UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
NUMBER 31
classes ann's-
State Historical
OREGON AND MAINE USE KANSAS AIR
But It's the Liquid Kind That Is Made at the University
ONLY PLANT WEST OF NIAGARA
The Kansas Product Has Been Shown in Practically Every Important City in the U. S.
A year or two ago a student from the chemistry department of the Kansas was visiting in Boston where he met students from the University of Maine and other eastern colleges. The Jayhawker was forced to endure the jeers and sar castic remarks of the eastern college men who insisted that western educational institutions could not possibly be civilized.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 4, 1912.
Why, Indiana were still running around out there in the west—they would say. How could any one be expected to study when he was forced to watch for the redskins, tomahawk and keep one finger on his six shooter all the time?
And so, the western man was advised to come east and get an education in a decent university where he could study. In a community of long standing.
One on the Easterners Though
On the same afternoon all the students attended a lecture on "Liquid Air." At the close of the lecture, the professor who had performed the experiment was asked to send cold water where the material he had used for his lecture had been prepared.
To the astonishment of the easterners, the professor acknowledged the University of Kansas as the place where his liquid air was made
"Kansas University can boast," says Prof. H. P. Cady, head of the chemical laboratories, "of having the only liquid air plant west of Niagara Falls that liquifies air for commercial purposes. While several schools have air machines, they are simply adjuncts of the Physics laboratory and no attempt is made to sell the product.
Air Sells Like Hot-Cakes
"The plant here is run almost continuously and quantities of the liquid air is turned out, but no effort is needed to dispose of all of it. Most of the product goes to a company of lecturers at the head of which is Wm. B. Pattley. Last year, numerous shipments were made to Texas, New Mexico, and several other Southern states. This year Patty is in the West. Last week air was sent to him at Spokane and this week a flash goes to Seattle."
"For shipment the liquid air is put into vacuum jacketed bottles holding ten pounds each. Because of the carelessness of the expressman, a student is sent to Kansar City with each flask and his duty it to see that it is put on a through car for its destination.
MENTION IN THE KANSAN
"The air is sold for $1 a pound and, together with the express and other expenses, the ultimate cost it about $5 a pound. Shipments have been made from here as far east as Cameron Springs, Pa., as far west" as the coast, north to the Canadian border and south to the Gulf, while the product of the Kansas laboratory has been shown in practically every city of importance in the United States."
BRINGS NOTICE FROM AFKR
The "Daily Kansan" continues to be read widely throughout the country.
A copy of the issue containing the write-up of the play, "Billy", which the Thespian Dramatic club staged a few weeks ago, fell into the hands of Stuart A. Hanks, manager of the club at Roarok College, Salem, Va.
BRINGS NOTICE FROM AFAR
Mr. Hanks wrote to the Thespian Club asking for information concerning the play, and where he could obtain the script. He stated that the club had been looking for some such play for some time, and that the success of "Billy" here, warranted their considering it. They intend to produce the play some time in April.
Y. W. C. A. WOMEN TEACH
BIBLE CLASSES AT HASKELL
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Girls Enrolled in Scriptural Study at Indian School.
The Indian girls in Haskell institute are becoming greatly interested in the Young Women's Christian Association through the influence of the young women of the State University who are much given to taking up some useful outside activity in connection with their regular school work.
In the Bible classes at Haskell are enrolled 125 Indian girls from six to nineteen years of age. There are many girls taught by girls from the University.
In connection with the regular Bible study, two University rinks have organized classes in gymnasium work. The drills and other forms of exercise appeal strongly to the interest of the Indian maidens.
IT "MUST COME TO DUST"
IN THIS NEW MACHINE
Grinder in Chemistry Building Makes Little Ones Out of Big Ones by Ancient Method.
A new grinding machine has just been installed by the industrial research department, in the west end of the chemistry building.
This machine employs the pebble grinding method, which is one of the oldest methods known. The flint stones, or pebbles, are placed in a porcelain jar with the material that is to be ground. The jar is the base of the machine and the main which revolves at about 50 revolutions per minute.
The new machine has four times the capacity of the old one which was too small to meet the demands of the department.
CLASSIFIED THE PEN WITH THE UNIVERSITY
Professor Blackmar Said Functions of Both Institutions Are Identical
A hundred students who had gathered in Myers hall for the third lecture on Social Problems, Monday afternoon were surprised to hear Prof. E. W. Blackmar, of the Graduate School, classify the University with the State Penitentiary.
"The state institutions at Lansing and on Mt. Oread," Professor Blackmar said, "have the same function. The University receives the young men and women who come to her doors, and tries to give them a training that will fit them for better citizenship on the future." A constitutary has the same end in view."
According to Professor Blackmar, the chief distinction between the freshman who climbs Mount Oread for the first time, and the criminal who dons a striped suit in the confines of a cell, is that the former's action is voluntary. The work of the University is mainly constructive; the penitentiary must give a great deal of attention to preventive measures, which will correct, or at least suppress the criminal tendencies of its "students."
"If the two institutions are so much alike, the same methods may be used in each," Professor Blackmar continued. "At the University we sometimes make a student spend five or six years on the ordinary four-year course, demanding that he reach a fixed standard of efficiency before he is eligible for admission. He should be adopted at Lansing. The criminal should be held in the penitentiary only so long as it is necessary to make a law-binding citizen out of him."
Professor Blackmar did not have time to take up the topic advertised, "Recreation and Amusements," and will therefore discuss this in his lecture next Sunday in Myers hall.
Miss Gretta Collins of Belleville, a former student at the University, is visiting at the Chi Omega house.
The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity entertained the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at dinner Sunday.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can eat over today. — Pellean.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
EVERY LITTLE IMPACT HAS A RECORD ALL IT'S OWN
On the cold grey ice. O gee!
I would that I could sputter
The thoughts jarred up in me
Break, break, break
Have you done it yet?
What?
The poor old seismograph is racked to death—has an awful headache. It will take a month or more of careful and sane living for it to get back to anywhere near the old time regularity. Every time little Anna Most-a-ton or Archibald Mere-feather unavoidably seat themselves upon the Be-o-计i-ff-o- o-l Snow the little earthquake announces gets nervous prostration in every %ber of its delicate signer.
Why slipped of course.
All the worlds a stage, "The Fall
FAMILY OF CLASS SOCIETIES COMPETE
"Sphinx," Freshmen Organization, Joins Sachems, Friars and Black Helmets
Another class society has been organized to join the Sachems, Friars, and Black Helmets. The "Sphinx" organized to join the Sachems, Friars is the name of the new society whose character is composed of nineteen freshmen.
of Man," is the bill and every man'n an actor.
The Sphinx has for its purpose the promotion of the best interests of the freshman class as a whole. At the meetings which will be held every two weeks prominent members of the faculty and student body will be entertained and live topics will be discussed.
The charter members are, Lawrence B. Morris, Frank E. Miller, Albert S. Teed, Ralph S. Busch, George K. Hamilton, Cale W. Carw, Joseph MacDonald, Frank E Bolin, Martin W. Goldsworthy, William K. Waugh, William L. Butler, William N. Thomas, Robert W. Linley, Charles S. Spellings, W. Westle Fuller, William H. Schwinn, Walter B. Martin, Harold R. Calhoun, and Charles M. Smith.
The majority of the large colleges and universities have one or more freshman class societies.
A kind friend sent a bunch of Daily Kansans eastward to the sea the other day and when we of the K. U.-Kansas City Star Newspaper Alumni Association read 'em over we arose and gave three cheers.
Exciting? Well we should murmur so. Its a back to the soil movement. Contortionism is all the rage People are just beginning to discover their anatomy. The student who can twist his old respectable spinal column into a figure eight spin both arms like a block system signal, do a toe dance with both feet in the air at the same time, keep or his hat, not swear, and in the end not fall down, carries off the blue ribbon in the glorious struggle for uprightness. But the man who falls ahic tears of lesions, for him is nothing but a cracked braincase, a gimpse of the stars by day, and a chorus of soulful ha-ha's from the unfeeling gallery.
The enclosed dollar—which is as much of a subscription as you can spare for that price—gives much more eloquent testimony as to our opinion of the paper than anything I could kick out of this typewriter.
Jerome G. Beatty.
MASQUE MAY STAGE "THEFORTUNEHUNTER"
Management Is Attempting to Secure Successful Comedy of College Life
The management of the Masque dramatic club is in communication with the American Play company to purchase the rights to present "The Fortune Hunter," a four act comedy at the University the latter part of April. Manager Charles Younggreen sent several telegrams to the play committee to make a definite announcement concerning the Masque play in a few days.
Should the Masque secure the rights to present "The Fortune Hunter" it will be the first time it has been played by other than the highest grade professional companies. It had a record run of two years in New York, and a year in Chicago, where he appeared on the roars of Hamilton, of New York, a former student of the University, created one of the two male leads.
The club is especially anxious to obtain the play as the story is of two college men, and their varied success after leaving school. Much of the fame of the play has been due to the drug store scene which is one of the most expensive and elaborate scenes in any of the present day plays.
The Masque club will hold its tryout for parts in the play Thursday night in Room 101 Fraser hall. “The Fortune Hunter” requires a cast of twenty members. Miss Gertrude Mossler will direct the production.
I'll adopt the profession of letters!
He vowed—but go on with the tale,
Well, he worked for a while at sign
OWED TO THE PHYSICS CLOCK
painting,
But not he delivers the mail.
—Judge's Library.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
The Physics Clock sate in his high stone tower
And glad that it be the mink of the oak scrub was ruding ning; the stubble gleamed golden;
All autumn's rich glory the Physics Clock saw. And he sighed as he bowered, "Ah, this view is sublime! How can one bother with marking the time?" (So he spread out his hands to a quarter past eight Tho' he knew very well he was two hours late.)
The bright winter sun flamed across the horizon,
And glinted his beams on ice-covered world;
Mount Oread was sheeted in gleam-flashing crysts
The dun wheatfields breathed and were surfaced with em'rald Each pink-mantled orchard shook bloom on the breeze, The far valley hillsides blushed green in the sunlight.
"like
And the Physics check cried, as enravished he gazed,
"This beauty can never be suitably praised."
(So he folded his hands to a quarter past two
And hauptly considered the ieceled view).
And fresh vernant robes sheathed the sketcher.
And the Physics Clock said,—he attempted to sing,
“There never is time to keep time in the Spring.”
(Then he waved his two hands in pure vural glee
As he saw the sun set at a quarter past three.)
Each tower glass-armored; each tree silver-pearled And the Physics clock cried, as enraptured he gazed,
The far valley hillsides blushed green in the sunlight,
Above bent the infinite blue skies of Kansas, June-green was the valley, soft blue the far hills, The yellowing wheat wavied in ripples of amber
And high pulsed the life that warm Summer thrills.
But the Physics Clock said as he glimpsed the hot town,
"I need a vacation, I think I'll run down."
(So he let his hands drop to five-twenty-nine
And took a through train on the Slumberland line.)
GRUCHL GULLIANNE
Leading American Violinist Will Appear in Fraser—Was Soloist With Thomas Orchestra.
ALBERT SPALDING WILL
GIVE RECITAL TUESDAY
Albert Spalding, the leading American violinist, will give a recital in Fraser hall Tuesday evening with his own accompanist Andre Benoist. Mr. Spalding has made two successful tours of Europe, achieving remarkable success in Berlin, Vienna, London, Paris and all great centers.
Devil's Trill Sonata—Tartini. (Said by Tartini to have been played to him in a dream by his Satanic majesty.) Concerto in E minor—Mendels
He was engaged as soloist by the Thomas Orchestra twice in the same year and taken with them as soloist on the only Eastern tour they made in eleven years. In regard to his program Professor Morse says it will be the finest ever heard in Lawrence. It is as follows:
Concerto in E minor—Mendelssohn.
Chanson Louis XIII and Pavane-
Couperin-Kreisler.
XIII and Pavane-Courier-Kreisler,
Romance in F—Beethoven,
Hungarian Dances No. 15 and 21.
Brahms-Joachim.
Serande Melancholique—Techikowski.
The Bee—Schubert.
Souvenir de Moscow—Wieniawski.
SENATORS MEET FRIDAY
Cooley Club Discussed Open Shop
Question
The Cooley Club, the model Senate,
met Friday afternoon and discussed
the question: Resolved that the Federal
document Should Enforce the Open Shop.
The meetings of the Cooley Club, hereafter, will be every Friday afternoon at 1:30 instead of 2:30.
TUNNEL AND SHAFT PETITION THETA TAU
Engineering Society Seeks Membership in Nation- Fraternity
The Tunnel and Shaft society of the School of Engineering has issued a petition for membership in Theta Tan, a national honorary engineering fraternity.
The society has published a neatly bound petition in booklet form. It contains the names of the members of the local organization and the school honors which each has won and also large photographs of the different buildings of the School of Engineering.
Members of the boarding board are, Prof. H. A. Rice, Oliver L. A. Andrews, Herbert L. Welson, Richard Ward, H. H. Campion, A. H. Manglorsd, Charles M. Coats, Fred E. Moore, Van Houten and Ross L. Parker.
The Tunnel and Shaft society was organized in the School of Engi-
gineering.
Theta Tau is a representative engineering fraternity and has chapters at the Case School of Applied Science, University of Minnesota Michigan School of Mines, Colorado School of Mines and at other large engineering schools.
A GLADIATOR SMITTEN
Roy Spear, the 1910 Center. Will Marry an Okla-
homa Girl
Roy Spear who played a sterling game at center for the Kansas gladiators last year reports that he is about to follow in the foot steps of several of his illustrious predecessors and take unto himself a wife.
The young lady in the case is Miss Ola Bissie Jones of Oklahoma City and the date set is March 7th. Miss Jones is a graduate of Bartlesville High School and since leaving that institution has specialized in Elecution.
Spear is a 1911 graduate of the Engineering school.
After a visit to Spears home in Wellington, they will return to Bartlesville where Spear is Assistant City Engineer.
A NEW SORORITY MAY BE STARTED?
It Is Rumored That Tri Delt or Alpha Phi Is Being Petitioned
PAN-HELLENIC MEETS TODAY
Girls Disclaim all Knowledge, But President of Pan-Hellenic Says it May be True.
"I understand that a group of University girls are petitioning either Delta Delta Delta or Alpha Phi. However, I have never had any official notice of such a petition being presented but at the regular meeting of the Pan-Hellenic this afternoon the matter will be discussed."
This was the answer Bertha Dack, president of the women's Fan-Hellenic gave to the question asked her this morning whether or not she had been informed of the petition said to have been presented to a national sorority. A persistent rumor on the hill this month at 1400 Tennessee street were the petitioners but they disclaim all knowledge of the matter.
PHI BETA KAPPA
INITIATED TWENTY-SIX
Dr. W. L. Burdick Was Toastmaster at the Banquet—Seventy-Five Were Present.
Twenty-six initiates into the society of Phi Beta Kappa were entrusted with the secrets of that fraternity last Friday evening in the parlors of the First Presbyterian church, the occasion being the twenty-third anniversary of the founding of the Kansas chapter and the one hundred and thirty-sixth of the society. Seventy-five members were present.
Following initiation, a banquet was served at which Dr. W. L. Burdick, who is the president of the Kansas chapter, the toastmaster. The following toasts were responded to:
The United Chapters—Professor Walker.
The Phi Beta Kappa Badge—Professor Corbin.
The Undergraduate's View of College Life—Miss Gossett.
The Undergraduate's View of the Faculty--Miss Wilkie.
The Phi Beta Kappa Initiation—Professor Campbell.
The Undergraduate's View of College Honors>Don L. Davis.
lege Honors--Don L. Davis.
The following are the initiates:
Maelynette Aldrich
Homer Augustus Alexander
Elva Marian Black
Gerttrude Blackmar
Helen Salisbury Burdick
Fay Carmichael
Don Louis Davis
Chester George Farnsworth
Angeline Figley
Gerttrude Figley
Irene May Garrett
Gale Galaigh Gossett
Myrtle Greenfield
Edith Irene Haight
Mary Ise
Lucile Kellerman
Edward Frederick Kohman
Lucie Mike March
William Vernon Miller
Evalyne Ragsdale
Jennie May Richardson
Worth Huff Rodebush
Julia Anne Simms
Patti Sankee
Grace Wilkie
Elizabeth Kreps Wilson
Brown University Library Enriched.
The John Hay library at Brown University has been enriched by the addition of a number of books and a portrait given to the college under the will of the late Col. George Earl Church, of London. The collection, which embraces many rare volumes relating to the history of South America, has just been installed on shelves in a room adjoining the Harris collection of American poetry.
Phi Alpha Delta Pledges.
Alpha Dewm
The following have included
Phi alba Harel: Paul Royer, Alva
Lindsay, Guy Von Schritz, Alonzo
Buzick, Arthur Baker, Harvey Poole,
Louis Lacoss, J. S. Kent, Edward
Colin and Paul McCaskill.