Thursday, Feb. 25, 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Title Hopes Dim In 68-57 Loss
Kansas State blasted Kansas' title hopes into the 33rd row of seats at Ahearn Fieldhouse last night with a smashing 68-57 win over the Jayhawkers.
The Wildcats triumph left K-State atop the Big Eight race with an 8-3 record and skidded the Jayhawkers into second place with a 7-4 mark. Both teams have but three games left to play.
A Bitter Pill
For the Jayhawkers, the loss was a bitter pill as well as a blow to Kansas chances for at least a share of the league crown. The Jayhawkers had stopped the Wildcats, 64-62, only two and a half weeks ago, one of the most important wins in a victory skein of five straight.
But last night the Kansans just didn't have the octane to keep up with their rivals who outplayed the Jayhawkers in every department.
The Wildcats sprang a zone defense that forced the Jayhawkers to take off-balance shots from the outside. When the Jays attempted to work the ball into the pivot, the stout K-State defense sagged like yesterday's celery, and held the Bridges-Hightower combination to just 23 points.
Game Decided In First Half
Kansas could manage only nine buckets from the field in 38 attempts for an anemic 24 per cent during the ice-cold second half.
The game was actually decided in the first half when 6-8 sophomore center Mike Wroblewski dented the Kansas defense with 15 points. Kansas shot for a better percentage than their Sunflower opponents in the first half, but the Wildcats took more shots and came out ahead in field goals, 14-12.
Kansas State led at the end of the first half 36-28.
In the second half Kansas continued to make mechanical errors as the Wildcats roared into an 11-point lead, 41-29. Bill Bridges picked up his fourth foul early, and from
then on Kansas State commanded the backboards in convincing fashion.
Jerry Garner held the Jayhawkers together in the last minutes of the game. finishing with 16 points.
Wally Frank tallied 19 for Kansas State.
IM B Leagues Play Semifinals
Both Independent and Fraternity B basketball leagues head into the semifinals tonight.
In Fraternity action Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta will battle for a finals berth opposite the winner of the Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Phi Epsilon game.
In Independent play Delta Functions meet the Hicks and NROTC plays the Medics to see which teams will enter the finals. Finals will be played tomorrow.
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KU's swimming team will take on the Nebraska tankers at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Robinson pool.
Coach Jay Markley said the Jayhawkers would work as hard as possible to splash up some new records before next week's conference meet at Colorado.
Swimmers Meet Cornhuskers Saturday
"That's the big one," he said. "We shouldn't have too much trouble with Nebraska because they only
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have one outstanding boy, a good breaststroke swimmer. Unless they have improved since we last met, that's about all."
Coach Markley added that Kansas would be swimming only one man in each event.
"If we swam two men in each event I'm sure we would win everything," Markley asserted.
However, Coach Markley felt that the Jayhawkers would work harder if they had to rely upon themselves to win the events.
THE THUNDERING MARCH OF PROGRESS
Today, as everyone knows, is the forty-sixth anniversary of the founding of Gransmire College for Women, which, as everyone knows, was the first Progressive Education college in the United States.
Well do I recollect the tizzy in the academic world when Gransmire opened its portals! What a buzz there was, what a brouhaha in faculty common rooms, what a rattling of teacups, when Dr. Agnes Thudd Sigafoos, first president of Gransmire, lifted her learned old head and announced defiantly, "We will teach the student, not the course. There will be no marks, no exams, no requirements. This, by George, is Progressive Education!"
Well sir, forward-looking maidens all over the country cast off their fetters and came rushing to New Hampshire to enroll at Gransmire. Here they found freedom. They broadened their vistas. They lengthened their horizons. They unstopped their bottled personalities. They roamed the campus in togas, leading ocelots on leashes.
And, of course, they smoked Marlboro cigarettes. (I say, "Of course." Why do I say, "Of course"? I say, "Of course" because it is a matter of course that anyone in search of freedom should naturally turn to Marlboro, for Marlboro is the smoke that sets the spirit soaring, that unyokes the captive soul, that fills the air with the murmur of wings. If you think flavor went out when filters came in—try Marlboro. They are sold in soft pack or flip-top box wherever freedom rings.)
But all was not Marlboro and ocelots for the girls of Gransmire. There was work and study too—not in the ordinary sense, to be sure, for there were no formal classes. Instead there was a broad approach to enlarging each girl's potentials, both mental and physical.
Take, for example, the course called B.M.S. (Basic Motor Skills). B.M.S. was divided into L.D. (Lying Down), S.U. (Standing Up) and W. (Walking). Once the student had mastered L.D. and S.U., she was taught to W.-but not just to W. any old way! No, sir! She was taught to W. with poise, dignity, bearing! To inculcate a sense of balance in the girl, she began her exercises by walking with a suitcase in each hand. (One girl, Mary Ellen Dorgenicht, got so good at it that today she is bell captain at the Deshler-Hilton Hotel in Columbus, Ohio.)
It was quite an impressive sight----
When the girls had walking under their belts, they were allowed to dance. Again no formality was imposed. They were simply told to fling themselves about in any way their impulses dictated, and, believe you me, it was quite an impressive sight to see them go bounding into the woods with their togas flying. (Several later joined the U.S. Forestry Service.)
There was also a lot of finger painting and sculpture with coat hangers and like that, and soon the fresh wind of Progressivism came whistling out of Gransmire to blow the ancient dust of pedantry off curricula everywhere, and today, thanks to the pioneers at Gransmire, we are all free.
If you are ever in New Hampshire, be sure to visit the Gransmire campus. It is now a tannery.
© 1960 Max Shilton
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