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VOLUME IX.
ISN'T IT RIPPING,
DON'T YOU KNOW
George Putnam Describes English Enthusiasm in Chapel
WE NEED BETTER TRACK TEAM
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 27, 1912.
Says Kansas Should Lead in Track as Well as in Other Branches of Sport.
"The Englishman lacks enthusiasm from an American point of view," said George E. Putnam, formerly a Rhode scholar at Oxford, in a chapel address this morning. "Instead of organized cheering and singing, the English sportsman claps his hands and exclaims 'I won't iit rippin' how toppy," or some similar expression. "Increase Patnam put our several
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"The English students goes into sport for sports sake, and every man comes out for some branch of athletics." A soccer, tennis and track are all bloody.
"In fact," Mr. Putnam said, "they take up everything except bull fighting and American football."
That the University of Kansas should lead in track athletics as well as in football or basket-ball, was the opinion of the speaker. "We need traditions here like those they have at Missouri. We have the coach and the ability to win games, we out and try to make the track team, we would defeat Missouri for the next fifteen years as they have defeated us for the last fifteen years.
"I take it that most of you are here, first, for mental development; and second, for physical development. Each is important though, and if you fail to get one or the other, the chances are high." For you to appeal to your own good as well as for the good of the University, I appeal to you to get in the game."
KANSAN IS READ FROM
CHICAGO TO THE COAST
Article on Washing Coal Brings Inquiries from all Over the Country to Professor Young.
Prof. C, M. Young, whose experiments in washing Coal were mentioned in a recent article in the Daily Kansan, has received requests for further information from a number of places. One friend wrote for the writer of the World Magazine who called the Daily Kansan article copied in the Los Angeles Tribune.
The farthest east yet heard from is a town in Ohio. An official of a coal mining company located there wrote to Professor Young, enclosing a clipping Chicago paper which we practically the same as the Daily Kansas article.
PROF. DUNLAP, BUSY LECTURER
Olathe Teachers Will Soon be Quizzed on His Course.
Professor C. G. Dunal of the Department of English Literature lectured at Horton last Friday. He spoke to a group of young people who are studying Shakespeare through the University Extension Department. The subject of the lecture was, "Antony and Cleopatra."
On Monday Professor Dunlap went to Topeka at the invitation of the Dickens Club. He spoke to the memoirists on the celebration on "Charles Dickens."
Saturday the Professor went to Olathe, where he lectured on Geogge Eliot. His class at that place is composed entirely of teachers. Saturday they heard the last lecture before the examination in the course.
Prof. Price at Dodge City
Prof. R. R. Price spoke at Dodge City Friday night on "The Use of the School-house as a Social and Civic Center" before the Ford County Teachers' Association.
Comes to Summer Session Prof. F. A. Brown of Princeton University has been selected to teach German in the Summer School Mr. Brown has written several books on German authors.
Comes to Summer Session
Miss Nellie Taylor of Kansas City is visiting in town.
FOUNTAIN PENS BANISHED
Mining Engineers. Must Use the O.
F. Pencil in Their Quizzes
The four in pen, the student's standb., has been condemned as a weapon destructive to furniture and flours by the Engineering faculty.
There the notice is, conspicuously placed behind the glass of every post board in the Geology and Mining buildings. "The use of the fountain pen is forbidden in this building. Students are too careless with them and as a consequence floors are being ruined."
Engineering students approach the notice and sadly slink away to some nearby dark corner where they nervously consign the prohibited article to their innermost pocket. As yet no offender has been caught with a concealed weapon on his person, but woe to the man who tries openly to break this rule, as the instructors are watching carefully for possible offenders.
Showed New Chinese Flag
The Chinese students of Syracuse University entertained the members of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. cabinets recently. A flag of the new Republic was exhibited and created considerable interest. It is rectangular in shape, made up of five stripes, red, pale yellow, blue, white, and black. Each stripe represents some distinct district, red for China, pale yellow for Mongolia, blue for Thibet, white for Mohammed, and black for Manchu.
HOLD MEMBERSHIP DAY
Y, W, C. A. Also Expects to Have a Banquet in the Gymnasium.
The Young Women's Christian Association will hold a Membership Day on Wednesday, March 6.
"This is the last opportunity to become members of the Y. W. C. A., for this year," said Miss Isabel Thomes, vice-president of the Association and chairman of the membership committee. "We will have a station at the old check stand in Fraser hall, where all the girls who are members, new or old, may pay their dues and receive a badge of membership.
Following Membership Day, the Association will give a Membership banquet, Saturday, March 16, in Robinson gym.
"We expect three hundred members to attend this banquet," said Miss Lucie March, president of the association. "Dr. Henry Churchill King, president of Oberlin College will be the guest of honor and the principal speaker."
"Besides the regular members," said Miss Nadia Thomas, general secretary, "We will invite the sustaining members, the women of faculty and the women of Lawrence who lend their support to the organization."
DAGO'S THREE PECK
BUSHEL MUST GO
Twenty-six states were represented at the conference. Cities of over 50,000 population were also invited to send representatives and nearly thirty cities responded. The conference is backing the bills now pending before Congress that will establish standards of certain weights and measures.
Prof. E. F. Stimpson, Deputy State Sealer of weights and measures, has returned from the seventh annual conference of State Sealers of Weights and Measures which was held in Washington, D. C. February 15 and 16. This conference is held by the invitation of the Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce and Labor, the purpose of the conference being to bring about more uniform legislation in all the states and to urge that more official attention be given to the regulation of weights and measures.
Professor Stimpson Attended Conference that is urging assignment
E. H. Connor, manager of the English Structural Steel company at Leavenworth, attended the Engineers' banquet Saturday night; and was the guest of Prof. F. P. Walker during his stay in Lawrence.
SPECIMEN HUNTERS CAN SHOOT GAME IN SILENCE
Speaking of maxim silencers, Prof. H. T. Martin, of the Paleontology department, owns a little instrument which might well be classed with the Maxim instrument.
This weapon, is what is known as a "walking-Stick Air Rifle," and is the instrument used specially employed by professional poachers, especially in England and continental Europe. It resembles a common walking stick very much, being the same size and length. It is finished in black enamel, weighs about three pounds, and in place of a trigger has a small button. It works on a high air pressure, supplied by a pump which connects with the air chamber in the butt of the gun, much like a common bicycle pump.
"People would be surprised at the power of this little gun," said Mr. Martin. "It shoots forty or fifty times on a single air charge, and I have frequently killed rabbits at a distance of a hundred yards or more.
At that distance the first shot will penetrate an inch pine board. The pressure gradually decreases, of course, but at the twenty-fifth shot I have often killed squirrels and rabbits at a distance of 20 yards. As far as I know, this gun is the only one of its kind in the state, and I do not suppose that there are more than half a dozen like it in America."
MRS. LYONS WILL SING CHANCELLOR ON HOW SOLO AT BAND CONCERT TO GET EFFICIENC
Band Will Give First of a Series of Concerts
Mr. Martin bought the rife thirty years ago in England, and it is practically as good as new. He has used it extensively in his expeditions and while specimen hunting, and the department of taxidermy at the University has been using it for several years. It is useful in securing small birds, as they can be treated that way without the skin being broken.
Reilly, of London, is the maker of the gun, which has a finish and workmanship similar to high power rifles. The original cost of the "Walking Stick rifle" was about fifteen dollars.
Tomorrow
The first annual band concert will be given in Fraser hall tomorrow evening at 8:15. A program of classical, standard and popular music has been arranged and Mrs. Blanche Lyons has been secured to give a vocal solo.
The personnel of the is妈: Mrs. Blanche Lyons, soloist; J. C. McCanes, director; Charles Robinson, manager; cornes, Brandon, Probst, Welch, Covey, LaMer, and Sammons' Charionets, Leasure, Burkholder, Davis, Seiver, Chariep, Earnest, Belt, Dale, King, Hartman, and Vilipique; trombones, Amick, Johnson Hartman, Clark, Adair, and Evans; altos, Professor Bushong, Harkrader, Berger, and Treece; baritones, Baird and Fischer; basses, Davidson, Aschman, and Neibling;飞读 and piccole Robinson, and Gillett; oboe, Allan; drums, Brvan and McDonald.
Student Enterprise tickets are good.
WILL WATCH HOME LIFE OF SAND FLIES
The University Entomologists Make First Experiments withPellagra Bearers
It will be necessary to have swif running water through the metal box at all times as the flies lays its eggs only under these conditions. It is also important that the young hatched flies get plenty of oxygen. The water must be of a certain temperature at all times.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
The part the sand fly plays in the dreaded disease pellagra and its habits is being determined by Professor Hunter and graduates in the entomology department. Sand flies are believed to be the chief agents in carrying pellagra. A metal box has been prepared in which the breeding and raising of the sand flies will be carried on in the University laboratory.
Thermo Meter and Baro Meter gives out the peculiar report today that there will be snow flurries tonight and probably it will be warmer tomorrow.
It is difficult to raise the flies in any save their native homes, and if the experiment which is being started in the entomology department proves successful, it will be the first instance in which an insect has been raised in a laboratory.
The Weather.
Tells National Educafors a St. Louis Four Ways to Glisten It
St. Louis, Feb. 27—(Special to the Daily Kansan)—"Economy of time in education is fundamentally a question of efficiency in education," is the message of Chancellor Strong to the National Council of Education in session here today. President Hill of the University of Missouri read the paper for Chancellor Strong, who could not be present.
Obtain It
Some of the factors in obtaining economy of time in education, according to Chancellor Strong, are the elimination of some of the subjects now in the educational curriculum or a reduction in the amount of given subjects, or both. Another factor is an increase in the quality of teaching through better salaries and greater permanence of tenure.
"Teaching must be made a profession. In order to bring this about exclusion of the untrained is necessary just as exclusion has been necessary in developing a true profession of medicine and law. The financial rewards for the exceptional teacher must be greater and the average reward for the rank and file of the profession must be greatly increased.
"In connection with this change another is imperative, namely greater tenure of office, greater independence of life, and a separation of the blighting influence of politics from school affairs."
Other points discussed by the Chancellor were: A substantial and in many cases a large increase in the number of efficient teachers and thus an increase in the individual attention that may be given to each pupil; and an increase in the physical equipment available for teaching, such as buildings, laboratories class rooms, competent text-books and the like.
HOW'd YOU LIKE TO
BE A TAFFY ENGINEER?
All problems were not invented for the nocturnal delight of engineers. This morning in the cooking department of Fraser hall a girl in a white apron, complacently leaning against the wall, is the problem of vinegar, molasses, and soda.
The result was tuffy, "of the finest variety," the apprehension col, crowd, affirms.
The problem was to determine whether cream of tarter or soda were best for perfect taffy. Trig and cale were banished. Only strong white arms and plenty of pull were necessary to bring about the desired answer.
Twelve Dollars to Dorm Fund
Twelve Dollars to Dorm Fund The girls of the sophomore class added twelve dollars to the dormitory fund this morning, by their candy sale in Fraser hall during chapel time.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
MUSEUM BIRDS GET NEW GLASS ROOSTS
A Panoramic Display of the Speimens in their Natural Surroundings Will be Made.
Several changes are being made on the bird floor of the Museum. The capacity of the central cases on the second floor has been doubled by the addition of a shelf of plate glass in each case. This change places the birds within easy range of the eyes so that all labels can be read without trouble.
These shelves were also put in to make room for 400 birds that have been mounted recently. As many more cases, with shelves, are needed to accommodate the mounted birds which have been placed temporarily in the wall cases under the balcony in the bird room. These wall cases are eventually to be used for a panoramic display of birds in separate groups with their natural surroundings.
Kansan to Print Weather Record Through the courtesy of the Chemical Engineering Society, the Daily Kansan will be able to print every month a chart of the weather report for the month. This cut will include the curve of the mean temperature for the month, and a curve of the minimum and maximum temperatures.
The Sigma Delta Phi have pledged Robert W. Hemphill, a sophomore in the College, from Norton.
The cast for the play entitled "Object Martimony," a comedy to be given by the Red Domino Club, has been selected and the club will meet this evening in room 116, Fraser hall, at 7:30 o'clock for the first reading. Gertrude Mossier is the director and Donald McKay manager and with the excellent talent which the club comprises a successful play is assured.
First Reading of "Object Mat rimony" Held Tonight in Fraser Hall
The following compose the company: John Musselman, Howard Wilkoff, H. A. Heller, Lucie Wilkinson, Volney Hilford, Joe Bishop Lawrence F. Smith, Sydney Walker, Lewis Buxton, Madeline Nachtman, Lola Eaton, Helen Woolsey. The leads will be played by Musselman and Miss Nachtman.
The chorus is composed of Sylvia Abrams, Mildred Roberts, Leota McFarlin, Pauline Murray, Ruth Harger, Mildred James, Loleta McCune, Rachel Wood, Gladys Elliott, Etta S茅, Bercience Butts, Geneva Wiley, Harold Woodbury, Murray Conley Louis Kepler, Steeinger, Sproul Bruce Hurd, Finley Graham, Beamer Campbell, Ross Beamer, Walter Eastman, Earl Potter, Edward Boddington and Sydney Walker.
The `play` was written by Arvid Frank and Earl Moore, both sophomores in the College.
PROFESSOR BECKER WILL
ADDRESS THE Y. W. C. A
Professor Becker will give his interpretation of the spirit which has been the moving force in the history of Kansas since the state was first settled. His pamphlet on "Kansas," is a real presentation of the heritage of Kansas, although Professor Becker is not a Kansan.
Prof. Carl Becker, of the department of history, will speak at the regular meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association, Wednesday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock in Myers hall, on "The Spirit of Kansas."
All University women are cordially invited.
OKLAHOMA ALUMNI ELECT
Tulaa, Okla., Feb. 22—One hundred enthusiastic alumni of the University of Kansas attended the fourth annual meeting of the Oklahoma association here today. Chancellor Strong and Dean James W. Green spoke. The new officers elected are: G. W. Powell, '43, Muskogee, president; J. B. Cheadle, '02, Norman, vice-president; J. M. Pieratt, '99 Enid, secretary; and J. J. Merrill, '99, Oklahoma City, treasurer.
Chancellor and Dean Green Spoke at Annual Banquet in Tulsa.
UNIVERSITY TO TEST BLUE SKY INVENTIONS
Bank Commissioner Asks Engineers to Try Mechanical Merits of Contrivances
PREVENT FAKE STOCK SALES
spection.
Commissioner Dolley and University Engineers Work Together in In-
When a concern which has an invention that will put the Bell telephone out of business in six months wants to sell a few million dollars worth of stock in Kansas, hereafter the Engineering department of the State University will take a look at said "revolutionizing invention."
Bank Commissioner Dolley has written Chancellor Strong for the help of the institution in enforcing the Blue Sky Law. A great number of applications to sell stock are based on inventions. Here is a man who has a new electric battery made from a salt water solution. Here is a man who has a solar panel that harnesses a minute amount and get a billion horsepower at a time. All he needs is a few hundred dollars, which he hopes to get from prosperous farmers of Kansas.
Commissioner Dolly will pass upon the business end of these companies, and the University has promised to test out the feasibility of the invention, and the merits of the mechanical contrivance.
University Physicians Apply Popular Treatment to Pneumonia.
ANOTHER FRESH AIR CURE
The physicians at the University hospital in Rosedale have found the fresh air treatment for pneumonia to be the most efficient cure for the disease. The old idea that patients should be shut up in a closed room has been proved false.
"When we put the patients out they object at first, but after twelve hours in the air they will not be taken in," Dean Sudler told a Kan-gan of who is experienced by all who have been subjected to the treatment."
Porches have been built at the hospital outside of the rooms occupied by the patients suffering with pneumonia.
When the method of open air treatment was first presented by the Presbyterian Hospital of New York in 1905, the "old doctors" cried "fanatics." "As soon as they kill a few patients they will wake up from their dreams," they said. The Jefferson Hospital in Chicago, like the University Hospital, is fighting that old side partner of cold and exposure, pneumonia, with the fresh air treatment.
FACULTY MEMBERS TEST HOME ECONOMICS COOKING
Dr. Edna D. Day, head of the Home Economics department will give a dinner tonight to the five Faculty members who teach allied subjects. The plates will be laid in the department dining room, in the basement of the Fine Arts Building in Hungate, specializing in Home Economics, will have charge of the dinner.
HERE'S THE FIRST CHALLENGE
Minerals are Willing to Engage With Anyone on Engineer's Day.
Evidently spring is here. The K. U. Miners feeling the warm rays of the sun on their backs put their heads to the ground and came out with the following challenge:
"We the K. U. Miners do hereby challenge any Engineering School to the following events to be pulled off on Engineers' Day—100 yards, half mile, mile relay (eight men), boxing, and wrestling three weights, a tug of war (eight men) and as a climax a nine inning game of baseball."
Spotts Talks at Kansas City
Ralph Spotts gave an illustrated lecture on K. U. before The College Club at Kansas City, Mo., Monday night. At present he is at Hutchinson, where he gives two addresses at a meeting of the Central Kansas Teachers' Association.