University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Dean Harold G. Barr the school of RELIGION The School of Religion operates as a sep- arate college, distinct from the University. The school is supported by eight cooperating religious groups, with the University recog- nizing credit for courses taken in the school up to 24 hours. Instruction is non-sectarian. About 500 students enroll in religion courses each year. All courses, with the ex- ception of the development of the Christian church and the history of the world ' s living religions, are Biblical. Bible courses cover both the Old and New Testaments. The School of Religion has a staff of seven professors, nominated and supported by indi- vidual churches and approved by the chan- cellor of the University. Churches represent- ed are Christian, Methodist, Congregational, Jewish, Presby terian, and Baptist. Bridge at Potter ' s Lake , 17

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t ' ri Blake Hall the school of P H A R A C Y One of the oldest schools in the University now has adequate facilities for the first time, said J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy. We have the best facilities for work, undergrad- uate or graduate, in the Big Seven, he continued. The School of Pharmacy is now located in a wing of the new Physical Sciences building com- pleted last spring. In its new quarters the school has sufficient space and equipment for instruction and research by faculty members and graduate stu- dents. Incorporated into the pharmacy area are a meeting room for the state board of pharmacy, state examination rooms, and the State Drug lab- oratory. In 1960 the pharmacy curriculum will be changed from a four-year course to one of five years, due to the heavy load of chemistry, biology, business, and mathematics courses required of pharmacy students. Dean J. Allen Reese 16

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By John Alexander OME with me to Kansas in the morning. 3ee where the sun sets out in low relief A hundred years of twisting, grooving trails incised on plain and hill by hoof and wheel, And etched now, in the sky, by jet and wing. Now watch the mist rise off the valley floor Above the cottonwoods along the Smoky, In clouds that roll and move in blowing cadence, In ever-coming, ever-passing ranks Like those of men. The men of yesterday Now gone beyond the visible horizon ; Those of today, and those approaching From the nearer distance. Are men like clouds? Out where you can see them, Their true dimensions show for what they are. Some are wisps and some are thunderheads, And some are giants, less of mist than marble. Out here the sky and atmosphere reach fa r With ample growing space for clouds or men. Now come with me to Kansas in the day hours And sense the wind-blown fragrances and sounds The humid growing scent of after-rain, Of petaled meadows and their million grasses, Of golden-crackling wheat at Abilene, Of Wichita oil with caramel-aromatic musk, And Wathena orchards drowsing on the hillside; Wild roses, sweaty gabardines, Schiaparelli ' s silk and Chanel No. 5. And harken to the wind-borne songs, The swelling, surging, litanies of life: The chant of tractor engines in the field, The bawl of calves and the Rock Chalk cry, The windmill ' s half-amusing clank, The growl of trucks and muttering diesel pumps; Women ' s merry laughter in the kitchen; The foot-tickling tune of a hoe-down fiddle, And, in the prairie church, the solemn hymn. Come with me to Kansas in the twilight And see the distant line where blues conjoin The blue of heaven and the blue of earth, Where evening stars along the outer rim Rival the twinkling myriad golden windows Of ranches, towns and farms. Rich is this picture, richer than we know, Mingling, with nature ' s best and on her plan, The God-inspired, the doing, praying man. Reprinted, by permission, from the Kansas City Star, May 30, 1954