Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Friday, Oct. 14, 1955.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 23
200 Persons Expected For Literature Meeting
The third annual conference on Composition and Literature is being held today and tomorrow in the Student Union for English teachers from Kansas high schools, junior colleges, and colleges.
Albert R. Kitzhaber, assistant professor of English and director of the conference, said about 200 persons were expected to attend.
Speakers include Malcolm Cowley, poet and editor of New Republic magazine; Alvin McCoy, Kansas City Star correspondent; Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education, and Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, assistant professor of English.
Mr. Cowley has been a guest professor at Yale and Washington Universities, and will go to Stanford next spring. Mr. Kitzhaber, who was taught by Mr. Cowley at the University of Washington, referred to him as the "best teacher I ever had."
Mr. Cowley will talk on "American Literature: A Reassessment" at 8 p.m. today in Fraser theater. It is open to the public. Following the lecture will be a reception in the Student Union lobby.
Faculty Members Speak
Talk Scheduled
Mr. McCoy, who was graduated from the University in 1925, received the Pulitzer prize for local reporting in 1854. He will speak tonight at the dinner in the Student Union on "The Role of Practical Politics in Education."
Faculty Members Speak
Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, assistant professor of English, will speak at the luncheon tomorrow on "But What of the Teacher?" Dean Anderson spoke at 2:15 p.m. today on "High School English: Why Not Four Years?"
Six workshop sessions are scheduled for today and tomorrow. Recorders are:
George M. Herman, Leo Van Seycoz, Donald Benson, Harvey Lyon, David Shusterman, and Edgar Woolf, instructors of English.
Group to Discuss Yearbooks, Papers
Newspapers end yearbooks will be objects of discussion at the high school journalism conference tomorrow.
Students and teachers from northeast Kansas will attend the conference which begins at 8 a.m. with registration in Fraser Hall. After a general session at 9 a.m., delegates will attend a series of discussion groups.
University members who are leading these groups are: Burton W. Marvin, dean of the School of Journalism; Emil L. Telfel and Miss Frances Grinstead, associate professors of journalism, and Jimmy Bedford, instructor of journalism.
Weather
The forecast is for fair this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Warmer extreme northwest this afternoon and tonight and most of state Saturday. Light frost is likely in a few local areas tonight. The low tonight will be 35 to 42. The high Saturday generally in lower 70s.
$10.000 Landscaping To Start Soon
MALCOLM COWLEY
Landscaping of Douthart, Grace Pearson, Malott, and Carruth-O'Leary Halls will begin as soon as maintenance work has been finished. said C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds.
Poet Malcolm Cowley has traveled 1400 miles from his home in Sherman, Conn. to give eager English teachers "an over-all picture of American writers of the past 150 years compared to writers of other countries."
Cowley's Been Around
"I first got this idea after giving a series of lectures to French high school teachers studying at Yale during the summer," Mr. Cowley said. "It made me wonder what their impressions of our literature would be, and I wanted to stress what we miss in American literature."
Mr. Cowley said there are only five states he has not visited, "but I will be able to see California this winter when I teach a creative writing course at Stanford University." He conducted such a course at the University of Washington in 1550.
In Sherman, a town of 600 about 75 miles from New York, Mr. Cowley reads one or two manuscripts a week for the Viking Press. He lives there with his wife and son, a Harvard senior specializing in English.
George L. Brown Jr., 1950 journalism graduate and aviation editor of the Denver Post, is one of 31 Negroes on staffs of major U.S. newspapers listed in the November issue of Ebony magazine. Mr. Brown has occasionally been assigned stories to cover President Eisenhower at the summer White House.
buildings and gardens In the four locations, $10,000 worth of evergreen trees and shrubs will be planted.
"My son writes stories, but I only criticize," he said.
"This is my second visit to the KU campus," he added. "I was here for the writer's conference in 1949, and I am very glad to be back."
Work includes re-laying the floor in the 16th street intramural gym, alterations on the design department annex and the handball court in Robinson Gym, and the construction of two offices and laboratories in the Lindley Hall annex.
Ebony Lists J-School Grad
When the contractors finish the University Press power storage room behind Flint Hall, the buildings and grounds workers will lay a concrete floor, install the lighting, ventilation, and heating systems, and put a rock veneer on the outside.
Worried GOP Should Study Voting in Britain
WASHINGTON- Republicans who fear the President's illness has sunk their party could find some long-range comfort in a careful study of recent British political events.
Basic Republican troubles do not flow from President Eisenhower's illness and the likelihood that he will not be a candidate for reelection. The problems are rooted in the fact that the GOP became a minority party about 25 years ago, and has not come up with a formula to reverse the trend.
Mr. Eisenhower daubed enough political glimmer-glammer on the 1952 Republican presidential ticket to become an easy winner. Both he and Republican congressional candidates could and did capitalize on long Democrat tenure and the voters' dissatisfaction which is inevitable after one party has been so long in power.
GOP Barely Won
But the combination of issues and Candidate Eisenhower's glamor barely enabled the Republics to gain control of congress in 1952.
There is no assurance whatever that the Republicans would have regained congressional control next year even if the President were a successful second term candidate.
The minority position of the Republican party is well established by the election trend over the years.
The British Conservative party was in a similar situation after the 1945 elections. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was swept to political defeat in the midst of spectacular military triumph. The British Socialists took over and won again in 1950, but the Conservatives won in 1951.
Payoff This Year
The payoff came this year when the Conservative government deliberately called a general election which easily could have been delayed.
For the first time in 90 years a British political party already in power was able to increase its House of Commons membership. The British Conservatives had changed the political trend in a big way, partly by becoming somewhat less conservative.
KANU To Expand Schedule Monday
KANU, the University's FM radio station, begins its fourth year of broadcasting Monday under an expanded schedule which includes addition of regular broadcasting on Saturdays.
American Royal Begins Tonight
KANSAS CITY, Mo—(U.P.)—A dazzling coronation ball will officially inaugurate the 57th American Royal Livestock and Horse Show here tonight.
KANU will be on the air from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week, instead of from 1:45 to 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Friday. Formerly only the KU football games were broadcast on Saturday.
An inauspicious kickoff to the Royal was a sale of sifted-out steers in the stock yards this morning.
The ball, a compelling contrast to the Western theme of the agricultural event, will feature the selection of a queen from a bevy of the area's most beautiful young ladies.
Tomorrow, the Royal will settle down to the business of judging the nation's finest farm and show stock. Nearly 4,500 registered beef cattle, horses, and other livestock were stabled in the newly scoured Royal building.
Theirs was the featured role in the week-long extravaganza.
the week-long expaganda
A gigantic parade of horses and
riders, bands, and floats will wind
through Kansas City streets tomorrow
morning. Many of the 1,000
sleek, finely trained horses entered
in various classes will take part in
the parade.
Dr.Cottle Receives $14,000 In Grants
Grants to underwrite training of five rehabilitation counselors have been received by Dr. William C. Cottle, professor of education and director of the KU rehabilitation counseling training program.
The United States Office of Vocational Rehabilitation allotted $8,000 for traineeships and $6,102 for five teaching grants during this academic year.
Housemothers' Party Planned By AWS
Barbara Mills, Olathe junior, is chairman of the Housemothers' Party committee. Her assistants are Linda Lemon, Salina sophomore; Pat Gallant, Wichita sophomore; Kay Davis, Kansas City, Mo., junior, and Carol Dietz, Hickman Mills, Mo., sophomore.
Plans were completed for the annual Housemothers' Party, sponsored by the Associated Women Students, at the AWS House of Representatives meeting yesterday. The party will be from 7:30 to 9:30 Oct. 25 in the Kansas Room of the Student Union.
Each AWS delegate will escort her housemother and two other housemothers from the men's organized houses to the party. The Delta Upsilon fraternity quartet will sing, and Ruth Scholes, Council Grove senior, will give a reading.
The House also began plans for All Women's Day to be observed Nov. 9 with the election of the Dean-for-a-Day, a convocation, and a picnic supper. Voting for the
Dean-for-a-Day will precede the 4 p.m. convocation in Fraser Theater where Mrs, Ruth O. McCarn, assistant dean of students at the University of Chicago, will speak on "Does It Matter?" The picnic supper will follow in the ballroom of the Union.
of the Dean.
The Dean-for-a-Day and Miss Martha Peterson, Dean of women, will exchange places Nov. 10. The young woman will be in the Dean's office, while Miss Peterson will attend the Dean-for-a-Day's classes.
The schedule for the ROTC etuette course will be presented at next week's House meeting. Lectures will be given by members of the University armed forces staff to inform girls, who might be wives of officers, about military life. The course will be held once a week for about ten weeks, and may include trips to Forbes and Grandview air force bases, said Joan Ryan, Prairie Village junior, and AWS House vice president.
Included in the new schedule is a new series of night programs aimed at an adult audience interested in University-level instruction. "University of the Air" will be heard from 9 to 9:55 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Actual Classes Recorded
One feature of the new series will be broadcast of actual classroom lectures and discussions recorded while the classes are in session. The first offering, on Tuesday and Thursday, is the popular "Marriage and Family Relationships" course taught by Lawrence Bee, professor of home economics and sociology.
Another change in the KANU program schedule is the moving up of the "Jayhawk School of the Air" from 2:30 to 1:30 p.m. Ten radio stations in Kansas are broadcasting the programs through facilities of the KU Tape Network.
In addition to these, another group of programs obtained from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters is heard at 2.15 p.m. on KANU only.
"Clearer Understanding"
The Jayhawk School of the Air began its 15th year of broadcasting last month. R. Edwin Browne, station director, estimates the enrollment in "Kansas" largest classroom at between 25,000 and 30,000 elementary students in classrooms throughout most of the state.
Mr. Browne said the changes made in the University's broadcasting activities "reflect a clearer understanding of the mission and audience of the FM station after three years on the air." The changes have been in planning for more than a year.
Summer Directors Slate Conference
The University of the Air series, he said, represents the recognition of the University station's responsibility to make available to listeners in the home the kind of higher education offered to students in the classroom. Music, literature and American history are scheduled Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The American Association of Deans and Directors of Summer Sessions will meet here Oct. 21 and 22.
Plans for the meeting are being made by George B. Smith, dean of the University and director of the summer session, who is secretary of the group.
Post Office Deadline 11:30 a.m. Saturday
Letters to be postmarked before noon on Saturday should be mailed in the Strong Hall post office before 13:30 a.m. Saturday, and not elsewhere on the campus.
Bruce McKee, station superintendent, emphasized that mail dropped into boxes on the campus on Saturday morning is not picked up in time to be stamped with a 12 o'clock postmark.
Postal employees have received complaints that entries for football score contests have not been post-marked by the noon contest deadline.