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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 4, 1955.
Change Major Says Professor
Since there is no way to shop successfully for college courses the best thing to do is change majors at least three times during your college career.
That's the advice of Dr. Calvin VanderWerf, professor of chemistry, who along with four other panelists yesterday answered the question "So you want to be a chemist?" for members of the University Chemist Club.
Narrowing down to the field of chemistry, Dr. VanderWerf cited the apparent lack of student interest in going into the teaching of science.
"Last year only about 78 graduates from all the universities and colleges in the United States went into teaching jobs as high school physics instructors," he said.
The panel also discussed reasons that science majors prefer less attractive teaching jobs to positions in private industry. Variety, freedom of research, and a chance to work with eager young minds were listed as advantages.
Other members of the panel were Dr. Paul Gilles, associate professor of chemistry; John Kleinberg, professor of chemistry, Dr. J. O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering, and Dr. Max Dresden, professor of physics.
K-State's Day Not Free Only A 'Floating' Holiday
If Kansas State College wins the football game tomorrow afternoon in Memorial Stadium, an athletic holiday will be held Monday in Manhattan.
However, this athletic holiday is not a "free day" for the students up the Kaw, as many University students believe. L. C. Woodruff, dean of students, said for many years Kansas State has permitted the student government to select a "floating" holiday each semester for athletic victories. The holidays can be taken almost anytime, subject to the approval of the school's president.
Kansas State students are not getting a "free day." Dean Woodruff said, as the school's academic calendar is two days longer than the University's.
Dean Woodruff added that such a system causes too much confusion in some classes. In certain courses, the students who missed a class because of a "floating holiday" would not be able to make the work up.
"It is one thing to have planned holidays," Dean Woodruff said, "and mother thing to have special holidays popping up."
"The administration prefers a later starting date and longer holidays," ie said.
The world's largest painting, about 35 feet high and 200 feet long, is Raoul Dufy's "The Electricity Fair."
Solar Energy To Be Topic
PHOENIX, Ariz.-(U. P.)-Plans for the establishment of a "laboratory of the sun" were discussed today by 900 scientists from throughout the world.
The scientists, gathered here for The First International Symposium on Applied Solar Energy, yesterday heard from speakers who advocated the use of the sun's power to alleviate the problems of mankind. Earlier this week, the scientists met in Tuscon to confer on the scientific basis of solar energy.
Sir Edward C. Bullar, director of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington, England, said power stations of 100,000 kilowatts operating on atomic energy could provide the answer to some power problems.
Small engines utilizing solar energy could be used for refrigeration and pumping water for irrigation, he said.
Dr. Farrington Daniels, of the University of Wisconsin, told the delegates, "There is no sudden era of solar prosperity just around the corner.
Westminster Lecture Scheduled For Sunday
The Presbyterian Westminster Fellowship will have the third lecture series on juvenile delinquency at 5.30 p.m. Sunday in Westminster Hall.
John S. May, Atchison attorney, and '48 law graduate, will talk on,
“What Can We Do About Juvenile Delinquency?”
There were 177,000 men in the Armed Forces in the Mexican War; the last veteran died in 1929 at the age of 98.
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