THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Well Known Speakers Here For Celebration
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Of the 13 principal speakers at the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration, 10 are alumni of the University, from as far back as 49 years ago.
Prof. Philip C. Cabot
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Only Governor Payne Ratner, who will give greetings at Commencement, and the Rev. Frederic C. Lawrence, the Baccalaureate speaker, are not University graduates.
When Dyche museum officially reopens its doors Friday, Dr. Alexander Wetmore, class of 1912, will do the talking. He is director of national museums, Washington, D.C.
At a national defense symposium Saturday morning, E. B. Black, class of 1906, will speak. Black is an eminent engineer, recently in charge of water supplies for all United States army camps. He is from the Kansas City firm Black and Veatch, of which both partners are alumni of the University.
Tonight at the Flint dinner, given by the department of journalism to honor Prof. L. N. Flint, who is retiring, the speaker will be Raymond Clapper, widely-known Washington columnist for N.E.A. He was graduated in 1917.
Noted scientists who will speak at the symposium Saturday afternoon are Dr. Clarence E. McClung, class of 1892, and Elmer V. McCollum, class of 1903. Doctor McClump is
Charles C. Dennie
head of the department of zoology at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1893 to 1912 he was a member of the faculty here. McCollum is from Johns Hopkins University.
Lester McCoy
"Country Gentleman" Editor Ben Hibbs, class of 1923, will be the principal speaker at the Seventy-fifth Anniversary dinner at 5:45 p.m. Saturday.
the University.
Sunday afternoon a forum will be conducted by Harold D. Smith, class of 1922, United States budget director and one of the President's right-hand men. His subject will be "Democracy on Trial."
The Rev. Mr. Lawrence, who will speak at Baccalaureate Sunday night, although not an alumnus of Kansas, is connected with the University for he is the grandson of Amos Lawrence, for whom Lawrence was named.
At the Commencement exercises Monday night Chancellor Deane W. Malott and Governor Ratner will greet the seniors
William Allen White, famous editor of the Emporia Gazette, and F. M. Harris, chairman of the Board of Regents, will be here for much of the celebration.
At the symposium Monday afternoon Dr. George F. Zook, graduate in 1906, president of the American Council of Education in Washington, D.C., will speak on "Some Future Problems in Higher Education," and Dr. Charles C. Dennie, graduate in 1912 Kansas City physician, will ask, "Do You Want Your Boy to Be a Doctor?"
Kansan's History Covers 67 Years
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run by one man was not satisfactory to the college public, so a Kansas University Publishing Association was formed. Under the new management, editors were elected by the student body.
About 1891 Dean F. W. Blackmar suggested that the University well might offer a course in journalism, and he asked Hopkins if he were willing to initiate it. During the
first semester of 1891-92 such a course was offered, perhaps the first of its kind in the United States.
This was before colleges had begun to consider giving courses in journalism. The newspaper men of that time didn't believe in teaching such a subject. According to them the only way one could become a good newspaper man was to "eat ink and sleep on the composing stone."
Discontinued in First Year
After one semester the course was discontinued because of the small enrollment. Not until 1900 did the University of Missouri offer what was probably the first regular course in journalism in the country.
From--magazine writer, and Roy Roberts. present managing editor of the Kansas City Star.
To Graduating Seniors—may success be yours
To the University on its 75th anniversary.
To Professor Flint who has done a hard job well. May his future be filled with happiness.
Congratulations
Fritz Co.
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Made A Daily in 1912
ized KANSAN, and the man who really put it on its feet. He is now editor of the Chickasha Star in Oklahoma.
From that time until now, the UNIVERSITY KANSAN has served the students on Mount Oread. It was changed to a daily in 1912, and the name was changed to the UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN.
In the fall of 1903, Professor Hopkins began teaching a course in journalism. At that time it was in the department of English, but the teaching of journalism at the University of Kansas has been continued ever since.
The second semester of 1903-04 only three students enrolled in journalism. Three persons weren't enough to put out the KANSAN so Hopkins called for volunteers from the freshman rhetoric class. Fifteen students responded among well-known were Jerome Beatty, well-known
The KANSAN was reorganized on a basis analogous to the pattern of the Yale News, Harvard Crimson, and the Princetonian. Jesse Kayser was the first editor of the reorgan-
This paper grew during the years,
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