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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MARCH 20.1950
Humanities Talk Will Be Given By Philosopher
Dr. Charles W. Morris, philosopher and lecturer, will deliver the sixth humanities lecture of the third annual series at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser theater. He will speak on "Bringing Man Back Into the Humanities."
Dr. Morris has been an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. Two years ago he decided to devote his time to research and writing, and asked to be dropped from his professorial standing. He has since been a lecturer at Chicago.
Dr. Morris attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1918-20, and received his bachelor of science degree from Northwestern university, Evanston, Ill., in 1922. He took his doctor of philosophy degree at the University of Chicago in 1925.
He taught at Rice Institute, Houston, from 1925 to 1931, and has since been a faculty member at the University of Chicago. He has been a lecturer at the School of Design in Chicago, and has been a faculty member of the New School for social Research in New York.
He has written several books in metaphysics, philosophy, and theory of meaning. "Six Theories of Mind;" "Paths of Life;" "Signs, Languages, and Behavior;" and "Open Self." are included in his list of published books.
Dr. Morris will also make three other talks while at K.U. He will speak on "Life Ideal in Orient and Occident," 4 p.m. Wednesday, Fraser theater.
Marcia Horn
Engineers Hold Annual Dance
The chemical engineering department's representative, Marcia Horn, was crowned "her majesty" as more than 600 persons attended the 1950 annual Hobnail Hop March 17. Miss Horn is a College freshman and a member of Chi Omega.
Wearing a red strapless evening gown, Miss Horn was presented with a large bouquet of white roses and a rose gold loving cup. Glenn Anschutz, engineering council president, made the presentations.
Mary Lou Lane, representing the petroleum engineering department, and Yvonne Bryan, representing the geological department, education juniors, were the queen's attendants. They received red roses.
Bob Hope Kids Lovellette In Kansas City Production
The latest description of Clyde Lovellette is a "control tower with shoes," made by Bob Hope in his show Sunday night in Municipal auditorium, Kansas City, Mo. Starting fives of both teams were introduced then the comedian asked the remainder of the Kansas squad to stand. Two of Bradley's personnel—coach Forrest "Forddy" Anderson, and Paul Unuhr, recently named all-America, were missing.
The teams are in Kansas City where they will meet tonight in the fifth district National Collegiate Athletic association play-off game. The winner will represent the fifth district in the N.C.A.A. Western play-offs in Kansas City Friday night.
Commenting that the "house is sold out" for tonight's game, Hope turned to the Les Brown band and
quipped, "maybe we should play basketball."
Tiling Stolen From Library
Two hundred thirty-two square feet of rubber tiling was stolen from Watson library Sunday night. The tiling had been stored in cases in the front hallway of the library and was to be used in Robinson gymnasium.
500 To Attend Ninth Annual Art Conference
About 500 art students and teachers from Kansas high schools will attend the ninth annual art conference on Friday and Saturday at the University.
The students and teachers will register, make arrangement for their overnight rooms, and purchase lunch and dinner tickets from 8 to 9 a.m. Friday.
They will attend classes in weaving, ceramics, silverplating and gold plating, cartooning, design, oil painting, stone cutting, and other art courses from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Students who aren't attending a class from home may see, say, "What Is Modern."
Students may also attend an exhibition of new art books from 9 to 11 a.m. at the University High school if they aren't in class.
Classes will resume at 1 p.m., and for three hours they will learn about craftwork, raising a clay bowl, airbrush technique, screen painting, egg tempera, modra color, pen and ink sketching, casing painting, and paper sculpture. Many of the morning classes will be repeated so students can have a chance to attend as many different classes as possible.
The students and teachers will be entertained with a tea dance at Liberty Memorial High school from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday.
The Mardi Gras theme will be carried out at a banquet in the Union ballroom from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. Entertainment will consist of three short plays, several vocal numbers, and an acrobatic routine. Laurence Mailloux, instructor in design, is in charge of the banquet.
Those who don't care to attend the banquet may see an English movie, "I Know Where I'm Going" from 6 to 8 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
Miss Marjorie Whitney, professor of design, who is in charge of the conference, will remain in her office during the entire two days to answer questions concerning scholarships, and questions about the different departments.
Ten pieces of art work from each high school will be displayed in west Strong hall on second floor Wednesday. Miss Mary Beese, art instructor of Des Moines, Iowa public schools; Miss Agnes Crawford, art instructor of Kansas City, Mo., public schools; and Carlyle Smith, assistant professor of design, will judge the work. A discussion of the exhibition by the critics will be held from 9 to 10:30 am Saturday.
The conference is sponsored by the School of Fine Arts and the University Extension.
A pep rally for the K.U.-Bradley game will be held at 6:45 p.m. today in Kansas City, Mo., at the Muehlebach hotel.
Kansas City Rally To Be Held Today
The Kansas basketball team will leave the hotel for the Municipal auditorium, site of the game, at 6:50 p.m. We expect to give them a good send-off as they leave the hotel for the game, Paul Coker, cheerleader, announced today.
KU To Instruct City Managers
City managers in a nine-state area have been invited to attend the third annual city managers school here, Wednesday through Friday, April 26 to April 28, Dr. Ethan P. Allen, professor of political science said today.
C. E. Ridley, director of the International City Managers association in Chicago, and A.N. Christensen, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, will teach sessions of the school. Hugo Wall, head of the department of political science at Wichita university, will also teach some of the classes.
In addition to the out-of-town speakers attending the school will be J. O. Maloney, director of the research foundation and professor of chemical engineering; Dwight Metzler, director of the division of sanitation of the state board of health; E. O. Stene, professor of political science; and Dr. Allen.
A Cappella Choir Will Sing In K.C.
The University A Cappella choir of 100 voices, directed by Donald M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will present a concert program at the Kansas City, Mo., Junior college at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The concert is one of a series of musical events on the College Concert course.
The program, consisting of Negro spirituals, work songs, Russian liturgical and secular music, early classical numbers, and selections from contemporary composers, is the same that the choir will sing here at its concert Monday, March 27.
THE WEATHER
KANSAS—Partly cloudy and warmer today with increasing southerly winds. Highs 55 to 60 west, 45 to 50 east. Tomorrow partly cloudy, little change in temperature. Lawrence vicinity-Low 30 to 35. High tomorrow in middle 40's.
WORLD NEWS at Press Time
Gubitchev suspended
New York.-(U.P.)-The 15-year spy sentence of Valentin A. Gubitchev, Russian diplomat, was suspended today on condition that he disappear behind the iron curtain and "never return to the shores of the U.S.A." Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan suspended sentence at 10:12 a.m., noting that he was doing so "on the express recommendation of the attorney-general and the secretary of state." The stocky little engineer was taken by U.S. marshals to the Polish Liner Batory which was scheduled to sail at noon.
Washington, —(U.P.)—U.S. Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup declared firmly today that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's pro-Communist charges against himself are "false," "utterly irresponsible," and show a "shocking disregard" for the nation's interests.
Jessup Denies Charges
McCarthy, Wisconsin Republican, had used the phrase "unusual affinity for Communist causes" to describe Jesup, the state department's top far eastern adviser. Jesup hurried home from the Far East to deliver his blistering denial which was sweeping and yet minutely detailed. He protested that McCarthy's raising the loyalty question at this time tended to embarrass the United States in foreign relations and endanger American foreign policy.
Award To Mrs. Roosevelt
Strike Against Leonold
Brussels, Belgium — (U.P.)—More than 25,000 shoremen and shipyard workers in Antwerp walked out today in a 24-hour warning strike against the return of King Leopold, paralyzing Europe's largest port. The new strike emphasizes the Socialist party's warning that it will continue to call 24-hour strikes in various industries until Leopold abdicates in favor of his 19-year-old son, Prince Badouin.
Award TO Mrs. Roosevelt
Cincinnati, O.—(U.P.)The national religion and labor conference annual social justice award for 1949 will go to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, it was announced today. Elliott Roosevelt, son of Mrs. Roosevelt will receive the award on behalf of his mother at a banquet tomorrow night.
G. M. Beal, professor of architecture, is in Watkins hospital where he underwent minor surgery March 16. He is reported to be recovering and is to be dismissed from the hospital at the end of the week.
Professor Beal In Hospital
Spring Has Sprung On Mt. Oread -- Or Has It?
By DALE W. FIELDS Spring has sprung The grass has riz.
The flowers iz.
Spring will officially arrive in Lawrence at 10:36 p.m. today. This is when the sun will cross the equator on its way north and will usher in the vernal season in the north temperate zone.
It is true that spring will arrive today. The grass could be seen—before the sleet—as a green fuzz. The flowers are probably wondering where they are, too. Kansas never fails to show its citizens and visitors it can put on a real spring opening. Some years students have struggled up Fourteenth street under a blazing sun. Some years have been as this one, a mess.
The days and nights will be equal in length all over the world. The sun will rise at 6 a.m. and will set at 6 p.m., but it appeared to rise a few minutes earlier and it will appear to set a few minutes later because the refraction of the atmosphere makes it appear above the horizon when it is not.
With the coming of spring, the days will be longer and the nights will be
shorter in all sections north of the equator. The farther north, the greater the difference will be.
The vernal equinox, as the date of the beginning of spring is called, will end what from the weather point of view has been on the whole a rather moderate winter. That is, up until now!
The sun will be just beginning to rise today at the North Pole. It will not set again until the sun recrosses the equator September 22. It will be just setting at the South Pole. There the long winter night will be beginning.
Spring has affected college students in many ways. Some go for walks with their best girl or boy friends, others go on picnics, and some write verse or witty prose. At least past editions of the Kansas seem to show that students do these things.
In 1938 the Kansan's weather forecast was as follows: "continued fair and warm to accommodate those persons who could not find time to have that steak fry or take those camera shots yesterday."
In 1942 a Kansan headline read "Springe-Haz Sprung—" The article
was as follows:
"Springe is here again ore did wiew notiss it? The gras iz rizing and the wether it z gude for fryeing stayk. Peepul are going out stroleing again inthew the woodz for fizzical cundish-ning for the warr and awl that thair. Anite it wunderful?"
Thirty years ago today, the Kansan carried an editorial about spring and the gardens of faculty members. It reported on the low salaries received by the faculty and how they had to raise part of their own food to keep within their meager budgets. The last paragraph of the editorial was as follows:
"Professors! A state legislature may not appreciate you, but we do. Our hats are off to you, who, for the love of your great work, never say die. May your radishes be touched by the wand of spring, and may your potatoes bloom and prosper."
In 1915 the Kansan reported spring as a snowy, miserably cold day. Male students in that era wore hats or caps so the Kansan reported the unusual when one student did not wear one on a spring day. The article was as follows:
"Fred Rodkey can tell you how the Indians suffered in cold weather by not having any head gear to wear. He was compelled to walk from the library to his boarding house on Kentucky street bareheaded this noon, although the snow was falling fast, because he had left his hat in the library while attending an 11:30 class and the library had closed before he could get back."
The first day of spring in 1922 received a white welcome, too. The Kansan reported then that "there was one consolation for the mantle of snow which Mt. Oread was wearing, and its students enduring. That was that it very effectively conceals our campus beautiful."
Apparently the weather backfired on the editor-in-chief after his editorial proclaiming the beautiful
On the first day of spring in 1914, the Kansan reported an editor's lament in a chit-chat column called "Ends and Oddlets." It seems that the editor had written an editorial which he later regretted. He wrote as follows:
"In order to have agreeable weather from now on we swear we'll write no more spring editorials."
spring weather had been published.
History repeats itself. In 1927 Mr. Oreand found itself slick with ice and snow just as spring made its appearance. An editorial on that first day of spring in 1927 doesn't seem 23 years old. It seems to express the 1950 view in the following excerpt:
"Spring is here! At least, today is the day when spring arrives officially, but our friend, the weather prophet, does not know it.
"The weather man predicted warm, pleasant days with more sunshine. But he forgot to consult the being that manufactures the atmosphere, and things went wrong. A storm came, a real wintery storm with hail sleet, and snow.
"Now won't some innocent soul please tell Mr. Connor (the weather man) that the students on M. Oread long for winter sleighing and ice skating, and they will not be happy with a guard whizzes around the corner? The weather-maker will predict a week of winter—and spring will really happen."
Now, 23 years later. we heartily agree.