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SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 6, 1940
Pi Lambda Theta Prexy Here
This smart spectator coat of baby lamb worn over a plaid sports feud by Ginger Rogers, film star. The skirt features pleats.
Color Blind Ears:--may be attained.
Hearing Tests May Help Reading Course Students
By Emily Jean Milan. c'42
Color blindness is a common ailment, but not so well known is the fact that some persons are deaf to certain syllables. Working from this theory, the School of Education is giving an ear test to all students enrolled in the Reading Improvement course. ___
This type of deafness may affect the individual's vocabulary, and may eventually impair his ability to read, for when only parts of words are heard, they will not be familiar on the printed page.
There is no credit given for the reading course and is presented for those students who wish to improve their reading. Over 125 students, ranging from poor readers to excellent readers, have taken advantage of it this semester. The seven classes, which are filled to capacity, meet three hours a week.
A series of standardized tests, one of which is the ear test, is given to each student at the beginning of the semester, and the results show whether an ear and eye specialist should be consulted. One machine tests the eyes for astigmatism and coordination, and another takes a moving picture of the eyes during the process of reading.
The class work stresses systematic and accurate reading in order that the goal or idea of the material
Authorized Parties
Friday, March 8, 1949
Beta Theta Pt, Dinner-Dance at Chapter House, 12 p.m.
I. S.A. party at Union building ballroom, 12 p.m.
Saturday, March 9.1940
Junior Prom, Memorial Union Ballroom, 8-12 p.m.
Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs.
The course is open to every students in the University. It is taught by graduate students in the School of Education under the direction of Prof. Bert A. Nash.
Crawford Attends Meeting
Representing the University as a member of a national committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Dean Ivan C. Crawford attended a meeting of the society in Memphis, Tenn., last weekend. The function of the national committee was to consider and make recommendations to the board of directors of the society regarding licensing of civil engineers in various states, the education of civil engineers, and economic problems facing the engineering profession.
Lonely Hearts—
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and can wait until I retire in 1950.
Please state in first letter any other virtues desired so that I may order them immediately."
The would-be pen pal says he is an aviation chief radoman who has built a radio set completely free of static, noise and music.
Faculty Art Work Goes to Exhibit
He also requests, "If they teach you girls in college how to write, how about a letter? If I ever have occasion to fly over Kansas, will drop in. You state whether it should be by parachute or nose dive."
Paintings by three faculty members of the department of design and works of sculpture by Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Frazier have been accepted by the University of Nebraska Art Institute, officials of the School of Fine Arts announced recently.
This applicant for a Lonely Hearts Club from Honolulu gives his new address as Bryan W. Franks, C.R.M., Patwing 4, Naval Air Station, Sitka, Alaska.
Each year, the institute exhibits pictures by the best known contemporary American artists, and this spring the organization invited Albert Bloch, professor of drawing and painting; Raymond Eastwood, associate professor of drawing and painting; and Karl Mattern, associate submit paintings.
Works of sculpture by both Bernard Frazier, artist-sculptor, and Mrs. Frazier are on display.
Doris Dean Is Elected Kappa Alpha Theta Head
By Virginia Gray, c'41 Kansan Society Editor
Dr. Beulah Clark Van Wagener, dean of women at Hampton college, Hampton, Va., and national president of Pi Lambda Theta, educational society, has been a guest of the chapter the past few days. A series of luncheons, teas, and meetings, were ended yesterday by a tea given for members of the organization in the Old English room of the Memorial Union building and a dinner given by Miss Ruth E. Kenny, Kansas corresponding secretary of the study bureau and national treasurer of Pi Lambda Theta, at Evans Hearth.
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Kappa Alpha Theta sorority elected the following officers to serve next year; president, Doris Dean, c'41; vice-president, Alice Schwartz, fa'42; treasurer, Doris Johnson, c'42; corresponding secretary, Alice Harrington, fa'42; recording secretary, Betty Denious, c'41; house manager, Dorothy Jean Roberts, c'42; rush chairman, Dorothy Noble, c'43; social chairman, Ro-
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