SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXVI
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1938
NUMBER 16
Music Camp Band and A Cappella Choir Broadcast over WHB Tonight
The- Mid-Western Music Camp band and the summer session A Cappella Choir will present a 30 minute program tonight in Hoch auditorium which will be carried by remote control to aKnas City and broadcast over station WHB, at 6 o'clock.
New NYA Funds Encourage Applicants
With announcement of apportionment of NYA funds for use of college students, the College Student Employment Project office at the University is preparing for the final sifting of applications for CSEP jobs next fall.
"Applications are coming in at the rate of 25 a day, and now total 350," said Martha Tillman, executive secretary of the office. She expects nearly 1000 applications by the deadline, Aug. 10.
Immediately after Aug. 10 a committee of eight faculty members will examine the applications, and choose the 315, more or less, who will be given places. The number this year will be very close to that of last year, the increased appropriation for college projects probably about balancing the decrease in the list eligible at the University. Only students 25 years of age or less, and carrying at least $ \frac{3}{4} $ a normal class load are eligible.
Students Discover Dare Trees
Miami, Fla., (UP)—Two University of Miami students have discovered two trees believed by botanists to have been extinct for 100 years. The students, George Waldeck and Roy W. Woodbury, found the Clusia and a Cupania glabra growing in the lower Florida keys.
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Play equipment will be available in Fowler's grove at the usual evening hours, 6:30 to 8 o'clock, up to and including Tuesday, August 2.
Russell L. Wiley, camp director, and Harold Bachman, guest conductor, will conduct the band in their numbers. D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will direct the choir. This is the last of a series of broadcasts given this summer by the music camp.
Payne Ratner, state senator, who is nearing the close of his drive for the Republican nomination for governor will outline briefly his views and understanding of the problems of state and local government confronting the citizens of Kansas over radio station WREN today at 12:45 o'clock.
This will be Senator Ratner's second broadcast over station WREN. His first was delivered at the opening of his campaign and was sponsored by the first Ratner-for Governor club, organized by students at the University in April.
Payne Ratner Speaks Over WREN Today
During his two terms as state senator, Ratner was chairman of the important educational committee. He worked for and secured the enactment of the measure granting state aid to public schools. This act was the culmination of a ten-year campaign in Kansas to obtain aid, equalization, and consolidation of school districts having a small number of pupils.
The radio address will be delivered subsequent to a luncheon to be held in his honor at the Hotel Eldridge.
Missouri U. Puts Down Ghost Vote
Columbia, Mo. (UP)—University of Missouri campus poll officials branded the palm of each voter's hand with indelible ink in the recent student elections to prevent Missouri's famous ghost voting from spreading to the campus.
Weather
Generally Fair to Midling. Sun rising in the East sometime in the a.m., setting in the west later. The weather is expected to be very Ducky after August the 3rd.
"What's Goin' On," Query Besets Kansan; Building Benches Is Answer
Cement mixers, stone masons, contractors, brick layers—all gathered in front of the Library walk yesterday noon has brought many queries to the Kansan office; "What's going on?" everyone wants to know. The WPA is definitely not building a bridge—however the workmen on the campus are laying the foundation for two all-stone benches that will be erected soon, one on each side of the walk.
The University was presented with a fund for a memorial by the class of '31 and this money is being used to build the stone benches. Old stone that has been saved from the time old Snow Hall was torn down about five years ago will be used to build these new additions to the campus. Bedford stone will also be used.
The high backed benches will have bulletin boards on the near top.
Final Musical Program Set For Monday
Advanced Students In School of Fine Arts Present Recital
The final musical program of the summer session will be presented by advanced students in the School of Fine Arts Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall.
Students in piano, voice, and violin, who have studied under Miss Ruth Orcutt, Howard C. Taylor, Alice Moncrieff, Miss Meribah Moore, Miss Irene Peabody, and Walderman Geltch, who are all members of the faculty of the School of Fine Arts, will appear in the recital.
Piano: King's Hunting Jig, (Bull-Spencer); Humoreske, (Rachmani- noff).
The program follows:
Voice: When I was seventeen (Swedish Folk-song); The Cross, (Harriet Ware).
Piano: Rhapsoides in G minor, Op. 79, No. 2 (Brahmus).
Voice: Jersalem, thou that killest the Prophets. (Mendelsohn).
Violin. Air Varie, No. 6 (Dancla); Elves' Dance, (Jenkinson).
oicVe: Je vex vivre, (Gounod).
Piano: Juglzerz. (Mzskowski).
Voice: Es muss ein Wunderbares sein, (Liszt); White Horses of the Sea, (Elinor Warren).
Voice: Von ewiger Liebe (Brahms)
Piano: Prelude in A minor, (Debussy).
Voice; I been 'buked, an' I been scorned, (Arr. by Eva Jessye); March to Jerdon (Arr. by Eva Jessye).
Violin: Reverie. (Vieuxtempt).
Voice: Onaway, awake, beloved,
from "Hiawatha," (Coleridge-Taylor).
Voice: Vissi d'Arte, from "Tosca",
(Puccini).
Piano: Capriccio, (Dohnanyi).
1937-38 Honor Roll Announced by Deans Of Professional Schools
Six Schools Total 133 Names on Selected Lists; Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Will Choose School's Scholastic Cream In August
Deans of the various professional schools of the University of Kansas this week announced the honor rolls of scholastic leaders in their various schools. The Dean's Honor Roll of the College of Liberal Arts will be presented in August after Dean P. B. Lawson returns from his vacation.
Music Camp Presents Last Concert
The Mid-Western Music Camp band and orchestra will present their last concerts of the summer Sunday. The orchestra will play in Hoch auditorium at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon with David T. Lawson, camp orchestra director, and Harold Bachman, guest conductor, conducting. The band will play in Fowler's grove at 7 o'clock with Russell L. Wiley, camp director, and Mr. Bachman, conducting.
Three Teachers Secure Positions
Three new appointments were recently made through the teachers' appointment bureau, according to H. E. Chandler, director of the bureau.
The appointments are as follows: Rex Conner, B.M.E. '38, will teach music at Glasco; Roberta Badsky, A.B. '36, will teach home economics at Robinson; and Ludwig Dashen, M.A. '38, will teach science at Lyons.
Ten per cent or less of the students enrolled in the respective classes and schools are included in the honor rolls. The six schools have a total of 133 names. The lists are as follows:
School of Business
Seniors: Fernand Demaret, Eleanor Mann, Loren C. McCormack, Ray L. Britton, Pedro C. Leano, Sylvester Schmidt, Lowell Haldeman, Keith Shaffer, Harry Wiles, John Crouch, Arnold Weidman, Onita Z. Dellinger, Kenneth Catren, Ernest W. Maxwell, Hubert Roberts, Ross M. Barton, C. Kraus, Homer G. Wiley, Charles Neiswender, and Norval N. Kline.
Juniors: Phyllis Faust, (Straight A's), Edward V. Kruger, Lucy Rundell, Ralph Elson, Clark E. Myers, J. Forrest Aydelette, Lloyd Auten, Harry L. Stuckenbruck, Lorraine Pyle, William Seitz, Charles M. Schnable, Niles R. Seibert, Edgar S. Finley, Joseph Bowlus, John C. Hoecevar, Edward G. Kathary, George Thompson, and LeRoy Cooper.
School of Education
Virginia H. Anderson, Eldora Ashcraft, Ruth V. Baker, Alma H. Bigelow, Ruth E. Boisseau, Vera Carruthers, Ruth Virginia Clark, Delbert E. Crabble, Catherine Dunkel, Giles Elmore, Janavio Fink, Esther Gilkeson, James W. Green, Ruth Mary Nelson, Alice Paden, Verna McQuey, Raymond Swanson and Dorothy Jane Willcuts.
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Hunting for Lost Radium -- Thrilling As Bear Hunt -- Says Dr. C. V. Kent
By Frieda Cowles
Hunting for lost radium is as thrilling as bear hunting to Dr. C.V. Kent, professor in the department of physics. Instead of a gun Doctor Kent goes hunting armed with a telescope, a stop watch, and an electroscope. The electroscope has two gold leaves which stand apart under normal conditions when electrically charged, but which fold down together in the presence of radium. The quickness of their folding indicates the nearness of the metal. Radium can be detected at a distance of 100 feet and the test is positive at about 25 feet.
Doctor Kent is frequently called upon by insurance companies to locate some radium that has been lost and for which the insurance company must pay if the metal is not found.
For medicinal purposes, the radium needles are put up in tiny gold or platinum tubes about the size of a shingle nail. The value of a flask containing ten needles is approximately $900. These flasks arestrapped to the patient and the emanation from the radium has a curing effect on certain diseases. Each needle is carked and certified by the United States Bureau of Standards and is kept insured by the owner.
Doctor Kent tells that last spring he was called to a hospital to find a needle. The nurses and doctors clustered about him with that air of expectancy that hovers about a magician as he prepares to pull a rabbit out of his hat. After wandering up and down the corridor with his electroscope, his stop watch, and his telescope, until the crowd dispersed Doctor Kent set to work to find the lost needle. Working slowly he drew nearer his game. The gold leaves
dooped. He dropped to his knees on the floor; the leaves closed more quickly now. The insurance agent trembled with eagerness. They searched frantically and then the tiny needle was located in a crack in the floor and was pulled out like the magician's rabbit.
On another occasion when asked to locate a tube containing 25 needles, he worked all day on a pile of feathers in a dump heap. The thermometer registered 105 degrees. The gold leaves did not waver. To make matters worse, the helpful insurance agent brought his five bottles of coca cola, a drink which Doctor Kent heartily dislikes.
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