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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1951
Ferre's Closina Lecture Set For 9 a.m. Thursday
The Thursday afternoon and evening Religious Emphasis week sessions to be conducted by Dr. Neis F.S. Ferre, professor of philosophical theology at Vanderbilt university, have been cancelled.
Dr. Ferre said that "a number of complicating circumstances" which had unexpectedly arisen "due to a mistake on my part in scheduling commitments" were responsible for his leaving early.
Miss Helener Curtier, staff advisor to the Religious Emphasis week committee, explained the committee's change of plans as follows:
"In view of extenuating circumstances which have made it advisable for Dr. Ferre to leave Lawrence by Thursday noon, Mary Louise Fischer, general student chairman of Religious Emphasis week, and I, after consulting with several other counsellors and committee chairmen, decided it was best to schedule Dr. Ferre's closing address for 9 a.m. Thursday and to cancel the remaining portion of his Thursday program rather than attempt to secure other leadership.
after leave possi-
sion. The meetings that will not be held are the "Whither Bound" discussion at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Union lounge and the meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday in Strong auditorium.
"We are most grateful for Dr Ferre's excellent work on our campus and it is a matter of deep regret to him and to us that this unexpected change has had to be made. We have sought to make the best of the alternate possibilities."
In place of the evening meeting,
Dr. Ferre will speak at 9 a.m. Thursday in Fraser theater on "Christian Resources for Social Change."
The faculty luncheon originally scheduled for 12:15 p.m. Thursday has been advanced to 11:45 a.m. Thursday in the Pine room of the Union.
The Westminster Foundation banquet will be held at 6 p.m. today in the Kansas room of the Union instead of the ballroom. Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre will talk at 7 p.m. on "Prayer and Providence," how Christian students can perform a mission on the campus.
Between 75 to 100 chairs will be placed along the walls of the Kansas room for students and faculty members who wish to come after the banquet to hear Dr. Ferre.
'Shoe-Shine' Shows In Hoch Friday Night
"Shoe-Shine," an Italian-made film with English sub-titles, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hoch auditorium.
The film has received enthusiastic notices by reviewers all over this country. The New Yorker magazine called it "one of the great, unforgettable motion pictures... true and touching and superbly done."
The picture tells the story of two streeturchins who, in an effort to realize their dream of owning a beautiful white horse, become involved in the black market operations of post-war Rome.
The two leading roles are portrayed by a pair of Roman ramaguffins whom the director, Vittorio deSica, discovered when they were shining G.L's shoes in the streets of Rome.
deSica followed the odd pair for almost a year. Ever so often he would stop to talk to them. He found himself wondering, "What could ever happen to destroy that beautiful friendship?" The events pictured in "Shoe-Shine" are the results of these thoughts and reflections.
Fencing Club Change Meeting
The Fencing club which previously held its meetings every Tuesday evening will meet on Wednesday evenings for the remainder of the semester.
The next meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. today in Robinson Gym.
Life Of Christ Is Subject Of Movie
"The Life of Jesus Christ," the pilgrimage play, is being shown in strong auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, and at 4 p.m. Monday, March 19.
Jesus of Nazareth is portrayed by Nelson Leigh, a veteran of stage and screen; Judas Iscariot, by Leonard Penn, and Simon called Peter by Stephen Chase.
The film is in color. It was produced, supervised, and distributed by the Concordia Publishing house. The film is sponsored by the Emmanuel Lutheran church.
GI Graduates Must Apply Soon
Undergraduate veterans wishing to attend graduate school next fall under the G.I. bill must apply before they are graduated in order to escape the July 25 cut-off rule, the Veterans administration has announced.
Special consideration will be given to those who, for reasons beyond their control, either may not be able to resume their training by the cut-off date, or may not be in a position to remain in continuous training after this date.
There are two groups at the University who are likely to be eligible for special consideration, Dr. E R. Elbel, director of the Veterans bureau, said. They are students enrolled in the School of Medicine who were forced to drop out a semester because of the rotation system, and reservists who have been called back to active duty.
Students returning to active duty will be permitted to resume their training within a "reasonable period" following their release from service, even though they may get out after the July 25, 1956, deadline date.
The conditions under which special consideration will be granted are satisfactory work in the past under the G.I. bill and limitation of training after return from service to a period equaling the remaining G.I. bill entitlement.
Debate Over Basketball Mess
The current bad practices in basketball, and solutions to avoid these practices, were debated Tuesday by University of Kansas and University of Missouri debate teams.
Jerry Waugh, education senior, and Steve Mills, College senior, defended the negative, and offered as their solution, the appointment of a commissioner for all intercollegiate sports.
There was no judging. The debate was designed to stimulate thought on the question as to whether current practices in intercollegiate athletics were harmful to higher education.
The M.U. debaters, Liz Scott and Bruce Normile, offered 12 suggestions for solving the question. They emphasized return to the campus for all intercollegiate sports.
Intensive training in theory and practice of general semantics at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, is being offered by the Institute of General Semantics for the summer session from Monday, August 6, through Sunday, Sept. 2.
Semantics Course Offered In Summer
This is the basic course in the discipline *formulated by Alfred Korzybski in "Science and Sanity. An Introduction to Non-aristotelian Systems and General Semantics." The course will be conducted by a group of co-workers who have studied with Korzybski.
Students interested in detailed information and application forms may write to the Institute of General Semantics, Lakeville, Conn.
High School Art Conference Here This Weekend
Demonstrations of two dozen kinds of art techniques will be a highlight of the annual High School Art conference Friday and Saturday at the University of Kansas.
During the two-day program faculty and students will present simultaneous and continuous demonstrations in the studios of the art departments on the third floor of Strong Hall. The processes include aspects of painting, design, pottery and metalwork.
The best work done by junior and senior high school students in several schools will be exhibited in Strong hall. Each school may show 10 pieces.
Guest critics for the show will be Justine Hopper, art supervisor in the Kansas City, Mo., public schools; Joan Nordling, art education director, Philbrook center, Tulsa, Okla.; and Ruth White, art teacher, Muskogee, Okla., junior college.
A Friday evening banquet for the visitors will have a decorative theme of "Ten Fathoms Deep." Design students at K.U. are preparing the decorations and program.
Miss Marjorie Whitney, chairman of the design department at K.U., is general chairman for the conference.
With favorable weather the last two conferences have drawn more than 700 each.
AWS Invites Senior Girls
Up to a hundred senior girls from Kansas high schools may attend a leadership conference at the University Saturday. The Associated Women Students of the University are sponsoring the program.
Each high school principal was asked to nominate an outstanding senior girl to attend. Some of the larger schools are sending more.
Members of Mortar Board, University senior women's honor society, will present a roundtable on college activities during the morning. The idea is to show the girls how the same talents that gained leadership in high school can be used in college.
At a luncheon and in the afternoon there will be brief talks by Miss Margaret Habein and Miss Martha Peterson, dean and assistant dean of women.
Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education, will spend Friday in Sabeth at a Big-Six league music festival, a competitive event for six Kansas towns. He will judge instrumental events during the day and in the evening direct a band in a concert including a chorus and outstanding solo events of the day.
Three faculty members of the department of music education will visit Kansas towns Friday and Sunday doing solo and festival work.
Music Professors Visit Kansas Towns
Clayton Krehbiel, instructor in music education, will go to Linn Friday for a music festival. He will rehearse with choral groups during the day. The groups will be presented in a combined program in the evening. Around 400 to 500 students from Kansas schools will be present at the festival.
James F. Nickerson, associate professor of music education, will sing the tenor solos in a presentation of Handel's "Messiah" at Paola Sunday.
Sasnak To Hear Anderson
Engineers To Hear Safety Talk Today
Dr. Kenneth Anderson, associate professor of education, will speak at a Sasnak dinner at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in the Hawks Nest of the Union. Dr. Anderson will speak on "Indian Education in the Southwest".
C. H. Weiser, plant personnel supervisor for Southwestern Bell Telephone company, Kansas City Mo, will speak on management principles as a means to safety. He will address a meeting of the American Society of Tool Engineers in room 300 Fowler shops at 8 p.m. today.
Mr. Weiser, a member of the President's Safety council, is an authority on industrial safety. He is the second vice-president of the American Society of Safety Engineers. He participated in the tristate safety institute, sponsored by University Extension in Hutchinson on Feb. 9.
Edwards Added To Grid Staff
Dan Edwards, Captain and all American end at Georgia in 1947, has been appointed to Coach J. V Sikes' coaching staff for spring football practice, Arthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg, athletic director, announced today.
A native of Gatesville, Tex., Edwards was selected as an all-pro football end the past fall playing with the New York Yankees.
Edwards played three years for the Georgia Bulldogs under Coach Sikes who was end coach on Wally Butt's Georgia coaching staff before moving to Kansas in 1948.
Edwards played in the All-America Conference with the Chicago Rockets in 1948 and the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 before moving to the Yankees in 1950.
Lonborg also announced that KU. U's 1950 co-captains, tackle Mike McCormick and fullback John Amberg, will help Coach Sikes during the spring drills.
Solon Would Stop Hazing
Washington—(U.P.)-Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D. Mass.), said Tuesday he will introduce legislation to withhold federal aid from colleges that fail to crack down on student "hazing."
He also called on Gov. Earl K. Long of Louisiana to eliminate "hazing" practices at Northwestern State college where an 18-year-old Chelsea, Mass., freshman died last week.
"I am shocked by the lack of discipline over students at Northwestern State college." Lane wrote Long. He said "the bereaved parents" of Allen Kaplan "can never excuse the gross negligence responsible for this tragedy" which he said "almost amounts to murder."
Kaplan died from a plunge off a cliff during a student prank last week.
"To prevent a repetition of such tragedies," Lane wrote, "it is my purpose to introduce a bill to withhold federal financial aid, direct or indirect, from educational institutions which fail to root out the primitive form of savage humor known as 'hazing'".
Lanse said his bill would make federal-aid colleges and universities responsible for indemnity to next of kin of any student suffering injury or death from "unregulated student activities" originating in or on college property.
"And college authorities who try to wash their hands of any responsibility for the ignorance and cruelty that so often masquerade as 'collegiate humor,' must share the blame." Lane said.
Speech To Replace Banquet For Episcopal Students
Rev. Balfer Patterson, chaplain to the students at the University of Colorado, will speak on "How to be a Christian on the College Campus" at 7:30 tonight at the Episcopal parish house. His speech will replace the banquet that was scheduled for 6:15 tonight.
Refreshments will be served following the discussion.
Knowledge Is On Four Levels, Graeffe says
Knowledge exists at four different levels, Dr. Arnold D. Graeffe, associate professor of humanities at the University of Florida, said Tuesday night in the second Humanities lecture.
The four levels are the mechanical, observational, rational, and the intuitive, Dr. Graefe explained in the lecture titled "Myth and Man," which he illustrated by slides of paintings, and piano music.
The mechanical level is the lowest and is mostly statistical, he said. The observational level is scientific and is of more importance. Reason is used and conclusions are reached at the rational level, Dr. Graeffe said.
The intuitive level is necessary where the rational level provides such a broad mesh that things slip through, he added.
Dr. Graeffe explained the similarity of art as a language and language itself. "Art is a language, but it is not a tool of communication," he said. Art cannot be defined by the psychological motivation that induces artists to create. Neither is art a luxury, he added.
"Art language is connected with verbal language, however," he added. He explained that just as a sentence has certain parts, so must art have parts.
In language, content and form are completely infused, Dr. Graeffe said.
The subject must be expressed in a medium and must have an object. But just as the adverbial clause is not grammatically necessary, but sometimes is the most important part of the sentence, so style is important in art. Dr. Graeffe explained.
Dr. Graeffe played the piano to illustrate that music, more than any other art, is seen as a form.
Prof. Charles Realy of the history department will give the third lecture of the series on Tuesday, April 3.
Man Has Freedom Ferre Tells Group
The nature of God is to give freedom to man and not to restrict him, Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre told a discussion group at a Religious Emphasis seminar Tuesday. "God created us in order that we could find fellowship with others. To this end he gave us individual freedom.
"God does not know or plan our future; he has given us freeom to work out our own future."
Dr. Ferre said that a new kind of community fellowship based on religion is needed to solve the present world crisis. Man is basically good, but becomes self-centered, he said
It is a fallacy to try to prove by science that God exists, he said. Since we cannot see God, we must live by faith, he explained. Dr. Ferre warned against blaming persons who deal in such abstractions. "We all live in abstraction" he said.
Seminars are scheduled for 4 p.m. today and Thursday in the Union lounge. Dr. Ferre, professor of philosophy and theology at Vanderbilt university, will lead the discussions. Everyone is welcome.
Southern School Trades Oil Offer For Rice Crop
Natchez, Miss (U.P.) - Jefferson Military college, which turned down a possible $50,000,000 in oil lands, has accepted another gift—the entire rice crop of a Louisiana plantation.
Chairman Stanton Merrill of the board of trustees said Miss MatTHE Gray and William K. Gray of Lake Charles, La., has donated the cash from their crop to the school's rehabilitation fund.
Recently Jefferson turned down the oil offer of Judge George Armstrong, of Natchez, who stipulated that it admit only Anglo-Saxon students and teach theories regarded as nationalistic.