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TUESDAY, MARCH 30.1948
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Children In Nursery School Live In World Of Their Own
Bv ROSEMARY ROSPAW
It's a Lilliputian world at 1100 Missouri street.
Tables are 2 feet high; cots are only 6 inches from the floor. Pictures are hung at a height of 3 feet. Everything at the University nursery school is for the pleasure and the convenience of children.
The nursery has a full enrollment of 26 children between the ages of
2 and $5\frac{1}{2}$, and more are on the wait-◊ ___
Other members of the staff are Mrs. Laurel Hodgson and Miss Betty Pretz, who works part time.
"We try to keep an even division between the number of girls and the number of boys, and among the different ages," Mrs. Foster said.
The nursery has a full enrollment 2 and $ \frac{1}{2} $ , and more are on the wait- ing list, explained Mrs. Robert Foster, director.
Don't Try To Influence Children
Mrs. Foster said that the school does not try to influence the children in any way "other than to make them self-reliant and socially adaptable.
The school has no restrictions on enrollment, and is open to the children of any parent who wants to apply, the director explained. The cost is $60 a semester. Conferences with individual parents are held every three months, and a group meeting is held every month in Fraser hall.
"Manners are not so important to us," she explained. "We don't care so much how they eat as long as they do cat."
A regular daily schedule is set for the children. They arrive at 10:45 a.m. and after a brief health inspection, are allowed to play in whatever manner they choose for the next half hour. If the weather permits, most of the children like to play outdoors in the sandboxes and on the teeter-totters, tricycles, wagons, parallel bars, horizontal ladders, and slides. During hot weather they can cool off in a wading pool.
If the ground is too muddy, the children play on the "deck," a screened-in flat roof which has smaller versions of many of the outdoor games and playthings.
Just before lunch a quiet period is held. The children are divided into small groups of five or six for story-telling or singing.
Lunch Carefully Prepared
Lunch is carefully prepared by the nursery's own cook. Menus are checked for nutritional values and the appeal of the food to the child. Nearly always some colorful food is served, Mrs. Foster said.
Naps are scheduled for two hours after lunch. Those children who can go to sleep may talk quietly or may listen to soft music, but they must rest.
A mid-afternoon lunch is served at 2:45 p. m. Eash child gets a glass of orange juice, crackers or sandwiches, and a teaspoonful of cod liver oil. After the snack they may again play as they desire.
The nursery is a laboratory for University students enrolled in child development courses. Students in Child Development I spend an hour a week merely observing the children at play. Students in Child Development II work at the nursery two hours a week, and are responsible for the care of small groups of children. In the advanced course, Child Development III, students spend one day a week caring for children in more responsible tasks.
Announceers on the public address system at the Union under Bailey's direction are Gene Clark, Ervin E. Grant, J. Steve Mills, A. James Mitchell and Clarence Everly.
Peggy Sue Cloyd has resigned as chairman of the announcements committee in Union activities. H. Reed Bailey, engineering sophomore, has been appointed to fill the vacancy.
Bailey Appointed To Fill Union Post
All Union functions are announced over the P. A. system.
Barre, Vt.-(UP)-If you want maple syrup on your pancakes and waffles this year, it will cost you between $6 and $7.50 a gallon.
That's the latest estimate of the Vermont Maple Sugar association in this state, which is the nation's top producer of the delicacy.
Maple Syrup Price To Rise
Some Boys Will Be Boys;
Dthers Will Be Crooks
Atlanta, Ga.—UP)—Detectives Leco Nahlik and O. T. Jones had difficulty in "cracking" a gang of youths about a series of burglaries until the boys admitted they had been stealing from each other. After that, the officers said, it was easy to make them talk.
The Illinois legislature first passed an act on division fences in 1819.
Algebra And History Almost Killed This Boy
Chicago-(UP)History and algebra nearly killed George Franz, a high school junior.
George was carrying his textbooks for the subjects home from class. He slipped on the ice and fell.
The books pierced his body, seriously injuring a kidney. He lost eight pints of blood. A quick operation removed the kidney and blood transfusions set him on the road to recovery.
The National Safety council told him that such accidents happen only once in 5,000 falls.
East Orange, N.J.—(UP)—Open shoes and a tough winter have given the nation's women a battle with anidrosis, chiropodists report. That means cracked heels and rough ankles. The cure is a 25 per cent lanolin cream.
Lanolin Cures Cracked Heels
'World Not In Danger From Atom Blast'
Rome—(UP)—Prof. Givanni Giorgi, Italy's foremost authority on atomic energy, has concluded that there is no danger of an atomic chain reaction which might cause the explosion of the earth.
He believes, however, that a real danger of poisoning the sea and killing all marine life exists.
The scientist said the explosion of huge uranium bombs in the ocean would release deadly radiation.
Professor Giorgi, who maintains close contact with American atom bomb scientists and with Albert Einstein, continued:
"The danger that man may cause a planetary catastrophe must be
considered insufficient. It could happen only when a large part of the terrestrial nucleus consisted of uranium. Such an existence could be imagined only at very great depth.
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