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SNAKES IN THE MUSEUY
The Lives Ones Are Forcibly Fed—Take One Meal a Week
The living part of the museum is a box of snakes, containing a black-snake, a blue racer, a house snake, a garter and two copper-heads. Mr. C. Hairer, curator of the museum houses them in a glass cage in the basement.
"These snakes," explained Mr Bunker, "have lost their appetite and we have to feed them against their will to keep them from starving. 16 They want to eat them, they would eat willingly, but it is too much trouble to get the mice.
ONE MEAL A WEEK
"I know it is expensive, but we only feed them once a week. Snakes are the most particular boarders I have ever fed. I have worked where boa constrictors came in from South America with no appetite whatever. We would poke five or six rabbits down one's throat at an time as an appetizer. After that he would eat without coaxing." Mr. Bunker scrambled a half dozen of the evening meat placed half each into a portion. Then he opened the cage and picked up the nearest snake, which happened to be the blue raceer, and patted it on the head with one hand as he held it in the other.
VILLA AND CARRANZA
"Ned is a little nervous when any stranger is around," he said. "He used to be nervous when he saw me, but he has recovered from his fright." Then he inserted a glass tube down Ned's throat and gave him his supper. Ned showed his appreciation by curling around his master's arm.
Fannie, the gartersnake, was next. She was not so shy as Ned. Following them, Jim, the black-snake Captain Cook, the blue-racer, were fed.
"Look out for Villa and Carranza",
advised Mr. Bunker, "they are copper-heads, and are poisonous." He lassered each and suspended it by the neck before catching hold with his back. Then the food was given with a funnel.
"Equip yourself with a forked stick
and a sack, if you want to be a snake catcher," he explained, "and find a rocky place where they bask in the sun. Be sure it is a clear day when you start. The first hot days in the spring are best; or a hot day in the fall, about the time they begin hibernating. When you find a spike pin its head to the ground with the stick before it has time to run, grasp it close up to the head and put it into the sack.
"This is not a good year for snakes," said Mr. Bunker. "The crop is shorter than I have ever seen it. Weather has been too cold and damp."
FACULTY TO LEAVE K. U.
Will Spend Vacation Out of Town
A. **soon as the Summer Session is ended, many of the University professors will hurry out of town. Most of them will endeavor to find a cooler climate, but Dr. Alice L. Goetz will return to her home in Tucson, Ariz.; while Dr. James Naismith will spend his vacation on the Mexican border.**
On July 3, Dean H. L. Butter and family left for Estes Park, Colo. Prof. C. H. Ashton and family will leave for Estes Park also when the Summer Session closes. Prof. and Mrs. G. E. Putnam will go to Colorado, but have not decided on the exact location yet. Prof. Wm. McKeever and family are to go to Green Mountain Falls in August.
Prof. B. M. Allen is in California teaching in the department of zoology in the University of California. Prof. E. H. S. Bailey and family are spending their vacation in Washington, D. C. Prof. L. E. Sisson and family are visiting in Hamilton, N. Y., which is Professor Sisson's old home.
Registrar George O. Foster and family will spend their vacation in the Ozarks. Prof. C. A. Dykatra and family will go to their summer home in Omena, Mich. Prof. J. J. Wheeler is in Chicago, where he is taking work at the summer school in Chicago. Prof. Erasmus Haworth and Dean F. W. Blackmar will remain in Lawrenc during the summer.
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WHERE LIGHTNING HITS
Sleeping Porch With Tin Root Safe, Says Simpson
"If you want to be safe from the terrible storms which are frequent this year, sleep in a screened sleeping porch covered with a tin roof which is well grounded is the advice of Prof. Edward F. Stimpson in the department of physics.
The gas-pipe flag pole on Fowler Shops, which is much lower than the other buildings on the campus, was also struck twice by lightning before the pole was grounded, and since then it has not been struck. I do not believe that a person in a house with the windows open is any more likely to be struck by lightning than if the windows were closed."
"Lighting follows the general laws of nature" he added, and we know what things it is most likely to strike. The tower of the museum was first capped with terra cotta and it was twice struck by lightning within three months. It was re-capped with copper and it has not been struck since.
"The more points in a given space, the less likely is lightning to strike there," continued Professor Simpson. "The points are continually giving off electricity, and thus neutralize the potential difference between the clouds and the earth. A piece of barbed wire looped over the chimney and then over the ends of the house to ground smokes a good lightning rod. A cyclone cell is a place from lightning if it is well covered with soil, because the bolt of electricity scatters when it hits the earth.
Professor MacMurray Explains in Chapel Why Poetry is Interesting
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"If I was on an open plan, devoid of any trees or buildings, and the electrical storm was very bad, I would lie down on the ground—if it was not too muddy," said Professor Stimpson.
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TALKS ABOUT POETRY FACULTY IN WHO'S WHO
"What Makes Poetry Interesting?" is the question asked of those persons who attended chapel Friday by Prof. Arthur MacMurray of the department of public speaking. Professor MacMurray proceeded to express why interest in this subject, asking us and intermingled a number of readings to the delight of his hearers
"The majority of people will take a volume and read it without getting very much good out of it," said Professor MacMurray. "The thing that makes poetry interesting to humanity is to get them to realize what the poet thought when he wrote the poem and its relation to life. Many people have favorite poems on pretense only, many having never read what they pretend to admire, or having read they fail to really appreciate them, but pretend to because they are approved by critics.
"In my childhood when I read Long-fellow's Excelsior it meant very little to me. I thought there was very little to it in my school days. I had grown up quite a while before I really understood and then the poem became very interesting to me. A great many of us read poems without knowing what they mean. In the poem, Excelsior, Longfellow meant to portray a man of genius who passed through all hardships. Still pressing upward he passes the Alpine Village in the road, which is the world. He fails to heed the advice of the old man, of love and of religion offered by the Alphine monks, and died without accomplishing concretely his ambition but in diving hears the voices of Eternity around him.
"Another poem is the Raven. Few people know of what the raven is emblematic. Poe was a great believer in mechanical forms. He believed the essence of poetry was beauty worked out in mechanical length. In the poem he thinks of the most sorrowful thing in the world, death combined with joy. Poems describe the person who suffers the greatest sorrow is the bereaved lover. The Raven quoting "Nevermore" is symbolic of memory of a misspeet past."
Among the other poems Professor MacMurray explained was Poe's "The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight" and Kipling's "Recessional." Mr. MacMurray expressed great admiration for Fred Everton Brooks, the California poet, and said he was glad the old idea of praising the ancients and criticizing the present was dying with old age. The writer called "Old Ace," from the original explanation given him in an interview with Mr. Brooks.
THIRTY STUDENTS IN GYM CLASSES
At the close of the poem, "Old Ace," Mr. McMurray was recalled by the hearty applause of the students and responded by giving a parody on Barbara Fritchie in the German dialect.
Forty persons, two-thirds of whom are women, are enrolled in summer gym, classes. Practically every one is taking the teachers' course in order to better teach the classes in their respective schools this fall. The course is being conducted by Coach W. O. Hamilton, during the absence of Dr. James Naismith, and consists in the coaching of foot ball, basketball, baseball, track and tennis. Formerly the school worked on the teaching of working in basketball, but this had to be abandoned this year on account of the absence of Dr. Naismith.
Contrary to the general opinion, the students exhibit much more pep than do the regular session students. They laugh as they go through their drills and seemingly are indifferent to the stuffiness of the gym, as they listen to the lectures of Coach Hamilton.
Charles Chase, who has been attending the Summer Session, and who played first base with the University this spring, is now playing base ball with the Lewiston, Mont., Club in the Rocky Mountain League. Chase last year was a player for play games with the team and is to receive $100 for his services.
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University Well Represented in Book of Notables—29 Are Listed
The University of Kansas challenges any other state university to show more faculty members in Who's Who than she can. Out of the 195 Kansans in Who's Who in America for 1916-17, 29 are K. U. professors at the present time. The following are those honored:
E. H. S. Bailey, professor of chemistry; Carl Becker, professor of European history; F. W. Blackmar, Dean of the Graduate School; W. L. Burdick, professor of law; H. P. Cady, professor of chemistry; G. Daina, professor of chemistry; G. Glanip, professor of English literature; W. Green, Dean School of Law.
trical engineering; W. C. Stevens, professor of botany; Merle Thorpe, professor of journalism; A. T. Walker, professor of Latin; S. L. Whitcomb, associate professor of English literature; Samuel J. Crumbain, Dean of the School of Medicine and armyive medicine; Samuel G. Glassocke, professor Psychiatry; Arthur E. Hertzler, associate professor of surgery; Richard L. Sutton, associate professor of dermatology.
Erasmus Haworth, professor of geology; W. E. Higgins, professor of law; F. H. Hodder, professor of American history; E. M. Hopkins, professor of rhetoric; S. J. Hunter, professor of entomology; Ida H. Hyle, professor of physiology; F. E. Koster, professor of physiology; William A. M. Koster, professor of child waltorf; Arthur Nevin, professor of music; Robert M. Ogden, professor of psychology; Carl A. Preyer, professor of piano.
George C. Shaad, professor of elec
Owing to the growing demand for geologists, a five hour course in geology will be given the second semester at the School of Engineering. This course will be open to the juniors and seniors of the College and engineering schools, Geology I being the pre-requisite.
William Scalapino, assistant in the department of physiology, celebrated the Fourth in an unusual manner. When he arrived at his home in Everest, he cultivated corn. Scalapino got nicely tanned while plowing, and will now be able to stand the hot weather of summer school.
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Programme At The
BOWERSOCK THEATRE
Week of July 10-15.
Today—
The Versatile
BLANCHE SWEET
In
"THE DUPE"
Wednesday
The Dillingham Star
SALLIE FISHER
In
A Comedy Drama
HE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF BARGAIN ROW"
Thursday—
The Well Known Operatic Star
GERALDINE FARRAR
In
“Temptation”
Friday and Saturday—DONALD BRIAN
A Thrilling Story—"THE SMUGGLERS"
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