UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1950
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High School Debaters Vie For State Title
Debate teams from 12 Kansas high schools are participating in the state championship high school debate tournament being held at the University today and tomorrow under the sponsorship of the University Extension department.
"Resolved: That the president should be elected by direct vote of the people" is the resolution on which the teams will debate, immediately after a general assembly of the participants in Fraser auditorium at 1:30 p.m. today.
Eight class AA teams are competing in the first four rounds beginning at 2 p.m. today and finishing with a final round at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The four class A teams begin their rounds at 10:00 a.m. and start the final round at 2:30 p.m. The results of these round robbins will be announced at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Palm room of the Union.
From the list of judges yet to be announced, three will be chosen for each round. Marvin, Strong, and Lindley halls and the University High school will be used for the debates.
Class AA Kansas high schools entered in the tournament and their coaches are: Newton High school, Mrs. Alma Moore; ElDorado High school, George Shaffer; Russell High school, H. Francis Short; Hutchinson High school, Tom Kelly; Emporia High school, John Kelso; Topeka high school, Walter Russell; Winfield high school, Bill Stearkel; Arkansas City High school, Ralph Peterson.
Class A Kansas high schools in the tournament and their coaches are: Abilene High school, Henry High School, Broomfield High dall Jackson; Stafford High school, Martha Drevits; and Liberal High school, Norma Williams.
Kansan Personality Sketch
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Tracy Uses Skulls For Ash Trays
The man at a large desk surrounded by partly assembled human skeletons, skulls he uses for ash trays, and a number of specimens preserved in alcohol, is Dr. Henry C. Tracy, professor of anatomy.
During several winters in Arizona, Dr. Tracy collected wild cactus plants. On the window sill in his office are six species of cacti which look rather out of place in an anatomist's office.
Dr. Tracy, who will retire from teaching at the end of the present school year, was head of the anatomy department until 1945. He retired from that position when he was 65.
Research on the toadfish, a highly specialized teleost, has been Dr. Tracy's fundamental work. By carefully staging the development of this animal he was able to determine the embryological changes.
Dr. Tracy has had articles on the toadfish published in the Journal of Comparative Neurology in 1926 and 1933. For six summers he was in charge of a biological survey at Frenchman's Bay on the coast of Maine where work was done with the toadfish.
—Kansan Photo by Bob Blank Dr. Tracy
After he retires, Dr. Tracy will remain in Lawrence, but he plans to continue research on the toadfish at the Marine Biological laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. Most of the research will be during the summer months. The rest of the research will be conducted and writing at the University. Dr. Tracy, who has traveled extensively in Canada, England, France and Germany, plans to take a pleasure trip abroad in two years.
Dr. Tracy received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Dartmouth and his doctor's degree at Brown university. Before coming to K.U. he taught for two years at Northwestern university and for 10 years at Marquette university. He says he is proud to have taught approximately 4,000 students who have gone on to receive their Doctor of Medicine degrees. Dr Tracy teaches Neurology at K.U. and also conducts
classes for intern residents at Winter General hospital in Topeka under the auspices of the Menüner foundation.
During the 40 years of teaching medical students Dr. Tracy has spent 30 years at KU.
Dr. Tracy models in clay to demonstrate the development of parts of the body, and has also developed large colored models showing parts of the eye. These models are mounted in the lecture room of Haworth hall. He says he believes that his models are the only ones of the type being used.
Widely read in literature, art, science, medicine and anthropology, Dr. Tracy has gathered historical collections of famous anatomists, including woodcuts from Vesalius' Fabrica and The Epitome. He was instrumental in translating The Epitome into English from Latin. The
works were translated by L. R. Lind, associate professor of Latin and Greek at the University.
Since its beginning in 1899, Dr. Tracy says the anatomy department has had a hectic career. It first was housed in what is now the Journalism building; then it was moved into Dyche museum. It didn't remain there long, however, because the water from a small stream near the building began to trickle on the tables. The department equipment was moved into the old cafeteria which was in front of Watson library. But in 1943 the cafeteria burned, and the anatomists had to move into Snow hall until Haworth was remodeled.
When the cafeteria burned, all research material was destroyed. The only equipment saved was a cadaver tank, two microscopes and a few charts.
Now, primarily through Dr. Tracy's efforts, the department has more than 500 charts and 30 films on anatomical material for visual aid.
Dr. Tracy, bespectacled and balding, is a native of Vermont. He likes Kansas but says the summers here are too scorching and that Kansas has no winter sports to equal those of Vermont.
He says that when he is at Woods Hole, Mass., he goes swimming every day. "I used to ride my own horse frequently," he added, "until about two years ago when I spent some time at a hospital." One of his favorite pastimes at the present is playing bridge.
Tri-Delts To Move In Fall
Members of Delta Delta Delta sorority will have a new home in the fall, Jeanne Rose, Education senior and chapter president, announced today. Construction on the house, to be located in West Hills, will begin in early spring.
US Must Be Ready For War Johnson Says
Washington, Feb. 3.—(U.P.)-T h e United States pushed a series of diplomatic and military moves today as a warning to Russia that her tactics have about exhausted the free world's patience.
Louis Johnson, defense secretary, keynoted the U.S. attitude when he said that United States should be prepared "to lick hell out of" Russia if she tries to break the peace.
In separate moves, the United States;
2. Drafted plans for strengthening defenses in Alaska, which is considered to be the most vulnerable area for a possible Soviet attack from Siberia.
Johnson spoke before a meeting here Thursday night of the University of Virginia alumni. He said the peace might not last "24 hours" after Russia thought U.S. armed forces were unprepared for an attack.
1. Prepared to impose a counter blockade on the entire Soviet zone of Germany, unless Russia stops hampering the free flow of trade to western Berlin.
3. Announced the transfer of the 11,000-ton carrier Sicily from the Atlantic to the Pacific fleet in an effort to increase U.S. fighting power in an area where one-fourth of Russia's submarines are said to be operating.
"There is, but one nation in the world tonight that would start a war that would engulf the world and bring the United States into war," Johnson said.
Johnson said that he wants "Joe Stalin to know that if he starts something at four o'clock in the morning, the fighting power and strength of America will be on the job at five o'clock in the morning."
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Upper right: L. Main, education senior and C. Larrick, Col. senior, pose to have photographs taken by O. South, fine arts senior, and E. Tuell, College freshman.
Upper left: Sam F. Anderson, instructor in German, helps Hall Smith, College sophomore, make out enrollment cards.
Center; J. Mueller, College freshman, and R. Capps, College senior, scan the bulletin board while D. Raab, College soph, closes more classes.
Lower right: Writing checks to pay enrollment费 are l. to r.; W. Liggett, Col. fresh.; Q. Long, eng. jr.; I. Linnell and V. Lightfoot, Col. juniors.
Lower left: "Could I help you?" asks Roy Wonder, business senior, as James Metcalf, College senior, looks at the Union bookstore.
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