FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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JOHN BURNETT, engineering senior, presents the engineers challenge to the lawyers for a tug-of-war across Potter Lake on Senior Day, May 9, to Keith Wilson, 2nd year law.
Barbecue, Lady Barbers To Highlight Senior Day
"Hey there, pardner, wha' cha' doin' May 9?" "Hey, We Dood It,' what else?"
You'll be hearing this greeting a lot on the campus between now and Tuesday, May 9. That's the day the seniors forget their books and classes at 3 p.m., by special order of the chancellor, and take off to celebrate "we dood it," meaning, "we're in the last lap now," or "graduation is just around the corner!"
The seniors will don blue jeans and plaid shirts for the day and be "dudes," as a pun to the main theme of the day.
Plans for an afternoon and evening of fun and festivity are already underway, Mary Helen Baker, chairman of the Class Day committee, announced.
This year's Class Day will be carried out around a western theme Members of the graduating class will wear blue jeans and plaid shirts and tote corn cob pipes throughout the day. Seniors will meet on the Terrace of the Union during all free hours of the day. At 3 p.m. the seniors will parade across the campus to the Union where there will be entertainment.
At 4:30 seniors will gather at Potter lake to witness a tug of war between the engineers and lawyers, who will pull the rope from opposite sides of the lake.
Immediately after the dunking of either engineers or lawyers, the seniors will meet at the picnic grounds west of Potter lake for an old fashioned barbecue. While the seniors eat, they will be entertained by various skits and contests, which will carry out the western theme.
A feature of the evening will be a contest in which lady barbers will compete in shaving the faces of senior men picked from those at the barbecue. Spoons will be substituted for razors. During this contest, a barbershop quartet will provide appropriate background music.
Tickets to the barbecue are on sale this week. They may be purchased from members of the Class Day Committee and from representatives in the organized houses. They will be on sale until Wednesday, April 26. Tickets are 85 cents each.
Members of the Class Day committee are Mary Helen Baker, fine arts senior, chairman; Marian Ripppeau, Edith Malott, V. Hardy Scheuerman, and Charles Hoffhaus, College seniors; Stan Englund, Peggy Baker, and Elmer Dougherty, engineering seniors; Grace Gwinner, education senior; and Jack Tusher, fine arts senior.
Other entertainers will include Jim Hawes, fine arts senior, who will present an original skit, and Woody Davis and Win Koerper, College sophomores, who will sing and play their guitar and accordion arrangements of western ballads.
Charleston, N. C. —(U.P.)—Jake Burch told the judge he guessed he was one who couldn't afford prosperity. Jake bought a 1938-model automobile, then took a few drinks. He bumped the fender off a parked car, ran over a curb turning a corner, ran into and injured a 13-year-old boy on a bicycle, ploughed into the rear of another parked car, jumped out and ran.
Couldn't Afford Prosperity
Library Additions Confuse Students
There is no problem finding what you need in Watson library, if you know where to look. The location of texts in special fields or the extent of library services often puzzles University students. Relocation of certain reserve books has added to their confusion.
There is the Green room on the first floor west of the library where students may smoke and read reserve books in sociology, social work, home economics, speech, journalism, and any reserve periodicals in the library. All these resources are provided on each of the ten tables in the only library room where smoking is permitted. Miss Carmen Novak is the Green room librarian.
The Kansas room, directly above the Green room on the second floor, is another attraction of the library's new wester wing. Students may read Kansas history in texts, periodicals, specially prepared scrapbooks, as well as publications by Kansas authors; or they may maze at the Jayhawker murals painted on the red and blue walls. There is a store of information in the Kansas room unsuspected by many students.
In the sound-proof reserve reading room students browse through publications, past and present, of schools of the University. There are student publications including the Sour Owl, the Bitter Bird, Upstream, the kansas Engineer, and the University Daily Kansan, from first to last editions, and a scrapbook history of the University in 12 volumes. Biographies of prominent Kansans, such as, Carrie Nation, Amelia Earlhart Putnam, Frederick Funston, or Dwight David Eisenhoover, scrapbooks on prominent University alumni, writings of faculty members, biographies of pioneer professors and all University chancellors, and graduation commencement programs are all to be found in this room.
Here, too, are histories of Lawrence and larger cities in the state Works are available by such Kansas authors as Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author of The Bent Twig; A. E. Hertzler, The Horse and Buggy Doctor;
Two-Century Old Wall Of China Being Dismantled By The Communists
The Great Wall of China, built two centuries before Christ, probably has no equal for the amount of human labor bestowed upon it. Communists are now reported adding to the sum total of that labor by dismantling parts of the immense barrier to obtain stone and brick for new construction in north China's cities.
fallen to ruin in places. Large sections were then rebuilt and new spurs were added.
Some 300,000 troops were impressed for the building job as conceived by the dynamic emperor, Chin Shih Huang Ti. In addition, all available prisoners of war and criminals, "including many dishonest officials" history shows, were drafted for the task. Construction took 15 years, from 219 to 204 B.C., notes the National Geographic Society.
Again, centuries later, Ming emperors (1368 to 1644) strengthened the wall from its eastern terminus at Shanhaikwan (Linyu) on Liaotung Bay of the Yellow Sea along much of its 2,000-mile tortuous west reach almost to Sinkiang.
Ming policy concentrated, however, on construction in the east. The Great Wall was divided into distinct sections at the Yellow River west of Ningwu.
Aesop, author of the book of fables, was a slave.
Even that was not the beginning or the end of labor on the "long rampart." Parts of emperor Chin's wall were built on sections dating from three centuries earlier. Some four centuries after Chin, the Han dynasty extended the operation farther into central China. By the 6th century A.D., the wall had
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Finding a book correctly by looking under subject, title, and author in the card files are Mary Douglass, education senior, left, and Mary Lou Ketchum, College junior, right. They will follow up the first step by taking the number on the card to the main circulation desk. The assistant librarians will then comb six levels and the subbasement looking for their book.
or William Allen White. The Autobiography of William Allen White. Miss Maud Smelser, librarian is in charge of the Kansas room.
The main reserve reading room is in the basement of the library. Periodicals are stored here as well as reserve books. Reading lists are posted on the south wall to the west of the main entrance to the room. Miss Flora Ewart is the librarian in charge.
The second floor reference room with its high ceiling and red-walled alcoves is familiar to most University students. Here are encyclopedias, anthologies, reference handbooks, the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, yearbooks, certain Congressional records and publications, biographical and other dictionary, concordances, and other reference texts. A magazine index to the location of all library periodicals is on a desk at the entrance of the room. Miss Esther Norman, reference librarian, occupies the other desk.
Reserve books in philosophy and psychology are located in the education reading room on the first floor to the west of the main entrance. Both reserve and stack books in education are here. Bound magazines in philosophy and psychology go to the main desk on the second floor while bound periodicals in education stay in the reading room. Two large fans add to the appeal of the gray-walled reading room, which is under the supervision of Mrs. Magda K. Jensen.
Students can "keep up on the world of today" in the periodical room of Watson library on the first floor to the east of the main entrance. The current newspapers of larger U.S. cities are in racks located centrally in the room. Current popular magazines are in similar racks. Kansas county newspaper shelves take up part of the southwest wall. Other periodicals are shelves on all four walls by subject. Typed cards indicate the following classification of periodicals by topic: Sociology, Romance languages, political science, physical education, pharmacy, music, journalism, German, English, business, economics, secretarial training, ancient languages, history, and "Miscellaneous." Trade journals, as well as departmental journals, are available here. The librarian, Miss Priscilla Tjaden, guides students to reference material.
As a federal government depository, Watson library receives all United States federal government documents. The document room is on the fourth floor. Monthly catalogues published by the government index publications and serves as a guide to literature. Miss Bessie Wilder oversees the documents room.
A microfilm reading room, room 404 houses two library film readers. On microfilm the University has such newspapers as the New York Tribune from January 1853 to December 1914; Emporia Gazette Weekly issues from Aug. 1, 1855 to Dec. 26, 1946; Emporia Gazettes from May 5, 1893 to Sept. 8, 1908 and Sept. 9, 1909 to April 6, 1945 the New York Star; and the Kansas City Star and Times. Certain University of Chicago theses and the American Periodicals series from 1800 to 1825 may also be viewed on the screen which is approximately 18 inches square.
A quaint, musty room on the fourth floor, 413, holds part of the collection of English and American literature of Charles Dunlap. The Dunlap room is open from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. to graduate students in English only. Miss Cora Dolbee has charge of the room.
In case of confusion most students wind up at the main desk on the second floor of Watson library.
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