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Fort Hays State University FHSU Scholars Repository Buildings & Facilities Campus History Collections 2-6-1941 "A College Houses Students Under Its Stadium Seats" - The Kansas City Star The Kansas City Star Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/buildings Recommended Citation The Kansas City Star, ""A College Houses Students Under Its Stadium Seats" - The Kansas City Star" (1941). Buildings & Facilities. 578. https://scholars.fhsu.edu/buildings/578 This Clipping is brought to you for free and open access by the Campus History Collections at FHSU Scholars Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Buildings & Facilities by an authorized administrator of FHSU Scholars Repository. _A COLLEGE HOUSES STUDEN'rS SLOWS MILK SOURINGUNDER ITS STADIUM SEATS EQUINE PARASITES ALSO · AREKILLED BY NEW DRUG.Fort Hays Institution Makes Use of Its Athletic Plant EveryDay of the School Year by Incorporating a DormitoryIn It-Tenanted by a Selected Group WhoAre "Working Their Way."C. E. Howell, Former )Iissonrian,Reports on Use of P'ltenot.hf.a-zine at l{cllogg ArabianRanch.HAYS, KAS., Feb, 6.-Collegestadia, as a rule, are notparticularly good to look atand they usually are usedan average of forty hours a year,say for four to six football games, afew baseball games in the springand one or two track meets.But here at Hays, there is a good-looking college stadium that is usedtwenty-four hours every day -of theschool year. For under the seatingspace of this stadium is the collegehome of seventy-two Kansas boyswho are earning their way throughcollege. If it were not for the utili-zation of this usually waste space aconsiderable number of these boyscould not hope to attain a collegeeducation.When the late W. A. Lewis camehere, twenty-seven years ago, as thehead of the normal school estab-lished on the lands given to Kansaswhen the military reservation wasabandoned, he set out with a singlegoal in mind. This was to makethe institution available to the hun-dreds of boys and girls who lived onthe high prairies and could notafford long trips to college and theexpenses incident to life there."Mother Lewis" Carries On.His widow, better known as"Mother Lewis" to every boy and tomost of the girls of the big institu-tion, has sought to carryon thePomona, Calif.-A drug whichthe boys live in an apartment or the makes cows give slow-to-sourbig dormitories. They get their food -pink milk is heralded by Agricul-at the college cafeteria at a cost of15 cents a meal, on the average, or tural Expert C. E. Howell as a likely$12 a month. . medium to rid horses-ana all otherFor admission to one of the apart- domestic animals-of most of theirments or the stadium dormitory a internal parasites.boy must have character letters from . tthree individuals who know him, one The drug is phenothiazme, parenof whom must be his high school substance of many dyes. Cows thatprincipal. Then those with superior eat of it give pink milk, which willgrades get the first assignments of keep for several days in a warmspace. Then they must make a room.showing that they need the help Howell, manager of the Universitywhich the college is able to provide of California's W. K. Kellogg Ara-in order to obtain a college educa- bian horse ranch near here, said intion, an interview that the drug gaveDr. W. D. Moreland, head of the promise of being an anthelmintic-political science department at the a medium of destroying intestinalcollege, is the general camp super- worms-of great value.visor, with Mrs. Lewis as the matron. INEXPENSIVE TREATMENT. "Each apartment or each dormitory "Experiments on our horses," hehas its own student supervisor who said, "indicate that it is efficient,sees to it that the beds are made easily administered, non-toxic andproperly, rooms kept clean and that cheap-which means that for theeverything about the dormitories first time the average farmer mayis spick and span. have a method which is not too ex-Above the Average in Character. pensive, to rid his horses of theparasites that weaken them and"It may seem remarkable that 200 reduce their resistance to disease."red-blooded young men of Kansas Phenothiazine, said Howell, firstcan live together at Lewis field was synthesized in 1885, but was notwithout so much as a fist fight," put to practical use until 1934, whensaid Professor Moreland. "Very lit- it was used to destroy mosquitotle dissension has been exhibited. larvae. During the next four yearsAll the young men selected are high it was tested successfully as an in-grade fellows who know what they secticide in place of poisonous pest-are in college for. The records control drugs such as lead arsenate.+THE ATHLETIC STADIUM AT FORT HAyS STATE COLLEGE THAT Is ALSO USED AS A Boys' DORMITORY. THELOWER PICTURE SHOWS A SCENE IN A STUDY HALL IN THE DORMITORY, AND THE INSERT Is A PORTRAIT OF"MOTHER LEWIS." WIDOW OF A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE AND Now HOUSE MOTHER OF THE DORMI-TORY.For Joyful Cough Reref,.Try This Home MixtureR I R ]. 'f B' S' of water fi few moments, until dis-ea e Ie . 19 aVlng. solved. It's no trouble -a t all , and takesSo Easy. No Cooking. but a moment. No cooking needed.This splendid recipe is used by mil- Put the Pinex into a pint bottle andlions every year, because it makes add your syrup. ~his gives ~ou a ~ul1such a dependable, effective remedy for pint of very effective and qui ck-actingcoughs due to colds. It's so easy to cough remedy, and you get abou t fourmix-a child could do it. times as much for your money. It. From any druggist, get 2% ounces never spoils, arid is very pleasan t-of Pinex, a compound containing Nor- children love it.way Pine and palatable guaiacol, in You'll be amazed by the way ~t t akesconcentrated form : well-known for its hold of coughs , giving you deligh tfulsoothing effect on throat and bronchial relief. It loosens t he phlegm, soothesmembranes. . the irritated membranes, and helps IThen make a syrup by stirring two clear the airspassages. Money r~t~~.~p.§ ~ '~:IJ!~ i114 ,~ ·~]g_~4-U ~~.J~t~ii,nlt · 'DELIGHTS OF THE HAYMOW.Hal)'con Days Recalled wuu theCat and a Litter of Kittens.In recent years, in a somewhatdifferent recrystalized form , it wastested as an an thelmintic, and foundeffec tive- in treatment of sheep,swine, cattle, poultry and dogs.CONTIN U E EXPE RI MENTS .Howell, University of Missourigraduate who has managed the Kel -logg ranch twenty years, and his for-mer assistant, J. W. Bri tton, gavephenothiazine its fir st field trial onhorses last year. Bri tton now is con-tinuing the experiments at the NewYork state Veterinary college atIthaca.Phenothiazine is a light greenpowder which turns darker upon ex-posure to the air. It was mixed inwith feed and administered toforty-five purebred Arabian horses,including weanlings, yearlings, stal-lions, geldings, mares with foal s, bar-ren mares and mares from six to tenmonths along in pregnancy."The treatment was 100 per centeffective against strongyles-smallstomach worms-the most commontype of infestation," said Howell."It was partly effective againstpin worms, but apparently had noeffect upon bots.A SAFETY FACTOR ."One of the treatment 's biggestadvantages is its safe ty. Another isthe inexpensiveness of the treat-ment. One pound, enough for eighthorses , costs $1.50."Howell said he was continu ing theexperiments to dete rmine whethertreatments would have to be re-peated annually or more or lessoften to keep the animals fre e ofworms."I t appe ar s," he concluded, "thatphenothiazine can' serve a very use-Iul function to the horse breedingindustry as a safe and effic ien t an -thelmintic for brood mares up to t hetenth month of pregnancy."Fu rther, it has been demon stratedthat it can be used in wormingmares with suckling colts with nodanger to the mare or foal."To rarmers and horse breederswho have tried everything else, evento harrowing pastures in an effortto sun-kill parasites on the ground,this drug looks like a real godsend." ,show the Lewis field boys, as boththe barracks and st adium men areknown , rank well above the aver agein the en tire instit ution."The Ha ys school is the only col-lege in Kansas · which ha s utilizedthe space under its st adium as alow cost housing project for need yand deserving students. The stadiumis buil t of native stone and concreteand t he rooms are all well lightedand airy, ' Hea t ,and light are pro-vided by the school power plant.Mrs. Lewis has her own apartmentin the building .which houses thecollege hospital. She not onlyserves as field mother to the boysin the stadium and the barracks, butalso is nurse and postmistress. Andshe is to be found every evening inthe lounge rooms of the stadium,helping the boys in planning theirdances and other entertainment.•ideals of her hu sband an d promotethe plans he had for the boys and 'girls of the western pa rt of the state.!=;he is now the house mother andch aperon for the boys quarteredin the st adium and for those wholive in the old eee barracks givento the college as dorm itories for theboys. .Dr . e. E. Rari ck, president of thecollege since the dea th of Dr . Lewis,h ad th e same vision for · th~ boysof Western Kansas. They must havework to earn their way throughschool. They must have low costhou sing and they must have whole-some an d nutrit ious meals at thelowest possible cost .When it was determined that theFort Ha ys state college was .to havea stadium, Dr . Rarick and R. U.Brooks, the college architect, beganto plan that it ' should be usefulthroughout the school year. Theyhad in mind the utilization of thespaces under the concrete seats as adormi tor y.1\. $1;) 0,000 Structure. .C. F , in the Christian Science Moni tor.The athleti c field was named in Whenever we had young visitors,honor of President Lewis. The cost we showed them the haymow.of . t he stadium was in excess of$150,000. It was built as a WPA prol- Single file we climbed the ricketyect, and .the college athletic board stairs and proudly pointed out theissued bonds to pay for its share dark, mysterious room. Indistinctof the cost. There had to be showers masses of hay r eached to the slopingfor the athletic t eams and dressing roof on each side . · There wererooms, so the plumbing bill was rafters to swing from and a pigeon 'smad e just a little lar ger and this nest with two gangly birds staringequipment was made available to the over the edge.dormitories buil t under t he st adium We clambered over the hay, sink-simply by finishing the walls and ing in and filling our shoes withbuilding floors and stairways. more chaff at each leap , until weIn the barracks buildings there are came to a little hollow under theapartments accommodating six boys eaves where sunlight cut into theeac h, each apartment with its own dimness in dust-filled streamers.bath an d toilet fa cilities and its own Then we triumphantly draggedrecreation room. In the stadium ' forth black, white, gray and spotteddormitories the apartments are larg- kittens, carefully 'examining the eyeser . The boys sleep in double-deck of each to see if they were open.beds and each group has its own Usually the visitors were allowed tostud y hall and recreation rooms . .pick out the one they wanted whenIn the dormitorfes every boy is the kittens were old enough to givepro vided with locker room, and back away .under the seats of the stadium is As we left, we didn't come downspace for storing tru nks and grips by the stairs, but displayed ourand other bulky articles, while at bravery by jumping to the barnthe front are hangers for clothing floor through the hole where thean d other equipment. men threw the hay for the horses.The dormitories are all on the sec-ond floor of the stadium while thelower floor furnishes the space forthe living rooms and recreationalfa cilities and also offices and t hequarters for the football t eam. Thereare showers and toilet facilitiesthroughout the structure so thevisiting football and track teams donot disturb the boys living in thedormitories.1\. Ca ref u lly Selec t ed Group.In order to live in the stadiumdormitories or barracks apartmen tsthe boys must make ' a showing orscholarship, character and need .Students who are on . the work pro-gra m are given the preference. F1vedollars a mon th is the cost of theroom in either the stadium or thebarr acks apa rtments. There is nodifference in t he accommodationsand the cost is the same whether

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