SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Students Favor Longer Vacations
Student opinion seems almost unanimously in favor of an extended Christmas vacation. Students interviewed yesterday admitted they thought a longer vacation was necessary both for a let-up in study and to avoid crowded transportation facilities.
The student view of the Christmas vacation situation follows:
Bill Landrey, college sophomore: "I think we ought to have a longer Christmas vacation. It seems to me if this is true about Annapolis getting a two-week vacation—and they are more involved in the war effort than we are—we certainly should be allowed a longer one."
Ruth Tippin, college sophomore:
"I think it would be heavenly to have a longer Christmas vacation.
A Christmas vacation is more important to me than almost a summer vacation, because it is a let-up in the grind—and I do mean grind."
Ralph Coidren, college senior: "It's going to do the students more harm than the accelerated program good if we don't have a longer Christmas vacation. At this time of year, especially with no Thanksgiving vacation, we need a rest and four days is not enough."
Florence Brown, college senior; "I would enjoy a longer Christmas vacation, but if I can be shown that it would help in the war effort to have the vacation shortened, I would not object."
Betty Lou Perkins, college junior "Everyone will be so anxious to leave during these three days we attend school previous to vacation, that the loss in efficiency and concentration will be greater than that incurred by an extended vacation." Jane Jones, college junior: "I think we should have a longer Christmas vacation because it is more important that these men about to leave for the army, or any men. see their family for a week than it is to have a week-shortened school year."
Jeanne Scott, fine arts senior: "A shortened vacation is not helping the war effort because it creates congested train and bus travel. A solution would be to have the same
vacation at a different time or to change the dates of the beginning and ending of the present vacation. A prime example of what not to do is the Thanksgiving vacation we have now."
Marvis Lukert, college freshman:
"The shortened vacation would be C.K. if all the schools in the country had shortened vacations, but some colleges get a full two-weeks, I think we should."
Beth Maxwell, college sophomore: "It doesn't make too much difference to students like me who live only 45 miles away but for engineers or medic students taking a year-round program and living hundreds of miles away, this short vacation means they never get to see their families."
Culleen Poorman, college senior:
"I think it would be wonderful to have a longer Christmas vacation. There would be more to lose than gain in cutting short the vacation, not only in terms of our own work, but in transportation."
Sally Weber, college freshman "If there were a longer Christmas vacation. I would not have to go home blessing living to see my brother before the leaves for this army." Bill Feeney; "Soldiers sailors, and mahouts get kurloughs. Workers in colleges plants get holidays and 40-hour weeks. Annapolis gets 15 days. Kansas State gets 10 days. But we at Kness are so vital to the war effort that we only get 4 days. Flattening, isn't it?"
Article by Lind Will Be Published in Magazine
Prof. L. R. Lind, of the department of Latin and Greek, has contributed an article on Roman military exemption which is to be published in a volume of studies on classical subjects by various scholars.
Professor Lind based his article upon an examination of all the available evidence on the subject. At present the publication to which this article has been contributed remains untitled.
Snooping Around News and Views from other colleges
Texas Theta Sig's Edit Paper
Texas Theta Sig's Edit Paper Putting their "larnin'" to practical use six women journalists at Southern Methodist University edited an issue of the Ennis Daily News at Ennis, Texas. The women were members and pledges of Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary and professional sorority of women in journalism.
In an effort to insure every Fort Hays man who is now in the service a letter before Christmas, each campus organization at Fort Hays Kansas State College was sent a list of service men from which to select a group. The organization then has the responsibility of seeing that every man on its list is contacted.
Christmas Letters To Service Men
Nebraskan's Organize Exercise
In addition to a commando course offered by the military department, Nebraska University is organizing a new physical fitness course. The class, which will meet from 5 to 6:30 every week-day afternoon, is designed as a supplement to the commando course in order to give men a more thorough knowledge of hand to hand combat. The supervisor of the course said the reason for promoting it is to provide students, both military and civilian, with a means of building up their physical stamina through day to day exercises.
Women at a boarding house at the University of California learned the hard way what not to use, as house decorations. At a recent dance for service men, these girls decorated their living room with greens gathered from nearby hills. At the same time they thought the results achieved were quite effective. Several days later 12 girls and the house-mother broke out with acute cases of poison oak.
War Effort Itch
Dakota Trains Civilian Pilots The third class to take its eight-week civilian pilot training course at the University of South Dakota
Dakota Trains Civilian Pilots
Spooner-Thayer Displays New Mexico University Art
Twenty lithographs, water-colors, and drawings-by members of the art faculty of the University of New Mexico will be on exhibition this week at Spooner-Thayer museum.
began Nov. 14th. Twenty-five army and navy student pilots will receive flight training for the air force
The artists are Kenneth M. Adams, Ralph Douglass, Raymond Jonson, and Brooks Willis. Some of the water-colors are abstracts; others impressions of landscapes. The lithographs include one of "War Mother—1941."
Physicians Report Five Perfects
Lieutenant Liudmilla Pavlichenko, Russia's woman sniper credited with killing 309 Nazis, has been made an honorary student at the University of Michigan.
Michigan Jumps On Band Wagon
According to infirmary officials who examined 1300 men and 500 women at Louisiana State University, only five students are perfect physical specimens. These five are all women. Most frequently occurring defects were weight deficiencies and visual defects, the physicians reported.
Women Enfertain At Square Dance
Women Entertain Ai Square Dance
University of Oklahoma - women decided to try, something different in the way of a party for enrolled men. Last night OU "sweater gals" and navy and marine enlistees got together at an old-time square dancing party. They called squares to "Birds in the Cage," "Texas Star," "Silly Goodin," and "Lady Around Lady." Additional entertainment was games, mixers, and refreshments.
MAIL TO MALES--in
Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth now at the Jayhawker
"I want to hear about home, definitely, but I would rather not hear about all the good times everyone is having at home. I'd probably go AWOL and come home." What this student does not know is that probably the old town is so dead that fun is hibernating till the next Armistice day
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statement needs no elaboration.
The lissome, luscious dancing star is shown above as she appears in a scene from "You Were Never Lovelier," which is now at the Javhawker for 4 days. Fred Astaire is Miss Hayworth's co-star in the new musical, whose hit tunes were penned by Jerome Kern. Xavier Cugat and his orchestra, and Adolphe Menjou, are featured in the film.
Start Today—The Letter Way!
Other suggestions for letter topics from college men include such ideas as:
So, girls, and boys too, if you feel in the mood to give some soldier a mental pick-up, these suggestions on what men like to hear might be useful. The general "must" in writing letters however, is just to write and write and write!
WANT ADS
"Everyday happenings — anything that will bring home closer to us."
"I want to hear about the college football games. If they write about K U, maybe that had better be changed to basketball games."
"I would like to hear about other friends in the service. I want to know where my old pals are stationed and what they are doing. And, naturally, I want to know how the kid brother and sister are doing in school."
LOST MONDAY: Harlequin reading glasses in bright red leather case.
Helen Ruth Mayey, 1149-J. 53-38
LOST: Black billfold containing activity book and other valuable papera.
Suitable reward. Lee Sanks,
1409 RJ. Phone 238. 5J2-38
LOST: Billfold with important iden-
tification. Phone 2988. 1230 Oread.
Nerman Butcher. 54-38
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