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KU Distributes $28,213 From Federal Loan Grant
The University has received $28,213 for student loan funds under the National Defense Act passed by the 85th Congress.
By previous agreement, KU has matched this amount to 1.9, adding $3,135 to the fund. The additional sum is composed of the donations to the Greater University Fund.
Recipients of loans are selected on the basis of need and scholarship by a committee appointed by the Chancellor's office. The committee was formed because of contacts with the authorities administering the loan fund.
Other members of the committee which was notified of its appointment Feb. 2 are Kathleen Doering, associate professor of entomology; Eleanor Hawkinson, assistant dean of women; Clark Coon, assistant dean of men; Donald Metzler, associate dean of the School of Engineering, and Arnold Weiss, assistant professor of Romance languages.
Spencer Martin, director of aids and awards, is secretary of the group.
Irvin Youngberg, director of the Endowment Assn., said all the money appropriated by Congress for the fund has been distributed.
"We hope for more but we don't know," he added.
"Further allocations will depend on further appropriations," he said.
Loan applications are now being processed. Applicants who met the deadline were considered first and the beginning loans started Feb 12-13. He said that others will receive loans after further processing.
Amounts requested ranged from $100-$1,000, but the committee is acting primarily on needs between c$900 and $1,000.
The need factor is emphasized in the loan and as stated in the act, the loans "are granted by the institution only to students who are in need of the amount of the loan to pursue a full-time course of study at the institution."
Americans Joke Over Problems, Lecturer Says
Americans like to make fun of those things that worry them.
Furthermore:
"The neurotic characters of present-day American humor are a result of the fact that Americans are greatly worried about matters of psychology."
This was what Dr. Walter Blair, chairman of the English department at the University of Chicago, said during his stay here this week as the visiting Humanities lecturer.
He said much of today's humor is based on the "futile little man"—the Sad Sack, Dagwood, George Gobel, and the suburbanite of Max Schulman's novels.
"They're a charming bunch of people but I suggest they're not too well adjusted." Dr. Blair said.
"I find in the 19th century three types of comic characters which people like more than any of the others. These three are the Genial Giant, the Uneducated Philosopher, and the Simpleton," he said.
"The Genial Giant was a very rough, tough, frontiersman, who liked to drink and fight. The Uneducated Philosopher was a product of the widespread belief that man's wisdom came more from a good head on his shoulders and experience than from book learning. Ben Franklin's Poor Richard was this type of character," he said.
The Simpleton was the well-meaning idiot who said things so foolish everyone tended to believe the opposite. Dr. Blair said.
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"The Genial Giant tended to disappear and the other two underwent changes until they were almost unrecognizable," he said.
The Uneducated Philosopher became a character who is not necessarily uneducated but like the old philosopher in that he has definite ideas, Dr. Blair said.
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"Once he was treated with sympathy but now he is softly satirized," Dr. Blair said. He continued:
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