THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1911
NUMBER 39
WOMEN OF THE UNIVERSITY MAY APPEAR BEFORE LEGISLATURE TO PLEAD FOR APPROPRIATION
Plan for Descent Upon the Legislators Is Now Under Discussion by Women's Student Government Association.
What would be the effect on a member of the legislature of having a committee of pretty University women visit him and present arguments to show that the University needs every cent of the budget that has been asked for by Chancellor Strong? Would he be able to resist arguments that were put forward by the best looking young women of the state?
The answers to these questions will soon be known if a plan which has come up before the Women's Student Government Association is put into effect.
The plan is nothing less than that all the girls enrolled in the University shall go to Topeka the day the University budget comes up for consideration, and strive to show the legislators that all the Chancellor has asked for in the way of appropriations is necessary for the welfare of the University.
A few of the women students are trying to interest the entire body of girls in the University in this unique method of showing their loyalty to the University and interest in the appropriations that will be granted by the legislature.
Many of the girls have expressed themselves as being strongly in favor of the plan and have promised that they will help, if the plan is adopted by the Woman's Student Government Association. One of the girls who is interested in the movement brought the matter up before the last meeting of the girl's governing body, and the proposal was discussed.
Some of the girls thought the whole thing would be a little too daring, but others expressed themselves as being strongly in favor of the plan. All declared themselves open to conviction and will act on the matter as soon as the sentiment of the whole body of girls on the hill can be ascertained. They prefer at least that the opinion of the Chancellor on the matter can be bad before any further action is taken.
The plan as outlined at present would mean that all girls who are attending the University would go to Topeka on a special train and go to the state house where they would meet the legislators in the lobby of the house and would there by means of arguments which they had already drawn up, demonstrate to the legislators that the University is badly in need of the funds asked for. They would return on a late afternoon train.
If such a plan should be adopted it would devolve upon the men of the University to provide for the expenses of the trip by furnishing twenty-five cents each. If all the boys contributed this sum would be sufficient to take all the girls of the University to Topeka and back.
The date of the swimming meet between the different branches of engineering has been changed from Thursday evening, Jan. 12, to Wednesday evening, Jan. 11. Freshmen are not eligible to compete in the meet. Dr. Naismith will be starter and some members of the faculty will referee. All men students are invited to witness the meet.
Class Swimming Matches
Edward Taylor, a junior in the College, is the originator of the plan, which some of the members of the Women's Student Council have taken up enthusiastically.
Eye Shade Blew Up When He Smoked Up
No, cigarettes didn't do it, but a briar pipe did. Last week Joe Riordan, sophomore engineer, was seated in his room, after a hard day's work on the hill, and before starting on an evening's study he took his trusty pipe from its lair and, having duly primed it for duty, adjusted his eye shade and started the fuse to burning.
But there is where the mistake was made. A course in chemistry ought to have warned him that eye shades are inflammable. As he was enjoying his siesta a spark from the engine lighted upon his eye-piece and immediately there was blinding fire, much smoke, and a pungent smell. Today Today Joe Riordan is applying huge quantities of mentholatum to a badly "arsoned" face.
Sue Burgess of Olathe, Kan. spent Saturday and Sunday last at the Chi Omega house. Miss Burgess was a sophomore in the College last year.
Prof. C. C. Young, of the department of water analysis, has gone to Eskridge, Kansas, for water samples.
Lois Brown, a sophomore in the College, has just returned to the University after a severe attack of pneumonia.
"BASEBALL FIRST COLLEGE SPORT TO GO"-MCCLUNG
"The current is setting in more strongly than ever before against fessionalism in the team could be any college athletics and as baseball is more open to criticism on this score than any of the others it is liable to be the first to go," said Prof. C. E. McClung today.
Weather Man Says a Cold Wave Is Coming
Professor McClung expressed his belief that the matter of professionalism in the tea mecould be undertaken better by the Student Council than by the Athletic board for the reason that they had a better chance of finding out whether a candidate for the team had played summer baseball and also because in this way the sentiment of the student body could be brought to bear upon the man who attempted to conceal the fact that he had played professional ball. Professor McClung's idea is that an investigation committee consisting of three or five students should be selected by the Student Council to inquire into the athletic standing of members of all teams. The Athletic board meets with evasions or falsehood when it attempts to do the same thing.
"It's up to the students if they want to keep the game," said Professor McClung. "The conference has shown before that they can act decisively on such matters and the students should look the situation squarely in the face and act at once."
Get our your sweater and high top boots. The cold wave is coming. It is due to arrive at Lawrence tomorrow. The foestast for tomorrow is "Threatening weather, colder tonight, with a cold wave Wednesday."
The barometer at the University weather station has been dropping steadily since morning. This indicates that the low pressure area which covered the Northwest states Monday morning is traveling east.
In the Northwest the thermometer registers 6 degrees above. According to all indications there will be a drop of about 50 degrees by tomorrow. The thermometer on the hill registered 64 degrees at 2 p. m. today.
Friction Between Faculty and Presidents' Conferences over Athletics.
TO DRIVE QUACKS OUT OF KANSAS IS WORK OF NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL
Thespian Club Chooses Lask New Director
The attempts of both the Missouri Valley Conference, which is made up of faculty representatives, and the conference of Presidents and governing boards of Missouri Valley schools to dispose of questions concerning athletics resulted in some slight friction between the two at the last conference in Des Mines. Before last spring all matters concerning athletics had been settled by the Missouri Valley Conference, but last spring the conference of presidents and governing boards took matters into their own hands on several important athletic matters which were at the same time being considered by the conference. The opinion of the Missouri Valley Conference is that since they have better opportunities to keep in touch with the athletic situation at the various schools than the regents, who must derive their information from the newspapers, all matters concerning athletics should be turned over to them.
At a meeting of the Thespian Dramatic club held at the Phi Delt house Tuesday evening, Geo. A. Lask was engaged to direct the club for the coming year. He was selected at the instance of Georgia Brown, who, on account of illness will be unable to take charge Mr. Lask has been directing the Auditorium Stock company of Kansas City for fifteen years,serving in the capacity of director, in which position he has gained prominence.
The Thespians will present"The Bachelor," a royalty play which deals with the fashionable adventures of an unfortunate bachelor. It will be presented about February 23, 24 and 25.
Robert Kennedy Duncan Brings New Fellowships
K. C. MEN TO MAKETALKS "WITH THE BARK ON"
Prof. Robert K. Duncan, director of industrial chemistry, is expected here this week from Pittsburgh, Pa. He will bring along several fellowships and possibly the men to fill them. This securing of fellowships for the University from manufacturing companies and the consequent bringing here of men of science is part of his work. Professor Duncan was a resident member of the faculty last year, but now is also director of chemistry at the University of Pittsburg and lives there. This is his third trip out here this year.
"What kind of a talk do you
The University Y. M. C. A. has planned a series of interesting talks which a number of business and professional men of Kansas City will make before the students of the University. The talks will not be technical or religious, but each man will tell in an inti-
mate way of the most interesting and striking things he has observed in his chosen work.
Scott P. Chld, a Kansas City physician, will make the first talk of the series in Myers hall Thursday night.
want?" asked Mr. Child, when approached by the committee,
"Do you want the bark on ou off?"
Mr. Child was assured that the committee wanted the bark left on.
Other man who will take talks "with the bark on" are Frank P. Walsh, noted as a criminal lawyer, ex-Mayor Henry M. Beardsley, J. G. Trimble, railroad attorney; Thomas Marks, ex-commissioner of police; the Rev. J. D. Ritchey, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church; E. T. Brigham, director of the Helping Hand Institute; the Rev. H. L. Rodgers of the LinwoodPresbyterian church; J. T. Chafin, head worker of the Sweo Settlement; Judge E. E. Porterfield of the juvenile court, and Judge H. L. McCune. The speakers will fill their dates in the order given.
The first concert to be given outside the University this year by the Glee club, will be the one at Haskell on Friday evening. January 27.
Dr. M. T. Sudler Declares That Is More Important Than Training New Physicians.
MUST RAISE STANDARDS
Corrupt and Improper Practices Believed to Be More Common in Middle West Than in East.
"The benefit which the School of Medicine will render to the state of Kansas in the next ten years will not be because of the few M. D.s it will be able to turn out in that time, but in the service it will render in stemming the tide of corrupt and illegal practice which is rife in the profession in the state today."
This was the opinion which Dean M .T. Sudler of the School of Medicine expressed to a reporter for The Kansan this morning. The Middle West has plenty of physicians at present, as far as numbers are concerned, Dr. Sudler thinks, but many of the men who are practising have been incompletely educated for their work. Many have been graduated from schools of medicine which could boast neither of competent faculties nor adequate equipment.
"As a result of such training, many physicians are practising who are not only incompetent, but do not hesitate to resort to unethical conduct to make money," said Dr.Sudler. "It is far too common a practice in Kansas and in the Middle West for family physicians to send their patients to specialists who will 'split the bill' with the family physician, giving him a per cent of what is charged for an operation. As a result, the physician is tempted to send his patient, not to the best specialist, but to the one who will pay the largest per cent. I believe the practice is more common in this section of the country than it is in the East, where they are more conservative and make stricter regulations concerning the kind of men who shall practice medicine.
"It is impossible to handle this evil by attacking individuals who are guilty of such practices, and not much can be done by the medical societies. To set higher standards in the profession, and to attract a better class of men to the practice of medicine, is the work which the University School of Medicine has before it.
"The work has already begun. Since the University school was established, a number of smaller schools in the Missouri Valley have raised their requirements. When a year is added to the course of study, it means that the men who have the least regard for the profession will drop out, and the quality of the men who will eventually graduate and set up in practice will be improved."
Women's Council Met.
At the meeting of the Women's Student Government association, held last Thursday, the question of having a students' day in Chapel some time in May was discussed and the conclusions arrived at were very favorable for the celebration. Nothing definite was done about the matter and the meeting adjourned after talking about the entertainment for visiting teams next March.