UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SIX
JANUARY 22,1947
Kansan Comments...
Book Lines
Text books, familiar objects to most students, are The Topic of Conversation twice each semester.
One time is the time just before finals week when students sit around and moan, "Geeminy (or something similar), the final's the first day and I haven't even cracked that book for a month." Let us pass on to a less painful problem.
The other time is the time just after classes meet for the first time of a semester. Then text books are announced and immediately long lines form in front of book stores and clerks inside the store quietly (usually) go mad. The conversations heard then often aren't printable because getting books develops into a full afternoon's work.
Much of the crowding to book stores in the few days after the first class could be eliminated by a little extra work by each school.
If each school would now post a list of text books to be used in courses next semester, students could begin getting books now and avoid sweating out lines later. For instance, the College could post a list on the bulletin board just across from its office.
Many students know just what courses they will take the next semester and the others know after they have enrolled. If students could buy books before classes start, the period of buying would be spread out over a week or two instead of three or four days. And classes could start out the first day with a text assignment.
Last fall the student book store had such a list, but very few students knew about it. However, those who discovered the store had this list and so could buy their books early found that the book store crowds aren't necessary. Why shouldn't every student have a chance to buy his books leisurely?
Your Union
Plans recently were announced that building of the Union additions, enlarged food service space and a roof terrace, will be started March 1. These additions will enlarge the service of one of the most popular buildings on the campus and the building for which we should all be most thankful.
The Union is probably as democratic a social place as one can find in Kansas. Here members of all economic levels, races, and ages can find unrestricted use of everything
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The Union offers the social supplement needed in a complete college education. The atmosphere of the well-lighted, well-furnished rooms is ideal for promoting friendship.
Moreover, it is a home for visiting former students and friends of the University. Conventions, small parties, large banquets, informal meetings and homecoming activities, are held in the Union.
"Let's meet at the Union" has become a common phrase that a new student learns when he enters K.U. "Let's meet at the Union" is an invitation he will use when he returns for a visit ten years later.—M.S.L.
Dear Editor---have enough intelligence to rate a lifetimemate.
Editor's Note; Every "Letter to the Editor" must be signed. The name will be withheld from publication upon request, but the editor must know who wrote it. All letters must be limited to 250 words.
Education Before Beauty
In response to the letter entitled "Kansans Only", I quite agree with the "idealist" who wrote it that the crude temporary structures being erected behind Frank Strong hall hardly add to the beauty of our spacious campus. However, I find it hard to believe that anyone would put beauty above the value of an education.
Perhaps this doubled enrollment isn't necessary. Perhaps K.U. should restrict all out-of-state residents. That would make for a more highly-educated populace, wouldn't it?
In my home state, Missouri, I was unable to find living quarters, so I could not attend the University of Missouri. The University of Kansas City does not have a business school. The University of Kansas accepted me. Thanks to K.U., I'm in college. I'm sure the writer of that article knows several students planning to attend other schools later—and not the schools in their home states.
Yes, I agree it's not a pretty sight behind Frank Strong hall, but did you ever take a look inside?
Robert Wright
College freshman
Same Tune. New Verse
My dear freshman secessionist, don't you think that Kansas would be a small place to spend the rest of your life? If you don't welcome these foreigners into your state and school, it would not be at all right for you to ever venture out of Kansas.
As for the beauty of the campus, remembering that beauty is only skin-deep, don't you consider the thought behind this temporary construction more beautiful than that which meets the eye?
William M. Dubbs College freshman
Was this institution established to compete with Taj Majal? or would it be more nearly correct to say it was established as an institution of higher learning to enlighten those with a desire to learn?
Now The Chorus Again
While you are looking at the out-of-state names in the student directory did you stop to think how many of those names have appeared on honor rolls, on football line-ups, and in other places that did credit to the University?
Do you want to spend the rest of your life in your own little shell, or would you rather know what some of the people from other parts of the country think and do? I'll admit that quetset huts don't add much to the beauty of the campus, but think of the other considerations involved.
Engineering sophomore
With the exit of government restrictions in men's and women's clothing, it is to be hoped that two-pant suits will swiftly return and that the return of the bustle will be long delayed.
Dean Attends Council
Dean D. M. Swarthout will represent the National Association of Schools of Music, of which he is president, at a meeting of the American Council of Education Friday and Saturday in Washington, D.C.
Bombay Is City Of Palaces, Hovels, Taj Mahal, Harlems
By MEHRA DARUWALLA
Bombay is a city of palaces and hovels, Park avenues and Harlemss, of the Taj Mahal (Waldorf Astoria of India), and the "Irani Restaurant" (drugstore of India), of lovely gardens and famous clubs.
At one of these posh clubs called the "Cricket Club of India," where you are likely to rub shoulders with one of those fabulously rich Maharajas, I happened to overhear the following conversation among five young Indian girls, all pretty, wealthy, cultured, and belonging to the "smart set."
"Of course, honey. It's Jimmy.
He dances the Rumba superbly.
Doesn't he remind you of Cesar Romero? He's so tall, dark, and handsome."
"By the way, Mani darling, do you happen to know that handsome fellow in the conga shirt?"
I could not help turning around and looking at their object of adoration. One glance was sufficient; a fine dandy with nimble feet and a scatter-brain.
"How about Neville, Jeroo? I like his broad shoulders and that wicked look in his eyes, a perfect caveman type like Clark Gable."
"A thorough caveman," I murmured to myself. "A perfect speciman of physical efficiency and mental deficiency."
"Jeroo, honey, what can you do with looks without money. I want tons and tons of it. Cyrus is worth millions like Bing Crosby or Charlie Chaplin."
("Your looks and his wealth would make a perfect combination as Eddie Cantor says in one of his songs.")
"What about Minoo, Vera?"
"Not for me, Dina. So sober, so respectable. He doesn't drink, smoke, or dance. I hate wet blankets. A person should be dashing in a way. He is without a jot of personality. His brother is so saue, so sophisticated like Adolphe Menjou. I want a man with 'that certain something' that all the movie stars have, not a gooody gooyd type."
I began to reflect on those good old days when a girl was not put to the botheration of selecting her mate, but meekly said, "I will," to the age-old question of the priest in his flowing white robe:
"Pasande Kardum?" (Will thou have this man for thy husband?)
She dare not refuse, even if he had Chaplin's moustache or Durante's nose.
Although many people seem to have a great deal of worry about paying income taxes and filling out forms and generally having a poor time, we can't help wishing that we had some reason to worry along those same lines.
Jaytalking --have enough intelligence to rate a lifetimemate.
A group of state university professors (not this University) recently met and thundered rabily against socialism because they said working for the state would curtail their liberties. Wonder who they thought is paying their salaries now?
Coeds clinging to a strong right arm while walking around the campus aren't necessarily in love—maybe there's just not enough sand on the ice.
The K.C. Star isn't the only newspaper which has been forced to suspend publication because of a strike. When the Springfield, Mass., paper ceased publication, housewives held a protest meeting, saying that they didn't know what stores were having bargain sales or where prices were lowest. The publishers missed the advertising, too.
Do You Have A Turtle Complex? Try Getting Married, Crane Says
Chicago. (UP)—Bachelors and spinsters, a psychiatrist said today, are like turtles. Every year they remain unmarried they withdraw further into their shells, he said.
George W. Crane, director of a psychiatric clinic, said that spinsters and bechelors are the most eccentric and peculiar class of humanity.
"They withdraw from life," he $\textcircled{2}$
said
A bachelor living peacefully in a penthouse apartment is more likely to suffer a mental breakdown than the most henpecked husband, Mr. Crane said.
Even the husband who often is the subject of his wife's wrath has a better chance to succeed in his business than any member of the Lonely Hearts club, he claimed.
"As the unmarried withdraw from society, they find it more to their liking to curl up on a couch and get their entertainment via the radio instead of going out socially," he said.
"Married people are better adjusted," he explained. "They have social intelligence. At least they
"Husbands and wives are more socially adept and have a better understanding of human nature than the 'turtles,' because marriage tends to extrovert a person's interests."
He classed people into four groups —the turtles, the childless husband and wife, the husband and wife with children, and grandparents.
"The grandparents are at the top of the scale," he said. "At 60 they are the most mellowed, most charming, most extroverted people in the world."
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