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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 15, 1964
When You're In Doubt, Try It Out—Kansan Classified
MRA Scholarship Trophy Awarded to Templin Hall
Templin took and retained the MRA scholarship trophy last night at the third bi-annual MRA scholarship banquet at Templin.
Vice Chancellor James Surface said perhaps his theme as speaker should be "work night and day, to improve your GPA." However, he said that at the risk of being hanged in effigy, one should "not to be beholding to this number game which we call, half kiddingly, the GPA."
Surface urged students to concentrate on getting an education, and acquiring an interest in learning that would last for life. He told the story of a KU student who longed for a Phi Beta Kappa key, and calculated his GPA "every morning during his junior and senior years." Deciding that he would receive no more than a B in his history course, he dropped the class and took a correspondence course in basketball. He received an A, "got his Phi Beta Kappa key, and lost the admiration of his friends." "This key," Surface said, "was tarnished almost before he got it."
Hear
Wayne Poucher
Church of Christ
15th and New Hampshire
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TO THE SENIOR CLASS OF 65
Bargain with Life For a Penny?
Recently we talked with a recruiting specialist whose main job is visiting the college campuses to recruit graduating seniors. His remarks indicated he was very discouraged about many of the attitudes of the young men he talked with.
"You'd be surprised how many 22-year-olds are more interested in our retirement plan than in anything else we have to offer. The thing I can't understand is why should young people these days be so ultra-conservative, so narrow in their view of the future."
You'd be surprised how many people sell themselves short — self-depreciation. Instead ask yourself what are your chief assets. Then think in terms of how much you can accomplish using these assets.
Think big. Remember what the mind can conceive can be achieved, not just what is. Stretch your vision — grow big by thinking big.
I bargained with life for a penny,
And life would pay no more.
However, I begged at evening when
I counted my scanty score.
For life is a just employer, it gives you what you ask.
But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed.
That any wage I had asked of life, Life would have willingly paid.
VI 3-1891
John Suder
Bill Strawn
Dan Jansky
Ed Henry
Jerry Garner
Bud Lukens