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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Whale On Campus? Just 'Pottering' Around
By BUD RODGERS
There's a whale in that lake and seven people have drowned in its twelve to sixteen feet depth since its construction in 1911.
It sounds incredible for an innocent body of water no larger than two acres. But Potter lake hasn't always been the halcyon hole that it is today.
Back in 1911 when it was construc tured by authority of the Board of Regents there were great plans made for the lake. It was dug for the purpose of supplying the University with a reservoir of water in case of a fire.
A motor driven pump was installed at the north end below the dam to pump water to all parts of the campus. The Board of Regents named the lake after a former member. Senator T. M. Potter.
Dedication ceremonies were held during commencement week when the traditional regatta, usually held on the Kaw river, took place on the new lake. While Mr. Potter looked on proudly, canoe races, and swimming and diving contests were held.
And on that afternoon, June 5, 1911 with hundreds of students milling around on the bank watching the activities, the legendary whale was sighted.
The whale, reports Prof. Robert Taft, author of "Across the Years on Mt. Oread," was seen spouting water in the middle of the lake. A few brave students set out in a boat to capture the beast but their boat capsized and the whale fearing capture plunged into the depths. He has not been seen since.
Toward the close of the school year in 1911 Potter lake claimed its first victim. Professor Taft recounts that a group of engineering students
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A "cold room." kept continuously between 32 and 38 degrees above zero, has been added to the laboratory equipment of the department of zoology at the University. The room will be used in investigation and storage of proteins contained in the blood serums and tissues of various animals.
The zoologists conducting the research are at present time carrying on a long-term plan to collect various types of blood. After the required amount of sera has been gathered, the various samples will be studied to determine their characteristics with respect to one another.
The department has purchased several new instruments to aid in the research. A new Leitz colorimeter will be used in routine laboratory determinations of the constituents of the blood. A photo-electric turbidimeter measures the reactivity between blood proteins and antibodies produced against them.
Two research binocular dissection microscopes will be used in studying the development of proteins. In addition to their research purposes, the cold room and laboratory facilities are used in advanced undergraduate and graduate teaching.
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on their way home from a party decided to cool off by taking a swim in the new lake. The man swam across to the opposite bank successfully, but on the return trip one boy went down in 12 feet of water. The University Daily Kansan reported some years back that in the years of the lake's existence seven students have drowned.
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With the construction of the Lawrence public pool in 1927, Potter lake lost its prominence as a recreational spot-for swimming anyway.
In 1924 Potter lake experienced a complete rejuvenation. Spring boards, a diving tower, a pier and bath houses were built, complete with burly lifeguards. Cementing the lake bottom was also proposed but never realized.
Today you can look upon the peaceful lagoon and unless you know of the legendary whale or annual commencement regatta Potter lake will have a meaningless origin for you.
Occasionally on warm summer nights when K.U. students sit by the shore watching the moon come up over the ravine slopes you can almost hear that legendary whale blowing up a column of water.
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