UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11, 1915.
NUMBER 44.
K.U.Expects Every Man and Woman in Church Sunday
OLD TIME PEP ON OREAD
Students Are Filled With Enthusiasm—Two Rallies for Tomorrow
"Beat Nebraska" is the slogan that is sending the oid Kansas spirit far above par. Coat lapels are adored by fans, and posters pasted over the campus screamed "Beat Nebraska" to the students as they came on the Hill this morning and Beat Nebraska" in "present" when the proffs call the roll.
Fraternities and clubs are busy making big plans and are waiting expectantly for the crowd of friends and alumni that will sweep down for a visit to K. U. tomorrow and Saturday.
K. U. Has a "Hunch"
But best of all is that "hunch" that this is a year for Kansas, which is spreading like wild fire around Mt. Oread. That the K. U. team is full of the "old fight" and can beat Neil Oread, who is just jerking for conversation is, "Who will be the hero?" Many look for some unheard of star to blossom forth while others predict that Rebe, Gillespie, Fast, Nelson or one of the other K. U. teams will break loose and pull a "Tommy Johnson" that will beat the Cornhuskers.
Rally in The Morning "Mac's" band will play "Boola" and "Crimson and the Blue" and Gaitskill will direct the vells.
and "Crimson and the Blue" and Gaitskill will direct the yells. Following the speech making affair in the gym at which the football team will be seated on the platform the squid will march our first and last passes to the door to give the rooters an opportunity to see the team at close range and to give them a word or two of personal encouragement.
Will Burn Corn
The seat of action will then move to the east side of Fraser Hall where a monster bon-fire will be started. Corn stalks will be provided if the weather is not rainy to help in making the celebration more appropriate.
Olcott Will Speak
Tomorrow night K. U. spirit will again be rampant and the coaches and Glen hope for the biggest disgrace for Kansas seen for years. The town will be full of graduates of the "good old days" who need to be shown and from the present indications it is the belief tomorrow's rallies will be record breakers.
The rally will start at 7 o'clock in the gym and center around the talk to the students by Coach Olcott. It has been at the University over the past year that he will be his first appearance before the student body. What he has to tell the Kansas rooters is not known but a clear cut explanation of the situation will be given not only this year but in the future undoubtedly be unfolded. Coach Hamilton and Pat Crowell will be the other speakers for the evening. The band and the Men's Glee Club will be involved, too. The after-rally will be somewhat of an impromptu affair with no special program except a parade over
And a Torch Parade
**Place:** Immediately after the evening rally the seniors and alumni will start the torch parade down town to Eagles' Hall where the senior-alumni smoker will be held. Each senior is expected to make a torch for him, then to make alumni. A description of how to make the torches is printed elsewhere.
Tickets for the smoker are now on sale by the members of the committee, at fifteen cents. Extensive plans have been made to preserve parts of the old grads. Besides talks by some of the faculty members a few of the alumni are on the schedule for remarks. Plenty of "smokes," cider, wine and sandwiches will be provided.
Ray Hemphill, '19 College spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas city visiting his parents and playing around.
"BILL" Stewart, '19 Engineer, visited friends in Topeka Saturday and Sunday. Bill says he was so well known that he is going back again soon.
Mrs. Eustache S. Brown will give a tea for the visiting alumnae Friday afternoon at her rooms in Fraser Hall. The visiting mothers of the students will be welcomed.
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STUDENTS HARVEST
WHEAT IN VACATION
Harvest time and the big Egest Park conference will combine this year in furnishing western Kansas farmers with efficient help and metamorphose students into whest shockers and barge men. A number of student work on the way, and on their return thus making expenses for a vacation and an inspirational meeting.
HELP FRESHMEN WOMEN
Big Sisters at K. U. Aid First Year Students During Entire Year
Nearly two hundred freshman women have been cared for in each of the last two years by the Big Sister Committee and the Big Sisters of the University. Last year Evelyn Strong, daughter of the Chance lor, put the movement on its feet and gave it a start in the University that has placed it among the institutions that the University Kansas treasury had received. The university was stared several years ago but not until last year when Miss Strong took up the work, did it gain the position of importance it now holds.
When the name of a girl intending to enter the University reaches the Registrar in the summer, it is given her the name of some responsible upper-grammar girl, given the girl's name at once. The University woman writes to the prospective student, helps her in finding a room, and a boarding place, and advises her in any way that the girl might find her a place every way to treat the new girl as she would a younger sister entering school. In case the freshman has no friends in town, the Big Sister meets her at the train in the fall, takes her on a trip, assists her during enrollment, and advises her in her course of study.
The social life of the freshman woman is in a large way directed by her Big Sister. Some of the closest friendships in K. U. have been formed between big and little sisters. The other two, for whom the teacher by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. are, for the new people of the school. Big Sisters take their young charges to these affairs, to all the University events, and to the different places that are of student interest. For the first weeks of school, they meet much companionship and help from her Big Sister as she desires.
Later in the year, the older women act as advisors to the new women, help them in their studies and advise them to the phone line. The freshman woman who accepts her Big Sister in the right way, may find her of untold value.
Receipts Require Adding Machine
So many tickets to the Kansas-Nebraska game have been sold that Manager W. O. Hamilton felt that he had to have an adding machine with which to add up the receipts. As a consequence he borrowed the one曼大锦院 would another could boast, with the threat that if it was taken from him by that department he would call in his football players to regain it and protect him while he uses it. As a direct result of these spirited tactics, a brand new adding machine made its appearance in the department of economics and the old machine is seen there no more.
The New Y. M. Secretary
Hugo Wedell, who was chosen secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. on the resignation of Conrad Hoffmann.
The Reputation of the University
That's the common charge. Ever where in the state one stumbles upon the charge.
Without honor at home. Godless
Here and there ministers in churches publicly pleading against the sending of young men and young women to the University. Because the institution is godless.
In the face of such facts as these:
A chancellor whose heart is in the work of the churches. Himself a loyal churchman.
A faculty concerned with the vital things of life. Many of them active in church life. Teachers of church Bible classes.
Hundreds of students at the services of the churches. Hundreds of them in church classes. Active in the various young people's societies.
Flourishing Christian associations.
No community in the state of Kansas where so large a percentage of a community has real regard for the church.
A finer form of Christian loyalty.
In the conference that calls together each year the men who are doing religious work in state universities there is a feeling that the University of Kansas is furtheralong than most state institutions. That the religious atmosphere is cleaner here than it is in most state universities.
And there are some who feel that religious interests are upon a higher plane here than they are in most denominational colleges where so much is taken for granted.
And then to be branded godless!
The irony of it!
The Jayhawkers, under the instruction of Coach Patterson, are exited for a game Saturday meet. Captain Roukey is present holds the Missouri Valley record in this sport but he says that he'd been in the discard after this week.
STUDENTS TO GO TO CHURCH READY FOR HOMECOMING
Hundreds of Students and Alumni Will Take Advantage of Special Programs Entertainment for Old Grads Has Been Arranged and Pep Will be Unrestrained
Special services for the students of the University are being planned for the Student Day at the Lawrence churches Sunday. The different churches, through the efforts of their student pastors, are making plans for services that will be of particular interest to the University public.
The plan at present is to have the runners leave McCook Field about 2 o'clock so that the finish of the five games would be delayed for minutes before the game starts. A strong finish is locked for especially by the Kansas squad which has been working faithfully for the past four weeks, and who practically insure a trip to the Western Conference meet the following week at Madison, Wisconsin.
The ministerial association has given over the plans for this day to the student pastors and the Methodist church has already made arsene for the evening sermon to be preached by three University students.
The Student Day at the churches follows the Kansas-Nebraska game and owing to the large number of visitors and former students who will be in town it is expected to be the greatest church day of the year.
Manager Hamilton Has Received No Word From Other Conference Schools
THE VALLEY MEET MAY FAIL
In the event that no schools send teams there will be "easy pickings" for the Jayhawkers. The meet will be run against time and Kansas declared the winner. But this will no be the case for Hamilton attribute the lack of entries to delay or misunderstanding.
With the Missouri Valley cross country meet only two days off not a single entry had been received by Manager Hamilton up until noon today. The preliminary entrance lists of the men eligible to run were filled by Michigan. Ames earlier in the season but no return of their coming has been received.
These two schools are the only ones expected now for the report has that Nebraska did not consider her team in the running. Ames defeated Missouri easily at the time of the Ames-Missouri game on the form." course. The time in this dual meet was 281-184, and the second slower than the Missouri Valley record established by Rodkey last year on the same course.
The home-coming alumni of the University of Kansas at the time of the annual Jayhawker-Cornhuskier struggle will find that their return has been anticipated, and preparations made for their enjoyment during their short stay. The outstanding differences over former students see clear class arranged a big smoker and mixer for the men, and Mrs. Eustace Brown, the advisor of women, is preparing a tea for the women.
The purpose of these affairs is two fold, according to C. A. Randolph, the senior class president. The first is to assure the returning grads of a place where they know each other and their friends and class-mates for a visit chat over old times. The second purpose is to get the present student body better acquainted with the old K. U. students, and thus to improve the understanding and good will between the men. It is hoped by this effort that the breach seems to exist between certain alumni and the students.
Friday will be a day of life to be compared only with the day following. In the morning there will be a chance to shake hands with a student in the University is to be given a chance to shake hands with every man on the football squad and to express his confidence in them. In the afternoon he will be given some time in the afternoon.
In the evening there will be another big rally, which will be followed by a torch light parade. Experiments are being conducted to make these torches out of corn husks, and they will be held the alumni smoker, which is to be made an annual affair. Here agrain because of the Cornhuskater battle on the morrow, corn cobs will be used in the form of pipes to show the ease with which the Jayhawkers can handle the Nebraska emblems themself. They will also be making and renewing accomplishments, but this work will not be a monotonous ordeal as it will be broken up by a snappy program.
Condition Still Critical
The condition of Ruth Gibson, who is critically ill at the University Hospital as a result of taking a biopsy for a headache tablet, is about the same. When questioned about her this morning, the head nurse at the University hospital said that she had no changes there yet, but there were no changes either way.
Missouri Club to Meet
The Missouri Club meets this evening in Fraser 110 to adopt a constitution, and to plan entertainment for visitors from the home-state that come for the Nebraska game. Other matters of importance that are not definitely worked out will also be brought up.
BUDDING JOURNALISTS GET A TASTE OF REAL THING
Mr. Merle Thorpe and the following students from his class in Editorial Problems and Policies, left this morning for Topeka, where they will report the meetings of the Kansan State Teachers' Convention: W, S. Cady, Rail Clapper, Ralph Ellis, Nigleia Votha Mhammer, Herbert Howard, E. Hammerton, McGuire, Maureen McKurran, Paul Rathfon, Guy Scrimsor, Charles Sweet, Lloyd Whiteside, Mildred Eppard.
STUDENTS STUDY BIBLE
Many Courses in Religious Subjects Offered for Undergraduates at University
If the Bible chairs and Biblical courses offered at the University of Kansas were really a part of the state institution they would form one of the strongest departments on the Hill. These courses, while not a part of the real University organization, are an intrinsic part of its life.
The two 4 buildings devoted exclusively to the religious work of the University are Myers Hall and Westminster Hall. Both are located just off the campus. Both are located just in 1901 by the Board of Home Missions of the Christian Church. It contains a large auditorium, an extensive and valuable Biblical Library, Y. M. C. A. headquarters, aside from office and study rooms. Westminster Hall, the gift of a Lawrence man, was established in 1910 for the purpose of giving free, non-sectarian instruction in Biblical and ailed subjects to the students of the University.
These Bible classes are not managed by any hapazhard arrangement, but there are two buildings exclusively devoted to them and to other similar work. The courses are of a nature covering definite ground. The faculty consists of the University pastors of the various ocal churches.
In these two buildings are held hall, a score of classes every week, which take up many phases of Biblical and religious questions. "The Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ," "The People of God," "Hebrew Poetry," and various mission studies are samples of the course offered. Another course having a large enrollment is that of "Comparative Religions," which makes an investigation of the world's religious groups. The course includes Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Christianity, and their founders.
The faculty in charge of these religious studies are University pastors of the Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches of Lawrence.
Aside from these courses held in Myers and Westminster Halls a great many special classes are held at the various fraternity, sorority and college societies. A church has a special course of studies for the students of that faith or preference. These latter classes are as a rule held Sunday noons, and the teachers for the most part are members of the regular University faculty.
Thus for the students of the University, who desire a religious as well as a secular education there are many opportunities. The success of these courses and the interest of the students in the study by the hundreds enrolled in them. Some classes gain an attendance of between seventy-five and a hundred, which may well be considered remarkable, since there is no credit offer. Another advantage of attendance is the desire to gain a better knowledge of the Bible.
OLCOTT SAYS "ALL OUT"
Chancellor In St. Joseph
Chancellor Frank Strong appeared before the Commerce Club of St. Joseph, Mo., Wednesday afternoon and spoke on "Some Questions, New Developments" in the principal of the high school at St. Joseph from January 1888 to June 1892 and was introduced to the Commerce Club by a former student who met with him. He returned while he was principal. He returned to Lawrence Wednesday night.
The new University constitution, which was adopted by the University Senate two years ago and which has just been passed by the University Board, was considered at a meeting of the Administration Board here last Tuesday. Final action will be taken November 20.
Consider New Constitution.
Coach Expects 1500 Students on McCook for Final Practice Tomorrow
Coach Olcott wants at least 1500 students on the field Friday night, when the gates are to be thrown open and the players come in time since the Washburn game, so that the students may see for themselves how the squabook looks. Joe Gatski will be there and he intends to play the game there and as if the big game had started.
"The squand is full of the Kansas spirit to win," said Coach Occlott last night, "but they are going to need every additional ounce of fighting spiritting that the University can give them; and I want as many on the field to cheer them as possible. You have to have been putting in some awful licks. Neither are cheering to stop when the scrimage is over. The town ought to ring with a Rock Chalk for a good long while afterward.
"If the Big noise keeps the boys awake, I'll take them off somewhere, where they can hear a pin when it clicks, and we can go to the other thing later. I have just the right place in mind. I intend to put them to bed early, and if any man of them is doing anything but pounding his ear after I say 'go to sleep' then I will stick with him. Will it "rock"-chalk, why I'll know the reason why. There is more than one way for a man to get his ear pounded; and we're going to win this game, so that we can be defeat in a fashion that can be almost as proud of as if we had won.
"There's a kind of defeat, you know, that really isn't defeat at all. I remember an old Confederate soldier who was making a speech before some other old veterans on Decoration Day.
"Those Yanks didn't lick us, he shoved them, our ourselves licked us, we knew."
I want to see 1500 at the practice
yard," and the coach shook his
forefinger.
"That's the idea exactly, with the spirit we win either way. I guess that old fellow must have graduated at K. U.
Chancellor to Toneka
The practice of taking the team out of town for a rest was abandoned a few years ago, why no one knows. Coach Olcott has revived it.
Chancellor Frank Strong will attend both the State Teachers' Convention and the reunion of all Union teachers in Kansas Teachers at Topoka this fall. Frank Strong is president of the Schoolmaster's Club, which organization includes on its roster principals, superintendents and teachers in the state. On Friday afternoon PKPD Sunday night, following church services in the First Baptist church.
Churches Will Count
The churches of Lawrence will make a count of the number of persons that attend church Sunday. Six, five, and one hundred are the Presbyterian, Baptist, Episcopal, Congregational, Methodist, and Christian will seat, comfortably 4,500 persons. Besides these six there are twelve others whose attendance will probably seat as many. Therefore if Lawrence churches are filled the attendance will be about 9,000; and if they are only three-fourths of the attendance will be about 6,800.
MORNING PRAYERS
Leader, Dr. Andrea Bard, pastor of the First Lutheran church, Kansas City
Subjects
Friday, "Inspiration."
"The reason we do not recognize the Infinite is because He is all around us," said Dr. Andreas Bard this morning. "In Him we have our being. The human being is unceasingly asking for the truth. We cannot ask for it is chaos or it is Christ. It is what man to go to God, then God must come to man. God can only make himself known to us when he comes down to us in a human being like ourselves; so God speaks to us with a human voice through Christ. The man who becomes full of darkness. When our friends forsake us, then we shall find Christ waiting to receive us."