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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1943
Eleanor Roosevelt's Ideas on Training Neglect Provisions for Future Education
In a recent press conference, Mrs. Roosevelt is quoted as replying to a feminine reporter's question of what girls in college could do to help the war effort with the statement, "I believe girls had better get out of college and go to work unless their college training is helping fit them for some specific task. Few have the right now to train themselves for nothing in particular. I don't believe people can get by without working in the world of the future."
As if following Mrs. Roosevelt's beliefs, late news stories have told of new training programs for women in which the students are prepared in one field alone and are given the basis to lay the foundation for a future career in some certain field without thought to other subjects or phases of knowledge.
For a woman to specialize in such a field as Mrs. Roosevelt suggests is perhaps the answer to the question of what college women should do today, but what of the world after the war? Does Mrs. Roosevelt, in drawing the distinction between education and training, believe that the former should be sacrificed completely for the sake of specialization? From her statement, it would seem so.
Probably no one will deny the soundness of Mrs, Roosevelt's idea as far as the present world with its manpower shortage is concerned. True, specialization in some task which will aid the war effort is a role which many women should take, but how can the Chief Executive's wife firmly believe or even suggest that education should be neglected for training?
For the world after the war, educated persons are going to be needed desperately. To rebuild civilization on foundations which never again will crumble away to allow barbaric movements of invasion and conquest will require well-developed and broadly-educated minds on the part of not only the leaders of the world but of the followers. Specialization may help win the war for the present, but negligence in education will never win a peace.
This war has already pointed out the inadequacies of education in a broad sense. At the time when we need general knowledge of mathematics, language, history, culture, economics, and all the other aspects which are playing a part in this war and which will play a definite part in an intelligent and constructive peace, it is still suggested that all formal education be abandoned for specialized training.
Such a plan as Mrs. Roosevelt's might be all right if women would continue their study of liberal arts and of the broad college subjects on their own but few women will read the books or follow a planned program which will give them such knowledge while they are working toward specialized training. Few women who neglect college now will return after the war to take up studies where they left off. Education at that age will no doubt be abandoned for marriage or some small untrained job where study of arts and sciences will never be suggested.
Perhaps there is a constructive solution to this problem. Some plan of two years of a broad college education and then planned specialized training might be the answer to relieve the manpower problem and to save women in education for today and for tomorrow. In any sense Mrs. Roosevelt has raised a problem of training versus specialization—a problem which requires careful thought.
Just Wondering
Why students don't take enough pride in the appearance of the campus to walk on the sidewalks instead of cutting corners and keeping new spring grass from growing.
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The Curfew law which is already being enforced in Dodge City could well be applied to numerous other towns throughout the nation. This law prohibits the presence of all boys and girls under 18 in public places or on the streets after 9:30 p.m. The authorization of a law of this type would be an effective control measure for much vice which is at the present being widely practiced. Perhaps this will be necessary to curb the great increase in juvenile crime J. Edgar Hoover has warned of.-V.E.
A survey conducted by the Westminster College newspaper showed that it is the mailboy and not the varsity athlete who is the most popular figure on the college campus since the war. For him, it's "in the bag."
Larry French, now a lieutenant in the navy, has pitched 197 major league baseball victories. Perhaps he can show how to get three strikes on the Axis.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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By MARY MORRILL
Hughes, the protegee: Horrible screams may now be heard outside the Sig Alph house any evening during the hour between 7 and 8. At this time Bob Blackwell, ROTC instructor, tutors Oliver Hughes in ju-jitsu. Although Blackwell is supposed to be the expert, his 140 pounds are no match for Hughe's 225. So far the maestro has succeeded in getting his pupil's feet off the ground once. The lesson usually consists of Blackwell's being thrown downstairs until he is so limp the instruction can not go on.
The campus develops a birth rate: "Having kittens" and "cat fits" are no longer terms of jest in the Alpha Omieron Pi house. Toward dusk Wednesday night when Jean Sellers, Gerry Gentry, Juanita Bowman, and others went outdoors to investigate a foreign meow, they found a mother cat with a plentiful supply of young—approximately five minutes old—in the middle of the lawn. A box was procured, the family transferred, and the A O Pi chapter found itself in a new philanthropy. In addition to their regular duties, house freshmen are now charged with the tasks of warming milk on schedule and exercising the young Toms.
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One against book larnin': In comparative anatomy lab, Mary Louise Hol-labaugh, Alpha Delta Pi, was having trouble finding the name for one vein in her shark. She asked her professor. He called in a higher authority. After a twenty minute consultation the two announced that they guessed the unknown was a sub-clavian vein; however, the problem was a little too technical for them—they just had Masters. Shortly thereafter the "vein" dropped from the shark's body and Mary Louise realized it was just a plain hunk of dirt.
This is fraternity life: Bob Dougherty, Sigma Nu, was trying to study. The plonk plonk of a table tennis game next door was distracting enough, but onlookers applauding each good play made concentration impossible. In a fit of irony Bob began opening his door and bowing every time the clapping began.
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He was so funny the audience neglected the ping pong players who immediately became jealous. The next time Dougherty appeared the four athletes bombarded him with a steady fire of pillows and other missiles. After dodging most of them unsuccessfully Dougherty was such a wreck that he gave up the idea of passing his quiz and went to bed.
And there are still hundreds of boys every rush week who want to pledge.
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Love saves the day: Journalism professors almost passed candy and cigars themselves, so overwhelming was their joy when Jane Jones of the identical Jones twins put out her pin. The girls had been changing seats in class every other day and disproving the old theory that teacher is smarter than pupil with alarming finality.
In Ten Easy Lessons
Playing Poker
(Editor's note: According to the latest Canter poll, poker playing ranks second among colleges pastimes, right after wooing and just before crap shooting.)
Poker is a game for gentlemen, because only gentlemen can afford to play it. But don't get the idea that money is essential to the enjoyment of the game. Money is no more essential to the enjoyment of poker than roots are essential to a tree or electricity is essential to an electric light. Any experienced player that it is just as much fun to play penny-ante and play $ ^{e} $
dime limit as it is to play nickel-ante and the sky's the limit. The thrill, he will say, comes in picking up four aces and not in raking in the pot.
When asked by a stranger to join a few friends in a sociable game, accept at once. Nothing is more becoming than a barrel worn draped from the shoulders and 'gathered at the bottom. However, if a, few of your own friends are getting together for a quiet game, sit in on it. A few dollars dropped in good company warms the cockles of men's hearts. You will have no faster friends than those gained at the card table.
The most important part of your poker game is your face. Personally, I have never learned to keep a poker face. Whenever I see a pair of aces back to back, my face lights up like a stop sign in the glare of a pair of headlights. I can't mask my delight at filling an inside straight. The smile that illumines my face when I come up with a pat hand speaks more eloquently than words to the other players. The only defense is the thick, oily smoke screen thrown off by a rank cigar, and cigars make me positively ill.
Remember these last words of advice. Your chances of filling an inside straight are fifty-fifty. Fifty times you won't win and fifty times you'll lose. Bluffing a full house is as near as you can come to the race
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