BOOK WILL BE OUT MONDAY
TEXT OF "YSBRAND" TO SELL FOR 25 CENTS.
Professor Whitcomb Has Written a Fore-word on the Play and Its Author.
The paper bound edition of the play "Ysbrand," which will be given here in the Bowersock opera house next Friday and Saturday, will be on sale at the check stand and the down town book stores next Monday. The price will be 25 cents a copy.
The book has two cuts, one of the author, Dr. Van Eeden, and one of the cast (not costumed), the director and the manager. This book was published to arouse the interest of the student body in the play and thus create a larger seat sale, as well as to give them a chance to read and understand the play before seeing it.
The play has a east of fourteen six of whom are girls and eight boys. There are four acts. Everyone who has seen the rehearsals of the play says there is no doubt that this play will be a success.
The text of the Lawrence edition of the play was edited by Prof. S. L. Whitcomb and Prof. Fred N. Raymond. Professor Whitcomb has written the following prefatory note which will appear in the booklet.
For the past ten years or more, many American readers have been familiar with the name of Van Eeden. They have known that he was one of the most prominent living men of letters in Holland, and some of them have been aware that he was eminent as a pioneer in psycho-therapeutics and in various practical enterprises in the field of social reform. As a literary artist, Doctor Van Eeden has produced poems novels and dramas; but up to the present time few if any of his works have any considerable circulation in this country, in English translations.
In April, 1909, Doctor Van Eeden was a guest of the University of Kansas for about a week, giving a series of lectures, partly upon literary, partly upon social subjects. At that time or soon after arrangements were made with him for the production of "Ysbrand" by students of the University. In November of the same year he made a second brief visit to the University, for the express purpose of giving some personal directions to the committees in charge and to the members of the cast, regarding the performance of the play.
During this second visit, the distinguished author gave two public lectures at the University; one upon social problems, and one upon his theory of the drama in general, and the meaning of "Ysbrand." In the latter lecture, Doctor Van Eeden declared that the function of drama was essentially religious, criticising somewhat the American public for its preference for mere amusement in the theater and its dislike for facing there the deeper problems, the less agreeable phases of human experience. The character of the hero, "Ysbrand" he interpreted as that of a gifted, very sensitive, but by no means insane man,goaded to extremes by contact with average men and women who mean well, but are incapable of "understanding." In the author's view, the play is religious in this very simple sense: It presents a
human problem which is insoluble by any secular method; which suggests, at least, recourse to a belief in immortality, or in a God whose ways are beyond the comprehension of unaided reason.
It may be of interest to note that Doctor Van Eeden came to Lawrence, on this second visit, from an inspection of his communistic colony for Dutch immigrants, in North Carolina; and that the next number of a crowded program called for attention to the staging of some of his play; on the continent of Europe.
The text of "Ysbrand," which follows, is from a translation by a New England woman, very slightly revised by the author Doctor Van Eeden gave his ready permission to have the play printed, in connection with the first production of it in English. The committee in charge have corrected some obvious errors in the typewritten copy, and have made some other slight changes for one reason or another deemed advisable. Having had no access to either translator or original version, they assume no responsibilities beyond those implied in this statement.
OREAD NEWS NOTES.
Miss Ruth Van Doren and Miss Adolita Pepper are spending the week end in Kansas City.
Roy K. Deitrich and Howard Miller, seniors in the college, left today for a hunting trip near Perry, Kan.
Dr. and Mrs. M. T. Sudler spent Friday in Kansas City.
Fred Gilluly, a freshman in the College, has accepted a position at his home, Nowata, Ok., and will not be in school the spring term.
The Mechanical Engineering society met at the home of Prof. P. F. Walker, Thursday evening. The senior mechanical engineers gave an interesting account of their trip which they took just before the holidays. On this trip they tested several of the largest power plants in the state.
Millicent Noftzger and Margaet Beerbohm are spending the week-end at the home of the latter, in Topeka.
Keene Fones, a senior in the College, is visiting in Kansas City.
Janet Latz, a freshman in the College, is spending the remain der of the week at her home in Kansas City, Mo.
Mabel Anderson, a freshman in the College, is suffering from an attack of typhoid pneumonia at her home in Iola, Kan. She contracted the disease during the holidays, and will be unable to return to school for several weeks.
Miss Bessie Daum, a sophomore in the College, has been kept from her school work by sickness the last few days.
Eugene Hipple, a junior law went to Kansas City today.
A drinking fountain was in stalled in the library this week.
COLD WEATHER EATS UP COAL
Dr. Wilber will organize a student study class in "Social Problems of the City" next Wednesday day evening at 7 o'clock in the Westminster house, 1125 Tennessee street. This class will meet weekly and students interested in this subject are cordially invited to attend.
But There Is no Danger of Shortage if State Mine Runs Smootly.
60 TONS REQUIRED TO START SCHOOL MONDAY.
The University administrative department is having a busy life this cold weather, trying to keep enough coal at the heating plant to maintain sufficient heat in the buildings. A continuous line of wagons has been winding up the hill all week with the supply that feeds the furnaces.
An immense amount of coal has been used this week. Sixty tons were burned Monday alone, to heat the buildings sufficiently to hold classes in them. The average consumption this week has been well over forty tons a day. The addition of new buildings to the University plant together with the unusually cold weather has made the amount of coal used much greater than it has ever been before.
Every means possible is being used to economize fuel. For this reason, no vesper services will be held at the University tomorrow. With all that can be done, however, the surplus on hand does not exceed enough for three days use.
E. E. Brown, purchasing agent, said yesterday that there was no danger of a famine unless some accident should happen at the state mine, from which the supply comes.
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DEATH OF F. M. HOAD.
Francis M. Hoad, brother of Prof. W. C. Hoad, of the School of Engineering, died at the home of his parents, in Lecompton, Wednesday afternoon of tuberculosis of the lungs. Prof. Hoad was in attendance at the funeral, which took place yesterday afternoon from the family home.
Brother of Prof. Hoad Succumbs to Tuberculosis.
Frank Hoad was a student at the University from 1898 until 1902, and took his bachelor's degree in the College with the class of the latter date. In 1903 he did post graduate work in engineering, and was elected to Sigma Xi as a recognition of his superior work in the sciences.
After leaving the University Mr. Hoad took up structural steel work, and was for a time with the American Bridge Co., then with the Pennsylvania Steel Co., and, for the past four years, until his health failed, was in the employ of Supp Bros, Bridge and Iron Co., of St. Louis.
He was forced to give up his work some months ago, and went to the farm home near Lecompton, where he succumbed to an attack of pleurisy, which came upon him but a day or two before his death.
Dean F. O. Marvin was well acquainted with Hoad as a student, spoke feelingly of the young man's death. "Frank was an especially bright student," he said, "and had a most promising career before him. He undoubtedly would have become a bridge enginer of renown, had not the terrible disease seized him."
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