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Reading Courses Made Available
Students may register now for the third six-weeks series of the reading and study course conducted by the reading laboratory in Fraser hall, according to Robert Gray, assistant instructor in reading.
Three classes in the course are now open to students. They are the study methods, reading and study methods and speed in reading and comprehension.
He added that classes in the course will probably commence during the second week of the spring semester. The commencement date will be announced later in the Daily Kansan.
Students desiring to register now for the course may do so between 3 and 5 p.m. any day in the Reading laboratory office. The office will notify them by mail when the classes they are interested in taking will begin.
Students desiring to obtain further information concerning the course may do so at the Reading laboratory office in Fraser hall.
Mr. Gray said that students in the reading and study course have commonly been able to double their reading speed and, at the same time, maintain or greatly improve their reading comprehension.
Monday, Dec. 17, 1951
New Menotti Opera To Have TV Premiere
New York—(U.P.)—The world premiere of another opera by Gian-Carlo Menotti, "Ahmal and the Night Visitors," will be given on Christmas Eve on NBC television.
Menotti was commissioned two years ago to do an opera for NBC television and was permitted to choose his own subject. He conceived a tender and touching incident involving the Three Wise Men on their way to visit the Christ Child.
As with his other operas, Menotti has written both the text and music. This will be his sixth opera. All have been successful except "The Island God," which did not last in the repertory, of the Metropolitan Opera House.
ANDREI VISHINSKY, who laughed and laughed when the Western powers suggested disarmament discussions, chews on his fingertips in United Nations general assembly in Paris as Britain is accused by Fount
Davis, Calif. — (U.P.) —The pocket gopher of California probably has less tooth trouble than any other animal. The gopher is only six inches long but grows 46 inches of teeth each year—more than seven times its own body length.
Gophers Teeth Grow 46 Inches Each Year
Dr. Melvin E. Smith of the University of California college of agriculture said constant use of the teeth keeps the pocket gopher's cuspids down to a sharp chisel-like tip. Gophers dig up more soil than any other rodent in California Smith said.
The gophers use their teeth for drying up rocks, cutting roots, digging and fighting.
William I of Prussia was crowned emperor of Germany in 1871 in Versailles' Hall of Mirrors. The armistice ending the American revolution was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in 1783.
'For Rent: Candle-Lit Room, $3 A Week But Don't Crowd-That Was Back In 1912
By HELEN LOU FRY
"For Rent: Room lit by candle. $3 a week." This advertisement appeared in the classified columns of the University Daily Kansan in 1912.
At that, the $3 room wasn't cheap then. Another room advertised as "nicely furnished" with a private entrance was only $1.25 a week. Maybe the roomer furnished his own light and that made the difference in price.
Another 1912 advertisement offered a room, with electricity and gas, and board for $3 a week. Still another offered a splendid suite of rooms with steam heat and gas light.
men's shoes" sold from $2.50 to $7.
When the weather turned cold,
men students had the opportunity to
buy a "good knit union suit" for 35
cents. Women could probably buy
such a suit too, but the advertisement
 didn't suggest it.
As for clothing, in 1914 the "best silk hose ever produced" was advertised for 50 cents a pair. The "best of
In 1927, home laundry ad offered to do shirts for 12 cents, BVD's 12 cents, pajamas 25 cents, sox (pair) 4 cents, handkerchiefs 2 cents. Women's unmentionables must have been unmentioned because the ad advised girls to "call for prices."
men's shoes" sold from $2.50 to $7.
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The new astronomical observatory atop Lindley hall should be finished by March 1—providing the weather is favorable.
Construction on the new observatory, which will house the University's 27-inch reflector telescope, is in its second month.
The new observatory will replace the old astronomy building that was on the campus between Marvin and Lindley halls until 1944.
Astronomers Hope To Have 27" Telescope Housed On Top Of Lindley Hail By March 1
By JOHNNY HERRINGTON
Since 1944 the big telescope—the largest in a 500-mile radius—has been in "mothballs" waiting for the new observatory.
One telescope—a six inch refractor model—was installed on top of Lindley in 1944. But the 27-inch reflecting telescope and the three inch transit style telescope were stored until completion of the new building.
Sixteen vessels aggregating 77,855 tons were launched in the new Japan during the period Aug. 21- Sept. 20.
The big telescope—which has a focal length of 13 feet and a diameter of 27 inches—had to be placed before construction was started. The cone-shaped observer's dome was built around it.
NEW HOUSING OF A 27-INCH reflecting telescope is nearing completion. The structure is located on the southwest roof of Lindley hall. N.W. Storer, associate professor in astronomy, said that the building should be ready for use by March 1.-Kansan photo by Don Sarten
Washington, D. C.—The new British airfield recently opened at Entebbe, Uganda, is Africa's largest, with runways two miles long capable of handling the latest jet planes.
British Build New Airfield In Africa
The transit will be housed in the same building as the big scope. The 6-inch refractor is still at Lindley.
"The difference in the refractor and reflector telescopes," Dr. N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy, said, "is that the refractor telescope has a lens at the top and
the reflector machine has a convex mirror at the bottom"
Built 250 miles south of the southern border of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the field occupies a strategically important position between the Middle East and South Africa, says the National Geographic Society. It has the advantage of year-around good weather. Entebbe, capital of the British Uganda Protectorate, nestles on the north shore of Lake Victoria, where seaplanes also can land.
The 27 inch telescope will have to be turned by a motor. The smaller instruments can be turned by hand cranks.
Other parts of the observatory will house a photo darkroom and small laboratories.
The big machine will be mounted on a 10-ton concrete block. The size of the block and the size of the scope, itself, would make hand turning impossible. * It will run on a dome track 21 feet in diameter.
After the actual construction of the observatory dome, the astronomers will have to make adjustments of the telescopes.
"The adjustments that will have to be made are highly technical," Dr. Storer said. "And they may take some time. Each telescope has to be angled just right and the axis must point so that it is parallel to the
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He said that these adjustments may have to be made several times before the machine is placed correctly.
Observation work from the 27-inch telescope will be for research purposes only, Dr. Storer said.
"It would be inconvenient to try to accommodate all the people at the big telescope. This is mainly because it would be unsafe to have more than six persons at a time on the observation platform."
The smaller six inch telescope will be used for open house nights.
"The public can see just as much in the small telescope," he said.
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