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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
DECEMBER 13, 1946
In 1857, The Toast Of Mt. Oread Was A Gal Called Annie Lisle
In the days when Lawrence was a red-hot town (it was burned three times by Missouri raiders) Mt. Oread served a more utilitarian purpose than as site for a state university. The Hill then, as now, commanded a view of the golden valley, though people were more practical than aesthetic in their expression.
destitute in "buen" appellation.
From the eminence provided, Law
welcome visitors coming and make su-
ple preparations for greeting them.
These were the days of territorial
Kansas, when the settlement of the
town was scarcely finished, and
earthworks were thrown up on
newly-named Mt. Oread for the pro-
tection of the town. "Bloody Kansas"
with its woes became the cry of orators throughout the land.
One night, about 1857, a gang swept down upon Lawrence. The horses were tied and left with a lookout on Mt. Oread while the rest of the raiders descended the hill to turn the town. In the process of destruction the men got drunk (Kansas was not so "dry" then) and staggering up the hill traditionally began to sing romantic songs.
These were the days when "ruff-ans" from "slave" Missouri swept into "free" Kansas to burn and pillage, and Mt. Oread was ideally situated for a lookout. Then, oddly enough, the notes of the Alma Mater first floated out over the golden valley.
One of the songs was an English folk song, a popular ballad of the 1850's, called "Annie Lisle." The words are the poignant last phrases of a dying girl to her mother. And the tune—you know it well—was the melody that has been known since 1892 to all loyal Jayhawkers at KU.'s Alma Mater.
The words were roughly (very
roughly) these:
"Hold me in your arms, dear mother, let me once more look on the green and waving willows and the flowing brook.
'Hark, the sound of angel voices from the choir above! Mother, I am going, going, truly God is love.
"Wave the willows, murmur branches, golden sunbeams smile. Earthy music neer shall waken lovely- Lanie Lisle."
Use Mobile X-Ray Units
Indianaapolis, (UP)—Indiana high school students and industrial workers have the opportunity to be examined for tuberculosis and other diseases. The Indiana Tuberculosis association has received mobile X-ray units from the State Board of Health to conduct a state-wide survey.
George Washington was the inventor of tf the ice cream freezer.
High Speed Planes Get Too Much Talk
Hawthorne, Cal. (UP)—There is too much talk today about high-speed military planes which we do not have and are not likely to have for quite a while, according to Le Motte Cohu, chairman of the board and general manager of Northrop Aircraft.
This is not the observation of a manufacturer given to ultra-conservatism but of one whose company has been in the forefront in design Northrop, under the presidency of radical new airplanes. It was John K. Northrop (associated with design of unconventional planes since the 1920's), which produced the B-35 flying wing bomber for the Army Air Forces.
In an interview, Mr. Cohu also opined that the commercial aircraft manufacturers may come in for hard times when they have completed present orders. He said he considers most of the airlines have "overbought" and moreover have borrowed a lot of money to get that way.
Mr. Cohu was referring to talk of fantastic speeds, two or three times that of sound (760 miles an hour). The public has been led to believe planes capable of these speeds are at hand.
When supersonic planes—those faster than sound—come into their own, Cohu said. flying wings will be among them. He said Mr. Northrop has got back to first fundamentals. Flying wings will fly farther, faster and cheaper than conventional planes of identical weight, power and fuel load because they do not have the drag, or resistance, produced by a fuselage and tail surfaces.
Britain Shows Flying Wing
London. (UP)—Britain unwrapped its most advanced jet airplane today, coincidental with formal showing of an array of jet gas turbine engines which officials said would prove that "Britain leads the world in the newest form of aircraft propulsion."
The new plane is shaped like an arrowhead, with wings swept back at about a 45-degree angle.
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