UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
NUMBER 32
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 26, 1915.
LOOKS LIKE SCRAP BOOK
Logical Arrangement of College Courses Presents Muddled Appearance
Glancing over the catalog of the courses offered by the College one might think that, like Topsy, it just grew. There are courses in cooking and courses in biological chemistry. There are courses in current literature and courses in the oldest of written languages. Physiology, music, esthetics, and journalism are all mixed up in the cauldron and the effect as far as logical arrangement goes, looks like a scrap book, with each clipping pasted in as it struck the fancy of the moment.
But this isn't the way we get our College course at all, Dean Templin says. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas is the result of fifty years of gradual development. Each course taught incorporates an emphasis on demand either on the part of the citizens of the state or of educators within the University.
To Satisfy Public Opinion
To Satisfy Public Opinion
"Being a state institution," Dean Templin says, "the University depends largely on the demand of public opinion on its innovations. Coursework in journalism is the general feeling that newspaper men should have organized training became prominent.
"The same is true of home economics. A few years ago young women were supposed to learn cooking from their mothers, but gradually people began to feel that there were certain principles of chemistry and physiology which needed to be understood and applied to cooking before a cook could reach its more beneficial stage. So we use several college courses teaching scientifically what mothers once taught by rote in the home.
No Longer Office Boys
"Once bankers and business men thought that the way to learn business was to go into an office as an arrand boy and work faithfully until the presidency of the firm was reached through promotion. But they came to feel that they had not time to teach boys the theories of investments or of credits. The intricacies of accounting were too numerous to be learned offhand. Bookkeepers, credit men, and presidents of firms were too busy with their own work to teach office boys the secrets of the business. So, we have the department of economics and commerce enlarged to include not only the history of economic thought but instruction in real business administration. The attempt is made to prepare a student to go out into the business world ready to begin a business career."
These illustrations are significant, in the opinion of Dean Templin. They show how the nature of the College courses are moulded to fit the needs of the people and of the time. Once it is cooking, then it is journalism, again it is business. What it will be next, Dean Templin would not undertake to say. It may be wireless telephony, he suggested, or military training, or education in diplomacy, or instruction in how to be happy through rich. In short, anything of importance which is susceptible of being taught in a scientific manner and which is of such complexity that it can not be readily learned elsewhere.
Just as courses are incorporated because of the demands of public opinion, so others are dropped because interest in them ceases.
Are Constantly Changing
What changes are ahead depends upon the progress of invention and the turn of affairs in general. Some hitherto obscure phase of life may be shifted to the limelight by a turn of public affairs, or by a new process, or by a new discovery or invention. The College merely waits until the people demand changes and then tries to make them on a basis which will keep the standard of education at its present height. It tries, the Dean concluded, to correlate the resources of the College with the needs of the community in their most permanent aspect.
The Laws believe in being prepared for war. One morning last week they shouldered their guns (canes) and held drill in front of Green Hall, using a Ford as a pivot around which to march.
STUDENTS MOUNT ROOF OF FRASER FOR VIEW
Fine scenery is afforded by the climb to the top of Fraser Hall and it is attracting many students these clear days. Although it is a rather stiff ascent up the north stairs to the top, and after that sometimes, a very stubborn trap door to the roof, it is well worth the climb.
The buildings and grounds of Haskell Institute show up distinctly. A fine view can be had of the Wakarua Valley off to the south.
To the east the village of Eudora can be seen with little trouble on a clear day, and appears much nearer than it really is. The Kaw Valley stretches away to the east of it many miles. With a good field glass day, it may popularly supposed that the smoke in Kansas City packing houses can be seen, although but few people claim to have seen it.
In the foreground to the north, the Kaw Valley again shows forth spectacularly, and an occasional glimpse of the river is obtainable. To the west there is nothing of interest except a farming country, which is bounded only by the horizon.
WHO IS K. U. PLAYWRIGHT?
Committee Will Award Winner of Contest a Prize of $50 Next
January
Whether there is a student at the University capable of writing a play of real merit will be decided next January, when the competitors in the play writing contest now being conducted by the department of public speaking submit their plays to the committee in charge. Prof. Arthur McMurray, official dramatic coach for all University productions, and Don C. Burnett, manager of the senior play, are members of this committee. A third person is to be chosen later.
Fifty dollars will be awarded the winner of the contest, and if his play is of sufficient merit it will be presented at commencement time by the seniors. The money for the prize was set aside from the profits of last year's senior play. Should the prize be given to someone successful, similar contests will doubless be held in the future, and larger prizes awarded.
"We want a play sparkling with college life," said Don Burnett this morning. "The right kind of a play; one depicting scenes and episodes of student life, in which there are comedy and dramatic elements—will make a big success when presented before the student body."
"The principal idea in conducting the contest is to stimulate interest in play writing and it is thought advisable to produce a student's play if one can be found that will meet the requirements."
Definite rules in regard to the contest are to be announced next week by Professor McMurray. The final date before which all manuscripts must be submitted has been set as January 10. Students desiring to talk over the competition with those in charge are requested to confer with Professor McMurray at their earliest opportunity.
ELECTRICIANS Meet Tohgian
The American Institute of Electric
Engineers will meet Wednesday evenin
in Marvin Hall at 7:30 o'clock, J. T
Skinner of the Lawrence Railway and
Light Company and L. N. Bocker of
the Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing Company of Pittsburg will speak.
A few reviews of currents
happenings in the electrical work
will be given by V. T. Newton and
A. R. Burt. Something that has never
been given before, will be started a
this meeting, that is driving a serie
of experiments to see how the
meeting tomorrow night E. H. Scho
enefelt will speak of B. G. Lammie
one of the Institutes appointee to
the United States Naval Advisory Board
In addition to these M. W. Hale will
speak on "Why I am an Electrical."
Electricals Meet Tonight
Two Hundred at Middy Dance
two hundred women attended the
Midday dance last Saturday afternoon.
The dance took the place of the annual
annual meeting of the W. S. G. A.
During the intermission Dr. Goetz, Miss Oliver and Miss Corbin talked to the women on the district organizations, the winter's work of the Council, and the past history of the W. S. G. A.
Two Hundred at Middy Dance
A Scene From the Top of Fraser
MME.ALDAOPENSCOURSE HE READS THE FUTURE
Noted Prima Donna Will Appear at University November Fourth Rathelmajax, Descendant of Rameses, to Make Forecasts at Hallowe'en Party
Mme, Frances Alda, prima donna,
assisted by Frank La Forge, will
open the University Concert Course
November 4th.
Mme. Alda will come to K. U. in place of Mary Garden, who has been singing to wounded soldiers in France, but recently became ill and as a consequence canceled her American engagements. In voice Mme. Alda is considered to be superior of any on the stage at the present time. Mary Garden is more noted for her art of acting. She is the wife of the director of the Metropolitan opera house in New York City and is one of the leading prima donnas of the world. She has created the lead in three modern operas: the French opera Louise by Charpentier, Cyrano by Walter Damrasch, and Madeline by Victor Herbert.
Following this first concert will be four others. Harold Bauer, the greatest living pianist, will appear at a convenient time. Mr. Bauer has held recitals before all of the largest music organizations in this country and in Europe and has thus established his enviable reputation of being the greatest of the present pianists.
The third series of the course is scheduled for the eleventh of January and is to be given by Oscar Seagle, a great baritone under whom Prof. W.B. Downing of the School of Voice once studied.
The fourth and fifth concerts will come sometime later in the spring, being given by the Zoelner String Orchestra. The last Symphony Orchestra respectively.
TWENTY-FIVE WANT PLACES
Try-outs for "Witching Hour" Bring Out Aspirants for Dramatic
Fame
The executive committee of the Michigan alumni in K. U. met Monday night and arranged for a meeting of the association on Thursday evening. November 4, at eight o'clock at 7 p.m., the meeting will be a general discussion on "Michigan Student Life," led by Prof. F, C. Dockery and Mr. Finch.
Twenty-five students tried out be fore the Dramatic Club's committee yesterday afternoon in an effort to land places in the cast of "The Witching Hour." Additional tryouts will be held this evening at 7 o'clock, and tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, in Green Hall Theater. There are fourteen places in the cast, eleven for final tryouts. The remaining preliminary tryouts of this week will be followed by final tryouts next Monday, after which the cast will be anounced by Prof. Arthur MacMurray coach of the play.
Prof. Chas, A. Shull speaks before the Chemical Club Wednesday in the Chemistry Building on "The Effect of Radioactive Substances upon Plant Growth."
Edith Darned, a freshman in the College, spent Saturday in Topeka.
"There is some good material among those who tried out yesterday," said Professor MacMurray the morning. "And even if some of them don't make the play cast, because of membership in the Dramatic Club."
The Club will meet tomorrow night in Green Hall, at 8 o'clock, to make plans for the first of the monthly "stunt nights" to be given this year.
Once upon a time there was an Egyptian King who was Some Noise in his Own Community. His name was Ramesses. He Took a Leap into Everlasting Glory by founding what is technically known in History as the Nineteenth Dynasty. This happened along about 1400 B. C.
Now, Ole' King Ramesses had a Sister who was Some Hefty Party. When Sister Cashed in on her Chips, the Local Firm of Embalmers took her in hand and proceeded to Preserve, her Remnants for Posterity by Judicious Application of Pickling Fluid. Then they laid Sister away under a Pyramid, and for Years and Years and Years and Years different to The Votes For Women Movement, to the Tango, and to Cabaret.
Then, in 1892, some Felahs up in Chicago decided to have a World's Fair. As one of the Exhibits, they dug up Sister Susie from the Borders of the Nile, and shipped her over to the Land of the Free. Sister did duty as an Egyptian Mummy all during the Great Fair.
Now it happened that the Family Tree from which Ramesses derived his Coat of Arms was Some Whiz at the Fortune-Telling Game. Almost Any of Ram's Ancestors could take a Squint at One's Pa'm, and predict anything from Long Journeys over Water to Millionaires with Blond, Curly Hair. Naturally Enough, the Gift of Prophecy was Slipped Along in the Family, and the Modern Desendants still Have It.
Next Saturday night, over in the Gym, the Youngest Survivor of the Family is going to Tell Fortunes at the Halloween Party. Ratalmajax is the Young Chap's name—alas Smith, or Johnson, or anything You Please. Anyway—Rath is Some Kid at this Future Stuff, and if you Want Know whether your Soul Mate has Curly Hair and Lots of Maxuma, next Saturday will be the Time to Find Out.
According to the Statistician's Young Rattelmiljax is the Second Hundred and Umpty Steen cousin Susie. He has the Gift, all right.
It is even rumored that he is learning Egyptian in order to Throw the Stun.
Graduates of the department of chemistry in the University of Kansas are in great demand as practical chemists. The department of industrial research, maintained in connection with the University of Pittsburg, has ten faculty members, who are K. U, men.
This department is maintained for the purpose of making investigations in the field of chemistry in all parts of the United States. Manufacturers hire men to make investigations in certain fields, and share in the benefits derived from any discoveries made.
TEN K. U. CHEMISTS ARE WORKING IN PITTSBURG
The institution was originally established here six or eight years ago by Prof. R. K. Duncan, who died in 1912.
· Zoology Club Meets Tonight
Zoology Club Meets Tonight
The Zoology Club will meet tonight in the main lecture room of Snowy Mountain to the transaction of business, but in addition Doctor Matthews will address the club.
The meeting is called at 8 and everyone interested is invited to attend.
SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR ACCOUNTANTS OF STAT
The University of Kansas Thursday sent out announcements of a special examination for accountants in the state who wish to receive certificates of efficiency from the University. The examination is to be held December 7, 8, 9. After November 22, this will be the only time that the examiner must attend the last day that applications can be made under the waiver clause as enacted by the last session of the legislature.
Kansas is now one of the thirty states, which grants certificates in this line. The law, however, does not restrict the practice of account-credit certification, but merely attempts to raise the standards of the profession.
Certificates are to be granted only by the University, working through a committee made up of the head of the department of economics, the professor of accounting and the registrar of the University. There is a separate position for the president of the state accountant, one member of the utilities commission, and a layman, well acquainted with the requirements of the work.
WILL ARGUE WITH HUSKERS
Kansas to Contest Nebraska in Debating Dual-Meet on December 10
Kansas and Nebraska will meet December 10th in a dual verbal battle on the question of imposing a literacy test on all immigrants.
Prof. H. T. Hill, of the department of public speaking, who has just returned from Nebraska, where he went in the interests of the department, said that the Cornhuskers seemed seemed quite enthusiastic over the idea of having a debate with Kansas, but proposals for a triangular debate with Missouri as the third member were not considered.
It is practically a two days' trip to Columbia from Lincoln, and the departments of public speaking feels particularly be worth while to make the trip.
4ISS JACOBS TALKS TO
THE MATHEMATICS CLU
The Mathematics Club holds its bimonthly meeting yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Room 103 Administration Building. Besides the regular routine work of the session Miss Jess Jacobs, a fellow in mathematics, spoke on "Non-Euclidian Geometry."
To the average layman the term "Non-Euclidian Geometry" means little, but to those who are familiar with mathematical history and theory it will be recalled that Euclid in building up his science of geometry, started in with an assumption upon the possibility of drawing more than one line parallel to a given line. The "Non-Euclidianists" have taken issue with the theories of Euclid and have builded their own set of hypotheses. It is upon this later science that Miss Jacobs based her address.
BLACK HELMETS, SOPH
SOCIety INITIATES TONIGHT
The Black Helmets will hold initiation this evening at the Pi Upsilon house at 8 o'clock for the following men: Kenneth Gedney, Foster Dennis, Ritz Davenport, Bart Park, Linus Fitzgerald, Edgar VanCleef, Earl Pointexter, Harry Montgomery, Richard Treweeker, Fred Pausch, Orchard Peters, P. Michael O'Leary, Clarence Gorill, B. H. Baker, Hobart Holt, Francis Martin, William Boone, Edward Todd, Leon Gibbons.
This organization was organized October 13, 1910, by thirteen sophomores of the class of 1913. It is the aim of the organization to bring into closer harmony the men of the sophomore class and to create a better team in the Imperial League. Each year, on class day, twenty-one men are chosen from the freshman class to make up the Black Helmet for the next year.
Helen Frisbie, junior in the College, went to Topeka to visit her grandparents Friday evening and from there went to her home at Oskaloosa, returning to Lawrence Sunday evening.
Weather Report
Weather Report
51. . . . . . 9 p. m. Monday
58. . . . . . 7 a. m. today
72. . . . . . 9 p. m. today
Forecast for Kansas; Fair tonight and warmer Wednesday.
KANSAS "UPANDCOMING"
Jayhawkers Have Large String of Victories in Valley
Race
A review of last week's games reveals the fact that Kansas is "up and coming" in the Missouri Valley Conference race. No team in the Valley has a larger string of victories for the season than the Jahyawkers and only one team equals their record. The Cornhuskers have downed all opponents and bid strong for the first position.
Then there is Ames. This Aggie school has been handed defeat only once this season and that at the hands of the Minnesota Gophers, a team that stands well toward winning the Big Nine affair. The Aggies' showing against the Gophers was a huge victory for Missouri proved that they would have to be taken into the reckoning when the champions are picked.
But the big team of the valley is the Stiehler roller machine of Lincoln. This aggregation is supposedly human but the way they tear into the battle one might get the impression that they are more than that. The Cornuskers stepped out of the Conference Saturday to down the strong Notre Dame dug although they only got a one point victory over the Catholic school. This was considered the hardest game that Stiehler 'was drilling his men for until the Kansas game when he had enough痛 or fear that it would be a harder game than the Jayhawker affair. No effort will be spared by the northern oach to hand Kansas the same bunch he got last year.
Drake took defeat from the Cornhuskers and Jayhawkers as did the Kansas Aggies. These two teams will run about even in the race but neither one will stand among the leaders. Washington University downed the Tigers but will not make a very strong bid for a Valley beth
Missouri has lost out on the championship race and now is looking on to see if she can not down Kansas or some other likely candidate. The Washington Piker game at St. Louis put the Missouri's hopes on the blink and the Ames Aggies further dragged them in the mud. Oklahoma downed them, too, but the game does not count in the Missouri Valley race.
Bennie Owen's Sooners are making a showing that is sure to warrant their admission into the Conference before long. The sooners downed Missouri 24 to 0 then defeated the Longhorns from Texas and this week are waiting to get the Jayhawk's scalp. Owen usually has a team of passers and sprinters better than the average Missouri Valley school.
The relative standing of the Missouri Valley teams may be shown by the following tables. The figures on the Conference games alone are:
G.  W.  L.  P.  O.
Nebraska  2    2    0   79  13
Kansas  2    2    0   49  14
Ames  1    1    0   14  6
Washington  1    1    0   13  0
Missouri  1    0    0   13  7
K. Aggies  2    0    2   7  50
Drake  2    0    2   20  78
Including all games played to date, conference and non-Conference, the following are
G. W. L. P. O.
Nebraska 4 4 0 146 32
Kansas 4 4 0 90 17
Ames 4 2 1 47 44
Washington 3 2 1 55 13
Missouri 4 1 3 19 51
K. Aggies 4 1 3 16 63
Drake 3 0 3 23 94
To Consider Elections
New election rules and the cooperative bookstore proposition will be the topic of discussion at the Merl's Student Council meeting tonight.
The Council will consider rulings which will prevent the arising of any such a condition as that which occurred in the last class elections. Suggestions in regard to the book-store plan will also be discussed.
Adrian Parr, sophomore engineer, went to Topeka Friday to visit with his parents Saturday and Sunday.
MORNING PRAYERS
Leader, Prof. F. W. Ainslie.
Leader, Prof. P. W. Amalie,
General Subject, "God's Plans and
Mists."
Wednesday, "I Have Sinned." Thursday, "Who Art Thou, Lord?" Friday, "Thy Will be Done."