SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1839
Kansan Staff Decides No News Is Good News
The Kansas staff had a sad time getting any big stories for today's paper. There have been no murders, robberies or serious accidents since Tuesday's paper. At least none was reported. There wasn't a single baby born to faculty members or to students either. It was a discouraging situation.
The editor was frankly worried, and his two ace reporters, Walt Meininger and Frieda Cowles, for once didn't appear to be suffering from brain storms. Their brain storms, incidentally, have been sweeping the Kanan along this summer so don't blame everything on the editor. Ray Derr has turned in his usual editorials but editorials aren't written to fill front and back pages.
★ Readers May Think Sun Has Affected Paper but It's Only Heat Professors Are Turning On
Even Doctor Allen's office was well into the mothball stage. All the softball games are finished and recreational activity time is being used for cramming for finals. Doctor Allen for the first time this summer, was stumped when we asked about news. "News?" he queried, 'why don't you keep onprinting the same kind of stuff you've been printing all summer. People are getting used to it.'
News was so scarce that one high teacher even asked why we didn't print some more "Itty Bitty Teacher" poems. Little did she realize that the masterpieces composed by those back shop lizards, Schiller Shore and "Felix" Moore, had had the squitch put on them by those higher-up so that they had finally resorted to fillers such as "The Chemistry building stinks, but the building across the street is Fowler."
The Music Camp is now a thing of the past, and George Snyder, the campus cop, didn't think much of the suggestion that he arrest Dean Henry Werner, Men's Student Adviser, for tampering with the males. George was too busy writing out tickets for traffic violators to look around for murders or holdups, he said. "If you're so set on a murder though, maybe I can fix you up," he added. We hurriedly killed our taste for murder and hurried back to the office, hoping to find it in flames.
We can report for your information right now that it wasn't. There wasn't even a hot tip in the place. We did run across an attempted verse by Ken Postlethwaite called "Postleperk" and decided to use it as space filler. We told Postlethwaite, of course, that we thought it was very good. You can draw your own conclusions when you read it.
Honestly we don't know what we're going to do with this space. If things don't pick up we'll be tempted to sit down and write out a story on the fact that there isn't enough news to fill the paper. That would be bad.
Cosmoplitan Club To Hold Picnic
Cosmopolitan Club To Hold Picnic
The Cosmopolitan club will hold a picnic this afternoon. Members and everyone interested are asked to meet in the Union building lounge at 5:30.
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Dr. Raymond H. Wheeler, professor of psychology, will read a paper on the "Correlations Between Social Behavior and Climatic Changes," at a meeting of the International Congress of Biophysics, Biocosmics, and Bioacrych which will be held in New York City the second week in September.
Dr. Bert A. Nash, professor of education, and Byron C. Sarvis, instructor of psychology, will attend the convention of the American Psychological Society at Stanford University the first week in September. Nash will read a research paper on "An Experimental Approach to the Reading Abilities and Difficulties of College Students." Sarvis will discuss "A Clinical Study of the Developmental Aspects on Human Learning."
Philip O. Bell, instructor of mathematics, will attend a meeting of the American Mathematical society at Madison, Wis., the first week in September. He will present the paper, "Projective Invariants of a Curve on a Surface." E.B. Stouffer, dean of the Graduate School, and G.B. Price, assistant professor of mathematics, will also attend the meeting.
Gwimm Henry will be the head man in Jayhawker football this fall. Henry, director of athletics, formerly coached at Missouri, New Mexico, Emporia State Teachers and the St. Louis Gunners.
Four University teachers will read papers before convention meetings early in September.
September Convention Meetings Call Four University Teachers
Eight Game Grid Schedule Next Year for Kansas
★ First Game in Des Moines Under Lights; Five of Contests Are With Big Six Teams
An eight-game football schedule for the 1939 University of Kansas football team was announced today by Gwinn Henry, head coach and director of athletics.
Five of the games are Big Six engagements, and the other three are with opponents from three different states—Colorado, Washington, D.C., and Iowa.
The Jayhawkers will open September 29 in a night game with Drake University at Des Moines and close the season with the traditional homecoming clash against Missouri on November 30.
Two "breathing spells" are included on the schedule. One is a 12-day rest period just before the Kansas-State game and the other is a 11-day layoff preceding the Missouri game.
The complete schedule follows with the day of the week on which the game will be played:
Sept. 29—Drake at Des Moines,
Friday night.
20. —Iowa State at Lawrence,
Saturday.
Oct. 14—Colorado State at Fort
Santa Clara, Saturday.
Oct. 21 - Oklahoma at Norman,
Saturday.
Nov. 3 - Kansas State at Lawrence, Friday.
Nov. 18—George Washington at
Lawrence, Saturday.
Nov. 30—Missouri at Lawrence,
Granting, Thursday.
Thanksgiving, Thursday.
All home games will begin at 2 o'clock in the afternoon except the Kansas-State game which has been scheduled at 2:30 o'clock.
The Iowa-State game has been designated as "high school kids day" and all of them who attend will be admitted for 25 cents and given a complimentary program.
Bruce Reid Has Operation
School Teaching Is Not An Overpaid Profession
Bruce Reid, a member of Dr. Forrest C. Allen's varsity basketball team, has recently been operated on for an acute attack of appendicitis, at Arkansas City.
Earlier this summer, in the article about a bride's trousseau costing $200, a Kansan writer ventured the assertion that most brides in the summer session, having been teachers in the Kansas schools at $600 a year, would not be likely to spend that amount on wedding clothes.
By Raymond Derr, gr.
Why do they do it?
With no figures at that time, the writer had to confess that it was merely a personal estimate. But now, come some timely and convincing figures which go to show that the writer's guess wasn't so far wrong after all.
Some critical readers raised a complaining eyebrow at the guess of $600 for the salary of these school ma'sams, holding the sum was too low.
Frank Garrett, a student in the graduate division of the Emporia school, found some interesting information for his thesis on the economic and professional status of rural school teachers.
Country school teachers in Lyon county, which should be better than the average Kansas county, because of its close relation to Emporia Teachers college, averaged $519 for the 1938-39 school term. The poorest paid teacher got $260 (which is $35 a month for eight-month terms) and the highest paid teacher received $800, which is $100 a month on the same basis.
Besides discovering that the teachers were as poorly paid as the average section hand, he found that more than half of them in the county
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CSEP BULLETIN
University students will have nine more CSEP jobs awarded them when school starts in September than they had in 1938, according to figures received today from Miss Anne Laughlin, state director of the NYA, from Raymond Nichols, executive secretary. During the past school year the University received $5,490 a month for nine months to be used for wages. This year the allowance has been increased to $5,625, a gain of $135 a month or the equivalent of nine jobs at $15 each.
A complete story will follow in Tuesday's paper.
Tuesday's Heavy Rain Saves Withering Corn
Tuesday's rainfall totalled 3.86 inches according to Prof. C. J. Posey, University weather observer. Average rainfall for the month of August is only 4.05 inches.
Even with the slight rainfall of of 61 of an inch in July which is far below the 4.26 normal moisture for the month, the precipitation for the summer is now slightly more than normal, Professor Posey said.
This week's rain was a life-saver for the corn which had started to show the effects of the continued dry spell of July.
Research Grant to Medical School
★ $3,900 Received Through State Board of Health; To Study Osteomyelitis
The University of Kansas School of Medicine at Kansas City, Kan., has been given a $3,900 grant by the United States health service through the state board of health to carry on next year research work relative to the causes of osteomyelitis, a bone infection that is tenacious and severe especially in cases of children.
Dean Harry H. Wahl of the School of Medicine said that the grant would provide cost of all materials and two full-time and one part-time research workers. All work will be done in the Hixon laboratories in Kansas City, Kans. Several cases of osteomyelitis in children now are in the hospital, Dean Wahl said. He added that research work will begin soon.
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Dean Wahl was notified of the grant by Dr. E. T. Helm, executive and secretary of the state health department.
Mattern Works on Display
Water colors by Karl Mattern, assistant professor of drawing and painting, are on display this month at the Aqua-Chromatic exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute. The exhibit includes work by artists from many states.
Book Exchange Open
The W. S. G. A. Book Exchange in the basement of the Memorial Union building will be open for buying books Wednesday August 9 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Helen Pierce Manager
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- GRADUATES NOTICE
* Students who expect to com-
* plete requirements for degrees
* this summer should pay the di-
* ploma fee at the Bursar's Office
* before leaving the campus.
- George O. Foster
* Registrar
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Mrs. A. Henley To Donate Home To University
★ Moving to California, Benefactress Will Give House To Be Sold or Rented to Aid Students
The University is again to benefit from the generosity of Mrs. A. Henley who donated Henley House to the Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Henley is giving her home and property at 713 Louisiana to the University to be rented or sold and the proceeds used for loans to needy students.
The house was to be truned over to the University upon Mrs. Henley's death according to a provision in her husband's will. Mrs. Henley has decided to move to California, however, and is to turn the house over to the University when she leaves for the coast October 1. The will of the late Mr. Henley provides that the income from the property be used for scholarship for needy men.
Mrs. Henley deeded Henley House to the University as a meeting place for all University women Jan. 12, 1922.
In 1923 she donated a set of novel Mexican dishes to Spooner-Thayer museum. A bronze tablet, honoring Mrs. Henley for the gift of Henley House, was cast in 1929.
Mrs. Henley came to Lawrence in 1878.
SUMMER
SESSION
Slip-Ups
by
Walt Meininger
Heard a whisper going around yesterday that the recent astronomical field day was just a publicity stunt for Mars candy bars. How about that?
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Martha Markwell is the only girl we know that takes her shoes off in the Muehllebach Grill and whistles at the waiters.
When Miss Barnes called the roll in a quiz section the other evening and received no answer to the name MacBeth she was pretty perturbed until she was corrected with, "My name is Hamlet, not MacBeth!" Just a case of mistaken identity.
And Pete, the hack man, can dribble a glass tumbler on cement, after about twenty tries.
Schiller Shore conceived and constructed a horrible creature which he says is the counterpart of the monster that gets the golf balls at the bottom of Potter's ond. A bass head; with glass eyes from a Dyche Museum leopard; with human false teeth, both plates; with the tail glued under the chin, (if a bass has a chin); and the pectoral fin pasted on the head in much the same way that a chicken's comb is attached. Calls it the micropterus salmoides golfballus. The creature is on display in the bindery of the University Press. Golfballus is the one tacked on the board. The other thing is Shore.
If you want more time to live -- take more time to drive safely.