THE KANSAN
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
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THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1910.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Lawrence Daily Gazette,takes one long, solemn, knock at "Ysbrand." We make this statement in this place and at this time in order to let you know just what the Gazette did say about the play. Unfortunately the Gazette does not disseminate its news very far and very generally. We therefore offer our little aid. Come to think about it those papers that always are laying for everything with a loaded sledgehammer are never very successful. They are "different"—but not popular. Only chronic knockers like chronic knockers and at the present time the brotherhood of the order does not number many souls.
The action of the Chancellor in ordering hat there be in the future only one dramatic production by each club each year will meet favor with everyone. Even the member of the clubs are glad of the action. One presentation each year for each club is enough for the club members and will abundantly satisfy the appetite that the students may have for amateur productions. There will then be one play by the Masque club, one by the Thespians, and one by the School of Fine Arts. And that is certainly enough.
Herrnstein, formerly of Ohio state, and Levine, formerly of Tennessee state, have applied for Coach Kennedy's old position. This array of talent must scare Kennedy almost to death. No need of it, though. Kansas would not be after one of the Ohio or Tennessee cast-offs, even if a change of coaches was contemplated.
If the basket-ball team keeps up its good work some of that numerous body of students, who made up their minds to go to Missouri to school next year as a result of the late sorrow, may reconsider and stay with Kansas.
We refuse to argue the point. Possibly "Tommy" Johnson's basket-ball "uniform" has shrunk since last year. It was rather abbreviated last season though.
The pictures you have made for the Annual will be studied for years. MOFFETT'S PHOTOGRAPH'S portray the CHARACTER and INDIVIDUALITY of the subject. See those already made for many of the seniors. Use either phone, 312, for appointments.
LECTURED ON HARMFUL BUGS
MALARIA AND TYPHOID DIS CUSSED BY PROF. HUNTER.
Much Economic Loss and Disease Caused by Fly and Mosquito.
Professor Samuel J. Hunter lectured on the subject, "Harmful Insects," at the tuberculosis exhibit Saturday afternoon. He told of the insects that spread disease among men and beasts with especial reference to those forms most prevalent in this region.
According to Professor Hunter malaria and typhoid fever are the two diseases spread by insects that are most common to Kansas. It has been ascertained that the only way malaria can spread is through the malarial mosquito This insect bites people afflicted with the disease and, travelling on, bites others, injecting malaria germs at the same time.
Some time ago the department of entomology here investigated the mosquitoes around Lawrence and found only one place where the malaria mosquitoes breed. That was in a slough not far from the University. All of the family living in the house closest by was down with malaria.
"People do not realize what an economic loss the malarial mosquito causes," said Professor Hunter. "One million cases of chills a year greatly impair the economic productiveness of the people. About 12,000 people die annually from malaria. The early English colonies in Virginia were unsuccessful because of malarial mosquitos. Today parts of Africa, America, and Asia are not settled for the same reason."
The insect that is mainly responsible for the spread of typhoid fever is the common house fly. This pest breeds in horse manure, hog hair, garbage of all kinds, dead animals, and human excreta. Upon its padded feet are often found 6,050,000 germs. The fly loves to walk in food intended for human consumption, leaving typhoid germs in its tracks.
All manure should be thrown from barns into pits or closed sheds and no open cess pools should be allowed if the fly is to be exterminated. In addition all fermenting vegetable matter should be cleaned away. The towns of the state are beginning to take measures against typhoid and they have succeeded well. The farmer has not taken such preventative measures and today typhoid is mainly a question for the farmer to handle.
Students of the pharmacy classes will hold a banquet at the Eldridge house next Thursday evening. S. J. Crumbine will talk upon "Drug Analysis, and the Pharmaceutical Profession." Mr. H. F. Faxon, wholesale druggist of Kansas City, will also make an impromptu address to the students.
A Pharmacy Banquet.
Many of the alumni of the school will be present and the dinner will serve both the purpose of bringing the old alumni and students together.
Twenty-three men from the senior class and eight from 1911 have been elected to Phil Beta Kappa at Harvard. The additional members from the class of 1910 are to be announced at a later date.
TWO FOR CONGRESS.
Alumni Are Candidates in Kansas Districts.
The Second Kansas congressional district is no longer the only one in which an alumnus is a candidate for the Republican nomination for congress. Last week Fred S. Jackson, '92, announced through the columns of the Eureka Herald, published in his home town, that he would be a candidate against J. M. Miller, the present representative from the Fourth district.
Mr. Jackson is at present serving his second term as attorney general of Kansas, where he has made a name fro himself in his fight for the enforcement of the prohibitory law. He has also been prominent in standing boldly for the principles advocated by Governor Stubbs for improving political affairs in the state. He has been in Lawrence many times since his graduation and has made several addresses before University audiences.
Arthur F. Cranston, '94, is another graduate of the Low School who is making a campaign for congressional honors on an "insurgent" platform. He lives in Parsons and has within the last few weeks become an active candidate against P. P. Campbell for the Republican nomination for congress in the Third district.
MAYBE PEACE AGAIN
Handball Sharks Are Just About Quieted.
When the indoor einder track was put in the basement of the gym, the handball fiends who had by one fell stroke been deprived of their play grounds, raised a cry of anger.
The students were impatient and would not wait for things to take their course. They descended in mass on the faculty handball room and took possession. Then followed a burst of dignified protest from the gentlemen whose domain had been thus rudely invaded. The professors did not like beaten by their students. The result is that the busy physical director has been driven almost to a state of nervous collapse and that many handball sharks will get fours instead of ones.
To relieve the situation it has been decided to make at least three courts on the floor of the gym proper. Heavy wooden back stops will be placed against the rolling doors and courts marked off so that as soon as quizz week is over matters will settle into thir natural state and all will again be peace.
Donald Robertson, a brother of Forbes Robertson, the great English author, who is making a great hit in New York this winter in "The Passing of the Third Floor Back," will probably stage "Ysbrand" in Chicago this winter. As yet nothing definite has been done concerning the presentation of the Dutch play in other cities, but Kansas City and Emporia have intimated that a staging of this play would meet with a hearty reception in these towns.
"Ysbrand" in Chicago.
Orders have been issued to the engineers at Minnesota that if any of them are caught smoking on the campus they will be suspended.
Northwestern University is encouraging the building of fraternity houses on the campus by offering free sites to the chapters willing to build.
MANY SAW HEALTH EXHIBIT
45,000 PEOPLE VISITED CAR IN SIX MONTHS.
Dr. Emley Lectures to the People and Directs Exhibit and Consults With Doctors.
The tuberculosis exhibit recently displayed in Snow hall is an example of what the University is doing for the people of the state.
Dr. Emley says, "The people of Kansas were never in better health than at the present. They are learning that it is better to prevent disease than to cure it. Even the law against public drinking cups which for a time was looked on as a great handicap is now accepted as a wise measure. The recognition of the value of this law is spreading and many states have followed Kansas' lead in the matter. When public towels and a few more disease spreaders have been abolished we shall have taken a long step toward insuring the public health."
Dr. Emley, a professor in the Medical school, on leave of absence, is in charge of the exhibit and travels with it continually, warning the people of the state against the disease and advising them how to best avoid it. Thirty-five towns have been visited and over 45,000 persons have seen the exhibit which has been on the road six months, only one-fourth of the time it is to continue.
The tuberculosis exhibit is carried from town to town in a special car which is so arranged that it may be opened to the public, thus obviating the necessity of moving the models to a hall and back at every stopping place.
Besides having charge of the exhibit Dr. Emley gives lectures at each town visited and holds consultations with the local physicians and health officers.
NOW TO BE PLAYWRIGHT.
Kemp Working on a Drama in Blank Verse.
Harry Kemp, after displaying his ability as a Thespian in "Ysbrand," has decided to enlarge his field of activities and will enter into the trials and tribulations of a playwright. For some time past Harry has been writing dramatic scenes and near melodramatic situations, but now he has almost completed a romantic melodrama. It has been reconstructed so that it is now a real acting drama. It is sheer romance and unique in that it remains intense the theme is conventional. It is lily tragic until the very last of the play when the plot quickly unfolds and all ends well.
It is written in blank verse because Harry says he cannot do himself justice in the love scenes unless he uses this vehicle of thought. He has not decided to give up writing lyric poetry because as this is a spontaneous outburst of his poetic nature, he cannot regulate it to his ordinary routine of life.
Harry is very enthusiastic over the art of acting and says he thoroughly enjoyed the work in "Ysbrand." That he entered thoroughly into his part is shown by the fact that he lost eight pounds in weight during the performance the first night.
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The University of Calcutta, said to be the largest educational corporation in the world, examines more than 10,000 students annually.
Several French schools are using machines that suck dust from the leaves of books, sprays them with disinfectant and dry them with hot air.
Two students have been dismissed by the council at Illinois for alleged dishonesty in respect to submitting class exercises not their own.
At the sophomore smoker, held recently in Wisconsin, there was an unofficial pugilistic encounter between two members of the class.
Professor Shephard of George Washington University has been experimenting on monkeys in order to see if they have any intelligence. He says that they are a stupid lot.
Classes were dismissed recently at the University of Missouri on account of the lack of coal. Students in the dorms had to go to bed to keep warm. A wreck caused the shortage.