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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942.
Students Must Plod to Early Classes In Frigid Darkness This Winter
As winter approaches, many University students can foresee walking to 7:30 and 8:30 classes in cold darkness. Now, before winter actually arrives, is the time to precipitate the question: Is this necessary?
The situation was caused last year when President Roosevelt moved the hands of every clock in the nation back one hour. Thus, 8:30 classes were shoved back to 7:30, and students plodded onto the Hill in darkness.
The effect on the students, although not trivial, is of secondary importance. The advisability of moving classes up one hour, however, has three supporting arguments:
1. The purpose of the war time is to conserve daylight for war production. Yet on the Hill, the policy brings waste of electricity both in class rooms and in student quarters. Power is one of those elements which we need to conserve.
2. While last year the University's first class, with the exception of Band, was at 8:30, several other 7:30 classes have been established this fall. This means that some students start the day two hours earlier than they did before the war.
3. War time in the University has neither purpose nor advantage.
A simple plan, one followed by many schools, would be to advance 8:30 classes to 9:30 and follow that change throughout the day in other words, revert to the pre-war time schedule while maintaining the new hour designation
We hope that the advantage of such a plan will not escape attention.
The Level-Headed Dr. Smith Talks Straight From Shoulder
General comment among members of the student body Wednesday morning following the convocation address by Dr. T. V. Smith seemed to indicate that his listeners had found Dr. Smith's novel views refreshing and thoughtdemanding.
Students had gone to the convocation rather reluctantly expecting to hear the usual "elegant" Armistice Day exhortations on the virtues of patriotism. Instead, they heard a level-headed educator speaking straight from the shoulder in an American manner which justified his title of "America's political town crier."
Dr. Smith pointed out that we are not engaged in this war because of its "goodness" or 'romantic' aspects. We are fighting because it is the lesser of two evils. Conflict is preferable, he declared, to the undesirable conditions which would have continued to exist without war.
Sitting in the audience were many young men who will soon be in uniform, and certainly they must have understood better the "why" of this call upon their time, services, and perhaps their lives. Certainly it must have helped to be reminded that they are going forward on what is essentially a constructive, not destructive, mission.
Dr. Smith was a former congress-at-large from Illinois, and there was more than one student and faculty member who, after hearing him speak, declared that Congress today could well avail itself of his remarkable thinking. The very extemporaneousness of his speech gave it a ring of sincerity that the artificiality of prepared addresses of many previous speakers has destroyed.
Students who chose to attend the convocation arther than to congregate at Hill hangouts for cokes or to grab an hour of last minute cramming for a coming exam did well for they learned what no textbook can tell them—what a representative liberal American thinker is thinking today.
Students who chose to attend the convocation rather than to congregate at Hill hangouts versity could well use other addresses by men of Dr. Smith's caliber.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 40 Friday, November 13, 1942 No. 33
Notices due at News Bureau, 8 Journalism, at 10 a.m. on day of publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
El Ateneo se reunira jueves el 19 de noviembre a las 4:30 en la sala 113 Frank Strong Hall. Margaret Welch, presidente.
--and feel my arteries - harden. Where are you, old rocking chair?
FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Fraser Theatre. Deane W. Malott, Chancellor.
English majors, faculty, and all others interested are invited to hear Dr. John Ashton, Chairman of the Department of English, speak on "Traditional Ballads." Thursday, Nov. 19, at 4:30 in the Kansas Room, Union Building, Helen R. Hoopes, Chairman of Committee on English Department meetings.
KAPPA PHI—There will be a pledging service at 7 o'clock Friday evening at 1209 Tenn. St. This will be followed by the regularly scheduled pledge and cabinet meetings. Eleanor Patty, Publicity Mgr.
NOTICE TO SENIORS: Any senior in the Teacher Training Program who plans to do practice teaching during the spring semester must make application in 103 Fraser before November 28. If you have already applied once but for any reason did not do practice teaching this fall, you may submit another application for the Committee's consideration. The Committee on Admissions and Guidance passes on all candidates for practice teaching before their enrollment is approved.
A. H. Turney, Chairman, on Committee on Admissions and Guidance.
Admissions and Guidance.
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--and feel my arteries - harden. Where are you, old rocking chair?
Just Wondering
If Watkins Memorial hospital will not be somewhat congested when physical conditioning classes begin their Commando tactics instruction.
--and feel my arteries - harden. Where are you, old rocking chair?
Rosemary Schrepfer and Frances Abts of Corbin Hall had a irrepressible urge to hear the effect that the other produced on the phone the other day, so the girls hit on a solution.
The girls talked with each other for some time.
Rosemary went down to the sub-basement of Corbin and called outside. Then she called the Corbin hall number and asked for Frances.
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The peculiar individuals running wild over the campus yesterday with tin cans for hats, wooden swords, knapsacks, and white leggings were initiates of that worthy organization—Scabbard and Blade—in case you're interested.
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Bill Lane, Rock Chalk Co-op, read Dorothy Dix's column the other day which stated: "The woman doesn't really mean 'no' unless she turns and runs."
Lane looked up from the paper. "Hummmmm," he said thoughtfully, "I really have some steps to retrace."
Rumors are leaking through the campus that the Sigma Chi Anti-German band is again on the loose. Keep your ears open!
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Oliver Hughes, Sig Alph, made a memorable remark the other day. Hughes stated that the OPA should arrange it so the Sigma Nu's would go to school at Topeka to save rubber.
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A Thanksgiving Poem:
Over the river and through the woods,
To a Thanksgiving dinner gay.
With just time to eat it
We turn round and beat it—
For, ye gods, we have school next day.
Author Deceased (by order of you know who)
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Jack Ballard, Sig Alph, often signs in at the Kappa study table in the library. And Ballard is usually late.
After signing in, Ballard writes out his excuse for being late. Last week Ballard wrote out beside his name, "Been to junior commando and got stuck on the obstacle course."
KILLING SPORT Wheel Chair's Got Me Intramurals
BY JIMMY GUNN
I have played upon the playing fields,
But not on those of Eton.
I've bruised my bones and sprained my back,
But, gosh, we still were beaten.
But I don't care. I played the game
The best way that I knew.
Someone may say the war was won
On the fields of old K.U.
Physical conditioning is pretty bad when it comes to sore and aching muscles, but the intramurals are my anathema. All this bruising play and reckless abandon may be all right when one is young and supple, but when a man gets to be old and brittle and decrepit, his bones should be left in peace.
Old, brittle, and decrepit—that's how I feel after chasing a small, leather-covered bag of wind around the intramural field yesterday. I can just sit still*
Why do I do it? Why do I do it?
That's what I keep asking myself as I hobble around on my cane, muttering in my beard. And I always get the same answer: a fool and his energy are soon parted. Next time I'll know better. Next time will be a different story.
Next time maybe we'll win.