THE UNIVERSITY’ OF KANSAS NEWSLETTER: The Package Library And Current Affairs A Supplement to the Newspaper and the Text “It-has recently been very pertinently observed by one of the foreign radio commentators that the man -who de- pends upon the newspaper only to keep in touch with the affairs of the -day lives 11 the world of 1914, compared with the man who, through the radio, can “tune in” almost on the event it- self, or hear the very words of the dic- tator- or diplomat who pronounces a dictum of world significance. Likewise the student or class which must depend solely upon text books or supplementary books in their study -and evaluation of international and national affairs is at a decided disad- vantage. In between the text and the daily newspaper there is a very valu- able and important aid to the student in the condensed surveys and timely discussions which are presented in weekly and monthly magazines. The analytical discussion, which varies’ in’ its length and inclusiveness, may pause to interpret the affairs of today in the light of history and ‘to analyze issues or survey the progress of events, all of which help: to provide an’ under- standing of events which-are- only: re- ported in the daily press. The element of supplementary up- to-dateness, characteristic of the maga- zine article, is also the especial prop- erty of the package library.‘ The term package library is a very élastic one, ‘subject to various However,: it may be generally’ defined as « ollection of reference materials on a single subject—including, alone or ticles, and pamphlets, supplemented with books when scarcity of other ma- terial or the peculiar nature, of the subject requires. The University, in offering an exten- sion library service to the state, has attempted to meet a particular need in choosing the package library me- dium with its especial emphasis upon currently published materials. Special files of 200 magazines are received regularly for this work and these are continuously supplemented with new pamphlets, for just ‘as the magazine article is a step between the newspaper and the book text, so~ the! pamphlet stands oe the” oo article and book text: : interpretations. The Bureau of Genera! Information has no complete listing of the subjects upon which package libraries are available—such a list would need re- vising daily. It may be assumed by the Kansas reader, student or teacher, however, that any subject may ke submitted to the Bureau with the prob- ability that some material will be available from the Bureau’s vertical files, new magazine stacks, University Library, or when. necessary and pos- sible, acquired by the Bureau for the bcrrower from another source.. Extension Classes in Demand The. Extension Division has just an- nounced a list of 14 extension classes to be conducted in Kansas City, Missouri, for the teachers and. social. workers. of greater Kansas City. University pro- fessors meet these classes personally and, if the number of inquiries coming |to the extension class bureau is an in- dication, classes this fall will be large. Extension classes meet once each week for a period of one hour and 40 minutes. Classes carrying three hours of university credit meet 23 times and the two hour courses meet 16 times. These classes are held “off campus” and the instructor meets the class rather than the group coming to the university to meet with the instructor. While it is not possible to furnish instructors for all the classes requested, it is possible to arrange classes where a group of at least 15 prospective students request some specific course. Aniseunc New Courses During the summer, in response to various demands, the Bureau of Cor- respondence Study has arranged with the different departments of the Uni- versity for the preparation of the fuels ing college courses: Principles of Geography, 3 ete Property Insurance, 2. hours; English Composition 5 (sophomore), 3 hours; Cost Accounting, 3 hours; Govern- mental and Institutional Accounting, 2 hours; Standards of Living and Family Finance, 2 hours; German Composition 8, 3 hours; and Schiller’s Dramas, 2 hours. English Composition 5 is recommended to all interested in advanced composi- tion. The course in Principles of Ge- ography is one of the required courses for the thirty and sixty hour elementary school certificates. In addition to these new courses, six- teen old courses have been revised to parallel with the resident courses, and the newer texts. KFKU Resume Broadcasts (Continued from page 1) the graphie arts will be discussed as well as present-day methods of printing. Miss Helen Rhoda Hoopes, Assistant Professor-in English, will give a series of talks about Books and Reading each Thursday afternoon at 2:45. New books will be introduced, old books re-intro- duced. There will be discussion of per- sons, places and things spoken of in books. In general, the topics will be of current interest, and the talks designed as a guide to readers. Lessons in French, Spanish, and Ger- man, featured from KFKU for several years, will be offered again this year. The hours for these broadcasts may be found in the detailed schedule of KFKU. Debate discussions and round-tables on the debate question, to be given each Friday afternoon during October and November, will complete the — of the Air program. New Programs Announced Beginning the first Monday in October the Department of Political Science will provide for station KFKU a series of talks by way of interpreting the current political scene. The aim of this pro- gram will not be so much to report the current events as to relate to the sig- nificant background the news of political and social interest. Another new feature on KFKU will be a series of open forum, discussions on current topics of interest by some of our outstanding thinkers, on the university campus. Each Thursday evening,. from 9:30 to 10:00, three faculty members will take part in these round-table discus- sions. On Oct. 27, Ivan C. Crawford, Dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, will lead a discussion on “Regional Planning in a Power Minded Age.” The following week Fred J. Mor-. ey Dean of the School of Law, will | conduct a group discussion on “Majority Rights ‘and Liberty.” The period on the second Thursday in November will be apatenc? on page 4) High Schools to Debate (Continued from page 1) 9 Prin. O. O.. Smith Chapman 10 Supt. H. Scarborough Great Bend 11 Supt. F. H. Bailey Oakley 12 Supt. H. E. Pihiblad Garfield The schools will again be divided into three classes, according to the size of enrollment, with an entrance. fee for participation in district tournaments, as follows: $3.00 for Class A (enroll- ment of more than 500), $2.50 for Class B (enrollment between 200 and 500), and $2.00 for Class C (enrollment of 200 or less).