Friday, March 27, 1953
Acacia Elects Taylor Outstanding '53 Senior
Edward Taylor was elected Acacia's outstanding senior of 1953. He is a business major and plans to attend Oxford university next year on the Rotary foundation scholarship he won this year.
Mr. Taylor will be one of the senior student managers of the Kansas Relays this spring. He is a member of the KuKu's and the Business school association. For Acacia he was secretary and the correspondent to the national magazine.
University Daily Kansan
Grovier-Ireland Pinning Told
Course in Japanese Helps Orient Students with Life in Far East
Phi Delta Theta film promotion
in Pi Delta Phi announces the pinning of Jayne Growter, college junior, Hutchinson, to James Ireland, education junior, Lawrence. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
By MARY BETZ
The University, with its elementary Japanese course being taught this semester, is one of four schools in the nation to offer courses in oriental languages.
Dr. Osamu Yamashita, Fulbrigh scholar from Japan and teacher on the course, said he looks forward to the day when KU and many other colleges in this country may have departments of Oriental languages.
"As the guiding nation of the world the United States ought to know the Orient as well as the Occident." Dr. Yamashita pointed out. "Harvard, Columbia, and the University of California have seen the need for learning about their Eastern neighbors and now have such departments."
Dr. Yamashita, a teacher of American and English literature at Kobe Municipal university, Japan, began teaching his language to Americans after the war to a group of Army students who were equally proficient in English and Japanese since his literature courses at Kobe are taught in translation.
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"The Japanese language is one of the richest in the world," he commented. "It includes various grades of politeness, a lady's way of speaking, and other complexities and subtleties, but it is one of the easiest languages to learn with its simple grammar."
The students also learn to write Japanese characters. There are three types of characters--katakana, hirokana, and Chinese characters. Katakana is for more formal writing, but usual written Japanese is a combination of all three types of characters.
The course also provides the student with a bit of Japanese culture and history. Integrated with Prof. Yamashita's lectures on the language are interesting stories which give a better understanding of Japan.
Sending scholars to Japan and setting up its own staff to teach Japanese seems to Dr. Yamashita the best plan for the University's continuing and enlarging the course. The University has no plan to continue the course next year when Dr. Yamashita is gone, Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College, said.
Local Chapter to Host District Conclave
The local Gamma Omicron chapter of Kappa Sigma fraternity will be four other chapters this weekend for their annual district conclave.
The visiting chapter representatives will be from the University of Nebraska, Kansas State college, Washburn university, and Baker university.
A semi-formal dance will be held for the five chapters at 9 p.m. Saturday in the Jayhawk room of the Union.
Phi Delts Honor B. H. Born
Phi Delta Theta fraternity honored B. H. Eorn at a dinner Monday. Phog Allen was the guest speaker after dinner. He predicted that the 6-foot-9 basketball center will be next year's All-American.
Engineering Club Elects Gray
Theta Tau, national professional engineering fraternity, elected David Gray, mechanical engineering jury, pledge captain. Other officers elect are Faul Pankratz, chemical engineering sophomore, lieutenant, and Harold Dougherty, civil engineering sophomore, secretary.
Sigma Kappa Elects Watson President
Other officers elected are Shirley Hunsinger, college junior, first vice president; Patricia Fox, college junior, second vice president; Vernie Theden, business junior, treasurer; Lois Clough, education junior, recording secretary.
Sigma Kappa sorority elected Barbara Watson, college junior, president for the coming year.
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Barbara Krug, fine arts sophomore, historian-librarian; J ane Bock, education junior, Triangle correspondent; Joan Markley, college sophomore, song leader; Patricia Plummer, fine arts junior, special projects chairman; Margaret Thompson, education junior, activities chairman; Dorothy Byler, college junior, intramuralurs chairman, and Mary Lois Jarrett, college junior, registrar.
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