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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1948
Praise To KU From Alumnus
From elevator boy to college professor. This may read like the traditional Horatio Alger novel but it's the life story of Dr. John A. Van Den Broek, '11, who visited the campus recently.
Dr. Van Den Broek once received the highest recognition granted a member of the civil engineering profession, the Norman Medal, and has written several books, challenging
After receiving his B.S. in civil engineering here, Dr. Van Den Brook did graduate work at the University of Michigan and later received a professorship there. But the wonders of Kansas never ceased to amaze him.
When Dr. Van Den Brook returned to his alba mater last week, he visited Professor Ise and another old friend, Prof. J. O. Jones of the engineering department.
success to the University of Rancho He was 19 years old when he landed in the United States from Middletown, the Netherlands. Arriving in this country nearly penniless, he worked at any job he could find, hoping to save enough money to enter college.
The night he decided to take 50 cents from his seven dollar weekly paycheck to hear the Boston Symphony orchestra proved to be the turning point in his life. At the concert he met Prof. William C. Hoad, on leave from the University, and the Kansas instructor arranged for the entrance of Dr. Van Den Broek into the University.
After losing his left hand in a saw mill accident in Oregon, Dr. Van Den Broek became a sheep herder, then a cattle tender and finally worked in Boston as an elevator boy.
One of the first students he met at KU, was Prof. John Ise, now head of the department of economics. The two became close friends and Dr. Van Den Brook spent Christmas vacation at the Ise home.
Medical Center Makes New Plans
Dr. Van Den Brook is currently on leave of absence from Michigan and is lecturing at various universities. He addressed the Kansas chapter of A.S.C.E., Feb. 5.
Curriculum proposals were voted on recently by the faculty of the School of Medicine, according to Dr. H. R. Wahl, Dean of the Medical Center in Kansas City. The proposals were recommended by the curriculum committee.
The plans to be recommended to the chancellor and the board of regents are:
The last two years of the School of Medicine are to be on a quarter system, with 4 quarters of 11 weeks. Under this plan there would be 61 students instead of 84 in each class, thus enabling students to work in smaller groups and also making the hospital clinical material available to students during the summer quarter.
Juniors would serve in the hospital as clinical clerks and seniors would work in the out-patient department. There would be fewer class exercises and more emphasis on practical experience. More instructors will be needed to carry out the proposal effectively but the faculty believes that the better teaching job which will result will outweigh the increased expenditures. A number of medical schools in the United States have adopted similar plans.
State Experiments With New Oyster
Seattle — (UP) — The Washington state department of fisheries has announced it will experiment with a new type of Japanese oyster—the Kumamoto species—found in the province of the same name.
Smaller than the Pacific oyster, the new species is still nearly twice the size of Washington state's native Olympia oyster and is reported to be of excellent flavor.
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Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $450 a year, (in addition add $1 00 a semester postage) Published in Lawrence, Kan. every afternoon during the University of Kansas School of Dentistry university holidays and examination periods Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan. under act of March 3, 1879.
Water Tower Receives Another Paint Job
The long-standing feud between K. U. students and Kansas State students flared up again, Sunday night.
"K. S. C." was painted across the West Hills water tower in five-foot high red letters. The lettering is 120 feet above the ground and can be seen from the north side of the Union.
20 Year Profits Kept In Pockets
Indianapolis — (UP)—Police were called to settle a tenant-landlord dispute over $1.50.
"How much cash do you have with you now?" a patrolman asked the tenant, Edgar Martin, 39-year-old handman.
About $500. "was the reply."
"Because," demanded the skeptical cop.
"About $500," was the reply.
From the two pairs of pants he was wearing, Martin pulled a bill-fold, four money bags and assorted cash.
A count revealed nine $50 bills, 31 $20 bills, 126 $10's and hundreds of $1 bills, each folded separately. The total: $2,934 - Martin's savings from 20 years of odd-job work.
Students, Not Profs,
Are Absent-Minded
State College, Pa.—(UP)—Professors are not as minded-minded as their students, George L. Donovan, manager of the Student Union at Pennsylvania State college believes
Of the $7,000 worth of items found at the Union and returned last year, Donovan said;
"We almost never receive an item belonging to a professor. Women students are more forgetful than men."
Books and spectacles led the lost-and-found list, but oddities ran to a pound of butter and one student even lost his trousers.
Semantics Club Meeting Changed
The meeting of the General Semantics club, scheduled previously for tomorrow has been changed to Thursday to avoid conflicts with the dance program on that night. All members of the club are asked to return borrowed reading material for redistribution.
Delta Upsilon Will Be Host
Delta Upsilon will be host to delegates from 11 universities, at the annual D.U. fifth provincial conference, to be held Friday and Saturday. Twenty-two visiting men are expected to attend.
During their stay, the visitors will participate in discussion sessions, to be held in the Pine room of the Union, and dealing with topics of fraternity organization, management, and policy.
Schools to be represented are Minnesota, Chicago, Manitoba, Northwestern, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa State, and Oklahoma.
Prof. John Ise, head of the department of economics, will be the guest speaker at a banquet Friday. Saturday night the delegates will be guests of honor at a formal dance.
The conference will be the first of its kind to be held at the Kansas chapter since 1923.
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Hen Hikes Home— 7 Miles In 5 Days
Exeter, Cal.—(UP)—Pigeons aren't the only birds with a homing instinct. A hen owned by Ralph Blaz proved it.
This little hen walked home—seven miles.
When her owner planned to be away on a trip, he took the hen to another ranch for safekeeping. The chicken was put in the same yard with a flock of turkey hens, which gave the newcomer a rough reception.
The little hen vanished one day.
Five days later, tired and bedragged,
she showed up again in the
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Dreyer Will Speak At Science Meeting
Colored photographic slides on transparent rocks will serve as illustrations when Dr. Robert M. Dryer, associate professor of geology, speaks on the microscopic study of rocks and their economic applications at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Blake hall.
The talk will be given at the monthly meeting of Sigma Xi, honorary science fraternity. The public is invited.
Backs Up But Gets There
Du Quoin, Hill—(UP)—Dr. G. H. Gutridge left his car in reverse gear on a cold night. After he had backed out his driveway the next morning, he found the gears wouldn't shift. He backed up the six blocks to his office.
"Sorry, Mrs. Higgenbotham, no exceptions. You'll have to pay your package of Dentyne Chewing Gum or you don't get it!"
"Sure, Dentyne Chewing Gum is keen-tasting! Sure, it'll help keep your teeth white! So what? Who's gonna stop you from getting yourself another pack of Dentyne - after you've seen my swell show?"
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