Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Tuesday. Nov. 9, 1954
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No.40
CAMPAIGN BEGINS—The Campus Chest drive went into full swing today with the erection of the thermometer in front of the Journalism building and a series of signs with a catchy slogan. A different slogan will be used each day of the drive through Wednesday, Nov. 17, and the thermometer will record the amount of money that has been raised. No money was turned in to the Campus Chest office yesterday, but Chest committee members expected better results today when more students are aware of the drive. Members of the Forensic league visited organized houses last night to explain the purpose of the Campus Chest, and collections in the houses began today. In early collections at the game Saturday, $156 was raised toward the $7,693 goal. Harry Gaffney, engineering junior, is pictured walking past the sign.
County Sessions Set Thursday
An all-school convocation will be held Thursday morning with each county in Kansas and areas outside the state represented at individual meetings.
Each county will meet at a specified location and the meeting will be conducted by its temporary chairman, previously appointed for the group. At the meetings, permanent chairmen will be elected and plans for statewide activities clubs will be made.
be made. These groups will plan vacation activities at that time. They also will select home town correspondents who will send University news to their local newspapers.
Scheduled for Thursday morning classes are;
8 a.m. class----8-8:30 a.m.
8 a.m. class—8-8:30 a.m.
9 a.m. class—8:40-9:10 a.m.
Convocation 9:20-10:30 a.m.
10 a.m. class—10:40-11:10 a.m.
11 a.m. class—11:20-11:50 a.m.
Moore Talk to Be On Yeats Tonight
What is a gyre? What is the cult of "theosophy?" Can some poets be said to have "magical" powers in moving readers by the use of words?
These and other questions will be touched on by Geoffrey Moore, Rose Morgan visiting professor, in his lecture at 7 p.m. today in Strong auditorium. His subject is the poetry of William Butler Yeats.
Mr. Moore will discuss the personal mythology which Mr. Yeats constructed for himself and set forth in his book, "A Vision," and its relation to Mr. Yeats' power to produce magical effects in his poetry.
Several samples of Mr. Yeats' poetry from different periods will be discussed in accounting for the continued appeal of Mr. Yeats to readers of quite different background of the literary and revolutionary society in which he moved.
Uranium Discoverer
Individual prospectors have made nearly all the important new uranium discoveries in the United States, says the National Geographic society. Early in 1949 at Marysvale, Utah, about 160 miles south of Salt Lake City, a prospector discovered radioactive minerals while examining some old mines and gave the United States its first important source of primary uranium.
Knowland Hits Bohlen Attending Red Dinner
Washington—(U.P.)—Senate Republican Leader William E. Knowland (Calif.) said today he was "deeply shocked" that U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen attended an official party in Moscow a few hours after Russian planes shot down an American B-29 over Northern Japan.
The State Department said yesterday, and confirmed again last night in response to new inquiries, that Ambassador Bohlen did not know about the plane incident when he and other foreign diplomats attended a dinner given by Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov Sunday night to celebrate the 37th anniversary of the Communist revolution
Sen. Knowland, in a brief Senate speech, indicated that he was not aware of the State Department's statement on this point. He acknowledged that there might have been "extenuating circumstances" in Mr. Bohlen's attendance at the Moscow party, and said he had asked the State Department for a full report.
Sen. Knowland said news of the plane shooting incident was broadcast by Moscow radio at 6 p.m. Moscow time Sunday—about two hours before Ambassador Bohlen went to the party.
Whistle Blew by Mistake
Somebody goofed! The whistle blew at 11:10 a.m. today but it wasn't to dismiss classes early or call a convocation. "It was just a mistake," C. G. Bayles, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said. "The wrong switch went off accidently and caused the whistle to sound," he said.
Weather
Temperatures
will remain 5 to 10 degrees a b o v e average Wednesday through Saturday, Tom Arnold, s t a t e weatherman, said today. Thunderstorms are dicted for tonight tomorrow
The high tomorrow is expected to be near 70.
Yale Philosopher To Speak Nov.16
A Yale philosopher-lecturer will open the 1954-55 Humanities Lecture series Tuesday, Nov. 16.
He is Dr. Brand Blanshard, who will speak on "The Scholar and the Gentleman."
Morse Lashes McCarthy for Censure Attack
Washington — (U.P.)— Sen. Wayne Morse lashed out at Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today for making an "in-executable attack" on the chairman of the Senate Censure committee.
He said Sen. McCarthy was totally out of order in scrapping with Sen. Arthur V. Watkins yesterday when the chairman formally presented the Senate with a corrected copy of the committee's censure report.
But Sen, McCarthy defended himself to the hilt. Although the quarrel was "completely silly," he said, it "performed a service" because it demonstrated Watkins' "personal animosity toward Sen. McCarthy.
Sens. Morse and McCarthy spoke out as the Senate declared an uneasy armistice in the formal censure debate to devote today's session to eulogizing three senators who died recently.
Senate leaders hoped to keep the angry dispute in check until tomorrow when Sen. Watkins will introduce a formal resolution of censure and the debate will get going full tilt.
Sen. Watkins refused to reveal the text of the resolution. But informed sources said today it spells out several specific grounds for censure based on the committee's 68-page report.
Report. It was this report which plunged Sen. McCarthy and Watkins into an angry hour-long wrangle shortly after the Senate opened its historic censure session.
Sen. McCarthy charged Sen. Watkins with being "unfair" in submitting a "corrected" version of the "imbecilic" report. He accused the chairman of trying to keep the changes secret.
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Kell Players Concert Outstanding
By DOT TAYLOR
The School of Fine Arts could not have chosen a better organization for the opening program of the University Chamber Music series than the Reginald Kell Players who performed here last night.
Mr. Kell, hailed as the world's No.1 concert clarinetist, and his chamber music group were outstanding and their music was thoroughly enjoyed by the capacity audience at Strong auditorium.
The two-hour program got off to a smooth start with Beethoven's Trio in B Flat major, Op. 11. The group displayed outstanding tone, control, and ensemble in this piece for the unique combination of clarinet, cello, and piano.
Mr. Kell first displayed his tremendous control and mastery of his
The adagio movement especially was a perfect blending of the instrument parts in this Beethoven trio. There was almost an ethereal quality in the blending—now soft and slow, now powerful—as though phantom fingers were playing the instruments.
and for ite.
In the Brahms Sonata in F minor,
Op. 120, the clarinet and piano did not complement each other as might have been expected. The sonata form—a simultaneous solo of two instruments—implies a sharing of effect. But the clarinet had too much solo and there was not enough predominance of the piano.
instrument in this number. The audience was impressed with the terrific contrast the tall British-born virtuoso showed over the dynamic ranges and the perfect control he had of the extremes of pianissimo and forte.
The Trio in D minor, Op. 32, by the 19th century Russian Romanticist, Arensky, was one of the highlights of the program. The artists—Melvin Ritter, violinist; Aaron Shapinsky, cellist, and Joan Rowland, pianist—displayed a high development of technique, tone, and ensemble.
Though Mr. Kell's clarinet tone was not legitimate at times, he again displayed a high degree of musicianship and technique.
movement — slow and haunting—were beautifully treated. The second movement—lively and agy—and the finale, a culmination of the romantic mood, were also appreciated by the audience. Mr. Kell's co-artists proved in this piece that they are accomplished musicians in their own right.
The gypsy motifs of the third
The group's last selection was the charming and gay Milhaud Suite for the clarinet, violin and piano. Displaying definite virtuosity and agility in some difficult passages, the three artists complemented each other beautifully in this good-humored suite by the contemporary French composer. The number was undoubtedly the most delightful and best appreciated by the audience.
All four artists played solo encore numbers. The violinist, Mr. Ritter, displayed fantastic virtuosity in both technique and tone in his solo, a Paganini composition. Mr. Shapniki, cellist, also was outstanding in technique and tone, playing with a warmth and feeling which were especially evident in the Elegia of the Arensky Trio.
The lecture in Fraser theater will begin at 8:20 to avoid conflict with the lecture series on modern literature being given by Dr. Geoffrey Moore.
Like other humanities lecturers, Dr. Blanshard will be on the campus for three days, speaking to classes and various student and faculty groups.
Monday, at 3 p.m., he will lecture on "The Art of Reflective Writing" to English classes in Fraser theater. The lecture will be open, Prof. Elmer F. Beth, chairman of the Humanities committee, said.
Dr. Blanshard was the seventh American invited to give the Gifford lectures in Scotland, a series which began about 60 years ago. William James and John Dewey were among his predecessors. He presented the 20 lectures at St. Andrews university in 1952-53. That same year he also gave the annual philosophical lecture at the British academy—the only American besides George Santayana to gain that distinction. In 1953, he was the Adamson lecturer at the University of Manchester, and last May he gave the Howison lecture at the University of California. Last summer, he taught in the Seminar for American Studies in Salzburg, Austria.
After receiving the AB degree at the University of Michigan in 1914, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, but his studies were interrupted when he joined the YMCA for services with the British troops in India and Pomopatemia and later with the American forces in Europe. After the war, he completed his work at Oxford and then received the Ph.D. degree at Harvard in 1921.
He taught philosophy at the University of Michigan, Swarthmore, and Columbia before joining the Yale faculty in 1945 as chairman of the philosophy department. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1929-30 and Dudleian lecturer at Harvard in 1945. He was co-president of the American Philosophical association, 1942-44.
Besides contributing articles to learned journals, Dr. Blanshard wrote "The Nature of Thought" in two volumes and is co-author of "Preface to Philosophy" and "Philosophy in American Education."
The Humanities Lecture Series was started in 1947. One Kansas faculty member and three or four visiting lecturers speak each year.
Members of the Humanities committee which arranges the series and supervises the major curriculum in the humanities are Dr. Klaus Berger, associate professor of art history; Dr. Marrel Clubb, professor of English; Dr. George Kreye, associate professor of German; Dr. Clifford Osborne, professor of philosophy.
Dr. Charles Realey, professor of history; Dr. Edward Robinson, associate professor of philosophy; Dr. William Shoemaker, professor of Romance languages; Dr. Milton Steinhardt, associate professor of music history and Prof. Elmer F. Beth, chairman, professor of journalism.
Picture Runs in Magazine
A picture of KU's campanile taken by George L. Smith, pre-business freshman, appeared in this fall's issue of "Leica Photography." Smith shot the picture last July as an experiment using a new low speed film which is produced in Germany. A 14 x 17 inch enlargement from the picture's 35 millimeter negative was submitted to the magazine by Mosser-Wolf, Lawrence camera store.