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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1957
Principals To Talk With Freshmen
By JACK HARRISON
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Frank and intelligent criticism of high school and college methods will be the purpose of the ninth annual Principal-Freshman Conference Wednesday.
Two special meetings on mathematics will be held by the department of mathematics in connection with the conference.
About 150 high school princi-*
About 150 high school pals and instructors from 72 Kansas and 10 Missouri schools will attend. Most of the 1,700 KU freshmen will have an opportunity to meet with their former principals.
James K. Hitt, registrar and chairman for the conference, said faculty members have been notified of the conference and freshmen should check with their instructors about being excused from class.
Designed To Hela Freshmen
Designed To Help Freshmen The conference is designed to help freshmen through the transition from high school to college, Mr Hitt said. He said the conference has been an excellent source of information both to the University and the high schools in evaluating their programs.
Registration will be from 8:30 to 11 a.m. in the main lobby of the Student Union. The meetings of principals with their former students will be between 9 and 11:45 am. in various rooms on the campus.
Dean Albert E. Meder Jr., of Rutgers University will speak on "New Developments in High School and College Mathematics" at 10 a.m. in the Student Union Pine Room.
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Dean Meder and Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will speak to the educators at a luncheon at 12:45 p.m. in the Student Union Kansas Room.
Murphy, Meder To Talk
At 3 p.m. the principals will meet to discuss morning conferences. A coffee at 4 p.m. will end the conference.
The other meeting on mathematics will be at 7:30 tonight in the Student Union Pine Room to consider
Career Conference Set For Tonight
An industrial training program will be described at the Business School's career conference on management, production and personnel at 7:30 tonight in Bailey Auditorium. James T. Sparks, manager of $ ^{f}$ industrial relations for Ford Motor Co. in Kansas City, Mo. will be the guest speaker.
Factory management will be discussed by Charles Briggs, vice president in charge of engineering for the Marley Co., Kansas City, Mo., and personnel work by John Modlin, personnel manager for Jensen-Salsbury Laboratories, Inc., Kansas City, Mo.
Watkins Awards To Be Increased
An increase in the Elizabeth M. Watkins scholarships and the Watkins summer scholarships for junior staff members for the coming year has been authorized by the Endowment Assn. executive committee.
The Elizabeth M. Watkins scholarships were increased from $10,000 to $12,500 and the summer scholarships from six to eight. Each is for $800.
the advanced placement programs in some of the strongest high schools in this area.
"Beginning in September, 1958. KU will be prepared to offer credit for college-level courses taken in high school," said G. Baley Price, professor of mathematics and chairman of the department. These courses will be calculus and analytic geometry.
The advanced placement will be described by William S. Putman, assistant headmaster of the St. Louis Country Day School and a member of the College Board advanced placement biology examination committee. Dean Meder will describe the operation of the advanced placement program in mathematics.
To Describe Placement Program
Other visitors at the meeting tonight will be Prof. H. G. Ayre of Western Illinois University, James W. Scott of the Kansas City Star and Edward Rosenbaum of the Scientific American magazine.
3 Publish Articles
Articles by Dean Geroge R. Wagoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education, and Leland H. Erickson, assistant professor of education, are included in the fall issue of the KU Bulletin of Education.
Dean Waggoner's article is about program for gifted freshmen and sophomores in the College, and Dean Anderson's is on the exceptional high school and college student. Prof. Erickson is co-author of an article entitled "Are Kansas High School Students Falling Short in Mathematics?"
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Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will speak on "The Trained Mind" at a noon luncheon Friday as part of the seventh annual tax conference in Topeka.
The conference, to be opened Thursday by Dean James R. Surface of the School of Business, is being sponsored by the school and the Kansas Society of Certified Public Accountants.
John G. Blocker, professor of business administration, Jack Steele, associate professor, and Sherwood W. Newton, assistant professor, will moderate the panel discussions. Richard H. Lashley, assistant professor, Ben Simpson, instructor of business, and advanced accounting majors will also attend.
students. About four or five pretty important companies have cancelled their interviews," he concluded.
W. Keith Weltner, associate professor of business administration, L. Martin Jones, assistant professor, and LeRoy Baker, instructor of business are on the planning committee.
Longitude, or east-west distance, could not be measured exactly until 1740, when the chronometer was invented.
"The employment picture isn't as bright as it was," A. F. Knapper, director of the business placement bureau, told a Daily Kansan reporter,
Jobs may be more difficult to find than you expect this year, especially if you want to work in the oil, airplane, electronic or public accounting fields.
Several of the companies have laid off personnel. This is especially true of companies that had defense contracts, Prof. Knapper said.
"C students will find it more difficult to get a job. Companies are becoming more and more selective. However, students with high averages will have no trouble at all, I am sure," he said.
He added, "It is the whole economic picture. Although the number of job offers has been decreasing gradually, we really began to feel it in November. However, it hasn't become alarming yet."
Job Offers Decrease
"Some of the companies may hire one or two top students whereas in past years they were hiring several
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