UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
WANTS BIG MEDIC SCHOOL
Sundwall Strikes Blow for State Support of Combined School and Hospital
That medical education has been neglected in the state and that a remedy must and can be found for this condition is the contention upheld in a recently published pamphlet, "The Medical School and the State," by Dr. John Sundwall, professor of anatomy in the University of Kansas. Dr. Sundwall thinks that Kansas should do away with the present system of having many inefficient medical institutions and substitute in their place one general hospital to be connected with a medical school which by reason of its centralized system could be run with increased efficiency at a decreased cost, and which would offer a training environment for interes and a clinical practice. The state could well afford to employ the best trained physicians possible for every department in this school. By substituting keenly interested, advanced students for the present uninterested often inefficient, and always highly paid hired assistants, to walk the wards, the cost of the assistants' wages could be minimized and a more efficient ward survey obtained.
Dr. Sundwall challenges opponents of his plan with the following questions: "Why is Missouri so far ahead of Kansas in this very important field?" I am not sure how to support school? If so why? Medical Abilitions are Meager
Appropriations are Maker
There is a general feeling in Kansas—and elsewhere—against the state support of professional education, especially medicine. It is a well-known fact that the appropriation for the medical school of the state has been, and is, extremely meager. Contrasting rather sharply against this is the state of Missouri with her three completely equipped medical schools, and her vast pride in them.
Dr. Srundwall thinks the state should not only support a medical school for the education of physicians, but also that the citizens of Kansas should have the best and most competent attention obtainable when they need it. No citizen should begrudge a tax to that end. The people of the state can have the best and most competent attention only when the hospital is connected with some medical school. Take the case of the best hospitals, such as John Hopkins, the Massachusetts General, and the Presbyterian of New York. Each is closely related to some medical school.
Study Should be Specialized
Medicine today has innumerable specialities. To take care of each rightfully and properly, the time and energies of one man as a director are available. Only in medical schools of the first rank can such man be found.
Medicine is largely a laboratory science. The equipment necessary, the X-ray, metabolism, heart-station, can only be efficiently manipulated in connection with a medical school because they require specialists.
It is almost self-evident that a teacher, equipped with all the latest laboratory methods, and going through each ward followed by keen, alert student, will be able to the exertion of all his skill in dealing with his patient.
In answer to the question as to whether there would not be some objection to the services of students on cases, Dr. Sundwall replies that there is practically none. The patients soon realize that a small group of four or five students gathered around the bed insures a thoroughness of diagnosis and treatment from the physician in charge which could hardly be expected under any other circumstances.
Should Centralize Institutions
Should Centrize Institutions
"Iin saying this, says Dr. Sundwall,
"I am entirely devoid of personal criticism. No one is censured. But I am compelled to say plainly that examples of reckless waste of money is to be seen in our homes for more disorders, such as Parkinson's Disease Hospital, the State Hospital, the State Hospital for Epileptics at Parsen; the State Home for Feebleminded at Winfield; and Larned State Hospital. Think of the annual expenses of these institutions. According to the fifth biennial report of the Board of Control of the State Charitable Institutions of Kansas, the total expenditures for the first four of these institutions and the Orphan's June 30, 1914 amounts to $815.
325. 89. Suppose all these institutions were situated in one place.
We could then have a big general hospital for the general diseases. A medical school, conducted along the highest plane would work in connection with the hospital. Trained men, devoting all their time and energy to the wards would have charge of each department. Advanced students, interested keenly in the diseases of the patients would walk all the wards, a plan that would eliminate the indifferent, uninterested assistant, who must be paid well for his services by the state. Sufficient money would be saved in numerous ways, especially in salaries and wages, to support as fine a medical school and hospital as could be found in this country.
The total of the salaries and wages alone at the hospital at Topeka, Osawatomey, Parsons, and Winfield during the past fiscal year was $206, 057.33. If these alone were combined the saving would pay adequate salaries and benefits to all staff at teaching and hospital staff that would be devoting all of its time to the treatment of disease and the advancement of medical science.
MAY JOIN STATE ASSOCIATION
Debating Council Will Consider Possibility of Extending Its
Activities
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 7, 1915.
The Debating Council of the University will hold a meeting at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon in Room 8 of the Law Building. As this is the first session of the organization, officers will be elected for the year. Details of the contract for the Triangle Debate with Colorado and Oklahoma, not attended to last year, will come up for final decision. The Council will also take action upon the question submitted for debate this year by Colorado and on the challenges for debates which have been received from Creighton and Drake Universities.
Another question which will receive the attention of the Council is the question of entering the Kansas State Oratorical Association and through that organization the Inter-state Association. The department of public speaking is anxious to see this be accomplished in order to see the University lag behind other state institutions in interest in this form of public speaking.
Throughout the country there are several associations which are encouraging the practical discussions ofive public issues. Michigan, Indiana, owa, Illinois, Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Minnesota have been holding intercollegiate public speaking conests for years with the result that here has been a renewal of activity in this line of effort.
TWENTY-FIVE SENIORS TO
SOLICIT MEMORIAL FUND
C. A. Rendolph, president of the senior class, will soon put twenty-five capable men in the field with Ylasa C. Smith at their head to collect the amount necessary to complete the senior memorial fund.
"Blondie" Jones, president of the junior class, has appointed Willard Blasco, present head of the county organization clubs, chairman of the junior committee of finances. Later a series of "stunts" will be arranged and staged for the benefit of the junior memorial fund.
DeWitt C. Croissant, former head of the University extension division, is devoting himself to the spread of the simplified spelling idea. A lengthy and interesting article covering an aspect of the general General Field Agent of the Simplified Spelling Board, appeared in the New York Sun, September 12th.
DeWITT CROISSANT HAS
INTERVIEW IN N. Y. SUN
Before he became identified with the Board, Mr. Croissant was interested in spelling reform and succeeded in introducing many people throughout the west.
Speaks Before Leavenworth Y. M. Dr. James Naismith, professor of physical education, will go to Leavenworth Friday where he will give a talk on exercise, recreation and performance of the winter's activities in the physical department of the Y. M. G. A.
Joy Colvin, of Wichita, is visiting friends in Lawrence on her way to St. Louis. Miss Colvin graduated from the School of Fine Arts two years ago.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
School Loyalty and Elections
Illegal election activities come from a laudable desire to hold an honor at our University. This desire is a fine thing. It creates school loynity and school pride. It leads men and women to make sacrifices for the welfare of the school.
But sometimes this desire takes the wrong form of expression. It shows itself corrupted sometimes in unfair election activities, when men vote on two tickets so that the honor of serving a class will fall to the desired person. Insofar as a man does that because he loves the University and thinks its honor worth striving for, he is a loyal student; but insofar as this leads him into dishonesty and deceit, he is untrue to the University and its ideals.
A student on Mount Oread ought to be too proud to seek an honor either for himself or a friend by dishonest means. Most of them are.
INVESTIGATION BEGINS ARE LOYAL TO KANSAS
NUMBER 19
Student Council Committee Many Faculty Members Stay at Starts Inquiry Into Class K. U. at Financial Election Frauds Loss
The Student. Council election investigation committee held its first meeting last night, and formulated plans for its activities.
A second meeting will be held at 19 o'clock Saturday morning in 110 Fraser to hear complaints from those dissatisfied with the result of the election. The various candidates will be invited to appear, and tell what they know.
"In the meantime we will endeavor to collect what information we can," said Leland Thompson, chairman of the committee. "It is difficult to gather anything of value, but we expect to learn something." Saturday. We will decide after that whether or not we want to hold another election."
A TRAINLOAD OF NORMALITES
Two Hundred Students From Emporia
Will Watch Football Game
Saturday
A special train load of Normal rooters is practically assured, according to a letter received this morning from Coach Bill Hargiss by W. O. Hamilton, manager of athletics. At least two hundred of the Normal students will come with their team from Emporia.
The officials for the game, as announced by Manager Hamilton this morning are practically the same as in the opening game with William Jewell last Saturday. However of the three games played, K. C. A. gump amuse, and Cochrane of K. C. A. C., act as head linesman. The game will be called at 3 o'clock.
Senior Engineers presided at the freshman Engineers' election this morning. Professor Haworth gave a short talk after which the following officerswere elected: president, Joe Mahan; vice-president, Leo Trull; secretary-treasurer, Clarence Eyer.
The lineup will probably be announced by Coach Olcott tonight after
Willis Whitten, the student who designed the senior memorial bulletin board, is an instructor in the department of architecture.
Helen Rowles, to topea yesterday to act as bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, Miss Bertha Rowles and Mr. Barton Phelps.
PARCEL POST VERSUS
HIGH COST OF LIVING
Freshman Engineers Elect
Parcel post is helping to solve the high cost of living problem here at the University. At least to the ex-unitaries, it bills—three or four dollars a month.
Ellis Davidson, College '12, and a famous guard on the football team has been appointed Washington correspondent of the Springfield Republican. This is a responsible position, and it was the excellent work that Davidson did since he left school, that won him the place.
While in school Davidson did considerable writing and is particularly remembered as editor of the Oread Magazine.
FORMER STUDENT IS NOW
WASHINGTON REPORTER
By sending laundry home by parcel post, students can make this saving. Ten pounds of laundry can be sent to any town within a radius of ten miles for ten cents. From a dollar and a half to two dollars would be charged by a regular laundry to do this amount of washing.
In spite of the fact that professors and instructors are paid less at the University of Kansas than in any other institution of its rank in the country, only one was lost from the faculty last year. His position was suspended by the university on a twelve months' leave of absence from another school.
For many years past, the best men in every department left year, after year to accept positions where more chances to rise and better salaries were offered. "We are glad to say that this condition does not now exist," says the Board of Educational Administration in its second annual report to Governor Arthur Capper. "Kansas schools are particularly attractive to the teaching profession as is shown by the fact that in one of the large departments of the University, every teacher is working for less than has been offered by other institutions of like character, and another instructor has been added to the force in that same department at a very substantial sum less than was offered by a neighboring state university."
The same condition exists at the Agricultural College, where the Federal Government, with unlimited resources, is competing for the most competent instructors, and at the Normal schools, where keen competition has to be met from other institutions desiring able material in the limited field of instruction of education.
The condition is brought about mainly by the care taken by the Board to reward good services, the inducements given members of the faculties to publish their works and the opportunity offered to participate actively in the work of the people outside the schools and to come into contact with the practical every-day affairs of the state.
"We are also giving every opportunity to our professors and instructors to do advanced work," concludes the report, "and to fit themselves for a career in computer science among people in the institution, and to the people of the state at large."
"I will of course take up the work where it was dropped last spring," said Mr. Wedell, "and I hope to be able to start immediately. Plans are beginning to formulate and within a week I will have an outline of procedure ready."
Hugh Wedell New Y. M. C. A. Secy. Hugh Wedell entered upon his new duties as Y. M. C. A. secretary yesterday. Then he did concern his wife so that the field was too new to permit a definite statement as yet.
Pan-Hellenic to Meet in Track The sport dopesters are "all for" the new idea of having the Pan-Hellenic track meet this fall. There is some action at present to bring this about, and there is no question that there is a possibility of uncovering some latent talent, or at least getting the known talent interested and out for work.
Pan-Hellenic to Meet in Track
New Woman's Scholarship
A new scholarship for a self-supporting freshman woman for the year 1915-16, is offered by Mrs. J. B. Watkins. Applications must be made to the women's scholarship committee before October 10. The members of this committee are Professors Galloo, Hyde, and Oliver.
A Correction
Harold A. Mack was elected to the Student Council to fill the vacancy of K. H. Pringle, instead of Warren Mack, as the Daily Kansas stated.
U. OF MOSIOURI STUDENTS INJURED IN ANNUAL SCRAF
Probably fatally injured, Paul Bowlman of Sikeston, Mo.; seriously hurt Preston Walker, Clarence, Mo., who has a broken leg; Thurlow Rangers, Springfield, Mo., neck twisted and badly injured; and Noel Swank, Charlestown, Mo., arm dislocated. This is not a list of casualties resulting from a railway accident, a battle in Flanders or a motor car collision. It is the result of a "class fight" which must have been a classy scrap between the freshmen and sophomores of the University of Missouri. Under the administration of Dr. Strong the University of Kansas has given up the old customs of personal combat and engages in no public demonstrations more dangerous than shirt tail parades. Missouri should move her University into the twentieth century — Salina Union.
Prof. E. F. Stimpson was called to Loring.Kansas yesterday to inspect some wagon scales which were reported as being out of order.
MANYHEAR DOCTOR CROTHERS
Eager to hear the writer, preacher, and humorist of national repute, an unusually large number of students crowded into the chapel this morning. All attendance records for this year were broken.
Unitarian Minister Tells Students College Training Should Bring Critical Ability
That the aim of college training should be to develop critical ability in such a way that it will be used for the betterment for society and that no man has a right to criticize unless he has in mind the improvement of existing conditions was the theme of an address delivered by Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers, Unitarian pastor at Harvard.
"The ability to criticize should always be tempered with the ability to appreciate the good," Dr. Crothers declared. "Consider the instance of Christ, criticizing a certain young man. First, you notice, he seeks the good in the youth. Then, and only then, he points out the failing, and suggests a manner in which that failing can be remedied.
"Now the college man, during the course of his college work, acquires, or at least should acquire, the ability to analyze—in other words to discriminate between the good and bad in things. He returns home. He observes much in his former surroundings is faulty; it faults asleep because he falls and he is tempted to indulge in wholesale criticism. He is inclined to pick to pieces, to over-emphasize the faultiness and overlook the virtue.
"But let him remember that before offering criticism, Christ first dwell upon the good in a man, and offered him a lesson that a failing might be corrected."
ENTOMOLOGY CLUB ELECTS
OFFICERS AND MEMBERS
The Entomology Club met Tuesday afternoon and elected the following officers: Walter Wellhouse, president; Forest Poors, vice-president; Forest Anderson, secretary. Several new members were elected.
The club meets at 2:30 each Tuesday afternoon in the office of the state entomologist in the Museum. Qualifications for membership are based on exceptional proficiency and interest in entomological work.
The following students in the department of entomology were elected to membership: Jess Gardner, Constance Porter, Hugh Grutzmacher, Ralen Truit, Clara Kent, Ruth Ewing, Rahm Smith, and Elmer Lawson.
Botany Club Organizes
A preliminary meeting of the Botany Club was held yesterday at 4:30 in Snow Hall. Professor Stevens was chosen as temporary chairman. A program committee was appointed but the election of officers was postponed until the second meeting, as provided by the constitution.
The Phi Alpha Delta, law fraternity, announces the pledging of the following men: Francis A. Guy Wakefield; Bernard F. McMeel; Meade; Ed. Pedroja, Lawrence; Claire Youse, Baxter; J. M. Fisher, Topeka; and Wilbur Jones, Wichita.
Law Fraternity Pledges
The next meeting will be held in
Show Hall, Wednesday, Oct. 13, at
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CHANGELLOR TO SPEAK
Will Address Second All-University Convocation in Chapel Tomorrow Morning
The second All-University convoction of the year will occur tomorrow morning in Fraser Hall chapel at 10:30. Chancellor Frank Strong will make the address. Students and professors from the School of Fine Arts will furnish special music. The time after convoction will be equally divided among the classes, those ordinarily scheduled for 10:30 meeting at 11:30, and 11:30 classes meeting at noon.
The old style service, used two years ago, will be put in use again tomorrow. Following is the program:
Dorothy.
Lord's Prayer
Responsive Reading
Talk, Chancellor Strong
Solo, "The Gypsies," Prof. W. B. Downing.
Double Quartet, "My Faith Looks Up to Thee."
"Crimson and the Blue."
Duet, "Calm as the Night." Professor Downing and Miss Cora Reynolds.
"You are dismissed" by the Chancellor.
As in days of old, the faculty is expected to sit on the stage.
Following are the persons who will sing in the double quartet number; soprano: Cora Reynolds, Clara Powell; alto: Clara Schenner, Mrs. F. E. Kester; tenor: Harold DeBenham, Gola Coffel; bass: Waldo R. Oechail, H. Merrill Smith. L. R. Droom will play the violin obligato for the selection. Professor Skilton will preside at the organ.
THE ALUMNI WILL BE BACK
Kansas-Nebraska Game Will Bring Graduates to Mount Oread Once Again
The Kansas-Nebraska game, scheduled for November 13th, will be the big homecoming for Kansas alumni this year. All the alumni will be urged to come back. Features to attend are already planned, and will be announced later.
SAT. GAME WILL BE NO
CINCH SAYS OLCOTT
The night before the big game, a peep meeting will be held in the gymnasium, where enthusiasm will be instilled in the most indifferent. Every effort is being made to get the Nebraska Glea Club here for the rally.
"I do not expect K. U, to have a walk away in Saturday's game with the Normals," said Coach Olcott this afternoon, "but we should win if we play a good consistent game. Just what style of play will be used I can imagine on it on." The game is good if used along with other kinds of play."
When asked concerning the method of attack for Saturday he refused to talk, saying only, that he had not decided.
Mr. Olett said that the lineup for Saturday had not yet been decided.
The coach's statement about the strength of the Normals is borne out by the fact that there has been secret practice two nights this week, and that an effort is being made to arborize it with the Indians for this evening.
Professor Nevin to Lecture
Professor Nevin to Lecture Prof. Arthur Nevin, director of Choral Music, will speak on the subject, "Community Music" at the convention of the Leage of Kansas Municipalities to be held in Hutchinson October 13th, 14th, and 15th. He will have the period following Prof. William A. McKeewer's address. Professor McKeewer will speak at 2 o'clock, Wednesday, the thirteenth, on "The Child Welfare Movement."
L. N, Flint, Jr., '35, Arrives Born, yesterday, to Prof. and Mrs.
L. N, Flint, a son
MORNING PRAYERS
The leaders will be some of the best men from the State Convention of Christian churches for the first three days. Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers, of Harvard, will lead Thursday and Friday.
Friday—Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers, Cambridge.