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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 5. 1956
10 Ways To Get Through College Without Even Trying
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (ACP)—This appeared in the Tennessee Tech Oracle. It's called "10 Ways to Get Through College Without Even Trying."
1. Bring the professor newspaper clippings dealing with his subject.
If you don't find clippings dealing with his subject, bring in clippings at random. He thinks everything deals with his subject.
2. Look alert. Take notes eagerly.
If you look at your watch, don't stare at it unbelievingly and shake it.
3. Nod frequently and murmur "how true." To you, this seems exaggerated. To him, it's quite objective.
4. Sit in front, near him. (Applies only if you intend to stay awake.)
5. Laugh at his jokes. You can tell, if he looks up from his notes and smiles expectantly, he has told a joke.
6. Ask for outside reading. You don't have to read it. Just ask for it.
7. If you must sleep, arrange to be called at the end of the hour.
It creates an unfavorable impression if the rest of the class has left and you sit there alone, dozing.
8. Be sure the book you read during the lecture looks like a book from the course. If you do math in psychology class and psychology in math class, match the books for size and color.
9. Ask any questions you think he can answer. Conversely, avoid announcing that you have found the answer to a question he couldn't answer, and in your younger brother's second reader at that.
10. Call attention to his writing.
This produces an exquisitely pleasant experience connected with you.
If you know he's written a book or an article, ask in class if he wrote it.
These suggestions, incidentally, were suggested by a professor, Robert Tyson of Hunter College.
In terms of total assets, the petroleum industry is the largest of all manufacturing industries and is second only to the food and beverage industry in terms of total sales.
DUKE ELLINGTON
at
All School Dance
Saturday, March 10
8:30-12:30
Union Ballroom
Tickets: $3.00 couple
Through:
IFC Representative
Or
At The Door
The February issue of the Science Teacher, publication of the National Science Teachers Association, includes an article on "Is Science Teaching Scientific?" by Dr. E. F. Bayles, professor of education.
Article Published By Prof. Bayles
The article was written by Dr. Bayles as part of a symposium to be presented at the annual convention of the National Science Teachers Association March 14, 15, 16 and 17 in Washington, D.C.
The article discusses not only what is taught in science classrooms, but how it is taught. Dr Bayles explains that too often students are handed the information, instead of actually letting them arrive at it by scientific method.
Dr. Bayles will address a teacher training section at the Washington convention.
The U.S. Navy was established March 27,1794.
Carillonneur's Congress Set
The University campus has been selected as the site of the 1956 Carillonneurs' Congress June 17-20, Ronald Barnes, University carillonneur said last week.
About 30 persons from Canada and the U. S. are expected to attend. The convention will be concerned with carillon repertoire and music published expressly for the carillon.
"There will be seminars on arranging, adapting and interpreting music for the carillon," Mr. Barnes said.
Six concerts are scheduled for late afternoon and evening, and some of the delegates will give recitals to demonstrate things discussed in the seminar. The congress was held in Ottawa, Canada last year.
"The Exurbanites," a book about the social impact of modern commuters, by A. C. Spectorsky, will be reviewed by William Conboy, assistant professor of speech and drama, at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Music Room of the Student Union.
Conboy To Review Book
361/2 Tons Of Copper, Tin: That's A Lot Of Bell
Take the weight in bells of a military medium tank, added a few hundred pounds of clappers, $78,000 for extras, and you'll get an instrument that will play music from "The Mikado."
This is what Carillonneur Ronald M. Barnes, instructor of music history, said about the carillon atop the Campanile. It consists of 364 tons of copper and tin alloy, and the great bell has seven tons of F sharm.
To make the seven tons produce F sharp, a 200-pound clapper must be moved. Therefore, women aren't advised to play the earlion which demands both muscle and agility, Mr. Barnes said.
It took a year to tune KU's 53-bell carillon. It was bolted upside down and rotated while a giant lathe shaved its inner surface.
For those who ask why the "Rock and Roll Waltz" isn't on the carillonneur's top ten list, Mr. Barnes said, "The tempo of popular music is too fast—the notes would run together. There's no way of stopping or damping them from the beat." Mr. Barnes has been criticized
for playing "hillbilly" music, but he says, "Folk songs from Europe, Canada, and America—even a boy songs—arrange well for the carillon, and as long as they sound good to me I'll play them."
The durability of bells can be illustrated by a World War II event, Mr. Barnes said. The bells of a church were bombed loose and fell 200 feet through the structure and rolled into the street still in good shape. The Germans, who took them for their metal value, had to try many strong-arm devices before they succeeded in breaking the bells.
In May, the KU bells will be checked for tone and action. The North American Guild of Carilloneurs convention will also be held on campus in June.
Instructor Discusses Murals
"Definite design factors are involved in coordinating a mural and its background." Donald T. Walters, instructor in architecture, told the Design Club Thursday. Mr. Walters displayed some of his finished work and work being completed.