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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1940
The Kansan Comments -most Englishmen. He has kept Anglo-American relations firm through many ticklish wartime disputes.
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If Mr. Gardner means that an active and interesting school-wide physical education program, having equal status with other courses should be developed, we are all for him.
Mr. Gardner is off base in only one thing. He speaks of varsity athletics as though their nature were that of an all-school physical educational program.
Gardner points to the current movement favoring more athletics and physical education for young men as an aid in the national defense program. "Certainly health is more important than any book work," he said.
"We want the boys to maintain high scholastic averages, but we also want them to do just as well in athletics as they do in chemistry," Gardner concluded.
"Now don't misunderstand me," Gardner warned, "At Kansas State we consider athletes an essential part of the educational program. This is contrasted with some schools which apparently feel otherwise and limit participation in athletics to a select few. Isn't it logical to believe that athletics are just as beneficial to the average or poor student as the Phi Beta Kappa?" he said.
JACK Gardner, head Kansas State basketball coach, is in for a lot of—perhaps—undeserved criticism in the next few days. Yesterday Mr. Gardner branded as "unfair" the practice of requiring college boys to maintain high scholastic averages to compete in athletics.
Gardner on Athletics
A program to turn out a healthy, as well as an educated student, is certainly to be commended. Courses in this program should be on a par with other courses in the school. However, the program should be conducted within the university, the same as chemistry, to which Mr. Gardner refers.
The British ambassador had won the respect and confidence of American diplomats. He was affable, straight-forward, more informal than
PATTER★
England was banking heavily on Lord Lothian in perhaps the most strategically important campaign of the war—the campaign to get the United States securely and actively on the British side of the fence.
THE British war office yesterday jubilantly reported that a swift offensive in northern Africa which has netted 20,000 Italian prisoners apparently in continuing unabated.
Inter-scholastic competition of the athletes thus developed should be, as it is now, regulated by grade requirements. Physical education is for health. Inter-scholastic competition is for pleasure, or school honor, or to attract crowds, or some other reason. The latter should be, as it is now, extra-curricular, open only to those who have first satisfactorily performed curricular requirements.
Athletics are a definite part of an educational program, Mr. Gardner believes. "The boy who flunks chemistry shouldn't be barred from athletic competition any more than the boy who fails in athletics should be barred from taking chemistry," he said.
Another British Disaster
In Washington, D.C., the British received a heavy, shocking, body blow. The Marquess of Lothian, British ambassador to the United States died of uremic infection.
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Last plea of Lothian to the American public was made the night before his death in a speech, read by an aide, to the American Farm Bureau Federation in Baltimore. He asked United States help on the seas; the British navy is stretched "terribly thin," he said. He predicted that Britain would win the war if the United States would give her full aid.
England has lost her key man at the height of the American-aid campaign. If the post is not filled quickly by an informed, tactful man who has the confidence of the American public, this loss may prove as great a setback as any military disaster that Britain has suffered in the war.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Friday, Dec. 13, 1940 No. 60
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.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: The Westminster Foundation will present a play entitled, "The Shepherd Who Stayed," by Stuart Hunter at 7:30, Sunday evening. The play consists of a cts of six characters. Everybody is welcome to go to Westminster Hall to see a good Christmas play—Robert Talmadge, president.
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.
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—R. I. Canuteson.
DRAMATICS CLUE: The Dramatics Club will meet Tuesday at 4:30 in the Little Theater of Green hall. The apprentices will have charge of the program. Roll will be called—David Watermulder, secretary.
ROGER WILLIAMS FOUNDATION (Baptist):
There will be a "Christmas" Open House, this Sunday between Vespers, 5:30 to 7:00 at the Baptist Student Center, 1124 Mississippi Street. Come and bring your friends. Each one bring a 10 cent gift for Christmas tree. Theta Eqson will assist—Stanford Splitter, president.
SIGMA XI: The regular meeting will be held on Monday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Blake hall. Dr. Robert G. Green of the University of Minnesota will be the guest speaker. Members please note the change in the day—W. H. Schoewe, secretary.
PHI CHI DELTA; Phi Chi Delta will meet Tuesday, December 17, at 5:30. A Christmas program has been planned by Phyllis Wherry.-Jean Doole, Dee Ellen Naylor, co-chairmen.
SQUARE DANCING CLASS: The square dancing class will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock.-Ruth Hoover.
You Said It
The Kansan welcomes contributions to You Said It. All letters should be limited to 300 words or less, and the right to edit communications to this length is reserved by the editors. Letters must bear the name of the contributor, although the signature will be deleted upon request.
Dear Mr. Green:
Gray Dorsey, editor-in-chief of the Kansan, has asked me if I care to write a rebuttal to your criticism of my criticism which appeared in Wednesday's paper. Space in the Kansan prohibits a long and useless verbal duel about my stuff, so let me warn you that this will be my first, last, and only article defending myself.
To begin, Mr. Green, I was much surprised and flattered to find that someone other than my parents reads my articles.
So, to my three readers:
Mr. Green, you ask me to try to write a constructive criticism. May I ask your definition of a constructive criticism? To me, the term implies that there must be something wrong before there can be a helpful hint on how to improve it. Evidently you would have me confine my efforts to lauding the musical organizations on the campus. Such is the connotation of your statement that the only intelligent paragraphs in the article were the ones crediting the student conductors.
If you would care to come up to the Journalism building some afternoon, I will read through my stories of this year and list the constructive criticisms I have made.
As far as the bigger orchestras of the country being off the beat is concerned, I would suggest that you listen some Sunday afternoon to the concerts of the Columbia symphony (2 p.m. CBS) and tell me how many times the orchestra gets noticeably off the tempo.
According to Mr. Webster's dictionary, the word amateur means doing something without remuneration, or pay. This certainly is applicable to the University symphony. The underlying motive of the statement was that an organization which practices only five or six hours a week cannot be expected to rank with an orchestra which must play well or starve to death. In passing, let me remind you of what Deems Taylor says about accepting music too readily as being good. (Look in "Of Men and Music").
About the acoustics problem, I would be glad to take you to the physics department some day, where they will tell you that the time of reverberation in the auditorium is nine seconds in places, where it should be less than half of that.
As far as the "Euryanthe" overture is concerned, I did not mean to imply that the orchestra was any less liable to praise for having done it three times before. I merely meant that I would have been greatly surprised if they had not done it well.
Space forbids taking up your criticisms completely and exonerating myself, but I should very much like to meet you in person and try to convince you that I try to tell what seems to me to be the truth. I do not claim to be a professional critic, any more than the orchestra should claim to be professional. I merely try to tell what the thing sounds like to the average concert-goer. As far as my competence is concerned, I am not a musician, except in an amateurish way, but I think my free-lance study of music has given me some basis for my writings.
If I had the space, I could quote many members of the School of Fine Arts student body, and even some of the faculty who aren't overly offended with the reviews. One member of the orchestra even offered to write this rebuttal for me.
I'm so sorry I don't please you, Mr. Green, but if I could please everyone, I should probably be too smart to even bother writing those reviews.—Ed Garich.
ROCK CHALK TALK
By HEIDI VIETS
The Corbin hall Christmas party Wednesday night was more baronial than old England. Celebration took place in Corbin Manor, whose lord and lady were Lenora Grizzell and Helen Edlin. When a guest entered, he was escorted by pages Ann Lee and Mari Lee Nelson to where trumpeter Ada Catharine Croll announced him with fanfare.
Old English details were the court jester, Evelyn Jones, the Yule log dragged in by Jean and Jane Jones, the repertoire of old Christmas carols that Song Leader Marybelle Long had taught the girls.
Among the guests were Gov. Payne H. Ratner and Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
When the Yule log was "wished on," the Chancellor read a poem in which he recalled all Corbin gossip of the last two weeks. The current affair of Jean Steele and Jimmy Burdge, Othene Huff's reputation for talking over the phone for hours on end, Martha Fairhurst's popularity, recent Corbin fat of pulling bricks along the sidewalk along the east side of the D. Pi house—all we touched on in the Chancellor's poem.
The idea was to wish something for everybody. For Governor Ratner he wished one thing only—more votes.
A shriek in the periodical room of the library Tuesday night scared students' pale and a cat out of seven of its lives.
Buzz Crain came in, walked confidently to a study table, pulled out a chair. Then the piercing scream!
Curled up in the chair was a cat, which he at first chance thought to be a snake with designs on his very existence.
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