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Published weekly by the University of Kansas. Admitted as second class matter at the postoffice at Lawrence, Kansas, May 31, 1919, under the act
of August 24, 1912. This number edited by Harold G. Ingham, Director of Extension Division.

 

 

1938 NO. 1

 

 

VOL. XXXVIII : LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 24,
High Schools to KFKU Resumes
Debate American Broadcasting
Foreign Policy The station identification “This is

In view of the unsettled conditions |~

in the Orient and in nearly all parts
o: Europe, the high school debate
question this year is one of unusual
interest and vital importance. The pro-
posal “that the United States should
establish an alliance with Great Bri-
tain” challenges the immediate interest
o: every individual, | student Seater
and adults alike. It possesses the ad-
ditional challenge that, with almost
daily changes in the political situation
in Central Europe, additional facts are
developing constantly to affect the va-
lidity of both affirmative and negative
arguments on this propcsition. Since
the average citizen has given but little
thought to our foreign policy, this
topic projects the high school debater
into a field of infarmation which he
has not previously explored. ~~

According to the present plans, the
interscholastic debate contests will be
conducted on exactly the same basis as
last year. The work will be adminis-
tered for the High School Activities
Association by the Forensic Committee,
oi which Commissioner E. A. Thomas
is Chairman, with Mr. Ingham, Direc-
tor of the University Extension~ Divi-
sion, serving as State Director. The
forensie activities, both debate and. ex-
tempore speaking, will be promoted
and organized in each of the twelve
districts of the state by the district di-
rector of forensic contests. This list
o: directors is as follows:

Dist. Name City
1 Supt. G. A. Swift Holton
2 Prin. G. E. Watkins Garnett
3. Prin. W. W. Bass , Chanute
4 Supt. J. H. Richart Reading
5 Supt. D. E. Wolgast Marysville
6 Supt. L. H. Brewster Osborne
7 Supt. F. F. Herr Medicine Lodge
8 Prin. Herbert €. Hawk | Winfield.

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FRASER HALL—tThe home of the Ex-
tension Division.

 

Greetings

September and the opening of an-
other school year have signalized the
departure of youth from practically
every community in the land for en-
rollment in some college, technical or
professional school. Colleges and uni-
versities in every part of the country
are reporting increases in enrollment.
This steady growth of the student
bodies of our institutions of higher
learning is indicative of a conscious-
ness of the need for better training to
enable youth to understand and to
cope with the ever-increasing complex-
ities of our modern socia! and economic
structure, Seas =

But this consciousness is not limited

to youth alone. Adulis in all walks of
life and of all ages, from the boy or
girl who has left the halls of learning
to join the ranks of wage-earners, or
to enter upon a professional career,
to the parent or, grandparent who has
become aware of possibilities in per-
sonal development and self-education
through the orderly use of leisure time,
are taking advantage of existing oppor-
tunities for further study and training.
To this large and rapidly increasing
group of ambitious adults, the Univer-
sity Extension Division sends its greet-

 

Station KFKU, the University of Kan-
sas, at Lawrence,’ on September 26, at
6 o’clock, will introduce the opening
program in the fourteenth consecutive
year of broadcasting from the univer-
sity’s own radio station.

Station KFKU will utilize only ‘its
evening periods until the second week
in October when it will resume the
afternoon broadcasting of the School
of the Air, radio lessons presented
primarily as a supplement to the
courses given in secondary schools and
junior colleges.

School of the Air

Two new radio courses are included
in the School of the Air schedule for
this year. On Tuesday afternoons at
2:45, beginning October 25, Professor J.
J. Kistler of the Journalism Department
and Superintendent of Journalism
Press, will offer a series of discussions
on the History and Development of
Printing, from the earliest beginnings to
the present time. The different periods
and their influence and noted names in

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ings with the hope that it may be of
some service in helping to satisfy the
desire for additional educational op-
porbunibies..$: 20. :

In this issue of the Newsletter will
be found announcements and informa-
tion concerning various services which
the University of Kansas offers to in-
dividuals and groups throughout the
state. Additional services will be men-
tioned or discussed in subsequent issues.
Individuals and organizations are in-
vited to make the widest possible use
of the University Extension Division
in promoting both fermal and informal
educational activities.

Jot & Sighanr

Director, Extension Division

 

 

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