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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
OCTOBER 16, 194
E. C. Quigley, athletic director, is out in front on the Pickograph, with 13 correct choices out of 15 in three weeks of competition. Henry Shenk, head coach, and the Kansan sports editor are next with 12 correct winners, trailed by the football team's representatives with 11.
Quig and Shenk made 100 per cent correct choices this week, while Frank Patee, halfback and Iowa State game captain, and your sports writer went astray on the Iowa State-Mizzou game.
Last weekend's games:
Last weekend's games:
Missouri 13, Iowa State 7.
Texas 12, Oklahoma 7.
Indiana 54, Nebraska 14.
Marquette 55, Kansas State 13.
Kansas 34, Washburn 0.
Meet your team.
Meet you.
It's one of those Texas boys again
sho' nuff. Bobby Burch is the tackl-
member of that Texas Triangle
Burch
which holds down three important posts in the Jayhawk for ward wall.
A V-12 resident of "Club 10—the house of sin," Burich is a builder of Rockwall. Te xx which, he ex-
plair s, is about 25 miles from Dallas. A junior in civil engineering," almost a senior," Bob came to K.U., his first navy station, in March, 1944 He joined the navy after a semester at Texas A. and M. In high school, he was out for that tackle position, lettering two years out of three.
lettering two years ago. He has been out for football off-and-on at K.U., but this is his first year as a full-fledged squad member. He also participates in intramurals for his fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, and is interested in boxing. He was one of the guys with the black eyes during that season last year.
Meet your team.
SACK THE SOONERS
The old adage, "Like father, like son," holds true, at least for Duke Burt, freshman tackle on the varsity
squad. Duke's father was quite active in athletics here on the Hill and was captain of the 1924 foat ball team.
Burt
Duke is off to a good start at following in father's footsteps. Even this early in the season, we are getting used to hearing the loudspeaker boom out, "Burt was in on that tackle."
Duca is from Shreveport, La., of course, and you'd never know it by the way he talks, y'all. He played football for Byrd high school in Shreveport his sophomore year, then transferred to Sewanee military academy in Tennessee, where he played in the line. He lettered in football at Sewanee and was graduated there last spring.
Duke is a student in engineering and plans on petroleum engineering as a major. He is a Sigma Chi pledge.
Final Quack Club Tryouts Tomorrow
Final tryouts for prospective Quack club members will be held in Robinson gym at 7:30 p.m. to tomorrow, Miss Ruth Hoover of the physical education department announced today.
Always a Bed Ready for Ivory In Our Hospital
A veteran, in more than one capacity, Ivory J. Bird returned from military service to the campus and the Jayhawk football squad Oct. 3, and his almost exclusive position in the Watkins Memorial hospital. For last week Bird was back in a hospital bed once more. hospital bed once more.
hospital bed once more.
hospital year hospital physicians started a bed-reserved-bird
policy after the football letterman had suffered two dislocations of his right shoulder, a fractured foot, and a broken thumb during various practices and games. Tuesday he returned again to the hospital, this time with a dislocated
Ivory Bird
with a classmate left shoulder received during his third time out for practice. Bird Likes the Hospital
"This hospital is all right," Bird observed casually as he watched a nurse cross the hall. He spoke with authority since his hospital record puts the one about the nine lives of a cat in the shade.
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At the age of 15, with the permission of his mother, Bird joined the army air force. During the war, Sergeant Bird served as an air gunner in the Pacific, survived several serious crashes, and received a medical discharge in April, 1944. Back to School
After six years in the air corps, Bird decided to take another crack at school. He enrolled last fall in physical education as a freshman after passing the competitive examination which allowed him to enter college without completing high school. He lasted until shortly before mid-semester for by January, 1945. Bird was working at the naval air station in Seattle, Wash., and by April, he had joined the Canadian army paratroopers.
army paratroopers.
He got through his training, but when he sprained both ankles making a jump, he was transferred to the Royal Canadian electrical-mechanical engineers. He experienced several more crashes before he was transferred to the Canadian army general staff for the Pacific forces in Washington. After six weeks with the staff, Corporal Bird, previously demoted from staff sergeant, went to Canada where he received his discharge on Sept. 29. No Reconversion Trouble
His record, disregarding the hospitalization phases, includes nearly every citation, medal, and award in the book. He prefers not to enumerate them because, he says, "I can't live on my decorations."
"My big trouble," Bird explains, is not reconversion—that I can take care of. What I've got to do isive down my past record."
Richard B. McEntire, chairman of the Kansas Corporation commission, will speak to majors and upper classmen in political science at a tea in the English room of the Union at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Political Science Majors To Hear Commission Head
If college life doesn't get too tame for him, he thinks he'll stay.
Mr. McEntire will discuss economic and governmental problems of his agency.
Staff Postions Open
The Kansas Engineer needs staff members, and interested students may apply at 4:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday or 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
High School Debaters To Attend Institute
The debate institute for high schools, held annually at the University, will be Friday and Saturday, H.G. Ingham, director of the extension division, announced today.
Approximately 150 students from 16 high schools are expected. These students will stay at organized houses of the University.
Highlight of the institute will be a debate at 7 p.m. Friday between the University debate team and the University of Wichita on the question, "Resolved: That the United States should adopt positive compulsory one-year military training for all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 24."
Among the speakers will be Chancellor Deane W. Malott; E.A. Thomas, commissioner of the Kansas high school activities association; F.S. Montgomery, bureau of visual instruction; Prof. E.C. Buehler, department of speech and dramatic arts; and Mr. Ingham.
Evelyn Swarthout to Play
Evelyn Swarthout, concert pianist and daughter of Dean and Mrs. D. M. Swarthout, will play a group of piano solos at the regular 3 p.m. Thursday recital in Frank Strong Hall auditorium.
Evelyn Swarthout to Play
K.U. to Call In $20,000
More Stadium Bonds Dec. 1
Indebestness on Memorial stadium will hit a new low Dec. 1, when an additional $20,000 in bonds will be called in. E.C. Quigley, director of athletics, has brought the debt down by $50,000 in the past year with his "KU Halo Club".
Advisers to Attend Meet
Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women, and Miss Marie Miller, her assistant, will go Thursday to the meeting of Kansas Deans of Women and Advisers of Women in Wichita Friday and Saturday.
the conference theme is "Education for Responsible Living."
Barr Earned Title By Stage Work
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torship and taught physics at Pleasantville, Iowa. In 1924 he became pastor of the Christian church at Liberty, Mo., and taught English in the William Jewell college.
He married Miss Mildred Fallis, one of the well-known students of this college on Aug. 29, 1926. They had planned a quiet ceremony after the evening church services but the public's interest was not to be underestimated. More than a thousand persons gathered for the services and the ceremony.
The Rev. Mr. Barr's perpetual concern for the union of religious and educational life may be explained by the fact that few persons have started life so closely associated with an educational environment. His parents, John and Mary Ann Barr, were living in the extra rooms of a newly erected school house in Council Bluff, Iowa, when he was born on Dec. 18, 1894.
Born in Schoolhouse
The Barrs have two daughters Marilyn, a sophomore in high school and Margaret, in junior high school
Science Gets the Bird in Search For Origin of K.U.'s Own Jayhawk
Animal, vegetable, or mineral—
That noble bird, the Kansas Jayhawk, has caused the "grey beards" of science a lot of trouble. Through the years the time-honored myth of the Jayhawk has been attacked on the grounds that it is attempting to make the Jayhawk a real bird.
As a result, much scientific research has been done to convert the Jayhawk from an amateur to a professional myth. Open season was declared on the unique bird and there was much excited shouting, principally in the newspapers.
The first professional development was in 1932 by Raymond C. Moore, professor of geology at the University of Kansas. Writing in the Graduate Magazine he said:
the Magazine.
"Geologists in the mid-continent region are familiar with the representative of the class Aves called 'Jayhawkkornis Kansasensis' known familiarly as the Jayhawk. We may direct attention to what has been designated as one of the most famous yells in America, 'Rock Chalk, Jayhawk'. The close association of Jayhawk and rock chalk in the yell suggests the possibility that the cretaceous chalk may contain evidence bearing on the Kansas Jayhawk."
"As a matter of fact," the report continued, "fossils of the bird have been found in western Kansas and a complete specimen is in the museum of the University of Kansas. We have no actual evidence of the coloring of the bird but is it not reasonable to assume that the red and blue of modern Jayhawkornis were the hues of the ancient Rock Chalk bird?"
There is an unverified story that the Indians believed the great round stones in Rock City in Ottawa county to be petrified eggs. The anonymous Indian who made this statement also declared that the first inhabitants of the Great Plains were Jayhawks. They settled here, he explained, because the land was flat. They flew at such great speed that they needed level runways for landing.
The Spaniards of Coronado's day were the first white men to hear these stories from the Indians. The following is ascribed to a famous Spanish ornithologist: "Because of the hoarse voice of this bird, which can be heard 100 leagues, our soldiers nicknamed it the Feathered Jackass. This disrespect was the cause of our failure to lice those cities of gold."
Another school of thought declares that the bird is merely a variant of the cuckoo. "The cuckoo," says one authority, "is a bird with a loud
voice notorious for the fact that it builds no nest of its own but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. They eat the food intended for the true nestlings and shove their starving hosts out on the ground. Unquestionably the Jayhawk is cuckoo."
This is the kind of cool scientific research needed to show how the Jayhawk has become an expression of the spirit of Kansas. Like the state, it was birn in adversity and its flight is to the stars.
It is a fighting bird, full of the tough humor of the territorial soldiers who first made it their mascot. A famous regiment of the Civil war was proud to bear its name. It has fought three times in the Philippines: first with Funston, again in the bloody retreat on Bataan, and finally when Corregidor was avenged.
The Jayhawk is a heroic bird, but don't try to treat it like a hero. You might receive a faint swoosh from its exhaust. It is sentimental, and loves to croon strange works to itself at dawn or in a prairie twilight. It was bred in the courage of peace. It has the courage of a bird that can fly backwards into a dust storm squawking prosperity.
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