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HomecomingNov.20-21 Offers Full Schedule
Plans for the 1953 Homecoming, Nov. 20-21, were announced yesterday by Dr. William Cottle, director of Homecoming activities.
Events will begin at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, with alumni registration in the main lounge of the Union. At 7:30 p.m. the annual varsity-freshman basketball game will be played in Hoch auditorium, followed by a rally at 8:45 p.m. Theme for the rally will be "Homecoming Follies."
Leading off Saturday will be a continuation of alumni registration, beginning at 9:30 a.m. An alumni buffet luncheon will be held in the Union ballroom at 11:30 a.m. Following the game, the Union will hold open house, and cider and doughnuts will be served to touring alumni.
Law school alumni will tour the new law library after a reception in Green hall.
Names of Homecoming queen candidates may be submitted by any organized house, or by petition signed by 25 students. Candidates must meet University requirements, having a "C" average and attending KU at least one semester, excluding summer school. Pictures of queen candidates will be taken by the photo bureau Nov. 2-4.
Buddy Brown and his orchestra will play for the Homecoming dance in the Union ballroom from 9 p.m. to midnight. Admission will be 50 cents per person.
"Nominations for queens must be in the hands of queen committee by noon, Nov. 10." Dr. Cottie said. A coffee at which the judges will select the semi-finalists will be held Nov. 16. The three finalists will be selected at a Nov. 16 dinner and will be announced Nov. 19.
The three will be introduced during the activities Friday night in Hoch. The queen's name will be announced at half-time of the Homecoming game.
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Paintings by students of Northwest Junior High school, Kansas City. Kan., are now being displayed in the art education department, 332 Strong.
The exhibition, one of a series scheduled during the year for art education students, is being displayed by Isabelle Gladdis, graduate student. Miss Gladdis taught at Northwest in 1951-52.
Designs in several of the paintings were made using simple objects such as a comb or a toothbrush to get a special effect. Another technique not conventional in painting which is shown by the exhibit is the use of materials such as sawdust and thread.
Winter scenes, paintings of houses in perspective, and a study of flowers are also included in the exhibit.
Plan Rally For Mustang Followers
Friday Oct. 23,1953
A welcoming rally for Southern Methodist university football rooters was scheduled at a meeting of the KuKu club, men's pep organization, last night.
The KuKu's, in conjunction with the university band, Jay Janes, Red Peppers, and Froshawks, will meet the SMU train when it arrives at the Santa Fe station at 6:30 a.m. Saturday.
A car rally greeting the KU football team when it arrives from Topeka will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Sixth and Illinois streets.
French Debate Indo-China War
In other business, it was decided that KuKu members will man the polls in Strong rotunda Wednesday for the freshman primaries.
Paris — (UP)— The National Assembly met today to debate whether to pull out of the Indo-China war after the government signed an agreement giving total independence within the French Union to Laos, one of the associated states of Indo-China.
Assembly deputies voted the Indochina debate over the objections of the government because of mounting anger over a decision by a Viet Nam congress in Saigon to demand independence outside the French Union. Many deputies felt as a result France should get out of the eight-year-old war.
The government hoped to work out similar treaties with the other two associated states, Viet Nam and Cambodia. But near-rebellion in Cambodia and nationalist demands in Vietnam for immediate independence outside the union have hindered negotiations.
Premier Joseph Laniel's government went into the debate on Indo-China with its prestige tarnished on a domestic dispute as well as the Indo-China question.
Laniel also suffered a setback when the assembly early today approved a motion slightly critical of his farm policies. The vote was 320 to 252.
Music Series Starts
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The Quartetto Italiano, the first of the 1953-54 Chamber Music Series, will play at 8 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
Dean Urges Warning Reds Of Retaliation by A-Bombs
Mr. Dean said that when the country's current atomic energy expansion program is completed, it will represent an investment in plant
Russia should be made to understand, Mr. Dean said, "that if she moves in any quarter of the globe she will be struck and struck hard not simply at the front line of her aggressive troops but at every element which supplies those troops."
Los Angeles—(U.P.)-Former Chairman Gordon Dean of the Atomic Energy commission said today this country should warn the Soviet Union that another act of aggression will be met with atomic bombs
Speaking before a group of trucking executives on the 50th anniversary of the motor truck industry of Southern California, Mr. Dean said he thought the time has come "when we must be very clear and very blunt in our dealings with the Soviet."
Mr. Dean said it was also "high time that we face up to the fact that within two years the Russians would have the capability virtually to obliterate this country if they made a surprise attack with atomic weapons."
Mr. Dean said we should have within a few years an airplane propelled by a nuclear power plant and capable of almost unlimited range. He said it is possible that at least 10 per cent of all new electric generating facilities being built in the United States in 1963 will use nuclear fuel.
and equipment of approximately $9 billion. It has been primarily military, he said, but progress is being made in other fields with atomic energy.
The next decade, Mr. Dean said, may also see the development of atomic-powered aircraft carriers, dirigibles, locomotives and similar large vehicles. He said he did not think it likely that there will be an early use of atomic energy where small sources of power are needed, such as in automobiles, house furnaces, and small aircraft.
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170 English Teachers Arrive For Conference on Methods
IN AN EASY CHAIR—Bernard DeVoto, columnist for Harpers magazine, chats with Prof. Robert Taft before talking tonight in Frasher hall.
DeVoto Talks Tonight On American Symbols
Bernard DeVoto, Pulitzer prize-winning author, will turn to the role of lecturer when he speaks on "Some American Symbols" at 8 p.m. today in Fraser theater.
Writing light fiction under the pen name of John August, he may appear a pleasantly entertaining romantic. To social historians, Mr. DeVote is an interpreter of the making of America, particularly of the period of Western expansion; to critics, he is an authority on Mark Twain and his works, and to readers of Harper's magazine, he is the editor of "The Easy Chair" column of critical comment.
His book, "The Course of Empire" published in 1952, is a history of Western exploration over a period of 278 years. Winner of the National Book award for non-fiction, it is the third book of Mr. DeVoto's trilogy on the opening of the West—although it is the first chronologically of a series which includes "The Year of Decision: 1846" and "Across the Wide Missouri," winner of the 1948 Pulitzer prize for history.
Mr. DeVoto was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1897. He attended Harvard university, and was graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1920. For five years he taught English at Northwestern university, and married "the brightest coed in his freshman composition class."
During this period, he began writing, turning out several novels. He interfered with his writing, so he took with his family to Cambridge. Mass.
In 1929 he resumed teaching—this time at Harvard, where he remained for seven years. In 1935, he became editor of "The Easy Chair" column of Harper's magazine, "Boston Weekly." The column was appeared for more than 100 years. Mr. DeVoit is the fifth editor to write it.
Mr. DeVoto's hobbies are "motor-
"Mark Twain's America," the first of his works as a social historian, was published in 1832. Ten years later he wrote "Mark Twain at Work."
From 1936-38, Mr. DeVoto was editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. On accepting the editorship, he stated his credo: "I believe that clear thinking is one of the most difficult and desirable things in the world and that all absolutes are dangerous; that the lack of wisdom of intelligence is as necessary to literature as to society itself, and that literature is so interstitial with the life of its times that all attempts to separate them are folly."
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Sixty-seven delegates to the Midwestern College Art conference in Kansas City Mo., attended a meeting this morning in the Museum of Art and a luncheon in the Student Union.
Dr. Klaus Berger, chairman of the history of art department, R. Edwin Browne, director of radio, and Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts spoke to the delegates.
Dr. Berger's address was entitled, "Is Modern Art Modern?" Dean Gorton gave a short address of welcome, and Mr. Browne discussed the part played by radio and television in art education.
the conference opened yesterday in Kansas City and will continue through tomorrow. Raymond Eastwood, chairman of the painting and drawing department, and Dwight Miller and Edward Maser, instructors in the history of art department, attended the conference yesterday.
Free Withdrawal Ends Thursday
Persons withdrawing from courses on or after Oct. 29 will receive a grade of WD or F, depending on whether he is passing or failing at the time he withdraws.
Up to that date, withdrawal from a course merely cancels the enrollment in the course which he withdraws, said James K. Hitt, registrar. A student who wants to change a course will in every case go to his dean's office to do so.
ing and photography, but mostly reading out-of-the-way Americana and visiting sites of American history." In Cambridge, he lives with his family in a Victorian house which formerly belonged to historian William Roscoe Thaver.
In the same room Thayer used for work-room and library to write his histories, Mr. DeVoto writes—in longhand, in loose-leaf notebooks—his histories of America and his comments on the American character and literature.
More than 170 college and high school English teachers from over the state arrived today for a two-day conference on composition and literature sponsored by the English department.
The teachers will hold panels and meetings to discuss teaching problems.
"We hope from such an interchange of views and experiences we all will leave the conference with some valuable new ideas," said Dr. James L. Wortham, chairman of the department of English.
The conference was suggested by several high school teachers at the annual meeting of the Kansas Association of English Teachers last spring.
A public lecture by Bernard De-Voto, historian and literary critic, will highlight the convention. Mr. DeVoto will speak at 8 p.m. in Fraser theater. After the address a reception will be held for Mr. De-Voto in the Spooner-Thayer Art museum.
The teachers will visit English classes, tour the museums, and view the new undergraduate library. Marked English themes will be displayed in the second and third floor corridors of Fraser hall. The Museum of Art will show two special displays, one of rare books from the library and the other of books on art in England.
Voice Professor To Sing in Recital
Miss Peabody, a graduate of the University, has been a member of the faculty since 1924. She has studied in Chicago and New York.
Irene Peabody, associate professor of voice will sing in a faculty recital in Strong auditorium at 8 p.m. Monday. She will be accompanied by Miss Winifred Gallup.
Miss Peabody's program features two songs by Katherine Mulky Warne, assistant professor of music and theory.
The program will include numbers by handel, Haydn, Mozart, Franz, Haile, Wolfe, Strauss, Sibelius, Mulky, and Quilter.
Petitions Due Today For Posts in Senate
Petitions for candidates to two reshman posts in the Associated Women Students senate are due today in the dean of women's office.
Seven will be selected from the candidates who file for the senate posts, and freshman women then two, two remaining seven to the AWS senate.
Candidates for the freshman posts will attend an AWS meeting at 7:30 p. m. Monday in the Oread room of the Student Union.
Weather
The western third of Kansas may get more light rain tonight. So say, let the skies cool.
whose c h a r t s indicated that a rain belt in eastern Colorado will drive very slowly and hold expects the moisture f a l l  to hold under half
an inch. There were traces of rain yesterday at Chanute and Olathe and last evening at Wichita, Kansas' current cool temperatures will remain through Saturday, Mr. Arnold said. For the first afternoon of the football season gridsters will play in "football weather." Temperatures at kickoff time at Lawrence and Manhattan probably will be no higher than 60 degrees. This morning state lows ranged from 37 degrees at Goodland to 53 at Chanute.