The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JANUARY 27, 1910
VOLUME VI.
FOR ANOTHER FRATERNITY
PHI BETA PI MAY BE IN STALLED SOON.
Limited Membership of Nu Sigma Nu Demands Another Organization in Medic School.
Some times ago a small band of medical sents got together in Rosedal and organized a local fraternity to petition some national organization. Since then several Lawrence students have been added. They have petitioned Ph Beta Pi, a national medical fraternity, and their success is practically assured.
Membership in this fraternity is not gained entirely through attainment in scholarship, but is more like the ordinary social fraternity The chapter here intends to have a house, in which they can give parties and hold other social affairs There are two members of Phi Beta Pi in Lawrence at present Dr. E.H. Sehorer, of the medical faculty, and Ed. White, a senior in the College.
Ever since the establishment of Nu Sigma Nu, two years ago, Dr Sudler, dean of the Medical School has been in favor of another fraternity in the Medical School therefore the faculty favors the establishment of a new fraternity.
Phi Beta Pi was founded in 1871 at West Pennsylvania Medical college. Up till 1900 it was known as Pi Beta Phi. It has 28 chapters and a membership of 3,200.
Bible Institute to Be Conducted Annually at Washburn.
TO LECTURE IN TOPEKA.
Professor A. M. Wilcox will deliver a lecture illustrated with the stereopticon, at Topeka next Monday evening on "How We Got Our Bible" at the opening session of a four days' Bible institute, to be held in connection with Washburn college. On Thursday evening he will lecture on "Religious Architecture." In addition to President F. K. Saunders, Dr. Charles M. Sheldon and others in Topeka, the Washburn committee has secured other competent speakers from a distance. It is the plan of those in charge to make the Bible institute an annual affair at Washburn, as it is at the University.
BASKET-BALL TONIGHT
Jayhawkers Will Play Team From K. S. A. C.
Tonight Captain Johnson's quintet will play the husky Farmer team from Manhattan in Robinson gymnasium. Both teams have been playing about the same class of basket-ball this season and the contest promises to be a lively one.
THE EXCHANGE EDITOR
W. B. Taylor Lectured to Newspaper Classes on His Duties.
W. B. Taylor, exchange editor of the Kansas City Star, spoke to the class in journalism yesterday. Mr. Taylor said the University was to be commended for establishing a department of journalism because he believed that while it is true that only in actual newspaper per work can the newspaper aspirant acquire true finish, yet work in school shortens his apprentice ship.
In describing the work of an exchange editor Mr. Taylor affirmed that it was not such a snap as is generally supposed, since a wide range of information must be covered. All the other departments book to him for copy. The literary editor expects to find everything in his box on contemporary books. The society editor comes to him for New York and Pittsburgh news, and the telegraph editor looks to him for everything that is not handled by the Associated Press. He also supplies the newspaper "morgue," which consists of a file containing the pictures of every person, scene, building, etc., which is of more than local interest..
Through the hands of the exchange editor pass all the minor dailies which furnish the Kansas and Missouri notes. The instinct for news must be as strongly developed in the exchange editor as in any other editor in the office.
Mr. Taylor paid the New York Sun a compliment by saying that it is the most welcome of all the papers which come to the newspaper man's office.Foreign papers do not contain much of value to the exchange editor. The jokes in the London comic papers are sometimes reprinted, but the average American reader must track concealed humor to its hiding place before the joke can be seen.
Mr. Taylor is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He worked on the Kansas City Journal before taking his present position on the Star.
Mr. C. C. Young spoke in Chemical club yesterday on "Rapid Methods of Iron and Steel Analysis." In the laboratories of the big steel companies analytical work is almost unbelievably rapid, he said. For instance, molten steel is removed from the furnace and its silicon contents determined in fifteen minutes. Forty phosphorus determinations are made in one day, the chemist guessing the weight of the precipitate so accurately that weighing is unnecessary. Here a student in quantitative often spends two hours a day for a week on one phosphorus determination.
How Work Is Carried on in the Big Plants.
QUICK WORK ON STEELE.
WILL THE T.N.E. HAVE A PARTY?
NUMBER 48
A REPORT TO THAT EFFECT IS ABROAD.
T. N. E. Dissolved Here 3 Years Ago—Authorities Surprised to Know That It Still Exists.
A whisper has been going around the University in the last few days, to the effect that the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity will give a spring party this year. The Lawrence Daily World stated last night that the party would be given February 11. Inasmuch as the fraternity is not supposed to be in existence at the University, the announcement has caused a great deal of comment.
When shown the notice stating that the party is to be given, Chancellor Strong this morning refused to make a statement regarding the action that will be taken by the University authorities in case the party is held. He expressed great surprise at learning that Theta Nu Epsilon is still in existence here. He said he wished to get into communication with the members of the fraternity before the party is given, in order to explain to them the offense which they will be guilty of in holding the party.
It is definitely known on the hill that the organization is still in existence. Men who were not in school at the time of the dissolution of the chapter here are wearing the pin. It is understood that men from four fraternities have been pledged this year. Every fraternity in the University, it is said, has a rule prohibiting its members from joining Theta Nu Epsilon. Since the fraternities of the University are on probation before the Board of Regents on the scholarship question, and the holding of a party by Theta Nu Epsilon would result in diserediting fraternities generally, there is no doubt that the influence of the Greek letter societies will be used to prevent the holding of the party.
The local chapter of Theta Nu Epsilon was officially dissolved three years ago, after a conference between the members and the Board of Regents. A short time after this dissolution a petition for reinstatement was made to the Board of Regents. The petition was refused consideration.
Partially cloudy tonight and Friday; cooler tonight.
THE WEATHER.
SEISMOGRAPH IS HERE.
University's Earthquake Recorder Came From Germany.
The new seismograph which the University recently purchased from a German firm was delivered at Fraser hall today. R. R. Kroeger, special deputy surveyor of customs, came up from Kansas City to be present when the large box containing the apparatus was opened, to make sure that the box contained nothing but the seismograph. The University did not have to pay duty on the seismograph.
The instrument will be set up in the basement of Fraser hall, in the weights and measures room, under the direction of Prof. H. P. Cady and Prof. M. E. Rice. Professor Cady said this afternoon that the seismograph will probably be in working order in a few days.
BAR ASSOCIATION MEET.
Dean Green and Professor Higgins on the Program.
Dean James W. Green and Prof. W. E. Higgins are in Topeka today for the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Kansas State Bar association, which lasts until to morrow evening. Several students of the Law School will attend one or more sessions of the meeting.
At the opening session this after noon Dean Green delivered his president's address on "The Three Departments of Government." Tomorrow morning Prof. W. E. Hig gins as chairman of the important special committee on "Crimes and Criminal Procedure" will present his report on this matter to which he has been giving much attention during the past year.
AT QUILL TUESDAY.
New Members Were Elected to the Club
Except for the time given to a story read by Miss Grace Thestrup the regular meeting of the Quill club Tuesday afternoon was devoted to business. The report of the nominating committee was accepted and the officers for next term are: Pr sident, Flavel Robertson; vice president, Miss Amorette Weaver; secretary-treasurer, Walter Mayer. Upon the recommendation of the membership committee the following students were elected to the club: Misses Nellie Burnham, Ethel Luther, Anna McKay, Erinicine Clarke, Frances Wenrick, Gertrude Blackmar and Wilbur Jones, Edward Schaufler, Robert Sellers. Wednesday noon, the club had a group picture taken for the Annual.
THE MATERIAL HAS ARRIVED
INVESTIGATING PROSPECTIVE CAMPHOR INDUSTRY.
A Ton of Supplies Has Come From Jamaica for Industrial Chemistry Department.
Prof. R. K. Duncan of the chemistry department, received yesterday about a ton of leaves, twigs, soil, and young trees from the Island of Jamaica, to be used in relation to the possibility of growing camphor profitably there.
Prof. Duncan returned from a rip to Jamaica just before the Christmas holidays.
While in Jamaica he visited the 8,000 acre Malecolm estate and found that there were an abundance of camphor trees, some full grown and others merely started, and that the foliage was dense and rich looking.
Already some work has been done along the line of analyzing the material and testing it for camphor and the work has so far proved satisfactory. But as one of the men connected with the department said."The work has just begun and it will be at least two months before we will know anything of our success."
The Japanese are the only people who raise camphor and all of the camphor raised passes through government hands and in this way they make the prices and have a perfect iron-bound trust on camphor.
If the Jamaica trees produce good camphor the industry may be established in the southern states.
ADDITION TO MUSEUM.
Fish Found Last Summer Are on Exhibition.
An excellent addition to the paleontology department in the way of fish have been placed on exhibition on the third floor of the Natural History Museum. The addition consists of three fish. One found by Mr. Martin of the research department, owing to the lack of room, has been hanging over the window in the north room while the other two found by Mr. Martin's son have been placed in the cases in the same room.
These fish are a part of the ones found last summer when Mr. Martin and his son and Mr. Green of the same department went on an expedition to the chalk fields of Western Kansas. They are an even million years old, because of the formation they show that they formed in the cretaceous age. The fish found by Mr. Martin resemble the modern pike, while the other two found by the son of Mr. Martin resemble the salmon.
Brownie Angle, a sophomore in the College, has pledged Kappa.
Basket Ball, K.S.A.C.vs. Kansas Bethany vs. Friday, Jan. 28 Robinson Gymnasium Reserved Seats 15c with Athletic Ticket