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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No.131
-Kansan photo by Ron Grandon
Monday, April 25, 1955
LOOK, MOTHER, ITS ALIVE—Five youthful Lawrence citizens glue their gaze to the Triangle float, which took first place in the fraternities' division in Saturday's parade. The float featured a silver and red globe topped with an animated statue of Mercury. Alpha Phi won first in the sororites' division.
Relays: More Mud Than Sunshine
What many had hoped would be the "golden" day, a day of broken records and the four-minute mile, turned out to be muddy, wet, and sloppy as the weather 'ran the gamut' Saturday at the Kansas Relays.
Wind, rain, and hail dampened the possibility of Wes Santee's breaking the four-minute barrier, but records fell in the mile, sprint medley, and college sprint medley relays, and in the hop, step and jump.
Queen Mary Coe Carter, college freshman, and her two attendants, Kay Tucker, Fort Hays State college freshman, and Carolyn Burch, Bethany college junior, had been escorted to their platform and had so far braved the rain. They had to run for cover later when hail that reached a quarter of an inch in diameter pelted them.
About 1.500 Boy Scouts here for the annual visitation day sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, spent the morning touring the campus. They stuck it
out through the uncomfortable weather.
A stiff south wind buffeted the floats in the Relays parade Saturday morning. Wind damage delayed the start of the scheduled 10 a.m. event more than five minutes, and several floats were damaged by the time the parade was finished.
The Alpha Phi sorority took first place in the women's division with a Jayhawker drawing a fire engine.
The Triangle fraternity won the men's competition with its float featuring a huge red and silver globe with a silver-painted "Mercury" poised on top. The wind tried several times to dislodge the tenacious "Mercury," but he stuck to his small pedestal with the aid of a specially designed metal staff.
Another popular float was the one submitted by Delta Upsilon. It featured a tall cowboy dressed in track clothes astride a clock that had a horse's head and tail. The cowboy, representing Wes Santee,
British Jurist to Deliver Law Lectures in Fall
The speaker will be the Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Raymond Evershed, of London, who is Master of the Rolls. In the English judicial system he is a member of the High Court of Appeals and ranks with the Lord Chief Justice and the Lord Chancellor.
One of Great Britain's ranking jurists will deliver the fourth series of Judge N. T. Stephens Lectureships in the University School of Law next September, Dean Frederick J. Moreau announced today.
The three lectures on consecutive days will be in mid-September. Justice Evershed will be in this country then to participate in Harvard University's celebration of the birthday of Chief Justice John Marshall. The lectures will deal with some phase of free government and the duties and loyalties of citizens under such a government.
The lectureship is endowed by a $30,000 bequest from the late Miss
Kate Stephens, a member of the KU class of 1875, a professor of Latin and Greek here, and later a successful professional author. Her father, whom the lectureship honors, helped establish the KU School of Law in 1878.
Justice Evershed has been Master of the Rolls since 1949 and for the past five years a United Kingdom member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration'at The Hague. A graduate of Oxford university, he is a veteran of World War I. Since 1939 he has devoted nearly all his time to government service. Besides his judicial duties he has served on numerous government boards and commissions.
The Engineering Exposition closed at noon Saturday. An estimated crowd of 35,000 attended. Last year, 30,000 turned out. The winner of the best display was the petroleum engineering department. Its entry was the history of an oil well from the lease to the refinery.
was grasping the reins—the clock's hands—to keep the animal under four minutes.
Weather
The weather will be generally fair and warmer this afternoon and tonight. Tomorrow will be increasingly cloudy, windy and mild. The high today will be in the lower 70s in northeastern Kansas to 75 to 80 in the southwest.
Petroleum Group Has Best Display
Climaxing this year's Engineering Exposition was the presentation Saturday morning of the Sigma Tau traveling trophy to the petroleum engineering department for the best display.
Chi Omegas Present Fountain
The Chi Omega fountain was formally presented to the University in a brief ceremony in front of the chapter house at 2 p.m. yesterday.
Mrs. C. Y. Thomas, Kansas City, Mo., representing the alumnae board of trustees, presided at the ceremony. President Gretchen Guinn, journalism junior, gave the speech of presentation.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy,
accepting the fountain, said it was
"a symbol that we at KU are interested in what is beautiful as well as the utilitarian."
"The University will cherish and jealously guard its beauty," Dr. Murphy said. "We have no place at the university for those who do not know how to care for a thing of beauty."
The fountain, designed by Loren James Bass, fine arts senior, is a replica of an 18th century fountain in Northumberland, England. Research for the mythological themes on the marble plaques was done by Miss Nellie Barnes, assistant professor of English.
The fountain was built as a memorial to the founders of the KU chapter of Chi Omega and deceased Chi Omegas, Chi Omega alumnae, activists, and friends contributed $5,000 toward its construction in a drive led by Mrs. Warren Woody, Wilmette, Ill.
A Cappella Choir Picture to Be Taken
The A Cappella choir will have its Jayhawker picture taken in robes tomorrow at 9:20 p.m. in the ballroom of the Student Union.
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》 The Exposition was officially ended at noon Saturday.
The theme of the winning exhibit was the production of oil. It consisted of a miniature drilling rig about three feet high situated on a lease four feet by six feet. A fluid representing drilling mud, circulated down through the drilling pipe and back out.
The rest of the display showed a pumping unit and battery constructed to scale.
Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering and Architecture made the presentation to Ronald Justice, petroleum engineering senior, who was the departmental display chairman.
Runnerup in the competition for the trophy was the display of the mining and metallurgical engineering department, which was an analogy between the operations through which both peanuts and metal ores go. It showed that the processes in both cases are quite similar.
Tying for third place were the aeronautical and mechanical engineering departments. The aeronautical exhibit consisted of several aeronautical drawings, a small wind tunnel, and a simplified version of an airplane production line.
Last year's winner was the civil engineering department. Any department winning the trophy three times running is allowed to keep it. As yet, no department has been able to do this. The only time this came close to happening was 10 years ago when the department of architecture won the honor twice in a row.
The mechanical engineers built a model atomic reactor and its component parts and showed how energy is transferred into power.
Book Store Manager Elected Trustee
Ray Verrey, manager of the Student Union Book store was elected to the board of trustees of the National Association of College stores, the University learned from a telegram received here this morning.
—Kansan photo by Dee Richards
RELAY QUEEN AND ESCORT—Mary Joe Carter, college freshman and queen of the 30th annual Kansas Relays, is being escorted by Jerry Kindig, education junior, across the grounds before the Relays begin Saturday. Her additional escorts are 18 members of the Air Force drill team.