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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 17, 1962
Jayhawk Traditions —
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No one fought for retention of the original colors, and the vivid and deeper tone crimson and blue became the generally used colors. Finally, in May of 1896, the KU Athletic Board adopted crimson and blue as the official athletic team colors for the university. Here is a glowing example of how public acclaim can triumph over-man-made decrees.
Songs
If a song is to live, it must strike a responsive chord in the hearts of people who are to sing it. At the University of Kansas, as doubtless in nearly every other University, countless new songs have been offered only to fade away without acceptance.
I'm a Jayhawk
Another KU song which rings down through the ages and is truly KU's own is "I'm a Jayhawk." George "Dumpy" Bowles, a student with the Class of 1912, longed to make a great contribution to KU spirit but wasn't big enough to do historic deeds on the athletic field. He turned to music and produced some outstanding student musical shows. A song in one of these shows was "I'm a Jayhawk." Written in 1912, it was dormant until 1920 when a great uprising of school spirit brought out "I'm a Jayhawk" once more. The song contributed to the raising of funds to build both the
stadium and union as World War I memorials. The 1926 glee club made it known nationally.
I'm a Javhawk
By George "Dumpy" Bowles (Revised, October, 1958, to conform with Big Eight Conference team names.) Talk about the Sooners The Cowboy and the Buffers, Talk about the Tiger and his tail,—Talk about the Wildcats, And Those Cornhuskin' boys, But I'm a bird to make 'em weep and
wail.
Chorus:
'Cause I'm a Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay,
Jayhawk
Jayhawk,
Up at Lawrence on the Kaw—
'Cause I'm a Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay,
Jayhawk
Jayhawk,
With a sis-boom, hip hoorah.
Got a bill that's big enough
To twist the Tiger's tail,
Husk some corn and listen
To the Cornhusker's wail—
'Cause I'm a Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay,
Jayhawk, Riding on a Kansas gale.
Crimson and the Blue
In 1891, there was no school song for Prof. George Barlow Penny's Glee and Mandolin Club to sing on its tour through Kansas to Denver and back. No one responded with an original song in answer to his appeals. Just before departure he thought of the Cornell song "Far Above Cayuga's Waters." Hastily changing a few words he gave it to the glee men to sing on the trip. He did not intend for it to be used after their return, but it still goes on. The
Costa Rica Program—
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the class is at a higher level — as if the key to the whole puzzle of the course would be suddenly revealed in the last week of reviewing for the exam.
THE WARNING clouds gather and the storm breaks. The young men are required to wear a sport coat and tie and the young ladies dress better than average. The test period requires two hours of furious thought. I have found from a test in economics and one in modern and contemporary history that the exams are usually of a comprehensive or essay type.
The Tico students have the advantage of having a well trained memory from the emphasis put on memory work in the high schools; however, the KU students seem to have more practice in being able to apply theories taught in class.
Grades are given based on a scale of one to ten, seven being usually the passing mark. There is no such thing as the curve system which is sometimes used in the United States (e.g., drawing a passing grade from the average grade given for the test). The biggest difference between exams here and at KU is the importance placed on each test. Exams are not given as often at CRU, which means a greater accumulation of material to study for each test.
BECAUSE THE courses are given on a yearly basis, many of the classes require that the student pass the exam given for the first semester as a prerequisite for the second semester of the same course. Thus, if a student failed first semester biology, he would have to wait until the following fall semester to begin the course anew and would not receive credit for the first five months of class that he had attended.
I would risk a guess and estimate that only fifty per cent of the students who begin a course are able to complete it, let alone pass it. (Last year only 30 per cent of the students who completed the economics course referred to in the above paragraph passed the course with credit.)
I am happy to report that the KU group has survived their first drenching of tests for the mid-seminster. In a few weeks from this date, semester exams fall. If any of the parents are worried why their prodigies don't write during the coming month, the family can rest assured that the delay is in the name of education . . . well, practically rest assured.
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By Charlene Edmondson Lawrence junior
Eating Pleasurable For Tico Family
"77-26-38? Couldn't be; I was 36-
24-36 when I came." "This dress must have shrunk; it's so tight on me now." "Do you know there are four dresses in my closet I can't even get into?" The foregoing remarks are quite common when the Kansas group gets together. It seems that many of us have found Costa Rican food quite agreeable.
LUNCH IS the meal when the family usually gets together. The meal always begins with papaya followed by a lettuce, tomato, and cucumber salad. Then comes beefsteak or pork chops or some arroz con pollo (rice with chicken), a favorite Costa Rican dish. Usually there are potatoes in some form. Another treat is long green beans fried in egg batter. Avocados are very common so they often frequent our table. Last but not least to add to all this feast is our faithful stand-by — rice and beans.
With many delicious things to sample and enjoy, one can excuse the fact that our figures might tend to increase a bit in size. It appears that adjusting to Costa Rican cooking has been for most of us no problem whatsoever.
CHICKEN BUFFET
$1.00
All You Can Eat Drink and dessert extra
The Little Banquet
4:45-7:30 p.m.
On the Malls
23rd & La.
music is not Cornell's but an old English folk tune, "Annie Lisle."
Crimson and the Blue Far above the golden valley Glorious to view, Stands our noble Alma Mater Towering toward the blue.
Crimson and the Blue
Chorus:
BOWLING is FUN!
Lift the chorus ever onward,
Crimson and the blue.
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,
Hail to old KU.
Far above the distant humming
Of the busy town.
Reared against the dome of heaven
Looks she proudly down.
(Repeat Chorus)
Greet we then our foster mother,
Noble friend so true.
We will ever sing her praises,
Hail to old KU.
(Repeat Chorus)
(Follow with Rock-Chalk)
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WOMEN'S SHOES
TOWN & COUNTRY—were to 14.95
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10$^{90}$
WOMEN'S FLATS
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T & C and TROTTERS—were to 10.95
5 90 TO
6 90
WOMEN'S FLATS
VINERS—were to 8.95
CARRIAGE TRADE—were to 8.95
3 90 TO
5 90
WOMEN'S LOAFERS
OLD MAINE TROTTERS—were to 10.95
TRAMPEZE - VINERS—were to 8.95
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