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MONDAY, JANUARY 28. 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Malott Resigns
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Bancellor Malott is author or co-author of texts and general works on agricultural marketing and agricultural industries, public utility management and corporation finance.
Although an economist by training and early professional work, Chancellor Malott since coming back to K.U. had attained national stature as an educator and administrator. Recognition of this came a year ago when he was invited to address Norwegian universities on methods of administration in American universities and the operation of independent research institutes.
During the past 11 years Chancellor Malott's urgings have brought from the faculty dozens of new courses and sequences leading to degrees. Emphasis has been placed on change to better prepare the student for the challenges of the second half of the 20th century. Administrators have been constantly pressed to provide better student services.
He guided K.U. through a difficult period of contraction during World War II when enrollment fell to less than 3,000 and the even more difficult period of almost immediate expansion to nearly 10,000 students.
Through Chancellor Malott's influence K.U. is with Harvard and four or five other schools pioneering the development of the case or problem method of teaching. This technique by which principles quickly applicable to today's problems can be taught, as compared to the lecture method, is being used by the departments of human relations, psychology, sociology, political science and school of business.
As an administrator Chancellor Malott has encouraged the development of a research program that is now strong in nearly all departments of the university. Last year more than three quarters of a million dollars was made available to K.U. from outside sources for the support of research. Eleven years ago the amount was negligible.
Among the courses that have attracted attention are the Western Civilization reading course, in which no classwork is involved, and which is taken by almost all K.U. students; including engineers; the general biology course designed to teach the basic science of life itself; and radically different methods of teaching English composition and literature and foreign languages.
This research, both basic and applied, has enabled K.U. to assemble a faculty that this year attracted students from 47 states and from 42 foreign countries.
Last year K.U. received gifts valued at $1,233,000, which brought the 11-year total for Chancellor Malott's leadership to $6,000,000. The year before he came the school received only $113,000. He helped develop K.U.'s unique scholarship residence hall system whereby nearly 300 men and women are receiving scholarships worth $300.
Chancellor Malott will leave with the blue prints nearly completed for a building program amounting to more than $13,000,000 for the Lawrence and Kansas City campuses. Already he has seen dormitory accommodations increase more than five-fold.
In recent years Chancellor Malott has been a busy speaker. His appences have ranged from commencement addresses in small Kansas villages to addresses on business matters or citizenship in the large cities of the United States.
Hoppy Giving Speech Lessons? He Will Be If The CPA Wins
Hollywood—(U.P.)—Got a little cowboy in your home? Noir
snn't it?
Carson guarantees it will do more to restore peace and quiet in your living room than chopping up the television set for firewood.
Well, Jack Carson's got a remedy. He calls it the "C.P.A." Trans- atated, that is "Cowboy-Parents Association." It's a little alc- ines of the P.T.A. and yet it isn't.
"Parents are going to have to cook up a deal with the top westernars," he said. "If we can persuade boyd and Autry and Rogers to campaign for better speech the rest of the cowboys will go along."
Carson dreamed this idea up, he said, because he's tired of his kids calling him "podner" and "yo'ole orery crier" instead of "dad."
"I've played in a few horse operas myself," he said. "But as a parent I say it's time something was done to restore tranquility in the home."
"We don't have to do this with regular meetings. A few letters and phone calls to the right people will get it started. And the cowboys can do their part in movies, radio, T.V., rodeos and personal appearance tours."
Carson says it can be done without banning sagebrush epics completely.
"First, the C.P.A. will demand good English," he suggested. "They vent that—a-way' may sound colorful coming over your loud speaker, but a crushing blow to parents that sent their kids to talk like would Colman."
Carson's even toying with the idea of ringing Western writers in on a little informal classroom stuff.
"instead of a lonely cowhand sitting by a prairie fire moning about the ga waiti'风 me beside the ole lo'”，he said, "we could have a
"This'd make fractions exciting to every cowboy-crazy kid in the country."
Carson's inspiration for C.P.A. was born of bitter experience. He got in on the ground floor of this cowboy craze via John, 9, and Kathy, $5_{1 / 2}$.
cowboy doing arithmetic problems on a slate.
The news of Chancellor Malott's resignation and his statement were announced at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. At 12:10 p.m. The University Dally Kansan began distributing an "extra" edition—the first one in five years.
"First I had to buy cowboy outfits," he sighed. "Then horses for both of 'em.
"To take care of the horses I had to build a temporary corral.
"I finally wound up buying a ranch in the valley. I should've thought of this C.P.A. thing three years ago!"
Kansan Prints Malott 'Extra'
Three journalism students—Marvin Arth, Charles Price, and Edward Chapin—made up the one-sheet extra and the University Press printed it in record time. James Murray, Kansan advertising manager, supervised the distribution of the paper on the campus and in downtown Lawrence.
Cohen Urges Faith In UN
A plea for continued faith in the United Nations was made by Benjamin Cohen, assistant secretary general of the U.N. addressing a conference at the University.
"The United Nations is the only place left where nations can accept compromises without complete loss of face," he said. "It is the only forum in which nations not directly involved can effectively work to bring about compromises."
Tracing the steps in the Korean situation, Cohen said that members of the United Nations would sanction and support the use of force to maintain the U.N.'s moral code. However many member nations are poor or broken by previous wars, and those nations will naturally exhaust every avenue to peace before taking the steps that mean war.
"You Americans must not be too impatient because the rest of the world isn't doing just as you want it," said Cohen, a Chilean diplomat before taking his U.N. assignment. "You must allow time for the processes of reason to operate."
"You mistakenly apply American standards of military effort to other nations that are incomparably weaker and poorer," he said. "Or you tend to forget that Britain and Israel already are allies in fighting what they consider aggression in Malaya and Indo-China."
Despite currents of distrust or the U.N. spreading in the United States, loyalty to the U.N. and its principles is growing in the rest of the world, Cohen said.
Board To Pick Successor
Topcka, Kan., (U.P.) Upon learning of Maloti's selection as presidency of the New York University, Hubert Brighton, secretary of the Kansas Board of Regents, issued this statement:
"The University of Kansas and state as a whole is losing a fine man in Chancellor Malott's departure. We're happy for him, for this is a promotion which he richly deserves. It is an honor to Kansas that Cornell came to this state for its president."
Brighton said a committee of the Board of Regents will soon be named to start searching for Malott's successor at KU. The board's next regular meeting is Feb. 15 but Chairmar Lester McCoy of Garden City may name the selection committee ahead of then.
Students wishing to enter the reading classes should enroll as soon as possible during the registration period beginning today, Henry P. Smith, director of the reading laboratory, said.
Reading Laboratory Enrollments Sought
The reading laboratory office in 18 Fraser hall will be open all day today, Tuesday, Jan. 30 and Wednesday, Jan. 31. Thereafter, it will be open 3 to 5 p.m. each week day.
Study methods classes lasting five weeks and meeting twice a week begin Tuesday, Feb. 13 and Tuesday, Feb./20.
Classes in speed improvement, lasting seven weeks and meeting three times a week, begin Monday, Feb. 5. Five week comprehension sections meeting three times a week begin Monday, Feb. 12 and Monday, Feb. 19.
New this semester will be individual laboratory periods each week day 2 to 4 p.m., during which students will work with a reading rate controller.
England is not so cold and rainy as many believe. The average daily duration of bright sunshine is six to seven hours in summer and four to five hours in winter. The difference between the average daily temperatures in the coldest and warmest months is only 25 degrees. The average total rainfall in London is 25 inches a year.
CHANCELLOR AND MRS. MALOTT are received at the train station by K.U. students as they return from their recent trip to the East which included a day at Cornell.
Chance Remark By KU Grad Leads To Cornell Presidency
(The following story appeared in the Journal of the Association of the Lawrence Journal-World.)
Among college presidents, as well as among people in all walks of life, a kind word can alter an entire career. And, so it was that Deane Malot decided to make the big step from Lawrence to Ithaca, New York.
Two years ago the Kansas football team was invited to play Georgia Tech in the New Year's day game in the Miami, Florida, Orange Bowl. Among the spectators at the game was Chancellor Malott, and among those he met during his hurried visit in the sun-drenched city was John D. Montgomery, a member of the K.U. graduating class of 1925, business manager of the Daily Kansas, and one of the best lightweight boxes that ever attended the University.
Montgomery at the time of the Malott visit was publisher of the Miami Beach Daily Sun and president of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce. He also was a member of the Orange Bowl committee and as such, accepted responsibility to be host to the delegation from his home state.
The Florida publisher was favorably impressed when he met Chancellor Malott and he spoke to some of his friends of his high regard for the head of the Kansas school.
Soon thereafter Montgomery received an attractive offer to sell his newspaper and among conversations relative to the possible sale was one with Frank Gannett, owner of fifteen large eastern newspapers. Some time during the conversation, talk turned to Cornell university, which Mr. Gannett serves a trustee.
Cornell was losing its president and Mr. Gannett spoke of the impending search for a new prexy. Montgomery mentioned his high regard for Chancellor Malott. Gannett listened closely and later reported to
his fellow Cornell trustees. Then the "feelers" started.
And now, after much "offering"
and much "resisting". Deane Malott
has accepted the presidency of the
great university at Ithaca.
The kind appraisal spoken by John Montgomery two years ago is not far unlike a chance acquaintance with a K.U. grad which put James Ross McCain in the president's chair at Kansas State college last fall.
As a young South Carolinian, McCain went to Fort Collins, Colo., in 1929 to join the faculty of Colorado A. and M., where he became assistant to the president and dean of vocational education, before entering the navy in 1942.
Another young man had preceded him to Fort Collins by about a year, Alfred "Scoop" Hill, former alumni secretary at Kansas university. Hill had purchased the Fort Collins Express-Courier, and the two new-comers, Hill and McCain, developed a strong friendship.
Hill sold his paper in 1937 and moved to larger fields. Last year when Milton Eisenhower announced his resignation at Manhattan, Hill was at his home in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he publishes the Chester Times. McCain was serving as president of Montana university.
Hill called his good friend Oscar Stauffer, publisher of the Topeka State Journal and a member of the state board of regents, recommending his friend of Fort Collins days for the Kansas State presidency. Stauffer listened intently and started negotiations which led to the regents' invitation to McCain and his acceptance of the job.
The prop committee has announced that they would appreciate help in their quest for properties. They would be especially glad to find a canoe.
Many Kansas State alumni probably will shudder at the thought that two Kansas university graduates were prime movers in the selection of their Aggie president.
Props For 'The Pink Lady' Will Bring 19th Century Here
Margaret Fisher, education junior is badly in need of a canoe.
Miss Fisher could also use a few Paris newspapers, an early model camera, a pair of motoring goggles, and a dusting jacket such as was worn in the days of the Stanley steamer.
sceneer.
It may sound as if this young woman is planning an early 19th century canoe expedition down the Kaw river, but instead it's only because she is in charge of properties for the Light Opera Guild production of "The Pink Lady."
One scene of "The Pink Lady" is laid in an antique shop. Items needed in this scene are a Louis XIV fan, several rare pieces of furniture, curios, and an escritoire, or writing table.
Original dance routines by Betty Thies, fine arts sophomore, and Don Dixon, assistant professor of speech, will be featured in the production. In the first routine Suzanne, a French maid (Betty Thies), and Lucien Garidel, the leading man (Fred Terry), will dance a light waltz.
A soft-tap solo by Suzanne is the second specialty number. Both of these dances are set to the scene of lower Parisian life.
Mary Helen Ryder, education senior, will dance the third specialty number, the details of which have not yet been worked out.