Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-10-11
University Begins Fifty-Second
Year With Only 2,067 Stu
dents in Classes.
FACULTY LOSES 40 TEACHERS
The Decrease 10 Directly Caused by
the War-Few Students Study
German Now


The University of Kansas has be-
gun its fifty-second year with 2,067
students, decrease OF 516 below the
enrolment the beginning of the
school year in 1916, when 1853 stu
dents were enrolled. There are 1,167
men students and 900 women students
in the University this autumn. Last
year men outnumbered women two to
one
The larger proportion of women stu
dents and the smaller enrolment of
men is because of the war. as is a de-
crease of more than forty teachers in
the faculty. Chancellor Strong and
the board of administration have made
the war an opportunity to grant leaves
of absence without pay to a number
of older professors to enable them to
study and do research work in other
schools. More than twenty faculty
men now are in the army or in mill
tary work. Many teachers also
have been released because the war
has greatly affected the enrolment
of certain departments.
In the German department the en-
rollment is more than half smaller
than last year, there being a falling
of students studying German Five
teachers of German have been re-
leased because of this. In 1915 there
were 500 students in the University
studying German Last year the to-
tai enrolment of the German depart
ment was 585. This year it is scarce
ly ESQ, so far.
French has its biggest enrolment
af Tn
students are studying that language.
There are 274 students taking Span
ish; nineteen, Italian, and four, Portu-
gese.
The School of Medicine of the Uni
versity has greatly increased en-
rollment, while the School of Law has
been cut in two almost, the greatest
decrease in any part of the Univer-
sity. Engineering has lost heavily of
upper classmen, who have gone into
the army. although a large freshman
class includes five girls who are
studying engineering. Two women are
studying medicine and five are study
ing pharmacy.
X X X
Gave Departing Soldiers Lunches
Five thousand people watched Com
pany D entrain for Fort Sill at Caney-
The men had been in camp there since
August s. Women of the town pre-
pared lunches to be carried on the
train.
Pioneer Woman Dead.-Mrs. Ada B.
Oldroyd, Sc years old, wife of T. B.
Oldroyd, pioneer undertaken and fur
niture dealer of Arkansas City, is
dead at Geuda Springs. She came to
Kansas thirty-three years ago.
Motor Car Killed GirI.-Fern Wells,
years old, while on the way home
from school at Kiowa, was struck by
a motor car driven by Mrs Ross Per-
~ and her skull fractured. She died
almost instantly.
Hog Cholera Epidemic.-A serious
outbreak of hog cholera is being
fought in Leayenworth county by To-
cal. state and national officials. The
infected area now lies between Boiling
and Jarbalo, several miles southwest
of here, but the disease is steadily
spreading.
Emporia College Head Quits.-The
resignation of President H. C. Culbert-
son of the College of Emporia was
accepted the other night at a meeting
of the college trustees. Charles F.
Scott OF lola, member of the board.
was chosen temporary president of
the school Mr.. Culbertson offered his
resignation in order he might be free
to devote his entire time to his new
work as chief of the new bureau of
cooperative organization of food adj
ministration. The resignation will be
effective October Is.
Measles in Abilene Company.-Four
cases of measles among men of Com
pany H, Third Regiment. Kansas Ma
tional Guard, caused the revocation of
orders to entrain recently and the
company is back in camp for an in
definite stay after all preparations
were made for the start for Camp
Doniphsn-
Her Dollar to Red cross.@E1inor
Gard. of Anthony. 10 years old, washed
dishes for ten weeks for her mother
and was rewarded with dollar She
gave the dollar to the Red Cross Fund
Three Fled Atchison JaiI.-Digging
through a brick wall with an iron rod
from a bedstead, Willie Russell, B.
Spencer and G. Jackson escaped from
the city jail at Atchison recently.
Jackson was caught at the home of