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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY OCTOBER 28, 1940
KANSAN COMMENTS Improvement of Finals System Envisioned for Future Terms
Final week is even more confusing this semester than usual, with the six weeks' session ending a week after the regular 16-week summer semester. Quite a few of the students are enrolled in both, and consequently have to remain around the campus for an entire extra week just to take one or two quizzes.
The existing system of giving final examinations is not so bad under this short-term system, when most students are carrying only one or two subjects. When the regular semester begins, however, students will be taking four to eight courses, and this leads to complications when final week rolls around.
Although exam schedules are supposedly worked out by a senate committee so that only certain ones are given on certain days, some professors find it more convenient to give theirs at other times. This results in some students having as many as 12 or 13 final examinations, with two to four exams for one course, and attendance at regular class periods still required. When the exams in one course are divided into one-hour tests like this, the students must study the entire semester's material before each one because most instructors do not announce which section the test will cover.
This method of giving final exams was inaugurated when the army and
navy programs, which did not coincide with the regular program, necessitated the limiting of examinations to one hour so that the army could use the rooms the following hour.
Now that these programs have been curtailed, and plenty of rooms will again be available, it is time to think of devising a more satisfactory system of scheduling exams. First of all, regular class periods and daily assignments during final week should be discontinued to let students concentrate on their exams which occasionally mean the difference between staying in school or flunking out.
Two- or three-hour tests, in which they "get it all over with at once," are usually preferred by most students to the broken-up, strung-out type now given. Final week might also be stretched out over the entire last week of school in each semester to avoid having students write exams continuously from 8:30 until 4:30, as many have in the past. When this occurs, they are often forced to omit information which they know but have not had time to put down because they have to get to the next class to start another exam.
If some such scheme could be worked out, the grade average of the student body might show a surprising up-swing.
Therapies Combined To Form New Study Physical Medicine
With the opening of the winter semester Nov. 1, a new concept in training for the art of healing gets under way at the University of Kansas, according to Dean H. R. Wahl of the School of Medicine. It is physical medicine, embracing both physical therapy and occupational therapy. Dr. Gordon Martin, who came last July from Rochester, Minn., to become head of the department, visited the Lawrence campus this week and explained the plans and progress being made.
The physical therapy branch of this twin educational project, in which Kansas is pioneering, employs physical agents—light, heat, electricity, massage, and exercises. The Kansas course in the field is one of 26 courses approved by the American Medical Association. They are found in medical schools, clinics, and government hospitals. Dr. Martin said that Kansas offers a short training course of nine months leading to a certificate as a registered physical therapist. Five are now enrolled in that course with three more starting Nov. 1. These students take four months' work at Lawrence and five months at Kansas City.
A four-year course is offered also with three years' work in Lawrence and one year in Kansas City. Two students have launched forth on this program. They look forward to a certificate and a bachelor of science degree.
The other branch of physical medicine known as occupational therapy has been active at the University of Kansas since 1942. After Nov. 1, more than eighty-five students will be enrolled. It combines training in art and crafts with that given in the School of Medicine. Its graduates work in hospitals to direct convalescents in regaining health
Eugene Ware, Poet's Son And Alumnus Dies in Idaho
Topeka—INS—Word was received at Topeka today of the death at Ceour d'Alene, Idaho, of Eugene H. Ware, only surviving son of Kansas' most famous poet.
Ware, a graduate of the University of Kansas, was a prominent lawyer and ranch man.
through occupation. Medical authorities have found that convalescence can be greatly speeded by getting the patient to forget his worries and fears. Handcrafts and similar activities under guidance of properly trained leaders has been found to fit requirements for this healing art, according to Dean Wahl. Students in occupational therapy take their first work at Lawrence and then take internships in hospitals over the country in addition to training in the Kansas City division of the medical school.
Training in these two fields of therapy is fairly new, according to Dean Wahl, but the concept of joining them under one directional head in the single concept, physical medicine, is a pioneering move by Kansas.
Most of the students in physical medicine are women, said Dr. Martin, though there is need for men, too.
The new department will be of special service in the war and post war adjustments according to Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
VARSITY
MONDAY - TUESDAY
"Shadows in the Night"
"Ever Since Venus"
Ina Ray Hutton and Her Orchestra
Two Groups Offer Gift Scholarships
Four gift scholarships of $50 each are being offered by Pi Lambda Theta, honorary educational sorority, for prospective teachers Jean Scott, president, announced today. Mortar Board is offering a $100 gift scholarship for the same thing.
To be eligible the student, man or woman, must be planning on going into teaching as a profession. Classification in school makes no difference. Applications should be made at once to the committee on scholarships and awards, Miss Scott said. The committee will then decide from the list of applicants.
KANSAS SQUAD----
(continued from page one) they lost it on a fumble in their final try for a goal.
The line-ups:
Kansas Nebraska
Riegle L.E. Keonig
Long L.T. Kops
Keller L.G. Kaedan
Hird C. Doyle
Dreher R.G. Hazard
Rouse R.T. Lorenz
Daigneault R.E. Colerick
Moffett L.H. Kessler
Robison Q.B. Selzer
Faulkner R.H. Knight
Barrington F.B. Hollins
Score by perius:
Kansas 0 7 7 6—20
Scoring summary: Touchdowns—Riege 2, Moffett; point after touchdown—Chestnut (sub for Robinson) 2.
Substitutions: Nebraska, ends—Buckley, Dedrick, Bryant; tackles—Johnson; guards—Stevenson, Grund-mann, Pegler, Dermann, Bercuist; backs—Betz, Collapse, Selzer, Perdew, Lamberty, Nelson.
Kansas, ends—Schimenz, Newton;
tackles—Wygle; guard —Stockdale,
Day, Bird; Center —Langford,
Chase; backs—Weatherby, Endecott,
Sutherland, Chestnut, Gregory.
Cornell Graduates 288
A class of 288 were graduated this week at Cornell University.
Minnesota Pians V-Day
Plans for V-E day at the University of Minnesota are underway.
LOST: Pail of plastic rimmed glasses at the rally Friday. Reward for either entire glasses or frames. Bring to Daily Kansan sports desk. 099-099
JAYHAWKER
2:30 - 7 - 9
NOW
THRU
SATURDAY
SUNDAY — 5 Big Days
Joyce Reynolds
Edward Arnold
"JANIE"
War Casualties
Washington — (INS) — The Navy department today announced 226 casualties of the U. S. Naval Forces (Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard), not heretofore released on navy department casualty lists.
Robert F. Andrews, Pfc., USMCR,
dead. Mother, Mrs. Ehel M. Andrew
15 S. Boeck St. Kansas City.
This list included: Kansas:
Kenneth Durwood Cook, Ensign,
USNR, missing. Wife, Mrs. Colleen
Jones Cook, 501 East Chestnut,
Independence.
Don Edwin Sperry, pharmacist's mate, 3/C, USNR, dead. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford F. Sperry, 23 S. Eddy, Fort Scott.
Layton William Strong, S1/C,
USNR, missing, Mother, Mrs. Folsom M. Strong, Hill City, Father.
Arthur Teddy Strong, chief electrician's mate, USNR, serving with the navy overseas.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Monday, Oct. 23, 1944
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism,
at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
English Majors—Students wishing to enroll in the course. Reading for Honors in English or plan for future enrollment may confer with Miss Burnham in 211 Fraser between 2:30 and 4:30 Tuesday or Thursday afternoons of this week. Please consult in advance the catalogue statement on this course—Josephine Burnham for committee.
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KFKU Program
Tuesday, Oct. 24
2:30 p.m. Art by Radio. Maud Ells-
worth.
9:30 p.m. War Fund Program.
9:45 p.m. Student State-Wide Act...
tivities.
Purdue Has "Accent on Youth"
Purdue University's playshop chose "Accent On Youth," for its term show which was presented recently.
University Daily Kansan
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