UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
NUMBER 4
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19, 19
REGENTS APPLY PROBE TO AHRENS MATTER
Want to Know if His Fraternity and Teammates Knew of Deception.
IS UP TO STUDENT COUNCH
The board of regents unqualifiedly condemns the action of Ahrens and is disposed to regard with disfavor any student or group of students who knew of his discrepancy and allowed it to go unapprehended. The Student Council will make its report at the next meeting of the board of regents.
Henry Ahrens, it will be remembered, who played center on the foot ball team last fall, was refused his letter by the athletic committee or the ground that he practiced deception in leading the faculty to believe that he had completed his registration. The University and the Student Council apologized to the colleges against whom Ahrens played.
The regents are unwilling to let the Ahren's matter drop with an apology to other universities. At their meeting last night they requested the Student Council to reopen the investigation, with a view of finding out if Ahren's fraternity and his associates knew of his irregularities.
Regents present at the meeting were: William Allen White, Leor C. Samburn, Rodney Elward, James A. Kimball, and Chas. S. Foley.
TO AID MINING SCHOOLS
REGENTS ASK CONGRESS
A telegram was sent to Congress by the Board of Regents recommending the passage of the Foster bill H. R. 6304. This bill provides for government aid to universities with mining schools such as the aid given agricultural colleges at present. The telegram follows:
"Mining is one of the most important industries of man. Its interests are as wide spread as the human family and as enduring as time. Like agriculture, it is fundamental in its principles. In its successive prosecution mining requires and makes, use of the highest degree of intelligence and knowledge. It is vastly important, therefore, that investigation and education along all lines pertaining thereto be fostered by the federal government the same as is now done for the sister industry of agriculture.
Report Will be Made to the Board a Their Next, Meeting—Other Business Transacted.
"Therefore we, the Regents of the University of Kansas, request and urge the Congress of the United States to enact such legislation as may be necessary to accomplish this end. We believe the bill now before Congress known as the Foster bill H. R. 6304, will serve this purpose
and therefore we recommend its enactment into law."
CHANGES IN PERSONNEL
RATIFIED BY REGENTS
The resignation of A. B. Frizell as instructor in mathematics and of L. E. Hoover as assistant in the business office and of Miss Orpha, G Light as teaching fellow in Latin were accepted. The transfer of Sarah Piatt Wheeler from the University extension department to the department of journalism was approved and Miss Esther M. Clark was appointed as stenographer in the extension department.
Warren W. Reed was appointed instructor in rhetorics. Mr. Reed comes from Kentucky.
C. H. Heuser was appointed assistant professor in the Department of zoology for the second term. Mr. Heuser is Austin Fellow at Harvard and is granted a leave of absence.
R. L. Nelson was appointed instructor in mathematics for the sec- tion of calculus.
Women's Student Council Has Requested Mass Meeting in Which Vote Will be Taken.
David D. Stradling, now city engineer of Indianapolis, Ind., was ap pointed assistant professor of Civil Engineering for one year to take the place of Prof. B. J. Dalton.
Jacob O. Jones has been appointed instructor in Civil Engineering for the next term to take the place of C R. St. Clair who has accepted a position in McPherson College.
The Woman's Student Council will present the problem of week-night dates before the girls of the University for ratification of the action which has been taken by the council against the dates.
WILL CO-EDS RATIFY
WEEK-NIGHT DATE RULE?
Permission was asked of Chancelor Strong to hold the meeting but no date has been set.
K. U. MEN PASS BAR EXAM.
Lewis M. Sawyer, of Norton, a student in the College passed the state bar examination at Topeka held at The College and his L. B. degree in Yale last year.
Four alumni of the University also passed the examination. They are Harry Clark Alphin, '10, of Douglass county, Reginald Prichard Jacaman of Sedgwick county, Ansel Roscoe Clark of Montgomery county and Arthur Fredrick McCarty of Kansas City.
STUDENTS' HALL TO BE IN
AEMINISTRATION BUILDING
The plans for the Administration building approved by the Regents to day contain three important changes in exterior from the former plan; the dome is removed, the connecting links between the wings and the central section are eliminated, and the main entrance will be an alumni memorial entrance in bronze, fifteen feet wide and thirty-four feet high with space set apart for each class. The principal interior change will be the extension of the rotunda into a large students' hall on the first floor of the main section.
THE CRADLE OF THE UNIVERSITY
Fifty-three years ago today the city of Lawrence presented to the trustees of Lawrence University a plot of ground with the provision that a brick building be erected on it for school purposes. This building is now called 'Griffith' and is occupied by the Fine Arts Department.
SIGMA NU'S ANSWER TEMPORARY COMMONS C. Q. D. OF PI PHIS PROVIDED BY REGENTS
Barefoot Through SnowThey Rout Bold Burglar from Sorority House.
Lunch Room in Basement o Fraser Hall Ordered Equipped.
RUSTY GUN & (5) BALL BATS SUPERVISE HOME ECONOMICS
As Chivalrous Frat Men Reconnoitio in Parlor, Naughty Intruder Goes Out Kitchen Window.
Chivalry is not dead at the University.
Last night at 12 o'clock the members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority were awakened by a noise made by some one moving around on the first floor of their house. When the girls recalled the numerous robberies in Lawrence the past week, they became panicky.
Genevieve Herrick, of Kansas City, finally mustered up courage enough to peer over the banister. She saw or rather heard, a burglar creep quietly across the hall. The girl became terrified and made use of a telephone on the second floor to summon members of the Sigma Nu fraternity, who live across the street, to the rescue.
Owing to the prompt appearance of the fraternity men, all the burglar was able to take was his departure
While the girls were huddled in one of the rooms, the men hunted through the house for the thief. The window was was an oper window in a back room.
In a few minutes the fraternity men, fifteen strong, barcheated and dressed in bathrobes and slippers some bare-footed, rushed through the gym. They were armed with one rusty, unloadable gun, and five baseball bats.
Prof. Day Requested to Appoint Her Students to Take Charge Under Her Direction.
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A temporary "Commons" was provided for by the regents at their meeting this morning, when a resolution was passed requesting Professor Day of Home Economics department to designate her students to take charge of a temporary lunch room in the basement of Fraser hall.
This action was taken after an audience with Burton Sears and J E. Miller, who had been appointed by the Men's Student Council to present the matter of eating facilities on the campus.
The resolution of the board is a follows:
"Resolved that Miss Day be requested to designate students of her department to take charge of a temporary lunch room in the basement of Fraser hall under some such arrangements as the following:
"First: That a list of those persons who will pay for at least tea coffee, or milk and sandwiches upon certain designated days at the noon hour as regular customers be secured;
"Second: That the University shall supply dishes, tables (or a counter) cooking utensils, and such nature as may be ordered by Miss Day.
"Third: That the price for this service shall be high enough to afford a moderate profit to the students conducting the service."
Student Enterprise Tickets Not Good For Second Concert in Powerhouse Onea House.
GLEE CLUB CONCERTS
HAVE BEEN POSTPONED
GLEE CLUB CONCERTS
On account of a conflict in dates with the Fine Arts opera on February 7, the concerts of the Glee club have been post-poned for one week. The concerts will be given Wednesday and Thursday, February 14 and 15.
Melvin Kates, manager, of club, said this afternoon that the first of the concerts will be given in chapel in Fraser hall for which the Student Enterprise tickets will be good. The second concert will be given in the Bowersock opera and general admission will be charged for everyone.
Clyde Dodge, who sang on the club for the past two years, will return to school for the spring semester and will try out for the club again.
POST EXAM-JUBILEE TO HAVE PLENTY OF "EATS."
The "Post-Exam" Jubilee will be held under the aupices of the Y, M, C. A, in Myers hall on Saturday evening February 3.
An elaborate program has been arranged for the mid-winter jollification. Charles Younggreen chairman of the social committee has arranged for a good supply of high class vaudeville, some clever musical stunts, games that will "take" with everyone and plenty of "eats."
"DAD" HERMAN WILL BE IN ENGLAND SATURDAY
"Dad" Herman, the former Y. M. C. A. secretary and Mrs. Herman sailed from Philadelphia last Saturday morning for England, according to a letter received here. They had spent several days in New York before going to Philadelphia to sail.
They will spend a week in England and then will go to the continent for two weeks, visiting France, Germany, Holland, and Italy. Mr. and Mrs. Herman will sail from Geona on February 8 and will go through the Suez canal on their way to India, where Mr. Herman will be employed in Y. M. C. A. work.
The Professor.
Another fine short-story by a student who presents a sidelight on a tired professor who reaches a certain cross-rond Don't miss it, in Tuesday's Daily Kansas.
RED-HEADED GIRLS
RED-HEADED GIRLS
TO FORM SORORITY
"The Royal Order of Redheads," is a co-ed society which has appeared among campus clubs at the University of Washington. It is to be made up of the brightest—to outward appearance only, of course—the brightest co-eds in college.
One innocent freshman "rouge-
pate," with an unusually bright halo,
is confident that the club, when
organized, will later become a sorority,
and even seek to establish a national
organization.
WORK IN ARCHITECTURE FOR NEXT SEMESTER
Regents Advise that Such a Department be Opened at Once. $^*$
MIGHT DO WORK FOR STATE
Designs for Bridges or Court House
Skyscrapers Would be Drawn
Papers of Charge
Free of Charge.
The opening of a department of architecture in the School of Engineering at the beginning of the second semester is probable, following action taken by the Board of Regents today.
Chancellor Strong was authorized to take such steps as seem best towards the introduction of courses in architecture, after consulting with Prof. M. P. McArdle, the architect of the Administration building.
That such a department should be established at the University and that it should take over the work of the state architect's office and furnish designs for all public buildings in the state was recommended recently to the state commission on biomass combustion by the committee on efficiency.
Professor McArdio, who is a St Louis architect, has given several lectures at the University, but no extended course.
NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY.
Professor Johnson's Work on Carlyle is Now on the Shelves.
Three copies of a book on Thomas Carlyle by W. S. Johnson, assistant professor of English Literature, were received at Spooner library this week. One of the primary aims of the work, as mentioned in the preface is to render clearer to general readers the meaning and origin of Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus," as well an giving an account of the author's early life. It is published by the Yale University Press.
Among the other new books at the library which are of interest to the general reader are:
Lewis Molvle; Some Aspects of
hackery, published by Little Brown
Katherine D. Obsen; Robert
Louis Stevenson in California,
McCain
Henry Childs Mervin: Life of Brete Harte, Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston and New York.
Miss Celeste Edwards, of Sedan,
formerly a student of the University
returned to her home Tuesday after
a week's visit with Lawrence friends.
Miss Marian Bedford of Grand Rapids, Mich., will return to continue her studies in the School of Fine Arts.
An Italian university professor claims to have found radium in ordinary dew.
Administration Building, for Which Revised Plans Were Adopted Today.