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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1936
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Medals for Everyone
The Jayhawker Post of the Veterans of Future Wars has now been firmly established, but unfortunately is headed in the same materialistic direction as other veterans' organizations with demands for bonus. It is time to point out that wars are finer things than more struggles for colonies and bond issues. Consider the flag-waving for the uniformed heroes, the grand marches, the departing tears and kisses, the married-quickbefore-you-g killed-and-can't enjoy life idea, and above all, consider the medals!
Nothing is finer than a medal. It is an emblem of all that is noble in men (chiefly dead men). The tiny bit of metal suspended from gay ribs may not be a fine decoration, yet it makes one stand out from the mob. It is the principle of the thing that counts.
But medals have their weaknesses. They are usually awarded to endagers or unheroic figures on crutches. What good are they to them? Often the medals even are given to the papas and namas, and what did they do to deserve them? No, medals usually arrive too late—either one's ideals have been shattered, or else it is one's leg.
If the Veterans of Future Wars are going to make a name for themselves some fine day on a European battlefield, by catching themselves on barbed wire or by taking machine gun nests with a tin of horse meat in each band, it is up to them to acquire their medals now, while they can enjoy them. They will have plenty of opportunities to wear the things later.
The bonus is a just demand, but the boys should not devote their organization entirely to the dollar sign. There are plenty of medals on sale in junk shops throughout the nation, and if that supply runs out the boys can write to Mussolini, King Ed, and the Democrats for whom the world was saved in the last year. Let your mamas see them on you!
It Can't Work
The new group system, effective with next year's freshmen, is a dangerous departure from the principles of American education. It threatens the intellectual desience of almost every student on this campus.
In the first place, the requirement that students who want to be seniors must take an examination in writing simple prose may seriously endanger the supply of schools. In time, this rule will probably be repealed. After all, there is a limit to what one can expect of college students.
Dividing the more important college courses into three groups, in each of which candidates for degrees must offer twenty hours, means that the boys and girls are going to have to take it whether they like it or not. They will be expected to make their exit from Mount Oread, if they make an exit, riding on a wide range of knowledge. It has even been intimated that after four years here, the campus elite will have a liberal education. This is too much, of course, and we only cite the rumor to show the lengths to which theoretical academicians occasionally go.
Yet the new system cannot harm us of 1936. When next year's frush are seniors, we shall probably be satisfied third vice-presidents in the WPA.
Shakespearian Plavs
Kansas University seems to be running over with opportunities this week. Not only do we have the famous opera to look forward to Wednesday night, but for those of us who are impatient, there is to be grand entertainment here both Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday night.
All those interested in drama or in Shakespeare, will not miss the treat in store. The Avon players, a group of traveling actors, are going to present for our entertainment two of Shakespeare's best loved tragedies. Tuesday afternoon they will present "Hamlet" and Tuesday night they will present "Hamlet."
These actors are all thoroughly trained in the technique of Shakespearean acting and should give us an excellent interpretation of these plays which we love so much. All English students and dramatic students will miss something of vital importance to their studies if they miss these plays and all other students will miss a number of hours of enjoyment. Let's take advantage of a rare opportunity to see some legitimate stage plays acted by trained professional actors.
Some years ago a very fine building was raised on this campus and dedicated to the purpose that Joe and Jean College should have a place to go and visit with their friends at odd moments. For this purpose, said building was equipped with a large staircase that provided the comforts necessary for a nice, cozy chit-chat.
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On this campus another fine building was also built and dedicated to the purpose that Joe and Jeanie should have a place—a quiet place—conducive to good study. The sign announces this intent stands in the entrance hall, in case you've never noticed it.
The ulterior motive in back of this study of buildings in this Some 3500 students are mistaking the library for the lounging rooms of the Union building. As a consequence this action forces the other 500 of us who wish to study occasionally to find some comparatively quiet place where we aren't forced to listen to loud stage whispers or poorly muffled undertones.
"And so Tom says—he was lit up like a Christmas tree—Tom says, 'You dope,' he was waving a beer bottle in one hand and a limberger cheese sandwich—smelly stuff—in the other, he says, 'You dope, uvouse Rovewell' be re-llected, hazunt he been for the last four yaers?' I thought I'd bust." (Too bad you didn't.)
So it goes—the men talk about anything, the women talk about themselves, other women, men and clothes, confidentially of course, but so loudly no one can escape them.
Two buildings, the Union building for visits, the library for study, and will the Joes and Jeans please get 'em straight!!!
Campus Opinion
Articles in this column do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the University Daily Kaman. Articles over 200 words in length are subject to cutting by the editor. Contributions on any subject are invited.
Editor*Daily Kansan:
May I suggest that the liberares are just a little hard on Henry J. Allen in excusing their heckling with the inscription that he didn't stick to facts? How could he be wrong? facts are all in the exclusive possession of the liberares? J.J.R.
Editor Daily Kansan:
I realize that it must be difficult for students in Editorial to find subjects on which to editorialize, and I sympathize. But, and I stand corrected if wrong, editorialists should show at least an attempt at an intelligent approach to editing, but the students cannot but cannot see should confine themselves, not to the editorial, but to the campus opinion column. Here we can present our most blindly prejudiced views without leaving the impression that the official university paper purrses sacred tears by sectioning our howlings. I preface with my heart, re the editorial, "Rodentess at Forums."
Rudeness was in evidence. That cannot be denied. It is insulting to a supposedly intelligent group of university students for a person to present an illogical, self-contraceptive mass of minif Information and answer requests to define his terms with, "I refuse to be tricked into contraception" or "I refuse my knowledge, carries batteries or red flags about, have been heard to remark that the forum speaker displayed a gloriously blissful lack of information. One who makes statements which cannot be supported by either fact or logic must necessarily resort to tweeting fasties and tacos by dissembling their queries as juvenile or too ignorant to waste time on. No can denies that there was rudeness.
The most dishendearingly reflection of all is: of such stuff are our solvents made.
Carl W. Smith.
Editor Daily Kansan:
Tul! Tat! Mr. Hugh Gordon Hadley, I think you got all worked up about that cribbing business recently. Don't be so idealistic and just look around a little. The girl who orbits during a quiz may graduate to bigger and better things later on. She may help her husband swipe a penny from the desk of the van at the Van Swietrengen beys. They went out and swiped a billion dollars worth of railroades and became pillars of society. Using similar tactics Samuel Inculde became one of Chicago's greatest benefactors and an authority on modern Greek scenery. No doubt such great successes had very modest beginnings. You may be nipping a fist captain of industry in the bad by your critical attitude.
What you ought to do is to get busy and marry a girl like that, Hugh. She might make you into one of America's most enterprising men and a shining example for aspiring young rugged individuals. You might even have to work your way through the college age. Anyway I hope you take the "long view" and quit being so hard on girls who have an eye to the future.
Harlan Francis Jennings
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Vol. 33 MARCH 29, 1936 No. 125
FENCING CLUB: A tournament will be held Tuesday evening, March 31, at 7 o'clock in Robinson gymnasium. Refreshments will be served. All fencers please be present. Visitors are welcome.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION: Freshman of W.C.A. will meet on the east side of Fraser on Monday at 4:30, before taking a trip through the home economics department's home management house.
Grace Pearson, Secretary.
Jim Bounds, Secretary
K. U. PEACE ACTION COMMITTEE. The K.U. Peace Action Committee will meet at 4:30 PM on Tuesday in Room 10, Memorial Union building. Everyone is welcome. Alfred C. Ames, Executive Secretary,
Jean Russell, Chairman.
FRESHMAN COUNCIL. There will be a meeting of the Freshman Council Monday evening in Room 10 of the Café.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB TEA: The women of the senior class and the Graduate School will be guests of the University Women's Club Thursday, April 2, in Myers hall on a tea at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Mrs. Leonard Axe, Corresponding Secretary.
'Carmen' Brings Life and Loves of Old Seville and Surroundings to University
The University of Kansas is to have another unexpected treat this week. The presentation of the opera Carmen by the Chicago Civic Opera Company is one to watch, and it take advantage of. It is the first operat in this vicinity for a number of years.
By Lucille Offutt, e'uncl.
Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet, written about the middle of the 19th century. The story of Carmen was adapted from a French novel of that name written by Proper Morines. The opera is in four acts.
The scene of the story is in Seville and environs and the time is 1820. The first act takes place on a public square in Seville near the tobacco factory. As the scene opens the soldiers of the guard are on the stage in front of the guard, and they ask for help. The guards officer tells her he will be with the dragon which is now on its way to relieve the present guard. The relief-guard comes and takes its stand. The noon hour arrives and the cigarette girls come on the stage. The eyes and enten- ture of the dragon is on Carrion. Don Jasper asks for a farey to him and throws his a nosey, a passionate silence, and then flees.
Michela then comes to Don Jose and brings him a message of forgiveness from his mother. Don Jose has just resolved to announce the thought of Carmen when there is a disturbance in the factory. Carmen has wounded another man, but he doesn't have the guard orders Don Jose to take her to jail. Carmen appeals to the handsome corporal and he allows her to escape. For this, he is sentenced to prison.
The second act occurs, sometime later in a tavern, a resort for smugglers of whom Carmen is one. Carmen is passing the time with officers while waiting for Don Jose. A torcerad comes in, falls in love with her, and is repulsed. Two other soldiers, the aid of Carmen and her two friends, are "morcheladee." Carmen refuses because she is expecting the corporal. Don Jose comes and is left with Carmen who sings and dances for him. He hears the bugle call and is going to answer, despite Carmen's secon, when an officer comes and orders him to go. Don Jose infaces and swords are drawn. Carmen comes and they disarm the man, but because he is a mutinant, Don Joe is forced to leave Seville and join the smugglers.
The third net takes place in the mountains where the group is availing a chance to smuggle goods into the city. Don Joe is bitterly regretful and Carr the agent of him, turns him to go back to his mother, who turns her坐她 is to meet death soon but then torment him. Don Joe is left to watch the goats while the others scout. Miracle comes if Escambona the torader, goes o' Don Joe first. The latter finds out it is looking for Carmen. They fight a duel but Carmen saves the torader. He meets Don Joe to go to his dying mother. He meets Carmen again come somewhere.
The fourth scene is in front of the amphibianmire where the ballfights are held. Carmen, radiant with conquest, and with the bull-fighter. Her friend warns Carmen to stay away from the arena, to face. Carmen pays no heed and when all go into the arena, wants to see Den Jose. He begs her to come back to him, impresses her love, and promises to huggers. Carmen scurrs him and proclaims the torader. When applaudle for Eca-millo is heard, she attempts to go to him. Den Joe, mad with jealousy, stubs her to the heart, that the victorious torader comes from the arena to claim his love.
Carmen is an artful, fickle gypsy and contrasted by the simple village girl, Mimi. Carmen is considered one of the most beautiful "Toreador Song" is known by everyone. The libero of the opera is based on Henry Millmeil and Ludovic Halevy.
Coe Glade, a young contralto who sings the lead, has been highly praised
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Common Belief . In Athlete's Heart Not Proven
The common belief is athlete's heart, enlargement due to over-exercision, has finally been disproved by scientific research. The majority of physicians think that athlete's heart exists. However, the condition has been made until recently. The current issue of the Literary Digest contains a reprint of G. H. Brande's comments on the subject in Sports Illustrated. Mr. Brande is a specialist in problems of health and hygiene. After attending regardings athlete's heart, he reports:
"Recent investigations have proved practically without the slightest question that there is no such entity as an athlete; he heart; it does not exist, never has existed."
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The latest pronouncement on this subject comes from the celebrated Mayo clinic of Rochester, Minn. At a recent staff meeting of the clinic, Dr.H.L.
Smith of the section on cardiology dismissed the current beliefs about athlete's hearts as nonsense, stating that strenuous physical exercises and hard manual work do not cause or predispose to heart disease; that such activities do not impair the ability to perform (enlargement of the heart) and that athletes do not develop early disability and die because of the exercise in which they indulge while at school.
So-called athlete's heart provoked speculation when the doctors examined Glenn Cunningham's heart and found the Komasa mile star has a normal, lazy heart, like the heart that thumps in the bony box of the average office worker who hasn't been enlarged or accelerated or strained by running miles without number.
When that fact was observed, physicians then got busy listening to the hearts of a great number of track men. The hearts of men disproved the "athlete's heart" theory.
Virginia Post to New Position
Virginia Post of Great Bend, who was radiant from the department of jour alure here last year, has been appointed manager of the Great Bend Tribune manager of the Great Bend Tribune
Mother Corle, Corbin Hall Manager Performs Numerous Duties Each Day
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"This is one of the best date puddings, I've ever tasted," said one of the Corbin Hall girls to Mother Corle, house manager of Corbin Hall the other evening at the restaurant for the recipe for it?" Yes," replied Mother Corle with a twinkle in her eye and a smile about her mouth. "Yes, you may have it, but it's a receipt for 125 people." Running a household for 125 girls he can handle well, too. To most people her biggest responsibility would seem to be the planning and superintending of meals. In what quantities does she buy food? "Forty quarts of whole milk a day, ten cups of coffee cream, fifteen pounds of butter a day and forty-five to fifty pound roasts for one meal—that is the way the food orders run here. A great deal of it we get through the contract letters in the book and also supply other institutions. We do not eat food though the asylums and penitentiaries." With the meals running or a smooth schedule, Mother Corle has many other duties of which laundry is necessary and repair are only a few. New rugs are needed and the goods must go shopping for them. Th
elevator isn't working right? Get a repair man from the college.
"This dormitory is entirely self-supporting," she emphasized in the interview. "Many people are under the impression that we receive money from the state, but the only income we have comes from the board and room pay by two main divisions, that divided into two main divisions, that divided by the room rent and that which comes out of the board. Out of the room rent fund, we pay the maids, for coal, electricity, laundry, new sheets, new curtains, any new refinishing that is done, in fact, all equipment above the dining table, taken care of by this rent. Out of the dining table, kitchen help, cooks, refrigeration, kitchen equipment and the like."
Mother Carly resisted her knitting in her lap and looked reflectively about her. I asked where she had got her broken neck. I asked for this position. "Well, mostly in the Chicago. You've never heard of the Eekon club? They were homes for young students, artists, and working girls who wanted to live in a more select city." We were led by the Y.W.C.A. and yet they moved to money on live. They were started by
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