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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1940
The Kansan Comments-don't know what it is all about. It is a tonic to find one country that can be victorious and be generous.
EDITORIALS★
BOOKS★
Shades of Horace Greeley
FINAL 1940 census figures show Kansas with a decrease of 79,971 persons since the 1930 count, and the consequent probability of losing one representative in Congress.
THE paradoxical relations of China and Japan are reaching absurdity. November 30, Japan and the Nanking Government, which it enclosed, signed a peace pact proclaiming an end to 40 months of war in China and the beginning of an era of military and economic co-operation.
California came up with a 1,230,136 gain in population and the probable addition of three representatives.
It looks as if the ghost of Horace Greeley has returned to haunt Kansas legislators who will be charged with the task of rearranging congressional districts.
Doves Over Machine Guns
Japanese Algebra
The ceremony was guarded by Japanese machine guns and war planes. Japan made it clear that despite the treaty she will continue military operations until there is "actual" peace.
The pact was signed in Nanking. A flock of white "doves of peace" flew overhead. Underneath, Japanese representatives rode in cars guarded by bluejackets and armed with swivel-mounted machine guns. Several Chinese came too, riding in armored cars.
THE Japanese newspaper, Miyako, declares the latest United States loan to China is bringing Japanese-American relations closer to "the final test." Thus, the relationship assumes a rough algebraic equation: If 125 million dollars equals only strained relations (which existed before), X millions of dollars equals one incident." There are a lot of people besides the Japanese wondering how large this unknown quantity eventually will be.
PATTER★
Even less than "peace at the point of a word", it is, in fact, no peace at all. We have ham battles"; could we call this "sham peace"?
"Peace, it's wonderful" was as good a phrase in Mexico City last Sunday as in Father Divine's Harlem, where it originated. However, General Avila Camacho appears to have put slightly more trust in rifles than in Providence.
TWO weeks ago Benito Mussolini announced that once he started, nothing could stop him. The first of this week the Italian press announced a new air plane with a maximum speed of 625 miles per hour which "offers horizons for war action."
Hurrv Benito
Benito had better hook a few of his new wonder planes to the Italian mechanized equipment that is bogging down his retreat in Albania. If he doesn't get his boys out of there soon, it could be that the Greeks will drive the whole kit and kiboodle into the sea.
Generous Victors
GREEKS are so elated with their military successes against the Italians that they have forgotten to hate the people they are fighting.
Italian prisoners are treated with respect, are well-fed, well-housed. Wounded prisoners are given the same medical care as wounded Greek soldiers.
Greeks explain that the poor fellows just
LETTERS★
Santa is having a hard time getting anyone imbued with Christmas spirit this year. With wars raging in Europe and Asia and threatening to rage in Africa, and now a heat wave in Kansas, the grand old man will have to do a lot of advertising to get shoppers out early.
Nothing is so fascinatingly mysterious as an excavation. Fascinating Hill students at the moment is the big hole just west of Frank Strong. The Kansan reporter on that beat keeps on promising that he'll know by "tomorrow."
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Vol. 38 Thursday, Dec. 5, 1940 No. 54
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.
NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS: Dr. E.T. Gibbs 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.
FENCERS: There will be a meeting of the Fencing Club and team members this evening at 7:30 in the gymnasium.—Haven Glassmire, president.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH: The second Proficiency Examination of the year will be given on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 8:30 a.m. Registration at the College Office, Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 9-11, is obligatory for all who wish to take the examination. Only juniors with credit for five hours of rhetoric may register.-J. B. Virtue.
WESTMINSTER FORUM: Westminster Forum will sponsor a hike for all of those interested next Friday evening at 4:30. The hike will begin at Westminster Hall and will proceed in northwesterly direction until a suitable place for camp is found. A slight charge of 15 cents per person will be charged to help defray the cost of food—Francis McKinney, Hike Chairman.
Y. M.-Y.W. COMMISSION ON CHRISTIAN EMPHASIS: The Commission on Christian Emphasis will meet Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 4:30 o'clock at Henley House. Royal Humbert will lead a discussion on "What Has Modern Religion Done to Christmas."-Bob Collette, Mary Helen Wilson.
QUILL CLUB: Feoh run of the American College Quill Cub will meet in the Pine room at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30 this evening.—Mary Elizabeth Evans, chancellor.
SENIORS: Seniors graduating in February may now make appointments for physical examinations at Watkins Memorial Hospital.—Dr. R. I. Canuteson.
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Tavern 'Bull Session Start of Phi Beta Kappa
Half a century of educational history lived again a few days ago when, after profound deliberation, Kansas Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa beckoned seven outstanding College seniors into its exclusive membership.
Way back in 1889, two years before the first Kansas-Missouri football game, eight University faculty members who had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa in other institutions petitioned the national council to charter a chapter on Mount Oread.
The charter was granted in 1890, and these eight petitioners became charter members of the Alpha chapter of Kansas: Lucien I. Blake, Amherst, '76; Arthur G. Canfield, Williams, '78; James H. Canfield, Williams, '68; Arthur R. Marsh, Harvard, '83; David H. Robinson, Rochester, '87; Francis H. Snow, Williams, '62; A. M. Wilcox, Yale, '77; and Max Winkler, Harvard, '89.
Since that day, the Kansas chapter of this national scholastic society has elected a few of the highest ranking College senior men and women each fall, a larger group each spring. Election in the fall comes only to students having virtually a straight A average in all their College courses. At least a 2.6 or 2.7 average is necessary for the spring election. Under no conditions may more than one-sixth of the senior class be selected.
Last April, University of Kansas Phi Beta Kappas, past and present, assembled in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building with members of Sigma Xi, honorary scientific fraternity, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the local chapters of both organizations. At that time, a greeting was received from Arthur Canfield, the only living charter member, now at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
sity of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For the origin of Phi Beta Kappa in the United States, it is necessary to turn back the pages of time more than 150 years. On a blustery December evening in 1776, five students at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va., trudged through the sleet and snow to the Sir Walter Raleigh tavern where they were in the habit of holding intellectual "bull-fests."
When Lord Cornwallis' Redcoats swept like a forest fire through the woods of Virginia in 1781, William and Mary was forced to close its doors. But already chapters of Phi Beta Kappa had been established at Yale and Harvard, and so the fraternity's life did not end with the British occupation of Williamsburg.
Here, they organized a social and literary society which bore all the characteristics of the modern fraternity. Their badge was a square silver medal displaying on one side the Greek letters representing the words "Philosophy, the Guide of Life," and on the other the monogram SP for "Societas Philosophica."
Phi Beta Kappa grew and prospered through the years. In 1826, it changed its character, becoming nonsecret and purely honorary, admitting to its membership a small proportion of the scholars of highest standing. Now, at the age of 164, it boasts 128 chapters with a total membership of about 110,000 and represents to many a college student the peak of undergraduate achievement.
Exactly at 2:10 the other afternoon the alarm clock on the librarian's desk in the periodical room went off with a clang, making one student almost plunge through the Kansas City Times.
ROCK CHALK TALK
It is suspected that some tricky little tike pulled up the alarm button earlier in the day with intent to scare fellow students out of half a semester's growth.
Tuesday Billie Jarboe went over to teach them the fine points of the dance, popular in the years following World War I. It is the dance that features skirt-flowering both front and rear
It is the dance that features skirt-fluencing both front and rear.
Five Phi Betes, big beefy, are rehearsing the "can can" for their Bowery party Saturday night. They are James VanBiber, George Chaney, Gerald Joyce, Frank Martin, and Harold Low.
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Sigma Chi J. Rex Watkins has taken to impersonating. Last night he phoned a certain sophomore blonde with the nosey statement, "I'm calling for the University Daily Kansan, and I want to ask you about your love life."
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According to the results of the popularity poll taken before the premiere here of the movie, "Dark Command," in which June appeared, Jones escorted her to the show. Although at the time he was notoriously anti-social, he enjoyed the evening, cemented a friendship with the glamour girl.
Since then she has written him, and some time ago sent her picture (it took awhile for him to get up nerve to post it) with a personal "best wishes" inscription.
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