The KANSAN Comments
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Cakewalk or Walkout
FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1941.
The dance manager announced yesterday that there will be no Senior Cakewalk this spring.
What about the dance manager? He is elected in the spring by a committee composed of two representatives of the W.S.G.A., two men from the M.S.C., and the chairman of the Union Operating Committee. His duties? Working in cooperation with the Varsity Dance Committee, the dance manager arranges for all varties and the four class parties. His pay? He receives not more than $100 a year.
If the Senior Cakewalk is not held this spring, the dance manager has failed to do his job. Available bands have been on tour through this section of the country during the past month. A successful class party should not be an impossibility even though a top notch band could not be signed at such a late date.
Following the loss-incurring Junior Prom, the dance manager should be on his toes to make the Cakewalk—in honor of the seniors—the one bright spot of a year otherwise noted for postponed dances.
The students are entitled to an efficiently conducted Senior Cakewalk, but the dance manager seems to be staging an exclusive Walkout.
Music Week
During the past decade the United States has become "week" conscious. Someone thought of impressing safety upon the American people by planning an intensified week's program of safety features. In quick succession thereafter we had education, book, fire prevention, clean-up, and letter writing weeks along with others too numerous to mention.
Last week was Safety Week, but most Americans couldn't quite see the point of working for the good old-fashioned kind of safety when they could be thinking of national security.
On the campus Sunday we will inaugurate Muic Week with the opening of the Annual Music Festival. For many students the musical programs will provide their first opportunity to hear and see first class artists. The powers behind the music week program deserve both the thanks and the support of the faculty and students in helping to make the program a success.
What Is The Future of Science
The advancing war front means a decreasing rate of advancement in almost every field of science. Scientific work in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France has almost completely stopped since these countries were overrun by the Axis powers. The Spanish used the University of Madrid for a fort in the late revolution and library books replaced the necessary sandbags in the battles. Laboratory equipment and valuable supplies were lost in China when students and faculty were forced to move to the interior.
On the European continent, the universities of Poland and Czechoslovakia have been closed or completely destroyed and their faculties have been dismissed or imprisoned along with many of the students. In almost every European country the enrollment in universities has been greatly decreased as students took up arms.
Throughout the world, the scientists have been geared to keep pace with the war machine. But they are all handicapped by lack of materials and valuable data and are in constant danger from the damaging effects of bombs. Repercussions of these existing conditions are felt in countries at peace, for there is no longer a reciprocal trade of scientific news and discoveries.
Today there is an urgent need for providing our scientists with special facilities. The Rockefeller Foundation and other science-interested organizations have devoted time and money to aid eminent refugees to provide for the preservation of scientific data and materials.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is making plans for the organization of a representative body to study and co-ordinate all the work being done for the protection of scientific research and data. The Association is endeavoring to enlist the people's support—both financial and moral in the advancement of science which will make for better civilization or more devastating wars. To many scientists the essential factor in the situation is advancement in their field whether it will be a builder or a destroyer of civilization.
The secret of success in conversation is being able to disagree without being disagreeable.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
--between 1 and 5 p.m. tomorrow or see Marvin Goebel, in room 2, Frank Strong hall for an appointment.
After its victory dinner last night, Pachacamac is said to have moved en masse to the carnival at 21st and Lousiana, where they good-naturedly went about proving that Barrum was right.
Seen on the front row at the burlesque show at the carnival last night were:
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Deje took the prescriptions to the pharmacy window and had them filled. Then she carried the wrapped-up bottles home, and eagerly tore into them to begin the medicine campaign. Then came the shock.
Yesterday Deje Ellis went to the hospital to ask treatment for a cold which she considered little short of pneumonia. The doctor examined her, scribbled off several prescriptions and handed them to her with best wishes for her recovery. 7245NN
In one of the bottles was cough syrup. The other three were empty.
At the Chi Omega house Marjorie McKay wanted three cokes out of the coke machine. She got her three nickels and set out. She dropped in a coin, pulled the knob; put in another; then the third. After the last nickel had clicked, she opened the lid on the machine.
It took her a long time to figure out why she got only one coke for fifteen cents.
The other night the Delta Gamma seniors from Washburn walked out to Lawrence, must to the delight of Delta Chi's Chuck Wright, Harold McCarty, and Niell Lysaught. They had dates with the little ladies.
Barbers should be sad, for it has been definitely decided that they will have no hedge trimming to do after the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration.
--between 1 and 5 p.m. tomorrow or see Marvin Goebel, in room 2, Frank Strong hall for an appointment.
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Do you want a job this summer?
At least two well known companies are offering jobs to students, especially men, for the summer months.
Men, Do You Wanna Be Fuller Brush Salesmen?
The Fuller Brush company will have a representative on the campus tomorrow to interview prospective salesmen. Such salesmen will receive intensive training and 12 weeks of work. Anyone interested should call at room 5 in Frank Strong hall
The Curtis Fublishing company has also expressed the desire of using college men as salesmen during the summer. The earnings should average from $4 to $8 a day it says.
Anyone interested should write immediately to H. S. Boothby, Curtis district manager, Wright building, Tulsa, Okla.
Included in the letter should be
(1) age and class, (2) two references outside University faculty, (3) why he believes he would prove an asset to this project.
J. H. Nelson, associate dean of the College, gave a lecture yesterday afternoon on E. W. Howe, former editor and founder of the Atchison Globe.
Ed Howe Honored In Nelson Lecture
The lecture was the third in a series on Kansas writers, sponsored by the English department. Dean Nelson discussed the works of the publisher, particularly his book, "The Story of a Country Town."
After their third and last meeting yesterday, at which they discussed how to advise a girl on financial problems and how to organize their system, the 90 women who will be freshman counselors next year felt better prepared for the job than they did before the first meeting Tuesday.
Counselors Are Now Prepared
At yesterday's meeting Mary Ewers, business junior, who will be in charge of the counseling system next year, and Alice Ann Jones, college senior, chairman this year, spoke to the group on problems of organization.
Under the leadership of Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, adviser of women, the counselors continued discussion of advising problems.
Now they know all about it.
It was decided that after freshman week activities were over, new students who lived outside organized houses would require the most attention from counselors.
A dinner of appreciation for Dr. Raymond A. Schwegler, dean of the School of Education, who is retiring from administrative duties at the end of the present year, was announced by the School of Education today.
The dinner, which will be held at the Memorial Union building May 26, is being sponsored by the faculty of the School and all friends of Dr. Schwegler are invited to attend.
Honor Retiring Schwegler
Dean Schwegler, will have completed 34 years of service at the end of this year as a member of the University staff. He will continue as a member of the teaching staff.
Schwegler came to the University of Kansas in 1907, became a full professor in 1915, and dean of the School of Education in 1923.
Don't forget the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of Kansas coming June 6 and 7.
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JAY JANES: Pledging services at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. Wear uniform.—Genevieve Harman.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan club will meet at 7:30 Friday evening at the home of Mary Larson, 1225 Kentucky. Ten cent assessment.-Leth Jean Curtis.
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NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS Appointments with Dr. E. T. Gibson who will be here on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5 p.m. should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Ralph W. Canuteson.
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