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University Daily Kansan Monday, January 3, 1955
The Kansan Feature Page
Snow A Popular Pioneer
It is estimated that, in terms of eight-hour days and six-day weeks, francis Huntington Snow, for whom now hall was named, devoted the equivalent of five years and six weeks compiling weather records from his instruments in the dome of caser hall. He was also known for its extensive bird and insect collections, his keen interest in the University, and his cycling speed.
Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts,
June, 1840, he first came to the
diversity as a professor of math-
matics when it was founded in
66. He married Jane Appleton
ken in 1868 and remained at KU
util his death in 1908.
For some years, Prof. Snow was only Kansas naturalist with an interest in ornithology. In the fifth edition of his Catalogue of the Birds Kansas in 1903, he estimated that ring the last third of the preceded century he had catalogued 305 species and nine varieties. KU Prf.
During his 42 years at KU, Prof
Snow made constant requests for new buildings. In his 1894 report he called for a natural history museum, a chemistry building, engineering shops, a gymnasium, a fine arts building, and a women's dormitory. As a direct result of Prof. Snow's urging, a burglar was finally passed appropriating $50,000 for the erection of a natural history building
At a meeting of the board of regents in October, 1885, it was moved that the new building be called Snow hall of Natural history, and on Nov. 16 of the following year it was dedicated. The old building was finally razed and the present structure was dedicated in 1930.
Prof. Snow had so become a part of the University that when he was elected Chancellor in 1890, the announcement of the news brought a spontaneous overflow of feeling among students and faculty. The evening afater the announcement, a large group of students marched
downtown to the railroad station where Prof. Snow was to leave for Topeka and carried him on their shoulders to his seat in the coach. Speeches were made in front of the Chancellor's house when he returned and the students celebrated far into the night.
Students marveled at the way Prof. Snow rode his Indian pony and were amazed at his bold dashes down Adams Street (the present 14th street) hill on a braakeless bicycle. After one accident on his bicycle he hastily repaired a rip in his trousers in the hope his family would not see any evidence of the accident.
Prof. Snow retired as Chancellor in 1901 and restricted his teaching to one class. He continued to build up his collections and go on expeditions until Oct., 1907, when he became ill and died in September of the following year in Delafield, Wis.
Bet They Can All Identify Marilyn & Joe
Without cramming, can you adequately identify the Medici fam- Plato? The Koran?
To these add the Renaissance, the formation, the Monroe doctrine, the title, the treaty of Versailles, smear, and the Magna Charta d you have the makeup of a surive exam which a University of inice professor turned loose on candidates for the doctor of philosophy degree.
Eleven of the 15 graduates could
notify the treaty of Versailles.
n of 'em knew what the Koran
s. After that it was rough sail-
And if you get caught without ubr crib notes you're in the same at with the majority of theuld-be Ph.Ds.
Only seven knew who Plato was,
successfully identified the
maissance. Five knew enough
out the Reformation and Voltaire
pass those questions. Bismark
umped 11 of the "experts."
Two of the grads hit on the Mono doctrine and the Magna Charta; only one could identify the diplix family.
the unhappy professor, after
the answers said:
Fopping the flunk list was a grade of one of the nation's largest diversities. He gave no acceptable swers. Ten of the candidates never heard of the Medicis and seven nitted they were equally ignorant the Magna Charta.
Perhaps we are overtraining . . .
dents to the detriment of their
well-being.
Another point—either with or about the test—is that the really located person may not know all answers, but he knows where to 'em.
est Results Due after Vacation
The results of the English proency examination given Dec. 4 1 be released the first week after ristmas vacation. Natalie Caldwell, assistant professor of Engl and proency examination matrer, said today.
The exams are being graded now the committee of six faculty mbers in various departments of
University. Members of the
annitee are Annette McCormick
istant professor of English. W. J.
Sweeney, former president, Warriner, associate profes-
of sociology; Gordon Collister, sector of guidance and associate fessor of education, and Sara terson, assistant professor of ne economics.
Journalism Professor Receives First 'First'
Emil L. Telfel, associate professor of journalism, and faculty advisor of Phi Kappa, social fraternity for Catholic men, received b' first "first" at the fraternity's annual Christmas dinner.
At the fraternity's honor man dinner last spring Prof. Telfel remarked to some of the members, one after another, because, "He's first among you. All my life I've always finished second—never first."
Prof. Telfel explained the remark by relating that he had finished one-half point behind the winner in a competition for a scholarship while doing graduate work at Notre Dame. Another runner-up position came in an essay contest while he was a graduate student at Northwestern university. He earned another second while working on a paper shortly after his graduation and a bonus was offered for the best story of the month. His story received honorable mention, but someone else got the bonus.
At the Phi Kappa Christmas dinner the brothers asked Prof. Telfel to stand and then Larry Mercier, business senior and president of the fraternity, presented him with a nine-inch high gold loving cup inscribed with the words: Emil L. Telfel, First in the Hearts of Phi Kappa.
County Clerks To Have Meeting
Financial administration problems will be the keynote at the sixth annual County Clerks School Jan. 27-28 at the University, Dr. Ethan Allen, director of the governmental research center, announced today.
Such subjects as purchasing procedures and problems, high school aid bill, the county clerk and the auditor, instructing assessors, how to devise, and duties of the board of equalization are being planned.
An 11-member planning commission made up of representatives from nine county clerks' offices, and two members of the Kansas Commission on Revenue and Taxation, has been formed to assist in formulating the program.
New clerks will get special consideration. A special session on the general duties of a county clerk will be scheduled.
Deputy county clerks, as well as the county clerks, are getting invitations, and day-to-day problems will be the central theme.
The annual County Clerks School is a jointly-sponsored project this year of the Kansas County Clerks Association, the Governmental Research Center at the University, and University Extension.
Register for Civ Test Today - Wednesday
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Students taking the Western Civilization test, to be held Saturday at 1 p.m., must register at the Western Civilization office today, tomorrow, or Wednesday of this week.
They will be assigned a test location at that time.
Review sessions for those persons taking the test will be held daily from 7-9:30 p.m. in 426 Lindley today through Thursday.
KU Men Thwart Real Life Holdup
John Ziegler, college junior, and Vic Blankenship, engineering junior, were returning to their car after a Christmas day party in Kansas City. Arriving at the parking lot at 108 W. 14th, the two entered the attendant's quarters only to be told by an attendant, "I'm being held up."
Most students watched thwarted holdups via TV during the holidays, but two junior men thwarted one—for real.
A man, hitherto unnoticed, was standing in the structure with hand in pocket "like he was holding a gun," Ziegler said.
The parking lot attendant then stepped toward the man and began grappling with him. Zagler Briar and the holdun-man was subdued.
"He was drunk, and was said to be a dope addict," Ziegler said. "He kept repeating, 'I want the money for my wife and kids.'"
"The man's trial hasn't come up yet—it's scheduled for sometime this month." Ziegler said.
Asked by officials to come with them, the men stayed at police headquarters long enough to swear to a statement about their witnessing and helping to stop the holdup.
The KU students recovered the stolen money, then phoned police.
But whatever the man's sentence is, he can blame two KU students for failing to pull a Christmas day vobbery.
Just like on television
After The Parties New Year's Resolutions
By MADELYN BRITE
Following the rounds of noise and parties ushering in the New Year comes the more serious period of New-Year's-resolution-making. The resolutioner looks back on his mistakes and vices in 1954 and makes glowing, if sometimes rash, promises to himself concerning 1955.
It's Good to Be A Student Again
By GRETCHEN GUINN
Most of the University students live in Kansas but some of us are from out of state and consequently get to go home only once or twice a year. Usually when the out-of-state student returns to Kansas he is greeted by the question, "Did you have an interesting experience?"
This question the non-resident regards with mixed emotions. especially if the unusual experience has been sitting in an Ohio cornfield for four hours waiting for repairs to be made to the decrepit engine that is trying to carry him home or standing from Chicago to Detroit because there was no place to sit down.
There are several ways nonresidents get to their distant homes, by train, bus, car, and, the way the lucky ones go, plane. The most sporting way seems to be by coach on the train. It is this way one can get to meet the most interesting characters. On the train one meets all kinds of people from all different parts of the country. The trip is educational even if you do get weary and wish the interesting character next to you would stop talking for a minute and let you get a little rest.
Car pools have been more and more popular with the University students as a way to get home. The students who are participating in a car pool drive a car to a destination for a car dealer.
Plane travel is definitely the easiest and most pleasant way to get home—if, for instance, all the planes aren't grounded out of Chicago. When friends who are lucky enough to be able to fly home kid you about what a hard time you will be having on the train while they are already home it is hard to stifle a smile and be sympathetic when you meet them in a Chicago terminal trying to get train tickets.
As the out-of-state student gets closer and closer to home the accent with which he came to Kansas becomes more and more distinct. Only he hears it with new ears. It sounds as strange as the mid-western accent did when he first came to the University.
At home he finds all too often that he and his friends don't understand each other any more. Their interests are different.
For the out-of-state student it is nice to get the opportunity to go home and see the folks and, for some, to go to parties with the old crowd again, but it's nice to get back to Kansas at the end of the vacation.
KDGU Schedule
6:30 Kevnotes by Carle
6:40 Daily Kansan Headlines
6:40 Danny Kansan Headh
6:45 Rhythm Rendezvous
6:40 Rhythm Hour
7:00 Bookstore Hour
8:00 University Theater Concert
8:30 News, Views, Interviews
8:45 News, Weather
9:00 Career Hour
9:30 Western Hoedown
9:55 News
9:55 News
KANU Schedule
5:30 Jazz Concert
5:45 Cameron Reports Sports
6:00 Candlelight Concert
7:00 Ballet Music
5.88 Bedtime St
7:30 Bedtime Story
7:55 News
8:00 Starlight Symphony.
9:00 A Little Night Music
9:55 News
10:00 A Little Night Music
He will refrain from cutting his 8 a.m. calss, never let the speedometer go past 70 mph, quit biting his fingernails. Our well-meaning friend then stuffs his list of resolutions into a bottom dresser drawer along with his Christmas card list and forgets about it until he unearths it a year later.
Then he makes an amazing discovery—he HAS cut his 8 a.m. class, driven over 70 on several occasions, and the fingernails are in the same dog-eared state as on last Jan. 1. He usually asks himself “Did I really promise all those things?” and solemnly resolves to do better next year.
Some persons have devices to help themselves keep resolutions. One young lady we know keeps her list typed in red ink on a conspicuous place on her desk for the first three months of the year. Other resolutioners adhere to the string-around-the-finger gimmick. This is all right for one or two resolutions, but highly impractical for a dozen.
A few seemingly pessimistic souls ask why should one bother to make promises of this kind, because they will only be broken anyway. The idea of resolution-making is fine, but a long list of "I will nots" is hard to live up to. Perhaps the positive attitude resolution is the best type to make for the New Year.
In this case our resolution-making friend evaluates last year's activities and promises to give the best of himself to his work and associates in the year ahead. A new attitude for the New Year may win him a gold star for self-improvement as well as any other kind of resolution. He then looks to the future with a wholehearted "I will."
Building Types Set As Conference Topic
Sponsored by the Kansas and Kansas City chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the KU department of architecture and University Extension, the two-day program will feature national leaders in the architectural field.
The second Architects' Conference on Building Types, emphasizing retail stores and shopping centers, will be held here March 22-23.
Two out of three of the world's radio hams are Americans, the National Geographic Society says. Only about one in 50 is a woman.
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