University Daily Kansan
STUDENT NEWS PAPER
Lawrence. Kansas
Vespers Show Great Change In27 Years
By DALE S. ROMIG
The 104th all-musical respers heard Sunday in Hoch auditorium represented a great change from the first such program presented 27 years ago by the School of Fine Arts and its new dean, Donald M. Swarthout. Sunday's vespers were the last to be held under his direction as dean.
In the University Daily Kansan for Sunday, Nov. 25, 1923, appeared the program of the first all-musical vespers. It indicated that vesper-goers would hear the first performance of the University String Quartet (which included Dean Swarthout, cello; and Professor Waldemar Geltch, violin), an organ solo by G. Criss Simpson (at present associate professor of organ and theory), and various other instrumental and vocal ensembles.
The report also said, "The vesper service is in the nature of an experiment to see if the people desire such a program."
Apparently "the people" do, for the tradition has lived, and the crowd that turned out for Sunday's vespers, despite the bad weather, was sufficient proof to Dean Swarthout's successor, that the tradition is a good enough one to continue.
The University Symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, opened the vespers with the finale from Sibelius' second symphony. Except for a few uncoordinated spots it was played very well.
The only problem professor Wiley seems to have is with the strings because in the band number which closed the vespers he displayed greater control of his organization. In the band's performance of "Woten's Farewell and Magic Fire Music" by Wagner, credit should be given to James Sellards, education senior, who carried the trumpet load extremely well.
Dean Swarthout and the University A Capella choir showed their ability by singing two numbers—Archer's "Ave Maria" with a splendid incidental solo by Jeanne Aldridge, fine arts senior, and a Bach cantata for double chorus, "Now Shall the Grace."
Of the Women's Glee club numbers, directed by Miss Irene Peabody, associate professor of voice, "A Celtic Lullaby," arranged by Robertton, was the most interesting to hear. The piece shies away from too many high notes for the first sopranos, which is probably why it was the most enjoyable of the three they sang.
The men's Glee club, directed by Gerald Carney, assistant professor of music education, sang two numbers, an impressive one by Handel, and a rousing, novelty tune by Saco called "Brother Will, Brother John." Professor Carney has done well with the club since he assumed the directorship at the beginning of the past semester.
The University String quartet should be mentioned if only for its tenacity in retaining a place on the vespers program all these years. It is the only musical group which appeared on the first all-musical vespers program and still does. The quartet played a number by Beethoven entitled Opus 18, Number Five. It was neatly and professionally done.
Bridge Lessons To Start
Bridge lessons, sponsored by the Four-no Bridge club, will be given at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Union. The lessons will be held on six consecutive Tuesdays.
Frank E. Melvin
Dr. Melvin, 68 Dies Suddenly
Dr. Frank E. Melvin, 68, professor of history at the University, died Sunday night at the Lawrence Memorial hospital following a cerebral hemorrhage March 17.
Dr. Melvin was an authority on the history of the Napoleonic era. He made three trips to Europe to do research in European history. He visited England, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany and Denmark between the years 1921 and 1932 gathering material for a book on the Holy Alliance and the Congress of Vienna.
He was born in Lawrence and received his high school education here and in Iola. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1906 and his master of arts degree in 1909, both from the University.
In 1913 he received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His thesis was printed by the University Press and entitled "Napoleon's Navigation System."
Dr. Melvin returned to K.U. for two years in 1913 to lecture on European history. In '15 he was appointed assistant professor of Modern European history at Cornell university. The University recalled him in 1916 to become an assistant professor in history. He was sent by the University in 1921 as a delegate to the London Historical conference. One year later he was made an associate professor.
He has been credited with the discovery of a diary written by a soldier who fought in several wars under Napoleon. Dr. Melvin published the diary in 1937 with historical notes which he gathered.
He was on the committee for the World War I memorial which started the building of the stadium and the Union building fund. Dr. Melvin also served on the committee which established the present student system of self government at the University.
In 1919 he started a "loyalty to K U. movement" and re-established many University traditions. He aided in establishing the program for the annual freshman induction ceremonies.
He was a member of the American, Kansas, and Presbyterian historical societies and the Presbyterian church.
Dr. Melvin leaves two brothers, Laighton R. Melvin, and Robert E. Melvin, both of the home.
Services will be held at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday in Rumsey's funeral home.
Burial will be in Oakhill cemetary.
AWS Election Corrected
The University Daily Kansan regrets that the story on "A.W.S. Senate Members Meet" was incorrect. New senate members were elected Monday, March 13 and not Thursday, March 16.
New Fraternity To Be Installed Here Saturday
Kansas colony of Sigma Pi, national social fraternity, will be installed as an active chapter Saturday. National officers, including Becher W. Hungerford, grand president, and Harold Jacobsen, executive secretary, will bestow the charter, install officers and initiate six pledges.
The installation and initiation will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Union building and will end with a formal banquet at the Eldridge hotel. Guests at the banquet will include deans and other executives of the University, representatives of all campus social fraternities and sororities and delegates from other chapters of the fraternity. Burt Robson, president of Kansas colony, will be master of ceremonies.
The Kansas colony of Sigma Pi was organized early in 1948 and at present, has 25 active members and 17 pledges. The chapter house is at 1218 Mississippi street and the group also operates an annex at 1639 Indiana street. Mrs. Fannie DeLozier is housemother.
Dr. Ralph Clark, now dean of the school of pharmacy at the University of Oklahoma, and Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism, have been faculty advisers since 1948. Reginald Strait, assistant professor of physical education, has replaced Dr. Clark.
The Kansas chapter will be the forty-third in Sigma Pi fraternity, and will be known as Beta Delta chapter of Zeta province, which includes Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. Nationally, Sigma Pi was founded at Vincennes university, Vincennes, Ind. in 1897.
James B. "Scotty" Reston, New York Times reporter and Pulitzer prize winner, who was at the University Feb. 10 to give the first lecture by the William Allen White Foundation series, is a member of Sigma Pi.
Other outstanding alumni are Willard Kipler, publisher of the Kiplinger newsletters; Dean Edward A. Bechtel, Tulane university; Walter A. Davis, president of Vincennes university; Dean James H. Dunham, Temple university; the Rev. Arthur C. Lichtenberger, dean of Trinity Cathedral, Newark, N.J.; Dr. George D. Stoddwell, president of the University of Illinois; Guy C. Suits, vicepresident of General Electric Co.; and Dean Ralph L. Watts, Pennsylvania State college.
The annual Scarab traveling display of free hand paintings and drawings is on exhibition on the third floor of Marvin hall. The sketches will be on display through Friday.
Scarab Displays Sketches In Marvin
The exhibition consists of paintings and drawings by members of Scarab, national professional architectural fraternity, of 12 colleges and universities.
KU Band To Play At Bradley Game
Samuel McCamant, '48, and Ralph Kiene, '49, won honorable mention
The University 117-piece band will leave Lawrence at 4 p.m. today in three chartered busses for Kansas City, Mo. They will play at the Kansas-Bradley basketball game tonight in Municipal auditorium.
"The band will play an hour's concert starting at 6:45 p.m. in Municipal auditorium," Pussell L. Wiley, band director, announced today.
World Federalist To Speak Tuesday
Cord Meyer, Jr., until recently national president of the United World federalists, will speak on "World Law or World War" at an all student convocation, 9:20 a.m., Tuesday, Hoch auditorium.
Cord Meyer, Jr.
'Julius Caesar' Tickets On Sale
Three hundred tickets are still available for "The Taming of the Shrew" which will be presented at 8:15 tonight in Fraser theater by the Margaret Webster Shakespeare company. Tickets may also be purchased for "Julius Caesar" which will be given by the company at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday.
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Tickets are $2 each and may be purchased at the ticket office in Green hall from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. The ticket office in Fraser hall will open at 7:30 tonight.
Starring in "The Taming of the Shrew" are Louisa Horton, as Katherine, the shrew; Kendall Clark, as Petruchio, the tamer; and David Lewis, and Tranio.
On Broadway Miss Horton has appeared in "The Voice of the Turtle" and "The Happiest Years." She also played in the movie version of "All My Sons." Clark played the role of Major Robinson in "Home of the Brave" and with Tallulah Bankhead in "The Eagle Has Two Heads." Lewis appeared in the revival of "Goodbye Again," "Take It As It Comes," and "Little Women." Last year he toured with the Margaret Webster company as Horatio in "Hamlet" and MacDuff in "Macbeth."
The same actors will play in "Julius Caesar," Tuesday which will be given in modern dress.
The Margaret Webster company is touring the country, covering 30,000 miles, to take to American colleges and universities Shakespeare performed by professionals.
"We would like to contribute to the construction of a bridge between the professional theater in America whose business it is to produce the great plays of the past, and the students all over the country who are engaged in the study of them, not only of Shakespeare but Moliere and Sheridan, Ibsen and Chekov, Euripides, and G.B. Shaw.
Miss Webster said;
"We would like to bring them alive for audiences who, perhaps, know them only from the printed page, and regard them as an imposed and wearsome penance. We believe them to be a great inhipliance and a rich possession, common to us all. We shall try to bring you a share of this invisible wealth, and in doing so we are proud to resume once again the happy status of "rogues and vagabonds."
This 30-year-old ex-marine recently returned from Stockholm where he attended the annual congress of the United World federalists. He was one of 28 delegates attending from the United States. He was among the founders of the American Veterans committee and served for two years as a member of its national planning committee.
Mr. Meyer was injured while fighting in the Pacific theater and was released from duty in 1945 with the Bronze star award. That same year he was chosen to serve as veteran assistant to Harold Stassen, one of the U.S. delegates to the San Francisco conference which drafted the United Nation's charter.
"Waves of Darkness," written by Mr. Meyer for the Atlantic Monthly won for him the O. Henry prize for the best, first-published short story of 1946. He wrote the book "Peace of Anarchy" in 1947 while studying at Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass., on a Lowell Junior fellowship.
He has been a proponent of the idea that the nations of the world must join in forming a world federation if our civilization is to avoid destruction in another war.
Mr. Meyer has written articles on world government for several magazines including Vogue, The Nation, New Republic, and Scholastic. He was graduated from Yale university, New Haven, Conn., in 1942 with honors.
Meeting time for Tuesday morning classes will be as follows:
8 a.m. classes meet from 8-8:30
a.m.
9 a.m. classes meet from 8:40-
9:10 a.m.
Convocation from 9:20-10:30 a.m.
10 a.m. classes meet from 10:40-
11:10 a.m.
11 a.m. classes meet from 11:20-
11:50 a.m.
Engineering students and representatives of the Westinghouse Electrical corporation will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday in 109 Marvin hall.
oon classes meet from noon- 12:50 p.m.
Engineers To Get Job Interviews
The representatives will interview mechanical and electrical engineering June graduates Wednesday in 111 Marvin concerning job opportunities.
Engineering graduates interested in working for the Sheffield Steel corporation, Kansas City, Mo., should contact H. C. Justus, assistant office manager, at the Sheffield Stell corporation, Kansas City, 3, Mo.
KU-Bradley Game To Be On Union TV
A television broadcast of the Kansas-Bradley basketball game will be shown in the Union lounge at 8 p.m. today. The television receiver will be mounted on a platform so that more students can see the screen.
Special Symphony Rehearsal Set For 8 a.m. Tuesday
A special rehearsal for the University Symphony orchestra will be held at 8 a.m. Tuesday in preparation for the convocation which follows at 9:20 a.m.
Cord Meyer, Jr., former national president of United World Federalists, is the convocation speaker. His address will be "World Law or or"." F