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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, JUNE 1
"Bulges" in College Walls
All over the nation this week many men and women are taking their last college finals, and commencement will ring down the curtain on thousands of college careers.
But those students commence to do what? Certainly not to live, nor to learn, nor even to conquer worlds.
When this year's graduate steps across the platform with his sheepskin, three possibilities lie ahead of him. One, he can loaf. Secondly, he can work, for everywhere in industry and business educated men and women with a workable knowledge are needed. Or as a third alternative, he can continue to study and to learn with the idea of creating a place in society for himself. This self-created place will be one of the bulges in the pattern of our civilization which will make this age outstandingly better than the last.
Young men and women in 1941 are not being graduated to bread lines but to prospects of the full dinner pail. Today the job and opportunity markets are clamoring—not just for buyers but for meticulous choosers. The rust for economic gain and political rise is so great that college men and women may fail to see that now they must consider beyond the immediate outcome of the present world conflict. Will the strained situations existing between political states make our nation cut its own throat by refusing to keep on with the building of the essential qualities that will necessarily bear the brunt of rebuilding and stabilizing the world in the near future?
The United States needs to make every effort to keep her educational program on the advance during the present crisis, for the college graduates of today and those of the coming decade will face a problem greater than their fathers faced after the first World War. Those men and women will need everything the educational facilities of this country
can possibly give them if they meet their challenge and obligations successfully.
When the last senior of 1941 turn his back on college, it will not be time for American educators to retire to their private libraries. They, too, are going to have to put some new bulges in the static flow of our educational system to prepare more students for keener adjustments.
Summer Vacation
It would be a striking testimonial to the potency of Washington's summer climate, in which eggs are solemnly claimed to have been fried on the terraces of the capitol and sparrows to have been bogged down in the melting pavements, if the attempt to adjourn Congress, which failed last December, should succeed in July.
The presumption is that the Democratic leaders now talking of the possibility of a two-month adjournment are merely putting out feelers and sending up trial balloons. Warned by the defeat which he suffered last winter, not long after he had become presiding officer of the House and its Democratic leader, Speaker Rayburn will probably not let the effort for adjournment go as far as he did then without having a better assurance of its success.
The reason for the defeat of the proposal to adjourn Congress from early December until after the Christmas holiday and the beginning of the new Congress on Jan. 3 was laid to the fear that "something might happen." Yet President Roosevelt had given assurances that he did not expect to have anything of major importance to submit to Congress within that period. As a matter of record, nothing did happen.
Obviously, the present prospect is that much more "might happen" in July and August than appeared possible in December. What happens before July may, however, remove all doubt from many things that are now hidden behind spring squalls.
ROCK CHALK TALK BY HEIDI VIETS
Scene: a University classroom, third story.
Time: the last day of final week.
Scene: a University classroom, third story.
A student, slightly green around the gills, has just ished his quiz paper. As he throws it on the desk, he turns toward the class, grabs his hair with both hands, and screams, "I can't stand it any longer." Before classmates and professor grasp the situation, he runs to the window and leaps.
Is he dashed to bits below? Did the professor have a murder on his conscience? Was all that was left of the poor fellow his activity book?
No, some of his buddy-buddies were stationed below with a big net to catch him when he jumped. It all turned out happily except for the nerve-frayed professor.
They say this happened at K.U. Anyway, it's a good story.
The Sigma Chi German band is on the loose again, and out of the groove as usual. Last night they声力 serenaded, giving the campus something to wonder about besides finals.
Final time is the time to play, and the time to play is final time.
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Studies Harder— School In Istanbul
—Amid Filth
By AGNES MUMERT
When Stan Clark, senior engineer from Lawrence hears the announcer say, "And in Turkey tonight. . ." he turns the radio louder. When the date line on a news story says "Turkey," he reads the whole article.
Stan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Clark, have been in Turkey for eight years. Because communication with the Continent
is so difficult, it takes their letters a month to reach him.
Formerly a professor at the University of Arizona in Phoenix, Stan's father crossed the ocean to become an agricultural adviser for the Turkish government. His main duty was to help the little farmer there by introducing better varieties of cotton and new methods of cultivation.
Stan stayed in Lawrence to go to high school. In 1936, when his parents had been gone three years, he went to Turkey for a visit, and took his senior year in high school there. He went to the school in Istanbul which had been set up for children of Americans over there, and which imported teachers fresh from the States. "School was a lot harder over there than in Kansas," Stan insists.
Stan describes the natives as poverty-stricken. "The poor in the city are so much poorer than anything we can imagine here in America."
He spent Christmas in Jerusalem that year, with a student friend, and
Another adventure was the trip to Venice and Florence; the visits to the colorful city markets brought something new every day. Stan says his father finds this blend of the Orient and the Continent intensely interesting, but his mother thinks the cities depressing because of the filth and disease.
they watched the pilgrimages of the natives in their annual celebrations.
Stan came back that fall and enrolled at the University of Kansas, and hoped that his parents would come back soon. They had planned to return this year, until the war made transportation so difficult. Their letters hold very little political news, because they're afraid they are being censored, Stan believes. As yet there is not a sign of governmental inspection, but all of Stan's letters are censored by the British at Cairo.
Meanwhile, he hopes that the next letter will say his father and mother are sailing home. Stan looks forward to a job with DuPont after commencement.
22 Will Attend Estes Park Conference
A total of 22 students will attend the annual Estes Park Conference, June 6 to 16, John Moore, executive secretary of the Y.M.C.A., said yesterday. This is slightly less than the usual number, but total attendance at the conference is expected to drop to about 350, Moore said.
Those who will attend are Ruth Mason, college senior; Helen Rymph, fine arts sophomore; Thornton McClanahan, college freshman; Paul Gilles, college sophomore; Genevieve Harmon, college junior; Keith Martin, college junior; June Parmenter, college junior; Margaret Learned, college junior; John Conard, college sophomore.
Willis Tompkins, college sophomore; Wendell Tompkins, college sophomore; Ed Price, college junior; Colleen Poorman, college sophomore; Jean Stouffer, college senior; Frances Dotzour, fine arts freshman; Marian Hepworth, college freshman; Margaret Butler, college freshman; Priscilla Adams, college sophomore; Norma Falconer, college senior; Joan Taggart, college sophomore; John Riiseo, graduate; and Ted Young, college freshman.
Several University faculty members and graduates will speak at the conference, including Hilden Gibson, instructor in political science and sociology, and Paul Moritz, '38. The Rev. Joseph King, of Lawrence will lead a part of the group.
'Lost Generation'
Class of '19 Reunites
The University's "lost generation," the class of 1919, will have its first class reunion as a part of the Seventy-Fifth anniversary celebration of the University of Kansas. Mrs. Jay Jakosky will hold open house for all 1919 alumni, former students, and their families at her home, 1120 West Eleventh street on June 8 from 11 to 2.
For First Ti
The general committee for the reunion has attempted to notify the 275 official graduates and as many as possible of the 798 freshman who entered the University in 1915. The committee believes that the class, scattered by World War I, probably holds the record for freshmen who failed to complete work for a degree on the Hill. They also claim the record for wide dispersion of graduates and for mobility of class members since graduation.
Only 125 of the 798 freshmen who entered the University in 1915 were graduated in 1919. Only 95 official graduates are now living in Kansas.
Miss Helen Wagstaff, director of the bureau of general information at the University of Kansas, is in charge of the reunion.
Second Session Student Court Fines 23
Eleven student parking violators appeared before the second 1941 session of the Student Court May 23 in the courtroom in Green hall out of a total of 29 parking violators summoned to appear.
Of the 11 students who appeared, six were dismissed and five were fined. All 18 students who failed to appear were automatically given fines, making a total of 23 fined.
James Robert Boyd, business junior; Richard Brown, junior engineer; Granville MacBush, business junior; W. A. Buzick, college junior; James Blair Cooper, college senior.
Students who were fined are.
J. F. Coyle, college junior; Roy Edwards, business junior; Lee Gar-
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