University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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OCTOBER , DISCRETION, NOT DISCIPLINE The student advisers ' job is to help, not to punish By G. ROCKWELL SMITH IN the good old days of the rah rah college boy, to be sent to the Dean was something for the alumni to boast about along with the pranks of hell- week and how the homecoming football game was won: but to the undergraduate it meant a severe shak- ing of the knees and a general loss of sleep. But daugh- ter, oh! Today, students are not only invited but urged by the Dean of Vomen and the Dean of Men, through their message in the K Book, to come in just to get acquainted. Under the present plan, discretion rather than discipline is employed to help solve the students ' problems. Even the title of Dean has been dropped and changed to Adviser. Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, the Adviser of Women, came to the University in the fall of 1918 to teach in the home economics department, and was appointed to her present office to succeed Dean Agnes Husband in the spring of 1955. Miss Meguiar was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and has all the charm and hospitality of the true Southerner. She grad- uated from the Sci- ence Hill School for Girls at Shelbyville, Kentucky, and enrolled in the Univer- sity of Chicago, where she majored in home economics. From there, she went East to teach in the depart- ment of home economics at Pennsylvania College. After spending three years there she was asked to teach home economics at Chicago University, but because of sickness she was unable to complete her first year. She then taught in the University of Texas, coming from there to K. U. In addition to serving on enough committees to make a whole bowl of alphabetical soup if they were to be put under the present national administration, she directs employment for women students, supervises their living conditions, authorizes all social affairs of each Hill organization, and makes up the University social calendar. Her office strives to promote a spirit of harmony and to coordinate social and extra-curricu- lar activities for women. Miss Elizabeth Meguiar Air. Henry erner Mr. Henry Vemer has been Adviser of Men at Kansas University since 1929, when he succeeded Dean John R. Dyer to that position. In the role of Adviser to Men, Mr. Verner is a very busy and important personage in the life and activities of students in the University. His office provides a center of advice and informa- tion to all men stu- dents. It is his duty to see that student life as a whole is running smoothly, and that student organizations are functioning. Mr. Vemer was born in England and personifies the non- chalance and tact of the English gentleman even to the accent. Before coming to Kansas Mr. Verner attended the Liver- pool Technical School, the University of Liverpool, and the Physikalisher Verein in Frankfort, Germany. In 1920, he came to the University of Kansas and received his Master of Arts degree in 1928. Aside from being the Adviser of Men, Mr. Werner serves on the Student Activity Committee, the Union Operating Committee, and the Committee on Student Affairs. He is also associate professor of chemistry, and is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Academy of Science, and the University Club. Mr. Verner is an ardent fisherman, and in collabo- ration with Professor H. B. Chubb, has been working on a new method of fishing that is truly revolutionary. After many years spent in laboratory research and studying the habits of certain fish, they have worked out a plan whereby a piscatorial decoy is used. A fish of the type they wish to fish for is caught, and a small hole is punched in its dorsal fin; then a string with an inflated balloon tied on one end is fastened through this hole. Fish such as wall-eyed pike and crappie stay in schools, so when their fish is released, he will swim until he finds a school of other fish, and then he will stop. AH the anglers have to do is to follow the balloon and they know exactly where to fish! This method has already been adopted on Leech Lake, Minnesota, where the two men spent a month (ConlinupJ on Page 8O)

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THE JAYHAWKER THE HEAD MAN ,,-,., Chancellor Lindley is nationally recognized as a scholar and educator By ELIZABETH SHEARER FOR SIXTEEN years the University of Kansas has been guided by a man who is not only a progressive administrator, but also an eminent scholar and a citizen of nationally known fame. Such a per- sonality as Chancellor E. H. Lindley is held in awe by the majority of students. We do not easily com- prehend that he is still a student like the rest of us and once was struggling through the same kind of difficulties which we are encountering today. Perhaps that is largely why Dr. Lindley has obtained such a high degree of success. His complete understanding of student life is constantly being manifested, recently in the important role which he played as a sponsor of the nation ' s plan to provide education for our under- privileged youth. To those of us attending the Univer- sity it is exceedingly interesting to trace Chancellor Lindley ' s studies and to discover how he progressed through a field of study which had a beginning very similar to the life in which we are all now participating. It was in Bloomington, Indiana, that Dr. Lindley ' s formal schooling began. There, while working day and night in his father s drug store, he completed his preparatory work at the age of 14. Circumstances were such, however, that Chancellor Lindley was unable to enter Indiana University immediately. In- stead he worked for three years in his father ' s drug store, where he made many valuable over the counter acquaintances. David Starr Jordan, then president of Indiana University, was a steady customer at the drug Chancellor E. H. Lindley store, and with him the young clerk formed a strong friendship. At first their meetings outside of the store were brought about by Chancellor Lindley ' s waiting inside the gate of his home until Jordan passed and then, seemingly by coincidence, joining Jordan and happening to be going in the same direction. Vhether or not Jordan ' s suspicions were aroused by the frequency of these coincidences, he welcomed them, for, naturalist and counselor that he was, he always was glad to talk to the youth at his side, to acquaint him with nature, and to discuss with him the many problems of a young boy ' s life. Vhen at last he was able to enroll in the U niversity of Indiana, Chancellor Lindley discovered that these three years of work had better suited him for college by furthering his general knowledge and by whetting his desire to study. Memory of the benefits of these years today causes the Chancellor to counsel students not to be discouraged if their college education has to be postponed a few years. Despite the fact that he was still working in the drug store, the Chancellor found time to enter into a variety of school activities. He was interested in politics and in student self-government, and par- ticipated in campaigns which doubtless were as feverish (Continued on Page 68) mm

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THE JAYHAWKER We present the initial installment oj an informal portfolio of campus events, gossip, and personalities C ROM that sticky night in May when proud and beaming parents heaved a sigh of relief as we left high school behind until that not-too-far-off proces- sion down the Hill to the stadium as we say goodbye to K. LJ., one unpleasant idea more than any other is K. U. version o the Mar. on the Street forced upon us. Beginning at home with Mother and Dad, big brother and the proprietor of the local drug- store, and continuing through the endless chain of Chancellor, dean, prof, fraternity upperclassman, and editorials in the Kansan, we are never allowed to forget that we are here for study primarily. Dismal thought, don ' t you think, George? As a rule, a few semesters on what the poet chooses to call Mount Oread s sunny slopes are sufficient to dispel any considerable faith in this popular super- stition, but occasionally on a dark night you may stumble over some firm believer asleep on the library i f aistrallon opnins , BEGINNING: By THE JAYWALKER steps. Through the year in these columns the Jay- walker will defend his firm conviction that, Phi Beta Kappas to the contrary notwithstanding, it ' s the little things in life that count at the U., as elsewhere. The friends, the parties, the embarrassing moments, the big shots, the jams, and the breaks that make the four college years the hub of our life history. One more word and we ' re off. In this little chronicle of the people and places that will make up the bits of the mosaic that will be the next year, I ' ll try not to infringe on the territory of the Social VheeI or Cam- pus Polylogia. My aim is to be neither a society reporter nor a scandalmonger. Rather, I ' d like to pick up the little ends that often pass as too commonplace for notice and preserve them here. And so, if you ' re ready, let s be off and see what ' s been doing and who s been doing it. Probably the most deserted place in Kansas about September 1 is the campus, and nothing brings more of a thrill than to be on hand as the students return. It brings back life like a pulmotor to a near-drowned man. I ' ve often had the feeling that the deserted campus had about as much personality as dead fish. George O. really ought to have a medal on hand for the first student to put in an appearance each fall. The first unmistakable sign of the imminence of school s opening is the glimmering of a few sorority house lights, and the scattered representation of the male element calling up indiscriminately and asking, Who ' s back? Does she want a date tonite? And the first break of the year by Mary Markham, Gamma Phi s blonde contender for honors as campus queen, who left home in such a flutter that she forgot the keys to her trunk. Charlie Long, Mr. Blue Mill to you, greeting old- comers and newcomers with a genial smile in his anJ ends some flours later