THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
VOLUME II.
MASS MEETING CALLED TO DISCUSS PICNIC
NUMBER 10.
Students Will Get Together After Chapel in Fraser To Day
THE QUESTION WILL BE PUT
After Which Committees Will be Appointed and the Big Event Will be Assured
There will be a mass meeting of Summer Session students in Fraser hall this morning immediately after chapel exercises to decide where, when and how a Summer Session picnic (if any) will be held. Earl Potter will act as temporary chairman and will pound the meeting to order after which a permanent chairman will be elected.
The permanent chairman will then put the question: "Is it the sense of this meeting that we have a good old-fashioned 'devilled eggs in a jar'?"
Some male student will then arise and say: "I, for one, am in favor of a picnic. The girls will doubtless be glad to provide the cold fried chicken, the potato salad, the sweet pickles, the potato chips, the cold boiled ham, and the peanut butter sandwiches. The men will carry the baskets, and provide the water and the horse-play."
It Will Carry Unanimously
Some other male will second the motion and it will be carried unanimously, the permanent chairman not calling for the nays.
Then the question of place will be considered. Cameron's Bluff will be suggested but a member of the P.S.B. will object on the ground of the chiggers. The Golf Links will then be put forward by a fat boy, but some flaxen-haired miss will demur on the ground of too many toads. Woodland Park will then take its place on the calendar, and will promptly be objected to on the ground of too many mosquitoes.
rebuttal, surrebuttal, rejoinder,
and surrejoinder will then be
indulged in by advocates and opponents of chiggers, mosquitoes, and hop-toads.
The Kansan Votes for Woodland
The Kansan hopes that Woodland Park and the mosquitoes will carry,
because at Woodland it will be easy
for the young men to get the water.
There is a hydrant there.
Committee on Entertainment meaning the fat men's race, etc
After the final vote on place is taken and the date set, the chairmar will appoint three committees:
meaning the fat men's race, etc Committee on Refreshments; meaning the aforesaid cold chicken, etc.
Dean Walker gladly consented to give the student body the use of Fraser hall for the meeting. He ex pressed himself heartily in favor of the happy undertaking in the following words (freely translated).
Committee on General Arrangements; meaning looking after the other committees.
The Dean's Testimonial
"I shall be there. Count me in. I love nothing better than to gambol on the green listening to the twittering birds in the trees the growing grasslets, the leafing leaflets, and the 'moo, moo' of old Sukey contentedly chewing her cud in the corner lot. I love nothing better than a picnic lunch, with its multitudinous variety, washed down with great quaffs of crick water. I repeat, count me in."
Less classical, perhaps, yet with equal fervor the following students register their opinion of the proposed picnic:
"Pine doings," said Potter when asked about the picnic. "I'm awfully tired of my boarding house and it will do me good."
"I am strong for the idea," said Maud Judy, "and I have several suggestions to offer concerning it. You know we had a fine picnic the last day of my school this spring."
Sure, a Ball Game.
"Do you suppose we could get up a ball game," suggested Lefty Schenck.
"I'll go if I can find a girl to go with me," was all that Allvine would say at a late hour yesterday
afternoon.
"Maybe I can stay over for it," said R. Lee Hoffmann who is visiting here from Kansas City for a couple of days.
"Anything, but a picnic is the best ever," spoke up Harry Swingle the advertising man of the plane on hearing the plans discussed.
"As a socializing factor it will afford unequalled opportunities," said Sarah Jacobs.
CLAY PRODUCTS ARE COMING INTO FAVOR
Study of Ceramics Leading to More Efficient Methods of Tile-Making
That the output of clay products in the United States is on the verge of a boom, in spite of the increasing use of concrete, is the opinion of Paul Tector, head of the state clay testing laboratory in Waworth hall.
"Concrete is all right in foundations and skeletons of buildings," said Mr. Teetor today, "but for the building of substantial attractive houses and buildings brick or terra cotta is much to be preferred. Most of the skyscrapers in the country are built with brick or terra cotta walls. A great number are lined entirely with hollow clay tile to make them proof against cold, damp, and fire."
Although bricks have been used for thousands of years it has been only in the last twenty years that clay was studied to improve the quality of the product. Now men know far more about pottery, brick, and tile manufacturing. Courses in ceramics have been established in Illinois, Ohio State, Rutgers, New York and Kansas
Universities. The Government has also realized the importance of the work and has established several testing stations over the country, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pa. 'The manufactures are adopting more efficient methods.' added Mr. Teetor. "In Chicago there is, to my knowledge, the largest brick kiln plant in America." Previously, a helper would hand the stoker perhaps a dozen bricks to be baked. But now they have huge machines that mechanically set 1000 bricks at a time in one kiln. It is a common thing to burn 100,000 bricks at once. Yes, the brickmakers are waking up."
TECHENOR UPSETS STATE TENNIS DOPE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 11, 1913.
Wichita, July 9.—All dope in the Kansas state championship tennis tournament was upset in Wichita yesterday by little Dix Teachener of Kansas City. Teacher is a sophomore in the College and a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
U. Sophomore Beats Crac Augusta Shark in Sensational Game
He defeated W. A. Henley, the Augusta, Kansas crack by simply belting t balls at his big opponent, who was unable to overcome the English on Teacher's reverse service. Not once did the college boy falter. Always behind his drive was a hundred pounds of muscle, bone, and nerve. Teacher's last game was sensational.
In the finals today Teachenor is matched against Jack Cannon.
Special to the Kansan:
There will be a short faculty meeting in Fraser 210, immediately after chapel today.
Faculty Meeting.
A. T. Walker.
STUDENT VOLUNTEER BAND
MEETS SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The students Volunteer band will meet at 5 a o'clock Sunday afternoon at Myrs hall. All volunteers who are attending the Summer Session are cordially invited to attend.
INDUSTRIAL FELLOWS TO CHICAGO FACTORY
Dr. Redman, Archie Weit and Frank Brock Leave in September
TO MANUFACTURE REDMANITF
Have Perfected Their Product for Commercial Use and Will Soon Put it on the Market
The three industrial fellows, Dr. L. V. Redman, F. P. Brock, and A. J. Weith, who for the past three years have been working on the S. Karpen & Brothers fellowship in paints and varnishes, will leave the University in September for Chicago where they will have complete charge of the manufacturing of the product known as "Redmanite." "We do not know definitely the nature of our work," said one of the Fellows in speaking of their new business in the workshop's visit of the work at the factory. We shall probably work on a percentage basis."
"Redmanite" was discovered in 1910 by Dr. Redman four months after coming to the University to work on the problem of finding a varnish that would be harder and more durable than those that were then in use. Since his discovery of the product Dr. Redman has been constantly working to improve the article and make it fit for commercial use. For the past two years Weith and Brock have been assisting in the problem. They have now brought it to such a state of perfection that it is a practical commercial article.
"Redmanite" is a synthetic resin that forms an infusible and insoil coating when treated at a high temperature. It has the advantage over the present day varnishes in that it is uneffected by water and ordinary temperatures. It may be applied to wood, steel, iron, or brass, but it is not so practical for wood because of the high temperature required in the application of it. On steel the product will stand a heat of 300 degrees centigrade. These men have also discovered a lacquer for brass which has practically the same characteristics as "Redmanite."
Mary Peerybingle had spent the Fourth of July with the folks at home in Towanda and was returning to Lawrence. Mary teaches in the Butler county high school. She had to come back Sunday night to make her eight o'clock class in the morning, and she was tired and wanted to sleep on the train.
It was almost midnight when Mary's train, which was late, reached Lawrence. The street cars had stopped running and there were no cabs at the station. The poor girl, alone, and carrying her heavy suitcase, had to walk home alone. It was little wonder, then, that she was fatigued when she reached her room. Twas a hot night, but Mary was used to the heat, and would have fallen asleep at once when she fell upon her bed exhausted.
REGISTRAR EXPECTS
2700 NEXT YEAR
That is, she would have fallen
Chirp the Second.
Had there been only the noise of the locomotive and the car wheels as they clicked over the rails, she could have slept, for Mary was used to that. But there was a pesky Cricket on the train, a Cricket of with a chipr, a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, with a voice so astoundingly disproportionate to its size, (size! you couldn't see it?) if that it had then and there burst itself like an overcharged gun, if it had fallen a victim on the spot, and chirruped its little body into fifty pieces, it would have seemed a natural and inevitable consequence, for which it had expressly laughed.
Makes Prediction on Increased Number of Requests for Catalogues
Foor Mary couldn't sleep.
THE UBIQUITOUS KANSAS CRICKET. In Three Chirps
A GAIN OF 300 STUDENTS
Chirp the First
Which Will Make K. U. Quite Little Family, Thank You,
Thank You.
Twenty-seven hundred!
2700—Count 'em—2700!
Students, we mean, K. U. students. Twenty-seven hundred are expected by Registrar. Foster next year.
Following is the enrollment on November first for three years:
Grand total, Nov. 1, 1910, 2,246.
Grand total, Nov. 1, 1911, 2,265.
Grand total, Nov. 1, 1912, 2,403.
Grand total, Nov. 1, 1913, estimated by Registrar Foster, 2,700.
The registrar has a system of prognostication all his own. He bases his predictions on the number of requests for catalogues. The increased number of these requests this summer leads him to make the russes of 2700.
SHE WANTED TO PLAY TENNIS
ON THE HAND BALL COURTS
Here's hoping.
A coming teacher of domestic science in some county high school asked a cub reporter the other day if he knew whether the handball court over at the gymnasium was at that time in use. The fair questioner was armed with a pair of tennis shoes, two tennis balls, and a raquet. She said that she understood it was all marked off and ready to play on while the tennis court down near her boarding house had weeds on it and wasn't fit to use.
Linton-Rowe Wedding.
William M. Linton and Miss Vergna Rowe, both former students of the University of Kansas, were married at the home of the bride's mother in Wilson Wednesday. Mr. Linton was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
Read the Summer Session Kansan
asleep if it had not been for a Cricket in the hall just outside her bedroom door. Good Heaven, how it chirped! Its shrill, sharp, piercing voice resounded through the house, and seemed to twinkle in the outer darkness like a star. There was an indescribable little thrill and tremble in it, at its louder, which suggested its being carried off its legs, and made to leap again, by its own intense enthusiasm.
Chirp, chirp, chirp! Cricket round the corner. Chirrup, chirrup, chirrup! Cricket fresher than ever. For hours it kept the poor,ired girl awake.
Mary Peerybingle didn't get up for breakfast, but she did manage to reach her eight o'clock class on time. Professor Fogy produced his dryest lecture which he began reading in his most uninteresting manner.
Chirp the Third.
Mary just couldn't sleep.
You will pardon Mary, won't you, for the way she acted? If you were as tired as she you might have done the same thing. True, she was a school marm and should have known better, but she was so very tired.
She nestled down in her chair in the rear of the room and planned to take a little nap while her roommate took notes on the lecture. As far as the near-sighted professor was concerned, she might have dozed in peace. But again a pesky Cricket interfered. Behold the stauchn Cricket through the open window, or rather, which is much easier, hearken to its song.
Hark! how the Cricket joins the lecture with its Chirn, Chirn, Chirn.
Hark! how the Cricket joins the lecture with its Chirp, Chirp, Chirp. Mary could not sleep.
Grasshoppers Caught at Ten for a Nickle
The two youngest Summer Sessionists are William Wadsworth Morgan, six years old and Brewster Bowen Morgan eight years old. While they are not regularly enrolled in any course, they are regular attendants at the University may be seen any morning on the bill.
They might be classed as special students in engineering and entomology, for their work ranges from playing in sand-piles to catching grasshoppers. For the latter they are paid on a piece work schedule, receiving one cent for every two grasshoppers. Yesterday they had a nickle, representing the capture of ten grasshoppers. Until you try such a job yourself you cannot appreciate magnitude of livelihood. Both have talent and a lovely interest in them, then later, and a pay visit to the Kansan office daily. When it comes to asking questions they have the cubs outclasses in the stumping quality of their queries and the number thereof.
The older boy is doing library work also, and this morning sat on the steps of Fraser too engrossed in a book to notice the older students.
Meanwhile father and mother were in class. Mrs. Morgan is enrolled in French, and Mr. Morgan, who is vice principal of the Kansas City, Kansas, high school, is doing work in French and sociology.
GEO. O. GETS AN HONOR
Popular Registrar is Elected Vice-President of National Association
Registrar George O. Foster addressed the members of the National Education association in session at Salt Lake City on "The Responsibility of a Registrar Outside of his Office Capacity, to the Individual Student!"
Registrar Foster will leave Salt Lake City at the close of te educational meeting to spend his vacation in Vancouver and the northwest.
The National Registrars' convention held in connection with the N. E. A. elected Mr. Foster vicepresident
Prof. E, F. Engle, of the German department, will go to Kansas City tomorrow afternoon on business. He will return Monday evening.
ORGANIZE TEAM TO PLAY LOCAL NINES
Summer Session Fans Want to Mix It With Haskell and Y. M. C. A.
Movement is on foot to organize a pick-up ball club of Summer Session students to play games with Haskell, Y. M. M. C. A., and other teams of the Lawrence city league. A game has been scheduled with the Y. M. C. A. for Tuesday evening at 4:30 at Woodland Park. Strothers and Schenck will do the battery work. The rest of the team has not been chosen.
"There is no reason why a good team cannot be got together as there are numerous ball players in school," says Kenneth Doddridge, who is taking an active interest in the organization.
Music Spread
The class in high school music, in the School of Education gave a picnic "spread" in Miss Olsson's studio, in the basement of North College Wednesday.
R. Lee Hoffman of the Grandview Sanitarium in Kansas City, was in Lawrence yesterday. Lee has the habit and just can't stay away from Lawrence.
FORTY-FIVE K. U. 1913'S TO WIELD THE BIRCH
Miss Lucy Dougherty of the Kansas City high school spent the day on the hill.
Twelve Per Cent of Last Year's Class to be Pedagogues
ONE IS A SUPERINTENDENT
Orin Rhine Gets Heads Position at McLouth Schools—Where Others go.
Lois Brown, Stockton; English
Oliver Patterson, Neesuba; Latin
and English
Daisy Fretz, Kingman; History. Anna Forbes, Kingman. English and domestic science.
Forty-five 1013 graduates of the University of Kansas have joined the ranks of the Kansas teachers. Here are their names, also the names of the towns where they will teach and the subjects to be taught: Elizabeth Kennedy, Kingman; Carl
Alfrede Horner, Dodge City; Latin.
Helen Davidson, Dodge City;
Martha Tandy, Cherryvale; English and history.
sh and history.
Leora Kuchera, Sedgwick; music.
Cecil Longabaugh, Moundridge;
English and Latin.
Miriam Smyth, Eureka; English and Latin.
Orin Rhine, McLouth; history and athletics. (Superintendent.)
lish and botany.
Anna Bechtold, Horton; German and English.
Lina Coxedge, Shenandoah, Ia.; German and English.
Bess Bozell, Ness City; Latin and Portuguese.
Grace Taylor, McPherson; English and botany.
Iva Harper, Preston; German 'and'
Enslish.
Catherine McCreath, Waverly; mathematics and Latin.
Helena Hadly, Alton; German and history.
history.
A. A., Hutton, Minneapolis; prin-
ginal.
Helen Rose, Sabetha; English and domestic science.
icipal.
Mary Andrews, Seneca; *Latin.
Fay Moys, McLouth; English and history.
Mary Marak, Waterville; German and botany.
Lois Hull, Macksville; Latin and German.
O. F. Hite, Herington; English and history.
Genevieve Moses, Great Bend; English and history.
Rachel Wood, Republic; English and history.
Anna Savage, Hutchinson; Physical, training
al training Edwina DeWitt, Clay Center;
Mary Reding, Humboldt; Latin and German.
Harvoy Lehman, Hiawatha; principal.
Frances McCreath, Winfield mathematics.
Jeremy Arkansas City.
Carlieb Lupton, Arkansas City;
iology
George Edna Withington, Valley Falls; domestic science and history. Edith Lovejoy, Ashland; English
and physica training.
Ethel Jones, Stafford; science.
Charles Stiemeyer, Stafford;
Stephen Meyer.
Grace Nelson, Iola; music.
Carrie Woolsey, Emporia; biology.
Virginia Weldon, Osage City;
Nelle Buchanan, Blackwell, Latin
Maryland.
Frances Black, Athelison; biology
and physical training.
Mabel Nowlin, Hiawatha; German and history.
Almost the Kansas Motto
Whoever proposed "Per Ardua ad Astra" as the motto for the royal flying corps, which has now been approved by the king, is entitled to every congratulation for a decidedly happy thought. The first half of the motto is, appropriately enough, borne by the families of Curtis and Drake, both of whom have distinguished themselves in our naval history A somewhat similar motto, "Per cruce am Stellas," belongs to the old Legard family—London Globe.