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Library Opens Dunlap Room For English Use
The Dunlap room has been opened in Watson library for the use of advanced English students, C. M. Baker, director of University libraries, announced Thursday. The hours are from 1:30 to 5 p.m.
Though the books may be used only in the Dunlap room, they offer students the opportunity to find different editions of the same works.
Room 413, named for the donor of the books it now houses, contains most of the collection of books and pictures made by the late Charles Graham Dunlap, professor of English at the University of Kansas, who died in 1936. He willed the collection to the University "for the benefit of the department of English." Professor Dunlan joined the K. U. faculty in 1887.
Mr. Dunlap appointed as trustees of his collection four of his former students and personal friends: Mr. Chester Woodward, Topeka, deceased; Miss Maud Smelser, librarian; Miss Nellie Barnes, assistant professor of English; and Mrs. Mabel Beck. Holton. Until now the library staff has been inadequate for preparation of the books for use.
The 3,560 volume collection includes most of the works of the classic English writers, many works of American writers, and some outstanding works of writers in various other languages.
When Mr. Dunlap began collecting books, his interest lay primarily in philology, old English, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, but as his interests expanded, he extended his collection to include the most desirable titles in each field. Not only did he procure the best standard edition of an author, but often got special editions of separate works as well, Mr. Baker said.
Advisors Set For College
Advisory periods for freshmen and sophomores in the College will be held from Monday, April 4, through Thursday, April 7, Gilbert Ulmer, assistant dean of the College, said today.
Kansas—Generally fair and warmer today and tonight except increasing cloudiness West with light rain or snow beginning extreme West late today or tonight. Saturday cloudy with rain. Warmer East. High today 50's except middle 30's North, west. Low tonight middle 30's to lower 40's.
WEATHER
"All underclassmen are expected to see their advisers during this period," he added.
Any student required by an organized house to submit a list of his grades may obtain one from his adviser. All houses that want the below "C" grades of members who are College juniors and seniors may obtain them by presenting a list of names to the College office. These grades will be sent out after Thursday, April 7.
If the hours of the adviser and student conflict, the student should call his adviser and arrange for another meeting time, Dean Ulmer said.
The names of College freshmen and sophomores, their advisers and their office hours, will be posted on the College bulletin board Monday. April 4.
'Publicity Hound' Grabs More Space
Caesar was being friendly again —perhaps it was the feeling of spring in the air.
Joe Offenbecher, business junior, was cornered by the Great Dane about 1 a.m. Thursday across the street from Rankin's Drug store.
"He didn't hurt me," Offenbecher said, "He only got my clothes dirty."
Caesar was taken to the Lawrence police station and held for about two hours and then released, officer Ray Corn said.
Gerald Waugh, vice-president of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said, "We're still planning to get rid of him."
Sell Tickets For 'Daze'
Tickets for the College Daze production of "Ghost of a Chance," all-student musical comedy, will go on sale Monday, April 4. It will be presented at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 19 through Friday, April 22 in Fraser theater.
Tickets will cost 75 cents each and will be sold in all the organized houses, in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall, and in the Union lobby. Seats may be reserved for any night by exchanging these tickets for reserved tickets in Green hall.
"Ghost of a Chance" was written by William Conboy, with music by Jesse Stewart, and lyrics by Carolyn Campbell, all College seniors.
Students are doing all the work from script writing to acting for this play, which is the second annual presentation by College Daze. The aim of its producers is to make College Daze an annual undertaking by K. U. student groups.
Faculty sponsors for College Daze are Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, instructor in English; Paul DeCora, instructor of organ and theory; and Jack Wichert, assistant professor of economics.
Appropriations Bill Passes; Committee OK's BuildingBill
a bill appropriating $87,771,000 for the fiscal years 1949-51 operating budget has been approved by the house of representatives sitting as a ways and means committee of the whole. Formal roll call by the house will be this afternoon. The senate had passed the bill March 23.
(See Appropriations Tables on Page 12)
Also approved by the house today was a grant of $2,290,500 for the University of Kansas Medical center in Kansas City. Salaries and wages amounted to $1,135,000; maintenance and repairs. $650,000; clinical patients for medical teaching. $200,000; and miscellaneous. $315,000.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association, said today that the huge appropriations indicate the University's rapid growth in the past ten years. The new budget is more than four times greater than for the two-year period of 1940-41 Ten years ago, the operating budget was $2,188,000.
The state legislature today passed an $8,771,000 appropriations bill for the University and the senate ways and means committee approved a building bill totaling $2,340,000 which includes grants for science building, fine arts building and field house.
Geology Students Take Missouri Trip
The appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1949 is $3,898,500 and for the following year $4,872,500. Total appropriations for state schools of higher education is $23,417,848.
Sixty-seven historical geology students, accompanied by Cecil G. Lallicker, professor of geology left this morning for southeastern Missouri, making the first field trip of the current season. The men will travel by chartered bus.
The group will study significant geology features and collect fossils in the St. Francis mountains, R. M. Dreyer, chairman of the geology department, said.
The men will spend today and tomorrow in the field and will return to the University Sunday.
Loyalty Bill Into Effect
Toppea, April 1—(U.P.) — Public employees in Kansas today were required to sign loyalty oaths or be dismissed from their jobs.
The loyalty law, affecting state, county and city workers, was signed into law Thursday by Gov. Frank Carlson, who described it as "an oath which every loyal citizen who draws a salary paid by the taxpayers of the state should be proud to take."
The oath includes a pledge that the signer does not advocate, nor is a member of an organization that advocates, violent overthrow of the United States or Kansas governments.
Alpha Kappa Psi Will Hold Formal Initiation Sunday
The 36 pledges of Alpha Kappa Psi, professional business fraternity, will be formally initiated at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas room of the Union. A dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. for all active members, pledges and faculty.
At 3 p.m. Sunday the fraternity has planned a Court of Honor for the pledges.
KUDF To Give Breakfast
The K.U. Disciple Fellowship will hold a pre-Easter breakfast at the First Christian church at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday.
A review of the novel, "The Rube," by Lloyd C. Douglass, will be given
Don't, Please Don't—Remember It's April 1
Watch out!
Don't smoke that cigar. Don't take that piece of candy. Don't believe your friend when he says your girl called up to break a date.
this day, every year, persons all over the world—particularly stu-
Why? It's April Fool's day.
On this day, every year, persons—are on their guard against pranks and jokes. For 24 hours they go with vigilant eye and senses wary.
Today exploding cigars are handed to "friends", chocolate covered moth balls are given out as candy, and even a drink may be offered composed of cold tea and coffee grounds.
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Teachers give shotguns and then throw them away, as "April Fool" papers. Youngsters put old hats over bricks and set them out on the sidewalks, hoping that someone will give one a kick. Fake invitations to parties are received. Serious requests for help turn into peals of laughter after the help has been offered. Even false shipments of goods are made to one's friends.
Nature played the biggest April Fool's prank today, hurling a final wintry attack at Middle West and Eastern areas hoping for spring.
Itch powder is spread in dormitory beds; black stink soap is placed in the lavortories of organized houses. Auto bombs and car torpedoes come out of hiding for, use this day. Some students even send out false notices from the school offices requesting a student's appearance that day.
All Fool's day, as it is worldly
Let's brush away these malevolent thoughts and consider the day; when did it start?
known, has no definitely established beginning. One authority has traced the custom back to the miracle play that formerly was presented at Easter, which sometimes showed the sending of Christ from Annas to Calaphas, and from Pilate to Herod.
Another theory, tying to this, states that the people bestowed goods on their neighbors on New Year's day, then on March 25. Since that date often fell in Holy week, the Church postponed the celebration to April 1. When the New Year's day was later set at January 1, the people made a mock celebration date of April 1.
Jacob L. Grimm, the German author, held that the custom was unknown to German antiquity, and believed that the custom came from France.
Another one finds the origin in an ancient festival, such as the Huli festival held by the Hindus, on March 31, or the Feast of Fools, which was celebrated on February 17.
As the pranks of April Fool's day mounted each year, a fear grew up about them, developing into a superstition. In some countries it was so strong that people were even afraid to marry on that day. Napoleon Bonaparte scoffed at this and on April 1, 1810, married Maria Louisa. The French applied the degradatory name of "April Fish" to him, which is reserved for those made extremely foolish on April 1.
The most concrete theory as to the origin of this mischievous day holds that it started in 1564 when Charles IX, king of France, introduced a new calendar, the one we have today, and decreed that the year should begin with January 1.
The humor of April Fool's day ran thick in France long ago, where it began. A popular story among the French, concerning April 1, is of an incident over 300 years old.
Until then, New Year's visits and the exchange of New Year's gifts had been associated with the first of April. After the king's decree, they were made on January 1. There were many persons who objected to the change, and they became the pranksters. Mock gifts were sent to the ones accepting the new date, and pretended calls of ceremony were made at their homes on April [1].
A servant stole a gold watch from her employer and when apprehended, said it was an April Fool's joke. The judge, wise to her ways, was humorous too. He gave her until the next April first to laugh it off—in jail.
The bill requesting funds for new buildings and adequate facilities must pass the senate and then go through the house ways and means committee before it was to be voted on by the house.
The deadline for ceasing consideration of all bills is midnight today.
The bill, which has been given committee approval, provides for all that the University requested except for the dormitories. The library stacks, elevator and electrical equipment would receive $90,000 during the biennium; the fine arts building, $822,000; science building, $1,972,000; field house unit, $750,000; remodeling of Fowler units, $150,000.
Observers expect little opposition in the senate this afternoon.
Four major bottlenecks remained to be broken in joint house-senate conference committees, the United Press reported from Topeka.
The only trouble expected towards the passage of the bill as recommended is in the house committee. However, this noon observers felt that it would go through intact.
These groups worked over differences between the two houses on a clen clause rider to an old age benefit bill, a 5 million dollar two-year dispute over the amount of sales tax residue returned to the counties, the size of pay hikes for county officials and whether to abandon the state's Mother Bickerdyke home for aged women.
Governor Carlson himself was momentarily away as the legislature neared the end of its biennial session. He attended dedication of the John Martin reservoir at Caddooa, Colo., but was due to come flying back to Topeka for the climax tonight.
Natures Trick Is Tragic
Light snow fell over much of New York State, Pennsylvania and West Virginia as the leading edge of a vast storm area moved into the Atlantic coast and New England areas.
Some snow also was reported along the storm's trailing edge across southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois and central Michigan. Those areas which escaped the snow were pelted by rain.
The storm kicked up a tornado that whirled crazily through the Uniontown, Pa., area. It injured one man slightly and wrecked several buildings.
It was the fourth tornado set off by the storm since it formed over Oklahoma three days ago. The earlier twisters, in Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois, killed three persons and hurt almost a score of others.
Northwestern Bell Telephone company reported that heavy snows had broken long distance lines in 500 places, isolating 50 towns in Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota.
A man and wife were killed in a collision during the blinding snowfall in Minnesota and a Newry, Minn., farmer was killed when his tractor hit a soft shoulder and overturned.