HIGH SCHOOL EDITION
THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII
CHANCELLOR STRONG WRITES GRADUATES
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1911
ADDRESSES LETTER TO 3400 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Asks Them to Consider the University For Higher Education.
Three thousand four hundred students will graduate from the high schools over the state this spring. In the High School edition of the University Kansan, Chancellor Strong has written a letter to each one of the graduates asking their consideration of the University when contemplating higher education.
The letter follows:
The letter follows:
To the Graduates of Kansas High!
Schools:
The University of Kansas sends you greeting and a cordial invitation to give careful consideration to the advantages of a University training. The University of Kansas will take care of all students who come prepared to do University work. We shall be very glad therefore, to have you examine its work, its standards of scholarships, and the almost unlimited field covered by its courses of study. It is of no small value to be a member of the great fraternity of men and women—some 24,000—who have been at the University of Kansas As you doubtless know this number includes many men and wo men who have reached eminence
The University of Kansas is a member of the standard association of American Universities which includes twenty-two of the most important institutions in North America. It has had a large scientific and industrial development. It has the largest and most valuable scientific collections of any state university in America. It also was the first institution to develop the new line of industrial fellowships, a work somewhat analogous to the industrial work for Germany done by the German universities. Probably no industrial work by American universities has attracted more attention throughout the world than this.
The life of the student body is varied and interesting and rich in the very best elements of moral and cultural life.
After giving these and other matters your careful consideration if you decide to come to the University of Kansas, you will be made welcome and we hope that our association will be of great uplift to you and of great value to us. Sincerely yours,
FRANK STRONG.
Prof. L. E. Sayre dean of the School of Pharmacy, will speak in chapel Tuesday morning. His subject will be "The Relation of the Schools to the Public and to Public Utility."
College to Elect.
Dean Sayre to Speak.
There will be a meeting of the College next Tuesday morning after chapel for the purpose of forming a permanent organization as the other schools have.
New Keltz Pledges.
Harvey Phillips a freshman Engineer from Greeley, Colorado and Elmer Whitney, a sophomore from Talmage, have been pledged to The Keltz.
Called Home by Father's Death.
Alvin Wetmore, a senior in the College, has been called to his home in Wichita by the death of his father.
SIGMA XI ELECTS
Honorary Fraternity Elect Eight New Members.
NUMBER 94
At a meeting of Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific fraternity, last Thursday evening eight new members were elected. They will be initiated some time before the close of the school year. The following people were ejected: The Graduate School: Wyman R. Green. From the senior class: Estella Carothers, Floyd Price Ogden, Charles Merl Gruber, Delbert O. Smith, Walter R. Schreiner, W. E. Vawter, David H. Wenrich.
SENIOR PLAY SUCCESS
'Sister You're Wrong' Given This Week—Play is Clever and Acting Excellent.
Excellent acting by several members of the cast made the Senior Play, which was produced last Thursday and Friday evenings, a success. "Sister, You're Wrong" is a three act comedy with the old, old story of a little lie, a telegram to ascertain the real facts, a complication in identity, and the "lived happily ever afterward" ending. In several places there were interesting digressions from this that gave it the local college flavor that commended it to the people who were in attendance.
The action in the last two acts of the play is rapid and with Helen Morrow, as the sister, Clem Parker, as the peace maker and the wrong Mr. Brown, and France Wilson, as the brother who took his sister she was wrong in the leading roles, the interest is well sustained. The first act in which two full hands of poker are played before an anxious audience seems to be the greatest fault of the entire production.
The play was well staged and the acting was especially good it was written entirely by Moe Friedman, chairman of the Senior Play committee. The other members of the committee are Eliot Porter, Cornelia Hardeastle, Fern Edie, Tom Palmer, George Richardson, Oreta Moore, Mat Graham, Edith Willis, and Mabel Evans.
The "Jayhawkler" for 1911 was put on sale and the first evening over three hundred were sold.
STUDENTS ARE HERE.
The meet started this afternoon at 2:30 and it is expected that some classy performances will be pulled off. There were indications of rain this morning but it is not expected that the weather will seriously hinder the meet this afternoon.
This morning at ten o'clock the first contingent of high school students arrived for the track meet this afternoon. A special train of two hundred rooters came from Kansas City and every train is bringing in big loads of students. All trains are being met by members of the fraternities on the hill who are showing all possible courtesy to the visitors. The members of the track teams will be entertained at the several fraternity houses and all rooters are given ample accommodations.
Special Train of 200 From Kan nas City for Track Meet.
Willard Wattles will read his poems about Jesus, some of which appear in the "Songs From the Hill," at the Unitarian church beginning at 10:30 Sunday morning. All are invited.
Will Read Poems.
419 SENIORS WILL GRADUATE IN 1911
PLANS BEING MADE FOR A BIG COMMENGEMENT
1,000 Will Attend Senior-Alumni Banquet—Regatta on Potter's Lake—Address by Dr. Small.
Approximately four hundred and nineteen seniors will graduate from the University of Kansas this June. Elaborate plans are being laid for commencement week, and over four hundred out-of-town alumni are expected back during the festivities. Among the special features of the week are the regatta to be held on Potter's lake, and the big senior-alumni banquet on the campus, 12:00 o'clock Tuesday, June 6. Plans are being made to feed one thousand at this picnic, and it is expected to be the largest ever held at the University.
Commencement really begins with the annual commencement concert of the School of Fine Arts, which will be given in Fraser hall, 8:15 Tuesday evening.
The program for commencement work proper is as follows:
Sunday, June 4, 8 p. m.-Bae-
calureate service, Robinson gymn-
nasium. Music by the Vesper
Chorus. Sermon by William
Frederick Slocum, D.D., LL. D
president of the Colorado College
Monday, June 5. 2 p. m.—Regatta and water sports, Potter's lake. Swimming races, diving contests, canoe races, and water games, including tub races, log rolling, and water baseball will be among the events.
5:30 p. m.-Band concert, on west campus.
8. 15 p. m.-Organ recital by Chas, Skilton, Dean of the School of Fine Arts.
9:00 p. m.—Annual banquet of the School of Pharmacy at Eldridge house. Admission by tickets to be obtained from the department.
Tuesday, June 6—Class Day.
8:15 a. m.—Band concert
8:30 a. m.-Address to buildings and farewell songs, on the campus.
9:00 a. m.-Commencement meeting of the Board of Regents.
10:00 a. m.—Special Class Day exercises around the Totem pole. Flag ceremony conducted by Robert Fisher, class president.
11:00 a. m.-Alumni address, Fraser hall by Solon Thacher Gilmore, '86, LL.D. '88, Police commissioner, of Kansas City.
12:00 Luncheon of seniors and alumni on the campus.
Afternoon.
12:30 p. m.—Band concert.
1. 30 p. m.-Annual meeting of the almuni association in Snow hall.
3: 30 p. m.—Base ball, seniors vs. alumni, McCook field.
Evening.
7:30 p. m.—Senior farce,"The Missing Link," campus west of Snow hall.
8:30 p. m.-Reception by Chancellor and Mrs. Strong, Green hall.
9:00 p. m.-Reception to Law alumni by Dean and Mrs. James Green at their home 637 Tennessee street.
Wednesday, June 8. 9:30 a.m.
Candidates for degrees meet in the Botany room, Snow hall.
Faculty meets in east lecture room of Snow hall.
10:00 a. m.-Commencement exercises in Robinson gymnasium. Baleony open to the public at 9:00, but main floor held for ticket holders until 9:45. Children under twelve years not admitted. Address by Albion Woodbury Small, Ph.D. D.D., Professor of Sociology in the University of Chicago.
1:00 p. m.—University dinner on first floor of gymnasium
WON FROM ST. LOUIS U.
Lost Yesterday to Missouri Val ley College.
Kansas lost to the Missouri Valley College baseball team at Marshall, Thursday afternoon, by the score of four to two. Yesterday they won the fourth game of the trip from St. Louis University at St. Louis by a nine to eight score. Lansing, the Missouri Valley pitcher, was very effective in pinches and during the game struck out fourteen men.
Today they are playing their second game with St. Louis and the last one of the trip.
THE SOCIETIES ELECT
Sachems, Friars, and Black Hel mets, Honorary Class Societies Take in New Members.
At the Students' Day exercises yesterday the names of those who have been elected to the honorary class societies were announced. These societies have all been organized within the past year and have elected members from the other classes who will continue the work.
The following juniors have been elected to membership in the honorary senior class society of Sachems: Earl Ammons, Everett Brummage, Elmer Ditmar, Wren French, Louis LaCoss, Van Martin, Ed. Rhodes, George Stuckey, Todd Woodbury. There be another election next fall. Membership in this society is based upon leadership in the various lines of University activities and a fair degree of scholarship is also essential.
The sophomores who have been elected to membership in the Friars, the honorary junior society are: Sandy Hamilton, Karl Kreibiel, Maleolm McNaughton, Edwin Van Houten, Frank Reid, Bruce Hurd, Clyde Dodge, Chester Cassingham, James Coolidge, O. W. Patterson, Herbert Sommers, Will Price, and Ralph Hoffman.
The freshmen who were elected to the honorary sophomore society, the Black Helmut, are: A.W. Hosier, John Alecorn, Robert Campbell, Donald Hendrickson, Walter Bochm, Loren Brown Russell Clark, Clarence Connor Arthur Perry, Willis Bramwell Ray Stockton, and William Cain
THEY TAKE A BATH.
A University Trio Rinse Off in Potter's Lake.
Harry Kemp, Don Hendrickson Tim Shotts are the bravest men at the University. High school students who visited us today had them pointed out as possessing more Spartan courage to the square inch than any of the other males who infest Mt. Oread. The reason for this regard by the student body is that these three gentlemen took a quiet little plunge in Potter's lake last Thursday evening and they still live to tell the tale. Harry says his little rinse in the cooling waters was just what he needed for inspiration for another poem. The trio say that their little bath was entirely enjoyable and that the frigid temperature of the water in no way hindered them from indulging in a half hour of aquatic bliss.
Off to Philadelphia.
Mrs. Blanche Lyons, assistant professor of voice, left Thursday for Philadelphia where she will meet the Olmheyer band of Coronado, California. She will tour with this band as soloist during the summer, returning to the University here early in October.
STUDENTS' DAY HELD YESTERDAY
GRIEVANCES OF STUDENT BODY ARE VOICED.
Return of Game to K. C., Revival of Class Scraps and New Grading System are Advocated.
Yesterday morning from ten to twelve o'clock the students of the University expressed their attitude toward certain phases of school life. Students' Day which had its inception nine years ago, was attended by a majority of the student body and an interesting program was given. The University band and the Glee club furnished music. Ralph Spotts, president of the old Student Council reviewed the work that has been done during the tenure of office of the old members. He introduced Arch MaeKinnon, the president of the new council, who expressed the wish that the new members could continue the work started by the outgoing members. Beulah Murphy, president of the Women's Student Government association, spoke on the relation of that body to the young ladies of this school. The endowing of scholarships and the establishing of various forms of entertainment were mentioned as two of the ways in which the association had worked for the girls.
Mat Graham, of the School of Engineering, made a plea for a closer relation between the schools. Regret was expressed that Engineers fail to get much of the common school spirit that is supposed to be in any school. Athletic meets with the other schools were proposed as a means for getting all men on a common basis. He also deprecated the manner in which the class parties have been supported in the past few years. The invasion of the "varsity parties" into our social life has meant a financial loss to the classes.
The School of Pharmacy was represented by Charles Cramer who spoke on influence that the present day Pharmic has in comparison to former years. The sphere of the Pharmie in the commercial world was emphasized.
Gordon Bailey spoke for the Graduate students and deplored the recent senior ruling that Graduates must pay senior class dues.
Fred Lee, the representative of the College, argued for a different grading system in which the plus and minus shall be substituted for the present way of I, II, III. A day on which the Chanceellog might be met by the student body was also proposed.
Harry Allpin of the School of Law, made a strong plea for the return of the Thanksgiving football game to Kansas City, the revival of the old class scraps and a means by which an interview might be more easily obtained with the Chancellor. The relation of the medical man to the University and the need of a closer affiliation between the several schools were discussed by Jesse Cook, on behalf of the School of Medicine.
The emblems for debating and the gold basket balls were not presented owing to the failure of them to arrive.
Entertain Pledges.
The Black Helmets entertained their pledges last night with a dinner at the College Inn. After the dinner speeches were made by Todd Woodbury and Carl Krehbiel, outlining the past work of the society and explaining its plans for the future.