture shows are the common place for the gripe distribution. Hence avoid all crowds.
WATCH THROAT AND MOUTH
"As the germs reach the body in all probability through the nose and the mouth, all toilet articles used should be most carefully cleaned and guarded. In no instance should they come in contact with similar articles belonging to others. Atomizing the nasal cavities with some such antiseptic solution as Dobell's both morning and night and a deep gargle of the throat with some efficient antiseptic solution twice daily are highly recommended in this way that have gained access to the mouth before they have set up the morb processes.
"Plenty of fresh air, daily exercise, attention to the organs of excretion are the other essentials in the avoidance of the gripe. Of course one cannot guarantee an escape to all who follow out this method of prevention but the possibilities of contraction are greatly lessened.
DON'T SPREAD THE DISEASE
"As there is no specific cure for the patient with the influenza all efforts should be directed toward preventing others from contracting the disease. After it has been determined or suspected that a person has an attack of the gripe it is much more important than treating the illness, at least in the house than if it were an ordinary acute cold. Also it is more essential that he or she keep isolated and that measures be taken to keep from spreading the disease by coughing or sneezing, and that he does not swab the nose with fingers, cups and eating utensils as other members of the family. The patient should be prohibited from fondling and kissing children. If the patient is a young child in close contact with mother or nurse, all possible precautions should be taken." The various symptoms of the gripe should be treated as they present themselves.
"Unlike most diseases, la gripe can be likened to a smouldering flame which, apparently extinguished, breaks out here and there at widely separated places without the least apparent injury. It is also located in the mouths of perfectly healthy individuals who are not affected in the least."
Although not serious as far as death is concerned, the doctors are anxious that no epidemic shall start in the University community as it has in many Kansas towns and are trying to treat all cases in isolation. They are also anxious that it breaks down of In gripe is that it breaks down the normal, healthy condition of the body and leaves it a fit subject for disease germs of a more serious nature.
SIX AT HOME WITH GRIPPE
The gripe is keeping many students from classes this week. Many are not able to return to school, having contracted the disease during vacation. A number of professors have sent me letters requesting that We received six letters from students who are out on account of the gripe, this morning," said Mrs. Esterley, secretary to Dean Templin, of the College, who will not be back until February."
Among those who are at home on the sick-list are Miss Marie Dent, junior College from Oswego; Miss Charlotte Boutwell, sophomore College from Denver, Cole Ewart Porke and John Graves, of Hill City.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4, 1916
No Kansan Yesterday
The Daily Kansan issued no paper yesterday.
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JEWELL STUDENTS GIVE
BANQUET TO H. S. SENIORS
JEWELL STUDENTS GIVE
The K. U. students of Jewell county gave a banquet to the high school seniors and alumni of U. U. during the Christmas holidays and a dining room was crowded and extra guests necessary to accommodate the guests.
The banquet was engineered by Lola Brinton, Isaac Jordan and W. E. Woolsey. Those on the program from K. U. were Rea Heath of Kansas City. Fred Campbell, Margaret Butts, Etheli Peters, W. E. Woolsey, of Jewell county, and John Dykes of Lebanon. John Dykes talked on the mill tax.
Geo. O. Foster, who was to have been on the program, was unable to be present.
CONVICTS NAB K. U. MEN
Party of Investigators Kept in Mines During Mutiny
Hear this thrilling story of the recent convict mutiny at the state prison at Lansing as it was told today by Leland D. Fiske, one of the party of eight K. U. students and professors who were in the mine on a tour of inspection Tuesday, December 28, when the outbreak occurred.
"We went into the mine early in the morning, shortly after 5 o'clock," Fiske said. "When the convict miners came to work later at 7:30 o'clock, enclave members would go and diggings where they armed themselves with pick handles. There they reassembled at the foot of the shaft where they stopped the cages and telephoned Warden Goddling that there would be an alert to listen to their demands and to release the fifty men placed in 'solitary' the day before.
"Meanwhile some of the convict leaders showed us where we could hide and be shielded from flying bullets in case the officers descended into the mine and started shooting. We were shown the greatest courtesy by the rebellious convicts probably because some of the students passed around sacks of a well-known brand of smoking tobacco.
"The convicts however kept close watch on the party and did not allow them to go until late in the afternoon and then only after becoming convinced that two professors and a number of students couldn't hurt anybody."
The revolt prevented the party's being allowed to visit the mine the next day. Warden Codling being afraid of the violence might be done the visitors.
NO MORE VISITS
Conditions in the mine, especially the morals of the convicts, were described as unumentable by Fiske. The other members of the party were: Prof.A.C.Terrill and Prof.R.L Grider, Ted Crum, "Slats" Cole, Ben Swency, Harry Fairchild, and Carl Anderson.
GOVERNMENT WANTS TO
KNOW ABOUT WIRELESS
Kenneth Wright, a senior in the School of Engineering, has received a list of questions from the navy department that are sent out in order to gather information on wireless apparatus which he has in operation at his home in Fort Scott.
The same questions are being sent to amateur wireless operators all over the United States in an effort to gain valuable information for the United States Naval Department to be used in time of war. Details are asked in several ways, including when operators in the city, general direction and distance from nearest large city, whether operator has sending or receiving apparatus or both, number of licensed operators, how many could be used in time of war to handle government business, how far set can operators travel to reach sages have been received from, make of set and whether or not operator is on watch both day and night.
Kenneth has been experimenting in wireless telegraphy for several years and has become rather an old hand at the business. He has owned between fifteen and twenty sets and while spending his vacation at his home in Fort Scott he got his set in operation on Sunday afternoon. Leaventow every day. He received messages from as far away as Colon, Panama.
He is a member of the National Wireless Association, of which Mr. Marconi is president, and is a regular wireless "fan."
The holidays did not come as days of rest for all students of the University. In the department of entomology, Fred Poos, Scott Griesa, and Paul Lawson made a two-week's trip throughout thirty-six counties of southern Kansas to study the entomological condition of the wheat. Each man's itinerary included twelve counties. Ruby Hosford tabulated the reports as they were sent in day by day.
SORORITY WOMEN LEAD
Make Higher Percentage of I and II Grades Than Independent Students
Sorority women make a higher percentage of I and II in their work than non-sorority women, while the reverse is true of fraternity and non-fraternity, according to a report made public by Registrar Gus O. Foster today.
Additional figures show that in the Graduate School, senior Medics, senior and junior Fine Arts, and the junior Medics, men make the highest per cent of grades, in the order named.
In the complete tables which follow, the figures given are based on the per cent of I and II grades. The III and IV grades included in making the percentages.
iiversity Average Scholarship
Sorority 81.26
Non-Sorority 80.36
University 67.88
Non-Fraunfrey Women 64.42
Fraunfrey Women 64.42
College Student 58.55
University 67.88
Non-Fraternity 62.38
Colored Women 63.29
Fraternity 68.52
Male Men 65.22
Honorary and Professional Fraternity
Phi Beta Kappa 100.
Senior Male 104.
Phi Gamma Sigma 190.
Phi Delta Phi 86.
Phi Beta 86.26
Phi Delta Kappa 95.01
Phi Delta Phi 86.
Nu Sigma Nu 91.88
Theta Sigma Phi 91.76
Phi Alpha Delta 88.82
Phi Alpha Delta 88.82
Alpha Chi Sigma 78.35
Alpha Chi Sigma 78.35
Nu Sigma Nu 78.35
Sigma Delta Chi 60.27
Theta Tau 61.58
Phi Alpha 61.58
National Sororities.
Phi Beta Phi 89.52
Kappa Alpha Theta 89.52
Alpha Delta Pi 85.64
Kappa KappaGamma 83.77
Alpha Chi Omega 70.9
Delta Chi Omega 70.9
National Fraternities.
Vicex 71.34
Phi Tau Delta 69.49
Beta Tau Phi 67.25
Phi Kappa Phi 67.25
Phi Gamma Delta 60.18
Alpha Tau Omega 67.25
Sigma Chi 59.12
Lapin Sigma 50.63
Phi Kappa Alpha 50.63
Phi Delta Theta 52.29
Phi Kappa 52.29
Local and Fraternitees.
Allemann University 84.85
Kmgh 79.48
Schaeomac 77.08
Ui Upsilon 77.08
The Franklin's 76.09
Ui Upsilon 76.09
Sigma Phi Sigma 55.03
Knfa 55.03
Non-Sorority Women.
Graduation 94.57
Senior Medics 93.12
Senior Fine Arts 93.12
Sophomore Fine Arts 89.55
Senior College 88.86
Junior College 88.86
Junior College 88.86
Special Fine Arts 89.59
Junior Pharmacy 75.58
Sophomore College 75.58
Colorated Women 63.39
Female Pharmacy 60.21
Senior Medicine 52.11
Non-Fraternity Men
Special Medicine 100.
Senior Medics 100.
Graduate 85.91
Junior Fine Arts 85.91
Junior Law 84.01
Special Law 84.01
Special Law 84.01
Senior College 81.74
Senior Law 81.74
Special Fine Arts 75.08
Senior Engineers 75.08
Senior Colleges 72.21
Sophomore Medicals 68.23
Sophomore Medicals 68.23
Special College 69.24
Junior Pharmacy 57.06
Freshman Engineering 51.53
Freshman Medicine 51.56
Special Engines 43.25
Freshman Engineering 43.25
Junior Pharmacy 53.71
Freshman Medicine 53.71
Sophomore Pharmacy 71.14
Governing and Executive Boards.
Y. W. C. A. 92.73
Y. W. C. A. 92.73
Debating Council 85.94
Men's Student Council 78.34
Daily Kansan Staff 73.28
Class Societies.
Mathematica Club 97.65
Botanical Club 90.04
Biomedical Club 80.04
Entomological Club 78.33
Sachome (Senior) 76.91
Histology (Senior) 76.91
Oxalis (Junior) 60.87
Pneumatian (Junior) 60.87
Debating and Literary Societies.
Juripendure Club 60.04
Club Club 60.04
Ceruleans Franchise 80.04
Debating Society 76.33
Kebab Debating Society 74.81
Dramaatic Club.
German Dramatic Club 98.82
Australian Dramatic Club 75.13
Musical Organizations.
Girls Glee Club 67.61
Girls Glee Club 67.61
Orchestra 60.22
Mandolin Club 61.12
Athletic Teams.
Tennis 94.88
Base Ball 69.00
Football Club 55.15
Basketball Club 54.82
The Botany Club will hold its next meeting tomorrow night in Room 201 Snow Hall at half past seven. Miss Marie Shade will speak on the "Breed of California and Their Value in the Interpretation of Past Climates."
Willard Benton, sophomore College,
helped in the Christmas rush in the
city post office of New York.
Guy Waldo, a senior, spent the two weeks visiting relatives in Vermont.
SHAKESPEARE HIS THEMF
Henry Lawrence Southwick to Appear in Classical Recital Tomorrow
Henry Lawrence Southwick of Boston is the next number in the series of University lectures. He will appear tomorrow at 4:30 in Fraser Hall.
"Frank Speight was a marked success, but we think we have in Henry Lawrence Southwick, a number which will be no less pleasing," said F. R. Hamilton, of the convocation and lecture committee.
Mr. Southwick's selections are all classical. Expressions of appreciation from prominent men and women indicate that one may discover, after hearing Southwick, a fondness for productions, of which he was not aware.
Edwin D. Mead, editor of the New England Magazine, says of Mr. Southwick:
"Henry Lawrence Southwick was the first Old South prize essayist in 1881, writing one of the most thoughtful essays that has ever been written since the prizes were instituted. He has been invited to a place in the Old South course of lectures, and the lecture he delivered on Paulick Henry was recognized as such best in his field by such men as Fake, John D. Long, and Edward Everett Hale had part. He had something to say and he said it with clearness, with directness, with grace, and with power, holding the closest attention of an audience that is critical and hard to hold."
READY FOR BASKETBALL
Manager Hamilton Enlarges Seating Capacity of Gymnasium Other Improvements
A crowd of twelve to fourteen hundred people can be easily accommodated in Robinson Gymnasium for a basketball game since improvements in the court make it easier. Manager Hamilton has installed fourteen sections of reserved seats on the main basketball floor and the balcony will seat about 700. This seating capacity together with standing room will be sufficient for all the games his year.
The reserved sections are slightly larger than last year and at least 650 can be seated on the main floor. These also will be sufficient for the crowd at the indoor track meets. The sections are painted white which is an improvement over the bare boards that were used last year.
A change also has been made in Manager Hamilton's room. A section of the main floor has been walled up so that it will be used as part of the office. This also allows another section of reserved seats to be placed where the big door opens and the apperent floor is rub on the office floor also improves the looks of the Athletic Association's headquarters.
On the outside of the gymnasium a new cement walk has been laid to the door on the boys' side of the building to replace the old board walk. This caused the removal of the last board walk on the campus.
WOMAN HELPER COMING
Co-Eds To Have Opportunity Of
Discussing Choice of Occupations
Frances Cummings, manager of the New York Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations, is to speak to the young women of the University, January 17, in the chapel. Miss Cummings will tell of the work of the bureau, which is conducted under the auspices of the Association of Collegiate Alumni for college women in occupations other than teaching. There are increasing opportunities for women in many interesting types of employment.
The local A. C. A., who are bringing Miss Cummings here, wish to arrange a number of personal interviews between Miss Cummings and any young woman at the University considering the question of choice of occupation. If Miss Cummings' time permits, these opportunities will be given to all who care to apply for them. Young women wishing appointments leave their names with Alice Winston, Fraser 201, president of the A. C. A.
Operetta To Rehearse Tonight
the operetta, "The Spanish Gypsies," to be given by the girl's glee club will rehearse tonight at seven o'clock in Fraser Hall Chapel. The operetta is composed by Vince and it is especially adapted to when women Prof. W. B. Downing says that there will be about thirty voices in the operetta and it will be given some time in the early spring.
K. U. SOCIOLOGIST ATTENDS NATIONAL ASS'N MEETIN
Dean F. W. Blackmar spent the last week of the Christmas holidays attending the tenth annual meeting of the American Sociological Society, in Washington, D.C. Seven other sociological, and an academic meeting holds meetings at the same time and place, and several joint meetings were arranged.
The general subject of the program of the American Sociological Society was "War and Militarism in Their Sociological Aspects." Papers were read and discussions held by many of the noted sociologists in the country.
Dean Blackmar also attended the meetings of the American Association of Law Schools.
K.U. STUDENTS BANQUET County Clubs Have Christmas Feeds for H. S. Students and Graduates
banquets given in honor of high school seniors and University of Kansas alumni, characterized the activities clubs during the Christmas holidays.
The Allen County Club gave a rousing banquet for about sixty-five, including Robert Lewis, and Lefty Sproull were K. U. alumni who addressed the meeting.
Between forty and fifty attended the Greenwood county feed, and heard Jim Smyth tell of the good old days in North College and Fraser. Smyth was in school when the change was made. He added that he had addressed new Fraser Hall. John A. Edwards also addressed the Greenwood meeting.
Wilson county had a very successful banquet. One hundred and five were present, forty-five of whom were high school seniors. Merits of a university education and 'one at K. U. in pairism, were expressed; W. D. Pawlanski Sheedy, Lois Risinger, "Bill" Cady, and James Butin.
Other banquets have probably been given out over the state, but reports have not yet beet turned in to Willard President of the County Club Union.
"I was surprised," said Glasco, "at the enthusiasm which county bank banquets arouse among the high school seniors and alumni I attended. I have present at Billy Greenfield County Bank, and it seems to me that they do more for the University than any other one thing. Old grads hear a few K. U. stories and memories of the good times on the Hill come back to their mind as they start thinking about what they and do for the benefit of the school.
"The only trouble with our present county organizations," continued Glasco. "is that they leave some loose ends. We want to gather them up by next year and when the mill tax comes before the legislature we'll be able to put it through, if at least half the alumni of the state support it.
"In order that our campaign be better organized, I would suggest," said Glazo, "that every president of a county organization, whether elective or not, report to me, so that I may be able to give notification of Union meetings."
KANSAS RANKS THIRD IN
TRAINED ENTOMOLOGISTS
In a recent article in the Journal of Economic Entomology by W. E. Britton of New Haven, Conn., the number of species collected for this service by the universities and colleges of the country is shown. Kansas is third among the state universities, following only Cornell and Ohio State, in the list of all schools in this work.
Among those in public service who received their training here are: C. S. Sandon, State Entomologist of Oklahoma; P. A. Glenn, Chief Entomologist of Kentucky; B. M. Aldrich, State Entomologist of Louisiana; J. M. Aldrich, W. T. Emery, T. Scott Wilson, H. R. Jennings, all of the staff of the Chief Entomologist of the United States; P. W. Classen and W. J. Cobb, Chief Entomologist and Miss Ruby Hosford, B. P. Young, Raymond Beamer, and F. W. Poos, at this University.
Where Flowers Bloom
Dean Olin Templin, who with his family has been spending his annual vacation in Florida since Thanksgiving, will not return for at least three months of school with his daughter, Mrs. Herbert Rankin, 70%, on her large orange farm at Brandon, which is situated ten miles from the western coast of Texas. His daughter Mantjehave has returned and has taken up her school work.
At a recent meeting the student council at Oregon went on record as disapproving the honor system, giving as their reason the fact that desire for the system has come from the students up to the present time.
CUPID STRIKES AT K. LU
General Dan Cupid Makes Brave Attack and Catches Ft. Uread Unprepared
BULLETIN
Fort Oread, (by special correspondent from the front). The latest addition to the ranks of the wounded are Ida Perry of Kansas and Betsy Perry of Wisconsin. Perry announced her engagement at the Theta house last night. She is a junior College and a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Carson is an alumnus and graduated from the University last year. He is a member of the Pi Upsilon fraternity.
General Dan Cupil, taking advantage of the defenseless conditions at the University of Kansas, maneuvered a successful attack upon Fort Oread during the Christmas holidays and carried off many prisoners. Combatants are carrying secret wounds as on General Culdic but are heroically concealing the fact that they were hit. However the list of captives is large, and it is believed that all the wounded have not yet been discovered.
SHORTY FOOLED US ALL
The first intimation of the attack by General Cupid's forces came Friday night, December 17, at the Beta Turkey Pull, when Shorty Strothers, football hero, let the secret out that he was a married man. Strothers and Miss Helen Tappan, sophomore College, have been married since October 1. Miss Tappan is well known on the Hill, and since the announcement of her engagement last spring has spent much of her time driving across Missouri to watch him down as the "Fierce Arrow." Mr. and Mrs. Strothers will take a cottage down town and will finish the year's school work here. They expect to make their home in Kansas City where Strothers will practice law with his father.
General Cupid in his attack seems to have made the athletic department his objective for there the losses were heaviest. Coach Herman Olcott was the next victim to be discovered. Coach Olcott, whose engagement was announced early in December, was married to Miss Evelyn Dutton Fog of Portland, Maine, on Wednesday, December 22. Mrs. Olcott will be an addition to the musical with I I Love You, for which she will high contrast her and studied under Madam Milka Terina. She has quite a reputation in the cast as a concert singer. Mr. and Mrs. Olcott will be at home in Lawrence after February 1.
The faculty suffered another loss in the marriage of Mr. Clifford Seibel, instructor in the department of chemistry. Mr. Seibel was married to Miss Ruth Bowdle of Independence, Mo., during the holidays. Professor Seibel has been in the Chemistry department for the last five years.
WARD HATCHED FALLS WOUNDED
WARD HATCHER FALLS WOUS
Ward Hatcher, of the fame,
he was playing at the University
and playing in stock, is another
of the victims of General Cupid's
campaign. Hatcher was married in
Cherryvale to Margaret Lewis, a
member of his company. They have
joined the "Two Merry Tramps" company out of McPherson, and will both be on the road for the rest of the winter. Ward Hatcher was a charter member of Kappa Sigma, a UU and a member of the old Sasakn club,
where he was K. U.'s bright star in
dramatics, and after leaving school he went on the road for awhile. He has coached plays, played stock,
played for the films, and now he is
married.
The last names added to the list of wounded are those of Miss Stella Stubbs and Dutch Urlaub, both K. U. person. Miss Stubbs is a member of Alpha Delta Pi and Mr. Urlaub is a member of Delta Phi and the drawn from school. The wedding is to be some time in the summer and they will make their home here.
EPIDEMIC FOLLOWS BATTLE
As the result of the attack, many of the students on the Hill are suffering from dislocation of the fraternity pin, a common malady, but one from which the victims often recover. The damage wounded is not being published.
Reminiscent of a marriage of two years ago, is the announcement of the birth of a son, Ira, to, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Buzick, of Kansas City, Ms. Buzick was Miss Phyllis Buzick who received her master's degree here two years ago,Mr. Buzick was a member of the Kansas chapter of Kappa Sigma.
MORNING PRAYERS
Prof. C. A. Shull will lead chapel tomorrow morning instead of Dean Sayre. His subject is: "The Spirit of the University and Vacation."
SUBJECTS
Wednesday, "Sunrise,
Thursday, "A Fatal Dime,
Friday, "Sunset."