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JUST A SCRATCH—Jo Ann Young, college sophomore, Chi Omega, gets a bit of first aid from Hal Hansen, engineering freshman, Sigma Chi, after a minor scrape during the sack race Saturday at Derby Day. Derby Day was sponsored by Sigma Chi fraternity and featured competition among 12 sororites.
Alpha Phi Wins Derby Day
Alpha Phi scored 42 points to win the second annual Sigma Chi Derby Day Saturday when 11 sororities competed in races on the tennis courts at the Sigma Chi house.
With 23 points each, Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta tied for second place. Carol Cook, college junior, won the cup for the girl winning the most points.
Skinned knees and bruises were
Bach Passion Wins Praise
By NANCY COLLINS
"Lord, Thou our Master . whose name in every land is honored. "
From these opening words of the chorus to the conclusion of Bach's "Passion According to St. John," presented yesterday afternoon in Hoch auditorium by the combined orchestra, chorus, and chorale, the performance was a powerful one.
Repeats from last year included on the program were the sack race, the egg in spoon relay, the leap frog race, the pony express race, and the grapefruit relay.
The musical structure of "The Passion" includes both melodic speech, done by several soloists, and a more complex musical representation of the crowds of soldiers, priests, and people which were portrayed by the chorus and woven through the solo narrative.
Especially deserving of recognition for their performances were William Wileex, graduate student, who sang the lengthy narration of the Evangelist; Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice, as Jesus; Jerry Hart, fine arts junior, as Peter, and Elizabeth Townsley, instructor of voice, and Harriet King Comfort, graduate student, aria soloists.
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Good orchestra accompaniment was provided, with a number of pleasing instrumental solos given by Glorin Boker, fine arts senior, organist; Wanda Murray Ashley, fine arts junior, and Robert Stewart, graduate student, cellists, and others. At times the orchestra seemed to overshadow the chorus in volume, but on the whole, the two were well balanced.
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Members of the Derby Day committee were Steve Schmidt, college sophomore; John Brown, college senior; Thomas Graber, college freshman, and David Cleveland, journalism junior.
suffered when one or more girls fell in each of the nine events. Dressed in white waiter's coat, Hal Hansen, engineering freshman, was ready with mercurochrome, bandages, and a butcher knife to administer first aid.
Each girl who placed first, second, or third in an individual event or relay race was given a certificate. The events introduced this year included a four-legged race, the backwards basketball dribble,
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Kansas State Teachers college at Pittsburg and Hutchinson Junior college won the first annual oratory contest sponsored by the department of speech and drama here Saturday.
2 Schools Win With Oratory
Lee MacMorris of Hutchinson won first place with her oration, "I Refuse to Answer," and James Collie of Pittsburgh won first in the senior division with "The Line That Divides."/
Howard Hill of Kansas State college and Virginia Monroe of Washburn university won second and third, respectively, in the senior division.
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Winfield and Robert Frieson of Tabor junior college at Hillsboro won second and third in the junior division.
Traveling trophies were presented to the winning schools in each division and individual trophies were given to the winners of the first three places.
Social Work Club to Picnic
The Undergraduate Social work club will hold a picnic at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Potter lake picnic area. All interested persons should contact Barbara Davis at 205 for reservations.
THE GIFT HORSE
Many of our friends will soon be graduating. What kind of gifts should we give them?
Here is no simple question. It is never simple to find gifts for people who have everything, and college students, as everyone knows, are the most richly endowed of mortals. They've got beauty and truth. They've got rhythm. They've got stout hearts, willing hands, and a clear vision that dispels the miasmas of the future as the morning sun sears away the last wisps of a cool night's fog. They've got heaps and heaps of money, as who would not who has been receiving such a huge allowance over four years of schooling?
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What can we give them that they don't already have?
One infallible gift for the person who has everything is, of course, a stethoscope. New models, featuring sequined earpieces and power steering, are now on display at your local surgical supply house. Accompanying each stethoscope is a gift card with this lovely poem:
When you hear your heart beat,
When you hear it pound.
Remember me, your buddy.
When you hear your need
When you hear it pound.
William Henry Round.
If, by some odd chance, your name does not happen to be William Henry Round (you're laughing, but it's possible), here is another dandy suggestion for the person who has everything—a gift certificate from the American Bar Association.
- a gift certificate from the These certificates, good at your local lawyer's, come in three convenient sizes: small, medium, and large. The small certificate covers title searches and writs of estoppel. The medium size covers torts, claim jumping, and violations of the Smoot-Hawley Act. The large one covers kidnapping, murder, and barrtry.
If, by some odd chance, you don't know what barrray is (you're laughing, but it's possible), it is arson at sea. This interesting crime is called after Cosmo "Bubbles" Barrat, a captain in the British navy during the last century, who was addicted to burning his ships. One man o' war after another fell victim to his incendiary bent. The Admiralty kept getting crosser and crosser, but every time they called in Captain Barrat for a scolding, he would roll his big blue eyes and tug his forelock and promise faithfully never to do it again. Oh, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, that one!
So they would give him another ship, and he would soon reduce it to a scattering of charred spars. He burned more than 120,000 ships before he was finally discharged as "doubtful officer material."
After his separation from the navy, he moved to Vienna where he changed his name to Freud and invented Scrabble.
But I digress. I was listing gifts for the person who has everything, and here is another one. This gift, in fact, is not only for persons who have everything, it is also for persons who have nothing, for persons who have next to nothing, for persons who have next to everything, and for persons in between. I refer, of course, to Philip Morris cigarettes. Here is the cigarette for everybody—for everybody, that is, who likes a mild relaxing smoke of fine vintage tobacco in a handsome brown package that snaps open with the greatest of ease. For those, if such there be, who like dull, nondescript tobacco in a package that requires a burglar's kit to open, Philip Morris is definitely the wrong gift.
Among the newer gifts that warrant your attention is a revolutionary development in the enjoyment of recorded music. This is the Low-Fi Phonograph. The Low-Fi, product of years of patient research, has so little fidelity to the record you put on it that if, for example, you put Stardust on the turntable, Melancholy Baby will come out. This is an especially welcome gift for people who hate Stardust.
Finally there is Sigafos Shaving Cream, a brand new kind of cream that makes whiskers grow in instead of out. You just bite them off in the morning.
To Max's suggestion to give PHILIP MORRIS for graduation, the makers of PHILIP MORRIS, who bring you this column, add a hearty amen.