Letters to the Editor and Press Critique Debate
The Stater plans a weekly Letters to the Editor column as readers rise in response to the busy new quarter. Signed letters are required. The piece discusses a University of Chicago led press commission report and the NY News retort citing 60 million readers as a critique group. The Stater aims to involve students in monitoring the press.
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Press Commission
University of Chicago
Encyclopedia Britannica
Life
Time
America
New York News
Groups Begin Stadium Fund Drive With Early Gifts
Phigammatheta and Delta Zeta became first to contribute to the University Stadium Fund drive. Their actions encourage campus groups to back the project and help visualize the stadium's ultimate value for games held in the current inadequate facilities.
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Phigammatheta Club
Delta Zeta Sorority
Willamette Floods Sweep 100 Miles Of Farmland
Floodwaters from the rain swollen Willamette overflow farmland along a 100 mile stretch in the Columbia river valley spanning Oregon and Washington. The forecast remains rain as a week of rainfall continues.
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Oregon
Eugene
Ore
Willamette River
Columbia River
Washington
New Courses Added At KSU Amid Building Expansion
Ruth Anne Crawford outlines University of Kansas State’s new courses as part of expansion. Home economics offers a Wednesday sewing class for professional finishing. New offerings in geography and geology include South American geography taught by Ernesto Montenegro, climatology basics by Dr. H. F. Raup, geomorphology, and geology by Carleton N. Savage.
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KSU
Ernesto Montengro
Chile
H. F. Raup
Carleton N. Savage
Reading the High School Level Adds Slide Rule Course
Popular demand brings a new mathematics department course on using slide rules and reading their scales. Paul L. Evans notes the shift from elementary to high school teachers in teaching reading and the class targets graduate students studying reading techniques under Dean Robert I. White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul L. Evans
Robert I. White
College of Education
Recounts and Issues Face College Students in 1948
In this 1948 preview, Mickey Dover considers foreign aid, inflation and tax policy, military training, and the 1948 elections. He weighs Truman and Republican positions, third party bids, and looming European tensions that shape students’ futures.
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Congress
Upton Close
U. S
Truman
Henry Wallace
Russia
West
de Gaulle
France
Nationalist Party
China
United Nations
Palestine
Greece
Labor Party
Britain
Churchill
Conservative
Europe
High School Programs Teach Skills and Study Habits
The plan outlines teaching skills and study habits to high school students through multiple instructional methods. It emphasizes practical strategies to improve learning efficiency and academic performance across subjects.
Portuguese Added to Language Curricula for Trade Regions
Brazilian colonies and the Azores gain emphasis as the department expands language offerings. The move aims to give students exposure to Portuguese language and its role in trade and regional bases.
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Brazil
Azores
Cadets in Uniform at Vets in Friday ROTC Event
About 140 cadets, advanced in pink trousers and freshmen in darker shades, will be inspected at the rifle range before classes. Lieutenant Colonel Wall announced rifle range use this quarter for M1 sniper and carbine training. Also noted VA changes curb presumptive service connected treatment for outpatients effective Jan 1.
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Thomas F. Wall
Infantry
Collegiate Bus Business To Sponsor Scholarships
Wabash College Indiana will receive 1200 dollars annually from several regional industrial firms to fund scholarships for fifty students. Recipients are chosen by company interest and must work with their sponsor during college. Colgate University New York reports Henry Wallace praising student openness and liberal views.
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Wabash College
Indiana
Wabash
Wallace
Colgate University
New York
Henry Wallace
Colgate Maroon
Plans for Portuguese club formation noted
The article mentions language study practices and customs as key to course work. It notes conversation plays a major role and will be supplemented by composition for spelling practice. Plans are under way for forming a Portuguese club.
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Portugese Club
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Phigammatheta
Delta Zeta
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
Merrill Hall
Society
John W. Finn
Bob Wentz
Bob Weybueller
Dan Cana
George Heaslip
Betty Rowlen
al Post
William Saviers
Angeline Scources
William Hugo
Sig Thorsen
Kenny Webb
Kent Stater
Kent
Ohio
Commercial Press, Inc
S. Depeyster St
Pluys
Knight
Columbus
Ohio Journalism Hall of Fame
O. O. McIntyre
Charles L. Knight
Akron Beacon-Journal
Budapest
Bodogkovaralja
Velasquez
Jerusalem
Atlantic Seaboard
William O'Dwyer
U. S. Maritime Commission
Philadelphia
Ruth Anne Crawford
By Mickey Dover
Okinawa
Aachen
ROTC
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