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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1956
Want To Play Santa Claus?
Those who have comfortable homes, cars, enough money for amusements, and are financially able to attend the University frequently forget the less fortunate.
These persons, the students, will leave the campus Wednesday to travel to their homes where the Christmas spirit, in the form of decorations, Christmas trees, gifts, and holiday foods, awaits them.
During the Christmas season, which is a time to celebrate a Divine birth and to bring happiness to others, students should remember, in some way, the underprivileged whose homes will lack the holiday festivity.
There are some campus organizations which give to the poor, particularly the underprivileged children. These groups deserve the full cooperation of the entire student body.
Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, and the Inter-fraternity and Panhellenic Councils are again sponsoring the March of Toys, a drive conducted to collect toys to be sent to the National Reserve in Kansas City, Mo. for distribution to underprivileged children.
This year the drive, which ends at noon Wednesday, has as its slogan, "Smiles for 7,000." The groups collected 6,000 toys last Christmas, and have placed the goal higher this year.
Other houses and campus organizations annually give parties for underprivileged children in Lawrence. The children are entertained with skits, games, carol singing, refreshments, and they usually receive gifts.
Theta Sigma Phi, women's professional journalism fraternity, this year has sponsored a drive to collect children's used books to be given to the underprivileged.
Because improvement of juvenile literature is a national project of the fraternity, the local chapter organized the drive during the Christmas season to give children acceptable reading matter as gifts.
The Oread Meeting of the Society of Friends will remember another group this Christmas. The local Friends society is cooperating with the American Friends Service Committee to collect clothing to be given to the Hungarian refugees in Austria.
Boxes have been placed in organized houses on the campus so that students, before they leave for the vacation, may deposit clothing "in a sacrificial spirit of generous giving in the name of Christ." The boxes will be collected Wednesday afternoon.
These organizations, which have undertaken to aid the needy, have sponsored worthwhile projects. If you are one of those who have not contributed to the underprivileged, do so before the drives close.
This is the season when the spirit of giving to others is the strongest. Remember those who may not receive or be able to give.
Jane Pecinovsky
This being the holiday season, and with all thoughts concentrated upon the coming of the long-anticipated holidays, we feel it is our duty to discuss said holidays.
Due to the fact that we have already made known our sentiment
Walt
on Christmas and the traditions connected with it, we will continue to discuss this age-old subject as long as the space holds out. Of course, there's always New Year's Day, complete with the accompanying parties, football games—
to watch them—and other genera hilarity.
Also, New Year's offers the student a chance to make various foolish resolutions, such as resolving not to cut class, to study more, to stop partying so much, to party more, to cut class more often, to do all reading assignments, to spend less money, to spend more money, etc.
But New Year's resolutions seem to be pretty much a waste of time, as is writing a column. (The guy at the next desk comes up with the vulgar thought that reading a column is a waste of time. It is terrible when a person can't even trust his friends at Christmastime.)
So, there you are, here we are, and which way is the road home. But, for a final look on the brighter side of the picture, here's wishing each and every one of you
All in all, this hasn't been a very Christmas Christmas season. Fees have been raised, Santa Claus has been hanged in effigy (along with several football coaches). Wilt Chamberlain was held to only 30 points in one game, the English proficiency test was held, and Western Civ is right around the corner.
"What," we screamed lustily enough to draw a few painted glances.
Mulling through the mass of debris laughingly called a filing drawer, we came across an old photo of a gentleman with one hand thrust inside his coat, and a three-cornered hat on his head.
“is a picture of a gentleman with one hand thrust inside his coat and a three-cornered hat on his head doing in my filing drawer?”
"Maybe he has a three-cornered head!" someone volunteered. We sneered our thanks and kept on mulling.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
. Dawson '
Next we pulled out a purple-and-green tie, remnant of the sartorial age in journalism, and thought "The ideal Christmas gift for our good friend Elrod."
Next we found a battered old fedaora with the proclamation: "Goodness yes I'm a senior," and the numerals "1902."
"Not so," screamed a somewhat shaken partner in crime, grabbing the beautiful tie from our grubby little hand.
Other items in the file were a slightly green, moldy orange; two tickets to the Harvard-Vassar football game; a bulletin from the registrar saying that fees had been upped from $35 to $49 and an apologetic note saying the new fees would be effective Jan 17, 1900; a green eyeshade; several bonbon wrappers; a tintype of the sinking of the Maine; and a set of crib notes for Western Civ. But alas our mailing list—the object of this search—was not found.
The Cepsus Bureau reports that South Dakota's 1,500 largest farms accounted for 15 per cent of the total value of the state's farm products sold in 1854. The largest farms had average sales of $45,000.
So, instead of sending greetings to all of you via Uncle Sam's mail, we take this means to wish you a
—Dick Walt and Jerry Dawson
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., is the largest completely air-conditioned art museum in the world. The controlled atmosphere has greatly increased the life expectancy of its art treasures.
The wild boar, a favorite game animal of European nobles, is hunted today in the southeastern United States. The species is decended from imported animals that escaped from a game preserve.
Nearly half of all United States residents and some 60 per cent of Canada's population live within 500 miles of Buffalo, New York, the National Geographic Society says.
APPLETON, Wis. —(IP)— The special study committee at Lawrence College has come out with a proposed program which involves a curriculum change in the sophomore and junior years. The change would build a pattern of courses which will enable students to explore "their own most important intellectual motivations." The curriculum recommendation calls for one new course each year to be substituted for one of the five traditional courses.
College Outlines New Curriculum
The committee recommends a change in the sophomore and junior years, allowing for one of the five traditional courses. The first curriculum change would be in the sophomore year with a program of reading in three divisions—natural science and mathematics; social science and history, and literature and the arts.
In the junior year a program of departmental reading in the area of concentration would be followed. This course would intensify the study made in the previous year by narrowing it from a group of disciplines to one discipline.
Only once in history has Arkansas gone Republican. That was in 1872 when U. S. Grant ran for a second term.
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