UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 15b
VOLUME XII
FACULTY COMMITTEE
LOOKS INTO SOUR OWL
Disciplinary Members Investigate Publication of Junior Society
DECISIONS COME NEXT WEEK
Numerous Complaints Have Been Made and Professors Will Consider Them Until Monday
Complaints concerning the recent publication of the Sour Owl have been made to the new disciplinary committee of the University faculty composed of Professors Carl Becker, George Putnam and J. N. Van der Vries. The complaints were received by the committee yesterday afternoon but no decision will be reached until next week, Professor Becker said today.
The disciplinary committee was appointed a few days ago to take charge of the powers given over to them by the students at the general election which was held a short time ago.
The complaints against the Sour Owl, which is the publication of the Owls, a junior honor society, have come from a number of sources. Two members of the faculty are known to have formally criticised it. Members of the Y. W. C. A. are drafting resolutions denouncing it today. Mothers who were visiting at the time the publication was issued and miscellaneous groups of students have also expressed their disapproval of it.
Adda May Harper Plays in Fraser Hall at 8:15 o'clock Tonight
WILL GIVE VIOLIN RECITA!
T to women, whose names were used in articles appearing in the paper, have withdrawn from school, take the publication of the Sour Owl.
The graduating recital of Adda May Harper, a special in the School of Fine Arts, from Topela, will be given this evening at 8:15 o'clock in Fraser Hall. Elmer Olsen will be her accompanist and she will be assisted on the violin by Carlton Wood. Miss Harper's program is:
Santa, Op 53...Beethover
Allegro con brio
Adagio
Allegretto Moderato
Miss Harper
Violin Solo—Korinna in A G. 29. . . . . . . . . . . Snigaglia
Mr. Wood
Miss Harper
Etude, Op. 25, No. 3...Chopin
Waltz, Op. 64, No. 1...Chopin
Polonise, Op. 40, No. 2...Chopin
Violin Solo—Ave Maria...
Mr. Wood
Schubert-Wihelihe
Arabesque No. 1... Claude-Debussy
Legend Op. 15, No. 2...
Campbell-Tiptor
. . . . . Dvorak-Kreisler
Liebeslied. . . . . Kreisler
Liebsfreud. . . . . Kreisler
Violin—Indian Lament .
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20, 1915.
Mr. Wood
Wedding March and Elfin Cho-
rns. ... Liezz
(From Mendelssohn's Midsum-
(From Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream)
Miss Harper
Two more senior recitals will be held this spring, that of the College students to be given next Tuesday evening, and of Nina Kanaga, senior in the School of Fine Arts, of Lawrence, Thursday evening, May 27. The Collegiate recital will be given by Bernice Anderson, Abbie Fillel, Mary Jarvis, Marie Ketels, Agnes Moses, Christine Miller, Corine Smyth, piano; and Ruth Fox and Bess Miller, voice students.
CHEMISTS WORK ON A SUBSTITUTION FOR LARD
Experiments over in the Chemistry Building are working with the new product, corn oil, a food-product substitute for lard. If successful the new product will have many advantages: an animal fat, which is hard to digest.
The men are turning the oil to a solid by hydrogenation, accomplished by an experimental engine which injects oil with hydrogen under pressure.
The corn oil itself is a valuable product. In its crude form it has a rich amber color and may be used as a substitute for linseed oil with excellent results. Used in paint it is found to be a good drier and leaves a film comparable to that of the best
HERO BRINGS WOMAN RELIEF AND TROUBLE
Wind Breaks Umbrella
Yesterday's downpour brought sad tribution to a certain young freshman girl. This is how it happened.
She, along with about a thousand others, was caught out in a small cloudburst without sign of raincoat or umbrella. She was really in a sad state. Her gorgeous pink hind foot, pleckely cropped over in two bedrags, croops over her ears, and tricked rivaux rivulets down her damp brow. Her white canvas shoes were in a dreary state of liquefaction.
Hero Comes Forth
just as she splashed past the law steps in a mad dash for the haven of Spooner Library, a gallant youth leaper forward and proffered her umbrella. She didn't know the youth, but she certainly needed the umbrella, so she grabbed it thankfully, and sped onward, calling to the youth that she would return it at the same place the next day. It was a ramshackle of an old umbrella, rusty ribs, and a gauze; tattered old top, and a scarf; and battered wooden handle, but it felt like a mill went into the freshman until—a sudden goat of wind came up, Creak, went the ancient ribs of the umbrella, Zkl' went the top, and there was our freshman out in the rain again, clutching the mournful skeleton of a tattered umbrella, the tattered top of which was whisking down the road in the general direction of Myers Hall.
What Will She Give?
"And now," waits the freshman, "I suppose I will offer to have him my perfectly good, bran new umbrella, and what if he should take it! Oh dear!"
PROFS PLAN SUMMER TOURS
California and Lakes Seem Most Enviable to Tired Teachers
As soon as vacation time comes professors begin to scatter. Some will leave for their vacations as soon as school is closed this semester, while others are planning to stay for summer school, W. C. Stevens, professor of botany, Prof. Elizabeth Sprague, of the department of home economics, Prof. J. N. Van der Vries, head of the biology department and Dean F. W. Blackmar of the Graduate School, will take their vacations after the Summer Session is over.
Prof. H. A. Millis and his family are making plans to spend the summer in California. Prof. Merle Thorpe will teach in the University of California until August 1, when he and his family will go to La Jolla for the remainder of the summer. Merle harries in Lawrence and will take her vacation after summer school is finished, but has not decided upon the location as yet.
Skilton at Lake George
Dean C. S. Skilton, of the School of Fine Arts, will spend the summer with his family at Lake George, situated in eastern New York near the border of Vermont. It is a favorite resort for artists. M. T. Suder, associate dean of the School of Medicine, intends to leave Lawrence about July 1 to spend the remaining months at Cheapeake Bay, noted for its extensive oyster beds and number of water fowl.
Dean A. S. Olin, of the School of Education, also intends to spend the summer vacation in the lake region. He and Mrs. Olph will spend the latter part of August and the first part September at Wilmington Bay, an attractive resort for anglers on account of the abundance of black bass.
Dean J. W. Green, of the School of Law, has not yet made his plans for the summer. Dean Ollin Templin, of New Jersey's "he will be on the job every day."
After summer school, Dean Blackmar thinks he will probably be at Ester Park as usual, Dean and Mrs. L. E Sayre are thinking of going to California at the close of the semester.
Following the first term of the Summer Session Prof. R. M. Ogden, head of the department of psychology will go to Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee, where he will teach a course in educational psychology and elementary psychology. Professor Ogden is using all his spare time in collecting data which he has been preparing for; the last six or seven months in the psychology of meaning, which he intends to put in book form. As most of this data is introspective, the book will probably not be, ready until next year.
Goes to Nashville
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SCOTT WILL ADDRESS
CONVOCATION AT 9:30
"The Scooter of the Nation" will be the subject of the address by Charles F. Scott, of Iola, in the last conversation of the year in Fraser chapel at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. He has given the address several times this spring and those who have heard it say, that it is absorbing in interest.
Last General Meeting of Quiz Schedule Out and Profits Students and Faculty in Whet Their Knives Fraser Tomorrow for May 21
it say that it is absorbing in interest.
In it he gives the point of view of the different warring nations and the paramount views influencing each one. He is in a position to know conditions in the European countries, having spent some time there in the distribution of the food sent by Kansas to the Belgians last fall. All classes will be dismissed for the hour.
HARDEN SUNFLOWER OIL
Mr. Scott is in a graduate of the UofL and is a licensed insurance owner of the Jola Daily Register.
Cherry Baldwin, a fellow, in the division of state chemical research, has succeeded in hydrogenating or hardening sunflower oil. At the present time sunflower oil has practically no commercial value in the United States. In foreign countries, it is used extensively in the manufacture of salad dressings and oils and for shortening.
The German chemists proposed to hydrogenate this oil for food products, in the event Germany becomes warred of oils or fats in the present war.
Cherry Baldwin, Fellow in Chemistry Hydrogenates Flower Oil
FLY CAN'T KILL BIG CROP
THAT TERRIBLE WEEK BEGINS ON MONDAY
Hessian Fest Won't Eat More Thar $15,000,000 Says Wheat Expert
"The many newspaper reports of the damage done to the wheat by the Hessian fly are greatly exaggerated." Prof. G. A. Dean of the State Agricultural College, in address before the Entomological Club yesterday. "It is true that they may cause a loss of fifteen million dollars or so, but nothing in the world now can keep Kansas from having a wheat crop second only to last year's. It might have equalled or even exceeded last year's crop, had precautions been taken at the proper time."
To keep the fly from getting into next year's wheat, according to Professor Dean, work must begin as soon as the harvest is over. Disking the stubble and sowing the wheat late will eradicate the Hessian fly that expels the expedient. The proper time to sow varies over the state from north to south and from east to west, ranging from the first to the twelfth of October.
SPARROW IS USEFUL BIRD
"You've gotta get kickin' the English sparrow around," the ornithologist at Dyce Museum are saying, "for he is a beneficial bird instead of the arrant vagabond that popular opinion has made him to be."
Sparrows have been known to clear rose vines of aphids in return for their nest rent under the cornice. In town they are scavengers and thrive in the streets where no other bird will venture.
Ornithologists Say Supposed Pest
Saves the Alfalfa Crop
Ornithologists say that the charge against them of driving the wild birds out of town is false. There are as many wild birds in the towns now as there ever has been, but as they often keep to the tree tops, while the sparrow is everywhere underfoot, they hastily draw such conclusions.
Government experts in Utah and Wyoming state that the English sparrow is redeeming his lost reputation by his valiant field work in those states. He is checking the rapid advances of the alfalfa weevil, a pest which has appeared there, and is likely to spread to other states.
The Women's Pan-Hellenic entertainment scheduled for tomorrow afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock has been postponed on account of the weather.
Convocation Friday
Postpones Pan-Hellenic Social
A convocation is announced for 9:30 o'clock Friday morning. Charles F, Scott, of lola, will speak. Classes will be dismissed.
Chancellor
The examination schedule is out. Students will take quizzes on Monday even if it does come the day following Decoration Day. The following s the time the different classes will meet for fina's:
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Examination Schedule
Spring Semester, 1914-15.
Examination Schedule
May 31st to June 4th inclusive.
Classes meeting at 10:30 will be examined Monday a. m., May 31 '15.
Classes meeting at 4:30 will be examined Monday p. m., May 31 '15.
Classes meeting at 11:30 will be examined Tuesday a. m., June 1 '15.
Classes meeting at 3:30 will be examined Tuesday p. m., June 1 '15.
Classes meeting at 8:30 will be examined Wednesday a. m., June 2 '15.
Classes meeting at 2:30 will be examined Wednesday p. m., June 2,
'15.
Classes meeting at 9:30 will be examined Thursday a.m. june 6, J15 Exclusive Saturday classes will be examined Thursday p. m. June 3, J15 Classes meeting at 1:30 will be examined Friday a.m. june 4, J15
Three four classes (and one hour classes meeting on Monday, Wednesday or Friday) will be examined from 8:30 to 10:30 if scheduled above for the morning; from 1:30 to 3:30 if scheduled above for the afternoon.
Two hour classes (and one hour classes meeting on Tuesday or Thursday) will be examined from 10:50 to 12:30, if scheduled above for the morning, from 3:50 to 5:30, if scheduled above for the afternoon.
Four and five hour classes will be examined from 8:30 to 11:30, if scheduled above for the morning; or scheduled above for the afternoon.
Laboratory casses will be examined at the time corresponding in the schedule above to the first laboratory period or at the time corresponding thereafter. If the hour exists) at the discretion of the head of the department concerned.
Classes meeting on Saturday and not on other days in the week will be examined Tuesday p. m, from 1:30 to 3:00 for one and two hour courses; from 1:30 to 3:30 for three hour courses.
KANSAN TO HEAD BOARD OF SIMPLIFIED SPELLING
DeWitte C. Croissant, assistant professor in the department of English, has been given a year's leave of absence to take charge of the general work of the board of simplified spelling in New York. Professor Croissant's particular task is to solicit the cooperation of the Eastern schools.
The simplified spelling board is an organization financed by Andrew Carnegie and composed of the foremost English scholars in the country. Its purpose is to arouse sentiment for the new form of spelling.
Last year has seen the tremendous growth of this sentiment in the West. Nineteen colleges have signified their approval of the plan. Nine of these are in Kansas, but none of them state institutions.
The University of Pittsburgh is a strong advocate among the eastern champions of the new cause. Periodicals issued by the board, using a well-established publishing company, have a circulation among the colleges of over two million.
Mechanicals Meet
The last meeting of the Mechanical Engineers' Society will be held Thursday night at 7 c'clock at the home of the engineer, James L. Howard and Howard Baughner senior engineers, will give a report on "Salt Works" and C. Hagenbub, junior engineer, will talk.
Jurisprudence Club Meets
Jurisprudence Club Meet
The Jurisprudence Club will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the home of Prof. H, W. Humble, on University Heights.
Rain Prevents Address
After travelling all day over flooded railroad tracks, and muddy roads, Prof. C. A. Dykstra arrived too late to deliver the commencement address at Yates Center. Wednesday night. An all night ride on a freight train brought him back to Lawrence in time for classes Thursday morning.
WEE SPARROW UPSETS BROWNING CLASS
Looks Too Much Like Mouse
A tiny sparrow absent-mindedly fluttering into Miss Margaret Lynn's English literature class the other morning, caused quite a sensation for a few seconds. Nobody noticed him when first he made his entrance, and it was only when he room that he attracted attention. He half fluttered, half flew across, now on the floor, now an inch or so above.
Some studious young ladies on the front seat looked up with a start from deep contemplation of Browning, and seeing a small brown object gliding a'ong the floor immediately began to think of all the rats and mice of Hamleen town, no doubt. A few stifled shrieks, some feet raised hastily to the chair rounds, some skirts drawn back, and then the panic subsided as the bird reached his destination and halted in the corner. A few minutes later he spied an open window, got his courage up, sailed out, and left the studious young ladies in peace—and Browning.
WILL STUDY TREE CULTURE
Stevens Hopes to Create State Inter-
est in Planting Trees and Shrubs
"Trees and Shrubs" is the title of the new three-hour course to be given by Prof. W. C. Stevens for the first time in Summer School session.
"This course is decidedly more than the title suggests," said Professor Stevens. "We are going to make it a factor in the civic improvement movement that is so prominent over the state just now. An accurate survey will be made of all the trees in Lawrence and its vicinity. Slides will be studied also from all over the world and applied to conditions here."
"I have discovered," continued Professor Stevens, "that although it is impossible to have the English hawthorne grow in this state, the Japanese Barbery, a shrub very much like the hawthorne, grows well late and retains its berries all year it alone would do much to take away the barren look of the Kansas plants if it were planted over the state.
"I hope from now on to send out a number of botany missionaries each year to different parts of the state and really inform people how to convert the souls of trees." Mr. Stevens will have a truly beautiful Kansas."
Professor Stevens has been working on this course for two years and has collected material from many countries.
TESTS INNERMOST FEELINGS
Psychology Machine Shows Rate of Thought and Kind of Emotion
You may be able to disguise from your friends your real feelings, but there is an instrument in the department of psychology that can tell all about your innermost emotions. Instructors use the machine in recording the brain action concerned with breathing and sound.
Writes on Paper
A long strip of paper is carefully covered with lamp-black from a kerosene lamp and placed on the apparatus. Touching it are several small needles of varying sizes and fineness.
The subject has his thumbs attached to a small rubber tube which is in turn connected with the apparatus. A slight electric current is turned on which moves the needle in use. The subject reaches for his mind relax, the needle describing the rate of thought on the smoked baner.
Tests Pleasantness
Another experiment along the same line is the testing of pleasant, or distinctly unpleasant thoughts on the brain. These are tested by the same experiments as the electric current described by the paper back ground.
CHEMICALS MEET, TALK AND ELECT OFFICERS
The following officers were elected for next year: president, Roy Neal; vice president, J. Chrisman; secretary, H. Holden; treasurer, F. Campbell.
"Modern Projectiles" was the subject of an address by Dr. F. B. Dains, at the last meeting of the Chemical Engineering Society last
The cabinets of the Y. M. C. A. and
the Y. W. C. A. will meet my Myers
Hall tonight at 7:30 o'clock for a joint
picnic supper and business session.
LIBERAL STUDENTS HIKE LOAN FUND $200 TODAY
Foster Gets 34 Petitions With 200 Signatures Worth $1 Each
PAPERS STILL CIRCULATING
Studes
Mail Brings Many Gifts From Out- sideers, Grads and Former
The slowly returning petitions for pledges toward the student loan fund are daily increasing toward the $50,000 goal. Petitions are still being indicated to the classes and all indicate generous contributions from the student body.
Up to noon today thirty-four petitions have been returned to Registrar George O. Foster's office with 200 petitions pledging a total of about 8300.
No large contributions have been received since the first of the week but every mail brings numerous letters of encouragement and approval to the boosters of the campaign. The promoters are expecting further material aid from outsiders on every mail.
the campaign will continue. The instructors who have not yet used loan fund petitions in their classes are asked to do so at once so that all may have a chance to contribute to the fund.
The work at the other state institutions has been started and will be handled along with that for the University. The sum raised at each of the schools is for the particular school and does not go to any other. The campaign for the university separately so that persons may give to the institution for which they wish the funds used. Everett Gunn
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OFFER TWO NEW COURSES
University Summer Session to Train Journalism Teachers
New, abbreviated, special courses in journalism for high school teachers will be offered at the Summer Session of the University by Prof. L. N. Flint. Several high schools in the state now teach the elements of journalism in connection with fourth year English, and it is not always easy to obtain properly trained teachers. These special courses are needed to give the work of journalists the same time fulfilling the requirements of purely professional studies. Credits for both may be applied toward an A. B. degree.
The course in Newspaper Writing deals with the different kinds of newspaper stories, news, human interest, and feature, with practice in writing them. Campus news furnishes the material. The other course, Editorial Theory, Twenty-Fourth Edition, efficiently described by its title. The practice consists in editing and preparing material for various sorts of periodicals.
The Summer Session Kansan, published twice a week by the department and students of journalism, furnish a vehicle for the material prepared in class, and provides a laboratory where practical work is done.
GLADYS GIBB DIES
IN DENVER, COLO.
Miss Gladys Gibb, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon Gibb of 1011 Indiana street, died at 5 a'clock last evening in Denver. Miss Gibb went there about a month ago, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. J. Gordon Gibb Mr. Gibb and eldest daughter Isbel left for Denver Tuesday night, arriving in time to be recognized by Gladys.
Miss Gibb had just reached her eighteenth birthday on April 28. She was a freshman in the School of Fine Arts and was pledged to Pi Beta Phi.
Pi Gamma Sigma Eats
Pi Gamma Sigma, the honorary educational sorority, met at the home of Miss Helen R. Hoopes at 4:30 for a picnic lunch. Letters from the alumni were read.
Get Invitations
Senior invitations may be secured tomorrow at the check stand in Fraser Hall from 11:30 to 12:30 o'clock and 1 to 3 o'clock. Tomorrow is the last day that invitations may be secured.
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