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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937
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Don't Go Stale!
On another page of today's Kansan is a story about the recreational facilities being offered men students this summer. Women will have similar opportunities. This is by no means a minor part of the session's program.
Participation in these is advisable for two very good reasons. First, directed recreation is a definite aid to study. Second, the summer session should not be a time of work alone. It is entirely possible to make this a profitable yet very enjoyable session.
One of the incidental but nonetheless significant features of a summer session is the refreshing and re-animating of minds that come together for a free interchange of thought.
The eight weeks period is a rather intensive one but the last way in the world to go through it is the way of some students—steady "grinding" with little attention to anything but studies.
Viewpoints
The psychology taught here advises us that we learn best if we "space" our periods of study. Those who go at their work grimly soon reach a plateau that is deadly to further learning.
During the summer we will have available all sorts of sports - tennis, softball, handball, swimming, wrestling, etc. Other activities of a diverting nature will be carried on - lectures, musicales, and so forth.
From that viewpoint, the summer session may be seen as an aspect of adult education. People who have taken their degrees return to
this place of learning to stimulate their minds, to learn more on specific subjects. In doing so they also seek leisure to think their thoughts and to take added interest in the world about them.
A university sometimes is derisively termed an "ivory tower," but occasionally to sit and contemplate from the heights of an ivory tower becomes a necessity. We begin to see larger things, to think on a broader scale. The immediacy of our vocations become for a while a thing of the past and we think of other things.
Taught in this university is not only biology or education or music. Taught here is perspective, a realization of the larger problems that beset us, the problems that seem to have little bearing on our lives but that in reality determine them.
In a free atmosphere we learn of the struggle that today goes on between fascism and democracy. We begin to appraise the vast change in our social order that is underway constantly; we contemplate the effect that the great unionization drive among workmen will have on our political and economic structure. European and world problems likewise assume added significance.
These things the University can and does do for us. It doesn't teach us psychology or history or medicine alone. It teaches us of the greater things that affect us. It aids us to examine these problems and to consider possible solutions. Outside lecturers, our own professors, our vast library are the means for this realization.
A liberal viewpoint is essential, particularly so in a democracy, to which the summer session can be seen as a valuable adjunct.
Kaw and Wakarusa Beauty Unexcelled As Seen From Fraser
From the very top of Fraser Hall, overlooking the Kaw and the Wakarusl valleys, two Presidents of the United States have looked out over the mass of billowing trees, green fields, and the University grounds in the spring, and exclaimed at the beauty of the scene. President Grant, just returning from his trip around the world said, "I have seen nothing finer," and President Hayes remarked similarly.
Sam Elliott, father of five University of Kansas graduates, for five years a mail man on the Hill because of his "liking for the place," and for several years guide to many commencement-week parties atop Fraser, told the reporter concerning the highest point on the Campus. "From here you can see a sample of every kind of Kansas land. There are rivers, prairies, valleys, hills, trees, and all these things thrown together to make a composite of Kansas formations.
Imagine the thrill our presidents felt when they looked out over this gorgeous panorama. Standing near the brittle rail, only a few inches from a precipitous fall, they had the combination of a hollow feeling in the pits of their stomachs and swellings in their hearts at the awfulness of the scene.
Directly to the north, over the tops of Dyche Museum and the Memorial Union building, they saf the Kaw, shining in the sun. A short way to the east they saw the "industrial" district of Lawrence. They noticed that almost all the rest of the city is hidden by the beautiful sea of trees, billowing in the ewnd like the waves
of an ocean. The court house stood out completely through a break in the foliage, and farthe rsouth the towers of two churches seemed to grow out of the trees. Derectly to the cast they saw a little dirt road trailing off into the valley.
Gazing on to the south, Haskell Institute stood out like an island in a sea of green, and on in their circle they saw the homes of south Lawrence. Continuing westward they saw the red brick school house of Wakara township.
Directly below and to the west, Oread street, a shining band, sweeps along the crest of the Hill, lined with University buildings on either side. Looking slightly to the north the West Hills Greek houses stood out along the edge of the Hill, and completing the circuit around to the north, the stadium lay, surrounded by playing fields and tennis courts.
The horizon, like the rim of a bowl, encircled the entire scene, and stretched for miles from side to side. Here is a bit of Kansas' most beautiful scenery, and truly it would be difficult to find anything finer.
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Morgan won the Rhodes scholarship from Kansas in 1926, attended Oxford from 1927 to 1930, and gained fame as the first American Rhodes scholar to act as director of Shakespearean plays at the Oxford theater in England.
Brewster Morgan who received his A.B. degree in 1926 and his A.M. degree in 1927 from the University, will direct a series of Shakespearean plays featuring stars of the theater and screen to be presented by the Columbia Broadcasting System during July and August.
While attending the University Morgan was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary Political Science fraternity, and Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
The Shakespearean dramas to be presented weekly in a cycle of eight one-hour productions on a night-time schedule to be announced later, will include: "Hamlet," "Macbeth," "King Lear," "Twelfth Night," "As You Like It," "The Taming of the Shrew," "Henry IV," and "Much Ado About Nothing."
"Shakespearian dramas are ideal for radio presentation," says Director Morgan, "due to the fact that they originally were played with very little scenery. As a result, the playwright often included in the dialogue passages which suggest the setting."
"Perhaps the greatest advantage which radio will enjoy in the presentation of the Bard's works is in the treatment of soliloquies," continues Morgan. "Radio allows players to keep their voices at normal pitch against backgrounds of clashing swords, shouting mobs, etc., as the case may be.
"This brings out all the emotional shadings and poetic beauties of such speeches and allows the listener almost to read the mind of the character speaking in a way which was possible heretofore only in the small Elizabethan playhouses for which such speeches originally were written."
Twenty-five ranking artists of the legitimate stage and motion pictures, supported by more than 100 players of note will be cast in these plays, with a symphony orchestra to supply the musical backgrounds.
Montreal —(UP)— Aaoul Daoust, 15, lighted a match to see whether there was any gasolene in the tank of n automobile which had been standing idle in the back yard of his home for three years. There was.
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