or UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN V LUME IX. nily SC RSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16, 1912. NUMBER 1 THIS COMING EVENT CASTS SOME SHADOW Cruel Truth Must Be Told If It Does Cause Heart-Burns EXAMINATION SCHEDULE OUT. Undergraduate Reign of Terror to Begin Week From Saturday And End Friday Following. It's cruel and all that but it must be done. No matter if students are just back from a beautiful enforced holiday season, full of thoughts about coasting and skeeing and skating, it must be done. The truth must not be crushed to earth. The schedule for examinations is out. Horned hippogriffs and dreadful dinosaurs! Great globs of gloom! January 27 they begin, on a Saturday it is; Friday morning, February 2 they end. Some grashing and weeping of teeth will be forestalled, some, that is, if students of the College who find after studying the schedule that they have more than two examinations in one day will notify at once the Dean of the College. 10:15 classes, Saturday morning, Jan. 27. Here is the list of events: 9:00 classes, Monday morning, Jan. 29. 1:30 classes, Tuesday morning, Jan. 20. 4:30 classes, Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 30. 11:15 classes, Wednesday morning; Jan. 31. 8:00 classes, Thursday morning, Feb. 1 3:30 classes, Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 31. 2:30 classes, Friday morning, Feb. 2. Three hour classes (and one hour classes meeting on Monday, Wednesday or Friday) will be examined from 8:00 to 10:00, if scheduled above for the morning; from 1:30 to 3:30, if scheduled above for the afternoon. Four and five hour classes, will be examined from 8:00 to 11:00, if scheduled above for the morning; from 1:30 to 4:30, if scheduled above for the afternoon Two hour classes (and one hour classes meeting on Tuesday or Thursday) will be examined from 10:20 to 12:00, if scheduled above for the morning; from 3:50 to 5:30, if scheduled above for the afternoon. Laboratory classes are to be examined at the time corresponding in the schedule above to the first laboratory period or at the time corresponding to the lecture hours (when such an hour exists) at the discretion of the head of the department. "BOIL DRINKING WATER FOR SAFETY," SAYS YOUNG "Boil the drinking water," is the warning given out at the office of Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, head of the Chemistry department, this morning." The twenty-four ground wells from which the water supply is taken are insufficient and in order to meet the demand, it is necessary to pump the river water into the mains. The river water is being sterilized with hypochlorite of calcium in such small quantities as to be harmless. "They'll be tickled when they see who 'tis." HIGH SCHOOL NEWS TO BE A FEATURE Daily Kansan Will Have a Correspondent in Secondary Schools. A department of high-school news will be one of the features of the Daily Kansan beginning next week. Correspondents have been secured in many of the high schools of the state and it is expected that most of the schools accredited by the University will be represented. The Daily Kansan will go to all the high schools in the state. It will thus become the clearing house for general high-school news. It will keep the University informed on the important events at the sources from which come the great majority of its students. In a few days announcement will be made of three cash prizes to be given to the school correspondents doing the best work. TO SAVE ON LEMONS SNOWBOUND, THEY ANSWER ROLL CALL BY TELEGRAPH Herbert S. Bailey, 02. Will Star Citric Acid Plant at Los Angeles, Cal Angeles, Cal. The United States government is taking steps to make citric acid from lemons and do away with the waste in the lemon industry at present. Herbert S. Bailey, '02, who is employed in the department of agriculture at Washington, has been sent to Los Angeles, Cal., to start a plant to make the acid. This will be the first plant of its kind in this country. Bailey is spending a few days with his parents Professor and Mrs. E. H. S. Bailey. He is secretary of the Washington Chemical Association and secretary of the University of Kansas Club of Washington. Bailey will speak to the Engineering society tonight. Three hundred miles from class and snowbound! The Carson boys looked up the The sad story came today in the form of a telegram from Frank and Kail Carson, students in the University, who can not get back to school because the Santa Fe branch that runs down to Ashland, where the Carson boys live, has gone out of business until the piles get through Railroads seem to get colder at the extremities than anywhere else, and Ashland is at the extremity of the line that extends into Clark county near the southwest corner of the state. There have been no trains down there for ten days. track all day Monday. Then they sent a telegram full of heartbreak, but breathing a faint hope that by the end of this week they would be delivered. Same Tuesday. Same Wednesday. If the snow and the railroad should remain at loggerheads too long, the University Extension Division will be asked to take care of the absent ones through a correspondence course by telegraph, since there are no mails to Ashland. At the end of the semester Ralph Spotts, traveling representative for the Division, will carry the quiz to Ashland by a bold dash up the Cimmarron river on skates. THE DUB. A fine short story of a college man who "would have liked to make good but didn't have it in him." SENIORS PETITION AGAINST FINALS Young to Make Address. C. C. Young, of the department of state water analysis at the University, will speak at the Tenth Annual Convention of the Kansas State Bottlers' Association at Independence, Kas., January 17. Dr. S. J. Crumbine, also will give a talk on the purity of waters. Don't miss it in Wednesday's Daily Kansan. Want Faculty to Exempt al "2" Students from Spring Exams. The Seniors of the College are contemplating petitioning the faculty for a method of exempting them from the spring examinations. The method they advocate is that all seniors who have made a grade of "2" or better during the term's work should be exempt. The principal argument advanced is that it will have the effect of raising the standard of the class recitations for the term and that, as a whole, better work will be done. Heretofore a scheme for giving examinations to seniors two or three weeks before the end of the spring term, in order that they might not come at a time when they were extremely busy, has been advanced. It is pointed out that this would not be feasible because the seniors would be very likely not to do much work after the mizzes had been given. The doing away with the examinations has been successfully tried in other schools and the seniors assert that there is no reason why it would not be practical here. Chancellor Strong has already expressed the opinion that, as presented to him, he was entirely in favor of the plan. Organize Scholarship Society. Ten senior girls have organized an honorary society, "The Owl and Triangle," to give scholarship its proper place, to help some girls to study more, and to encourage others to take in more of the extra features of college life. The addition of several hundred names to the subscription list may cause some inconvenience in the routes. If you fail to get your Daily Kansan report to K. U. 25. The circulation department is trying to make prompt delivery of the paper; you can help out by reporting non-delivery. IN GOOD OLD TIMES IT WENT BY RHYME Students Taught in Verse but Some of It Limped Perceptibly. "Textbooks of fifty years ago," was the subject of a chapel talk Tuesday by Prof. U. G. Mitchell of the department of mathematics. The speaker exhibited a copy of the "Illustrated Poetical Geography" by George Van Waters, published in 1863, to show one of the methods used. The pupils learned the poetry and sang it at the teacher. If the teacher asked a question about some island in the Atlantic the student would recite through about seventeen verses of "Islands" before he came to that particular one. "There was one advantage in all this," said Professor Mitchell. "The teacher didn't have any trouble with pupils trying to bluff through a recitation. For instance if a professor asked, 'What are islands?' The pupil would rise and answer glibly, 'Islands, upon all, sides, the oceans found. "Or if he wanted to know what the earth was, the very precocious pupil would say, - Islands, upon all sides, the waves surround; "The earth is but a mighty ball profound, In rivers, lakes and seas, and creeps found' One fourth the surface of this globe is land. Just five and twenty thousand Three fourths are water as you understand. "I can't imagine what the student thought the word 'profound' meant used in this respect, or why the poet should say 'Just five and twenty thousand miles around.' That distance is not correct by at least one hundred miles. Of course we might forgive him on the score of poetic license. ENTER CRAWFORD AND BROWN, JUNIORS, K. U. 1930. "The book is made up entirely of poetry, mostly concerning geography, but along towards the end in order to give good measure the poet branches off into arithmetic and here is where the height of his genius is given full sway. It begins with the definition of 'addition.'" Christmas day brought a son to the home of Prof. and Mrs. C. C. Crawford, but he soon made himself at home and like the University Daily Kansan has come to stay. His name is George Ticknor. “‘Addition is joining more num- brium than one. And putting together the whole ... And the sum that's produced is called the amount. Addition's the rule that learns us to count. "So the work goes on through a number of pages. I look upon this book as a very valuable one because it shows the relic of the time when facts, and facts alone, were instilled into the student's mind, allowing the teacher or text book writer to do all the thinking for him." Another future K. U. student arrived at Secretary E. E. Brown's house January 3. He has been christened Edward Benjamin. Mr. Brown was not quite certain as to the date of Edward. Jr.'s advent at K. U. At the University of Nebraska a trophy has been offered for the fraternity which has the highest scholarship standing each year. "Educational conditions change very much in a few years," he said smilingly. RECITAL COURSE OPENS Three More Entertainments to be Given This Winter. The winter recital course under the auspices of the department of music of the University was opened last Tuesday evening with a piano recital by Myrtle Elvyn. There will be three more recitals during the course. They are: January 25, joint recital, Walter Keeler, organist, William Willett, baritone; February 8, harp recital by Genevieve Smith; February 29, song recital by Ruth Standish Cady, assisted by Carl Preyer, pianist, and the University trio. Addressed State Fair Meeting. Charles Younggreen, a junior in the College, went to Topeka Tuesday evening to address a banquet given by the Kansas State Fair Association. Younggreen was the manager of concessions of the fair held at Topeka last fall. His speech was upon "Concessions that pay." Were in Chicago During Holidays. Prof. C. G. Dunlap, Prof. E. M. Hopkins, Prof. C. H. Gray of the English department , attended a meeting of the Modern Language Association at Chicago during the holidays. Those attending were guests of the University of Chicago and the Northwestern University.