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PROF. E. F. ENGEL
To most freshmen in the University, their college work stretches before them in a seemingly endless expanse. But how long is 57 years of college work? It's a lifetime.
Prof. E. F. Engel has spent 57 years—a lifetime—in the service of the University. For 49 of those 57 years he has taught in the department of German. For six years he was Registrar of the University.
Noted teachers all over the world have praised Professor Engel's laboratory method which is to give the students all the materials of the language, classified vocabularies, installments of grammar, idioms and phrases of grammar, etc. These materials are written down by the students in specially prepared notebooks, and then used to express their own ideas from the very beginning.
Professor Engel was born in Bethlehem, Pa., and spent the early years of his life in Michigan, but he has been a Kansan since 1878 when his parents moved to Cherryvale.
A fine scholar, Professor Engel, received his master's degree from Harvard and his doctorate from the University of Chicago, after receiving an A.B. from here. He also did work on the doctor's degree at the University of Marburg in Germany.
Professor Engel's work in radio was once so popular that he wrote a column in the "Modern Language Journal," official organ of the National Association of Modern Language Teachers.
To the world, Professor Engel was known chiefly by his laboratory method of teaching German and by his pioneering work in teaching modern languages over the radio.
In 1935 Professor Engel said that his hobbies were raising a family (he has six children, all graduates of the University), gardening and flowers, and travel. In that year it was estimated that he had had taught 5,000 students in his classes.
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1941
At age 75, after spending more than half his life at the University, Professor E. F. Engel will retire in June. The Kansan joins his thousands of former students in wishing him hearty, happy days for the years to come.
In 1842, almost 100 years ago, the poet, Tennyson, envisioned a world where
" . . . the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furled
HUGE UNION
In the parliament of man, the federation of the world.
There the common sense of most shall hold a frettful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law."
Ninety-seven years later, in July, 1939, an organization called Federal Union was formed to promote Clarence Streit's plan for a union of 15 democracies, as proposed in his book, "Union Now." According to "Time" magazine, last week Federal Union had 60 chapters in the United States; 250 in England.
Streit modeled his plan after the Constitution of the United States, and believes that national sovereignty is responsible for much of the disorder in the world today. If the states belonged to a federal union with each state retaining its rights and differences, the world as a whole would be as much better off as the United States was after the adoption of its constitution.
At the outset Streit would include in his union the United States, the United Kingdom,
Eire, New Zealand, Australia, Union of South Africa, and Canada. There would be an intercontinental, bicameral legislature, with one member in the senate from each state, and one representative for every 5,000,000 inhabitants. Under this scheme, the United States would have 27 votes, the rest only 22. As an executive head, this government would have Roosevelt and Churchill.
Americans, by their very nature, will not support the plan at present. They have an idea, right or wrong, that they are superior to any other nation in government, living scale, mode of life, and a thousand other ways. Federal Union may be a logical plan for the future, but for the present it appears that the nation's must continue to "... murmur, snarling at each other's heels."
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Tuesday, March 25,1941 No.113
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.
PI LAMBDA THETA: Phi Lambda Theta initiation will be held at Evans Hearth at 5:45 p.m. Thursday, followed by a dinner.-Mary Lou Randall.
EL ATENEO: The regular meeting of El Ateneo will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 in room 113 Frank Strong—Merle Simmons, president.
ENGLISH MAJORS: Professor Oldfather of the University of Illinois will speak to English Majors, graduate students and others interested, Friday at 3:30 in room 206 Fraser on "Levels of Culture."—J. W. Ashton.
HATTIE ELIZABETH LEWIS PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST: Entrants in this year's contest are expected to hand in outlines of their essays at the Chancellor's Office by Tuesday, April 1. See Bulletin boards for detailed directions—Seba Eldridge.
MEDICAL STUDENTS: The Association of American Medical Colleges is changing the time for giving the Medical Aptitude Test from the fall to the spring. This year it will occur on the afternoon of May 1. Will all those premedical students who plan to enter Medical School in the fall of 1942 register with the undersigned within the next two weeks. A special practice sheet is available for those who register and pay the fee of one dollar at the time of registration. All others will pay the fee at the time of taking the test.-Park H. Woodard, Room 8B, Frank Strong Hall.
PHI SIGMA: C. V. Anderson of the Zoology department will discuss "Immunity in Trichinella Infection at a meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 in room 206 Snow. An important business meeting will follow the discussion.-Hal Smolin, president.
THETA SIGMA PHI: Theta Sigma Phi will meet Thursday at 4:30 in the sky parlor of the Journalism building.—Mary Frances McAnaw, secretary.
PRACTICE TEACHING: Students interested in teaching for the fall semester of 1941 should make application in the office of the School of Education, 103 Fraser, at once.—R. A. Schwegler, dean.
W. S.G.A.: The W.S.G.A. Council will meet at 7 o'clock this evening in the Pine room.-Doris Twente, secretary.
Y. W.C.A.-Y.M.C.A.: The study groups will meet tomorrow at 4:30 at Henley House. The meeting is open to all students.-Mary Helen Wilson.
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No Comedy Here... Spring Brings Hobos
Now that spring is here again, it won't be many days until the housewives of Lawrence, and those in other towns and cities all over the country, will see a familiar figure at their back doors.
... Thru Lawrence
Fuzzy-faced, and grubby, will stand the f become an American institution. This figur ing eyes and the dirty out- stretched hand, is the American hobo.
Lawrence has not been plagued with any great number of hobos, but since it is in the center of the country and directly in the path of the east-west movement of the majority of the transients, we receive our full share. Travel by Train
Fuzzy-faced, and grubby, will stand the figure that has almost become an American institution. This figure, with the questioning eyes and the dirty out- $ ^{ \textcircled{4}} $
The greater majority of the transients, filtering into Lawrence from day to day, arrive by train, while the remainder come by way of the highways.
Long pictured as a comic, both on the screen and in fiction, the hobo nevertheless represents a serious situation and problem which the people of Lawrence have spent little energy to solve. True, he is given a place to sleep, a bite to eat, and even medical attention if necessary, but the hobo is passed on to the next town as soon as possible. This is the practice over the entire nation.
The transient has been overlooked in all large scale governmental relief projects, as well as local.
When transients, single or entire families, apply for aid. at the Salvation Army, for instance, they will be given bedding facilities for the night, breakfast in the morning, and even gas for their car so that they might continue on toward that "precious job."
There has been a steady increase in the number of family transients in recent years, according to the pamphlet, "The Genesis of Exodus," and this increase has been noticed by Mrs. Brigman, a member of the staff of the Salvation Army in Lawrence. She reports of numerous instances where the or-
organization helped families applying to them.
Lawrence has at least a pretense of laws which tend to discourage the habit of the hobo toward getting his living by the outstretched hand on the street. The police department reports that finding a bum on the street evidently begging, usually means a light stretch in the local bastille, at the end of which he will be escorted out of town.
The Salvation Army in Lawrence, which has been organized here for over fifty years, might well be considered as the leader in the field of local organizations devoted to the helping of destitute persons, and especially the hobo-transient. 600 A Year.
600 a Year
Mrs. Brigman finds that usually, the organization helps about six individuals a week, providing them with a bed, meals, and sometimes medical aid, with the stipulation that they move on to another town within forty-eight hours.
The facilities of the Army are limited, and any overflow of persons needing help, over that number which can be properly handled by them, must be referred to the police department which works in conjunction with the Salvation
Each applicant coming to them for aid is required to give information for the filling of a blank, which the Salvation Army files for future reference. These blanks are used both by the police, and in compiling government census reports. The files of the Salvation Army show that approximately 600 transients are helped by the organization yearly.
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ROCK CHALK TALK
At the Burdick day banquet Saturday night, the lawyers were running true to form. When Mrs. L. T. Tupy, wife of a professor of law, was introduced, they whistled.
By HEIDI VIETS
Why? She's pretty.
Floyd Koch and Joe Walters have recruited a new mascot for the Sig Ep house. She is a shapely clothing store dummy. At a formal christening the other night the boys dubbed her "Mabel."
On the University Girls' Glee club trip last week, Helen Edlin went into he poultry business.
In Washington she was presented two baby chickens by Jean Stouffer, Winifred Hill, Melva Good, and Alice Ann Jones. She named the all-black one "Rock" and the black one with white breast "Chalk."
At every bus stop on the trip Helen took the chicks out for a short drink. In Belleville the lady of the house where Helen and Thela Lehm stayed quartered Rock and Chalk on an old sweater in the basement. But when they came to Herington, the chickens were taken over by Helen's parents, who preferred college to chicken-raising for their daughter.
A date, spring, and a gnat spell a car in the ditch for Bill Hunzicker.
A date, spring, and a gnat spell a car in the ditch for Bill Hunzicker. The other afternoon he took Marjorie Owen for a ride. As they rolled along, a gnat (Bill says) flew into his eye, he turned to his date, and the next thing he knew he was in the ditch.
"Gnats," said Hunzicker.
She hadn't ridden very long. The horse wasn't very spry. Then they came to a fence. Mary Noll jumped off, more or less gracefully, to help him over.
But unexpectedly the horse, without further ado, jumped over the fence, dropping the saddle at Mary's feet. When last seen, Mary was trudging home, bewildered, dragging the saddle behind her.
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