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Dyche Museum Wasn't Always So Nice Inside
At 4 p.m. one fall afternoon in 1932 a member of the Board of Regents came out of Dyche Museum. At 5 p.m. the building was closed and locked to students, instructors, and the public. The doors weren't opened again for nine years.
H. H. Lane, professor emeritus of zoology and head of the museum when it was condemned, well remembers just how unsafe the building was.
"The museum was built in 1901. They didn't know too much about concrete in those days so the whole inside of Dyche was made of wood- timber with some thin concrete here and there reinforced with, of all things, chicken wire," Dr. Lane said.
Timbers Were Weak
Wooden timbers only 12 inches thick held up the 22-foot high ceilings that were also the floor above. These warped, split, and twisted.
"One pole was so warped that it stood on only one corner. I could run my whole hand under the rest of it. That pole was on the ground floor and under it was half an inch of concrete and then mother earth. That whole section could have gone at any time.
Moved Safely
"On all floors the ceiling didn't touch the wall. There were gaps of a foot between them sometimes. If someone on the first floor took a deep breath, a person on the third floor felt the air currents shake the building. So we had the building closed," said Dr. Lane.
Everything was moved from the building without accident but there was no available space for all the museum work. Classes that had been held there were shifted to any space free at that time. Museum work was stored anywhere there was a space including the Union, Snow Hall, and under the football stadium.
"Comanche, our stuffed horse that was the sole survivor of Custer's last stand was under the stage of Hoch Auditorium for a long time," Dr. Lane commented.
Money Was Problem
"Some of the things had to be moved 11 times before, we finally got a large shed built in which to store everything."
Money was the greatest single problem. The country, was in the midst of depression and appropriations were difficult to get. Eventually, $125,000 was given by the state and national governments.
The museum reopened in 1941 at commencement. It wasn't quite finished, however. We finished it in a couple of more years. This time it had lots of steel and lots of good concrete. Today isn't like the 'good old days' when crossing a room involved going up and down a couple of hills." Dr. Lane said.
El Ateneo To Hear Costa Rica Talk
A talk on Costa Rica by John D. Roberts, instructor of Romance languages, will be given at the El Ateneo meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20 in 113 Strong Hall.
Mr. Roberts will tell the Spanish club of his experiences in Costa Rica and show slides. He spent eight months in the country doing linguistic research in 1954.
Educators To Hear Collister
Thursday, March 15. 1956. University Daily Kansan
EDUCATORS
E. Gordon Collister, director of the College Bureau, will speak at a dinner meeting of Phi Delta Kappa, professional education fraternity, at 6 p.m. today in the Student Union. Dr. Collister will talk about a proposed statewide testing program in the public schools.
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Dr. J. H. Burekhalter, professor of pharmacy, has received a renewal of a U. S. Public Health Service grant for a project he has been working on the past two years. Amount of the renewal is $7,590.
Professor's Grant Is Renewed
Dr. Burckhalter is in Germany this year as a Fulbright fellow and his work is being conducted by Robert J. Seiwald, assistant professor of pharmacy.
Dr. Seiwald said the project, which originally sought to synthesize substitutes for cortisone, the drug given arthritis patients, has developed another phase, to synthesize caffeine derivatives and test them as possible hypo-tensive agents, which can be used in treating high blood pressure.
In 1880, New York led the nation with 1,437,855 milk cows. Wisconsin was ninth with 478,374. By 1950, Wisconsin was first with 2,075,570 while New York dropped to third with 1,217,596.
2 Win Contest In Aeronautics
Thomas W. Woods, Lawrence senior, and Donald G. Higdon, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student, are winners of the Institute of Aero Sciences technical paper contest in the undergraduate and graduate level.
Both papers will be entered in the Texas Institute of Aeronautical Science contest to be held in Dallas, Tex., April 19 and 20.
"Transonic Barrier Rule" was the title of Woods' paper. Higdon wrote on "Investigation of an on-off Type Automatic Rudder Control for Light Aircraft."
Many of the other papers entered in the contest will be sent to the St. Louis Institute of Aeronautical Science contest at St. Louis, Mo.
Woods, by having the best paper entered in the undergraduate field will receive a round trip ticket to Dallas for the contest.
German Club To Meet Today The German Club will meet at 5 p.m. today in 502 Fraser. No program will be given, but coffee and singing have been planned.
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