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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1943
Official Publication of the Summer Session
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas
Editor ... Dale Robinson
Business Mgr. ... Betty Lou Perkins
It was gratifying, in a sense, to hear that the navy will permit their trainees to participate in athletic activities under the college training program, of which the University has an engineering and medical unit.
Football May Bring Feeling of Unity To University
This will permit the continuation of varsity sports, a situation which would be next to impossible if only regular students were relied upon. University sources have intimated that in the engineering trainees there may be several men who have played big-time college football, and there will undoubtedly be scores of good ex-high school players. In this respect, K.U. is probably better off than any other Big Six school. For instance, Kansas State and Nebraska have only army trainees, who are not allowed to take part in school activities.
Hopes for a world-beating team cannot be built as yet, however. To be eligible to participate in school athletics, a trainee must have the permission of the commanding officer. And that permission will depend upon the trainee's grades and progress in his studies. As Lieutenant Mickelman, V-12 commanding officer, has said, "They are here to study. Anything else must be secondary."
In peacetime, football and scholastic excellence went together and unless football practices and trips are short this fall, too much time would be consumed for many men to play. However, none of the trainees will be working outside of school hours, as have done many football men in the past.
There is a side to the matter, though, which should be taken into very thoughtful consideration. That side, of course, involves the old plague of finances. The University has not been noted for making money off the football team, and were it not for the activity fee, football deficits would be sky-high every season. Next fall will present a picture which will compare to this year's none too bright picture. Enrollment in the regular student body will be even further diminished and funds will be lower.
One alleviation of the situation may lie in the permission granted to V-12 men by their commanding officer to buy activity tickets. If all of them bought tickets, that would mean 400 more in the stands at each game, were they able to attend. Army medics and pre-medics are also being permitted to attend student functions, and if aeronautical technicians and signal corps trainees purchased them to any great extent, it would mean not only a smaller deficit but that members of the University's different programs were beginning to feel they were really members of the University community.
A source of much spirit and enthusiasm could be the trainees at the machinist's mates school. Not all of them get liberty on Saturday afternoon, but at times they attend convocations and their commanding officer might permit them to attend football games.
There have been a number of articles written on the subject of football in wartime, many of them questioning its value as such a period. To us football will have proved valuable if this fall is manages to unite the separate groups of the University into a unit, even though the unit be not exceptionally stable. Unity, with determination and effort, is essential for prosecution of the war and anything which promotes unity, especially among the armed forces, is worthwhile.
Letter to the Editor Summer Session Kansan Gentlemen:
In one of my less sane moments I was guilty of the enclosed poem. Feel free to use it if it amuses you as much as it amused me to write it.
Yours truly, Edward Zimmerman
When Will I Ever Learn
Two sparkling, bright-blue eves
Staring open wide;
Two golden curly locks,
One on either side;
Two warm and laughing lips
Vowing to be true;
Two fair, but crimson cheeks,
Blushing "I love you;"
Two little, dancing feet,
Never would be still
Two deftly moving hands,
Ev'ry touch a thrill.
Two there were of everything,
And so—thou woeful loss—
It seems there simply had to be
Her little double-cross.
Edward Zimmerman
Did you know that-
In 1884 students paid $1.65 for a week's board, which included blackberry pie and beefsteak.
The law students—engineer historical feud began when the two schools were located in opposite ends of Fraser hall.
Cribbage tournaments were the vogue at the University in 1914.
Fraser hall was the first building on the campus proper. It was built in 1872 and cost $182,000.
The second building on the campus was the Journalism building which was constructed in 1874.
Some University `buildings are constructed of Oread limestone, which began forming about 20,- 000,000 B.C.
In front of Fraser hall was the location of trenches and fortifications which were used during the John Brown and Quantreal raids. There is a marker on the site.
The prairie grass plot south of Blake hall is the only natural such plot left on the campus.
Robinson gym was named for the first governor of Kansas.
There were 26 women and 29 men enrolled in the first session of the University. That was in 1866 at North college on what is now called Corbin hill.
The west boundary of the campus used to lie just west of Watson library.
There once was a creek where the 50-yard line now is in Memorial stadium.
The smokestack at the power plant is 257 feet high.
Work on Frank Strong hall (formerly called the Administration building) was begun in 1911 and neared completion in 1923.
The first library at KU. contained fewer than 1,000 volumes.
Column
ByBetty Lou Perkins
The large number of men who have recently invaded the K.U. campus only go to further the oid adage that this war causes, "Not a shortage of manpower, but poor distribution." I don't hear any of the K.U. girls complaining. . . Bob Isaac, Sigma Chi, who evidently doesn't get enough sleep, awakens in classes just long enough to keep up. In Shakespeare class the other day, Prof. Ashton was explaining that the Duke in "Measure for Measure" was like the hero in the serials on Saturday night.
"He always arrives in time to save the girl and shoot the switch that's carrying her toward the saw," saaac roused, yawned, and wrote on his paper, "The duke arrived just in time to shoot the switch."
Five BIG boys Sunday night, of college age, no less, maschievously placed a cannon cracker in the screen at Corbin. After sufficiently scaring the girls, they dashed madly to their car and made a quick geta-way. "Now I know it's Fourth of July!" screamed Frances Abts. Harry Johnson walked into Radio Speaking class late the other day, sat down, looked around, and said, voice. Just then Prof. Calderwood walked around the corner. "Where's the teacher?" in a loud "Shucks." said Johnson in an equally loud voice, "I was just going to say something about him."
Frank Rush, ATO, reads about opium and claims it's just for a report. . . Wally Grimes, Sigma Chi, shows off a new crew cut. What we want to know is, when does Joe Nelson get one? . . . The girls are mighty happy to get later closing hours on weekends, and now find that they will be taking their Navy boyfriends home first. Maybe the girls can meet now after dates and have bake sessions in the local coke joints as the boys used to do. . . Sonny Love writes back that in Philadelphia, the boys get liberty every night. "Just like college used to be," he reports. . Oberlin boys write that as a town Oberlin just hasn't got it. "Only one beer parlor, and it's restricted," so says Danny Bachmann.
Danny Bachmann, stationed at Oberlin, Ohio, writes the following: "The K.U. delegation here at Oberlin has instructed the soda jerkers the manner in which 'Allen Specials' are made, and we order them regularly. Really fine—we get together to chat and stuff, and sing of old K.U. Then too, if we can get enough of our own boys on the Student Council, we're going to change the name of this college to the University of Kansas!
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Plays Available For Teachers' Use
A special drama collection entitled "Plays For These Times" is available for loan in room 17 of Fraser hall. This collection is in addition to the University's regular drama loan service in which some 8,000 plays are offered by the Bureau of General Information library.
The Drama Loan service, directed by Mrs. M. M. Bair, also offers personal assistance to those teachers making complete or tentative plans for speech and drama programs. Mrs. Bair stated that she will be pleased to arange for conferences where she may assist teachers in finding "just the right thing" to meet their own specific needs.
In response to numerous requests for entertainment material relative to the war and the peace, this collection of plays and pageants has been made available, according to officials. New titles are added each week.
Mrs Bair's office hours are: 8 to 12 a.m. and 1:30 to 5 p.m. weekdays and on Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 1 p. n.
Hal Hunter, college sophomore from Attica, has withdrawn from school to await his call to the Naval Air corps.
Dean F. J. Moreau, compliance commissioner of the War Production Board, left Tuesday evening for St. Louis to hear cases on Wednesday and Thursday.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott left Wednesday afternoon for Boulder, Colo., to attend an executive committee meeting of the National Association of State Universities, of which he is secretary and treasurer.
"Tell the women, too, not to worry—the fems here have only made us realize to a far greater extent, how really beautiful and poised the Kansas girls have been.
New Pamphlets In War Library
The following new pamphlets have been received for the War Information Collection at Watson library:
School health education, Changing Britain. Toward a durable society. The job before us, Labor has a choice. Eve in overalls.
Warships at work, Official translation of the speech delivered by Adolph Hitler before the German Reichstag on April 28, 1939. Thomas Jefferson, Relief to prisoners of war, Geology and strategy in the present war.
The Baltic States and the Baltic sea, Peace and war, United States foreign policy 1931-1941, British aid to Russia, Labor and industry in Britain, Britain at war, War and postwar issues, Manpower in the Philadelphia area.
Does our community need to provide care for the children of working mothers? How can we use food wisely under rationing? How can we make rationing work for us? Educational programs of the federal war agencies. The type of information servicemen prefer in their mail, Charter for America.
They also serve, Maps and how to understand them, Educational planning, Rights and privileges of American servicemen.
The Beveridge report and postwar social security. The United Nations and the organization of peace, Army clerical procedures, Can we attain freedom from want?
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