SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXI
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1943
Malott Urges Education Be Liberal
Even though enrolled in technical courses, University students should seek for a truly "liberal" education while in college, advised Chancellor Deane W. Malott at the semester's opening convocation Wednesday morning in Fraser hall. More than 500 students heard the Chancellor speak.
"We are in the midst of at least a dozen revolutions," stated the Chancellor, "and we must have a liberal education in order to meet the problems presented by them." Changing conceptions of the social sciences, especially, require broad and extensive knowledge of persons who wish to be well informed about their environment.
Looking to the post-war world. Chancellor Malott said that the present generation of American college students and teachers are the con-
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Fiction, Other Books Added To Collection
Recent aditions to the Clara S. Gillham collection of books for recreational reading are now available for circulation among University students and the faculty, according to Miss Leva Lash, reference librarian at Watson library.
Housed in the former "browsing room" with the War Information library, the collection now contains more than 150 books, said Miss Lash. The books were provided by the late Miss Gillham, reference librarian from 1894 until 1939.
Included among more recent additions are "The Dickens Digest" (edited by M. L. Aswell), "Kings Row" (Bellamann) ("The Mountains Wait" (Broch), "This Is My Best" (edited by Whit Burnett), "Look to the Mountain" (Cannon), "Good-Bye, My Son" (Coryn), "The Valley of Decision" (Davenport), "The Days of Ophelia" (Diamant), "The Robe" (Lloyd C. Douglas), "Colonel Effingham's Raid" (Fleming), "See Here, Private Harrogrove" (Hargrove), "Men at War" (edited by Ernest Hemingway), "Into the Valley" (Hersey), "Random Harvest" (Hilton), "Dust Tracks on a Road" (Hurston).
"The Wisdom of China and India" (edited by Lin), "Above Suspicion" (MacInnes), "Assignment in Brittany," "Thorofare" (Morley), "South from Corregidor" (Morrill), "Head Hunting in the Solomon Islands" (Mytinger), "Good Intentions" (Nash), "We Took to the Woods" (Rich), "I Saw the Fall of the Philippines" (Romule).
Calls for Students Who Want Work, Says 'Y' Secretary
Several calls for men/students who wish to work for their board and room have been received at the men's employment office, according to Harry W. O'Kane, director of employment and secretary of the YMCA. There have also been calls for men who want time jobs.
Students interested in working should apply at the YMCA office in the basement of Frank Strong hall, stated O'Kane.
Prof. Cady Invented Measuring Device
Completion of a device for determining the molar weights of gases and vapors was announced by Dr. Cady in 1934. The invention was heralded as a great improvement in chemistry technique, since it permitted quicker and more accurate measurement.
Under former methods, the molar weight of a gas was obtained by weighing a measured quantity and then making the computations to reduce the weight under room temperature and the prevailing atmospheric pressure to a standard temperature and pressure.
Dr. Cady's machine contains a device by which atmospheric pressure is harnessed to change the temperature of the tested gas to the degree that the departures from the base normals will cancel each other. Then a reading of the weight is all that is required.
The weighing is done by an especially delicate balance which is calibrated to give readings in the accepted figures for molecular weights of substances. It makes use of the principle of "making the pickle brine strong enough to float an egg." The denser the brine, the
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May Change Enrollment Tomorrow
Changes in enrollment of College students may be made tomorrow in the corridor outside the College office, according to Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean. Dean Ulmer also stated that tomorrow is the last day for such changes.
Changes have been made in the College office since Tuesday, and students who wish may alter their courses during today, said Ulmer. Some courses have been dropped from the summer schedule, he said, and students enrolled in such classes will necessarily have changes
ses will necessarily have changes The enrollment staff will work to make.
from 9:30 to 11:30 tomorrow morning (after which courses may be dropped but no new one substituted.
The following courses have been dropped from the summer semester:
Quantitative Analysis, 8:30, TT.
Organic Chemistry II, 9:30, MWF.
Physical Chemistry II, 11:30, MWF.
Accounting II, 2:30, MWF.
Business Law, 7:30, MWF.
History of English Literature
In the particular central Kansas community in which I have spent most of my life, this quality is very evident. It was instilled into the lives of their posterity by the earliest settlers to whom it was in a real sense "the tie that binds." Their philosophy may have been Gestaltan and its practice may have been
History of English Literature
10:30. MWF.
Map Reading and Interpretation, 8:30. TT.
Magazine Writing, 8:30, MWF.
Calculus II, 9:30, MWF.
Physics II, 10:30, TTS.
Vacuum Tube Electronics, Appt.
Russian II, 9:30, MWF.
Fundamentals of Play Production
10:30, MWF.
Parasitology, 10:30, every day. Classes in German, English Literature and Composition, Speech, Chemistry II, and Navigation had such large enrollments that new sections had to be added to the schedule.
I do not think that the spirit of "general helpfulness" is quite so prevalent in all parts of the country as it is here in the Middle West; but is must be admitted that an element of general amicability can be found in the social atmosphere virtually all over this nation.
Lord Tweedsmuir, in his autobiography, "Pilgrim's Way," said of America that "there is a general helpfulness which I have not found in the same degree elsewhere." While we Americans are proud of this reputation, we have been woefully negligent in the preservation of it.
Mid-Western Hospitality Is It Passing?
By Floyd Krehbiel
communistic, but these pioneers manifested their belief in their living before the times of Gestalt and Lenin.
To them their hospitality and friendliness were qualities to be expected and not at all uncommon. Their latch-strings were always out and they were unshesitatingly ready to share their meager substance with the passing stranger and the unfortunate friend alike.
Their philosophy has, by no means, vanished; it is still in practice in every section of our country to some degree.
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Prof. H.P.Cady, Noted Chemist, Died Wednesday
Prof. H. P. Cady
Issue Uuiforms To ROTC Men For Campus Use
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 for Professor Hamilton Perkins Cady, former chairman of the department of chemistry at the University, who died Wednesday morning at his home. The services will be at the Plymouth Congregational church, of which Dr. Cady was a member, and will
Expecting more to enroll with the coming of those high school seniors who have been detained by late graduations and with the beginning of the sixteen week summer engineering semester beginning July 1. Col.W.C.Washington announced yesterday that already 33 have enrolled in freshman R.O.T.C. and nine in the second year advanced course.
All enrollees have been issued summer uniforms, including two shirts, two pairs of trousers, two caps, and one belt. Ties will also be issued when they are obtained. It was also mentioned that perhaps two more pairs of shirts and trousers will be issued to each student at a later date since it is required that all R.O.T.C. students wear their uniforms on all school days, as well as keeping them neat and trim.
Freshmen meet at 4:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the same days, except on Friday when both meet together at 4:30 while sophomores meet at 3:30 on for infantry drill. As usual one hour of credit is given for the course.
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Captains Smith and Baker, Coast artillery officers, are the instructors of the two classes with the former taking the freshmen and the latter the sophomores.
The courses have been streamlined and changed so that students may get the information and training that will be the most valuable and helpful to them when they are called into the service.
be conducted by the Rev. Fosberg C. Hughes. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
Professor Cady was internationally famous for his discovery of helium in a Kansas gas field. Prior to his discovery, helium had been found only in minute concentrations in the atmosphere, in the waters of certain mineral springs, and in the pores of a few rare minerals.
Dr. Cady was noted also for his research with liquid ammonia and the invention of scales to determine the molecular weights of gases and vapors.
In ill health for the past five months, Professor Cady taught up until December of last year. He retired as chairman of the department of chemistry in 1940, a position to which he was appointed in 1920. His death terminated 44 years of service to the University. He joined the faculty here in 1899 as assistant professor of chemistry, became an associate professor in 1905, and a professor in 1911.
Of Dr. Cedy's death, Chancellor Deane W. Malott said;
"In the inevitable changes of time which so largely shape the destiny of the University, we have lost, in the death of Dr. Cady, one of the great figures in our history. He was a builder in the University, a distinguished member of the world of science and discovery, and a friend of us all."
In October, 1939, friends and former students of the professor gave a dinner for him to commemorate his 40 years of teaching service at the University. He and Mrs. Cady were presented with engraved watches and Dr. Cady was given a short-wave radio set because of his interest in that field.
Dr. Roy Cross, founder and director of the Kansas City Testing Laboratory, last year presented the University Endowment Association with $4,000 for the establishment of the H. P. Cady Fellowship in Chemistry. The fellowship was given in honor of Dr. Cady.
Dr. Cady is reported in "Who's Who in America" as being born at Camden, Kansas, May 2, 1874. He attended Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota, and came to the University in 1894, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1897. For two years he studied at Cornell, but returned to Kansas and was granted a doctor of philosophy degree by the University in 1903.
Upon the death of Dr. E. H. S. Bailey, for whom the chemical laboratories are named, Professor Cady became chairman of the department of chemistry. He retired in 1940 and
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