UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SENIOR THESES ADD
MUCH TO KNOWLEDGE
Engineers Gather Fund of Valuable Information Before Graduation
FOWLER SHOPS, A GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY
HELP IN STATE WORK, TOO
Every Man Who Gets a Sheepskin This Year Working on Some Line of Research
All senior engineers are required to prepare a thesis on some original subject, and the results of the investigations in connection with the thesis work constitutes a fund of valuable information. Much of the information thus obtained becomes of value to every resident of the state. Methods for the better disposal of sewage are formulated; the uses of domestic soap powders are determined; new phases of electricity are developed, and many more similar subjects are thoroughly investigated
The students who are working on theses this year and the subjects are:
Electricals: Elmer Dershem, testing of instrument transformers in power plants; Forest C. Walden and Orin E. Marvel, efficiency of telephone transmission; Ross I. Parker and H. F. Wilson, reliability and serviceability of electric meters; Leslie A. Baldwin and Emerson L. Bray, visibility of using alternating or direct current for power and lighting in a Kansas City suburb; Carl F. Hanson and Edward E. Stephens, armature reaction in a rotary converter; B. Roy Mock and Charles V. Waddington, test of the Emporia electric power plant; Thomas P. Steeper and Glenn O. Brown, tests of Lawrence street railway motors, and Martin K. Thonen and Daniel H. Cadmus, new features of magnetic separation of ores.
Mechanicals: R. H. Forney and Volney Hilford, efficiency tests of the 1,000 horse-power gas pressure unit of the Scipio pump station of the Kansas Natural Gas Company; Lawrence L. Browne and Charles G. Martinson, efficiency of universal joints in automobile construction; Murray Holley for the Connexion plant; handling at the Witte Gas Engine works in Kansas City, and Ray L.Bartlett, effects of compression on steam engine economy.
Sanitary and Civilis: Thomas P. King and Joseph O. Moffett, design of a reinforced concrete building; John P. Boesche and Fred E. Johnston, impounding reservoir and dam to furnish water supply for a city of fifteen thousand inhabitants; Guy S. Smith and Roy M. Smith, farm drainage; H. L Wilson, H. H. Houk, Thomas P. Humphrey, Ralph J. Tucker and Herbert Stockwell, effects of repeated loads on reinforced concrete beams; Perry C. Cole, measurement of water by triangular wiers; H. U. Becker and Bert E. Dodge, plans and specifications for reinforced concrete bridge over the Smoky Hill river at Ellsworth, Kansas.
Chemicals: Arch MacKinnon, water and flourine; Edmund O. Rhodes, determination of phenol; Harold K. Shaw, test for the determination of free chlorine in treated water; Glen S. Pyle, influence of metals upon pinholes in enamel; C. C. Spillman, lemon extracts; Charles J. Robinson, investigation of calcium fluoride; Howard N. Calderwood, action of metallic sodium upon organic halogen compounds; Halothane E. L. Griffith, the interaction of formamidines with compounds containing methylene hydrogen; Charles E. Cubbinson, powder gases, and Gilbert E. Bragg soap powders.
To Make Bigger Campus.
Miners: Oliver L. Andrews, explosibility of coal dust; Morton G. Monroe, assay of platinum ores and George M. Brown, coal washing tests.
A plan to enlarge the campus of the University of Illinois, which will provide for the location of the new stock judging pavilion, army, horticultural buildings, palace ground, stadium, and military patio ground must be added to the board of trustees for approval.
Raise Vegetables on The Campus.
The unused portion of the Princeton campus, amounting to 150 acres, will be turned over to students for farming purposes, as a means of sliding undergraduates to earn their way through college.
COURSES FOR THOSE TAKING THE PLUNGE
Professor Cady Prescribe From the Catalog for Cupid's Victims
"A Few Courses Which Students Contemplating Marriage Should Take While in the University," was the subject of Prof. H. P. Cady's toast at the Sigma Xi banquet Friday night.
"University offers several courses which are especially important to those students who ever expect to get married," said Professor Cady, "and such students will do well to take advantage of the opportunities offered by university to further prepare themselves for the marriage state."
Courses which should be taken by the women should take are, "The Romantic School," "Descriptive Astronomy," "Lyric Poetry," "Domestic Relations," "The Family," and "The House."
Courses which should be taken by the man alone, the woman not having any use for them, are, "Debating," "Principles of Argumentation," "Gas Analysis," "Accounting," and "Prose Invention."
A few courses which would be of use to the would-be-bride are, "Dietetics" "Home Administration," and "Foods."
After the above courses have been taken, both could take "Money and Credit" to their advantage. A little later, they should take "Musical Appreciation," "Early English," "Introduction to Phonetics," "Corrective and Remedial Agencies," and "Grammar and Reading."
NOBLE YELLOW DOG
AVERTS A TRAGEDY
Death seemed near, when around the corned dashed a little yellow dog, who boldly seized the beast by the throat and throttled him.
One of the most popular professors, Dr. L. V. Redman of the department of Industrial Research, has the chicken raising hobby.
The yellow cur was the hero of the hour. Dr. Redman says he his life to his membership in the mystic yellow dog.
He is very careful of his proteges, and last evening when he heard some large animal clawing and scarcching on his coop, he started for the rumpus in a rage. He called to his colleague, Professor Trickey, and the two armed themselves with brooms and started the attack.
UNIVERSITY GIRL ASSISTS
WELL KNOWN ORGANIST
The large, ferocious beast proved to be a blood-thirsty gray rat, which immediately gave chase to the Professors.
A very high compliment was paid Edith Male Bideau when she was invited to assist Edward Krieser of Kansas City in his one hundred and forty-seventh recital at the Independence Boulevard Christian Church.
Mr. Kreiser is a well known organist and his recitals commands large audiences. Miss Bridian sang, "I Will Extol Thee," by Michael Costa, and responded to an encore with "He Shall Lead His Flock," from "The Messiah."
OLD STUDENT UPHOLDS
K. U. ENGINEERING COURSE
"Complete the course in engineering at the University of Kansas," is the advice recently received from B. F. Clawson, an old engineering student of the University.
Clawson left the University in 1910 while in his junior year. He went to Seattle, Wash., where he obtained work with a surveying company. At present he is finishing his engineering course at the University of Washington.
Clawson's advice to all the engineers is to finish their course at the University before seeking employment.
WOMEN DON'T LIKE TRANSIT AND LATHE
But Five Have Been Regularly Enrolled in Engineering School
Engineering has never been a popular course for women at the University, however, five women have been enrolled regular, in the engineering school science it was founded and many have taken special courses.
Elmira Noyes, Beth Boright, Ada Wilson, Martha Ellen White, and Frances Bliss were all regular engineers who taught in 1901-1904, but none of them graduated.
Miss Wilson was a chemical engineer, the others were civils. Miss Noyes is now teaching manual training in the schools at Norfolk, Va.
In 1907, a one hour class in shop work was opened for girls. There were eighteen girls enrolled and their work was in special manual training, such as wood-work and metal work. This course was continued until this year, when it was given up owing to lack of teaching time of instructors in the department.
Several High School teachers come to summer school for the purpose of taking engineering courses. Drafting, mechanical drawing, descriptive geometry, and foundry work are the popular courses for women in the summer school.
TO TEST BEAMS FOR NEW UNION STATION
Force of 16,300 lbs. Falls on Beams Twenty Times Each Minute
Concrete beams such as will be used in the new Union station building at Kansas City, which is now being built, will be tested in the laboratories of the University of Kansas. The testing will be done in the spring as the work now being done by Prof. C. I. Corp, Prof H. A. Rlee, and five students, on beams made at the University.
These beams are tested on a machine which was built in the basement of Fowler Shops. The machine is simple but effective. Weights are dropped on the ends of two levers, the other ends of which strike the suspended beam at the same time. About 600 pounds are put on the end of each lever, from which a force of 16,300 lb. falls onto the beam at a rate of 20 times a minute. They tested with this weight sustained 2,000 blows before it crashed.
The beams are 13 feet long with a cross section 8 by 11 inches and reinforced with 3 half-inch steel rods. The object of the testing being done is to measure the weight a weight may be applied any number of times without breaking the beams.
It has been found that the beams will break immediately under a weight of 17,500 pounds. Ninety per cent of this weight can be withstood for about 2,000 times, eighty per cent for 6,000 times, and so on, the number of times increasing rapidly as the weight is diminished slowly. It is estimated by the theorem that the beam will be able to withstand the matter how many times it is applied, about 55 per cent of the weight that will break it immediately.
The results of these experiments will be valuable to bridge builders, as most as most of the weight which bridge construction requires during short time, at longer or shorter intervals.
Mr. John Cain, of Atchison, spent Saturday at the Phi Gam house.
PULITZER SCHOOL NOW OPEN TO WOME!
It has been recently announced that women will be admitted to the Pulitzer school of journalism at Columbia university. The first two years of the course, collegiate work chiefly, will be given in Barnard college.
Fresh strawberry sundees at Soxman's.-Adv.
APRIL NUMBER APPEARS
Graduate Magazine Contains Many Articles of Especial Interest
The April number of the Graduate Magazine is out today with the leading article by Chancellor Strong on, "The University," an article addressed especially to graduates and former students of the University.
Captain Palmer Pierce, instructor in the War College at Fort Leavenworth, comes out this month with a strong article on, "The Meaning of the Amateur Law of Athletics and the Necessity for It." Another article well worth notice in the athletic notes of this issue is, "Early Interclass Football," by Charles Ernest Hall, class of '86.
The review of "Books and Articles" this month gives mention of thirteen different books and articles by instructors and alumni of the University, including "High School Education"; by Dean Charles H. Johnston, by Dr. Charles G. Dunlighn, by Dr. Charles G. Dunlighn, by were contributed by Prof. S. J. Hunter, Prof. W. H. Twenffoll and Mary Leland Hunt.
A special feature of the April issue is the chart showing a comparison in regard to the number of teachers who received training in the University of Kansas schools, with information and graphs by the School of Education.
The frontispiece this month is an unusually fine photograph of the Chancellor taken in his study.
Isn't it a fact that the reason the engineers are such good patrons of Griggs' Cigar and News Stand is because they know he is always on the SQUARE?
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