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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Oct. 26, 1953
This School Is Tough About Cutting Classes
ELKINS. W. Va—(IP.)—The faculty of Davis and Elkins College has adopted new rules governing student absences from classes and assemblies. The faculty acted favorably upon a report submitted, after long study, by a subcommittee of the administrative committee. The new rules are:
1. Excessive absences shall be defined as one or more absences in excess of the number of hours credit given in the course. Upon exceeding by one the legal number of absences a student may, at the option of the instructor, be dropped from the course with a final grade of F.
2. There shall be no unexcused absences without penalty for freshmen, or for transfer students with less than 24 semester hours of credit, except that freshmen and transfer students holding honorable discharge from the armed forces of the U.S.A. may be exempt from this rule. The penalty for each violation of this rule shall be a fine of one dollar.
3. For sophomores and upper-classmen there shall be a fine of one dollar for each excessive absence.
4. When any student is absent more than $12\frac{1}{2}$ per cent of the scheduled meetings of the class, excused or unexcused, he shall automatically receive an F in the
course. Such grade shall be changed only by action of the administrative committee of the faculty upon the personal appeal of the student.
5. A fine of $1 an absence shall be imposed upon students who are absent from assembly more than four times in one semester. However, upon a seventh absence from assembly the student must appear before the faculty administrative committee to show cause why the committee should not recommend his immediate dismissal from the college.
6. No absences are permitted, except for bona fide emergency reasons cleared by the dean's office, from classes or assembly during the two days immediately preceding and following the Chritmas and spring vacations and the Thanksgiving holiday. The penalty for violating this rule shall be a fine of $3 for each class or assembly missed.
7. Class work and the accounting of class absences shall begin on the first scheduled meetings of classes at the beginning of each semester. If a student registers late, he is nevertheless responsible for absences occurring before his registration.
8. Dean's list (honor) students should be exempt from Rules 1, 3 and 4.
Engineers Hear Lecturer
Mr. T. A. Boyd, General Motors Research Laboratories Consultant, spoke to the engineering freshmen, in one of a series of freshman lectures, yesterday "On Being an Engineer."
"Training should be for a profession, for a full and fruitful life as an engineer, not merely for a job," Mr. Boyd told the students.
He explained that employers "want men who have a good knowledge of engineering subjects and a proper attitude toward life and work, coupled with initiative, resourcefulness, and imagination or inventiveness, and who will continue to grow in knowledge and usefulness."
Mr. Boyd described creative engineering and told the freshman about the future field of opportunity for the creative engineer.
Mr. Boyd began his career as a research chemist in the Research Division of the Dayton Metal
Products Company, after receiving his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Ohio State University. He was a pioneer in the study of fuel composition and combustion, particularly in the search for means of eliminating knock as a barrier to higher compression engines and more miles per gallon.
He is now retired but continues to serve the General Motors company as consultant and lecturer.
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The program will include the "Sonata in A Major" by Vivaldi, "Concerto in G Minor" by Bruch, "Sonata in B Flat" by Mozart, and shorter works by Kablevsky, Haieff, Milhaud, and Faganini.
Prof. Cerf has been chairman of KU string department since 1949. He was graduated from the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. In 1925-26 he toured South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand as concertmaster for Anna Pavlova's ballet company.
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California Lakes Get Fish
SAN FRANCISCO — (U.P.) The California game and fish department announced that the planting of 3,670,000 rainbow, eastern brook and brown trout fingerlings by airplane recently had been completed in the state's high mountain lakes. During the planting period Senior Warden Pilot A. L. Reese and his crew flew 18,000 miles and planted lakes from Lake Arrowhead in San Bernardino county in the south to the Oregon line on the north.
North Carolina Girls Dorms Start Scholarship Program
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. —(IP)The Independent Women's Council at the University of North Carolina has started a program to improve study conditions in the women's dormitories, provide quiz files, and encourage scholarship. The program is being carried out by scholarship chairmen in the dorms.
A scholarship cup will be awarded to the women's dorm having the highest scholastic average. If a dorm wins the cup three consecutive years, the cup will be awarded to that dormitory permanently.
With the aid of administration, the Council is trying to improve study conditions in the dorms. Improvements include adequate lighting, desks and chairs. The Council's project of setting up quiz files will be one of the major tasks of the scholarship chairman.
The scholarship chairmen are planning to establish libraries in each dorm and to subscribe to magazines and newspapers.
English translations of Giacomo Leopardi will be read by L. R. Lind, professor of English, at the poetry hour, 4 p.m. tomorrow in the music room of the Student Union.
Libraries will consist of books contributed by the students or purchased by the individual dorms. Each women's dorm has been given three books by the administration to start the project.
Leopardi Poems To Be Read
Field Secretary Visits Extension
Miss Ruth A. Morton, field secretary of the American Association for United Nations is visiting University Extension today.
"I am trvying to find out Kansans' interest in the United Nations and how well they are educated about it," she said. She is making plans for further visits in Kansas.
University Extension will sponsor the eighth United Nations conference Jan. 9 and 10. Mr. Howard Walker, extension director, said the conference time was changed this year so it would not conflict with final examinations.
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