University Daily Kansan Thursday. Feb. 23, 1956.
'Learn To Read First,' Advises Visiting Professor Of English
"I feel a little like a sheep in wolf's clothing, posing as a professor of English literature, when I am so ill-read in English literature—in fact, in all literature," said Miss Caroline Gordon, visiting professor of English and novelist.
"However, I am taking on the habits of a professor—of one kind of a professor at least. When I got on the bus this morning I presented the driver with a key to my apartment instead of a token."
The field of English instruction isn't new to Miss Gordon. She was professor of English in the Women's College of the University of North Carolina in 1937-39, then five years at Columbia University as an instructor in novel and short story technique.
'First Learn To Read'
"One should first learn to read," she said. "I think far too much emphasis is put on writing nowadays and far too little emphasis on reading. Young people try to publish their writings before they have given serious attention to the works of the great masters. This is not the way the masters themselves went about it.
"Vincent Van Gogh was certainly an original genius but he wasn't under the impression that he was the only painter that ever lived," Miss Gordon said. "Some of his paintings show how carefully he studied the work of Millet, James Joyce's 'The Portrait of the Artist', reflects his careful study of Henry James' 'The Portrait of A Lady.'
Learn From The Dead
"Ernest Hemingway used to
"Ernest Hemingway used to say
This A Trial?
Some Wonder
"Guilty! We find the defendant guilty of being distractingly and disturbingly attractive."
All a shapey co-ed must do to incur this verdict is walk in front of Green Hall between classes and 50 judges who hold court daily, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. will pass judgment on any or all who come by. The judges, sansermine, are law students who faithfully occupy the bench (front steps of Green Hall facing Uche Jimmy) in all weather.
If the same couple is seen more than once it's likely that the wedding march will be sung or whistled by this judiciary body.
Comments on clothing, hair styles, poise, stance, and "other things" are common. There is never a case which passes without a verdict. Some of the comments are humorous, some are not. If you're young and female and ever want the answer to the old question "What's the matter with me?" just take a stroll in front of Green Hall. You won't be ignored.
Union Operating Group To Meet
The Student Union Operating Committee will hold a dinner meeting Wednesday Feb. 29 in the English Room of the Student Union.
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, said the committee would welcome any "suggestions, criticisms, or ideas" concerning the management of the building. These suggestions may be given to Dean Woodruff, Frank Burge, director of the Union, or to one of the student members of the committee.
Students on the committee are George Sheldon, Salina junior; Bill Buck, Kansas City, Kan; senior; Sandra James, Wichita sophomore; Suzanne Schwantes, Winfield senior; James Hathaway, Overland Park seni; Cole Hendrix, Coffeyville seni; and Cole Alan Frame, Wichita seni.
Murphy To Speak In Topeka Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will be the speaker at a dinner meeting of Shawnee County alumni at 6:30 p.m. today at the Hotel Jayhawk in Topeka. Dr. Murphy will present the second of his planned annual reports on the University.
that 'the only people you can learn from are dead people.' I am sure that he was right," Miss Gordon said. "I sometimes think that the deader the better."
Miss Gordon thinks when the universities ceased to make the study of Latin and Greek a requirement for the degree of bachelor of arts they took away from the aspiring student the very tools of his trade.
"You cannot learn English grammar from the study of a living language," she said. You must learn it the way a medical student learns anatomy, from the dissection of cadavers, from a study of the grammars of the languages which hold the roots of our living language."
The next time someone tells you this is a University which offers only general courses, ask him about Xenophon's Anabasis, Kinetics and Catalysis, or Limnology.
Tongue Twisters? KU's Got Them
We all are familiar with courses on the Hill like Biology, Western Civilization, English Composition and Speech, but unless you're taking the course or majoring in the particular field, many KU courses may seem far away to you.
For instance, how many students know about The Laplace Transform, or to stay in mathematics, Theories of Functions of a Complex Variable, or the same with a real variable?
on, try Natural Products Related to Phenanthrene.
Mathematics isn't the only field which may lose you. There's chemistry which offers such courses as Chemistry of Nonaqueous Solvent Systems and Heterocyclic Compounds. If you're still hanging
Botany is a relatively simple term, but it's broken down into some real gems. A few are Comparative Morphology and Taxonomy of the Vascular Cryptogamus, Medical Mycology, and Advanced Phycology.
Engineering likewise has its stilfers, including Potential Flow and Airfoil Theory, Free Surface Flow, Industrial Stoichiometry and Behavior of Petroleum Hydrocarbons.
Acarology, Insect Toxicology and Speciation are some of the more complicated-named courses on insects.
We could go on and on to prove our point, but is it necessary? Besides, we've got to take our lesson in Elementary Social Dance.
The Boy Scouts of America were founded. Feb. 8, 1910.
Church Meeting To Be March 9-11
Approximately 150 persons are expected to attend the annual Kansas Methodist Student Movement Conference to be held here March 9 to U.
Theme of the conference will be "Christ's Contemporary Community." Students will represent Wesley Foundation members of the five state schools and the three Methodist schools, Baker University, Southwestern, and Kansas Wesleyan College.
Featured speaker for the meet will be Dr. James Thomas of Nashville, Tenn., associate secretary of the board of education of the Methodist Church.
Graduates in Engineering...Physics...Mathematics
LOCKHEED Aircraft Corporation
California Division Georgia Division
Staff Representatives will be on campus to discuss your future Monday, February 27 In Lockheed's expanding research and development program
Both divisions of Lockheed are engaged in a long-range expansion program in their fields of endeavor.
California Division activities in Burbank cover virtually every phase of aircraft, both commercial and military. 46 major projects are in motion, including 13 models of aircraft in production - extremely high-speed fighters, jet trainers, commercial and military transports, radar search planes, patrol bombers. The development program is the largest and most diversified in the division's history.
New positions have been created for graduates in: Aeronautical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics and Physics.
At Lockheed in Marietta, Georgia, new C-130A turbo-prop transports and B-47 jet bombers are being manufactured in the country's largest aircraft plant under one roof. The division is already one of the South's largest industries. In addition, advanced research and development are underway on nuclear energy and its relationship to aircraft. A number of other highly significant classified projects augment the extensive production program. New positions have been created for graduates in: Aeronautical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics and Physics.
This broad expansion program is creating new positions in each division. Graduates in fields of Aeronautical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Physics are invited to investigate their role in Lockheed's expansion.
Separate interviews will be given for each division.
Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation
California Dtvlston, Burbank, California • Georgia Divlston, Marletta, Georgia