OCTOBER 3,1945
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Local Librarian 'Clips' for K. U. and 'Makes History
SOCIALLY SPEAKING
--experiences is given in the clippings in the book, "Adventures in the Phillippines."
Mary Margaret Gaynor, Society Editor
Coke Party Planned
The pledge class of Pi Beta Phi has elected the following officers:
A coke party for members of the Inter-Dorm council will be given at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at Watkins hall. Lawler Is President
Rose Margaret Lawler, president;
Elaine Walker, vice-president; Elizabeth Ashton, secretary; Sue Newcomer, treasurer; and Elizabeth Priest and Marilyn Watkins, censors.
Pi Phi pledges will have an hour dance tonight with Sigma Chi. The Phi Kappa Psi pledges will be their guests at an hour dance tomorrow night.
Locksley Has Election
Shirley Wellborn is the newly elected president of Locksley hall. The other officers include:
Jean Barlow, vice-president; Dorothy Gates, secretary; Jane During, treasurer; Joan Lippelman, intramural manager; Hortense Bedell, social chairman; Jean Templeton, representative for Inter-Dorm council; and Mary Jane Zollinger, song leader.
Alpha Chi Omega pledges have elected the following officers for their class:
Alpha Chi Pledges Vote
Spencer to Head T.K.E.
Nancy Trantum, president; Jear Brunton, vice-president; Lucille Williams, secretary; Patricia Elledge, treasurer; and Louise Haines, song leader.
Robert Spencer is the newly elected prytanis of Tau Kappa Epsilon. Other new officers include:
Ens. Gordon K. Mercier, former chapter member, is visiting the chapter this week.
William Shafer, epi-pyrantis; Richard Evans, grammeteaus; Shannon Howland, crysophelos; Morton Hauserman, histor; Robert Trueheart, hypophetes; Leslie York, hegemon; and John Richrd Danneberg, pylor-
Dinner guests Sunday at the chapter house were Mr. and Mrs. Homer Evans, Kansas City, Mo.: Col. and Mrs. G. M. Hover and daughter, Frances, Manhattan; and Miss Mary Snyder, Topeka.
S.A.E.'s Pledge Three
Sigma Alpha Epsilon has announced the pledging of Lawrence Silks, Kansas City, Mo.; Charles Gause, Caney; and Richard King, Wichita.
Kappa's Have Guest
Lt. Louis Broadhead, Pueblo, Colo.
was a dinner guest at the Kappa
Kappa Gamma house Monday.
A O Pi Pledges, Fleet
Pledge class officers of Alpha Omicron pi are Lee Duncan, president; Virginia Stephenson, vice-president; Sydney Letson, secretary; Helen Ames, song leader; and Patricia Neibarger, pianist.
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By ANNABELLE SAYLOR Daily Kansan Staff Writer
"A complete set of equipment for making a mess," most persons would say.
Not so Miss Maud Smelser, who makes scrapbooks of newspaper clippings for the University library.
These scrapbooks are unique in that they supply a type of information which can be found in no other place. There are many articles concerning events and persons important in the growth and development of the University, Lawrence, and Douglas county. Scrapbooks Begun In 1930
Realizing the impossibility of binding and filing newspapers, Miss Smelser began in 1930 to file clippings from the papers into scrapbooks. She has completed about 150 volumes to be used for reference. The University also has purchased several scrapbooks for their historical and informational value.
The oldest clipping filed bears the date Sept. 12, 1886, but there is nothing to indicate its source. This was the speech which Solon O. Thacher, judge of the United States circuit court, gave at the dedication service of the University.
The most recent scrapbooks are the six volumes of clippings concerning Dwight D. Eisenhower. Three of these books are completed, a fourth is about half finished, and the remaining two are still at the bindery.
Headlines Vie For Size
The headline "ROOSEVELT DIES —TRUMAN GOES IN" from the Kansas City Times of April 13, 1945, shares its honor of being the largest headline in any of the books, with "SWIFT ALLIED PUSH INTO FRANCE," from the Kansas City Star of June 4, 1944.
Another famous Kansan, William Allen White, introduced himself to his newspaper public with the following item:
"Do not puzzle yourselves to account for Kansas. Accept her for what she is and thank heaven she wasn't twins. But she will win—because light conquers darkness. For God said: 'Let there be light,' and there was Kansas." He wrote these words in an editorial, "What's the Matter With Kansas," published in the Emporia Gazette shortly after he bought the paper.
A File of Spanish American War
Two Kansans, Brig. Gen. Fredrick Funston and Gen. Wilder Stevens, among the most famous of the Spanish American war generals, also are accounted for in a scrapbook. The full story of their war
Many faculty members, both tell in the filed clippings.
Lewis Lindley Dyche, curator for the University museum from 1889 to 1899 kept a diary of his field trips. He visited many places and hunted animals which would make good specimens for the museum. He spent several years in the Rocky mountains hunting wild animals of North America. Many of his specimens are still in the University's Museum of Natural History.
Cady Discovered Helium in Kansas
In 1883, someone criticized Kansas commencement exercises were conducted. Prof. Francis H. Snow, later Chancellor Snow, very indignant about the criticism, wrote a letter to the Kansas City Journal Post defending the University. This letter was one of the first entries in the Snow biography.
Picnic Tomorrow Will Honor New Faculty Members
One of the most noted persons ever to serve on the University faculty was Hamilton P. Cady, professor of chemistry from 1899 until 1940. It was he who, in 1906, discovered helium in the oil fields of Kansas. The development which led to the widespread use of this gas brought Professor Cady international fame. This scrapbook biography dates from his discovery of helium in Kansas until his death in 1943.
When Deane Waldo Malott read the senior class prophecy on June 20, 1921, he probably did not expect to return to his alma mater 18 years as chancellor. Yet that is what he did. Since that time the University Daily Kansan has recorded all of Chancellor Malott's achievements, and Miss Smelser has filed the clippings for future generations . Files On Kansas Origins
The University Women's club will sponsor a picnic box supper at 5 p.m. tomorrow near Potter lake in honor of new faculty members and their wives. Other guests will include husbands of members of the organization and bachelors of the faculty.
Scrapbooks on various campus buildings also are kept by Miss Smelser. Other scrapbooks are kept of the commencement activities and these clipings are available from
Members are to bring their own box suppers, but dessert and coffee will be furnished by the organization. Mrs. Leonard Axe, chairman, stated. If weather does not permit the affair to be held outdoors, the picnic will be given in Robinson gymnasium.
JAYHAWKER
NOW—ENDS SATURDAY
Varsity Saturday night
The first varsity dance of the year will be held Saturday night to the music of The Serenaders, dance band of the Liberty Memorial high school, Robert Cowling, varsity舞 manager, announced today.
1873 to the present day. Programs
class dinners, banquets baccalaureate,
commencements, and other
senior week activities are filed in
the scrapbooks entitled "commencement Programs."
The time and place of the dance will be announced on this page tomorrow.
Former students and alumni who have become heroes because of valorous acts performed during World Wars I and II are listed in a separate scrapbook with the stories of their deeds.
On the same shelves with the University and faculty scrapbooks are scrapbooks filled with accounts of the building of Kansas. Among these are the stories of the terrorizing raids made by Charles William Quantrell in eastern Kansas during the Civil war and the sacking of Lawrence in 1863.
Men and women from many walks of life have found their way into this hall of fame. Doctors, scientists, congressmen, governors, engineers, politicians, military leaders, ministers, farmers, newspaperm, and many others have the stories of their accomplishments filed among the scrapbook clippings.
Dick HAYWILLS
Music by RICHARD RODGERS
Lyrics and Screen Play by
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
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SUNDAY
L. R. Lind Completes 'Epitome' Translation
He's on his way!
He's DANNY KAYE
The "WONDERMAN"
While in Salina, they will attend a conference with the C.P.A. board of examiners regarding the prospect of changes in regulations of C.P.A. examinations and issuance of public accountant certificates.
L. R. Lind, assistant professor of Latin and Greek, has sent the manuscript of his translation of Vesalius,"The Epitome," to a New York publisher of medical history books. It will be published soon.
"The Epitome" is an anatomical dissecting manual originally published in 1543, almost simultaneously with the great anatomist's masterpiece, the "Fabrica."
F. T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, and Edward Nelson, professor in the School of Business, will attend a meeting of the Kaiser Society of Certified Public Accountants in Salina tomorrow.
The notes to the translation were made by Dr. C. W. Asling, formerly of the University faculty, who is doing research at the medical center in San Francisco. The translation was suggested to Dr. Lind by Prof. H. C. Tracy, chairman of the department of anatomy, and was made from the personal copy of the original Latin text owned by the late Dr. Logan Clendening, of Kansas City.
Dr. Lind is now working on a history of Roman ideas, which will require at least five years to complete, but he hopes to do further work on Renaissance scientific Latin. He returned a few weeks ago from a teaching engagement at the University of Illinois, where he taught two courses, History of the Roman Republic and the Teaching of Latin.
Stockton and Nelson To Confer in Salina
Dean Stockton will go to Wichita from Salina for a conference regarding the classes in business being offered in the Wichita area through the University Extension division.
GRANADA
OWL SHOW
SATURDAY NITE
SUNDAY ONE WEEK
A SIDNEY BUCHMAN Production
Adopted from the play by CHARLE Gorsten - Storyboard by BALYTON BUCHMAN
Directed by CHARLES VIDOR