UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NUMBER 3.
VOLUME IX.
K. U. ALUMNI MEET GLEEMEN IN THE WEST
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 18, 1912.
Club Will Give Annual Concerts in Fraser Hall on Feb.7 and 8.
FEATURE PROGRAM, QUARTET
Program, Including Many Solos, is in Two Parts—Sowers Gives "Blackface" Impersonations.
The annual concerts of the Glee club were announced this morning by Melvin Kates, the manager of the club. The club will sing in the chapel in Fraser Hall Wednesday and Thursday evenings February 7 and 8. Student Enterprise tickets will be good for both of these concerts.
A trip to the Pacific coast at the expense of the Santa Fe railroad has caused the singers to put forth their best efforts in preparation for the concerts. The incentive to take the long journey has brought out the best voices in the University, and the Glee club this year is one of the strongest in the history of the University. The quartet is especially good and this part of the performance has been featured. by the club The quartet is composed of Lawrence Smith, first tenor; John Musselman, second tenor; Harvey Phillips, first bass; and Hal Black, second bass.
As usual, the program will be divided in two parts, the first will be in full dress and the second in negligee. Clarence Sowers will give several black face impersonations and other members will sing solos.
The manager of the club is making plans for the western trip. Besides the regular itinerary a number of side trips in sightseeing will be made by the University singers. The K U. Alumni of Las Vegas, New Mexico, will entertain the club in that city. At Palo Alto, the club will be the guests of Roland Perkins who sang baritone on the club two years ago.
Freshmen Cannot Join.
Freshman Cantor JOIN
After this year, a freshman at the University may not join a fraternity, room in a fraternity house, or even take his meals in one. To be eligible the following year he must pass all his courses.
A GERMAN COURSE OFFERED
Professor Kiesewetter Will Lecture
Each Week on "German Life"
"German Life," is the title of a new one-hour course that will be offered in the German department next semester by Prof. Bruno Kiesewetter. The course will be given for those advanced students who wish to do the work for no College credit. Lectures will be conducted in both German and English. Those who wish to enter the course should consult with Professor Kiesewetter and enroll at the German office. Classes will be held by appointment.
ORGANIZE RIFLE CLUB.
Will Shoot in Intercollegiate League Tournament This Spring.
A University Rifle club has been organized under the rules of the National Rifle Association that will compete in a shooting tournament held by the Intercollegiate league this spring. Membership is open to all regularly enrolled students. Target practice is held in the base-ment of Robinson gymnasium Thursday evening.
Other members of the intercollegiate league are: Massachusetts Aggies, University of Iowa, Louisiana, Yale, Oklahoma Aagies, Pennsylvania State College, Simpson College Iowa, Washington State University, Perdue, Ohio, University of Pennsylvania, Michigan Agricultural College, Maryland Aggies Virginia Polytechnic, Columbia College, Cornell, U. S. College of Vet. Rhode Island University, University of Missouri and Delaware College.
Circle Francais Frozen Out.
The French Circle did not meet this afternoon on account of frozen steam pipes in their room, 306 Fraser hall. The pipes burst Tuesday and flooded the room and it was impossible to heat the room today.
Circle Francais Frozen Out.
UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
TO GIVE LECTURES
Six Kansas Towns Will be Visited by University Speakers During the Two Weeks.
University speakers are much in demand in Kansas towns at the present time. The department of University extension work has arranged for six lecturers to give addresses.
Tomorrow Prof. C, G. Dunlap, of the department of English, will talk to the history club at Olathe, Kansas. His address will be about Shakespearean Literature.
Prof. F. H. Blackmar will talk in Ft. Scott, January 22. An address on "Schools as Social Centers" will be given in Blue Rapids, January 29 by Prof. G. A. Gessell. On February 2, Professor Dunlap will talk at Horton, Kansas. On the same day Professor Burdick will be in Beloit and Vice-chancellor W. H. Carruth will talk on the "Idylls of the King," at Salina.
Secretary Edward E. Brown left last night for Osborne, Kansas where his father died yesterday.
PHARMICS INSPECT DRUGS AT ROSEDALE
Seniors Make Periodical Invoices at Hospital--New Instruments Received.
The department of pharmacy has been given the supervision of the drug stock of Rosedale hospital. This means that all drugs and remedial agents will have the competent inspection of Dean L. E. Sayre and the School of Pharmacy. Trained students from the senior class will de-much of this work.
During the holidays, Mr. C. C. Cramer spent a day at the hospital taking an invoice of the entire stock and noting its condition. Periodically, students will be sent to make an inspection and to bring to the laboratory any articles which are deemed worthy of standardization.
A piece of apparatus recently received by the department of pharmacy is the colorimetric which is used in determining the amount of color matter in colored liquids of any kind.
HURRAH! THE CIRCUS ART EXHIBIT PRESENTS IS COMING TO TOWN WORLD'S MASTERPIECES
Dean Sayre also has received a polariscope, an instrument used for determining the distance which optically active substances will rotate polarized light. By means of this instrument, the purity and strength of certain substances may be determined. The polariscope is especially fitted for the determination of the purity of certain drugs, such as amphor, sugars and staches.
Organize Bible Class.
A class in the study of the Bible as literature has been organized at the Episcopal church under the leadership of Professor Croissant. It meets at ten o'clock Sunday mornings. All students are cordially invited to attend.
Two-Ring Show to be Give in Gymnasium in First Week in April.
BENEFIT DORMITORY FUND
Clowns, Acrobats, Trained Anima pop-corn, Peanuts and Red Lemonade Will be on Hand
A real circus, one with clowns, animals, acrobats, red lemonade, popcorn, and peanuts, is coming to the University. The circus grounds will be the basket-ball floor of the gymnasium. "Cirus Maximus" will be given for the benefit of the Women's Dormitory fund sometime during the first week of April.
All the performers will be members of the student body. After the grand processional, a continuous performance of a hour and a half in the two rings and on the platform will interest all circus goers all the time. Of course, the final feature of the evening will be the great chariot race.
The girls will sell the red lemonade, pop-corn, peanuts, cracker-jacks, chewing-rum--but no cigars. The music will be furnished by the University Band and How's "hobo band" of thirteen pieces. The elephant will walk the tight rope and camels and giraffes will build pyramids.
Forty acrobats have been working under Mroot. Root and regular rehearsals for the entire cast will begin next week in the gymnasium. After the big circus, a minstrel show and various other side show stunts will be given.
C. B. Root, who is in harge of the production, has a number of the members of the cast selected, but he is still looking for speciality men.
Black'k Helmets Entertain Sachems The Black Helmets, a sophomore society, entertained the Sachems, a senior society, with a smoker at the Phi Psi house last night. About seventeen guests attended and the affair was pronounced one of the most successful ever given. A feed of sandwiches, coffee, ice cream and cake was served followed by short informal speeches by Burton Saars W. O. Hamilton, R. W. Sherwin Merle Thorpe and Karel Krebbiel.
"The School as a Civic and Social Center" was the subject of an address given by Prof. Richard R. Price, director of the University Extension Division, before the forty-first annual meeting of the state board of agriculture. He was the principal speaker at the afternoon session of Friday. The meetings were held in the Representative hall of the State House, Topeka.
PROFESSOR PRICE TALKS
BEFORE K. S. A. C. BOARD
Prof. Griffith Has Secured Part of the Freer National Collection.
Most of the One Hundred Paintings
IN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
Are by American Artists—Display is in Two Parts.
The annual art exhibit of the University will open on Monday, February 5. The exhibit will occupy two galleries and the corridor of the third floor of the Administration building, which is well lighted for the pictures. This is the first year that the Art department has had an opportunity to have its exhibit in its own quarters. Formerly the display has been placed in the museum.
The exhibit will consist of about a hundred paintings, mostly by American painters. One part will be made up of pictures selected from the collection, presented to the United States government by Mr. Freer of Detroit, Michigan, as the beginning of a national collection. Among these are nine paintings by Whistler, ten by Tyron, six by Dewing, one by Winsler Homer and one by Abbot H Thayer.
The other part of the exhibit will consist of paintings selected from the annual exhibition of the Chicago Art Institute. There will be paintings by the following artists: Frank W. Benson, Carleton T. Chafflin, C. C. Cooper, Joseph Decamp, A. W Eaton, Ben Foster, Bolton Jones, Sergeant Kendall, Leonard Ochtman, and Robert Reid.
SOPHOMORE PROM APRIL 26.
Farce Being Written by 'Sawsers
Brothers—Music by Arvid Frank
The date of the Sophomore Prom has been definitely set for April 26. There has been some discussion as to the time of starting, whether it should be at 6 or 10 o'clock. Arvie Frank, the manager, is in favor of beginning at 6 o'clock. However a definite announcement as to the time will be made later.
The farce will be written b,
Clarence and Claude Sowers and the
music by Arvid Frank. The farce
will precede the prom.
The German Dramatic club will give "Der Bibliothekar," a German comedy, this spring. Try-outs for the cast will be held in room 313 Fraser hall at seven o'clock next Tuesday evening.
TRYOUT FOR GERMAN PLAY
WILL BE HELD TUESDAY
“Der Bibliothacker” has met with success in England and America under the title: “The Private Secretary.”
ENGINEERS, WRITE CLEARLY OR LOSE YOUR CONTRACTS
Calvin Rice, See, of Amer. Soc. Mech Eng. Told Students That Writing Must Be Exact.
Colvin W. Rice, National Secretary of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, addressed the students of the School of Engineering in the chapel room of Marvin hall Tuesday morning. He said that engineering students should first of all be able to express their thoughts clearly, both in written and oral speech.
"People take a doctor's prescrip-
tion in Latin, or the lawyers, advice
in legal language, and do not问
question its correctness," said Mr. Rice.
"But, an engineer must, at all times,
express his thoughts in clear Engl-
ish so that the city council or the
old German mayor can understand
them, or else stand the biggest
chance in the world of losing his contract.
Mr. Rice is visiting student branches of the Mechanical Engineering Society, coming here directly from Columbia.
"WORK OF CHICAGO VICE COMMISSION"
William Summer Tells Students What Has Been Done at "Windy" City.
William Taylor Sumner, chairman of the Vice Commission of Chicago, will deliver a lecture in chapel at 2:45 Thursday afternoon, January 25. The address will deal with his work and is open to all the University and the public. Mr. Sumner is brought here through the efforts of the university Y. M. C. A.
The Vice Commission of which Mr. Sumner is chairman was appointed by Mayor Basse of Chicago and is the first commission of its and ever created by a city council. Ten thousand dollars was appropriated to carry on the work.
The purpose of the commission was to investigate the vice condition, of Chicago and to make a report of these findings with recommendations for means of improvement. After much work the commission gave an exhaustive review of the status of the social evil in Chicago, its past, its causes, and means of suppressing it. It made many radical recommendations.
Besides being chairman of the vice commission, Mr. Sumner is Dean of the Cathedral St. Peter and Paul; superintendent of city missions; a member of the board of education; and founder of the Charles Summer艺术馆 of Chicago in 1908.
"Student Honor" is the subject that will be discussed at the regular Thursday evening meeting of the Y M. C. A. this week. D. C. Martini, president of the association, will lead the discussion and all men present will be given an opportunity to express themselves on this subject.
A Class in the Department of Painting and Drawing Under Whose Auspices the Annual Art Exhibition Is Held.
BODY DEFECTS SEAT OF INBORN CRIMINALITY
Professor Trittien's Investigation at Reformatories Is Basis for Theory.
MEDICAL MEN INTERESTED
He Will go to Topeka Tomorrow to Test Students in Kindergarten Schools There.
Prof. A. W. Trettien of the department of Education, will go to Topeka tomorrow to make tests in the kindergarten schools there for any possible abnormalities that might occur among the children.
Professor Trettien has made an extensive study of defectives and arrested development in all classes of people and has given special attention to criminals and the insane. The field that he is working in is practically a new one and is receiving much sociologists, criminologists and the medical fraternity all over the United States.
The method of study is to examine the child for any physical deformity or abnormality which he might possess. If there is any defect there is a possibility that the child might be affected mentally or morally and he is then examined by what is known as the "Binet-Simon" test. This consists in questioning the subject and noting the answers which he gives and the length of time in which he remains silent before he replies. The examination includes the testing of the respiratory organs, the hearing and the vision.
Professor Trettian was in Topek last week and examined the boys in the Reform school. He obtained additional valuable data in regard to the seemingly inborn desire or the atavistic tendencies of some natures to be criminals.
"The work that I am doing," said Professor Trettian, "is to discover defectives and if possible correct them before they become of such age that a remedy will be of little good. For instance if a child of five years, say, has an adenoid growth in his mouth, his auditory organs will be weakened and his breathing impaired."
HAMMER BLOW BREAKS NOSE
Austin Wallack, Freshman, Hurt,
While Working in Fowlers Shop
While working in Fowler Shops yesterday afternoon, ain't Wallack, a freshman engineer, struck a glancing blow with his hammer and it rebounded, fracturing the bridge of his nose.
EQUAL SUFFRAGE MEETING
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter Will Speak to W. E. S. A.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, of Topeka will speak at a meeting of the second congressional District of the Woman's Equal Suffrage association of Kansas Friday evening at 8 o'clock at the Presbyterian church. Miss Florence Payne, president of the University chapter of the association has selected the ushers for the meeting from the members of this chapter.
One Fifth Use Weed.
President McConnell of DePaw, has recently taken a census of the male members of the Freshman class for the purpose of finding out the number who use 'tobacco in any form. About one-fifth of the class, numbering 103 men, confessed their use of tobacco.
BOARD OF REGENTS
MEET THIS AFTERNOON
The Board of Regents were in session this afternoon in the Chancellor's office. The meeting was called at 2:30. Those in session were Rodery Elward, Sen. Leon S. Camburn, Wm. A. White.
Hubach to Garnett.
Proof. C. E. Hubach will leave tonight for Garnett, Kansas, where he will conduct rehearsals for an oratorio which will be given there soon. The Holy City will be sung by the Garnett society.