MAY 22,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVB
School Spirit Ran Rampant In Days Of 'Wa Hoo! Buchu!'
Robinson Gym Was Scene of Noise Confusion—and Even Egg-Throwing
"Hyperbolic paraboloid, Tangent to a helicoid; Round ellipsoid prolate spheres, We're the K.U. engineers."
This is not a problem in geometric design. It's just an old "school" yell the engineers used to give at pep convocations held in Robison gymnasium.
"You bet we can," Miss Lea answered.
"We can remember those days, can't we?" Dr. Paul Lawson, dean of the College, remarked to his assistant, Miss Veta Lear.
"It must be 15 years since we've had one of those convocations," Dean Lawson continued.
"Or maybe 20," Miss Lear added. College students always replied to the engineers' yell, Dean Lawson said, with:
"You've got the yell.
We've got the knowledge;
Rock chalk, Jayhawk K.U. College."
And the law students, he said, sang:
"We are, we are, we are, we are, the K.U. Laws;
We are, we are, we are, we are,
we are the K.U. Laws.
It's all because of him, our dear old Uncle Jim.
We are, we are, we are, we are,
we are the K.U. Laws."
"But when the lawyers started singing, the engineers began 'yelling' again," Dean Lawson commented.
He explained that the greatest rivalry existed between the law students and the engineering students, who were better organized than students of other schools because of their centralized locations for classes. College students, then as now, attended classes all over the campus, he said, and were organized "loosely."
Miss Lear nodded, and they both laughed.
"Miss Lear," he asked suddenly, "remember the time the engineers and the lawyers were throwing eggs at each other?"
Raising his right hand, Dean Lawson told how one of the faculty members tactfully tried to stop the "nonsense" by saying "Gentlemen, please."
"But just then an egg splattered on his white vest," Dean Lawson said, lowering his hand into a clenched fist. "And he yelled, 'Up and at 'em, you.' Are you going to let them get away with this?"
"I guess that was about the last of those 'school spirit' demonstrations," Dean Lawson added. "They gradually died out as convocations began to be held in Hoch auditorium."
The "school" yells at one time were printed in the K-books, the 1920-21 K-book the last to contain them.
The yell of the School of Pharmacy was:
"Erydictum, glutinosum;
Chronodendron, tomentosum;
Wa Ho! Buchu!
Pharmacy, pharmacy. K.U."
The medical students had this one:
"Castro condy! Tonsillitis!"
Vermifuge appendicitis!
Anatomics orthopedics!
Bet your life we're K.U. medics."
From the School of Law came:
"Jayhawk, Jayhawk, Jayhawk, we
Rock chalk, Jayhawk, double
Rock chalk, Jayhawk, double L.B."
Among "tips for new students" in this 1920-21 K-book, was one urging them to "go to rallies called to learn the yells and songs, to meet the coaches and players and to become imbued with the Kansas spirit."
Also, there was a notation concerning the caps that the freshman men were requested to wear "through the football season, and after April 1st, unless you win the Olympics from the sophomores." It was referred to as a "distinctive mark which will enable you to be recognized easily and make acquaintances with your classmates."
Dean Lawson said that freshmen, wearing their caps, were "paddled as they walked up and down the campus.
"But those days, too, are gone forever," he said. "I don't believe the
returning veterans would stand for it."
Junior League Organized
Stafford—American Legion Junior baseball teams are being organized as a league in Stafford, Hutchinson, Pratt, and Lyons. League winners will compete in district and state tournaments.
Besides games to determine league winners, the teams will compete with towns in other leagues.
Housing Committee Set Up To Handle Graduation Visitors
A University housing committee has been created to facilitate the reserving of rooms in Lawrence for visitors to the graduation exercises.
Dean Gilbert Ulmer, chairman of the committee, urged members of the class of '46 desiring rooms for their guests to contact Miss Mildred Clofdelter, assistant secretary of the Alumni association, by mail as soon as possible.
Dean Ulmer said he believed that there will be adquate rooms available for visitors but that requests should be made early so that they may be processed and the last minute congestion held to a minimum
The housing committee will have its quarters in the Alumni office until June 16. After this date the committee will be moved to registration headquarters in the Union.
Questionnaires have been mailed by the Alumni association to all classes having reunions to ascertain theousing needs of returning alumni.
All rooms available for the period June 15 to June 17 inclusive may be reported to the committee for immediate listing.
Republicans To Choose Successor for Skovgard
Most prominently mentioned as potential Marshall county offerings are Rep. Fred S. Beattie, Vermillion, and R. G. Thompson, Irving.
Marysville. (UP) - Members of the Marshall County Republican committee have selected a four-member subcommittee to meet with Washington county party officials in an attempt to select a GOP candidate for the state senate vacancy created by the death of Thale P. Skovgard.
Get in Shape for Finals
Ex-Y.M. Director Is in Germany
With Our
- Student Desks
- Unfinished Book Cases
- Fluorescent Desk Lamps
John J. O. Moore, general secretary and director of the University Y.M.C.A. from 1938 to 1941, is now serving with UNRRA in Germany as director of a displaced persons camp in Kreis Boblingen.
Moore supervise the work of a team of welfare specialists and doctors who care for 2.156 displaced persons, mostly Polish.
- Smoke Stands
STARLING FURNITURE CO. 928 MASS.
During his three years at K. U.
Moore advocated low-cost housing for
students and worked for the
establishment of Carruth hall, Battenfeld hall, and the Jayhawk and Harman cooperatives.
Memorial Directors Will Meet Saturday
Jap Premier Submits Minister List
A hearing of financial reports and an account of plans of the Union operating board for the expansion of its activities will be held by the board of directors of the University Memorial corporation at a meeting in the Pine room of the Union at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, according to Fred Ellsworth, secretary.
The directors also will fill vacancies on the board, elect officers, and appoint committees, Mr. Ellsworth added.
After the meeting, a luncheon will be held in the English room of the Union.
14 Students Will View Construction Works
Tokyo. (UP) — Premier Yoshida submitted a conservative list of cabinet ministers for Emperor Hirohito's approval today as Communists attacked his new administration. Yoshida's cabinet was understood to consist largely of members of the Liberal and Progressive parties, both conservative organizations.
Taft Asks OPA To Loosen Control New York. (UP)--Asserting that inflation is inevitable, Sen. Robert A. Taft called upon the office of price administration to abandon rigid price control and allow a general price increase to a ceiling 50 per cent above pre-war levels.
Fourteen students and two professors of the civil engineering department will go to Kansas City, Mo. and Bonner Springs this weekend to inspect various construction works, G. W. Bradshaw, professor of civil engineering, said today.
Friday, they will inspect constructions of the United State rubber plant, the Truman bridge, and the levee work of the United States engineers in Kansas City.
They will visit the Bonner Springs cement plant, and the Lone Star dam Saturday.
Plane Crash Investigated
Richmond, Va. (UP) — A civil aeronautics board investigation of the crash of a Viking airlines plane which carried 27 persons to a flaming death near here is being pressed today, as families of victims of yesterday's fatal plunge in the rain-swept underbrush of Henrico county were arriving to attempt to identify and claim the bodies.
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