On the Hill
Tuesday. Oct. 28, 1952
By MARY COOPER Kansan Society Editor
Sigma Alpha Iota, national professional music fraternity for women, held a rummage sale Saturday.
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Theta Phi Alpha pledge class officers are: Maize Harris, college sophomore, president; Maxine Tajchman, college sophomore, vice president; Dorothy Morris, fine arts sophomore, secretary-treasurer, and Eileen Foley, journalism junior, and Eloise Dibal, fine arts junior, junior panhellenic representative.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vosper and new members of the Watson library staff were honored at a reception given by the library staff Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Baker.
Mr. Vosper is the newly appointed director of libraries at the University.
Theta Tau, national professional engineering fraternity, announces the pledging of Dave Gray, engineering junior.
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Delta Upsilon fraternity held a tea dance with Delta Delta Delta sorority Saturday afternoon in the chapter house. Mrs. James A. Hooke and Mrs. C. H. Wentworth were chaperones.
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The annual business meeting of the Faculty club will be held at 7:30 p.m. today.
Pledge class officers of Pi Beta Phi sorority are Nancy Teed, college junior, president; Joy Brewer, vice president; Dorothy Ann Smith, recording secretary; Margery Null, treasurer; Jan Duchossois, corresponding secretary; Peggy Hughes, social chairman; Kay Coolidge, activities chairman; June Hereford, representative to the executive board Fancy Grimes, historian Marlene Stewart, song leader; Mary Maggart and Marlene Moss, junior Panhellenic representatives, all college sophomores, and Julie Gempel, college junior scholarship chairman.
Mu Phi Epsilon, honorary music sorority, has elected two new officers for the year, Anita McCoy, fine arts senior, publicity chairman, and Barbara Swisher, fine arts sophomore, corresponding secretary.
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A tea for new music majors was held Sunday in the AWS lounge by Mu Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha
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IFFC QUEEN IS CROWNED—Pauline Palmer, college freshman, center, was crowned queen at the fall formal of the Inter-fraternity pledge council Saturday at the Country club before nearly 50 members and their dates. Her attendants were Alice Wiley, college freshman, left; and Virginia Oaks, fine arts freshman, right. Escorts were Gene Brown, education freshman, Alpha Tau Omega; Don Hawley, college sophomore, Delta Tau Delta, and Ray Krahenbuhl, fine arts freshman, Triangle. The Varsity Crew band provided the music.—Photo by Bob
Wagner.
National Flower Week to Begin; So Start Boning Up on Posies
Bv HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington—(U.P.)-I'll bet there are a lot of things you don't know about flowers, since National Flower Week begins Nov. 2. I'll give you some interesting information I got from the flower people.
The posey folk say that if you set a vase of flowers too close to a blaring radio or TV set, the flowers will act like people and
Iota, honorary and professional music sororities.
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Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority announces the pinning of Diane Baldwin, college sophomore, to G. H. Jones, college sophomore, Phi Gamma Delta.
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Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary and professional journalism fraternity, announces the pledging of Lorena Barlow, and Kitty Swartz, journalism seniors.
Torch chapter of Mortar Board entertained at the first series of coffees honoring campus leaders Friday afternoon at the home of Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women.
turn their heads from the noise. They will, however, recover when the racket stops or if they are moved.
The Arabs of Spain used the white lily for poultices to stop wounds from bleeding.
According to historical references dating back to 1896, lilies have been grown for food in Japan and China. The references are a little vague as to whether the flowers are served up as lilyburgers or lily steaks—well done.
Roman streets were strewn with roses at public festivals. Roses also were used to decorate banquet halls and other fetes. Nero is said to have spent the equivalent of $150,000 for roses for one of these occasions.
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The mignonette was once valued as a medicinal herb in Egypt. Its penetrating fragrance was used by early doctors as an anaesthetic.
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As early as 1500 B.C., the iris was used as an emblem of power on the scepters of Egyptian monarchs, and was also carved on the brow of the sphinx.
"The Morning Star"
by Henry C. Haskell
The yellow chrysanthemum has been worn as a badge of courage. Japan's war of the dynasties, which started in 1357 and lasted 55 years, was called the "war of the chrysanthemum." The flowers were worn as a symbol of courage by the warriors of the south.
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America's first botanist was John Bartram. He became interested in flowers and botany when he spotted the unusualness of pansy petals.
Napoleon's favorite flower was the common violet. When he was banished his followers wore violets to show their loyalty and their confidence that he would return when the violets bloomed. Sure enough they were in bloom when he returned to Paris in the spring of 1815.
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There is the case of one student dragging to bed after studying until 2:30 a.m., only to hear a voice from the kitchen, "You'll never get by with it."
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Student Sleep Talkers Are Interesting Study
Slipping into the darkened dimness of a sleeping porch at 3 a.m. is far different than trotting off to bed peaceably at 11 p.m. This is the time when, having worn off the first sleep of exhaustion, your housemates talk in their sleep; and such interesting things are said.
Bv JOAN LAMBERT KOHMAN
The usual type of sleep talker is the most frustrating to listen to. He mumbles so you can't make out what he says, or he just lies there and giggles. At the most all you can catch from him are a few interesting words.
There are also those who moan in their sleep and occasionally pop out with such cries as, "Don't shoot!" or "I'll do it." One intramural man was heard saying, "Now that's all right. You get in there and do better."
Psychologists say that when people sleep, their subconscious takes over and dreaming is a result. The thing we shove so deep into our minds boils to the surface in the wee hours of the night. If you think you're one of those people who never dream; well, your conscious just won't let you remember.
The gnashing of teeth is sometimes heard. This is especially common just before final exams. Groans, shrieks, mumbles, and occasional spoken words become the usual bill-of-fare during black coffee and aspirin week.
There is the story about an engineering junior going to bed late who heard a male voice advising, "Now just relax, honey. Just relax. You'll enjoy it." The sad ending to this tale is that it was so dark the engineer couldn't tell who said it.
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