June 14
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS,TUESDAY, JANUARY 20,1942
39th YEAR
Predict High Enrollment
Predict ROTC Prepares For Rush
NUMBER 75
"Judging from the interest expressed by parents and students, our R.O.T.C. courses are going to be increased in enrollment," said Colonel James S. Dusenbury today.
Letters and visits from parents, outside students, and University students not now in R.O.T.C. have been arriving every day from a considerable distance around. Colonel Dusenbury believes that this interest will cause an increase of enrollment in the University itself, as "a considerable number of students came to the University in September for the sake of its military courses alone."
The R.O.T.C. is one of the biggest businesses of the University today. Since its inception it has graduated 617 commissioned reserve officers, many of whom are now captains and majors, and most of whom are in service today. This does not include the five men who will graduate with commissions this month or the forty-one who will graduate in June.
To the government—for instructional equipment, personnel salaries, uniforms, and pay allowances—the R.O.T.C. at the University represents an expenditure of $45,000 annually. Also, many thousands of dollars are spent each summer on the six-week training camps for advanced students, including their pay, transportation, and sustenance.
The average cost of basic training is $11 per capita. For advanced students, it amounts to $88. This includes the pay allowances of the student, which is often considered a form of scholarship.
Kinda Tardy
Sends Report
To Chancellor
For years we've been going on without knowing how the true meridian matched with the magnetic one.
Last week, Chancellor Deane W. Malott received this letter from County Surveyor C. W. McLaughlin of Wyndotte county:
"In accordance with section 19-1406, statutes of Kansas, I am submitting you the comparison of the magnetic with the true meridian. During the year of 1941, the reading in each instance was 8 degrees 15 minutes east of north."
Investigation from the Chancellor's office disclosed that back in 1868, the state legislature passed a law which required each county surveyor in the state to submit to the Chancellor of the state university four times each year, a comparison of the magnetic and true meridians.
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor said that so far as the records were available, this was the first time that any of the county surveyors had fulfilled this particular obligation.
Fine Arts Proposes Unusual Course In Camouflage
A course in the art of camouflage has been proposed by the School of Fine Arts, to be under the supervision of T. D. Jones, assistant professor of design.
The course will carry two hours credit and will consist of eleven lectures and field and laboratory work.
The course, if passed, will be offered next semester.
Examination Schedule
JAN.22 to JAN.29,1942
THURSDAY, JAN. 22
a.m. 3:30 classes, 5, 4, 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
p.m. 3:30 classes, 2, 1 hours at 1:30 to 3:20
p.m. 4:30 classes, all hours at 3:30 to 5:20
FRIDAY, JAN. 23 a.m. 10:30 classes,5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 p.m. 10:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
SATURDAY, JAN. 24 a.m. 8:30 classes, 5, 4, 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 p.m. 8:30 classes, 2, 1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
MONDAY, JAN. 23
a.m. 1:30 classes, 5, 4, 3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
p.m. 1:30 classes, 2, 1 hours at 2:30 to 4:30
TUESDAY, JAN. 27 a.m. 9:30 classes,5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 p.m. 9:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28 a.m. 11:30 classes,5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20 p.m. 11:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
THURSDAY, JAN. 29
a.m. 2:30 classes,5,4,3 hours at 8:30 to 11:20
p.m. 2:30 classes, 2,1 hours at 2:30 to 4:20
CLINT KANAGA
Senior manager of the student Relays committee at the University of Kansas this year will be Clint Kanaga of Kansas City, Mo., it was announced today by Gwinn Henry, director of athletics.
Kanaga Named Kansas Relays Senior Manager
The student committee does much of the preparatory work for the
staging of the Kansas Relays, one of the nation's largest track and field carnivals.
The new senior manager is a member of Sachem, Sigma Delta Chi, and Owl Society. He was sports editor of the University Daily Kansan during the past football season and is a member of the Kansan board.
University Offers Shortened 2-Year Engine Course
The School of Engineering moved yesterday to join in the war-time spetdup with the acceptance of a new two-year technological program for skilled craftsmen. Students completing the new shortened program will receive certificates of industrial technology for their efforts. The course of otudy will be similar
Red Cross Contributions Reach $127
Groundwork for the student Rec Cross emergency relief drive has been laid, and the committee is waiting for contributions toward the $500 student goal.
The independent contribution is $127.74 to date, Prof. E. C. Buehler, general chairman of the Red Cross, said today. Highest contributions by organized houses so far are Miller hall, $18.05; and Kaw Coettes, $17.25.
All organized houses which have not yet reported,will contact their respective chairmen.
Professors and students have addressed organized houses, independent students have been solicited on the campus by Jay Janes and boxes have been placed in Frank Strong hall, the library, and at the ISA Varsity.
Campus Scene on New Catalogue
The University catalog for the coming summer session will be fronted by a silhouetted picture of the campus, designed by Clara Smithmeyer, senior in the department of design.
to that of the regular four or five-year program, but of a condensed nature.
The move was announced yesterday by Chancellor Deane W. Mahlott. The new course of study has been planned by J. J. Jakosky, dean of the School of Engineering, after he had spent several weeks in eastern industrial centers studying their requirements.
The student who completes the program will occupy a position between the craftsman and the technically trained engineer. They will fill positions with limited responsibility, Jakosky said.
The new program was launched, Jakosky said, for the benefit of students who will be called to the service before they can complete a longer course, or who wish to go into a defense industry at once.
Jakosky explained that the work to be dropped from the shortened program is not of the craftmanship type, but will be instead studies along the general cultural line. Students receiving credits in the new program may transfer them to the four or five-year programs, or to other engineering schools if they wish.
The outlined program, which Jakosky drafted, was to a large extent the suggestion of high industrial leaders with whom Jakosky
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Philharmonic Is 'Splendid'
By JOY MILLER
Approaching finals made last night's concert probably the lightest attended Kansas City Philharmonic program ever presented in Hoch auditorium, but nevertheless, Hill music lovers were well represented.
Karl Krueger led his orchestra in a splendidly balanced program of familiar "heavies," making no attempt to "play down" to the predominantly student audience. It might have been a sizeable lump to swallow in one sitting, but K.U. was not only equal to it, it clamored for more.
"Carnival Overture" by Antonin Dvorak, which opened the concert, is a vivid portrayal of a nineteenth century jam session. 'Idyllic and Tender'
The actual account of the tone picture is that of a wanderer who
reaches a city at nightfall, where a carnival of pleasure and hilarity is in progress, with Czech folk songs and dancing providing the merriment. The orchestra played it with zest and enthusiasm, yet making the romantic love scene occurring in the middle, idyllic and tender.
Piece de resistance was Brahms Second Symphony in D Major, the most hopeful and good-natured of all his symphonies. The opening allegro movement has two main themes, and one placid and melodic, the other almost waltz-like in rhythm. Cellos, horns, and violins do all the work.
The second movement is a melodic adagio, while the third is a gay, animated scherzo with a captivating theme. The finale begins calmly with the main theme, advances "con spirito," and reaches a lively tempo which continues throughout the movement until a higher level of joyous intensity closes the work.
Violin Section Shines
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Tschaikowsky, long-haired passion of modern youth which loves to get sentimental occasionally, composed the first of the after-internmission numbers in 1869. The ever-popular "Overture Fantasia, Romeo and Juliet," based on the Shakespearean tragedy of the ill-starred lovers, was performed with sympathy by the entire orchestra, but with especial enthusiasm by the sweeping violin section.
The audience became wistful-eyed whenever the love music occurred in the work. The love motif, by the way, will be remembered as a popular number of several years back, "Our Love," probably one of the first of the Tschaikowsky melodies to be cast adrift on the sea of swing.
As a final composition, Wagner's "Prelude and Love-Death from Tristan and Isolde," was appropriate.
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