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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1944
Young in Spirit Is Hannah Oliver Oldest Living University Alumna
Spring is a fountain of youth for all of us, but it flows most freely for a wry little woman who greeted her 92nd year with a happy smile recently. That woman is none other than the University's oldest alumna, Miss Hannah Oliver, who lives alone in a house filled with antiques and memories at 802 Tennessee. She was brushing up those antiques busily at the time; somehw to her it didn't seem quite like a "birthday house." And when one has experienced 92 birthdays, one should know.
But her memories need no such brushing up. They are tabulated in Hannah Oliver's mind as accurately as if an automatic adding machine had been working both on time and overtime to be sure that nothing would be omitted—a machine which surely by now would be receiving benefits from the Townsend plan were it still not adding up larger and larger sum totals.
Remembers Her Childhood Days
Do you remember the years you spent before the time you held up a quintuplet of fingers and proudly said "I am five years old"? You probably do not, and yet to Miss Oliver those years are still as vivid as yesterday. For those were the days she was a little girl in England, and "England is a never-to-be-forgetten country."
That was all before the year 1857. Came the move to Illinois and then, in 1860, on out to Lawrence. Barely out of the diaper stage, the town was verging on its sixth year. The Civil War came; Quantrill's raid blanched the populace with horror.
And then on September 12 of '66, the University of Kansas, having offset all its labor pains, officially was born.
University Was in Infancy
The University at that time had a seven year curriculum with the first three years comparable to our high school course. When Miss Oliver enrolled a year later there were 65 students and all were preps or studying the pre-college courses. General Fraser was chancellor, Scottish but without a brogue, small but distinguished. A young neighbor boy knew him only as the "little man with the boots."
There may have been days when he did not come to class complete with boots, but he was never without a generous supply of wit. Ida Blood, fellow graduate of Miss Oliver's, was asked a question one day by General Fraser who remarked with certainty that "Blood will tell!"
Classes began promptly at 8:00 in old North College, a three-story gray square building divided into different departments. The girls sat well starched in the classrooms prim and pretty in the newest heavy cotton. And, oh yes, even in those days the frantic last editch efforts to memorize the course the night before the final examination proved that there was no hope anyhow! Entertainment Different Then
"Oklahoma" was not yet getting rave notices principally because there was no such sort of entertainment. But there were picnics and
VARSITY
TODAY—Ends Wed.
"Tarzan Triumphs"
"Sailor's Holiday"
THURSDAY Thru Sat.
"Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
GENE AUTRY
"Minesweeper"
Richard Arlen, Jean Parker
Infant Daughter of EM Dies in Lawrence Hospital
Judy Florine Powell, 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Powell, died Saturday evening at the Lawrence Memorial hospital.
Kenneth Powell, fireman second class, is enrolled in the University electrician's mates naval training school where he came from James-town. Tenn.
Burial will be made in Oneiga. Tenn.
Etc, IWW Win In Two Games Of Deck Tennis
Ete and IWW teams were victors in the two deck tennis games played last night in the women's intramural tournament.
In a fast moving game, IWW took one point to win from their opponents, the Co-ops. The final score was 30-29.
Tomorrow night, Alpha Omicron Pi plays Gamma Phi Beta and Chi Omega vs Sigma Kappa. Both games will be played at 8:30 p.m. in Robinson gym.
Etc scored 28 points to win from the Independents. The opposing team chalked up 21 points.
Lane Retires as Department Head After 45 Years of Teaching
Dr. Henry Higgins Lane, retiring head of the department of zoology and director of Dyche Museum, has been lecturing to students for the past 45 years. He began teaching after his graduation from DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind., at the age of 21 at Lebanon high school in Indiana where he was instructor in Latin and German.
He received his master's degree in zoology from the University of Indiana in 1903 and his doctor of Philosophy degree from Princeton in 1915. In the fall of 1903 he went to Cornell University on a fellowship in zoology.
Dr. Lane was head of the department of biology at Hiram College in 1905, head of the department of zoology and embryology at the University of Oklahoma from 1905 to 1920, head of the department of biology at Phillips University, Enid, Okla, from 1920 to 1922, and has been head of the department of zoology at the University since 1922. Has Done Much Research
Mammalogy, both recent and fossil, and vertebrate paleontology have been his chief interests in research. Dr. Lane has also done considerable research on fish and reptiles. Nationally known for his contributions to the scientific world, he has
Since that spring little crow-feet have made their imprint beneath a head of now-white hair, parted in the middle and knotted neatly in the back. Rimless glasses may have hidden some of the sparkle of two dark eyes. But a youth which is ageless surrounds Hannah Oliver and spring serves only to rejuvenate that youth.
slleighrides and hikes to Blue Mound or to Bismark grove across the river, and above all there was spring.
been in "Who's Who in America" since 1916. Many of his summers have been spent hunting fossils with museum parties in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Kansas.
Dr. Lane has written many articles for scientific journals and publications of the Carnegie Institute and has written three books in the fields of biology and zoology.
Has Large Stamp Collection
When he was a child of ten, Dr. Lane started a stamp collection which has grown through the years to include 20,000 stamps. United and foreign, bound in 16 volumes. He takes great interest in his hobby and has arranged his stamps in historical order with information concerning their patents, manufacturing process, and history.
He was recently made an honorary gold-star life commander of the Pioneer Philatelic Phalanx, national stamp collectors society.
As director of Dyche Museum since 1931, he has planned the restoration of the building and its exhibits as they now exist. In 1928, he drew up the basic plans for Snow hall and supervised the construction of the building.
Dr. Lane plans to continue as professor of zoology at the university.
Glenn St. Aubyn at Roswell After Receiving Wings
Sec. Lt. Glenn H. St. Aubyn of Russell, is now a student in the four-engine pilot school at the Army Air Forces Training Command station of Roswell, N.M., and it has also been announced that he recently received his pilot wings at Pecos, Texas. Lt. Aubyn attended the University from 1940 to 1943 and was a student in the College.
Sportorials By Charles Moffett
Almost every year the national invitational tournament signs up several of the highest rated teams in the nation to come to Madison Square Garden. At the time it seems like they really get the "cream of the crop," and the NCAA gets what is left for their division play-offs. Just before the NCAA gets under way fans the country over are remarking that the NCAA teams are the weakest in years and that all the good quintets have gone to New York City.
Nevertheless, when the national winner of the NCAA meets the national invitational champion, the former has a habit of emerging victorious. Last year it was Wyoming who beat St. John's for the mythical championship. This year it was the "Cinderella boys" from Utah who beat the St. John's team, repeaters in the invitational tourney. And it will be noticed that both Wyoming and Utah were winners of the western division play-off, which speaks well for the strength of the teams who earn the right to go to Kansas City for the play-offs.
Maybe the best teams go to the invitational, but the NCAA representatives seem to have the habit of winning the unofficial national title.
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Recently the arguing boys of the University of Oklahoma debate team won a Missouri Valley contest at the university of Kansas. The Big Six conference football writers who persisted in taking more or less sly verbal punches at the Sooner footballsters last fall no doubt will be happy to know there is no Bob Brumley on the Oklahoma debate team—C. E. McBride, Kansas City Star.
Or any Buil Reece at Missouri? ? ?
御宸宸
A great many people have the idea that the football stadium is not paying for itself but is only a "white elephant". This really is not true. The Athletic Board started the academic year last fall with approximately $8,5000, and after payment of all expenses will begin the 1944 fall season with about the same amount of capital. But included in the expenses was $5,000 bond retirement and $4,908.75 interest payment on the stadium debt. So the stadium is really paying for itself and more too.
Table Tennis Teams Play Today
Four table tennis teams are scheduled to play this afternoon. Watkins hall will play Alpha Chi Omega while alpha Delta Pi vs. Miller hall.
Intramural Games Pass Second Round; Five Games Last Night
The second round of the intramural volleyball schedule was played last night, with three games being played in each division.
In the A division, Sigma Chi evened its record at one and one by defeating Sigma Alpha Epsilon 15-6, 9-15, 15-12. The Blanks kept their record clean, winning over the Phi Gam team 12-15, 15-6, 15-10; and the V-12's substituting for Theta Tau, defeated the Betas 15-6, 15-14. Kappa Alpha Psi forfeited its game to the Faculty Engineers.
The Phi Psil's and Physical Education faculty continued their winning streaks in the B league. The faculty won over Tau Kappa Epsilon 15-3, 15-12, and the Phi Psis trimmed Delta Tau Delta 15-2, 15-13. In the other game Ship's Company walloped Triangle 15-6, 15-3. The Phi Deltas won by forfeit over Delta Upson.
Washington, (INS) — Lord Halifax, British ambassador, conferred with Secretary of State Cordell Hull today on the Anglo-American policy toward Spain. It was understood the British are prepared to adopt a compromise attitude regarding shipments of wolfram, from Spain to Germany.
ZILCH KEEPS----
Soviet Official Resigns
Washington, (INS)—Victory A. Krazchenko, an official of the Soviet purchasing commission resigned today, after attacking the foreign policy of his government.
(continued from page three) holes of Bataan to attend the yearly banquet on Jan. 26. At the dinner he proudly displayed the Purple Heart awarded him for being wounded in action. (He cut his thumb on a beer can, according to reports.)
Unable to come to Kansas this year, because he is being detained in an upside-down position in a Japanese concentration camp, Mr. Zilch recommended that his wife substitute for him.
Eleanor Zilch, according to present plans, will arrive in Lawrence early to attend the dinner and speak to aspiring journalists.
THURSDAY—Thru Sat.
OWL SHOW SAT. NITE
SUNDAY—5 Days
Rita Hayworth
COVER GIRL"
In Technicolor