FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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Scientist to Enroll Here
Youth Who Discovered New Planet Will Enter School Next Fall
The University will have the rather unusual distinction of enrolling as a freshman next fall a man who has been awarded a medal by the Royal Astronomical Society of Great British for his meritorious scientific work.
The man is Clyde Tombaugh, and has been awarded the scholarship of $500 a year which was offered by the widow of Edwin Emery Slosson. Mr. Slosson was graduated in '90, and obtained his Masters of Science degree in '92, and was director of Science Service, in addition to conducting columns and writing scientific articles for popular reading
Tombaugh will be the first appointee of the newly organized scholarship. His home is in Burdette where he will spend the summer in the harvest fields. At the present time he is at the Lowell observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz.
After being gratuated from high school he did research work for a year, and discovered a new planet. Pluto. The exellency of his investigation brought him recognition from the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain, which is recognition of a high order.
Scientists Hold Meeting
Efforts to Improve Race Are Being Made
New York—How man can make improvements in his own race through evolution was discussed here by a group of scientists gathered for the meeting of the Eugenics Research Association.
That efforts to improve human conditions, either economic, social, or civic, are useless unless at the same time improvement is made in the hereditary nature of the human stock was stressed in the presidential address by Dr. C. G. Campbell.
The reason why the white race has survived on this continent while the Indian is vanishing, Dr. Campbell said, is because the white race possessed superior powers of aggression and of resistance, and it also possessed intellectual resources of great value in securing its survival. The natural environment for both races was the same; the difference was in the hereditary factor.
A plea to writers of fiction to incorporate in their stories more of the facts which scientists have discovered about human heredity was made by Dr. Wilhelmine E. Key of Somers, Conn.
The science of heredity, Dr. Key feels, has been ignored by many of the prominent writers of the day. In novels, she said, any kind of father and mother can have any kind of son or daughter.
Many well known writers, including John Galsworthy, Alice Brown, Joseph Hergesheimer, A.L.S. Hutchinson, and G.B. Stern, were cited by Dr.Key as creating fiction families which scientists believe could not possibly exist in real life.
COMPLETE MAP COLLECTION
IS DR. VOLLBEHR'S GIFT
Otto H. Vollbehr, who has been the donor of several gifts and scholarships to the University, recently requested a list of all the maps of the western hemisphere which are owned by the University. He will buy and make a gift of enough maps to make the collection complete, giving the University a collection more complete than any other in the United States with the exception of that of the Library of Congress.
Mr. Vollbehr's interest in the University began in 1926 when he met two Kansas students, Martha Sharon, now Mrs. Philip C. Ferguson, of Woodward, Okla., and Mary Outland, now Mrs. MacDougall, of New Orleans, on shipboard. Their enthusiasm for their school aroused his interest, and while on a later trip he visited Mt. Oread and was introduced to Chester Woodward of Topeka, a collector of books and owner of a valuable private collection. Mr. Vollbehr's interest has resulted in various gifts to the University.
Weaver
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