'KANSANS TO INDIA'
K. U. WILL SEND A MAN TO INDIA
STUDENT BODY TO FURNISH HERMAN'S SALARY
Harvard, Yale, Michigan And Other Schools Have Graduates Doing Extension Work.
Following the lead of many other Universities, Kansas will have a foreign representative in religious work. Harvard, Yale, Michigan, Pennsylvania and several others have from one to seven graduates engaged in this extension work of their Alma Mater. This work results in students taking an interest in the opportunities for service other than those near at hand. It presents world needs and problems in a very real and interesting way.
A large committee decided to take the responsibility of raising Herman's salary among the students, faculty and friends of the University. The hope is to make it a university plan and not that of the Y. M. C. A. Thus K. U. will have a man out in India in the midst of a great people with pressing needs and doing his best to measure up to his opportunities. Money invested in such a needy world will surely yield large returns. The enthusiasm with which the men are handling the work is very encouraging. A rapid canvass will be made of the students and friends of this work immediately following Eddy's visit at the University. It is expected that K. U. will measure up to this opportunity in a large way.
What Other College Students Do
What Other College Students Do.
Among the more prominent institutions where students support foreign representatives are:
Oberlin College and
Theological Seminary $ 1,300.00
Protestant Episcopal
Theological Seminary
of Virginia. . 1,070.00
University of Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,266.62
Wellesley College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000.00
Vassar College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,385.00
Yale University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000.00
President Taft Endorses Foreign
Y. M. C. A. Work.
"I do not believe that any money contributed to foreign Young Men's Christian Associations is going to take away any money that would be contributed to home work. The truth is I have found that the same sources furnish money to both causes The great value of the Association was impressed upon me more strongly in foreign countries than in any other place in the world."
"We are very sorry indeed to have Mr Herman leave the University of Kansas, for he has done us much good. We feel however, that he is entering upon a very important work in the Orient and one that promises great good for the young men of the East. It is an unselfish work and one that places an obligation upon us as our 'brother's keeper.' I hope, therefore, that the University may make Mr. Herman her direct agent for this good work in the East and support him in it in every possible way."
Frank Strong. Chancellor.
Statement by Herman.
"It is with keen regret that I have discontinued my work at the University to assume new responsibilities in India. However, the need for men in the Universities of the Orient is so great that I feel compelled to respond. I shall consider it a distinct honor to become the first foreign representative of K. U. in foreign religious work."
H. C. Herman.
H C. Herman.
A resident of Hiawatha. Graduated from Reserve High School. Spent two terms at K. S. A. C. spring of 1904. Graduated from K. U. 1909. Summer school University of Chicago 1909. President of Y. M. C. A. year of 1907-08, and held several)
Is a graduate of Concordia High School and of the University '08. She was active in the Y. W. C. A. during all four years in K. U. and also in class affairs. She is now Class Secretary for '08. Both Mr. and Mrs. Herman have been student volunteers for several years. Married autumn of 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Herman will sail from New York City the first of the year for India. Ten days will be spent in England visiting Oxford, Cambridge and other points of interest. They will go across the continent stopping at Paris and sailing from Marseilles or Naples. Then through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal to India, landing first at
Winifred Wilcox Herman.
other positions in the Association.
Has attended several conferences and association summer schools.
General Secretary of the Association for two years. Resignation to take effect December 31st.
The work will be in local student Y. M. C. A. in some government University, a situation very similar to that at K. U. The students will all be India men, but all speak the English language. The students of India are very highly educated, especially in some departments. The student problems will be very difficult and the Oriental point of view hard to understand. However the opportunity for service is very attractive and Herman is enthusiastic about his new work.
Colombo on Ceylon Island about February 15. One year will be spent in studying the Tamil language, the Indian religion, history and philosophy. After carefully investigating several University positions that are open, a choice will be made and they will be permanently located. They expect to make this their life work and will return only at intervals of six years on a furlough.
John Dadisman.
Commonly known as "Dad." Old baseball and football star at Washburn. Has many friends in the University. Dadisman's
work as State College Secretary and later as State High School Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. has formed a wide acquaintance for him all over the state. He has accomplished some pioneer work on the High School problem, as it is comparatively an undeveloped field. Many inquiries came to him from all parts of the country asking for suggestions. A large number of freshmen who enter the University have been members of a High School Y. M. C. A. organized by Dadisman. This work, influencing the students early in life, is helping to solve the problems of the Unievsrity Y. M. C. A.
Dadisman graduated from Washburn A. B. '05, A. M. '09, in philosophy and sociology. He played football four years, being captain 1903 and 1904, and was also captain of baseball 1904. He was prominent in debating and in the work of the Y. M. C. A. Dad has been State College Secretary four years and High School Secretary two years.
With Mrs. Dadisman, a Washburn graduate and formerly traveling secretary for the Y. W. C. A., he will sail from New York in January for China, where he plans to specialize in the work of the Y. M. C. A. among the younger boys. He will be located in
the Yang-Tse valley, probably in some capital city. He will leave many strong friends in Kansas who will miss his rugged personality and hearty friendship. H. L. Heinzman, '07, has succeeded Dadisman in the High School work in the state.
Charles W. Whitehair.
Whitehair has been State College Secretary of Kansas for two years, but will leave about the first of the year for work in India. He has visited the University many times and has been very successful in his work. The work in the college and state schools has been developed rapidly during the two years that he has been in the state. Whitehair is a man of exceptional ability and has gained the respect of all with whom he has come in contact. However, he has been called to a position of large responsi
bility in Southern India, where he will become a traveling secretary. Herman will be located in the same territory in a local position. While the college men will
miss Whitehair very much, he undoubtedly goes to India to fill a large place in the Association activities.
Whitebair graduated from De Pauw University in '09, and refused many attractive positions to come to Kansas. He was a popular member of the De Pauw football team, was a fraternity (Beta) man and a strong leader among the students of that institution.
W. W. Crutchfield.
Mr. Crutchfield is general secretary of the State Association of
Colombo, Island of Ceylon He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University '05, and won many honors in scholarship and athletics. He was general secretary at the University of Texas for two years. While somewhat handicapped by the condition of his health, he has by hard and consistent work built up a permanent Association. Colombo is a prosperous city and has a Y. M. C. A. building valued at $35,000. Cricket, football and hockey are, played with creditable showing. Tennis is extremely popular, as it is all over India durely to the influence of the English.
Mr. Crutchfield visited Governor Stubbs during the summer and had many interesting stories to tell of the work in India Governor Stubbs provides $1200 annually to help finance the work Mr. Crutchfield is doing. Mr Crutchfield is now back at Colombo continuing his work.
Graduates in Missionary Field
Seven K. U. graduates have left for missionary work during last twelve months;
Dr. and Mrs. John Woodin '08, in medical work at Haka Chin Hills, Burmah.
Dr. and Mrs. R. K. Smith, '09 medical work at Seoul. Korea.
Dr. John Bigger, 09, medica work at Fusan, Korea.
Dr. John Bagg work at Pusan, Korea.
L. Curtis Guise, '10, teacher Madura, India.
Fay Livingood, '09, teacher Harpoot, Turkey.
Missouri Co-eds Make Their Own Shirt Waists.
GIRLS STUDY NEEDLE ART
Sewing classes for the girls at the University of Missouri have been organized under the auspices of the extension department of the Y. W. C. A. and the innovation has met with singular success among the women students. Three classes have been announced that will meet three times a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, that enable all the girls to attend the classes
There are classes in plain sewing and embroidery and a dozen or more of the most experienced town and faculty ladies have of fered their services as teachers Between twenty and thirty girls have started to make their own shirt waists and are beginning to work on Christmas presents. About forty girls are attending a class in tatting and Irish crochet lace.
There is no charge connected with the lessons and all the women students of the University are invited to attend the classes. —The University Missourian.
INDIA TODAY IS HICHLY CIVILIZED
ENGLAND HAS BEEN MODERNIZING MEDIUM
Motor Cars on Calcutta Streets Five Years Before on Broadway, New York.
India stands out always as unique in that it differs from all other countries in situation, climate, history and religion.
In the form of a gigantic triangle, 1900 miles long, India at her greatest breadth measures farther than from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. A peninsula whose tip almost touches the equator, yet in the mountains reaches up to endless snows. And so high are the Himalaya that through the Pyrennes were set above the Alps, the Indian peaks would tower 4000 feet above. In area the province of Lower Bengal equals that of France, Madras more than Great Britian and Ireland, Bombay as large as Germany and the Punjab, Italy.
This country, with a civilization centuries old, steaked in superstition and customs which prevented a consistent united progress, can nevertheless show the world, wonderful and striking modern advancement. And to England as the modernizing guide belongs great credit. The opening of the Suez Canal brought forth India's commercial importance and made necessary the system of roads and railways, canals and harbors England has provided. Well might India boast of her four trunk lines of rock ballasted track longer than the Pennsylvania lines between Chicago and New York. Motor cars were used on the streets of Calcutta five years before their introduction on Broadway. Mail had been received in London—conveyed from one of India's provinces to another by arrival post before such a plan was projected here.
Since 1823 when England seriously took up the educational problem, she has turned the channel from the course of idealistic to practical instruction, thus adding such work as will materially benefit others than the highest classes. The ancient system, determined by the castes has been displaced by modern methods which grant to all classes educational opportunities. There are thousands of institutions, with graded instruction culminating in thorough Technical, Scientific, Professional, and Scholastic Universities.
In this vast student population the need is urgent and the opportunity almost unlimited for a young man's work for his fellows.
The first issue of the Kansas Lawyer appeared last Saturday. The Kansas Lawyer is published monthly in the interests of the Law School of the University of Kansas and of the State Bar.
The Black Helmets will hold initiation for their pledges Wednesday night November first at the Phi Gam house.
Kansas Lawyer Appears
Florence Hague, a graduate from the College last year, is teaching in Council Grove this year.
Edith Hague, of the class of 1910, is teaching in the city schools at Thatcher, Arizona.
Woodward & Co.'s "Round Corner"
Boulder Corner.
The original Kodak shop. Every practical thing of Eastman's in stock. Premos and films. Finishing done. Prescription work an esteemed specialty.
Hershey chocolate and along with them the Vassars and Marchino cherries. One taste calls for more McColloch's Drug Store. "You know where."