FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Spotlight on Ashton-English Department Head Featured In Biography
We've got a spotlight that we're shining on a new professor in this fourth of the series of Prof. Biogs.
John William Ashton, chairman of the department of English, was born in Louistown, Maine, July 11, 1900. Was schooled at Bates University where he received his B.A. in 1922. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, 1928.
As for teaching experience, he taught at Yankton, S. Dak., 1922-23. Taught at the University of Iowa in the fall of 1923
to the University of Chicago for his doctorate, returned to the University of Iowa and taught there until the summer of 1940. He was chosen as chairman of the department of English on the Hill and has been here since leaving Iowa.
For his doctorate he made studies in 16th century drama and wrote a critical introduction to a 16th century play by Anthony Munday. Married? Yes. Family? Two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary Beatrice.
His wish is this: "We would like for the students to come to rhetoric courses with an interest in developing wide horizons for themselves. We hope that what they want is to come to a fuller understanding of life which involves both richer perception and the ability to communicate that perception to others."
Professor Ashton was one of the first two holders of the International Research Fellowship at Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Dr. Lins Speaks at Fem-Medic Supper
"The Woman Physician in the Clinical Laboratory" was discussed by Dr. Beatrice Lins and Virginia Datlor at the first supper meeting of the Fem-Medic club which met last evening.
At the meeting new officers of the club were announced: president, Agnes Robbins; membership chairman, Helen Martin; sponsors, Dr. Pauline Garber and Dr. Beatrice Lins; secretary - treasurer, Barbara Sanderson.
Among those present were Dr. Florence Sherbon, Dr. Pauline Garber, Dr. Mary Lawson, Jeanette Lommasson, Margaret Nelson, Delphia Louk, Nada Clifton, Marjorie Spurrier, Phyllis Boyle, Virginia Datlor, Helen Martin, O'Ruth Sisk, Mary Louise Hollabaugh, Agnes Robbins, Barbara Sanderson, and Dorothy Stannard.
The Fem-Medic club is open to any woman pre-medic or any girl who has had 10 hours of science. The next meeting will be a Thanksgiving tea.
Kentucky's Danville college, with 341 students, offers 80 scholarships.
J. W. ASHTON
Bacteriology Grad Accepts Position At Minneapolis
Dorothy Whitney, a graduate of the department of bacteriology, recently resigned as bacteriologist for the Endicott-Johnston shoe company to accept a position as research bacteriologist with the Pillsbury Flour company of Minneapolis, Minn.
Miss Whitney is a sister of Miss Marjorie Whitney, assistant professor of design. She took her master's degree in 1932 and then remained here at the University for an additional year as an instructor while working on her doctor's degree.
Chancellor Presents Two Alum Awards
Alumni Association citations were received last weekend by two University alumni, Dr. Midian O. Bousfield of Chicago and Marvin H. Creager of Milwaukee.
Dr. Bousfield, nationally-known colored physician and a graduate with the class of '07, received his award from Chancellor Deane W. Malott at an alumni meeting held in Chicago in the dining room of the Fair Store Friday noon. The citation had been previously read by Mrs. Berniece Vander Vries, a member of the class of '10 and an Illinois state legislator.
Bousfield flew to Chicago from Washington, D.C., where he was on business, to receive the award. He is at present director of Negro Director of the Supreme Liberty Health of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, vice-president and Medical life insurance company of Illinois, and a member of the board of education of Chicago.
Creager was also given his award by Chancellor Malott. The presentation took place at a dinner in the Hotel Ambassador prior to the Marquette-Kansas football game. The citation was read to the gathering by Mrs. Amarynthia Smith Luhman, a member of the class of '14. Creager is president and editor of the Milwaukee Journal and a member of the class of '04.
The citations were part of a policy inaugurated last spring by the association in which 34 such awards will be made. Ten were made last spring.
Typical yearly expense at state- operated co-educational colleges in the U. S. is $453, while the figure for private institutions is $979.
Average yearly student expenses at Harvard university are $1,295.
WE DON'T MISS A THING--follows. Never whimper about a little acid burn, but follow one of these simple rules.
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Ways and Ways Tell Chemistry Frosh To Lab Succ
A recent survey in Bailey chemical laboratories revealed that 76 per cent of the freshmen in those laboratories need a set of rules to keep them from making costly mistakes and better to acquaint them with laboratory technique and monkey business.
Upper classmen who have learned by experience, desiring to help freshmen, have prepared a few gems of wisdom which mark the culmination of truly great works. The rules are as follows: Never whimper about*
1. Wash the cold off and keep quiet; or
3. Threaten to sue the University.
2. Scream that your neighbor threw acid on you and that you would do the same to him if you were not such a good Unitarian; or
3. Threaten to sue the University.
Never give up just because an experiment doesn't work but
2. Put the apparatus in the metal pan—walk down to the end of the row of desks and carefully throw the whole mess in the sink;
3. Tell the laboratory instructor that the fellow at the next desk put "something" in your test tube.
1. Empty all the refuse, wash the apparatus and start over;
Never fail to hand in your experiment on time; however, if you are called away because of important business—say a football game
—go to the laboratory instructor and tell him that:
1. You didn't have time to get the experiment,but you will have it by evening;
2. Your housemother burned it—She thought it was some obscene literature;
3. Your neighbor stole it;
4. You handed it in last week, and ask, "What the hell have they done with it?"
The last suggestion may not seem important to the beginner but it has proved its worth over and over again to the older chemistry students.
Never under any circumstance throw acid on your laboratory instructor.
Nearly 50 per cent of families with children in college have incomes of less than $3,000 a year.
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