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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942
Snooping Around News and Views from other colleges
Will Have Mid-term Graduation
At the University of Oklahoma's first mid-term convocation, which will occur Jan. 14, approximately 200 students will receive their degrees. The mid-term convocation was scheduled by President Joseph A. Br丹特 as a war-time measure since many January graduates will be unable to return in the spring to receive diplomas.
What? A trophy For Dating?
Men in one of the roaming houses at the University of Oklahoma have copied the Hollywood "Oscar" idea. Their "Oscar" in the form of a penguin was awarded to the man who held the semester record for dating more girls and keeping them all happy than anyone in the house. The penguin isn't a permanent trophy, however, and the recipient must keep up his record in order to hold the "Oscar."
From Five States Come Visitors The college museum at Kansas State Teachers' College at Pittsburg drew an unusually large number of visitors for the days. Nov. 23 and 24. Five states represented by the 414 museum visitors were Iowa, Nebraska, Kentucky, Kansas, and Tennessee.
War Work Shown in College Films "Campus on the March" is the title of the recently completed one-reel sound picture showing war activities of Purdue University and several other universities over the nation. The film was made by a crew of Office of War Information camera men who visited the Purdue campus at Lafayette, Indiana, and shot several thousand feet of film which showed flight training, ROTC, naval training school, shop laboratory work, farm workers, and numerous other activities. Later the crew visited other universities from California to Massachusetts, getting glimpses of war work. A similar film. "Colleges at War," will be released throughout the nation this month.
Choir Will Sing Yule Songs
Choral programs are taking the spotlight as holiday entertainment. On the University of California campus the a cappella choir and Madrigal singers will present a program of Christmas music next Tuesday to a university and community audience.
Club to Have Christmas Party
The French club will hold its annual Christmas party at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, in room 113 of Frank Strong hall.
The program will feature the singing of French Christmas carols by Marjory Dickey, College sophomore, and Evelyn Tregar, fine arts freshman. French Christmas poems will also be read by Caterina Fruin, education junior; Frances Morrill, College sophomore; and Elizabeth Prentice, College freshman.
Following the program, refreshments will be served in keeping with the French Christmas season.
Offers Free Hamburgers
A Denver, Colo. grill offered a free hamburger for each five pounds of scrap brought in by customers.
Funeral Today
W. S. Johnson, professor of English and chairman of the department of English from 1924 until 1940, who died Tuesday night, is shown above as he appeared at the time he took over his chairmanship duties. Funeral services were held today at Trinity Episcopal church.
Twente To Be Host To Cherokee County Students Tomorrow
Dean and Mrs. J. W. Twente will be hosts to all students from Cherokee county at an informal dinner at their home at 6:30 tomorrow evening. This dinner and get-to-gether is one of many which is being sponsored by the Statewide Activities committee for the purpose of acquaintng students of a county with each other.
Fred Mitchellson, business junior from Baxter Springs, is the chairman of the Cherokee county students. Dean Twente is a former resident of this county.
KU Service Men Write Hibbard From Australia
C. W. Hibbard, assistant professor of zoology and curator of the Museum of Vertebrate Paleontology at Dyche museum, has received letters and books from two former students now in Australia.
Lt. Ralph Taylor, who left a year ago to join the Army air corps. has written several letters to Professor Hibbard describing interesting animals and plants that he has seen. Lieutenant Taylor majored in zoology on the Hill.
V. C. Mahon, who left the University a week after the bombing at Pearl Harbor had been in the navy four years before attending Kansas. He now is a boat's mate, second class, and is on the west coast after a convoy trip. He sent books and magazines from Australia to Hibbard.
The books are on bird and animal life, on ocean and land shells, on fossils, and on the coral reefs. Mahon also sent a menu from an Australian restaurant, some popular magazines, and two records of Australian war songs.
Home Economics Club
Tours Spooner-Thayer
The Home Economics club took a tour through Spooner-Thayer museum yesterday afternoon, to acquaint new students with the museum. A tour similar to this one is taken every four years so as to reach all students in the department.
Ina Claire Livinggood, Florence Harris, and Frances Kolsky explained different items; conducted the tour. The club looked at early American and foreign glassware, at pottery, and at the several steps in making Chinese prints. Also because it is so near Christmas, they looked at the Italian nativity scene which is one of the specialities in the museum. Miss Elizabeth Meguar accompanied the group on the tour.
Figures Reveal New Co-op Trend
Indicating the trend of the University's men students toward cooperative living plans, figures released from the office of Henry Werner, adviser of men, show that the number of men living in residence halls and student owned and operated cooperatives has increased, and the number of men living in local rooming houses has decreased during the past three academic years.
For the year, 1940-41, there were 118 men representing 4.2 per cent of the men in the student body living in residence halls. In 1941-42 this percentage increased to 6.4 and for this semester 8.5 per cent or 180 men students are living in residence halls.
Student owned and operated cooperative houses have grown from the 1.5 percentage of 1940-41 to 4.3 per cent this semester. Rooming houses got 48.6 per cent of the men for the 1940-41 academic year. In 1941-42 the percentage was 42.2 and this year it is 32.3.
Fraternity houses have also shown an increase. From 29.8 per cent in 1940-41 to 33.4 per cent in 1941-42, they have reached 35.9 per cent for the present year.
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K.U. Graduate Dies in Africa
Millard K. Shaler, a graduate of the University of Kansas who was managing director of the Belgian mining concern Forminiere at Cape-town, Union of South Africa, died Dec. 11.
A native of Ellsworth, Mr. Shaler is a former resident of Lawrence, received a bachelor of arts degree from the University in 1901 and his engineering degree in 1904.
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Previous to the position Mr. Shaler held at the time of his death, he served with the United States Geological survey and the Guggenheim Exploration company of New York. He made several explorations and surveys in the Belgian Congo.
Mr. Shaler retained his American citizenship although he has been in South Africa since 1906 where he played a leading part in th development of the Kasia diamond field and the Angola Oil field. In World War I, he was associated with Herbert Hoover as secretary of the American Commission for Relief of Belgium. He served on the commission until 1919.