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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1949
Students Suffering From Spring Fever Enjoy View From Rock Chalk Cairn
Along with gay clothes and newly polished convertibles, a sure sign of spring is to see students admiring the view across the valley from the University's Rock Chalk cairn.
Perched on the summit behind Frank Strong hall, the cairn, or "chalk pile," as it has been called, is a collection of stones Limestone. Each stone commemorates $ ^{8} $
some person or event that has helped to make the University distinguished. From the cairn, all the campus from Lindley hall to Dyche museum, including Memorial stadium, can be seen.
The idea of erecting a cairn resulted from a feeling that no permanent tribute to Kansas spirit existed. Frank E. Melvin, associate professor of history, suggested constructing a cairn to Sachem, senior men's honorary society, in 1925.
The custom of building cairns, or piles of commemorative stones, as popular rallying centers has historical significance. It antedates all recorded history. Cairns are found on the world's highest places, from China's mountains to California's Mount Roubidoux. Some have even been found on America's prairies.
Sachem, with money provided by the Men's Student Council, sponsored the cairn, using, at the core of the pile, stones saved from old North College hall. Dedication ceremonies were held on May 7, 1926.
Traditions day was originally planned to be held once yearly on relays week-end. At this time, the cairn's history and purpose were to be explained, and new stones added. Up until the war, Sachem initiations were held there.
The Rock Chalk cairn's past holds one mystery. In January, 1933, vandals demolished the cairn. The only clues found were some footprints and the letters "Q.E.D." smeared in black paint on a large stone. This is a Latin phrase used in mathematics, and means "which was to be proved." The vandals were never found, but
the cairn was rebuilt several months later.
The cairn has a central upright stone shaft, and is surrounded by a circular rock bench. On the shaft's tablet is the inscription
"Rock Chalk Cairn dedicated to the vision of the founders
of the those who helped faithfully to realize that vision."
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Composer's Granddaughter
To Attend Music Festival
Friedelind Wagner, granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner, will be one of the speakers at the annual School of Fine Arts banquet; at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 2, in the Kansas room of the Union.
Dr. Paul Dengler, head of the department of education at the University of Kansas City, will speak on "What Art Can Mean to People in Distress." Bernard Frazier, director of the Philbrook Art center in Tulsa, and a former University faculty member, will be toastmaster.
Memphis, Tenn.—(U.P.) Mrs. C. H. Diehl had to fix two nice trays of sandwiches, doughnuts and coffee for the farmer she hired to plow her garden spot. The horse ate the first while the farmer washed his hands.
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The banquet is one of the many events of the annual Music Week festival to be held from Sunday. May 1, through Saturday, May 7.
Tickets are now on sale at the School of Fine Arts office, 128 Frank Strong, at $1.75. Only 200 tickets will be sold due to lack of space in the Kansas room.
KU Dames See Movies Movies on Abraham Lincoln and a Walt Disney release on South America were shown to the KU Dames Wednesday night.
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