UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
MAY TEACH NEW COURSE
Several Deans Favor Subject in University History and History
The history and ideals of the University of Kansas may be the basis of a new course if the sentiments of a number of faculty men and students are carried out. This idea has recently been inaugurated in seventh form. It is generally believed that this scheme will create better school spirit.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 28, 1915.
Erasmus Haworth, Professor of Geology." The students of the University should undoubtedly know more than they do about their school. I am in favor of a course that will give the freshmen a thorough knowledge of the aims, history, and work of the University, without being so dual and uninteresting as to cause them to be bored. The amount of credit allowed and the number of lectures to be given naturally lie with the faculty, but it would make the course interesting to have a committee of the students appoint the lecturers, not necessarily all from the faculty, and assign the subject to be covered each time.
When interviewed, those in favor of the plan included the following:
"But I think that the substitution of a course of lectures for the time-honored custom of paddling as a means of instilling college spirit into the freshman, would not be permanent. Young men of college age love and need physical excitement, and they will probably be followed by the introduction of some other form of combat."
F. W. Blackmar, Dean of the Graduate School—"I think a course of study on the "History of the University, its Purpose and Aims" be of great benefit to the students and to the University. However, it appears to me that such a course would involve something more than details of the history of the University. It should include the philosophy or reason for establishing the state university, and particularly the State University of Kansas, and should be made to connect up with the history of Kansas, because the development of the State and the development of the University have so much in common. The person who gives this course should be thoroughly conversant with the history of the State, the history of the University, and the philosophy of state education in general. I think that Chancellor Strong is the man to give this course."
Buenet M. Allen, Professor of Zoology—I am very much in favor of the establishment of a course in 'University History and Ideals.' It is very badly needed here as the average student goes out from the University with little preparation to meet the practical problems of life. I think that the course should be given by experienced people in with the occasional lecture by some distinguished person. I would suggest a course offering one hour credit to be given in the senior year."
The Pi Gamma Sigma, honorary, educational sorority pledged thirteen new members at pledge services Tuesday noon. Its members are chosen for their scholarship, ability in teaching and general efficiency in all lines. This is a professional sorority and its first qualification is high standing as a teacher. The new members pledged:
PI GAMMA SIGMA PLEDGE
THIRTEEN NEW MEMBERS
Pan-Hellenic Track Meet Postponed
On account of the football rally on
McCook Field this afternoon, the
Pan-Hellenic track meet has been postponed indefinitely. Announcement of the date will be made later.
Leah Jennerson, Josephine Ellis
Eleanor Wolf, Lulu McCanles,
Elfida Draper, Dorothy Angenie,
Dorothy Markham, Iva Teeterman,
Pearl Stitzer, Piotr Piatowski,
Pearl Sitzler, Lila Atkinson,
and Agnes Crawford.
All performers on the "stunt program" for the All-University Halloween party will rehearse tonight in Robinson Gymnasium. They are requested to appear in costume. Rehearsal will begin at 7 o'clock.
EIGHTEEN K. U. DAMES HAVE COUNTRY PICNIC WEDNESDAY
Eighteen members of the K. U. Dames society were entertained at the country home of Mrs. J. G. Cummings, Wednesday afternoon. The Dames were taken to the country in carringes where the afternoon was spent in making Christmas presents. Home made pumpkin pies, spice cakes, pears and coffee were served for refreshments.
The next meeting was set for Nov. 10 at the home of Mrs. H. B, Hungerford, 1845 Leonard Ave. These meetings are purely social and give the students' wives an opportunity to become acquainted.
PLAN A RIOTOUS GOODBYE
Thundering Thousand Will Wish Jayhawkers Well on Soonerland Invasion
Time: Tonight at 8:30 o'clock.
Place: South Park.
What? The last pre-Sooner game rally.
Will you be there?
The 'od traditional tallyho will be on hand as a conveyance for the team; "Mac" and his band will dispense freely of the real Kansas spirit; Gaitskill, Gedney and Gempel will lead the rooters; and Coaches Ka'p'ton and Olcott will tell the bees "bew we'll do it."
After the demonstration in South Park the band, blaring "Boom" will start the parade down Massachusetts street to the Santa Fe depot. The talbo, carrying the team, followed by the "Thundering Thousand" will make up the rest of the procession. At the depot the squad of twenty-five men, on whom Kansas banks her hopes for Saturday's game, will board its special car. The men will be accompanied by the coaches and a few loyal supporters who are able to go.
Can you miss the opportunity to help in giving the team a good boos and a hearty send-off on the first departure for the first big battle?
More "Boola" and "The Crimson and the Blue," interchanged with an occasional "Reek Chalk" or "an O, Me, O, My" with an old time snake unrce around I the bontine is the schedule of the program at the depot. As the men do not leave Lawrence until 11 o'clock the conches desire that they be served before that time, so the demonstration will not be a lengthy affair.
Postpone that meeting, forget about that quiz tomorrow, work a little later after the rally and join in. "I'll be the guys boys" in South Park at 8:30 tonight.
JAYHAWKER BOARD MEETS
Outlines Work for Year- Staff Hea Talks by Faculty on Betterment of Book
The meeting adjourned after three course smupper at Lee's.
"Every class in the University will be fittingly represented," said Editor E. M. Johnson in addressing the staff, "and the members of the three upper classes will be shown in individual pictures. Every possible phase of our teaching is presented and not ten, but ten hundred persons will be given distinctive write-ups." Following Editor Johnson's talk, Prof. W. A. Griffiths, of the department of drawing and painting, made a short speech in which he outlined some of the faculty art principals used in former law students. He then agreed for proving the quality of the illustrations in this year's book.
That the 1916 Jayhawker will be a University book rather than a class book was the sentiment expressed at the annual conference. Board held 'last night in Fraser Hall.'
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Definite committee appointments were announced by Editor Johnson, in order that the work of compiling the Annual might begin immediately.
Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith, who was editor-in-chief of the 1896 "Columbian," at Columbia University, New York City, was the next speaker. He compared the methods of Annual publication in the old days with those of the present generation, and gave the staff of the '16 Jayhawker some valuable hints on how to conduct its work.
NUMBER 34.
Bennie Owen, the one-armed Sooner Coach, who trained the "forward-passingest" football squad of the west Captain Spot Geyer, fullback (right), and Homer Montgomery, right end (left).
Bennie Owen and a Pair of His Stars
TO DISCUSS MEMORIAL PLANS
Junior's Will Meet in Room 110, Fraser Hall. Thursday After-.
noon
Plans for raising the necessary funds for the junior memorial will be discussed at a meeting to be held on Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Receipt books are being printed, according to Willard M. Glasco, chairman of the committee. One will be given to every committeeman with a list of the juniors, whom he is to see.
Some names were omitted from the list by mistake when the regular appointments were made. The official committeemen are the following: Walter A. German, Lucie Blackfan, Edwin Hullinger, Constance Poiler, I. B. Riggs, Percy Dammond, Ernest E. Young, Lewis H. Walters, J. J. Wille, Anne Childs, James C. Fishback, Lyle Anderson, Agnes Smith, Mary Govier, Esther L. Smith, and Ethel McGreevy.
The names of each committee will be printed every week with a list of the persons from whom they have collected.
Arrangements will probably be made for dances for the benefits of the memorial. Every member of the junior class will be taxed and everybody is expected to carry his share of the burden. Those who do not pay this year will have their junior dues added to their senior dues. The amount of the assessment is fifty cents.
Give Fine Arts Recital
The second recital of the School of Fine Arts was given Wednesday afternoon by the students of the music department, at North College.
The program follows:
Piano - Polonise in C sharp minor
Piano—Sherzo et Choral—Dubois.
Helen Booker.
Voca-'When Song is Sweet-
San-Souci, Mary Jarvis.
Piano—Etude in E flat—Rubenstein. Theodore Connelay
Violin - Slavonic Cradle Song—Necrua. Vesta Talbert.
Vocal—At Dawning—Cadman, and The Song My Heart is Singing- MacDermid, Chas. Sturtevant.
Piano—Novellette in E—Schumann Alene Wilson.
Thirty-three came out for orchestra practice at Fraser church Tuesday evening. Among the selections practiced for the University concert, which will be given before the Christmas holidays, were "La Boska" an artist from the Village and "selections from the Opera" "Martha." Different selections to be played at the Halloween party were also practiced.
Peter Hyer, a freshman in the College, spent Saturday and Sunday at his home in Olathe.
Orchestra Practice for Concert
A special musical program has been arranged at the Congregational church for Sunday evening. The direction of the service is by Dean Perry and the School of Fine Arts. The program opens at 7:45 and is free to all.
Dean Butler Will Play
Prize winning pumpkins will be used at the AI-University party... 'our of them being four feet in diameter.
Plain Tales from the Hill K. U. BIBLE STUDY BEGINS
Helen Flaherty, who was a sophora in the College last year, visited her last fall.
Dean A. S. Olin returned last night from Kansas Wesleyan University at Salina where he attended the inauguration of their new president, Mr. Harmon.
Max Jones spent Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City visiting his parents.
R. A. Rutledge, C. E. '91, was on the Hill yesterday talking with Prof. C. C. Williams concerning the test that the Santa Fe and the University department of Railway Engineering is making on the Santa Fe tracks near Ottawa. H. R. Hunter and A. B. Jenkins, Department of Engineering are conducting the experiment under the supervision of Professor Williams and Mr. Rutledge.
Karl Kruter, a student in the Fine Arts, gave a recital at the First Lutheran church at Waterville, last Friday. He will give another recital Monday at the dedication of the French Lutheran church at Hanover.
Tom Pringle', a member of the freshman football squad, had his face slightly disfigured in the scrimmage of Tuesday evening. This is the second time that Tom has been bruised up by the Varsity squad, but he is inclined to take it all as a part of the game.
SOPHS ELECT NEXT FRIDAY
Class Representative in W.S.G.A. Will Be Voted on at Meeting in
Snow Hal
The election of a sophomore representative in W. S. G. A, which was called for last Friday, but not held because of a mistake in the announcement, will take place this Friday at 12:20 p.m. in Snow Hall.
"I'm getting tired of calling meetings, that do not come off," said Ethel McCormack, secretary of the sophomore class, "So I hope that everyone will come to the next one, so that we can have a representative vote."
The election is necessary to fill the vacancy of Earther Gibbs who did not return to school. In past years there has been a peculiar practice of putting the candidates in office without a candidate standing for them, a candidate must hand in a petition, containing twenty-five names, twenty-four hours before the election.
Chancellor Urges Restraint
Chancellor Dreyes Research
I urge upon the student body self-resistance that we should not be distractions that are being he'd. Every right minded man knows that the destruction of property is wrong and a great injustice to the community. I am sure that the student body desires its celebrations to be without harm to anyone. I trust therefore be used that no injustice be done.
Frank Strong, Chancellor.
Week-day Courses in Religious Education to be Given for
The week-day courses in religious education which are being offered in order that the students of the University may become better acquainted with the Bible and its teachings, will begin this week.
Students
"Every man and woman in the University should be interested in Bible study," said Dr. Arthur Bruden. "It is impossible to have a well rounded education without a knowledge of Christ and his teachings." Christ the dominant figure in the world's history. In the study of Ethics we cannot get away from the principles of Jesus' teaching. The best world's literature doesn't mean anything unless a person" has a knowledge of the Bible. And even to oppose the Bible a person must not be ignorant of what it is.
Should Understand Religion "Men in our time, more than ever before, are investigating the group of religions which are of wonderful human interest," said Rev. Gordon Bennett Thompson. That is why a study by the world and the World Religion is of value in a well-rounded education."
"For those who are interested in the poetry of the Bible," said Rev F. W. Ainsleigh, "I am sure the course in Hebrew poetry will be of great interest. We shall make a close study of the literary form in this course." Rev. Stanton B. O.linger's course in "A Cry for Social Justice" will be a sort of introduction into prophecy. "We will show the prophet as he touches life," said Mr. Olinger. "It used to be thought that a prophet was not to be understood, but we have finally come to 'ook upon him as a real man, having a real problem, and speaking to a real people."
The courses are inter-demonational, and are open to all students of the University. The work is entirely voluntary.
There is a K. U. woman who is very anxious about the whereabouts of the suit-case which accompanied her to Manhattan to see the game Saturday, but which failed to make the return trip. Upon arriving in Lawrence, she opened what she thought to be her own little innocent bag to find a choice bottle of old rye smiling up at her from the depths of a suit-case. Whether the exchange was acclaimed or not is unknown, but it is assumed that one party is as ready to find his own baggage as the other.
P. A. D. Initiates
Phi Alpha Delta held initiation Tuesday evening for the following men: Francis Guy, Wakefield; Wilbur Jones, Wichita; Bernard Meel, Mesde; Edward Pedroja, Lawrence; and Jesse Fisher, Topeka.
Debate Tonight in Fraser
The question, "Resolved: That there should be an educational test as a qualification for voting," will be discussed at the meeting of the Uni-
tion Council Academy in Room 110 Fraser at 8 o'clock. Home Herriot and Asa Trueblood will argue for the affirmative, while E. E. Young and Roy Davidson will uphold the negative.
TO DECIDE DATE RULE
Mass Meeting of Women Tomorrow Will Decide Questions of Closing Hour
The women of the University will determine whether they want to vote on the proposed change in date hours at a mass meeting to be held in Fraser chapel tomorrow noon. If the matter carries at this meeting the W. S. G. A. will hold a formal election upon the matter, November 5.
Branche Mullen, president of the W. S. G. A., says the chapel meeting will be brief, and desires a larger attendance since it can be secured easily if the women but stop in before going down the Hill.
The proposed amendment is in effect that: In rooming houses and sorority houses and any place where students stay, doors shall be locked at ten o'clock on all nights of the week except Friday and Saturday. On these nights the doors are to be closed at eleven o'clock. This does not apply to mid-week dates, for that rule will stand as formerly.
STAGE ARTISTS ADD
TEN NEW MEMBERS
The University Dramatic Club elected ten new members at its meeting last night in the Green Hall Theatre. The members selected are: Ruth Foster, Alice Coors, Ada Dykes, Dora Lookett, Irma Lrarr, Karl Kearl, Will Ransom, Don Davis, Arthur Ullman, and Clarendon Havinhurst.
The club will have regular "stunt nights" on the second Wednesday of each month and attendance will be compulsory. Pat Crowell, Alton Gumbiner, and Harlan Hutchings will have charge of the first program.
A fee of one dollar is assessed of all members.
SCENE FROM "PETER PAN"
All-University Party to Give Scene From Play in Which Maude Adams Starred
Not the least interesting of the many features planned for the "stunt program" at the All-University Halloween Party will be the presentation of a scent from J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" by the Misses Rose King, Wichita, and Ada Dykes, of Lebanon. Miss King will play the part of Peter and Miss Dykes, that of Wendy Darling, Peter's little friend. The scene is laid out of Peter's house in the tree-tops.
According to the story, Peter Pan is a little boy who didn't want to grow up, but ran away from his mother the day he was born, and went to live in the Never-Never land. Because of his desire to hear mothers tell stories, he listened at the windows of children's nurseries. He persuades the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael, to fly away with him. Never-land. Here they deliver news to children. They redskins and a band of pirates, of whom James Hook is the fierce, blood-thirsty leader, and Peter's sworn foe. Peter Pan, as captain of the lost boys, (those who fall out of their perambulators when their nurses aren't watching) overcomes the redskins and gains a victory over the pirate band. All the children finally return to their homes, leaving Peter and his fairy, Tinker Bell (so called because she mends the pots on the tree-top house). In the house in the tree-tops. Here Wendy comes every spring to spend a week with Peter Pen, and to do his spring house-cleaning. The scene as presented shows the tree-top house, with Wendy and Peter saying goodbye after the spring-cleaning.
MORNING PRAYERS
Leader, Prof. F, W. Ainslie, General Subject, "God's Plans and Mine."
Friday, "Thy Will be Done."
"We are prone to block off duty to the several churches," said Rev. F. W. Ainslie this morning: "We measure out devotion and say I will go so far, then I have done my duly." We should keep our souls open to the spirit of God. If we are to be true children of our Father, we must be willing to pour out our lives in the service of God."
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