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The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 3, 1910
VOLUME VI.
STURBS ENDOWS FELLOWSHIPS
KANSAS GOVERNOR TO AID MEDICAL SCIENCE.
E. Roy Weidlein Will Study Extractives From Lands of Deep Sea Mammals.
Prof. Robert Kennedy Duncan of the department of industrial chemistry announced today that a new industrial fellowship had been established at the University. It will be known as the Stubbs-Grenfell fellowship. It has been established for the purpose of promoting study of the ductless glands of deep-sea mammals. The fellowship will carry an annuity of $666 for a period of one and one-half years. E.Ro Weidlein, A. B. '09, has been nominated to hold the fellowship and has accepted the position. H will enter upon his duties at one
The fellowship was endowed by Governor W. R. Stubbs, for the benefit of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the missionary, physician,and lawgiver of Labrador, who lectured at the University two years ago about his work among the people of the northern coast.
The results of the fellowship will, it is expected, be of great value to medical science. At present, extremes from the supra cerea and thyroid glands of lower animals are largely used in medicine and thyamus, pineal and pituitary glands are being experimented upon. The work provided for by the new fellowship will be to study these glands in the whale, walrus and seal, and to determine whether these valuable extracts can be obtained from the glands of the deep-sea mammals. If the investigation prove successful, a new and extensive source of supply will be opened up, with profit to the fishing industries of Labrador. Any financial profit which accrues from the work of the fellowship will, by the terms of the endowment, go to Dr. Grenfell, to be used in his missionary work in Labrador.
E. Roy Weidlein will go work at once on the fellowship Prior to June 1, he will examine and study all the available literature concerning the technique of experimentation on these mammals. He will go to Labrador when navigation opens, about June 1, to spend the summer experimenting with material which Dr. Grenfell will have ready for him when he arrives. There he will study the physiology of the glands of the whale, walrus, and seal, and will be kept busy making all the investigations which can be made better at the seat of the fishing industry than elsewhere. He will return to the University about September 1, with a great mass of material which will be gathered during the summer The rest of the term provided for by the endowment will be spent in studying the extractive from the glands.
The importance of the investigations provided for is recognized by leading physicians of the medical schools of the East, and they
have given the plan of the fel
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Some of the most subtle and effective medicines now in use are made from the glands of sheep. From the supra-renal glands made adrenalin which is invaluable for locally cheeking the flow of blood when operations are performed. The extract from the thyroid glands is thyroidin, which is used in remedying defective nutrition.
"The new fellowship is bound at least to yield results of high scientific interest," said Professor Duncan.
There Will Be no Delay in Start ing Classes.
FULL SPEED MONDAY.
"All the University machinery is to be in working order on Monday morning," said Dean Olin Templin today. "Some years ago it was necessary to spend a week's time getting ready for the second term, but with the early enrollment there is no reason why next Monday should be any different from all of the other Mondays of the year. Every professor will meet all of his classes and call the cell as usual. Lessons will be assigned and recitations made as they have during the past term."
The most of this term's reports will be sent to the registrar's office by Saturday. All will be in by Monday. The grades will be recorded and can be obtained by the middle of next week.
SMOKER SATURDAY NIGHT
Greek Letter Men of the University Will Get Together.
The annual Pan-Hellenic smoker will be held on the evening of February5, in the hall over Dick Brothers' drug store. The feature of the event will be the wrestling matches between prominent athletes on the hill. All the contestants in the events are fraternity men. Every man in the University who is a member of a general fraternity is invited to attend.
NOT ASKED TO HELP.
The Athletic Committee has not invited W. W.Roper, the 1909 football coach, to aid in coaching the Tigers during the last two weeks of the next football season, as was reported. Wm. Roper has written to Columbia that he would be glad to come if possible, but no action has been taken toward bringing him back.—University Missouri
No Action Taken Toward Bring ing Roper Back.
Professor F. Adams of the University of Chicago has arrived to take Professor Archibald Hogg's place as assistant professor in philosophy. Professor Hogg will not take up his work again this year nor next, as he has been granted leave of absence on account of ill health.
New Professor Here.
Chancellor Strong will entertain the members of the vesper chorus and the accompanists and ushers at his home on Saturday evening.
Chancellor Will Entertain.
WHAT! "SANE JOURNALISM"?
RUMORWOULDGIVEUNI VERSITYNEWPAPER.
Publication Will Endeavor to Make a Conservative Review of University Happenings.
Who will constitute the executive and editorial boards of this new publication cannot be definitely said. It has been stated however, that the movement will be sanctioned and aided by members of the faculty and that the actual publication will be done by students.
It is said that the policy of the paper will be founded upon "sane journalism" and will attempt to review conservatively happenings at the University. The sheet will be published either monthly or bi monthly, but arrangement for its publication have not, so far as it yet known, been completed.
The University is to have a new paper, according to a well founded rumor which became current today. Although this rumor was denied, in a way by a number of those who are said to be interested, it is said by others who should know, that the paper is to be launched within a month or even less time.
Rumor has it that Dr. E. H. Schorer, of the department of bacteriology, has become deeply interested in the movement of starting the paper and will be one of the members of the faculty to aid the work of organization. In an interview today with a Kansan reporter, however, Dr. Schorer refused to verify the current rumor
"I know that such a movement has been suggested and planned to a certain extent by the fellows," he said, "but I don't think anything definite has yet been done."
When asked if he was sure that nothing had been done to carry out the plans which have been made, Dr. Schorer replied, "I feel sure that there has not, for if the fellows had done anything they would have consulted me before taking action."
This interview seems to show that the plan of starting the new paper is being strongly considered and that Dr. Sechorer will be one of the faculty members most deeply interested. It cannot be definitely stated who the other faculty members may be nor can names of the students who will be most active, be given at this time.
Track Try-Outs.
The preliminary try-outs for the Baker meet which will be held in Robinson gymnasium February 14 will be held this week. The event to which the most interest is attached, the two-mile, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30. It is expected that twelve men will try out. On Saturday the try-outs for the high hurdles, low hurdles, thirty-yard dash, the half and the pole vault will take place. The first of these events will begin promptly at 3 o'clock.
THE WEATHER.
Fair tonight and Friday; colder tonight.
FROLIC SATURDAY NIGHT.
Success to Be Celebrated or Fail
ure Forgotten at Jubilee.
You will be allowed only a partial use of the elective system when you enroll under the authorities provided for you at the post exam jubilee Saturday night in the gym. Moreover thorough democracy and the large University spirit will be insisted upon by the advisors who determine the course which shall be selected at that time. Engineers and laws will be compelled to go peaceably together to the same class.The Fine Arts girl will associate with the one who is a gun in mathematics. Musical appreciation students will sit beside those who have during the week successfully passed in chemistry II. Those who have specialized in campusology will no descent to talk with the rare mathematicians who know just how to compute the length of the comet's tail.
Another way in which the Saturday night registration will surpass all your previous experiences of that nature is that when you have grown faith with standing in line you may find the refreshments room. You may not give your age or previous condition of servitude; simply appear in the gymnasium Saturday evening and you are dead sure to be enrolled for a good time.
Y. M. C. A. CONVENTION
University Delegates Will Go to
Topeka Next Week.
Among the speakers who are t attend are Dr. Frank Bailey o Denver, Tom Blodgett of Wichita, dr Sanders of Washburn, an Dr. F. L. Thompson of St. Louis.
The state Y. M. C. A. convention will be held in Topeka next week, February 10 to 13. About twenty-five representatives from the University organization will attend this gathering. All registrations must be in the secretary's office before February 7 if entertainment is to be secured.
COURSES NUMBERED ANEW
"I'm Taking Economics 129," Will Sound Great.
A new system of numbering has been adopted in the catalogue for this year. The courses for freshmen and sophomores will be numbered from one up. Those for juniors and seniors, from fifty up, and those for post graduates from a hundred up. This plan will save time as one can tell at a glance what courses belong to each class.
Game Wardens Meet
Prof. L. L. Dyche, state game warden, left yesterday for New Orleans, where he has gone to attend the national convention of game wardens.
On account of quizzes there was no regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A. Wednesday afternoon.
ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN
HAVE FRATERNITIES KEPT THEIR PROMISE?
Chancellor Strong Writes Letters Asking for Information About T N E
T. N. E.
Two hundred and fifty-seven fraternity men of the University received personal letters from Chancellor Strong today, asking that the following questions be answered in writing:
"First: Are you now or have you been since April 10,1907,either officially or unofficially, directly or indirectly, connected with the society or fraternity commonly known as T. N. E., or substantially the same society or group of men under any other name?
"Second: If you have been so connected, by what right or permission, direct or indirect, secret or otherwise, did you connect yourself with such society?"
The eight general fraternities, together with Phi Delta Phi and Acacia, since these two were connected with the agreement made April 10, 1907, were asked by the Chancellor, in letters addressed to the fraternity presidents, to answer the following questions:
"First: Has your chapter, as a chapter, given its consent either officially or unofficially, directly or indirectly, since April 10, 1907, to any member of the chapter joining the fraternity or society commonly known as T. N. E., or substantially the same society or group of men under any other name?
"Second: Has your chapter or any member in it known of members of your chair who have secretly and without the common knowledge of the chapter joined the fraternity or society known as T. N. E., or substantially the same society or group of men under any other name?
"Third: If your chapter, or any member of it, has known o' such secret connection, what have you done about it?"
Chancellor Strong sent out these letters at the request of the Board of Regents, so that they might learn whether the fraternity honor which was pledged April 10, 1907, had been kept.
The party which was to have been given in Ecke's hall February 11, has not been called off by official action of the persons who intended to give it, but it is understood that it will not be held.
At first the party was to have been a small one, and only eighteen or twenty couples were invited. But after the first story about it appeared in The Kansan, the party list was increased to include about thirty couples. Only University people were to attend Some members of the faculty were invited.
Late Train Prevented Lecture.
Prof. C. B. Gulick of Harvard University, who was to have lectured at the University Tuesday afternoon on the Olympic games, was detained at Kansas City by a late train, and did not reach the University in time to speak. He gave his lecture at Washburn last night.