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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1943
Staff Committee To Study Changes
Appointment of a committee on curricula to study probable changes which the war will bring about in the program of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the post-war world has been announced by Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College. This committee will plan during the war years for the post-war world, and will make suggestions to the College faculty concerning needed changes. this republic ditit
At the suggestion of Dean Lawson, who feels that such an event as the present war is bound to result in new demands and emphases and in many changes in the work of the College, the appointment of the committee was authorized by the College faculty at its February meeting.
Seven Members Appointed
Members of the committee are Miss Viola Anderson, associate professor of home economics; Prof. John W. Ashton, of the English department; Prof. R. Q. Brewster, of the chemistry department; Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College; Miss Beu-lah Morrison, professor of psychology; Prof. W. E. Sandelius, of the political science department; and Assistant Dean Gilbert Ulner of the College.
Many people feel that after the war there will be the greatest demand ever for the type of training offered by the liberal arts college. One reason, as stated by James B. Connell, president of Harvard, in the Sunday supplement of the New York Times, Feb. 21, is "Personally, I have not the slightest doubt that the study of the liberal arts will not only survive this war but prosper in the days of peace.
"For one thing, the present fighting generation and the younger boys in school will be tired of hearing even the names of science and technology. When the time for the resumption of normal education returns, a sharp reaction toward studies of a different type, a resurgence of deep interest in the liberal arts among students themselves, would seem to be inevitable."
Conant Gives His Reasons
A second reason is given by President Conant, as, "But quite apart from a swinging of the pendulum, such as educators have seen so often in the past, I cannot imagine that
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this republic could reject the tradition of the liberal arts. For a judicious blending of the study of man and nature is the only sure foundation of a free commonwealth."
A third reason for believing in this trend is the common feeling that Americans in much greater numbers than ever before will be working in foreign countries in all sorts of business, in professions, and in many government services, and for that training, the work of the college of liberal arts and sciences is essential, Dean Lawson said.
Chemical Director Says Big Things Lie Ahead for Chemistry
Los Angeles, (ACP)—That the lay world has small idea of the developments in chemistry and what the war will usher in is indicated by Dr. G. Ross Robertson, director of the chemical laboratories on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California.
Whereas in 1883 only 15,000 organi- chemical compounds were known, in 1936 the number rose to 350,000, and there are now more than 450,- 000.
"Undoubtedly large numbers of compounds are known to industries but are still being guarded as industrial secrets," says Prof. Robertson.
"Each arrangement of atoms found in organic compounds is absolutely precise as to number, weight and volume of constituent parts, and represents a chemical compound. A single combination, therefore, may occasionally represent a new ten-million-dollar industry."
BANQUET WILL---be held at 2 o'clock. The extemporaneous speaking contest will be held in the Green hall theater at 4:30 p.m Saturday morning, the meet will close with the fourth and fifth rounds of debate at 9 and 10:30 o'clock respectively.
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The various debates will be scattered around in class rooms, however there will be debates in the court room, the theater, and room 103 of Green hall, at all scheduled debate periods.
Prof. Howard E. Hill, chairman of the Kansas State college department of speech, will be the toastmaster
Cafeteria Patron
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Can Buy Butter
The butter situation need not cause any worry among cafeteria patrons, Miss Hermina Zipple, dietitian for the Union building, said yesterday.
The freezing of butter for this week applies only to individual consumers, not to places, like the cafeteria which are classified by the ration board as institutions, she added.
When rationing does begin March 29, however, the Union cafeteria will be rationed on butter, meat, oils, and chees just as it was rationed on sugar and coffee before, she believes. Those places classified as institutions are rationed in proportion to the amount of the rationed food they used during December.
Topeka, (INS) — Funeral services were completed today for Ivor E. Davis, prominent throughout Kansas in Masonic circles and assistant secretary of the state board of agriculture for 32 years. He was 55. He died at his home in Topeka last night.
Ivor E. Davis Dies In Topeka
Kay Kyser Is Denied Appeal for Deferment Requested By OWI
Hollywood, (INS) — Bandleader Kay Kyser was advised yesterday by his Rocky Mount, N. C., draft board that an appeal from his 1-A classification has been rejected.
"My government requested me to keep doing what I had been doing and I did it to the best of my ability." Kyser said.
"Now that they have decided on new duties for me, I will do them wholeheartedly and the best I can."
Kyser, who will be 38 years old June 18, did not ask the deferment. It was sought by the Office of War Information "in order that he might carry on important work for the OWI."
and associate host of the convention. Professor Buehler, of the University speech department, will be the host.
For the first time in the history of the forensic meets, women have been allowed to participate. Last year the meet was held at the University of Wichita.
The topic for debate is: "Resolved: That Congress should enact legislation providing for universal draft of men and women between the ages of 18 and 64 for war production, agricultural and armed services."
Schools participating are the Universities of Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wichita, Texas, Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas and Kansas State College.
Many University students are going to be eating butterless toast and bread before the end of the week, if predictions of housemothers mean anything. Almost every organized house was caught with inadequate supplies of butter and other edible fats and oils, sales of which were suspended for one week beginning Sunday at midnight.
Fats Freeze Hits OrganizedHouses
Fraternities, sororities, and all organized houses at the University are classified as group one users of rationed food articles and so will not be able to purchase the rationed foods until next Monday morning, said an official of the Douglas county ration board this morning.
Hitler Begins To Pay Penalty For Decision
Adolph Hitler began to pay the price today for another of his intuitions—his decision to fight it out in Tunisia against overwhelmingly superior American and British forces.
In a masterpiece of timing and coordination, American troops under George S. Patton and Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery hammered and slashed at the Axis under the heaviest aerial offensive in the history of warfare.
Pictured For Eisenhower
This was the picture flashed from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in North Africa as the big push swept into high gear.
1. Gen. Patton's crack division captured the town of Maknassy only 50 miles from the sea, and swept on toward the coast.
2. A strong armored and infantry column of the British eighth army struck northward across the wastes after flanking the Mareth line and advanced to a point only 20 miles due east of Gabes.
3. The Germans counterattacked at Hakjeb-el-aioun on the main road to Karoun in a desperate effort to cut off the Americans before they reach the sea.
4. A similar Nazi counterattack against British positions in the south was hurled back and 1700 prisoners taken.
With the RAF on the move against the Nazi U-boat base of St. Naireia in northern France and Russian troops advancing toward Yartsebo which guards the roads to vital Smolensk theAxis was on the defensive on all battlefronts.
Pittsburg Reservists To Report
Fifty-one army reserve students at Pittsburg State Teachers College have been ordered to report for duty the first week in April.
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Family Units Use Most
Group one users are family units, and University residence groups are merely pooling their coupons and ration books, he stated. Therefore, all rulings which apply to families apply to these houses.
Restaurants may still purchase the rationed articles, but to come under restaurant classification, 80 per cent of the persons eating at a place must be transient.
This morning at least one dairy for a while sold butter to organized houses on the supposition that they would be classified as restaurants or commercial users. However, they later received a ruling from the local ration board and stopped selling it.
Phi Gam's Bought Butter Today
Phi Gamma Delta, according to Mrs. C. A. Thomas, housemother, will have butter for a while because a dairy, sold them some this morning.
Several sororites report that they will be limited to one pat for each person a day, or a pat per person per meal. Corbin hall has been limited to one-half pat per woman since last fall.
Chi Omega's won't get any butter on their toast any longer, stated Mrs. Edith Martin, housemother, and substitutes will be used for seasoning. This latter expedient has become an almost universal practice among food planners for University students.
Residence Halls Buy Quantities~
Men at the University reside halls will continue to have butter, since their food is bought in quantity lots for four houses and there were adequate supplies on hand for them. Housemothers there are urging the men to "go easy" on the butter, however.
At the Alpha Chi Omega house it's a different story. Mrs. Alma Sutherland, housemother, reported that the Alpha Chi's would be out, definitely, by the end of the week. Delta Gamma's will get one or one-half pat per woman once a day, according to their housemother.
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