THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
NUMBER 17
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1910
SEVEN WOULD BE RHODES SCHOLARS
EXAMINATIONS GOING ON AT UNIVERSITY TODAY.
University of Kansas, Baker Washburn, Cooper and Park Colleges Are Represented.
Seven students of Kansas educational institutions are taking the Rhodes scholarship examination at the University today.They are:
Harry R. O'Brien, Kansas City Waschbren
Edmund D. Cressman, Law
rence, University of Kansas.
T. W. Whitcomb, Topeka, Wash-
burn College.
Ernest A. Brites, Holton, Campbell College.
This morning the contestants translated passages from Caesar Ciercar and Vergil. The program for this afternoon and evening is Latin prose and algebra and geometry. The subjects for work tomorrow will be translating Greek into English, Greek and Latin grammar, and algebra and geometry.
Frank II. Allis, Baldwin, Baker University.
Harry V. Jones, Lewisburg Park College.
George S. Counts, Baldwin
Baker University.
The committee in charge of the examinations is: Professors Ashton, Cone, Stimpson, Cochran,and Sturtevant.
FOR NEW ATHLETIC FIELD
Dr. Naismith Making Plans for Sport Lot.
Dr. James Naismith has thirty engineers at work on plans for a regular University Athletic Field, which he hopes to establish in the near future. It will cover a beautiful twelve or fifteen-acre plot of ground located just south of the gymnasium with the gymnasium as a center. The space will be divided into five fields, one for football and baseball, one with a two hundred straightaway and quarter mile track for track meets and three for practice use. In addition, there will be tennis courts for both boys and girls and open air handball courts. By establishing these new athletic Drs. Naismith plans to make it possible for all the students in the University to take part in the athletics and not restrict them to intercollegiate work as at present. It is expected that McCook field will be abandoned eventually for the new location.
Second Masque Tryout.
Prof. R. D. Landrum, formerly assistant professor in the chemistry department, has an extensive article in a recent number of the Journal of Ceramics on "Methods of Analysis for Enamels."
Miss Hulda Ise, class of '10, who is head of the department of English in the Parsons high school, came down from the meeting of the State Teachers' association in Topeka, Friday night, and spent Saturday with her parents at 1105 Mississippi street.
The second tryout for the Masque club was held last night in Miss Mossler's studio, and the cast was selected for the play that will be staged this year. The production this year will be a modern play, "The Dictator," which was starred in by William Collier. "The Dictator" has never been staged in the West, but it was a success in the East.
Professor Gray, of the English department, will deliver a lecture next Wednesday evening at El Dorado, Kan., before the Federation of Women's clubs.
PLAN FOR THE QUILL.
List Porter Elected Editor for This Year.
The Quill club began its plans Monday afternoon for the publication of a University magazine by electing members who shall have the direction of the three isues planned for this school year. Shot Porter was elected as editor with power to choose assistants for an editorial board. Louis Rufener and Walter Mayer were elected circulation manager and business manager respectively.
The magazine will be different from the previous annual publications of the club in that it will print not only the work of its members, but will have contributions from others in the school. In its scope it will include the entire University and will aim to appeal to all classes of students. The magazine also will not be restricted so largely as in the past to narrative and descriptive sketches, and the editorial side of the publication will be given more space.
The first number of the magazine will be published before Christmas. Anyone in the University having suggestions for the magazine is invited to communicate with the editor. The club expects the periodical to take a unique and important place among the University of Kansas publications.
DR. HALL WILL LECTURE.
To Talk to Students on the Sex Problems.
Dr. Winfield S. Hall, professor of physiology at Northwestern School of Medicine, will deliver a lecture on sex problems to the men of the University at 7 o'clock Thursday evening in Snow hall. Dr. Hall was at the University two years ago and made a favorable impression on all the men who heard him at that time. Many of them bought a copy of his books. He is a man of more than usual prominence in his profession. He graduated at the head of his class in 1888 from Northwestern University Medical school and then did post graduate work at Harvard and at Pennsylvania. He also studied abroad and has degrees from two schools at Leipzig, Germany.
During the last four years Dr. Hall has given his lecture in nearly all the Universities and large colleges between Pittsburg and Denver, and between Minneapolis and Nashville in the other direction. Last year 25,000 college men heard the lecture.
IS NOT TYPHOID.
Dr. Eugene Smith, who has charge of the case of Edward Van der Vries, said this morning that his patient is not suffering from typhoid fever, but only a case of physical breakdown accompanied by a severe cold. He is recovering rapidly.
Mr. Vander Vries attended the University last year and was a sophomore in the College. He is now instructor in mathematics and science in the high school at Perry, Kan.
All P. S. B. students will meet at Myers hall this evening for the purpose of forming a permanent organization. Arrangements for an exclusive P. S. B party will be made.
Dr. Chambers, the University physician, said this morning that no new case of typhoid fever had developed.
Edward Van der Vries Is Rapidly Recovering.
Prof. C. E. McClung will leave Thursday for Detroit, Mich., to attend a meeting of the National Committee of Sigma Xi, whose purpose is to revise the constitution of the society.
DR TRIMBLE HERE TO FIGHT TYPHOID
WILL VACCINATE STUDENTS AGAINST TYPHOID.
To Open Offices in Snow Hall in the Afternoon—Theory of Inoculation.
At 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon Dr. W. K. Trimble from the faculty of the University Medical school at Rosedale, will open offices in the bacteriological room on the second floor of Snow hall. He will be here for only five hours. During that time he will vaccinate, against typhoid fever, all students who apply. It is estimated that, through the aid of assistants, Dr. Trimble will be able to inoculate several hundred if that many desire the preventive treatment.
Theoretically typhoid vaccination is the infecting of the person taking the treatment, with a fake case of the fever. The inoculated person receives all the benefits of having had the disease without any of the ill effects. Consequently, the vaccination of a person assures him against a first contraction. It is well known that a second contraction of typhoid is rare and all cases are extremely light. Such is the benefit to be derived from the treatment
The vaccinating is done by the use of dead typhoid bacilli or germs. These bacilli are taken from the blood of a person suffering from the disease. From 750 to 1,000 millions of the germs are necessary for each inoculation. A hypodermic syringe is used to inject the bacilli beneath the skin The vaccinating may be done on any part of the body.
Inoculation is said to secure immunity from the fever for two or three years. Actual data gathered shows that it reduces the danger of contraction 50 per cent and the death rate an equal percentage.
A "HALLOWE'EN FEED."
M. Y. C. A. Will Give Annual Banquet Friday.
lowe-en will be given the men of A supper appropriate to Hal'the University Friday evening, when the University Y. M. C. A. will entertain with the annual "feed." The "feed" will commence at 6 o'clock.
Chancellor Strong will preside over the festivities and popular songs will close the evening's festivities, at 8 o'clock. The supper will be complimentary to all who can come, and every man is expected to attend, whether a member of the association or not.
Prof. E.B. Wilson, head of the department of zoology at Columbia University, will be at the University November 15 and 16, to deliver two public lectures under the auspices of the local chapter of Sigma Xi. Professor Wilson is the circuit speaker for the Sigma Xi and his visit here is incidental to his work among other schools.
Sigma Xi Lectures.
R. H. Jones and B. P. Sears visited the Kappa Delta Pi fraternity at Manhattan Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Rachel White of Delphos, who was graduated in '09, is visiting with Rachel Baumgartner, a junior in the College.
Prof. H. P. Cady, will recover a lecture on "Liquid Air," at Bonner Springs next Friday night.
Arthur Fields, '03, of Kansas City, Mo., visited friends at the University yesterday.
The Tripp club gave a dance in Ecke's hall Saturday evening.
COMPLETE ARRANGEMENTS
Laws Are Ready for "Uncle Jimmy" Banquet.
The final preparations for the fifth annual "Uncle Jimmy" day banquet have been made and the banquet will be held in the dining room of the Eldridge house Thurs day evening, commencing at 8:00 p. m.
The program has been arranged by Ray Eyssen and is as follows Toastmaster, H. Clay Marks.
Address, Chamellor Fran Strong.
Address, Justin D. Bowersock,
Kansas City.
"The Final Tests," H. C. Hill School of Law.
Address, Judge Clark A. Smith of the supreme court, Topeka.
"Unsolved Problems," Ralph H. Smith, for the senior class.
"Half Way Through", H. E.
Harlan, of the middle class.
"The Impression of a Junior Law," Milton D. Baer of junior class.
Address by Uncle Jimmy.
Verni Smith, president of the class and chairman of the banquet committee in the absence of Ben Forbes, who was called home, said today that he expected it to be the biggest banquet ever given in honor of Dean Green.
The custom of giving a banque was started in 1905, the year the law building was dedicated to James W. Green, and the custom has been kept up every year since.
MME. LEHMANN'S CONCERT
Will Be Assisted by Four Leading Singers of England.
One of the notable events of the University year will be the concert by Madame Liza Lehmann composer and pianist, with four of the leading singers of England who will appear in Fraser hall Thursday night.
The student of literature will hear the classical musical setting of the "Rubaiyat,' one of the world's great poems, while the illustrations of Vedder can be seen at the library, and the treatment of the same subject in three arts will be an interesting study.
Program books containing all the words will be distributed at the door.
Sophomore Appointments.
Following are the sophomore appointments for the present year:
Manager sophomore prom, M. D. McNaughton; farce and program committee, chairman, Floyd E. Fischer; Paye Chism, Janette Latz, Geo. Scholes; social committee, chairman, Dick Reed John Franks, Frank Reed Invitation committee, chairman, Clyde Dodge, Gladys Clark, Georgie Cotter, Leland Angevine, Beatrice Dalton, George Babb, Decoration committee, chairman, Harry Scott B. A. Ruth, Margaret Stackhouse Florence Black, W. H. Tangeman Ed Schmitt. Refreshment committee, chairman, Walter Eisenmyer; Vera Atkinson, Don Whee lock, Raymond Smith, Edna Hyre Financial committee, chairman Ray J. Soper, Harry Kettler, Walter Moore.
Quill Choses Members.
The Quill club elected to membership the fall swing students at its regular meeting Monday afternoon: Maynard Young, James F. Faulkner, F. R, Danskin, Ellis Davidson, Wilbur Rogers, Louis La Coss, and Misses Anna Manley, Mabel Watkins, Gertrude Wiley, Ruby Briggs, Irene Garrett, Alberta Wenkheimer, and Janet Thayer.
Last Saturday Walter Mayer R. J. Soper, Beryl Lovejoy, Edith Lovejoy, Alpha Miller and Mabel Watkins walked to Baldwin. The trip was made in three hours and forty minutes. Several more long walks are being planned.
TO INVESTIGATE VARSITY PARTIES
COMMITTEES TO DETERMINE
WHO GIVES DANCES.
Practice Draws Patronage From Class Parties and Breaks Down Senior Day Custom.
A committee of students, including several from both the dancing class and the non-dancing class of the University, have begun an investigation into the many so-called "varsity" parties that are being given in down town halls. It has become definitely known that the "varsity" dances are not, in the majority of cases, given by students of the school. None of them is given by either of the four classes. In other words, it is simply another case of "grafting."
Several of the parties which are given the name "varsity" for the purpose of drawing student patronage, are known to have been financed by persons not in any way connected with the University. A few are given by students who carefully conceal their identity. The result is that so many of the so-called "varsity" dances are being given that the legitimate class parties are becoming less popular than in the past. The "grafters" who give the "varsity" parties come to the University early in the fall, or are residents here, and secure the best dates for the giving of dances. Then they advertise the "varsity" idea. Consequently, several classes are not making the profit from parties that was formerly enjoyed. In some cases there is even a deficit. This leads to a lack of funds for the defraying of the expenses of Senior day and the result is that an established University custom is being broken down.
The investigating committee is self-appointed. The members propose to determine by whom the "varsity" parties are given and to endeavor to devise some means of persuading the dancers to remain oyal to class parties.
A Chance for Tenor Singers.
The University Glee club is in need of tenors. Men who would like to try for places on the club as tenor singers should apply to Prof. C. E. Hubach.
The regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A. Wednesday afternoon will be a song service. Helen Hill will play a violin solo. All the girls of the University are cordially invited. Room 110, Fraser hall at 4:45 o'clock.
Red Domino Tryout.
Tryouts for the Red Domino play will be held tonight and tomorrow night. Girls are asked to present themselves tonight, and men tomorrow evening. Both tryouts will be held in room 110, Fraser hall. Members of either dramatic club of the University are eligible, as well as all other students.
Girls Start Shop Work.
A class in shop work for girls is now being organized at Fowler shops. Sessions will be held Monday afternoons and Thursday mornings. This will afford an opportunity for former students of the department to continue the course and for new ones to begin practice in wood work. Twelve have already enrolled.
Mr. Karl Moore, who was called to his home at Inman, Kan., three weeks ago on account of the sickness and death of his grandmother, returned yesterday to continue his work as a junior in the College.
Professor F. W. Blackmar will speak before the Brotherhood of the Westminster church of Topeka. Saturday evening, November 5.