<20 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NUMBER 9. VOLUME IX. fine cup. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 26, 1912. STUDENTS VOTE TO ORGANIZE SOCIETIES Unanimous in Opinion that Literary Clubs are Good for University "Literary societies were in a flourishing condition when I attended Yale," said he, "and they are successful to this day. Such organizations bring the students together in a manner that is not accomplished at Kansas at the present time." CHANCELLOR ENDORSES PLAN One or more debating societies which will hold weekly meetings to discuss live questions of politics, economics and sociology will be formally organized at the University Friday evening. This was the unanimous agreement of more than forty men who met in Snow hall last night to discuss the need of such organizations at the University. Chancellor Strong was present and promised the students that anything which the administrative officers of the University could do to boost the movement would be given his hearty support. "My recollections of the evenings spent at my literary society at the University of Iowa are the most pleasing and vivid recollections of my college career," said Professor Dykstra, a member of the debating council who addressed the meeting. "I think the main reason why Iowa is so successful in inter-collegiate debates, is because the debating clubs are in such a flourishing condition." Tells of Their Influence at Yale- Professors Gesell, Price, and Others Speak. Prof. G. A. Gessel struck a popular note when he stated that one reason he desired such societies here was so that Kansas would have a better chance to defeat Missouri in annual forensic contest with that in situation. An explanation of the debating league which the high schools of Kansas have formed and the need for furthering this work at the University was given by Prof. R. R Price of the extension department Professor O'Leary discussed the failure of the old societies at this institution and said that hard work was all that was necessary to avoid their pit-falls. A committee of three consisting of Ray Soper, Milton Minor, and Charles Fairchild was, appointed to ask the Chancellor for a permanent place of meeting. Next Friday evening a name for the organization will be selected, officers chosen, and other plans formulated. In battling with the vice of today, we must look to the child, was the advice of Walter Taylor Sumner, chairman of the Chicago Vice Commission and Dean of St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, in an address in the chapel yesterday afternoon. The subject of Mr. Sumner's speech was "Some Aspects of Social and Civic Progress." WATCH THE TWIG AND SAVE THE TREE "Fight Evil in the Child." Says Chairman of Vice Commission "If we can save childhood, we do away in a great part with the care of criminals," he said. "The stufy od delinquent children and adults is a great opportunity for constructive work." The city is a unique organization and its problems are many." "In social service we must study the character of adversity and the means for relief. The Vice Commission found that in the ward in which I live there 263 destructive agencies and only 24 constructive and protective agencies. This means that for each constructive agency there are 1,108 children and no institution can care for so great a number." KANSAS IS INTERESTED IN WOMAN SUFFRAGE Reports from the Extension Department of the University show that the people over the state are taking great interest in woman suffrage. The department has sent out fourteen package libraries of books on the subject to as many Kansas towns and there are, at present, five towns on the waiting list. In every town to which the libraries have been sent the books are in constant use. Libraries of books on the commission form of government are also in demand and the department has loaned seven libraries and still have five towns on the waiting list. The demand for these libraries shows that the Kansas people want to be enlightened and posted on the great issues of the day. The towns which have been supplied with the libraries on women the books in great demand by the woman, but also by the men. PROF. HUNTER ON HOW TO PROTECT ORCHARDS Prof. S. J. Hunter will go to Wichita next week to attend the meeting of the South-West Horticultural Society. He will deliver an address before the society Thursday on the work of the entomological survey, in the protection of orchards and forests. The University ofChicago's athletic department has a surplus of $14,300 from the football games. MEMORY BAD? DROP IN AND GET IT TESTED Apparatus Installed Tha May Be of Value in These Troublous Times A laboratory with apparatus for testing the various sense organ defects and physical characteristics of school children, has been installed in room 118 Fraser Hall by the School of Education. The laws of attention, fatigue, memory, association, the accuracy and speed of perception, judgment, imagination and reasoning, will be demonstrated for the benefit of future Kansas school students by taking their work at the University. The work in experimental -education will consist in training for school administration and supervision. The laboratory, which will be under the direction of Prof. A. W. Trettian, will contain oeuvres for carrying on tests of transfer of training, individual differences, laws of habit formation and breaking, size and character of vocabulary, and aesthetic discrimination. Students in these fields of Education will be required to learn how to use educational statistics and interpret them by proper statistical methods and graphical representation in charts and diagrams. Such problems as Retarction, Promotion, Elimination, School Report Forms, etc., will be taught experimentally by the laboratory method. The data in the laboratory gathered from Kansas schools will in the main constitute the material to be dealt with. "Thomas Dekkar, a Study," is a very scholarly account of the career and surroundings of Thomas Dekar, an author of the seventeenth century. While scholastic in nature, the description of Dekkar's works and influence has a distinct literary flavor of Dokkar's has a distinct literary flavor which makes the book interesting to the casua reader. A copy of a book by Mary Leland Hunt, instructor in the English department, "Thomas Dekkar, a Study," was received at the library this week. The work was presented to the University by the author. It was her Doctor's dissertation at Columbia University, and is highly praised by the English department there and is published by the Columbia University Press. "Thomas Dekkar A Study" By Miss Hunt now in the Library INSTRUCTOR WRITES BOOK Organ Recital Postponed. The organ recital which was announced to take place in Fraser hall this evening has been postponed indefinitely. This was to have been the second number of the winter course. Organ Recital Postponed. HELD THE DOOR--THEN DECIDED 'TWAS THE "SACK When those of who pass most directly from bed to classroom by way of a hurried breakfast in the morning are leaving the somewhat involved portals of Fraser the nine o'clock element is arriving with their bright hair, neatly brushed clothes, and their aggravating air of always being able to take their time about getting on the hill. Yesterday a freshman evidently from the engineering school tried to enter Fraser hall. He encountered a girl from an eight o'clock class in exit. He did the gallant act and held the door open for the lady. Another of the fair sex followed closely, and the chivalrous freshman was unable to enter without risking an accident. Another came, still another and yet another. The little engineer had not so many girls since the last time he attended chapel two months before. HOW TO DESTROY ROAD TO LEADERSHIP DISEASE GERMS STEEP AND ROUGH ONE "Well, I wonder if all the girls in the University are going to leave before I can get in? " he said to himself, as two more pretty eight o'clock maidens elbowed past him. Finally he grew desperate. A man appeared. The door slammed on the luckless passenger as the long belegued knight wriggleled in to his nine o'clock class. Slush and Dust in City But Every Student Should Streets Cause Pneumonia and Tuberculosis. Charles F. Helm, a special in the Engineering school, has returned to the University after a three moths' absence on account of typhoid fever. "There is absolutely no excuse for cities polluting the water supplies of cities below them. It is both possible and practicable to construct, for a reasonable cost, an engineering plant that will purify sewerage till the water is chemically pure and as clear as spring water. At present over twenty Kansas towns have such plants in successful operation." In discussing the disposition of waste as an economic factor Professor Hoad stated that millions of dollars worth of valuable land had been reclaimed by rubbish dumps in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. In an address before Dr. Hyde's Physiology Class yesterday afternoon on the subject of Sanitation and city wastes, Professor Hoad of the engineering department said, "The complex problems of city administration and sanitation must be dealt with from a scientific point of view, and requires the co-operation of college bred men and women." Professor Hoad contends that the increasing complexities of modern life, and the crowding of a large number of people in cities gave rise to difficult moral and physical problems among the poor-r communities. The principle methods employed in disposing of garbage recommended by Prof. Hoare are by incineration, by which the rubbish is mixed with a proportion of fuel and completely burned and by the reduction process where the garbage is placed in a large steel tank under steam pressure and cooked six or eight hours, then the grease is removed by pressure. In discussing the subject of city wastes from the standpoint of public health he said "one of the hardest problems to deal with in city sanitation is the fine dust that blows about the streets laden with tuberculosis and other disease germs harmful to the respiratory organs," Professor Hoa explained that the only way to remove this dust was by hydraulic flushing with water and by improved methods of stent sweeping. He also recommended the removal of snow and slush from the streets of the tenement and shop districts as statistics showed that the prevalence of pneumonia fluctuated with the amount of snow and slush in the streets. "The reduction process has not proved a success in England said the Professor "because English housewives are more economical than our American housewives, and the garbage contains no fat." Professor Hoad also spoke to some length on the sewage problem. But Every Student Should be a Leader, Says Rabbi Liknaitz DAILY KANSAN STAFF TO STUDY NEXT WEEK The Rabbi, who is not new to the students of the University as a speaker, addressed his remarks to him with of "Preparation for Leadership." "I believe," he continued, "that every student of a higher institution of learning, should, and is able to become a leader in his or her sphere of life. But the person who would become a leader must be a master of situations and be fully able to overcome all obstacles in the way. There must be a distinct view of the goal, and a determination never to back out. And coupled to it all must be self-denial and steady hard work. The leader must have sincerity of purpose, absolute honesty, and a desire to get right down next to the people. The Daily Kansan will be published only two times next week, on Tuesday and Friday. The entire University will be in the throes of the term examinations and the members of the Kansan board will be so busy trying to stay eligible that they will not have time to get out the paper as usual. Rabbi David L. Likniaz, rabbi of Temple B'nai Jeshurim, Leavenworth, Kansas, was born in Mitan, Caulsland, one of the German-Russian provinces on the Baltic Sea. His early education was acquired in a German gymnasium and in a Hebrew academy. After his arrival in this country, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1898, after which he studied in the postgraduate department of Columbus University and in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. His first position as a rabbi was in Syracuse, New York, and since 1894 he has been in Leavenworth. "The women of the near future will be leaders in the many different spheres of life, beyond any question," said Rabbi Davis Liknaitz, of Leavenworth in the course of his channel speech this morning. Students will remember him as having delivered one of the best of the chapel speeches year before last. In former years it has been the custom of the Kansan to suspend publication during quiz week but the present staff is willing to get out two issues. The rest of the week will be consumed in an attempt to get square with a number of long neglected professors. GAS METERS LAUGH GAILY AS STUDES CRAM AND CRAM Clicketv, click; clickety, click. Examination Blanks. ! ! * ___ ! !*** ! !___ ! — Stanford Chaparral. Horray! The gas meters of the dear old town are off on one long joyous round and round marathon. The students are cramming. Pass the cold towels, please. No more Nickels and sundaes—nothing but a lonely room, a stack of books and a faintly glowing gas jet. grey eyes, are turning red. Gallons of ink and reams of paper are turning into note books. Readings for whole months are being rushed through in hours, in a last wild scramble to get through in the courses. Miss Put-It-Off and Mr. Wait-A-While are sittin' gup into the late late hours, doing the get-knowledge quick-or-any-way stunt. Every minute looks like an hour, and ever: class has its chorus of tired sighs Black eyes, blue eyes, brown eyes BOARD OF REGENTS WILL HOLD SESSION FEB. 6 the Historical Society of the University will hold a meeting Tuesday morning February 6 at 9 o'clock. The regular routine of business will be gone through with. All matters for the consideration of the board should be presented to the Chancellor in writing by February 3rd. WILL TEACH SUMMER SESSION AT MICHIGAN Prof. Carl Becker of the European history department of the University has accepted an invitation to teach in the Summer School at the University of Michigan, and he will leave for Ann Arbor immediately after the close of the second semester at the University. The Weather. Get out your raincoat as Jupiter Pluvius may give you a wetting tonight. The weather report is: Cloudy tonight and Saturday. Name Official Organ By an act of the Student Council the "University Daily Kansan" has been made the official publication of the university. All the announcements of the council and its committees will be made through the Kansan. MANY NEW COURSES FOR SUMMER SCHOOL Several new courses will be offered in summer school which opens June 6th. One of the new features will be classes in basket ball and track. These classes are organized especially for high-school instructors who desire to coach teams in these branches of athletics in their school Other new courses are: Bacteriology, 3 hours; Organic Chemistry, 5 hours; Money and Credit, 2 hours; Labor Problems, 2 hours; Philosophy of Education, 3 hours; School Hygiene, 2 hours; The English Essay, 2 hours; Teachers' Course in Wilhelm Tell, 2 hours; Advanced Greek History, 2 hours; Teachers' Course in Home Economics, 3 hours; The Newpaper, or 2 hours; The Short Story, 2 hours; Complex Numbers, 2 hours; Teachers' Course in Physiology, 5 hours; Radio-activity, 3 hours; Medical Physiology; Argumentation, 2 hours; and Teachers' Course in Public Speaking, 2 hours. Classes in Basket Ball and Track for High School Coaches Courses in the English departments will also be re-established. Courses in English were given in the summer school of 1910 but were not offered last year. In the three weeks' course of the Summer School, which opens July 18 and closes August 7, the following new courses will be given: Experimental Education, 3 hours; Foundations of English Institutions, 2 or 3 hours; French Revolution, 2 hours; and Abnormal Faselogy, 3hours. Five professors from other schools will be on the teaching staff of the school. Professor Hardy of Otawa University, Professor F. J. Miller, of the University of Chicago, Dean MeEchacon, of Washburn College, Professor T. L. Bolton of the Arizona State Normal School and Professor Cardiff of Wash Professor Miller is the author of a text book on Vergil which has been used in this state for several years. New Drug Supplies Received. The Drug Laboratory of the School of Pharmacy has just received samples of turpentine and its substitutes from the Government Laboratory at Washington, D. C. These samples will be used to make up a set of standard solutions for use in testing the purity of turpentine and linseed oil in accordance with the new law relating to the adulteration of the same. Blood-Poisoning From Fall. Blood-Poisoning From Fall. Edwin Mervesey, a freshman in the College has returned to school. He went to his home in Kansas. City last Sunday to be treated for blood-poisoning, caused by bruises received in a fall on a slippery sidewalk. UNIVERSITY MEN TO LEARN FOLK DANCING Will be Instructed in "Cinderella,""Grandmother's Sparrow," Et Al GRIZZLEY BEAR TO BE BARRED --- New Gym Class Organized to Fill Place Vacated by the Late Lamented Thalian Club. This is a story for men only. It is also advisable that all "studies" of the masculine gender are awkward and clumsy and ill used to the etiquette of the dance floor—it is advisable, we repeat, that they read this story carefully. A little rumor trickled out of the gymnasium this morning which stated that Coach Hamilton—no Dr. Naismith or Instructor Root or somebody else over in the gym—was going to give a course in folk dancing next term for the men of the University. Believing that a University should offer an all around education to its students, a course in dancing—for men only—will be started next semester. George Babb has been secured as instructor and to his careful guidance will be given over the pedal education of a large class of men who have already signified their intention of taking the course. Robert E. Lee, it is said, was the first to sign for the course. Last year Robert created some consternation in local social circles by his terpsichorean performances at the Thalian parties, and he is entered as a post-grad. Ward Maris, W. E. Rodebush, Roland M. Athey, T. H. Utterback, Harrison McMillan, and Warren H. Jordon are among those who have "signed." Besides the waltz and the two-step and the other University favorites, folk dancing and aethic dances will be taught. In order to get credit in the course, each member of the class will give a recital in the gym, which will be made to correspond to the graduating recital in the School of Fine Arts or the final thesis in the School of Engineering. Instructor Babb hopes to have his class in shape—this is no pun—to give an exhibition performance at the May Eote. P. S. The course is not open to freshmen. P. S. Kindly note that the Turkey Trot, the Grizzley Bear, and the Pensecola Mootch will not be tolerated during regular practice hours. WHO'S WHO IN KANSAS TEACHING PROFESSION School of Education Issues Official Directory of High School Teachers Three thousand copies of a forty-five page bulletin issued by the School of Education will soon be sent to the school teachers and administrators of the state. The bulletin will be an official directory of all teachers in the high schools accredited by the University and will contain detailed information from these teachers regarding their degrees and certificates, instituted attended, and teaching positions. In addition to this, statistical tables and charts will be appended which represent a careful study of the present nature and sources of both the academic and professional preparation of the various teachers. The School of Education is endeavoring to obtain a complete record of the high school teachers, and in addition to this bulletin it is collecting data for a second one which will contain many vital, but less accessible facts regarding the relation of teacher specialization to actual subjects taught, migration of teachers, the need for a differentiation of high school and elementary school certificates, state policy in regard to departmental organization, and the teachers' attitudes toward summer schools and graduate study. So far as known, investigations of this nature have not been done in any other state as yet.