The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-21
To Be Held at the Masonic
Temple June s.
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS
That Will Admit to Any Col
Iege Are Promised.
Old Time YeIIS and Songs viii
Be Heard.

For the last few years the Kansas
boys and girls who want to go to COL
1ege have found the way was
CREASED" for them to greater or
less degree. The system of according
the high schools Of the state took away
the bugaboo of the entrance examlna-
lions and a boy or girl that received
reasonably good grades in Kansas
high school was assured of having a
trial at any state school and most OF
the big eastern schools without any
entrance examinations
But the old boys and girls know all
about these entrance examinations
and at the intercollegiate banquet
June they are preparing stunt IN
the way of an entrance examination 10
show the younger folks just what one
of those examinations really amounts
to- The committee in charge of the
banquet has obtained assurances from
all the Kansas schools that the en-
trance examination put on at the din
ner will entitle the students taking it
to matriculatiOn at any Kansas school
without further examination.
George McDerm oft, who is a gradu-
ate of the University of Chicago and
who took one of those entrance
exams and knows just how stiff they
are is in charge of this stunt He has
consulted the faculties of numerous
schools and has secured a complete
list of the entrance requirements and
questions to be submitted this year. AS
most of the boys and girls who are to-
take examinations will have had them /!
before the date of the banquet the
questions can be used. Those who |
may fail to pass the entrance require
ments are eligible to take the ex-
animation at the banquet and they
will get credit for the work when
they start to school next fall.
Dinner Without Speeches.
The committee in charge of the big |
college dinner to help Washburn cele-
brate her semi-centennial decided
that a dinner without speeches would
he a novelty in Topeka. Only the Sat
urday Night club ever pulls off a din
ner without lnt of speeches. There
will be peace I'd quiet at the Ma
sonic Temple .IUne s while the college
folks are eating an excellent dinner I
the Central Congregational church.
Just as soon as every one is through
eating, the big hall will be turned into
college gymnasium, where all college
affairs are properly pulled off and ev-
eryone will be taken back to his old Il
college days by the stunts. The state
board of administration will fire a
dean or college president or a pro-i
fessor or something and then the old L
college chaps will put on their en-
trance examination. There will be
two or three other stunts of college
days.
Plenty of Music.
Between the stunts there will be
college and university "sings" and the
students and graduates of the differ
ent schools will spread before the din
erS the various yellS of their alma
matters. The committee is arranging /
for specially decorated tables for the
different schools so that the students
and graduates of each may be seated /
together.
The University, Washburn, Normal
Baker, K. S. A. c., Ottawa, Bethany
and several other Kansas schools;
Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Michigan,
and Wisconsin have al
ready arranged for special tables and |
the ''old boys and girls of these in
situations are rehearsing the songs of
their college days and the yelIs they
haven't yelled for many moons and Il
will tell about their schools in songs
and yells between the stunts or the |
regular program.
The committee in charge of the din
ner has its headquarters at the Com
mercial club. 1t is composed of one II
graduate of each of the Kansas schools
and one representing the eastern and
one the western colleges The din
ner will be served at o'clock at the
Masonic temple. The tickets will be
one dollar, just enough to pay for the
dinner and the decorations. Every col
lege man and woman in Topeka.
whether a graduate or who has at
tended any OF the colleges or univer-
stiles is invited