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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1910
The students who came out to the mass meeting last night did all that the students can do for the game of football. The petition which will be sent to the Board of Regents expresses the views of the student body. Every student in the University should make sure that his signature is attached to it. The brief for football, which the committee appointed last night will present to the Regents, will do for football something that has not been done except by piecemeal. It will present in concise form all the arguments in favor of retaining the game, as Regent Gleed's interview published some time ago presented the arguments for abolishing the game. The students of the University are strong in the belief that football will not suffer when the arguments for and against are lined up together and compared.
The Student Council came forward as the true representative of the student body last night by holding a mass meeting to discuss a subject in which the students are deeply interested. There is hope that the Student Council will soon come to play the part in University affairs which belong to it, and cease to be a useless University organization.
The "Beat Kansas" spirit which was worked so hard in the Missouri valley last fall, has made its appearance already for the season of 1910. The Washburn Review is admonishing its constituency to begin saving money with which to buy gold footballs for the Washburn team if the University of Kansas team is beaten in the game next fall.
Beating the "Rule o' Thumb." Kansas City Star.
When Robert Kennedy Duncan, professor of industrial chemistry in the University of Kansas, wrote a magazine article four years ago on cellulose and incidentally referred to the lack of information as to the chemical treatment or fabrics in laundries, he could hardly have imagined the important consequences that would follow from his statement. It happened that the article was read by a manufacturer of laundry supplies, who at once began a correspondence with Professor Duncan. The outcome was the establishing of the first of the industrial fellowships in the University of Kansas that are doing pioneer work in the United States toward putting industry on a scientific basis, as it is in Germany.
A recent statement by Professor Duncan shows how the work has developed. Altogether, eleven fellowships have been established. The fellow who undertook the problem of finding a way to launder clothes without destroying the fabrics has finished his work at the university and is now with the corporation that endowed the fellowship. No hint is given of the success of the investigation, but there will be a general hope that the results will become apparent in decreased shirt and collar bills within the next few years.
Another fellow has been engaged in an investigation that promises to increase the value of the alfalfa crop. He has discovered a method of conserving the food value of alfalfa in drying it so as to make it a richer fodder. The results are now being tested on a large scale in the feeding of sheep. The chemistry of bread was another subject under consideration in the laboratories at Lawrence. It has proved exceedingly difficult to produce a salt-rising bread of a uniform standard, day after day. The fellow discovered that the bacterium involved in salt-rising bread is not in the yeast, as had been supposed. He finally succeeded in isolating the bacterium and in growing cultures of it to be put on the market so that salt-rising bread may be made of a uniform quality.
Another interesting problem has been the utilization of the constituents of the waste buttermilk from the butter factories. No one had ever succeeded in isolating casein from buttermilk in condition available for use. For a year and a half a fellow worked on the problem without success, but he finally solved it, and Professor Duncan says that "the success of this one operation ought to add millions to the property of this country."
Two fellows working on the betterment of enamel for enamellined steel tanks have been successful in creating an enamel which is more resistive than any heretofore made. The manufacture is about to begin on a commercial scale. Other investigations concern the manufacture of hydrate of lime, the chemical treatment of wood, new uses for borax and the duetless glands of deep sea animals.
The success of these fellowships suggests great possibilities for the development of industrial chemistry in the United States. Only the barest beginning has been made at Lawrence. But as the attention of manufacturers is more and more attracted to the work it should prove of increasing importance. Professor Duncan and the University of Kansas have done the country great service in pioneering.
Several changes in the cast of the French play, "Moi," were an announced today. Louis Buxton has been assigned to the role of De La Porsheriae; Clara Osgood will take the part of Madam De Verriers, Wilbur Benucham will play the part of Aubbrun. The part of German will be taken by David Wenrick.
Y. W. C. A. Election.
Changes in French Cast.
The election of cabinet officers of the Y.W.C.A. for next year will be held Tuesday of next week.
LIVING AT PRINCETON.
Princeton, N. J., March 28.—Statistics compiled by the officers of the senior class at Princeton show that the average expense of a college student here for the four years of his course is $3,675, or about $919 a year. The minimum four year expenditure reported is $800 and the maximum $10,000.
Average Expenditure of a Student $3,675 for Four Years.
Prof. R. A. Schwegler will speak tonight at Y. M. C. A. on "Compensation."
UNIVERSITY NOTICES.
The University orchestra will give a concert in the chapel tonight.
Victor H. Cochrane of Kansas City will speak before the Civil Engineering society in Blake hall tonight on "The Design of the New Missouri River Bridge."
A German conference will be held in Spooner library at 7 o'clock tonight.
Who Told Them?
The following appeared in the official publication of the University of Kentucky this week:
"The University of Kansas authorities have decided to adopt the honorary system in conducting future examinations."
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COMPLETE ORDER OF HEMIPTERA
MISS HAZEL BRANCH DOING IMPORTANT WORK.
The Family of Tree-Hoppers Is Being Worked Out in a Scientific Manner.
Some of the most important scientific research work that is taking place at the University at this time is that being done by Miss Hazel Branch, '08, of Wichita who recently returned to Lawrence to work for her master's degree. The work which she is doing includes a systematic and biologic survey of the family of Mendracidae in the order of Hemiptera. The more common name for this family of insects is the tree hopper.
The importance of the present work lies in the fact that the order has never been completely worked out in this or any other state. Up to this time three of the families are lacking. Two of those three are now being worked out by eminent scientists and the third and last family which will complete the order will be completed by Miss Branch.
The work on the families which has been completed up to this time has been done by such scientists as Prof. E. S. Crumb, of the Bureau of Entomology at Washington, Prof. H. J. Meek, of the University of Wisconsin; Professor or Sanborn, entomologist for Oklahoma; Prof. H. B. Stough, of Atchison, and Prof. S. J. Hunter, of the University of Kansas, who has worked out two of the families.
The Order of Hemiptera in includes insects more commonly known to the people of this state as the green bug, the locust, and the harvest fly. When the entire order is finished all of the families will be placed under one cover as a text book.
"The Order of Hemiptera," said Professor Hunter this morning, "is of more biologic and economic interest to the people of the state of Kausas than any other order of insects. The work which is being done by Miss Branch is a step toward the completion of that order."
Walter Williams Honored.
Walter Williams, Dean of the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri, yesterday received notice that he had been elected a Fellow of the British Institute of Journalists. Dean Williams delivered the annual address before the Institute at Plymouth, England, last August.
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