SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Official Summer Session Publication of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXV
NUMBER 15
Campus Sing Is Scheduled Thursday
Popular Annual Event In Fowler Grove May Draw Season's Largest Crowd.
One of the largest turnouts for any event of the summer session is expected Thursday evening for the annual campus sing, sponsored by the School of Fine Arts. Thirteen numbers have been chosen for the sing, which will be accompanied by an orchestra and the summer session A Cappella choir. The sing tarts at 7:45 p.m. in Fowler grove.
The Program
The following program has been arranged:
"America, the Beautiful," (three verses).
"Shine On, Harvest Moon," (chorus).
"When My Dream Boat Comes Home," (chorus with Clara McGrath, soloist).
"Old Black Joe," (two verses and chorus).
"Roses of Picardy," (chorus).
"September in the Rain," (Merlah Moore, soloist).
"Home on the Range," (verses and chorus).
"Are You Sleeping, Brother John," (round).
"Serenade in the Night," (Irene Peabody, soloist).
"The Bells of St. Mary's," (one verse and chorus).
"Ole Faithii 'l' (Charles Neiswender soloist)
"Auld Lang Syne."
"Love's Old Sweet Song," (two verses and chorus).
"Aud Lang Sum."
Ray Gafney will direct a small orchestra including Homer Dodge Caine and J. Morey Brandstetter, violin; Carl Knox, trumpet; Arthur Fielder, 'cello; Lewis Copeland, contrabass; and Luther Cortelyou, piano.
MacDowell Club Will Meet Tonight
Recently organized here, the local MacDowell club will hold its first meeting at 8 p.m. today in the studio of Meribah Moore, room 31, Administration building. MacDowell clubs total 200 in this country, and exist to support work of the MacDowell Colony at Peterboro, N.H.
University members of the colony are Margaret Lynn and Helen Rhoda Hoopes of the English department, and Charles Sanford Skilton of the School of Fine Arts. The colony includes many creative artists who have composed works of music, painting, literature, and sculpture over a period of two decades.
All three local members will take part in the program today, as will Ruth Orcutt and Meribah Moore. Admission will be by member's card only, but anyone wishing to become a charter member may apply to Professor Skilton by telephone, or at the door tonight.
A. M. Lee Takes Research Position at Yale University
Alfred M. Lee, assistant professor of sociology and journalism on leave of absence, recently accepted a position with the Institute of Human Relations at Yale University. Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D. degree from Yale. His work at the institute will deal with research studies on sociological problems. Shortly before leaving Lawrence, Dr. Lee finished eight years study and research with the publication of his first book, "The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument."
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1937
Downpour Upsets Field Day Hopes
So Wide Men Waddle Back To Bed Without Race; Scant Possibility Now
University wide men waddled back to bed Saturday morning after having their prayers for rain answered Field day plans went askew whe old something-or-other Pluvius upset the rain wagon and only one person showed up for the gala day. The one person was none other than the enterprising Jay Plumley, who made all the plans. He arrived at the field at 6 a.m. and spent the morning puddling through the muddle thinking what lovely plans they had been on paper.
Immediately following the ball game which failed to materialize, the wide men's waddle gave way to waddling of the bed covers and mental gymnastics of a lighter and less strenuous calibre. To make matters worse there were no volleyball games, golf drives, or even a horse-shoe to clink on the peg. At 11:15, the standing broad jump, baseball throw, serial darts, and badminton did not take place and immediately following this no one hurried to the gym for the mixed swim—and it was Saturday, too.
Bulging waist lines and matronly dignity are safe for another year since it was announced that everyone was invited to attend next summer, yes, the first annual field day. Pre-final exhaustion has discouraged any further attempts to hold it in the remaining few days of summer school. So too bad for Mr. Plumley, the field day was the best that never took place and will not go down in the history of University events.
Had there been a field day, it would have been a big one—but with the price of corn where it is no grumbles were heard. The all-star game proved to be very uninteresting and failed to draw a crowd in fact, it failed to draw the team and betting odds jumped to a new high of -1 to -11-2.
Degrees to Be Granted Next Spring Summer session students who are completing work for degrees will have a long wait before the eventful night when they march down the hill toward the stadium and receive their diplomas.
Because of a system whereby faculty members voting on the granting degrees do not meet until October, it will be impossible for any degrees earned this summer to be granted before next June.
Exchange Scholars
CLAUS HOLTHUSEN
Here are the two young men, one a University student, who will cross the Atlantic to study next year in each other's native countries. John Coleman, at the top, 23, was graduated from the University this spring, and will study at Freiburg. Herr Claus Holthusen, 24, is a student in law and history, and will come to the University for a year's study in social sciences. The University regularly conducts the German exchange, a local graduate going to Germany and a German student coming here.
Visual Instruction Meet Gets Underway Tomorrow
Sunday Concerts Round Out Camp
Audiences the size of which served as a satisfying climax to the summer's activities attended the final concerts Sunday afternoon and evening of the Mid-Western Music Camp orchestra and band.
Both groups appeared in a radio concert at 3:30 p.m., broadcast from the Memorial Union ballroom over WHB and a national hookup of the Mutual Broadcasting system. The orchestra played alone in the ballroom at 4:30, and the band gave its concluding concert at 8 p.m. in Fowler grove.
Directors were N. de Rubertis, Kansas City, Mo., for the orchestra, and A. A. Harding, of the University of Illinois, for the band. Russell L. Wiley, University band director and supervisor of the camp, reviewed the work accomplished this summer in a talk at the band concert. He extended an invitation to all students to return, and promised an even more interesting program next year.
Montgomery to Speak at Forum
Fred Montgomery, secretary of the visual instruction bureau at the University, will speak tonight at 7 o'clock before the final meeting of the education forum, in Fraser theater.
Mr. Montgomery will discuss topics in the general field of visual instruction, and will tell of work being done this week in the visual instruction institute announced elsewhere in the Kansan.
An open forum discussion will follow Mr. Montgomery's address, at which time questions concerning the institute and any specific problems on the subject will be taken up. The meeting will last one hour.
Both New Regents Named Recently Are Practicing Attorneys
The University's School of Law should be a favored child of two new members named for the state Board of Regents, if the fact that both are practicing attorneys has any significance.
Mr. Bradley is a native Kansan, and was born in the Wellington community where he has spent his life. He was reared there, and attended Wellington high school before coming to the University. He has established what is considered to be an excellent law practice at Wellington during the two decades since he left the campus.
One of the two, John Bradley, Wellington, took a law degree from the University in 1912, while the other, E. F. Beckner, Colby, was graduated from Washburn Law school in 1913, and has a son, John Beckner, who will be a junior in the University this fall.
He served as probate judge in his home county for four years, but has not been active politically in any other capacity. He is noted for his interest in athletics, and he and Mrs. Bradley frequently drive to Lawrence for a Jayhawker battle on gridiron or basketball court.
Mr. Beckner, the other new reagent, was born in Kentucky, and came to Kansas in 1904. After finishing work at Washburn in 1913, he practiced law at Clay Center and was county attorney of Gove county from 1914 to 1918. He served overseas, and settled at Colby after the war.
His political career in the western Kansas town includes 15 years as city attorney. He became mayor of Colby in April, 1935, and now is entering his second term in that capacity.
Elaborate Exhibits And a Series of Discussions Make Up the Schedule
Supplemented by classes and exhibits which will be held all week, the annual summer session visual instruction institute sponsored by the extension division gets under way tomorrow afternoon with its first discussion meeting in Fraser theater at 2:30. Similar meetings are scheduled tomorrow evening and Thursday.
The institute is held to promote the use of visual aids in teaching. These include motion pictures, slide projections, illuminated slides, and the general use of photographie equipment. An exhibit in room 115, Fraser, open from 9 a.m. until noon and from 1:30 until 5 p.m. each day, will show in elaborate detail how these things help in teaching.
The program of the two-day institute, as announced on placards put up recently is as follows:
Wednesday
2:30 p.m. The blackboard; the teacher's own collection of flat pictures; home-made or pupil-made lantern slides.
7:30 p.m. Model lesson with motion picture, "Cod Fishing," (Eastman teaching film).
Thursday
2:30 p.m. Making maps; field trips, exhibits, the school museum, lanternern slides. (continued).
7:30 p.m. Model lesson with motion picture, "The Old South", (Eastman film). Demonstration with sound film.
Equipment manufactured by Bell and Howell, Ampro, De Vry, Eastman, Victor, Argus, and Sencer has been set up in room 115, and will be explained by members of the extension division. Continuous motion pictures, both sound and silent, will be shown with this equipment. No salesmen will be present.
Rupert Peters, director of visual instruction in the Kansas City, Mo., public schools, is the discussion leader of the institute. He is conducting the class held at 11:30 each morning this week in room 15, Fraser, and will lead discussions at the meetings in Fraser theater. An open forum will follow each discussion in the theater.
Fred Montgomery, secretary of the visual instruction bureau, said that mail invitations have been sent to teachers and other interested persons in towns over a radius of 150 miles, and many are expected thus to attend the institute in addition to persons already here for the summer session. Attendance in past years by persons not enrolled in the summer session has been very gratifying, he said.
The exhibit includes thousands of dollars worth of the finest equipment available, which visitors may examine at leisure, or watch while it is being operated.
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