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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1957
Give Others A Chance
At times one can think of nothing which is more aggravating than a trip to the undergraduate library to read a book that a teacher very kindly put on reserve for his class.
That is, nothing can seem more aggravating till you check out the book and open it to the required reading. There it is. The lesson is done for you. Some kind-hearted soul has underlined the reading.
You begin to copy the underlined material. The farther into the reading you go, the more there is underlined. Suddenly you slow down, look around, read a few paragraphs that are underlined, and think about them. They aren't related to the reading. They aren't important.
You begin again, this time to read on your own merits and labors. But your eyes are continually slowed down and drawn to the irrelevant material: material that stays in your head, while important material not underlined is forgotten.
The further you read the more irked you become. Finally, the reading finished, you leave with little retained, and that of no importance.
The moral: Buy your own comic books to underline.
Leave the books in the library untouched by underlines, cartoons and cynical little comments. Someone may actually want to get something out of the reading.
Lee Lord
Russia And The Bully
In high school you can recall how a bully would strut around boasting about what he could do. However, he would usually confine his aggressive action to little boys who couldn't defend themselves. Seldom, if ever, would he beat up on the boy who had the support of other boys.
This thought was brought to mind after reading about the interview with Communist party boss, Nikita Khrushchev. He declared, or rather threatened, that the United States could be a scene of devastated cities and countless dead.
This, he said, could be the result if the United States attacked the Soviet Union. An old Russian gag is being used again and is following a familiar pattern.
As a bully is prone to do, he will flex his muscles which are the means by which he attained his present domineering status.
He added that Russia has won the arms race. From that it appears that the Soviet Union has never heard of the "90-pound weakling" who developed and exercised his muscles when he felt that his prestige and honor were at stake in the presence of his friends.
But the bully realizes that his opponent is capable of swift retaliation of a nature that would be just as devastating as the one he threatens to inflict upon the United States.
He has good reason to be hesitant about launching the world into an all-out war. Strategic air command bases ring the communist world waiting for them to start something.
The United States has these bases in England, Spain, North Africa, and throughout other areas in the middle east and near east. Former Japanese-held islands in the Pacific Ocean complete the ring of destruction poised for any wrong move that the Soviets might make.
Old western showdowns and gun battles have proved that death-dealing shots can be delivered by a gunman as he falls mortally wounded. Russia realizes this same thing. She waits.
Thus this verbal barrage by Russia, while no means to be taken lightly, should not on the other hand badger America into acceding to demands for a peaceful coexistence on her terms.
—Oklahoma State University Daily O'Collegian
Is It Really Necessary?
ROCK . CHALK . JAY .
The words come drifting across the football field, or basketball court, as the Kansas cheering section follows up the alma mater with the famous Jayhawk Yell.
ROCK ... CHALK ... JAY ...
HAWK ... K ... U. ROCK ...
CHALK ... JAY  HAWK ... K ...
U.
Then, following the slow chanting of the cheering section, comes the ear shattering words "HIT IT."
However far we look, however
hard we look, there is little doubt that nowhere in the versions of the Jayhawk Yell will one find the words "HIT IT."
These words spoken by the cheerleaders sound bad enough, but when five thousand students take it upon themselves to tell everyone around them to "HIT IT," the words become slightly obnoxious, and unnecessary.
to say those words, and therefore, we can reason they can count up to two. If they can count up to two, then they can count all by themselves and know when to "HIT IT."
The words are unnecessary as evidenced by the spontaneous response on the behalf of the student body. They all seem to know when
The cheer is beautiful. It is bathed in tradition, which we may have a lack of here at KU. Why ruin the beauty and tradition of a famous old cheer by ad libbing?
Let's be college students who can count up to two instead of high school students who have to be led through cheers. On second thought it might be the college students who have to be led through the cheers. Most high schools seem to have fairly complicated cheers and do them quite well.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
—Lee Lord
"——WELL, HOWS IT HAPPEN WE FIND YOU'TESTING' UNDER WATER EQUIPMENT ON TH' GIRLS' DAY FOR TH' POOL?"
A single oyster can produce as many as 100 million eggs a season.
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Editor:
I have heard many comments from faculty, students and visiting friends
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Use Kansan Want Ads
Let us examine first the most vexing of all gift problems: What do you buy for the person who has everything? Well sir, when you encounter this dilemma, the best thing to do is seize it by the horns. Ask yourself this question: Does he truly have everything? Does he, for example, have a birthmark? A Mach number? A lacrosse net? An I-beam? An S-hook? A U-bolt? A T-square? A Primus stove?
The days grow short, the nights grow long, the north wind doth blow, and a light frost appears on the knees of coeds. Christmas is icumen in, and once more our keen young minds turn to the vexing problem of Christmas gifts.
(There is, incidentally, quite an interesting little story about how Primus came to invent the stove. Before Primus's invention, cooking was rather a hazardous occupation. People just built fires any old place—the floor, the closet, the escritoire—and often as not the whole house would go up in flames along with the dinner. Primus, a goose plucker of Frankfurt-am-Main, kept thinking there must be a more efficient way to cook. Finally, in a flash of inspiration, it came to him: Why not build a device to contain the fire and keep it from spreading?
DECK THE HALLS
But I digress. We were discussing Christmas gifts. This year, as every year, a popular gift is the smoking jacket. And what do the smoking jackets smoke? Why, Marlboro, of course—every man jacket of them. And why wouldn't they smoke Marlboros? Why wouldn't anybody with a taste bud in his head? You get such a lot to like in a Marlboro—filter . . . flavor . . . flip-top box.
Speaking of smoking, the year's most unusual gift item is a brand-new cigarette lighter that never needs refilling. You are scoffing. You are saying you have heard such claims before. But it's true, I promise you. This new lighter never, never needs refilling! The fuel supply lasts forever.
Here is no filter to hollow the cheeks and bug the eyeballs; here is a filter that draws nice and easy. Here is no flavor to pale and pall; here is a flavor ever fresh; ever zestful. Here is no flimsy pack to crumble and shred its precious cargo; here is a sturdy box that keeps each cigarette plump and pristine.
...his mistake was in building it out of paper...
Of course, there are certain disadvantages. For one thing, the lighter is rather bulky-170 feet long and three stories high.
(Well sir, he built precisely such a device and named it after his beloved wife Stove. Primus's first Stove, it must be confessed, was less than a triumph; his mistake was in building it out of paper. The next Stove, built of wood, fared hardly better. Not until he made one out of metal could the Stove really be called a success.
(But even then the Stove was not entirely satisfactory. The trouble was that the Stove filled up with ashes and became useless after a few weeks. It remained for Primus's son Frederick to conquer that problem. He invented a mechanism to remove ashes from the bottom of the Stove and was thenceforth known to posterity as Frederick the Grate.)
But look on the bright side: As the fuel runs out, you can rent rooms in it. 1057. Max Shuilman
Good to give, good to receive, at Christmas or any other time is a carton of filter-tip Marlboros, whose makers take pleasure in bringing you this column throughout the school year.