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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, Feb. 17, 1956.
53rd Year, No.90
STILL GOING STRONG—Kansas basketball coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen practices what he preaches to his players as he warms up before a recent workout in Allen Field House. Doc missed this book shot, but tossed the next one in for two points.
Humanities Talk To Be Given By Oxford Scholar
Dr. Stahl
A special "bonus" Humanities Series lecture by a scholar from Oxford University, England, will be given at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21 in Fraser Theater.
The speaker, Dr Ernest L. Stahl. professor of German literature and a member of the governing body of Christ Church at Oxford, will come to the University through the cooperation of the department of Slavic languages
and literatures. The guest lecturer will speak to several classes Monday and Tuesday.
The Humanities lecture will be "Schiller and the Arts of Music and Poetry" and will concern the work of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet born in 1759. The lecture is another event in the 18th century program honoring Mozart.
Dr. Stahl was born in 1902 in Senekal, Orange Free State, South Africa. A British citizen, he attended bilingual secondary school and learned to speak English, Afrikaans, and German. He received the B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Cape Town and went to Oxford on a scholarship. He was graduated in 1927 with first class honors in modern languages.
Dr. Stahl is a reader at Oxford, but is on leave this semester to teach at Cornell University. This is his first visit to the United States.
He studied at Berlin and Heidelberg universities in 1930. He later was a teacher at the University of Berne, Switzerland, where he received the Ph.D. in German literature. In 1932 he became a lecturer at Birmingham University, and in 1935 he took a position as lecturer in German literature at Oxford.
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Dr. Stahl has published five books and many articles dealing with German literature. ___
Work Delayed On Fine Arts Building
Construction of the new fine arts building southwest of the main campus has been delayed by snow and cold weather. Under the 700-day contract, the building should be ready for use in the fall term, 1957.
"Several days have been lost in the past three weeks because of the weather, but it is possible that these days can be gained within the days of the contract with unusually good weather," Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations, said. He added that in the first few months of construction it is impossible to say whether the building will be completed according to schedule.
Concrete footings are now being poured under the theater section, and foundation walls are being poured in the music section. Mechanical, plumbing, and electrical contractors are beginning their jobs.
Considerable cloudiness today with light freezing rain. Saturday generally fair. High today 20's northwest to 30's southwest. Low tonight 15 west to 20's east. High Saturday generally in the 30's. Winyt weather not nearly so severe as forecast provided.
Weather
70 Years and 1,000 Games
By BOB LYLE
(Assistant Sports Editor)
for the Daily Kansas
Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, a youthful man of 70 years who is as well known for his often caustic comments on the passing American Sports scene as he is for his basketball coaching, will pass another milestone in his coaching career tonight.
When his Kansas Jayhawkers meet Oklahoma in a Big Seven basketball game at Norman, Okla., tonight, it will be the 1,000th time the ageleass Allen has stepped on the court. During his 39 years at the University and his 46th in coaching, Allen has compiled a phenomenal record of 789 victories against 230 defeats, which gives him the title as the "winningest coach in basketball."
basketball.
Not often recognized by the central fan is the tremendous personality of the man. It is the quality that has made him popular with his fellow teachers and workers at the University and with wide-eyed youngsters who besech him for autographs. It has made him hundreds of friends over the country whom he has never met.
Still Active
Allen is still as active as he was in the earlier years when he first played the game and began to coach although his tutor, Dr. James Naismith, said, "You play basketball, you don't coach it."
It has been said that even if Phog Allen never coached another basketball game he would be the best "public relations man" the University has ever had.
Allen's speaking and banquet schedule is so complicated he keeps it on a large basketball score chart in his office. Hundreds of talks at high school commencements, alumni meetings, and other functions has won more friends for the University than any other single propaganda effort or phamphlet.
In independence, Mo., where he was a boyhood chum of former President Harry S. Truman and Bess Wallace, Allen got his start in the new game playing on athletic club teams and on the Allen Brothers basketball team which took on all the local college teams when the brothers made it home for the Christmas holidays.
Coached At Haskell
He explains the storms that often break around his head by saying, "I just try to call a spade a spade."
'Just Another Game'
He then went on to coach at Haskell Institute, Baker University, Warensburg, Mo., State Teachers College and KU. Although it has been many years since that first game when he coached Baker against Ottawa, he still puts on a suit for daily practice sessions. He wears the jacket symbolizing his coaching position on the 1952 U.S. Olympic team, which included seven KU players.
Just Another Game
"The 1,000th game will probably be just another game," Allen said. "I didn't even know about it until Don Pierce (KU sports public director) figured it up."
Allen can spin tales of "the old days" by the hour, including the one that gives a clue to the friendly animosity that arises at each KU-K-State basketball game. In 1916 Allen applied for a job as athletic director and it "was the first time I didn't get a job I applied for," he said.
"Since then whenever we play K-State, I try to prove to them that I might have been a success," Allen said grinning.
"Too many times coaches complain of what they aren't getting from the game," he said. "Dr. Naismith gave the game everything and received nothing."
Allen Field House
Allen Field House Although he has been honored many times in his life, Allen's chief honor came last March when the Allen Field House was dedicated in his honor.
Whether Allen will retire on schedule this year is still a question that has not been answered. If he does he may spend time practicing or writing.
Also a figure in Lawrence civic activities and organizations, Allen has made one try at politics. In the 1940's he served two terms as a Lawrence councilman.
When he was told that many of his friends have urged him to run for a state office, Allen only smiled and replied, "Right now the only thing on my mind is beating Oklahoma."
Religious Committee Lists Principles
Furthering cooperation among the campus religious groups and attempting to obtain a greater sensitivity to religious values are the two main goals that have been adopted for Religious Emphasis Week by the campus steering committee and its religious advisers.
The following is a statement of principles for Religious Emphasis Week adopted by the campus steering committee.
Principles For Religious Emphasis Week
1. The major purpose of any Religious Emphasis Week is to promote... the understanding of the vital place of religion and spiritual values in personal life and in society.
2. The Religious Emphasis Week committee affirms its desire to have each representative of a religious group participating in a Religious Emphasis Week present his own faith positively.
5. The Religious Emphasis Week committee believes it can carry out such a joint effort without anyone compromising with his own conscience and without inter-religious worship under the name of the Religious Emphasis Week committee. Joint worship may, however, be undertaken by any and all groups who wish, though the services are not considered official services of Religious Emphasis Week.
3. At the same time, since the week seeks to further free inquiry and positive consideration of facts, this committee expects the representative of each group to deal at all times in the spirit of Religious Emphasis Week with students' questions relating to faiths other than the speaker's.
4. The Religious Emphasis Week committee takes for granted the traditional American freedom of religion in which each religious group may maintain its identity and complete integrity.
6. In this understanding and spirit professional leaders, faculty, and students of all religious faiths are invited to share in Religious Emphasis Week and a continuing program of vital inter-religious cooperation throughout the year.
ASC Suggests Activities Go On Student's Record
"It is my own personal feeling that a record of extra-curricular activities should not appear on an official transcript," George B. Smith, dean of the University said of the resolution. "Traditionally an academic record contains academic standing only."
A resolution recommending that a record of a student's extracurricular activities be included on his transcript was passed by the All Student Council Thursday. It is now being presented to the registrar and the administration, for their approval.
Dean Smith said it is almost impossible to keep an accurate extracurricular record whereas it is not impossible to keep an accurate academic record. He said that putting the two together would be combining a very accurate academic record with an inaccurate activities record.
2. "Identification of extra-curricular activities deemed worthy enough to be posted on a transcript."
1. A decision must be made as to whether extra-curricular activities have any place on a transcript, which is fundamentally an academic record. That decision must be made by someone else, he said.
to be posted on a website.
3. "Communication to the registrar's office of who is in what extra-curricular activity."
since it is a ser-
 "We do whatever is required to keep the University going," Mr. Hitt said.
Mr. Hitt said that if these problems are worked out there would be no problem in his office. The registrar's office is "a service office."
Bills to give Mortar Board a budget increase and to set up a World University Council on the campus were also passed at the meeting.
were also appointed. A committee to investigate and suggest ideas for the possible reorganization of the ASC constitution was approved. Members will be ap pointed later.
Piano Recital Due Monday
Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano will present a faculty recital at 8 p.m. Monday in Strong Auditorium.
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The program will include Beet-
hoven's "Moonlight" Sonata and
"Sonata," Op 111, Scriabin's "Sonata-
Fantasie." Op. 19, and shorter
pieces by Schubert and Ravel.
Born in Java of Italian and Dutch ancestry, Prof. Chiapusso received his training in The Netherlands and in the conservatories of Paris, Cologne and Berlin. He has made concert tours in Europe, Hawaii and Mexico.
Rock Chalk Revue Applications Due
Applications for in-between acts at the Rock Chalk Revue must be submitted to the YMCA office in the Student Union today. A master of ceremonies and eight in-between acts are needed for this year's Revue.
Applications must contain the applicants' name and the type of act he does. Tryouts will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday in Strong Auditorium.