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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1941.
The Kansan Comments -- EDITORIALS BOOKS LETTERS
FINESTUFF!
PATTER★
Along about final time every semester, professors are unpopular with college students. But one college professor is receiving favorable comments despite the scholastic drubbing he is about to hand out.
This professor decided his students needed a systematized report on their courses. Most students, he reasoned, don't know how they stand about now; don't know just exactly how much work they should be doing. Students like to figure: "Let's see, I have about a 'B' from class recitation, about a 'C' from written assignments, and an 'A' on the mid-semester. A final 'B' would clinch either an 'A' or 'B' for me." And some students like to figure how high a grade they will need to pull through a course.
Knowing all this, the professor took steps to help the students' figuring. He mimegraphed sheets which had several classiafictions of school work: Class recitation, written assignments, shotguns, main quizzes, and other departments peculiar to that course.
Under each department he left room for comment, and handed to each student a report on every section of the course. There were all the morbid details, written down in black and white. Anyone could see where he stood; could tell if any work was missing.
This is a splendid idea and a real help to the students. It is recommended to all professors.
SHADES OF DAGWOOD
About the only good thing the United States has gotten out of the present war is the fashiondesigning business. The world's best fashion purchasers are going in for home production in a big way.
"A true designer is born, not made," says John Fredric, who designs hats and is happy about the whole thing. "In the main, a talent to create a new hat or dress is a particular type of thinking and either you have it or you don't."
Blondie buys a new hat. "What is it?" asks Dagwood, and a nation chuckles as he pleads dejectedly outside her locked door.
"The designer must have a taste for adventure in his own field," says John Fredric.
Joan Crawford wears a dashing number "with a military swagger" in her latest picture. Within a month, a thousand shop girls and stenographers over the country are wearing exact reproductions.
“—again, he may design something just for the hell of it—.”
A college girl strolls down Main Street wearing a fork, a can opener, and a bunch of grapes pinned on her head, and nobody notices anything unusual.
"There is a little of the saint and devil in every creative field," says Fredric.
"Women's hats!" says Pete Smith to Girl Friend Mable. "The ordinary woman's hat is an affront to the intelligence of the male mind!" "Yes," breathes Mable, who has a soft mouth and a nice sensible face. So Mable buys a dark snapbrim which she places firmly above her wide forehead and straight-forward eyes.
Pete spends the afternoon staring ardently across a tea table at a frivolous little blonde
with a dab of felt and ribbon and two bright red feathers perched over one eye.
"Perfection is his goal, but the designer runs the whole gamut of human emotions," concludes John Fredric modestly.
Hm-m-m-m. Could be!
They're dragging out all the stage props and sound effects in Washington now for a quick "yes" vote on the Lease-Lend plan. When that's passed, it's all over but the shooting.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Friday, Jan. 17, 1941 No. 73
Noticees 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.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: There will be an Alpha Phi Omega meeting Monday afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine room. Members please note change of meeting time. —Barrett Silk, secretary.
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.—Patricia Neil, secretary.
SENIORS: Seniors graduating at the end of the present semester who wish to enroll in the Graduate School for the second semester should make application for admission at the Graduate office, 225 Frank Strong, as soon as possible—E. B. Stouffer, dean.
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB: The Cosmopolitan Club will meet this evening at 7:30 at Myers Hall. Photographs of European cities will be projected. Dues will be collected from the old members and new members will be initiated.-Emile Weiss, secretary.
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Students interested in applying for graduate scholarships and fellowships for 1941-42 may obtain information and application blanks at the Graduate Office, 225 Frank Strong Hall. Announcements of grants available at other institutions are also on file at the Graduate Office.--E.B. Stouffer, Dean.
NEWMAN CLUB: The Newman Club will hold its monthly Corporate Communion at the 9:30 Mass on Sunday. Breakfast will be served in the Parish Hall after Mass. The regular business meeting will be held. Anyone wishing to make reservations for the breakfast call or see one of the officers—Joseph A. Zishka.
KAPPA PHI: Covered Dish Supper at 5:30 at the church this evening. We have the Haskell girls as guests. The theme will be "Indian Customs." Everyone bring a covered dish and come for an interesting and good time—K. Schaake, Publicity chairman.
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. Cauteson.
PHI CHI THETA: There will be a Phi Chi Theta luncheon in the Old English room at 12:30 Tuesday, January 21..Marjorie Newmann.
SQUARE DANCING CLASS: There will be no square dancing tonight.—Ruth Hoover.
STUDENTS INTERESTED IN TEACHERS APPOINTMENT BUREAU: A meeting of all students who expect to enroll in the Teachers Appointment Bureau during the second semester will be held at 3:30 on Monday, Jan. 20, in the Fraser Theater. The operation of the bureau will be explained and instruction given for the filling out of blanks. All persons interested are urged to attend—H. E. Chandler, secretary.
Journalism Graduales Cover A Big Beat
All along the far-flung fronts from Tulsa to Tokyo, graduates of the University department of journalism are using the knowledge which they learned through long and nerve-wracking yet intensely interesting hours in their beloved "Shack."
A glance at the imposing list of positions held by newsmen whose by-lines formerly appeared in the Daily Kansan furnishes convincing proof of the manner in which the University department of journalism fits its stu- $ ^{ \textcircled{4}} $
ment of journalism its dents for their life work.
Recent summaries show that nearly 150 graduates from the department are editors, publishers, reporters and printers on Kansas newspapers. One hundred and thiry more are employed in the same capacities by papers outside the state. Press associations have drafted 28 graduates. The fields of advertising and business management have taken 90. Four men who were broken in on the Kansan are now Washington correspondents, 11 are doing publicity work, 33 are teaching journalism, and 35 are authors or magazine whiters.
Prominent among those who remained in the Sunflower state after leaving the University are Ruby Boory, city editor of the Winfield Courier; F. W. Brinkerhoff, managing editor of the Pittsburg Headlight; Lester Combs, publisher of the Parsons Sun; Rolla Clymer, publisher of the El Dorado Times; R. B. Reed, publisher of the Garden City Telegram; and J. W. Murray, managing editor of the Lawrence Journal-World. The only woman publisher in this group is Ester McDonald whose paper is the Severy Severyite.
At least one University graduate among the 18 employed by the country's great press services has worked his way to the top. He is George Roscoe, managing editor of the United Press. Eleven others are filling major positions in links of the United Press chain at New York City, Washington, D.C., Dallas, Kansas City, Alexandria, Va., Raleigh, N.C., and Denver. The Associated Press employs six University graduates at bureaus in Kansas City,
Chicago, and New York City.
Showing the way for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance are J. M. Gleissner, managing editor of the organization, and Raymond L. Clapper, whose political column is followed daily by thousands of readers. Other noted political writers are Theodore Alford, Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star, and Ernest K. Lindley, syndicated columnist. Lindley attended the University only a few months during the first year of his father's chancellorship.
Among editors and publishers who have made a name for themselves outside the state are Roy Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star; Marvin Creager, editor of the Milwaukee Journal; and Floyd L. Hockenhull, publisher of Circulation Management magazine.
The department graduate working in the most remote part of the world is Dick Masters, an advertising salesman for the Japan Advertiser in Tokyo.
Afraid to brave the bitter winds this morning, five A.T.O.'s, Bill Langworthy, George Westfall, Gordon McDonald, Jean LePage, and Frank Rush, set out for school in Langworthy's car.
ROCK CHALK TALK
The magazine field claims numerous University graduates. Wesley W. Stout is editor of the Saturday Evening Post; Ben Hibbs and R. H. Reed are associate editors of the Country Gentleman; Grace Young edits Arts and Decorations. K. H. Constant and Jack Kincaid are employed by the Household, a Capper publication. Other Jayhawkers whose work appears in national magazines include Mildred Cornelius, who writes for Photoplay, and Jerome Beatty, a regular contributor to the American.
Boasting that he could make it up the 12th street hill in spite of snow, he tried it, chugged up as far as the A.O.Pi house, and stalled.
Manpower came to the rescue when horsepower was exhausted, and his four passengers pushed the car past the A.D.P. house to 12th and Oread.
Now they say that pride come before a freeze-out.
Marvin Zoschke, Battenfeld, asked his roommates how that new song, "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair," ranked on the Hit Parade.
New not in defense—a wary lad in center Ad yesterday morning wearing a large sign, "I have voted."
Among four-star, fair and square vote-solicitors yesterday were Jill Peck, Pi Phi, and Greta Gibson, Gamma Phi.
Announceer Ed Elbel, director of intramural sports, punched a sore spot when he boogied the basketball crowd last night with, "Don't forget, finals start a week from today."
After wading up a muddy path to school for these many years, the Betas are being rewarded. Before the snow came, work had begun on a cement sidewalk to replace the "Beta path."
Besides, he might have made Missouri think we are scholastic.
Correction on yesterday's column: Jack Coyle is not a Sig Alph.