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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Oct. 9.
Students From Smaller Schools Poor in English
Students who come to KU from small high schools are not as well prepared in English, foreign languages, science and mathematics as those coming from larger high schools.
This was found in a study of the 1956 KU freshman class made by George B. Smith, dean of the University and professor of education.
The report is an issue of the Kansas Studies in Education, entitled, "Let's Look at the Record! The High School Preparation of
1,124 University of Kansas Freshmen."
The study showed the number of credits of the incoming freshman students in different fields of learning.
For example, the numbers of students from large and small high schools who took four years of English were 70 and 40 per cent, respectively, of the total enrollment. The percentage of students who took two years of foreign languages was 43 and 8 per cent.
In the report, high schools with enrollments of more than 250 were considered large, those with 70 to 250 were considered middlesized,
Life of Russian People Based on Negatives
Members of the Radio-TV tour organized by Victor Hyden, instructor in speech, drama, and journalism at the University, said that seven days in Moscow were lived under a spell of depression.
Russian life is full of negatives, no this and no that, some American tourists have concluded.
"No holds were barred in the discussions which followed sputnik and no level of education was exempted." Dean Smith said. "Especially vociferous have been the critics who claim that 'solid' or 'traditional' subjects are no longer taken by pupils in high school. It is on that topic that the data reported in this study have special bearing."
Streets are colorless with no neon signs and no advertising. Consequently, there is no way of telling a store from an office building. One passes by no attractive women shoppers nor dapper males with ties or creased trousers.
There was no place to go to talk or to have that ten o'clock cup of coffee, he said.
In the stores no smiling saleslady volunteers to help you. You make your own approach if you wish to make a purchase.
and those with less than 70 were considered small.
Concession stands have no paper cups or plates, no bottled "cokes" nor any cola drinks, for that matter.
"The children's store has wooden toys but little in the way of plastics." Mr. Hyden said. Children meet tourists to beg for gum. So one concludes that that item must not be on sale at their shops.
To an American the most unusual sight on the streets of Moscow is the women with pick axes and booms, big ones. Women clean the gutters and sweep the streets. The group thought the broom must be a symbol of Russia. They saw women everywhere doing the menial tasks, but never any pretty women.
He says that is must be remembered that the American secondary school has two functions: college preparation and non-college preparation. Most persons will understand that the courses taken by students in high schools will be a combination of the courses coming under these two functions, the report states.
After viewing these living conditions, the American students came out of Russia grateful for a life filled with positives.
"These high school are examples of high schools all over the nation which, although adjusting to many changes, have held fast to some basic, traditional offerings," Dean Smith says.
Natural Gas Institute To Begin Oct.15
The 6th annual Gas Measurement Institute, planned by the University, Southwest Kansas Center, and members of the Gas Measurement planning committee, will open Oct.15 in the National Guard Armory at Garden City.
This institute comprises two days of work and lectures concerned with natural gas industry subjects and problems. One of the features of the institute will be display booths placed by various natural gas companies.
There were 3,995 more physicians in the U. S. at the end of 1957 than at the beginning.
There were 64,754,000 telephones in use in the United States as of June 30.1958.
The Navy ROTC has announced the appointment of the Midshipman officers for the 1958-59 school year. They are:
NROTC Lists New Officers
Thev are:
Battalion Headquarters officers: Diana DeWerff, Ellinwood, midshipman captain; Maynard Morris, Augusta, midshipman; Margaret Morris, Higginsville, Mo., midshipman lieutenant commander; Vernon M. Hay, Ottawa midshipman lieutenant; William T. Stutteren; James Koehler; lieutenant; Joe Throop, Wamego, battalion chief petty officer. All are seniors.
"A" Company officers: James D. Siskin, Richard H. Hargrove, Richard H. Hargrove, Chanute, midshipman junior lieutenant; Don M. Gervais, company chief petty officer. All are members of company chief petty officer.
1st Platoon, "A" Company; Don R. Stl Platoon, Parsons senior, midshipman ensign; Dan W. Sargent, Falls City, Neb.; senior, platoon mustering pet officer; Ronald F. Jones, Kansas City, Mo., juni-
ner, platoon mustering pet officer; George H. Harris, Kansas City, Mo., senior; George W. Hunt, Chicago III; Larry C. Schooley,
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2ad Platoon, "A" Company: Gerald M. Simmons, Parsons senior, middip肩man ensign; Vic H. Indek, Offerle senior, platoon mastering petty officer; Ronald M. Reitz, Petty Officer 1; Dave K. Leonard, Kansas City, Mo.; Henry C. Jeffries, Kansas City, Mo.; seniors; and Michael S. Smith, Topeka junior, platoon petty officers 2-c.
3rd Platoon, "A" Company: Pete A. Whitenight, Lawrence senior, midshipman, ensign; Eugene Thornburg, Shawnee junior; Terry muster petty officer; Larry G. Ostertag, petty City, Kan., junior, platoon petty officer 1-cor R. E Gast, Kansas City, Kan.; John M. Mission, mission; and Philip K. Knouse, Garnett, seniors, platoon petty officers 2-cr.
"B" Company officers: Richard W. Arm "A" Company officers: Richard W. Gahm H. Ellis, Kansu City, Kan, mid-shipman junior lieutenant, Hulen F. company chief petty officer. All are senior company chief petty officer.
1st Platoon "B" Company: Mark Sawyer, Toppea senior, midshubman ensign, Lyle Willett
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ior, platoon mustering petty officer; Charles E. Farnsworth, Topeka junior, paltoon petty officer 1-c; Dickie R. Matthews, Topeka; Harry J. Reitz, Kansas Juniors; Larry E. Myers, Kansas City, Mo, senior, platoon petty officers 2-c.
2nd Platoon “B” Company; Keith E. Elliott, Hartford senior, midshipman ensign; Robert E. Price, St. Joseph, Mo., platoon mustering petty officer; William H Reams, Scranton senior, platoon petty officer; Karen M Blankenship, Ark Jerry E Payne, Kansas City, Mo.; and Laurin P. Wilhelm, Great Bend, seniors, platoon petty officers 2-c.
3rd Platoon “B” Company: David C. Coleman, Lawrence senior, midshipman ensign; Robert A. Hines, Manhattan officer; Wendell E. Koerner, Jefferson City, Mo., senior, platoon petty officer 1-c; Chris A. Smith, Augusta junior; Juniors, City, Kan.; Juniors, and Fred R. Wiley, Lawrence senior, platoon petty officers 2-c.
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