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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 18. 1955
Let's Go Back; Old Times Sound Like Lots Of Fun
Chorister, critic, orator, and scientific lecturer are but a few of the class officers listed in the first yearbook of the University of Kansas, the Hierophantes, published in 1873.
The small volume from the library of Prudence Hannah Oliver, an 1874 KU graduate, is part of a collection of old books in the Kansas Room of Watkins Library. It was edited by the "secret societies" of Pi Beta Phi and Beta Theta Pi, the only Greek organizations on the campus at that time.
According to one poet, the Beta were in the social spotlight in 1875 with their migration to Coffeyville for a "gay and festive hop." The brothers and their dates "cast books and studies all aside" and traveled south to "dance the Boston March until weariness bade them stop."
Printed before the use of photographs, the Hierophantes relied upon lengthy poems composed by students to describe events on Mount Oread.
Not to be overlooked on the social front, however, was the banquet of the LC.s, the early Pi Phi chapter. The poet described it as the "last but not least of the merry times."
Had Merry Times
Another writer did a lengthy description of the fate of a trumpet vine which was cultivated by the graduate students. It disappeared one night, and the blame was laid on the undergraduates. Investigation proved that the villain was not a student, but a hungry cow wandering over the campus.
In 1901, the Jayhawker appeared with pictures of class members, fraternities, and some extra-curricular activities.
A typical fraternity man at the turn of the century sported side-burns, parted his hair in the middle, and either oiled it down, or arranged it in waves over his forehead.
Impressive Hair Styles
Fraternity women, for as yet the term sorority had not come into use, were pictured in high, white flrill collars with large stiff black bows at the neck. The predominating hair style was a high pompadour topped with a bow, flower, or pom-pom.
Comparison of height, weight, chest measure, number of billiard players, dancers, good for nothings, theater goers, and moustache wearers in the various schools and departments were also an important part of the old annual.
Although athletics were the most important activities in 1901, forensics were supported heartily. In an essay written about the Rock Chalk chant, the writer describes students shouting from the roof tops and doing cheers and yells in the streets after KU debate victories over Nebraska and Colorado.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences boasted 14 loafers, 35 smokers, and an average weight of 189 pounds. There were 14 billiard players in the law school, and no good for nothings on the campus at the time, according to the table.
Baptist Student Minister Has Many Responsibilities
The Rev. Ernst Klein is minister to Baptist students, a student in philosophy at the University, an interim pastor, and a father of four.
Explaining his activities as a student and a worker with students, Mr. Klein said, "I want to deal with students on a personal basis. In counseling and teaching you have to keep your wits sharp.
A 1937 graduate of the University of North Dakota, Mr. Klein majored in biology. In 1940 he received his bachelor of divinity degree from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, N.Y.
"I don't have a ready-made philosophy," he continued. "I have felt a personal desire for self-realization. I am questioning with the students who are under my care."
Now Studies Philosophy
**New Studies Philosophy**
"I'm working on a philosophy in philosophy at the degree he said. I'm trying to bridge the gap between science and theology."
Mr. Klein, who was ordained in 1941, began serving as interim minister of the First Baptist Church, 801 Kentucky, in September. He said he would continue until about the first of 1956 when a regular minister will take over.
Being a pastor, student, and minister to students isn't "the half of it." Mr. Klein said. "It takes a little time to be a father and a husband."
James, 14, the oldest of the Klein children, is interested in photography. Mr. Klein said sharing this hobby with his son gave him a "chance to be a father and to use my photographic equipment."
"Ive got them all fooled about my activities," Mr. Klein said. "To compensate, we are making plans to have a family vacation in North and South Dakota and Canada this summer."
The other children are Judith, 13,
Marv, 10. and Janet, 3.
Last spring, he supervised a Mexican tour. Mr. Klein, seven students, and a faculty member went,
To Tour Mexico
Tread lightly at the game this Saturday, private detectives will be all over the place. Those neat looking men at the gates of all home football and basketball games aren't members of the campus police, but are actually members of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Inc.
"Now we are expecting about three or four carloads of students to go on a June tour to Mexico City," he said. "The tour will be a missionary education project and a gesture of getting acquainted with our neighbors to the south," he said.
These man are from the agency's branch office in Kansas City, and have been working at KU athletic games since 1935. In those days they worked as liquor control men for the University.
Since 1946 they have served as ticket men at the gates. Their job also includes keeping people off the football field after games; but this group of 30 to 50 men sometimes have trouble, as was the case of the mass assault of students after the K-State contest.
Mr. Klein is serving his second year as president of the KU Religious Adviser group. He is adviser to the Baptist Student Movement in Kansas. He has directed the Students in Industry project for American Baptists at Minneapolis, Minn.
Pinkerton Aids Campus Police
Because of his interest in biology, National American Baptist assembly he has been a naturalist at the in Green Lake, Wis. He has been a leader on the Christian interpretation of nature at a National Council of Churches leadership training camp.
A study article he wrote, "Nature Invites You to Go on a Treasure Hunt," was printed in Hearthstone magazine, a national publication of the American Baptist and the Disciples of Christ churches.
Juicy Story
BISMARCK, N. D—(U.P.)—Po- lice caught five youngsters red-handed in a rotten crime. They were throwing overripe tomatoes at passersby.
With the Pinkerton detectives handling the gates, the campus police are free to control after game traffic.
In all, a total of over 50 extra men are needed at each athletic contest. The campus police, which normally consists of ten men, totals around 25 on days of games. "The extra men are needed on game days to help direct the heavy flow of traffic that hits the campus," said Joe Skillman, campus police chief.
Skillman added that on the whole the traffic moves pretty smoothly. After the games the police chief stations his men at the major intersections around the campus. They try to move the traffic as rapidly as possible towards the nearest highway, as a major amount of the traffic is people who have traveled from out-of-town.
The traffic moving from the west side of the stadium is directed to highway 50 and isn't allowed back on the campus. This is to enable the traffic on the east side of the stadium to move more rapidly to the highways on the east side of town.
"If we allowed cars traveling west to return to the campus it would cause a major traffic jam on the campus," Skillman said.
New Addition To Water Supply
Lawrence's water expansion program is continuing its new $1 million water plant addition was placed into full scale operation Nov. 7.
This addition doubles the plant's water treatment capacity. It is the first expansion work since 1916 at the water plant. Lawrence's entire water treatment load has been placed on the new addition, while the old part of the plant undergoes repairs.
Dr. Schoewe Recalls Life At KU Since 1920
A man in good position to recall University of Kansas history is Walter H. Schoewe, associate professor of geology. Dr. Schoewe is now teaching his 36th year at the University, coming here in 1920 from Colorado School of Mines.
He is a geologist for the State Geological Survey and head of Industrial Minerals and Mineral Statistics at KU. He now is doing research to ascertain the state's coal reserves. He teaches the course, "Geology and Man."
"When I first came here, Strong Hall was just a shell," said Prof. Schoewe. "You could look right through it. Of course, there were only about half as many students as there are now, so buildings were not so sorely needed. Since there were fewer studentnets, we had more personal contact with them."
"There is more familiarity between the students and teachers today than formerly," he said. "Everyone jokes with everyone else nowadays. Consequently, there is no barrier between the staff and students."
He commented that this wasn't the case in the 20s.
Present day students, who dread the thought of speech, biology, western civilization and other required courses, would have liked those old days, as far as courses went. Dr. Schoewe said the only general requirement was some form of physical education.
"Teaching methods haven't changed much." Dr. Schoewe said. "Naturally, there is more visual education now, with movies in full force." When he was teaching general geology in the 20s he was one of the first instructors to use movies in the classroom.
"Campus life was busy then but not to the extent it is now," Prof. Schoewe said. "Now you can go to two or three things every night. There was no Union building or cafeteria, but more boarding houses."
Dr. Schoewe calls Milwaukee his home town. He attended the University of Wisconsin, receiving his A.B. in 1914 and M.S. in 1915. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in 1920 and got his M.A. at Harvard in 1930. Besides Colorado School of Mines, he taught at Iowa University before coming here.
THEKE RIVERS, Mich. — (U.P.)
Mrs. Lula Appleman, who celebrated her 70th wedding anniversary recently, said her husband's hunting trips had reduced their life together by about four years.
Deduction
Pronosition
VALLEY CITY, N. D.—(U.P.)—Ed Kromrosky said any hunter could shoot all he买 on his farm—if he puts up 20 shocks of corn first. "Got plenty of ducks," Kromrosky said, "but plenty of corn too."
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