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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1941
The Kansan Comments -for 1, sir, am naught but a pledge, sir.
PATTER★
EDITORIALS
"Your life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality; it is your own, and it is all you have to front eternity with."
MYRA HULL
Those were the words of Carlyle which were often heard by students in the department of English who studied under Miss Myra Hull.
Miss Hull's special interests in the teaching field lay in Scandinavian and American literature, and many of her summers were spent visiting the old homes and sections of the country where American authors had lived while they did their writing.
BOOKS★
Her collection of popular songs and ballads of Kansas origin seems almost inevitable when one considers her love for her native state. For eight years, Miss Hull worked on this anthology, which is believed to be unique in this section of the country. The book, "Fifty Years of Kansas Folk Song," contains the words and melodies of 160 songs and ballads sung by early Kansans.
Indeed her life was no idle dream for in the last 20 years, while she served as instructor in the department of English, she never failed to be interested in the difficulties and successes of her students.
Miss Hull received her A.B. degree from the University in 1919 and served as a fellow in the department of English until she received her M.A. degree in the following year.
While she was an instructor here, Miss Hull did graduate work at the University of Texas, the University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia and Reed College, Oregon.
WHAT STUDENT GOVERNMENT?
The University is a state institution, under a democratic government, and is engaged in the task of training future leaders for democracy BUT the same men and women who are to be the future leaders do not seem to be capable of either organizing or running a practical student government.
The Men's Student Council and the Women's Self Governing Association are nothing more nor less than semi-honorary bodies that give students training in only one phase of governmental activity—vote-garnering politics.
After the spring elections are over, the two councils sit back and do nothing for an entire year except dribble out small appropriations to the treasuries of various organizations. The councils spend an entire year fulfilling a budget that is usually drawn up the first week of the school year.
Why aren't the councils spending any time in figuring out solutions to student problems? Don't they realize student problems exist? Or do they care?
If University students are ever to handle the problems of the state and the nation, now is the time for them to be obtaining practical experience in self-government.
What is the record of this year's M.S.C.? It has revised three old bills.
Students of the University should be able to look to their student government for aid in solving their problems. They should demand action from the councils—or demand their reorganization.
What is the record of this year's W.S.G.A.? After some wrangling, it agreed with the corrections made by the M.S.C.
LETTERS★
LET'S DANCE
What has happened to the varsity dances?
Fred Littooy, dance manager, has done a good job both this year and last in engaging top-flight orchestras for the class parties. Students remember with pleasure the thrill of dancing to the music of Jimmy Dorsey, Ted Fio Rito, Tommy Dorsey, and others, but to the average Joe College and Betty Co-ed these are red letter days which come only four times a year. The varsities fill a definite need for inbetween-times.
Last year the dance manager received a fee for each dance that made money. This year the manager receives a stipulated semester fee no matter how many dances are held. At the end of the year, he gets a bonus, according to how much money the dances have earned. During the past semester students have danced at fewer varieties than they.did the first semester last year because no dance manager will hold any more dances than the minimum, if he gets little extra for it.
With good publicity and under normal conditions, each varsity dance should make money for the student councils and the dance manager. The students want more dances. The old system may not have been completely successful, of course, but at least we had more dances.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Friday, Feb. 7, 1941 No. 81
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: The 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.-Patricia Neil, secretary.
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.
PHI CHI THETA: There will be a business meeting in the Pine room, Tuesday, February 11.—Marjorie Neumann.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: The psychology Club will meet Monday in room 21 at 4:30 in Frank Strong hall. Dr. E. T. Gibson will speak on the problem which he encounters in his consultation work at the University. Visitors are invited.-Lois Schreiber, secretary.
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Editorial Associates: Helen Houston, Mary McAnaw,
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NOTICES★
Directors of Food Service Revise Dietary System At Lawrence Hospital
Miss Hermina Zipple, director of the Memorial Union building and University food services, and Miss Eunice Youngquist, assistant director of food services at Corbin and Watkins Memorial hospital, have revised the dietary system at the Lawrence Memorial hospital.
They were chosen to do the work by the hospital board of directors with the consent of Chancellor Deane Malott.
Saturday morning, as Miss Zipple and Miss Youngquist went into action, breakfast was served to 44 persons more efficiently than usual according to Mrs. Mary Dunden, superintendent.
"We plan to be organized in such a way as to receive the approval of the American Dietetic association and the American College of Surgeons." Miss Zipple said.
Miss Zipple will apply long experience to her new job. She attended the Universities of Oregon and Washington. She has been on the staff of Oregon State Normal and the University of Washington, and is president of the Kansas Dietetic association. She has been at the University for five years and was recently appointed a member of the commission on nutrition for defense by Gov. Payne Ratner.
Hold Services For Miss Hull
Funeral services were held yesterday for Miss Myra Hull, instructor in English for 21 years, who died Tuesday in a Wichita hospital after a few weeks illness. Burial was at Douglass, her former home.
Miss Hull was especially interested in languages and literature, being a member of the Modern Language association and Phi Beta Kappa. She received her A.B. degree from the University in 1919 and her M.A. in 1920. Other schools that she attended were Oberlin College, Randolph-Macon, Reed University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin.
Before teaching here, Miss Hull was head of the English department in Reno County High School for ten years.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
Victim of an old plot, Jack Doores was the confused one in an episode at Carruth hall the other night.
Lynn Litton lived in the hall the first semester. His identical twin, Lyle, was out of school but came in about 12:30 one night ready for the second semester. After the old guards had put him through the paces, they decided to have some fun.
Doors approached the group for the first time. Lyle took the initiative, stepped forward and greeted him with, "Jack, I'd like to have you meet my brother Lyle."
Completely unsuspecting, Doores shook hands, asked all the "how have you been how do you like K.U." questions of the boy he had been living with all semester.
Lynn and Lyle Litton are tall, have brown curly hair—in case you're collecting twins.
Sig Ep pledges are leading a hard life this week. Call the house and the phone will be answered with this verse;
I may not be worth much to you, sir.
You are free to command me,
If need reprimand me.
And see if, mayhap, I may serve, sir.
All of which is very confusing, especially if you have the wrong number.
Last night at the Dine-a-mite, Jim Sealey danced with lipstick on his cheek for a long time until his best friend told him. He and Virginia Scott; Delbert Campbell and Ruth McIrath, Bob Bellamy and Shirley Tholen had been playing "Pinchem," a game which features lipstick on the fingers and makes the mark realistic.
Off the press Feb. 10 will be a book by John Naismith on "Basketball, its Origin and Development." Dr. Naismith, who came to this University in 1898 to teach basketball and remained in the physical education department until his death in November, 1939, was the inventor of the game. This book tells how the first basketball game was played in Springfield, Mass., with peachbaskets nailed to the balcony railing of the gymnasium. Jayhawk basketball fans may be interested.
After Leslie Waters, associate professor of economics, called the long roll in his corporation finance class, one student rose, picked up his coat, walked to the door. He pushed on it in vain, felt up and down, turned and asked, "How do you get out of this place?" Then he discovered he had been trying the wrong side of the door, pushed again, and went out. Professor Waters wonders.
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