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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931
Summer Session Kansan
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FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931
IT OUGHT TO BE FUN
Whether for six or for ten weeks, a stay on Mount Oread ought to be pleasurable as well as profitable. Under a blazing Kansas sun, the breeze that comes almost everyday from the Wakarusa valley sweeps cooling fingers across the Hill.
Those who know the beauty of the campus, those who are already proudly Jayhawks, need no introduction to the buildings and grounds or the wooded slopes of the Hill. To them the campus offers a welcome and a chance of renewing acquaintance with its pleasant walks.
To the newcomers the University offers beauty, friendliness, and traditions into which they may become gradually initiated. The members of the faculty are interested in meeting and knowing students. Go to them freely as friends, and they will receive you as such. Walk through Marvin grove, the wooded ravine that leads down to the stadium, and visit the Rock Chalk pile. Watch always for the beauty of the view across the valley. Do all these things, and you will cease to be a newcomer and become a Jayhawker, loving a mighty University in spite of little faults which sometimes come to your attention.
Once again the University offers a welcome to the returning students and the strangers within her gates. The Kansan hopes that the stay of the summer students may be first of all a profitable one, giving intellectual stimulation and knowledge in chosen work. Better still, in addition to the serious purpose of a sojourn on Mt. Oread, one may enjoy the beauty of the campus, the contacts with other people, and the new surroundings.
YOUR VOCABULARY
The extent of a man's education, the breadth of his knowledge, is often judged by the comprehensiveness of his vocabulary. Practically everyone likes to use big words, if he can "get by with it."
Words should not be used in order to put on a mere ostentatious display, but to convey adequately, concretely, and fully one's thoughts and meanings, an extensive vocabularly is often indispensable.
There are numerous ways in which to increase one's available stock of words. One effective method is to jot down on a card each unfamiliar word which one sees or hears. The words should be looked up during the first available leisure hour. The cards can be carried in a pocket and the meanings of the word reviewed while going to and from classes. The words looked up should be used at the first possible opportunity, in writing or in conversation. Use a new word three times and if becomes one's own personal possession for the rest of your life.
increasing the vocabulary becomes easy if it is made a habit to look up at least a few words each day and consistently use them. The stiffness soon wears off, and one no longer feels ill at ease when he uses colorful words.
ATHEISM
An atheist's universe is a dead universe—a glove without a hand, a body without a brain, a hat without a head, a machine without a machinist. Yet there are many of the most intelligent students on the campus who have accepted this attitude.
Everything in the world contradicts the atheist. There is power, beauty, good, evil; there are worthwhile things that point to a universe where there is a God. The atheist seeks a merely "moral" God and an "ethical" God, and not finding him anywhere, denies the existence of any God.
There are always some persons who seek merely to form a negative philosophy instead of the conventional ideas. Better for them, perhaps, to accept a universe with a God rather than to judge something about which they know nothing. But they miss much of the beauty of life.
The Campus Muse
DREAMY INDOLENCE Why do I find such pleasure In dreamy indolence? At times my conscience hurts, its true, Put You a good defense.
The siren voice of Fancy
Lures me to dreaming long;
My daily tasks are left undone,
I listen to her song.
To dream may be a waste of time,
But I will ne'er repent
The hours that I have whiled away
Dreamily indolent.
—Fred Fleming.
Miss Gladys Campbell, '24, will be instructor of mathematics at Oskaloosa, this coming year.
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University Granted Its First Degree in Fine Arts Fifty Years Ago June 8
Fifty years ago this commencement the University of Kansas granted its first degree in Fine Arts when Ella Kempthorne of Beloit was "graduated in music," the old register in the registrar's office put it. This pioneer in Fine Arts from Kansas is now Mrs. Ella Carroll of Manitou, Colorado.
The University offered its first courses in Music in 1877-78, when it had an enrollment of 19 students. J. E. Bartlett was the teacher of vocal music in the normal department at that time. The various "schools" of the University had not then been established.
Miss Kempthorne entered the University Sept. 10, 1879, end in the catalog is listed as a third-year student in music that year. She had one fellow-student, but the next year she was along in the fourth-year course, although there were 32 in the music courses. She finished the course in 1881. Commencement that year, as this, was June 8. Miss Kempthorne received a normal school degree in 1882.
The University catalog indicates this content of the fourth-year music course: Kullack's octave studies; Chopin, etudes, op. 25; Liszt, etudes; Rubenstein, etudes and preludes; Cle-
manti, cradus ad parnassus, sonatas; Beethoven, Chopin, and Rubenstein, concert pieces continued.
Clara L. Morris was instructor of music that year.
MONARCHIST PAPERS PERSIST
IN NEW SPANISH REPUBLIC
Madrid—(UP) Although many Liberal-Monarchial and even one Conservative-Monarchial newspaper have passed over into the ranks of the Republic, Madrid still has four frankly monarchial papers.
Of the morning papers, two which are among those of the biggest circulation are monarchial: the Conservative A.B.C., and the Catholic organ, El Debate. In the afternoon there are two papers-La Epoca, the organ of the old Conservative party and El Diario Universal.
As a result of being quarantined ten days because one of their members has scarlet fever, the men in a fraternity at the University of Pittsburgh find that they spend a good deal of their time calling up the co-eds.
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