BEAT MIZZOU
Daily hansan
BEAT MIZZOU
58th Year. No. 46
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday, Nov. 18, 1960
JAYHAWK STRUT — The Kansas Jayhawk (Right Center) struts at today's pep rally after setting fire to Missouri Tiger (foreground).
KU-MU Game Fever Sets In
By Borden Elniff
An afternoon visitor to Mount Oread tomorrow will notice a strange stillness.
The weather bureau forecasts a cool day under clear skies - ideal "football weather," but few KU students will be enjoying it.
Instead, groups will gather around radios in the Kansas Union, in dormitories and in organized houses, tensely awaiting every word of the announcer.
On Jayhawk Boulevard, probably even the radio of the campus police's cruising car will be tuned in.
AN AUDIENCE of several thousand in Lawrence alone, and additional thousands throughout the state and nation will be listening.
Hundreds of TV sets will be silent in football fans' homes everywhere, for the NCAA, as part of KU's penalties for alleged illegal athletic recruiting, has declared that no direct television coverage of games in which KU plays be allowed.
Wait Some More, Proficiency Hopefuls
MEMO
To: 900 KU Students
From: The UDK
Re: The English Proficiency Examination
You will know if you passed or not (or worse) before you go home for the Thanksgiving holidays, but not before Monday.
James E. Seaver, assistant professor of history and director of the examination, said yesterday the committee requested that the results be distributed to the various schools and departments concerned before being published.
This means the vacation can be spent in peace or fretting,however you did,but it will be a long, long weekend.
The sorting and distributing will take some time but will be completed for publication Monday.
Weather
Average temperatures and clear skies is the forecast for the week-end weather . . . Fine weather will be prevalent for a football game that KU students will not attend.
The object of all this rapt attention by football fans — and who won't be a football fan tomorrow?— will be, of course, the KU-Missouri game in Columbia, Mo.
THE GAME promises to be a real thriller no matter which team emerges victorious, and the winner will be the 1960 Big Eight conference champion, the first team to dethrone Oklahoma in 14 years.
The best team KU has had in years travels to Columbia in top physical condition ready to take on Missouri's top-ranked Tigers, the third team they've played this season which has been rated No. 1 nationally.
More than 1.500 Jayhawker fans gathered in front of Strong Hall to cheer Kansas' football team as it left for Missouri at 11 a.m. today. The crowd was the largest and most enthusiastic at a pep rally in recent KU history.
Coach Jack Mitchell told the cheering students that KU will play its best game tomorrow. He thanked the student body for its support throughout the season and said that this support was instrumental in Kansas having the fine season it has.
A pep band, cheerleaders and the burning of a Missouri Tiger on the
But "the best-laid plans of mice and men off go astray," and a student migration to the game was called off because tickets were not available.
Several buses chartered by fraternities and other groups were canceled because of lack of tickets. But no matter how many people are in Columbia and how many are scattered throughout the state or on the campus, the center of attention will be the game.
GOVERNOR-ELECT John Anderson and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe, wife of KU's Chancellor, joined KU alumni and supporters from the Greater Kansas City area who staged a well-attended rally there last night.
steps at Strong Hall kept the crowd yelling loudly throughout the 15-minute pep rally between classes.
A few lucky students have precious tickets for the game, which has been sold out for weeks. (In Columbia, one fan reportedly paid $80 for a pair.)
Fans will be fans and excitement and support for KU Jayhawks will be King tomorrow.
White Pupils Stay Home
Fifteen U.S. marshals carefully screened a crowd which overflowed the courtroom and jammed the lobby of the postoffice building.
Louisiana officials argued heatedly that a new law passed by the legislature "interposed" itself between the federal integration order and the New Orleans School System.
The four Negro children, brought in U.S. marshals' cars to the two buildings, were jeered by small crowds standing in a morning drizzle.
NEW ORLEANS —(UPI)— Three small Negro girls had a school all to themselves today.
Not a single one of the usual 457 white students at McDonogh Grade School came to classes today. At the other integrated New Orleans school, one six-year-old Negro girl was with only four white students.
A third of all New Orleans other white public school children also stayed home, awaiting the outcome of a battle by segregationists in Federal Court today to reverse the integration order.
Paul Engle Lectures on 'Poetry, People'
Poetry is a concentrated utilization of everyday speech, Paul Engle, professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the University of Iowa, told students and professors attending the English department lecture yesterday on "Poetry and People."
"For many, poetry is a mere bird song, written without effort, and apart from the world of reality. This is wrong." Prof. Engle emphasized.
HE USED A READING from his own book, "Poems in Praise," to illustrate that a poem should end in delight and reflection of the original experience of the author. He said a poem should refresh life, not take it away.
"A poet is a scientist and a dreamer. Everything passes through a sieve, then is subjected to form as the poet proceeds as carefully as a surgeon.
"In writing the poem, the poet himself does not discover until the end what the poem is about. It is an inner spontaneous feeling and emotion."
By use of personal experiences and humorous anecdotes he emphasized the relationship of poetry to everyday speech.
"A FRIEND OF MINE came to visit me in the hospital while I was having blood transfusions." Prof. Engle explained. He went on to comment in a satirical vein on the hospital conditions and concluded with his friend's explanation of a parachute jump, which was "quite poetic."
Most poems begin as fragments of thoughts or sentences, he said.
"All ideas come from living," he continued, "A poet sees in words the same experience that an artist paints on canvas, or a sculptor carves out of stone."
Prof. Engle said a poet uses words as his sole medium of expression. He added that this is the most ordinary, yet one of the most difficult patterns of artistic expression, for each word can have hundreds of associations, depending on the individual.
"NO MATTER HOW disorderly an emotion may seem, the poet must put it into words to convey his thought.
"The ultimate effect of reading such a piece should leave the reader further along as a precipitant human being. The words, and consequently the mood, become diffused (continued on page 15)."
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Education Advances Human Values
By Byron Klapper
"With all that we have today, I don't really think, when it comes to human values, that we have advanced from medieval or middle ages."
Only through a "classical liberal education" will a person develop a sense of human values, Mr. Anderson said.
Sam Anderson, instructor in German, delivered his "Last Lecture" last night in the Kansas Union.
"If I had to take a choice in life between acquiring the paraphernalia for a classically liberal education and technical training, I'd have to choose the former although I also firmly believe in the latter."
MR. ANDERSON said it is the individuals with a notion of human values who will decide how the products of scientists and engineers
will be used for the good or the destruction of man.
The speaker sat on the edge of the table in the front of the group holding his glasses in his hands.
"The difference between an educated man and an uneducated man is evident in his behavior. I have never seen a truly educated man misbehave. I know men who are highly trained technically who have misbehaved toward others," he said.
"I can't tell you what education is. You have to go out and get it first," Mr. Anderson said.
Not everyone can or will acquire a classical liberal education. Mass education has not worked in this country because all students are not becoming educated.
"If there is one student in a thousand who catches on then its all worth while," he said.
"First, one must have these rules mastered and at his fingertips before breaking them."
THE THING that is spoiling the liberal arts education in this country is that many students have the attitude that, "its alright to break the classical old rules before having mastered them.
MR. ANDERSON cited Ludwig van Beethoven as an example of someone who revolutionized music and set the style for Brahms and other great composers. Yet Beethoven knew the established rules of music thoroughly before trying to change them, he said.
So much of today's education is being replaced by what may happen in the future, Mr. Anderson said.
"The liberal arts are being invaded by technical training which can be learned under other circumstance," he said.
Sam Anderson