University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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lax W' l 1 12 .-. -' Jr-71 1.1-bi 9-'sx..... 4-.av-was--fn: The meetings with the respec- tive deans throw the first light upon what college is really about. The scene darkens when the freshmen are told that they are here at school to study. This is quite a shock to some of them. The familiar cry of fill that group originated at one of these meetings and has thrived ever since. A There's nothing quite like en- rollment. The ease with which you surpass it depends entirely upon the Fates. That is, whether your last name begins with a letter that enrolls early or not. Late enrollment can be endured only if the right attitude is taken -the attitude of I don't give a . . The freshmen are caught coming and going, howeverjwith one simple decision to make. They have their choice of either afternoon or Saturday classes. D Payment of fees is a necessary factor in becoming a Kansas J ay- hawker. freshmen, unfamiliar with this angle of college were soon well initiated to it as labora- tory, uniform, quiz paper, and general taxation fees and assess- ments mounted higher. Gener- ally at this point, the freshmen write home. Financial insult to injury came this year with the additional 59 cents for federal tax. Spiritual rejuvenation in the manner of 'making freshmen K.U. conscious was by far the most important part of the orien- tation week. N e w students learned what it meant to thrill to the chanting of the famous Rock Chalk. They learned of ' the struggles of their illustrious founders. They learned the 'mean- ing of being a Kansas jayhawkerl -mn, .. Suchem Trump lights torch . . . -, . The relay . . . Carry on, class of '45! OCTOBER 1941 Climax to freshmen week came with the eighteenth annual new student induction in Me- morial stadium. It was in this ceremony that some 900 students were ofhcially incorporated into the University as energetic new jayhawkers. Alumni, upper class- men come back year after year to witness the re-enaction of the torch race from the Rock Chalk cairn. The most disinterested freshmen cannot help being im- pressed and inspired. Young jayhawkers, you have accepted some mighty important obligations in coming to this Uni- versity. lt is to you that the burn- ing torch of wisdom has been hurled. It is you who are to keep it burning for those who are to come after you. In the words of Hannah Oliver, oldest living graduate of the University, It may be that there are those among you who will extend the borders of light, who will dis- cover principles of mechanics and economics that will lighten the burdens of men who toilg scien- tific facts that shall satisfy man's craving to know more of the Universe, which from its farthest bounds has always held out beckoning hands to himg or some as yet unknown spiritual truths that will ennoble and bless the race. The hope, the faith, and the destiny of the University of Kan- sas is in you embryo Jayhawkers. Will you leave our alma mater greater than you found it? You are now on Mt. Oread . . . prove your right to be here. This is your challenge, these are the responsibilities you inherit ON BECOMING JAYHAVUKERS! pbotor I1 5' Ruppentbal ll .

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L l ,QAL i I f W L, A 2 1-I T1-113 JAYI-IAXVKER Bowl, Containing ldoses 7he fauhauihea aah a inhale faarn one who hnauca M ucell by R, R. 'Maplesden HIS fayhawleer of yours is unique. Among all the thousands of college publications, there is no other just like it, none which covers the same field, or in the same manner. The fayhafwher is a substantial part of that larger unique-ness which is K.U. Here it is still only mid-fall, much too early to be working up an appetite for Thanksgiving, and with the make-or-break part 'of the football season just coming up. Yet already you've been reading in your fayhawher about the earlier games, about rush week and registration and the first moves of the politicos and all that early hurly-burly, that does so much to set the pace of the university year. You have pictures, interpretation, and comment- a record which is yours Tor- life. Yet it has been put into your hands while the events still echo and the personalities are which, he thought for a moment about OctobCr lst, would be sheerly, starkly, simply impossible. So' this magazine-yearbook isn't a novelty any more, but an established institution already well be- yond the average age of periodicals. Then why, if it has such advantages over conventional yearbooks Cand its timeliness is only one of manyb why hasn't its form been generally adopted elsewhere? Well, for one thing, K.U. did it hrst, so . . . period. You didn't know that universities and col- leges were like that? Oh, but my dear! But yes! CAnd K.U. can be like that, too.D This particular inhibition should wear off some time during the next decade. And for another thing, a few did try it. In fact, in a sense, two or three of these survive, or did last year, but they are not really of the genus, because still freshly vivid and interesting. And this will happen four more times through the year. That isn'r true at Manhattan, or Columbia, or Norman or Lincoln or Ames. lt isn't true on any other campus in America. The students at other universities and colleges must wait until next May to get their year- books, when most of the events of fall and winter will have an em- balmed look. The hot wind of finals will be blowing. So, after a hasty glance through, the books will be laid aside for future attention which, to a large extent, they'll never get. This is the ninth autumn in which K.U. students have riiiied the leaves of their jayhaioher while there are still some leaves on Mount Oreadls trees. Jim Surface is the ninth editor of the fayhawher in its magazine form, and he is looking at his first issue with considerably more amaze- ment than his readers, as a miracle - AJ manager of the college ile- parlment of ihe Burger-Bairrl Engraving' Co., Mr. Maplenlerz helped wilh the planning and proiluction of the jayhawker from 1926 through to the spring of 1941,' ar well ax many other col- lege puhlicationx in the Middle lVe.rt. He har recently gone into another line of work. For ihe part lhree yearx, he har been criiic of college annualr for the National Scholartic Prem Arrociation. He contribute! regularly to the Scho- larlic Eiiilorf and thir year rlirectr the program of the yearhooh .rec- tion of the convention of the Armciaieil Collegiate Prem. . T they appear only twice a year, which is merely a semi-annual and not a mag- azine-yearbook. As for the rest, hav- ing tried it for a year or at most two, they hastily returned to their conven- tional yearbooks. Again, why? Well, partly because they failed to discern the true in- wardness of the Jayhawheriv form, the subtle core of its philosophy as a college record. They missed either on the side of being too magazine-ish, so that the resulting publication did not give the impression of being a valuable, permanent recordg or on the other side, sticking to yearbook for- mat and spirit so slavishly that the results looked merely like the old annual, divided into several sections. But above all, they returned to the conventional book because they found the magazine yearbook a la Iayhawher much more diflicult for their staffs. Too diiiicult, they felt. And perhaps they were right-for