JUNE 4.1919.
By The Way
Phi Mu Alpha Dinner
The farewell dinner of Phi Mu Alpha, musical fraternity, will be held at the Oread Cafe at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening. Professor John Ise will be toastmaster.
Sigma, Delta Chi Initiates
Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fraternity, will hold initiation Wednesday evening at 8:15 o'clock at the Sigma Nu house for Ferdinand Gittlebier, c'21, Basil Church, c'20, and Herbert Little, c'21. A dinner will follow the services.
Personals of the Campus
Misa Nomi Light, A. B. R. 14, a visi-
ting a life in New York City.
Mary Emily Warren of Emporia, who was in the University last semester, is spending this week at the Pi Beta Phi house.
Arthur Hoffman of Salina, who was formerly enrolled in the University, is visiting at the Kappa Sigma house.
Mrs. F. D. Carman of Herrington is visiting her daughter Miss Julia Carman, e20.
Jack Dalton of Junction City visited at the Kappa Sigma house Tuesday on his way to Baldwin where he is in a hospital and expects to come up again next week.
Lieut. Charles Christoph is visiting friends at the University this week. He has been in France as an officer in the 353rd Infantry of the 89th Division. Before going into the service, Mr. Christoph was a professor of English at the Kansas State Agricultural College.
Mu Phi Epsilon will hold initiation Wednesday evening for Helen Haskins, fa22, of Harper; Ruth Nell fa21, of Oceiland, Oklahoma; and De Soto. A dinner in honor of the initiates will follow the services.
Vivian Sturgeon, c18, of Thomas, Oklahoma, is visiting at the Alpha Chi Omega house. She majored in the department of journalism last year. Miss Sturgeon will enroll in the first summer session.
Ethel Clark, c'21, will leave Friday for her home in Mankato. From there she will go to Washington, where she will be engaged in civic service.
Neva Crumb, fa21, and Hinda Etheridge, c21, spent Wednesday afternoon in Kansas City.
Helen McLean, c'21, of Wichita, is visiting Mrs. Dick Williams, fa'18.
Moody Club held their last dance Tuesday evening from 7 to 8 o'clock.
Custer Club danced Tuesday evening from 7 to 8 o'clock.
May Proves Month of High Humidity, But Little Rain
Run of Wind and Number of Thunder Storms are Less Than Usual
The month of May, according to the weather bureau of the University, was below the average in rain and temperature, but the humidity was high. The reason for the month was 41, the maximum. 85; while the mean was 63.
The rainfall was 3.49 inches, being less than half the amount for May, 1918, when the rainfall was 7.99. There were 10 rainy days during the month, which is below the average. Hall is reported on two days and six days, which is less than the number recorded for last year, when there were eight.
The relative humidity for the month was 71.5, which is greater than the average for May, it being 68.34. This May was not a comparatively windy month as there were but 8,670 miles of wind. The average for May is 10,725, while that for last year was 11,160
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The mean barometer recorded for the month is 28,899, which is also below the average.
Chemistry Students See Plants in Operation
Prof. Clarence Estes of the Department of Chemistry took the seniors and as many of the juniors as possible on a Chemical Field trip recently.
The first day the students visited the Standard Oil Company at Sugar Creek, Mo., and the United Zinc and Chemical Co. at Argentine.
The second day of the trip they visited the Cement Plant at Bonner Springs, the Kansas City Testing Lab. and the Mo., and the Peet Bromers Soap Co.
would not care to work in the Zinc and Chemical Co." said Professor Estes, "because the fumes are so terrible that the workmen have to wear masks of five or six thicknesses of cheese cloth. The teeth of these men are completely eaten away by the acid fumes. The men have to wear heavy gloves, as the acid burns are very serious."
"The seniors decided that they
Two Hundred Varieties of Birds on Campus
Fifteen Kinds Nest Permanently Here, Mrs. Douthitt Declares
About two hundred kinds of birds can be seen and heard on the campus, according to Mrs. Bessie Douthitt, instructor in ornithology. In Kansas there are about 300 varieties and the majority of these are found on the campus except the species of water birds.
Mrs. Douthitt has found about fifteen different kinds of birds that nest permanently on the campus. The chimneys of Fraser are occupied every winter by swifts and swifts. These nests are the shape of a half saucer and the swifts fasten the twigs together and to the side of the chimney by the saliva from their mouths. Purple martins and sparrow hawks also nest in the eaves of Fraser.
In Marvin Grove, doves, cat birds, brown thrashers, and towhees are found. The doves build very loose, sloppy nests of loosely connected twigs and the young very often fall out of the nests.
Meadow larks, field sparrows, and elow warblers nest on the golf fly yellow warblers nest on the golf links. The meadow lark builds its nest on grass covered shrubs or a arch of twigs and grass over it for protection. The nest of the yellow warbler is a hanging nest and is suspended from branches of the trees. Red birds and wrens are found in the rock quarry back of Potter's Lakes.
Birds have a natural camouflage for their eggs against their being
too easily found and destroyed. Birds that nest in chimneys lay white eggs. This is fitting, because their nests are in dark places and not likely to be attacked by hostile birds. The eggs of birds that nest in trees, shrubs or on the ground are usually of a color that attracts predators. Nestsings and cannot be discriminated from a short distance from the tree branches or twigs.
Y. M. Worker in France to Address Convention
Dr. Dan Poling of Boston Wil Attend Christian Endeavor State Meeting Here
An opportunity to hear Daniel Pollock, D.D., of Boston, who has been a noted Y. M. C. A. worker in France will be given the students of the University at the State Christian En-
trance School in Lawrence in Lawrence June 10, 11 and 12.
"Mr. Poling, the chief speaker to the convention, is a wonderful man; his personality wins every audience," he said. The chairman of the convention committee.
Mr. Polling is not only a religious worker, but he is an author. His last book, "Huts in Hell," is based on work in France, "Mothers of Men," another of his pieces, won favorable criticism when it was published.
Mr. Poling is an athlete and was considered one of the best football men of Dallas College when he attended school.
Will the YOUNG MAN who came here on MOTHERS' DAY (May 11), and got FOUR DOZEN CARNATIONS and forgot to leave his name, or his creek, please call and pay for the same.
Mayor Kreeck, president of the local union will give the welcoming ad advice. According to Mr. Kreeck there will be over five hundred out-of-town guests.
"To err is human, to forgive divine." One of our contemporaries points out that in an ordinary news column there are 10,000 pieces of type, seven wrong errors, ten correct ones, be placed therefore making 70,000 errors, besides millions of chances for transpositions. In the sentence, "To be or not to be," by transposition alone 2,750,022 errors are possible. The word mistake can be divine—The Michigan Daily.
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IF you were studying by an old smoky oil lamp and suddenly a modern, sun-like MAZDA lamp were thrust into the room, the contrast would be dazzling. That instant would unfold the result of thirty years' development, research and manufacturing in electric lighting.
And this development commenced with Edison's first lamp—hand-made, when electricity was rare.
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With power lines well distributed over the country, the use of electric lighting extended. Street lighting developed from
the flickering arc to the great white way. Electric signs and floodlights made our cities brilliant at night, searchlights turned into day at sea, and miniature lamps were produced for the miner's headlight and automobile.
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Last Varsity Dance of the Year
F. A.U. HALL, Saturday, JUNE 7 Schofstall's 5-piece orchestra. Adm. 75c