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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1946
Page
2
Wooddell cites ongoing damage to Ohio University lawns and asks administration to halt after hour and weekend vandalism. President Bowan backs action. the plan includes stronger groundskeeping and a plea to student pride to protect the campus from ball fields and picnics encroaching on the library area.
The university choir heads to Canton Sunday for a WHBC broadcast at 5 10 p m then to Massillon for a St Paul s Lutheran church performance. Kent's first campus dance band since prewar years features Art Seyler s roster with John Lennon Al Daniels Bob Cone Ralph Faulk Jim Hopkins Ward Robinson Gene Schmiedl Ernie Phillips and Seyler on drums. The piece notes Evan Wolcott and Lionel Barrymore connections and mentions Benny Goodman guesting with the Memphis Symphony this June along with Columbia and London Symphony records for April and May releases.
The university honors O B Law assistant treasurer who served as treasurer and business manager during the war emergency. President Bowman commends Law for handling more work than three men, while Paul E Beck becomes comptroller and takes charge of finances and budget.
Kent State University accepts an honorable discharge paper for vet students, a rarity among peers that eases access to housing and books for recently enrolled veterans. This policy contrasts with the standard eligibility letter required elsewhere.
Custodian Jolly Roger Gregory reports 10 books have been taken or misplaced from the Merrill hall women's lounge since the quarter began. He notes the incidents are connected to spring pickup activity and involves items not owned by the readers.
Over 900 students voted in the recent election of most popular man and woman. Bill Sullivan and Betty Jane Shutrump won by large majorities. The writer criticizes the opposition for discourteous, unsportsmanlike remarks and urges graciousness in defeat.
A dense catalog of textbooks and course readings appears, listing titles across marketing economics psychology sociology physics and more. The fragmentary items include works like Essentials of Marketing Divine Comedy Don Quixote and Introduction to Philosophy among many others with scattered annotations.
Editor proposes a campus golf course on the university grounds to avoid transportation to courses. Players would tee off from the library, tour campus, finish at Prentice Gate near Brady and a coke. Greens fees would include the coke, sharing the loser buys as a tradition.
Publication details list the edition editor and contact, noting a subscription price of $2.00 per year. It shows postal registration as a second class matter dated October 11, 1927, at Kent Ohio, printed by Commercial Press, Inc. on DePeyster Street.
Collected campus chatter from Stan Mine and Bob Wentz spanning sports mishaps and social life. Highlights include Bud Kerrigan mistaking third base, ex-State Chief Johnny Mine visiting, and plans for summer school with Al Kerckhoff returning.
Fact filled note records a rapid rise in KSU night classes in industrial arts with three period courses in engineering drawing architecture and teaching methods. Professor Elbert W. Tischendorf notes department enrolment up about 50 percent from last quarter with two three period engineering drawing courses, two three period architecture courses, and one three period teaching methods course. A J Spangler and Albert Lee Kelley are listed as instructors. Grace Bosma describes a motor trip to Jacksonville Florida with Mary Jane Slates R N.
The poem contrasts feverish mill labor and the idea of progress with war on a neighboring nation. A worker claims progress justifies conquest, enslavement, and plunder as fields and riches shift. The speaker reflects on uprisings, equality, and perpetual conflict tied to the word progress, ending with a bitter irony.
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