THE KANSAN
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 30,1904, at the Lawrence, Kansas, Postoffice under the act of Congress, March 3, 1679.
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SATURDAY, JAN. 29, 1910.
The students of the University are evidently trying to break all records this year in the installation of fraternities. Every week or so adds another Greek letter organization to the list. If this continues much longer it will take only a few years for enough frats to be established to care for every man, woman, or child that enters the University. They will all be Greeks of some kind in that glad day and the ambitions of all in the fraternity line can be satisfied. Then probably the "exclusives" will be the "barbs."
Maybe the T. N. E. party to be given on February 11 is the cause of the class parties being failures this year. The members of that organization are probably saving up all their cash for their blow out and cannot go to other parties. They do say that the T. N. E. parties are something swell and demand a good outlay of the hard specie.
The seismograph is here. It will be in working order in plenty of time to register the disturbances accompanying agitation at the University next fall. The class "bosses" must be cautioned in order that with some "coup d'etat" they do not put the machine out of commission.
Just after the University had nailed the story of the students having too many automobiles and valets firmly to the earth, there comes the story that T. N. E. still eists. There is always something to be put down, it seems.
The fish now being mounted in the museum are an even million years old. There are lots of fish younger than that, and some exceed that age. But there are very few of them whose years number an even million.
To Make the Whistle Heard.
There is some complaint that the big whistle which blows at 7:45 and 8 o'clock each morning can't be heard as well as it used to be. When the new power plant was completed the whistle was removed from Fawler shops to the new building, a considerable distance from student living-places. The engineers are considering the possibility of putting up some sort of a sounding board behind the whistle to throw its sound toward town.
KICK COLUMN.
Editor Kansan.
I see by the last "Kansan" that T. N. E. is going to give a party on February 11. I would like to ask whether this will be like ordinary affairs, or will they only have "spiked" punch and invite the ladies. If it is going to be a real party along the same lines as the ordinary T. N. E. affairs that we hear about, the Medic students will have a great chance to witness about 15 cases of delirium tremens next day.
MEDIC.
Will Address Students' Guild.
Dr. Naptali Luceock, pastor of Hyde Park M. E. church, Kansas City, Mo., will address the Student's Wesleyan guild at the First Methodist church of Lawrence tomorrow evening at 7:30. The guild has recently been organized and Dr. Luceock is the first speaker secured. On March 27, Bishop Quayle will address the guild.
All students having either membership or preference for the M. E. church are members of the guild.
What True Greatness Is
Prof. Dyche has won distinction as a great hunter. He has won distinction as a professor of nature history in the University. He is winning fresh fame as state fish and game warden. But what is more to the point than anything is the fact that Prof. Dyche's hens are laying and eggs are 45 cents a dozen. That is True Greatness—Lawrence Journal.
A Well Paid Calling.
A Kansas newspaper quotes "Arthur Brisbane, the editor who receives $17 a week, the highest salary paid to any newspaper; man."—Kansas City Star.
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THE BELLS, BELLS, BELLS.
An Old Historic One May Ring for Chapel Service.
If you should hear a hand bell being rung violently in the main corridor of Fraser hall some morning at 10 o'clock, don't yell "fire!" and then make a rush to join the jam of your fellow-students that is blockading the stairs, or join the crush that surrounds the fire-escape. It won't be a fire. It will only be the old brass bell of other days calling you to the chapel service.
The new-fangled electric bells on each side of the chapel which are supposed to jangle at the end of every hour, won't always work In fact, the only time when are are sure to work is at 10:20 on long chapel days, when the imported orator is just warming up to his work. The University authorities have decided to bring out the hand bell on the days when the electric alarms are not working, in order to attract as many students as possible to chapel. In the days before the electric bells were in place, one of the duties of the guides was to ring the hand bell in the hall at chapel time.
ON OLYMPIC GAMES
Professor Gulick is a good speaker and an authority on his subject. He is the author of a book on the life of the ancient Greeks. He has taken special interest in the excavations that are being made on the sites of an ancient building.
Prof. Gulick of Harvard on Ancient Sport.
The revival of the Olympic games in recent years and the great amount of attention now being paid to them makes of especial interest the lecture which will be given in University hall next Tuesday afternoon by Prof. Charles Burton Gulick of Harvard University. Professor Gulick's lecture will be on "The Olympic Games." It will be illustrated by stereopticon views. The lecture will be free to all.
The Frankfort Daily Index explains an item with this statement: "This is not a newspaper story, but is a true statement of the situation." Will the Index kindly give its definition of a "newspaper story." — Kansas City Star.
We'd Like to Know.
WAGE WAR ON CHINCH BUGS
Yes. He Knew.
A few days ago,when one of the freshman literature classes were discussing the English Budget,the professor asked one of his students what a budget it. "A budget is a bundle or package,"the freshman replied,as he smiled his self-approval.
UNIVERSITY WILL CO-OPERATE WITH FARMERS.
Department of Botany Will Investigate Efficacy of Fungus as a Destroyer.
Professor F. H. Billings of the department of botany returned yesterday from Wellington,where he has been for the last few days, co-operating with the farmers of that community, in making experiments with a fungus for destroying chinch bugs.
At the last session of the legislature an appropriation was made for fighting these bugs. The state has had little trouble with the pests for some years, but Professor Billings says that they move in circles and are about due to appear again.
Ex-Chancellor Snow was the originator of the method of fighting these bugs with a fungus. He did a great deal in this work and his last report seemed to show that the method was a success. However, the reports were not full enough to be conclusive.
The University does not wish to spend any money in a useless manner and it is for this reason that the experiments are now being made. One station will be established a Wellington and perhaps another at Cherryvale. The work will be under the direction of Professors Billings and Glenn Many farmers will be interested in this, the records will be closely kept, and the results therefore conclusive.
In carrying out the campaign against the chinch bugs the process is something as follows: A great number of the bugs are collected and placed in a box full of damp earth. The fungus is then placed in the box, the dampness being very favorable to it. When this fungus grows on one of the bugs it is fatal to him but before the bugs die they are shipped and distributed in the fields over the state, where others become infected from these.
If this system proves to be a success the University will infect thousands of these bugs with he fungus and then ship them'ree of charge to the farmers or he state.
A LITTLE OVERDRAWN.
Down Town Paper "Takes Off' the Fraternity Craze.
It's a poor student in the University of Kansas now that is not a member of from one to half a dozen fraternities, says the Lawrence World. Two students are said to have met on the steps of Fraser hall a few mornings ago
"What time did you arise this morning?" asked one.
"Why I was up at five o'clock bugging for a Final," answered the other.
"And I, too, was up at that time," said the other.
"Then let's organize a fraternity." said the first.
And straightway the went and organized themselves, and now they are in a flourishing condition. They have a dozen members and are looking for a few more that arise early in the morning.
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