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University Daily Kansan Monday, October 29, 1951
K-State Game A Quiet Affair This Year, No Blood Let Though KU Called 'Snob Hill'
Fans attending the KU-K-State football game spent a damp but calm afternoon as compared with the action which took place in 1949 when the Wildcats visited the University
In that year, K-State fans tore down one of the goal posts in Memorial stadium, painted one of the doors on the east side of the stadium, and raised a flag on a pole south of the stadium bearing the letters "KS."
The only obvious bit of chiding on the part of Kansas State fans at the contest this year was a large sign printed on yellow paper which read, "Spill Snob Hill." Persons sitting on the KU side could see the sign which was placed at the top of the stadium on the visitor's sides.
The Jawhawk supporters managed to tear down one of the goal posts in the K-State stadium when KU
played at Manhattan last year.
The K-State cheering section refrained from slinging any derogatory remarks in the direction of KU fans this year. They gave fifteen "rahs" for KU during the game. However, students in the KU cheering section referred to members of the K-State team as "pussy cats" on several occasions.
Members of the KU pep clubs had planned to go out on the field immediately after the game to prevent any damage to the goal posts. However, no attempt was made to destroy the goal posts.
No one can say how much the cold, drizzling rain had to do with dampening the spirits of would-be revelers, but persons attending the game filed out of the stadium in an orderly manner.
Visual Education Methods A Contrast To Old Time '3 Rs'
Washington, D.C.—(U.P.)-Batteries of educational films, recordings, radio, and television combine with widely illustrated textbooks to bring the world to U.S. classrooms this school year. They are part of the public's $6\frac{1}{2}$-billion-dollar investment in modern education.
Today's world served on the halfshell for some 23 million elementary and high school pupils is in dramatic contrast to that presented to students a century and more ago, notes the National Geographic society.
"The 3 R's, "reading, 'riting, and rithmetic" were a simple matter compared with the luxury of today's secondary school curriculum that may run the gamut of subjects from aeronautics to zoogeography.
Geography was an early addition and a generally accepted course by 1827. Without benefit of films, radio, or color-illustrated texts to vitalize information, however, geography teaching was often vague.
Bearing little resemblance to the 18-colour wall maps and charts seen in schools and libraries today, a "School Atlas of 1835" showed the United States with the area west of the Mississippi river largely blank except for the notation that "This area is traversed by herds of buffaloes and wild horses and is inhabited by roving tribes of Indians."
Maps were lacking in the early geographies. A Dublin-published "Compendium of Geography" offered, without maps or pictures for illustration, the information that "Boston, the capital of Massachusetts and New England, is situated at the bottom of Massachusetts Bay."
$100 To Be Given In Essay Contest
A $100 savings bond is being offered by the Thomas Paine Foundation for the best essay by a college student on the subject "Thomas Paine and His Contribution to Human Freedom."
The essay must contain a minimum of 2,000 words and should be sent before Jan. 1 to The Thomas Paine Foundation, 370 W. 35th street, New York 1, N.Y.
YWCA Asks Children To Halloween Party
Announcement of the prize-winning essay will be made on Jan. 15, and the student will receive a medal at the annual Thomas Paine dinner meeting Jan. 20, 1952.
The Community Service commission of the YWCA will sponsor a Halloween party for 20 underprivileged children of the third, fourth and fifth grades of the Lawrence grade school at 4 p.m. today at Henlev house.
Vernie Theden. College sonho-
more, is the leader of the YWCA
Community Service commission.
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year. (in lawaddition $1.00 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence. Kans. every afternoon during the University events at Saturdays and Sundays. University events in Lawrence. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kans., under act of March 2, 1879.
For several decades after the American Revolution, textbooks were local publications. Many were so identified, as the Boston Readers, the New York State Readers and the Vermont Spelling Book. Others gave the author the title spot as the McGuffey Readers, and "Mrs. Stowe's First Geography." Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1855, four years after her best selling "Uncle Tom's Cabin" rolled off the press, this was said to be the first geography compiled especially for children.
The blue-backed "speller" of Noah Webster printed in 1829 has the distinction of being the most popular textbook ever published in the United States.
Spelling bees swept the country in the 1350's and 60's and helped to boost its sale to a million copies a year. Approximately 75 million copies have been sold.
Board Interviews Air Force Cadets
Five senior cadets of the Air Force ROTC were interviewed Oct. 26 for acceptance as candidates for commissions in the regular Air Force by a visiting board of Air Force officers.
The five cadets interviewed were Allan D. Frame, journalism senior, Eugene W. Haley, business senior, Eugene C. Kennedy, business senior, Robert A. Kipp, engineering senior, and Keith E. Moore, business senior.
These students have been designated distinguished military students because of the high academic standing. They have demonstrated outstanding qualities of leadership, moral character, and aptitude for military service.
Youth Worker Speaks At KU
Forty-five per cent of the cars in he U.S. have been driven more than 0,000 miles.
Fifty per cent of British boys and girls leave school at the age of 15. Jean Marindin, British sociologist, told faculty members and students Oct. 25 in Strong auditorium.
Miss Marindin is on a tour of the United States. She is head of the youth department of the National Council of Social Service, leading voluntary agency for British social services.
Her lecture at KU was sponsored by the department of sociology and social work. She discussed the trends during the past 100 years of British youth organizations for teenagers between the ages of 12 and 20.
"Until 1939 all kinds of youth groups had been developed. They owed their success to the fact that each of them had something that appealed to the boys and girls," she said.
The first impetus for youth groups was the Industrial Revolution, Miss Marindin pointed out. It was during the 1850's and '60's that great numbers of girls moving into the cities gave rise to the YWCA.
Two results Miss Marindin pointed out were that money set aside for youth work eventually went for war purposes, and that industry took the spolight from such organizations.
The sociologist's opinion in regard to present youth organizations is that there should be varying kinds of groups of different levels for the boys and girls to choose from in accordance with their interests.
Civil Service To Give Exams
State civil service examinations will be held in Lawrence Monday, Nov. 5, the Kansas Department of Civil service announced today.
Clerk - stenographers, clerk-typists, clerks and radio operators are eligible for the tests.
Application forms and examination announcements may be secured from the department of civil service in Topeka. Applications should be filled out and returned to the department by Thursday Nov. 1 to be scheduled for the Lawrence examination.
Starting salaries are $173 to $191 a month for clerk-stenographer II, $165 to $182 a month for clerk-typist II and clerk II, and $220 to $242 a month for radio operator.
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Chase Talks On Folk Life
Zim's Snack Shop "Just East of The Post Office"
The great tradition behind folk dancing and its persistence throughout the years were discussed by Richard Chase, authority on folk lore and country dancing from Emory, Va., Oct. 25 at a Sesnak box supper.
In a discussion with persons present at the supper, Mr. Chase said that "folk dancing, like so many things that are rather a heritage of our culture, has continued, whereas more modern things have not."
Mr. Chase praised Cecil J. Sharp, English musician and teacher, who founded the English Folk Dance and Song society for the purpose of furthering his country's folk music.
"When Mr. Sharp suggested the idea of reviving English folk music, people said he was crazy." Mr. Chase said. "They said England had no folk music, but he discovered that the plain people in America were singing English folk ballads that had been forgotten by the Englishmen."
Math Colloquium At 5 p.m.
Sarvadaman Chowla, visiting professor of mathematics, will speak on "A Problem in the Monthly" at the mathematics colloquium at 5 p.m. today in 211 Strong hall.
ASC Bill Number 18, Accounting Of Funds
Be it enacted by the Associated Students of the University of Kansas:
Section 1. That the treasurer of the ASC submit a quarterly report to the Daily Kansan to be published concerning the accounting and disbursement of funds of the ASC.
Section 2. The first report will be published the first week in November. The second will be published the first week in January. The third will be published the first week in March. The fourth will be published the first week in May.
Section 3. That this bill shall be in full force and effect from and after its publication according to the Bill on legislative procedure.
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