TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1943
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Taraxacum Officinale
★★★ ★★★
Dandelions To You
Taraxacum officinale, a well-known yellow flowered plant of the chicory family, abundant as a weed, is now brightening our hillsides in uncountable numbers. In other words, that pesky dandelion is back again.
Dandelions don't grow like ordinary specimens. One day the plant may not be visible to the naked eye, but the very next day is a plant in full bloom $ \textcircled{4} $
The dandelion defends itself by fairly sharp prickles on the leaves and a milky substance in the stem and roots which turn black on contact with the hands and is impossible to remove. It possesses a remarkably tenacious system of roots running at least several miles underground. The best means of attack is a knife, a pronged dandelion digger, or if one is lazy, a lawn mower or grass whip to cut off the most obvious yellow heads.
defying the world. A few days later the yellow bloom has become a white fuzzy head of seeds which are scattered by the winds over acres of territory.
The dandelion is a hardy plant peculiar to North America, from river bottom land to mountain tops, growing in all types of soil and even on bare rocks. It can be uprooted, burned, or frozen, but will be back inside of two days.
But this year the dandelion may go comparatively unmolested while armies are subduing another yellow menace.
GIFTS AMOUNT - tion of Hatboro, Pa., equipment for pineline studies valued at $200.
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$22,000; Miller hall, $22,000; Watkins hospital, $22,000; Elizabeth M. Watkins fund, $22,000.
From an anonymous friend, $255 or establishment of a fund for award to a needy junior or senior student who shows promise of civic
From Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Griesa of Lawrence, 200 yellow pine trees and the labor for planting on the campus. Additional contributions to the Flower fund, $314.75 for emergency loans or gifts to needy students.
From Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Battenfold of Kansas City, $200 for continuation of the John C. Battenfold award.
To Aid Museum
From friends of the University, $450 for a special project in Dyche museum.
From the estate of the late Prof.
William Savage Johnson, $3,000 for
purchase of books for the department
of English.
From Mrs. E. E. Slosson, $300 for
estimation of the Edwin E. Slosson
norial Scholarship in Science.
From the Kansas Industrial Development commission, to the Engineering Experiment station, for establishment of a plastics molding and casting laboratory, $25,000; for research on methods of converting natural gas to the liquid hydrocarbons. 25,000.
From the National Geophysics
Meguiar Makes Changes In Closing Hours
Closing hours for University women students during the summer sessions have been set by Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women
On Sundays through Thursdays, instead of the former 10:30 closing time, women must be in their houses by 11 o'clock. On Fridays and Saturdays, the closing hour will be 12 o'clock midnight, instead of 12:30. The 12 o'clock hour will prevail tonight, but tomorrow the regular schedule will be in effect, Miss Meguai stated.
From the Ken-Rad Tube and Lamp company, of Owensboro, Ky., electronic tubes for use in the Communication and Electronics laboratories, valued at $400.
From Senator Arthur Capper, for reference in the Engineering Experiment station, files of the U.S. Patent office—Gazette and Index.
From the Phillips Petroleum company of Bartlesville, Ok., a 16-inch steel cylinder for pressure experiments in petroleum engineering.
From Walter Bohenstengel of Topeka, seven student memberships in the American Society of Testing Materials, valued at $50.
From the Western Electric company of New York City, four ultrahigh frequency tubes for special electronic studies.
From the Class of 1943, $2,000 for construction of picnic and recreational facilities near Potter lake.
From the International Foundation for Cancer Research, $250 for assistance in a research project in bacteriology.
Provide for Student Loans
From the United States government, $27,500 for student war loans; $557 for student war loans to students in physics.
From the Phillips Petroleum company, the Stanolind Oil and Gas company, and the Cities Service Oil company, $600 for continuation of a research fellowship in petroleum engineering conducted in cooperation with the Kansas industrial development commission.
From the Ninety-ninth district of Rotary, $200 for partial support of a South American student scholarship.
From Stuart Henry, a mass of company of Dallas, Tex., equipment for reflection seismographic exploration, valued at $2.000.
From an anonymous friend, $100 for purchase of books on aeronautics and plastics.
From the Fischer-Porter corpora-
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(continued from page one) Veatch, '09, consulting engineer of Kansas City, and Dr. Roy Cross,'05, director of the Kansas City testing laboratories.
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ALUMNI CITED - manuscript documents of value to students of French literary history, and of American-French literary relations, deposited in the University library for the special benefit of the Department of Romance Languages.
The University track team, composed of four men, placed last in the Big Six outdoor conference meet held at Lincoln Saturday, May 8. Coach Henry Shenk entered only four men because the remaining trackmen were taking finals on that day.
Scofield Wins Jump; Track Team Places Last In Big Six
Tom Scofield won the high jump with a leap of six feet, two inches, Valle Schloesser placed fifth in the 100-yard dash and fifth in the low hurdles. Don Johnson placed fifth in the shot put, and Bill Haines placed fifth in the mile run.
Also named were Kenneth A. Speneer, '126, president of the Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Mining company and manager of the Jayhawk ordnance works at Pittsburg and Kansas City; E. C. Case, '93, University of Michigan paleontologist; W. C. Hoad, '98, professor of sanitary and municipal engineering at the University of Michigan; Richard R. Price, '97, retiring director of the University of Minnesota extension division; and Arthur Ridgway, '92, engineer of Denver, Colo.
From Thomas J. Claney of Sedalia, Mo., $100 for the purchase of an honor roll plaque for medical school and hospital employees in military service.
From Dr. A. Morris Ginsberg of Kansas City, $100 for a prize to the junior student doing the best work in physical diagnosis.
From Dr. Logan Clendening of
Kansas City, $200 for medical re-
sourcing.
From the Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., for loans to students in nursing, $3,000; for scholarships in nursing, $1,000.
Gifts to the University hospitals in Kansas City included;
From former students of the late Prof. A. L. Owen, $200 for purchase of Spanish classics for use of students in Spanish, to be known as the Owen Memorial collection.
From Aircraft Accessories Corporation of Kansas City, twelve quartz crystals for use in research of sound waves and infections, valued at $300.
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Pity the Boys of 1920 Curfew Early
By JEAN JONES
Breathes there a man with tongue so dead who never to his date hath said, "Oh, % - * $ - ! ! it's closing hours"?
If the 12:30 a.m. curfew seems a little rugged to you when at 11:30 some Saturday night in Kansas City you realize only superhuman manipulation of the landing gears will get you in Lawrence before the general lockup, you might console yourself with the plight of the poor $ ^{6} $ fellows in 1920. they had to take the straight and
In those days, the zero hour on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday was 11 p.m. With special permission from the adviser of women, however, dances didn't have to break up until 12 m.
No girl was supposed to have dates on week days except "library dates." There was a catch to this concession, however, for although men could walk their dates home,
The chances against women even getting out on week days was 100 to 1, for after 10 in the evening women weren't even to look at men. The governing bodies did extend closing hours to 10:30, however, to give coeds who felt the atmosphere of the library conducive to study time to get home after the library closed at 10 p.m.
they had to take the straight and narrow path without even stopping in at Brick's for cokes. Promptly at 10:30, keys were turned in the locks and anyone out after that time had to sleep in the porch swing or climb the fire escape to her_room.
Former K.U. Students Now Army Bombardiers
Two former students at the University have been graduated from an army air force bombardier school in Texas, according to a release from the public relations office at Midland. Texas, headquarters.
The two are Clark B. Jackson, Garnett, who attended the University in 1939-41, and Jay O. Eichorn, Osawatomie, who attended school here in 1936-37. They received their training at San Angelo, Texas.
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