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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. April 27. 1960
Without Peer
We students of the University have chosen Ray Q Brewster, professor of chemistry, to receive the 1960 HOPE award — our tribute to extraordinary service to KU, the education profession and its vital product, the student.
Everyone knows Dr. Brewster. There was no question that he easily met all the qualifications for the award - willingness to help students, devotion to profession, success in stimulating students and challenging them toward thinking, and contribution to the general cultural life of the University.
He receives a $100 honorarium, provided from the class gift of the Class of 1959. But the significant aspect of the award is the student endorsement of excellence in teaching, as represented by Dr. Brewster. The HOPE award is the only faculty award given by students, and is thereby a most significant recognition.
MEMBERS OF the chemistry department faculty, in nominating Dr. Brewster for the Midwest Award of the American Chemical Society, which he received in 1957, said of him:
"To us in this department, Dr. Brewster epitomizes excellence in every area of academic activity. As classroom and laboratory teacher, as a research director, as an administrator, as a textbook writer, as a representative of the chemical profession, and as a friend, counselor and inspiration to students, Dr. Brewster's contributions have been pre-eminent. In our opinion, for all-round service, Dr. Brewster is without a peer."
A STUDENT who nominated Dr. Brewster for the HOPE award noted that he "has given unselfishly 40 years of his life to the students of this university."
A chemistry student said that he "had the privilege of being instructed by Dr. Brewster and in all honesty I have never been so impressed by any man His desire to help, his great knowledge, his intellectual honesty, and his great ambition radiate to all who come in contact with him."
The HOPE award committee, and the students they represented, made an excellent choice in honoring Dr. Ray Q. Brewster.
— Jack Harrison
The Gift
Editor:
Re: Doug Yocom's "A Gift to Top All Gifts."
I was present at the senior class executive board meeting when the insurance plan was first introduced, and I assure you that the board was not primarily concerned with competition with classes gone by and classes to come.
THE CLASS of '50 marked a turning point with their gift of the HOPE award. This was a mature gift, aimed at filling a long-felt need — recognition of faculty talent and service. It was in the same spirit that the class of '60 included in its gift suggestions the insurance program.
The statement, Doug, which disturbs me most is this: "But let's wait until we become alumni before we make any financial commitments — over and beyond our class dues. Then we can give what we can when the University needs it."
I WILL never be able to afford to give the University $500, no matter how great her need. But I'm confident that I can afford to send in $9.50 a year, especially since the insurance policy will be my life insurance during those first five financially rough years. Then, some day, because I gave $300 little by little, the University will receive $500. Modesty, you say and I agree, should be one of the important attributes of the giver. Equally important, I believe, is willingness to give — even perhaps above the amount required to get a cap and gown.
The class of '60 has four suggestions to choose from. Any of these will be a good gift to leave with the University. My four years here have not made me quite so cynical as you sound, Doug. I believe that if the seniors elect to buy insurance, it will not be in a spirit of financial competition, but with a feeling of gratitude toward the University and a willingness to help her out in a big way.
Jane Crow
Topeka senior
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Imponderables
Late one night while I was pondering imponderables the thought came to me: How completely devoid of a sense of humor are the beetle and the moth (the beetle and the moth that were circling around my light in particular and both as classes). Now don't pass this thought off as being ridiculous yet, not before we can examine some of its implications.
AFTER THIS initial and brilliant beginning, I went a step further in my analysis. The amoeba and paramesium, the earthworm and clam and many other of the so-called lower animals have no sense of humor either. They go about their busy, frantic lives reacting to stimuli in a very concrete and literal manner. They may not all be as busy as bees but they are just as devoid of the ability to see the broader and more comical aspects of life. But as we go up the evolutionary scale we find this one-sidedness gradually diminishing. The cat, the dog and the horse display the desire to frolic and enjoy themselves — the monkey and the chimpanzee even more so. And when we finally come to man we meet the near perfection of a creature that is out for a good time. We find the near perfection of wit, humor, and all-round good fun.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
If we are to assume a purpose to the universe and for the creation, as have so many philosophers of old, and, in addition, to assume the existence of a Supreme Being and Creator of this universe. His purpose would seem to have been to create a being with a good sense of humor. Which leads us to conclude that the Almighty must also have a good sense of humor. He would have to have a good sense of humor in order to create man. Don't you agree?
AND FURTHER we might conclude, that any digression from this benign ability to see the brighter aspects of life represents a kind of reversion to an earlier form on the evolutionary scale. Don't you be one of those to revert to a lower form of life! Don't forget, "you never had it so good."
But we must make one further conclusion as we follow this train of logic. The joyful, frolicking, carefree porpose is on a higher evolutionary level than man.
Vinson Derington, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student
Short Ones
The state spelling champion won the title Saturday by correctly spelling a good Kansas word — nautical.
KU Relays weather is improving. This year we got rid of the rain. Maybe next year we can escape the clouds as well.
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A young track fan got a bit impatient with the slow pace of the 3,000 meter steeplechase Saturday afternoon, and yelled to the contestants, "Get the lead out!"
It Looks This Way...
You seldom pick up a newspaper without seeing a horror movie advertised.
By Carol Heller
Now we are in favor of horror movies, but we don't think they are really very scary. Who's afraid of the skyscraper dragons, giant flies and mammoth tarantulas that usually star in horror movies?
FOR A REAL thriller-diller, we think there should be a horror movie about a gigantic centipede.
In the first place, everybody knows there are no dragons and the movie dragons look fake anyhow because they walk with jerks. Flys are not scary — they just tickle your nose when they walk on
it as you sleep. And for all their wickedness, tarantulas are quite respectable and stay outside under their rocks and woodpiles.
But centipedes are nasty. They hide by day and wiggle-crawl about by night. There is nothing more horrible than picking up a shoe in the closet and seeing a centipede wiggy-run out, or switching on the basement light and seeing a whole wall move sideways as a herd of centipedes wiggy-race for their cracks.
We saw a centipede in the office the other day and it
wiggly-ran under our desk and headed straight for our feet. We ran out into the hall in a panic until the man at the next desk smashed the centipede's wiggly self. We type with our feet propped up on the desk now.
WE PROBABLY are afraid of centipedes because when we were a little girl, somebody told us that the end of a finger would rot and fall off if a centipede bit it. Now that we are a big girl, we know that centipedes are harmless to man, but we don't care. We still don't like them.
Our zoology textbook vividly depicts the centipede family and makes us positive that the centipede would be the best star for a horror movie.
The book says centipedes are composed of sections called somites. House centipedes have 15 somites and tropical centipedes can have 173 somites. The first somite has a pair of four-jointed poison claws. Each of the other somites, except the last two, has a pair of seven-jointed walking legs.
This means that a centipede can have as many as 340 legs with which to wiggly-elude you and the bug-killer spray gun. It also is interesting to note that the centipede sexes are separate and that many of them have active love lives.
A 10-story-high and 100-miles-long centipede could wiggly-run across the nation in record-breaking time with its 340 20-mile-long legs all wiggling and running at once. The monster could stomp down cities with its legs and poison and chew up its victims as it wiggle-went. Each leg could grab a pretty girl and carry her away.
CENTIPEDES have mandibles to chew up their prey of earthworms and insects. The big 6 to 8-inch centipedes can capture small lizards or mice. The prey is killed by poison from a duct in the poison claw.
It would make a lovely horror movie.
But we wouldn't go to see it.
Family life in this country is a dead duck. Unless there is sickness in the household, the only time a family gets together nowadays is when they huddle in the gloom with their jaws sagging watching television.-Howard N. Simpson
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Always remember: when the execution is inferior to the conception, you may be sure a copy has been made.—The late Bernard Berenson, as quoted by Barbara Skelton.
Dailu Hansan UNIVERSIT
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