The KANSAN Comments ...
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1941.
Student Snobs
William Thackery once said that snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position but are sure it could be better.
Snobbery is as out of place on a university campus as a heavy snowfall in August in Kansas. A 10-minute trip across the campus between classes may be your pet worrying time in the day, but one of the simplest ways of getting rid of troubles is to forget them. Try speaking to every student with whom you've ever been associated and see how easy it is to forget the difficulties of that last class and the horrors of that coming test.
Spring is just naturally conducive to friendliness, but it is slightly disconcerting to meet fellow students on the campus or downtown and not so much as exchange a "hello." And it is even worse to be met with a blank stare when one speaks to a fellow Hill inhabitant.
The University of Kansas is noted for its friendly and democratic atmosphere. Are you helping to keep it that way? The next time you start across the campus, tuck your worries in your pockets. Entertain the art of friendliness.
Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania once said that fashions exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. When will physiologists wake up to the fact that most women have no taste buds on their tongues?
In a recent article in Liberty magazine, the First Lady says that this is still a man's world because women don't want to run it—a consistent policy for more than 19 centuries, and yet men are still calling the fair sex fickle.
ROCK CHALK TALK By HEIDI VIETS
Late last Friday night Chestine Wilson, Fi Phi, was putting up her hair. All was quiet; most of the girls had gone to bed. Then she heard the pitter patter of little hoofs in the hall. She went to the door and pecked out cautiously. There was the Delt goat, Tau.
Solution of the strange situation was that the Phi Delts had lured or stolen Tau away from home and sneaked him into the Pi Phi house. But that did not solve the problem of getting him out again.
The goat was scared and so were the girls, who piled out of bed when they heard the commotion. Mrs. Jane MacLean, housemother, was scandalized at the thought of a goat upstairs. Finally, Tau was shoved out the front door with a piece of cake for his fortune.
The next morning Tau was reported to have been seen on Louisiana street. Then about 11 o'clock a carful of Kappa's brought him home, muddier and wiser than he had been 12 hours before.
Anyone who read avidly the adventures of Billy Whiskers might request Tau to write a book of his adventures as a companion novel.
--now driving by trading in his insect collection. Saturday night he rattled out with a date in his car, but came home walking while the flivver sat silent and stubborn, blocks away.
Julius Gibson, defense student, bought two goldfish for nine cents about a month ago, and now rented them out to Kay Warren Thompson at the rate of one cent a week. Both men live at Rock Chalk Co-op, and Gibson is clinging to his duty as feeder-of-the-fish.
Women waited in vain for Phi Psi and Phi Delt serenades Friday night. It seems the Phi Psi's heard the Phi Delt's were going out, so to keep it from being double feature, they decided to stay home. But the Phi Delt's had called the whole thing off because they thought the Psi's were going serenading.
Hal Ruppenthal claims that he got the decrepit bus he is
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The Alpha Chi's have sent Did Truby a box of sod. When they serenaded the other night he dashed out of the house to plead, "Stay off of our poor lawn, girls."
They wanted him to know that they were sorry to any damage inflicted on the A.T.O. baby grass.
Sororities should take note that barnyard animals are in vogue this year. The Theta's have had a pig in the parlor, and the Pi Phi's, a goat in the hall.
"But I'm only nineteen," pleaded one lad.
J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, has been threatening that anyone who is down in pharmacology will be turned over to the army this summer.
Another student brightly answered back, "There's a draft board in Norcatur that will take care of that for me."
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College Men
Break Tradition
Wear Different Clothes
"In the spring a young man's fancy - - -." These quoted words, part of an oft-quoted phrase, are being used time after time to cast insinuations and aspersions upon man's supposed fickle nature in choosing his attire each spring. But why these words should be applied to the man rather than the woman it is difficult to say, for women traditionally (and men like it) have been renowned for the type of abnormal adornments for the human chassis, adornments in which they seem to revel with increasing vigor and enthusiasm
creasing vigor and enthusiasm each year.
Perhaps the average college man is above the type of plaid and stripe "dandy" one might find in the big city, but, nevertheless, there is something in the college man, and the woman, too for that matter, which makes for clothing distinction. We all know that distinction isn't "dressiness," it's just plain casualness and comfort. There is, we have no doubt, providing you'd button-hole a college man and get the truth out of him, still that prehistoric urge for color and the itch for eccentric design, but somehow it just doesn't appear in college.
The wild plaid, powder blue suit, and pointed shoe, have all taken a back seat for the cords, saddle shoes, baggy sweater, and the reversible. These main types of clothing seem to be the year around staple for the average college man. The shoddy, comfortable appearance of the greater part of the male populace of the University has many a conservative business suit hanging back for the moths to rake over.
One of the first things noticed when we came to the University of
College fashions may be described above all as sensible, and from the average man's viewpoint also attractive, for to most men casualness is attractiveness.
Kansas, was the slow, gradual slide to like appearances, especially among men. Comes the rain and what do you see? A sea of gabardine-coated figures all anchored to dirty saddle shoes, hurrying about bare headed. Comes the sun, and out pops the cords, sweaters and the old faithful saddle shoes. It's all very distressing, in a way, and yet there is the conspicuous lack of dandies and dudes which helps yours truly to remain satisfied with what rags he possesses.
It is interesting to note, however, that not all college fashions are college-derived. Perhaps one of the most successful introductions into the man's wardrobe in recent years has been the fingertip campus coat and all its like species. This bit of tailor's pastime had its birth in the world's least inhibited fashion center, Harlem, N. Y.
called, who was temporarily impoverished, and not having the necessary shekels to purchase a new topcoat, instructed his tailor to whack off the bottom of his old coat above the knees and to keep it from fraying out like a Spanish shawl the tailor stitched it around the bottom. Six months later the coat was the rage of the Yale campus, and the rest is history.
As the story goes, there was a "sharpie" as the Harelm dandy is
The fashion problem in Harlem is an interesting and not too serious subject, which should merit the time of any person with a normal sense of humor, for who knows . . . there may be another addition to the college wardrobe from this source?
Perhaps through the years the college man will take over a lot of this type of fashion jitterbugging, and if he does I think then he will deserve the insinuations and aspersions in the words, "In the spring a young man's fancy___."
One Harlem boy decided he wanted light tan shoes with brand new dimes set in the toes, and he got them too . . . for $15 and the price of the dimes.
"Chemistry Through the Microscope" will be the subject of an illustrated address by Dr. Harold S. Booth, professor of chemistry at Western Reserve University, Cleveland who will speak at the meeting of the Kansas City section of the American Chemical Society at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in room 305, Bailey Chemical laboratories.
Western Reserve Prof. to Speak
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Tuesday, May 5,1941
EL ATENEO; Meet Wednesday at 3:30 in 113 Frank Strong. Election of officers.-Merle E. Simons.
ENGLISH LECTURE: Professor John Nelson will lecture on E. W. Howe, Thursday afternoon at 3:30 in room 205 Fraser. The lecture is open to all students and to the public—J. W. Ashton.
DELTA PHI SIGMA: No meeting until May 13—Freda Zimmerman, Reporter.
GRADUATE WOMEN'S CLUB:
Picnic has been postponed until Friday from 3:30 to 7:30. Meet at Union building at 3:30. Individual notification will not be made. Phone reservations to Mrs. Jessie Sailer, 238.—Dorothy Pollock, president.
JAY JANES: Pledging service Friday instead of Wednesday, at 4:30 in the Old English room. Wear uniforms to the meeting.-Genevieve Harman.
MATHEMATICAL COLLQQIUM; Professor J. J. Wheeler will speak at a meeting of the Mathematical Colloquium on Thursday, May 8, at 4:30 p.m. in 215 Frank Strong Hall. His subject will be "Sampling Theory in Statistics." Open to the public.-G.B.Price.
PI LAMBDA THETA: Annual strawberry festival at 7:30 p.m. May 7 at Miller Hall. Election of officers—Mary Lou Randall.
SIGMA XI: Spring initiation and annual banquet this evening at the Union building. Initiation, Pine room at 6 p.m.; banquet at 6:30 p.m., ballroom.
TAU BETA PI: Meeting in men's
Meguiar Quizzes Counselors
That is the question Miss Elizabeth Meguiar asked approximately 90 prospective counselors for next fall's freshman girls at a meeting this afternoon in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
What would you do?
Miss Meguiar outlined problems which might confront a counselor, and students discussed their solution.
Today's meeting will be the first of three. Meetings will also be held at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday in the Pine room. The purpose of this short course is to teach the women what it means to be a counselor.
Dean Paul B. Lawson and Dr. Beulah Morrison, professor of psychology, will speak at the meeting tomorrow. Thursday the group will discuss problems of organization.
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lounge of Union building, Wednesday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. Election of officers. All members should be present.-Glen A. Richardson, recording secretary.
W. N.A.A.: Meeting in Union at 7:30 Thursday to plan annual plenic. Nancy Kerber.
TAU SIGMA: Initiation will be at 6:30 at Evans Hearth this evening.—Carolyn Green.
W. S.G.A.: Council will meet this evening at 7:30 in the women's lounge of the Union.—Nadine Hunt, secretary.
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