THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
The SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Published Tuesdays and Fridays by students in the Department of Journalism, from the press of the Department of Journalism.
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GOOD LUCK M. T.
FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1916.
The irony of the teacher's life—one of the ironies—is that, receiving comparatively small compensation himself, he prepares others to gather in great financial rewards. There are teachers of chemistry, for example, in the University, whose students, three years out of school, are drawing double the salaries of their former instructors.
No complaint of this condition is heard from the teachers. That is their portion. But it must be some-what pleasing to them when the tables are turned, as in the case of Professor Thorpe, who steps, for a year, into the outside world—at a quite worldly salary.
The Summer Session Kansan offers congratulation to him on being able to show the boys how to take the world by the throat. But here's a reminder that he has promised to return a year from now and tell us all how it is done.
WE THANK YOU, MAC
WE THANK YOU, MAC Without the University band, which is under the leadership of J. C. McCanles, many events during the past year might have been failures. But Mac and his buglers were always there.
One of Mac's own compositions dedicated to Uncle Jimmy, was played during the Wednesday's commencement program. Its approval was shown by the applause. Under his leadership the University now has one of the largest and best trained bands in the valley.
Nor did their loyalty cease with the final examinations for nearly every member of the regular band remained in Lawrence at their own expense during commencement, reviving in the minds of the old grads former thrills that they had experienced when the brass throshes has screered Bolaa.
Mac, we'll miss you this summer.
WELKUM TO OUR CITY
WELKUM TO OUR ST
Welcome to Mount Oread, Summer
Session students!
We are certainly glad to see you back again, old grade; not to mention the rest of you who were left over after last term's flock had bought their tickets home—Well, no matter if you are making up flunks, we like your company too.
Dean F. J. Kelly has asked you to make this great institution yours for the next ten weeks. To use and enjoy it. This is indeed a privilege and in order to make it a pleasure as well, the Dean has arranged a series of entertainments which will continue through the whole session.
Our friends who will spend their summers bathing on the coast beaches or sight seeing from the rear platform of an observation car will have no edge on the little outing which is in store for the approximate 700 persons who have matriculated during the last few days.
The golf links, the indoor and out door tennis courts, and the Gymnastium furnish opportunities for sport recreation galore. The breezy, shady campus has little competition, as a cool summer resort; Lawrence can offer you the handy Kaw river for boating on one side and the inspiring Wakarua valley, waiting to be utilized for hikes, on the other.
We are off on the six weeks lap with the starting shot still echoing in our ears. Let's make it a fifty-fifty combination of pleasure and study.
THEY DESERVE IT
Eleven graduates of Kansas colleges and fifteen K. U. graduates have been appointed to fellowships in the
University of Kansas.
Eleven young women students of the University won scholarships for the coming academic year. Every one of these young people are to be complimented, for the distinction that they have won for themselves has come only through hard work consistently and constantly aimed toward a definite goal.
The graduate school will be enriched by the presence of eleven of the best products in the way of well trained minds that the Kansas colleges have been able to furnish to the school that stands for the highest educational training in the state. These young people have won a place here because in sharp competition they have proved themselves the best fitted to receive and make proper use of a specialized training.
Another group which won fellowships at the University is made up of undergraduates in the University. These have won distinction because they have proved during their stay here that a future specialization would be beneficial to both the department and to the students.
The question of awarding scholarships is merely a matter of the state going after those students that have proved themselves capable of making right use of a highly specialized education, and taking these people in hand to help them to positions that they deserve.
PITCH WHEAT, THEN RUN
Coach Olcott's football stars will develop their physical conditions this summer by pitching off a headerbarge, while the sun throws about 110 to 120 degrees of heat down upon them, and the bearded grain prompts a lively they're-wanting-me scratch.
Coach Olcott sanctioned such training for the gridiron stars last week and said that his words of several months ago had been mis-construed by the Kansas editors. He believes that work in the harvest fields not accompanied by any other exercise is bad, because it is likely to develop only one side of the man; but he does not hold that harvest work will hurt the football enthusiasm if he will constantly keep all his muscles developed.
Despite the fact that Olcott has spent much of his time in the East, Kansas editors have not been fair n. "kidding" the Jayhawker mentor, for he has spent several summers doing farm work and knows something about the heavy end of harvest work.
So, if the huskies take Olcott's a vice, they will possibly take a cross-country after the cows are milked on the farm.
CLEVER TEACHER-PRIZE PIG
How one teacher of sixty pupils in a one-room school house, situated in the forests of North Carolina, succeeded in getting her pupils interested in practical agriculture with a pig and less than an acre of uncultivated land, is told in a report of one of the field workers of the United States department of agriculture. A farm paper offered a pure-bred pig as a prize for securing a certain number of subscriptions. This energetic school teacher set out among the parents of her pupils and succeeded in selling enough subscriptions to win the pig. When the pig arrived the pen was ready built by the school children or the school grounds for its reception. The parents were invited and talks on pig raising were made. The rest of the day was spent in driving around to some of the best pig farms in the country where various kinds of live stock were scored and discussed. The pupils learned that a pig could not thrive entirely on scraps from lunch and occasional ears of corn. An importer offered the schools a nutmee offered the use of his forest unit implements and the pupils start to work cleaning the forest land to use as a forage pasture. They then planted rye, wheat, rape and grass to afford the pig grazing plots of green forage. A cold frame was also put in and cabbage plants were grown for sale, the money thus realized being turned over to buy what ever additional feed was needed to the pig. As a result of the interest aroused, taxpayers and members of the school board have given their support to the establishment of a small demonstration farm. More land is to be purchased and the county agent is to visit the school each week
in the pig. As a result of the interest aroused, taxpayers and members of the school board have given their support to the establishment of a small demonstration farm. More information can be found and the county agent is to visit the school each week. Since the pig was brought into the school less than a year ago, the membership of the county pig club has more than trebled.
The second edition of the Kansas Engineer, the annual publication edited by the engineering students in the interest of their school has, left the press and is being distributed this week.
THE KANSAS ENGINEER
The publication which has the size and shape of a metropolitan magazine and is bound in a neat brown paper cover, contains 85 pages, well filled with photographs, maps and illustrations. On the frontispiece is a fine cut of Marvin Hall and immediately following this is a full-page cut of Prof. E. H. Hackman, who has written the new article.
Professor Bailey's article, "A Glimpse Along the Way," is an exceptionally interesting autobiography of the professor's life in connection with the University of Kansas. In a very delightful way he describes the history of the University since he first became a member of the faculty in 1883.
Other especially interesting features of the magazine are articles by Prof. George H. Hood on the "incomes of Engineering Graduates," and by Prof. C. C. Williams on the "Interurban Development of Kansas." The remaining articles are of a technical nature. Deser, R. L., and Professors H. Rice, R. L. Deser, and H. A. Poland, Geo. C. Shaad, and H. A. Sluss have all contributed. There are also several pages of editors, faculty persons, and alumni notes.
Prof. Bailey, whose article is written in a reminiscent mood, begins it by saying, "In these latter days when we are talking of the autocracy of Europe, when the social life of the world is modified and controlled by the automobile, when the physicians tell us that they are trying to automotioinetic, it is perhaps fitting that he, one of the oldest of the instructors in the School of Engineering should be somewhat autobiographic in his words of reminiscence and counsel." After a brief discussion of his boyhood on a Maine farm, and his college life he continues: "When in 1883 there was a vacancy in the University of Kansas, it was my fortune to be chosen to fill the position. The 'New Chemistry Building,' as it was called, was partly built when I arrived on the Hill on that hot August morning. This building is now known as the Medical Hall. Those were days of small things. The Chancellor did attempt to give effusion from the epiglasse to erect the building, but proposed to use $8,000 of the money he had saved from the budget if the state would give $4,000. This money was needed to 'build and equip' the chemical laboratories. It is needless to say that when we moved in from the south basement of Fraser Hall in November of that year, the students must have names that had already been worn out by a generation of students, and the "ument was exceedingly meager."
Among some of the cleverly suggested "words of Counsel" he says: "This also has been impressed upon me that although sometimes assurance win and doubt have been win—and no doubt does for a time, very much better than that is the quality of the man who knows much more already about a subject than to know to hold down the job. He in the position for advenement."
In Professor Hood's article he shows some very interesting figures on the salaries that University of Kansas engineering graduates are receiving. A canvass of most of 686 engineers is being drawn, and they are drawing yearly salaries ranging from $600 to $8,800. A graph is printed showing the comparison of the salaries of Kansas engineers with those of the Worcester Polytechnic School and Purdue University. The result shows Kansas grads be to receive about $125 million on the average than the graduates of either of the other schools.
Of 386 of the engineering graduates 95 per cent are still active in engineering work of some kind; 21 have gone into other lines of work; 45 are in Federal or State work; 43 are in municipal work; 48 have been in railroad work continuously since their graduation; 34 began in railroad work but have changed to other industries and structural work; 106 are in miscellaneous engineering work and 33 are with the large corporations manufacturing electrical machinery and 32 are teaching.
Hugh W. Crawford was editor-in-chief of the Kansas Engineer, and Alfred Wieters, assistant editor. Chas. W. Hagenbuch was business manager and sparks his assistant. Prof. F. N. Raymond was advisory member of the editorial board. In speaking of the magazine "Proof Racquet," he said that Kansas Engineer is a new publication and has not made more than a good beginning at present, we hope in time to make it a very valuable publication for the School of Engineering and the University of Kansas."
An attractive window in crimson and blue is the contribution of Weaver's store toward the festive appearance of the town during Commencement week. The figures of captain and crew are shown each end of the window, and an immense picture of Fraser Hall occupies the center.
Glimpses of Interesting K. U. Scenes Through the Eyes of the Jayhawker
Let the students in the Summer Session begin early to make little journeys of discovery through K. U.
He will find as many places of interest as at the most famous summer resort.
Wm. Schulz
Gents Tailor
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College Inn Shop
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