THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
Are You Afflicted?
Piddleosis
You should now ask, if you a what the heck are piddlers anyway?"
In peace time, in war time, in times of either or both, it makes no difference, college is the home of the greatest piddlers on earth. Chinese colleges, Russian colleges, African colleges, it still makes no difference, all colleges house piddlers.
You should now ask, if you are normal or subnormal: "Sav.
O. K., ask me!
A piddler may be defined as one (essentially) for this story a college student) who piddles around.
Now, if you paddle around, you engage in doing practically nothing when you should be doing definitely something.
Examples: You eat an apple, repose, and fall asleep for three hours the night before a big quiz. This is piddling.
Or: In the process of studying for the approaching quiz you doodle pictures of the fellow with the egghead who sits in front of you in class—instead of studying the text. This also is piddling.
No that we have the word clearly defined and some striking illustrations pointed out, we can continue with our dissertation on the subject of piddling.
No one can piddle around quite like a collegian. It may be due to the fact that no one has so much to do as a student in an institution of higher learning; hence, every little rest seems like a waste of time. It could be that no one has less to do than a student getting a higher education. In any case, college students are good piddlers—absolutely the best in the business.
Probably one of the greatest piddlers I know is a fellow who "carried his piddling to such an extreme that he forgot himself and practiced it in his physical conditioning class. Consequently, as he galloped over the obstacle course and came to the 7-foot wall (all the time piddling around) he broke his right toe as he slammed against the pine wall.
Another piddler who comes to my mind is a college junior who finds that his piddling is at a maximum when he tries to get his assignment for a course on his study schedule. Consequently he piddles when he should be studying his head off and comes to class thrice a week minus his material.
Piddling is not solely nor wholly a characteristic of the male species, but lots of campus females are also guilty of it.
One student took a class with me Iast year and for 18 solid weeks did the best job of piddling as any young woman I have ever witnessed. She combined drooling, sleeping and piddling over the rocks given her to study in the class.
So far as I know there is no given remedy for this semi-seriual mala-justment that is so characteristic of the average student.
**piddle**—**piddle**—**piddle**—**piddle**
Rubber used in the building of one medium bomber would make 1,000 pair of overshoes.
Visitors welcome School at 7th & Louisiana St.
First Revue To Feature Drama Only
"Owing to withdrawals from the cast because of time conflicts, too much work and other causes making it impossible to rehearse some of the acts, the entire plan of the first dramatic production of the year has been revised." Prof. Allen Crafton, of the department of speech and drama, said today. Formerly planned to include music, singing and dancing, the show has been changed instead to a straight dramatic revue.
Students may obtain admission tickets to "Meet the Talent," by presenting their activity books at the ticket office in the basement of Green hall, starting tomorrow, Professor Ashton announced. Tickets may be obtained for Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday nights. Since attendance usually has been light on the first night and students have often been turned away for lack of seats on the last night, Professor Crafton urges that students get their tickets early and for either Monday or Tuesday night.
One old copper kettle will furnish metal for 84 rounds of ammunition for an automatic rifle.
Brown Lectures At Psychology Meeting
"The Role of Psychology in the Reconstruction" will be the subject for discussion when 20 leading psychologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists meet in Detroit tomorrow. The meeting will take place at the Henry Ford Memorial hospital, financed by the McDonald fund for encouraging research.
One of the addresses will be given by Prof. J. F. Brown, of the department of psychology here, on the topic "Barriers to Utopia."
Eminent psychologists from all parts of the country, including the psychiatrists-in-chief of both army and navy, Dr. Franz Alexander of Chicago, Dr. Gregory Zilboorg of New York, and other leaders, will be part of the assemblage. Professor Brown's speech will be a resume of a book he is writing under the same title. Some of the ideas in the book appeared in a series of articles in the 1941 edition of the University Daily Kansan.
From Detroit, Professor Brown will go to Chicago to address the Chicago Personality Society Monday on the "Experimental Verification of Psychoanalytic Concepts." Professor Brown described the society as a clearing house of psychologists and psychiatrists. His speech will be based on the series of experiments conducted by Dr. Margaret Brennan while studying for her PhD degree at the University last year.
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY--in Lawrence
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style" weiner roast Monday night
Mrs. Harriett Ermert, Mrs. Vivian
Stone, Miss Jewell Potts, and Miss
Lucille Clippinger, Kansas City
Mo.; Mrs. A. J. Mix, Mrs. Charles
Northrup, and Mrs. George R. Rinehart,
Lawrence; Virginia Porter,
Helen Stark, Kelma Smith, Marian
Bleisner, Irene Korber, Mary Ellen
Hill, and Kathrine Gutch.
Questionnaire Sent To Determine Schools' Wartime Adjustment
Professor F. P. O'Brien of the department of education has sent a questionnaire to each high and junior high school in the state to ascertain wartime adjustments within the schools. After the information has been gathered, it will be coordinated and made available to school administrators and others to whom it would be helpful.
Student participation in the war effort through the Red Cross and other activities, subjects dropped or added to the curriculum, increase in the teaching load and any other wartime adjustment will be main topics for inquiry.
Science Society Meets Tonight.
Sigma Xi, national honorary society for scientific advancement in all fields, will hold its first meeting of the year at 8 o'clock tonight in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. Prof. G. W. Smith, retiring acting-president, will speak on "cryptography," the art of secret writing or code writing with ciphers.
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Members of the K-Club planning to go on the hayride Nov. 7 were urged today by Paul Turner, club president, to add their names to the list in the athletic office by next Thursday.
Turner also announced that freshmen were to continue to wear their caps, and to walk on the south side of the street while on the Campus.
Six Professors On Graduate Committees
Those elected and their respective committees are:
E. B. Stouffer, dean of the Graduate School, has announced the election of three persons to the administration of the Graduate School committee and also three persons to the research committee.
Administration committee—Prof. H.B.Hungerford of the entomology department, Prof.E.Thery Gaston of the public school music department, and Prof.J.C.Malin of the history department.
Research committee—Prof. W. H. Shoemaker of the romance language department, Prof. John Blocker of the economics department, and Pref.
L. R. Lind of the Latin and Greek department.
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