UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XII.
NUMBER 149
SENIOR WOMEN WILL HAVE TORCH CEREMONY
Fourth Year Women to Estab lish Tradition at University With May Fete
BALL GAME EARLY FOR FETE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 12 1915
One Hour Intermission to be Used for Picnickers' Lunch—All Urged to Bring Lunch
Any senior women who desire to be in the senior Torch ceremony and have not yet enrolled for it, should do so tonight at the Gymnasium. This ceremony is to be the feature of the women of the senior class, led by the two women in the senior class should make an effort to be in it. They say that K. U. has no traditions. An effort is being made to start one in the Torch ceremony of the Fete. It is the desire of the women to make it a traditional spring season. The Torch ceremony is to be the feature of the evening performance.
Between the afternoon and night performances there will be an hour intermission, for supper. Every one that can do so is urged to bring a picnic lunch, or plan to buy their suppe held by the different sororities, where all kinds of food dear to the hearts of pickermakers may be purchased.
Another feature of the evening entertainment will be the play given by members of Beta Theta Pt. For several years the Betas have given Prayer Groups an old English book in a form of which is found in Mid-Summer Night's Dream.
The ball game with Missouri will be over in time for the people who attend the game, the people beginning, ceremonies. The F. will start at 4:30 o'clock.
Senior Slow to Order; Faculty Still Ponders Question
GET JWNS BEFORE FRIDAY
Many seniors have not yet given their orders for caps and gowns. The committee has been taking measure-ments and orders for the past week at the check stand in Fraser. Friday of this week will be the last chance for those seniors who have not yet ordered.
Nothing definite has been decided by the faculty, and it is not known whether or not they will wear the regulation commencement uniforms. According to Jerry Simpson, chairman of the committee, they will have to decide before Friday, because the order must go in at that time.
Fellowship for Grad Man
George Russell in Lawrence
The Presbyterian Training School, of Chicago, is offering a fellowship to graduates of the University of Kansas or trainee teachers in Christian service. The fellowship does not offer a training for men wishing to take up the ministry but for work as laymen in connection with community and civic betterment.
Alpha Chi Omega Pledges
George Russell, "11, of Leavenworth,
is spending a few days with his parents and at the Sigma Chi House.
He was called home by the serious injury of his father. O. F. Russell, whose or car turned over on him Saturday.
Alpha Chi Omega Pledges
Alpha Chi Omega announces the
pledging of Gertrude LaCoss, freshman College, of Lawrence and Irene Then, freshman College, from Anale.
Zoologists Meets
Snow Zoology Club will meet tonight with V. H. Householder at the hotel hoofer. The wetsuit is on the program to give some imitations of bird calls.
Thirty-four attended the Zoology Club jonic at Elliott's. G Satur dator
Women Rehearse
All the women in the May Fete with
rehearse Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock on
the field and at 7 o'clock in the
Gym.
Women Swim
Next week, May 17 to 21,
will be devoted to swimming at
the Women's Gym. Tryouts
for swimming credit will be
held every day, and an afternoon
in Potter Lake will be required for.
All first year students who do not succeed in swimming the length of the pool, will be obliged to take swimming again next year.
Alice L. Goetz
INSTALL NEW MEN'S COUNCIL
Two Vacancies From the College Will he Filled Tuesday
The new Men's Student Council was installed last night in Room 110, Fraser. Vic Bottomly, the outgoing president, made a short talk and then armed the meeting over to Leland Thompson, president of the new Council. It was decided that the two men who will fill the vacancies on the council from the front door will be at the regular meeting next Tuesday night. Candidates must hat petition to the president before午
The meeting was then thrown open for an informal discussion in which members from both Councils took part. The keynote of all the talks was that there is a field for construction and the need to examine matters of student interests, and a desire to be of benefit and use to the student body.
The new organization will put on a dance in the near future at Woodland to try and "clean up" some of the debt of the late Student Union.
Santa Fe Men and Technical Maga
zine Watch Work of Seniors
W. A. Kingman and N. J. Pierce have finished the field work on their senior theses "Stresses in Track." They designed and built their apparatus for recording the deflections of the rails, and for the past month have been spending their "out of class" time on the railroad.
They are investigating whether the increased weight of engines has made dangerous stresses in the rails. santa Fe officials are interested in the work. Mr. Hansen, road master, und Mr. Buck, division engineer, have seen with the men during several of the tests.
Mr. C. Baker, managing editor for the Engineering News, a technical magazine, and a personal friend of Prof. C. C. Williams, has asked for the same work for this magazine. The Santa Fe has also asked for their data.
Mr. Kingman and Mr. Pierce are iow compiling their results and hope o finish by the latter part of this week.
FINE ARTS STUDENTS
FIND TIME A BURDEN
Prof. Griffith Breaks Up Case
"Art is long and Time is fleeting," sang the poet, and his words are as true today as ever. Nevertheless, one fair maiden who was sketching on the campus the other morning seemed to have a good idea of that she was not sorry to be joined by a student of the masculine persuasion. They were just having a lovely time, though the picture on her easel was not getting on very fast, when all of the added joy came from the owner of Snow Hall but Prof. W. A. Griffith! The young man at once remembered a date in the Engineering Building and the way he approached the vanishing point was not slow. Then the woman decided that she should look over her she picked up her things and left; Such is life in the Fine Arts school!.
EXPERT ON PRODUCTS
EXPERT ON PRODUCTS
OF CORN WILL TALK
Dr. William P. Cutter, of the American Manufacturers' Association, of Chicago, an expert on corn and corn products will speak before the Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society Saturday at 2:30 in the lecture room of the Chemistry Building on "The Products of Corn."
The address will be of a general nature and will deal with things concerning the products of corn. The lecture is open to the general public
Prof. W. H. Carruth is still writing successful poems and is just as popular at Leland Stanford as he was at the University of Kansas," says Prof. Vernon Kellogg, a graduate of the University and formerly of the department of English, W. C. Stevens over Sunday, Professor Kellogg has been teaching at Leland Stanford University but now goes to Belgium where he will assist in bringing relief to sufferers. As Professor Carruth will teach here in the summer school he and the famine will arrive in Lawrence about June 1
CARRUTH WRITES POPULAR
At Morning Prayers
WAR POEM FOR THE WEST
Go to St. Joseph
Prof. C, C. Young, Miss Myrtl Greenfield, and Miss Rush Bottomly of the water and sewage laboratories of the State Board of Education to assist in the formation of a Missouri Valley Health Association.
Morning prayers; leader, Con Hoff mann; general subject, "Life."
Thursday, "The Abundant Life."
Friday. "Eternal Life."
An Honor for Every University Woman
It is to be the biggest thing that women at the University of Kansas have done this year. One motion picture company is planning to show pictures of the dances all over Kansas and at the big Eastern school's.
To take part in this year's May Pete is an honor every University woman deserves.
Kansas has a more beautiful setting for its May Day pageant than Vassar, Bryn Mawr, or Wellesley. Dozens of brightly-flowered dresses are being furnished as fast as they are called for. Little pink poke bonnets are all ready to slip on.
The Fete is to be produced by every woman in the University. They are the ones who want it and who are working to have it.
One short rehearsal at the Gymnasium tonight and a call at the women's office for a costume is all that is necessary to get into the Fete.
It is an honor for every Kansas woman
Tigers Come to Lawrence t Play Double Header Thursday and Friday
KANSAS MEETS ANCIENT HAVE PLANS PREPARED ENEMY AT 4 TOMORROW FOR CAMPUS ENTRANCE
The championship of the Missouri Valley in baseball will probably be decided Thursday and Friday when Missouri and Kansas tangle on McCook Field. Kansas has the advantage for the Valley pennant. The Jayhawker aggregation has won all four "conference games played while Mist
Jerry Simpson will be at the Engineering Building Thursday morning from 8 to 10 to take orders for senior caps and gowns.
Abilene High School—Abilene defeated Dickinson County High 9 to 0 in a return game played at home Friday. With two games won and 1 lost Abilene is now in the lead for the Kaw Valley Baseball League pennant.
Abilene High in Lead
Announcement
Will Thresh Mizzoo
souri has had only an even break with Ames. They beat the Kansas Aggies 9 to 3 yesterday. Thus a double victory this week will practically climb the title. While on the other hand the Kansas men could lose these two and still have another shot against sourier week after next at Columbia.
McCarty's men have been hitting the pill this season as they have not hit it in past years. In fact, with the pitchers working i their customary way and the men hitting the missile when they have a chance Kansas should have no trouble with the Tigers. Missouri does not have a chance year and the reports from Tigerville indicate that the Tigers are no good at hitting. These reports are received with interest in the Jayhawker camp but DeLongy says he is looking for "bear" stories about this time.
On account of the Knight Templars' celebration the men were forced to work off of McCook yesterday and then to work out on Hamilton Field. They showed the freshmen some of the finer points of the national game. McCarty gave all his pitchers a chance at the first year men and they were all effective. He told them to pitch, the end with Harrell on the receivers end of the battery.
Y. M. Board Meets
Tomorrow's game will begin at 4 o'clock. Announcement will be made later of the second game as they plan it to interfere as little as possible and give you tickets are good for all baseball games and Manager Hamilton expects a large crowd out for the "twisting". The lineup for the games this week is made up as that which he already appeared on McCook in the earlier games.
The new Board of Directors of the University Y. M. C. A. will hold its first meeting at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening in Myers Hall.
Report on South Gate to University Ready for Board of Administration
Plans for a south approach to the campus have been drawn up by the committee in charge and will be presented to the Board of Administration at the next meeting. Prof W. Watson, chairman of the Smith and John M. Shea, superintendent of buildings and grounds, are the men on the committee.
The proposed approach will join on to the campus at the southeast corner of the University property at the intersection of 16th and Indiana streets. From there the road is laid out in a grid pattern. From Blake Hall, and will join into the present road south of the Medic Building. A new roadway will then continue the approach around back of Snow Hall and join with the north approach from Mississippi street east from the Chemist's building. Short projections of the present road will not be needed anymore and will probably be reshed.
Convenient cement foot-paths from the south are also planned to connect with existing roads.
This proposed approach to the University is the result of a concerted protest from the K. U. people living there, and a call for teaching the campus at present is by means of the car tracks and a walk up a steep and often muddy embankment. It has also been necessary for the students and professors to tread on the ground belonging to the University which has also tainted the movement.
To be William if Kaiser Wins
WAR KEEPS SCION OF RISELY WITHOUT NAME
Charles, infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Risely, now weighs about fourteen
or fifteen pounds, but he has as
yet no middle name, and will have
none until the European war is settled.
If the Germans win the boy
becomes a German citizen if they do not
will he take his middle name from
his maternal grandfather.
A committee headed by Harry Willson is now collecting the class assessment of 16 to purchase Charles a gift which in after years would be that he is the first progeny of the class of 1915 of the University of Kansas.
Prof. C. A. Shull of the department of botany began an experiment today to determine the water holding power of soils at the wilting coefficient. The soils are from various states. The test will run fifteen days.
Begins Experiment
Sigma Kappa Pledges
Sigma Kappa has pledged Drechsel Powell, junior College, and Artemesia Powell, sophomore College, both of Coffeville.
Cabinet Meets
The T. M. C. A. Cobinet will mose-
ter an interview evening at
Con Hoffman's office.
Mary Govier, sophomore College from Minneapolis City, Mo., has pledged
Pledges Pi Phi
Fete Tickets Arc on Sale
The women of the University are selling tickets for the May Fete at 25 cents for a single admission afternoon or night, or 35 cents for the two performances. The ticket seller is supplying the seat on part of the part of the ticket when making the sale for one admission and return the part kept to the chairman of the ticket committee.
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STUDENTS LEAD MEETINGS
Undergraduates of University Speak in Country Churches
If the plans of the county remain last week between the student pastors of the different churches of Lawrence, the secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. and a large number of faculty members forty students of the University will aid in conducting services in the various rural churches in Douglas county Sunday afternoon and evening. This new organization, which will be known as the Council of Religious Workers at the University, will be held for an arrangement for a series of meetings to be conducted by the students or professors of the University at all the rural churches of the county. These meetings will be held every Sunday afternoon or evening and will be superintended by Rev. F. W. Abshe, chairman of the community service committee.
In addition to the community service work the council will have charge of all the religious work in the University for the coming year. Rev. Gordon B. Thompson, as chairman of the campaign committee, will cooperate with the Y. A. C. Church and religious campaigns carried out among the students, while Rev. Arthur Braden will have charge of the Bible study work.
The object of the new organization as expressed by its president, Rev. Stanton Olinger, will be to work for the advancement of the student and the university, the student pastors and the secretaries of the student religious organizations for the advancement of Christian work in the University system, and forty members of the faculty have joined.
VINEGAR ONE-TENTH PURE
Experts Find  Cider Products Mostly Water and Other Substances
Investigators in the food laboratory in the Chemistry Building make some odd discoveries from time to time. Cheap articles of food are made from almost any substance bearing any resemblance to the genuine article, and many of the products are useless or even harmful if used as food.
A food inspector recently turned in some samples of cider vinegar, which consisted of one tenth cider and nineteenth foreign substances, chiefly found in some dried peas which had been soaked and put up as fresh peas.
If the adulterations are proven arrests will probably follow, said W. S. Long, assistant professor in the food laboratory.
OREAD HAD LARGE ANIMALS
Triceratops Weighing Fifteen Tons
Formely Reaged on Campus
The ancient animals that lived in Kansas in bygone centuries ran mostly to size and ugliness. They included a beaver as big as a black bear, an extinct buffalo of a type now extinct, a species of rhinoceros, various forms of sea reptiles, and others the real giants of the times.
The latter included Triceratops, a huge animal weighing fifteen tons with a length of twenty-five feet, and a huge shield like that of a grasshopper extending back over his neck, and Brontasaurus, the only 66 feet 8 inches long, 15 feet 2 inches high at the hips, and in life carried a little matter of 90 pounds avoirdupois. Besides the skeleton of this beast that of a man is ludicrously small; it reaches only half way up the head and the head of the great reptile would be higher than most houses.
A FREE TRIP TO SHANGHAI
Hoffmann Wants Stenographer For
Y. M. C. A. Office in China
Do you want to go to China and be a stenographer? Con Hoffmann, secretary of the University Y. M. C. A., has received a letter from the offices of the World's Student Christian Federation asking him to recommend a man for the position of stenographer in the national offices of the Y. M. C. A. at Shanghe University; he would help the applicant for this position to learn the Chinese language, as his work would be with American and English secretaries.
Besides travelling expenses and room rent, the position pays a salary
Another letter from the Childs Restaurant Company of the United States and Canada asks Con to recommend men for positions with that firm starting in at the bottom and working up to the positions of assistant manager, manager, and district manager.
Vanderbilt University has already found it advisable to require men to live on the campus in their freshman year.
Florence Hyre caused giggles and queer gymnastic positions when she asked. This order to her gym class. Class 3 steps backward, forward march!"
MONEY FOR LOAN FUND BEGINS TO COME IN
Prof. Humble Turned in First List and Jack Waggoner Paid His Pledge
THE PETITIONS TO REACH ALL
Students and Faculty to be Given Chance to Pledge Before Other Campaign Starts
Professor Humble was the first faculty man to turn in his class list, and Jack Wagner, freshman Engineer, the first to pay his pledge in cash.
Give All a Chance
Two hundred papers for the pledging of financial support of the $50,000 Student Loan Fund are being circulated. Students today to give every student and faculty member an opportunity to contribute. Two of the papers have been submitted already, and show that the average donation of the students is one dollar.
The pledge papers will continue to circulate in the class room until every student and faculty member has had a chance to contribute to the cause. Close record of each contributor is being made.
No effort will be made to get money for the University fund from outside sources until the campaign is finished among the students and faculty. Students must be familiar with the other state schools under the control of the Board of Administration. Local banks have already made known their willingness to cooperate with the Board in giving the men and women of Kansas a chance for a liberal education.
Women's Association Will Give $100
to Worthy Student Each Year
START WOMEN'S GIFT FUND
The University Women's Association, composed of wives of the faculty members and women teachers of the University, has voted to establish a gift fund of $100 a year for women in higher education. The freshman standing. The fund will not be in the nature of a loan and has no connection with the student loan fund movement, but will be an outright gift to the woman student who is deemed most worthy by the regular scholarship committee of the University.
Professors Olivier, Hyde and Galloo are the members of the committee on
PHARMICS TO ATTEND WICHTA CONVENTION
Dean L. E. Sayre, Prof. L. D. Havenhill, Prof. C. F. Nelson, Prof. G. N. Watson and Miss Rose, stenographer in Dean Sayre's office, left attendant at the event, attended annual meeting of the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association.
Professor Nelson and Dean Sayn will read papers before the meeting. Professor Nelson will speak on "A Challenge to Pharmacy" and Dean Sayn will read a paper entitled, "Difficulties in Revising the Pharmacuses." Professor Havenwill will have chance of ex-ience with the work of Wichita from the School of Pharmacy.
Elected Student
Myrtle Greenfield a student in the Graduate School and assistant in the water survey department of the University of Missouri, and a member of the Missouri Valley Health association at the meeting of the association in St. Joseph yesterday. This organization is composed of memorial from Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, and promises to be the largest health organization in the west, with a membership composed of those interested in all kinds of health and welfare clubs. The organization has an obligation to obtain uniform health laws in the states represented.
Is City Dispenser
Jim Early, a graduate of the College last year and of the School of Pharmacy, 121, is now head of the City Dispensary of Detroit, having obtained the position over one hundred applicants. Early was well known as a wrestler while in school and was a member of the Knights of Columbus club.
Changes Dance Time
Juniors will dance in the Gym from 9 to 1 o'clock tonight instead of 8 to 12 o'clock as was announced. The change was made necessary because the women were using the Music Mist Fete. The dance is given to lift the 1915 Junior Prom debt.
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