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THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
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VOL. VIII.
Number 5.
GIRLS ORGANIZE TO GET DORMITORY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 23, 1911.
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HELD IN CHAPEL.
Plans Made For Big Day Oct. 6
—Many Prominent Women Expected.
The first action of the women students to enlist the aid of the people of Kansas in the proposed women's dormitory for the University took the form of a mass meeting in the chapel yesterday foremon. At the meeting the women students organized county clubs and issued invitations to prominent women of their respective counties to attend the women's chapel service, October 6.
That chapel service, which will be conducted entirely by women, with women speakers, women ushers and women musicians carrying out the parts assigned to them while the men look on from the sidelines and the gallery, has taken hold on the interest of women students. All are showing the reatest readiness to help in every way possible. It will be an opportunity to put forth convincingly the need of a hall of residence for women at the University, with a representative body of women from all over the state to hear the argument.
Miss Beulah Murphy presided over the meeting yesterday. Miss Alberta Corbin outlined the plan of country organizations, and Miss Hannah Oliver talked on "Standards of Living," briefly because of the important chapel plans that had to be worked out.
Invitations to attend the women's chapel service will be sent to the women named in the following list:
Shawnee county—Miss Lou Nash.
Harvey county—Mrs. Ben Young, Mrs. John Grove.
Dickinson county--Mrs. C, B. Hofmann. Miss Lida Romig.
Ellis county—Mrs. A. Platner.
Crawford county—Miss Finely
Butler county—Mrs. Engene
Safford.
Marshall county—Mrs. Ernest Duke.
Brown county—Miss Rebecca Kiner
Labette county—Mrs. W. D Atkinson, Mrs. Demming, Mrs G. W Cordry.
Jefferson county—Mrs. F. II Roberts, Miss Adjie Mains.
Neosho county—Miss Esther Clark.
County county—Maine
Smith county—Miss Ida Ahl
born here
Osborne county—Mrs. J. K.
Mitchell.
Allen county—Mrs. E. W
Myer, Mrs. Maude E. Funston.
ASK ADMISSION TO COUNCIL
Post-Graduates Think They Should Have Voice.
The graduate students of the University want representation in the Men's Student Council. At a meeting of the post-graduates Wednesday afternoon a resolution was adopted to present a petition to the Student Council next Thursday to have the constitution so amended that the graduate students would have a member in the council. There are about seventy-five graduates in school.
Second Trv-Out.
The second tryout for the Glee club will be held at 7 o'clock Tuesday evening in the chapel. All candidates are requested to bring a song.
SCOTCH COSTUMES TONIGHT
Farce With Eight Parts Will be Given.
The lantern parade and the farce "Lochinvar" will be the features at the Y. W. C. A. Fresh man Frolie this evening in Robin son gymnasium. The farce requires a cast of eight and will be staged in full Scotch costume. As several of the girls will have to take male parts the committee has refused to give out the name of those who will take part.
The lantern parade will start from the gymnasium in double file, each freshman accompanied by an upper class girl. The line of march will be cast to the Chemistry building, then to Snow hall around the road behind the Medical building to the campus in front of Blake hall. Here the line will break into single file order and proceed north along the lilac hedge in fantastic curves to the end of the campus in front of Fraser. They will then turr south and do a snake dance along the west edge of the campus, under the front steps of Fraser and back to the gymnasium.
After the parade light refreshments will be served and a social time enjoyed. The committees are working hard to make the affair an enjoyable one and are expecting a large number of the freshmen and upper glass girls to come out.
SORORITIES PLEDGE.
Bids Sent This Morning—All Answers Not Yet Received.
The following girls were pledged today by the sororities :
Kappa Alpha Theta; Mildred Janes, Kansas City, Mo.; Luele Topping, Ottawa; Rachel Costen Topeka; Elsa Barteldes, Lawrence; Myra Stevens, Lawrence.
Kappa Kappa Gamma; Miss Laura Luce, Kansas City, Mo.; Miss Mildred Asher, Hutchinson; Miss Irene Wooster, Kansas City, Kans.; Miss Crete Stewart, Kansas City, Mo.; Miss Helen Fab尔 Holton; Miss Marie Fogarty, Junction City; Miss Madeline Nachtman, Junction City; Miss Ruth Walker, Kansas City, Mo.; Miss Emily Berger, Halstead; Miss Margaret Kanaga, Lawrence.
Chi Omegas; Miss Gertrude Kirchoff, Lawrence; Miss France Banker, Russell; Miss Helen Riggsby, Coneordia; Miss Ernna Fisher Lawrence; Miss Eiffe Barkberger Marion; Miss Louise Fairchild Tonkea.
Pi Beta Phi; Miss Frances Fenel, Kansas City, Kas.; Miss Genie Herrick, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Mildred Hickman, Hutehin son; Miss Margaret Graybill Hutehinson; Miss Nora Cuban Wichita; Miss Maurine Fairweather, Kansas City, Oo.; Miss Mamie McFarlan, Lawrence.
Miss Carrie Watson, of Spooner Library, today announced the librarians for the six departmental libraries of the University for the coming year. They are as follows: Biology, Orel Andrews chemistry, Ruth Sankee; engineering, Mrs. Dora Rehn Bryant geology, Howard Welch; physics Eva Bernhardt; law, Ethel Mor row.
There Are Six Departmental Assistants This Year.
APPOINT NEW LIBRARIANS
The new assistants in the main library for this year are Cay Wadell D. J. Dousman, Leland Angevine, and O. W. Patterson Study at the library has been light during this week, the newspaper room being the only one that has received much attention
GREAT YEAR AHEAD SAYS CHANCELLOR
UNIVERSITY HEAD COMMEND NEW PLANS.
Dormitories And Union Needed He Declares—Would Revieve Literary Societies.
In opening his address the Chancellor pleaded for a revival of the interest in literary societies. He expressed the hope that the students will take a more active interest in debating and cultural societies and that several of these organizations will be formed in the near future.
"There is no college in this country that is not better than the community in which it lives," declared Chancellor Strong yesterday morning in his tenth annual address before the students of the University. Declaring that this school and every other institution with which he has ever been connected is the most dominant factor in the cultivation of a higher sense of morals for the nation, he gave a positive denial of the charges recently made that our institutions of higher learning are breeding grounds of vice. That the standard of college life is better than at any time in the history of the world was also stated and a plea was made to the present generation of school men to foster this spirit and instill the proper interest in the best in life and get away from this "veneer of civilization."
The recent agitation for a girl's dormitory was also mentioned and a prediction was made that in a short time we will have a dormitory in which a large number of the University girls will be housed. In connection with his plea for a more community University interest he placed himself strongly in favor of the Men's Union building recently proposed by the Student Council. The inauguration of Ralph Sherwin as coach of the football team was heralded by the Chancellor as an index of the growing interest in athletics in this school. That within the next few years we will see all University men and women participating in some sort of athletics was also predicted by the Chancellor.
The Chancellor closed his address with an appeal to the students for loyalty to their school.
The characteristress with an appeal to the students for loyalty to their school. "The young people of America," he said, "have not been adequately trained in the mass. What we are striving for here, is to refute accusations that we do not conserve the right kind of character and that we place athletic above intellectual prowess."
"The Self Centered Man" was the subject which C. W. Whitehair, state secretary of college Y. M. C. A.'s, chose for his talk at the first regular meeting of the local Y. M. C. A. association Thursday evening. An audience of over two hundred men was out to greet him. Mr. Whitehair declared that integrity, vision, sincerity, and industry are prerequisite to the successful man, and spent his time in elaborating these topics.
FIRST Y. M. MEETING
G. W. Whitechair Speaks on The Self Centered Man.
The new meeting room in Myers hall proved amply able to accommodate the crowd, and the acoustic properties were perfect. The speakers at the regular Thursday night meetings this year will nearly all be out of town men.
Joach Hamilton Will Hold Meets This Fall.
TRACK WORK OPENS.
Training for the track team of 1912 will commence at once. Coach W. O. Hamilton expects to have a hundred men working on McCook field within three weeks and work-outs on the long cinder path will continue as long as the weather will permit. It is the purpose of the coach to hold a series of four lap nd eight lap relay races between classes during the intermission between halves of the early football games this fall.
New bleachers will be completed on the south side of McCook field in time for the first foot ball game an present plans provide for winter training quarters for the track team. The bleachers will be 300 feet in length which will afford ample room for ainder path long enough for all the distances that are run in the indoor meets. Beneath the seats, track space will be boxed off and sealed so that in the late fall and early spring, practice may be conducted with the aid of a small stove to warm the indoor track.
"Cross country running will be organized this fall under captains who were the best runners last year. Patterson, Murray, and Osborne will have charge of their respective teams and a trophy will be given for the best team."
Basket ball practice will be called in a short time. "I have not issued the call for the track and basket ball athletes yet, because we are interested in getting the football team well on its feet and all the men out in mole skins who intend to try for the team before we start the practice of the basket ball and track men," declared Coach Hamilton. "The prospects of another championship basket ball team are the best ever. I especially desire that the freshmen make a good showing this year. It is our purpose to have more me nplaying basket ball this season than ever before. Corresponding to the College team of last winter, we will have teams representing the other schools of the University that will play a regular schedule as curtain raiseers for the varsity games of the regular schedule.
ASSISTANT COAST ELECTED
Dartmouth Quarter Back Has Been Tendered Position.
T. O. Putnam, of Dartmouth, was chosen assistant football coach at a meeting of the Athletic Board yesterday. Putnam was recommended strongly by Coach Sherwin. The two men played on the same Dartmouth team for four years. Putnam was a quarterback and will have charge of the back field. His work with the football squad will be in connection with his regular duties as instructor in the department of physical education. He will act as assistant coach for the basket ball, track, and baseball teams. His acceptance has not yet been received.
Jay Bond, member of the ever victorious team of 1908, was also appointed instructor in the gymnasium. He will work with the eastern coaches and offer suggestions.
An earthquake of nearly threequarters of an hour's duration was recorded at the University after midnight this morning.
Prof. Cady Thinks it Came From Mexico.
QUAKE RECORDED HERE
The Keltz gave an informa party at their house last night.
1500 STUDENTS WILL HEAR TAFT
850 SEATS LEFT FOR GENERAL PUBLIC.
All Student Tickets Should be Presented by Nine O'clock.
—Guests on Platform.
Over fifteen hundred students have shown their interest in the coming visit of President 7 aft to the University by securing tickets from the registrar Friday and Saturday. This should leave about eight hundred and fifty seats for the general public. All students who hold seats should present them by nine o'clock, as the doors will be thrown open to the general public at nine fifteen. Those who have been invited to sit on the platform and have accepted the invitation are:
The following persons will sit on the platform.
State Officers.
A. W. Dana, Judge 3rd Juieal Dist.
J. N. Dolley, bank commissioner.
E. E. Anderson, state senator. Cyrus E. White, Supt. school for the deaf.
H. W. Charles, Boys Industrial school.
F. D. Coburn, secy. dept. agriculture.
Geo. W. Martin, secy. state Historical society.
E. T. Fairechild, state supt. public instruction.
J. T. White, public utilities commissioner.
Oscar Foust, judge 37th judicial district.
J. O. Rankin, judge 10th judicial district.
J. K. Codding, Kan. state, penitentiary warden.
H. E. Don Carlos, state representative.
Chas. W, Gibbs, see. board control, state charitable institutions.
Geo. H. Whitecomb, judge 3rd judicial district.
H. F. Graham, state representative.
L. L. Uhls, supt. Ossawatomie state hospital.
C. A. Smart, judge district court.
Elmer C. Clark, judge 16th judicial district.
A. P. Reardon, McClouth, Kas., state representative.
O. S. Walker, Salina, state representative.
Chas. S. Huffman, Columbus. Kansas, state senator.
J. H. Cassin, state representative.
Dallas Grover, judge 30th judicial district.
A. J. Curran, judge., 38th judicial district.
Education.
Edwin Taylor, regent agriculture college.
Sheffield Ingalls, regent agriculture college.
Scott Hopkins, regent, U. of K.
Scott Hopkins, regent, U. of K.
Frank K. Sanders, president
Washburn college.
N. S. Picken, principal Hays Normal.
Ernest Pihblad, president Bethany college.
C. R. Hawley, county superintendent.
Geo. Innes, president board of education.
M. E. Pearson, president Kansas state teachers association.
J. R. Wise, Supt. Haskell Inst.
F. H. Olmoy, principal Law-
rence H. S.
W. B. Hall, supt. school for the blind.
Freshman Frolic
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Tonight, 8 O'clock ROBINSON GYMNASIUM The Girls' Annual Jollification
Come