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ROTC Squad Off To Mardi Gras
Thirty-four members of the Air Force ROTC drill tea mand color guard and three staff members will attend the Mardi Gras in New Orleans Monday.
Student members making the trip are:
Staff members who will attend are Col. Thomas B. Summers, Capt. Arthur W. Gilliam Jr., and M/Sgt. Richard H. McCleary.
T. W. Woods of Lawrence, D. E. Matthews of Ashland, G. D. Cool of Concordia, seniors; G. I. Harris, Cunningham junior; L. A. Goudie, Osatowiatte senior; P. E. Peters, Lorraine junior; G. C. Peters, Lorraine junior; L. J. Lobe, Lyons junior; E. H. Watkins, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; J. T. Purcell, St. Joseph, Mo., sophomore.
E. L. Tooley of Kansas City, Kan., B. R. Williams of Fort Scott, C. B. Webb of Oklahoma City, F. H. Inglestadt freshmen; G. D. Meservie Jr. of Mission, R. D. Greening of Kansas City, Mo. R. H. McCamish of Kansas City, Kan., sophomores; T. E. Pringle, Pittsburg freshman; D. G. Humlutt of Sa-
H. P. Culp, Kansas City, Mo.,Junior;
D. P. Rogers of Toronto, Kan., E. L.
Anderson of Newton, S. S. Subkelia of
Kansas City, Kan., D. E. erpening of
fashioning, E. L. School of Brooklyn,
Y. J. P. Vesach of Wichita, B. E.
Smith of Stockton, R. K. Sampson of
Holton, J. D. Griffith of Merriam, J. L.
Casson of Topeka, J. L.
Morrowmoores, J. O. Price of Salina,
Brent Stonebraker of Oversea Park,
freshmen.
Briton To Talk To Engineers
A British authority on archeology will be the principle speaker at the annual Engineers Banquet honoring graduating seniors in the School of Engineering February 8.
G. Gilbert Hursfield, head of the archeology department of the University of Brighton, England, will speak on "Research in the Gobi Desert," at the dinner which will be held at 6:45 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Student Union.
Mr. Hurshfeld was graduated from Oxford University in 1932 and received a doctor's degree from the University of Peking, China.
Tickets for the banquet may be obtained from members of the Engineering Council, or in the engineering office in Marvin Hall. They will also be on sale Feb. 6 and 7 in the lobby of Marvin Hall. Price of tickets for members of the Engineering Association is $1.50, for non-members, $2.00.
Two New Visiting Instructors Named
The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures will have two visiting instructors during the spring semester.
Appointed a visiting assistant professor is Dr. George Ivask, who will replace Dr. Werner Winter, assistant professor, who will teach this semester at the University of Texas.
Since 1950 Dr. Ivask has been teaching at Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. degree last year. Now an American citizen, he was born in Moscow and educated at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and the University of Hamburg, Germany.
He is the author of six books in Russian and numerous essays in English, Russian and Polish and is editor-in-chief of the Russian Literary Review "Optypy" published in New York City.
Birgitta Steene, a candidate for a Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington, will replace Dr. Phillip M. Mitchell, associate professor. Dr. Mitchell will be a visiting professor of the Scandinavian languages at the University of Wisconsin.
Miss Steeney is a graduate of the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Her major interests are creative writing and the theater arts.
Books, Maps, Pictures Record History Of Kansas
It proved to be a diary kept while Chancellor Fraser was a prisoner during the Civil War. In the back of the book were lists of items of food bought for three prices—one dozen eggs and three loaves bread, $6.25; milk, two quarts, $3; one pound butter, $11.
A few weeks ago, librarians or the Kansas Collection at the University of Kansas Library were putting away the scrapbook on Chancellor John Fraser when out fell a little leather book.
Like Chancellor Fraser's diary, the Kansas Collection is full of history, some of it highly important, some of it merely amusing, but all of it meaningful to Kansans celebrating their state's 95th birthday.
The Kansas Collection started in 1893 with the purchase of 93 titles from the Rev. J.W.D. Anderson of Baldwin, father of Mrs. J. W Murray of Lawrence.
"It is impossible to tell briefly of the many items—books, documents, maps, pamphlets, pictures—in the present collection, which is second only to that of the State Historical Society in Topeka," Miss
Laura Neiswanger, librarian, explained.
Charles Sargent, who formerly was in charge of the Kansas Collection, wrote that "it attempts to embrace everything written about Kansas or by a Kansan."
The majority of the rare material came as gifts. The Kansas Collection has a copy of the first book printed about Kansas, Edward Everett Hale's "Kanzas and Nebraska, 1854." Jotham Meeker, missionary at Shawnee Mission and the first printer in Kansas, is represented by four titles from his press.
Scrapbooks on prominent Kansans, Kansas history, art and artists, and authors supply answers that cannot be found any other place.
The book on William Allen White was used extensively by his biographers, Miss Neiswanger said Other much used scrapbooks are those on University traditions and buildings; Dr. John Ise, retired economics professor, and Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, basketball coach. The book on the Jayhawk is so worn that the library is having it recorded on film.
Thursday. Feb. 2. 1956. University Daily Kansan
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Heider Gets $3,000 From Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation has granted $3,000 to Dr. Fritz Heider, professor of psychology, to pay for collaboration on a book he is writing
Assisting Dr. Heider is Dr. Beatrice Wright, a psychologist and wife of Dr. M. Erik Wright, also a psychology professor.
first draft of his book, "Interpersonal Relations."
Dr. Heider has completed the psychology process.
New Zealand's kiwi bird has no tail and almost no wings, burrows like a groundhog, lays an egg a quarter of its own weight, has whiskers like a cat's and nostrils at the tip of its long beak.
FAMOUS LAW CASES: NO.1—GRANSMIRE vs. MIDDLE ATLANTIC BUS AND DRAY CO.
Gransmire, the plaintiff in this celebrated case, lived with his daughter Ernest and a canary named Whirlaway on Elm Street in Cooch, Delaware. The Middle Atlantic Bus and Dray Co. started operating a bus line on Elm Street. The passing buses caused a cut-glass chandelier in the Gransmires' living room to begin tinkling. The chandelier tinkled in the key of E-flat. This so unnerved the canary, Whirlaway, whose key was C-sharp, that the poor bird moulted out of season, caught a chill, and died untimely.
Ernest, Gransmire's daughter, was herself so unsettled by the death of the canary that she flunked her final exams at the Boar's Head Beauty and Barber College, where she had been a promising student, majoring in bangs. Now removed, willy-nilly, from the skilled labor market, Ernest found work carrying a sandwich sign for the old Vienna Chow Mein parlor.
Here she met a bus-boy named Crunch Sigafos. Although Crunch was not especially attractive - he had, for one thing, a large bushy tail - he was always clean and neat and kept his shoes shined, and after a decent interval, he and Ernest were married.
Ernest soon learned that Crunch's large bushy tail was not as anomalous as she had supposed: Crunch was a werewolf. After a while Ernest got sick of staying home at night while her husband went prowling about, so she asked him to change her into a werewolf too, which he did with an ancient Transylvanian incantation. Then, together, the two of them would lope out each night and meet a lot of other werewolves and maybe kill a few chickens or hear some book reports or just lay around and shoot the breeze.
Meanwhile, Ernest and Crunch's landlady, a miser named Mrs. Augenblick, noticed that Ernest and Crunch never used their room at night, so she, in her greed, started renting it to transients. One night a Mr. Ffolliett stayed there. In the morning while brushing his hair, he took a bottle that looked like hair tonic out of the cabinet, poured some, and rubbed it vigorously into his scalp. Unfortunately, it was not hair tonic, but a bottle of glue which Ernest had bought to mend a model airplane that Crunch had given her for their paper wedding anniversary.
As a result of Mr. Ffolliett's grisly error, he was unable to remove his hat and was, therefore, barred from his usual occupation which was lecturing to women's clubs. He sued Mrs. Augenblick, who sued Ernest, who went to her father, who sued the Middle Atlantic Bus and Dray Co. who had started the whole horrid chain of events.
"Ladies and gentlemen," said the defense attorney in his opening address, "this case, though very ramified, is covered by law. Indeed, every facet of life is covered by law. Law governs the homes you live in, the cars you drive, the food you eat. Even the cigarette you smoke is strictly regulated. The gentleness, however, is Philip Morris's own idea. Out of their vast experience as tobacco people, out of their profound regard for the astuteness of your palate, the makers of Philip Morris have evolved a gentle, new cigarette, with a taste as mild as a May morn, as subtle as gossamer, as welcome as money from home. I thank you."
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