MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1928
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
PAGE THREE
Alumni Directory Is Out and Ready for Distribution
New Book Has 448 Pages Geographical Features, and Graduates. Vocations
The new alumun directory is published and ready for distribution. This year's directory, according to Ford University, contains 48 pages of Kansas Alumni Association, is more complete than it has ever been. It contains 484 pages as compared with 364 pages in the last directory, because the material is much more compact.
There have been four previous publications of the alumni directory. In 1890 a directory was published on the compilations of Prof. M. W. Sterling '83, Mr. Sterling's daughter, Mrs Eugene Sterling Polson, '99, had direct charge of compiling the 1928 publication.
Former Publishers
Prof. I, N. Flint, 77, former alumni secretary, compiled and published directories in 1908 and 1914. Alfred G. Hill, 17, published one in 1922, the first book to list the graduates three ways: by classes, by geographical location, and by alphabetical arrangement.
The 1928 book goes one step farther, in the preface to the directory, and includes former students in the college listing, Mr. Elsworth said.
The expense of the first three publications came from the University's printing budget. In 1922 the book was financed jointly by the State and the Alumni Association. This year the publisher traced its brave traven entirely by the Association.
"It is interesting to compare the 1928 directory with those of other years and of other schools," Mr. Ellsworth said. "One book lists seven pages of honorary degrees, as compared with only nine names in our book. The University stopped giving honorary degree in 1890."
Features of Catalog
Some of the features of this year's catalog, as listed by Mr. Elsworth, arc: The names and last known addresses of graduates up to date; an account of the surname印 in blackboard over-changing indentation; a class index of graduates, a locality index of graduates and former students; Kansas residents by counties; distribution of graduates in different geographical distribution of graduates; a compact arrangement of from two to four columns of listed names; in the larger centers the name of the town, graduates, and former students in that town, and in Kansas at listed towns and towns within the counties.
The Alumni Association has thousands of dollars invested in address-ograph files. It costs seven cents to change a single address, and the alumni secretary to change thou- sands of dollars, according to Mr. Elsworth.
"We have spent a barrel of money looking up former students." Mr Ellsworth explained, "and in all the larger localities throughout the United States, a personal, thorough check of addresses has been made."
Directory to Members
The 1928 directory will be sent to present members of the Alumni Association and all new members are asked to send in an extra dollar to help defray the expense of publication, although if they desire a directory and feel unable to send the four dollars, one will be sent them their class and state their wish for a book, according to Mr. Ellsworth.
"The Alumni Association has received about 700 new members," Mr. Elsworth said, "but we're hoping for 700 more. Letters and dues are coming in daily, and we're glad to report that about 60 per cent of the graduates are sending in the extra dollar."
Tests Show Possibilities:
Are Lacking in Certainty
Success in passing psychological tests is a fair, but not absolute measure of a students ability, according to studies just completed by Dr. Raymond H. Wheeler, head of the department in psychology at the University of Kansas.
For seven years, now, the University has been gathering data by having all entering students, mostly freshmen, take psychological tests, similar to the army tests of war memory. The past summer, Professor Derrick Sullivan found that the ratings obtained in the psychological tests were compared with the actual class room grades assigned by the instructors. The instructors did
not, of course, have access to the psychological ratings.
Doctor Wheeler's ratings cover six entering classes, in the autumns of 1922 to 1927 inclusive, and cover the causes of several thousand students. His work at the School of the psychological rating with grindings in a score of more different departments of instruction, but found the most satisfactory results in connection with the freshman rhetoric, the sophomore pre-shrew in the college of liberal arts.
Results of the psychological tests, Doctor Wheeler points out, are not evidences of mental ability, or lack of mentality, but rather are a means of comparing the responses of a given group when all are given the same conditions. For convenience the results are graded, and the students put their names on a chart in the same size. The classroom performance of all students of a given group, or decile, is checked against the psychological rating.
In freshman rhetorical, for example,
it was discovered that out of 421 students
who in the six years had classified
in the first decile, more than one-
fourth received grade A in their class
work, and less than 4 per cent fail.
On the other hand, much less than
one per cent of the tenth decile received
grade A and not receiving grade B.
University rules assign grade A for exceptional
work, C for average, D for passing,
and F for failure.
Following is the percentage distribution of grade marks among 4254 students in freshmen rhetoric, in six fall semesters, distributed according to the desiier into which they were assigned by the psychological tests:
3.8 2.4 2.4 24.2 26.6 18.1
2.8 6.4 29.3 42.2 48.1 425
4.1 10.9 37.4 32.8 13.8 415
1.1 6.9 37.4 32.8 13.8 415
10.9 17.9 38.9 30.5 6.4 400
12.3 17.0 44.0 23.9 2.8 088
12.3 17.0 44.0 23.9 2.8 088
12.3 17.0 44.0 23.9 2.8 088
154.1 41.4 15.0 6.7 4.32
154.1 41.4 15.0 6.7 4.32
27.2 27.0 41.4 16.7 1.32
27.2 27.0 41.4 16.7 1.32
volf-Children of India Are Not Entirely a Myth
Perhaps we are prone not to credit Gipling's Mowgli stories with having basis in anything but rumor, and we may be correct in assuming that. In the other hand, from the interior of Indie through indirect sources, one frequently rumors of the existence of wolf-children.
These creatures, so called because they are human children, who are ound to be not only living in lions wolfes as well wolf-cubs, but even in one cases to have been nurtured by he mother wolf in the event of the death of their children, have been ound by people who have entered he interior of India.
An investigation was made of the source of the last rumor of the existence of such creatures by Dr. Paul Supires of the psychology department of the University of Kansas, and the results pointed to an invasion that the investigation the fact was brought to light that on a trip made into the interior of India by some English railroad engineers, two so-called wolf children, both girls, were found, and brought to Calcutta. They were taken in charge by one Reverend A. Singh, an English-educated Indian, and a resident of Calcutta.
The estimated ages of the two children were eight and three years. Shortly after being brought to civilization the younger one died. Their mother was an interesting product of their environment. They exhibited average intelligence, but all their actions were those of young animals. They run about on small animals or kill them much in the manner of a wolf.
Just what the psychological interpretation of this phenomena would be is unknown, for no satisfactory one can give an answer. It is presented some well-founded disagreement is brought to light, and the case is an unsolved one still. To the scientist it is a problem, but to the man it will be just a break of nature.
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Tracks Show Bronze Age
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Lenguérad, Oct. 8. — Figures of human footprints, chiselled into the rocks on the banks of the river Vyg in northern Russia, show where a Bronze age tribe nigrated three thousand years ago, according to Dr A. M. Líweskiy, Russian ethnologist, who has been making a study of ancient human remains in the region of Karolin.
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Russian Ethnologist Makes Study of Remains
Doctor Linesky explains that the figures represent the dames of a tribe of the early Bronze Age, which began in this part of the world about 1000 B. C. The footprints point in direction of their migration route, and the huge limbs of the most merely indicate great power.
The 120 drawings on the stone grate, a plain idea of the life and customs of this people. The multiple figures of deer indicate that the tribe underwent several seasons, a man with a harpine killing a fish resembling the white gramps, all these show that the tribe was a fishing one. The white gramps does not stay near the coast, and the inhabitants of these fisheries sailed in the open sea.
In the same place where the petro-
graphly was found, Doctor Linewaxy
found traces of 13 abodes of prebi-
sthetic man, remnants of six epothes-
instruments of stone and pieces of
pottery.
The figures of bronze instruments show that the ern of metal was beginning in the history of this people, but a figure of a sling with a stone shows that weapons of the stone ern were still used.
The Missouri University Student Council recently decided to purchase 300 Tiger swaters, to be sold to underclassmen for use upon the campus. An order for fell Tiger heads, which will be worn upon the swaters, was also decided upon, and they will be available at no cost time as the swaters. Last year the council sold 300 swaters of a similar character to the students.
A barber shop and beauty parlor have been opened in the Memorial Union at Iowa University. Three colleges offer beauty parlor majors are employed.
some 150 students at Butler University recently signed a petition for presentation to the Peoples Motor company asking for bus transport from the campus to points in east Indiana. The bus service would remedy a complicated bus system that is already present. Also of the university will present the petition to the coach company.
Washington, Oct. 8. — A strong "near-glacier" of mammoth proportions was discovered in Alaska this summer during the expedition of the National Geographic Society. For lack of a better name, Doctor Jaguar termed the mountain as "Glacier I." He expressed the belief that it is the result of continuum dumping of volcanic ash into the area for hundreds of years.
Another natural phenomenon was witnessed by the scientists at close range for probably the first time in history was the great group of pinule-formed peaks on the Peninsula known as the Great Barrier Reef (toe above sea level), they resemble a vast number of symmetrically formed church spires.
Unique Formation of Ice Is Discovered in Alaska
From a scientific standpoint, Mr. McKinley says, the expedition was a signal success. The party scaled a canyon in the northern part of the Alaska peninsula; collected data for a topographic map of 1500 square miles of hitherto unknown territory; and assembled a botanical and biological specimen.
The expedition's route lay from Sounw Harbor on Urangan island, in the Shumagin group, to Canoe Bay, south of Palvelø Bay on the Pacific coast, then along the short of the Pacific westward to King Cove.
Being marroned on an island without food for four days; hikking miles of rough country with volcano ash; and pullying horses out of almost impregnable marshes, were a few of the highlights of the daily routine from mountain.
Parents' day at the University of Missouri is scheduled for Oct. 20, the day of the Missouri-John State football game.
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Dinner followed by a show were the outstanding features of the first meeting of the Zoology Club, held Thursday, Oct. 5, at snow hall. After the two-course dinner the members of the club enjoyed a social hour. They then assembled at lecture room 104 for the picture "The Cuckoo's Secret." The club had expected to ode some of its friends as soon as was scheduled, but were unable to do so. A comedy Folix and the Bone Arm was also shown.
Zoology Club Program Includes Picture Show
A short business meeting followed, Meridith Olinger, president of the club for this year, presided. Plans for programs for the coming year were discussed. It is expected that many interesting speakers will be obtained. At this meeting it was also announced that new members of the club Nov. 1.
A new plan in football advertising will be initiated by members of Oklahoma A. and M. College staff and the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce before the opening game of the season with Regis. Personal membership will be carried to 25 Oklahoma towns and colleges, and the alumni, former students, and friends of the college with invitations to the four home games.
The official enrollment at the University of Missouri is 3877 which is 22 less than that of 27. The enrollment figures show that there are 1278 women and 2599 or nearly twice as many men students in the University.
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