The University Kansas.
The official paper of the University of Kansas.
EDITORIAL STAFF:
JOSHPE W. MURCY - Editor-in-Chief
EARL FISCHER - - Managing Editor
BUSINESS STAFF:
HOMER BERGER -- Business Manager
CLARK WALACE -- Ass. Bus. Manager
HENRY F. DRAPER --- Treasurer
J. E. MILLER --- Circulation Mgr
MEMBERS OF BOARD.
LOUIS LACOSS CARL CANNON
M. D. BAER RALPH SPOTTS
Entered as second-class mail matter September 17, 1910, at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the school year, by the Kansas University Publishing Association.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1911
A CHANCE TO SERVE.
The report which comes from Topeka that the new hospital of the School of Medicine may have to run the gauntlet of political expediency will cause anxiety on the part of every one who is interested in the advancement of science and increased service to the people of the state on the part of the state institutions. The report has it that there will be difficulty in securing a hospital just because the Regents of the University chose Kansas City, Kan., as the location. Pressure in being brought to bear on the legislators by the representatives of other towns that wanted the hospital and didn't get it.
That a state hospital is needed is common knowledge. That there is a place in the state of Kansas for a School of Medicine,equipped as well as the state can afford, has been demonstrated with equal certainty. The Legislature has a chance to do a real service to the state by building the proposed hospital and it will be a blot upon the record of the present session if politics is allowed to prevent such action.
It seems to The Kansan that the University was entirely too optimistic in its opinion that everybody could travel the icy sidewalks safely, yesterday and today. The conditions called for a liberal supply of sand or ashes on the sidewalks, but these were to be found only at the approaches to the buildings. As a result, everyone of the twenty-two hundred students who ascended the steep and slippery approaches to the University yesterday did so at the imminent risk of bodily injury.
The critics of the University who contend that the tendency among the students is constantly toward the spending of more money will find an additional argument in the action of the senior class, which has decided that the ordinary engraved covers which have appeared on the invitations for years are no longer good enough and must give way to the more expensive leather ones.
It had been several weeks since a new society had been organized at the University, but Thursday some members of the sophomore class took steps to fill the long-felt want.
With the walks and approaches of the University in their present iey condition, it is easy to believe the story of the Fall of Man.
A score of 40 to 17 is not so bad, considering that it was made in the first game of the season, and on Friday the thirteenth.
HOW MANY WILL TAKE THE ADVICE.
The community's doctor—the head of the health department—recently has given free of charge to all men and women weighing 140 pounds or over a recipe for the avoidance of pneumonia. It is that they shall reduce their food and beverages at least one-half during the next four months. He promises a saving of at least 500 lives if this advice be generally taken.
But he must have a hopeless feeling that only a few will act on the advice. Observe the perversity of human nature and the seemingly low estimate which men and women put on their lives. If good sized money prizes were offered the 140 pounders of Chicago as the reward of dieting for a third of a year, they would curb their appetites. The heavy eaters and drinkers would become models of abstinence, for there "would be money in it." The man who would fast to get a thousand dollars would not do it to insure himself against pneumonia.
Most people still have great faith in the magical power of drugs to cure and ward off disease. If the health department were to assure the heavy eaters and drinkers that a daily draft of some nauseous mixture for four months would carry them safely through the pneumonia season they would gulp down the stuff. If there were any widely advertised pneumonia preventive for sale in the drug stores at a dollar a bottle there would be many purchasers who, if all went well with them, would be willing to certify that it had saved their lives.
And yet these same people will not be moderate in food and drink for a time, so as to make it less likely that they will be attacked by a painful and dangerous disease. They will continue to neglect bad colds after having been told a hundred times how risky it is. They had rather imperil their lives than modify their habits for a few weeks. From their willingness to take chances one can form some estimate of the low valuation they put on health and life. Dr. Evans is addressing a heedless, happy-go-lucky set of patients.—Chicago Tribune.
Prof. R. R. Price spoke before the teachers of Jackson county, Mayetta, this afternoon.
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◀ FROM OTHER COLLEGES ◀
Annual Sale of Under Muslins Begins Tuesday, Jan.17th
The Michigan Aero Club has over 100 enthusiastic charter members.
A. D. WEAVER
Sword and dagger dueling are taught in addition to foil fencing at Michigan.
A Norwegian play is to be presented by the Scandinavian Club of Minnesota.
The University of Toronto has a new library with a capacity of 250,000 volumes.
A society has been formed at Wisconsin to study the historical development of woman.
Governor-elect C. H. Aldrich of Nebraska is a graduate of the class of 1888 of Ohio State University.
The eight heaviest men on the crew practice teams at Yale weigh a total of 1,423 pounds.
McAlister College, St. Paul, has received a gift of a $65,000 science hall from Andrew Carnegie.
The Yale Dramatic association's new theater building fund now amounts to $10,629, besides cash on hand of $1,159.
An alumnus of Pennsylvania has given his alma mater $100,000 with which to establish a chair of medicine.
Alfred Schrubb, the noted English marathon runner, will coach Harvard's long distance runners this winter.
Because of too much society and too little scholarship, the fraternities at Vanderbilt are placed under faculty supervision.
Instead of using the new dormitory at Princeton for freshmen only, as was originally intended, the new men have been put where they may receive the influence of the upperclassman
The State Educational Department instructed the "American College of Science" of Rochester to stop using the word "college,"
as it had not been chartered by the Board of Regents. The consul-general of Guatemala in New York has made inquiries as to the right of the institution to issue degrees in the studies of mesmerism, hypnotism and personal magnetism. He said several of its graduates were practicing in his country.
Andrew Carnegie will celebrate his 75th birthday by making a gift of $3,500,000 to the Carnegie Technology Schools in Pittsburg. His previous gifts to these institutions are $20,000,000.
Herbert Church has been elected captain of the Penn cross-country team for the coming year. He was a member of last year's championship two mile relay team. Wolle and Nearing are the only two men to be lost to the long distance runners on account of graduation in June. McCurdy, said to be the star distance man in the 1914 class this year, will probably be with the team next fall.
Undergraduates at Michigan are stirred up over the declination of certain seniors to accept committee appointments. The reason given out by these seniors is that there will be unpleasantness in the class organization and committees if they accept places on them. The attitude of those expressing themselves publicly is that any man selected by class officers to serve on class committees should "leap to the task."
Dr. John W. Harshberger, of the botanic department of Pennsylvania, in recognition of his services in the study of the plant geography and ecology of North America, has been chosen American editor of the Department of Ecology for the Botanisches Centralblatt Reforirendes Organ fur das Gesamtgeleit der Botanik, Association des Botanistes. He will, as editor, review the papers and books published from time to time on vegetation of North America.
The Unitarian Church.
Preaching service at 11 a. m.; topic; "Applying Religion in the Church;" Sunday school at 12 o'clock; classes for students; Young People's meeting, 6:45 p. m.; topic; "Shopenhauer vs.Walt Whitman, a Problem in Personality;" leader, Miss Irene Garrett; ministers' study class at his home at 6:45 p. m., Monday; topic; "What is the New Testament?" All cordially invited to these meetings. F. M. Bennett, minister, F. E. Wells and Anna R. Manley, student pastors.
Street Horror.
The professor, while making his way gingerly along the slippery sidewalk, dropped his cane.
"Pardon me, sir," said a flippant bystander, picking it up and restoring it to him; "but you almost compel me to raise Cain." "I am the one who should apologize," suavely answered the professor, bowing his thanks, "for not beng Abel to prevent the Fall of Cain."
The policeman at the crossing glared at them, but made no arrests.—Chicago Tribune.
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