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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 30, 1912.
TWO WEST POINTERS HERE
Already Enrolled For Special Work
—Foster Expects Usual Number of "Floppers."
Mail coming to the registrar's office for the past few days indicates that the registration of new students for the spring term will reach the one hundred and fifty mark. This is above the normal figures for this time of year.
Several students have already arrived and enrolled for the next term's work. They are passing the spare time hunting rooms, visiting classes and holding up the social end of the game.
Two West Pointers, Dykes and Griesa, have enrolled for the semester's work and are already at the University. Both of these men will return to West Point in June and again take up their work there. Dykes is here on a sick leave and will take a special course of mathematics.
"We are expecting the usual number of 'flopppers' this year," said Registrar Foster this morning. "They are the ones that change from one school of the University to another. We can give no definite statement as to the number at this time as these students are not allowed to change schools until the final examination are over."
DR. STRONG IN CHICAGO
Gave Talk Before the Chicago K. U. Club Last Night.
Chancellor Strong went to Chicago yesterday and delivered an address before the annual banquet of the Kansas University club of Chicago last night. The subject of his talk was, "The University—its Scope and Purpose." The Chancellor took with him several copies of the back numbers of the University Kansan which he will use to help recall old memories to the members of the club.
GARNETT WODEATE
IN THREE-CORNED FIGHT
Olathe, Jan. 30.—In a triangular debate held here Friday between Olathe, Paola and Garnett high schools, Garnett won, defeating by narrow margins her two competitions. The Olathe team that defended Paola High here, was composed of three girls.
James McKay of Olathe, who debated at Garnett received the highest individual honors in the contests, a grade of 98. District Judge Smart of Ottawa was one of the Garnett judges. The question debated was the acceptance of the single tax by the state of Kansas.
PERRY HIGHS DEFEATS
NORTONVILLE DEBATERS
Perry, Jan. 30.—The Perry high school defeated the Nortonville high school Saturday at Perry, Kansas, in a debate upon "Commission Government." Perry affirmed and Nortonville denied. The judges of the debate were Bank Commissioner Dolley of Topeka, Prof. R. H. Ritchey of the State Normal, and Prof. C. S. Parmenter of Baker University.
In February Perry debates "Women Suffrage" with the winner of the Leavenworth-Lansing debate held tonight in Lansing for the championship of the first district of the state high school debating league. J. W. Harbeson, '11, superintendent of the Perry schools trained the Perry team.
SMOKER GIVEN BY
JAYHAWKER DELT CLUB
SMOKER GIVEN BY
Acacias Dance.
The Acacia fraternity gave an informal dance in Ecke's hall Saturday night.
The Jayhawker Delt Club held their first smoker Saturday night at Lee's College Inn. The club is composed of alumni of the Delta Omicron Omicron high school fraternity having chapters mainly in Kansas and Missouri. Arrangements have been made for having smokers the first week in every month during the school year. Twenty-nine compose the club's membership.
When consulted today Mr. Thermometer and Mr. Barowere unanimous in their opinion that the skies would stay clear and the air become balmy. They report: Fair tonight and Wednesday. Warmer tonight.
The Weather.
TELLING CIVIC CLUBS WHAT TO TALK ABOUT
Extension Department Distributing Line of Subjects for Discussion.
The plan for Neighborhood Civic clubs now being extended throughout the state by the Division of University Extension has proved attractive to almost all classes of people and the University receives requests every day for suggestions as to making up a season's program.
The meetings are held in the school-houses—the people's clubhouses—and it is recommended that the programs take the form of debates followed by informal discussions in which citizens generally may join. To supplement material found in the local libraries, the Extension Division offers to send to those interested in studying any topic its package libraries made up of magazine extracts and clippings on the questions for discussion.
To meet this demand the Extension Division has prepared a discussion of "What to talk about, and do," that points out many interesting fields of work for the neighborhood clubs. This list is to be amplified by questions relating to the town's distinctly local problems.
Some of the topics suggested are:
Greatest need of the town or community;
The greatest need of the schools; "Know your town" Night or week; A social survey of the town; Rest rooms for country traders; Evening recreation centers; Clean streets, alleys and yards; Community water supply.
Woman suffrage; The recall; Income tax; The trusts; The tariff; The social unrest; Old age pensions; Civic corruption; The single tax; Profit sharing plans; Commission government for cities; The state inheritance tax; Central bank and currency reform; Divorce and marriage; Postal savings banks; Poverty and pauperism; State insurance against industrial accidents; Housing public sanitation; Parks and playgrounds; Bill board nuisance; Garbage disposal; School gardens; Sewage disposal; Town library and museum; The short ballot; Restriction of immigration; Good read movement; Conservation; The percol post; High cost of living; Workingman's compensation acts.
Drop into Psychology Laboratory If You Want to Find Out.
QUERY: HOW QUICK CAN YOU SAY "SCAT?"
CHRONOSCOPE WILL TELL YOU
FAMILIAR CAMPUS FIGURE IS ILL WITH PNEUMONIA
You bought your Post last week by the mail box at the corner of the campus, but didn't you miss the rosy cheeked little fellow whose big brown eyes, half humorous, had charmed a nickel out of your pocket every week since you have been or the Hill?
The Quickness of Thought Is Measure by a Machine in Students' Experiments.
The freshmen wondered what had become of the subject of so many of their themes and everybody seemed to notice the absence of the cheerful refrain "Saturday E-ee-evving Post" that has made the campus ring every Thursday morning for the past eight years.
The new boy did not have the assurance and self-confidence that eight years at his post had brought to Ralph Ulm, the regular agent
It seems to be generally understood that there is no word that can be said quicker than "scat." But just how long it takes to pronounce this monosyllable after the cat's first vocalizations break upon your sleepy car is a question for modern experimental psychology.
One of the students made record time today using the word "bottle." In just seven hundredths of a second the little indicate dial stopped. The associated word, ink, time .07" was the entry that was made in the notebook.
The word you speak is dependent upon one's past experience. Some words are naturally associated with others and consequently the time taken to speak a word varies from hundreds to eight tenths of a second.
The clock was started to whirring again. "Psychology!" shouted the operator. "Flunk," yelled the subject. And it took him but eleven hundredths of a second to connect the two words.
Real hard associations, like the capitals of the different foreign countries, usually take from a half second to half an hour, according to the student's knowledge of geography. Of course, if there is an atlas near, it rarely takes half an hour. One young man twisted his face into all sorts of grimases trying to say "Rome." Time: ten seconds.
If you were intent upon speaking just any word upon hearing it, how long would it take you to say it and what would you say? If you were a student in the psychological laboratory you could determine all that. The chronoscope, an instrument which measures the lengths of a second, tells the time exactly.
George M. Brown, a senior engineer, is spending ten days in Pittsburgh, Kans., carrying on tests with washed and unwashed soils to determine the heat efficiency of each. These experiments will comprise Brown's senior thesis. All of his expenses are paid by the company.
President Hill' M. Bell of Drake University has announced that he will give his interest in his home, to help toward raising the four hundred thousand dollars for the endowment fund of that school. This property has an appraised valuation of $8500, making the amount of his gift to the Liberal Arts College $3500.
STUDENT TESTING COAL
FOR HIS SENIOR THESIS
- Sooners Have Women Orators
In the preliminary debating contest at Oklahoma University, two girls are trying out.
Old-timers bought their magazine and questioned the new boy. They found that Ralph was ill with pneumonia, but not seriously, and that he expects to be with us again in a few weeks.
DRAKE PRESIDENT GIVES
HIS HOME FOR HIS SCHOOL
As two thousand students pass him four times each day, it follows that he did a fairly good business indeed, his sales rarely fell below the four hundred mark, and it was a poor week that he did not clear seven or eight dollars, for his three days' work. In addition to this, Rapin has received several prizes in the Post's sales competitions. Last May he fell short but by a few copies of winning a pony and仁 ni offered for the boy making the most sales in a city of twenty thousand population, during the month.
HEROIC STUDES FIGHT A NEAR-FIRE IN CLOAK ROOM
They were standing in the eloak room of the library, three shivering youths, trying to invent artistic objurgatory expressions whose application might relieve their chilled feelings.
"This is a hot place, now isn't it? one of them inquired sarcastically laying his hand upon a refrigerator radiator. No reply. The other two were still trying to get thawed out under their number fourteen arrow notches, and their frosty larynx hindered speech.
One hung up his overcoat, stiffly, and joined the others at the cold, cold pipes. They were still caressing the comfortless heater when they simultaneously spied a little wreath of smoke that arose from one of the overcoat pockets.
valiantly fought the flames with stocking caps, frosty fingers and other strange emergency fire fighting apparatus, braving the terrors of singed eyebrows and scorched hands in defending the threatened garment.
The owner of the coat at once thought of a place, "Fresno—where the climate is reputed to be far warmer than ours, in January, and he mentioned its name. The three then descended upon the coat and
A crowd soon gathered in the doorway.
"Put your foot on it." "Blow it out." "Get the fire hose," were some of the suggestions offered to the battling firemen.
Probably the owner of the damaged overcoat will be able to collect insurance on it, but it is far more probable that he will be more careful in the future about carrying matches that can be ignited by the mere presence of cold radiators.
NEW DATE FORBANQUET SENORITAS? SI, SENOR
The flames spread. They threatened a quiz book in a near-by pocket. The onlookers held their breath in horror. Someone in desperation let drive with a large notebook. Number six filler flew, but the pocket was flattened out against the wall and—the fire was extinguished.
Engineers Decide to Cavort February 17 Instead of Unlucky Thirteenth.
"We hops" to make this year's banquet the largest that we have ever had." said President Rhodes this morning, with an enthusiastic way tend to decrease the attendance".
It has been found necessary to change the date for the Engineers' Banquet from February 13 to Saturday, February 17. This change has been made by Presidion Rhodus because it was found that the out of town speakers would be better able to attend on Saturday than on Tuesday. Moreover, the original date, coming as it did on a school night, would not allow the committees sufficient time to complete their arrangements and would also interfere too much with the regular work.
MANKIND 20,000 YEARS OLD
An Arrowhead, Part of Human Weapon Imbedded in Bison
Send the Daily Kansan home.
In the south roof of the third floor in the museum, there is the skeleton of what is known among scientists as a bison occidentalis. This creature is supposed to have lived at least twenty thousand years ago. When its remains were unearthed a curious thing was discovered. An arrow-head was found underneath the bone known as the right scapula. So firmly embedded it was in the bone and of so peculiar a make was this bit of stone, that it is considered, part of a weapon of human design.
And Caballeros, Too, at the Spanish Play. Muy
WHISTLERS CALLED IN NEW IDEA IN GRADING
The modern language department have decided to give the members of Spanish classes an opportunity to appear upon the stage in a real Spanish play, in the place of the usual French play. No more will the sharp pointed mustachios and goatee pierce the air above the stage. Even the razor of The Barber of Seville, nicked and rough, has been laid aside, and in their places come torcadores, caballeros, and senoritas.
The members of the department have not decided what play will be given or the date. Previous to this year, the Spanish play has been used merely as a "curtain raiser" for the annual French play.
Famous Paintings Seen Last Time in Public at the University.
The famous Whistler paintings will not be exhibited any more. Next week will be the last and only chance to see them in this part of the country. Mr. Freer will remove them from further exhibits because of the danger of carcass packing.
Prof. W. A. Griffith, who has secured the famous canvases for the University exhibition, received letters from Museums in Kansas City and New Orleans, and form Nebraska University, last week, asking that the pictures be sent there for exhibition. Professor Griffith referred the matter to Mr. J. W. Freer, of Detroit, the owner of the Whistler canvases, and by the way, Mr. Freer owns more "Whistlers" than any one person in the world. In his answer to the request, Mr. Freer states that many of his pictures have been poorly repacked by those to whom he has lent them, so in order to avoid having them damaged, he will send them to no other exhibits after the one at the University of Kansas and one at Washington next spring.
"I am heartily in favor," said Mr. Foster today, "of having the faculty adopt a regulation not to send out grades to a student unless he fails. Then he should receive a notice of his failure."
Geo. O. Foster Believes Students Would Be Happier Without Grades.
Mr. Foster thinks that every student should know his own worth as well as his teacher does.
"If no grades were given," said Mr. Foster, "there would no longer be such a keen desire among the students for one's." This would do away with two things, cramming for quizzes and dishonesty in class. It would add a great deal of interest to the Phi Beta Kappa election, and make of it a real reward."
No grades can be given out until they have been transcribed from the lists sent in by the teachers. Mr. Geo, O. Foster suggests that each student leave at the Registrar's office soon as the grades are received, these postals will be mailed to the student.
$1,500 GIFT FROM SWEDEN
TO BIOLOGICAL LIBRARY
A twenty volume set of books worth probably $1,500 has just been presented to the biological library of the University by their author Gustav Retzius, Professor of History at the Royal Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The books are printed in German and each volume contains many lithographed plates depicting the various structures and organs of the body. Their author has written many articles for scientific papers and journals, and is well known in the world of scientists.
Professor McClung wrote to Retzius some time ago requesting that they exchange scientific bulletins. This eventually led to the excellent gift which has just arrived.
CAMPUS IN TENTACLES OF DREAD HIPPOGRIFF
Scene of Much Scurrying and Worrying and Incidental Cramming.
JBRARY COMES INTO ITS OWN
Ponderous Tomes Bounced Off Dusty Shelves in Mad Scramble For Ammunition.
Examinations, dreadful hippocrifts of undergraduates are abroad his week, and the University of Kansas campus is a scene of worrying and scurring and no little cramming in the interim. Whole volumes are masticated if not digested; penderous tomes are bounced off hospitalable shelves, and the text-book of Dr. Philologus feels the clammy steel as a paper knife is plunged through its uncut pages.
Every throbbing brain-cell expostulates as it unwillingly stretches its walls to make transient room for another disconnected atom of know edge, which like the literary Arab folds its tent to steal away on the morrow.
But not all these atoms will vacate. Some will remain to remind the student in after days of the first semester, 1911-12. "You can't pour molasses out of a hogshead without some of it sticking to the sides," said a University president once, and this seems to be the principal emolument accruing from the cramming season.
As a means for systematic review examination time affords excellent opportunity, but in too many cases the review deteriorates into a twelve hour contest with memory. The student with memory trained to the minute, ladles out detached principles, coned by note to the professor's order, and often times in such a way that the examiner is placed on the defensive in ferreting out ambiguities.
Examinations are the hob-beginners of childhood's days, tragedies sometimes, but always annoyances to youth, and are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The ominous, portentous, almost foreboding atmosphere envelopes the classroom, the ease-taking professor, sometimes smug, always somehow carrying a certain air of over-lordship, the fidgety young woman who wrestles with a "discuss in full" while red spots in her cheeks grow brighter and brighter, the srowling athlete, the far-a-way twirling of a pencil in the hand of a happy-go-lucky—all are there.
And forty years from now when present undergraduates are unable to conjure up the proppitious quiz, others, with bowed backs, in Fraser, in Snow, in a dozen strange buildings, will be making faces at belligerent though innanimate quiz-books. Selah.
THREE UNIVERSITY GIRLS'
FATHER DIED THIS NOON.
L. H, Beatty, father of Cora, Florence and Martha Beatty who are students at the University, died of heart failure this noon on Massachusetts street. He moved to Lawrence last September from Osborne, Kansas, in order to allow his daughters to enter the University. The family resides at 1220 Rhode Island street.
PROF. MITCHELL WILL TALK
His Subject Will be Concerning a French Philosopher
Prof. Arthur G. Mitchell, of the department of Philosophy, will give a lecture Sunday evening, at seven o'clock, at the Unitarian church, on Henri Bergson, the French philosopher. Professor Mitchell has translated from the French Bergson's book on "Creative Evolution."
UNIVERSITY OF KANAS
MEN GO TO TOPEKA
Ira Snyder, Kenneth Simmons, Orin Weede, Hal Harlan and Bill Morris attended the Kansas Day Club banquet last night in Topeka. This banquet is given annually by the young republicans of Kansas and men from every portion of the state attend.