UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XII.
NUMBER 141
INTER-CLASS MEET TO BE HOTLY CONTESTED
Probably Will be the Most Exciting K. U. Event in Years
FRESHMEN HAVE FINE CHANCE
Winn, Hardler is Gone, but First year Men Have Other Promising Material
The annual inter-class track mee
which is to be staged tomorrow aftern
 afternoon on McCook Field starting at
 4 o'clock, will probably be the most
 hotly contested class meet, held in
 the gymnasium. The joint marathon is
 the way the dope chart reads.
In last fall's class meet with the K men limited to one event, the freshmen had to grabs second place before grabbing second place being nearly thirty points in the rear.
But there will be some up sets to tomorrow according to the various upper class track leaders. At least the tryons won't grab six firsts. And the relay is a cinch for the sophs according to Fred Rodkey.
Counting on Johnny Niles
The freshmen admit they will be slightly handicapped by the loss of Winn, in the hurdles, but they will have quite a good chance in these events having Barclay, Trewecke and Woodbury. In the sprints the 1918 squad also has Johnny Niles who should give Kirk Hilton, the Varsity spinner, an awful night for first place and two-twenty Noel and Trewecke also should grab some additional points in the broad jump.
The juniors have Fiske, Ellswick Grady and Reber, a quartet that will do a little point winning themselves as well. Edwards, McKay and K. Hilton.
The sophs really have the best balanced squid with Rodkey Sproull. Howland, Herrritt and Statferle for the spruits and Cram for the spirits and hardles.
Coach Hamilton announced this morning that the meet would be startled promptly at 4 o'clock and will be over by 6. The coach will be the whole cheese as far as officiating in the meet goes. Medals will be given to winners of the first three events.
Student enterprise tickets, or 25 cents will admit to the grandstand. Only contestants will be allowed on the field.
The committees in charge of the different class teams are as follows: Freshman, Barclay, Woodbury, Treweek, and W. Rowe, Junior, Juniors, C. Sproull, Seniors, Grady, Reber, Fiske and Ellswick Seniors, Edwards and McKay.
Department of Chemistry Passes
Judgment on Preserved Foods
ANALYZE CANNED FRUITS
Since the first of March the Pure Food Laboratories in the Chemistry Building have analyzed over one hundred samples they have received from the State Board of Health and also have turned a number of other samples into pure food laboratories. The analyses have been conducted on nearly everything put up in cans but the most work has been done principally on canned fruits.
some of the things analyzed were found to be of very poor quality and not fit for human consumption, while others could safely be by any one. After the food laboratories made their findings they report to the State Board of Health who then in turn makes its complaint.
SETS TIME OF ELECTION
Men's Governing Body Will Select Officers Thursday May 6
The Men's Student Council has set Thursday, May 6, as general election day for the school. Elections will be held on Monday. Mr. Silmen, cheerleader, athletic board members, officers of the School of Engineering and officers of the College. Petitions for these offices must be submitted by Monday before 6 o'clock on May 3.
The Council also, changed the schedule of the point system adopted some time ago, giving the editor of the Engineering magazine 25 points for each article and changing the points allotted to the Kansan staff. This will become inoperative however, as the Kansan Board last night voted to change the system and reintroduce two students have been reprimanded for smoking.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 29, 1915.
Kansan Staff Eats Cake
Mrs. Eustace H. Brown, adviser of women, sent a large cake to the members of the Daily Kansan staff this week to celebrate the cake after her favorite recipe.
K. U.S LILAC HEDGE IS THIRTY YEARS OLD
The iliac hedge—the joy of wandering strollers these spring days, an aspiration for would-be poets, and the forbidden treasure ground for mischievous kiddies has been blooming for twenty years.
Engineers Planted it in 1885
one sunny morning in 1885 Joseph Savage, the pioneer adorer of the University campus, conducted Dean Marvin and a bunch of his engineers to his little nursery farm south of town where they spent two diziguz bushes that were used as bushes, for the benefit of the beauty-loving Jayhawkers of today.
To this sameMr. Savage the University of Kansas is indebted for Marvin Grove because it was through his efforts that the trees were planted there. He was one of the first people to Museum and for many years spent his summer vacations collecting specimens, in company with Chancellor Snow.
SIGNING UP FAST FOR SOPH HOP TICKETS
Three Hundred Register to Go to Second Year Event Tomorrow Night
George Yeokum, is a happy mid-
today. All day long, excited stu-
dents stood in line before the Fraser
Hall check站 standing impatiently to
exchange their perfectly good
clothes, and he steadily the registering of names
crawled over the pages of the man-
ager's little book—passing the hundred and fifty, the two hundred, and the three hundred marks. George has a right to be happy: the Soph-
sophomies to be an unprejudged success.
Another joy spot was discovere,
yesterday when one sorority on the
Hill turned in some $17.50 to the
management, for the class due of
one year. They called Hop. Some time ago the sorority
decided upon this action, and began
collecting dues from all of its members
who had dates. Divide $17.50 by $2.50 and you'll see just how popular this particular organization happens
"I want it understood that the farce is to begin promptly at 7 o'clock," says Yeokum. "We would like to have the crowd come on time so that the dancing may begin promptly at 8:30 o'clock. I might add, for the convenience of the men in trading dances, that intermission we occur between six and eight and that cats will be served during seventh, eighth and ninth; intermission; and fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth."
"Mick" Murphy, chairman of the decoration committee for the occasion, and his band of twenty sturdy warriors will attack the Gym immediately endeavor to defeat those two demons, Barreness and Ugliness, in a pitched battle which will continue until midnight. In case the enemy is not subdued however, they will soon morning at 7:30 o'clock and continued until victory rests with the attacking party. Crepe paper, tacks, hammers, and vari-colored lights to attack the Shrapnel of bliss blooms will also be used.
"The walls will be covered with crepe paper designs, and the windows decorated with iliac blossoms. We will use the 'cozy corner' scheme so effective at former Gym parties, placing small tables with shaded lights at various points about the room. We might weave in them, use the few worktables dear to the family who attended the Colonial Party and the Junior Prom; but we're going to wait until we have to use it as a last resort. It is our plan you know, to make the decorations as unique as possible."
"We plan to make a big gable roof of pink and green," said Murphy this morning, "with a pergola in the center of the floor for the musicians.
At Morning Prayers
The 'c' class in plant physiology made a trip to Professor Shull's gardens on Mississippi street Tuesday morning and completed its study in determining the rate of growth of garden plants.
Prof. Herman Douthitt, of the department of zoology will give an illustrated lecture on "Animals of earth" at the Unitarian church evening.
Speaker, Rev. E, B. Backs, pastor of Unitarian church, Lawrence.
Friday: "Appreciation."
General Subject: "Neglected Virtues."
BOARD SAYS NO ONE HAS NINE EDITORS FOR BEEN CONSIDERED YET KANSAN NEXT YEAR
Denies That Woman is Proposed as Next Head of School of Fine Arts
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, member of the Board of Administration, denied this morning that anyone had been considered by the Board for either the positions of dean of the School of Education or the Dean of the School of Education.
"No names have reached the Board for consideration." Mrs. Lewis said. "Several applications have come in to Chancellor Strong, but until he makes some recommendations, Shklton make some consider anyone."
It has been suggested that a woman painter might be the next head of the School of Fine Arts, but Mrs. Lewis denies this emphatically.
"Absolutely no one has been considered by the Board for either of the two positions. In all probability the new head will be a man and a musician, although that is not certain and he must be a requirement for the position."
Pettitions are being circulated by Artist students asking that Dean Skilzki
GREEKS TO TAKE NEW HOUSES
Fraternities and Sororites Will Change Location Before Fall
Next year will find a large number of the fraternities and sororities in new headquarters. Some are building larger houses and moving to larger and better houses.
The Pi Beta Pi sorority will build a new house at 1244 Mississippi, jss back of its present location, 1245 Oread. The building is to be ready for occupancy by the beginning of school. School will be held at the Pi Beta use and the Sig Alpha the Sigma Kappa house at 1245 Ohio.
The Pi K. A.s will move from 1541 Kentucky street to the Coleman house 1145 Indiana. The Delta Taus, who are now at 1215 Oakland, will occupy the Indiana and Kanza Club will move in the present Delta Tau house.
There are a number other Greek organizations that are planning on moving but have not definitely decided upon a house.
[EMPLIN LANDS FELLOWSHIP
The fellowship is in applied mechanics in the engineering experiment station of the University of Illinois. It will extend over a period of two years. The work will consist of engineering experiments, there being no teaching work connected with it. According to the terms of the fellowship the university cannot require more than half of the annual time for work on a master's degree. The reimbursement will be five hundred dollars a year. This is the first time that the University of Illinois experiment station has ever given a fellowship to a University of Kansas man.
Illinois U. Gives K. U. Man Two Years in Applied Mechanics
One of the best plums in the way of engineering fellowships which has been received by a K. U. man in a job offered to him, is headed by Dick Templin, senior Engineer.
SHOULD HAVE MORE GROUNDS
"The University of Kansas should have ten baseball and three football fields and twenty-four tennis courts," said Manager W. O. Hamilton when he announced his intention to accommodate for the Hash House and Interfraternity League teams.
Vic Bottomy', president of the Men's Student Council, has asked that the Schools of the University elect their speakers for Students' Day. The date of the day has not been yet set, but he said Mr. Charles Scott, who is to speak that day, can come. However, the date will be announced soon.
Manager Hamilton Thinks Univer
sity should Have More Fields
"Some day," continued Mr. Hamilton, "I think we will have that number. At present the University has no campus room for more athletic fields or facilities elsewhere for that purpose." Mr. Hamilton is strongly in favor of the Hash House and Interfraternity Leagues but does not think that the Athletic Association should be blamed for not providing sufficient ground space for something unexpected should happen the students will have to be content with the present accommodations for the time being.
Wants Schools to Elect
Typhoid inoculation will be given tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the morning.
The Daily Kansan Board at its reg ular meeting last night adopted the following amendments to the constitution:
Journalism Department Will Co-operate With Board's Seniors in Reorganization
1. Eligibility to the Board is limited to luniors and seniors.
2. The seniors on the Board shall constitute an executive committee to direct the editorial and business policies of the Daily Kansan.
An arrangement was effected whereby the department of journalism is to nominate men and women to the executive positions on the paper, subject to the approval of the executive committee. The new policy would elect men to serve one month instead of one semester at present.
Any man or woman from any School in the University is eligible not only to the Kansan Board but to any position on the paper.
The new plan will allow the Kansas Beard to avail itself of the experience and advice of the department of journalism, and at the same time the journalism classes in the department to get practical work on a publication.
The Kansan Board through the executive committee composed of seniors will retain control of the policies of the Kansan, and will be responsible to the students for the position on University affairs.
LIQUID AIR HELPS WIRELESS
University Operator has Applied for Regular License
Liquid air is being used in wireless teleography. "When we found that we could not get our crystal detectors into the lab, we had to work with the ordinary methods such as salt and ice we decided to use liquid air," said Victor A. Hunt, wireless operator at the University. "By using a special pressure prevent evaporation and plugging the top with a loops wad of cloth, which would allow the liquid air to pass out we have been able to keep our apparatus at a temperature below 20°C."
"A problem presented itself when the temperature was so low, however," continued MI. "We had a hard time keeping it in the mercury mercury thermometer from bursting while obtaining measurements. In place of mercury we are now using a thermometer containing water as the freezing point as low as 200 C."
The wireless operators have applied for a regular wireless license (prohibited).
DINED ON A NUT A LA CAP KIDD
Squirrel Pilfers Buried Treasure
Some squirrels are wise and some are otherwise.
The otherwise squirrel saliued into the back yard with a peach seed in his jowl, pirouetted around a selected spot to see that nobody was watching and stowed their treasure in the turf. Triumphantly he scooted over the New York area and had been peeking through a crack in the barn, crept out, desecrated the newly-made grave, cracked the seed, and died a la Can Kidd.
"We have received no communication from Coroner Lockchart, of Dickinson, to proceed with the examination of the viscera of Milton Peters, who died suddenly at his home fourteen miles north of Abilene last January," said Derek Fletcher.
COSTS MONEY TO HAVE STOMACH INVESTIGATED
Lockhart has sent the stomach and heart to the University but there is a question as to whether the interested parties bear the examination.
An analysis of this kind requires about three weeks of tedious works and a charge is made for the time spent by the men doing the work.
ENGINEERS LIKE TO BE NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
According to Captain Frank Jones of the Kansas National Guards, the Engineers are the most military inclined group of students in the University. Of the 70 members of the Guards, 28 are Engineers.
"The only way that I can account for this condition," said Captain Jones, "is that the Engineers are simply interested in things military on account of their work in school. They are not interested in many parallels and it seems that men who be by nature interested in one will be interested in the other."
LITTLE BROWN DOG
RETURNED TO OWNER
Vivian Strahm to Get Degree
Vivian Strahm's mastore's degree
has been taken. Her brown
mason has been returned.
Miss Strahm for eight months had been conducting anatomical experiments on this pup, getting data on the strength of which she hoped to obtain her degree. She was just four years old, finishing her work when, yesterday, somebody came along and cut the pup loose, and Miss Strahm had visions of a degree gone, as it were to the dogs. But now the pup is back in solitary confinement and the degree has disappeared thing, too, this confinement for the pup is a dangerous citizen. Miss Strahm's special investigation was with the typhoid bacillus, and the animal was in all probability highly infected with the typhoid germ. Standing next to the pup through the Administration Building and took him home, Jones returned the dog to Miss Strahm this morning.
PROMISES JAYHAWKERS FOR THURSDAY MORNING
Annuals Will be Sold Fifty Minutes After They Arrive in Town
in Town
The 1915 Jayhawker will be out on Thursday, May 6.
Announcement of the date was made this morning by Edward Blair Hackney, business manager of the book. According to present plans, the books will be presented Thursday morning on the 9:30 o'clock train, and will be rushed to the Hill for the dedication exercises which will occur on Fraser Hall steps at 10:20 o'clock. The books will be placed in a cabinet on the Jayhawk booth, which will be erected just in front of Fraser, President F. D. Crabb, of the Union Bank Note Company, the firm which printed the Annual, will come to Lawrence on the same train and be present with the books, to be present at the dedication exercises.
"The task of printing the books will be finished by Friday of this week," said Manager Hackney this week. "I need to get them to the bindery for completion. It will be impossible to get them to Lawrence before Thursday; consequently we are making every effort to get them on sale within the short time frame that is required if our present plans go through—and I see no reason why they should not—the 1915 Jayhawker will be on sale on the Hill within fifteen minutes after the arrival of the express train it is to bring them to Lawrence."
The 1915 Jayhawkier promises in many respects to set a new standard for annual publication at the University. Though it is not so large in, indeed, history, it is a breaking book of 1912, it is a considerable increase over last year's Annual. The color work and cardboard inserts are much more elaborate and decidedly more costly than anything ever attempted in a Jayhawkier because of the vast array of organizations and campus scenes, such as are being used by Eastern publications this year, have been incorporated into the book; and the general run of the material itself promises to more than rival the works of Jayhawkers. It addition, the characteristically K. U. method of presenting senior pictures in individual engravings is to be used. The 1915 Jayhawkier, too, is the first ever to contain a junior section; and is the second book in K. U.'s series on engravings basis. The Annual is dedicated to Prof. Merle Thorpe.
Hang Motor Overhead
"Heavy, heavy, hangs over your head," may be literally true if you find yourself standing under the half ton electric motor recently suspended from the ceiling of the lath room in Fowler Shops. The motor has been used for some time to furnish power for the elevator and has been mounted on the second floor. Need of storage room in the elevator is provided by the Chass. W. White, instrument maker, to have the machine mounted in its proper nest.
To Hunt Fossils in Texas
To Hunt Fossils in Texas
Prof. Herman Douthitt of the department of zoology will spend the summer and year Seymour of Humana and Wilfman of Fossils use for at the University, Either A. E. Culbertson or Lewis A. Curry will accompany him. The expedition will start the first week in June.
Musicians Meet
Phi Mu. Alpha, honorary musical house this meet at the Phi Gau housse this meet at
ALL K. U. TURNS OUT TO SING OLD SONGS
Chapel Hall Couldn't Hold Students Who Came to Convocation
CHANCELLOR MAKES A HIT
Sits on Little Chair and Plays Accompaniment to Songs of College Days at Yale as Encore
eyes.
Il Penseroo.
say me into ecstasy;
Dissolve me into ecstasy;
And bring all heaven before mine
There let the peeling organ blow, to the full voice choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine
The pealing organ did blow, and the students on the crowded platform sang and the overflowing audience joined in with enthusiasm. Miss Jonani sang and smiled. And then the chancellor sang. The audience loved it. Jonani played piano and played his own accompaniment. Old Songs Day was a hit.
Chapel Couldn't Hold Them
For the first time in the football season, a real, all-University audience assembled in Fraser Hall. It was a student gathering animated at a concert by the band And it remained one of the big meetings of the past. Every seat was filled. The Engineers filled the balcony and late comers crammed at the windows. And the woman smile and the singing was led by the two glee clubs, and was participated in by the whole student body and the faculty. "America" was song first, by the enclosing orchestra which was told by a group of three songs by Miss Irene Jonani, which were very well received and vigorously encored. Following them the chorus sang "My Old Kentucky Home" assisted by the auditions of the Old Camp Ground," by the audience followed.
Sang a Hazing Song
Then came the real treat of the morning, when Chancellor Strong sang "The Two Greendials." The Chancellor was formerly a member of the Yale Glee Club, and he surmounted Yale to attain it some real music with Miss Evelyn Strong accompanying him. He was heartily enriched, and responded by a medley of old-time Yale songs, accompanyingly on his piano. This was to tune as our "Crimson and The Blue," the second was an old Yale hazing song of the days when hazing meant "something fierce" as the chancellor expressed it, to the freshmen. At the beginning of his third selection the young musicians involved flourish on the piano and evoked a storm of applause.
The hour closed with "Columbia" and the "Suwanee River," Prof. W. B. Downing singing the first stanza as a solo.
HIGH SCHOOLS TO DEBATE
Hoxie and Newton will Talk in Fraser Hall Tomorrow Night
The finals of the state inter-high school debating contest will be fought in Fraser Hall tomorrow night between the representatives of the three parties. These two teams represent the winners of forty debates between different high schools of the state. The question to be discussed is: Resolved: That the State of Kansas Should Use the Unicameral Form of Legislature.
Hoxie high school will be represented by Joseph Spresser, Edwin Taylor and Harry Sloan. Newton at St. Stephen Steven Eversall and Maurice, Renfer.
The judges for the evening are:
Ben H. P. Jewell, Prof. H. P.
Cady and Leland Jesse.
The debate will open at 8 o'clock.
Admission free.
Obtain Yale Fellowships
Again Kansas men came to the front. This time it is in field of mathematics. Prof. J. N. Van der Vries received word this morning that the two fellowships known as the J. S. K, fellowships at Princeton had been awarded to Ray Gillman, '12, and Frank E. Wood, '14. These fellowships are worth $500 and be used when school opens next fall.
Roy T. McFadden, commonly known around the Chemistry Building as "Hap," had to have the nail on the index finger of his right hand removed Tuesday morning. He was performing some experiments with hydrofluoric acid and some of the fluid accidently got under the nail and caused such a swelling that it had to be removed.