PLAN FOR SELF-HELP
"Current Literature" Has Established Scholarship Fund for Needy Students.
Realizing that hundreds of capable young men and young women who, though in character and ability are entitled to every advantage of a higher education, are compelled to forego a college course on account of lack of funds, the Current Literature Magazine has been able to perfect a plan, by which it can enable an indefinite number of students to secure the money required to pay all necessary college expenses.
A Scholarship Fund, open to any young man or woman who has the proper recommendations, and available in any recognized college in the country, has been established. The plan has the endorsement of educators throughout the country, and the supervising board of the fund consists of six of the best known literary men in the United States. The Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, Ex-Vice President of the United States; Dr. David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford, Jr., University; Mr. Elgin R. L. Gould, Ex-Chamberlain of New York City; Dr. John H. Finley, president of the College of the City of New York, and former professor of Politics in Princeton; Dr. Ethelbert Warfield, president of Lafayette College, and Dr. Edward S. Wheeler, editor of Current Literature.
The fund provides for an unlimited number of scholarships, worth $525 a year, for a four year course. There are at present 68 beneficiaries of the fund enrolled at 47 different colleges throughout the country, including 7 at Yale, 5 at Cornell, 1 at Harvard, and 1 at Dartmouth.
The project is endorsed by the Princeton Bureau of Students Self-Help.
The representative of the Current Literature Fund, Mr. J. W. Jefferis, may be interviewed Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon and evening of this week at the College Y. M. C. A.. Young women students will be interviewed in the Association Rest room. Fraser hall, between 1 and 2:30 p.m. on the same days. All University of Kansas students who are working their way through College are advised to see Mr. Jefferis, from whom further particulars may be obtained.
SPOKE TO Y. M. C. A.
J. T. Chafin Told of Settlement Work.
In speaking at the Y. M. C. A. meeting Thursday evening about settlement work in Kansas City Superintendent J. T. Chafin of Franklin Institute emphasized the need of better family life to secure improved social conditions He spoke of the bad housing conditions of his district, against which the settlement's influence was exerted in various ways.
Mr. Chafin gave several examples of how he learned of the crime and needs of the community through members of a boys club, which met in the settlement home. By coming into close touch with the youth of his district, he and his associates are able to encourage the people to right living and give them higher ideas of living.
The German club gave its annual informal spring party last night in Fraternal Aid hall.
SENDING OUT CATALOGS.
5,000 of the Books Mailed Last Week.
Approximately 5,000 of the 12,000 general catalogs for 1999-10 to be issued by the state printer have been received and were mailed last week. The catalog are sent to all the state and judicial district officers of Kansas, to all the county superintendents of Kansas and Oklahoma and to each high school superintendent and principal in the state. A catalog is also sent to every member of the senior class in each of the high schools of the state. The alumni of the University are also on the mailing list. Quite a number of catalogs are sent out in response to requests received this spring and also to young people who wrote last year but did not follow up their inquiry by attending school here this year. 'Further, a catalog is mailed to all the other universities and colleges of the country.
These various demands will take about 8,000 of the year's supply and the remainder will be kept here for distribution from the registrar's office and for future requests. For several days prior to the receipt of the first shipment of the catalogs Mr. Foster had a force of clerks addressing wrappers and thus the enclosing was carried forward rapidly last week.
In the room in the north basement of Fraser hall, formerly used as the mining museum room has been established as a permanent mailing room. From it will be sent the regular weekly news bulletins and other special data which the University mails out over the state.
HELD TOURNAMENT.
Dr. H. T. Jones Won From Prof J.D. Newton.
The handicap golf tournament was won by Dr. H. T. Jones Saturday afternoon. Dr. Jones and Professor J. D. Newton qualified for the finals in the preliminary tournament, held the first of last week. The nine-hole course was completed twice. At the seventeenth hole both contestants held the same score. Doctor Jones completed the eighteenth hole one stroke ahead of Professor Newton, and won the tournament.
A tournament, in which no handieap will be placed on the entries, will be played the last of the month.
To Improve College Oratory.
A practical plan to improve the quality of oratory in the American colleges has been launched by the International Lyceum Association. It is proposed to offer prizes for a grand clearing contest of those who have been winners in the various connection with the annual co-leagues, and have this "meet" invention of the Association, which is held this year at Winona Lake, Indiana, September 1-10, inclusive. Some three hundred dollars are to be offered in prizes, and a spirit of co-operation on the part of the colleges is already manifested. The work is in charge of an Academy of the leading critics and educators of the I. L. A., of which Dr. Richard C. Hughes secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Education for State Universities, is chairman.
Euphemia Smart, a sophomore in the College, spent the weekend in Ottawa.
Month Dryer Than Usual—Typical of Entire Spring.
WEATHER FOR APRIL
Though April was markedly dryer than the average since the records were began in 1868 the past month has been surpassed in this respect by seven of the 42 preceding Aprils. That the entire spring has been distinctly dryer than is usual is indicated by the record for the four months from 1910 now completed. The entire rainfall for the period was 5.06 inches which is 2.81 inches below the average for the same months in the 42 preceding years.
The maximum temperature for the month of 94.3 degrees on the 29th is the highest April temperature on the University record for Kansas. The mean temperature was 57.03 degrees above the April average.
The total run of wind far the month was somewhat below the April average. The seismograph recorded a distant earthpuake on he 11th.
Professor Baumgartner will be connected with the department of embryology of invertebrates Professor Hartman with the department of elementary zoology and Professor Moody with the department of elementary cryptogamic botany.
WERE APPOINTED.
Graduates Enter Marine Biological Survey.
W. J. Baumgartner, assistant professor of zoology of the University, Frank A. Hartman, '05, teacher of zoology in the high school at Seattle, Wash., and Wm. Leslie Moodie, '07, assistant professor of botany in the Bellingham normal school, Washington, have been given places on the faculty of the Puget Sound biological marine station this summer. Professor Baumgartner will take a party of University students to the station which is located at Friday harbor, on a small island in Puget sound.
TOOK NO POINTS.
Relay Carnival Too Much for K U. Athletes.
According to a telegram from Coach Hamilton, received by Manager Lansdon Saturday night, a tie for third place was the best the athletes from the University could take in the Philadelphia Relay carnival. Saturday.
Haddock drew Randell of Cornell, in the 100-yard preliminary dash. Randell is considered one of the fastest dash men in the country, and Haddock did not qualify. The report received said the second place in one of the trial dash events was won by Roberts, but he did not qualify for the finals.
The telegram announced that French went 5 ft. 11, in the high jump, tipping for third place.
The Sigma Nus entertained informally at Ecke's hall Saturday evening. The out-of-town guests were Miss Hazel Kelly, of Paola; Miss Lydia Hemmenway of Clyde, Miss Sue Rogers and Miss Hulda Chapman of Topeka, Sherman Wilcox of Kansas City, Hal Hotchkiss and George Rudder of Topeka.
Sgma Nu Party.
Prof. Osborn of Ohio State University who is connected with the U. S. biological survey, was here on business for a short time last Friday.
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Archie Beard spent Saturday and Sunday in Ottawa.
University-Made Journalist Needs Nerve, Savs St. Louis Star.
The Jayhawker this year is said to contain some "racy" departments that will interest all of the students of the University. The Joke Department is especially distinctive this spring. There are also, a number of original cartoons that are said to portray some interesting events, unknown to the majority of the students. Another distinctive feature of the book is the character of the write-ups opposite the pictures of all Seniors. They are different from the ordinary paragraphs, and portray the characteristics of the graduates in a novel manner.
All Copy in and Proof Read for Jayhawker.
"There's really something admirable in the man or woman who will muster sufficient nerve to tell a city editor that their knowledge of journalism was gained in a school far removed from the school of actual experience," says the St. Louis Star. "Knowing as they must that every newspaperman in the country delights in becoming facetious when university-made Horace Greeleys are turned loose on an unfeeling world, it requires a goodly bit of gumption to seek admittance to the C. E's sanctum and 'hit for a job.'
The Jayhawker will be out or time this year. All "copy" has been in the hands of the printer for some time and all of the proof has been read. The half tone cuts have all been completed and within a short time the first copies of the book will be printed. It will be ready for distribution the night of the first performance of the Senior play, May 19.
"In fact, this nerve is the sort which often sends its owner on an assignment which no one else could get any red blood out of and which enables the cub to 'put one over' on every other sheet in the field. Perhaps our own personal willingness to josh the university-made journalist arise from the fact that we never got as far as a university."
A TEACHERS' COLLEGE.
Nashville Institution Endowed With a Million.
The sum of $1,000,000 for the establishment of the George Peabody college of teachers, to be situated at Nashville, Tenn., was given at a meeting at Nashville last week of the board of trustees of the Peabody fund for the advancement of education in the south. This gift was conditional on the granting by the state of Tennessee, the county of Davidson and the city of Nashville, of a sum approximating $750,000 The trustees were informed that the condition had been met. Their gift will establish the George Peabody school for teachers, to take the place of the Peabody normal college, which has been supported by contributions from interest on the fund.
Two professors from the Ohio state university will go soon to the Hawaiian islands to take photographs of Halley's comet as it crosses the sun. If the plan is successful it will result in the first photographs of spectral analyses which have ever been made of a comet crossing the sun.
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