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NOT TRYING TO STEAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24, 1912.
Dean Marvin Assures Manhattan of Good Motives of University
AT MEETING OF ENGINEERS
Program.
Eleven Graduates of University of Kansas Take Part on
Kansas Agricultural College, Jan. 23,
"We have no desire to run away with
the agricultural college, or with any
part of it," said Frank Dean O. Marvin
of the engineering department at the
University of Kansas, in responding to
the address of welcome of President
Henry J. Waters, in the opening session
this afternoon of The Kansas Engineering
Association. "It has its work to do
here." Dean Marvin said.
The third annual meeting was called to order at 2:30 o'clock by Professor William C. Head, engineer for the State Board of Health and professor of civil engineering in the University of Kansas. President Waters then formally welcomes the students to the agriculture college. Thirty had arrived when the meeting began.
"The society represents a new spirit in Kansas," Dean Marvin said, "The determination of scientific men, notably engineers, to give better public service and to realize better ideals. Kansas people have shown in recent years the best possible feeling toward technical education, and particularly in evincing a desire to have their public work done in the scientific manner by men who thoroughly understand that work."
"The engineer's duty to the public"
Professor Hoad said, "is an extremely large one, and engineers are determined to live up to every possible opportunity."
At 3:30 o'clock the association began its annual business meeting to consider matters affecting the by laws. Probably 100 members of the association, judging by letters, will be here by tomorrow noon. The meeting will close tomorrow night. The visitors will be the guests of the college athletic association at eight o'clock tomorrow night at a basket-ball game.
Fred R. Hesser, '10, now city engineer of Beloit. Subject, "How Country Roads Should be Classified and How the Different Classes Should be Constructed and Maintained."
Eleven graduates of the School of Engineering of the University of Kansas are on the program. The names of these men with their subjects and present position are:
"career in engineering"
C. A. Forter, '09, of Topeka, and
A. R. Young, '06, city engineer of
Topeka, "Having a career of Topeka."
R. S. Filkin, "of, Rosedale, "Results of System in Engineering"
Joe O'Neill, '05, of the O'Neill Construction Company of Leavenworth, "A Few Observations on the Maintenance of Street Paving."
George J. Graves, '08, assistant engineer of the Santa Fe at Dodge City, "Notes on a Piece of Screw-Spiked Track."
J. S. Worley, '06, of the firm of Worley & Black of Kansas City, "Conservation and the Engineers."
Chester Smith, '06, of Kansas City, "Use and Abuse of Sewage Disposal Plants."
John W. Mavity, a former student at a major city engineer of Lyndon "Hirtification."
2. H. Snow, Chancellor 1890-1901, died Sept. 21, 1908; Frank Strong whose administration began in 1902; and J. A. Lippincott, 1885-9, died Dec. 30, 1906.
A. R. Mann, an architect at Hutchinson, "Building Foundations."
But Benches Black With People Will Be Restricted To A Few Loyal Track Men
TROUBLE BREWING FOR THE CHEATERS
THREE CHANCELLORS.
MISS CASEY AT THE BAT
Men's Council Punishes On and Hands Warning to Any Others
At a meeting of the Men's Student Council held before the Christmas vacation, a sophomore in the College was found guilty of cheating in examination. He was suspended from the University for the three weeks immediately following the Christmas vacation. The following communication was given to the Kansan for publication by the Councl:
"The sophomore in the College who was found guilty of cheating in examinations was suspended from the University for three weeks. This is the first case of cheating the council has ever handled and for that reason the offender was not punished as severely as his offense would demand in other schools. The Men's Student Council wants it understood that in the future all such cases will be severely dealt with."
The Debating Council of the University of Kansas wired its acceptance of the second question proposed by Missouri for the annual debate. The question reads: "Resolved that the recall should be applied to the state judiciaries." The Kansas debaters will support the affirmative. The debate will be staged along about the first of April.
Men's Student Council.
(Signed)
KANSAS WILL TRY TO HAVE JUDGES RECALLED
"Is it sore? Why I haven't been able to write a letter home for two days, and I rub it with cold ersam every night."
"Is your arm sore, Mabel?"
Such bits of feminine conversation may be expected on the campus after Friday afternoon. At that time the Freshman bloomer girl's indoor baseball teams will engage in their first game of the national sport in the gym.
The freshman girl's baseball league
SWAT! VILE WEED GETS ANOTHER JOLT
is being organized and each of the classes will be represented by a "nine." Games will be scheduled and the contexts staged on the gym floor different afternoons during the week in the next month.
Some of the girls have added a Spaulding's guide on indoor baseball to their library of text books. The science of the game will not be neglected by the University Women.
It is probable that Coach Hamilton will have a large re-inforcement to his track squad as the University runners are the only men students who will be allowed in the gym during the games. The track artists of course, will attain such speed around the indoor track as to be unable to witness the bloomer girls below.
Dr.Eugene Smith Shows Bad Effects of Tobacco upon Users
Dr. Eugene Smith, demonstrator in anatomy in the Medical School has a very interesting and instructive article on tobacco in this month's issue of the American Journal of Clinical Medicine, a magazine devoted almost entirely to the interests of Therapeutics.
In the article Dr. Smith gives numerous statistics on the amount of tobacco raised and consumed in the United States. He also shows its demoralizing effect upon the health of our nervous system of the habitual user.
"That the use of tobacco is coming to be recognized as an unmistakable evil is shown by the fact that legislatures are passing laws to restrict its use. Corporations have decided that they cannot trust cigarette smokers with responsible positions. Religious organizations are inquiring into the tobacco habits of those who would enter into the ministry. At the University of Nebraska and the University of Illinois, the use of tobacco on the University grounds is prohibited. And now I wish to ask whether the medical profession, the medical schools, and the licensing boards are measuring up to what the public has a right to expect of them?"
In conclusion the doctor says:
The semi-annual election of the Quill club was held yesterday afternoon. The following officers were elected: Robert R. Fisher, president; Eleanor Draper, vice-president; Margaret Darrah, secretary and treasurer; Ottie McNeal, critic
BOB FISHER TO DIRECT
DESTINIES OF QUILL CLUE
GOPH FOOTBALL TEAM
TO CHOOSE NUMERALS
The following members of the sophomore football team will meet at Smith's News Depot Thursday at 7 p.m. to select class numerals: Moore, Ritter, Perry, Campbell Ralston, Neal, Fairchild, Yoeman Rankin, Brown, Lynch, Pauly, and Detwiler.
A FEW BIG "IFS"
FROM THE CAMPUS
A Steam Pipe Laid End to End Would Reach to Hutchinson
If all the buildings on Mount Oread were one big building, that building would cover approximately ten acres.
If all the rooms in all the buildings on Mount Oread were one big room, that room would contain 6,252,596 cubic feet of space. One man could breathe in nine years.
If all the windows in all the rooms in all buildings on Mount Oread were one big window, that window would require a pane of glass more than an acre in extent.
There are enough steam pipes laid in the buildings and on the campus to reach if they were reduced to one inch pipe, on a basis of relative degree of radiation a distance of 176 miles, about as far as it is—in a straight line from the bottom of the building. Hutchinson, Wichita, Winfield, Independence, or Columbus.
According to other statistics furnished by J. 1. Brown, assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds, the floor acreage of the various buildings on the campus is as follows: Furner, 1.36 acres, library, 47; Museum, 97; Law, 58; Blake, 36; Journalism, 97; Fowler Shops, 14; Fowler Shops, 14; Gymnasium, 1.32; Administration, 75; Haworth, 51; Marvin, 1.05; Power Plant, 22.
The electric power that may be generated by the power plant is sufficient to light 5083 ordinary 16 candle power incandescent lamps. There are 224 electric lamps in the new administration building.
BROWN TELLS FACULTY
"HOW TO GET THE MONEY."
On account of delays to pay-rolls and monthly vouchers Secretary Brown has arranged to send in the monthly budget to the State Auditor on the evening of the 27th.
Mr. Brown expects all claims against the University, whether for services or material furnished, to be presented on the dates named if prompt payment is expected.
Members of the faculty and employees will find the payroll open for signatures on the 25th, 26th and up to noon on the 27th of each month. Should the 27th come on a Sunday or legal holiday—one day advance in date will be made.
COUNCIL POLITICAL POT
IS BEGINNING TO BOIL
Much interest is evinced in the selection of men to fill the places in the Men's Student Council which will be made vacant at the close of this semester by the resignation of Jesse Gephart from the College and W. Red Schreinder from the Engineering school.
The only candidate from the College at present in the field is Harry Weaver, a senior. Petitions for Volney Hilford and Phil Halleble are being circulated among the engineers. The council decided at its meeting last night that the men who ran for the council last year will not be required to have new petitions, the ones they had last year being sufficient to bring their names up for consideration.
The council will vote on the candidates at their first meeting of the next semester and all petitions must be in by the close of this semester
DR, BILLINGS GOES EAST
Professor of Botany to Study Foods in Massachusetts Institution
Dr. F. H. Billing, professor of botany and bacteriology, leaves for Boston today to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the coming term. He will continue his work in bacteriology, making a speciality of sanitation and, the bacteriology of foods. He intends to be gone until school opens here next fall and it is possible that he may attend the Harvard Medical School next Summer.
KAPPA BETA PHI HELD A
LINE PARTY LAST NIGHT
Celebrating the inauguration of a new society, ten men held a line party last night at the Heart Breakers and with it added Kappa Beta Phi to the growing list of University organizations. As explained by one of the members this morning, the purpose of the society is to foster good fellowship and to create general interest in University affairs.
The prerequisite of membership to this order is that a member be a representative student. The society is limited to fifteen members and is strictly an upperclassmen affair. Only ten men have been selected thus far but it is expected that more will be taken in before the close of school. One member of the faculty is a member from an eastern college but his name could not be ascertained.
Kappa Beta Phi is a national social fraternity and has chapters at Cornell, Pennsylvania, Yale and at other eastern schools. Its membership is not limited to members of national Greek letter fraternities.
Those who were in the line part last night wee- ei Hal Harlan, Vane Day Ira Snyder, Ted Rehilan, H. C. Dold Robert J. Campbell, Hall Black, Win E. Holmes, Walter J. Trousdale, an K. K. Simmons.
The Weather.
The external remedy for the blues, sore throat, the grouches, chapped hands, frozen fingers and chilblains will continue one more day. The weather report is: Fair tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature.
Nebraska Has Most Women. The honor of having the largest co-ed enrollment of any American co-educational institution is claimed by the University of Nebraska Registration figures for women students have reached 1785.
PROTESTS ACTION OF UNIVERSITY COUNCIL
Student Representatives Object to Exemption of the Fine Arts
FROM THE ELIGIBILITY RULES.
LONE GIRL IN LIBRARY
Thinks Orchestra And Opera Students Should Take Their Medicine With The Rest.
At the regular meeting of the Men's Student Council last evening, the council decided to protest against the action of the University Council in removing the members of the University Orchestra and the Fine Arts Opera from under the control of the Faculty Committee on Organizations.
The follow protest has been presented to the Chancellor;
But It Was The Engineering Library And The Big Men Stampeded On The Spot
There has been some discussion in regard to several members of the opera whose grades make them ineligible to take part in the production if the regular rules of eligibility are applied. The University Council has but lately taken these people from under the control of the Cor-committee on Organization.
The pleasant diversion of studying with a pretty, well-dressed college girl, carrying a music roll and a French textbook, was accorded to the men who happened to be working in the Engineering library between the hours of ten and eleven yesterday morning. Thirty-five faces looked up in amazement as
"The Men's Student Council protests against the recent action of the University Council in removing the members of the University orchestra and the Fine Arts Opera from under the control of the Faculty Committee on Organization other than athletic.
"It feels that both these organizations are distinctly student activities, or should be, and as such should be under the regular eligibility rules and that if these organizations can not exist subject to these rules of eligibility they should be discontinued in the future.
A girl studying in the library of the Engineering building! What! a real Girl?
PUT AHREN'S MATTER UP
TO ELIGIBILITY COMMITTEE.
"The Council fails to see the fairness in requiring the standard of eligibility from certain organizations and exempting others of like character."
The council is now working on a revision of the constitution of the Athletic Association. The members feel that if the revision is approved that all the evils of the present system will be remedied. The revised constitution will place the matter of eligibility in the hands of the Athletic Board, Dean of the various schools and the registrar.
The Men's Student Council feels that the present system of securing grades for students in athletics is absolutely inadequate and that the blame in the "Hank" Abrens affair should rest upon the eligibility committee.
ANNOUNCEE ENGAGEMENT
OF MISS RURT WILHELM
The latest University engagement became known today, when the parents of Miss Ruth Wilhelm, '11, announced her engagement to Joseph A. Brickley, of Seattle, Washington.
Miss Wilhelm specialized in botany during her University course and has been teaching in the manual training department of the Lawrence high school this winter.
Mr. Brinkley is an honor student at the University of Missouri, graduating two years ago and is in the government forestry service.
a soft, feminine tread tiptoded lightly to a table. Thirty-five pairs of eyes gazed wonderingly at the huge volume on building which she perused so eagerly.
What on earth was she doing here, with a book like that? Weir, "Theirs not to reason why!" For twenty minutes all work was declared off. Then, after she had tripped lightly from the room, apparently unconscious of the room she was receiving, hitherto masculine faces once more bent to their work.
Twenty minutes apiece lost! That makes eleven hours and forty minutes. But it was worth it, no doubt. Hereafter, however, to avoid trouble with the faculty, all young ladies should give an hour's notice before appearing in the Engineering Library.