THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
MANY STUDENTS HERE
WANT TO 'STAR GAZE
Professor Alter Has 180 Applications From Those Wanting Dates
"The Kanas is a good advertising agent," was the comment of Professor Alter of the department of astronomy, when in response to his announcement that visitors would be given an opportunity to view the stars through the telescope on the nights of June 30 and July 7, 186 applications were received asking for reservations. Plans had been made for accommodating only sixty persons.
Arrangements for observation on four other nights have been made. Those who have already made reservations will be accommodated, but no more. Tickets to all but about thirty of the later applicants have already been mailed. Miss Lynn graduate student in mathematics and astronomy, will be in charge of the observatory three nights this week.
Those persons who had tickets for Friday night, June 30, when the weather was too cloudy for seeing the stars, will be given another opportunity Friday night, July 14, from 9 o'clock. 8%
Jupiter with its bands slightly discernible and three of its moons, Saturn with a ring and two moons, and the full moon through both large and small telescopes, were seen by thirty-nine visitors last Friday. The night so will be visible the observer, so the planet Mars will be observed instead.
K. U. in Review
The University of Kansas formally opened its doors to students in September, 1866, but the history of the institution commenced in 1855, when the first legislature made provision for a Kansas University buildings building or some kind friend would give money for their construction.
In 1856, Amos A. Lawrence of Boston, in whose honor the city of Lawrence was named, made plims for a college on the north end of Mount Moriah and amounting to $12,969.14 for the foundation of his proposed "Free State College," which is that part of the campus where North College stood caused a cessation in the plans of Mr. caused a cessation in the plans of Mr.
When Kansas was admitted into the union in 1861, the Wyndotte constitution was adopted as the state constitution, and congress set apart and reserved for the use of a state unit. In 1892, it was decided to be selected by, the Governor.
It was supposed that Lawrence would be chosen as the place for the University, especially after the capitals of England and France, valuages of having a college nearby appealed to other towns and when the time arrived for selecting a site.
three wives, which were Lawrence, Emporia and Manhattan. Manhattan secured the Agricultural school and withdrew from the race. Between the remaining competitors there was a hard fight, where the winner was a boy, by a chairman of the Legislature.
The city of Lawrence had promised, in order to secure the University, to hold a graduation ceremony to the city, to be used as a campus, and an endowment of $15,000. It was made a provision that all students would not fail fulfill these provisions within six months the university would go to Emporia. By an agreement with the University, Lawrence secured the 40 acres for a campus, and through the generosity of the community, Lawrence found sun intended for the "Free State College," it collected the $15,000 just in time to keep the Uni-
On November 2, 1865, the University of Michigan was located, and in 1884 a representative named anizing it. The charter of the University of Michigan was used as a date for the university's founding.
The government of the University was first vested in a president and twelve members to be appoints. The president is the independent and the secretary of state, but in 1873 the number of regents was reduced from twelve to six and the secretary was changed to color who should be a member of the board with the power of a regent.
The first session of school opened in 1866, with twenty-six young women and twenty-nine young men registered in the preparatory school during the first session.
first term. Although the University of Kansas is regarded as one of the first state
universities to admit women upon the same equality with young men that was not the intention of those who have joined these branches, "a male and a female branch, the latter to be taught exclusively by women, the building to exclusively by males of the male branch." This provider has never been put into execution.
CHANCELLORS OF THE UNIVER
CITY OF KANSAS
R. W. Oliver ... *1865-1897*
John Fraser ... 1867-1875
James Mann ... 1864-1873
Mary Arn Lippincott ... 1884-1890
Frank Hunting Snow ... 1890-1902
Frank Strong ... 1902-1920
Lindley ... 1902
*During this the official time of chancellor had not been adopted and Elial J. Rice, business manager, aided
Many Casualties In Front of Green
"Watch the lowest step," would be an appropriate sign to place at the entrance of Green Hall. The path of the Laws is beset by many dangers; there are the term exams, the bar exams, and the engineers, but that treacherous bottom step has been the cause of more disasters than all the rest combined. At some points the lowest step is the regulation height of eight inches but in other places it is two or three inches higher and the person who fails to lift his feet the proper distance to clear the high spots is quite sure to meet with misfortune.
During the Summer Session when the campus is filled with innocent and unwary teachers, the bottom step has claimed many new victims. One day last week a young law students who takes delight in seeing others suffer, loitered near the entrance of the building and made a memorandum of the casualties. Along came a high school principal burdened with the dignity and awareness, whose identity started to ascend the Green Hall, but as he started to ascend he stumbled on the first step and fell. A partial list of the damages included one scraped shin, a broken garter, and badly injured dignity.
Scarcely had this person been removed from the scene when a carefree young woman came tripping along. The youth at the top of the steps was moved to warn her of her damage. A light of the damages is not available.
New Fiction Writer Unearthed At K. U.
"Yes, I was born in Patagonia." The sensitive ears of the inquisitive cub pricked up. Visions of a front page story with neat black headlines, "Terrible Tales of Patagonian Tribes Told by University Student," were conjured up by those words overheard in a class room.
The cub, urged on by the beauty
prospect, accosted the speaker, plying
him with questions, and brought forth
this marvelous story. The reader may
judge for himself that the goals
discoverer of such a bit of
news.
"My father owned $ wschoner and had been asked to take a party to the Guadeloupe Isis to discover fossils of ancient mammals and other specimens for the Rockefeller Institute in New York.
"My father and mother, the crew, and a number of professors from the Institute made up the expedition. The Guadeloupes Iale is, you know, one of the islands belonging to Patagonia. The people are a Tartar tribe, imaginative, friendly with my parents when I was five."
The cub's credibility was somewhat taxed and the GuadaldopeIsle was a "new one on him," but he let his imagination revel in colorful pictures of the adventures of the described expedition.
What a story! Picture the chagrin of the advanced reporters when they saw the story they had missed!
Across Street From Courthouse
But because the cub had been carefully schooled in accuracy and in searching for substantiated details other than those given out in an in-depth study, it was made a sizable study of the Patagonia Island, Gua-d-e-ada-o-p-a.
"Suiting You"
IHAT'S MY BUSINESS
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The Uncle Jimmie Green Statue, which is a part of the Million Dollar Memorial, is being made by the famous sculptor who recently finished the great Lincoln memorial statue in Washington.
The discovery that there is no such isle has somewhat dampened the enthusiasm of the inquisitive cub, but he feels rewarded at least in the thought that he has "discovered" a future talented fiction-writer.
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DOING YOUR PART
The Kansas Memorial (Student Union and Stadium) constitutes the tribute of students, alumni, and friends to 128 sons and daughters of the University who gave their lives in the World War.
Hundreds have made their contributions and the fund is almost completed. Summer Session students are no less a
part of the University than are those who register for longer terms. You have as much interest in the Memorials and will be as glad, when both are realities, that you had a part in their creation.
The Summer Session campaign to enlist all K. U. in the project will be on
Thursday and Friday, July 13 and 14 DO YOUR PART!