UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WORKS FOR STATE AND GIVES ADVIGE
Department of Electrical Engineering Is Often and Freely Consulted
IN EXISTENCE SINCE 1888
Dean Marvin in his office in Marvin Hall
Much of Thesis Work Has Practica Value—A. I.E. E. Invites Prominent Men to Meetings.
The department of Electrical Engineering is doing much practical work for the state, and it is consulted freely by municipalities and various electrical organizations in the state and also in the neighboring territory of other states.
The standardizing laboratory is called upon to maintain standards for such electrical testing laboratories as are maintained in this region. The laboratory is called upon to do certain work of the state in connection with the purchase of electrical supplies or the operation of electrical plants at other state institutions. It also helps in the investigation of various devices used as a basis for the organization of stock companies asking permission to do business in Kansas.
In conjunction with the Mechanical Engineering department, the Electrical department was able to furnish sufficient instruments and men for the very complete acceptance tests recently made at the new power plant of the Kansas Gas and Electric Company at Wichita.
The Electrical Engineering course at the University of Kansas was introduced in 1888 in connection with the department of physics, and it was associated with that department until the fall of 1909, when a separate department of electrical engineering was placed. The new department was placed in Prof. Geo. C. Shaad, formerly associate professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PLANS WERE MADE EARLY
General plans for considerably increasing the electrical laboratory equipment had already been made, and the following year this equipment was purchased and the laboratories were moved to the basement of Marvin hall. In the purchase of additional apparatus a standardizing laboratory and a photometrical laboratory were provided for, and in addition instruments were purchased of such a range that the experiments with electrical machines need not be confined to the smaller laboratory units, but tests may be made on the larger generators and motors found in lighting and power plants and other industries. The laboratory work has been placed in charge of Prof. C. A. Johnson, with C. F. Hanson as his assistant.
An active student branch of the
TO PROVIDE COURSE BROAD TRAINING
The course in electrical engineering as offered to undergraduate students is laid out with the view of providing a broad training in the fundamental subjects, leaving the details of electrical engineering practice to a comparatively few subjects, which are taught more with the idea of giving instruction in the application of general principles to engineering practice, than with the view of gaining a considerable knowledge of such details. Graduates from this course appear to be able to hold their own when in competition with students from other schools, and they are to be found holding responsible positions in all of the various branches of the profession.
America Institute of Electrical Engineers is maintained and prominent engineers are invited in to address this society at its meetings.
About fifteen students are graduated from the course each year, and considerable of the thesis work done by these men has practical value. Among such for the present year may be mentioned the transmission tests being made on the long distance lines of the Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company and the efficiency tests to be made of the plant of the lighting and railway com- operating at Emporia.
THEY PICKED A LOCK AND MISSED A CLASS
The engineers are familiar with it for they see it every day, but lots of the students don't know that one building on the hill contains a real live elec
PREPARING STUNTS FOR H. S. ATHLETES
Mandolin Club Will Play Glee Club Sing,and the TumblersTumble
UNIVERSITY GETTING RAILWAYS' VALUATION
The lock has not been picked since.
Arrangements for the entertainment of the 250 high school athletes who will be here for the high school meet next Saturday are being completed by the Student Council, and Watson Camp-Porter is chairman of the committee of arrangements has succeeded in getting a good bunch of entertainers for that night.
The domestic science department will serve a dinner Saturday night in the gymnasium, and following this will come
Prof. Dalton at Topeka for a Year Assisting Utilities Commission
TEN OTHERS IN STATE WORK
vator, or lift, as our English cousins have it.
Fifty Thousand Dollars of K. U.
Appropriation Returns Directly to State Each Year
B. J. Dalton, associate professor of railway engineering, who was detailed by the University last November to devote a year of his time to the public utilities commission at Topeka, visited his family in Lawrence over Sunday.
Prof. Dalton is making a physical valuation of the railways in Kansas. He has already checked up most of the data sent in by the railway companies and will soon begin a tour of inspection over the state. He will put in a year on the work.
Prof. Dalton is one of eleven University professors who are devoting all or most of their time to direct service for the state. Dr. S. J. Crumbine is secretary of the state board of health; Prof. H. L. Jackson has charge of the pure food analysis; Prof. Erasmus Haworth is state geologist, Prof. W. C. Hoad is the state's sanitary engineer; C. A. Haskins of his department assists him in
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It is in Marvin hall and is in use every day—not that the engineers ride in it—it wouldn't do, you know, for a man, who in a few years will be sealing mountain peaks, to be carried up one flight of stairs to class. No, indeed. The janitor rides the elevator. He uses it to tote heavy articles around with—and there are lots of them in Marvin Hall.
Many of the upper classmen remember the time that a party of amateur crackers succeeded in getting in and aboard the elevator. They blithely started off—or rather up—for a joy ride, but alack, some jealous ones, who would have preferred outfitted the machinery so that the joy riders remained for a class period between floors like animals in a pit, the joy of all observers.
But the engineers think they ought to have a ride once in a while and many are the ingenious plans which have been devised to break into the elevator shaft. The shaft is guarded by grated steel doors, which are kept locked. Most of the breaking in schemes are of the lock picking variety.
the entertainment. Chanellor Strong will give an address of welcome, the Glee club quartette will sing, and the mandolin club will give some music. We have also been obtained to give a demonstration of some real classical tumbling.
Coach Hamilton will wind up the program with the presentation of the cups, medals, and debating cup that will have been won the previous evening.
"We hope in this way" said Arch McKinnon, "to get the high school men who will attend some university in the fortune, so well acquainted with Kansas and the men that they will no longer be there when the other school. These men have been betrayed past, and we want to see that they do not have a dull minute while here.
Tickets will be sold to University men, and it is hoped that a large number will attend, so that beside each high school will be seated a University man.
"We also want to see that they are entertained while here by the fraternities, clubs, and organizations, and we want to urge that they notify Coach Hamilton the number of men that they can take care of. All those who are left over will be entertained at the expense of the Athletic Association."
making state surveys; Prof. George N. Watson and A. E. Stevenson are drug analysts; Prof. L. D. Lyce is state game and fish warden; Prof. S. J. Hunter is entomologist for the southern half of the state; and Prof. E. F. Stimpson is deputy state sealer of weights and measures.
All of these University men are paid by the University and represent a direct return to the state of at least $50,000 a year.
DEAN JOHNSTON SPEAKS
TO ILINIOS STUDENTS
Dean Charles Hughes Johnston, of the School of Education, lectured at the University of Illinois at Campaign, yesterday and today on the subjects, "Modern Demands upon the High School Teachers," "Administrative Problems of the Modern High School," "Supervisory Problems of High School Instruction," and "The Program of Studies."
The lectures are given under the auspices of the School of Education of the University of Illinois.
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We Sell Cigars!
not the smokers of cigars.
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Prof. Erasmus Haworth, known Profanely as "Daddy." Head of Mining and Geology
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