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THE UNIVERSITY CHORUS, comprised of 180 voices, is shown rehearsing for "The Christmas Oratorio," by J. S. Bach, to be sung at 8 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. The oratorio will be directed by Clayton Krehbiel, instructor of music education, and accompanied by Stanford Lehmberg, organist, and Barbara Thompson and Donna Hobein, pianists. Photo by Al Marshall.
UNIVERSITY DAILY
49th Year No. 61
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1951
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Annual Christmas Vespers
To Be Presented Sunday
More than 200 persons and all departments of the University School of Fine Arts will work together Sunday on the All-Musical Christmas vespers with tableaux.
A new feature this year will be half-hour carillon recitals before the vespers to be played at 2:45 and 6:45 p.m. by Ronald Barnes, carilonneur.
The traditional Christmas observance again will be given twice, at 4 and 7.30 p.m. in Hoch auditorium. The event is probably the most beautiful and impressive of the en-school year, and brings the largest audience of any indoor campus event. Attendance at the vapers, which are open to the public
ASCETo Nominate See Flood Pictures
Flood control movies will be shown and nomination of officers will take place at the American Society of Civil Engineers meeting at 7 p.m. today in 101 Snow hall.
The Army Engineer corps will have representatives at the meeting who will show special flood control pictures and discuss problems related to flood control. The representatives will also outline job opportunities in their particular fields
In addition, the society will nominate officers for next year. Officers are elected for a period of January to December instead of the usual September to June term.
Setting the spirit for the occasion will be a double brass quartet who will play carols from the balcony of Hoch auditorium as the audience assembles for the programs. Cornet players are Victor Weber, Donald Macaulay, James Gleason and Barry Green. Trombone players are Karl Abbott, Al Long, Bill Hawes and Keith Carter.
The A Cappella choir, symphony orchestra and a mixed glee club will be the principal musical organizations.
without charge, has been more than 7,000 in some years.
The 103-voice A Cappella choir under the direction of Donald M. Swarthout, professor of piano, will sing four numbers. Soloists for the choir's singing "The Shepherd Had An Angel" will be Phyllis McFarland, soprano, and Robert Snow, cor anglais obbligato. Soloists for "The Shepherd's Story" will be Richard Wright, tenor; Dale Moore, baritone; Patricia Means, soprano.
The KU Symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, will play the Pastorale Symphony from Handel's "Messiah."
ders necessities.
Three tableaux prepared by Robert Green, assistant professor of drawing and painting, and Ray Ot-
Steering Committee Terms Campus Chest A Success
The 1951 Campus Chest drive was termed a success by the chest steering committee Tuesday.
The committee met in the Union to prepare a report of the drive which will be submitted to the All Student Council.
recent yeals, and short of our goal of $2,500." Loy Kirkpatrick, chairman of the drive, said. "But it may be that we set our sights too high." He pointed out that Kansas State set its 1951 goal at $1,500.
The biggest weakness of the drive, he said, was the lack of good organization in soliciting unorganized students.
"This is a problem next year's best committee will have to work out" he added.
Council.
The campaign raised $1,754.10 more than any other chest drive in recent years, it was reported.
Other weaknesses and suggestions for improving the 1952 campaign were mentioned and are to be included in the committee's report to the ASC.
tinger, assistant professor of design will be given. Subjects include "The Carolers," portrayed by Jane Klooz, John Edward Riederer, James Irwin, and Walter Anderson.
Seen in "The Angel and the Shepherd" will be Donna Francis, and Phil Palmer. "The Madonna" will feature Anne Jordan MacDougall.
Lawrence Community Chest,
$473.63; WSSF, $473.63; YMCA,
$245.56; CARE, $140.32; American
Heart association, $35.08, and
American Cancer fund, $35.08.
Daily Kansan, $43.70; Allen Press,
$36; University Press, $10, and the cost of the thermometer, $25. The total is $114.70, which leaves $60.70 more to be added to the permanent reserve.
Agencies which immediately benefited from the drive are:
A total of $175.40 was held in permanent reserve and the same amount was set aside by the ASC constitution for administrative expenses.
During the showing of the tableaux the choral ensemble, led by Clayton Krehbiel, instructor in music education, will sing carols. Members of the choral ensemble are sopranos: Helen Lou Fry, Ramona Goering, Norma Bradley, and Maxine Ratzlaff. Altos: Delores Stritesky, Roberta Underwood, Christine Wiley, and Carol Swanson. Tenors: Faustin Robles, Lyle Middleton, Kent Bowden, and David Edwards. Basses: David Conley, William Krehbiel, Donald Pringle, Max Valentine, and Frank McCollum.
The approximate expenses (several of the bills at present unpaid) are:
The afternoon vespers will be broadcast over KFKU. University radio station, at 1250 on the dial, from 4 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
From the reserve fund, money may be allotted by ASC action to other welfare organizations not in the chest, such as the Red Cross and Tuberculosis fund.
Upstream Dinner To Include Forum
Three faculty members of the University will take part in a panel discussion on Asia at a dinner sponsored by Upstream, a humanities and political magazine, at 6 p.m. Friday in the Community building.
George Beckmann, instructor in history, Amiya Khakravery, visiting professor of humanities, and Walter Kollmorgen, professor of geography, will discuss "the challenge of Asia." Moderator will be Mohamed Ahmed, graduate student from India.
Tickets for the dinner may be purchased for $1 from any member of the staff of Upstream or reservations may be made by calling Dan Gallin at 3691. Tickets will also be on sale today in the Union and Friday at the dinner.
More Senior Rings To Arrive This Week
Between 50 and 75 rings with the letters "BS" (bachelor of science) will arrive sometime this week. A senior may pick up his ring at the same time he pays for it, if the office has the correct size. Men's rings cost $33.00 and women's rings $25.80.
Twenty-seven class rings are available at the business office in Strong hall for seniors who will receive the bachelor of arts degree in 1952.
University Chorus To Give Bach's 'Oratorio' Tonight
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Lecture Series Will Feature Italian Expert
An innovation in the Humanities Lecture series beginning Feb. 12 will be a two weeks visit at the University by Prof. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese of the University of Chicago. Previous lecture series have consisted of several three-day visits by prominent scholars and critics.
Dr. Borgese is one of the foremost authorities in the field of Italian literature. He has also gained fame for his literary achievements and for his resistance to facism.
Dr. Borgese will give three evening lectures on Dante in Fraser theater. He will also make other informal appearances and will schedule talks to students individually and in small groups.
Dr. Borges's general topic will be an "Introduction to Dante." The three lectures, on March 11, 13 and 18 are to be entitled "Character and Culture," "Dante and his Society," and "Dante and his Poem."
Opening lecture in the series will be Feb. 12, 1952 by Professor W. H Shoemaker, chairman of the romance languages department at KU He will speak on "The Generation of '98."
On February 26, Professor Gilbert Highet, a member of the classics department of Columbia university, will speak on "The Migration Of Ideas."
Concluding the lecture series will be a talk by Professor George Boas, department of philosophy at Johns Hopkins university who will speak on "The Problem of the Arts."
Announcements of the schedules of the individual visitors for the 1952 series will be made well in advance of their arrival.
UDK Will Announce Proficiency Results
Students who passed the English proficiency examination given Dec. 8 will find their names listed in the Daily Kansan after Christmas vacation, Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, assistant professor of English, said today.
The Kansan will also publish the names of students who did superior work on the test, in the opinion of the examiners.
Those who did not pass will receive notices to try again from the deans of their respective schools. No papers will be returned, but students will be allowed to look at their papers, at a time and place to be determined later.
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"The Christmas Oratorio" by J. S.
Bach will be presented in Hoch-audio-
tarium at 8 p.m. today by the Uni-
versity chorus.
Under the direction of Clayton Krehbiel, instructor of music education, the group will sing portions of each of the six cantatas which make up the work.
With the exception of the second part, each begins with a chorus number and concludes with a chorale. The chorales are hymns which were arranged by Bach for presentation in his church in Leipzig during the festival of Christmas in 1734.
The tenor recitativeis in the oratorio are narrative passages of scripture which tell the story of the birth of Jesus. They will be sung by Richard Wright, fine arts junior.
Among the chorales is the Bach arrangement of "Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heavenly Light."
Other soloists will sing arias during the program. The soloists are Phyllis McFarland, soprano; Althea Owen, alto, and Maurice Casey, bass.
Accompanists for the oratorio are Stanford Lehmberg, organist, and Barbara Thompson and Donna Hobein, pianists.
This is the first formal concert by the University chorus since it was organized this fall.
Harvard Offers Business Grants
The fourth annual nationwide competition for the regional financial awards to the Harvard Business School has been announced by Dean Donald K. David, of the school.
Admission to the Harvard school is open to any graduate man student who shows promise of developing business leadership. No specific course of college studies is required.
Awards under the financial aid program provide a maximum of $2,600 for a married student and $2,000 for a single student. Similar aid will be available for the second year of study to those whose work has been satisfactory.
The assistance is given to students who meet the usual requirements for admission to the school and who demonstrate financial need and ability to profit from the two-year business program.
Of the total two-year award, $1,500 will be borrowed from the Student Loan fund. The remainder will be in the form of an advance-in-aid, which the student has no legal obligation to repay.
The deadline for applications to the Committee on Student Financial Aid at the Harvard Business school is May 1, 1952.
Requests for further information and for application blanks should be addressed to the Director of Student Financial Aid, Harvard Business school, Boston 63, Mass.
Dr. Karl Menninger, Rabbi Richmond To Speak In Panel Discussion Here
"The Role of Faith in Our World of Transition" will be the topic of a panel discussion to be held at 8 p.m. Thursday in Strong auditorium.
DR. KARL MENNINGER
The panel will be sponsored by the B'nal B'rith Hillel foundation at the University.
Dr. Karl Menninger of Topea, world-famous psychiatrist and director of the Menninger foundation, and Rabbi R. Richmond of Temple Emanu-El, Wichita, will be the speakers from off the campus.
Dr. Amiya Chakravarvarty, visiting professor from India and literary secretary to the late Sir Rabindranath Tagore, and Dr. A. W. Davidson, assistant dean of the graduate school, complete the panel. Dean Davidson will be moderator.
"The question of faith is the crucial one of our time and we urge students and the public to hear it discussed by our distinguished panel speakers," Rose Weitnzer, Hillel president, said.