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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1942
39th YEAR
Officer Tells Students Of Naval V-1 Program
A group of Navy-minded students gathered in a meeting in Fraser theater at 4:30 p.m.yesterday to hear Lieut. T.E. Wisner, assistant recruiting officer for the central recruiting section, speak on the new V-1 program offered by the Naval Reserve.
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Wisner explained that the navy today is an organization of specialists. It has all types of ships and all kinds of machinery on these ships. He stated that a battleship is a city within itself, containing everything from bakeries to iron foundries.
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As a result of the "old" navy, Wisner said, for a long time the average sailor looked down on a man who was ambitious and a bit inclined to be studious. The situation today is reversed, he assured:
He stipulated that the Navy in its program of expansion doesn't want uneducated men. They must be trained. Anapolis is not turning out men fast enough so the
The officer urged the men to get into the V-1 program at once because the V-7 program may close soon. If students wait until after they are too old for the V-1 program it will be impossible to get into the V-7 should it close.
When a student enlist in the V-1 program he must choose either the V-5 (flying) or the V-7 (deck officer) programs as his preference when his V-1 service is finished. He may change his mind as to which one, however. Freshmen and sophomores who enlist now will take "screening tests" in 1943 and in March, 1944, they will take tests for V-5 or V-7 as they choose.
The V-1 offers three chances for a commission. The first of course is found in going straight through the Naval Reserve program as the navy has planned it. The second chance is completing the V-1 program and going directly into the V-5 program without finishing school, should the student have trouble with his grades. The third chance is if the student in the V-1 program fails to pass tests for the V-5 and V-7 programs he may apply at the cadet selection board for further training.
The Navy does not want the student enrolled in the class V-1 to change his course of study, said Wisner. "The Navy can use all types of men." He added, however, that the student in the program would be required to take one year of college math, English, and physics.
He explained that the Navy wants students to remain in school until they obtain their degree. They are doing themselves, their school and their country an injustice if they do not remain in school, he said. His slogan emphasizing this point was "Do it the Navy way. Stay in school."
Although presenting all of the advantages of the class V-1 in the Naval Reserve, Wisner emphasized the fact that the Navy does not want men unless these men want to be in the Navy.
"Felt we otherwise, we would be drafting men into the Navy," he said.
Sarvis Lectures On Psychology of War
Byron Sarvis, assistant professor of psychology, addressed the second-to-last class meeting of the World at War series last night on "The Social Psychology of War; the Problem of Morale at Home and at the Front."
He discussed war as a psychological problem: fighting as an activity of man, the conditions under which men fight, and the goals for which they fight. He enumerated the chief social groups in our contemporary society—the nation, church, social classes, family—and the relative contribution of each to social attitudes.
He also explained how attack from without on any social group leads to reorganization, naming the results of such reorganization. He discussed our present social psychology as it is being determined by the nation and social classes, and contrasted it and the war psychology of the United Nations with that of the Axis powers.
He next outlined the psychological conditions of morale, discoveries in the field of psychopathology, and applications of these discoveries to the problem of national morale in the warring nations. He followed this by analyzing our contemporary morale, and explained that though it was adequate with regard to the present situation, it is inadequate with regard to formulations for reconstruction.
He concluded by suggesting how our morale may be improved, emphasizing the need for realization of the revolutionary aspects of the war and for correctly evaluating the powers of our Allies.
Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic society, will hold an initiation and dinner Monday evening in the Memorial Union building. Initiation will take place at 5:30 in the men's lounge and the dinner will be held in the Kansas room at 6:30.
Speakers at the dinner will be C. D. Clark, professor of sociology; John Ashton, professor of English; Heidi Viets and Fred Robertson, initiates. The program is in charge of Mrs. A. J. Mix.
Initiates are: Frances Butterfield, Iola; Letha Curtis, Hutchinson; Mary Elizabeth Evans, Newton; Janice Gartrell, Osawatome; Emmett
Phi Beta Kappa Initiates Mondau
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Foster Resigns; Woodruff Steps Up As Registrar
George O. Foster will retire next Friday after 44 years of service as registrar of the University to become registrar emeritus, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced yesterday. Dr. Laurence Woodruff, associate professor of entomology, who has been acting as assistant registrar since James K. Hitt entered military service, will succeed Foster.
On Oct. 1, 1891, Mr. Foster came to the University as clerk and stenographer to Chancellor F. H. Snow. In 1897, he was appointed registrar, in which position he served under Chancellors F. H. Snow, W. C. Spangler, Frank Strong, and E. H. Lindley.
There were only four buildings on the Hill when Mr. Foster came, the old North College building, Fraser hall, Snow hall (since replaced by the present building), and the journalism building, which was then the chemistry building. He received the degree of bachelor of arts in 1901.
Dr. Woodruff was granted his A.B. degree by the University in 1924. In 1928, he joined the University staff, and was awarded the degree of master of science in 1930. He received his Ph.D. in 1934 from Cornell University.
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Harris Concert Marks Close of Music Week
Second prize went to Ise L. Nesbitt, graduate student from Tulsa, Okla., for "Gilpin's Heavenly Address." Miss Nesbitt tied for third prize in the contest held last year and was given honorable mention in 1938.
William J. Feeney, college junior from Gary, Ind., was awarded first prize in the William Herbert Carruth memorial poetry contest for his poem, "Visitation," W. S. Johnson, professor of English, announced this morning. The award was $60
No third prize was given this year, Professor Johnson said, but honorable mentions were made for: "My Son," by Loyd W. Breakey, graduate student from Cassoday, Kan.; "Hitch Hiking," by Robert E. Howell, engineering freshman from
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Feeney Wins Carruth Contest
'Nice Campus'SaysHarris Farmer to Composer
"You also have a fine music school, a surprisingly fine music school," he told reporters who intercepted him leaving a class in history of music he was guest-conducting.
"Second to Cornell, this is the nicest campus I've ever been on," said Roy Harris, American composer and professor of music at Cornell University, who has been the University's guest of honor for the Music Week celebration, closing last night with the Gala Concert featuring works of Mr. Harris.
His first musical composition after he had decied to take music seriously was a 14-minute symphony which was first played by the Eastman School of Music, immediately followed by a performance by the New York Philharmonic and then at the Hollywood Bowl. "I really busted into the limelight with a splash," he chuckled. "Then I de-
To close the annual Music Week Festival, the University Symphony orchestra, the University band, and the University A Cappella choir combined forces last night in Hoch auditorium to feature the works of the visiting composer, Roy Harris. The program was attended only by a small audience whose appetite for music seemed considerably dulled since the opening
He has always been interested in music, Harris said. His mother had studied piano in Chicago, married his Kansan father, and homesteaded in the Cimarron stretch. She began teaching him to play when he was eight, and he has been devoted to it ever since. However, Mr. Harris did not consider it a profession until he was 28-years-old, holding down jobs of farming and truck-driving prior to that time.
By DEAN SIMS
Morrow Will Speak At Kansan Banquet
Marco Morrow of Topeka, vice president of the Capper Publications, will be the guest speaker at the annual banquet given by the Kansan Board, the governing body of the University Daily Kansan, next Tuesday night. The banquet will be at 6 o'clock in the Colonial Tearoom.
The L. N. Flint awards for the best news story, feature, and editorials, and the Henry Schott award for the most promising junior man will be announced. Sigma Delta Chi, men's honorary journalism fraternity, will announce the outstanding seniors.
The Jack Fenfold photography award will be announced later.
of the Music Week on Sundav.
The orchestra was then conducted by Roy Harris himself in two compositions of his own: "The Ode to Truth" and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." Both numbers went over fairly well with the audience. The "Johnny" number began with a tinge of unorthodox playing for a symphony orchestra — slightly bordering on downright ragtime, but this soon faded and the audience became lost in a sea of music which was meaningless to them.
Easily the most colorful selection of the entire program and a number thoroughly appreciated by the audience was the opening selection by the University band, "Cimarron," by Roy Harris. Harris himself conducted the band in the number depicting the historical opening of Oklahoma, his home state, as a territory. This saga of history as portrayed by music saw the K.U. band at its best, the composition itself a masterpiece.
The University A Cappella choir, under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout, followed the band with "Songs of Democracy," as arranged by Roy Harris. The poems, "Year That Trembled" and "Freedom, Toleration" by Walt Whitman, were set to music by the guest composer.
The fact that, as the musical group must be educated to play finer musical compositions, so must the audience be educated to appreciate them, was brought out by the reactions of the audience to these numbers. Despite the beauty and inspiration that were undoubtedly contained in these musical compositions, the fact remained shrouded to the majority of the audience.
The University orchestra, under the direction of Karl Kuesteiner, was conducted in Rubin Goldmark's "Call of the Plains," which went over with the audience in a conservative sort of way. They, in short, merely liked it.
As a closing number Dean Swarthout led the A Cappella choir, accompanied by the orchestra, in the inspirational composition of the nineteenth century composer, George W. Chadwick, "Land of Our Hearts."
Mrs. Mix Speaks At Quill Club Meeting
Mrs. A. J. Mix, Lawrence, who writes for the New Yorker magazine under the name of Cathine Lyon, was the guest speaker at the meeting of the American College Quill club meeting last night in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Mrs. Mix read two of her stories, "Introduced by Mrs. Weatherby," a sketch on Norway, and "Frau Gundsen," a sketch on Sweden.