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Library Receives 'Great Books' Series
Watson library has acquired one of the first-edition sets of "Great Books of the Western World."
The 54-volume set includes the important writings of the world's greatest thinkers; "The Great Conversation," by Robert Maynard Hutchins, former chancellor of the University of Chicago; and "The Great Ideas," a "syntopicon" of the concepts and issues in the thinking of the authors of the Great Books.
The syntopicon is an index to the ideas expressed in 51 of the volumes. It consists of 2,987 topics arranged under 102 basic ideas.
The syntapicon will make an excellent reference for term papers. A student can use the index to learn what has been written in the "Great Books
The volumes are bound so that the contents of the books are indicated by the binding color. Books bound in yellow, epic and dramatic poetry, satires, and novels; blue, histories and works in ethics, economics, politics, and jurisprudence; green, mathematics and natural sciences, and red, philosophy or theology.
of the Western World" relative to a particular idea or to find out what a particular author has had to say in connection with the idea.
Anyone interested in reading and digesting the content of the Great Books will find a 10-year reading program in volume one.
The series is now in the reference room of the library.
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50th Year, No.17
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Oct. 9, 1952
20 Groups to Participate In Activities Fair Tonight
Students will have a chance to look over many of the activities offered on the campus at the Student Union activities fair which will be held at 8 p.m. today in the north end of the Union cafeteria.
More than 20 organizations will have boots set up to display the nature of their clubs, Peggy Allison, chairman, said today.
"Our idea is that although new students are deluged with propaganda going through the registration line, there has been no place on the Hill where they can get additional information on activities," Miss Allison said.
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A similar fair was held last year, but only 50 people attended because it was new and not well publicized, she said. Between 200 and 350 persons are expected tonight.
"One can either actually join an organization tonight or just find out what's available," Miss Allison said.
Quill club is offering a contest of "inanimate charades." Persons will try to identify titles of famous or popular novels from groups of objects suggesting the titles.
Each activity will put on some demonstration illustrating the function of their group. The Mountaineering club will have its equipment on display, for example, and the Radio Players will tape record visitors reading sample scripts.
Participating groups will be AW5, French club, ISA, YWCA, YMCA, Gamma Delta, Upstream, Quill club, Christian Fellowship, ISA, Mountaineering club, International club, Pachacamac.
Mu Phi Epsilon, Young Republicans, Tau Sigma, Radio Players, Newman club, FACTS, SUA, WAA, All Student Council, and radio station KFKU.
Chairman Allison said that she expects representatives from Pachacamac and FACTS to explain the political viewpoints of both parties. Also, the All-Student Council will have several members explain the
Sixteen Prisoners Injured in Koje Camp
Pusan, Korea — (U,P) — Sixteen Communist prisoners of war on Koje Island were injured, none seriously, when two platoons of South Korean troops had to be called in to enforce an order last Tuesday, the UN prisoner of war command announced today.
voting system at the University and how a student may file for office.
The Student Union board has planned the event. Sheila Haller, college freshman, is head of the refreshments committee, and Al Nees, architecture senior, is in charge of booths.
Daily Kansan Rated High
The Daily Kansan has received a first-class rating for the spring of 1952 by the Associated Collegiate press.
The ratings are based upon the news values and sources, news writing and editing, headlines, typography and makeup, department pages and special features. In the rating, the Daily Kansan received a very good or excellent grade in nearly every field.
In the fall of 1951, the Daily Kansan received a second class rating. Ratings are determined by the accomplishments of other college or university papers and by certain standards set by the judge. This year's judge was Gareth Hiebert, assistant city editor of the St. Paul, (Minn.) Pioneer Press.
Indian summer today altogether overcame the premature winter which has smitten Kansas. The weather bureau issued a cheerful
Weather
forecast of 70 degree temperatures, moderate surface winds and warmer nights. However, the forecaster also said that much needed rain is not in sight. Clear skies prevailed throughout Kansas today. Temperatures tonight will be 35 to 45 the 80s in western 0s in the east.
PLEASANT and tomorrow in Kansas and the
She was a member of the Faculty Women's club. the American Association of University Professors, a special member of the University of Kansas Alumni association, and the Modern Language association.
Former English Professor Dies Of Heart Attack
Miss Laired initiated the honors course in the department of English, and served many years as the chairman. She also served for many years as the faculty adviser for English majors.
Miss Sara Grant Laird, associate professor emerita of English, died of a heart attack last night at the home of her brother, John Laird, in Ashtabula, Ohio.
Miss Laird was born Jan. 25, 1880 at Jefferson, Ohio. She came to the University as an instructor of English in 1912. In 1950 Miss Laird retired as associate professor emerita.
Narration and description, essay writing, history of English literature, and theories of poetry were the favorite courses which she taught during her many years at the University.
She received her A. B. from Oberlin university in 1902, and she received her M. A. from Columbia university in 1912. Advance graduate studies were taken at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Original Paintings Display in Dyche
Thirty-nine original water color paintings of wild animals by Richard Philip Grossenheider will be on display in the Museum of Natural History through Sunday.
Hospitalized Students Improving
included are the originals for the plates used to illustrate the recent book, "A Field Guide to the Mammals," by W. H. Burt, and Grosenheider.
The conditions of Morris Kay, football player stricken with polio, and Margaret Allen, chemistry student injured in an explosion, were both described as "good" today by Dr. R. I. Canuteson, director of the Health service.
Both Kay and Miss Allen were admitted to Watkins hospital Tuesday. Kay's case, which was not diagnosed as polio until late Tuesday evening, was termed a light one yesterday. Hospital doctors said
that paralysis is not likely.
Kay, education junior from St John, was doing "very nicely" today
from Kansas City.
The same doctors were more optimistic today in regard to Miss Allen who suffered an eye injury and numerous small cuts as the result of an explosion in Bailey Chemistry laboratory late Tuesday morning. It was believed today that Miss Allen's eye injury might not be as severe as originally feared. However, the exact extent of the injury had not yet been determined. She is a freshman in the college
"It will be a week yet before we know if he (Kay) will suffer any muscle weakness as a result of the disease," Dr. Canuteson explained this morning. "If there is none, he might be out of the hospital within two weeks. However, it is a little early now to be making any statements which might afford undue optimism," he added.
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South Koreans Take Big Toll of Reds
Seoul, Korea—(U.P.)—Hard-fighting South Korean infantrymen clawed and battled their way to within 70 yards of the crest of bloody White Horse mountain today where 5,000 Chinese Communists fought desperately under orders to win or die.
The battle-weary South of the 9th division already have knocked an entire Chinese division out of action, killing and wounding an estimated 8,000 veteran Communist troops.
"It's Oriental against Oriental and that means the most savage of hand-to-hand fighting," one officer said.
Fighter-bombers hit Communist positions along the front, concentrating on the White Horse section.
In the air, UN Sabrejets destroyed two Communist MIG-15's and damaged three others. Capt. Karl K. Dittmer of El Reno, Okla., was credited with destroying the MIGs in a battle between 18 MIGs and 16 Sabres south of the Yalu river.
As they inched their way up the pock-marked slope in the face of tremendous artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire, American advisory officers watched in open-mouthed amazement.
UN pilots dropped tons of bombs and napalm on the Reds.
The three-day battle for White Horse and the nearby French-defended Arrowhead ridge northwest of Choronow on the central front has been costly for the Chinese.
A spokesman said one Chinese division had been "cut to pieces." He estimated that 4,000 Chinese were killed, 4,000 wounded and the remainder shoved in as replacements in other units.
"Bodies are all over the place," he said.
"We believe the Chinese have had orders to take at least one of the two hills. The Chinese have gone through one division and have committed a second to achieve their objective."
Its outcome will decide whether the United Nations or the Communists win control of the Chorwon invasion gateway to Seoul.
Stevenson Calls GOP 'Know-Nothing' Party
Washington—(U.P.)—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson today countered Dwight D. Eisenhower's bitterest attack on the administration by ridiculing Republicans as a "do-nothing, care-nothing, know-nothing party." $ \textcircled{2} $
The Democratic presidential candidate borrowed a page from President Truman's "give 'em hell" tactics in a speech prepared for delivery in Kansas City, Mo.
Meanwhile Gen. Eisenhower's train rolled into southern California. The Republican nominee told a nationwide television audience last night America has been "doing at the gate" while the "psychological strategists of Communism have crept into our citadel."
Mr. Truman, in an address prepared for a Cleveland audience, told housewives Republicans would "murder what is left of price controls if they ever get hold of the government."
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Elsewhere on the political front:
1. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York charged that Mr. Stevenson and his running mate, Sen. John J. Sparkman, are campaigning under the battle cry of "white suprem-
2. Sen. Sparkman, asked at a news conference in Columbus, Ohio, to comment on Mr. Dewey's charge, said the governor "was repudiated twice by the American people and he will be repudiated again this year as one of the managers of Gen. Eisenhower's campaign." The Alabaman said his record was plain for everyone to see and added that he helped write the Democratic platform.
3. Sen. Richard M. Nixon, GOP vice president candidate, said election of Gen. Eisenhower would enable the United States to "regain world leadership without a war."
4. The Republicans' "truth team" charged that President Truman has "taken over Adlai Stevenson, lock, stock and barrel, and in actual fact it is Mr. Truman who is running for president."