UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1942
Allen Honored At Scholarship Dinner Friday
Honoring Dr. F. C. Allen on his completion of 25 years as basketball coach at the University, a group of his former players and close friends Friday night announced the establishment of the F. C. Allen scholarship for worthy and needy students.
The scholarship was announced Friday night at a dinner in Dr. Allen's honor. Following the dinner, Dr. Allen was presented with a leather - and - oak bound book of reminiscences and letters from about 300 friends and former players.
In thanking his friends, Dr. Allen promised to work harder than ever out of gratitude for the tribute paid him. He then reminded his friends that a student's main object in attending the University was to get and education, not to play basketball. He also expressed pleasure that so many of his former players had achieved success since leaving the University.
Before the game in Hoch auditorium, Chancellor Deane Malott introduced Dr. Allen to the spectators. Representatives of the freshman basketball squad then presented Dr. Allen with a bicycle tire and a bottle of linemin in recognition of his interest in cycling. Ralph Miller of the basketball squad presented gifts to Dr. and Mrs. Allen on behalf of the squad. Balfour Jeffry of Topeka, a member of the team from 1926 to 1928, then announced the establishment of the F. C. Allen scholarship. Approximately $750 has been collected for the scholarship which will go into effect in ten years when the defense bonds to be purchased will mature.
Dr. Allen's 25 years of coaching at the University have not been consecutive. He first coached the basketball team in 1908 and 1909; he returned in 1919 and has remained ever since.
Four members of the 1908 and 1909 teams were present Friday night. They were D. C. Martindell of Hutchinson, V. V. Long of Oklahoma City, and Dr. Milton Miller and Will J. Miller, both of Topeka.
N.C.A.A. Chairman—
(continued from page one) was unanimous in favor of competing. Edwards then said, "From what I've been reading in the papers, I thought you boys didn't want to go to the N.C.A.A." John Buescher, K. U. star, quickly retorted, "Mr. Edwards, you surely don't believe everything you read in the papers, do you? There is nothing we would rather than play in the N.C.A.A."
Mr. Edwards went on to say that the outcome of the two Oklahoma-Oklahoma Aggie games had a direct bearing on the committee's choice. The Aggies won the first game Friday night 27 to 19.
"What the committee wants is the best team representing this district in Kansas City, and Kansas certainly rates high among the contenders," said the Missouri coach, adding that, "we might have the Missouri Valley team play Kansas or we might just flip a coin. If a playoff is conducted instead of a committee choice, Creighton and the Oklahoma Aggies would clash, with the winner tangling with Kansas. However, should the Aggies beat Oklahoma both games, there is a possibility the committee might vote them in without a playoff."
Kansas downed Creighton 53-49 and split with the Aggies, winning 31-28 in Lawrence, and then losing at Stillwater 33-40.
WAR OBSERVER
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American army and navy officials in the Philippines, Guam, Wake, Midway, and Hawaii, and can thus present his audience an up-to-the minute report on the latest developments in this arena of the war.
Among all the important figures he met and interviewed on his recent swing through the Far East, his meeting with Mme. Sun Yat-Sen, widow of the leader of the Chinese Revolution, was the most memorable.
This Chinese lady, in whose husband's name and for whose principles all factions in China profess to work, now lives in comparative obscurity and silence. Sheean found in her a symbol of a new and more democratic China which he believes will emerge from the present chaos and tragedy.
"She is," he says, "one Chinese
who can never be conquered or subdued. Her fidelity to her husband's principles is a rock; her love of China an ever-fixed mark."
Like her equally famous sister, Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, Mme. Sun-Yat-Sen was educated in America and remembers her life here with great pleasure.
Sheean also visited the Chiang Kai-Sheks, interviewed the generalissimo on the military and political situation in China and stayed to have tea with him and his famous wife.
Visits the Chiang Kai-Sheks
The Chiang Kai-Shek house is comfortable, although not the largest in Chungking. Visitors are received in what used to be the generalissimo's study; it is now used as a living room, not large but comfortably furnished.
During his interview with the Generalissimo, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek sat beside her husband in an arm chair drawn up before an open fire. It was conducted through an official interpreter, but Mme. Chiang aided occasionally when the right word seemed to be lacking.
When the interview, which was given privately but in conjunction with one of the rare mass press interviews the generalissimo gives the foreign press, all the foreign correspondents were served tea.
"The tea occurred." Mr. Sheean recalls, "with most welcome amplitude. There was a small chocolate cake which I shall remember for a long time. Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, slender and beautiful in an embroidered Chinese dress, talked with vivacity to a succession of correspondents and then, when we all subsided into chairs, the generalissimo read a prepared statement on China's war and China's relation to the Russian, British and American war efforts.
A NEW ORDER—
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not agree with them. If there is any propaganda, it is for the little people, whether they wear homespun or field gray. There are really two conquered peoples in the story; the Norwegians, conquered by traitors and submachine guns, and the Nazi soldiers, conquered by a man with crazy, impossible ideas, and the conquest of the soldiers has been more complete.
The best-written and most dra-
The best-written and most dra-
dislike the idea of killing. Still, their minds are chained by a theory they sometimes refuse to believe but continue to carry out.
matic spot of the story is when one of the German officers, driven to the point of hysteria by the quiet but deadly resistance of the villagers, raves about files conquering two hundred miles of new flypaper.
Soldiers Are Humans
Steinbeck is to be complimented on the fact that he does not portray the German soldiers as hulking, animal-like creatures with close-cropped heads and saber-scarred features. They are human beings, and like all human beings in a foreign land, talk of home, and paste pictures, you know what kind, on the wall, and
There are no pauses in movement or weak spots in the 188 pages of "The Moon is Down." It is easy reading, and quick reading, but at the same time a story that will, or should be remembered long after some of the so-called human documents, that run on at length and finish having said nothing, are forgotten. For everybody's library, we should like to recommended "The Moon is Down," Viking Press, New York, 1942.
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