TWO LECTURES ON PSYCHOLOGY
PROF. TITCHENER OF COR NELL IN CHAPEL.
Spoke on "Types of Mind" and "Memory and Imagination," Before Good Audiences.
Professor E. B. Titchener or Cornell University spoke in the chapel Thursday upon "Types of Mind." Professor Titchener is probably the leading experimental psychologist in the United States and has an international reputation.
He said that normal persons are very much alike in brain matter, more so than strangers wish to believe,but that there are those who believe that everything should be done for service, those who advocate that efficiency should be the prime aim, and those believe in research.
These may be likened to three caskets, gold, silver and lead. He said that service is noble in itself, but tie us down to present conditions and does not aim to grow nor look into the future. It deals with merely present efficiency and abolishes waste, but neither directs or inspires others while making the most of what exists. By these two principles we are held to beaten tracks, we are blinded to much that awaits the doing. The spirit of research, said Professor Titcheren, beyond the present, has a creative spirit and can carry civilization upward because of its absolute intellectual freedom.
Professor Titchener began his address on "Memory and Imagination" yesterday afternoon by saying that psychology had ceased to be purely a theoretical science as its principles are being applied in increasing measure to the consideration of practical problems. After sketching the history of experiments in the study of memory he told of those made in the Cornell psychological laboratory under his direction.
Of the experiments to discover the relations between imagination and mere perception, Professor Titchener spoke in some detail. He said that the results proved that imagination and perception are much more alike than the common mind usually believes.
In addition to experiments with visual images, Professor Titchener has made interesting observations concerning the relations between both auditory and olfactory images produced by memory and by imagination. He said the total result of his experiments proved that contrary to the general belief, memory images are variable and unstable, and imaginative images are the permanent ones. This, Professor Titchener explained, is because the imaginative image is new; it has no associates, but stands singly in the focus and hence is more permanent than the dissolving picture secured by the memory image.
Has Position at Independence.
Has Position at Independence. B.C. Frichot, of the department of industrial research, who until recently held the fellowship in Borax, has accepted a position with the Petroleum Products Co. of Independence, Kan. Mr.Frichot will equip the laboratory for the company and have charge of the refining department. The Petroleum Co. is one of the largest producers of rubber and asphalt in the world.
OREAD NEWS.
Monte Crews, a former student in the University of Missouri, is now an illustrator for the Red Book magazine.
Harold Ferguson, Claude Coggis and Carleton Armsby have gone to Kansas City to see the motor car show that is being held there.
Professor C. G. Dunlap of the department of English, went to Hutchinson yesterday to lecture in connection with University extension.
Invitations to the wedding of Pearl Emley, '09, of Great Bend, to James K. Harris, Feb. 22, have been received by friends of Miss Emley in Lawrence.
Miss Frances Ellis, a junior in the college, has returned to school after several weeks absence on account of the illness of her mother, in El Dorado, Kan.
Mr. and Mrs. Bitler of Eureka, Kan., are visiting their daughter, Vashti, a student in the School of Fine Arts. Mrs. Bitler has been quite ill for several days, but is reported much better.
Two new casts of Greek statuary have been received by the department of Greek. Both are full size statuses. One of Sophocles, is in marble and the other of Demosthenes, is in bronze.
Professor H. L. Jackson read a paper on "The Enforcement of the Pure Food Law" at the meeting of Sigma Xi at the residence of Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, 1101 Ohio street, Thursday night,
The sophomore farce tryout was held last night in Fraser hall, and was a success, to all reports, in selecting parts. There were about thirty-five people who tried out. The parts will be cast at an early date.
Several University people have gone to Kansas City today to attend the meeting of the Kansas City section of the Chemical society, which will be held there this evening. Professor C.C. Young will read a paper at the meeting.
Prof. L. E. Sayre, Dean of the School of Pharmacy, went to Topeka yesterday. There he will help with a bill to make more stringent the food and drugs law as applied to itinerant venders. These vendors, at present, sell most of the impure foods in the state, and this bill would improve the standard of food.
Prof. P. F. Walker Speaks.
Prof. P. F. Walker of the School of Engineering spoke before the student section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Marvin hall last Thursday evening. He illustrated his subject, "Ship Building," with lantern slides. Prof. Walker formerly worked for a ship building firm at Newport News, Virginia, and most of the slides were of that company's plant. He also outlined the work that the designers must do in laying out and constructing the form of the ship.
FEBRUARY BREAKS RECORD
Most Rainfall Since 1892 Falls This Month.
The rainfall for the month of February has been the greatest since the year of 1892. So far this month the rainfall has measured 4.46 inches and the maximum for the month of February is 4.96 inches which was in 1892. All present indications shaw that another record will be broken this year.
Engineer Speaks Thursday.
Ira G. Hedrick, consulting engineer of Kansas City, Mo., will speak before the Civil Engineering society next Thursday evening at 7:30 in the auditorium of Blake hall. His subject will be "Reenforced Concrete Arch Bridges." Mr. Hedrick is now building a bridge at Dallas, Tex., which will be the largest concrete bridge in the United States. The bridge will be over a mile long and is to cost $600,000 when completed. The inter-city viaduct at Kansas City was also planned by bim.
That country boys make better students than those from the city is a conclusion drawn from an analysis of the fellowships and scholarships recently awarded by the Harrison foundation of the University of Pennsylvania. Out of thirty-two men holding these honors, sixteen come from towns of less than 6,000,four from towns of less than 15,000, three from cities of less than 50,000,four from cities of more than 100,000. This list does not include four from Philadelphia and one from a suburb of Baltimore.
Six seniors and nine juniors at the University of Wisconsin have been elected to compose the first student court to try their fellow-students charged with violation of the university rules.
The Pi Phi Party.
The annual formal party of the Pi Beta Phi sorority was held last night in Fraternal Aid hall. About 300 guests attended. It was the first formal party of the season given by a sorority and was successful in every detail. The grand march, which started shortly after 9 o'clock, was led by Dr. and Mrs. J. N. Van der Vries. The music for the twenty-four dances on the program was furnished by Ray Hall's orchestra of Topeka. The decorations of the hall were carried out in colored lights, and banks of palms and ferns screened the musicians from the dancers. A three-course luncheon was served in the dining room on the second floor. The tables were decorated with smilax, candelabra and red hearts.
Those who received the guests were: Mrs. Allen, Miss Alice Johnson, Miss Hazel Butts, Miss Gertrude Blackmar, Miss Hazel Leslie, Miss Helen Burdick, Miss Cornelia Hardeastle and Miss Tess Critchfield.
The out-of-town guests present were:
SOPHOMORE FARCE.
Miss Harriet Tomlinson, Miss Eleanor Hayne, Miss Mamie McFarlin, Miss Gale Cherry,Miss Natalie Ott, Kansas City; Miss Elizabeth Stephens, Concordia; Miss Lenora Stubbs, Miss Leona Curtis, Miss Mary MacLennan, Miss Henrietta Alexander, Topeka; Miss Alicia McNaughton, Tongaoxie; Miss Grace Thompson, Emporia; M. A. Blacker, Arthur Sternberg, Curt Patterson, Hyden Eaton, Kansas City; Louis Moore, Fort Scott; Clarence Hardcastle, Emporia; Howard Bigelow, Gardner; Homer Conley, Oklahoma; Dewitt Hager, and Leo Haughey, Topeka.
The Knights of Columbus will give a dancing party in Ecke's hall tonight.
Cast of Twenty-Five Chosen Wednesday Night.
The cast for the Sophomore farce was chosen last Wednesday evening in room 110 of Fraser hall, at which time twenty-five were chosen from those trying out. The play to be given will be based on a Harvard farce entitled "Class Day." However, it will be entirely rewritten, localized and renamed.
The farce will be given the evening of the Sophomore Prom on April 7. It will be under the direction of Gertrude Mossler, instructor in elocution. The chairman of the committee is Floyd Fischer.
Dean Skilton Recovering.
Prof. Charles S. Skilton, Dean of the School of Fine Arts, who has been sick with pneumonia since Christmas, is slowly recovering. He will probably be able to meet his classes within a week,
C. A. Burnett, of Girard, Kan., who attended the college in '09, is visiting with friends at the University.
Freshman Foot-Ball Team: Your Jersey are here.
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