Dean Paul 3, Lawson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kengase : Dear Dean Lawson: erat Ga ie se cee enrollment of a ia ee last THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES OFFICE F THE 9 _— LAWRENCE April 23, 1943 Dr. Forrest C, Allen Department of rhysical Education University of Kansas My dear Dr, Allens: Two more cases from last semester have just come to light, and we need to straighten them up. They are as follows: A ' a 1s Francis Laird was enrolled in the 3:30 conditioning class for no credit, pre ¥ We have no record of his withdrawal, yet the grade sheet reports him . 4 as withdrawn, According to the regulations, his grade should be a fail- ieee ure. »\ Theodore E, Lehmann enrolled in the 3:30 swimming class, The enrollment re card shows the check made by the departmental scribe at the time of enrollment, His name, however, does not appear on the grade sheet at ; all, which means that his enrollment card was not returned to this office. ¢ AML I am sure I don't know what happened in this case--whether the boy did T Ce or did not take the course, and whether he passed or failed, I hope you on can find the answer, Sincerely yours, Paul B, Lawson, Dean PBL:BB April 28, 1943. Dean Paul B. Lawson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas. Dear Dean Lawson: Tt have your letter of April 23rd about Frencis Laird and Theodore &. Lehmann, and am able to reply in part to your inquiry. Prencis Leird was enrolled in Mr. Shenk’s 3:50 son- éitioning olass lest fall. Moe had a hospital excuse for two months on account of an appendectomy, but since Mr. Shenk is out on a speaking tour the early part of thie week we will check with him upon his return, and report to youe Theodore %. Lehmann had a hospital classification of "c*, and a Selective Service classification of "4F". He, therefore, did not take the course. Sincerely yours, eis Director of Physical Education, PCA: AH Varsity Basketball Coach. April 22, 1943. Dean Paul B. Lawson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas. | Dear Dean Lawson: I am in receipt of your note of the 20th instant regarding Gerald Ward's enrollment in Physical Condition- ing the first semester. _ Upon checking the class roll I find that the in- structor had marked "WD" in front of Gerald Ward's name, and that he had a number of absences. However, he had hospital exouses covering his through the first of Jenuary. Wo grade was turned in for him, and we are assuming that our student clerks turned to the roll book to see what was recorded there. ‘Dean Lawson, I consider that we were given an al~ most insurmountable task, using 18 students instead of a staff of faculty menbers, and I am surprised that there aren't more of these cases because the students cannot realize what faculty members are forced to realize. These youngsters just don't see the picture that mature adults BOC 6 . Sincerely yours, Director of P 1 Raventions PCA: AH Varai ty thall Coach. THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES OFFICE OF THE DEAN LAWRENCE gt by a Ee ped Ko Wad mtd Ge & | po Ct renege Lb YT Ab len OA wt bp tebe) er Oo = nt Oe abet) cnc. CORP Alig a’ frre, oboe be mm A haf Mefft tL bet my March 24, 1943. He is on probation so far as this department © is concerned, end at the firat absence his probation- ary period ends. At a conference held Saturday after- noon it was agreed that wa would re-admit him to physical conditioning class if ell exoused absences yade up and that there would be no further ia Sincerely yours, | | Director of Physical Education, — FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. \ COLLEGE THE LIBERAL ARTS A student reared on deficient spiritual and intellectual diet is an easy prey for proponents of the totalitarian view, If his skills only are developed and his mind filled only with technical informa= tion, he will know nothing of man's emo~ tional history or his practical experi- ence as a gregarious animal, Not realiz~ ing the profound truth of Pascal's saying that human nature is both the glory and the scandal of the universe, he will tend +o the extremes of blind utopianism or bitter cynicism, His development as a free man is crippled, The ideal educational process should ins clude at each level of maturity some cone tinuing contact with those problems of human nature and human destiny which man has assembled under the headings of lit erature, history, and philosophy, The student in high school, in college, and in graduate school should be concerned, in part at least, with the words "right” and “wrong” in both the ethical and math= ematical sense, Unless he feels the importance of thosé general ideas which have been a deep-mov-— ing force in the lives of men, he runs the risk of partial blindness, Unless he has been concerned with evaluating human thoughts and actions, he will not under- stand the essential dignity of man, He will, therefore, fail in his comprehene sions of the real basis of American dem- ocracy3; he does not understand the cause for which we fight, ~-President James Conant Harvard University oe eee ae HERE IT IS AGAIN Please have them in the office, if possi-~ ble, on Thursday, March ll, and not later than Friday, March 12, Please remember that green cards should be used for the mid-semester reports of Freshmen and Soph- omores and white cards for all others, Thank you, _* * * * #* NO MARCH FACULTY MEETING We will not hold our usual monthly meet- ing in March, COMMUNICATIONS March 6, 1943 PROFESSORS A AND B Professor A is prompt and efficient in his dealings w ith the College Office, His class cards are sent in when they are due, excessive absences are recorded and reported as they should be, his mid-semes— ter reports are in the office a day ear- ly, withdrawal cards are signed and re-- turned the day he receives them, and the grade on his final grade sheet agrees with. the grade he reported on the withdsawal card, Being human, he once in a great while may overlook some detail, but the word "business-like" comes to mind every time we think of hin, Professor B is tardy and inefficient in most of his dealings with this office, His class cards, due at the end of the second week, are still safe in his pos-— session, and they probably won't be sent in till we call him up and ask for then. Excessive absences are either not report ed at all, or are reported several weeks too late to allow us to do anything con— structive with the student, Mid-semester reports are usually a day to a week late, The first withdrawal cards lie around his desk till they are lost, so duplicates and even triplicates must be sent hin, and the record of withdrawals is cften not recorded in his grade book, Being human, he once in a while looks after one of these matters. promptly, but the word "unbusiness-like” comes to mind every time we think of him, They seem so different--these Prafessors A and B, And they make us wehder, We won der if they are just as different in plane ning their courses, in their daily prepar- ation, in their class presentation, in their ohecking of each student's work, in their entire job as teachers, We wonder if their students, too, see these differ— ences, and if they, like us, don't often ‘wonder about the relative efficiency of Yes, it's time for the midesemester grades, Professors A and By A stinging nettle stings when touched lightly, but it doesn't hurt when grasped firmly, Professor A grasps these nettling business details firmly, decides then, gets them off his desk and then off his mind, Professor B lets them lie around his desk indefinitely, accidentally keeps touching them lightly--and keeps getting stung, He seems to enjoy their continued tingling, Funny chap, he, P.S. In spite of the above, Professor B is a most interesting man who helps to make a cracking good faculty, COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS February 18, 1943 GRADES FOR 1941-'42 TABLE I Table I shows the grade point indices, or the number of frade points per hour of credit, for each devartment, Students from other schools of the University, though enrolled in College classes, are not included in this study. Ia other words, both tables deal with College students only, The first column of figures shows the relative ranking of all departments giving College work in 1941~'42; the second column gives the ranking in 1940-'41, The figures in parentheses to the right of the departmental names show the relative ranking for 1941-'42 of the College departments alone, Tt seems that about 1,43 for Freshman-Sophomore work and about 162 207 Junior-Senior work were the median indices for 1941-'42, We are enclosing your own grade point index, It might be interesting to compare it with your departmental index and also with the College index, TABLE IT Table IT is, we believe, self-explanatory, Note that the first column of figures shows the number of enrollments of College students in the several departments. Obviously the small number of grades considered in some de- partments detracts from the significance of the several percentages shown. 'Relow is a comparison of the percentages of grades shown in the last five studies for the College as a whole: A B c D z E 1937—'38 Bio (8) 34.0 34,4 9.9 ea 4.3 1938—'39: Sak B50 Sete OS le 4.7 1939—'40 14, 7 a240 3555 7, 6.6 a 4,6 1940—'41 LS Oe. 34,9 3 Ae) 9,2 SO 4,2 1941-]'42 ie oT 34,7 39 ook 8,8 35 Aes Note the quite general agreement of all the percentages for all five years. Many people, both students and instructors, might be surprised to note that about half of the grades given during these years were A‘ts and \B's. Last year's grades show the highest percentage of A's and the lowest per- centage of failures in five years, It is safe to say that never before have there been fewer poor students or more superior students in the Col- lege, TABLE I GRADE POINT INDICES FOR FALL '41 — SPRING '42 Freshman~Sophomore Courses Junior-Senior Courses Rank Rank Department Index Rank Rank Department Index Ate 140, | 4i— '40c CAO oes ais ea 1 1 Mueie (A108 Applied) Zee i 1 German (A132) 14 2 9 French and Italian (Ty a2, 04 ‘2 2 French and Italian P28 205 3 2 Physical Fducation 1,94 2° Sy Spanish and Port. (2) 2.05 4 3 Design | eso 4 35 (avin and Greek (442,00 2 14 Musical Theory 1,84 5 6 Musical Theory 1,99 6 7 Latin and Greek (2) 1,80 6 9 Mathematics (5) 9g eo 5 Philosophy (301578 7 11 English ee (6) 1,94 .. 8 6 Psychology Ca) 6F 8 8 Psychology (7) .4593 9 11 German 05) 4, 62: 9 16 Education 1,88 * 10 23 Journalism (6) 1.60 10 11 Philosophy (8) 1, 86 et 8 Religion 1553 11. 10 Political Science (9) 1385 12 4 Speech C7 ed 252 12 1l Speech (10)/21,83 13. 15 Physiology (8) 1,50 13 17 Military Science 1,82 14 12 Home Economics (9) 1,468 13 18 Home Economics Cli ji 62 15 20 Entomology (10) 1.47 15 7 Physics and Ast, (12)0 43:82 16 9 Botany (21) 170 42 16 21 Religion 1.74 * 17 13 Sociology C22) 15 42 17 11 Physiology C030) oe 73 Le 18 Political Science (12) 1.41 18 3 Botany | Ley Ler 19 17 English (14.4539 19 20 Zoology : (A5) 1276 20 16 Spanish (15) 1, 28 19 18 History (25).525 70 21 29 Drawing and Ptg, oy 19 23 Sociology (15372, 70 22 25 History (16), 22 Ze ll Entomology (ie). Too8 23 24 Economics CVT Nal C27 23 25 CeOh es (19) 1,66 24 ?7 Physics and Ast, (ie) ea. 24 23 Bacteriology (20) 1960 25 20 Zoology E1924 24 30 Biochemistry 1.60 26 22 Geology Ye0)0y 28 26 25 Journalism (21) 1,59 ea: 26 Chemistry feted ow ay 28 Business Lbg, 28 28 Mathematics (22) 41.12 28 21 Chemistry (22 41 47 29 18 Military Science 1.08 29 27 Economics (23).1,38 30 29 Drawing and Pté. eal * Courses not open to freshmen, TABLE If THRE DISTRIBUTION OF MARYS TN TEE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES FOR FALL '41 — SPRING '42 Number of Student Marks A% B% C% D% 1% F% Anatomy Jr-Sr 7 14,3 SJ ou 28.6 Bacteriology Fr-So 42 3G 5:7 Zoe 2,4 a, 4 Jr-Sr 7S . 1347, 50.9 28.6 4,6 Lee Biochemistry Jr-Sr eu 6159 2B 6 4,75 a. h5 Botany Fr-so ie Lest St aes eee Occ Jr-Sr 38 26,9 Disa ce 2s/ rac GeO Chemistry FreSo 458 ey gst 28,8 26, © 16.4 14.3 Tye JreSr 159 COA soy e a3 13,2 is 6.9 Design Fr-So 45 28,9 32,7 28.8 3 G6 Jrror LS 405 A301, ese) 36507 Economics Fr-So 867 .14,9 2005 a7 oi a 0 6.4 Jr-Sr Les 16,4 28,0 oo 7, 12,0 aS 4.4 English Fr-So 1824 23,5 322 36,3 Ero tO Seo Jr=-sr 441 acd 44,8 24,7 9 220 1,4 Entomology Fr-So Li? 12738 34,2 43,6 Dek 9 3,4 Jr-Sr 86 22,2 32,0 39,5 a0 eed ek French and Fr-So 157 3744 40.7 17,3 e080 3 158 1.0 Italian Jr-Sr 24 437 40,7 1 Geology and Fr-S 0 386 8, 2 rial erik Sie oO 2133 ek 5, . Geography Jr-Sr 88 23,0 3857 S243 ak 249 German FreSo 291 28.9 26,8 26,4 943 1,4 hae Jr-sr 7 42,8 28,6 28,0 History Fr-So 423 14,0 20 G7. S39 a7, 14,4 oe) sah Jr-Sr 338 16,9 40,2 aoa 45k 6,2 Lee Home Economics Fr-So 336° % 8.0 39,4 41,4 a 1,8 2,3 Jresr 199 14,6 Sg teak dO Journalism FreSo 347i 17,9 38,8 32 38 G3 1.4 ee Jr-Sr 288 15,3 38,2 34,7 Soe fag bs Bese) Latin and Greek Fr-So 82 24.5 46,4 20,7 449 DA 2.4 Jr-Sr 19 aoeu 57.0 Ge Mathematics Fr-So 621 16.9 20,9 ae ee 16,3 150 73 Jr-sr 36 36) 38,9 Loy ec oo Military Fr-So 562 LS 40.6 40,6 O27 a ul, Science Jr=Sr 52 15.4 ole? Bier Music (Apnlied) All 296 48,9 36,4 O57 Ze tego. Bp, Musical Theory Fr-So 38 +599 60,5 eo Jr-sr 54 By a Coad 29,7 Jen 9 Number of F% 8 aed. a e RR se *¢ NM W Student Marks A% BY C% D% Philosophy Fr-So 240 26,4 329 Ca 9 9,5 Jr-Sr 86 34,9 Bg Sca0 Ae Physical Fr-So 451 TB 2504 Ser Akar! Education Jr-Sr ai 87 86,9 4,4 Physics and FrSo 288 14,4 BOs 29,6 18,5 Astronomy Jr=-Sr 32 9,4 59,4 21,9 easy 2 Physiology Fr-So 264 17.4 93 7. OA B07 Jr-Sr V2 355 420.53 SOc ok a Se: Political Fr-So 295 14,2 339 38,3 9,8 Science Jr-Sr 234 26,9 34, 333 3,9 Psychology Fr-So aoe ey S692 41,0 BQ Jr-Sr 499 2852 45,8 21; 4 a. 3 Relision Fr-So oa od 3649 45.4 Jr-Sr 120 133 40,8 45,2 School of Jr-sr 66 Ae aye 369 ie Business Secial Science Fr-So 408 Lise 23737 33,0 7.0 Survey Sociology Fr-So 209 12,4 Gus Slat 8,7 Jr-Sr 507 To), & Ae 2 S55 ASS Spanish and Fr-So 780 18,5 2oe3 34.7 oes Portuguese Jr-Sr 58 ee Sow ao Speech Fr=So 358 ae & eh RS) 41,3 oe Jr-Sr 3: 16,6 56,5 22,9 Ba Zoology Fr-So 196 T5685 2270 Sage i208 Jr-Sr G25 L769 45,5 Glee 4,3 TOTALS Fres hman-S ophomore 11,119 15,8 31,9 35,2 10,6 Junior-jSenior 4,508 ee 41.7 283 4,3 Total Marks LOS O27 ea, 3477 337tk 8.8 PNH o> at @ wm mY RHO NH Ww COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS NOTICE OF FACULTY MEETING The College Faculty will meet at 4:30 on Tuesday, February 23, in Fraser Theater, There will be some discussion of the sta- tus of the liberal arts college in Amer- jca during the war period, A large at-— tendance is desired, as it is highly imp portant that we thoughtfully face both the problems and the opportunities of these dayse * *£ * kk # CLASS CARDS Class cards are past due in this office, Tf you have not already done so, will you vlease return them at once so we can make the Glass rolls, * * * * % A DIFFICULT SEMESTER We can face our difficulties this semes— ter feeling sorry for ourselves, excusing ourselves and our students for second— rate endeavor and in general with a spir- it of listlessness, or discouragement, which will inevitably result in our doing a mediocre quality of work, If we permit such a spirit to dominate us, we are not worthy descendants of our fathers, who in every generation faced their own difficulties and mastered them, And certainly our own morale will not be high if we do not do our work with enthu- sinsm and with all the energy and devo- tion of which we sre capable, The things that war has done to colleges are done, We can view them, if we wish, as & series of unmitigated misfortunes, and sit down to bewail them. In this direction lie gloom, inertness, and un- manliness, God pity the colleges of America if this be our general feeling, On the other hand, these days may be a— mong the most interesting and the most beneficial to ovr colleges if we accept their challenge and look upon them as Siving us the opportunity to make a vale veble contribution to the winning of the war, and to develop a better and more worthwhile system of education, February 20, 1943 MID-SEMESTERS Mid-semester grades are due Friday, Maroh 12, In order to do the necessary office work with these reports on that weekend, every class report should be in if possi- ble before the twelfth, and certainly not later than that date. Your cooperation is earnestly requested, and we ask that you plan your quizzes so that you will have plenty of time to grade them and make your report very promptly. * *«£ tt %* # Iothink it can bevstated as aimost an historical truism that the greatest oiv— jlizgations of history have been the best educated civilizations, And when I speak ef education in this sense, I do not have in mind what so many today claim as edu- cation, namely, specinl training to do particular jobs, Clearly in a technolog— foal efe like ours, a great deal of train- ing is necessary. Some of us must learn how to be mechanics, some how to be arch iteots, or chemists, Some will have a special aptitude for medicine, And a great many will have--or think they have-- a mysterious talent which induces them to undertake the practice of law, But none of these specialties constitutes true education, They are training for skills by which men live, I am thinking, rather, of what we call the liberal arts, I am speaking of education for its own sake: to know for the sheer joy of under-— standing; to speculate, to analyze, to compare, and to. imagine. Look back across the panorama of history, Is 4t not true that the pinnacles of civ- jlization have been achieved by the cities and states most proficient in the liberal arts and occupations? In their contribu- tions to the enrichment of human life, the Greeks, I believe, tower above us all, Yet this is not because the Greeks were good navigators, which they were; nor because they were great architects, which indeed they were, It was rather because almost all their leaders--and many of their citi~ zens whose names we Go not know—-enjoyed knowledge and reverenced the arts, The Greek cities conquered the eastern Medi- terranean with the sword, But they con- quered posterity with their minds, --From a talk by Wendell L, Willkie delivered at Duke University THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES OFFICE OF THE DEAN . LAWRENCE tae o © February 20, 1943 Dr. Fe C. Allen Department of Physical Education Dear Dr. Allen: Enclosed is a list of the College students who are on probation this semester. One of our College regulations prescribes that no student on probation may engage in extra-curricular activities of any sort except intramural athletics; and we hope that you will not allow anyone named on this list to take part in athletic activities under your direction this semester. Very truly yours, Abhert Un, Gilbert Ulmer Assistant Dean GU: BB The following students will be on College probation for the spring semester of 19435: Alexander, Betty © ae hotes, John . = debe, aan - Aylward, Frances partlett, Dwight Bell, Esther Berg, Lillus Binderim, Donald oe Brow, Henry Me ie Clymer, Davia He Conniff, William ~ Gostelle, Edward icon - Cowperthwaite, Glenn Leonard - Dockstader, Ralph a Dougherty, “larren Robert * Duffy, Pas Elliott, Richard | Gregory, Bettilou Hinshaw, Stephen Curtis Ingram, Marjorie aa Donald E., Jre Koerner, Otto ne Charles MeComb, Geraldine McKay, James B. Meschke, Maureen Munger, Charles Pace, Mary H. wate * Pine, Ralph * Randell, fo % * Resler, Paul * Ripley, pressett Ae * Robinson, Willis Maude Shepard, Eugene Silvey, Beatrice Alice * Sime, Billy * Starr, William A. * Staver, Donald — * Stone, Robert Windler, Edwin - 3 : : * Winterscheidt, Betty Young, Anna Mae The following students will be on Registrar's probation for the spring semester of 1945: : Cook, Catherine joan Menley, Patricia 3 Netzer, Rawin John Reid, Barbara Jean * Rose, Jean Helen * Those students on final probation UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE LAWRENCE | OFFICE OF THE DEAN . February 17, 1943 2 K 2 Dre Forrest C. Allen, Chairman The American Red Cross Lawrence, Kansas Dear Dr. Allen: Your form letter addressed to Dean Je Je Jakosky relative to the American Red Cross has been received. Dean Jakosky is in the East. As soon as he returns, we shall call his attention to your communica- tion. Very truly yours, ee Alice Greer, Secretary School of Engineering and Architecture . % Mey . Bd. 7 eaelege Phys — -Phys. ! | > Repade -* ys: ( FreSo - 1,00 rof, COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS February 18, 1943 GRADES FOR 1941-'42 TABLE I Table I shows the grade point indices, or the number of prade points per hour of credit, for each department, Students from other schools of the University, though enrolled in College classes, are not included in this study. Ta other words, both tables deal with College students only, 2 The first column of figures shows the relative ranking of all departments giving College work in 1941--'42; the second column gives the ranking in 1940—'41, The figures in parentheses to the right of the departmental names show the relative ranking for 1941=-'42 of the College departments alone, Tt seems that about 1,43 for Freshman-—S ophomore work and about 1.82 for Tunior-—Senior work were the median indices for 1941-—'42, We are enclosing your own grade point Sndex, It might be interesting to compare it with your departmental index and also with the College index, TABLE IT Table Il is, we believe, self-explanatory, Note that the first column of figures shows the number of enrollments of College students in the several departments, Obviously the small number of grades considered in some de- partments detracts from the significance of the several percentages shown. Relow is a comparison of the percentages of grades shown An the dest «five: studies for the College as a whole: = . = w ZL _ 1937-'38 1520, 34,0. 4 34,4 9.9 Lo 458 1938-39 15.15) 38.05 6135.24 20.5 eS 4.7 1939-"40 1407 32.9 35-74 10.6 15 406 : 1940—="41 i538 | 34,0 34.7 9,2 rey ase 1941-'42 Wet f) 34-7, 33.0 8.8 t35. 4.2 Note the quite general agreement of all the percentages for all etive years. Many people, both students and instructors, might be surprised to note that about half of the grades given during these years were A's and BES. Last year's grades show the highest percentage of A's and the lowest per- centage of failures in five years. It is safe to say that never before have there been fewer poor students or more suverior students in the Col- lege, 10 Ad 12. 13 14 15 16 V7 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ad 28 29 * Courses not open to freshmen, Rank ra0— ae ee 23 8 4 15 ae 20 9 13 8 17 16 29 oo 24 af 20 oe 26 28 18 TABLE I GRADE POINT INDICES FOR FALL Freshman-Sophomore Courses Department Music (All, Applied) French and Italian Physical Rducation Design Musical Theory Latin and Greek Philosophy Psychology German Journalism Religion Sneech Physiology Home Economics Entomology Botany Sociology Political Science English Spanish Drawing and Ptg, History Economics Physics and Ast, Zoology Geology Chemistry Mathematics Military Science 7 ay Oy ons (O7} aa @ nm Tec ——— —" ~~ -— OY — ‘41 —~ SPRING Index Rank Rank T4i— '40- 842 Jan 2422 XE 1 2,04 im 2 1,94 e 5 89 4 3 1,84 5 6 25:50 6 9 Looe 7 at Lor 8 8 LOL 9 16 1,60 10 LL 1,53 ee 10 Lye 12 11 1,50 13 17 1.48 13 18 1,47 a ie 1,42 16: ek 1,41 shay Li 1,41 18 a 1.39 19 20 18 19 18 Lied, 19 23 1,33 22 1 A 27 23 25 igeo 24 ao 1,24 24 30 Leo 26 Co Lea al 28 Pe 28 oe 13:06 29 ay a 29 '42 Junior—Senior Courses Department Gera French and Italian Spanish and Port, Latin and Greek Musical Theory Mathematics English. Psychology Education Philosophy Political Science Speech Military Science Home Economics Physics and Ast. Religion Physiology Botany Zoology History Sociclogy Entomology Geology Bacteriology Biochemistry Journalism Business Chemistry Economics Drawing and Pté. nN ~_— oO (21), (22) (23) Index TABLE TT TER DISTRIRUTTON OF MAR”S ITN THE COI-LEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES FOR FALL '41 — SPRING '42 Number of Student Marks A% B% C% D% 1% F% Anatomy Jr-Sr - 1453 Sk 28, 6 Bacteriolosy Fr-So 42 2yU9 Dg ak 2OVe 2,4 2.4 \ Jr-sr L75 Lo. 7 50,9 28,6 6 2n2 Piochemistry Jr-Sr Ck 61.9 28.6 aS75 47 5 Botany Fr-So Caek cles foe 33 ¢ sae. 3 2 3 6,¢ Jr-Sr 38 26,3 S452 es Eee 200 Chemistry Fr-So 458 15557 28.8 26,6 16.4 Les FA? Jr-Sr 159 ZO, L S552 2353 Shee Las 6.9 Design Fr=S 0 45 28.9 Benet 20,0 TS G25 Jr-esr iS ple, 43-1 4367 38,7 : Economics Fr-So 867 14,9 25.5 Sou gue 1,0 6,4 Jr-sr 225 16,4 EEO 36 Ce 2.5 25 4.4 English Fr-So 1824 13.5 32,2 2669 Ho as 5,5 Jr-Sr 441 24,6 44,8 Cao ae) 3,6 1,4 Entomology Fr-S o 137 a2 Beek BAe 43,6 Sie 9 3,4 Jr-Sr 86 Bee 3206 29,5 25 a2 ok French and Fr-So Rey. 37,4 40.7 igs Leo Fe ety) Ttelian Jr-—Sr 24 A3,\7 A059 ee Geology and Fr-So 386 Be Lo. S S756 wee Mig 53 Geography Jr-Sr 88 23,0 38,7 S452 Lk 2,9 German Fr-So 291 28,9 26,8 26,4 9.3 lpg Toe Jr-sr 7 42,8 2a, 6 eu, 6 History Fr-Sa 423 14,0 26.7 35.7 14,4 Sgt Se Jr-sr 336 16,9 40,52 St oe a, 6,2 oe Home Economics Fr-So 336 8:0 39,4 Al 4 wok 15 eo Jr-Sr 199 14,6 B37 Cag L ao Journalism Fr-So 134 17,9 38,8 32,6 6,3 1,4 on 3 Jr-Sr 288 4030 SB ce SA Co) Soy Zeek 1,0 Latin and Greek Fr-So 82 24.5 46,4 20,7 4,9 tye o.4 Jr-Sr 19 Ce ork 57,8 ei Mathematics Fr-So 621 16,9 20,9 S21 16,3 Lo 18 Jr-Sr 36 S6;.2 38,9 22 c ose Military Fr-So 562 Lis 40.6 40,6 bo, i 7. Science Jr-Sr 52 15.4 9 32 507 Music (Applied) All 296 48,9 365. 9,7 Ceo 1,0 2.0 Musical Theory Fr-So 38 159 6 60,5 ei. OD Jr-sr 54 sg ae creo 29,7 S00 1.9 Number of Student Marks A% B% C% D% 1% P% Philosophy FPr-—So 240 20629 32,9 Creo C.D Leo ae dk Jr-Sr 86 34,9 25,6 32,5 Ag 2i3 Physical Fr-So 451 peo “oS we Bids 1.4 7° ro Education Jr-Sr aay oy 86,9 4,4 Physics and Fr-So 288 14,4 235 29.6 Lo.5 oe Ele Astronomy ‘JIre-Sr 32 9,4 59,4 21,9 6,2 Bok Physiology Fres 0 264 17.4 CEA 34,5 S7 oo 4,9 JreSr 72 19,5 40,3 36,1 AGD Politica L Fr-So 295 14,2 33-9 Jago 9,8 el ap Science Jr-Sr 234 26,9 a4 52 Sage 3,9 do oa Psychology Fr-So 334. 17,4 BOle 41,0 3,9 aoe. 3 Jresr 499 28.2 45.8 alee 34 ee co Relision Fr-So 33 18,1 36.5 45,4 Ir-Sr 120 Megs 8 AO. 8 45,1 | .8 School of Jr-Sr 66 Cy, alee 36.3 75 aus 646 Business Secial Science Fr-So 408 Pi age 33',8 7.0 we 135 0 Survey . Sociology Fr-So 209 degen 36,3 37,8 8.7 3,4 io A Jr-Sr 507 LO ee 42,2 B52 Ais ay oe Spanish and Fr-5S 0 780 18,5 Cos SA Ls e 4 4,9 Portuguese Jresr 58 Loge. Soe 18.9 Speech FreS 0 358 oe 3653 41,3 Dig 1,4 a Jr-Sr PES HE Sheps: oO, oO 22.9 3,0 eo Zoology FreSo NGG 15.8 2760 32.2 12) 8 0 Se Jr-Sr coo 17.9 45,5 Cuee a3 soe AS TOTALS Fres hman-S ophomore gine genie 15.8 31,9 35, 10.6 a ae Junior-—Senior 4,508 22,4 41,7 Loa 43 272 ne Ae Total Marks 1S 562.) Dg 34,7 33, 8.8 a oe COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS NOTICE OF FACULTY MELTING The College Faculty will meet at 4:30 on Tuesday, February 23, in Fraser Theater, There will be some discussion of the sta— tus of the literal arts college in Amer- ica during the war period, A large at- tendance is desired, as it is highly imp portant that we thoughtfully face both the problems and the opportunities of these Gavse * CLASS CARDS Class cards are past due in this office, If you have not already done so, will you nlease return them at once so we can make the class: rolls, * * * % A DIFFICULT SEMESTER We can face our difficulties this semes— ter feeling sorry for ourselves, excusing ourselves and our students for second— rate endeavor and in general with a spir- it of listlessness, or discouragement, which will inevitably result in our doing a mediocre quality of work, If we permit such a spirit to dominate us, we are not worthy descendants of our fathers, who in every generation faced their own difficulties and mastered them, And certainly our own morale will not be high if we do not do our work with enthu- siasm and with all the energy and devo-~ tion of which we are capable, The things thet war has done to colleges are done, We can view them, if we wish, as a series of unmitigated misfortunes, and sit down to bewail them. In this direction lie gloom, inertness, and un— manliness, God pity the colleges of America if this be our general feeling, On the other hand, these days my be a- mong the most interesting and the most beneficial to our colleges if we accept their challenge and look upon them as giving us the opportunity to make a vale uable contribution to the winning of the war, and to develop a better and more worthwhile system of education, February 20, 1943 MID-SEMESTE RS Mid-semester grades are due Friday, March 12, In order to do the necessary office work with these reports on that weekend, every class report should-be in if possi-=- ble before the twelfth, and certainly not later than that date. Your cooperation is earnestly requested, and we ask that you plan your quizzes so that you will have plenty of time to grade them and make your report very promptly. * £ tH * * I think it can be stated. as almost an historical truism that the greatest civ— ilizations of history have been the best educated civilizations, And when I speak of education in this sense, I do not have in mind what so many today claim as edu— cation, namely, special training to do particular jobs, Clearly in a technolog— foal efe like ours, a great deal of train- ing is necessary. Some of us must learn how to be mechanics, some how to be arch- itects, or chemists, Some will have a special apntitude for medicine, And a great many will have--or think they have-- a mysterious talent which induces them to undertake the practice of law, But none of these specialties constitutes true education, They are training for skills by which men live. I am thinking, rather, of what we call the liberal arts, I am speaking of education for its own sake: to know for the sheer joy of under— standing; to speculate, to analyze, to compare, and to imagine, Look back across the panorama of history, Is it not true that the pinnacles of civ- jlization have been achieved by the cities and states most proficient in the liberal arts and occupations? In their contribu- tions to the enrichment of human life, the Greeks, I believe, tower above us all, Yet this is not because the Greeks were good navigators, which they were; nor because they were great architects, which indeed they were, It was rather because almost all their leaders--and many of their citi- zens whose names we do not know—-enjoyed knowledge and reverenced the arts, The Greek cities conquered the eastern Medi- terranean with the sword, But they con-: quered posterity with their minds. --From a talk by Wendell L, Willkie delivered at Duke University January 27, 1945. Sincerely yours, - Direster of Physical Education, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. January 4, 1943. Dean Paul B. Leweon, College of Liberal Arte and Soiences, University of Kensas. Dear Dean Lawson: Thank you for your courtesy in returning to this office the class cards which were incorrectly made out by the scribes at enrollment time. When the class carde | first came to this office we naturally supposed they were made out correctly, and for that reason returned then to your office after they had bem signed. With appreciation, I am _ Sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH ; Varsity Basketball Coach. THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES OFFICE OF THE DEAN LAWRENCE January 1, 1943 Dr, Forrest C, Allen Department of rhysical Education My dear Dr. Allen: I am returning a little package of cards to you which were incor- rectly made out by the Physical Education scribes. None of these is a College student, and, therefore, their class cards should not be College class cards, I believe your office will want to make out the proper class cards and send them to the offices of the Deans concerned, Sincerely yours, raul B, Lawson, Dean PBL: blk Enclosure COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS TERM END FAVORS Please help the College Office Dy: 1, Sending us at once a red card for enact student who has withdrawn from your course with failure. oe ending us a red card for each stu- cent ae failsvat the end of the semes— ter as soon as you know he has failed, and ot aber than your handing in of the ~ ade. sveetu 3. Sendind usa .bluéwcard Lomvesgoh stu dent who receives an Incomplete, your final grade sheets Tt twould preatly help if each sheet as soon as the class have been made cut, A ee aT an a very promptly. vou would send grades of th ALL grades are needed for us to deter-— mone whether students have met probation requirements and to check changes in Glassification, “Lt isi very important, therefore, that we have all of your grade sheets in this ofdice not later than 24 hours after each examination, Every late grade sheet comvlicates and slows up our enrollment procedure, Red end blue cards may be obtained at the devartmental Cee Blessings’ on all Sot ruc bore who do all the apove?: ee RK KK PIS Gre lene There is a philosophy w hich stems from Roussesu that our youngsters come to us "trailing clouds. of glory from God who is their home," and that all we have to do th to let their glory flower in che gardeco of freedom, No weeding, no cul- “Civeting, no Fenmtlileing, no trimming, ho pruning, no, discipline. ; Well, we who have children and’we who teach know that our youngssters, however tovable, aren't just like that, and. they them-— selves know they aren't just like that, or most of them do, > Strangely enough, they like discipline, if it be Pensenabile and frir discipline, We have all heard of the youngster who objected to marching with his mates because he had a sacred rhythm of his own, but we have also heard of the bored youngster in an uty modern school who complained, "“Flease, teacher, do we have to do what we watt. to do now?" --Former President’ George Norlin University of Colorado January 11, 1943 ADVISERS! MEETING All advisers who help with enrollment are asked to meet at 3:30 on Monday, January 18, in Room 103 Frank Strong Hall. We feel that every adviser should be present at this meeting, for a good many changes have been made Gahion should be brought to. our attention, We plan to discuss in de- tail these changes and the problems of enrollment in the hope that ali of us do our work quickly and yet accurately during the one day which will be given to enrollment on Tuesday, January 19. can ee KK H A POINT OF VIEW Education has been concerned with teach-- ing people how to learn rather than wh.t to learn, (tihas taught. the his tomy o¢ philoscphy but .carefully refrained f2:om giving any guidance in evaluating phil-- osophy,) Tnshis @esire to be scisnts [19 and objective, the philesopher has care fully concealed his own opinions, for— getting that the great philosophers of the pas ti were violently partisan. Men like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle firank— ly had an axe |to grind and made no bones avout At) ley vers exiled sand put) 00 death for the things they advocated, It ig a bit difficult (to imacine tie conven tional modern philosopher suffering any such inconvience because of positions which he takes before his classes, ' The upshot of ity allts,. the schocis bays refused to face the most important ques=— tions the student asks-——"what is the Meaning of life?" Education has been extremely vocal about techniques and strangely silent about goals, We are now seeking the fruits of this type of education, Graduates emerge well equipped with skills but not pro- vided with any purpose to give point and dinmectitn. to these skills, They are launched on the sea of life with high speed engines and no steering gears, Thus équipved, they are in no sense free, even though they live in a free society with all restraints removed and the "11d Off” to poeety “The cola) reality is tore is no imprisonment more unendurable than purposelessness, What good is freedcw to people that are lost in the woods with no sense of direction? weir, Pat! Calvin Payne an the Coe College Courier