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It Looks This Way...
By Carol Heller
Long before the first leaf flutters, the merchants are busy promoting autumn.
The shop windows are filled with sweaters and corduroy coats, thick tweedy fabrics and gold, crimson and emerald colors. Sports writers go football mad. Filling station men urge drivers to stock up on anti-freeze. Hardware store clerks exclaim about the cold north winds about to sweep down upon us and fear we won't get the storm windows up in time.
It's almost like getting ready for Christmas at Thanksgiving... it was only August, but everybody was being readied for autumn.
LITTLE BOYS put away the lawn mowers and their fathers escape from the gardens. Women try on winter coats in 95-degree weather. Little girls stand mopping their brows while their mothers fit wool dresses to them to see if the hem lines are right.
But probably nobody suffers more than college students, for autumn and the renaissance of school are synonymous.
In eagerness, the students pack away their cool cottons and move back to school with their corduroy coats, woolens, bulky sweaters and sweatshirts.
THE WOMEN melt as they sit in classes in long-sleeved cardigan sweaters. The men turn lobster red when they try to dance in thick-knitted sweaters. The cheerleaders grow faint with the heat as they leap and bound about at the hot, dusty football games.
Probably the worst torture is to go to bed in flannel pajamas
Probably the worst torture is to go to bed in flannel pajamas. You might say, "Well, why don't they wear something cool to school?"
But it really isn't that simple.
FOR KANSAS AUTUMNS are bewildering . . . they are hot and cold, happy and melancholy, fast and slow.
They are hot when you wear a sweater and cold when you don't.
They are happy because people stroll everywhere across the campus, sit on the steps, move into the dormitories, talk about last summer, drink coffee in the Union, drive cars and go to parties. And the sky is blue and the breeze blows cool.
They are melancholy because some of the dear faces are gone, because this may be your last fall on campus, and because winter is coming.
THE AFTERNOON SUN is hot and there is time to linger, but never time to hold autumn and savor the rain of leaves before they are swept away and a brown, barren world is left behind.
And it is all over and you never saw the first leaf fall . . . even if you were ready for autumn in August.
Government Grants Go to 13
Those graduate students receiving Health Physics Fellowships sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission are Arden E. Bicker, Woodburn, Ind.; Donald Lee Bosseau, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert Raymond Landolt, Sherman, Tex.; Jaequeline Lou Power, Lawrence; and John David Zimbrick. Killdeer, N.D.
Thirteen students, working for the master's degree in radiation biophysics, are studying under grants from government agencies and branches of the armed forces.
Students awarded renewals of their Atomic Energy Commission Fellowships are Phillip C. Friend,
Students studying under grants from the U.S. Public Health Service are Robert G. Patzer, Richland, Wash.: Lan J. D. Jymerski, and Robert G. Bostrom, both from Lawrence. All are graduate students.
Fort Collins, Colo., and Edgar D Maddox, Murray, Ky.
John F. Kendig, Salunga, Pa.
and Myrl E. Wilson, Tyrone, Pa.
both captains in the Air Force, are
studying under Air Force grants.
Naval Lt. Condr. Leslie G. Bramley, Lawrence graduate student is studying under a grant from the Navy.
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KU's Museum of Natural History will add to its teaching and research materials the scientific records of Elmer S. Riggs, a KU alumnus and noted leader in vertebrate paleontology.
Museum Acquires Scientific Records
Thursday, Sept. 29, 1960 University Daily Kansan
The volumes were presented to Mr. Riggs in 1942 when he retired as curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Mr. Riggs received the bachelor of science and the master of arts degrees from KU in 1896.
A gift to the museum by Riggs, the collection includes three volumes comprising " Paleontological Research Under Elmer S. Riggs"; 67 lantern slides of paleontological and geological subjects; and a photographic print of a dinosaur, Apatosaurus.
The volumes will be catalogued in the University Library but will be shelved in the Museum of Natural History. They contain all of the papers compiled by Mr. Riggs from 1899 to 1942.
Guns are left to do what words might have done earlier, properly used. —John Waller.
Forbes AFB Granted $571,000 for Lighting
OMAHA — (UFI) — The Air Force released $1,165,000 yesterday for construction of new and expanded facilities at Whiteman Air Force Base near Sedalia, Mo., and Forbes Air Force Base near Topeka.
way approach lighting and a cold storage plant for meat handling and food storage.
Forbes will use $571,000 for run-
His (Tom Dewey's) moustache is like an italicized swear word in an otherwise dull sentence. —Wolcott Gibbs.
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