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2 Fraternity Housemothers KnowEuropeanGeography
Two fraternity housemothers returned to the KU campus this fall prepared to answer questions their boys might ask on European geography. *
Traveling for two and a half months this summer in everything from record-breaking ocean liner to ancient gondola, Mrs. J. I. Hollingsworth, Sigma Phi Epsilon housemother, and Mrs. Harry Ryan, Tau Kappa Epsilon housemother, visited nine European countries.
The tremendous number of bicycles in Amsterdam impressed the Americans. The cyclist has the right of way. When Mrs. Hollingsworth commented to a policeman about the way pedestrians took their lives in their hands when crossing the streets, he admitted that their traffic was not "disciplened" like America's.
Mrs. Hollingsworth had a tooth filled while she was in Amsterdam and was amazed when the bill was only 75 cents in American money.
They went to Assmannhausen, Germany, where the tourists visited a beer garden with its singing waiters. In one place a group of Germans left a restaurant when the Americans entered, but for the most part the visitors found the people very friendly.
Their bus broke down in an Alps pass, and so the American tourists had a chance to look the mountains over at close range. They found the same kind of wild flowers growing there as in the Rockies.
On a train to Milan, they passed through the longest tunnel in the world. The European trains are much different than American. First class passengers travel in
compartments, built to seat six. However, the Italians thought nothing of holding several people on their slaps while traveling, so the compartments were very crowded.
In Venice, they boarded one of the famed gondolas, but were able to pry only one song from their gondolier.
At LeGrasse, France, the perfume center of the world, the women were told that it takes two tons of flowers to make two pounds of essence.
Mrs. Ryan and Mrs. Hollingsworth rented a car and visited many places in Scotland and Ireland. They soon understood why the foreign cars are so small when they had to drive the car through the many narrow streets.
The menus in the good English restaurants were in French and the waiters were in full dress, even for breakfast. The typical European breakfast consisted of hard rolls, a cup of coffee, and a pitcher of hot milk.
Contrary to all the jokes, they found the Scotch people friendly and very generous. Mrs. Hollingsworth's tooth was giving her trouble again, and this time a Scotch dentist refused to accept anything for his labor.
labor.
Before sailing for home August 14. Mrs. Hollingsworth and Mrs. Ryan found the English to be very jealous of the new liner, the 'United States', which was breaking records set by the English 'Queen Mary' and 'Queen Elizabeth' liners.
Dutch Dating Goes In Cycles; Custom May Be Coming Back
bv DIANA STONEBRAKER
I saw a girl and boy go '50-50' at the show the other night, and I began to wonder, "Is 'going Dutch' coming back?"
Actually, "Dutch dating" has gone around in cycles. In 1873 Grandpa and Grandpa went 50-50 because there was a depression; in the roaring '20s Flapper Fanny and Coonskin Charlie both pitched in on the gin because they did on everything in those days, and in the middle '30s colleges and universities adopted the tradition because Freud and everyone else had new ideas.
KU was one of the universities which took up the fad. A new era officially installed at the University in 1936. A joint resolution, declaring a policy of equal-expense-sharing between men and women students on all dates, was unanimously passed by the Women's Self Governing association and the Men's Student council.
It was believed that most women who were dating extensively had money enough to pay their share of the date, and that those not dating spent as much going to the show in company with other girls, as they would under the new plan
It was stressed by the president of the MSC that "women would now be enabled to select their places of entertainment, that dating would not be limited to a few overly popular girls, since such women would think twice before bearing half the cost of their many dates" and that the plan would produce a better feeling of comradeship between men and women students.
There was one exception. "Coke" dates were paid for by the man. Chivalry had not died completely!
The plan met various student reactions. Some women opposed it on the grounds that they were having too good a time with things status quo. The men seemed to favor the idea, but were embarrassed when it came to actual practice.
practice.
According to the ethical code of the program, a woman was expected to call up boys of her acquaintance for dates, because it was believed since she was to share the expense, she had the right to do the asking, too.
But even with the new arrangement, a man was still expected to be courteous. He was to allow his date to step up first to buy her ticket to the movies.
The greatest benefit derived from the plan appeared to be that the men were at last able to tell whether the women just dated them for their money or not.
Dutch dating gradually passed from the picture, however, and there are no records which seem to indicate that it was ever renewed at KU. Today the only place a woman seems to get if she suggests "going Dutch" is "in Dutch."
Brush woolens frequently and vigorously, giving special attention to folds and pockets not usually exposed to light. Woolens should be aired often and any that are stored during the fall and winter months should be placed in containers which have been mothproofed and can be tightly sealed.
Logically speaking, however, it appears to be about time for the custom to put in another appearance. So don't be surprised, women, if your purse holds something besides lipstick and cigarettes next time you go out.
The Newman club, Catholic student organization, will sponsor a mixer at 8 p.m. Friday in the Military Science building. Music for dancing will be provided by a combo.
GRACEFUL AND YOUNG-Perfect for that first big fall dance, a simple formal with a snug bodice and graceful skirt so enhancing to young figures. A velvet bolero jacket completes the outfit. Avisco
rayon and cotton faile.
The club will have coffee and rolls at an informal meeting in St. John church after the 10 a.m. mass Sunday.
Religious Notes
The Canterbury club, Episcopal student organization, will hear a continuation of reports begun last Sunday on the Canterbury general convention in Boston after a breakfast at 9:45 a.m. in the Episcopal church.
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The Hillel Jewish foundation will hold a regular service, led by Sam Wilen, graduate student, in Danworth chapel at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
Gamma Delta, Lutheran religious organization, is planning a two-day retreat at the Gray Rock County estate. The group will leave Lawrence about 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10 and return before closing hours Saturday, Oct. 11.
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The retreat will center around worship discussions, Bible study, recreation, and fellowship.
Liahona fellowship, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints college student group, will hold a worship service, with the theme, "Let Our Lives Be Testimonies," at 7 p.m. Sunday. The group will meet at the home of Ammon Andes, 1642 Indiana.
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The Disciple Student fellowship, First Christian church group, and Kappa Beta, First Christian church women's group, will hold a planning retreat at Bonner Springs Sunday afternoon. The group will meet at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Myers hall.
Friday. Oct. 3, 1952
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The Rev. Harold G. Barr, dean of the School of Religion, will be
By CATHERINE CHEREMETEFF
The following article appeared in the August 1952 issue of Vogue magazine. Miss Chermetef, Vogue's 1952 Prize Winner, writes about "the
You Can't Beat 'The System'; It's Either Do or Die Socially
System."
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We went back to the dance floor. It was now eleven o'clock, and we had been together almost constantly since four o'clock that afternoon, when my date had met me at the train. Neither he nor I could find anything more to say to each other. The smile that had come so naturally to me at the beginning of the dance hurt my mouth now. Every dance, whether samba or fox trot, seemed the same, just a pattern through which he was leading me. .I was at a college dance, the first event in a supposedly gay spring week end; and I was hopelessly, drearily stuck.
Why? Because of the System. I was not a wallflower; there are no wallflowers at college or school dances in 1952. If a girl can't find somebody to ask her to the dance, she stays at home. But, there are no belles either, under the System—because there are no extra men, no stags to cut in. Boys who haven't invited girls to the dance just don't come.
The System, as it is currently practiced, demands that all school or college social events be built around the couple, the date, and that the boy and girl involved in this date (even though it's their first) must dance or sit out every dance together. I and my date were typical victims of the System.
I thought, wistfully, of descriptions I'd heard from my friends' older sisters, of college dances before World War II. In those days (they said) each girl had a dance card, filled out ahead of time by her escort with the names of his roommates and friends. Or he, his friends, and their girls, all shared a big table and exchanged dances.
The boys who didn't have dates came to the dance anyway, as stags. If you were a belle, you got cut in on every fifty feet or so; even if you were a near-bellie, you met dozens
the special speaker during the afternoon.
Kappa Phi, women's Methodist organization, will hold a breakfast at the First Methodist church, 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.
"Must We Conform?" will be the topic of the Wesley foundation meeting at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Methodist church.
Leah Ross, college senior, and Nannette M. Pitman, fine arts sophomore, will be in charge of the meeting. After the meeting folk dancing will be led by June Porter, education senior.
The KU Christian Fellowship met last night in Fraser. William Ramer was the speaker.
of boys in an evening. That was the point of a dance: to be a sort of melting-pot, a big cocktail shaker in which young people and good music were whirled around together to make a gay evening . . . But then the war came. The stag lines vanished. And the system seized every
Still, I thought (as I trudged through the ninth samba), 1952 isn't 1942. Can't we start getting away from the System? Can't we devise some way of changing partners occasionally? How about the old dancing-school expedient of double cutting?
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campus in the country in an iron grin.
At that moment, I spotted one of the couples we'd had dinner with, earlier in the evening (it seemed like years ago). Rashly, I suggested that we double cut with them. I shouldn't have done it. My date resented it, and felt that I had snubbed him. After the dance, we had a stupid fight. The week end was a failure for both of us; I took the next train back, and I've never heard from him again. I had tried to beat the System, and I had failed.
In this morning's mail, I got an invitation to a week end at another college, this autumn. There'll be a football game—and a big dance. The Senior who has invited me is awfully nice, and I feel very flattered that he should have asked me . . . But I don't think I'll go. You can't beat the System. Or can you?
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