SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
NUMBER 11
VOLUME XXV
Naismith Comes Back From East
Inventor of Basketball Visits Massachusetts And 'Quints'; D'Ambra Accompanies Him
Dr. James Naismith, retiring professor of physical education at the University, and internationally known as the inventor of the game of basketball, returned late Saturday from a month's vacation in the east. He and Duke D'Amba, Lawrence photographer, made the trip by motorcar, visiting among other places, New York, Springfield, Mass., and Callendar, Ontario, home of the quintuplets
Doctor Naismith's comment was modest. "I had a very pleasant trip, and met many old friends," he said.
But D'Ambra expressed the case more in detail. "Business about suspended in Springfield when Dr. Naismith arrived," said the Duke. "Everywhere the Doctor went, he was greeted by friends; every door was open to him. It was easy to see how proud Y.M.C.A. college at Springfield is of the fame brought to it by this invention." Doctor Naismith was an instructor there when he invented the game 45 years ago.
Visits Quintuplets
Cutting across southern Canada, the travellers stopped at Callendar to see the quintuplets.
"I was happy to have an interview with Doctor Dafoe, and to see the faous little girls," said Dr. Naismith. "He was a Toronto (University) man, and I am from McGill, so that gave us something to talk about."
Duke came in with some added information:
"Doctor Dafoe must have liked Doctor Naismith. The usual time he lives for interviews is 12 to 15 minutes; he talked with Doctor Naismith for 43. I don't believe they spent all their time talking about college, either, for I understand the quints' doctor told him a lot about them that doesn't go to the general public."
Dr. Naismith expects to spend part of the summer at Dallas, Tex., visiting at the home of his son, James Naismith.
Pi Lambda Theta
Initiates Five Thursdav
Initiatory services for five pledges to Pi Lambda Theta, women's honorary educational society, will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Colonial Tea Room.
Those to be initiated are Dorothy Doering, Mary Alice Hill, Marian G. Lane, Gertrude Ruttan and Frances Varvel. A dinner at 6:45 p.m. will follow the services, honoring the new members.
Reservations should be made through Matee Rich, room 103, Fraser, not later than noon Thursday.
Miss Vivian Moehle, Boonville, Mo., recently became the bride of Clarence Wolf,'37, it has been learned here. Wolf is employed at Kansas City.
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1937.
Dr. James Naismith
New Boiler Being Istalled
Foundations have been completed and within a short time a new boiler will be installed in the mechanical engineering laboratories at the University, to provide for laboratory tests. About $7,500 is being expended in the improvements, under direction of Prof. M. E. Hay, chairman of the department.
Prices of engineering equipment advanced after estimates had been submitted to the legislature, but by special arrangements Professor Hay is getting almost the original set-up. The Webster Engineering company, with whom he was employed before coming to the University, is giving a gas and oil burner valued at several hundred dollars.
In consideration of certain technical reports on performance, the Green Firebrick company is supplying $1-000 worth of firebrick at half price, and the Diamond Power specialty company of Detroit supplied soot blowers at reduced price.
The new installation, even though it represents on outlay of several thousand dollars, is less expensive than to attempt to bring a long steam line from the power plant, built near the center of the campus since the laboratories were established.
G. H. Marshall, president of the Kanass State Teachers Association, will be the speaker at the regular educational forum meeting tonight. His subject will be "School Legislation Accomplished and Proposed." It will deal with what has been done in the way of school legislation and what educators hope to do in the future.
Also to be installed in time for use this fall is $5,000 worth of air conditioning equipment (supplied to the University for $2,000) from the General Electric company. Tests are to be made on variations in temperature, humidity, and air-velocity.
Ottawa Superintendent Speaks at Forum Tonight
Mr. Marshall is superintendent of schools in Ottawa. The meeting will be in Fraser hall at 7 p.m.
Students Visit Campus Carl Smith and Ken Postlethwaite, students in the department of journalism last semester, visited the Kansas office yesterday.
State Benefits From Assistance By Various K. U.Faculty Men
Recent appointment of Frank T. Stockton, dean of the University of Kansas School of Business, as a member of the advisory council of the Kansas Unemployment Compensation Division, and selection of Dean Stockton to be chairman of the committee on personnel, calls attention to the extent to which the University, and particularly the University's School of Business, has been called upon by the state in the administration of business and social service laws.
Dean Stockton was a member and economic adviser of the governor's committee for employment in 1931-32, and also of the governor's committee on self-help in the summer of 1933. He has been chairman of the university committee on accountancy (Part of the C.P.A. administration) since 1924. In addition to his state service, Dean Stockton was field supervisor for Kansas and Missouri for the U.S. personnel board in the summer of 1928.
Others Aid State
Members of the economics department of the University, connected with the School of Business, and now serving the state in various capacities, include Professors Jens P. Jensen and John G. Blocker, and Lloyd Metzler. Others of the faculty previously assigned to state service have been Prof. Domenico Gagliardo, Leslie T. Tupy, David J. Teviotdale, and Voris Morrison.
Professor Jensen has made numerous tax studies for the Kansas Tax commission, and the Kansas Legislative council.
Professor Blocker, professor of accounting, was cost accountant and accounting system supervisor for the Kansas Emergency Relief committee in 1934-35, and has been a member of the University Committee on accountancy since 1935.
Former Student Appointed To Air Commerce Position
Howard Firebaugh, former University student, recently was appointed to a position in the airways traffic control section of the Bureau of Air Commerce. He will be stationed at Detroit.
A graduate in 1924, Firebaugh was honor man for his class, and since leaving here has been connected with different phases of the aviation industry. For the past three years, he has been employed on the state airport program in Montana, and has a splendid record of achievement while there. Firebaugh's home formerly was at St John.
H. E. Chandler, assistant director of the summer session and director of the teachers placement bureau, was confined to his home, 2245 Rhode Island, by a minor illness yesterday. He was expected to return to the University today.
Chandler Ill
Phi Delta Kappa will hold its regular meeting Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in room 15, Fraser hall.
DEAN F.T STOCKTON
Lloyd Metzler of Lawrence, who received his B.S. in business in 1935, and was the second highest ranking graduate in the 13 years of the School of Business, is spending the summer as research assistant in sales tax administration for the state tax commission. For the past two years, he has been an assistant instructor in the University, and goes this fall to Harvard to become an assistant instructor there.
Professor Gagliardo was consultant on unemployment compensation for the legislative council last winter, and recently published a study of the Kansas labor market for the social science research council.
Professor Tupy was "blue sky" commissioner for the Kansas Corporation commission, 1933-35, and special attorney.
Professor Tewitdale, who made transportation studies for the Kansas corporation commission in 1934, made a traffic study of Kansas City, Kan., the same year, and has been assistant director of the Kansas State Planning board from 1934.
Voris Morrison, former instructor, was comproter of the KERC from its origin to January, 1937.
Fall on Roller Skates Results in Broken Leg
Miss Blanch Yeomans is confined to her home, 932 Mississippi, with a broken leg. The accident occurred when she and her skating partner fell, pinning her leg beneath her at the Young People's Union Group skating party Friday evening. Examination revealed that the ligaments of the leg were torn and the bone was broken just above the ankle.
Relatives at the home said that although the injury is painful, Miss Yeomans is resting, and is able to see friends. With her leg in a cast and with the aid of crutches, she hopes to be able to return to her classes next week. She expects to discard her crutches by September, when she will take up duties as assistant instructor in the English department. She will teach freshman English.
Oral Exams Coming Soon For Thirty
Much Dreaded Ordeals To Occur in Few Days; Required of All Master's Degree Applicants
Thirty summer session students are taking frequent deep breaths these days as the hour for their master's degree oral examinations draws near. Examinations will begin within a short time.
The following persons will take the examinations, which are to be administered by committees of three drawn from the School of Education faculty:
W. D. Carr, Sister Conway, Clarence Franklin, R. E. Devore, Ellert Himes, F. H. Howell, W. Kintigh, D. W. Lewis, W. McCort, Byron Mason, C. Redpath, R. D. Smith.
W. W. Strong, C. E. Taylor, F. Toelson, R. Tweedy, Elizabeth Barnhart, Carl Brandner, H. S. Church, Louise Clarke, Jess V. Cooper, Jean Cowan, L. J. Franz, A. Karner, R. Lynn, C. P. Neis, S. F. Peters, M. Reynolds, M. W. Robertson and J. P. Shield.
The oral examination is part of the regular University requirement placed upon every applicant for a master's degree. It is not designed to confound the student, but rather to prove his or her ability to meet the situation to be confronted later in applying for a teaching position, members of the education faculty said.
Education Picnic Will Be Saturday
All students and faculty members in the School of Education and their friends are invited to attend the annual education picnic Saturday morning, beginning at 8 a.m. at Brown's grove.
Prof. Bert A. Nash, chairman of a committee named to arrange the affair, has announced that food will be provided, the cost to be prorated among those who attend.
A full program of entertainment, including games, is being worked out, and members of the committee promise a good time for all who attend.
Reservations should be made in the education office, 103 Fraser, not later than Friday noon.
Brown's grove, scene of the picnic,
is located about five miles southwest
of the campus. Transportation
arrangements will be announced later.
Law School Enrolls Several New Students
Enrollment for the second term of the School of Law summer session continued yesterday, with classes opening at 7:30 a.m.
Several new students enrolled for the second term, according to Miss Marjorie Dietrich, secretary to the dean, but the exact total had not been determined. A large number of first term students re-enrolled.