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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17, 194
THE KANSAN COMMENTS
Being at home with the folks on Thanksgiving and enjoying a weekend reunion with the gang sounds like an ideal break in the school routine. However, after a rational consideration of the factors involved in what seemed a harmless holiday jautn in pre-war days, the problem assumes grave proportions.
Thanksgiving Trips Are Not Worth Effort
In the first place, such a trip would make class cutting inevitable. Cutting at any time is not a good idea, but during a speeded-up war schedule, several days' a b s e n c e means a serious crimp in learning, if not an actual setback.
There is danger, too, that the University senate will institute a cut penalty system if unexcused absences continue to increase. Such a system, long ago adopted by many universities, would penalize students for any cuts over a set number for each course, or for any cut before or after holidays.
Travel Will Be Difficult
Servicemen will continue their classes as usual, and there is the thought that Navy students attending their classes coordinated with the University curriculum would not feel too kindly disposed toward civilians who, not being under military compulsion to go to school, could take the time off.
A second big consideration is travel. Trains and buses, already crowded with men in uniform, will be jammed to the bursting point and still will be unable to accommodate every vacation passenger. Students are likely to find themselves unable to leave the Lawrence stations after hours of waiting, or if they do successfully reach home they may be forced to miss more classwork because they can't catch a train back to school.
Trip Needed in Snooping
Trip Needed in Spring
With a 10-day Christmas vacation only three weeks off, it seems a little ridiculous to subject oneself to the gruelling experience of traveling in wartime twice within one month.
After resumption of classes, Dec. 29, there will be no more holidays or vacations until July, when the spring session terminates. The student with an eye on his financial status and physical endurance will prefer to lay his money back for a much-needed trip home some spring weeken, and decide to make Dec. 18 the next date on his train ticket. The folks at home will understand.
Damage Verdict Won By Bertrand Russell
Philadelphia, (INS)—British philosopher, Bertrand Russell, won a $20,000 damage verdict against Barnes Foundation in U. S. district court today for being "unceremoniously fired" by the institution before the expiration of his contract.
Russell charged he was dismissed from the Pennsylvania foundation after he had completed but two years of his $8,000 a year contract. Dr. Albert C. Barnes, head of the institution, asserted that the mathematician was released because he "failed to live up to the professional and moral standard" required by the foundation.
Professor Excommunicated
R. R. Lyman, 72, former professor of engineering at the University of Utah, has been excommunicated from the Morman church on a charge of polygamy. He was fifth in rank for the presidency of the church.
UL-FSTD
Rock Chalk Talk
By MARY MORRILL
Who was complaining about a dog's life: Doc, TKE cocker spaniel mascot, had his first try at inebriating influences Sunday afternoon, when sitting in the back of Jason Dixon's plush convertible, he lapped up rum from the hand of a brother in the bond. Doc's day became complete when the rum was spilled all over him and he was given his monthly bath in the forbidden sanctity of a sorority house tub.
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A true lover of "The Arts": Vying for attention with the exhibit of student paintings in the Union lounge is "R. M. Noll's loan exhibit" on display now in the Jayhawker office. Most of Bob's work was done during a five weeks' modern design course. His personal favorite among the Noll masterpieces is a picture of a south sea moon with a hula skirt dangling in mid-air and a pair of legs over to one side. In addition to such aesthetic surrealism, Bob finds time to be a Phi Gam and an advertising man.
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Ah, for the life of an electrical engineer: For almost a week now, Theta house lights have been going on and off and sparkling with great irregularity. Electricians say the trouble is a short some place in the walls, and the girls can't decide which of two very realistic possibilities is worse — waking up with the house burned down around them, or being stuck in a blackened living room with a precocious date.
Coe College Acquires 87 Acres
Coe College Acquires 87 Acres This summer Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, acquired an 87-acre tract of land near Vinton for campus biologists. The land is particularly valuable for collection of plant and animal specimens, because it has never been plowed or used for pasture.
The current threat, if things continue as they are, is to move in the electricians bag and baggage until the root of the trouble is reached.
Phooy on the health habits:
About the most horrible pledge trick we've heard of so far was that executed by TKE freshmen. The young ones left the fraternal nest at 4 a.m. on one of the coldest days this year—shutting down the heating system and opening every window in the house. Getting dressed in the morning was such a frigid process that approximately half the actives (according to freshmen) ended up on the hill with paijamas still on under cords and sweaters.
Common Sense Club Organized
The Common Sense Club at the University of Texas was organized last year to further campus interest in racial relations, improved labor conditions and civil liberties in war time. The name was adopted from the American Revolutionary pamphlet written by Thomas Paine.
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Gish to Speak at Indiana U.
Lillian Gish, early stage and screen star who acted in some of David Griffith's epics, is scheduled to speak on the Indiana University campus.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1943
Noticees due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism,
at 10 a.m. on day of publication.
Foreign language Proficiency Examinations will be given on Saturday, Nov. 20, at 10 a.m. in room 107 Frank Strong, in French, German, Latin and Spanish. Students who have had at least two units of credit in any one of these languages in high school are eligible for examination in that language. They may complete the college foreign language requirement by passing the examination. The examination will consist of exercises in translating foreign language material of moderate difficulty into English with the aid of a dictionary.
W. H. Shoemaker.
Voluntary Work Period Urged
New York, (INS)—Dr. William Nilson, president emeritus of Smit College, today urged a voluntary one-year "work period" for your men and women between high school and college.
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