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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1942
VOLUME XXXI
Bloc System To Enroll A-12 Students
Registration and enrollment plans for A-12 trainees are completed, according to Bert Nash, professor of education, who is serving as University coordinator for the Army Specialized Training Program. The A-12 men will start on the regular class schedule next Monday. The 250 men who have reported on the campus began yesterday on a refresher course.
"The A-12 class schedule is heavy," said Mr. Nash. "In fact, it's going to keep those boys busy."
Registration and enrollment will be held Saturday. In order to provide for enrolling 700 men in 33 class hours each, a bloe system of enrollment has been worked out, Mr. Nash said. Fourteen enrollment schedules will be used. Each schedule will take care of 50 enrollees. The courses for the first quarter are: mathematics, physics, chemistry, English, history, geography, physical training, and military science.
"The refresher courses being given this week are for the purpose of reviewing high school material which will be important in the regular school term starting Monday," said Mr. Nash. "The review will help to get them started out."
Aptitude tests in English, mathematics, and reading will be given
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18,000 Enrolled In Courses Under ESMWT
Bv Pat Foster
"ESMWT office' Good grief, what's that? Another one of those useless alphabet bureaus, I suppose," exclaims the average person when the ESMWT office is mentioned.
Yes, it is another alphabet bureau, but it is far from being useless. These letters have a most significant meaning to thousands of defense workers throughout the United States. To many it means an increase in salary, to others it means advancement, and to others it means a new position at a substantial increase in pay.
ESMWT is the abbreviated name for the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training programs, nation-wide project sponsored by the United States Office of Education. As Congress appropriates millions of dollars yearly for the support of this training program, no fees are assessed from the students. In classes on full-time basis the students are even paid regular salaries to attend.
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Proficiency Exam Set for Saturday
The proficiency examination in English composition will be given Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, according to Prof. John B. Virtue of the English department.
College juniors and seniors who have not yet passed the examination should register before Friday at the College office.
All students enrolled in the College must pass the proficiency examination and afterwards complete 24 hours of credit before they are eligible for graduation.
Last Vespers Well Attended
The last of the summer session vespers attracted a fair crowd 'Sunday evening to Hoch auditorium. The program again was an excellent one made up of choral and instrumental ensemble numbers with an opening organ prelude. Laurel Everett Anderson, University organist opened the hour of music with an artistic performance of a modern tone poem for organ entitled "Vermeland" by the well-known American composer, Howard Hanson.
The choir made the first of two appearances following this with three classical numbers "Art Thou with Me" from Bach, and "Agnus Dei" by Kalmikof and the pretentious "Praise to the Lord" by Christiansen. The three numbers were all sung unaccompanied and showed some excellent training on the part of the seventy and more singers.
The group paid commendable attention to the wishes of its director, Dean D. M. Swarthout, and especially in the inspiring final section of the Christiansen number where the music is in eight different parts. The Gretchaninoff "Trio in C minor" was next played by Ruth Orcutt, pianist, Waldemar Geltch, violinist, and D. M. Swarthout, cellist. Only the played movement was
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Enrollment Down In Engine School
Recently compiled enrollment figures for the School of Engineering and Architecture show a total of 661 men. Of these 206 are civilian students and 445 are V-12's. Of the nine departments in the school three, aeronautical, electrical, and mechanical, have the majority of students with 121, 137, and 122 respectively. Architecture and mining are at the bottom of the scale with six and seven students enrolled.
The civilian students who make up a third of the school will not be drafted if they will graduate by July 1, 1945. This includes practically all of them.
Half of the men are freshmen. The sophomore class has the next highest enrollment, while the junior and senior class have enrollments of only 98 and 84.
Awards Made To Women For This Fall
Practically all fellowships, scholarships and residence hall scholarships have been awarded according to Miss Marie Miller, assistant to the adviser of women, and Dean J. H. Nelson, chairman of committee on aids and awards.
Appointments to scholarships in the graduate school for the year 1943-1944 have been announced as follows: Miss Margaret A. Dunn, K.C., Mo, B.M., 1943, University of Kansas. Music; Miss Addie Mary Egbert, Topeka, A.B., 1942, University of Kansas, Entomology; Miss Mary Alice Hardman, Los Angeles, Calif. A.B., 1942, University of Kansas, Spanish; Max Hughes, Colby, B.M., 1939, Fort Hays Kansas State College, Music; Miss Constance June Rynders, Wichita, A.B., 1943, University of Wichita, French, and Miss Virginia Curry, Lawrence, Kan. A.B., 1943, Kansas University. Freshman Women
The following honor scholarships for freshman women have been awarded for 1943-1944: the Sadie A. Lawson honor scholarship to Mary Arlene Wisner, Howard, Kan.; the Women's Self-Governing association honor scholarship to Phoebe Carol Hunter, Labette, Kan.; and the Donnelley honor scholarships to
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Bananas Growing On Campus
"Yes sir, we can say bananas can grow in Kansas," stated James Reiter, head landscape gardener for the University, "for we have a banana plant producing right here in the University greenhouse." A cluster of bananas is ready now for cutting and ripening. Mr. Reiter said.
This banana plant is 22 to 23 feet in height and possesses leaves which are eight feet long and 18 to 24 inches wide. The stalks have the appearance of a tree trunk, but are made up entirely from the leaves.
The stalk is cut and the cluster of bananas is hung while still green in a dark, hot place for ripening, which takes approximately 10 days. If a cluster ripens on the stalk, the bananas will be starch, while if they are ripened as stated above, they will have a much better flavor and taste, according to Reiter.
This banana plant, which is of the Cavandish variety, came from Florida, taking two years for the plant to produce a cluster of bananas. It was given to the University in 1942 by Mr. Rhodes of Kansas City.
As the plant is growing out of its own habitat, it has to be fed, that is in the florist language, fed with fertilizer.
The plant is on exhibition for anyone desiring to see it, Mr. Reiter said. It is located in the greenhouse directly west of the power house and south of Fowler shops.
Closing Hour Changed Thursday
Closing hours Thursday night will be extended to 11 o'clock for all University women, in accordance with the recent ruling regarding final week made by the Women's Executive Committee of the All-Student Council.
Finals for the eight week session will be held on Friday during the regular class periods.
The latest teacher-appointments that have been accepted were announced by H. E. Chandler, secretary of the Teachers Appointment Bureau as follows: 1943 graduates are Helen Sharp, A.B. home economics, Everest high school; Ethelyne Buons, B.M.E. music, Northwest junior high school, Kansas City, Kan.; Irene Akin, A.M. history, Fredonia high school; Zona R. Schuler, B.F.A., art, city schools, Great Bend; Betty Williams, B.M.E. music, Parsons east junior high school; Frances Kolsky, A.B. home economics, Bern high school.
Bureau Places Educators
1942 graduates placed are Clayton Krehbiel, B.M.E., music, Community high school, Altamont; Nelliemae Bliss, A.B., English, high school, Ellis.
1941 graduates placed are Margaret Hogan, A.B., mathematics, Shawnee Mission rural high school, Merriam; Veta Rogers Riegel, M.M.E., music, Escondido, Calif., elementary schools; Torry C. Avery, M.S.E.D., mathematics, Garden City high school; Lillias Howard, A.M., social science, Bonner Springs high school.
1940 graduate is Patricia Neal, A.B., English, Planeview high school, Wichita; 1388 graduate is Clyde Redpath, M.A. mathematics, Shawnee Mission rural high school, Merriam. 1936 graduate placed is Velma Weber, B.M.E., music, junior high school, Topeka; Edith Larsen, M.A. 1935, biology, Washburn Municipal University, Topeka, Kan.
Graduate students are Florence Deever, third grade, Woodlawn school, Lawrence; Dorothy Alexander, home economics, Southwest high school, Kansas City, Mo.; Vincent Dussair, music, city schools, Anthony; and Irene Leith, social studies, high school at Corpus Christi, Texas.
Dance Floor Is In Offing
The gift of approximately $2,000 left by the 1943 senior class will be used to build a dance floor, providing material and labor is available, according to Henry Werner, men's student adviser, and member of the committee that is formulating plans to build the dance floor.
The Memorial Union Committee has offered to combine money with the 1943 senior gift, if necessary, and construct a 50 feet by 50 feet floor of concrete with a rail. The Mem-
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Five Week Schedule Is Almost Set
Courses which are to be given during the five week session when school begins in September are practically all scheduled, according to Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and chairman of a committee to set the five week schedule.
Discussing the courses to be offered, Dean Lawson stated that departments which are not heavily loaded with classes for military students will offer the most variety in courses, but that all departments would have "a good offering."
"Any student in any department will be able to take work in that department," stated Dean Lawson. "Departments and schools where the work is primarily for women, such as home economics, music, and fine arts, are laying out especially attractive programs." He added that the School of Law has scheduled four courses for the five week term.
A copy of the session schedule will be available to interested students in the College office. Students enrolled in the eight week summer session, especially, may want to look at their departmental offerings. The schedule is to be sent to the University Press some time today, and printed copies may be available to students next week.
"We must be ready constantly to adapt the program to something different," stated the Dean in noting that the schedule is subject to (continued to page four)
Fine Arts Vital To Morale, Says Dean Swarthout
By the K.U. News Bureau
With the definite conviction that fine arts—particularly music—are vital to the preservation of a nation's morale in wartime, the University of Kansas has not curtailed its fine arts curriculum by a single course, Donald M. Swarthout, dean of the school of fine arts, said today. Many staff members have been called into war service, Dean Swarthout pointed out, and there is less enrollment of men students in the department because of the call to colors; but the departmental offerings have remained intact.
The five major student music organizations—the symphony orchestra, the a capella choir, the band, and the two glee clubs—have continued in spite of the heavy inroads on the male student population by the war. Dean Swarthout expects them to continue through the coming year, although he indicates that a good many of the members of the groups will be in military uniform, recruited from the service men en- (continued to page four)
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