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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1932
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1932
KANSAS SCORES AGAIN
George "Speed" Atkeson, the Big Six guard selection on the first team, this year will represent the University on the West football team in the annual East-West game to be played in San Francisco January 2.
Atkeson, who completed his football career at the University so successfully, is the second Jayhawk to be chosen from here within the last several years. In 1930, James Bausch was given the honor.
This annual game is a clash between two teams picked from colleges all over the United States. The members of each team are chosen on their showing in football while in college. Kansas should be proud to produce football players who win selection for this team. Credit should be given to Atkeson and also to the coaches. Honor to those to whom honor is due, and congratulations go to the veteran Jayhawkier, "Speed" Atkeson.
One thing about the announcement of the final examination schedule is that it should surely throw a scare into delinquent students.
FOR GANGSTERS—GLORY OR SYMPATHY
The presentation of crime news is one of the greatest problems that faces conscientious journalists. The reading public wants the news, but it is entirely probable that it did not want the lurid details of crimes until after the newspaper had served them such a dish several times.
Cinema producers face a similar difficulty. The gangsters of crime pictures two years ago were so vigorous, cunning, and efficient that they tended to arouse the admiration of their audiences. Recent pictures have gone to the other extreme. Bad men have become so helpless and foolish that we feel sorry for many of them.
Somewhere between the two extremes is the real gangster, and when newspapers and moving pictures are able to portray them accurately, a great step will have been taken toward ridding this country of crime.
Germans called General von Schleicher their Christmas Chancellor last week: he'll probably be called Santa Claus before his term expires.
LITERATURE AND PEOPLE
The Library is full of a number of things, sometimes we wish it weren't so full, but nevertheless it does have many books and exhibitions which are well worth one's white.
The bound magazines which line the walls of the reserve room are very interesting, especially the older numbers dating back to 1890 and beyond. The stories, with, the exception of their illustrations, and the feature articles are quite similar to those found in popular periodicals of today. People haven't changed so radically in thought in the last forty years, after all.
JOY TO ALL
Christmas means a time of rejoicing, a time to sing hymns of praise, to extend cheery greetings, to present gifts to those we love, and above all to realize what connection these things have with Christmas. To a great number, Christmas means just that, without a thought of those to whom the good tidings of Christmas can mean nothing under their circumstances.
While many are feasting at their Christmas dinners this year, there are many others who will stand in the great breadlines in our own cities, waiting to receive a bowl of beans or soup. While merry-makers are "throwing" wild Christmas parties in great hotels, many hungry, unemployed people will be wishing for a cup of coffee. When many American families occupy warm living rooms, and listen to Christmas carols over the radio, many families will beltered in cold shacks, where only the sound of the biting wind is heard.
There is joy is giving. If you are one of the more fortunate ones, you can bring happiness to another by remembering him in his unhappy state, and make another soul feel that joy which is meant for all.
Vacancies now exist in the presidencies of Harvard, Princeton, New York, and Toledo universities. Can it be that a president's job is as uncertain as a coach? $^2$
FOR A COMMON GOOD
It has been suggested by some of the nation's best political minds that it would be an excellent move for President Hoover to step aside now and allow President-Elect Roosevelt to take over the reins as a means of bringing into play before March 4 the Democratic majority in Congress under Mr. Roosevelt's guidance.
Now, the proposition may be dangerous, and not to the best advantage of the public, but the Democratic party certainly should not reject it on the grounds "the Republicans would like to throw the burden on the Democrats as early as possible and identify Mr. Roosevelt with what happens between now and March 4."
This is no time for political squabbles. As most of the newspapers throughout the country proclaimed last November, "the election is over, now to work."
The country faces a great crisis; great measures must be taken at the earliest opportunity. They must be taken by the persons best able to put them into effect immediately.
The need of the country mus transcend all party lines.
A DEPARTMENT OF FORESIGHT
Sounds odd, does it not? But as a matter of common sense, it would seem that a study of foresight, or of the future of the world as present inventions and conditions are likely to mold it, is just as essential as the study of his 'sight, or history.
H. G. Wells, noted English historian, says that man is wasting the gifts of science because he is not giving any thought of their consequences.
During the time that professors and students are not delving into the past, they find it difficult enough to keep up with the present. If we can solve some social or economic problem to suit the majority of interests now, we call that progress.
Science has given us the automobile, the airplane, faster ships and railways, is continually seeking to find new ways to minimize distance. But little thought is given to the problems that will arise under such conditions.
If automobile builders ha a waited until highways were adequate for their machines; if airplane designers had waited for airports and beacon lights, we would probably still be traveling by stagecoach today. These mechanical accessories, however, would probably have appeared long before man realized the social and economic problems that would evolve from faster travel.
The Advanced Standing Commission of the W.Y.C.A. will give its Christmas party from 4:50 to 5:30 Tuesday evening in Heinley house. All girls are required to wear a coat.
ADVANCED STANDING COMMISSION OF Y. W. C. A.;
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OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Vol. VIII
Monday, Dec. 16, 1983
The Graduate club will meet in the private dining room of the cafeteria at 6:15 on Tuesday, Dec. 13. Prof. E. H. Taylor, of the Department of Zoology, will speak. All graduate students are invited. ELLIOTT PENNER, Chairman.
GRADUATE CLUB:
ELMA CAREY, Chairman
HYGIENE CLASSES;
All Hygiene classes, both men and women, will meet in Fraser theater on Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 4:30. This will take the place of the regular class work for the week. A moving picture of one phase of health will be shown.
KAYHAWK CLUB;
The Keyhawk club will meet this evening at 7:30 in room 5, Memorial Union. CONYERS HERRING, Vice President.
LAW STUDENTS:
DR. JAMES NAISMITH.
Hearing in the case of I. M. Wright vs. U. R. Knott, an action on a waiver, Counsel for the plaintiff are Merle A. Hegar and Henry Wilson; for the defendant are Olin K. Kephall and K. Krother. Argument before Jamie M. Moore against the plaintiff is not available. Commissioner. Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 n.m., in the court room of Green hall.
Associate Justice Francis W. Jacob will read the opinion in the case of Ribianahm, de Dilmun, an action in contrast against the third party beneficiary in a claim for damages against the plaintiff.
PHI CHI DELTA:
There will be no Phi Chi Delta meeting on Tuesday
PROF. FRANCIS W. JACOBS.
LOUISA BINGESSER.
--by two councils and place a single body in power—in other words, should the men students on the HIl be given complete control over student affairs? Women students like to think that they are men's equals, politically unrelated. Maybe they're who push forward unharmed by men's opinion and declare their rights, but these are a decided minority. Maybe it's the feminine instinct to flatter man's vanity and make him think he is all wise and all powerful. Maybe it's just a lack of the proper ambition and aggressiveness on the part of men, in their side with men on a student governing board and see who runs it.
PI LAMBDA THETA:
Pl Lambda Theta will meet Tuesday, Dec. 13, at 7:30 o'clock in room 119 Fraser. Program will be a discussion of educational magazines.
Y. W. C. A CHRISTMAS BAZAAR;
The Indians begin to arrive in their colorful blankets, all quiet and reverent. Their hair is cut in bungs in front and tied in a tail behind. They wear soft boots of brown leather with silver buttons. The children look like pocket editions of their elders, and every now and then a papoose may be seen tied on a father's or mother's back. They file to the altar to kiss the Christ Child, and then line the walls to wait for the dancers.
The final sale of the Christmas Oriental hazard at Harley house will be held tomorrow, Dec. 13, from 1 to 6. This time reductions in prices for Christmas decorations will be available on Saturday.
MURIEL WILLIAMSON, Chairman, Ways and Means Committee.
Some college in the near future may make educational history by offering a course in foresight. It may originate as an advanced course in history, since such study would be a prerequisite to it, but it should not be long in expanding into a full department.
Long after midnight the ceremony begins with the beating of drums to summon the people to the church. A fantastic figure appears, dancing and throwing his naked painted body into the rhythm of the song he sings. He is Koshare, the master of ceremonies. He shakes reindeer bells at windows as he goes down the street. He sleips into the church and is gone.
RESPECT LACKING
With the tragic death of George R. Allen Jr., still foremost in the minds of his intimate friends and relatives, a fight has arisen between the major parties for the power to name the successor to the office of state superintendent of public instruction.
The argument as to who has the authority to name the man who will continue the work of the late superintendent probably could not be avoided, but it is far from being appropriate in the light of the circumstances.
The ceremony is held within the church, where a fire is burning to brighten the many colored altar on which is a tiny creeche, and a little figure of the Christ Child in the manger.
Such present conditions bring to the surface one fault of party government. In this instance both parties are desirous of the superintendency and in the scramble for the office they think only of power and control, forgetting respect due the late holder of the office.
INDIAN CHRISTMAS
In the Indian pueblo of San Felipe, thirty miles from Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Indians hold the strengest festival in all Christendom in celebration of the birth of Jesus.
A beting of drums, the vibran chant of the chorus—Koshare appears at the door with fifteen singers each wrapped in a blanket. Their voices blend and fill the ear with the minor tones of the pagan music.
The dancers, one row of men with beaded kilts—and one row of women in their white tunes and scarlet sashes—rush into the room to begin the dance. The church seems filled with brilliant color. Everyone reacts to the holiday spirit they give out, but only an occasional yell will give any hint of the deep emotion aroused by these red men.
To the rapid beat of the drum and the shrill voices of the singers, the dancers sway in and out, back to back, face to face, keeping time to the pagan rhythm. As soon as the dance is over they all file up to the altar, Koehare leading, to new harmony to the Holy Child
As the dancers leave the church, Koshare winds his way in and out among the natives, telling amusing stories and exchanging wit with his fellow celebrants.
The ceremony is brought to a close by the appearance of the chorus chanting, and four dancers dressed in eagle feathers and wings. They soar and hover near the altar in their dance, their painted bodies catching the gleam of the candle light. As the bird men disappear, the chief of the village repeats as much of the mass as he remembers. The Indians kneel in reverence, answering in response. Thus, half pagan, half Christian, these Indians celebrate Christmas each year.
Campus Opinion
The only change women have to maintain any degree of authority in the present state of political inequality is to stick to their own governing body. Perhaps its authority is limited, but it's better than no authority at all.
Editor Daily Kansan:
I suggest that this column, ie, the "Campus Opinion" column be changed and a more descriptive name adopted. When it is criticized, the editor adds his explanatory albi in an "Editors Note" immediately following the criticism. Perhaps a better name would be "Edition Notes", but why does what it is. On those things in which the editor agrees there is no explanatory Editors Note. On those things in which the editor disagrees, there is. In either case it appears that the opinion is that
--the sultriness of summer's midday heat
—I. S.
The Campus Muse
The editor's column is the place for the editor to write his convictions "as" Now if the editor wants to make a horse neck of himself let's see him write an "Editors Note" following this opinion. —L. R.
Stifles the earth; a low cloud in the east
--green trees Of hail comes; and now a few stones beat
Editor Daily Kansan:
Creeps to the westward like a stalking beast,
Should the University change its present system of student government
While cornfields tremble; in the dark green sheet
The storm's full fury, leaping to the feast.
The earth mid awful stillness; then, released.
Tears with chill teeth the cornfield at its feet.
Then quiet comes; cool is the day, and still.
Only a mother's weeping moves .he air.
And a father's angry curse is heard, breathed low.
While sick at heart, he gazes in despair
At leafless cornstalks, standing on the hill
Like skeletons, tall, lifeless, row on row.
-Josephine Wheeler
The Campus Pest
--usually fail to plete him, and often the grade in that course suffers. In a real classroom of holding the class over into the 10-minute period excuse their action on the grounds that they are so full of their subject and have so much to tell that they don't have time during the lesson, and they are of real service to their students when they take the extra time. As a matter of fact, there are few students who listen to what it said after the whistle blows. The teacher would be better off having them say what he had to say until the first part of the next-classroom session.
The professor who holds his students for seven or eight of the ten minutes between the class periods is a part-time teacher, and must be tolerated. It is a brave student who has the nerve to walk out of this professor's class, for he always is the type who would take that account. The student and the student's grade would suffer.
The student victim of this professor's action arouses the ire of the teacher of his next class because he comes into class late. Breathless explanations
FIGURE THAT OUT
This amount of time was apparently taken up by the boys in getting to and from the girls. And now will the wise guy who figured out all this please figure out how much time he wasasted in figuring it out—Emporia Gazette.
Some wise guy with little else to do as he figured up that college boys waste most of their time with vaste only 4.48 hours. We have always seen under the impression that all the nine college boys wasted in is comeback, so they leave 18 hundredths of an hour.
Send the Kansan home.
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The Gift For the Student
How much easier it would be to study in these lovely silk and velvet lounging pajamas and robes. And what an ideal gift they would be. One style in pajamas is in silk with a short velvet jacket in lovely pastel shades. Then there are velvets in black, blue, green, and red at $5.95. Also the most stunning black velvet ones with huge rhinestone buttons at $7.50. The Corduroy pajamas are in burgundy, blue, American Beauty, and coral at $3.45. The Corduroy Robes in burgundy, blue, American Beauty and Coral are priced at $2.95. Quilted silk comfort robes in many styles make an ideal gift at $5.95 to $13.50.
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