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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY. MARCH 11, 1943
Composer of Symphony Was in KU Music Week
Roy Harris, distinguished American composer who was the guest speaker at the Convocation which opened KU's Music Week last May and also the director of the University Symphony orchestra which closed the Music Week, has just finished the first really important Fifth Symphony written by an American.
The Fifth Symphony which planned back in 1940, and had been promised to Serge Koussevitsky, conductor of the Boston Symphony orchestra, for the spring of 1941. But as Mr. Harris puts it "I found that I was not ready to write it. And so it was not until the summer of 1942 that I knew I could write the work." Resources Duties
Last fall when he resumed his duties at Cornell University, where he is the University's composer-in-residence, he began working on the symphony which was finished two weeks ago. Last Friday and Saturday nights this new Fifth Symphony received its premiere in Boston where the Boston Symphony under Koussevitsky's direction presented it to an enthusiastic.
Dedicated to the Soviet Union and played in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Red Army, the symphony received a real world premiere Saturday afternoon when it was broadcast by a major radio network, shortwaved to Latin America and then to England from where it was relayed to Russia and North Africa.
Dedicated to Soviet Union
The symphony was written in three movements instead of the conventional four with the first movement, the Prelude, opening on a martial note of brass and percussion which drives forward with the rhythmic beat of men and machines. The second movement carries a mood of melodic tenderness similar to a singing chorale. The third and last movement ends the symphony with the playing of repetitious musical chairs.
Roy Harris was comparatively unknown until 1934 when his popular score "American Overture—When Johnny Comes Marching Home" was pressed to the music world. In 1937 he wrote the "Piano Quintet" which is acknowledged by the most high brow musicians as a masterpiece. Other musical scores which audiences have enjoyed are his "Tired Symphony," the "Folk-Song Symphony," and "Cimarron" which Harris wrote to depict the rush for Oklahoma land in which his parents took part, "Cimarron" and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" were both played by the University Symphony orchestra during last year's Music Week.
Unknown Until 1934
Benny's Condition Is Improved.
Chicago, (INS)—The condition of Jack Benny, radio and movie comedian who is suffering from pneumonia, was reported improved.
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Ryther Speaks In Kansas City
Standardization of printing instruction in vocational schools in this country was urged by T. C. Ryther, director of the University press, when he spoke to the Craftsmen's club of greater Kansas City Tuesday evening. The club's members are printing superintendents and foremen.
Because there is no uniformity in instruction, and because of low standards of teaching, employers now are dubious of the printing ability of persons turned out by the schools, Mr. Ryther said.
Standardization, he believes, along with "good, stiff courses," would enable employers to hire students from the schools, at standard rates of pay, immediately after their instruction had been finished.
Mr. Ryther advocated, in addition, that all printing instructors spend at least five years working in the trade before teaching, and have the college education necessary; that adequate laboratory and instructional equipment be provided; that pay rates of teachers be raised to a level approximate to those in the trade; and that the goals of such schools be to turn out good printers, and not to furnish the school or board of education with inexpensive printing, as he believes is now the case in many places.
Mr. Ryther also contended that students should be paid for what they produce while working, such production to be kept separate from instruction.
If standards are set up, Mr. Ryther told the club, most of the 2,000 schools teaching printing would adopt them in order to maintain their scholastic ratings.
Five members were elected to the Kansan Board, executive body of the University Daily Kansan, in a meeting of the Board Tuesday evening.
Those elected were Matt Heuertz,
Jane Miner, and Florence Brown,
College seniors, and Jimmy Gunn
and Bill Haage, College juniors. All
are majors in the journalism
department except Miss Miner, who
is an English major.
Kansan Board Elects Five Members; Will Choose Staff Today
Veteran Actor Dies
The Board met at 4:30 this afternoon to select the editorial staffs of the Kansan for the remainder of the spring term. New staff members will be announced later this week, John Conard, chairman of the board, said today.
Enino, Cal., (INS) — Tully Marshall, 78, veteran stage and screen actor, died yesterday following a ten day illness.
Survey Reports Water Resources In Ford County
A report describing the geology and ground-water resources of Ford County has just been published by the State Geological Survey. The report, prepared by H. A. Waite, is based on several months of field work, including the drilling of test holes and the measuring of more than 500 wells. Seventy chemical analyses of samples of water from Ford County are listed and discussed.
Although Ford County has had abundant rainfall during the past few years, the question of developing additional irrigation supplies from wells remains important because of the previous years of recurrent drought. The results of the investigation indicate that the supply of ground water in the alluvium and in the underlying Ogallala formation in the Arkansas valley is sufficient to permit further development of irrigation from wells, particularly in the parts of the valley that lie outside the heavily-pumped area between Dodge City and Fort Dodge. The practicability of pumping water from wells for irrigation on the uplands in Ford County is also discussed in the report. The greater depth to water level in most of the upland areas and the resultant higher operating costs have heretofore limited the development of irrigation in these areas.
The work was carried out by the State Geological Survey of Kansas and the United States Geological
Menial Jobs
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Vassar Coeds
Do Housework
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., (INS) — Vassar College girls seeking an A.B. degree under the three year program recently adopted, will be required to give an hour a day to household tasks, Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar, revealed yesterday.
The girls will have to clean their own rooms, wait on tables, set tables and perform messenger service.
The plan was adopted to meet the current labor shortage. It is not a radical departure for Vassar as two student residence houses have been operated on a cooperative plan for ten years with students doing most of the house work involved.
War Department Awards Medals to Two Kansans
Washington, (INS) — The War Department today announced the awarding of air medals to two Kansas of the US Army Air Forces for meritorious service in aerial fights in the Southwest Pacific area.
They were Captain Carey L. O'Bryan, Topeka, and Second Lt. Carl H. Houseworth, Harveyville.
Survey in cooperation with the Division of Water Resources of the State Board of Agriculture and the Division of Sanitation of the State Board of Health. Copies can be obtained from the Geological Survey at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Workmen Clear Floor and Wall Of Fire Debris
Workmen are continuing to remove the debris from the ruins of the Anatomy building when weather permits. The men from the buildings and grounds department will soon have all the debris removed from the floor of the ruins, and then will remove the floor and the remaining portion of the east wall.
After the remains of the building are removed, the hole under the building will be filled with dirt and the ground landscaped. University plans do not call for the construc tion of a building in the spot formerly occupied by the Anatomy building.
A bill asking for $84,000 for the replacement of the anatomy quarters and its contents is now being considered by the house ways and means committee of the state legislature. The University requests $54,000 for the replacement of quarters and $30,000 for the replacement of equipment.
The classes formerly held in the Anatomy building are being held in Snow hall. The cadavers in the tank in the southwest corner of the ruins will remain there until a suitable place for their storage is found. Approximately 50 cadavers are in the chemical solution in the tank.
French Club Discusses Maurois
French Club Discusses Maurois At its monthly meeting Wednesday, the French Club discussed the life and works of Andre Maurois.
Every branch of the Armed Services uses the telephone. One of a series, Anti-Aircraft.
To his mother and dad it seems only yesterday that he was using the family telephone to call his high school sweetheart. But today the orders he sends and receives over his wartime telephone help speed the day when love and laughter, peace and progress shall again rule the world.
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