UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
QUAKES MAY ALTER FAR WEST'S CLIMATE
Recent Disturbances on Ocean Bottom May Have Changed JapanCurrent
S. and E. Kan D. AT
TO DEPOPULATE THE COAST?
Professor Todd Thinks, However. More Rainfall Could Come to Arid Regions.
2 N solicited Shop s.
"Earthquakes are the probable cause of the recent shifting of the Japan current," said Professor J. E. Todd of the Geology department, this morning.
"There have been severe topographical disturbances in and about Alaska," Professor Todd continued, "and it is not improbable that these disturbances, in the form of earthquakes, have affected the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near Alaska, as well as the mainland of North America.
"If this be so, the Japan current, whose course lies in this vicinity, would undoubtedly be affected. If a deepying current happens to strike a bridge than it has been running over formerly, its course will be shifted."
This is one explanation given by Professor Todd, concerning the recent Alaskan phenomenon. He said that since ocean currents depend, in a large measure, on certain winds for their direction and velocity, it is probable that the shifting of the Japan current is due to a change in the course in the winds controlling it. In this case, it is more than probable that the alteration wrought in the Japan current is only temporary, since an ocean current rarely, if ever, permanently changes its course.
"The effect of any permanent change in the Japan current on western civilization has been exaggerated by the metropolitan dailies," Professor Todd declared. "Civilization a short distance inland would little feel such a change. A higher temperature would lead to the establishment of large seaport towns where at present there are scarcely settlements. However, with a lowered temperature, depopulation might result."
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TURDAY CLASSES SEISMOGRAPH JARS BEGIN NEXT YEAR WHEN OCEAN RAGES
School of Education An nounces Special Courses for Benefit of Teachers.
That the teachers in active service in the vicinity of Lawrence may have opportunity to take advanced work the faculty of the School of Education in the University have organized a Saturday course for next year.
There will be three classes conducted each Saturday morning by Dean Johnston, Professor Olin, Professor Joselyn, Professor Trettian, and Professor Schwegler. Three hours credit in the department will be given.
The new state regulations, practically requiring certificates of all teachers, the increase in the number of teachers who desire advanced degrees either from the School of Education or the Graduate School, and the good railroad facilities of Lawrence are all factors in bringing a goodly number of teachers to these classes and a large enrollment is expected.
Another attractive feature is the new equipment in laboratories and library. With these additional advantages, the teachers will be able to pursue such rank as investigation, individual differences, class records, new systems of grading, habit formation in particular subjects, etc., Then, too, they can keep in touch with the new features in the Oread Training School, and the school would be benefited by their inspection.
The whole movement represents what is most characteristic of modern educational thought—the bringing of the University to the people and keeping the educational plant open.
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Heavy Surf on Sea-coasts Makes the Whole Continent Tremble.
A visitor watched Prof. H. P. Cady read the seismograph this morning, and it was observed to be in a state of continual agitation The hair-like point that traces the record on the smoked paper was trembling ever so gently and marking a tiny, wavy line on the record roll.
When the waves beat high on the "stern and rock bound coast" of New England; when the breakers that roar before the wild west winds of the Pacific dash high on the steer sides of Tillamook head, and when the gulf hurricanes pile tons of green water against Galveston's sea wall; then, away back here at the center of the continent, in a dark basement of Fraser hall a hair-like point records on a sheet of smoked paper every blow of the pounding surface.
Breath of Stormy Atlantic.
"I noticed in the papers last night," said Professor Cady, "that there was a heavy storm predicted for the Atlantic coast region. This movement of the needle is caused by the beating of the heavy surf on the rocky New England coast, which makes the whole continent tremble. Sometimes it lasts for days.
Heavy surf on the Pacific and Gulf coasts is also recorded by the University seismograph, so sensitive it is to the most minute movement of the earth's crust, and so elastic and rigid is the deeper part of the crust itself. An earth tremor, or wave as it is called, travels at the rate of two to six miles per second, so it is seen that we do not lose much time in hearing from storms even on the distant shores of Oregon.
"These microseismic tremors, as they have, have only lately been explained," continued Professor Cady, as he noted their continuance on the margin of the recording roll. "It was observed at the University seismograph at Quebec and at other stations on the coast of Germany that the microseismic tremors occurred whenever an area of low pressure was central over the adjacent oceans. The winds that the low pressure areas caused, set up ground swells and violent surf or the neighboring sea coast, which, it has been calculated, is ample cause for the faint tremors that you are watching now."
Other slighter tremors of shorter wave length are recorded when the wind blows strongly and are due to the motion of trees in the wind and the slight pressure of the wind on the walls of buildings.
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OREAD'S NEW COURSES SLEUTHS WATCH QUIZ
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High School Broadens Out Meet Unusual Increase in Enrollment.
The work is of the Oread High school is to be broadened to a considerable degree for the next semester. During the last term eighty eight students have been enrolled Present indications show that for the last half of the year this number will be increased considerably, and to meet this the following new courses have been arranged for: physiology, home economics, third term algebra, physics, manual training, botany and English history.
"We will be thoroughly equipped for these new courses and will endeavor to give them under the most ideal conditions," said Professor Trettian, principal of the Oread High school, this morning. "The number of instructors will be increased from thirty-seven to forty-two. We are instituting a system of personal records for each student. The object is first, to determine the native capacity and interests of the students; second, his habits of lifelong study; third, his life interests and fourth, his progress in school work. By these records and tests we hope to prevent failures and to develop the greatest amount of personal efficiency possible."
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Graduate Club--All members of the Graduate Club are urged to be present at the meeting to be held at Westminster hall, Thursday evening, February, 8, at eight o'clock Dean Blackmar will speak, and besides there are several items of business that the club must attend to without further delay.
K. U. Debating Society meets at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 501 fraser.
There will be a meeting of the Administrative Committee of the School of Medicine Tuesday, February 6th, at 4:00 o'clock in room 110, Fraser hall. M. T. Sudler, Chairman.
The K. U. Debating Society will hold a meeting in room 501 Fraser hall Thursday night at 7:45.
There will be a meeting of the faculty of the School of Medicine Tuesday, February 6th, at 4:30 in Fraser hall. Frank Strong, President.
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.
Tuesday, Feb. 6.
Fine Arts' opera, "The Merryman and His Maid." Bowersock opera house.
Monday, Feb. 12.
Thepian drive "Billy." Bower-sock,
oppa-ga, oppa-ga.
Wednesday, Feb. 7.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16
Fine Arts' opera, "The Merryman and His Maid." Bowersock opera house.
Monday, Feb. 12.
Lincoln's birthday Holiday
Feb. 14—Glee club concert in Fraser hall.
Feb. 15.-Glee club concert in Bowersock opera house.
Prof. C. Alphonso Smith. Five lectures. 4:30.
Monday, Feb. 19-23.
Thursday, Feb. 22.
Washington's birthday. Holiday.
Chancellor Strong speaks at K. U.
Banquet at Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Friday, Feb. 23.
Woodrow Wilson speaks in gymnasium.
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You can board at Lee's for three dollars a week.
Eagle-eyed Proctors at Columbia.
The first set of mid-year examinations at Columbia were held yesterday in the university gymnasium says The New York Sun, and every student had to take the seat that was assigned to him, first of all being divested of books, notes and other suspicious articles at the door. Just before the preparatory gong was rung the chief of the gumshoe squad took his place on the running track in the gymnasium and with two assistants began a ceaseless patrol. All three were armed with miniature opera glasses, and from their vantage they scanned every seribbling student fore and aft.
One student spent most of the morning munching soda crackers, and got away with it until pretty nearly the end of the period, when one of the "detectives" noticed him gizmo intently at a cracker before he put it in his mouth. The "detective" was too late to get the cracker, and as it was the last one that the student had they couldn't put him out, although they had a pretty good suspicion that the crackers had contained information that had been transferred to the student's examination book. The "disappearing" crib on the end of an elastic that jumps up your sleeve when the proctor comes around wasn't in evidence, and it wasn't possible to work the substitution game because the time-honored pink-backed books which had been used for a generation had given way to pale lavender backed books.
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CAR SCHEDULE
Beginning Sunday, February 4, A. M. until further notice.
Cars leave Haskell 5, 20, 35, and 50 minutes past the hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for Santa Fe 5, 20, 35, and
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for South Massachusetts, 5, 20, 35, and 50 min. past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for K. U. via Tennessee, hour and 30 minutes past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for K. U. via Mississippi, 20 and 50 minutes past hour.
Cars leave Henry and Massachusetts for Indiana street, 5, 20, 45,
and 50 minutes past hour.
minutes past hour.
Cars leave K. U. via Tennessee Street, 2 and 32 minutes past the
hour.
Cars leave K. U. via Mississippi Street, 17 and 47 minutes past the hour.
Please note K. U. cars leave Henry and Massachusetts street five minutes earlier than old schedule. This change was made at the request of the majority of the patrons using these cars.
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