TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1943
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Sport Chatter
By Bob Bock
It is probably true that most college coaches will be looking quite glum this fall, especially if they don't have a navy training program in their school and are still trying to organize a team. Those coaches who do have navy boys at their disposal are trusting their fates to Lady Luck.
Amos Alonzo Stagg, the granddaddy of football coaches, states that he has the best material that he has had in years, since many big time stars have been stationed in the V-12 unit at his little College of the Pacific. On the other hand, one famous grid mentor at a large eastern university reports that out of the entire V-12 group at his university only one really good football player has been found.
Here at the university, the V-12 material is neither exceptionally good nor particularly poor as there are only a few of the navy boys who have had any previous college football experience—but just think what K.U.'s football prospects would be if it weren't for the V-12!
Basketball may be a thing of the past at Kansas State next winter, according to M. F. Ahearn, athletic director. Even though basketball is considered a major college sport and will be carried on by other conference schools, Kansas State faces the problem of not having any place to play.
The problem arose when the army trainees moved in and took over Nichols gymnasium for their military training work. Now without a court and an uncertainty of players, Kansas State may be forced to abandon its court season for the duration.
Basketball Coach O. L. "Chill!" Cochran has followed his predecessor, Jack Gardner, to the navy, leaving the Wildcats without a coach at the present.
Although the Wildcats wound up in the Big Six cellar last season, they furnished plenty of fight and opposition for their opponents in many of their cage tilts.
Ahearn stated that he hoped to have the Wildcats play basketball next winter if the gym would be available because it would give the college students and army trainees relaxation from their class work during the winter months. So far as is known at this time, Kansas State is the only Big Six school likely to drop one of the major sports.
RESEARCH--the department of speech and dramatic art, department of journalism and the University Kansan, the American College Quill Club, Extension division, and other organizations, has an extensive account in his diary of all the organizations to which he gave time and energy.
(continued from page one) dents of the said University, and those associated therewith, and to provide means, methods, and agencies by which their scientific discoveries, inventions, and processes may be developed, applied and patented to their greatest advantage and that of the University and the public; and to furnish the means, methods and agencies for the administration and disposition of patent lights and other interests pertaining o such discoveries, inventions and processes, and to pay the necessary and appropriate expense thereof. By the establishment of the Research Foundation, the Engineering experiment Station, housed in the new stabilized earth block building at the University, becomes automatically merged with the new organization.
Dr. Edwin M. Hopkins, former professor of English, who retired from active teaching in 1937 after serving in the English department 46 years, has for 71 years kept a personal diary, making daily notations
Prof. Keeps Diary For University
When a small boy attending a country school near Kent, New York, Edwin Hopkins began his diary. His mother made her ten-year-old son a little booklet about 4 inches by 3 inches in size, in which he began his daily records. The first entry is dated April 16, 1872, and Professor Hopkins has continued each evening to write the activities of the day.
The accounts in the early booklet are brief but homely. Professor Hopkins enjoys reading between the lines and giving interesting details of the recorded events.
He has followed no special theme or pattern in his daily entries, but it contains a thoroughly comprehensive account of his personal activities and the activities of the University since he came to Lawrence in 1889, a Princeton graduate, to take up the duties as a member of the staff of the department of English.
Since Professor Hopkins has been so closely connected with, and organized or started so many University activities and departments, his diary has often proved very useful in verifying data.
Few on the campus know that this elderly gentleman was K.U.'s first football coach and was the University of Kansas representative when the Missouri Valley Conference was organized, now known as the Big Six. The first K.U.-M.U. football game was played, according to Professor Hopkins, on October 31, 1891. K.U. won that first game by a 22 to 8 score.
Several years ago there was some controversy as to the score of that 1891 game. Professor Hopkins settled the matter by referring to his diary.
So this retired professor, who besides starting football at the University, organized or helped to found,
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, realizing the value the diary would be to the University in compiling a history or for substantiating dates and circumstances, has asked Professor Hopkins to give the diary to the University when he has finished it.
Professor Hopkins, in telling about the request, laughingly said, "There is nothing in it, but if the University can use it, all right."
"I have had more fun than anybody else I know," laughed this professor who, although nearing his 81st birthday, is young in spirit.
"I would like to write a book and entitle it 'Comic History of a College Professor.' Of course my diary would be my outline," said Mr. Hopkins.
Mr. Hopkins is an enthusiastic trout fisherman, and enjoys cycling and mountain climbing. His name is found in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, and other listings of men of accomplishment.
This sumer he is living quietly at his home at 1234 Mississippi and will not take his usual fishing trip in the West.
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(continued from page one) lism which can be completed in two semesters or less, depending upon the previous training and experience of the student, stated Professor Beth. An upperclassman who begins in the fall term this year can complete the sequence by March 1. Eleven credits of work are required, and two other courses are suggested, but optional.
The four-year major curriculum in journalism is not affected by the Minor; the latter includes only a few fundamental courses and is designed to meet the war shortage emergency, Professor Beth explained. The professional major curricula in journalism and advertising are offered to those who wish to major in the department.
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BIG FUTURE---when he is not teaching class or helping students. "This work," he summarized, "is trying to find all the causes of the disease that may be injected into animals for experimental purposes. Until causes are found, remedies cannot be invented to counteract them. The theory now is that cancer-producing compounds are related to normal body products."
(continued from page one) dents ever take enough chemistry to classify them as actual professional chemists.
"It is true that all the A- and V-12 men are required to take two basic courses (Chem. II and III), but there are only a limited number who go on any farther with their study of chemistry," he brought out. "Women, especially, never take enough chemistry to ever get very highly skilled, but even so there is a great demand for workers who have had as little as one or two years of straight college chemistry," he said
"Chemical engineers in the Navy may be released to private industry unless other help can be secured." Prof. Vander Werf explained. "It is only a possibility under consideration, but the shortage of good help is getting worse with the expansion of industry and the step may soon be necessary. Senior chemistry majors and graduate students are given deferments right now."
Occupations that are short of workers include high octane gas research and analysis in the petroleum industry, (this field, according to Dr. Vander Werf, has the greatest future.) Present-day engines on cars are not equipped to use such high octane as yet, even though the price has come down during the past few years from $35 to 19 cents a gallon. Compression ratios on engines will have to be changed.
Private industries now making war materials request more workers. Most of these places plan to work on plastics during peace time and anyone interested in such a field has an unlimited opportunity in the future at such an occupation.
Assistant teachers are still needed, and pharmaceutical houses are asking for help. Incidentally, according to Vander Werf, these houses offer the neatest and cleanest kind of place for women to work.
Dr Vander Werf is working on research connected with synthesis of cancer-producing compo und s
While attending college at Ohio State, Vander Werf first became interested in the study of cancer. He believes the chemist will be able to make the man of tomorrow able to live a longer and happier life. And, even if the man is unhappy, he can be so in comfort.
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