TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2012
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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★ Letters to the Editor
Editor:
Very rarely do I read the Kansan, when I do it is with all the open-mindedness I can muster, because I try to ignore nearly all the news, opinions, and ideas that are in the Kansan. Rarely is anything reported correctly; and the opinions expressed are petty grievances which apply to a minute few on this campus; and the ideas are often so infantile as to resemble those contained in a kindergarten news sheet. These things I can pass over because of the Kansan being what it is.
But when the Kansan deliberately and forcefully goes out of its way to get students to express views and take issues on certain subjects, it is going too far! Often these views will be regretted by the persons making them after ten minutes—but in the meantime, the Kansan has used them to fill up space, and there they remain till death we do part.
I am referring to the opinions expressed by students that favor longer Christmas vacations. How many of them have brothers fighting on foreign shores? . . . How many of them have brothers that are in Jap prison camps? What if we should lose the war, how many of these "Courageous Defenders of Longer Vacations" would be proud of their former daring statements?
I have a brother in New Guinea and it saddens me to no end to get letters from him saying, "Well my first wedding anniversary has come and gone. All Adelma and I could do was to send and exchange cablegrams, which isn't such a hot way to spend one first wedding anniversary. Several weeks before I left last winter, Adelma and I went skating several times at Lynn, Mass. In below zero temperatures, and only six weeks later I was sweltering crossing the equator. Well the only hope that I have is that some day the world will come to its senses."
Let K. U. take the initiative and adopt the Motto, "VICTORY THEN VACATION!"
What do you think?
Jakosky Speaks To ASME
"Post-War Problems in Engineer ing" will be the subject of Dean J. J. Jakosky's talk at the meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the Union building at 7:30 tonight.
All interested engineers have been invited to attend. Refreshmets will be served.
NO DIFFERENCE--member that the honor of the British army depends on your individual conduct" about the same time that General Joffre said: "We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat." World War I provoked Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig to assert "Every position must be held to the last man; there must be no retirements. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end."
(continued from page six) ternially, if he lived under a benevolent autocracy."
English, French, and American military men expressed the same thing in different words. Lord Kitchener spoke the famous lines: "Remember that the honor of the British army depends on your individual conduct" about the same time that General Joffre said: "We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat." World War I provoked Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig to assert "Every position must be held to the last man; there must be no retirements. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end."
LUTHER H. BUCHELE
Arts in Wartime Similiar
World War II poetry cannot be judged for years hence, but three poems stand out from the melee: John McCrae's "In Flander's fields the popies blow ..." Alan Seeger's "I have a rendezvous with Death," and Rupert Brooke's "If I should die, think only this of me; . . ."
Quotable one-liners to come out of World War I and proving of great value to quiz programs are "Lafayette, we are here" attributed to General Pershing; Marshal Petain's "They shall not pass"; Calvin Coolidge's great cry "Have faith in Massachusetts"; and Lloyd George's "The last hundred million pounds will win the war."
The 1914 version of "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" or "He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings" was George M. Cohan's "Over There," Mrs. Ford's "Keep the Home Fires Burning." or "My Buddy." As yet there has been no equivalent to the "Mademoiselle from Armentiers." But a successor is expected to turn up any day now.
Twenty-eight years doesn't seem to have made much difference.
Aeronautical Science Group Elects Officers
Officers were elected, and arrangements for a public showing of the movie, "Cannons on Wings" were made at the meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences Sunday evening.
Reed Whetstone, engineering junior, was elected chairman; George Bolt, engineering senior, was made vice-chairman; and Ralph May, engineering junior, secretary-treasurer for the next term.
At the meeting at 7:30 tomorrow evening in the aduitorium of Marvin hall when the movie will be shown, delegates will be selected for the national convention of the institute at Detroit, Mich., in January. Members were urged at the last meeting to plan papers to be read at the convention and urged to attend the convention whether delegates or not.
Manufacturers Abuse Science Says Student
Ralph May and Earl Pickerill were appointed as a committee to design an emblem for the local chapter.
Members of the state survey have been working hard for a month trying to complete their plans for placement of laboratory equipment in the new building.
The motion picture, "Cannons on Wings," is being brought here under the auspices of the Bell Aircraft company. It will show the production and use of the Aircobra, a product of that company now in military use.
The offices of the state geological survey were busy last week as a state architect arrived to look over the plans for the interior of Lindley hall, of which the survey will occupy one floor.
State Architect Here Last Week
Navy Takes Union Game Room
Science is abused by manufacturers advertising their products in three ways in the opinion of Owen Bibb, senior in the School of Pharmacy, who spoke to the Pharmacy club.
The intramural ping pong tournament will be discontinued because the game room of the Union building has been converted for use by the Navy, Bob Hodgson, Union activities intramural chairman, announced today. The tournament had not progressed sufficiently to arrange for championship play-offs elsewhere. he said.
The three ways discussed by Eibb were:
1 Ficticious use of 'scientific methods and false tests.
2. Distortion of scientific facts
3. Use of false testimonials.
"The consumer must learn to buy intelligence.ly," he said. "The result of the battle between the advertisers and consumers depends upon the social and economic systems which are developed by the educational system.
That the relative size of glands determines life was illustrated by the second speaker, A. B. Gausz, assistant instructor of pharmacy.
He explained by using the lion and the alligator as examples. The two weigh the same, but the lion has large glands and the alligator small glands. The larger glands of the lion make him a high-powered animal. The alligator in contrast has relatively low power.
The history and cure of syphilis was discussed by the third speaker, Allen Sebaugh, senior in the School of Pharmacy.
Howard Commissioned Ensign in Naval Reserve
Max Howard, a former University student who left the Hill last year, won his Navy wings and was commissioned an ensign in the naval reserve last week, according to word received today.
Students Asked to Call For X-Ray Reports
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Approximately 30 00r 400 reports on X-rays taken of new students and food handlers at the beginning of the semester by the Kansas State Board of Health have not been called for at Watkins Memorial hospital, it was announced there today. In all, about 1300 X-rays were taken. The Health Service requests students who have not called for their reports to do so at once.
Howard completed the prescribed flight training course at the U. S. Naval Air Training Center, Pensacola, Fla.
Tuesday, December 1, 1942
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Le Cercle Francais se reunir mercredi le deux décembre, a quatre heures et demie, dans la salle 113 Frank强兴 Hall. Tous ceux qui parlant francais sont invites.-Bertha May Patterson, Secretaire.
International Relations Club will meet Thursday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the English room of the Memorial Union building. Topic of discussion: India. All interested students cordially invited -Tom Myer, Secy.
CATHOLIC STUDENTS: Rev. E.
J. Weissenberg will be at his office in room 415, Watson library. Thursday afternoon from 1 to 5 o'clock for discussions and consultations.
W. S.G.A.—There will be no council meeting tonight because of the basketball game. All 11 members, however, are to meet at 5 o'clock Wednesday in the center lobby of Frank Strong hall to have pictures taken. Please be present if possible. Marge Rader, President.
High School Goes to College War Extends Courses
The impending draft of 18- and 19-year-old boys, a serious shortage of high school teachers, and the wartime need for new courses in mathematics and science are the causes for correspondence courses now available to high school students through the University extension division.
"Our war effort has developed an increased consciousness of the need for training in pre-flight aeronautics, physics, chemistry, advanced algebra, trigonometry, foreign languages and English composition," said Gerald Pearson, field organizer of the extension division.
The extension instructor is responsible for the teaching and grading of papers and their evaluation. This instructor is usually a University faculty member.
The operation of the plan is comparatively simple. The superintendent or principal of the high school provides for the enrollment of students, and sets aside a period in the regular daily schedule for the correspondence work. A teacher acts as supervisor over the 15 or 20 students in the room who may be taking four or five different subjects. This teacher need not have a specialized knowledge of the subjects studied, but merely checks each student to see that lesson instructions are followed.
Unfortunately, many of these subjects which are now bidding for an enlarged place in the high school curricula are the ones for which a serious shortage of teachers exists. Consequently, the extension division, through its bureau of correspondence, has planned this new program.
Courses are being offered in preflight aeronautics, commercial arts, mathematics, mechanical drawing, chemistry and physics, foreign language, English, and social sciences.
"Music must change over" was the theme of Dr. Otto Miessner's talk to the members of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at their first dinner meeting of the year last week in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. Dr. Miessner, professor of education and public school music, reported to the fraternity concerning a recent national convention of music educators held in Chicago.
At this meeting, said Dr. Miessner, the government chairman of the movement to change school curriculum for the furthering of the war effort conferred with these leaders.
Dr. Miessner expressed the opinion that there was uncertainty to what would happen, but he pointed out that music educators must join in the movement toward increased production along the line of wartime needs.
Dr. Miessner Speaks To Phi Mu Alpha
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