WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1927
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Groundhog Doesn't Peek Out.
Nor Does He Affect Weather;
Superstition Otherwise Is O. K
(Science Service)
Washington, Feb. 2--Did the groundhog see his shadow this morning?
Whatever may be the opinion of the rest of us regarding this much-dispared beauty's reliability as a weather prophet, there are two individuals who know it. One is the very one who know most about the matter. They are the grounding, who obviously knows more about groundhogs than any mere human can know, and the weather man, who is the weather to see how phlegmies pan out.
Last year Feb. 2, was clear in the East and cloudy in the West. Winter lasted more than six weeks longer than summer, but this bog was right in one place and wrong in the other. And being right only fifty per cent of the time is not good prophesying; mere guessing, or the idea of a coin, can hit it as well as that.
Moreover, the unreliability of the grounddog holds for a period of years as well as for a spread on the map. F. W. Saward, a meteorological scientist, has made a statistical study of the weather for six weeks following Feb. 2, covering a period of nine months. According to the proverb nine of them should have been cold, but only four of them were of the sick kind. We have been warm, only two were correctly indicated. So again the grounddog was shown to be not only a poor prophet but not even a good guesser.
However, the groundbog is not at all concerned about the impugning of his reputation as a weather prophet. He never asked for the job. It was wished on him by the early settlers, who had a similar superstition about the weather and hedgegards in this country, they chose this inexpensive rodent to bear the
Change in Forensics Is Under Way on Hill, Debating Coach Says
More Interest Is Being Taken by Students and Faculty, Buchler Finds
"Kansas is becoming rapidly recognized as one of the strongest debating schools in the country. With requests for debates coming from such universities as Wisconsin, Northwestern, and Southern California we feel that we are gaining the recognition of the best.
A transformation in forensics is under way, according to Prof. E. Christian Buehler, debate coach of the University.
The scheduled program for the rest of the year is as follows;
"Two years ago," said Professor Bucher, "debate in the University was of little importance. The faculty as well as the student body envisioned little interest in debate. The university's carefully changed and the council feels that the support really deserved is beginning to be shown.
Feb. 9; M. U. (aff.) vs. K. U. (neg.)
(neg.) at Topken. Courtroom method, Feb. 10; M. U. (neg.) vs. K. U. (aff.) at Columbia. An open forum and audience contest in Fraser hall, Feb. 16; Womens debate with K. S. A. C. K. U. (neg.) vs.
K. S. A. C. (aff.) at Lawrence. No decision, Feb. 23; Tecnus (neg.) vs.
K. S. A. C. (aff.) at Lawrence, Feb. 24; Louisiana (neg.) vs.
K. U. (aff.) at Lawrence. No decision, Feb. 25; Oklahoma (off.) vs.
K. U. (neg.) at Norman. Decision, March 7; K. U. A. C. (neg.) vs. K. U. (neg.) at Lawrence, March 9; Colorado (off.) vs. K. U. (neg.) at Lawrence. Decision.
Negotiations are under way for further debates for both men and women debaters.
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"The attitude of the forensic department this year is not so much to win decisions as to develop good speakers. We are doing away with the formal cut and dried affairs and we want our students to be not only of interest and value to the speaker but to the audiences as well. The Forensic Council does not expect or hope to compete with athletics or other major activities but would like to have at least the support of the more serious minded members of the law faculty in such support we could do wonders in forensics here at the University.
burden of their own sometimes-right sometimes-wrong weather wisdom.
The news is in the Kansan.
sometimes wobeigntly likely that whether the sky be bright or cloaked on Candlemas day the groundhog bother to come up at all to look for his highly important shadow, at least north of the Mason-Dixon line. If he finds it, the snower in his burrow, rolled up in a compact ball with his nose tucked into his tummy. . . If you find his home and dig him out he will not awaken, for he deathtake than ordinary slumber, and a bibernating animal will stand the roughest kind of treatment without showing any signs of life. Only when he has been warmed up and exposed to the sun, for some time will the sweater stir.
Even when he does come out, with the real return of spring and plenty of green stuff to eat, the groundhog is walking. He waits for a waiting occupation — enticing, fighting occasionally, and taking care of his family during the breeding period, so that he has plenty of joyure in summer. He spends that in sleep, too.
The groundhog has a number of other aliens. As the woodchuck, he is the subject of an unanswerable and almost unrepeatable tungue-twisting riddle. But he is not z. cluck who manipulates hypothetical quantities of timber; he is a chack who lives in the forest, he is a worm that lives on another name, possibly a little more correct but also rather less used. But he is a "groundhog" to most of us. And like his reputed prophecies, his name is only fifty per cent correct. He does live in the ground, most of the time, but he is not a dog, nor any relation to a hog. He is a roentel, and no one else knows him. Some of those other porcinely misnamed animals, the porcupine and the grinne pig.
1. Reports of the grades made by the fraternities and sororites at the Oklahoma Agricultural College recently issued show that the sororities have a distinct advantage. The sorority has more women enrolled with the highest ranking fraternity.
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Sorority to Give Banquet
Sorority to Give Back
The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority will have its annual banquet at the Ambassador hotel, in Kansas City, Friday evening, Feb. 28, Mrs. Hal Lebrecht, grand-president, will preside, and about fifteen girls will go down from Lawrence to attend.
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