The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME VI.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 29, 1910
WILL CONFER ON NEW RULE
Many and Various Are Objects to Sophomore Pledging. Requirements.
Chancellor Strong will meet the members of the Pan-Hellenic council at the University Thursday afternoon, to confer with them regarding the sophomore pledging rule. The fraternity representatives will go to the meeting to get a somewhat better idea of what will be expected of them under the new rule, and they will be prepared to present to the Chancellor their objections to the rule.
CHANCELLOR WILL MEET THE PAN-HELLENIC.
As the days pass it becomes more and more evident that the fraternities will put up a fight against adopting the new rule. Fraternity men don't like it and most of them are free to say so.
"Possibly there are a half dozen fraternity men in the University who will say that the reconditions made in the recent letter from Chancellor Strong should be adopted at once without change," said one fraternity man today "but I doubt if a poll of the fraternities would show more than that."
Some fraternity men believe that a modification of the rule would be all right. There is a strong faction which will try to get the Regents to accept a rule allowing pledging of freshmen as at present, but prohibiting the initiation of members until they have spent a year at the University in good standing. The men who favor this plan say they believe sub-rosa pledging will go on in spite of all rules, if the recommendations of the Chancellor are adopted. They would avoid the breaking of rules by allowing freshman pledging.
The reasons for the fraternity men's opposition to the Chancel lor's plan are many and varied.
"It isn't fair to throw the burden of raising the scholarship of the freshman class on the fraternities," said one fraternity man today.
"The fraternities are not organized for scholarship, but for a different purpose," said another. "The first thing we know we'll be making Phi Beta Kappa an entirely useless organization if membership to our societies becomes a matter of scholarship."
The members of the sororities are also opposed to the rule. They advance all the objections that are advanced by the fraternity men, and another one.
"It isn't right to put us in the same class that the men occupy," said a sorority member this morning. "Our scholarship is away above the average of scholarship among the girls of the University as a whole, while the standing
of fraternity men in their classe is away below the average standing of University men."
Chancellor Strong has not given out an interview regarding the letter recently sent to the fraternities. "As far as I am concerned," he said to a reporter the other day, "the letter is a confidential matter between the University and the fraternities. I have decided not to make anything public in this matter from my office. The fraternities are at liberty to make public as much of what passes between us as they wish to. The rest will be kept confidential."
Changed the Date.
The date for the Colorado debate has been changed from Friday, April 8, to Thursday evening, April 7. The team, composed of Foster Kline, George Probst and E. L. Overman, will leave Tuesday evening, April 5. for Boulder, Colo. At Denver H. H. Tangeman, a University graduate, will join the men and accompany them to Boulder.
HAVE ARRANGED FOR MEETING
STUDENTS WILL GATHER TOMORROW NIGHT.
Coach Kennedy and Others Will Address Meeting—Action to Be Taken.
The first mass meeting of students that the Student Council has called since the organization of that body, has been set for tomorrow night. A meeting has been arranged for at that time in order to give every student in the University the opportunity to discuss the football situation in the school and to hear it discussed by men who have stud'd the situation carefully. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30 and will be adjourned an hour later.
The Student Council has aranged to have Coach Bert Kennedy present at the meeting
THE WEATHER.
Rain tonight and Wednesday colder tonight.
A JOINT CONFERENCE.
Y. M. C. A.s and Student Volunteers Met During Holidays.
The joint conference of the Student Volunteers and officers of the Young Men's Christian Association of Kansas convened in Lawrence last Thursday. One hundred representatives were present from the colleges of the state and from the city and railroad associations.
Some of the speakers at the sessions of the conference were J. L. Murray, international secretary, from New York; the Rev Mr. Price, a missionary from India, who had been attending the state layman's convention at Topeka, and who spoke to the convention Sunday; J. H. Dadisman state high school secretary; C W. Whitehair, state student secretary; Harry L. Heinzman, '06 now secretary of the Y. M. C. A of the University of Iowa; and W. C. Mayer of the University of
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THE MASS MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT
HAS BEEN CALLED FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING EVERY STUDENT IN THE UNIVERSITY AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS HIS SENTIMENTS WITH REGARD TO FOOTBALL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. IF YOU ARE A STUDENT IT IS YOUR DUTY TO ATTEND THE MEETING.
NEW EXPERIMENT STATION
Septic Tanks and Filter Beds Ready for July 1.
The plans for the new sanitary experiment station which will be located south of Fowler shops have been completed by Prof. Hrzry Gardner. The station which will be completed by July 1, will consist of septic tanks and filer beds.
Crushed stone from different parts of the state will be tested to determine their values for sanitary stations.
To Give Play at Baldwin.
The "Crazy Idea," will be presented by the students at Baker University tomorrow night. The work of directing the production has been in the hands of Miss Gertrude Mossler of the department of expression. A number of University students will go to Baldwin for the performance.
Prof. R. K. Dunean was given special notice in an article, "What Chemistry Is Doing for the Human Race," which appeared in the March number of Munsey.
Professor E. H. S. Bailey, of the department of chemistry, was in Excelsior Springs, Mo., during the holidays.
to tell of the changes that have been made in the game during the past several years. The Kansas coach will explain his views of the present legislation that is taking place and will speak as coach of the University eleven. Captain Carl Pleasant will also speak as will Captain-elect Tommy Johnson and several others.
The football question in the Misouri Valley at this time is undoubtedly a vital one. Little is known as to what will be the outcome, but it is expected that the game will be changed to a considerable extent by the delegates at the conference which is to be held in Kansas City on April 19. For that reason the Student Council has called the mass meeting, in order to allow the student body the opportunity to correctly present its views before the Board of Regents.
Kansas.
No plans have been made for the action which will be taken at the meeting. As soon as the speakers have finished the meeting will be turned over to the students present and such action as they see fit to take will be a depted by the Council.
Missions and their extension was the topic most widely discussed at the conference. The reports of several associations were read.
Every student of the University has been urged to be present in the chapel promptly at the time of meeting and to be prepared to cast his vote for what he believes is for the best interest of the University of Kansas.
Fred E. Lee of this university was elected president of the Kansas Student Volunteers at the business session Saturday. W.W. Stute was elected vice president and Miss Elizabeth Barnes of Baker was elected secretary treasurer of the organization The meeting next year will be held at Salina. The sessions of the Y. M.C.A. officers' conference, held in connection with the Student Volunteer convention, closed Monday evening.
Were Granted Certificates.
In the recent awarding of certificates by the state board of education several members of the University are included. James F. Gilliland and Miss Huldah lse of the senior class were granted one year institute instructors' certificates. James H. Clement was granted a five-years' institute conductors' certificate, and Miss Babette Stadler, a fellow in German, was granted a life certificate.
Professor S. L. Whitcomb will read from John Bunyan's autobiography ("Grace Abounding") next Thursday at 4:30 in room 211, Fraser hall.
A DEAN CHOSEN FOR NEWSCHOOL
C. H. JOHNSTON TO HEAD SCHOOL OF EDUCATION.
Is Now a Member of University of Michigan Faculty—Has Done Much Research Work.
Dr. Charles Hughes Johnston of the University of Michigan will be head of the new School of Education of the University of Kansas, which was established by the Board of Regents last summer. Dr. Johnson last week accepted the offer, tendering him the position as Dean of the school.
Professor Johnston has been a member of the department of education at the University of Michigan for a number of years. His work for the doctor's degree was done at Harvard University, under Professors James, Palmer, and others. He is regarded as one of the most promising of the younger men of the country. Only recently he was made full professor at the University of Michigan, so anxious were the authorities to induce him to stay there.
Ever since the School of Education was established by the Regents of the University of Kansas nearly a year ago, the University authorities have been looking the field over to find a man for dean of the new school who would be fitted for the special needs of the position. They feel that Dr. Johnston's qualifications for the area are of the best, as he is one of the leaders of the new type of educational thought and has done a great deal of research work in the study of education.
Dr. Johnston has written a number of articles that have been published in the best educational and psychological journals of the country. Titles of some of the articles are as follows: "Tendencies in College Departments of Education," "The Social Significance of Various Movements for Industrial Education;" "The Systematic Training of Feeling as an Educational Issue;" "The Present State of the Psychology Feeling;" "The Combination of of Feelings;" "Ribot's Theory of the Passions,' 'and 'The Rose of Sensations and Feelings Under Ether.'
Dr. Johnston visited the University of Kansas March 12, when the conference of accredited high schools of the University was held. He conducted the Saturday morning symposium on "Problems of Administration."
Professor Tonks to Lecture.
Prof. Tonks of Princeton University will give an illustrated lecture on "The Growth of Naturalism in Italian Painting," in University hall, next Tuesday afternoon. April 5, at 4:30.
Shanty's Orchestra LAST JUNIOR PARTY, April 1st. F.A.A.Hall
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