Combination Course of Study Helps KU Men Cut Costs
About 250 KU men study a mix of cookbooks and textbooks to earn degrees, with 50 residents per hall sharing work to keep costs down. Grace Pearson Hall, Battenfeld and others provide home like settings. residents average GPA around 2.13 to 2.15, higher than sororities and fraternities, aided by self‑help, cooking and proctor supervision.
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Kansas University
Mount Oread
Elizabeth M. Watkins
Douthart
Miller
Sellards
Watkins
Battenfeld
Pearson
Joliffe
Stephenson
Grace Pearson
Bob Billings
Office of
EU Scholarship Hall
Billings
Marietta Jackson
Newton
Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall
Grace Pearson Hall
Schaefer
Hall
Stevenson
Gary Towslee
Topeka
Towslee
Mike Geitz
Horton
Geitz
Shane Castle
Richmond
Castle
Pieter Kroonenberg
Goes
Holland
Kroonenberg
Todd
Tom Stevenson
Tom
Journal-World Photo
KU Drive Reaches 27000 in William Allen White Campaign
Contributions totaling 27000 have been raised in the first phase of the nationwide campaign by the William Allen White Foundation at KU. The goal is 125000 to fund White centennial year activities and establish a visiting professorship in KU's School of Journalism.
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William Allen White
Kansas University Journalism
Friends of the School
Mr. White
Emporia
States
Canada
Kansas
Texas
Illinois
Indiana
New York
Iowa
Pennsylvania
California
Michigan
Missouri
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Arizona
Massachusetts
Florida
Stauffer Publications, Inc
Topeka
School of Journalism
Stauffer
Visting
Three Baldwin City Jaycees Honor Recipients Named
Three individuals were honored Thursday at Baldwin City Jaycees awards banquet. Joyce Nygerges Baldwin elementary teacher received outstanding young educator award. Richard Stephens cited for civil defense and Red Cross work received Distinguished Service Award. Wally Piper internal vice president named outstanding Jaycee of the year.
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Baldwin City Jaycees
Joyce Nygerges
Baldwin
Richard Stephens
Red Cross
Wally Piper
Market trading crash prompts earlier market close
An overwhelming trading crash leads to shortened hours for major exchanges. The American Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange will close from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. CST starting Monday, with the Pacific Coast Exchange cutting hours to 3 p.m. CST amid record daily volumes and rising stock ownership.
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New York
American Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
2Mendous E’ge
National Association of S ‘Irities
Sai
Pacific Coast Stock Exchange
San Francisco
Bids Set Feb 14 for Perry Reservoir Land Leases
The Corps of Engineers Kansas City announces sealed bids to lease 63 Perry Reservoir parcels totaling about 8,891 acres for grazing hay or restricted agriculture. Bids due Feb 14 at 2 30 p.m. in Room 660 Federal Building Kansas City Missouri. Leases run one year.
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Corps of Engineers
Kansas City
Perry Reservoir
Lawrence
Federal Building
Research Funding Annotates Thermodynamics History
Kansas University professor Edward E. Daub receives 11408 in NSF funding to trace the development of the Second Law of Thermodynamics from 1850 to 1879. The two year grant supports his study of the concept's evolution in mid to late 19th century science.
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Kansas University
National Science Foundation
Edward E. Daub
Vaudevillian Bert Wheeler Dies at 72 After Seven Decades on Stage
New York AP reports Bert Wheeler, famed vaudeville star and Ziegfeld Follies headliner, died Thursday night at 72 from emphysema. He began as a teen in Omaha, broke a defining ankle, then staged a long career in vaudeville, film with Robert Woolsey, radio and TV.
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New York
Bert Wheel
Omaha
Wheeler
Robert Woolsey
Woolsey
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Perry Project
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