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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1959
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From the Waist
One of the more moving half-time ceremonies in recent years took place in Memorial Stadium Saturday when the University honored its national champion track and field team.
Each member of the squad was recognized for his share in the team's great victories of last season. The KU band saluted them on bended knees. The players held the trophies which they won for themselves and the school while field announcer E. R. Elbel read the long list of their accomplishments.
Included among the players were five All Americas, an example of the team's outstanding caliber. But the man who received the greatest ovation was Coach Bill Easton, who presented his team's NCAA championship trophy to Chancellor Murphy.
Mr. Easton, now in his 13th season as track coach, has never given KU a bad team. His cross-
country team has won the conference title each year since 1947. And for the past eight years, KU trackmen have led the Big Eight in indoor and outdoor competition, as well as in cross-country. These are only a few of the titles won by Mr. Easton's men. (For a partial list, see The Daily Kansan, Oct. 16, p. 8.)
Rarely does a school receive a national "first." KU's last national championship was held by Phog Allen's basketball club in 1952. Outside of athletics, Kim Giffin's debate team led the country two years ago.
As long as Mr. Easton is around, other schools can expect to have a tough time trying to knock KU from its perch. But even if that should happen, Mr. Easton and his men rate no less praise. For they have achieved the ultimate, and deserve a deep bow—from the waist.
The College Student
Today's college student is, although almost unknown to himself, cast as a type in this country
His conduct influences those younger than he and his clothing styles those older than he.
—John Husar
He is the sole supplier of semi-educated summer help, of football players for Saturday afternoon television entertainment and of jobs for all the world's professors.
He is a great financial assistance to the phone company, the food and drink distributors and the cleaning establishments. He is a constant source of torment to the hometown banker.
He has the most concrete methods of using leisure time, avoiding outside assignments and losing sleep. He can sing louder (especially the freshman), talk longer and smoke more cigarettes than anyone else in the world.
He is always tired but never admits it. He serves his living group as a nurse, counselor,
referee and secretary. He never has the correct time, an extra stamp or change for a dollar. He arrives everywhere late without a pencil.
He lives in a world all his own, at times almost untouched by the outside world. He has neither the lack of responsibility of the high school student nor the independence of the adult.
He is accused of interest only in the world immediately around him. He may care about problems of the world today but plans for the weekend occupy much more of his time.
He is accused of being a conformist. He is criticized for always wanting security.
He is characterized by impatience, instability, inmaturity, rebelliousness and lack of perseverance. This is balanced by energy, generosity, idealism, resiliency and optimism.
Perhaps he's not such a bad guy after all.
Docking and Parole
Kansas attorney general John Anderson's persistent efforts to re-commit convicted confidence game operator, Mrs. Anna Mae Borserine, were rewarded yesterday when Gov. George Docking revoked her parole.
Docking granted the woman parole after she served less than the minimum of her sentence. Anderson immediately protested the governor's move, declaring it was illegal, and filing suit against Docking and Mrs. Borserine. He contended that the governor had no legal right to parole the woman, and sought to have her returned to the state industrial farm for women.
Under constant pressure, and possibly fearing that some questionable facts might be exposed in the ensuing investigation, Docking ordered Mrs.
—The Oklahoma Daily
Borserine back to prison. Obviously, he hopes the matter will now end.
Unfortunately, for the governor, his action was too late. Investigators have uncovered some questionable operations in the parole controversy. For one thing, the industrial farm has no record of Mrs. Borserine's history. That is strange, since the FBI lists 24 arrests since 1927 on her record.
And for another, one of her confidence teammates has already been pardoned by the governor and the other is up for a clemency hearing in December.
Now Docking is trying to pass the buck by blaming the whole mess on Dale A. Spiegel, his pardon attorney. Somehow, the harder Docking works to avoid an issue, the spotlight always turns back to him. Wonder why.
—John Husar
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
BUT WHEN I SAID YOU COULD TAKE ME HOME AFTER THE DANCE — I THOUGHT YOU MEANT MY —
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By Calder M. Pickett Associate Professor of Journalism
CIVIL WAR ENTHUSIASTS will find in the latest issue of the excellent magazine of history, American Heritage, an article that has none of the romantic aura of Scarlett and Rhett, none of the dash and thrills of a retelling of Gettysburg. It is one of several articles that make this issue an especially impressive one.
AMERICAN HERITAGE, August, 1959, $2.95.
The article is entitled "Prison Camps of the Civil War," by Bruce Catton, editor of the publication. Though Catton draws heavily upon the eternally infamous Andersonville, he observes that, North and South, prison camps were bad, and that Andersonville is chiefly a symbol. Catton says that the prison system itself "was basically monstrous," that Henry Wirz, Andersonville commandant who was executed by the victorious North, was, for the most part, a scapegoat.
THE WRITER TELLS of another prison, that at Elmira, N.Y. This was in a prosperous state, where the economy was thriving, where the government was rich and strong. "In the fall of 1864 the hospital surgeon at Elmira complained to the War Department," writes Catton. "In three months, he said, with some 8.347 prisoners in camp, 2,011 had been admitted to the prison hospital, and 775—over a third of these admitted—had died ... the entire prison enclosure stank to the high heavens... a river which flowed through the ground had formed a gummy pond, 'green with putrescence, filling the air with its messengers of disease and death.'"...
Accompanying the Catton article are five pages of contemporary drawings of prison life. They demonstrate that, as in all wars, most soldiers manage to maintain their sense of humor—even those at a hole like the Union camp, Point Lookout Prison, Md.
THERE ARE OTHER good articles in this magazine of history. One describes how a ship of the English, the Resolute, was returned to Queen Victoria. Another is the third in a series on life in the early colonies, this entitled "New England in the Earliest Days." Contemporary paintings, and modern-day photographs of a winter-bound Maine coast, illustrate the article.
An article of special interest in this part of the country is by Kendall Bailes, "The Mennonites Come to Kansas." Here is a description of how a group of outcast Russian farmers came to the prairies of the Midwest and helped make Kansas "the wheat state." Other articles, briefly described:
"Mansions on Rails," a description by Lucius Beebe of the private Pullmans in which "the leisure class" once traveled.
"Murder at the Place of Rye Grass," a description of the deaths of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman in the Oregon territory.
"Yours Truly. John L. Sullivan," the story of the last great bare- knuckle bout.
"The Nineteenth of April, 1775," a depiction of the mythology that has come to surround the celebrated Battle of Lexington, where was fired the shot heard round the world.
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By Barbara Solemon Assistant Instructor of English
CHARLES DICKENS, THE WORLD OF HIS NOVELS by J. Hillis Miller, Harvard University Press, 1958. $6.00.
Mr. Miller's book provides a full-length analysis of "Pickwick Papers," "Oliver Twist," "Martin Chuzzlewit," "Bleak House," "Great Expectations," and "Our Mutual Friend," as well as a number of short discussions of Dickens' other novels. Mr. Miller's goal is the identification of "what persists throughout all the swarming multiplicity of his novels as a view of the world which is unique and the same..."
TRACING THE SIMILARITIES in the patterns of action in each novel, Mr. Miller finds that the quest motif reappears continually in Dickens' work. Central characters, and minor figures too, search for knowledge of the world about them and for self-knowledge. Pickwick must leave his bland, safe surroundings to face life's experiences; Oliver Twist must search for a comforting and protecting world; Martin Chužzlewit must leave England for America.
The Dickensian hero is described as a human being who is very much alone in the world. Frequently, he is an orphan or a child unwanted by his family. Whatever place he makes for himself in society is the result of his own efforts.
THE APPROACH Mr. Miller chooses is an excellent one in that it utilizes the many aspects of the novels he discusses—characterization, plot, theme, imagery, tone, and symbolism—to construct a picture of the universe of Dickens' imagination. He draws together the actions of minor characters to point out how these support the major themes of the novel; e.g., in "Bleak House," the Smallweeds, Mrs. Snagsby, Krook, Tulkinghorn, and Bucket all search independently for some scrap of paper or bit of information.
"Charles Dickens, The World of His Novels" presents an unusually lucid description of the novelist's universe through Mr. Miller's absorbing and valuable analyses of the individual novels.
Worth Repeating
An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself.-Sydney Herbert Wood.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.—George Bernard Shaw (Candida).