THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
DUNCAN BRINGS 3 NEW FELLOWSHIPS
NUMBER 42
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1911
HENRY KOHMAN HOLDER OF BEST PAID ONE.
Professor Duncan Expects to Announce New Fellowships for K. U. in a Short Time.
Henry Kohman of Dillon, a graduate student, has accepted an industrial fellowship of $2,500 a year for two years at Pittsburg University and will leave about April 1 to take up his work. The offer was brought by Prof. Robert Kennedy Dunean, head of the departments of industrial chemistry at the University of Kansas and Pittsburg. The fellowship is the highest paid one in the world. It is a multiple fellowship and Mr. Kohman will have two men associated with him in the work. One of the men will receive $1,500 and the other $750.
Professor Duncan said yesterday that the second position in the fellowship would be filled by a graduate of the University of Kansas who is now doing research work at Yale.
The work of the fellowship will be a continuation of the research in breadmaking, which Kohman has been working on for several years. As an additional incentive, a bonus of $10,000 is offered the three men if they discover processes that will be of commercial value to the firm.
Professor Duncan said yesterday that he expected to have a number of fellowships at the University of Kansas to announce within a short time. The quarters which his department has in the University of Pittsburg will be more than filled with fellows, he declared, and he expects to fill every room in the industrial department in the basement of the chemistry building on Mount Oread.
Final examinations in all courses in mathematics both in the College and School of Engineering will be given in the morning and in the afternoon of Saturday, January 28. Any students who find it will be impossible to take the examination on that day should consult their respective instructors at once.
Math Exams on Jan. 28.
Miss Mary Schmalzried of McPherson, who received the degree of A. M. in '10, has recently been elected to the head of the department of English in the high school of Tulsa, Ok.
MAY GO TO CALIFORNIA.
University Glee Club Is Planning Long Trip.
John Powers, manager of the Glee club, announces that a trip will probably be made some time in February, but that no definite schedule has been made out. On January 28, the club will give a concert at St. Marys, Kan., and on February 6 they will appear at Haskell as a part of the Haskell lecture course.
If a satisfactory time to all members can be found, the club will make a trip to California at the close of school. Nothing definite has been done because of the indecision of some club members as to the time they can leave school without endangering their class standing.
Will Speak to Chemicals.
E. Ward Tillitson, the Holo phane fellow in chemistry, will speak before the Chemical club Wednesday evening.at 5 o'clock it room 101 of the chemistry buildin His subject will be "The Relation Between the Physical Propertie and the Chemical Composition o Glass." The work of Mr. Tillit son is to find new uses for glass.
Mathematicals to Meet.
The next meeting of the Mathematical club will be held Wednesday evening, January 18, at 7:45 at the home of Prof. U. G. Mitchell, 1240 Rhode Island. Professor Mitchell will continue his discussions of "Finite Projective Geometries," which he began at a previous meeting of the club.
For a Faculty Tea.
The ladies of the faculty will give a tea in the classical museum next Thursday afternoon from 3 to 5. All women students are most cordially invited.
Copies of the proceedings of the Kansas Editorial association for 1910 have been received and are being distributed to the classes in journalism. The meeting was held at Wichita, and the meeting this year will be in Topeka the latter part of this month. The reporting class may attend the meeting in a body.
Fred Newecomb, a middle law, of Burlington, has received the appointment as first alternate to West Point by Congressman J. M. Miller. He has decided not to try for the place.
OPERA BURLESQUES BY K.U. GLEE CLUB
WINTER CONCERTS TOMORROW AND THURSDAY.
Program Will Begin Seriously and Wind Up With Comic Opera Take-Off.
The University Glee club's annual winter concert will be given in Fraser hall tomorrow and Thursday nights, January 18 and 19. The club contains twelve members besides Prof. C. E. Hubach, director, and Melvin Kates, pianist.
The program is divided into two parts, the first consisting of club numbers and solos by several members of the club. The first part is as follows:
We Meet Again Tonight—Club.
The Triumphant Calls, Away
(Dow)—Club.
Oh, Fair, Oh Sweet, and Holy (Canton)—Mr. Marshall.
Village Choir (Lynes)—Club.
College Medley (Norworth)—
Club.
The Dwarf Song (Garnett)—Mr. Powers.
Nun of Nidaros (Buek)—Prof.
Hubach, Mr. Powers and Club.
The second half of the program consists of something entirely new to a University glee club. It is a burlesque on grand opera. Frank Tyler of the Chicago Record has written the libretto and the musical arrangement has been done by Frank Smith. "The Barber of Seville" and "Faust" have been burlesqued and the program will consist of solos and chorus work from these operas.
The cast of characters is:
Mr. Tyler...Mr. Marshall
Mrs. Tyler...Mr. Musselman
The Janitor...Mrs. Dodge
An interesting thing in this connection is that the chorus will be made up from both boys and girls from the club and the management hints that the girls' chorus composed of the basso profundos of the club will be found amusing.
First tenor—Miller, Buxton, Musselman; second tenor—Beamer, Flint, Dodge; first bass—Fillman, Lauderback, Marshall; second bass—Potter, Rhodes, Powers. Miss Maude Cook will play an organ accompaniment to the closing number of part one "Nun of Nidaros."
The personnel of the club this year is as follows:
TALKED ON WEIGHTS.
Professor Stimpson Discussed Standards in Chapel.
"There is no uniform weight system in packages. The manufactures have their own standard and change it as often as they want to," remarked Professor Stimpson.
Prof. E. H. Stimpson, assistant professor of physics, spoke in chapel this morning on weights and measures. In foreign countries there is official attention given to weights and measures, but there is not in the United States. Power was given by the constitution to regulate them but no legislation was made directly, consequently there is a great deal of discrepancy among the states. In 1836 congress recommended a uniform standard of weights and measures and most of the states adopted them. The Troy pound and the meter are, however, the only standard ones officially adopted by Congress.
At present the National Bureau of Standards is conducting an investigation throughout the country and calling attention to the importance of uniform weights and measures and gathering information and data for the formation of laws. Two import ant bills will result from this investigation namely, prohibiting the sale of packages without the weight given on the outside and a regulation of the kinds of scales sold.
C. E. Society to Meet.
There will be a meeting of the Civil Engineering society in the lecture room of Blake hall, Thursday, January 19, at 7:30. Mr.W. H. Kniskern, secretary of the Freeborn Engineering and Construction company, of Kansas City, will give an illustrated lecture on the "Design and Operation of Cement Plants."
Patients Are Convalescing.
Patients are遭受痛苦.
The scarlet fever patients in the families of Professor H. P. Cady and C. M. Sterling are getting along as well as could be expected. Miss Bates, who is confined at the University hospital is now convalescent. Lewis Breyfogle, who is suffering from a siege of in fluenza, is still quite ill.
Dr. F. A. Wilber, principal of Westminster hall, was in Kansas City, Kan., Sunday, where he spoke at the First Presbyterian church.
WOULD CENTRALIZE SCHOOL CONTROL
Varsity Party, Ecke's Hall, Friday, Jan 20. Eric Owen will play
BILL INTRODUCED AT TOPEKA TODAY.
Representative Keene Would Manage Three State Schools From Central Office at Topeka.
The control of the three leading state educational institutions from a central office at Topeka is the object of a bill which Representative Keene of Bourbon introduced in the lower house of the Kansas legislature today.
The bill provides for a state board of administration which shall have administrative control of the University, the State Agricultural school at Manhattan,and the State Normal school at Emporia. The board will consist of three men who shall be appointed by the governor and approved by the senate. Each member of the board will have a salary of $2,500 and a secretary provided for the central office will draw the same amount.
Representative Keene's bill has been commented on very favorably in the discussion at Topeka today.
Quill Elects Members.
Under the central administrative board, each institution will have a local head in immediate charge. It appears that the functions of the administrative board would be similar to those which the regents of the institutions have at present.
At the regular meeting of the Quill club Monday afternoon the following students were elected to membership in the organization: Adella Pepper, Mary Andrews, Naney Fisher, Elizabeth Heavey, Regina Woodruff, Beulah Murphy, Gale Gossett, Dena Ellis, Isabel Thomes, Harry Wilkins, Carl L. Cannon, Will French, and Harry M. Trowbridge.
Prof. Titchener to Speak.
E. B. Titchenor, professor of psychology in Cornell University, will speak in the chapel February 16th and 17th, at 4:30. Professor Titchenor is the author of several text books on psychology and is one of the greatest experimental psychologists in the United States.
Y. W. C. A. Meeting.
A special vesper service will be held by the W. Y. C. A. Wednesday afternoon at 4:45 in room 110. Miss Naomi Lowe will sing. All girls of the University are invited.
"The Idle Idol" Thursday and Friday, January 26 and 27
Presented by Red Domino Club
An original, musical, lyrical play. Cast of 40
20 musical numbers
GLEE CLUB CONCERT, GRAND OPERA? January 18 and 19 FRASER HALL