The KANSAN Comments...
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AFTER 75 YEARS
SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1941
This spring we celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of Kansas. Seventy-five years is a long history for an institution in a state as young as Kansas. But the immaturity of the state makes the University's history no less commendable and honorable.
It seemed impossible for an institution of higher learning, founded during the Civil War, to grow during such a period of strife. But its pioneer founders believed in the need of such an institution to train Kansas youth, and their own strength and faith made the University live and thrive.
In those 75 years 25,092 students have been graduated. These men and women have gone back to their Kansas homes or have scattered throughout the world. Wherever they have gone they have found better living because of the University.
But this is not the essential part of the University. The vital part of the University is found in the classrooms. Behind closed doors where administrators and officals confer, in council rooms where student government bodies sit, everywhere that students and faculty members work and live, one finds the essential spirit of the University.
Today the physical structure of the University has increased to cover 400 acres of land and is housed in 28 buildings spread out atop Mount Oread. The student body has increased from the handful of students enrolled in 1866 to more than 4,000 today.
Now the University runs on the fastest, most comprehensive schedule maintained since its founding. Graduating students this spring will have no difficulty in finding jobs, but they will find difficulty in going from the most democratic of all institutions into a world where democracy is on trial, and the verdict of that trial is still uncertain. The University faces the problem of teaching students to think sanely in a world mad with war.
Graduates leaving this University, and those leaving other universities and colleges will within a few years, move into positions of control in this country. They will handle the mechanisms which run the factories, the banks, the newspapers, and the government of America. They will need to know the intrinsic values of the principles upon which this country was founded, for it will be their job to restabilize our nation.
We look back at 75 years of progress and success for the University of Kansas. We look ahead even farther with every confidence that this University will find ways and means to provide her future students with a scholastic background and a knowledge of right living sufficient to insure their own, their State's, and their Nation's progress and prosperity.
DESERT SPOTS
"The Legislature shall . . . by establishing uniform system of common schools and schools of higher grades," is an extract from Section 2 of Article 6 of the constitution of the State of Kansas. That pledge is almost 80 years old, but has never been fulfilled. The two characteristics that are not found in our schools are "uniformity" and "system."
From the first the state has shifted the responsibility to the localities, and we have used the "district" plan for organization and support. This plan worked well enough when there were only prairie settlements,
One of the worst conditions is the 1,200 districts that do not maintain schools within their own boundaries. Near Kansas City, Kan., there is one "deserted" district with a valuation of nearly $2,000,000 that maintains no school and pays practically nothing toward the education of the school children of Kansas. Some property is taxed next to nothing; other property where many children live is taxed exhorbitantly.
We are far from the "uniform" system of common schools" that the constitution provides for. Each year it becomes more evident that the state is shirking its duty to Kansas children.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
No.129
Vol.38 Sunday, April 20,1941
Notices due at Chancellor's office at 3 p.m. on day before publication during the week, and at 11 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issue.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: Christian Science Organization will hold a regular meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building. All students, graduates, and faculty members are welcome.-Betty Charles.
COLLEGE FACULTY: The April meeting of the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be held Tuesday, April 22, at 4:30 in the auditorium on the third floor of Frank Strong Hall—Deane W. Malott, Chancellor.
ENGLISH MAJORS: On Thursday, April 24, at 3:30 p.m., in the Kansas room, Miss Lynn will speak to English majors, graduate students, and others interested, on Heroine's Progress.—J. W. Ashton, chairman, Department of English.
PHI CHI THETA: Business meeting in the Union building next Tuesday at 4:30. Election of officers.— Marjorie Newmann.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E. T. Gibson will be available for personal conferences at Watkins Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5. Appointments should be made at the Watkins Memorial Hospital—Ralph I. Canuteson.
SYMPOSIUM: The Symposium will meet Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Pine Room of the Union building. Dr. R. H. Wheeler will start the discussion with a short talk on the subject "Has Social Evolution Reversed."—James Nelson, chairman.
DRAMATIC CLUB: An important meeting will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in the Little Theatre, Green Hall. All members are urged to come. Professor Crafton will review his new spring musicale, and plans will be made for its presentation.-Dave Watermulder.
PHI SIGMA; Chancellor Deane W. Malotl will be guest speaker at the spring initiation banquet to be held at Evans' Hearth Wednesday at 6 p.m.—Frank Kalich, president.
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Publicity Managers Send Alumni Anniversary News
The Seventy-fifth Anniversary publicity committee, under the chairmanship of Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary, has been successful in presenting publicity on the celebration to alumni and friends of the University all over the state.
Stories on the anniversary have appeared almost monthly for the past two years in the Graduate Magazine, a publication of the alumni association, which reaches 3,-000 subscribers. On April 10 Leonard Axe and Leslie Waters broadcast a special anniversary program over KFKU.
Newsletters to 31,000
Newsletters of November, 1940, carried news of the celebration to 31,000 alumni and former students all over the country. Press releases through the news bureau and campus correspondents have played up the jubilee continuously, and both glee clubs announced the plans at all towns on their tour, and sang the "Spirit of Kansas," the official Seventy-fifth Anniversary song. Alumni Plant Trees
The tree planting project was very valuable as publicity for the Anniversary, as any town planting a tree received a marker commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of the University. Thirty-five towns all over the state had ceremonies ranging from mammoth affairs with the band and the students of all schools assembled, to simple plantings by small groups of alumni and friends.
Maps Carry Insignia
The anniversary has been mentioned in the magazine of the state chamber of commerce, "Progress in Kansas," and in the Kansas Government Journal, which has carried two articles and one front page cover.
All alumni meetings this year have featured the anniversary and made plans for class reunions. Thousands of folders have been prepared, telling all about the anniversary, and are available to students at many of the offices on the hill.
A full color picture of Dyche museum and the insignia of the An- anniversary will be on the back of the new Kansas highway maps. If anyone remains in Kansas who hasn't heard of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the University, it will not be the fault of the publicity committee.
Since the closing of Dyche in 1932, "Poco" Frazier, campus sculptor, has been making numerous dioramas on the ground floor of the museum. These dioramas, a combination of sculptoring and painting vividly portray pre-historic life on the plains of Kansas millions of years ago, long before man inhabited this continent.
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Reopen Dyche Museum In June
Walter Yost, graduate student in fine arts, has painted backgrounds for many of the cases displaying skeletons and fossil remains, showing the animals in their natural surroundings.
Dyche Museum of Natural History will be re-opened June 6, in connection with the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration of the University.
Dyche museum was first opened on the campus in 1901, and stood as an active part of the University until November 30, 1932 when it was condemned by the State Fire Marshall. Specimens valued at over a half-million dollars were moved into available storage space and rooms on the Hill. With funds appropriated by the state legislature and a grant under the PWA, the entire interior of the building was torn out, and a steel framework with concrete floors was put in.
Plans Made For Fraser
Tentative plans and actual preparation can already be evidenced in Fraser, the oldest building on the campus. The Greek and Latin department have already had the Wilcox Museum redecorated; walls and ceiling have been newly painted, and figures from Victory Untying Her Sandal to Diana have been cleaned and are holding their pose for the coming event.
Diana Gets a Bath Free Movies to Be Shown June 5-9
be recovered with gas lamps, hitching posts and coeds in the trailing dresses of 1866.
"Far above the golden valley, Glorious to view—"
But 75 years ago, our dear old alma mater didn't stand quite so noble nor did it tower toward the blue.
Although the buildings cannot be torn down or the streets plowed up at least some of the atmosphere that existed in those first days of the University can $ ^{\circ} $
The School of Education has made ans to exhibit models of modern school buildings in room 120, as well as displays of old and new textbooks and handcrafts. The reading diagnostic laboratory will
Work Already Begun
be open to the alumni and guests and the clinic plans to give demonstrations and tests to the visitors on their reading ability. Free Movies for Good.
Free Movies for Guests
In the basement of Fraser there will be a visual instruction display of models and motion pictures. The whole front hall of the building is to be given over to exhibits by the English department, including special projects by the department and work of the different schools.
Hundreds of yards of organdy are in the basement, waiting to be made into the long old fashion dresses, while models of covered wagons and water vessels und half constructed lamp shades line the shelves and desks.
Yes, Fraser is doing its part to celebrate the University's birthday.
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