MAY 9.1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
WHY WE SAY
by STAN J. COLLINS & L.J SLAWSON
Coming Back? Tell It To Hitt
All students planning to attend the University either this summer or fall are asked to inform the registrar's office this month so that the University can make plans for enrollment.
James Hitt, registrar, said today that students may insure themselves a place in the University under the priority system by signing up in the registrar's office on the main floor of Frank Strong hall during the month May.
No avoid congestion, students are asked to sign up at the office according to the following schedule, the distrister stated. (Letters are for final letter of last name)
May 7-11 D,H,S,N,Q
May 20-25 F,P,A,Y,U,V,C.K
May 27-June 1 J.M.X.I.L.T.R.
"This is not a pre-registration in the sense that it will eliminate registration in the fall," Mr. Hitt said,
"but checking in this way will help avoid congestion in the fall and give us a chance to check on students before they call in the office this fall."
Government Argues Congress Guarantees Work for Inductee
Washington. (UP)—The government argued before the supreme court today that congress intended the draft act to guarantee each inductee a year's reemployment, regardless of any union seniority rules.
Assistant Attorney General John F. Sonnett, counsel for Abraham Fishgold, a war veteran and Brooklyn welder, challenged the interest of a CIO union in the super-seniority case. Sonnett asked the court to declare void an appeals court ruling that denied Fishgold's absoluted right to reemployment.
In the United States, 500 million barrels of oil were discovered in 1942.
'Difference Between Fact, Theory Must Be Made In College Chem'
The theoretical tail sometimes wags the pedagogical dog even in chemistry, but here, as elsewhere, it is an undesirable condition.
The use of chemical theory as a tool, not as a creed, is advocated by Harry H. Sisler and Calvin A. VanderWerf, professors of chemistry, in an article recently published in the Journal of Chemical Education.
Modern theory as a tool in teaching elementary college chemistry has been used by the authors, and has been successful as a basis for interpreting additional knowledge, rather than a loose bundle of unrelated facts which slip from the individual's memory one by one.
Adverse criticisms of undergraduate chemistry courses are not unusual, the authors point out, and the criticisms are not entirely unjustified. Memorization of a mass of more or less interesting and related facts has been required, but the broad, underlying principles in terms of which the student may evaluate and correlate the facts he has learned have been ignored.
"Our theories are and always will be imperfect," Professor Sisler and Professor VanderWerf admit, "but recent developments in the fields of physics, and physical and theoretical chemistry have led to the discovery of a few broad, basic concepts in terms of which we believe it is possible to organize thoroughgoing, integrated, and internally consistent courses in inorganic chemistry at the elementary college level."
Attempts to apply the modern theoretical principles in KU.'s chemistry courses lie in the use of a revised periodic table which lists the 92 elements in order of their atomic number, increasing atomic weight, and gradation in properties, and in the explanation of the formation of chemical bonds which hold the elements such as sodium and chlorine in combination in compounds such as common salt.
The concepts must be introduced as early in the course as feasible and,
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if repeatedly and consistently applied and explained in connection with the descriptive material presented, will systematize and simplify the beginner's study, the authors advice. Differences in physical properties such as boiling points, melting points, and solubilities among the groups of organic chemistry including the commonly known alcohols, ethers, and acids may be explained this way.
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Clear-cut distinctions between fact and theory must be maintained, the authors emphasize, but the student may soon be led to realize that should new theory replace the present one, it probably will have been fashioned by the present concept, and that the new can best be understood and utilized by those who were thoroughly familiar with the old.
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Union Committee Picnic Changed
In 1940, David Lloyd George completed 50 years of continuous service in the English house of commons.
The picnic is open to committee members, chairmen of Union committees, and members of the Union Operating board. Byron Shutz will report on the conference of the Association of College Unions in Minneapolis, she said.
The Union Activities committee scheduled to have been held at the home of Dean Paul B. Lawson at 5:30 p.m. today, will be in the Elbow room of the Union building instead, Alberta Cornwell, chairman, said today.
Thomas Nast, who sketched Cijal war scenes for Harper's Weekly, originated the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey.
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