University DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Friday, May 2, 1947
44th Year No. 132
Lawrence, Kansas
Elijah' Opens Music Week n Hoch Sunday
The "Elijah," Mendelssohn's great oratorio, will be presented at 4 p.m. onday in Hoch auditorium as the opening event of the Music Week stival.
Dean D. M. Swarthout will direct the 200 singers and instrumentalists king part in the program. The four choirs who will join the a capella boir and symphony orchestra arearie Wilkins, Irene Peabody, Joseph Wilkins, and Reinhold Schidt.
enlaced Lilv Pons
Marie Wilkins, a soprano, achieved national recognition a few years ago when she sang the title in "Lakme" at the Metropolitan opera house. She had only two days价 before replacing Lily Pons, who was ill and unable to sing the role. Before becoming a member of Metropolitan Opera company,rs. Wilkins had toured the country leading soprano with the Schubert opera company. The great soprano ia "Hear Ye, O Israel" is one of the high spots in the "Elliah."
Irene Peabody, contralto, studied voice in Chicago and New York and as had wide experience in concert, ritorio, and recital work. One of the most familiar selections from the "Elijah" is the contralto solo O Rest in the Lord."
ang With Schubert Company
Joseph Wilkins is leading tenor
the Schubert Opera company
more coming to the University as
ad of the voice department. While
with the company he appeared in
Die Fledermuns," Blossom Time,
The Desert Song," and "The Student
Prince."
Reinhold Schmidt, baritone, will take the title role of "Elijah." He has been a member of the Chicago opera company, and for many years as the featured soloist on the Contented Hour" radio program. Fr. schmidt was soloist last year when the Verdi "Requiem" was presented at the University.
No admission will be charged for the "Elijah" performance.
By Bibler
Minor Heads Jay Janes
Mariam Minor, College junior, was elected president of the Jay Janes it a formal initiation dinner Thursday.
Other new officers are: Dorothy a m e s , vice-president; Barbara leyer, secretary; Carolyn Campbell, easurer; Katherine Coleman and Vida Hosler, social chairmen; nine Scott, notifications chairman; carilyn Rosenau and Jeanne Cooper , assistant notifications chairmen; id Carolyn Nigg, publicity chairman.
Honor initiates chosen for contribution and service to Jay Janes the Carolyn Campbell and Dorothy James.
Other initiates are Elaine Thalian and Elizabeth Mallonee, College seniors; Emalouise Britton, Ester Calvin, Mrs. Coleman, Maryleeasterson, Carolyn Nigg, Marilynosenau, and Anne Scott, juniors;arbara Stapleton, Sally Winterheldt, Perecta Seinebaugh, and orothy James, sophomores; MaryJambell, CarmodyJambell, Education junior; JeanneCopter, sophomore; BilleRoterand, Frances Fridell, and WildaOleser, Fine Arts juniors; M.EileenSutchman, Harriet Harlow,ElizahSifers and Marjorie圣,Chromoes
Little Man On Campus
"If you must give rewards for good themes, Miss Jones, the University's present system of grading is quite satisfactory."
Enrollment Plan For '47-'48 Disregards Hollis' Prediction
University officials will use this year's enrollment figures as a basis for plans for 1947-48, despite a recent prediction of a national increase in university students.
Dr. Ernest V. Hollis, chief of veteran's educational facilities for the education office, disclosed that a nation-wide survey indicates college enrollment will be 57 per cent great- or in 1950 than now.
Other results of the survey show that enrollment will increase by 600,000 next fall and in 1949 it will be more than 3,300,000 as compared with today's 2,100,000.
Priorities To Continue
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, said that under the present priority system which will continue all Kansans can be admitted. Other enrollment will be based on how many students the system will permit.
1. Kansas veterans and graduates of Kansas bigh schools.
The five-point priority plan makes provisions for admitting:
2. Students who were in the University under military programs.
Rooms for 300 additional students are available now, Mrs. Faye Netzer, housing director said. However, she said this probably would not be enough to handle the influx of new students next fall. The greatest problem now is finding apartments and suitable living quarters for married persons. About 15 inquiries are received daily from persons planning marriage this summer and next fall.
3. Sons and daughters of alumni
4. Americans from neighboring
borderries
5. Selected out-of-state students to the extent that K. U. has room.
200 Rooms Available
James K. Hitt, registrar, and Robert Holmer, assistant director of the veterans bureau, said that no definite predictions for future enrollment could be made from records now on file in their offices.
WEATHER
Kansas--Fair today and tonight,
windy east today. Somewhat warmer
west today. Warmer northwest
tonight. Lowest temperatures near
50 tonight. Saturday partly cloudy
and warmer.
Dove To Fly This Month
The next issue of the Dove, a liberal policy campus publication, will appear May 21, the editorial staff decided Thursday.
Veterans' subsistence checks are coming through as usual, E. R. Elbel, director of the veteran's bureau, said despite delay in congress in passing the deficiency appropriation bill for the checks. This is not one of the areas which is short on funds.
K. U. Veterans Get Checks As Usual
The $2,830,000 bill was approved by a senate-house conference Wednesday. It is expected to go to President Truman by the end of the week after quick senate and house passage.
WREN Moves To Topeka
WREN has received permission from the federal communications commission to move its main studios and offices to Topeka. The transmitter will be moved from Tonganoxie to a point east of Topeka on Highway No. 24.
Reception in Lawrence will be about the same. Verl Bratton, station manager, said the move is to increase Kansas coverage. Fans of "The Night Watchman" can still make requests, he added.
WREN has regular listeners in New Zealand, 7,600 miles away. People in Cape Town, South Africa have heard the station, but the transmission freak to New Zealand happens most often.
M.U. Will Have Journalism Week
The University of Missouri has announced a 1947 Journal week program, to be held at Columbia, Monday through Friday.
The three principal speakers on the program, all alumni of M.U., will be Hal Boyle, Associated Press war correspondent; J. M. Flynn, business manager of the New York Daily News, and Wilson Hicks, executive editor of Life magazine.
Comes Back Like A Song University Whistle, That Is
The annual convention of the Missouri Writers Guild will open the program throughout the conference with guest speakers will address the Missouri Writers Guild.
Bv CLARKE THOMAS
Using live steam from the same boilers which furnish heat for the University, the whistle is automatically operated by a motor connected to a clock. This clock contains a cylinder into which pegs are placed corresponding to the exact time that the whistle blows. Conversations
"There goes that whistle again," is heard 14 times a day on the campus.
Changed For Convocations
He goes that whistle again," is heard 14 times a day on the campus. The piercing signal for the end of another class is atop the boiler building of the University heating plant. The present whistle has been used since 1912, except on two occasions.
On convocation mornings a different setting is necessary. However, the whistle signalling the end of
It blew off a few years after it was installed, and a second whistle was
Built on the organ principle with three adjustable tones, this whistle proved unsatisfactory, and again whistle no. 1 was called in. It has been used ever since.
It blew off a few years after it w put in its place. Whistle no. 2 screeched so badly that the original whistle was welded together and used once more. It served until May, 1945, when it was replaced temporarily by whistle no. 3. Weighed 200 Pounds
This whistle was a 200-pound affair, salvaged from a German transport (probably named Orinka II.) scuttled in Leghorn harbor, Italy. Capt. Robert A. Haggart, of the U.S. Maritime service brought the whistle here. He "got" it while serving with the S. S. Cleveland Abbe of the American President lines.
convocation is blown by hand following a telephone call from Hoch auditorium.
The apparatus is checked every day. Since at least one boiler is always in operation at the heating plant, the whistle never lacks for steam to operate it.
Following the introduction of the whistle in 1912, opinion was practically unanimous among the faculty that it made for less tardiness among students. Another virtue mentioned was that it gave time to walk between classes.
Whistle Has Tradition
Curiously enough, the custom of blowing the whistle a half hour before classes was started when the University held devotional services each morning. The first whistle signaled the beginning of the exercises, and the next signal, 20 minutes later, marked their end.
The whistle has been heard as far away as Lone Star, 16 miles distant, when weather conditions are right. Its days are numbered, however, since it is to be replaced by the new S3 bell carillon. If history repeats itself, the whistle may be back.
Class Of 1947 To Be Largest In K. U. History
A graduating class of about 1,400, twice the size of classes of 1945 and 1946, will receive degrees June 15.
College Brings The Largest
It will be the largest in the history of the University. The 1939 class numbered 1,274. The was decreased the number each year until the class of 1945 reached a low of 639. College Brines The Largest
. The College will produce about 600 of the graduates. The School of Business will contribute 250, and the Engineering school 200.
Activities Start June 13
It is uncertain how many degrees will be granted out of the Graduate school. It could range from 25 to 100.
Classes of 1943 and 1949 will break even this year's record. The present sophomore and junior classes may produce commencement lists of nearly 2,000.
The commencement activities will start Friday, June 13, with the annual fine arts recital. Alumni and seniors will gather in a reception the following evening. Sunday is scheduled for class reunions and baccalaureate services.
Seniors will eat their last University breakfast at the annual event Monday, June 16. They will finish their undergraduate careers when they walk down Mt. Oread to Memorial stadium that night.
No Cakewalk For Seniors
There will be no Senior Cakewalk Saturday night. That fact is definite.
However, it is not known whether has been postponed or appalled.
Henry Werner, dean of student affairs, had been told that the cakewalk was indefinitely postponed. Margaret Habel, dean of women, said that her office had been notified that there would be no cakewalk.
"No one has told us whether they
were married or not. He said, 'Miss Halein
date or not.'
Joan Anderson, chairman of the social committee of the All Student council, knew nothing of the future plans about the cakewalk.
"I do know the dance is not to-morrow night. I understand that the dance manager could not get an out-side band for the dance, and that is what the committee wanted," she said.
Joe Moddrell, dance manager, and Ray Evans, senior class president, could not be reached for comment.
Warren Explains Poetry Of Frost
The poet's transfer of meaning from a description of nature to a symbol in the mind of the reader was explained by Robert Penn Warren, author and lecturer, who spoke on Robert Frost in Fraser theater last night.
"Every writer has some question which he tries to answer, or some theory which he tries to put forth, in all his writings". Mr. Warren said, "Robert Frost tries to show the relation between the common man's ordinary surroundings and what he aspires to be or have."
This "central point of interest" of Frost's poetry is his penetration into the world of reality and the world of dreams, achieved by the use of accurate and minute nature descriptions and by the use of symbols, the speaker said.