THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
THEATRE VARSITY
TODAY
Francis X. Bushman
AND
Beverly Bane
IN
A MILLION A MINUTE
TOMORROW BESSIE BARRISCALE IN CORROWS OF LOVE
SORROWS OF LOVE
PROF. MILLIS TO RESIGN
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to the position of associate professor. He held this position until he came to the University of Kansas in 1912.
In 1908 he was granted a leave of absence of a year and a half, during this time he was employed by the United States Immigration Company to report on the immigration of the Japanese and Chinese. His work is a part of the United States Immigration Committee's Report. Two years ago while spending his summer at the coast he was employed by the Federation Council of the Churches of Christ to make a special investigation of the Japanese people. The results were reported last year in the book, "Japanese Problems in the United States" published by Macmillan & Company.
THEY TRUST TO LUCK AND SOMETIMES WIN
CHOCOLATES
Students in the summer school bet, as well as others, and enjoy the process of "trusting to luck". The wagers are usually small, entailing a small transfer of coin or the carrying out of a freak agreement by the loser. Coin tossing or penny matching are two of the most common forms which the students employ to pass the time while waiting for lunch or dinner. The amount of money transferred in this way is not large enough for serious concern as the students are conservative, owing to the principle of the thing, rather than the lack of coin (?).
A pretty wager of the real kind was recently staged when a gallant young summer student wagered a prety co-od concerning the big fish caught in the Kansas River a week or two before intense enjoyment, and the young man gamey surcended a big box of fine chocolates.
Mrs. W, V. Burns returned to her home in Great Bend after a two weeks' visit with her son and daughter, William and Edith, who are taking work in the Summer Session.
Eleven mules realize that Kansas editors put good stuff in their papers, as was evidenced the Fourth when one of the long eared variety was seen eating a well known Kansas daily, and to all appearances enjoying it.
BUY OLD CHEM BOOKS
Valuable Transcripts 200 Years
Old Received at Library
Two books over two hundred years old have just been secured by Prof. Frank B. Dains of the chemistry department for their library. One, "A Course in Chemistry," published by Nicholas Lemery, a Frenchman, and translated into the English language by David Complete Course in Chemistry," published in 1709 by George Wilson, an Englishman.
Both books are in excellent condition. The bindings are of genuine leather and the paper soft and pliable. The older volume is fancifully tooled and in the best repair of the two.
The 1685 edition is quite conservative and logical in the principles it sets forth. The illustrations are exceptionally fine for so early a date. The 1709 edition is not so logical or so conservative as the earlier edition. It gives two concoctions which one would laugh at today, but nevertheless it is characteristic of chemistry at that period. One was a prescription for fits which was made by brewing human skulls and was known as the Ellixar of Human Skulls. Another, quite a common remedy for several kinds of ills, was a brew made from vipers.
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Monday, July 10, 4: 45 p. m.
Room 210 Blake Hall. Address,
James M. Gwinn, superintendent of
schools, New Orleans.
Tuesday, July 11, 4:45 p. m., Room 210 Blake Hall. Address, Superintendent J. M. Gwinn.
Tuesday, July 11, 8 p.m. All University Sing on the campus.
Wednesday, July 12, 8 p.m.
Fraser Hall Chapel. First exhibition of the famous Mawson Antarctic pictures.
Thursday, July 13, 4:40 p. m.
Room 210. Blake Hall. Address.
Superintendent J. M. Gwinn.
Thursday, July 13, 8 p. m. Fraser Hall Chapel. Second exhibition of the Mawson pictures.
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Professor Melcher Would Apply Rate Tests in Elementary Schools
250-300 WORDS A MINUTE
Such Facility Would Aid Students in College
In his address to the Summer Session students yesterday afternoon in Fraser Hall Prof. George Melcher, Director of Research in Public Schools of Kansas City, Missouri, who is teaching a class in School Efficiency Tests, emphasized the importance of the better teaching of the art of reading to students, and firmly convinced that if the graduate of the elementary schools is able to read and intelligently interpret what he reads at the rate of 250 to 300 words a minute, he will have an asset which will be of marvelous benefit to him in his further studies in high school, college, and university.
"The tool subjects are arithmetic, writing, spelling, reading, and language. In order to get best results, these subjects must be disposed of as early as possible, so that more time can be given to the subjects that constitute real education. In the past these subjects have received too much time. The desire of educational leaders at present is to secure even better results in these tool subjects with less expenditure of time.
READING THE MOST IMPORTANT
"Of these subjects reading receives the greatest amount of time and is without doubt the most important of the subjects. The quality of work in reading can be materially improved in two ways: First, by the teachers realizing fully what the aims in teaching are. These aims are clearly two: First, to introduce the children to the art of reading, which is the aim that must be emphasized in the lower grades and second, to use the art of reading as a means of securing information and of broadening the child's conceptions. When these aims are clearly in the mind of the teacher, her methods of attacking the subject of reading will be modified. She will know in what grades and when to emphasize the mechanics of reading and in what grades to emphasize the application of the art of reading.
WANTS MEASUREMENT TESTS
"The second means of improving the teaching of reading is for the teacher to consistently measure the results of the work which she is doing. Standards in the rate of reading, both orally and silently, have now been established for each grade. Scales have also been devised for measuring the rate and quality of oral and silent reading. These tests are valid and can often be used by the teacher as a part of the regular class work. When these tests are applied, the teacher knows definitely what she is doing and thus know how to strengthen the weak places in nor work and bring her work fully to the standard.
"As she begins to apply these meas.
ures, she finds that the pupil in the lower grades is reading orally as rapidly or almost as rapidly as he can read silently. However, from the fourth grade up, the pupils can read much more rapidly silently than they can orally. Since the pupils will do little oral reading, as they leave school but will do a large amount of silent reading, it becomes evident that a larger percentage of silent reading is to be emphasized in the lower grades. Woman Improve Frequency 50%
"If this one thought was fully realized by teachers in grades from the fourth to the eighth, it would probably improve the efficiency fifty percent. When pupils leave the elementary schools they should be able at读 250 words to 300 words per minute and clearly interpret the thought and meaning of the passage read. Such power would be exceedingly valuable in his future studies in high school, college and the university. Facility in reading will also lead the pupil to be interested in reading and should he not go to high school, he will become a reader of newspapers, magazines and good books. He will read because it is easy for him to read. He will thus be furnished with one of the best means of harmless enjoyment. Much of his leisure time would be filled with leisure reading."
Vernon Frank, sophomore in the College last year, was at the University Saturday looking after his creds, as he expects to enter the University of Chicago to take a course in accounting. Mr. Frank's going causes the University to lose another foot ball possibility for the first team next year.
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By this means, credits may be secured towards the Bachelors' degrees and the University Teachers' Diploma. Many teachers find in these courses an opportunity to review and broaden their knowledge of subjects they are teaching.
By the middle of July the Kaw Valley Interurban will have a bridge completed across the Kaw and will be ready for passenger and freight traffic. This assertion was made yesterday by Mr. H. T. Snediker freight agent of the company in North Lawrence. "The traffic, is the factory, as Mr. Snediker. "There is an average of seven and fifty out-bound passengers on week days and three hundred on Sundays. For a new line the service has been very satisfactory; not a single car in a month has missed its schedule.
The Interurban cars will use the track of the Lawrence Street Railway Company as far south as Ninth Street on Massachusetts when traffic reaches the south side. They will be switched and turned on the "Y" on Eighth Street. The Lawrence Railway Company will use the new bridge and run cars to North Lawrence at an early date. A useful feature for Lawrence citizens will be an early mail car from Kansas City, arriving at 5:30 from Kansas City bringing morning papers.
The Interurban Company has set no date for continuing construction westward. It is likely they will build west on Twenty-Second Street, using about two miles of the Lawrence Company's track.
Several students of the summer session are now arranging their correspondence study courses for next year. Some will secure additional credits during the remainder of the vacation. If you are planning on taking correspondence work this summer or next year, delay may be avoided by selecting your courses and making definite arrangements before leaving the University. A fee of $10.00 entitles residents of Kansas to correspondence instruction for a period of twelve months. Courses are offered in the following subjects:
The ticket office and baggage room of the new line is under construction on Massachusetts Street, just north of the Bowersock Theater. Mr. Snodker said that club rates would be made for students.
Nearly five hundred teachers pursued courses through correspondence with the University of Kansas during the past year. Some of these are continuing this work through the summer.
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The Bethlehem Steel Company will manufacture armor plate for the Government of the United States at actual cost of operation plus such charges for overhead expenses, interest, and depreciation as the Federal Trade Commission may fix. We will do this for such period as the Government may designate.
Isn't that fair? The question is now before the United States Senate.
Is it wise—is it fair—for the Government to destroy a private industry brought into existence to serve the Government, unless for reasons of compelling force? To show that no such reasons exist, we make this offer to the United States Government:
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"The two armor contractors, the Bothelemh Iron Company and the Carnegie Steel Company, both entered upon the business at the request of the Navy Department."
CHAS, M. SCHWAB, Chairman EUGENE G. GRACE, President
Sold in Lawrence by
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Bulletin No. 6
Reporting to Congress, Hon. H. A. Herbert, then Secretary of the Navy, said December 31, 1896:
That is precisely what Congress is planning for the Government to do with reference to our investment of $7,000,000 in an armor plant.
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