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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1943
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Professor Kuersteiner Deserves Praise For Efforts in Entertaining Trainees
K. O. Kuersteiner, professor of violin and orchestra, is aiding in the war effort here at the University with one of the most essential needs of the armed forces now in training. That is entertainment. Proceeding unheralded and unacclaimed, Professor Kuersteiner has added his name to the long list of stars, musicians, comedians, and even common ordinary persons who are devoting time and talent to provide constructive recreation for trainees.
For such a program Professor Kuersteiner should be commended. Working with Lt. Frank P. Butorac, recreational director of the Naval Training School, the University fine arts professor directs a weekly program presented to an audience of sailors on Wednesday nights in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall. Also participating in such a program are other professors in the School of Fine Arts, professors in different departments of the University, majors in the School of Fine Arts, and other students of outstanding talent.
The program is designed to give to the naval trainees the type of music and talent they wish to hear. Popular music, novelty tunes, and vocal and instrumental ensembles are included on the program, and even the sailors themselves take part in the event.
Group singing is one of the features of each evening, and the sailors raise their voices in familiar tunes and make the programs informal hours of good entertainment and fun.
Arrangements for the programs must be made apart from Professor Kuersteiner's other work, but he gives them his personal time and attention. For such thoughtfulness and interest in trying to bring pleasure to the "boys," Professor Kuersteiner most certainly deserves praise and thanks.
A report from Japan says that all Japanese soldiers will now be required to learn to swim. They should concentrate on the backstroke.
Youth Needs Liberal Education To Develop Technical Knowledge
"The tendency," said Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, recently, "is more and more to drive out of the course of study everything which is not immediately concerned with making a living." Other educators have deplored the movement they see away from non-vocational subjects.
They say that complete courses in a single field may be given in much less time than four years by specialized vocational schools, if the desire only is to assimilate facts necessary for the securing of an adequate salary for the remainder of the student's life. Perspective, however, they claim, is equally important, for it is through courses providing such insight that we learn the worth-while application of our technical and scientific knowledge.
It is a strong argument for the continuation, and possibly the stimulation, of our liberal arts educational offerings. Men such as Wendell Willkie are declaring; "True freedom, freedom of the mind, can be achieved only through the liberal arts. This is what gives meaning to life."
Citizenship would be fostered by an impetus to liberal arts instruction at a period in which good citizenship is of the utmost importance.
--mer Kathrine Klinkenberg, a student at the University in the years '22-'23 and '25-'26. Mrs.P. H.Klinkenberg, housemother at the Delta Upsilon fraternity, is her mother
Just Wondering
If other hospitals are following the example of Watkin's Memorial hospital by donating their quinine supply to the war effort.
Humanitarianism would be fostered at a time when understanding of the defeated, the oppressed, and the fellow victor is most essential. Actions would then not be superficial, but would have behind them a deep understanding an understanding which might serve to establish a lasting peace, and to make that peace a prosperous one for all of mankind.J.D.K.
A system of "youth arrest" — putting young men and women in jail over the weekend when they work slowly, refuse to work or "break their work contracts,"—has been going on in Germany for two years, the Office of War Information has learned, "and has proved worthwhile," a German newspaper claims.
"If we let the school deteriorate now, then try to save the situation after the war, it will be too late. In a democracy, education is important; in a dictatorship, it doesn't matter," comments Dr. Donald Dushane, executive secretary of the National Education Association's commission for defense of democracy through education.
People are going to find a very definite shortage in clothing, said a representative of the Celanese Corporation of America recently. According to some reports from vacation resorts, this has been going on for some time.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Lawrence, Kansas
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By MARY MORRILL
Statistics don't lie: A few weeks ago Joan Teed, Pi Phi, celebrated her 21st birthday. About a week later, in the company of Oliver Hughes, Sig Alph, she happened to mention the fact that she really should buy something for her parents since they were celebrating a wedding anniversary that day.
Oliver thought—birthday—anniversary!! He put a restraining hand on his eyebrows which were rapidly disappearing above the Hughes hair line. Joan herself gulped.
This item has a happy ending. A checkup later proved conclusively that it was the Teed's 22nd wedding anniversary.
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What's in a name: Mary Eleanor Fry, Corbin hall, has rechristened her car and is very happy with her car's new name, Damja. Now instead of refraining with difficulty from the use of strong language when the machine won't start, Mary Eleanor can yell with a clear conscience, "Come on, Damja." Very satisfying. The "j" is pronounced as "y"—as in Latin.
And yet they get the scholarship cup: (or selfconfidence, the key to success) Don Deihl's head was nodding in the back of the room as the professor finished writing his second board of figures. The prof. turned and scratched his head. "There'll have to be some mathematical genius in the class to solve this problem," he said. Deihl suddenly jerked awake. "I beg your pardon, sir," he began, "what was it you said you wanted me to do?"
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Campus Bob Hope: Complaints have been pouring in about the individual who started the following story on the anatomy building fire.
Said one cadaver to another, "Don't you think it's getting awfully hot in here? Maybe we'd better leave."
Said the other, "Sounds like a good idea, but frankly, I just don't have the guts left to do it."
Your Kansan detective service is happy to report that J. F. Kelsy, Sigma Nu, has confessed his guilt.
Hard Worker--At Writing ★★★ ★★★ 'Young Bill' White
A hard worker who doesn't know when to stop, but who's too lazy to walk a block or swing a tennis racket—that's "Young Bill" White, author, son of William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, and student at the University from 1918-1920.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott, in school at the same time as
Chancellor Deane w. M.A.
White, describes him with a laugh as "always in a hurry, whenever I saw him," and possessor of a keen intellect. While in school here, he was a member of company B of the SATC, student training corps on the campus, and was a contributor to the Jayhawker and to the Daily Kansan.
After graduation from Harvard in 1924, where he was a member of the editorial board of the Lampoon and writer of a play for the Hasty Pudding club, White held various posts on the Emporia Gazette. In 1930 he was elected to the state legislature. In 1935 he served as editorial writer on the Washington Post; in '37, was on the staff of Fortune magazine; and in '39, made a broadcast from the Mannerheim line in Finland, for which he was awarded first prize by the National Headliner's club as the year's best European broadcast.
His Talk Was Basis For Play
"The Last Christmas Tree," the topic of his talk from the Mannerheim line, was used by Robert Sherwood as a basis for his play, "There Shall Be No Night." Mr. White and his wife were honor guests at the Broadway opening of the play.
They are now living in New York, with their adopted daughter Barbara, a war-orphan whom Mr. White brought back from England, leaving his luggage so he could bring her. Mrs. White is the former Kathrine Klinkenberg, a student at the University in the years '22-'23 and '25-'26. Mrs.P. H.Klinkenberg, housemother at the Delta Upsilon fraternity, is her mother
At present, Mr. White is on the staff of Reader's Digest and is also working on a new book to come out this spring. Although writing comes easily to him, he works hard at it, rewriting and polishing all his material many times. Author of the novel, "What People Said," published in 1938; of the war-time travel book, "Journey For Margaret," published in 1941; and of the best-seller, "They Were Expendable," he has also contributed to Life, the Atlantic Monthly, Cosmopolitan, the New Republic, and Saturday Evening Post.
Sees A Job Through
K. W. Davidson, director of information at the University and assistant business manager of the Emporia Gazette while Mr. White was business manager from 1932-1935 says that when Bill starts a job, he sticks with it until it's finished, no matter how long it takes. Absent-minded, fond of the bright lights, a man with no aversion to creating a minor disturbance, and one of the great literary figures of this age is the way in which Mr. Davidson sums up "Young Bill"
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