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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Official student paper of the University of Kyrenia
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Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the post office at Lawrence, Kanaas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published in the afternoon five times a week by students in the Department of History at the University of Kansai, from the press of the department of Journalism.
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The Daily kansan aims to picture the undergraduate students to go further than merely print the news by standing up, singing and so on; to play orteis; to be clon; to be cheerful; to be charitable; to be more serious problems to wiser heads; in all to show
TUESDAY, OCT. 26, 1920
HEARST'S K. U. "ROMANCE"
LEARNS K. U. ROMANCE
Dr. Andrew Malcolm Morrison,
100-year-old bridegroom and "former
president of the University of Kansas",
and his blushing 72-year-old
bride, Miss Mary Augusta Barnay,
a "former" K. U. student, are the
subject of a Sunday supplement page
in Mr. Heart's Chicago Herald and
Examiner of October 24. The page
hears a startling portrait of the
decidedly antique bride and groom,
together with a view of a "Sixteenth
Century Royal Child Marriage" and
another entitled "A Child Bride of
India."
If the estimate Doctor Morrison was ever "president" of the University of Kansas, the fact was never recorded in the archives of the university office, of the University historian, or of the registrar. Neither is any record of Doctor Morrison's bride to be found in any of these strongholds of information.
Mr. Hearsts reporter endeavored to convey the proper college atmosphere by having his two creations discourse knowingly of marriage, eugenics, women, living to an old age, women's dress, telepathy, and other subjects relied on by the reader of Mr. Hearst's Sunday supplements. "To remember the vocabularies of Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Sandkrit, and to keep separate in the mind the many similar, but not quite identical, idioms of French, the mind polished like a warrior's sword," asserts the learned doctor.
A 100-year-old gentleman may have married a 72-year-old ladie nageen somewhere recently, but why pick on the University of Kansas as the locale of the "romance"? If the doctor was ever president of the University, it was in another incarnation, which is not very likely. And to all the intents of the story, he could just as well have been made president of the League of Nations or the Kingdom of Judaea.
The proposition of all-night lights for the streets of Lawrence is being discussed by city officials. It is deemed an admissible movement, as a means of combating burglaries, and other law breaking acts.
LIGHTS ALL NIGHT
It might also be deemed advisable for the protection of University students. Functions which University students attend are often not out until midnight, and there are times when students are required to leave or return to Lawrence at late hours. University students have not been exempt from hold-ups, which might be largely eliminated by all night lights on the streets.
The city of Lawrence has shown its desire to assist the University in every way possible, and to make University life as comfortable as posa
sible for the students. From the student standpoint, the city would be taking another step in this direction if it would provide light for the streets during the entire night.
THE CLASS MIXERS
THE CLASS MIXERS
Student activities on the campus this year are very similar to those of years before. However, a striking innovation appears in the schedule of Hill parties this year. This is the establishment of mixers for the several classes. The freshman class has always had some sort of a party for the men and the women separately, but this year marks the ushering in of a joint party for each class in the University.
Herefore, students did not know to what class many of their associates really belonged. This fact has given rise to agitation for distinctive class insignia or difference in dress to mark classes. If every student takes it upon himself to attend the mixer of his class and to get acquainted there, he will not need to wear a distinctive emblem to differentiate him from others, because he will know just who are his classmates.
The mixers indeed fill a long-felt want in the activities of the school, which the all-University parties and conventions could not satisfy. They will encourage class spirit, and what is more important, school spirit, and a desire to co-operate among members of the classes and incidentally among the schools of the entire University. The cry of the age is for more democracy. Here is the biggest chance every offered to University students in Kansas to show a spirit of genuine democracy. Themixer is the means of accomplishing this end.
THE VOTING WOMAN
In most cities at the present time the various women's clubs are doing all they can to teach the women how to vote. Sometimes before the coming election they are going to provide sample ballots and have short classes in voting.
Why wouldn't that be a good idea for the women of K. U. to take up? The Forum, for instance, could start some such movement, where the young women of the University could be taught what to do when she goes to the poll and how to do it. Without a doubt many women will not vote because of not knowing what to do. They are afraid of making themselves conspicuous or an object of ridicule and will shirk the duty. The majority of women know something about the ballot, but since each voter has only a few seconds to mark his ballot, speed and accuracy are necessary to eliminate the throwing out of ballots incorrectly marked, a thing which the new voters certainly do not wish to have happen.
A NEW KANSAS SERVICE
A stop in the right direction of proper methods in business administration has been noticed in the announcement that a budget system for the Kansas printing plant at Topeka is to be instituted by the state printer. All state institutions, including the University of Kansas, under the new plan will be requested to furnish semi-annual estimates of the amount of printing to be required for the ensuing term. These estimates will be compared with records on the past printing done for those making the acquisition.
In addition to making a record within the state for economy and thrift in a branch of the public business much abused in some states, this reform can probably do away with several inconveniences at the university due to the tardy arrival of class schedules, bulletins, and catalogues no matter what the source of the difficulty has been in the past.
Miles W. Vaughn, c15, commonly known around the Journalism office as "Peg," has written to his fraternity, Delta Upsalon, from South America. Since graduation, Peg has been connected with the United Press Association in various cities as telegraph editor and cable editor. For the past three years, Peg has contributed of the foreign news department in the New York office. Through his efficiency in the cable department, he was sent to South America to take charge of a central news division and will remain there for at least a year.
Get Better Acquainted
MISS ALICE MELYN
"I am from New Brunswick, Canada," said Miss Alice Melvin, instructor in rhetoric, and "I came to Kansas mainly because of your beautiful climate. I am not a true Canadian in Iowa, I love warm weather and winter sports, for I have enjoyed here the warmest October I have even "poen."
Miss Melvin is a graduate of McGill University and for the past two years has been teaching in Canada and Massachusetts. she intends to make teaching her life work and to do this she is devoting much of her time to a systematic study of the subject in all its phases.
Commenting on the differences in customs, Miss Melvin laughingly said:
"I was never called 'mau' before in my life until I came here. It amused me intensely when a freshman said 'yeen mau' to the me other day. It seems the upper classman do not use it quite so much.
"People here tease me quite a hit for the way I say 'about' and 'new', Oh, yes! I must not forget to mention that I never heard of freshmen being paddled before. They have taught what form it takes) but I had to ask for an explanation of paddle when I came here."
While it has been possible to operate an automobile with straw gas and it is known that fifty pounds of straw will produce about 300 cubic meters of gas, the driver a light rudder fifteen miles—the problem of reducing the gas to liquid form or condensing it sufficeently to allow it to be carried conveniently—is an essential one that must be solved before straw gas can be considered as a possible motor fuel. The two tasks taken up by the engineers in the development division—The Independent.
GAS FROM STRAW
A gas which is obtained by the destructive distillation of wheat, oat, and rye straw is now being produced upon a small scale at the experimental farm of the United States Department of Agriculture in Virginia. Although it has been used for illuminating purposes as well as for cooking, the possibilities of straw gas are not yet fully determined, the department says. Work to determine the exact commercial value of straw gas is still ongoing owing to the limited funds available at present, but it is planned to do much that will determine the quantity and nature of the gas that may be obtained from wheat, oat, barley, rye and rice straws, and from corn and soybeans. The gas matter usually burned as waste.
CHEAPER GAS FOR AIRSHIPS
In these days of rising prices it is good to learn that science has succeeded in making one or two things cheaper. Until 1918 the gas helium, now used on a commercial scale in balloons and airships, was prepared at a cost of nearly $2,000 a cubic foot. Hellum was first discovered in the sun, then detected as a consequence of the proportion of one part in a quarter million, then found in association with the radioactive minerals. Certain natural gases in Texas and other states were found to contain as much as one per cent of helium.
During the Great War the demand for helium increased with the development of military aviation Hybrids. It became apparent that it had the disadvantage of burning in air. Had the Germans been able to fill their zephylls with helium when they bombarded London the midnight sky would not have been illuminated with blazing airships earthworms to their doom, for no way has yet been discovered to supply them to the United States Government undertook experiments on the wholesale preparation of halium during the war and by the end of 1918 was making 8,000 cubic feet of helium a day.
A large plant is being completed at Fort Worth, Texas——The Indean-
Intensive specialization has not proved so very successful. The strictly scientifically trained mind has been found to be not quite as able as the broadly educated mind. The desi-abled Latin and Greek are coming into their own as mental developers. It has been rediscovered that man is apt to do a whole lot more efficient thinking if he can think all around a subject than if he is forced to butt his brains everlastingly against its concrete front. 《The Gleaner, St. Johns University (Tolado)。》
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