PAGE SIX 62 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS OCTOBER 30,1946 The University Daily Kansan Student Newspaper of the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Member of the Kansas Press Association, National Editorial Association, and the Associated Collegiate Press. Repressed by the National Ave. New York City. Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year, plus 2% tax (in Lawrence add 1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence Kan., every afternoon during the school year except Saturdays and Sundays. Unfilled by a classmate. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kan., under act of March 3, 1879. NEWS STAFF Managing Editor Bill Hage Asst. Managing Editor Charles Roos Makeup Editor Jane Anderson Telegraph Editor, Billie Marie Hamilton City Editor Marcella Stewart Sports Editor Mark Mackenzie Sports Editor John Finch Women's Sports Nancy Jack Asst. Telegraph Editors, Edward Swain, Martha Jewett EDITORIAL STAFF Society Editor ... Alverta Niedens Editor-in-chief ... James Gunn BUSINESS STAFF Writin' Business Manager Mel Adams Manager Ralph Beckham Assst. Adv. Manager. Helen Stinkeinfner National Adv. Manager. Louise Schierker Consultation Manager Bob Bonebrake Since the announcement of the date for the English proficiency examinations, many student questions have arisen as to the "why" of this test. Why is it a graduation requirement for students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences? The explanation is simple. The University feels that a student in the College has more need of the ability to write simple expository material than a student in the more technical fields. A Liberal Arts graduate will have to do that kind of writing every day of his life after he leaves the University. The examination is given to test that ability. In the examination, the student is not required to state rules, to discuss the theories of composition, or to write in "literary style." He is given a list of subjects, from which he must choose a specified number and write on them simply and clearly. He is asked to organize his thoughts into sentences and paragraphs which make sense, to write with a minimum of grammatical error, to spell words in common use, and to punctuate intelligently. In general, he must avoid mistakes that would be evident in speech as well as in writing. Failure the first time means only that he will be offered an opportunity to try again next semester. If he fails the second time, he is required to enroll in a composition course (English 5) which prepares him for his third attempt. Thus the University, by offering three chances, tries to avoid postponing graduation, and, by requiring the test in the first place, endeavors to give each College student one more essential of success in life. Twenty years ago—The faculty of the School of Law adopted a rule prohibiting loitering and loafing on the steps of Green hall. Since students in the School of Law had all their classes in one building, it was decided not to allow a 10-minute intermission between classes. (From the files of the Daily Kansan.) With the price controls going off and inflation appearing, the trend reminds one of the period just after the first World War when a little boy asked his father what the American eagle stood for. "Almost anything, son," the father answered. Careers Of Jenny Lind, Eddie Cantor Meet In Harvard Collection of Theatrical History Cambridge, Mass. (UP) — The world's largest and finest collection on the history of the English speaking stage from opera and ballet to burlesque is crammed into three rooms at Harvard university. Here the careers of Eddie Cantor and Jenny Lind rest side by side on a shelf. Seventeenth century playbills, fool-scap scrolls from Shakespearean tragedies and the programs of "Abie's Irish Rose" and "Tobacco Road" hold spots of equal prominence on the walls. The history-laden collection literally includes millions of items and documents from the world of grease paint and footlights. There are sections dealing with the history of ballet, burlesque, vauduelle, opera, minstrelsy and the legitimate stage. There are theater tickets from the 1850s, prompt books and playbills from the earliest Gilbert and Sullivan operetta and from London's Drury Lane and Covent Garden theaters. Artists such as Cornelia Otis Skinner, who uses the museum in gathering references for her books, rub elbows there with typical patrons from the tenth row, center aisle, whose sole entree to a theater is an occasional ticket. The world's greatest collection of theatrical memories was started in 1903 when the famed actor, John Drew, presented his library of theatrical books and momentes to Harvard. Food Never Has Been Plentiful Since then, widely-known collectors such as Robert Gould Shaw have kept a steady flood of valuable material flowing in. Among the curios are eighteenth century notices soliciting the services of "respectable young men as actors" and a "RULES TO PERFORMERS" card recovered from the famous show boat "Princess", which requests the help of the cast "please not to go in bathing while there are strangers about." The bureau, in its latest publication, quoted Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson as saving: "The present food crisis isn't an unusual situation—it's only unusually severe. There's never enough food in the world to give everyone what he needs to eat, at any given moment. Two-thirds of the world's people are chronically undernourished." The Population Reference Bureau said that erasing of this chronic food deficiency is supposed to be accomplished by increasing the food producing capacity of large countries like China, Russia and India. The bureau was organized as "a non-profit scientific educational organization for purposes of gathering, co-relating and distributing population data." One of its aims is to point out what it considers to be the need for population limitation as a means of improving world conditions. Washington. (UP)—Two of every three of the world's population normally are undernourished and many more probably are doomed to malnutrition in the future, the Population Reference Bureau reports. But, it said, "assuming that the food producing capacity of such large parts of the earth. . . could be doubled, this would be no match for the increase in population" which should result if death rates of these countries are cut to the levels of the U.S., Great Britain and Canada. Evidence of Anderson's claim is witnessed daily as starvation mounts in India and China. About 217 students took the psychological aptitude examination Saturday afternoon in Hoch auditorium. This was the final make-up test to be given this semester. 217 Take Quiz Saturday There is an Elizabethan handbill apologizing for the absence of the leading lady and containing an intricate and complete diagnosis of the illness which prevented her performance. For Lovely Soft End-Curls Try the ELASTI-CURL HILLSIDE Beauty Shoppe 620 W. Ninth Phone 997 Lawrence Optical Company Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted Broken Lenses Duplicated DR. M. E. LUKENS Phone 425 1025 Mass. Secretarial Training, Higher Accounting, Civil Service Courses. Approved for training Veterans. Phone 894 Approved applications for parking permits will be cancelled if the applicant does not call for his permit sticker within two weeks after approval of the application, Frank L. Brown, chairman of the parking committee, said today. Call For Permits Within Two Weeks No permits are required for parking in zone four, west of Potter lake. Permit holders also may park in this zone. This ruling, effective Friday, will apply to past and future applications. Holders of zone seven permits may park along the service drive behind Robinson gymnasium, Haworth hall and Hoch auditorium, provided that they park off the drive so that they do not obstruct traffic. Parking is no permitted on the curve and steep slope leading into zone seven from the south, Mr. Brown explained. Coats, Pen, Cash, Lost In Spooner-Thayer Theft LAWRENCE SANITARY Milk and Ice Cream Co. Three coats, two suitcases, a pen and pencil set and $10 in currency disappeared from Spooner Thayer dormitory in a theft Saturday night. In an effort to prevent further burglarizing, a night watchman has been assigned to the dorm, Irvin Youngberg, housing director, said today. Phone KU-25 with your news. Patterson Heads Nurses Miss Sara Patterson, home economics instructor, was named president of the Kansas State nurses association at a convention in Topeka recently. 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