11-1909----28190
The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME VI.
TRADITIONS TO BE RETAINED
IN THIS YEAR'S SENIOR CLASS DAY EXERCISES.
Usual Addresses to Buildings and Responses to Be Given—Program in Detail.
The senior class day exercises this spring will take place Tuesday June 7. The members of the class day committee are: Hal Harlan, chairman; Miss Margaret Lupton, Miss Laurene Steven, Miss Juanita Rankin, Haward Miller, and Albert Learned.
Hal Harlan said today in reference to the exercises: "In making out the program the committee has attempted to retain the traditions of former senior classes. We wish to establish certain ceremonies which will be familiar to the alumni and will be looked forward to by the seniors."
The program for the day follows:
8:30 a. m.—Farewell to Buildings For the College;
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 28, 1910
NUMBER 98
Fraser Hall-Howard Miller. Response Dean Templin.
For the School of Law:
For the School of Law:
Green Hall—Harvey Starbuck
Response—Dean Green.
School of Pharmacy:
For the School of Pharmacy:
Chemistry Building—Harry K
Kirknam.
Response—Dean Sayre.
Response—Dean Sudler.
For the School of Medicine: Medical Building—Raymond E Teall.
For the School of Fine Arts:
Snow Hall—Jennie Purdy.
Response—Dean Skillz.
Response—Dean Marvin.
For the School of Engineering:
Blake Hall—Charles E. Johnson.
Response Dept. Servin.
10:00 a. m.. Special Exercises
Around Totem Pole.
Class Prophecy—Carroll J Lord.
Class History—William L.
Strkwer.
Pipe of Peace.
Flag Ceremony—George A Neal, Jr.
11. 00 a. m—Alumni Address by Charles Manford Sharpe, A. B., '97 A. M., '99 Dean of the Bible College of Missouri.
12:00—Senior Class Luncheon and Alumni class luncheons on the campus.
12:30—Band concert.
1:30 p. m.—Annual meeting of the Alumni Association.
3:00 p. m.-Senior Alumni baseball game.
7:30 p. m.—Senior farce. Campus, west of Snow hall. "That Jay Hawk."
8:30 p. m.—Reception by Chan
celler and Mrs. Strong.
9:00—Reception to law alumni by Dean and Mrs. Green.
Library Notice.
All students who have books belonging to the University library are requested to return them at once.
Prof . Wm. L. Burdick will speak at Lincoln Monday evening before the members of the G.A.R.
KANSAS TOOK FIRSTS
In All Preliminaries at Des Moines Yesterday.
In the preliminary heats of the Missouri Valley conference meet held yesterday afternoon, 'Kansas took first in every heat entered.
According to the dope received from Des Moines the contest for the Misouri Valley championship will be between Kansas and Nebraska, with Nebraska having a little the better of the argument, on account of her prospects in the weight and discus events.
The K. U. men took firsts in the following events; 100 yard, Haddock, time :10; 120-yard hurdles, Winters, time':17; 440 yard dash, no preliminary required, but G. Smith is eligible; 220-yard hurdles, Hamilton, time 27:04; 2nd heat 220-yard hurdles, Davis, time 27.02; and 220-yard dash, Haddock and Wilson tied for first.
No other preliminaries are required. The finals are being held this afternoon.
HELD SPECIAL MEETING.
Student Council to Gather Data During Summer.
The Student Council held a special meeting Thursday afternoon. Besides discussings a number of plans for next year, committees were appointed to gather data regarding student association work in other universities.
The members of the council will also make an extensive study of the government of senior class activities in other schools during the summer. Next fail plans for the student control of such activities will be made.
Good Government Club Meeting
The Good Government club will hold its last meeting for the year at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Phi Gam house to elect officers and new members for next year. All members are urged to be present.
To Give Tacky Party.
The senior boys will give the senior girls a "tackey" party at the gym Saturday evening. June 4. The boys will be at the gym at 8 o'clock to receive the girls.
E. B. Gift, '08, visited the University Friday on business with Prof. W. H. Johnson. Mr. Gift will be superintendent of the Alma public schools again next year.
Prof. R. A. Schweegler will deliver the commencement address next Friday evening to the graduating class of the Belle Plains city schools
Prof. R. R. Price will deliver the commencement address next Monday evening to the graduating class of the Agra high school, and next Friday evening to the graduating class of the Pratt high school.
Miss Dorothea McKnight, a former student in the University is visiting Miss Edith Lawson at 1338 Ohio.
WILL HEAD NEW DEPARTMENT
PROF. EDNA R. DAY OF M. U ACCEPTS POSITION.
Will Teach Household Economics Department Will Open Next Fall.
The announcement was made from the office of the Chancellor this morning that the head of the new department of household economics will be Prof. Edna R. Day, at present professor of home economics at the University of Missouri.
Professor Day received her B. S. and M. S. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1896 and 1897. In 1906 she was given a Ph. D. degree from the University of Chicago. From 1898 until 1899 she taught at Kent Place school for girls, Summit, N. J. Since that time she has taught at Lake Erie College, from 1900 until 1901; Wesleyan University, 1902; University of Illinois, 1903 and 1904; University of Chicago, 1904 until 1906, and the University of Missouri from 1906 until the present time.
THE WEATHER.
Frank Strickland of Junction City is visiting friends here.
The Last Issue.
Fair tonight and cooler Sunday.
The courses which will be offered will be taken from the following: The home, its plan, decoration and care; household bacteriology, household hygiene, chemistry of the household, principles of cookery, food and dietetics, household management, personal hygiene, home care of the sick, textiles and clothing, study of child life, care of children.
KANSAS WON TENNIS.
The work of the new department is designed to serve the interests of women, particularly in their relations to home and family life, with especial attention to dietary, food, and nutrition. The development of University work in foods has often been misunderstood by those who have failed to appreciate the difference between high school and University work. In the former, emphasis is rightly placed upon the making of dishes, the actual cooking of as many kinds of food as possible in order to acquire facility in the doing; while in the University certain fundamental principles concerning the selection and cooking of various classes of foods are studied by the preparation of dishes which illustrate these principles. Opportunity will be given for the application of these principles by original problems in the preparation first of the menu, then of the meal, followed by a criticism of the whole process.
The Kansan is issued today for the last time this spring. With the opening of school next fall the publishing of the paper will be continued and a number of plans for its improvement will be worked out.
The object will be to teach women to select food wisely, cook it properly, and serve it well, and at the same time to learn some of the fundamental principles concerning nutrition.
Took All Matches in Oklahoma Tournament.
On account of unfavorable weather conditions the tennis matches between Kansas and Oklahoma were played in the Robinson gymnasium yesterday and this morning. In the doubles yesterday Bigelow and Wood won the first two sets from Alden and Winters of Oklahoma, by scores of 6-2 and 6-1. In the singles Bigelow won the first set from Alden by a score of 7-5. Alden won the second from Bigelow by a score of 6-4 and Bigelow took the third set, 6-3. The singles between Bigelow and Minteer were won by Bigelow by the scores of 6-1 and 6-0.
This morning Wood won the singles from Minteer by 6-3 and 6-2 and this afternoon he won from Winters by a score of 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.
NEW RULE ADOPTED.
Freshman Rhetoric Credits Will Be Given Provisionally.
At a meeting of the faculty of the College, held Thursday afternoon, it was voted to adopt the plan recently proposed whereby credits given for freshman rhetoric will be given, subject to withdrawal if at any time later in the student's course his command of English is found to be defective.
"The new plan is expected to work three benefits," said Dean Olin Templin this morning. "It is expected to make for more thorough work in freshman classes. It is hoped that it will help to raise requirements in English work for the last three years of the College course. Also, it will cut hopeless cases out of graduation.
"Other universities are watching the experiment at Kansas, and will adopt it if it is a success."
Regents Will Meet.
There will be a meeting of the University Board of Regents on Friday, June 3. At that time bids will be opened for the new administration building and the contract will probably be let.
Prof. R. R. Price will represent the University next Wednesday at the quarter-centennial celebration of the Southwestern Kansas college at Winfield.
The Sig Alphs will give their farewell party Monday night at Ecke's hall. The dancing will be preceded by a dinner at their chapter house.
John Porter, of Topeka, is visiting his brother, Eliot, today.
The seniors of the Topeka high school will visit at the University next Wednesday.
Miss Helen Morrow of Topeka is spending a few days with Hazel Chase at the Pi Phi house.
R. H. Morline, '09, of Kansas City, Kan., visited the University Thursday.
LAST CHAPEL YESTERDAY
EXERCISES HELD IN HONOR OF PROF. E. MILLER.
Retiring Head of Department of Mathematics Gave Address to Students.
Prof. Ephriam Miller, professor of mathematics and astromony, gave his farewell address in chapel yesterday morning, since with this year he closes thirty-six years of active and continuous service in the University. In introducing him Chancellor Strong spoke of the high respect in which he is held by the faculty, for the quality of work done in class-room and committee, and for his kindly spirit and standing for the highest type of University life.
Professor Miller spoke of the changes and advance a which come with the passing of years to both individuals and society at large. He cited Gladstone as a man who in his old age could look with satisfaction on his past life. For himself Professor Miller said that in the fifty-five years since he received his A. B. degree he did not know of anything which he would change materially, even if he could. In speaking of the educational changes which had occurred, within a century he used and several ways in which the romance of science had made fiction tame.
Professor Miller next contrasted the University in 1866 with its four professors and fifty-five students with its present status with 290 officers of instruction and administration and 2303 students. He spoke of the culture of intellect and refinement of manners which the state expected from the graduates of the University and the benefit they were to be to the school and to Kansas. In closing he spoke of the value of education in the large and true sense.
Prof. W, H. Carruth bore testimony to the great ability of Professor Miller as a teacher and referred to the pleasure of thirty-seven years acquaintance with him. In behalf of his colleagues in the faculty he then presented to Professor Miller a pocket-book with a check for a considerable sum, though it was but an inadequate expression of their feeling for him.
Chancellor Strong announced that at the commencement meeting the Board of Regents would make Professor Miller emeritus professor of mathematics and astronomy.
NEW PHI BETA KAPPAS.
Five Seniors Elected to Membership Yesterday.
At a meeting of the election committee of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society last night, five students of the graduating class were elected to membership in the society. The new members are:
Roy K. Dietrich, Kansas City,
Mo.
Agnes L. Evans, Lawrence.
Wilber A. Hobbs, Lawrence.
Mary A. Powell, Leavenworth.
Edna P. Tooter, Lawrence.