SOME PRACTICAL WORK FOR THE STATE BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
4,000 GRADUATES, 24,000 DIFFERENT STUDENTS DURING FORTY-FOUR YEARS.
Compiled by Chancellor Frank Strong.
1. For Good Citizenship.
By the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
By the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
6 College and University presidents.
119 College and University teachers.
60 superintendents of schools.
270 teachers in high schools and common schools.
365 homekeepers.
292 farmers, bankers, etc.
107 authors, ministers, etc.
Many text-books and researches in pure science.
Its students are teachers in
Kansas State Agricultural College,
Kansas State Normal College,
Washburn College,
Ottawa University,
Baker University,
Highland University,
Cooper College,
Fairmount College,
Kansas State Normal School,
Bethel College,
Bethany College, Lindsborg,
and many Colleges and Universities outside
Kansas.
A few of its students:
W. R. Stubbs, Governor of Kansas.
H. S. Hadley, Governor of Missouri.
Frederick Funston, U. S. Army.
W. E. Borah, U. S. Senator.
C. F. Scott, U. S. Congressman.
William Allen White, editor and writer.
E. C. Meservey, City Counsellor, Kansas City, Mo.
Kate Stephens, author, New York City.
Florence Finch Kelley, author, New York City.
J. W. Gleed, lawyer, Topeka.
J. H. Long, teacher, Northwestern University.
V. L. Kellogg, teacher, Stanford University,
W. S. Franklin, teacher, Lehigh University,
A. L. Corbin, teacher, Yale University,
H. E. Riggs, engineer, Toledo, Ohio.
Enrollment:
Increase from 1154, 1900-01, to about 2450, 1910-11.
2. Entomology.
Alfalfa discing, (increased crop one-third.)
Extermination of grass-hoppers.
Extermination of chinch-bug.
Extermination of green-bug.
Alfalfa and the honey bee.
Work on San Jose scale.
Work on Browntailed moth.
Orchard and vineyard inspection.
3. School of Law.
Furnished considerable part of active profession. Many justices of United States and state courts Many executive and legislative officers. The practice court for training students in real practice.
Revision of Penal Code
4. Bacteriology and Pathology.
Invention to isolate single bacteria.
Tests for physicians of state of specimens in tubereu losis, cancer, pneumonia, typhoid, etc., etc. Tests of river waters for typhoid for State Board of Health.
5. Zoology.
Publication of 187 papers and books of scientific value on birds of Kansas, reptiles of Kansas, fossils in chalk beds of Kansas, etc., etc.
Francis Huntington Snow Collection in Entomology with' 275,000 specimens.
Dyche collection of North American birds and mammals, over 12,000 specimens and worth $115,000. Students from this department teaching in Oberlin College, Harvard, Western Reserve, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas Universities.
Collections in paleontology worth $100,000.
6. Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
Furnishes at cost to colleges and high schools of Kansas material for laboratory work in zoology which it would be impossible for them to get otherwise.
Graduates among most eminent engineers in such great works as the following:
General Electric Company.
Westinghouse Electric Company.
Platt Iron Works, and many others.
A few graduates:
Teachers in Cornell, Wisconsin, Purdue, Rose Polytechnic, and other universities.
15 chief engineers large construction companies.
7 teachers, high grade engineering schools.
6 superintendents and managers manufacturing companies.
3 engineers-electric railway, construction.
2 managers telephone companies, and many others.
Tests of lubricating value of Kansas oils
Tests of heat value of Kansas coals.
Investigations of new gas engines.
7. Mining Engineering.
Mine Explosions—causes and remedies.
First lithographic geological map of Kansas. Extended work and reports on
Extended work and reports on
Kansas lead and zinc, and methods of mining.
Kansas oil, its distribution, etc.
Kansas natural gas, its distribution, etc.
Kansas gypsum.
Kansas coal.
Kansas building stone.
Kansas fossils.
Kansas mineral waters.
Many students teaching and engaged in general science and mining work.
8. Botany.
State geological survey on clays of Kansas.
Many teachers in high schools, colleges and University. Several text books for high schools, colleges and agricultural schools used in United States, England and Canada. Tests of vaccine for poll evil and fistula in horses. Tests of milk for tuberculosis germs, for the State Board of Health.
General research work
9. Chemistry.
Graduated many eminent scientific men now teachers in colleges and universities, or engaged in large manufacturing concerns, or in scientific research.
Temporary Industrial Fellowships.
Laundering and improvements in bleaching. Starch and its properties. Casein in buttermilk and its probable uses. Kerosene and by-products. Enamelling of iron and steel. Breadbaking. Chemical Constituents and Optical Properties
Analysis of Mineral waters of Kansas.
Analysis of Kansas oils.
Analysis of Kansas natural gas Analysis of Kansas building stone
Analysis of natural waters of Kansas (with U. S. Geological Survey.)
Analysis of city water supplies for State Board of Health.
Analysis of food products for State Board of Health. Researches in liquid air, radium, helium, etc.
School of Pharmacy.
Supplies large number of trained pharmacists for Kansas.
Kansas. Investigations (for U. S. Dept. of Agriculture) of loco weed: problem solved. Investigations of echinacea root: 200,000 lbs. exported in one year worth many thousands of dollars. Investigations in food preservatives under pure food law for State Board of Health. Tests of drugs for State Board of Health for 107 towns and cities of Kansas
11. Physics.
Many teachers in high schools and colleges.
Standardizing of electrical instruments and machines for manufacturing companies of Kansas
Calibration of instruments of precision for manufacturing and mercantile companies of Kansas.
Standardizing of weights and measures under Kansas Statutes for counties of Kansas.
Invention of submarine Signal for warships and merchant vessels.
Invention of ore separators for gold ore.
12. Sociology and Economics.
Head of department publishing The History of Agriculture before 1840, for Carnegie Institution, as a part of Economic History of the United States.
All kinds of cleaning and press ing. Ladies work a specialty, at the K. U. Pantatorium. Both phones 1400.
Investigation of industries in southeastern Kansas.
Organized philanthropic work in Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri.
Child labor investigations.
Investigations penal and charitable institutions
Juvenile Court law.
Government of cities by commission.
13. Civil and Sanitary Engineering.
Head of department National President of Sigma Xi, non-secret scientific society of U. S., also, member National Council of Society of Engineers of America.
Sanitary experts and engineers for State Board of Health.
Investigations of water supply for towns and cities of Kansas.
Engineers for proposed city plants for water supplies and sewage disposal; 50 already done, cost $1,500,000; under way, others to cost $700,000 more.
Work on flood protection; toward good roads.
Purification of water supply.
Tests of paving brick for cities of Kansas.
Investigations of limestones for macadam roads and pavements for streets and roads of Kansas.
Investigations of sewage flow in cities.
Tests in concrete and cement.
Fatigue tests under stress and vibration.
Shearing tests.
Impermeability tests.
Investigations into value of cheap mixtures of cement, mortars and concrete.
ansas building stone.
Investigations into strength of materials and comparative differences of cement.
Engineering designs for highway improvement, Douglas county; for waterworks system for Oskaloosa, for sewage system for Lyons, Blue Rapids, Marion, etc., etc.
14. High School Visitation.
The most practical thing in our school system.
Organization of Barnes Law High Schools. Gathering of statistical information as to schools, teachers, general conditions.
Organization and improvement of high schools of Kansas
15. Education.
Has trained a large number of best equipped superintendents, principals, high school and common teachers of Kansas, and many college and university teachers.
Industrial Fellowships for researches looking to the solution of manufacturing problems have been placed under direction of the University. Researches already made and under consideration involving the saving of thousands of dollars heretofore lost in waste products of manufacture as follows:
1. The chemistry of laundering.
2. The study of diastase and the manufacture of a scientific fodder.
3. The chemistry of bread-making.
4. The utilization of the constituents of waste buttermilk from the butter factories.
The extraction of utilizable constituents from crude petroleum.
6. Improvements in composition of enamel for enamelled steel tanks.
7. The relation between the optical properties of glass and its chemical constitution.
8. Improvements in the manufacture of Portland cement and lime.
9. An investigation into the extractive principles of the glands of deep-sea mammals.
10. An investigation into the chemical treatment of wood.
11. The discovery of new utilities for borax.
12. An investigation into the best composition and col-
12. An investigation into the best composition and coloring for buttons.
Other Departments.
Many departments not mentioned above, such as history, English, German, French, etc., etc., have done a work as truly "practical" as any work named above or any work that could possibly be done. For their work has borne directly upon the citizenship of the state and upon the general intelligence of our communities, and the most "practical" thing a state can do, is to spend money upon its young people to make them good citizens.
Perfumes and latest drug sundries at Dick Bros.' drug store.
Get the hits from "Goddess of Liberty" at Bell Brothers.
Harmony Rose glycerine soap,a large half-pound cake of good soap for 10c, at McColloch's drug store.
Lost—Fountain pen, silver mounted, engraved with letter "B," Return to registrar's office. Sharpen your razor with the new automatic strop at Dick Bros.
Particular cleaning and pressing for particular people at Lawrence Pantatorium, 12 West Warren.
Northwestern Mut. Life In. Co.
L. S. Beeghly. 1415 Mass.
Our taffy has the flavor and chewing quality. Try it at Wiedemann's.
Tr. the old fashion molasses taffy at Wiedemann's.
New dates and figs at Vie's.
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