THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Free Press,
VOLUME 1
NUMBER 5.
ARE HOT ON TRAIL OF "LOST" GRADUATES
AlumniSecretary'sOffice Uses Old Sleuth Methods to Find Them
CATALOG TO BE ISSUED SOON
Will be a Book of 400 Pages Containing 5000 Names With Addresses And Occupations
The big "round up" of alumni that is made every three years when the alumni catalog is issued in printed form is now in progress. Constant effort is made, of course, by the alumni secretary's office to keep the information as to the addresses and occupations of alumni up to date; but when the time comes to put out the printed list there is a special search made for those who have wandered off into unknown byways and got themselves "lost."
Out of 5000 alumni, with scores of changing addresses every month, there are always about a hundred on the lost list. These are found by various Sherlockian methods, through students of different professions or postmasters or government offices or teachers' agencies or church organizations. A permanent record is kept of the manner by which each wanderer from the fold was restored. If he wanders a second time it is an easy matter to remember where, whom it seems that nothing short of a Burns agency could keep track of.
The "copy" for the new catalog will be ready for the printer July first. There will be nearly five thousand names, arranged by classes and alphabetically, and the edition have close to 100 copies. The author will be required to supply all the alumni and others who are interested in the list.
BLIZZARD HEMS IN Y.M.C.A. DELEGATES
Tables will be included showing the number of alumni engaged in the different occupations, and also the number living in each state and country. The women who are "keeping house" and those who are merely "at home" and those who are "engaged in" or "practising" something or other may be compared in number from the tables, as may also the men who were graduated in law and became ministers and those who studied pharmacy or engineering and landed on the farm.
The catalog will probably be ready for distribution by September 1.
DO WOMEN REALLY WANT THE BALLOT?
A Canvass Will Be Made of Summer School Students to Find Out
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1912.
A canvass of the students of the Summer Session will be conducted next week in the interest of Equal Suffrage. The work will be carried on by a committee of ten men and women, to be appointed tomorrow by the Board of Trustees membership extension committee of the Kansas Equal Suffrage League.
The work of these departments is in charge of the state officers of the league. The State President is Mrs. Huey Peeves, wife of the Chief Justice of the state.
Dr. Corbin said that during the week, every student in the Summer Session would receive literature concerning Equal Suffrage.
"We have two objects in undertaking this canvas," said Dr. Corbin. "First, to find the attitude of the Summer Session students toward the Suffrage Amendment, to be voted on, November 5th; and second, to secure workers for the summer campaign in the four departments of Equal Suffrage work, education, finance, membership extension and press."
Dr. Corbin is conducting the canvass for the Executive Board of the Douglas County Equal Franchise League.
Estes Park Snows Preven Kansas Men Breaking Up Camp
TWO HUNDRED IN ATTENDANCE
Conference Drew Sixty Odd Kansan and Despite Bad Wenther Meetings Were Highly Successful
(By Roy Stockwell)
Special to the Summer Session Kansan:
Estes Park, Colo., June 17—Fifty miles from a railroad, the delegate to the Rocky Mountain Student Conference of Young Mens' Christian Associations are today compelled to remain in camp on account of the greatest storm that has struck this region during the month of June in more than twenty years. The conference closed last night and but for the heavy snow which fell last night and today, the camp would now be deserted. An automobile stage line is the only means rainfall, fifty miles distant, and the road, which runs for half the distance through the canyon of the Big Thompson river, is at places very dangerous and well night impassable.
An advance guard of six cars left the camp at four o'clock this morning and reached Fort Collins late this afternoon. Dr. W. K. C Payne and Mr. and Mrs. Gco. O. Foster of Lawrence were passengers on these cars. The other K. U. delegates, C. F. Hanson, E. E. Stephens, Roy Stockwell, Ralph Yeoman, Wayne Edwards, Fred Soper, and Allen Wilber, are still at the camp but to get away toorrow.
Over two-hundred college men from the Rocky Mountain region attended the conference, sixty-odd coming from Kansas. Among the conference leaders were Dr. John Timothy Stone of Chicago, Fred B. Smith of New York, A. J. Elliott, and C. D. Hurry of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A., Arthur Rugh, an International Secretary for China, Wilberforce University. Student Volunteer Movement, President Culbertson of Emporia College, William E. Sweet and H. W. Moore of Denver, Rev. Holt of Manhattan, Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, and Mr. A. A. Hyde of Wichita.
Prof. and Mrs. C. A. Johnson are spending the summer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CLARION CALL TO SUPPORT PATRICIA
Anti-Suffragists to Keep from Getting Something They
Don't Want
- * * * * * * * * * *
* All women interested in the
* forming of an Anti-Suffrage
* League meet in room 110
* Fraser hall Saturday June 22
* at 5:30.
GOODNESS ME! HASN'T THIS BEEN A LONG DAY!
The above notice posted on the bulletin board in Fraser hall, is causing a great deal of comment among the students interested in this matter, as to what will be the nature of this gathering.
A recent communication to the Summer Session Kansan signed "Patricia" and setting forth in strong terms the writer's objections to a few women trying to force suffrage on a large number who are entirely uninterested in the matter, and feel that the ballot should be left to the men, has evoked a number of replies from others for and against this sentiment.
"O, my!" student, grapped a summer school girl, struggling up the hill early this morning on her way to the library, "I do believe this is the steepest place on the hill, but I'll take my time this morning for today is longer than yesterday and longer than tomorrow will be."
And so it is the longest day of the year, for Old Sol has reached the limit of his north-bound journey. After ingering for fourteen hours
Bernice French, Hannah Mitchell,
Lillian Watkins, Gladys Clark and
Edith Van Emmon will leave Tuesday
for Niagara to attend the Chi Omega national convention June 29
The latest move on the part of the anti-suffragists is the calling of a meeting.
Today he is directly above that imaginary line, which mortals of the planet, earth, call the Tropic of Cancer. It was early, 4:34 by the University clock, when this friend of summer time cleared the horizon and began his daily routine of duties. Tonight at 7:28 you may see him disappear taking with him the longest day in the year.
and fifty-four minutes, he will again retrace his path to the southland.
FOUR BETAS OFFER AND TAKE SCIENCE COURSE
Out at the Beta chapter house four independent young K. U. students are defying the wiles of landliness and maintaining a self-taught course in domestic science three times a day. In other words, the said students have cut loose from all boarding house allegiance and are hurling food for them.
Harold Wilkoff, the dramatic star, is now starring in the role of chief high chef. Rav Allison of famous French
acent presider or the paring knife, as assistant chef, preparing Irish potatoes for the French fried process with a doxicity born of natural aptitude. Custodians of the dish rag and towel are Roscoe Redmond and Alston Cushing. Also an assistant sanitary engineer respectively. In other, words, they wash the pots and kettles (although these consist of one frying pan).
THE TIRED LANDLADY WHO WANTED A GOOD LONG REST
All are happy and getting fat.
The last trunk had been dumped into the express wagon and the last group of girls were telling the landlady good-bye. It was the end of the spring term and the time the tree landlady long fored, as she noticed the girls were getting more noisy every day.
Yes, there was no one to interrupt her and everything was quiet and still, too still for that noisy house. She began on some needle work which she had started in the fall, and had worked on between times during the winter.
"Now for a three months' rest with no one to interrupt me every minute," she said audibly as she closed the door and went back into the dining room.
"What a slam upstairs. The girls have left some windows open and the wind is blowing the doors shut." Upstairs she rushed.
As she hurried through the halls she noticed a deserted look but did not take time to see what caused it. It resembled an abandoned building that the empty space in the corner where
the trunks had been gave the whole hall an emptiness that was disquieting
out an emptiness that was disquiring.
She opened the door to one of the rooms very cautiously, just to see how girls had left things in their rooms. Walls were stripped of their decorations. Study tables were cleaned; they had been used for were the lines of dust around the edge of the surface where books had been piled. Papers were scattered over the floor. There was every sign that the occupants had left in a hurry. The tired landlady cleaned the room in one day. Then she turned her nose at nothing, rested her tired out,Nothing suited her and she had nothing with which to occupy her time. In about a week after the girls left a neighbor noticed a printed sign in the tired landlady's front window. It read:
ROOMS FOR RENT TO SUMMER STUDENTS
WHEELS GOING ROUND AT THAT MOMENT A IN CLAY TESTING LAB. PISTOL SHOT RANG OUT
All New Machinery Will in Working Order By July 1st
TO HELP KANSAS INDUSTRIES
Deposits in Kansas Clay Banks Will
be Checked up and Their Usefulness Measured
Most of the machinery for the clay testing laboratory has been installed and is now being tried out Mr. Wolfe, in charge of the laboratory hopes to have everything in good running order by July 1.
Samples of clay from the clay banks of Pittsburg, Paola, Parsons, Chanute, Wear City, Salina and other places are in the laboratory ready for testing. The tests will be both physical and chemical. Physically the clay will be tested to determine plasticity, viscosity, vitrifying point, melting point, amount of water used in working, shrinkage in drying and in using the material. The test will show composition and quality. The tests are practical and utilitarian and will be of great benefit to clay workers.
If a man owns a clay bank, it is the purpose of the University to tell him the quality of the clay and whether it is best adapted for paving brick, facing brick or other uses. Paving brick is of a higher quality than facing, or building brick, and at present there is great demand for it. Consequently if some brick plant should be using paving clay for the manufacture of facing brick there is a loss of profit.
Most of the Kansas clay is used for brick making and tile making, for roofs and drains. Some of it is also used to ware, electric conduits and the like.
Dean Skilton on Atlantic Professor Skilton and Mrs. Skilton, with their children, are visiting Mrs. Skilton at Greenwood Falls, New York.
UNDER THE PINES
Our Hero, Nothing Daunted,
Knife in Teeth,
Crawled on
AND CHARLEY GOT THE WATCH
One of the beautiful walks where Summer Session students loiter between classes
Only a Slender Clue, But Deduction of Chief Engineer Led Him to the Culprit
When Charley Griffith, chief engineer of the power plant, went to blow the whistle to call the eleven o'clock classes Wednesday, he looked confidently at the nail on which hung his watch. It was gone.
After he had blown the whistle by
guess he set about to look for a clue.
Not a soul had been in sight all
morning; seddon did any one come near
the power plant, and the engineer
was mystified.
He began a survey of the building. About ten feet from the south side there is a soft piece of loam made soft by the rain. Here he stopped. There in the soft earth were footprints.
"The prints show only the toes, Watson," said the engineer, speaking to himself, unconsciously slipping into the character he loves to read about. And the prints showed contentment as a result. The owner was torn that the owner was running.
Procuring a microscope, Mr. Grif fitt, studied each track. On each right foot-print, there was a peculiar break in the ground which under thе water left a small pouch a clayey deposit, farther on, seve pegs were distinguished in the patch
This was the only clue to the miscreant. With his friend, G. W. Hazard, Engineer Griffith, started out on a road trip in the city of Lawrence. Ostensibly the try were trying to employ a couple young men to herd cattle. Fifty applicants were put through a test the would have done credit to a city service examination. But eagle ones each right shoe of the plicants.
Late in the afternoon, the two tlemen found a boy who wore a sition which seemed to answer the decision and they said they would him. On the way back to the verity, however, the youth began get suspicious, and seizing a worth started to run away at a pace culated to leave all pursurers in background.
Engineer Griffith was not to disappoint this late in the g when he had what he was sure to. the right man almost in his clutches and gave chase together with his friend Hazard. The boy was that friend a great new person difficult to follow, but Charley Griffith was soon on him, and called a police-man to whom he delivered the young culprit.
The boy gave his name as Dyche Carter and said that he lived in North Lawrence. He said that he did not have the watch, but had given it to his uncle who also lived in North Lawrence. The police soon found the uncle and recovered the Griffith blows the whisk on the exact dot as recorded by his trusty watch which has done service for twenty-seven years.
HUNGERFORD '11, LEAVES FOR CORNELL UNIVERSITY
H. B. Hungerford, '11, will leave soon for Cornell University where he will do special work in the entomology department, under the direction of Professor Comstock, the famous entomologist.
Mr. Hungerford will return to University in September to take his duties as instructor. S
Professor and Mrs. Phillip Da are going to Fort Smith, Ark., who Prof. Davis will teach in the high school.
Mrs. J. C. Leonard, 70%, of Okla homa City, Okla., is here for the Luckan-Wilson wedding. cers
The picnic for the Fine Arts dents has been postponed until so time next week. E