UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME IX.
WOODROW WILSON WILL TALK IN GYMNASIUM
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1912.
He Will Lecture on Educational Work Friday Morning, February 23.
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POLITICAL TALK AFTERWARD
New Jersey Governor Telegrapho he Will Try to Visit Campus After Democratic Banquet.
Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, will visit the University on the Friday after the Democratic state banquet which will be held at Topeka on Thursday February 22. He will address the students in Robinson gymnasium probably on Friday morning February 23. His address will not be political, but rather a lecture on education and educational work. A political meeting will be held afterward in chapel.
THE CARE OF A STATE'S HEALTH
Diagram showing the relations between the University of Kansas and the Kansas State Board of Health—the manner in which the scientific methods of curing disease, as furthered by the School of Medicine, are allied with the preventive measures put into practice by the State Board of Health, as explained by Dr. S. J. Crambine, Dean of the School of Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Health, in a recent chapel address at the University.
Alston McCarty, president of the Woodrow Wilson club, wrote to the governor in New Jersey, asking him to visit the University on his trip to the West in February. He received a telegram last night stating that the Governor's party would try to make their arrangements for the address to the students here. "Three dates were offered for the Governor's visit to the University," said Mr. McCarty this afternoon. "Thursday evening, Friday morning, or Friday evening It was thought that it would be possible to have him here on Friday evening, but now we believe that he can make arrangements to give an address in the gymnasium at ten o'clock Friday morning.
"Definite plans have by no means been made yet, and they will probabally not be made till we hear further from the Governor's secretary. We promise that after the address in the gymnasium, another meeting will be held in chapel for a political address for those who wish to attend."
MEASURE KANSAS WIND
Aremometer on Fraser Hall Car Boast of Some Peculiar Records
The University owns many curious and useful instruments of considerable value. One which almost everyone notices is on the top of Fraser hall. It is an anemometer, one of the Robinson cup type, and measures the velocity and force of the wind.
It has been observed that the wind generally blows hardest at 2 p. m., and is the calmest in the evening, yet the windsiest times in the day in the past year were in the evening at 8 o'clock. The year 1873 was the windiest we have ever had recording 150,508 miles traveled. 1904 registered the least with only 97,429 miles.
During the last year the anemometer made, approximately, 59,263,000 revolutions, from December 1, 1910, to December 1, 1911, an average of 164,619 times per day, or 1% revolutions per second. In its travels in the last 365 days, each little aluminum cup covered the distance of 39,509 miles or as far as once around the world and from New York to Japan, moving at the rate of four miles per hour.
The number of miles traveled by the wind during the year was 118,326, which is 3,787 below the annual average. This gives a mean daily velocity of 324 miles and a mean hourly velocity of 12.6. The highest velocity was 60 miles per hour on April 12 and May 10. The highest monthly number of miles traveled was in May when the wind blew a total of 12,242 miles. The three windiest months were January, March, and May, and the three calmest months were July, August, and September.
Professor Harden Returns. Prof. Oscar E. Harder, head of the department of food analysis, attended the semi-annually meeting of the American Chemical Society at Washington, D. C., during the Christmas vacation.
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DR. GRENFELL MAY ADDRESS STUDENTS
Stubbs-Grenfell Fellowship Was Instituted to Investigate His Theory.
Dr. Wilford T. Grenfell, a noted author and the head of three hospitals on the Laborador and New Foundland coasts, may speak in chapel next week. He will be in Kansas City and deliver an address before the Knife and Fork club Saturday, January 20. E. R. Weidline the holder of the Stubbs-Grenfell fellowship, is a close friend of Doctor Grenfell, and he will endeavor to bring the physician here.
Doctor Grenfell visited the University two years ago soon after he had put forward the idea of getting adrenaline from the glands of whales. Adrenaline is an expensive drug which has a wide use in operations upon the eyes in typhoid fever and other diseases. It is obtained from the glands of cattle. The Labrador physician based his idea upon the fact that a whale is not a fish but a mammal with all of the characteristics of the land cattle. It was an entirely new theory in the medical world. Governor Stubbs gave $1,000 as a fellowship for research into the principles of extracting the whale glands.
ADD TO SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The Palette club, an organization of the students in the painting department, gave one-third of the proceeds of their annual Christmas sale to a scholarship fund for art students.
Palette Club Sale Pushes Fund
Nearer the Gcal.
The proceeds of this year's sale amounted to $30, and $10 was added to the fund that was started last year.
STUDENTS COME FROM THESPIANS GIVE ALL BUT 4 COUNTIES "BILLY" FEB.12
Seventeen Other States and Four Countries Are Represented.
According to the data gathered in the registrar's office, all but four counties of the state are represented with students in the University. Those counties are Hodgeman, Stanton, Stevens, and Morton. Douglas county claims the highest representation with 494, but this is due, in a great measure, to the enrollment of non-resident students registering from Douglas. One hundred and eighty register from Missouri, one hundred and fifty of whom are from Kansas City.
The foreign countries are represented with one student apiece, Germany, Japan, and Cuba, and Canada has three.
Other states are represented as follows: Missouri 180; Oklahoma 26; Colorado 8; Montana and Nebraska 3; Texas, Iowa, and Illinois 2; Arizona, California, Idaho, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Vermont 1.
Following is the order of attendance for the several counties: Douglas 494; Wyandotte 49; Nedgeryk52; Dickinson 46; Reno 39; Leavenworth 37; Shawnee 35; Cherokee, Johnson, and Labette 33; Montgomery 31; Harvey and Nemaha 27; Atchison and Conley 26; Bourbon 25; Marshall and Neosho 24; Brown 25; Lyon and McPherson 25; Crawford and Summer 20; Butler 19; Franklin, Geary and Rice 18; Haskell 17; Allen, Barton, Clay, Cloud and Kingman 15; Anderson and Wabauaeuse 14; Doniphan, Linn, Mitchell, Potatowiec and Marion 13; Greenwood, Republic and Russell 11; Smith, Stafford, Osborne, and Washington 10; Osape, Ottawa and Wilson 9; Rocks and Salina 7; Decatur, Edwards, Elk, and Finney 6; Ford, Graham, and Morris 5; Chase, Chautauqua, Comanche, Ellis, Linein, Pawnee, and Phillips 4; Cheyenne, Coffee, Riley, Rush, Thomas, Trego, Wallace, and Harper 3; Logan, Seward, Woodson, and Sherman 2; Gove, Hamilton, Meade, Ness, Rawlings, Sheridan, and Wichita 1.
"Daddy" Herman, ex-secretary of the University Y. M. C. A. will set sail for India from Philadelphia on the SS Haverfield, Saturday morning:
The State University of North Carolina recently granted degrees to those of its old students who left to join the Confederate army during the sixties.
First University Play in the New Opera House a College Comedy.
The first University play, which will be given in the new Bowersock opera house, is an up-to-date comedy now being played on the American stage. "Billy" is the new play which the Thespians have selected and which they will present February 12. It appeared at the Grand opera house in Kansas City during the Christmas holidays. "Billy" was chosen in place of the "Gay Mr. Thompkins" because of its college atmosphere. The fact that the comedy is a standard play necessitated the Thespians paying the highest royalty that has ever been paid for a production by a dramatic organization of the University of Kansas.
The plot of "Billy" centers around the love romance of a college football hero. The three acts occur on board an ocean steamer bound for Europe. The part of "Billy" will be taken by Claude Sowers, whose experience in professional dramatics makes him a valuable man for the part. The two women leads will be taken by Maurine Fairweather and Lucy Culp.
Practice for the play is being held in the new opera house different evenings during the week, and the Thespians promise a finished production of one of the most interesting and popular plays of the day. Miss Ida Kirk, a dramatic artist of Leavenworth, has been engaged to direct the college comedy.
Special properties have been secured for the production and the management promises especially good scenic effects.
Owing to the fact that this will be the first University play in the Bowersock opera house it is expected that the theater will be crowded. A matinee will be given on the afternoon of February 12, and a second performance in the evening.
CADY DENIES REPORT.
Thinks That Seismograph Will Not Tell of Change in Earth's Crust.
Prof. H. P. Cady, of the University weather bureau, denies the report of Father Odenbach that a seismograph in the Saint Ignatius Observatory is recording a tilting of the earth's crust in the Great Lake region. The theory that a block of the earth's crust is tilting in that region was not discussed by Professor Cady. He says that no such tilting would be recorded on a seismograph.
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Prof. C. A. Smith of Virginia to Give Five Lectures on American Literature,
ENGLISH AUTHORITY TO LECTURE HERE
Prof. C. Alphonso Smith, Edgar Allen Poe Professor of English in the University of Virginia and a speaker of international note, will deliver a series of five lectures from February 19 to 23 inclusive in the University chapel at 4:30 o'clock each afternoon.
The subjects of the lectures are as follows;
Monday—"Edgar Allen Poe."
Tuesday—"Walt Whitman."
Professor Smith was the "Rose-velt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Berlin" last year. He is the third man to hold this important position. Kaiser Wilhelm, emperor of Germany, heard all of the lectures when Professor Smith spoke in Berlin The emperor thought the one or "American Humor" was the best of the series.
Monday—"Edgar Allen Poe."
Tuesday—"Walt Whitman."
Wednesday—"American Humor."
Thursday—"American Short Story."
Friday—"Idealism in American Literature."
WILL HOLD OPEN MEETING
The Woodrow Wilson club will hold an open meeting in Fraser hall at 7:15 Monday night. The meeting will be held for political discussion and three speakers have been secured for the evening.
George H. Rogers, Bert E. Brown,
president of the state democratic
club, and Mayor Sam Bishop of Lawrence,
will speak. All students or
members of the faculty are especially invited to attend.
Three Speakers Will Talk Politics to Woodrow Wilson Followers.
UNIVERSITIES ARE NOT LUSTING FOR BIGNESS
Chancellor Strong Answers Criticism of New York Commissioner.
SHUN POLITICS AS DANGEROUS
Colleges do Not Want Political Power Nor do They Yearn For Social Influence.
"If we may trust to the press account of Dr. Andrew S. Draper's paper before the Associated Academic Principals of New York it suffers like so many articles of its kind from generalization upon inadequate data," said Chancellor Strong this morning. The New York Commissioner in a recent speech charged American universities with a lust for bigness and social influence.
"What Dr. Draper says may be true of a few institutions," continued Dr. Strong. "But neither he nor anyone else can justify the statement for universities in general. American universities as a whole have never lusted for riches and bigness and social influence and political power in the meaning of Dr. Draper. They have strongly sought to fill adequately and efficiently the field they were called upon to fill, and have sought riches not for the sake of power and social influence or personal aggrandizement but in order that they might have the means of more adequately fulfilling their functions. They have sought growth simply that they might help and stimulate as many as were fitted to profit by their agencies. American universities, especially state universities as a whole, have never sought social influence and political power but have shunned contact with politics as a most dangerous thing.
American Universities Young.
"It is true that American universities are comparatively young and that they have the defects of their good-qualities, the weaknesses that arise from youth and inexperience. They are American, supported by American communities, and are inevitably to a certain degree like the communities which they serve; but taken as a whole they are unmistakably above the plane of the social and political life of the communities that founded and support them. While they are American in their influences and tendencies it is not true, on the whole, to say that they are not scholarly. I am aware that scholarly is a relative term and yet within the content of the word itself we are justified in saying that American universities, as a whole, are scholarly in a rapidly increasing degree.
"It is true also that the tendency toward commercialism, toward putting the dollar mark on education has been exceedingly strong in our country, but men like Dr. Draper, who are sharply criticizing universities for this tendency, are also forcing upon universities vocational instruction which is based upon the commercial, materialistic idea and are themselves to blame, if anybody is, for the tendency itself. Yet of all American institutions, including the church, that have withstood this tendency the most and kept themselves the purest from the contaminating contact of materialism, the American university stands first."
Statements Not Substantiated
Chancellor Strong went on to say that he did not believe Dr. Draper could substantiate his statement that American universities are essentially lacking in the exactness of the best scholarship and the open-mindedness and intensiveness with which sound scholarship pursues the truth.
"That the elective system has contributed some lack of exactness and intensiveness where it has been pursued to its logical conclusion is no doubt true," added Dr. Strong, "but many American universities never adopted a real elective system and few universities at the present time can be said to have the system in operation."
The Glee club of the University of Michigan has been asked to visit Japan at the expense of the Japanese government.