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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 31, 1946
All Fields Of Education Need Languages As A Background---Lind
Phi Beta Kappa Adds 29 Members To Kansas Chapter
Since its organization, the Kansas Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has had 1621 members. At 5:30 p.m. Monday, 29 seniors will be added to this number.
The first chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was organized on December 5, 1776, at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. This chapter grew into the present national fraternity which includes more than 140 of the best institutions of learning in the country. Phi Beta Kappa exists for the ideals of fraternity, morality, and literature.
On April 2, 1880, eight members of the faculty at the University of Kansas organized the Kansas Alpha chapter, the first chapter to be organized west of the Mississippi river. Eighty persons on the faculty are members of the Kansas Alpha chapter.
chapter.
Members are chosen by the Council of the chapter, which is composed of faculty members, on the basis of scholarship and devotion to a liberal kind of learning.
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The 29 initiates are Josephine Abbitt, Lee Alexander, Betty Ball,
Martha Lou Cable, Mary Ella Barber,
Russell Barrett, Margaret Botkin,
Joyce Durall, Helen Hird, Clyde Jacobs, Sue Jamieson, Frances
Janes, Kenneth Johnson.
James, Reinheimer Jones
Wilma Junker, Hazel Lloyd, Marilyn McEwen, Elizabeth McKenzie,
Sarah Marks, Betty Jean Nelson,
Verlyn Norris, Margaret Elizabeth Prentice, Charlotte Price, Georgia Lee Reinhart, Phyllis Singer, Virginia Stephenson, Anna Marie Stevens, Jean Stodard, Shirley Wills and Samuel Zweifel.
and Samher Bala. Those persons elected in the fall and initiated in March are Beverly Waters, Mary Morrill, Jean Kaufmann, Muriel Stember and Wendell Nickell.
Officers of the Alpha chapter are Prof. W. E. Sandelius, president; Miss Veta Lear, vice-president; Prof. L. R. Lind, treasurer; and Raymond Nichols, secretary.
Another election for Phi Beta Kappa in the Graduate school will be held at commencement time, Miss Lear said, and for other persons who were ineligible at the time of the last election.
Churchill Warns Against Use Of Palestine as Military Base
London. (UP)—Winston Churchill told commons today that British use of Palestine as a military base for defense of the Suez canal would prejudice seriously Britain's hope of "gaining the aid of the United States on the Palestine question."
Churchill gave enthusiastic approval to the recommendations of the Anglo-American commission on Palestine, but said the task of carrying out the recommendations was "too much to put on Britain single-handed."
The "ink" ejected by the octopus when it is attacked is not a "smoke-screen." The jet of "ink" forms a definitely shaped object in the water which serves as a decoy to distract the enemy's attention while the octopus changes color and darts off in another direction.
"It's all, Greek to me!"
But, that familiar lament is not a valid excuse according to L.R. Lind, professor of Latin and Greek, in his article published recently in the Classical Journal, "Toward New Frontiers in the Classics."
"I have little patience with those who insist that only a few students can profit from the study of the classics. It is absurd for anyone to study accurately such subjects as science, history, or philosophy without some knowledge of the culture tradition." Professor Lind asserts.
The general tendency is to ignore the natural correlation of the classics with English, the modern languages, history, or philosophy, he says.
The scientists are among the most ardent defenders of the classics for they realize their significance as an indispensible scientific tool, he observes.
It's a dead-letter quarrel to consider the relative merits of an exclusively scientific or classical training. Both sides recognize the need for a harmonious relationship between the two. The problem is to find a rational balance, Professor Lind explains.
"The classics have passed into a partial eclipse and stand in danger of becoming known to only a few students.
Too often the classics have been taught as a body of noble examples, and as a storehouse of lofty ideals, which has turned some students against them," he says.
In the endeavor to make real to the students, the relationship of the Greek and Roman to his family, state, and religion, Professor Lind suggested joint action with the modern languages, English, mathematics, philosophy, and science to the fullest extent permitted by the subject matter and departmental barriers.
He also suggests that all languages "be thrown into one camp."
"Fortunately many teachers of modern languages do realize the close and necessary connection between the ancient, medieval and modern phases of the study of language and literature," he commented.
Governors Urge Laws
Banning Utilities Strikes
Oklahoma City. (UP)—The national governors' conference adopted a resolution today urging the federal government and the states to enact laws banning strikes in public utilities and other industries "which might jeonardize the health and safety of the people."
This is the last day of a three-day meeting of the 38th annual governors' conference. This afternoon's meeting will be a closed session to hear B. Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval operations.
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Britons Propose Memorial to U.S. Dead
Cambridge, England. (UP)—An offer to raise several buildings as a permanent memorial to American dead buried in England has been made by the East Anglian town of Bishop's Stortford.
The gift, offered in memory of "the Americans who gave their lives for the cause of peace in this war," is being considered by U.S. army officials.
The town has proposed to erect the memorial buildings in the U.S. military cemetery situated on the slopes of a hill on the outskirts of Cambridge. The cemetery, one of the largest in England, contains the bodies of more than 6,000 Americans. It was opened by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in 1944.
In offering its gift, Bishop's Stortford asked that it be accepted in order that "the cemetery, which
Troy. N.Y. (UP)—Russell Sage college has received a rare colored engraving, and two valuable volumes to add to its art collection.
College Gets Rare Books
The engraving of "Benjamin Franklin at the Court of France in 1778" is by Baron Jolly, Flemish painter, and hung in Brussels before World War I. It is the gift of Mrs. William B. Conover of Pittfield, Mass., graduate of 1942.
Mrs. Edgar M. Hawkins of Rochester donated the books. One is the "History of the Sage and Slocum Families," by Henry Whittimore. published in 1908. The other is "Esther Burr's Journal," written by Jeremiah Eames Rankin and published in 1903.
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American memorial services are held at the cemetery each May 30.
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