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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1944
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
Grade Reports Due Early in Semester To Benefit Students
Grades for the mid-semester report are due in the College office Tuesday, at the end of about six weeks of the semester. The earlier check-up, used last semester also, is designed to help students.
An earlier talk with his adviser will enable the student to find out how he is doing, and will give him time to change his schedule if necessary. Dean Paul B. Lawson finds it harder to convince students that a lighter schedule is usually more expedient than too heavy a load.
Parents are eager to know of their children's progress, and complaints have come to the dean's attention from those who felt that an earlier notice would have prevented failure. With grade reports due after six weeks of class work, advisers can meet with students earlier, and notices can be sent to parents by the actual mid-semester time. A few days is always allowed to elapse between the advisers' conferences and the sending of the reports to let students have a chance to tell their parents themselves.
A sub-committee of the group working on the re-evaluation of the College program has recommended a checkup at the end of the fourth and eighth weeks, similar to the Army and Navy plans. This system may be tried in the College next year, Dean Lawson said.
Mid-semester exams will not power half the material in the course as they once did theoretically, but the trend is toward earlier and more efficient checkups. Again the College attempts to help the student, for, as Dean Lawson expresses it, "It is better to keep up than catch np."—R.T.
Jayhawkers Must Be Called for This Week
Jayhawker subscribers who have not yet called for their mid-winter issue of the magazine, should do so sometime this week, Virginia Shaefer, business manager has announced.
The demand for the recent issue of the magazine among non-subscribers is great, and the office will begin selling the magazine by single copies as soon as all regular subscribers have had an opportunity to obtain their Jayhawkers, Miss Schaefer explained.
The Jayhawker office will be open every afternoon this week from 1:30 until 5 p.m. she said. Subscribers may call for their magazines then. Announcement will be made later, she explained, when persons may begin buying the Jayhawker by single issues.
Prof. Chandler Will Speak At Three Commencements
H. E. Chandler, associate professor of education and secretary of the Teachers Appointment Bureau, will make three commencement addresses next month in three Kansas high schools.
"Do You Have What it Takes?" will be the topic when he speaks before the graduating class at Kensington high school on May 17. Speaking at Oberlin on May 18 and at Colby on May 26, Professor Chandler will use the topic "It's a Lovely Day—Tomorrow!"
Mrs. Theo Allen Resigns
Mrs. Theo Allen resigned last week from her position as secretary to the University research foundation. She has accepted a job with the U.S. Employment Service in Coffeyville.
Rock Chalk Talk
By MARY
MORRILL
Open season: The Chancellor has rerouted his way home, and evening taxi service in Lilac lane has been discontinued—all because this is baseball season, and the girls of Watkins hall have gone out whole hog for the game. Their biggest stimulation is a challenge to play PT8 next Wednesday — if they get good enough, PT8, on its way to evening chow, criticizes and coaches the team. Casualties, in addition to the Chancellor and the taxi men: three balls and a bat, shot to pieces; Ann Stevens, thrice wounded in action; Jane Peterson, hit in the mouth.
DeVinci Fried Egg: The fine arts faculty is making serious inquiries about obtaining a stove and other cooking utensils to install in their esthetic domain. The idea is that art students almost always clamber up to their 8:30 classes sleepy-eyed and breakfastless. Then, during the first
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morning intermission, they beat it over to the Union for coffee, eggs, etc.
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If things work out, the eggs will sputter right in Spooner. The department expects to make some money from the concession.
Billie Thiele still claims she was confused, not disrespectful, the other night in Dusty Rhodes' Cafe. Asked by Dusty, the proprietor, what she would like, Billie said, "A Dusty-burger, Ham."
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Hard to Get: Two V-12's from PT 2 have been stopping in at Delta Gamma house, during odd hours lately. Ignoring every one, they turn on the D. G. record player and dance with each other. The boys are Bob Miller and a character who has been identified only as Boomer. Both are jitterbugs. And they roll up their pants to their knees before dancing.
Coeds to Be Judged For Beauty at Tea
Sixty University women, contestants for the title of Jayhawker Beauty Queen, will be guests of the Jayhawker magazine from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. today at a tea in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women, will pour at the tea.
Kansas a Focal Point
Lt. Gordon Cole, Edwin Read, Robert Stewart, Willard Frank, Eugene Kittle, Wallace Grimes, and Chief Petty Officer Troy Odem will select the women at the tea who are to be photographed for the final judging in the contest.
Kansas is in the geographical center of the U.S., a focal point for postwar decentralization.
David Teaches in Oklahoma L. Sidney David, who was graduated from the University in 1935 is now in the public schools at Blackwell, Okla.
David Teaches in Oklahoma
WANT ADS
LOST — Black Sheafer pen during lecture in Fraser Theater Wednesday. If found, please call Carol Stuart. Phone 768 —131
FOR SALE: 1931 Ford Tudor with good tires and good motor. In excellent mechanical condition. See at 1131 Ohio or call 1784W. Ask for William Warren. 700-131
LOST: Ladies black billfold with valuable identifications. Lost in vicinity of Union or Fraser on Monday, April 10. Reward. Barbara Prier, phone 415. -130
Just Arrived! LADIES STADIUM BOOTS
Water Repellant Sole
Wool Lined
Wear Over Any Shoes
Unrationed $9.95
We made this purchase now as we have been told they will not be available next fall
Why Not Prepare for the Future? Come in and see these boots now.
ROYAL COLLEGE SHOP
Kansas is one of 7 states in the U.S. showing the largest percentage of per capita income increase since 1939.
Per Capita Income Increased
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Thursday, April 13, 1944
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Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism,
at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers will meet at 7:30 Thursday, April 13, in room 206 of Haworth hall. There will be an election and a motion picture on 10,000 ft. drilling. Visitors invited.
Paul Juelfs, Acting Pres.
The American Society of Civil Engineers will meet at 7:30 Thursday evening in the Pine Room of the Union Building. The speaker of the evening is to be Dr. Treece of the Bacteriology department. Dr. Treece will talk on the subject of "Swimming Pool Sanitation." Everyone is invited.
University Daily Kansan
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-chief ... JEANNE SHORMAKER
Editorial associates ... JEAN JONES
NEWS STAFF
Managing editor ... VIRGINIA GUNSOLLY
Asst editor ... ANNE LOUSE ROSSMAN
Campus editors ... JASON HALL
TITLE, JOEL FANT, KATZ GORBILL
 Society editor ... HANNA HEEDRICK
 Society editor ... CHASHA POFFETT
 Wire editor ... WILMA
 News editor ..JACQUELINE NODLER
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Mgr. BETTY ROU PERRINS
Advertising Mpr. LOU KREIBEL
Communications men on every front are "getting the message through,"stringing wires, repairing breaks, keeping the circuits working. They even use captured enemy wires and pole lines.
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Maintaining dependable communications at home is the Bell System's wartime job. And Bell Telephone Laboratories' scientists, on war assignment now, will one day turn again to peacetime work-making this country's telephone service the best in the world.
BATTLE LINE JUNCTION!
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
War calls keep Long Distance lines busy ... That's why your call may be delayed.
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