FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4.1938
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Kansan Comment
Kansan Greets You In New Dress
This morning you read your paper printed in new type, the result of plans laid before the opening of school.
Although the body type remains the same, a new signature, streamlined heads, newly designed boxes, printed in Tower and Styme type, continue the University Daily Kansan's progressive policy of printing a more attractive and easier read paper.
We hope you like the new make-up.
Boost the Band Fund,
$400 Is Still Needed
Students and faculty members are responding generously but not extravagantly to the campaign for funds to finance a trip to the George Washington game by the University band. With less than a week remaining, receipts have reached the halfway mark. There is still $400 to be raised.
Realizing that college alumni are much too frequently the object of solicitors, we nevertheless extend to returning old grads an invitation to contribute to the fund.
Those with a little loose change may aid the campaign by visiting one of the several "On to Washington" boxes situated in convenient places over the Campus. Those in a position to make a larger donation should contact a Ku Ku, Jay Jane or a member of the band.
If any group will gain from the favorable impression the University band will make on the nation's capital, it will be alumni and students who will some day be graduates.
The campaign is as worthy as any one alumni will have a chance to boost. This, then is a request for moral, if not financial support, from loyal Jayhawkers.
"We planned it that way." New Dealers are supposed to be saying about the recent business upturn. Republicans don't think it's sporting to plan it that way just in election years.
Welcome Grads; Again The Campus Is Yours
After hundreds of years of traveling with a one-way ticket across the heavens, Apollo is probably a rather disgruntled old gentleman by this time. And a sun that beams on New York, Prague, London, and Shanghai can hardly be expected to look with favor on Lawrence.
Students are awakening from a lethargic state and shaking themselves loose from a jaded pose of indifference. The victorious game over the Aggies last Saturday should put spirit and life into the Hobo day celebration today and the Homecoming parade tonight.
But rain or shine, the University at the inception of its diamond jubilee, climaxes today and tomorrow a week of celebration that old timers have not seen for years.
And that old battle cry, "Kansas Fights," may possess a literal meaning tomorrow as the team digs in to spoil Nebraska's unblemished record of having won every game on this field in the past twenty-two years. Not only students, but old grads will make that哭 re-echo.
The 9-year-old author of "Roaring Guns', a western thriller, has 800 men get killed in one chapter. If he had had a little blood-letting it would have doubtless been a murder mystery.
NYA Should Be Made Permanent
Mrs. Roosevelt was probably not expressing a very well thought out opinion when she said that she saw no reason why the CSEP would become a permanent feature of the government.
In her column last week Mrs. Roosevelt herself expressed the desirability of having such a program as the NYA to aid young people to further their education. (CSEP preceded the NYA program.)
At this University now there are more students in desperate need of work and more worth-while projects remaining idle than can be filled because of the lack of funds.
Why should the NYA program, as it applies to college students especially, be permanently continued?
The college students on the NYA payroll could not be in school without some kind of work. A survey taken last year at Ohio State showed that 64 per cent of those on the NYA
said that they could not return to school the next quarter without NYA aid.
The work provided for students under this program, for example, is more consistent with abilities of college students than such work as waiting on tables. More than 80 per cent of the students feel that their NYA job is of educational value to them personally.
Various surveys have shown NYA students scholastically superior in relation to other groups on a campus. That this program draws a high class of students to colleges and universities would be enough reason for an institution to favor the set-up.
The value of the projects to the various departments, however, is the main factor. Museums grown dusty by the lack of state fund have been brought up to date, such as the entomological museum on this Campus. Research work has been carried on in deozes of fields and results such as the development of Kansas clays here have taken place. Many records necessary to the efficiency of an institution and beyond the scope of an overburdened faculty to keep up to date have been caught up, kept up, and developed.
This list could be extended indefinitely for work in scores of institutions.
Since the inception of the federal aid in the spring of 1934 over 2,000 students and 150 departments on this Campus alone are reasons why the program should be made permanent.
Some observers think the $30—every-Thursday amendment will lose in California. They are not scheduling the "Ham-and-Eggs" campaign to bring home the bacon.
There is a spirited struggle in progress between Kansas City, Chicago and a dozen other American cities for the honor, "the nation's flying capital." We can't see that it's much to get up in the air about.
Father Divine has a new convert. Hitler thinks peace is wonderful, too.
Campus Opinion
WHO WOULDN'T COMPLAIN
Editor University Daily Kansas;
Editor University Daily Kansan:
The much-touched, highly praised athlete's training table at the Cafeteria is a flap. We athletes (2) who outstamped our teammates by 30%.
First of all the training table is supposed to be on a non-profit basis, being, presumably, for the general welfare and good of the athletes. But if the Cafeteria isn't making a profit on the 55 cents it gets for each egg bought, the managers should give the management. I'd much prefer they'd give me the 55 cents and let me buy my own meal at the Eldridge.
And on top of that one might question not only the quality but the quantity and it practically takes an act of will.
The move to give athletes one good, free meal a day is most laudable but we certainly aren't getting value received for the money that's being put out.
—One who knows and suffers.
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OFFICIAL BULLETIN
Vol. 36 Friday, November 4, 1938 No. 39
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 3 p.m., preceding regular publication for Senate and 11:38 a.m. for Publication.
JAY JANES: A picture will be taken at 9 o'clock on
President. Center Frank hard hall—at D, J. Willetts,
President.
REINTERPRETATION OF RELIGION COMMISSION: You are invited to come to this commission this afternoon at 4:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Building, discuss the meaning of prayer—Ezekiel Stuckenbruger.
WESTMINSTER READING GROUP: The Reading group of the Westminster school will meet June 4, at 4:30 at the Stuart Hall, Mrs. E.B. Allen will review the book "Horse and Rider," by Jeanette Wheeler, and those who wish to remain for a 15 cent lunch should sign their names on the bulletin board in Westminster hall before Saturday noon—Via Knochella.
SNOW ZOOLOGY CLUB. DR. A. J. Mix will speak on "The Relation of Fungi to Disease" Tuesday, November 8, at 5:30. Will members please make reservations by 4:30 on November 7–Martha Pineino.
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And When the Pie Was Opened--as to charter a college and lay a foundation for the building. The city gave them a deed to the land on the north slope, but they were unable to carry on and the land and the funds went back to the city.
The Bird Began To Do His Stuff
Nebraska has been caring gridiron pin now for 22 years without uncovering a superior Jayhawk. This cartoon, by Henry Maloy of Eureka, a University student in 1915, depicts what will happen some Saturday afternoon.
Staunch Beliefs Secure Present Site of University
By Mary Jane Sigler, c'39
Seated about the banquet tables of the Seventy-fifth anniversary celebration Wednesday night were many friends of the University—faculty, students and alumni—all deeply interested in its traditions and in its progress. At such a time one's thoughts turn back to the group of settlers who on Nov. 2, 1883, imbibially received word that Governor Carney had issued a proclamation declaring Lawrence the permanent seat of the state university.
These settlers were doubly joyous because of the difficulties they had surmounted in securing the University site at Lawrence. They were New England emigrants, who had come to Kansas in 1854. One of the settlers, with beliefs, beside the abolition of slavery, was that of public education.
Dr. Charles Robinson, later the first governor of Kansas, passing along the old Oregon trail with a wagon train of the forty-niners stopped for a night on the north slope of what was to be named Mount Oread. He was so impressed with the beauty of this site that he vowed to locate a settlement here if it were at all possible.
Five years later, through the efforts of Amos Lawrence, treasurer of Harvard university and a strong abolitionist, Dr. Robinson was placed in charge of settling a band of Free State emigrants who were going to the Kansas territory. He guided them to the place which he had visited before. Thus was the town of Lawrence founded, and in a short time its citizens were trying to start a college there.
Amos Lawrence, above all others, made this University possible. He put $10,000 at the disposal of the city to establish a school of higher learning on the condition that Kansas could become a Free-Soil state. The sum consisted of a loan made to another university. Mr. Lawrence to make additions to the fund, but they came slowly.
Several churches, the Presbyterian,
Congregational, and Episcopal tried to establish a college on the Hill, but none succeeded. In 1859 the Presbyterians got so far
Kansas became a *Free-Soil state* in 1861 and plans were made to establish a state university, Lawrence, Topeka, Manhattan, and Emporia be giving vie for the school location. Topeka became the state capitol and Manhattan was awarded the agricultural college in 1862, but the race between Lawrence and Emporia was a close one. In the legislature there followed one of the bitterest debates in the history of the state.
Emproria offered 80 acres of land; Lawrence offered 40 acres of land that had been given by Dr. Robinson, and the Amos Lawrence fund. Finally Lawrence won out by but one vote, and on Feb. 20, 1883, the senate passed a bill stating that if Lawrence sold his 15,000 endowment within six months, Emproria would get the state university.
The 40-acre site was quickly decided to the state. The University to which Mr. Lawrence had lent the $10,000 was unable to pay its notes but Mr. Lawrence generously advanced the money. This left $5,000 to be obtained, and the business men of the town put up this sum.
notes 'n discords
by John Randolph Tye
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In August, 1863, Quantrill and his band raided Lawrence, destroying 185 buildings, killing 140 inhabitants, and leaving the town in destruction. The security put up by the citizens was thus destroyed, and it seemed the University would be located in Emporia. However, Governor Carney cached the citizens' note (later the legislature refunded him the money) and the $15,000 was deposited with the state treasurer on Oct. 29, two days before the six-month deadline.
This is Hobo day and as Hobo day corner but once a year, we toss aside our usual caution to repeat an old classic joke—a classic hobo joke at that. "Who was that hobo saw you with last night?" the base-horn player asked another member of the band. "That was no hobo. That was my life."
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At the University of Georgia, the Dean of Women has refused to allow any women student to act as cheerleader because it would be insulting to womanhood. The Dean is absolutely right. Some pretty insulting things have been said about cheerleaders.
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Headline in Lawrence Journal-World: "Farley and Landon disagree." Has the Journal-World heard that other rumor? The one about Hoover and Roosevelt being sort of peeved at each other.
Nov. 2, the University of Kansas came into being with these words: "Now, therefore, I, Thomas Carney, Governor of the State of Kansas, by virtue of the authority in mested by law, do proclaim and deed the laws of the State of Kansas to be permanently located at the city of Lawrence, upon the tract of land selected and deeded to the State of Kansas."
Into every life a little rain must fall. The Sour Owl comes out again today.
Why?
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Japanese statesman claim that "the august vulture of Emperor Hirotō" was the cause of the fall of Canton and Hankow. Virtue in the Orient it seems receives more than it's own reward.
The Dartmouth grid star who quit the team to join a religious cult is reported to have struck a fellow player last year for swearing in the locker room. The boy might have been a star on the football field but we bet he wasn't worth a darn at pool.
Though she is celebrating her 75th birthday, old Alina Mater still gets around. Not only did she be a motion-wide hook-up, but the same week she crashed Walter Winchell's column.
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The Daily Northwestern believes that it would be better and cheaper if colleges returned to the Joe College era of the 1920s. Has the Northwestern considered the cost of upkeep on a coon-skin coat?
A southern college paper points out that the difference between a university and an asylum is that you have to improve to get out of an asylum.
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Dr, Lapp To Address State Teachers Association
A sorority at the University of North Dakota has been troubled with mice so at 2 a.m. one morning they called another house and asked for a pledge because they explained they needed a cat.
Dr. V. W. Lapp, assistant professor of physical education, will speak at a sectional meeting of the Kansas State Teachers Association at State High School in Kansas City, Missouri, which is on "Grading in Physical Education" will be delivered before the Health and Physical Education department of the Kansas educational system.
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