UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
APPOINTS COMMITTEES
NUMBER 17
C. A. Randolph Passes Out Grapes to Fourth Year Students
The senior appointments were given out this noon by C. A. Randolph. This announcement is given earlier than usual, according to Randolph, in order that the committees may be come organized at once for the putting through of a successful year. The commencement committee is a new one in the senior position, but its purpose is one that may help, but its solution is at KU, where the graduation week is not all that might be desired. Other new committees are for the providing of girls' mixers and fortune blixy.
Those whose names appear on the list are:
Social committee: Samuel G. Wiliams, chairman, Guy L. Waldo, Hardo Mack, Robert Smith, Kenneth H. Lott; cap and gown committee: Tom Mulloy, chairman, Maureen McKernan, Junius W. Dyche, James B. McKay, Lillian Wolfe; invitation committee: Erle F. Cress, chairman, Helen Hershberger, Drexel Powell, George H. Beach, Walter R. Pickering; finance committee: Hylas C. Smith, chairman, Virgil Gordon, Ira E. Elswick, Allene Wilson, Glenn L. Alt, Helen Greer, Howard Adams, Helen Streeeter, Bessie Huff, Ernst J. Goppert.
Mixer committee; Harry W. Hoffman, chairman; Roy A. Reynolds, Alexander E. Creighton, Lawrence Cole, Charles Smith, Lee J. Fitzsimons, Forrest N. Anderson; memorial committee; John M. Johnson, chairman; Jerry Stillwell, Edward W. Tanner, William E. Woolsey, Jay Milligan, Margaret Lorimer, Alice Coors, James L. Sellars, Louise Champlin, Opal Holmes; girls' mixer committee; Claire-Gene Daws, chairman, Louis Imus, Leah Jennerson, Helen Thorpe, Helene Thomas, Richard Mencmentance committee, Nelle Kenkle Beaillard, Blauche Mullen, William Beaillard, Nauli Simpson, Avery Olney; senior play committee; Donald C. Burnett, chairman, James B. McNaught, Dorothy McKenan; publicity committee; Brue Shember, chairman, Hillman Vaughan, Elmer Arndt, Harry V. McCollee, John Battlesi
Football committee: Bernard F. McMeel, chairman, John A. Reber, Dear S. James, Samuel E. Campbell; basketball committee: Ira L. Gobeen, chairman, Ralph D. Sproul; Ephrima J. Sorensen; baseball committee: Wilbur A. Fischer, chairman, Charles M. Stiller, Clay Morrow, Slidney A. Moss; track committee: Milton L. Baker, chairman, Leland E. Fiske, William L. Aineworth.
CHORUS TRY-OUTS TONIGHT
Chance for All Music Lovers to Join Popular Organization This Evening
The first Choral Union try-out of the year is scheduled for 7:30 this evening at F. A. U. Hall. All those interested in music are urged to be out. Prof. Arthur Nevin, head of the voice department on the Hill will direct the chorus.
"Through community singing one can better secure a proper appreciation of good music than in any other way," said Professor Kevin. "Knowledge greatly increased by participation in this line."
Prof. J., N. Van der Vries, of the department of mathematics, is head of the committee on arrangements. He anticipates a membership in the organization of 200 singers this winter. Two concerts will be given by the chorus during the year.
Rev. Priest in Chapel
The chapel exercises tomorrow morning will be conducted by Rev. Walter Scott Priest of Wichita. Mr. Priest is here attending the Christian convention.
Junior Laws Elect
The junior Laws met yesterday and elected the following class officers President, Ross, Davenport; vice president, Floyd Livengood; treasurer, Walter Havelkorst; secretary, Karl Jones.
One candidate who "also ran" in the election Friday was heard to remark that he didn't know before that he had so few friends on the Hill.
Plain Tales from the Hill
Freshmen Are Alert
Although it was slightly cool this morning for a change in headgear, numerous freshman caps were in evidence. Two out of every three men who had half-past eight classes in the Administration Building wore the distinguishing badge. One and all they glanced with coy interest at the stack of paddles stored on the Law steps.
Because of a vacancy created in the Iola high school by the resignation of a young woman who preferred marriage to teaching, Nellie Ellis has given up her intention of returning to the University this year, in order to follow in that young woman's foot-steps—within limits.
After-being "off it's feed" for several days, the Physics clock was back on the job today and is keeping good time—for the time being.
The Mu Phi Epsilon sorority announces the following pledges: Blanche Osborn, Independence; Frances Ingalls, Syracuse, N. Y.; Helen Weed, Lawrence.
Naomi Light, who received her A. M. at Kansas last year is now teaching English in the Osawatime high school. Miss Light spent the weekend at the home of her parents in Lawrence.
Lola Lehman, junior in the College, spent the week-end at her home in Olathe.
A broken trolley wire on the street car line over the Hill Monday afternoon caused a tie up that delayed many students in reaching their afternoon classes.
Mr. Howard Dixon, of Kansas City, is visiting his brother Claude Dixon, a freshman in the College. Mr. Dixon has been traveling, via Ford, through the southwestern states this summer for a Kansas City nursery company.
Ida Perry, Catherine Johnson, Mable Perry, and Helen Topping spent last week in Kansas City.
Frank L. Snow, son of former Chancellor F. H. Snow, spent Sunday in Lawrence visiting relatives. Until recently, Mr. Snow has been on the staff of the Topeka State Journal, but is now teaching in the department of journalism in the State Agricultural College at Manhattan.
Frank Terrill, junior law, spent the week-end at his home in Holton.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 5. 1915.
Heard from a janitor assistant: "Well, I'm glad election comes but once a year."
Prof. F. H. Sibley, of the School of Engineering, has assumed charge of the correspondence work in engineering offered through the correspondence study department of the extension division.
The last of rushing week Walter Hawekorst left Kansas for the University of Illinois where he enrolled in the School of Law. He attended classes a week before he saw his mistake, then wasted no time in buying a ticket for Lawrence. When asked why he came back, he said, "I don't like to knock on Illinois but it didn't take me very long to decide where I wanted to study law."
New members who have just joined the K. N. G. will begin target practise tomorrow morning. Seven or eight went out to the course this afternoon. Others will go out in the morning. Much interest is being taken this year in the work and it is thought that a fine company will be organized.
The matter of securing a secretary for the Y. M, C. A. was placed in the hands of a committee composed of Prof. E. F. Engel, vice-president, of the advisory board, and Professors W. J. Baumgartner and U. G. Mitchell, at a meeting of the board held Friday afternoon.
Frances Jobes, a freshman in the College, has returned from Kansas City where she spent the week-end visiting her parents.
Ray Spencer, a freshman in the College last year, re-enrolled 'h' in the College this week after contemplating going to Pittsburgh Normal. However, Spencer did not like what the Normal had to offer, so is back at K. U.
This morning as "Jet" Parker finished a warm discussion on the different phases of the war, he remarked, "I am sure glad I'm not a kid with all this war to study about for the next twenty years."
An Illustration of "Campus Beautification'
The Museum as it is, and it may be fit. An illustration of how campus beautification, as advocated recently in the Daily Kansan by Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith, would improve the appearance of Mt. Oread. Leland Thompson, president of the Student Council, has named a committee to try to formulate definite plans of improvement. The drawings in the lower picture were made by an expert landscape gardener.
TO BOOST MEMORIAL FUND
Senior President Has Plans to Com-
plete Raising of Money for
Class Memorial
A similar tea will be given for the sophomore girls this Friday afternoon and Mrs. Brown will continue to give receptions, until all the girls of the University have been entertained. Mrs. Brown expects to have Mrs. Cora G. Lewis in the receiving line for the junior and senior teas.
A large majority of the freshman girls attended the reception given by Mrs. Eustace Brown Friday afternoon at her rooms in Fraser Hall. A personal invitation was sent out, to each girl in the class, and Mrs. Brown attributes the large attendance to this fact.
Memorial class plans have again come up for the new class executives to work out. Some of the classes have already accomplished much toward the raising of funds for their memorials leaving only the finishing touches to be applied.
"Senior memorial plans are not yet complete," said C. E. Randolph, senior president, "but we expect to start a campaign for that purpose soon."
TEA WELL ATTENDED
BY FRESHMAN GIRLS
"The junior class of last year did nothing toward establishing a memorial fund," said the senior president, "so, two years' work must be done in one. In the sophomore year, however, the class raised twenty dollars for this purpose. This is all much more important to the members of this year's senior class to make the memorial campaign a success."
MAY FOUND BIBLE COLLEGE
If Established, University Credit to Be Given for Work in Theology
Definite action on the proposition to establish a Bible College at the University here by the Christian churches of Kansas is expected tomorrow. The churches are in convention in Lawrence this week and the matter will either be definitely decided upon or turned down by the convention.
If the College is established, it will mean that four or five more men will be added to the force now headed by Dr. Arthur Braden, head of the Bible chair in Myers Hall. Instruction will then be given to any students of the University who want work in theology or kindred subjects. Dr. Braden is now offering several courses, but for which there is no credit given.
A meeting is being held this afternoon in Myers Hall by the leaders in the Christian churches of Kansas, to formulate plans for resolutions to be presented before the convention in regard to the Christian "Bible College. These will be addressed to the Christian women's Board of Missions, which owns and operates Myers Hall. Definite action is expected in a few days on the College.
Is Self-Government at K. Uma Farce?
Our Versatile Uncle Jimmy
Uncle Jimmy's picture covered the entire front page of the bulletin passed out at the football game Saturday. Two freshmen were speculating as to whom this important personage might be, when a bright idea flushed into the mind of one and he explained, "Why, 'I'll bet he's a former football coach."
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Persistent rumors of illegalities in the class elections Friday are being passed around. Charges in some cases are so specific as to admit of little doubt. They are at least serious enough to warrant investigating. It is said that a number of persons voted on two different class ballots, that judges at some of the polls represented only one faction in the election, that electioneering was carried on within the forbidden ten-foot radius. If these charges are true, then self-government at K. U. is a farce. It means that elections are manipulated by a few interested persons and that the real wishes of the students are ignored.
The Student Council has authority to investigate. In the interest of student welfare at K. U. it ought to see that these charges are traced down.
DRAKE AND CREIGHTON
DRAKE AND CREIGHTON
WANT DEBATES WITH K. U
Offers of debates with Crofton University, at Omaha, and with Drake University, at Des Moines, were received this morning by Prof. Howard T. Hill, of the department of public speaking. "We probably won't accept either offer," said Professor Hill. "We have all we can handle now, with Missouri, Colorado, and Oklahoma on the schedule. Drake wanted us to make it a dual meet this year and next year, with the addition of some other school, make it a triangular Missouri Valley meet."
This idea is like that talked of last year. It was planned to have a triangular debate and in this way a winner of the Missouri Valley debating league could be picked, the same as in athletics.
'Twas Ever Thus
Emerald in the Rough Learns That There is One Thing in Lawrence That Can Be Had for Nothing
'Twas ever thus-
And we tell the tale,
As 'twas told to us:
Mr. Verdant Green had come to the Hill with the beautiful notion that there was one thing which every college man must, might, could, would and should do—to wit, attend chapel; not occasionally, mind you, on every day. Accordingly, he picked a trustworthy looking gentleman who was leaning against a telegraph post, wearing a colorful sweatshirt and smoking an odorous pipe; of this person he inquired: "Sir, can you tell me the who, what, why, where, when and how of chapel?"
"Why, yes—certainly—with pleasure," said the bestweatered one. "I can tell you all about it. You go there in the morning and present a ticket. Then the usher lets you in and shows you your seat. Now, luckily for you, I happen to be selling chapel tickets myself. I make a commission on them you see. I'am working my way through college."
Mr, Verdant Green thanked his informant and ingrusted how much the team had done.
"Only $2," said the informant. "They're season tickets, good for the whole year." And the informant blew smoke from his odorous pipe.
"I have no Cash-On-Hand," explained The Emerald in the Rough, with a blush, "but I'll take a question if you'll take a check. Will you?"
Would he? Indeed he would; and to prove it, the two adjourned to a nearby store, where the ticket-broker had the check cashed, gave the freshman his $2 change and—his chapel ticket.
The next day V. G. offered his ticket with devout confidence to one whom he supposed must be the local St. Peter.
"Nothing doing," pronounced St. Peter. "Walk right in. The pews are free. Didn't your mother warn you against the upperclassman and all his works."
Mr. Verdant Green did not linger for devotion. He hurried down to the bank.
"Yes, I know I was foolish," he confessed to the cashier, "but don't forget to stop payment on the check."
COUNCIL TO APPOINT
PRINGLE'S SUCCESSOR
To fill a vacancy in the Student Council, caused by the resignation of Kenneth Pringle, and to consider means of electing the vice-president and secretary of the College, the Student Council will meet tonight in Fraser Hall.
"Harold Mack," Boots" Gear and Chuck Hobart are the three candidates who aspire to succeed Pringle on the Council. Their names will doubtless be presented at the meeting this evening, but they will be in the race for the vice-presidency and secretaryship respectively of the College.
Verein Postponed
MANY VOTED ILLEGALLY
The meeting of the German Verein, which was scheduled for tonight at Fraser Hall, has been postponed until next Tuesday evening, according to an announcement, made this morning by the German department.
Katieleen Carrie spent the week end at her home in Kansas City.
Kansan Finds Evidence of Fauldulent Election Practices at Sophomore Polls
Numerous instances of illegal practice in the recent class elections have come to the attention of the Daily Kansan. An investigation has been begun, but the information, because of the very nature of it, is difficult to obtain.
The Daily Kansas believes that the election lists were inaccurately compiled, that many voted as members of two classes, that names were voted by others than their owners, that men not in school owned, and that men voted in classes other than the one to which they belong.
The Daily Kansan obtained considerable information which it believes is true, but has not yet been able to verify. This it will not make public, although it is of such a nature as to warrant careful investigation.
A Coach Voted
John Dyer, one of the sophomore judges, estimates that at least ten illegal votes were cast at the second-year poll. According to the statement of Paul Greerain, another judge, which Dyer verifies, "Leftoil Sproull, senior last year, now coaching basketball and freshman football, voted the second year ballot. According to these same men, Bryan Davis, who was manager of the junior From last year, also voted the sophomore ticket. Dyer said also that a student voted under the name of Hagan, and this is corroborated by a statement of Miss Emma May Rummel, L. B. Plitton voted in the election. The student from school before the date set for it—consequently he is not entitled to vote. At least two others, and probably more, voted the sophomore ticket with freshman standing, and the Daily Kansan has good evidence that a student not now in school voted the same ticket. Ballots were marked by electioneers and given to women voters to be cast.
Lists Are Not to be Had
Lists Are Not to be Has.
"Duke" Kennedy, according to his own admission, voted both the third and fourth year ballots. Evidences of similar instances have come to the Daily Kansan, but they have not yet been sufficiently substantiated for publication.
The Daily Kansan attempted to obtain the sophomore election list but has not been able to do so. PaulGreater, Emma, May Rummel, and John Dyer profess ignorance of its whereabouts.
In the junior class reports of fraudulent voting have been heard, but the Daily Kansan has not yet been able to obtain much information. The average student will not part with information of the nature desired.
The Daily Kansan gives this information to the students of the University, in the hope that it will come to the attention of the Student Council, and that an investigation with the proper machinery will be inaugurated. Further, information of the nature of this will be welcomed.
HUGO WEDELY CHOSEN
NEW Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY
Hugo Wedell was chosen as secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. to fill the place left vacant by Con Hoffmann, by the advisory board of the Y. M. C. A. last night. Mr. Wedell received his degree here last year from the College, and is now enrolled as a 'middle Law.
Phi Alpha Tau Will Meet Phi Alpha Tau, the national dramatic fraternity, will hold a meeting Thursday evening at-the Alpha Tau Omega house. The fraternity will continue the discussion started at the last meeting, of the advisability of starting a dramatic library in Prof. Arthur MacMurray's department, in the basement of Green Hall.
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.
Wednesday—Rev. W. S. Priest,
Wichita.
Thursday—Dr. Samuel McChord
Brothers, Cambridge.
Friday—Dr. Samuel McChord
Crothers, Cambridge.