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LAWRENCE KANSAS
56th Year, No.149
Taylor Deplores Low Standards
A retiring KU professor was one of several educators quoted in the May 18 issue of Newsweek magazine as being discontented with the state of American education.
Newsweek quoted him as follows:
Edward H. Taylor, professor of zoology, who will retire to emeritus status in June, has served on the faculty 33 years.
Cloyd Heck Marvin, president emeritus of George Washington University, Washington, D. C., had this to say about American education:
"Our state of learning falls far short of desirable standards because of a widespread feeling that much mental effort is deleterious to the young and should not be required of them, and an attitude fostered by both parents and the poorer students that special effort on the part of a student is nonconformity, hence undemocratic."
"Our greatest challenge is for a revolution in the schools of education that will create teachers with learning as well as techniques of teaching."
Monday, May 18, 1959
"For several decades, the idea of no discipline except self-discipline from the cradle upward has been overemphasized in education. My suggestion is to see to it that our youth has a chance to discipline itself, that our education alerts our youth against the lowering standards of mass culture, and that our youth has faith in a life under law."
Charles W. Hendel, chairman of the philosophy department at Yale, said:
"How will higher education meet the challenge facing it today? First, by insisting that everything mean-
ure up to the criterion of excellence in the scholarship, research, and publication of our men of learning.
"Second, by doing the work of education in the same spirit. It is better to have quality and a smaller quantity of graduates than to pretend to take care of everybody and neglect everybody."
Register This Week For Western Civ
Students who plan to take the summer Western Civilization examination, but who will not be enrolled in the summer session, may register for the exam Wednesday through Friday in 130 Strong.
Registration for such students includes a five dollar fee for special examination. The examination will be given at 8 a.m. Saturday July 25. Students who will be in Lawrence during the summer session may register after July 1.
'Miss Lawrence' Has Temporary Citizenship
The recently-elected "Miss Lawrence" will have to give up her Sedalia, Mo., homestead temporarily to claim Lawrence as her official residence.
Barbara Mabry, a sophomore and member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, said the feeks at home will not be disturbed by the change.
"I think they are pretty happy; about it, and I am, too," she said
"I guess this is all quite legal. I asked in the preliminaries if it would be all right if I were from Missouri. I wanted to make sure I qualified," she said.
"This is quite a thrill. I've never had anything like this happen before," she breathlessly commented.
Miss Mabry was crowned at the Lawrence Jaycees' pageant Friday night. She was astonished when she was chosen from 10 contest candidates.
Her "thrills" were heightened when the Team-Cola company acquired the franchise.
two runners-up, Dorothy Ellis, Wichita freshman, and Alice Fawn Hooker, Independence, Mo., sophomore, received scholarships of $150 and $100 respectively.
Miss Mabry transferred to KU this year from Texas Women's University in Denton. Her major is music education with an emphasis on voice and piano.
"I do more singing than piano. Piano is just a hobby. Most of my activities center around music," she said.
Her musical talents have paid off, because her "talent" requirement for the Miss Lawrence contest was filled by performing two pieces on the piano.
The pert brunette has been studying piano for seven years. Last year she was the pianist for the TWU all-girl orchestra.
She will compete for the "Miss Kansas" title and the right to enter the "Miss America" contest.
Margaret Mead Speaks Tomorrow
One of the world's leading anthropologists will give a public lecture at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Lindley Auditorium.
Margaret Mead, professor of anthropology at Columbia University in New York, will talk on "Current Trends in Anthropology."
MAYETTA, Kan.—(UPI)—The top section of a newly-built bleacher caved in at the close of the Mayetta Rodeo yesterday, injuring more than 250 persons, 23 of them critically.
Bleacher Folds Injuring 250 at Mayetta Rodeo
The critically hurt, some of whom suffered broken backs, limbs and head injuries, were hospitalized at nearby Topeka and Holton. Another 130 persons received emergency treatment at hospitals. About 100 suffered cuts and bruises but did not go to hospitals.
The accident occurred as a crowd of about 4,000 persons was getting set to leave the annual Mayetta Rodeo and Indian Fair in this northeast Kansas community of 247 persons.
Concessionaire Frank Hess, of Topeka, said he was cooking hot dogs over gas stoves when he heard a sharp crack that sounded as though "someone had thrown a pop bottle on the roof."
A steel girder cracked and the top section of the C-shaped bleacher collapsed, sending some persons tumbling 15 feet to the ground. A tin-roofed concession stand beneath the bleachers helped break the fall of others.
"Then I heard wood breaking and steel cracking and saw a body fall," Hess said. "Then I ran."
His helper, Tom McBride, 13, said he was getting change for a customer, turned around "and there it come."
Prof. Mead graduated from Barnard College in 1923, and received her master's and doctor's degrees from Columbia University. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
In 1924, she undertook an anthropological research project in Samoa which set a new standard of thoroughness in analyzing the life, ways, and motives prevailing in a primitive society.
The results were published in "Coming of Age in Samoa," written after her appointment in 1926 as assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, a position she still holds.
Other books by Prof. Mead include "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies," "Growing Up in New Guinea," "Male and Female," "And Keep Your Powder Dry," and "New Lives for Old."
Weather Bulletin
KANSAS CITY, MO. — (UP)— The U.S. Severe Storm Warning Center here issued a tornado forecast today for most of eastern Kansas and extreme west central Missouri.
Thunderstorm activity is forecast to intensify in extreme southeastern Nebraska, through central Kansas into southwestern Kansas and move eastward during the late afternoon and evening, accompanied by a few very isolated tornadoes and isolated hail and damaging wind storms in an area along and 75 miles on either side of a line from Salina, to Butler, Mo., from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. Lawrence time.
Four blasts on the University power plant whistle means a tornado funnel has been sighted touching the ground in this vicinity.
For Much Study ...
BOOKS EVERYWHERE—Sandra Harding, Lawrence junior, seems to have enough material for several examinations.
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Books Go Out...
EARLY TO STUDY—Jan Rogers, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore, began early this morning to gather study material.
In Pending Finals
REVIEW SESSION — Austin Ledwith, assistant professor of organ and theory, helps Jo Wiens, Belle Plaine senior, as she prepares for finals.
Seniors Prepare to Leave With Mixed Emotions
In a few short days 1,025 seniors will walk sedately down the hill from the campanile to receive their passport to the cold, cruel world.
On the whole, this will be an extremely happy gathering. But there will be some mixed emotions, too. Some students will look back on their years at KU
with a little regret—for the good times being left behind and those many little things they meant to do but just never quite got around to.
Others, as they reach for their diplomas, will shiver a little as they think of the long road ahead and wonder just what nook in the corner of the world
they will find their name on.
Still others will look back on their four years at KU with a feeling of victory and look forward to conquering the unknown future.
Some seniors will not be leaving, however. The English Proficiency and Western Civilization examinations have
stopped them. Unexpected low grades will stop others.
Final examinations will also be the downfall of candidates for graduation.
Students in the School of Law started final examinations Saturday and will continue taking them through May 28. Most of the law school finals are four hours long.
First-year medicine students will take their final examination Saturday. However, they will be required to continue regular classes until May 26.
Summer school will begin June 4 and end August 1. Approximately 2,500 students are expected to register for this session.