Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
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53rd Year, No. 46
7 Seniors Elected To Phi Beta Kappa
The election of seven seniors to Phi Beta Kappa, national liberal arts honor society, was announced today by Dr. Raymond C. Moore, professor of geology and president of the KU chapter.
Election to Phi Beta Kappa is the highest academic honor for any student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Only those students with grade averages of 2.8 or above—nearly straight "A" are considered. Two had all "A" records and a third had a perfect record in courses in the College.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Eight students of 14 were selected last night to enter the finals of the 31st campus problems speaking contest at 8 p.m. today in Strong Auditorium. A trophy will be given the winner.
8 Enter Speech Finals Tonight
The speakers and their topics.
Judith Hulse, Topeka freshman,
"Should Undergraduates be Permitted in the Library Stacks"
Warren Wandling, Milwaukee, Wis.
freshman, "Hidden Talents"
Louise Rise, Kansas City, Mo., senior,
"International Club and our Foreign Student Relations"; Don Bowen, Salina freshman, "The KU Grading System."
the Student Union. The imitates:
Sara Deibert, Irving; Mrs. Bernice
Schear, Lawrence; Mary Frances
Snowday, Salina; Rosemary Ise,
Wichita; John B. Hall, Mission;
Harold Lee Smith, Overland Park,
and Dorothy Meier, Haven.
Steve Schmidt, Salina junior,
"Should Everybody Get In"; Joan
Sherar, Paola senior, "Why
N. S. A?"; Bill Buck, Kansas City,
Kan, senior, "The Place of Liberal Arts in the Professions"; Jayne Callahan, Cleveland, Ohio, junior,
"Rush Week at KU."
Fire Burns Wastebasket
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1955.
A waste basket was the only thing damaged in a fire at 12:45 this morning at the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house. 1339 West Campus.
Fire Chief John W. Miller said the waste basket, in a hall, had probably caught fire from a cigarette. Women residents of the house smelled smoke and immediately called the fire department. The women put the basket in a sink and extinguished the fire before firemen arrived. Two pump trucks, a ladder wagon and the chief's car answered the call.
Chief Miller today cautioned students about dumping ash trays into waste baskets.
12 p.m. Closing Hours For Homecoming
The AWS judicial board has extended closing hours until 12 p.m. for all women's organized houses this week. Closing hours have been extended until 12 p.m. tonight and Thursday so the girls can work on their Homecoming decorations in yards. Boys can help, but must be out of the houses by regular closing hours.
Finalists for the queen of the 1955 Military Ball have been chosen. The final selection will be made at the ball Dec. 3, said Max Lucas, chairman of the selection committee.
Finalists Chosen For Military Ball
Candidates are Barbara Koger, Belle Plaine junior, Delta Gamma; Diane Guyet, Arkansas City sophomore, Kappa Alpha Theta; Marcia Goodwin, Columbus sophomore, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Jo Ann Benton, Overland Park sophomore, Gamma Phi Beta; Jean Faubion, Hutchinson sophomore, Chi Omega, and Phyllis Barnum, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Musical Vespers To Be Held 3:30 p.m.Sunday In Hoch
Lorene Hunt, Liberal junior,
Gamma Phi Beta; Judy Howard,
Salina junior, Pi Beta Phi; Nancy
Shaver, Independence sophomore,
Delta Delta Delta; Virginia Ward,
Hays junior, Pi Beta Phi; Carol
Curt, Neodesha junior, Miller Hall,
and Joanne Thompson, Kansas City,
Kan. freshman, North College Hall.
A Coke party for the candidates
will be held, at 8 p.m. tomorrow
at the Flamingo Club. They will
also attend a formal reception
with ROTC officers after Thanksgiving.
Vocal groups will sing Mozart
Four hundred University musicians will present the 121st allmusical vespers program at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium. The vespers are open to the public. There is no admission charge.
Baby's Crying Saves Parents
A Lawrence couple's month-old baby was credited with saving the lives of his parents early yesterday morning, according to Fire Chief John Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Grandon, 945 Rhode Island St., were awakened by the baby's crying about 3:30 a.m. and found their apartment full of gas from a defective stove burner. Grandon is a journalism senior at the University.
The symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, will open the program with the first two movements of Beethoven's "Symphony No. 7." The concert band, also directed by Prof. Wiley, will close the program with Mendelssohn's "Overture for Band."
These include "Vespera Solemnes de Confessore," KU Chorale; "Alleljua" and "Ave Maria," Women's Glee Club; "Sie ist dahin" and "Selig Selig Alle." Men's Glee Club.
Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education, will direct the choral groups.
The A Cappella Choir will sing "God is our Refuge," "Ave Verum Corpus" and "Justum Deduxit Dominus."
compositions, in keeping with the University's observance of the bicentennial of the composer's birth.
SELLING ICE TO ESKIMOS—That's how it looked this morning to Kent Sampson, Holton sophomore (left) and Wendell Keller, Penalosa sophomore, as they passed Bailey Hall. The mysterious cake of ice, they discovered, is used to cool the construction crew's drinking water —(Daily Kansan Photo)
Others in the company are flamenco singer Manuel de Jerez pianist Lydia Ladske; three guitarists, and 10 dancers.
Jose Greco, famous Spanish dancer, and his company, will appear at 8:20 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium Students will be admitted by their ID cards to the program, the second in the KU Concert Course series.
With Mr. Greco will be Paul Ha-kon, leading dancer of the Danish Ballet but a master of the Spanish dance. Norina, interpreter of classic Spanish folk songs, and Lola de Ronda, one of Spain's most talented dancers, are also featured.
Greco Group To Dance Tonight
Campus Chest Needs Workers
The Campus Chest advisory committee has set up four working committees for this year's campaign. President John Sayler, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said yesterday.
Persons interested should send their applications, with their committee preference to Sayler, 1621 Edgillh Road., by Monday.
The committees are: solicitation, publicity, office, and special events Members will be chosen by application.
"In the past, KU's Campus Chest has been one of the lowest in the Midwest, but with everyone's backing we should go way over last year," Sayler said.
Weather
Cold wave in east and south Kansas. Clearing west and central and considerable cloudiness with diminishing snow flurries east today. Decidedly colder today and tonight. High today 10-15 north to 20-25 south. Low tonight near zero north to 5-10 above south.
Engineers To Visit Goodyear Plant
The KU student chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers will visit the Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant at Topeka tomorrow.
Departure will be at 6:30 p.m. from Fowler School building. Students who want to go should sign the list in 300 Fowler.
The tour will include a complete plant inspection, including visits to the engineering department and a chance to watch the complete processing operation from pouring of the raw latex to the finished product.
Below Zero Weather, Snow Numb Kansas
GOODLAND—(U.P.)-A one degree below zero temperature at Goodland in the northwest gave Kansas its first sub-zero cold of the fall today and snow ranging up to four inches in the northeast covered large areas of the state.
Hill City listed a minimum of one above. It was 4 at Garden City, Dodge City and Russell.
The least severe minimum was 16 degrees at Pittsburg in the southeast, but the change there was terrific as a high of 74 was registered Tuesday before the cold wave swept in.
For Kansas crops, the snow blanket was welcome, the bitter cold was not. Young wheat plants need moisture and are vulnerable to icy winds.
Roads were reported slick and hazardous—but not blocked—by the state highway maintenance division in northeast Kansas, where freezing rain and sleet preceded the snow.
Icy streets, with a base of sleet and a covering of snow, snarled traffic in Topeka. Little trouble was reported in Lawrence.
Three cars went into a roadside ditch on US-24 east of Perry but the occupants escaped injury.
State highway maintenance crews, which worked through the night on snow covered roads, reported four inches of snow fell near Horton in northeast Kansas. Three inches were reported at Gove in the northwest and at Pierceville in the southwest. Around three inches of snow was measured at Mankato, Marysville and Osborne.
More moderate minimums were due tonight and the warmup was expected to be speeded tomorrow, the weatherman said in Topeka.
Mozart's 'Musical Purity' Praised By Kinkeldey
"Mozart's greatest quality is musical purity," Dr. Otto Kinkelday, professor emeritus of music history at Cornell University, said last night in the Humanities lecture.
Dr. Kinkeldey said that Mozart's purity is not the purity of ignorance but "the purity distilled of a lofty, even a divine sense of the nobility of art."
The placidity of Mozart's music has misled many into believing that he wrote with no emotional intensity, Dr. Kinkeldey said. He compared Mozart with Beethoven, who, he said, has greater contrast between joy and tragedy.
"Model of Excellence"
Mozart had his dark moments, Dr. Kinkeldey said. He sought appointments to the court, but he never succeeded.
Had Dark Moments
He was in debt throughout most of his life, and both he and his wife suffered illnesses.
Model of Excellence Mozart did not attempt to introduce new ideas of form, but almost every one of his works is "a model of excellence" in form, the speaker said.
"I think death will be a friend to me." Mozart once said.
"you'd think this great gloom would be reflected in his music, but there is nothing gloomy about it." Dr. Kinkeldey said. "His G-Minor Symphony is regarded as his most tragic piece, but it is not an overwhelming picture of grief, despondency, or despair."
"You don't need to have Mozart"
music translated from one country to another," Dr. Kinkeldey added. He compared Mozart's art with Shakespeare's, and said both had a marked universal character.
"Mozart used to be considered as a guileless, innocent, unwildly, undisturbed child of nature," Dr. Kinkeldey said. "A Victorian artist expresses him as the Little Lord Fauntleroy of Music."
"That's an entirely wrong picture of Mozart as we have come to know him now. We have learned that Mozart was a man of the world with ethical, aesthetic, and social problems."
During Mozart's 35 years, he wrote 41 symphonies, 21 dramatic or theater works, 28 piano concertos, 20 concertos for other instruments, 15 masses, and 5 cantatas, Dr. Kinkeldey said. Only a small proportion of his work is heard today.