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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1956
KEY MAN—The purpose of locks—to keep honest or dishonest persons from being thieves—might be questioned, but the importance of keys at the University is definite. Howard Erwin, of the buildings and grounds department, is occupied full time in making keys and replacing locks on the campus. Some weeks he turns out 500 to 1,000 keys and other weeks perhaps only 10, depending partly on the opening of new buildings, replacing of locks in a building, and replacing lost keys. To replace keys, he uses a file of duplicate keys for every door on the campus (Daily Konser Photos).
door on the campus.—(Daily Kansan Photo)
18 Attend Dinner At K.C. Press Club
Thirteen members of the University chapter of Sigma Delta Chi professional journalistic fraternity for men and five faculty members of the School of Journalism attended a dinner of the Kansas City Press Club at the Hotel Muehlebach Tuesday.
Guests at the annual dinner also included members of collegiate chapters of SDX from Kansas State College and the University of Missouri.
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Star Correspondent To Speak At Coffee
Alvin McCoy, Kansas correspondent for the Kansas City Star, will speak on the newspaper's coverage of Kansas politics at a Political Coffee at 4 p.m. today in the Student Union Music Room.
The opposition of Gov. Fred Hall and Rep. Warren Shaw for the Republican nomination for governor will be discussed. Mr. McCoy has recently returned from Topeka, where he covered the past session of the Kansas legislature.
There are eight kinds of rabbits and five kinds of hares in the United States.
His Statue Finally Shown
WASHINGTON—U.(P.)—One of the nation's great tributes to George Washington finally came into its own today. The Smithsonian Institution officially opened a newly-decorated and properly-lighted room for Horatio Greenough's statue of the first president, started in 1832.
Greenough, much taken with classical art, carved an heroic marble figure of Washington seated in a great chair. Washington held a sword in one hand and waved the other hand aloft as if he were greeting friendly Indians. Even seated, he towered 11 feet into the air.
And he was naked from the waist up. The rest of him was clad in a toga. His huge feet were shod in Roman sandals.
In 1953, Congress voted funds for renovation work at the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian used some of this money last week to paint the apse, and now the building will install spotlights on the statue. (An editorial, "A Tribute To George
Washington," Page 2)
Graduate Receives $100 Law Award
The $100 C. C. Stewart law award, presented annually to an outstanding student, has been given to Fred Sailor mid-semester Lawrence graduate.
Six was the third-ranking law student in the senior class and was recently admitted to the state bar. He is now with a law firm in New York City.
Tots Don't Read Classics, She Says
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Novelist Caroline Gordon, a visiting lecturer at the University, said Tuesday that modern trends in exposing children to literature, especially condensations of masterpieces, "deprive our children of their birthright."
EFFINGHAM, Ill.—U(F.U.)—The owner of a black mail box on a rural mail route near here was surprised to come back from town and find the box painted white. Investigation disclosed the mail carrier painted the black box because it was too hard to see. It was the mail carrier's turn to be surprised the next day when he found the mail box painted black again.
The American Meat Institute estimates hamburger and other ground beef used 2,270,000,000 pounds of the total beef produced in the United States in 1955. That's almost 14 pounds per person.
"We first told youngsters that it wasn't necessary to read the originals, that a translation was just as good," she said in the third of a weekly series of lectures on common elements in great fiction. "Now we tell them they need not read at all; they can see movies, TV, read comics, or condensations."
She recommended age 3 or 4 as the proper time to begin acquaintance with great literature.
American composer Gian Carlo Menotti has composed seven operas.
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