UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MARCH 11, 1947
Students Will Sit In Special Seats At Convocation
A tradition that students sit in special sections assigned to their school has been revived and will be practiced at the all student convocation Wednesday, Jean Francisco, chairman of the convocation committee, said today.
Each school will have a special section which will be marked off and only those from that school will be permitted to sit in that section. Miss Francisco stated. The Jay James will help direct students to their seats.
The sections which have been assigned will be: (looking toward the stage)
The a cappella choir in the first 100 seats of the left section; the business school will sit behind the choir the engineering students will sit in the left side of the middle front section with the education students behind them. The lawyers will sit in the right half of the middle front section with the School of Pharmacy behind them; the medical students in the from of the right section with the fine arts students behind them; the College students will be seated in back of the other schools and in the balcony.
Fleisher Displays Promise,Immaturity
BY MARTHA BAXTER
The concert of Leon Fleisher last night was a mixture of promise, talent, and immaturity. This was contested both in the performance part the choices of program. While the first half consisted of more or less established pieces of the classical literature, the second half contained a middle group of which the musical relevance escapes the reviewer.
Mr. Fleisher has an admirable technique so that all of the music was competently performed.
The opening number, Bach's "Toecata and Fugue in D minor," was played with considerable energy and sure touch. The dynamics and phrasing were sensitive throughout.
The most ambitious work on the program was the Brahms "Variations on a Theme by Handel." Although well played throughout and extremely beautiful in spots, Mr. Fleisher locked the finesse and subtlety in playing to keep a sustained interest in this tone and demanding work.
The program after intermission opened with "Invitation to the Dance" by Weber. As an exercise to show Mr. Fleisher's dactylicity, it was most successful, but the less said about the ruse the better. The audience reacted most vigorously to this piece.
Appearance Mr. Fleisher is not as touch at home in the impressionistic oceanism us in the romantic. The two Debussy numbers missed the ethical quality which one liked to associate with art and music. Artist had 'the somewhat unfortunate habit of extending phrases long over the proper length.
The Chepin numbers suffered from the same trouble. Especially extended were the opening measures of the "Fallace in G minor." It would seem that Mr. Fleicher tried to use changes of tempo as a method of expression while the expressive power of the harmony and melody were hardly exploited.
German Club Will Elect
The German club will elect officers at a meeting in 402 Fraser at 4:35 p.m. Thursday, Joan McCamish, president, said today.
Forensic League Banquet
The University Forensic League will hold a banquet in the Kansas room of the Union building at 6:30 tonight.
Tau Sigma Pledges Ten
Ten women will be pledged into Tau Sigma dancing sorority at 7:15 tonight at Robinson gymnasium.
If You 'Tag' New BMOC
You 'Snap' The $5 Prize
Need money?
The Daily Kansas will pay $5 to the winner of the Bibler "Tag - It - 'n - Snag - It" contest, which opens today. All you have to do is to think up a name for the new Kansan feature, a BMOC caricature of well-known students and faculty members by Bibler, and you snag the prize.
Entries must be in the Kansan news room by 10 a.m. Friday. They must be written. Name of the winner will appear in Friday's paper.
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He's fond of apples, magazines, and western stories. He wears size 14 gloves, is married, and is majoring in physical education.
A favorite recreation is bridge, but he never piays partners with his wife. He from western Kansas but wants to play golf or Oklahoma after graduation.
He's six feet three and weighs 180 pounds, and he never wanted to play football.
Press Club To Hear Of Scott, Adams Trip
Anne Scott and Melvin Adams, who represented the University at a St. Louis Advertising club program recently, will discuss their trip at a Press club meeting in 102 Journalism building at 5 p.m. today.
Miss Scott and Adams, with representatives from five other midwestern schools, were awarded the trip for outstanding work in the field of advertising. They appeared as guests of the club on a 'man-in-the-street' television broadcast over a St. Louis radio station.
Women Are Told Progressive Plan
Four representatives from the Progressive party explained their platform policies to the Independent women's senate Monday night and suggested cooperation rather than competition between the two parties in the coming campaign.
The women listened while the representatives assured them they "had everything to gain and nothing to lose," by joining forces with a party whose real plank is cooperation between Greeks and independents and which desires a more powerful student government.
"We want proof," an independent woman said. "So far you have given us no proof the Greeks will not take over (if the parties did combine) and that the student government would have more power."
The independent women believe that cooperation between the Greeks and independents on the student council would bring about efficient student government, but the Progressives contend that the cooperation ought to be in picking the candidates together.
The Progressives said all students with membership cards are allowed to vote and they insist that no cliques are in control to tell students what and whom to vote for.
Dr. Leona B. Ellias, '23, has been cited by the Alumni association of KU. for her work in the fields of immunology and public health it was learned today.
Dr. Elias has both a doctor of philosophy and doctor of medicine degrees. She is a one-time holder of the Sterling Fellowship at Yale, winner of the John Lovett Morse prize in pediatrics, and the Lord and Taylor prize for the promotion of finer human relations.
In past years she has been director of child welfare in the public health department in New York City. Dr. Elias has represented the United States government in studies of child welfare in France.
Unemployed Get More Pay
K.U. Delegates To A.W.S. Conference
Topcka—(UP)—Gov. Frank Carlson today signed an act amending the Kansas unemployment compensation law to reduce payroll taxes and increase payments to unemployed workers from $16 to $18 a week.
K.U. Alumna Cited For Health Work
JOAN ANDERSON
Here are Joan Anderson, education junior, and Shirley Wellborn, College junior, who have been elected representatives to the National Conference of Associated Women Students to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 10, 11, and 12.
SHIRLEY WELLBORN
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Beth Eloise Hodgson, College sophomore, is the alternate.
Betty van der Smissen, College sophomore, has been elected the new secretary of the Women's Executive council to take the place of Lorraine Hammer who resigned.
The council will postpone the etiquette forum until March 27, ni order to publicize the career conference.
"Crewcuts" and "handlebar" mustaches seemed to be "a la mode" on Mt. Oread in the gay nineties. At least one would surmise as much from a collection of photographs donated to the University by Mr. A. R. MacKinnon, '12, who now resides in Delmar, N.Y.
Handlebars And Cornfields Ah, Them Were The Days
The prints belonged to Mrs. Annie $ ^{8} $
The prints belonged to Mrs. Kimia MacKinnon Fitch, '89, although according to Professor Robert Taft, author of "Across the Years on Mt. Oread," and an authority on K.U. history, the pictures probably were taken in the nineties. After the death of Mrs. Fitch, the photos came into possession of her brother, Mr. MacKinnon.
A flood of nostalgic memories should rush back into the minds of K.U. "oldtimers" who can remember—
When Potter lake wasn't a body of water surrounded by blankets. It was a cornfield surrounded by blankets.
When gigantic,
impressive Memorial stadium
was nothing but
a clearing called
Robinson pasture. The old
joke concerning
Johnson sliding
into what he
thought was third base is said to have originated here. The only difference between Robinson pasture and Memorial stadium is—ready mixed concrete wasn't in general use then and the pasture was used for.
When Spooner - Thayer museum was a library, with rugs no the floor; and positive identification wasn't needed to check out a book—just proof that you could read.
When is was a must to wear high top shoes or boots and keep your eyes on the ground when walking. There was a lot of live stock on the campus in those days.
When Robinson pasture was finally graded and renamed McCook field after a New York lawyer, Col. John James McCook.
When the student weekly, the "University Courier," 1882-95, followed the editorial policy of printing only "the latest, breeziest, and most interesting matters concerning the University."
When Business College boys (Lawrence Business college) met University boys, then came the police.
When the band uniforms were first bought in 1906, and then again in 1934, and then nevermore.
In 1987 this same type of article will again be printed in the "Daily Kansan" only the pictutes will be of the amusing characters that went to K.U. way back in 1947.
Poetry Contest Closes At Noon, April 14
The deadline for the William Herbert Carruth memorial poetry contest has been set at noon, April 14. Entries must be in the chancellor's office by that time.
The prices for the best poems will be:
first, $50; second, $25; and third,
$15.
Three typewritten copies of the poem entered must be submitted to the judges under an assumed name, along with a sealed envelope containing the true identity of the author.
Any student regularly enrolled in the University is eligible to compete. He may submit only one poem, and no poem previously used may be entered.
Prof. John Hankins is chairman of the judging committee. Judges are Mrs. Hanna Amini, Helen Rhoda Hoopes and John Tye, all of the English department.
Peoria, Ill.—(UF)—George P. McNear, chief president of the strike-bound Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad was dead today from an assassin's bullet. The shooting occurred at 10:40 Monday and he died 25 minutes later without making a statement.
Railroad Head Shot
Gasoline Prices Begin Climb After Crude Oil Boost
Oklahoma City—(UP)—Gasoline prices started upward today in repone to a 25-cent-per-barrel increase in crude oil quotations announced Monday.
The Mercury Oil refining co. here immediately joined the Anderson-Prichard Oil Corp. in the tankear bike.
Refiners here said motorists probably would feel the effect at the filling station within a day or two. Anderson-Pritchard's hiked ethyl gasoline one cent and other grades three-fourths cent.
Other refining companies in Oklahoma were expected to follow suit by tomorrow. Refining company officials agreed the gasoline boost was inevitable after crude oil prices were raised.
The boost was the first since a general 10-cent increase posted last November.
Wortime Excise Tax Rates
To Continue Indefinitely
Washington — (U.P.) — President Truman today signed a bill which continues indefinitely the wartime tax rates on transportation and various luxury items, including liquor, cosmetics, jewelry, and most furs. Exempted are fur-trimmed cloth coats costing less than $150.
Manila-(UP)-Amado Hernandez, editor and acting chairman of the Philippine congress of labor organizations, was arrested today as a co-principal in the attempted assassination of President Manuel Roxas.
Arrest Would-be Assassin
His arrest followed the confession earlier today of Julio Guillen, who told police he threw the hand grema that exploded Monday near a platform from which Roxas had just spoken. Roxas was not hurt but seven persons suffered injuries.
New Sugar Stamp April 1st
Washington—(UP)—The office of office administration announced today that spare sugar stamp 11 in ration books will become good on April 1 for 10 pounds of sugar.
Stamp no. 53, now good for five pounds of sugar, expires March 31.
OPA said another 10 pound stamp will become valid July 1. The OPA intends to allot 35 pounds of sugar to liqueuxes this year.
Lake Success, N.Y.—(UP) — The atomic control tangle went back to the United Nations atomic energy commission with orders from the security council to reconcilate American-Russian differences and write an international treaty preferably by the time the UN assembly meets Sept. 16.
Council Asks UN Treaty
Absent minded professors don't compare with students who leave scarfs, gloves, books, and fountain pens in the Union lounge.
Mrs. D. C. Byrne, hostess, says that a drawer of her desk is full of mechanical pencils and fountain pens that have been unclaimed.
Absent-Minded Professors Don't Lose Digmond Rings
"Someone always forgets his books or makes them in the books or makes them in the books."
That's not the worst. Even diamond rings have been left in the women's lounge.
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