SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1939
Luxurious Home Is Awaiting Malott's Return
★ Late Mrs. Watkins' Home Undergoing Renovation; House and Grounds Will Become Part of Campus
By Kenneth Postlethwaite
When Chancellor Deane Malott comes to Lawrence this August to take up his residence in the Chancellor's official home he will find one of Kansas' most luxurious and best equipped mansions waiting for him. The home of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, which was willed to the University to be used as a home for its Chancellors, is now undergoing a thorough renovation before it is occupied by the new head of the school.
On the first floor of the four story domicile are a large reception and stair hall flanked on one side by a dining room and on the other by a drawing room. Behind the drawing room is a large living room which features a huge fire place. Behind the dining room is the butler's pantry, kitchen and larder. A full restaurant size electric refrigerator takes up one side of the larder. A small morning room with a fireplace lies between the kitchen and living room. Large screened porches, open porches and terraces will furnish plenty of space for outside living by the Chancelor and his family.
Situated on the edge of Mount Oread, the magnificent colonial home has long been a University of Kansas campus landmark. Now the residence, the large grounds, gardens, pools and fountains are a part of the campus.
The basement is under all of the house and its porches. In it are located a large laundry, drying room, servants' quarters, bath room, central vacuum cleaning system, two large refrigeration compressors for the air conditioning system for the house and much storage room.
A large square hall features the second floor. Around it are situated the bed room suites, sitting room and a great sleeping porch.
Mrs. Malott surely won't be able to make the usual complaint of housekeepers, that there never is enough closet space, for the Chancellor's house has 17 closets. Five bath-rooms and seven bed rooms should take care of the Chancellor's family and house-hold. The bath room in the master's bedroom suite is the fanciest in the house. The tub alcove is in pink tile, as is the tub, and lined with mirrors. Other fixatures are in pink and the whole scene is set off with an abundance of highly polished chromium fittings.
On the top floor are more bedrooms, bath and trunk rooms and a stairway leading to the roof.
The seven fireplaces in the house are being rebuilt so that they will draw well. New plumbing for the heating plant is being installed. Walls are being repaired and refinished. The main staircase is being overhaulled. The air conditioning plant is undergoing a thorough check. So by the middle of August the 20 room mansion will be ready for the Malotts to move in.
The first Board of Regents was created in 1864.
The Kansas legislature established Kansas University, Feb. 20, 1863.
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Guest Conductor---
Dr. A. A. Harding of the University of Illinois will be guest conductor for the final band concert Sunday evening.
Doctor Elbel's Condition Reported As Somewhat Improved
Dr. E. R. Elbel, assistant professor of physical education, who has been seriously ill for over a week with an acute infection of the upper lip, was reported as somewhat improved late yesterday afternoon. Elbel has been in the Lawrence Memorial hospital all this week, and according to Dr. R. H. Edmiston, attending physician, his condition is still serious.
Jim Raport, instructor in physical education, has taken over Doctor Elbel's seminar class, and the students enrolled in Special Problems are going ahead with their work individually. Edmiston said yesterday it is possible that Doctor Elbel may be able to meet his classes again before the Summer Session ends.
Last Open House Will Be Monday
The last Open House of the Summer Session recreational program is planned for next Monday night, July 31, in the Memorial Union Building. The evening will be spent in dancing to the music of Lou Maser's jam band, from 8 to 9:30 o'clock.
Young People's Picnic
The Union Young People's group of Lawrence churches will have a picnic this afternoon. They will leave from South Park at 4:30. All students are invited.
First Outdoor Plays Presented At Picnic Monday
Innovation Attracts Some Three Hundred Persons To Cut-of-Door Stage In Center of Quadrangle
Frank Anneberg entertained the audience with a number of his stunts between the first play and the second play. This play, "Seeing New York" was coached by Miss Julia Campbell, and the cast included Miss Geordine Ulm, Dave Shirk, and Delmar Branson. Following the play Miss Ulm sang "White Sails," accompanied on the piano by Miss Dorothy Gehret.
The first plays ever to be produced on an out-of-door stage on the University campus proved to be highly successful at Monday night's Summer Session picnic. Approximately 300 persons enjoyed the program which was arranged by Dr. Allen's class in Community Recreation.
After community singing, led by Miss Irene Oliver, the program proper began. The numbers were announced by Miss Marion Hughes. Miss Dorothy Gehret's interpretation of "No, No, A Thousand Times No!" put the audience in a hilarious mood. The first of the plays was entitled, "The Facts of Life," and was directed by Miss Laura Thompson, a member of Prof. Allen Crafton's class in Play Direction. The cast of this play included Vernon Hayes, Mrs. Frances McMillan, and Dean Nesmith.
The climax of the evening came with the presentation of the third play, "Louder, Please!", directed by Miss Helen Talbert. The members of the cast were Miss Anita Louise Warden, Dean Nesmith, Dorothy Gehret, Gerald Barker, and Carl Friesen.
An appropriate closing to whole program came with the playing of "Taps" by little Joe Crow, who performed with the ease of a professional trouper.
The first track meet was held between Baker, Cooper (now Sterling College) and KU., in 1893.
University Offers New Service To Kansas Schools
Bv Frieda Cowles
A new service to Kansas Schools in connection with instruction in reading is being offered by the School of Education and the University Extension Division who are cooperating in developing a diagnostic service to aid schools in determining types of reading difficulties.
The work will be carried on by two or more graduate students in the School of Education and will be supervised by Dr. Bert A. Nash and Dr. A. H. Turney both of the School of Education. The graduate students will be sent to the school requesting the service with the scientific instruments necessary for making the tests, and will test the students known to have difficulty in reading. They will be able to test about 20 students a day. The instruments to be used, and which are too expensive for most schools to afford, include the audiometer, telebicular, and ophthalmograph.
"It is not intended to be a complete clinical diagnosis," Doctor Rash said, "but it should furnish teachers with valuable information concerning the handling of students who are handicapped by poor reading ability."
Upon their return to the University with the data, the field workers with the supervisors will make an analysis and interpretation of each case. The results, with suggestions for handling each case, will be returned to the school.
The program is an attempt to further the work started at the Reading Institute which was held at the University from June 26 to July 1. While 180 Kansas teachers and administrators were taught the theory of diagnosis at the institute, lack of facilities in their schools prevented many of them from carrying back to their schools the remedial treatment to make effective what they had learned.
Orchestra Director----
David T. Lawson has successfully served as director of the music camp orchestra and will co-operate with Karl Krueger in directing the final concert Sunday afternoon.
Goal-Hi, the new basketball version of Dr. F. C. Allen, will enter the movies Monday afternoon according to an announcement made yesterday. Billy Andlauer, Pathe News photographer, will be here Monday to shoot 600 feet of film for the new game.
Goal-Hi To Enter Movies Via Pathe
The film will be made at 1:30 at the Stadium field with two University teams probably seeing action. Andlauer has been on the Campus before taking pictures of the Kansas Relays.
Mars on Display At Observatory
★ Students May View Planet,
Now Close to Earth, From
9:30 to 12, Says Storer
The planet Mars, brilliant neighbor to the Earth, will be on display to summer session students this evening at the University Observatory from 9:30 until 12.
Closer to the Earth than at any time since 1924, Mars is of special interest because of the possibilities of life which have been suggested. To observe here this evening the "polar caps" and some of the dark markings may be visible, according to Professor N. W. Storer, associate professor of astronomy.
The "polar caps" are either snow or clouds about the planet's South pole, and the dark regions are areas of vegetation, according to one theory.
The famous "canals" which form a web-work over part of the planet, will not, however, be visible, Storer explained, because the heat waves in the air will blurr such fine and narrow lines. These lines have been the main basis for the conjecture that there may be intelligent beings on Mars.
Although students will not see Mars at the time when it is closest to the Earth, the distance will not have increased as much as one per cent. Yesterday, between 2 and 3 in the afternoon, the planet was nearest us, being about 36,033,000 miles distant.
The late hour of observation is necessary, Professor Storer said because the planet will not be high enough in the southeastern sky to be visible at any earlier time.
Not many earmuffs were reported sold last week.
Music Campers Bid University Farewell Monday
★ Will Have Completed Successful Six Weeks Training Period Under Outstanding Teachers
Music campers will say goodbye to the University Monday after completing their six week's traing period at the fourth annual Midwestern Music Camp. The camp is sponsored by the School of Fine Arts and this year attracted 175 students from seven middlewestern states. States represented were Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri.
The fee for the 6-week period was $66. This included board and room, band and orchestra two hours a day, ensemble one hour a day, private lessons on any instrument one hour a day, theory one hour a day, recitals, and supervised recreation. The recreation program consisted of horseback riding, swimming, dancing, pennis, and playground activities.
A special attraction of the Camp this summer was six Columbia network broadcasts each Monday from 1 to 2 p.m. Those programs of symphonic band music were available to more than 100 C.B.S. stations.
Each week during the camp period nationally known guest conductors came to the camp to direct the band and orchestra. These guest conductors were: Gerald R. Prescott, director of band at the University of Minnesota; Ralph Rush, instrumental music director at the Cleveland Heights, Ohio high school; N. De Rubertis, director of the Kansas City, Mo. Orchestral Training School; James Robinson of the Springfield, Mo. high school; George Keenan of Westport high school, Kansas City, Mo.; John Francis, Shawnee Mission high school; and the last week Karl Krueger conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra and A. Austin Harding, director of bands at the University of Illinois, are here to lead the groups.
Russell L. Wiley, director of the K. U. band and founder and director of the Camp, had charge of the band work; David T. Lawson, supervisor of instrumental music in the Topeka scholos, conducted the orchestral activities; and Dean Donald M. Swarthout, of the university School of Fine Arts, supervised the choral work.
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SUMMER SESSION Slip-Ups by Walt Meininger
We wonder about the foundation all of these rumors about a Delta Gamma chapter being installed here next year. If it's the truth they've kept it awfully quiet. Sure would be tough if they sent in a bunch of beautiful women to colonize the lodge.
And we saw one of those Sigma (Continued on page two)