UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XII.
WOMEN VOTE ON POINT
SYSTEM HERE THURSDAY
Will Accept or Reject New Idea at Their Regular Election
HAVE SCHEDULE OF HONORS
NUMBER 129.
Adherents Say Plan Will Keep Students From Playing Politics and Neglecting Work
The regular election of officers of the W. S. G. A. will be held Thursday of this week, April 15, from 8:30 to 4:30 o'clock in the Museum.
In addition to the election of officers, all women will be given an opportunity to vote on the point system. This system applies to the women only, and has nothing whatever to do with that proposed by the Men's Council.
The schedule limits the number of points in extra-curriculum activity which any-woman may be carrying at any one time and different activities count for different numbers of points, according to the amount of labor and time required to carry on the work properly.
No. points allowed; senior 40, junior
40, sophomore 30, freshman 20
The schedule follows:
Points for various activities: W S. G. A.: president, 35; vice-president, 25; secretary, 25; treasurer, 25; junior and senior representatives, 20; freshman and sophomore representatives, 15.
Y. W. C. A.; president, 35; vicepresident, 30; secretary, 20; treasurer, 25; cabinet members, 25; members of committees, 5.
Chairman of standing committees
departmental, and committees of hon-
or.
District chairmen, 5.
House chairmen, 5.
Class officers: junior and senior
10: freshmen and sophomore, 5.
Publications: Kansan editor, 30
Kansan board member, 15; Oread edit
tor, 20; Oread staff, 5; Annual edi-
tor, 30; Annual board member, 10.
Departmental Clubs; president, 10 other officers, 5.
Dramatics: senior play: leads, 10 seconds, 5 Junior or sophomore
play.
W. A. A.: president, 10; other of ficers, 5.
Glee Club: manager, 15; members.
5.
Orchestra members 5.
STUDENTS DUCKED IN KAW
The following officers are to be voted on: president, Blanche Mullen, Nationally Simpson; vice-president, from the School of Nursing; vice-president, Corey; vice-president from the School of Fine Arts, Ada Harper; secretary, Maureen McKernan; treasurer, Cora Shim, Bertha Smith. The time for voting on nominations for officers expired last night.
The Gym club would probably be without the services of a crack tumbler and pyramid man, John Fast, sophomore Engineer, had not two river fishermen rescued the three students who were set adrift in the eddy when their canoe overturned below the slim deck the bridge late yesterday afternoon.
Fast, William Kinkel, freshman College and his room-mate, Harold Roberts also a freshman, rented the beat and, not content with paddling the canoe over the north dam and approached the waterfall from below.
The boat was sucked towards the falling water by the eddy in the stream and went completely under the water, where he used for themselves. Fast swam to the shoal a few feet away and carried Roberts with him. Kinkel, however, was carried in another direction and finally pulled ashore by the fishermen.
Other than a great scare and the ruining of some clothes, the three students had nothing to show for the accident. All attended classes on the Hill this morning. Flat lost a pocket and Kinkel several dollars in bills.
Haworth Lectures
The Geology Club meets in Room 203, Haworth Hall, Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Prof. Erasmus Haworth will give the last of his series of three lectures on the geology of Kansas.
Dames to Meet
The K. U. Dames will meet toor
w afore afternoon at 2 o'clock with Mrs.
A. L. Fletcher
Cadmus Improves
Walter Cadmus, junior Engineer, who has been confined in the hospital with an attack of scarlet fever, is reported as improved.
AUTHOR IN CONVOCATION
Josiah Strong, Clergman and Writer
Talks Monday at 4:30 o'clock
Josiah Strong, clergyman and author of national reputation, has been obtained by the convocation committee to lecture here next Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Classes will not be dismissed but owing to an arrangement that has been made, students from their classes all who wish to hear the celebrated lecturer who appears in chapel.
Mr. Strong has announced "After the War What?" as his subject. He has gleaned much material for such a lecture in his recent travels and a chance for hearing such a celebrated man should not be neglected declared as a hero. Mr. Strong will extend the extension division, and chairman of the committee on convocations.
The convocation committee has been working for several days in an effort to arrange a convocation for a class of young students present time it appears more than likely that such a convocation will be held at 11:30 o'clock. Thursday morning, April 29, but Channeellor Strong noted given his necessary consent as yet.
NOT ALL IS GLORY IN UNIVERSITY DRAMATICS
Long, Dull Rehearsals are Tol Amateur Thespians Pay for Honors
Appearing in a college play, having one's friends and relatives there to see and to commend, and getting one's picture in the Jayhawker for being "The斯佩" aren't the only things to be amused by an amateur dramatic production here on the Hill. The would-be actor must also go through long hours of rehearsal—training that is as essential to success" as the diet of an athlete. The movie's creator, Mr. From Home" has been doing for the past two months: undergoing a steady "diet" of tri-weekly rehearsals in preparation for the presentation of their play at the Bowersock Wednesday evening. Their "training table" has been the little theater recently instructed in the basement of Green Hall.
The Amateur Interviewer obtruded himself into the theater the other night while a rehearsal was in progress. It was his first experience there—and he came away impressed. He saw a business like looking stage, a kind of an office with remarkable scenery and plenty of stage furniture; he saw lights of red, and white, and green operated in succession to produce the correct "atmosphere;" and he saw a group of earnest amateurs working diligently under the direction of Prof. Arthur MacMurray, head of the department of public speaking, of which he was one. There was no noise, no unnecessary confusion, and no hilariousness. There was nothing but business—stern, efficient business.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 13, 1915.
Student members of the Choral Union are reminded that this is rehearsal night, and that the date of the concert, April 28, is drawing near. A good deal of "finishing" and polishing remains to be done, and so it is desirable that every member of the chorus attend the remaining rehearsals.
STUDENTS PRACTICE FOR
CHORAL UNION CONCERT
If the concert turns out as well as present indications promise, it will probably be the first of a series of popular concerts similar to those given in Kansas City by a similar organization. In that case, new members will be received and work will go on steadily. No new singers can be given until the orchestra but if the 142 already enrolled do their part, a first class musical event may be expected. Rehearsal begins at 7:30 o'clock.
Prof. Merle Thorpe will go to St.
Joseph Sunday where he will speak to
the Press Club on "Tomorrow With
the newspaper."
Professor Thorpe to Speak
At Morning Prayers
Speaker: Rev. William B. Lampa First Presbyterian Church, Winfield Wednesday: "Survival of the Fit test."
Friday: "The Choice Part of Education."
Thursday: "Fair Weight in Lab oratory and Life."
Students desiring to confer with Reverend Lampie will find him at Myers Hall Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:30 until 5 o'clock. At other times he can be seen by appointment through Con Hoffmann.
DEBATERS TALK SINGLE
TAX ON LAND AT K. U
Oklahoma Comes to Lawrence to Defend the Negative Side Against K. U.
Thursday, April 15, is to be the date when the Kansas Jayhawk gets a chance at the Oklahoma Sooners on the debating platform, according to posters placed on campus bulletin boards this morning. The talk-fest will occur in Fraser Hall, Thursday evening, of this week, beginning at 10 a.m., with a partner of correspondence study, will act as chairman of the debate. H. Burns, W. H. Dodds, and H. A. Shim are the Kansas speakers.
"Resolved: That the single tax on land should be substituted for all other forms of state and local axiation" is the question to be argued. The debate against Oklahoma. The judges have not yet been announced. Following the debate Thursday evening, a supper will be given at the Oread Cafe in Oklahoma City and members of the local debating council, the chairman of the debate, and the Oklahoma visitors. The Oklahoma debate is to be the only home contest of the season. Student tickets add $25. The general admission is 35 cents.
The Kansas-Oklaima contest is a part of the Oklahoma-Kansas-Colorado triangular debate, the other two contests of which will occur at Norman and at Boulder on the same night. Kansas will send C. E. Williamson, Ed. Kaufman, and Harold will argue the negative side of the single tax question against Colorado. Colorado will send a team to Norman to defend the negative of the same question against the Sooners. Thus there are three debates to take place on the same night. Any school securing two decisions wins the contest. Should each school win, the winner will be declared a draw. This has rarely happened, however.
Each speaker in the contest is to be allowed a twelve-minute speech and a five-minute rebuttal. The debate at Boulder will be formal. The Kansas team will leave Lawrence Wednesday morning on the Union Pacific, arriving in Boulder the following noon. Coach Howard T. Hill and coach Bill Mason. The Cole radio team debates Missouri on Friday evening of this week and the Kansas representatives have been invited to remain over for the event. According to Coach Hill, they will accept the invitation.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE LECTURE
Miss Anna Barrows, of Columbia University, Wilt Discuss Home Life
Miss Anna Barrows, secretary of the National Home Economics Association will come to the University the latter part of this week to help the department of domestic science smooth out some of the rough places in home life. Besides being an instructor in the school of practical arts, the faculty is involved in university and director in the school of domestic science at Chatauva, N. Y., Miss Barrows is a skillful lecturer and demonstrator.
Grads of '95 to Come Back
The class of '95 is making plans for a new engagement week. They will have their headquarters in Westminster Hall under the direction of Rev. Stanton Olinger and the secretary of the class, Miss Edith M. Clarke, cataloguer, in Spooner Library. All the classes of '95 are still eligible to have large special effort to have large delegations here.
Miss Barrows will give a lecture in Fraser Hall Wednesday. Thursday and Friday afternoon which will be open to the public. Wednesday afternoon she will speak on "Feeding the Multitudes," Thursday on "The Cost of War," Friday on "Do We Want to Reduce it?" and Friday on "The Business of Living."
Special demonstrations will be given each day in the new laboratory kitchen of the department. Following the lecture Thursday a reception will be given in the women's corner, Rooms 114 and 116 Fraser.
The sophomore electrical Engineers will hold a mass meeting in the chapel room in Marvin Hall tomorrow morning at 11:30 o'clock to discuss plans for their part in the Engineers' parade on Engineers' Day, April 23.
Grads of '95 to Come Back
Soph Electricals Meet
Painters quar学校
Carl Painting Senior engineer on the Hill has accepted a position as a highway engineer for a road that is to be built in Louisiana.
Painter Quits School
Prof. E. H. S. Bailey returned to Washington, D.C., and other eastern polities.
ACCOUNT BOOKS MUST BE IN BY THURSDAY
Lardner Comes Friday Morn ing to Inspect Management of Student Funds
"Thursday night is positively the last date for the student account books to be turned in," said Registrar George O. Foster, "the morning. "We want them all here at that time so there will be no delay when Mr. Lardner comes to audit them Friday morning."
James T. Lardner, secretary of the Board of Administration, is coming Friday to straighten out the account books. His visit is to be an annual investigation of irregularities in the management of student funds will be investigated.
Last semester each student organization was requested to call at the Registrar's office and get one of the nished them. Some organizations account books which has been furious with books. A great many others did not.
In fact Registrar Foster was able to dispose of only twenty-three of the books. Thirty-seven of the student records were printed, and writing them at the registrar's office.
Mr. Lardner will be here only one day, according to Registrar Foster, and he urges all student organizers to return books to return them before Friday.
In a canvass of members of the University faculty the majority wish to wear caps and gowns in the commencement process next June. Some in opposing the idea say that it would cost too much money, but inquiries show that gowns can be cheaply and many of the professors have their own robes.
For Caps and Gowns
Here is what they say:
Prof. P. B. Daines: "Of course the faculty's caps and gowns add to the appearance of the commencement occasion. An academic procession is not very imposing with professors struggling along in any clothes that they happen to be wearing. Yes, I think the custom would be a good one."
Registrar George O. Foster: "It would add immensely to the dignity of the commencement. If it were once there, I would be able to trouble about continuation."
Helen R. Hoopes: "I think it is a very good thing. At the first commencement I ever saw the faculty wore them."
Prof. R. M. Ogden: "If all the pomp and circumstance are to be omitted from ceremonial, why have a ceremonial? Why not mail the diplomas you obtained. Some people think that capaes matter. Some people criticize; for that matter, there are some who think that evening dress is undemocratic. But most university men regard the academic costume as university tradition. I have never been in a university before where they did suit it for all ceremonial occasions."
W. W. Hawkins: "I think it is a good thing. I have seen it at Missouri. It lends dignity to the occasion."
Prof. W. A. Whitaker: "I am heartily in favor of it, and can speak without prejudice, because I have no long string of degrees to exhibit. It adds a level of authority, and I am in commencement week. I think if you made a complete round of the faculty you would find nine-times of them for it." E. D. Cressman: "I am in favor of the plan as a whole. I would like to see a little dignity added to the exer-
Prof. Arthur Mitchell: "It would give just what Americans, and the western states particularly, lack. I think that these makes for correctness. We have too little sense of the dignity of degrees. The faculty appearing in capps and gowns at commencement add to the prestige of the University."
Prof. H. F. Harrington: "It is a fine custom to have the faculty wear their powns. It adds beauty and dignity to them, and is a compliment to the graduates."
Dean F. W. Blackmar: "I do not care especially to wear cap and cap, but if a majority of the faculty wish it I will do so."
Prof. E. M. Briggs: "I believe the wearing of caps and gowns by the faculty during commencement week will be much more impressive and the parade of the faculty would be much more impressive and the goal to be obtained would be better impressed upon students. I would like to see this feature of commencement week or at least one day
"EXCUSED, BUT DON'T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN"
Said Professor to Student Who Cut
Jerry Risley took a somewhat ex tended Easter vacation.
When he returned to his classes in Green Hall last week he was wreathed in smiles. You might have thought he was giving a demonstration to the boys of "How to be Happy. Though Married."
For Jerry, it will be remembered,
brought a wife back with him to sum-
mer school last June. Their honeymo-
moon was spent on the sunny slopes
of Oread while the head of the house
saw lying Contrasts and Domestic
Relations
This morning while Uncle Jimmy was setting forth the Law of Evidence, Jerry slipped out of class. Before the close of the hour, however, he was back, with a box of cigars under each arm. As the boys gathered round to share the provisions, the Prosecutor spoke as follows: "It's a boy."
PLAN ARCHERY COURSE FORWOMEN ON CAMPUS
Archey, the sturdy old sport of the days of Ivanhoe, is to be revived by the women of the University this spring. Before long the campus in front of Fowler schools will probably be sprinkled with women, laughing while singing as they art the image of the women of Merritt England.
A course will be laid out just north of Fowler Shops if present plans are carried out, and the junior and senior students will practice there every day. The course is to be fifty yards in length and there the women will draw their bows taut and sim toward big red and white targets four feet in diameter.
If Plans are Completed Ground Will be Arranged Near Fowler Shops
"It it isn't a strenuous exercise," says Dr. Goetz, "and the girls may practice without changing into a gym suit. Archery tends to give Nobbs and arrows have arrived for the use of the contestants."
The archers, with leather finger tips to protect delicate hands from the snap of the bow-string, will draw back the bow and then the hum of the vibrating string will be followed by the dull chug as the arrow plows into the big straw-stuffed tar ret.
"MONKEYS" WILL ENTERTAIN
Soph Farce for Hop not Menagerie But as Funny
"A Box of Monkeys" will entertain the seekers after fun at the Sophomore Hop, April 30. That feature is certain to be a part of the program, according to Laurence Miller, president and those who will take part in the farce, for "A Box of Monkeys" is to be a farce and not a department from a menagerie. They are: Henry McCurdy, Alton Bumbler, Helen Clark, Dora Lockett, and Itasca Hillsman. The selection of the cast was made possible by the first noon and the first rehearsal was held today in Green Hall.
"There will be another feature, in connection with the first part of the program, but that," is a secret," said the sophomore president, "and it has not yet been finally decided who will part in this part of the entertainment.
In accordance with the custom of previous years the Hop is to be absolutely informal. Cabs and flowers are not only taboured but they would appear in uniform, implying an absolute lack of good food, according to the Hop managers.
"The Hop will start at 7 o'clock and the dancing will continue until 2 or thereabouts. The committee which has been appointed to attend to the details has started on its work endeavors and that spells a successful party."
of the week become an annual affair." Miss Lalia Walling, of the department of physiology; "I am for the faculty wearing caps and gowns during commencement week. I believe it would add dignity to the occasion and give the entire week a more impressive character."
David W. Cornelius: "If we are to be a university, do things the way a university should, we ought to wear the caps and gowns. While such customs alone will not make a university, they will also do to the making of a real university."
E. F. Stimpson: "Personally I do not care, but if everybody is willing to wear them, I am. I think it is simply a matter of style anyway and of course if we are to keep up with the style we should wear them."
ABOLISH FREE LIST REDUCE PRICE--DAVIS
1915 Junior Prom Manager
* Would Have All Pay $2.50
for Tickets
"PARTY NOT TOO ELABORATE"
Says School of This Size Ought to Support One Big Annual Event,
—But Must Charge All
Complete abolition of the free list, a universal charge of $2.50 per person for admittance, the institution of a scheme by which all women attending would be required to pay their own dues, and setting the final date before which tickets could be purchased at least three weeks before the party, are the reform suggested by Bryan L. Davis, co-manager of the Proms firm for making future Proms financial support. After seeing this year's Prom fail to turn by some fifty dollars, Davis feels that reforms are necessary if future parties are to leave a balance on the credit side of the books.
"I don't want people to think that 'm sore because we lost money, though," said Davis this morning. "But there are a great many things we can do, which the Prom is now operated, and my suggestions for changes are entirely friendly. I don't want people o think that the Prom management is insecure. We are at outs with anybody because of the financial ailure of the party.
Charge All $2.50
"The first reform would be that absolutely no deadheads should attend—that the free list, to faculty, seniors, and all other persons should be absolutely suspended. Then, if a universal charge of $2.50 per person were made, the affair would pay out every time."
Would Divide Expense
A second suggestion by Davis is that the final date before which tickets could be purchased should be placed three or four weeks in advance of the From itself. The management of people exactly how many people were going to leave and could arrange to spend only as much money as the attendance justified.
"Some sort of a scheme should be adopted by which every girl could be forced to pay her own dues: for instance, if the management would refuse to accept such dues if paid by a boy. That's not a reflection on the girls who attended this year's Prom, but it is simply a plan that is worthy of the future managers. Merely because they wants to take a girl to the Prom is no reason why he should have to pay her class dues.
Prom Not To do Elaborate
"I do not think that the party we gave this year was too elaborate or too expensive; a school of this size can be able to support a more expensive business. We have given had we had the necessary financial support. It is the manner in which the Prom is staged, particularly in regard to the number of free participants. The elaborateness of the party itself is responsible for the financial loss."
"ACCURACY SHOULD BE CRYSTALIZED IN LIFE"
"Accuracy should be crystallized in life," said the Rev. William P. Lamp, of the First Presbyterian church of Winfield, at morning prayers this week. "The student does not get very far until he learns that he must be accurate.
"In the classroom, in the laboratory, he must make sure that every step in an exercise or experiment is exact that the result may be right. Often when a result is wanted a laboratory experiment can be dishonestly manipulated to get this result without any accuracy in the process. But no matter how you want something you must not get it by dishonest means."
Rev, William B. Lampe of Winfield, chapel speaker for this week, was in his 90s.
"The game of football," he says, "is analogous with the game of life. The result of the game depends upon the accuracy and sureness of each step taken."
Rifflemen Elect
The Lawrence Rifle Association, a branch of the National Rifle Association, will hold its annual election of officers at 7 c'clock tonight in Robin-berry. Any new members desiring to join the club will be taken in at that time.
Cady Reads Paper
Prof. H. P. Cady read a paper before the Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society, Saturday night, on Radio Activity.