STUDENT ENGINEER BUILDS A WIRELESS
A FRESHMAN ELECTRICAL USES BARN FOR STATION.
Messages Received From Atlantic by Amateur Operator—Uses Headgear of Central Girls.
"Pleasant voyage, wish you a successful new year."
The above-going message was caught from a Hamburg-American liner in the mid-Atlantic by the wireless station of Volney Cissna, a freshman engineer at the University of Kansas, while av his home in Fort Scott, Kan., a few weeks ago. Cissna also has a station in Lawrence which is much better equipped than the southern Kansas plant. A wireless telegraph outfit consists of two parts, namely aerial and indoor. Four antenna or aluminum wires stretched between the ridges of the house and the barn at the height of thirty feet from the aerial apparatus. A homemade loose-coupled transformer, crystal rectifier, and a regulation telephone headgear, completes the equipment. The transformer is of Cissna's own manufacture and was made by him during his senior year in high school. It consists of two tightly wound copper wired wooden cylinders, one enveloping the other, which when pulled back and forth regulates the resonance and varies the wave length. The two cylinders are supported by pegs which are set upon a wooden base. The crystall rectifier or detector, which determines the wave length, consists simply of a perpendicular rod four inches long set upon a piece of silicon which is placed upon a hard rubber base covered on top with nickel plate. The regular "hello girls" headgear is used to decipher the wireless code that is in use by the different stations throughout the United States.
The young electrician has as yet made no attempt to transmit messages but is content with the receiving of the wireless code. He has in his possession over one hundred minor messages that he has picked up from the stations at the Forts Riley, Omaha, and Leavenworth, New Orleans and Key West, Florida.
When asked why he took up the study of wireless, he replied,
"The desire for communication between my boyhood chum and myself who lived two miles from town, led me to take it up, as we had no telephone at our house."
Cissno is now making a new transformer in the Fowler shops and expects to have it completed in a few weeks.
Professor C. H. Johnston, death of the School of Education, and Professor H. W. Josselyn of the department of education, were at Kansas City, Kan., Saturday. There they attended the high school teachers' institute. Dear Johnston gave an illustrated lecture on "Esthetics" and Professor Josselyn talked on "The Individual Differences of School Children."
Dr. A. M. Wilcox resumed his work today after an absence of several weeks from the University on account of sickness.
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"If, however, one considers the theory of artificial use of fungus as a means for fighting chinch bugs as a theory for all time, regardless of any changes in natural conditions, then it is perhaps safe to say that it has been overthrown. But it is quite certain that Dr. Snow never claimed such immunity as that from the attacks of time, else he would never have expressed the wish that the time might come when artificial infection of chinch bugs would be unnecessary, a result he so earnestly endeavored to bring to pass in his own day."
"It is the public announcement of this fact that has caused some to see in it the downfall of Dr. Snow's theory. Although we disclaim any first-hand knowledge of the origin of the fungus now in the soil of the state, its presence here may be due to the work of Dr. Snow during the former chinch-bug epidemic.
ON CHINCH BUG FIGHT.
Prof. Billings Says Artificial Infection Is no Longer Necessary.
As regards associate professors' salaries, the University of Kansas stands at ninth place, with Washington, in a list of twelve. The highest is Columbia, at $4,000; the lowest is Nebraska, at $1,600.
"It is plain that natural forces are now accomplishing for the farmer all the benefits obtainable from the chinch-bug fungus,without effort on his part," said Prof. F. H. Billings in chapel this morning. "The farmer's efforts in this direction will no longer materially affect the result.
Of seventeen universities, Kansas has fifteenth place, with Colorado and Nebraska following in the matter of salaries for assistant professors. The salary paid by the University of Kansas is $1,500. The highest salary, $4,000, is paid by Columbia University.
Comparison of Salaries.
The salary of professors at the University of Kansas is far below the average of other universities with which the University of Kansas is to be compared. The salary of the deans of the different schools is $3,000. The highest salary paid to deans is by the University of Chicago, and is $7,500. In a list of seventeen universities, the University of Kansas stands at fourteenth place in the matter of salaries, alongside of Washington and Nebraska Universities. Colorado, paying $2,600, is the lowest in the list.
The University of Kansas is below the Universities of Colorado and Nebraska in the matter of salaries paid to full professors, $2,500. The highest is Columbia University with a salary of $7, 500.
IT WAS LONESOME TIME
How Students Waited for New Term to Begin.
"Oh, hum, I'm so tired."
It was Saturday morning, and a mathematics "gun" was speaking.
"I didnt have a single class Friday," she continued. It was the most tiresome day I ever spent. Didn't know what to do."
Various ways were employed by students to get through the short breathing-spell between terms without ennui. Some indulged in the luxury of sleeping till the sun was on the last lap of his marathon. Some went home to seek the consolation of their parents after the week of flunking quizzes. One student in answer to repeated queries, looked up from his desk to say that he was answering the letters that had been written to him during the last term.
"I'll finish this evening, and then I'll be getting letters for at least two weeks," he said. "It sort of gives a new lease on life." And some went to Kansas City.
K. U. Alumnus Promoted.
Professor Erasmus Haworth received a letter recently from George T. Hansen, who graduated from the engineering school in '06, telling of his appointment to the position of general mining sales engineer of the Allis-Chalmers Machinery company, with the additional responsibility of assuming charge of all especially large construction work. The Allis-Chalmers Machinery company United States and they make mais one of the three largest in the machinery of all kinds Before high promotion to his present position Mr. Hansen had charge of the installation of the company's machinary.
Freshmen and Seniors Win.
The result of the interclass basketball games yesterday between the juniors and seniors and the freshmen and sophomores resulted in victories for the freshman and senior teams. The game between the juniors and seniors was exceptionally close and exciting. The game to decide the championship of the school will be played between the freshmer and seniors sometime next week
Fred Truby of Independence, Kas, Robert Waters, and Reginald Williams of Kansas City, Mo. freshmen in the college, have been pledged to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
MISSION STUDY COURSES
Hazel Sanders, who attended the University two years ago, has returned to complete the course.
Minnie Pickens, '09, has returned to the University for graduate work.
Many Subjects to Be Presented This Term.
This term's schedule of Mission study classes for girls has just been completed, and every girl is asked by the committee who has charge of the work, to examine carefully the following list of courses and if possible, avail herself of the opportunity offered here for getting into touch with one of the world movements off the day.
The study of missions has taken on an added meaning and interest since the unparalleled industrial, political and religious awakening in the nations of the far East. The necessity of knowing something of the traditions, present-day history and conditions of the Oriental peoples, for the perfect understanding of even the ordinary course of events in the world today, in almost any field, has brought about an unusually full course of mission study classes for the present term, offered by the Young Women's Christian Association and the Bible chair houses.
Classes Open to Girls—Religions of the world (six lectures) by Dr. W. C. Payne, Myers hall Tuesday, 4:30.
China—Mrs. W, C. Payne, Myers hall, Monday. 4:30.
Great Pioneers of Modern Missions—Mrs. W. C. Payne, Myers hall, Friday, 4:30.
The Pro and Con of Christian Missions—Dr. F. A. Wilber, West minster hall, Tuesday, 1:30.
The Mohammedan World—Dr. F. A. Wilber, Westminster hall, Thursday, 4:30.
Western Women in Eastern Lands—Mrs. F. A. Wilber, Westminster hall, Tuesday, 5 p. m.
Korea—Miss Pauline Sage. Westminster hall, Thursday, 5 p. m.
The Mountaineers—Miss Pauline Sage, Westminster hall,Monday, 5 p. m.
The Decisive Hour of Christian Missions (John R. Mott)—Miss Nadia Thomas, 1134 Louisiana street, Mondayq, 5 p.m.
(This schedule is subject to change.)
These classes will be presented and more fully explained at the next ceeming of the Young Women's Christian Association, Wednesday afternoon, at 4:45. Anyone wishing to enroll may do so
at that time, or at the Rest room between 9:30 and 12 o'clock any morning this week.
See last year's Annual. Three-fourths of the seniors from the fraternities and sororities photographed at Moffett's. Count them! Greatest advancements there this year ever made in photography.
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