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Novelist To Teach 3 Writing Courses
Three courses offered by the English Department in the spring semester will be taught by Miss Caroline Gordon, novelist and visiting professor of English.
Miss Gordon is the wife of Aller Tate, literary critic and professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of several novels, including "The Malefactors," to be published this spring by Harcourt, Brace and Company.
A class at 7:15 p.m. Tuesdays, open to the public, will include lectures on the common elements found in the work of the greatest fiction writers. "The House of Fiction," a critical anthology the author wrote with her husband, will be used in the course.
"It is the task of the beginning writer to find out what these constants are. My lectures would consist of an examination and, where it is possible, an analysis of these constants, with illustrations from the works of the masters, both living and dead."
In a letter to James L. Wortham, head of the English department, Miss Gordon said, "The thesis of my book is that in the work of the masters, there are certain 'constants,' which you will find, in greater or less degree, in any well-wrought piece of fiction, from Aeschylus and Homer down to a good detective story.
Miss Gordon will teach Modern American and British Writers from 3 to 4:50 p.m. Wednesdays. Students in the informal course will read and discuss writers, many of whom Miss Gordon knows personally.
Miss Gordon wrote that she also will be available for private conferences with students whose writing merits consideration.
She will also conduct a Writers' Workshop from 3 to 4:50 p.m. Thursday. Class members will study the work of great writers and write and criticize imaginative literature.
Miss Gordon visited the University in 1949 as a leader at the annual University of Kansas
Official Bulletin
Today
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the Public Relations office 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on, the Wednesday of the bulletin material to the Daily Kansan. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
Morning prayer, 6:45 a.m. Danforth Chapel. Holy Communion, 7 a.m.
Wednesday
Morning meditations, 7:30-7:50 a.m.
Dunlop Chapel Everybody welcome
Christian Church
Newman Club novena to the Holy Ghost, after 7 a.m. Mass. Rosary, 5:10 p. m. St. John's Church. No executive meeting.
Morning meditations, 7:30-7:50 a.m.
D. Cunningham, 7:50-8:15 a.m.
CCU Steering Committee, 4 p.m., of-
fered.
KU Dames Bridge Group, 7:30 p.m.
Student Union.
Thursday
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. Student Union
Music Room, Folks歌
Christian Science Organization, 7,30
p.m. Durham Chapel Students, faculty
and staff
Sigma Xi-Kansas Chapter, 7:30 p.m.
122 Mollott Hall. Speaker: Prof. J. Weir:
"Inherience of Resistance to Infection"
"Initiation of new members."
KU Medical Dames, 8 p.m., Museum Lounge. Speaker: Dr. Helen Gilles.
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Seaver Attends Chicago Meetings
James Seaver, associate professor of history, has returned from Chicago where he attended a series of meetings of archaeological groups.
The groups included the American Philological Association, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Prof. Seaver is the University representative on the committee.
Highlights of the archaeological meeting included papers on excavations in Greece and a paper on place names in ancient Greece.
Writer's Conference. Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professor of journalism and present director of the conferences, was assistant director of the 1949 conference.
A new History of Science course, a study of science from the fall of the Roman Empire until the 16th century, will be offered next semester, Dr. Robert Schofield, assistant professor of history and instructor of the course, said today.
New History Course Set
The course will begin with scientific ideas and writers at the fall of the Roman Empire and will end with the gradual development of the European sciences up to the 16th century, he said.
Classes will consist of lecture, assigned research topics and discussion by students. The course will count as two hours credit.
Virginia and Tennessee held popular votes on secession at the time of the Civil War. Virginia favored secession four to one, Tennessee by only slightly more than two to one.
Presbyterian Men To Meet
The Presbyterian Men's Organization will hold an hour dessert meeting at 7:15 p.m. today at Westminster House. A colored film strip on evangelism will be shown. A short discussion will follow.
Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1956. University Daily Kansan
Critics Acclaim KU Pianist For Washington D.C. Recital
Angelica Morales von Sauer, visiting associate professor of piano, received warm acclaim from critics for a recital played Jan. 10 at the Pan-American Union in Washington, D.C.
She appeared under sponsorship of the Ambassador of Mexico,
Senora de Tello, the Ambassador of Mexico to the Organization of American States, and Senora de Quintanilla.
The recital, an invitational affair, was attended by members of the diplomatic corps and musical personalities of the capital city.
KDGU
will not broadcast after Jan.17 for the remainder of the semester because of final week-
Broadcasting will be resumed February 2
What young people are doing at General Electri
Educational Relations, General Electric Company, Schenectady 5, N. Y.
Young scientist works on new ways to improve metals
Today scientists and engineers face one of the toughest barriers of all—the "metal barrier." Modern technology has progressed so rapidly that today's metals can't meet the tremendous demands placed upon them. For such fields as aviation, electronics, atomic energy, present metals must be improved and new kinds of materials must be developed.
One of the young men playing a role in this new and important field is 30-year-old Dr. Roland P. Carreker, Jr.
Carreker's Work Interesting, Vital
As a research associate in the General Electric Research Laboratory's Metals and Ceramics facility, Carreker's chief concern is the improvement of metals through new processing techniques.
In his work, Dr. Carreker has dealt with such important metallurgical problems as metal failure in high-speed turbine rotors, determining the strength of pure metals from $ - 425^{\circ}\mathrm{F} $ , the temperature of liquid hydrogen, to $ 2,800^{\circ}\mathrm{F} $ and economic studies of new metallurgical processes.
25,000 College Graduates at General Electric
When Carreker came to General Electric in 1947, he already knew the work he wanted to do. Like each of our 25,000 collegegraduate employees, he is given a chance to grow and realize his full potential. For General Electric has long believed this: When fresh young minds are given freedom to make progress, everybody benefits - the individual, the company, and the country.
DR.ROLAND CARREKER joined General Electric in 1947 after receiving a B.S. in 1945 and an M.S. in 1947 at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 at R.P.I. under a G-E program. During World War H he served on active duty as a naval officer,
Progress Is Our Most Important Product
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