UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ADDS NEW EQUIPMENI
Evaporating Station Established at Kansas Through Efforts of Professor Shull
The University of Kansas is one of the first institutions in this part of the country to be equipped with an evaporating station by the United States Department of Agriculture. The apparatus on the campus between the Mining and the Engineering Buildings which resembles the machinery of the weather forecaster is the evaporating station.
WILL PERMIT OBSERVATIONS
WILL PERMIT OBSERVATIONS
The purpose of the new equipment is to permit observations and comparisons of climatic conditions in relation to the destruction of plant life in certain localities. It is being operated by Prof. Chas. A. Shull, associate professor of botany, through whose efforts the station was brought here.
The outfit consists of a circular evaporating pan about four feet in diameter and ten inches high filled within several inches of the top with water, which is allowed to fall through the pan. Eat morning at seven o'clock Professor Shull takes a reading of the evaporation of the previous day with special instruments, that measure to the smallest fraction of an inch, at the same time observing the weather conditions that existed during the day, with the maximum and minimum temperature and the velocity of the wind.
AIDS STUDY OF PLANT LIFE
"The establishment of these stations will eventually spread all over the United States and will be of inestimable value in the study of the relation of moisture evaporation to the life of plants," says Prof. Shull.
"It will try to explain the cause of droughts in a section that restricts as much rainfall as possible, where it is guarded by." In a few years the Department of Agriculture will be able to say with accuracy the location best adapted to the growth of certain food plants and I consider it a long step to the better understanding of the real importance evaporation plays in the growth and health of plants."
REACH LARGE NUMBERS
School of Fine Arts Issues An
nual Report
One hundred thousand persons were reached by the School of Fine Arts during the last year, according to a report sent by Dean H. L. Butler to the Board of Administration today. The majority of these were reached through the extension service of the School of Fine Arts.
The music department gave eighty-one entertainments other than those at the University, at which approximately thirty-five thousand persons were present. Fifty-eight entertainments were given at the University with an attendance of twenty-three thousand.
Twenty-three community sings were directed by persons of the depart- ment.
attendance of eleven thousand. Ten choruses were organized in the state with a membership of one thousand persons. Two orchestras were organized of thirty persons each. These choruses and orchestras held three hundred rehearsals and gave twenty-four public concerts.
The number of lectures given by members of the music department were one hundred and twenty-five. Two hundred and twenty-one persons received instruction in that department. The total amount of fees collected was over twenty-five thousand dollars.
Besides service through these lines many ViCTora records were sent out. The report of Dean Butler on "canned" music entertainment fol-
"In the fall of 1915 the Board of Administration appropriated two hundred dollars for the purchase of Victoire records to be sent out free of charge to the school and colleges of the state. Nine sets of records, with fifteen records in each set, accompanied by a typewritten 'talk on' record from the Bureau of the School of Fine Arts, were sent out into the state. In spite of the fact that the superintendents were very slow in moving these records along, one hundred and seventy-six concerts were given in Kansas communities. As many of the superintendents failed to report the number in attendance at these concerts, I put the average number at two hundred. This would make the whole population of people can hear twelve records, three thousand. I was in receipt of many letters from all over the state praising these arrangements. The coming year we will have out twelve sets of records, and hope to give at least three hundred "concerts."
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Engineers Prefer It To Other Modern Languages
SPANISH IS POPULAR HERE
Spanish is the popular language with the engineers this year. More than one hundred are enrolled in Spanish, while the enrollment in French is but fourteen and in German, sixteen.
Dean Walker, of the School of Engineering, said in regard to the large enrollment in this course, "I advise students who are taking Chemical. Civil and Electric Engineering to take Spanish especially.
The future work of these students
is along commercial lines, and they will find Spanish the practical language since the commercial interests of the United States are now so large in the countries of South America that one can easily attribute the increase of interest in Spanish to the present trouble with Mexico. This may affect the question somewhat, but is it necessary to know Spanish in order to shoot at them?
Prof. A. L. Owen of the department of Romance languages said enrollment is elementary Spanish was fairly more than has been expected this year.
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FACULTY WOMEN'S GYM
CLASS MEETS THURSDAY
The first meeting of the gym class for faculty women will be Thursday evening, September 28, at 7:30. All faculty women, wives of professors, women connected with the University and friends are eligible for membership. The class will be under the direction of Gladys Elliot.
summer under Pavley, Pavlowa's partner, and at the Columbia School of Expression, and has many new ideas for the class. The work this year will include regular gymnastics members who took work last year and have suits are requested to bring them Thursday evening.
Miss Elliot studied in Checiago this
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