THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
New Buildings And Equipment For Engineers
Kansas School Taking Place of Leadership Among Institutions—Practical Courses Offered
New buildings and additional equipment are putting the University of Kansas School of Engineering in a position of leadership among schools of this class. Just completed are the new electrical laboratories, and the new heating and power plant, which serves as a laboratory for students.
The fields to be pursued in the engineering school are; mechanical civil, industrial, electrical, and architectural. Each department is distinct in itself and thoroughly prepares the student to follow it as his life work
Up-to-date Power Plant
The several laboratories for the different departments are most complete. In the hydraulic lab for civil engineers there is equipment to measure quantity of water that passes over a weir and through orifices, meters that measure quantity of water that flows through any size pipe, and that measure the loss of head due to friction. The strength-of-materials lab almost any department can be performed. The testing machine has a capacity of 200,000 pounds.
Recently a new alternating substation was installed. Previously all equipment had been direct current, so all this at once became available for the electrical laboratory. The electrical laboratory is where the electrical lab in place of the power plant, as previously, and it can be used for first hand study. This device is comparatively new and t. is believed Kansas is the only University equipped with an automatic station. The electrical laboratories are constantly being added to, and even at present we have one of the best undergraduate electrical labs to be found among our universities. We are surveying all important issues.
The industrial engineers have been surveying all important cities in Kansas and have also surveyed for a miniature railway about the campus.
Laboratories of the Best
Few schools can boast of an up-to-
date commercial power plant on the
campus, as is true here. The power
plant is but a link in the Kansas
Company, and it is a complete electric light plant in this. This gives electrical and mechanical engineers first hand study of a commercial plant under practical working conditions.
After several years of toiling, the seniors have the advantage of an extensive observation tour. This trip is for all senior engineers and includes visits to St. Louis, Chicago, and the immense Keokuk Power Site.
Superintendents Come to Secure High School Teachers
Seven Students Appointed
Seven of the University of Kansas students have recently been elected to positions in Kansas high schools. Also, six superintendents and principals from other high schools are been in the Teachers Appointment office interviewing prospective teachers during the past several days.
Students who have been elected are: Dorothy Brandle, c²³, to teach English in the high school at Arkansas City; Martina Davis, c²⁵, to teach English in the Atchison county school; Efringham, Marie Stewart, c²⁸, to teach English in the high school at Chanute; Annabel Bingle, c²¹, to teach English in the high school at Alma; Katherine Kaynar, f²², to teach music in Arkansas City; Fred C. Gardner, e²³, of superintendent of schools at Mount Vernon, Belh, c²³, to teach home economics in the high school at Eldorado.
The school representatives who have been interviewing students and are now considering their positions are E. J. Cheeky, superintendent; M. R. Koch, superintendent; Patterson, principal of the Eldorado high school; Guy H. Jaggard, superintendent of schools at Kingman; Fred H. Thompson, superintendent of schools at Wichita; superintendent at Winchester; and McMiche, superintendent at McCmee.
Sigma XI Election to be Announced
The board of electors will make the
nomination, a historic honorary scientific fraternity, at the
regular meeting in Blake Hall
Wednesday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m.
Prof. C. F. Nelson will talk on "A
Nomination for an Honorary Induced Arterial Anoxia."
The committee for entertainment is:
Prof. O. O. Stoland, chairman; Prof. L.
D. Havenhill, Professor E. G. Eg-
press; Prof. H. E. Jordan, Mr. and
Mrs. E. Rico, and Mias Lalia
Walling.
Earl Manchester Gives New Library Dimensions
Mr. Earl N. Manchester, director of libraries on the hill, paints glowing pictures of the new library now being constructed in its capacity to accommodate the general reader as numerous other desirable phrases.
There are to be general reading rooms on each of the three lower floors. The approximate dimensions of these will be: basement floor, 135x40; first floor, one room 4x40, 135x40; second floor, other 65x40, 5x40.
Y.W.C.A. Group Hears Schwegler's Lecture on Adolescent Psychology
Transitional Period of Boys and Girls Lies Between the Age of 12 and 16 Years
"The transitional period in the life of the boy and girl is from the age of 12 to 16 years," said Prof. R. A. Schweiger of the department of education, when speaking on "Boy and Girl Psychology" to the members of the service group of the Y. W. C. A., and then on "The development of Professor Schweiger continued that the psychological changes of the transitional period are parallel to the psychological changes, and that the rhythms of growth in weight and height and the phenomena of adolescence must be taken into account, for they are the dominant factor that causes full phases of the life of the adolescent.
The ductless gland, previously thought of as vestigial organs, have been found to play an important part in the life of the growing boy and girl. The thyroid gland, more active in girls than in boys, has been found to affect the nervous system and that malfunctioning of the thyroid produces a slowing up of growth and development and a decay of the integument. The pituitary gland, more active in girls than in boys, grows and fat tissue. It is found all milligenal changes are due to this hierarchy of control mechanisms.
The instincts most prominent a this period, said Professor Schwegler, are the migratory instinct, the drive to explore new personal adornment. He said that 75 per cent of the boys either run away from home or are on the point of being when they are prevented from growing up and action on the part of their parents.
Girls do not have the competitive instinct in any marked degree, he said in conclusion, and there is something lacking in women's athletics for they are not adapted to it. They don't know that the fulter sense of the word they use hurts themselves into the game, as is the use in men's athletics.
The talk by Professor Schwegle is the sixth of a series being given to the service group of the W. Y. C. A. Ella Delivia, a national Y. W. C. A. secretary, will talk next Monday.
Few Students Overdraw
Situation Improved This Year Says Dean Dyer
Says Dean Dyer
"There has been no difficulty in student banking accounts except for a few overdrafts," said Dean Dyer. The amount is much better than last year."
The different banks of Lawrence make practically the same statements as Dean Dyer. "The situation is not to be compared with last year," said A. F. McClanahan, of the Citizen's National Bank. "There have been no forged checks handed in, and very few overdrafts."
Students have been more careful this year, according to officers of the Watkins National Bank. There have been few overdrafts, and these have been sent back immediately. The students overdrew sometimes, the same as the business man, but the overdraft is soon rectified.
Makes Greenbug Survey Through Harper County
Raymond Beamer, fellow in ecology, returned Sunday from an inspection trip through Harper County where he made a survey of the green-bug problem. Farmers in that veiny had become alarmed at the unusual number of green-bugs appearing on the wheat and wrote Prof. S. J. Hunter about the matter. Mr. Beamer answered that the bug but he found the green-bug very similar to one field of forty acres. Ladybug beetles abound in great numbers and Mr. Beamer feels that these will hold the green-bug in check.
However, the University will keep in close touch with the situation and subsequent visits will be made to the district.
University of Kansas First Known as "Free State College. Far Above the Golden Valley'
Few people know the early history of the University of Kansas or the reason, it was built on the heights above the city.
In 1856, when Charles Robinson was requested by Amos A. Lawrence, a Boston gentleman of culture and means, and one of the wonders of England Enigmarit Ald Company which built the University of Kansas and other parts of the country, to spend some money for him in laying the foundation of a school building on the northern part of Mt. Orford. Work on this building was complete, but as the title to the land was suspended, the word was soon suspended.
Mr. Lawrence, for whom this city was named, was greatly interested in Kansas territory, and particularly had schools. In a letter to the Rev. E. Nute, of Lawrence, on Dec. 15, 1839, Lawrence explained his plans and designed them.
"I cannot furnish cash for building but, I can give what he will be so
"You shall have a college which shall be a school of learning and at the same time a monument to perpetuate the memory of those martyrs of liberty who fell during the recent struggles. Beneath it their dust must rest. In it shall burn the light of liberty, which shall never be extinguished until it humbles the whole community; and in it shall burst the 'Free-State College', and all the friends of freedom shall be invited to lend a help hand.
good for paying expenses after it is up. For instance, having advanced $10,000 to the university at Appleton, Wis. last year, I hold their notes on my desk and use them for institution and it owes little or nothing to this. They have about $200,000 worth of property, and 450 students on their catalog. I wish I had money, but I fear the time is far distant because we have more than enough to carry out our work.
The settlers, with their strenuous labors in taming this new country, had little thought for education, but the few who became interested were of the progressive type that push their objective through to the finish. The settlers became undecided as to the length of a journey upon the heights of the town and they wrote Mr. Lawrence regarding the question. Mr. Lawrence replied:
--stores in the country.
"I should suppose the proposed site is not comparable with the high lands above the town. Trade will not go up the hill except to get prospect sites, because there is no risk in locating a college on or on a hill, even in a large city. The Romanians have understood this, and we see in Europe their institution always on the pinnacles over the cities, unless occupied by a fortress. It makes it difficult for both sect and the spot originally selected in Lawrence is the right one."
This letter of Mr. Lawrence's seemed to end the question for the letters set about to build a college on the heights above the town.
The first Society Brand a man buys he selects by himself—after that he has 2 or 3 friends along who "want to try those wonderful clothes" themselves!
Others $35 and up
$45
New and Charming Dresses
For Afternoon For Street Wear For Dancing
Cantons, Plain and Printed
Flat Crepes, Georgettes
Dance Frocks of Chiffon
All Newly Arrived
And Most Moderately Priced.
We have added a new Silk Stocking to our department of Hosiery—New to Lawrence but sold by the best and biggest
Black White Fallow Lt. Gray
You will be coming back for "Pigeon" after you have worn one pair—now in stock in the following shades;
Pigeon Hosierv
The Price Pair—$1.65
BULLENE'S
Greve
Cordovan
Cinnamon
Mist
Former Student to Give Original Novelty Program
Margaret Larkin, *fz2*, will give an entertainment consisting of songs and original readings at Manhattan next week. Her program was written and produced under the direction of the department of public speaking of the University of Washington; drama readings, poems of the character impersonation, and a one-act play, "The Wonderful Cuckoo-Clown" which will be present in costume. The song groups include Mexican folk songs with guitar acraints, negro songs, old rhythmed songs, and songs from modern composers.
Miss Larkin is a member of the Kansas Authors' Club. Club and was awarded the annual prize of one hundred dollars for the best poem produced in the state in 1921. Her poetry and prose are both well adapted for publication, many selections having been written as readings. During the past winter Miss Larkin was on a lyceum sour with Mr. and Mrs. Cooper McMurray.
Beta Phi Sigma Entertains
Beta Phi Sigma, professional pharma-
cy fraternity, entertained with its
annual spring formal Friday evening
at Wiedemann's Grill room. Mrs.
E. L. Gould, Mrs. Eilhagen Haggs
and Mrs. Daniel Spencer were chaperones.
LOST-Gold pen with "Helen" engraved on it, between Fraser and 1308 Ohio, Friday. Reward. Call 1243 Black, Helen Brown. A-25
LOST—Gold Dunn pen. Name on barred "Jess C. Benson." Valued for sentiment attached. Liberal reward. Call Benson, 321. A-27
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FOUNTAIN PEN INK
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
"The Ink That Made The Fountain Pen Possible
VARSITY THEATRE Wednesday and Thursday
VARSITY
Mon. and Tues.
Shows: 2:30, 4:00, 7:30 & 9:00.
Clara Kimball Young
BOWERSOCK
Tues. Only
Prices 10c & 28c
"The Woman of Bronze"
Shirley Mason
an excellent triangular domestic drama. Under King Vidor's direction Miss Young gives an excellent interpretation of a difficult role. John Bowers and Lloyd Whitlock are in the cast.
Mermaid Comedy "COLD CHILLS"
Shirley Mason in "Pawn Ticket Number 210"
A photopoly deal with the life of a young woman who was pawned when she was a baby by her mother. A forceful drama with gentle humor and deep pathos.
An Al St. John Comedy "A SALESMAN"
Unusual Opportunities For Professional Education in
DENTISTRY
COMMERCE & FINANCE
Washington University, because of its urban location, offers unusual opportunities for specialized education along certain professional lines. In addition to splendid laboratories and physical equipment, libraries containing more than a quarter of a million volumes, and capable and experienced Faculties, the student has at his disposal all the facilities of a large city for the practical application of the theories taught in the class room.
SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY
One year College Preparatory Work Required
SCHOOL OF COMMERCE & FINANCE
Given in the Junior and Senior years of a regular four year course
For Catalog and Full Information, address G. W. Lamke, Registrar
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