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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931
Library Periodical Room Keeps Local Newspapers
Education Room On First; Reserve Books Are in Basement
Summer school students here for the first time may not know that they may read the home town papers in the library. The papers are to be found in the periodical room, which is at the left of the main entrance. All the leading newspapers and magazines are available in this room.
A browsing room for leisure reading is found at the east end of the main reading room on the second floor. Here a student may find a book to suit his fancy, whether he be interested in music, nature, religion, poetry, or chemistry.
To the right of the main entrance is the education reading room, where the books which are on reserve for students in education courses may be checked out and read. Other books on reserve, such as history and English books, are in the basement of the library. The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature also is in the basement.
The general circulation or loan desk, the card catalogues, and the main reading room is on the second floor. At the west end of the room are desks for the use of students working on their masters degrees.
The attendants at the library are glad to help new students by answering questions and helping them locate material.
Science Studies Inferno
Death Valley Offers Unusual Chance for Experiment
Pasadena, Calif—Death Valley's climate. America's nearest approximation to the Inferno, was described before the American Meteorological Society recently by Ernest E. Eklund of the San Francisco office of the U. S. Weather Bureau.
Since 1911 there has been an observatory at Greenland Ranch, better known as Furnace Creek Ranch, 178 feet below sea level and 98 feet above the lowest part of the valley. On July 10, 1913, a maximum temperature of 134 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded at Greenland Ranch and was accepted as the highest natural-air shade temperature that had ever been recorded anywhere under approved conditions of equipment and exposure. This record was exceeded by a temperature of 136 degrees recorded at Azizia, Tripoli, in 1922. Extreme maximum temperatures of 120 degrees or higher have occurred at Greenland Ranch in every month from May to September, inclusive, and of 100 degrees in every month from March to October, inclusive. In July and August, 1917, maximum temperatures of 120 degrees were recorded on 43 consecutive days.
Though high temperatures occur in summer, freezing weather occurs frequently in winter. The nights are comfortably cool from October to April but in summer minimum temperatures of 90 degrees or higher are not unusual. The hottest month is July and the coolest is January.
The average annual precipitation is only 1.38 inches, and sometimes a whole year is rainless. There are on an average only seven rainy days a year. A daily rainfall of one inch or more in 24 hours has been recorded at Greenland Ranch only four times in 20 years.
Let's Go to the Oread Barber Shop Where all students go
Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame
Oread Barber Shop
1237 Oread
These former Kansas editors were chosen by members of the Quarter Century club, an organization made up of editors who have been in newspaper work in the state for more than 25 years, in an election conducted by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity at the University of Kansas.
NEWELL DOUBTS THAT X-RAYS WILL HELP CANCER PATIENTS
Pasadena, Calif-Doubt that the new high voltage X-ray tubes now being developed by physics will effect any great revolution in the treatment of cancer was expressed by Prof. R. R. Newell, of the Stanford University School of Medicine to a symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"I do not think," said Professor Newell, "that radium and X-ray will ever prove the solution of the cancer problem. I think the solution must await the discovery of what cancer really is. Roentgen rays produced at higher voltages will soon become available for clinical use. This means shorter wave lengths and hence greater penetration. It will be more like radium radiations and of great intensity. Many workers feel that radium produces better results in cancer than do X-rays." Professor Newell pointed out that radium is usually used on smaller masses of tissue and often at a much higher tissue dosage than X-rays.
Four hundred eighty-three students have declared a preference for the Methodist church, according to the tabulation which has been completed by the various churches in the city. Of this number, 270 were women and 213 were men.
The Baptist church reported 150 students, and the Presbyterian 125 as having marked a preference for those churches. Other churches also had a large number of summer school students state preferences for attendance at their services.
MEN ARE STRANGE CREATURES
What an unmericful twitting they give women about their bargains! And how they love to harp on "vain as a woman" when wives and daughters are successful in looking their best! . . . But to hear them at the office is another story. It's "my wife this, and my wife that"—with evident pride.
Vain? There's nothing quite so vain as men who have attractive and accomplished wives. How their wives manage the home—how they plan and buy—is a source of constant wonderment and appreciation. Nothing pleases a man more than the knowledge that his wife is a shrewd manager and a deft hostess.
But what is so amazing to men is commonplace to women. Women know that shrewd management and good taste are not matters of chance, but qualities to be cultivated personal qualities that depend upon a thorough knowledge of style and value.
It is not difficult for them to obtain this knowledge. Every day they read the advertisements in the newspapers—printed statements of style, price and value. Statements that are sponsored and signed by companies known for business integrity and style authority.
Guided by this knowledge, women choose wisely—and receive for their money the highest in quality, the utmost in style.