MAY 14,1947
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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2,666 Students Taught Logic By Miss McCracken
Names of 2,666 students appear on the roll books of Miss Anna D. McCracken for the courses in logic which she has taught since she came to the University in 1922.
miss McCracken, who has had graduate work in both philosophy and economics, is an instructor in correspondence study teaching courses in economics and philosophy.
Pre-law students, pre - medicine students, someone whose roommate liked the course or someone whose brother or sister liked it are the students who usually take logic courses, she said.
It's A Family Affair:
"It is interesting to watch a family of brothers and sisters take the course as each goes through school," she mused.
Many students enrolling in logic are in the upper bracket of scholastic ability, Miss McCracken reported. She attributed this to the fact that students are fenced in by so many requirements it is hard to take a course just because you like it.
A course in logic can be very useful to students in other fields, she emphasized. If the student makes it a part of his own thinking habits he will use it even more in the future. "There is no one thing we use more than thinking," she brought out.
"Elective courses usually have better students because they can choose to take it, and they are not forced to continue the course if they don't like it," she said.
Logic Used In Future
Miss McCracken is now working on a special assignment, studying and instructing adult education courses by correspondence. She transferred from teaching residence courses to correspondence work in 1945.
"There is a growing realization that education is a process which goes on continuously after you get out of school." she stated.
"This trend is reflected by the increasing demand for correspondence
study by college graduates who want to take more work,
"The adult education program is for persons over 25 or for those who have a B.S. or A.B. degree. At the end of my first year of correspondence instructing 36.3 per cent of the enrollees were between the ages of 25 and 46 years. I accidently learned that 11 per cent of these had college degrees and there were probably more."
Asked the possible reason that two such courses as philosophy and economics should be taught by the same person, she replied that economics was an exercise in logic using certain facts. The underlying basic economic facts are philosophical principles.
"Economics is in a sense merely $v$ continuation of the teachings of logic," she explained. Born In Nebraska
Miss McCracken was born in Nebraska and received her early education there. She received her A.B. and M.A. degrees from K.U. and has attended Friends university, Wichita university, Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, and the Universities of Chicago, Colorado, and Michigan.
She is a member of Gamma Epsilon Pi, national philosophical sorority, the American Philosophical association, the American Association of University Women, and was elected secretary-treasurer of the Southwestern Philosophical conference this year.
Miss McCracken is the co-author of "The Guide To Thinking" and has written magazine articles dealing with problems of philosophical nature.
Official Bulletin
May 14,1947
Law Wives tonight at 8 in Law Lounge. Mrs. Charles Rankin will address group.
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General Semantics club at 8:15 tonight in 111 Frank Strong. All reading material to be returned at meeting.
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Progressive Farty meeting at 7 tonight in 113 Frank Strong. Important meeting. All members should attend.
Archery club board meeting at 7 tonight. Practice from 4-6 on hockey field behind Robinson gym.
VETERANS: All veterans now enrolled who intend to continue through summer session must sign today at office of Veterans Training Service, room 2, Frank Strong. If you do not sign, subsistence allowance will automatically terminate at close of this semester. If you do not intend to return this summer and desire to apply for accrued leave, you must apply prior to the close of semester.
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I. S. A. meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday in 228 Frank Strong.
Mathematics colloquium of department of mathematics will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday in 222 Frank Strong. Mr. Sam G. Kneale will speak on "Non-Euclidian Planes."
Ku Ku's meeting at 7:30 p.m Thursday in Union ballroom. Election of officers.
Important meeting of A. S. C. E at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 101 Snow Election of officers. V. A. Koezel guest speaker, Refreshters.
Quill club at 7.30 p.m. Thursday at Miller hall to make final plans abut the publication.
Forums board will present a German movie, "Tales from Vienna Woods," Lindley auditorium, 7:30 pm. Friday. No admission cost.
Law Group Hears Two US Attorneys
Der deutsche Verein wird Donnerstag seil alljahrliches Picknick abhalten. Mitglieder, die Gaste bringen, müssen 50c per Gast bezahlen. Andere Personen, die sich für das Picknick interieren, sind eingeladen, aber auch Sie mussen die Gebühr bezahlen. Wer kommen will, soll the Teilnehmerliste am Schwarzer Brett der Deutschen Abteilung unterzeichen. Wir treffen uns um 5:30 im Park, Ecke 4 und Indiana Strassen. Mitglieder frei.
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Mathematics club picnic will be Wednesday, May 21 at 5 p.m. instead of May 22, in Clinton Park. Make reservations in room 209 Frank Strong by Friday, May 16. Election of officers. All interested in mathematics invited.
Two assistant U.S. attorneys discussed their work Monday at a dinner meeting of Phi Alpha Delta, law fraternity.
El Ateneo presentara un programa de cantos y babelas Latino americanos, el jueves 15 de Mayo en el salon de actos de Frank Strong (auditorium). Se invita cordialmente a todas las personas interesadas en tales programas.
Students planning to take Western Civilization examination on Saturday May 24, 1 to 5 p.m., must register their intention to do so at the Registrar's office this week. Place of examination will be assigned at time of registration. Examination admittance card received at Registrar's office must be presented at time of examination.
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Tau Beta Pi banquet, May 19 Reservations must be made by Friday. Sign roster in Engineering office or contact Robert McJones.
Mr. Richard H. Musser, assistant U.S. attorney from the western district of Missouri, explained the procedure in federal criminal practice. When his office receives a complaint, an investigating agency gets the unbiased facts of the case, and he then issues the complaint, if it is found to be valid. The department of agriculture and the treasury department are among the agencies that aid his office.
"In Missouri, the average is 450 to 500 criminal cases a year, and 98.5 per cent of the total filed are convictions," he said.
Mr. Philip Dergeance, assistant U.S. attorney for the Kansas district, discussed civil actions in which attorneys represent the U.S. government.
"More criminal cases are handled than civil ones, Mr. Dergence said. "In Kansas the criminal offenses average about 210 a year."
Scrapbooks for Student Statewide Activities Commission correspondent contest are due in Alumni office, May 15.
"The U.S. attorneys have the best investigators to help them. The FBI is trained in that special field," he added.
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K. U. Daines will meet at 8 tonight in 426 Lindley, Election of officers followed by White Elephant sale. Please bring some useful article for auction.
Sailor Tells Judge He Needs Pockets
Lexington, Ky.—(UP)—The tall, good looking sailor gave the judge one reason why he didn't like the navy's bell-bottomed, no-pocket type uniforms.
The sailor accused a young woman acquaintance of petit larceny. He said she failed to return some personal records, insurance papers and a check he had given her for "safe-keeping."
"Why did you give them to her
to police Judge Thomas
Ready, asked.
"Look at these pants, Judge. They haven't got room to hold personal papers," was the reply.
Eleven Are Initiated To Pi Mu Epsilon
Eleven students were initiated recently into Pi Mu Epsilon, honorary mathematics fraternity, Miss Martha Peterson, secretary, has announced.
Daily Kansan Classified Ads
The initiates are Howard Barnett, John Yarnell, Samuel Kneale, John Triplette, Marietta Witherpoon, Robert Schatten, College seniors; James Riley, Kenneth Nickell, graduates; Dale Rummer, engineering junior; Margaret Phiblad, business junior; Wade Fite, College junior.
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Lost
APPLIED General Statistics, Fundamentals of Cost Accounting textbooks and notebooks for both courses. Possibly lost in court cases. Please leave 18 Kansas office.
BROWN leather zipper key case containing several keys. Finder please contact T. G. Roberts, 316 Lindsey. Reward. fll16 LADOSSE rose gold Elbona watch on Tenn.
BIOLOGY book in Union Tuesday noon
you please contact Kenneth Boeen
1474 Miss
BLUE bilbilloid. Please return to 1537
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Wanted
RIDE! For two students to Boston or vicinity around June 13. Will share expenses and help drive. Contact Vic Reinking or Austin Harmon, Battelfield hall. 20
VETERANS: We will buy, trade or sell for you any Army or Navy gear in good condition that you may wish to dispose of. Lawrence Surplus, 911 Mass. tt
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BLOUSES made to order; any necklace and sleeve; with or without your own crest or design handpainted. Inquire C. B. White, Corin Hall, Ph. 660. 16 TYPING: Prompt service, reasonable rate. 1028 Vt. Ph. 1168-R. 19 TYPING done. Accurately and quickly. Inquire Apt. 2, 1101 Tenn. Ph. 196-W.
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Miscellaneous
WILL TRACE NICE 3-room apt. in Wichita for nice apt. near campus. For summer or fall session. Write to C. E. Forrer, 1120 Carlos, Wichita, 3, Kans. 20
RESERVATIONS may be made now. Rooms for several quiet men. These rooms may be retained through next month. Two blocks from campus 1247 Ohio.
California Rats Prefer Flowers
Los Angeles, Calif.—(UP)—Dr. George M. Uhl, city health officer, has discovered that rats have a definite taste for flowers, particularly carnations.
What's more, said Dr. Uhl, his rodent control crews can't lure the city's rats from their hideaways until traps were baited with blossoms.
"The ordinary rat will walk a mile for a hunk of cheese or a piece of greasy bacon." Uhl said, "but once his palate is pampered with delicate flower petals, it takes a mighty strong stench even to turn his head."
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