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University Daily Kansan
Friday. March 26,1954
Taft-Historian,Chemist Promoter of Centennial
By KAREN HILMER
Dr. Robert Taft, professor of chemistry and chairman of the Kansas Centennial committee, is the man who has made the centennial wheels go around to commemorate 100 years of Kansas Territorial history
DR. ROBERT TAFT
Art Conference Being Held Here
Exhibits of handcrafts, paintings and drawings from 40 Kansas high schools will be displayed in Strong hall during the annual High School Art conference today and tomorrow.
About 1,000 junior and senior high school students are expected, and more than 30 kinds of art and craft techniques will be demonstrated, county-fair style, in the studios of the departments of design and of drawing and painting.
Twenty watercolors and four oil paintings by Miss Katherine Cardwell, director of art in the Kansas City, Kans., schools, will be displayed in a second floor gallery of the Museum of Art. Her display reflects travels in Colorado, Mexico, and Guatemala.
The board of judges which will prepare individual criticisms of each piece of work is composed of Mrs. Bernice Setzer, director of art education, Des Moines; Miss Audry Miller, high school art teacher, Kansas City, Mo.; Hubert Hogue, high school art teacher, Tulsa, and Miss Isabell Gaddis, KU instructor.
KU art students are giving a Mardi Gras party in the Student Union tonight for visitors remaining overnight.
Witchcraft Outlined By Scottish Speaker
Dr. Douglas Guthrie of Edinburgh, Scotland, told listeners at the annual Clendening lectures yesterday that evidences of primitive witchcraft still exist among some peoples of the earth.
Dr. Guthrie traced the development of primitive witchcraft into the exact medical sciences of today. He said that some particles of this primitive witchcraft still exist among common superstitions in this and other countries.
This versatile man not only is professor of chemistry at the University but is an author, a collector of famous paintings, and an historian. He is president of the State Historical society, chairman of Gov. Edward Arn's 12-man board to plan the 1954 centennial celebration, editor of the Kansas Historical Quarterly, and a member of the American Association of University Professors.
Born in Tokyo, Japan, March 24, 1894, where his parents were missionaries, he was brought to the United States at the age of 3. He finished high school in Rochester, N. Y., in 1913. In 1916 he received his A. B. degree from Grand Island college at Grand Island, Neb., his A. M. degree in 1919 from the State University of Iowa, and his D. S. degree from the University of Kansas in 1925.
Between periods of studying for his degrees, he taught one year at Grand Island college, one year at the high school at Gilbert, Minn., one year at Iowa, and three years at Ottawa university at Ottawa, Kan.
Dr. Taft has contributed articles to technological journals and magazines and has done considerable writing for publication in chemical journals. He is the author of four books, his most recent entitled "Artists and Illustrators of the Old West," a book of paintings and biographies of western artists. It covers the years 1850-1900 and all of the territory west of the Mississippi river. It is based on a series of articles Dr. Taft had printed in the Kansas Historical Quarterly since 1946. The book is a companion volume to his "Photography and the American Scene" printed in 1938. This completion of biographies and pictures represents 20 years of work done by Dr. Taft in his spare time.
Because of his interest in historical paintings, pictures, and sketches, Dr. Taft, when the J. J Pennell collection of negatives was given to the University by Stanley Pennell, prepared a traveling exhibit of 300 prints now in the University library. The collection is second only to collections in the Library of Congress. The pictures are of historical celebrities, civil war soldiers, and scenes. They portray the life and growth of Junction City.
Some of his publications include "Pioneers of the Perilous Commerce," "The Great Sandy Desert," "A Century in the West," "A Hunter's Paradise," and "Asa Gray's Ascent of Gray's Peak."
Today Dr. Guthrie speaks at the Medical Center in Kansas City on "Lister and His Achievement."
Before World War II, the Soviet Ukraine accounted for nearly a fourth of Russia's entire wheat and corn crops, a third of its barley, and two-thirds of its sugar beet output, says National Geographic society.
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Plans Are Made For Statewide Educational TV
Plans are being made to bring educational television to Kansas by a recently organized citizens' committee for that purpose.
By BOB MARSHALL
The steering committee of the citizen's group has agreed to seek support for their project from the 1955 legislature. Plans from the outset will be directed to a system to provide television service covering the state.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said, "Ultimately, educational television operated by the two state schools, Kansas State college and KU, is the property of the citizens of the state. The citizens of the state should have a voice in the planning of such a service."
Although Kansas State college owns a construction permit from the Federal Communications commission to build a noncommercial educational television station on channel 8 in Manhattan, and KU has applied for a permit to construct a television station on channel 11 in Lawrence, neither school can proceed to construct its station until funds are made available for construction.
Plans made by the two state-owned schools call for each station to carry programs originating at the other station. The programs broadcast from the Manhattan and Lawrence transmitters will reach an estimated Kansas audience of 900,000 persons.
Under plans discussed by the citizens' committee, application would be made to the FCC to construct transmitters at other points in Kansas making it possible for all of Kansas to receive television
Engineers Hear Talk By Backfield Coach
New Kansas backfield coach, Paul Schofer, told about proposed changes in the football system at a recent joint meeting of Sigma Tau and Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternities.
Mr. Schofer spoke on football at Massillon, Ohio, and plans for changes in Kansas football. He showed a colored movie of a Masillon game.
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Hit Tunes of 1854 Still Popular in 1954
The hit tunes of Kansas in 1854 were "hits" indeed.
Although few in number, they have established themselves in the hearts of Kansans as part of the Kansan tradition of hope, faith, and love.
These are the tunes which have remained popular for a century. How many of them do you remember humming on a cold winter night while sitting in front of a roaring fire listening to grandfather tell about the pioneer days of Kansas?
"What is a Home Without a Mother?" by Alice Hawthorne; "There's Music in the Air" by
Francese, Jane Crosby; "Poet or Poissant Overture," by Franz Von Suppe; "The Monastery Bells," by Lefebure - Wely; "Ella Bayne," "Hard Times Come Again No More," "Willie, We Have Missed You," and "Jeannie With the Light" Brown Hain," all by Stephen Collins Foster.
Four members of the elephant family which are now extinct once lived in North and South America. They were the mastodon, about 9½ feet tall; the mammoth, 9 feet; the Columbian elephant, 11 feet, and the imperial elephant, 13½ feet.
there was plenty of buck in those broncos a hundred years ago !
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