THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VIII.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER, 12, 19
INCREASE EFFICACY OF SCHOOL SERVICE
NUMBER 36.
KEYNOTE OF EDUCATION
COMMISSION'S REPORT
Recommends New Department For University—Suggests Plan For Common Budget For State Schools.
The Kansas Commission on Higher Education met in Topeka today and submitted a report to Governor Stubbs in which efficiency as regards our state institutions was the chief subject of discussion. The committee on efficiency, Regents W. A. White of the University, A. L. Sponsor of the State Agricultural College and Sheffield Ingalls of the State Normal was appointed nine months ago and has been at work on its report since that time.
By statistics and charts it showed the details in the management of the schools; the service rendered to the state by every employee from the executive head to the janitors. The number of students and the cost for each student furnished the basis for comparison of the three institutions with each other and with similar schools in other states. On the basis of these facts the committee offered recommendations of far-reaching effect.
"In every branch of higher learning Kansas pays less than the average amount paid in American states of our class for education in any type of school whether Normal, Agricultura College, or University," says the report, "but the worth of these schools as what may be called institutions of service may be greatly increased."
Extension centers in the large cities of the state, under the common management of the three in stitutions are recommended These centers are to have a manager in each who shall organize classes, distribute instruction papers, and arrange for lectures by professors in the schools.
The need of a high grade de partment of architecture is urged by the committee. An exper in that line, who should do the work of the state architect's office, could supervise branches of the department at the University and the Agricultural College. Free plans and specifica tions would be furnished for all county, municipal, and schoo work, and for bridges, roads and parks.
To give courses in practical fish culture; teach the farmer boys and girls the art of pond making, and fish feeding to give such a course to school teachers so that every school house could have its fish pond in operation—these are some of the uses that the committee sees for the new fish hatchery which the University is building at Pratt.
A closer correlation between the institutions of learning and the penal and eleemosynary institutions should be brought about, says the committee. For instance, "the Medical school should have free access to all penal and eleemosynary institutions in the State for purposes of examination and cure of the inmates." Morally defectives in the reform schools might be helped by physical and psychological treatment.
The School of Medicine of the University is urged to establish a school of Hygiene Clinic for the benefit of defective, retarded, and exceptional children. Consultations would be held with parents and teachers as to the best methods of training, and such cases as could be benefited by surgical or medical treatment would be referred to the State Hospital.
The work now being done in industrial chemistry in the Umi
versity should be enlarged into a school of specific industries the head of this school to correlate its work with agricultura industrial fellowships to be established at the Agricultural College.
The proposed mining school at Weir City will, if the recommendation of the committee be followed, be made a vocational trade school doing work of secondary nature only.
Among the other recommendations of the committee are the following: That there be developed at the University a department and laboratory of public health; that the courses in the University now being given along the line of business administration be organized into a school of business administration; that the University establish in the near future a library, school in connection with the library and its administration that all of the institutions of higher education be put upon a standard as to equipment and salaries, per capita cost of education per year, and the number of teachers, fairly commensurate with that of other standard American Universities.
To prevent duplication in the three schools and to do away with jealousy in the matter of securing appropriations the committee recommends that the legislature authorize a plan under which a committee of nine regents, three from each board be appointed to have control of a common budget of higher education, and to look after co-ordination of work and the installation of a common business system. The internal affairs of each individual school would continue under separate boards of six regents each.
TESTING CAR HERE
Santa Fe's Dynamometer Car to Be Exhibited to Mechanicals Thursday.
255 PLEDGES IN A DAY AND A HALF
In order to allow the mechanical engineers who are to meet here on Thursday and others interested in engineering, to seccently built by the Santa Fe, H. the new dynamometer car reB. McFarland, engineer of tests for that railroad, has agreed to bring the car to Lawrence for one day.
The dynamometer car is practically a new thing in engineering circles and is used to measure the tractive force required to draw a train. The car is placed after the engine and by marking on a drum indicates the force that is expended in drawing the remaining cars. It is extremely useful in mountainous countries and in places where there are numerous curves in the track.
There are only a few cars in existence at the present time but almost all of the railroads are beginning to recognize the econom. of having one of these cars and more are being built. The International Correspondence School, the University of Illinois and the Santa Fe own the only cars now on the road.
The car that will be here Thursday is fifty feet long and has a rigid underframe that allows it to withstand a blow of 900,000 pounds, with a fibre stress of only 17,000 pounds per square inch in the metal. It is divided into two sections one for living purposes and the other for making records. There are four Pullman sections.
FIRST TWO DAYS' WORK
GAINS HALF NUMBER
"The visit of this car is of interest to people besides those interested in engineering," said Prof. P. F.- Walker of the department of engineering, "for i is the instrument by which all of the railroads will conduct their investigations of the best possible efficiency on their lines. It is a recent departure and a visit to the car Thursday will be of general benefit."
Reports of Managers of Departments Have Not Yet Been Received.
Two hundred and fifty five pledges to subscribe for the Daily Kansan had been handed in at the Kansan office at 2.30 this afternoon.
"Brick" Gephart was the first man to sign one of the pledge tickets after the campaign for a Daily Kansan was started. He will take the first wet "sheet" from the new press at 3 o'clock January 9 and present it to Chancellor Frank Strong.
As soon as the complete reports of the men and women who are working among the students of the various departments are received, it is expected that the list of pledges will be swelled to near the five hundred mark.
The first paid up subscription was given by Mat Guilfoyle a short time after Gephart signed the pledge.
Sunday morning the Pan-Hellenic passed a motion to the effect that each member of every fraternity subscribe individually for the Daily. By noon today each member of the Pan-Hellenic had ratified the motion of their Council. The Pi Upsilon fraternity and the Sasnaks resolved that each of their members should take the Daily.
take the Pi Phi sorority pledged themselves to seventeen additional copies; the Thetas and Kappas increased their subscription by two numbers apiece.
The following universities and colleges in the United States have a daily paper published by the students: Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Syracuse, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania Indiana, Illinois, Purdue, Oberlin, Iowa State, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Chicago, Missouri, Nebraska, Stanford, California and Washington.
There may be others, but exchanges from these universities have reached the Kansan office from time to time.
Earl Fisher, managing editor of the Kansan last year and now head reporter on the Topeka Capital, writes his sentiment as follows:
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"Kansas would not be considered out of place in that company," said a student in the Kansas office this morning.
"No one will draw a greater breath of satisfaction than I when the Kansan goes over to a daily. It is the one big thing Joe Murray and I hoped for during our affiliation with the sheet. Would that the realization of the dream could have come while we were in a position to enjoy it most. Go to it; a daily will make men of you."
In spite of the current assertion that "the clothes do not make the man," it every day comes home to us that correctly cut, better clothing are a valuable asset to any man with hopes and aspirations.
What we seem to others to be (as well as what we truly are) is vastly important to the measure of our success. The first impression we make upon a stranger is very often lasting; always it remains with him until differ-
K. U.'s old suit is now going upon its 8th year of usage. (The Kansan is eight years old I am given to understand); her fellow universities have cast aside their old style costumes and have adopted those which are right up to the minute.
I am in favor of the change —decidedly so.
MUST COLLECT $60
Will Make House to House Canvas This Week.
There is, still a, shortage, of sixty dollars in the blanket fund,
although about twenty dollars was paid at the check stand Friday morning.
It is the plan of "Brick" Gephart and Donald McKay, officers of the College, to divide up the names of those who signed the subscription lists and have not yet paid among five or six men. This week these men will call on all those who have not paid their subscriptions. Gephart and McKay think that in this way all the shortage will be collected.
BANQUET CLASSMEN
Victors in Inter-class Football Seriess Honored by Athletic Assn.—Sixty Men Out.
The schedule for the series of inter-class football games will be made out soon by Coach Sherwin and the entire schedule will be playee before the Christmas holidays. For the past week, the men of the sophomore, junior and senior classes have been practicing on McCook field under the tutorship of Coach Sherwin, Heil, Ammons, and Baird.
Heil coaches the juniors, Ammons teaches the seniors and Baird the sophomores. When the freshman squad comes out. J. Bond will take charge of their practice and will put them in shape for the series of games.
Coach Sherwin said yesterday afternoon that he would make out the schedule as soon as the tyros appeared on the field. "If they are not out in suits soon we will conduct the games without them," said the coach. "The reward for the winners of the series will be given a banquet at the Eldridge house by the Athletic Association."
"Practice will be held at four o'clock every afternoon and at ten o'clock Saturday morning. Last Saturday we did not hold practice on account of the rain but as a rule about sixty men have reported for the workout.
"We are not giving the classmen the detailed instruction that we gave the varsity men at the year, but they are being instructed in falling on the ball and in punting and catching."
MARSHALL WILL BANQUET
County Students Organized Last Night and Elected Officers
The Marshall county students of the University organized their county club last Friday night at a meeting at the home of Miss Mary Schuchart, 1339 Vermont street. The club decided to give a banquet at Frankfort, Kansas on Friday, December 29. It is planned to invite all K. U., alumni of the county as well as all seniors of the county high school to the affair. A University professor will be the speaker of the occasion.
Twenty-five students attended the meeting last night and all were enthusiastic over the new organization. The officers elected were: Gean Hall, Waterville president; Mort Loury, Frankfort, vice-president; Earl Rush Axtell, treasurer; Effie Beaver, Home City, secretary.
Graduates Had Informal Party
The regular every-third-week meeting of the Graduate club of the University was turned into an informal party at Westminster house last Friday evening. Several musical numbers were given by Mr. Bruno Kiesewetter. Those on the receiving line were Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Hungerford, Miss Grace Light, Mr. G. B Blair, and Mrs. P. C. Hiebert.
The club now has a membership of seventy five and is more alive this year than for sometime past
ARE YOU GOING TO THE BIG SMOKER?
TOMORROW NIGHT IN FRA-
TERNAL AID HALL.
"The Hand of Fate," "Hel-Mit Black Serenaders", a "Rube" Skit Will be Present.
Tomorrow evening will see the greatest gathering of actors and actorines that has ever been assembled on Fraternal Aid stage All the special scenery for the various productions has arrived and will be shown for the first time tomorrok.
The Sachem committe wrote the play last Saturday evening and the cast is practicing every so often. The play is entitled "The Hand of Fate, or Genevieve, the Queen of the Harem." There are three characters and a property man. Jack Dalton, the Double Dyed Dynamiter of Domestic Domiciles and Doer of Dastardly Deeds, desires the papers that beautiful Genevieve the Queen of the Harem has in her possession and when she refuses to give them up she is saved from a horrible death by the timely interference of Percy Jones, plebian but honest beneath whose ragged vest beats a heart of gold and an Ingersoll watch. The villain is killed and Genevieve and Percy live happily ever afterward.
In regard to this show Chancellor Strong says, "Probably never again will there be such a production at the University."
The Friars promise that they will put on ten minutes of comedy. They will be the original Rubes and will sing several catchy football songs. They refuse to disclose the plot of the skit and promise some surprise when they appear before the footlights.
The committee in charge of the "eats" says that it has made provision for at least four hundred people and the committee on arrangements has prepared for that many people. The demand for tickets was so great that it was decided to increase the number originally set as the limit.
The Black Helmets will pre sent "Hel-Mit Black Serenaders," an original musical comedy which involves the serenading of a colored sorority house. It is not known what they will put on as they want to keep the whole thing dark.
The first whistle will blow tomorrow night at eight o'clock and time will not be called until the last vestige of sandwich has been devoured and the last drop of punch has been quaffed.
Will Demonstrate Machine
A demonstration with an Aeme Automatic Screw Machine, under the direction of Mr. M. E. Barden, will be given in Fowlen Shops five days commencing Wednesday afternoon, by the National-Aeme Manufacturing company.
This demonstration which is made in the interest of new labor saving machinery is one of the a series of tests which the National-Ame people have been giving at other state universities and colleges throughout the country this fall. The machine, which has been in operation at Nebraska for the past week, has been delayed, so that the tests will not start until Wednesday instead of Tuesday, as announced.
Presbyterian C. E. Party
The Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian church will give the "Winter Match," social and classical, in the church parlors this coming Friday evening, December fifteenth. All Presbyterian students are urged to come and share in the good time.