UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 26, 1912.
CULEBRA CUT BEATS
OREAD SNOW DRIFTS
Professor Corp, in Chapel Describes Engineering Difficulties at Panama
CUT WIDER THAN CITY BLOCK
NUMBER 47.
Speaker Compares Dimensions With Stand Pipe—Pressure on Sides so Great Bottom Bulges up.
An interesting discussion of some difficult problems which confront the engineers at the Culebra Cut in Panama was given in chapel this morning by Prof. C. I. Corp of the School of Engineering.
"The cut will be nine miles long, 496 feet deep at the worst part, and the bottom will have a minimum width of 300 feet throughout its entire length. In more familiar terms the width of the cut is equal to the length of a short block in Lawrence, and its depts will average several times the height of our stand pipe."
"90,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and stone must be taken out before it can be completed. Since 1,000,000 cubic yards would cover a space as large as a building plus half the height of our stand pipe, the disposal of this immense quantity of material presents no small problem."
Professor Corp said that the actual excavation was an easy matter compared with the problem of averting slides. "Fifteen per cent of the material removed in the last year was taken from slides.
Will Be Married April 17.
"Ordinary methods of dealing with this trouble are entirely inadequate. The enormous pressure is illustrated by the fact that the bottom of the canal has bulged up in several places showing that the lateral pressure of the material moving down the slopes is so great that the rock in the bottom is fractured and forced upward. This is a phenomenon rarely met with in engineering history.
"Notwithstanding the difficulties encountered," said the speaker, "the engineers are mastering the problem and it is expected that the canal will be completed well within the time set for opening in 1915."
Another Phi Kappa.
The marriage of Miss Helen Morrow '11, of Topeka, to Mr. Paul E. Walker of Holton, will take place April 17, at the home of Miss Morrow's parents in Topeka.
Only relatives and intimate friends will be present. After the ceremony the bride and groom will leave for a trip through Florida.
Another Phi Kappa.
Will French's name was inadvertently omitted from the members of Phi Delta Kappa in Friday's Kansan.
THE WILSON CONCERT
Last Recital of Fine Arts Winter Course in Fraser Hall Tonight.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson will give the last recital of the Fine Arts winter course in Fraser hall tonight at eight o'clock. An admission price of thirty-five cents will be charged.
She will give the following program:
Aria—Come Raggio di Sol. Caldara
Aria—Te su t'mami'. Pergolesi
Songs—Dedication. . . Schumann
The Old Mother. . . Grieg
The First Violet. . . Grieg
Songs—Snow. . . Sigurd Lie
The Gull. . . Sinding
In Summer Fields. Brahms
Love Song. . . Brahms
The Lorelei. . . Jensen
Songs—Elegie. . . Massenet
Aria—From "Herodide"
He is good. . . . .
He is good. . . . . . . . . Massenet
—Moonlight. . . . . . . . . Cadman
The Little Thief. Leo Stern
My Laddie (by request)
. . . . . . . . . Thayer
The Cry of Rachel...
. . . . . Mary Turner Salter
Come into the Garden,
Love. Mary Turner Salter
YOUNG PATRICK HENRYS
AND WEBSTERS TO SOAR
State Oratorical Association to Convene at Winfield Next Friday—Seven Orations to be Delivered.
The State Oratorical Association,
composed of thirteen colleges of the
state will hold its annual contest in
Winfield next Friday. March 29.
Seven orations will be delivered.
These were determined by elimination
contest in thought and composition.
The subjects are: The New Americanism,
A Plea for International Unity,
Social Waste, The Genius of the
People, The American Negro, The New
Patriotism and Rienzi, Patron of Law.
BUY A SPRING SUIT?
It is often said "that it is an ill nill that blows nobody good," and so it is with our continuous snowstorms. Just think of it fellows! there won't be any need of a new Easter suit. So we can go home Easter and take that ten dollars we had already to pay down on our new thirty-five dollar creation, and see a show every day. From the present outlook, there will be no occasion to get a Spring suit at all, but it is a poor rule that doesn't work both ways. Just think of poor Mr. Ober and the rest of them.
O A SPRING SUIT!
YOUR OVERCOAT WILL DO
Dr. Redmond in Chicago.
Dr. L. V. Redmond has gone to Chicago to confer with the varnish company that is the donor of his industrial fellowship.
Y. W. C. A. WILL HEAR
ABOUT OLD NIPPON
Miss Kerr, Topeka Secretary to Lecture---Officers to Be Elected April 3
"Girl-life in Japan" is the subject of an illustrated lecture to be given at the Y. W. C. A. meeting Wednesday afternoon at 4:45.
Miss Kerr, general secretary of the city Y. W. C. A. in Topeka, forwards to Japan, in Japan, with work of actual condition and experiences in the Island Kingdom.
Miss Kerr visited the University last fall during the W. Y. W. C. A. cabinet conference. Many girls will remember especially the charming picture she drew of Japanese student life, in her informal talk at the conference luncheon.
in the Greek room, on the second floor of Fraser hall, instead of the usual meeting place in Myers hall. Preceding the afternoon's talk there will be a short business meeting of the Association, when the nominating committee will present its recommendations for officers of the association for 1912-13. The election will be held next week, April 3rd.
All University women are especially invited to attend this lecture on foreign association work.
Donald L. Wheelock has returned to Columbus, after spending the weekend at the Phi Phi house. He attended the Engineering School the last two years, and is employed now by the city as inspector for the new Sewer System which is being put in at Columbus.
Laurence Smith, a student in the School of Law, is considering an offer made to him by Mr. Dunbar, the organizer of the Redpath Lyeum Course. If he accepts the offer he will go to Chicago about the middle of April and from there be sent out on a trip.
Next Saturday is "Mothers' Day" at the Pi Bichi Phue. Thirty-three mothers are expected. A luncheon will be given in their honor at one-thirty. In the evening will be given the freshman facre.
Miss Margaret Fox, of Kansas City, who came to attend the Phi Gamma party is visiting her sister, Mrs. Gant.
Miss Olive Hartwell of Wichita is visiting Trine Latta, a sophomore in the College.
Miss Kathrine Hinkle ex. '10, of Manhattan, is visiting Gula Finch, 1201 Kentucky.
Mrs. McVey of Wichita is visiting her daughter, Virginia, a freshman in the College.
JUNIORS HEED NOT LURE OF THE PROM
ONLY 39 "DATES" ARE IN
"Shorty" Hoffman, Chairman Would Fain Have Them Achieve TheirTickets
ONLY 39 "DATES" ARE IN
Arc The Third Year Men Slow
Sports?—Prom The Big Social
Event of The Year.
What is the matter with all the loyal "fussers" in the junior class? According to "Shorty" Hoffman, chairman of the Junior Invitation committee the juniors are a bunch of "slow sports," which they spend their weeks off and only 39 "dates" are in.
For the benefit of the rest of the juniors, it may be said that the Junior Prom, as is called, is the one big event of University social life and each and every junior in the class should take part in it. Lack of dancing ability is no excuse; there is the farce, and it is said that much amusement is to be had in watching some of the dancers.
“Great Jumping Tersiphere! I never saw such a bunch of tightwads in my life! We can't blame the girls, surely, for there as it's pretty a lot of them. But as there as there on the hill. It's the fault it gonall, or near-gallant, knights.
"Shorty" Hoffman is irate, and berates his classmates thusly;
"Can't they see," demands "Shorty," "that it's up to them to decide whether the prom is to be a success or not? The committee must know this week who are going so the proper arrangements can be made. With no knowledge as to the number who are to go, the managers and all the committees are seriously handicapped. And then when there are boneheads in the air the committee will get the cussing. If the juniors don't want the prom to be a very dull affair, they'll get busy right away."
FRACTURES ARM INGYM
For the second time in succession, a Radcliffe girl has won the Craig prize of $250 for the best play written by a Harvard or Radcliffe student. "The Production of The Mill," the winning play will be staged by the donor of the prize at the opera house in Boston.
Howard E. Marchbanks Meets With Accident While Doing a Tumbling Feat
While working in the gymnasium Saturday, Howard E. Marchbanks, of Pittsburg, treasurer of the sophomore class, got his arm doubled beneath him in some way, severely fracturing it. The accident happened when several of the fellows were trying to do a rather difficult tumbling feat.
Radcliffe Licks Harvard.
GEHEN SIE ZU DEM
DEUTSCHEN SPIELE?
Wrote Article on "Ballast." Prof. David W. Stridling, of the School of Engineering, has an article on "Railway Ballast" in the March number of "Engineering and Contracting," a trade journal devoted to engineering and kindred subjects. Mr. Stridling is professor of railway engineering and before coming here, was city engineer of Indianapolis.
Tomorrow Is Tag day for German Play, "Der Bibliothekar"
ADVANCE SALE SATISFACTORY
Synopsis Will be Distributed For
Benefit of Those Not Acquainted With German Language.
The advance sale of tickets for the German play, "Der Bibliothekar," has been good and promises a full house Thursday night. Reserve seat tickets will go on sale at Woodward's drug store Wednesday morning. It is expected that the expenses of the play will require all the receipts.
A new plan will be tried on the programs of the play Thursday night. A full syllabus of the five acts will be given to the students, and a familiar with the German language,
Today is "tag day" and everybody will have to accept or repudiate the "Vaterland." The round blue tags have printed on the one side the old familiar German greeting that is used at almost every meeting of Germans, "Wie gett's".
The short speeches of the characters of "Der Bibliothekar" make it interesting, easy to understand, and also give fast action.
A fair co-eed stood on a down-town crossing yesterday afternoon. Longingly she looked at the other side of the street. Alternately she gazed at her shining boot and at the muddy, brown stream before her, unspanned by aught but telephone wires. She hesitated.
FIRST SET OF LANTERN
SLIDES TO GALENA HIGH
The first set of stereotype slides furnished by the extension department for lecture work, was sent out yesterday to Galena High School. The set "Home, the cross-roads of an Empire" was the one chosen by Roy Cook, "O'Malina" for exhibition. A complete lecture was supplied with the slides.
"Rome, The Cross-Roads of an Empire," Sent to The Mining Town Yesterday.
"Twenty or thirty requests have been received by the extension department for the sets," said Director Ralph Spotts this morning. "Others will be shipped as fast as the cases can be made for them. Slides are being prepared for subjects in Botany, Physical Geography, History of Chemistry, and English History, and Professor A. T. Walker of the Latin department, is preparing a syllabus for a lecture on the "Caesar's Helvetian Campaign series."
HE SIR WALTER RALEIGHS AND GETS BOX OF FUDGE
Betas to Feed in Kansas City.
Beta to the alumni and active members of Beta Theta Pi, who attend the track meet in Kansas City, Friday night will have a six o'clock dinner at McClintock's Cafe.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bonebrake of Pasadena, Calif., are guests today of Louise Fairchild, a freshman in the College.
Mr. Ray Soper went ot Kansas City this morning on business for The Oread Magazine.
William Miller of Topeka visited at the Beta house yesterday.
Miss Leta Saunders of Arkansas City is the guest of Gertrude Wiley, a senior in the College.
Sigma Nu will entertain Chi Omega at dinner, Thursday, March 28
At this crucial moment appeared upon the scene Sir Walter Raleigh, in the shape of two strong University men. A blind man could have seen the fair co-ed's predicament.
"Boatman, do not tarry, and I'll give the a silver pound to row me o'er the ferry," she murmured.
gazing pensively upon the flood.
gazing pensively upon the flood. Little did she think—but the men were young and gallant. In a trice the unsuspecting maid was seated on the unsuitable chair of four strong hands, and was being carried easily over the flood.
"Oh, how could you?" she gasped, as she was "dryly" deposited on the other bank; her face resembling a September sunset from the summit of Mt. Oread. Then, hesitatingly, "Well, I will do what I said. Come up to the house this evening, and I'll give you a box of fudge."
GRADUATE MAGAZINE HAS
SUBS ON FIVE CONTINENTS
They came. They got the fudge.
Fourteen Countries Represented o
The List. Japan Gets Three
And Canada Three.
In looking over the subscription list of the Graduate Magazine for this month it was found that in fourteen foreign subscriptions of that publication, the press of the University of Kansas has a representation on the five largest continents of the world and in ten different countries.
Of this number Japan gets three as follows: Kate I. Hansen, K. U. '05, missionary at Sendai, Jio Mamoru K. U. K. Eng.' 98, a native engineer of Tokio, and Mr. Frank Herron mimich, K. U. 02, a mission school teacher in Canada has three as follows: Clarence Johnson, Vancouver, B. C., George D. Johnson, Giroux Lake, Ont., and John H. Warkentin of Manitoba.
The remaining eight each have one as follows; Carrie Anderson, K. U. '05, now a student at Goettingen, Germany, Frank H. Blackmar, K. U. Eng.'08, in Colombia, S. A., W. H. Brown, K. U.'88, mining engineer and member of Rhodesian Council at Salisbury, Rhodesia, South Africa; Fay E. Livingood, K. U.'09 of the Euphrates修士, Harpool, Turkey; Roxana Oldroyd, K. U.'04, missionary at Lucknow, India; John G. Woodin, medical missionary, Haka, Burma; and John A. Van den Brook Middelharsil, Holland, with one Rhodes Scholarship exchange from London.
FOUNDRY IN FOWLER
MAKES GOOD SHOES
Holeproof but Warranted to Brake---Spring Styles Now on View.
An order for 2,000 pounds of brake shoes for the Lawrence Railway company is being filled by the University. The shoes are being cast in the foundry room of Fowler shops, and the work of making patterns and casting is all done by students in the School of Engineering.
"We do small jobs of casting for companies and the general public," said Prof. Frank E. Jones, instructor in the foundry department, this morning, "and it not only gives the students a wider variety of work, but also helps to pay the expenses of the department."
All the brake shoes used by the Lawrence Railway company, and also those used by the Emporia Street Railway company, are cast in the University foundry. The cars on the hill line of the Lawrence company require a new set of shoes every ten days.
Besides casting brake shoes, the University does a considerable amount of casting for the Santa Fe Railway company. These castings include, rub-plates, levers, boxings, and other small castings used on locomotives and railroad cars.
Former Art Student Married.
Miss Jane Kinney of Lawrence and "Monk" Ireland of Holton, Kansas was married Monday March 25 at the公立教堂 here. Miss Kinney attended the School of Arts last year.
Mr. and Mrs. Ireland left for Nashville, Tenn.
Good Government Club To Meet.
The Good Government Club will meet Thursday evening, March 28,
at the Phi Alpha Delta house at eight o'clock.
Professor Higgins will speak.
Kansas Graduate Lectures.
Hon. John A. Rush A.B., A.M., L.I.B., former student, and graduate of the University of Kansas lectured in the chapel at 4:30 on "Municipal Reform."
Astride The Angora.
Frairies Meet Tonight.
The meeting of the Frairies has been changed from eight o'clock to seven o'clock tonight at the Sig Alph house.
The Acacia fraternity held their annual banquet and initiation Saturday afternoon and evening in the Masonic Temple. Clyde D. O. Horbaker and Wallace C. Magathan were the initiates.
Chi Omega will hold initiation Friday, March 29, for Agnes Engel, Virginia Goff, and Ina Pratt.
EASTER VACATION IS PUT AHEAD ONE DAY
Monday of Mid-Term Siesta Traded for the Preceding Thursday
COURTESY TO KANSAS EDITORS
University Council Makes Change on Recommendation of Chancellor at a Special Meeting Yesterday.
Easter vacation this year will be moved forward one day. Instead of Friday and Monday, April 5 and 8, as announced in the catalogue, vacation days will be Thursday and Friday, April 4 and 5. This action was taken by the University Council at its meeting yesterday afternoon, the change being made in courtesy to the editors of Kansas who meet here Monday and Tuesday, April 8 and 9. President MacKinnon and members of the Men's Student Council who were seen informally before the meeting announced themselves heartily in favor of the change. The new dates will be more popular with a number of fraternities and clubs which are planning to entertain visiting editors on Monday and Tuesday.
WILL TALK IN OTHER TOWNS
Two University Professors Will Address in Hutchinson and Mulberry.
Two professors of the University will give lectures tonight in other cities. Prof. F. H. Hodder will give his regular extension course address on "The Reconstruction Period" at Hutchinson. Later in the evening he will give an illustrated lecture on "Political Caricatures."
Prof. W. E. Higgins of the Law School will address two thousand miners tonight at Mulberry, on "The Workman's Compensation Act."
Mayors Are Hard to Get
Ex-mayor Beardisley who had promised to speak at the Y. M. C. A. meeting on Thursday is unable to come at this time, but will speak at a later date. Mr. Stockwell, Y. M. C. A. secretary is going to Kansas City today and on his return will announce the speaker for Thursday.
CHANCELLOR TO ROSEDALE
Six ProfessorsWill Also Attend Council at The School of Medicine.
in The School of Medicine.
Chancellor Frank Strong left this morning for Rosedale to visit the Medical School and to attend the bianual meeting of the Medical Council this afternoon.
Professors C. E. McClung, F. B. Dains, L. E. Sayre, T. H. Boughton Dr. S. J. Crumbine, and Dr. E. J. Curran also left to attend the meeting.
FINDS HALF PINT PINTS
State Inspector Stimson Visits Stores in Pittsburg. Initiates City Sealer
Prof. E. F. Stimson, deputy state inspector of weights and measures, in a recent trip to Pittsburgh for the purpose of instructing the newly appointed police officers to measure in his duties, visited six stores and found fault apparatus in all.
Conditions in Pittsburg are typical of those in other towns and the aid the University is giving in helping enforce these conditions is an instance of the activity of the University.
Not only were the weights and scales faulty in Pittsburgh, but the cheap factory made tin measures were almost uniformly incorrect. Professor Stimson gave instructions to repairers of scales and measures in Pittsburgh about the proper method of mending such equipment as the city inspector condemns in the future. He found that there were no standard dimensions of measures in the possession of the tin-smiths.
The Sasnaks held initiation last evening for Guy Von Schriltz, Earl Killarney, Floyd Danskin, and John Hamilton.