Monday, June 3, 1963
COMMENCEMENT
Times Were Tough Then
So you think you've had a tough four years at KU, that expenses made it tough to get through?
Perhaps.
But when Fred Ellsworth was director of the Men Students Employment Bureau in 1933, he wrote a short pamphlet advising freshmen what to expect.
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UNLESS a college man really needed a job, Elsworth wrote, he shouldn't apply for it. Times were so hard and jobs were so few that only the neediest should get work, he said.
The nation was in the depths of the Depression then; a university education represented a tremendous sacrifice for families who managed to send their children to college.
There were other ways to save money, however.
However, some "schemes for economy" should be checked carefully, he said.
"ONE BOY lived alone in a Ford car all through one winter at KU; another built a log hut, and others used various ingenious ways for carrying on. While these lads came through in excellent health and fine spirits, such schemes are not recommended for everyone." Ellsworth wrote.
"Shining your own shoes, pressing your own clothes, sending your laundry home . . . and even sporting a neat patch on your shirt, are all economies worth trying," Ellsworth said.
THE AVERAGE COST of a year at the University of Kansas in 1933: Fees (two semesters): matriculation, $7.50; health, $6; activity $8.75; incidental, $37.50. Room (from $5 to $10 a month), $45 to $90; food, $100 to $200; books, $10 to $50.
A student who enrolled in liberal arts courses with no laboratory fees and who lived an absolutely Spartan existence might make it through a year on $237.25, Ellsworth figured.
The earliest report of the word "Jayhawk" came from Texas in the 1830's where Sam Houston's army was fighting along the Mexican border. Supposedly some of the men called themselves "Jayhawkers."
Our KU Bird Is Unusual
ANOTHER STORY concerns an Irishman by the name of Patrick Devlin, who in 1856 was living on the Kansas side of the border. One day he came galloping across the Missouri line, his horse loaded down with equipment which he had "liberated" from his Missouri neighbors.
"What have you been doing?" a Kansan asked him. "In Ireland," Patrick replied, "we have a bird we call the Jayhawk which makes its living off of other birds. I guess you might say I've been Jayhawking."
SOMETIME in the late 1880's or early '90's the Jayhawk came to the University. Athletic teams became known as the Jayhawks and in 1901 the University annual adopted the name, Jayhawker.
Through the years the Jayhawk was generally thought of as some kind of bird, but until 1911 no likeness of him appeared. Hank Maloy, a journalism student at KU, drew the ancestor of today's Jayhawk in a series of cartoons for the Daily Kansas.
NEW ADDITION to Dyche Hall will house classrooms and laboratories for natural history research.
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