GOV. STUBBS ASKS ABOUT CLASS ROOMS
SENDS LETTER YESTERDAY
TO THE CHANCELLOR.
Thinks Class Rooms Could be Utilized by More Students— Chancellor to Report Today.
When the state commission on higher education meets today in the office of Governor Stubbs it is expected that it will have laid before it by Cancellor Frank Strong, of the State University, a statement showing the exact length of time each class room at the University has been used each day during the past month.
This information has been asked for by letter by Governor Stubbs. The other day the Governor received one of the bulletins of the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching, and in this bulletin he discovered that the class rooms of the various universities in the country are not used to exceed three or four hours per day.
"If this is true of the Kansas educational institutions," said Governor Stubbs yesterday, "It may be possible to make a big saving in the matter of expenditure for new buildings. If by making new arrangements the class rooms can be utilized for a greater length of time each day it will reduce the necessity for new and additional rooms. I expect the commission to take this matter up when it meets here tomorrow."
Below is the copy of the letter sent to Chancellor Strong asking for the information. The Governor thinks it is possible that the commission will be able to solve the problem of additional space at the educational institutions through the suggestions given out by the Carnegie foundation: "Chancellor Frank Strong."
Lawrence, Kansas
"Dear Chancellor—I have before me a report from the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching, bulletin No. 5 in which the economical use of buildings is discussed. This bulletin indicates that the class rooms of various universities and colleges throughout the country are not used on an average to exceed three or four hours per day.
"Lawrence, Kansas.
GUILD ELECTS OFFICERS
"For the information of the state commission which meets here on Thursday next, will you be kind enough to furnish a statement showing the exact length of time per day each room in the several buildings of the university was used during the past month.
"Yours very respectfully,
"W. R. STUBBS,
"Governer."
Congregationalists Will Give Picnic.
C. C. Dudley, '08 Run Over by Engine.
At a meeting of the K. U. Plymouth Guild Saturday evening in the church parlors of the Congregational church officers were elected for next year. They are: President, Leland Angevine; vice presidents, Sylvia Alford and Wayne Edwards; secretary, Dorothy Ward and treasurer, Eugene Davis.
KILLED IN MUSKOGEE
Chandler C. Dudley who was graduated from the School of Engineering in 1908 was caught on the pilot of an engine in Muskogee, Okla., Tuesday afternoon and instantly killed.
At the time of his death Dudley was employed by the city of Muskogee as city engineer.
Miss Louise Ryland of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting this week at the Chi Omega house.
A picnic will be given by the Guild a week from Saturday at Cameron's Bluff.
Howard Randall, '09 is visiting at the Sigma Chi house.
New Bulgarian Blouses Of Colored Embroidery on French Voile and Marquisette. Reasonably priced at $2.98 to $4.98
Wash Dresses of Fancy Ginghams. Tissues and Chambray in the prettiest of One Piece Styles.
$3.50 to $10
50 Cents
Pure Thread Silk Hose, Lisle tops and soles. Very special per pair,
Silk Lisle Hose in Party Shades, Double tops and soles, per pair. 50 Cents
Innes, Bullene & Hackman
GIRLS' ELECTION MONDAY
More Candidates For The Offices Have Appeared.
Have Appeared.
More candidates for offices in the Women's Student council have appeared and the indications are that there will be considerable competition.
Pettitions for nomination of officers must be in by Friday, May 5, not later than two o'clock. The committee composed of Grace Wilkie, Isabe! Thomas, and Agnes Crego, will be in the rest room of Fraser on Friday after chapel and from 1:30 to 2:00 to receive petitions.
The following petitions have been received :
President—Beulah Murphy.
Vice President: (From College—Glendale Griffiths, Mac Rossman.
Vice President: (from F. A.
Vice President: (from F. A.)
- Laura Pendleton, Mary Palmer
Secretary—Ruth Van Doren
Frank Banker.
Treasurer—Fredrika Hodden
Besse Boell.
The reason for the delay is that the holidays interfered with the circulation of petitions. Election will be held Monday May 8.
New Books Received
The library has received the following new books:
Studies of Shakespeare's Characters—Stanley Wood.
Surgical Applied Anatomy.— Sir F. Bart.
The Herkomers—Sir H. Herkomers.
Peasant Art in Sweden, Lappland and leeland.
Greek Literature—Jibb.
Rural Life Problems of the United States—Plankett.
Thomas Welton Stanford has recently made a gift of $100,000 to the Stanford University of San Francisco, for the purpose of founding a chair for the study of the occult. Mr. Stanford is particularly interested and has been for several years in spiritualism.
$100,000 to Stanford.
Maurice Breidenthal who was graduated in the College last year, spent the last part of the week at the Phi Delt house. He delivered a lecture to the Entomological Society while here. He is doing some work for this society in Hutchinson, where he is making an investigation of the trees in that town.
Fred Tenney, who attended the University last year and who has been in New York this winter, is visiting at the Phi Psi house.
Maurice Blacker who graduated from the University '08, is visiting at the Phi Psi house.
ETHEL HESS RECITAL
Year Tonight.
The First Piano Recital of the
This evening at 8:15 o'clock in Fraser hall the first graduating piano recital of the year will be given by Ethel Hess, assisted by Mrs. O. E. Winkler, soprano, and Ethel Corle, accompanist. The program which has been altered from the original announcement follows:
First Suite for piano...McDowell
Preclude
Andantino ed Allegretto
Intermezzo.
Song, Ave Maria Stella...St. Saens Mrs. Winkler.
En Automne . . . Moszkowski
Liebeswalzer . . . Moszkowski
La Fileuse . . . Raff
Song, The Serenade . . . Schubert Mrs. Winkler.
auo 1905.
The Bird Sermon...Liszt
Polonaise...Paderewski
Miss Hess.
Announcement has been made of the men who will have charge of the State Fair which will be held in Topeka in September. Scott Hopkins, a regent of the University, is the secretary of the fair. Prof. L. L. Dyche has been named as the head of the fish exhibit. Charles Younggreen, a sophomore in the college has received word that he will act as Superintendent of Grounds and Concessions.
University Men in Charge
The Friars, the junior society will hold a meeting at the Phi Psi house this evening.
The Friars Will Meet.
President Hadley, of Yale, recently discussed probable Yale plans similar to those proposed by Harvard, which desires to make that university of use to the people of Cambridge. In speaking of the Harverd scheme he said: "We shall have reached the same result in other ways by opening museums of collection, for instance." He also brought out the plan of summer school for New Haven teachers, athletic playgrounds, and free tuition which he said he had found by experience to be unappreciated and impracticable.
FROM OTHER COLLEGES
Miss Maude Baker, a sophomore in the school of Fine Arts, returned yesterday from Kansas City where she was visiting a sister.
Miss Pauline Findley who has been visiting at the Chi Omega house will return to her home in Wichita tomorrow.
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The Haskell Indians ball team lost to St. Mary's 4 to 3 in a game played at St. Mary's Tuesday afternoon.
Fairmount walloped the Cooper College ball team Tuesday afternoon at Sterling with a 27 to 2 score.
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The State Agricultural College athletes defeated Baker in a hard fought track meet last Monday at Baldwin with a score of 69 to 62.
The engineering students of the University of Minnesota are constructing an elevated railroad three miles long, to be used for experimental purposes.
West Point's baseball schedule this spring shows a total of twenty-three games with one open day occasioned by Virginia's canceling her date. Harvard Yale, and Pennsylvania are not on the Army list, but the names of Dartmouth and Georgetown appear there for the first time.
The Harvard athletic committee will take no more chances with fire at the big football games that will be played in the Soldiers' Field stadium for they have decided to try steel seats about the top and base of the concrete stadium. It is expected that when Yale comes to Cambridge on November 25, there will be 44,000 seats in a series of absolutely fireproof stands.
The University of Chicago has accepted the invitation of the bureau of insular affairs of the war department to send to the department of education in the Philippine islands two lecturers for the summer assembly at Bagulo, the summer capital of the Philippines. Associate Professor J. Paul Goode, of the department of geography, and Associate Professor Francis Wayland Shephardson, of the department of history, will leave Chicago this month to lecture before this assembly.
Ex-Congressman Charles F. Scott, a graduate of the University of Kansas, has been appointed by President Taft a member of a commission to investigate agricultural conditions in Europe. The commission sailed this week for Italy, where its investigations will begin. Mr. Scott, while in Congress, was a member of the committee on agriculture and was known as an authority on the subject.
New Bats
Just received the finest assortment of bats ever seen in the city.
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Phones 608 709 Mass. St.
Students' downtown headquar-
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PHI GAMMA CONVENTION
Many Representatives From Other Schools to be Here.
The first annual convention of section 12 of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will be held in Lawrence May 12 and 13. Representatives from the chapters of Texas, Missouri, Nebraska, Wm, Jewell, Iowa, and Colorado College will be present, together with the alumni of the Kansas chapter and visiting members from a number of eastern universities. Delegates will be sent by local fraternities of the Universities of Colorado, New Mexico, Denver, and the Kansas State Agricultural College, who are petitioning for chapters of Phi Gamma Delta.
St. Mary's took a game from Fairmount Thursday afternoon at St. Mary's with a score of 6 to 5.
The visitors will be entertained at the annual spring party which is to be given on May 12, and at a banquet at the Eldridge House on the evening of May 13.
At the Aurora Tomorrow
Saturday
the finest program of pictures ever shown anywhere. Four real big features, including that special subject "The Priestess of Carthage" with special music score similar to "ll Trovatore."
KRESS'
5-10 AND 25 CENT STORE
RECORD EMBROIDERY SALE
Saturday, May 6, to Saturday, May 13
THIS ANNUAL SALE affords the people of this vicinity an opportunity to purchase high grade imported Embroideries at one-fourth and one-third the usual retail prices. Our enormous purchasing power (we operate over 100 stores) is the reason.
RECORD EMBROIDERY SALE
Saturday, May 6, to Saturday, May 13
Watch for Window Display Commencing May 3rd.