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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
Add Course To Improve Reading Skill
N e w Project Directed By Prof. Bert A. Nash Intended for Efficiency In Reading
An extensive program for improving reading ability among college students will be carried on this semester by the School of Education in co-operation with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The project will be under the direction of Bert A. Nash, professor of education, and will continue throughout the semester.
Three Short Periods Weekly
"We can use efficiently three or four groups aggregating about 100 students," said Doctor Nash. "All work must be co-operation and regular attendance."
Students who feel they are not reading as effectively as they might are invited to confer with Professor Nash at 110 or 16F in Fraser hall, any morning, and make appointments.
The program, when it is fully launched, will call for three periods of 20 minutes each week. Students will be given exercises in various types of reading—science adventure, literature, history, and the like. There will be a gradual stepping up of the material.
"Similar tests at Indiana, Dartmouth and other institutions have disclosed college students with reading ability that is, ability to read and comprehend no higher than the average student level. How To Have a Hundred Students."
Preliminary to the course will be individual tests to check for cye defects, and there will be also the task of checking eye movements in reading.
"We hope to have a hundred in the group. These will be assigned to sub-groups roughly of the same standards of reading ability, and efforts will be directed to improving the ability in each sub-group."
The School of Education is just completing tests for the 3,006 pupils in the Lawrence public schools, and is now tabulating its material to find how much knowledge it shows the greatest difference from their general intelligence. Many pupils have a fairly normal reading ability, but when a pupil shows reading ability of a year or more below the level of his general intelligence, the educators seek a method of improving the reading skills of their students. Testing
Have Equipment for Testing
In fact, there is one fourth grader,
an omnivorous reader, who has
the reading comprehension of a ninth
grader.
Lawrence tests have shown, for example, instances in which pupils in the ninth grade read with the ability of fourth graders, and some in the eighth grade who have the ability of the tenth to twelfth grades.
The School of Education has equipment for testing eyesight, including equipment that records on film the movement of the eyeball as the subject is reading. A metronome is used to test and improve reading ability. This device displays text matter a line, or even two-thirds of a line, at a time, and its speed can be varied to accommodate the stumbling primary grader, or th most rapid college reader.
This school stuff is a great life.
We have been to class just five hours so far this semester and we're six chapters and three papers behind. Maybe we relaxed too much after the exam, but we've learned much measuredheits heard so far, the coming semester holds great promise of being rough and ruty for ye studies.
HAY by WIRE
What has happened to the marching song that we sang not so many
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College students have just about taken over the bowling alley down town. Bowling is making a comeback, with some universities even installing alleys in their union buildings. We're still nursing a twisted finger from our last and first game. After watching the 10 wood pins was thought of a 16-pound ball you would swear that the pins were mailed to the floor. The game is a great reducer for the ladies.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938
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Issue Call For Relavs Nomination
James Gillispie, ph, senior manager of the Student Relays committee, is issuing a call for nominations for freshman membership on the committee. Persons wishing a place on the committee are asked to make application to Gillispie at the athletic office on or before Feb. 12.
The Relays committee handles many of the details in entertaining the athletes who come to the Kansas Relays. The committee has one senior, two juniors, four sophomores, and seven seniors each year are by "promotion" from the ranks. Gillispie has been on the committee four years now.
New Students To Take Test Will Hold Psychological Exam in Fraser Hall This Afternoon
About a hundred students will take the freshman psychological test today, according to Prof. A. H. Turner director. This examination, which is required for all new students, will be given at 2:30 this afternoon in the theater. Teachers of 2:20 classes will excuse those who are to take it.
This is the sixteenth year that the tests have been given to incoming University students. Seventeen years ago the experiment was tried upon 106 students, and in 1821 psychological examinations have been found of increasing value.
According to Professor Turney, the intelligence tests are used in many ways. Students are informed of their own standing thereby. Advicegains gain knowledge of standing of those students who are marked "unsatisfactory."
Often the records are consulted by employers who want further detail about a prospective employee's qualifications. Educators and psychologists also draw general conclusions which help in mapping out future plans.
More than a thousand students took the examinations last fall and many of these have learned their scores from Mr. Turney.
Offer Specialties At 'Owl Screech'
The "Owl Screech" will open the social season of the spring semester tomorrow night with Red Blackburn and his orchestra furnishing the music. This is the annual dance-sponsored event, honor society for junior men.
Several specialties will feature the evening's entertainment. Hervey Vigour, e38, and Dick Jenner, e38, will play some ocarina duets. They performed on the Campus last year for the ballet billed at one of the local theaters.
Vernon Berkey, c'40, will present some imitations during the evening He plays the trumpet like Henry Busse and does other acts of like nature. This is his first public appearance on the Campus.
The dance will be from 9 to 12 in the Memorial Union ballroom. Tickets may be obtained from memorial.com or at the Memorial Union desk.
England and France To Crusade Against Pirates
Paris, Feb. 3. —(UF) –Great Britain and France tonight cleared 70 warships for action and embarked on a sink-and-fight crusade against “pirate” submarines in the Mediterranean following unofficial indications that Fasist Italy will join in the bold plan.
Dispatches from Rome said that Premier Mussolini, encouraged by the efforts of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to "allay suspicion" that an Italian submarine might have been responsible for the new outbreak of "piracy," appeared to be agreeable to the new scheme.
Authorized Rattles
Phi Delta Theta, Memorial Union, 12 p.m.
Tomorrow
Pi Kappa Alpha, chapter house, 12 p.m.
Triangle, chapter house 12 p.m.
ELIZABEZ MEGUIAR,
Adviser to Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs.
Triangle, chapter house, 12 p.m.
ELIZABETH MECUAD
Varsity Dance, Memorial Union, 12 p.m.
Ballet Russe Was Feature Of Coronation
Saturday
Fireside Forum, Congregational Church, 12 p.m.
For its first performance at the University, the ballet will bring a company of 125 with an accompanying symphony orchestra.
Command Performance Given Before England's Monarch; Has M a d e Several World Tours
A truly metropolitan show comes to the University on Monday evening, Feb. 14, when the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, largest of the Russian ballet companies, appears in Hoeh auditorium.
Ballet Russe is a world-famous organization and has made several world tours. This is its fifth American tour.
In London's Covent Gardens the ballet was a feature of the English coronation season, and gave a command performance before the king and queen. Its London management presented the de Bali company in three coronal phases of one month each, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra accompanying. Capacity audiences greeted the company for its performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Dean D. M. Swarthout, manager of the University concert course, under whose auspices the ballet is to appear, states that in his 15 years as manager of the course, no greater attainment has been brought to the University.
Tickets are on sale at the School of Fine Arts office, Bell Music store, and the Round Corner drug store.
Students Visit New Theta House
More than 500 guests attended the Kappa Alpha Theta open house Wednesday afternoon and evening when members of the sorority re-enter University students at the new chapter house, 1433 Tennessee street.
The entire house, from the recreation room in the basement to the third floor, was open for the inspection of guests.
Many gifts were received from other sororities and fraternities, including silver platters, pitches, candles, jewelry, cards, picture cards, card tables and flowers.
Members of the sorority will hold open house for faculty members and town friends Sunday afternoon from 10 a.m. in the evening from 7 to 10 o'clock.
The new house<sub>a</sub> was completed on Jan. 1. The house formerly occupied by the sorority at 1116 Indiana now houses the Triangl fraternity.
Berlin. Feb. 3. — (UP) - A dying antelope, retreated on agile on its hind legs, head thrown back, a throwing pierce spearing its side, is the form of a giant dog that Cainnam's "last colonies" which has just been completed in Manheim.
LATE ENROLLMENT
Lost Colonies in Monument
LATE ENROLLMENT
College students who are enrolling for the first time and students wishing to make changes in their schedule will enter the east door of Robinson gymnasium tomorrow morning from 9:30 to 11:30 o'clock. Advanced standing students and those transferring will enter at the north door at the same time.
NUMBER 87
Parking Committee To Meet
A special meeting of the
W.S.G.A. and M.S.C. Parking
Committee will be hold tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in the morning to the Memorial Union building.
All those wishing to appeal traffic violation penalties are asked to present themselves at that time. Frank Harw, c38,
acting chairman, Parking Committee.
Later he co-operated with Henry Seidel Canbury to found the Saturday Review of Literature, and he is probably most familiar to American
At the beginning of the war he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the air service. After the Aristice, with h is old position no longer open, he worked for six months writing advertisements sloggy in the art agency. Some of these sloggies are still by-words in the profession.
OWL TICKETS AVAILABLE
Tickets for the "Owl Screech" are available at the main desk of the Memorial Union building.
Sale of tickets to the Student Christian Federation banquet, to be given in honor of the Rev. Edwin Winslow, of Omaha, Nebraska, began yesterday afternoon.
Dinner To End Religion Week
Poteat Will Be Guest At Federation Banquet Next Thursday
The banquet closes Religious Emphasis Week, which is being sponsored by the Student Christian Federation with the co-operation of the University convocations committee the MSC.C.-W.S.GA. forum board and the Lawrence Ministerial Alliance.
Eleanor Slaten, c38, chairman on the publicity committee for the week and Idella Campbell, c38, chairman of the final banquet, spoke briefly regarding plans for the banquet and sale of tickets at the regular bi-balance Student Christian Federation meeting in Myers Hall yesterday.
The Rev. Dr. Potet, pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland, served for 13 years in China as a missionary and professor of philosophy at the University of Shanghai. Before this last year and before he left, he was pastor of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C.
The Rev. D. Potate arrives in Lawrence Tuesday morning for an all-University conversation. The convocation will open this year's RE conference, a three-day meeting of which is "The Place of the Church in Contemporary Confusion."
Long and Lean and Lissom' Is Poet-Critic Who Will Speak Here
Will Interview Majors In Chemical Engineering Today
June graduates in the department of chemical engineering will be interviewed today by S. L. Starks, director of technical employment for the Dow Chemical company, Midland, MN. Mr. Starks, professor of chemical engineering received word yesterday of Mr Starks' plan to visit the Campus.
"Long and lissom, with spidery legs. He speaks slowly and smiles readily., he's Brown and smoothface a and gulless; and a and in whatever guse, he will recognize poetry if it be there."
Mr. Benet is no library or drawing room poet. He has lived a life of varied experience, and his writings are even more varied. Born of a line of American military men in Ft. Hamilton, N.Y., in 1886, he received a scientific education at Yale University. After a year or two of "puttingter around" he obtained the position he now commands by correspondence, and rose from office boy to associate editor, a position which he held from 1910 to 1917.
That is the way someone has described William Rose Beret, internationally known poet, critic, and author, to the University to lecture Feb. 11.
He has published s i x books of original poetry, most famous of which are "Merchants from Catbury" (1912) and the "Falconer of God" (1916). He also wrote essays, translations, and edited various collections and anthologies.
college students as the "Phoenician" of "The Phoenix Nest" column is that magazine.
His first wife was a sister of Kathleen Norris, the novelist, and his second wife was Eleanor Wylie, considered the finest contemporary woman poet at the time of her death in 1928. He is the elder brother of Stephen Vincent Benet, of "John Brown's Body" bale.
Let Contract For Dyche Completion
Bid for Reconstruction Of Condemned Building Goes to J. C. Constant Of Laurence
J. T. Constant, Lawrence contractor, yesterday was awarded the contract for reconstruction work on Dyche museum, according to a report issued to University of Kansas officials by J. A. Mermis, state business manager. Constant's bid on the proposed rebuilding amounted to $46.728.
The general contract does not provide for completion of the work. Alternate items have not been decided upon definitively.
A. D. Jacobson, Kansas City. Mo.
received the plumbing contract on a
bid of $630. Mermis said that
the electric wiring contract will not be
reached.
Additional wiring and plumbing are to be installed. A basement floor and mezzanine floor are also listed for construction.
The contracts were not let last Monday when the state manager opened the bids. They were declared too high.
In November, 1952, the building was condemned and closed. Grants of $25,000 from the legislature and $10,465 from Public Works Administration were given for removal of inner structure of the building and for general reinforcement of floors, pillars and beams.
A fund of $55,000 was granted by the state legislature last February At that time an unsuccessful attempt was made to obtain a federal grant.
Lawson Talks On Vocations College Dea advises Against a Too Hasty Choice of Life-Work
In opening a series of radio talks from station KFKU, addressed more especially to high school students of Kansas, Paul B. Lawen, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, advised precipitate choice of a life-vocation.
"The girl who marries in haste is liable to repent at leisure; neither should you marry your life to a job that requires you to work a great deal," said Lawson.
Dr. Lawson urged, on the other hand, the desirability of studying a variety of subjects in high school and of taking at least two years of the general cultural subjects of a university before making final decision.
"Of course you can't stop to learn something about very many of the nearly 32,000 different kinds of vocation that now attract mankind, but that doesn't mean that because you like mathematics in high school, you should decide without further inquiry you should take up a vocation that depends largely on mathematics.
"And remember, no matter what your final choice, you will never regret having a broad foundation for the field of your specialty, for the height to which you build the pyramid of your life's vocation will depend in large part upon the size of its base."
Dr. Lawson cautioned his hearsens especially to make their own decisions. "I have seen students at the University of Kansas over - persuaded by friends, or even ordered by parents, to take courses in which they were unhappy. I have seen students come successes when they switched to the course of their own choosing."
Fireside Forum Will Hold Dance
Fireside Forum, Congregationa University people's organization, will celebrate the arrival of the new semester with an old-fashioned barbieri from 830 to the parish house of the Plymouth Congregational Church.
"The only requirements for ad mission will be 15 cents and an appropriate costume for barn dancing", said Z尼恩 Fowler, c39, chairman of Forum parties, yesterday afternoon.
John L. Hunt, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A., will lead the square dancing and reels.
Cook Announces Residence Scholarships
Miss Pennis Cook, executive sec
retary of the University committe
on aids and awards, yesterday an-
nounced the following scholarships:
Residence scholarships at Watkins
Catholic School, c38, and Evalyn McCool, c40.
Residence scholarships at t Miller hall to Cléojeane Smith, c'uncl, and Lois Sholander, c'38.
Names Law Honor Roll
Dean Moreau Nominates Twenty-Two Students For Rating
Dean Frederick J. Moreau has announced that 22 students have been recommended for the honor roll and approved by the faculty of the School of Law.
Law students must have better than a "B" average to make the honor roll, and must be approved by the school. Of the 10 may be chosen from each class.
Class of 1938: Glenn W. Dickinson, Jr, David H. Fisher, H. Heerog. Donald, Dainal A. Hansen, Tom B. Ise, Richard O. Jones, Patrick B. McAnany, Erick A. Roberts, and Charles M. Tansey.
Those chosen are:
Class of 1939: Omer G. Voss, John M. Rounds, Honor M. Curat, Harold C. Cook, Oscar F. Belin, Harry S. Deutch, William R. Kirby, Bill House, Burton C. Mader, and James M. Hauseh.
Class of 1940: Kenneth B. Wallace,
Charles E. Henshafl, Charles W.
Ward.
Insurgent Planes Bomb Ambulance Train
B Barcelona, Spain. Feb. 3. — (UP) — The Loyalist government announced today that, pending the outcome of British and French efforts to obtain a "truce" in the bombing of open towns, its air force will cease bombarding civilian population from the air.
Simultaneously with the announcement, a fleet of *Insurgent* planes sweep down on a French-American food and ambulance convoy near Fidurerus, along the Franco-Spanish border, and he convoys with heavy loss of life.
Four American ambulances in the procession escaped the bombs and raced at full speed into Barcelona, while the other trucks, mostly loaded with food, turned about and returned to Perniguan, France.
Several of the French trucks in the convoy were hit and destroyed, killing three French drivers and injuring nine others.
Nine Spanish civilians were killed and heavy damage was done by the Insurgent bombs.
WaterColors Are on Display
For the month of February the Spooner-Thayer museum is showing a collection of water colors by Milford Zornes of Clarmont, Calif.
California desert and marin scenes predominate in the collection. There are, however, portraits of several Mexican landscapes and a representation of the Thames river in London; the Hudson river from Jersey; and several New England pictures. One of these is a striking portrait of sea life along the Atlantic, with boats at the wharf in the background; and another is a counted-fish illustration.
Among Mr. Zornes' California scenes is one of Yosemite valley, an exquisitely colored painting entitled "At Sunset," and a picture of the "Torrey Pines," which are among the oldest trees in the world. A more artistic version also exhibited, its title being "Morning on South Main."
Mr. Zorres was born in Oklahoma was educated in California, and is a member of the California Water Color Society, the Fine Arts Society of San Diego, and Laguna Beach Art Association. He lived in the same town with Millard Sheets, and his was ardent pupil. Mr. Zorres is represented in the Post Office building at Washington, D.C., by 17 water colors depicting the carrying of the United States mails.
Engineers Near Peak Enrollment
Dean Ivan C. Crawford of the School of Engineering announced yesterday that the total registration of that school has reached 658, which is within ten of the maximum registration for the first semester.
Presnell Takes Husker Position
Member of Jaghawkier Football Coaching Staff Will Hold Similar Job At Nebraska
Glenn Presnel, who has held the position of backfield coach on the varsity football coaching staff since the beginning of spring practice last year, yesterday accepted the offer of a position with the university, maybe, the University of Nebraska.
The move came as a surprise to Gwinn Henry, director of athletics, and to Prof. W. W. Davis, chairman of the athletic board.
Maj. Lawrence M. "Biff" Jones, director of athletics and head football coach at Nebraska, came to Lawrence Wednesday with the Cornusker basketball team and contacted Henry and Head Football Coach Ad Lindsay, before presenting his offer to Presnell. Both Henry
CLENN PRESNELL
Opportunity for Promotion
and Lindsay expressed the desire to keep Presell on the coaching staff, but left the matter up to Presell for a decision.
It is understood that the job at Nebraska carries with it a good salary increase, but, what is more important, it offers a chance for more rapid promotion. Nebraska has been for years in the national spotlight in the football realm and the success of a young man as assistant coach there has grown. If you want to step into the position of head coach at some "big time" football school.
Prof. W. W. Davis, upon being questioned regarding the plans of the athletic board to meet the situation, said that the board would meet within a month and would take action, after the recommendations of the athletic director of the school have been asked to study the situation and recommend a candidate or course of action.
No Plans for Filling Vacancy
Last night Henry told a Kansan reporter that, owing to the suddenness of Presnel's decision, he had not yet any plans for filling the vacancy. However, he stressed the fact that he would recommend what Head Coach Lindsey desired. "We want to do whatever suits Lindsey and the rest of the staff, for after all they are the ones who will be hired." Presnel said. "If there is a man desirable to Lindsey who is obtainable, then that man will be recommended for the position."
Henry, Lindsay and Davis each expressed deep satisfaction with Presnel's activities as assistant coach, and with the wooer he fitted into. The two were also the voices voiced regrets at seeing the perennial young coach's departure.
KFKU To Give Boy Scout Program Tomorrow Night
Station KFKU will present a Boy Scout program tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock that will bring to the microphone several Lawrence officials. Paul Campbell, area scout executive, will be interviewed on Scout anniversary plans by Chief of Police Jude Anderson; Fire Chief Paul Imagalint; C. E Birch, city school superintendent; J. M. Mott, city physician; and Mayor Alfred Lawrence. Prof. W. A. Dill, a member of the area executive committee, will be announcer for the broadcast.
Ask Engineers To Sell Books
Students in the School of Engineering are urged to buy or sell their books as soon as possible at the MVR Institute, a new in operation in Marvin hall.