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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 13, 1962
Humidity Lead to 'Posh' As Ancients Suffered
The dog days of ancient Greece and Rome affect people today much as they did 3,000 years ago.
Early astronomers noticed that Sirius, the most radiant star in the sky, rose with the sun in midsummer. They believed its heat intensified that of the sun, the National Geographic Society says. Since Sirius is in the constellation of Canis Major, "the Large Dog," ancients called the hottest period dog days.
AS TEMPERATURES rise, more moisture evaporates. The air becomes muggy. From every pond, ocean, river, and stream, water is drawn into the air at the rate of 16 million tons a second. Eventually it will return as rain, snow, or some other form of precipitation, but while it is retained it can cause considerable misery.
People are still inclined to follow the advice of the poet Hesiod: "When Sirius parches head and knees, and the body is dried up by reason of the heat, then sit in the shade and drink."
Weathermen have long known, of course, that summer's discomfort is caused not by a star but by a combination of heat and humidity, the amount of water vapor in the air. By July and August, oceans have lost their winter chill. Days are still long, and the sun beats down fiercely from high in the sky.
The amount of moisture the air can hold varies according to temperature. The quantity of vapor present in proportion to the maximum possible is called the relative humidity.
Relative humidity often is higher in winter than in summer. But it is less noticeable because colder air can hold less moisture. Thus a relative humidity of 50 per cent on a 90-degree day results in far greater discomfort from mugginness than a
Music Scholarship To KU Endowment
The Margaret Utt Roberts Memorial Scholarship, the proceeds of which will benefit young women majoring in piano and organ, has been established as part of the permanent endowment at KU, according to an announcement made by Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the KU Endowment Association.
Mrs. Roberts, a former student in the University's School of Fine Arts, was a highly accomplished pianist and organist. The scholarship was established through gifts from Mrs. Roberts' friends, husband and children.
The capital sum of the scholarship is to be preserved in perpetuity, the interest derived from the principal sum being paid each year to a deserving student chosen for the honor by the faculty of the School of Fine Arts. Additions to the capital sum may be made at any time.
Mrs. Roberts was a resident of Independence, Kansas, where she was organist and choir director of the Epiphany Episcopal Church. She had presented numerous recitals and concerts in Kansas, and was prominently identified with numerous national and local musical organizations.
A memorial fund in Mrs. Roberts' memory has also been constituted at the Episcopal Church in Independence through gifts from her fellow members.
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CHICAGO — (UPI) — There was a sharp edge to a trucking terminal theft report police got recently.
Burglars stole $20,000 worth of razor blades.
Evaporation slows down on a muggy summer day as the air becomes more and more saturated. Cold drinks as well as people "persnire."
relative humidity of 90 per cent on a 50-degree day.
Humidity can be costly. It warps wood and swells leather, rusts iron and spreads mold. It makes people tired and tense.
RESEARCH HAS shown that sickness, death, and crime increase in humid weather. It aggravates heart and respiratory diseases and ulcers.
The Greeks had good reason to complain of the heat, for the hottest areas in the world are just across the Mediterranean Sea in the deserts of North Africa. One summer day in 1922, the mercury in the little town of El Azizia soared to 136.4 degrees, the highest ever recorded.
Before the advent of air conditioning, passengers sailing through the Suez Canal and Red Sea dreaded the searing heat. The only relief was a gentle westerly breeze.
Travelers would beg and bribe their ticket agents for a cabin on the port side going out and the starboard on return. The agents would stamp these tickets with the abbreviation of "Port Out, Starboard Home," adding a new word to the English language—posh.
Civil engineering at KU will receive a boost of more than $125,000, according to the terms of an estate recently settled in Washington, D.C.
$125,000 Bequest To KU Engineering
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has announced that the Glenn L. Parker Fund has been established in the KU Endowment Association by the will of Mrs. Parker, in memory of her husband, with the income from the bequest to be used for the benefit of the department of civil engineering.
Parker, born near Butte, Montana, in 1884, was a civil engineering graduate from KU in 1906, with a graduate degree in 1908. He became a distinguished engineer, who devoted his professional life to the U.S. Geological Survey, working in Alaska, in the state of Washington, where he was district engineer, and in Washington, D.C., as chief of the Survey's Water Resources branch until his death in 1946.
Mrs. Parker, who was born in Washington, D.C., and was graduated from Goucher College, was married to Parker in 1914. She died in 1960.
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