Library Favorite Spot
Final Cram Sessions Begin
With final exams scarcely a week away, there is a last desperate effort among students to tuck the seeds of wisdom into some fertile nook of the brain.
This procedure requires particular conditions, and one look into Watson Library seems to show that students massed here are finding the optimum ones.
Paul Yancy, Kansas City freshman, said there aren't as many temptations at the library.
"At home." he said, "there are the radio, bed, hi-fi, television. . . ."
"I CAN CONCENTRATE better better at the library," Beverly Bennett, Lawrence junior, said. "I study there nights frequently and come up often between classes."
Carroll Johnson, Chanute sophomore, offered, "I study there for variety."
There are some students, too, who prefer studying at home but also have a reason for frequenting the library.
"I'm doing research for two term papers," Peter Soyke, graduate student, said. "But I prefer to work in my room where I can relax when I want to."
Jim Ellis, Chanute sophomore, said that he was doing research for an English theme.
"I DONT STUDY here very much," he said, "but I can't get the information any place else."
In spite of the increased numbers using the library, John Nugent, head librarian of the circulation department, said that the library has been able to handle the extra work.
"A new charging sysem is now in use at the circulation desk," he said. "With the new system, we are now able to check out a book the same day it is returned. Before, it might have taken days until we had the time to check the book in and return it to the sacks."
WATKINS LIBRARY promises to be a haaven for those who want outside material, a place to study
or merely the smugness of knowing that another shares his plight. But couples who want to sit together had better come early, and the cold stares will get you if you dare speak aloud.
Sinatra, Fitzgerald Tops in Playboy Poll
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald were named the nation's top male and female vocalists in Playboy magazine's 1961 jazz poll, the magazine announced today.
Sinatra and Miss Fitzgerald won top honors not only from the magazine's readers but also in a poll of last year's winners, the magazine said in its February issue.
Jazz musicians who were named most popular by both groups were: J. J. Johnson, trombone; Stan Getz, tenor sax; Gerry Mulligan, baritone sax; Barney Kessel, guitar; Ray Brown, bass, and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, vocal group.
Whitman won't last.—G. E. Maxwell
Monday, Jan. 16, 1961 University Daily Kansan F
Students at Dairy Farm Drink Dried Milk
LONDON —(UPI)— Seventy agriculture students at a dairy farm in Lincolnshire drink dried milk instead of milk fresh from the farm's 50 cows.
"It may sound odd but its a simple case of economics," the farm
director said yesterday, explaining the dried milk is cheaper.
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The practice of dentistry is an exercise of conscience. If many of us are good because we have to be, the dentist is good because he wants to be.-Byron S. Hollinshead
HOW SMALL CAN YOU GET?
To answer this question it is necessary first to define terms. What, exactly, do we mean by a small college? Well sir, some say that in order to be called truly small, a college should have an enrollment of not more than four students.
Today let us address ourselves to a question that has long rocked and roiled the academic world: Is a student better off at a small college than at a large college?
I certainly have no quarrel with this statement; a four-student college must unquestionably be called small. Indeed, one could even call it intime if one knew what intime meant. But I submit there is such a thing as being too small. Take, for instance, a recent unfortunate occurrence at Crimscott A and M.
Crimscott A and M, situated in a pleasant valley nestled between Denver and Baltimore, was founded by A. and M. Crimscott, two brothers who left Ireland in 1706 to escape the potato famine of 1841. As a result of their foresight, the Crimscott brothers never went without potatoes for one single day of their lives—and mighty grateful they were! One night, full of gratitude after a hearty meal of French fries, cottage fries, hash browns, and au gratin, they decided to show their appreciation to this bountiful land of potatoes by endowing a college. They stipulated that enrollment should never exceed four students because they felt that only by keeping the college this small
could each student be assured of the personalized attention, the camaraderie, the feeling of belonging, that is all too often lacking in higher education.
Well sir, on the morning of the big game against Minnesota, its traditional rival, a capricious destiny dealt Crimscott a cruel blow—in fact, four cruel blows. Sigafoos, the quarterback, woke up that morning with the breakbone fever. Wrichards, the slotback, was unable to start his motorcycle. Beerbohm-Tree, the wingback-tailback, got his necktie caught in his espresso machine. Langerhans, the fullback, was stolen by gypsies.
Well sir, things went along swimmingly until one Saturday a few years ago. On this day Crimscott had a football game scheduled against Minnesota, its traditional rival. Football was, of course, something of a problem at Crimscott, what with only four students enrolled in the entire college. It was easy enough to muster a backfield, but finding a good line—or even a bad line—baffled the most resourceful coaching minds in the country.
Consequently, alas, none of the Crimscott team showed up at the game, and Minnesota, its traditional rival, was able to score almost at will. Crimscott was so out of sorts that they immediately broke off football relations with Minnesota, its traditional rival. This later became known as the Dred Scott Decision.
So you can see how only four students might be too small an enrollment. The number I personally favor is twenty. How come? Because when you have twenty students and one of them opens a pack of Marlboro Cigarettes, there are enough to go around for everybody, and no one has to be deprived of Marlboro's fine, mild flavor, of Marlboro's easy-drawing filter, of Marlboro's joy and zest and steadfast companionship, and as a result you have a student body that is filled with sweet content and amity and harmony and concord and togetherness and soft pack and flip-box.
That's how come.
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© 1961 Max Shulman
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