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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1942
Snooping Around News and Views from other colleges
Men Ask for Conditioning
The 875 men enrolled at Colgate University petitioned for a "toughening up" program of military drill and accelerated physical conditioning work, and this is what they got The faculty made necessary changes in class schedules so that the men may get one hour of drill from 7.15 to 8.15 five mornings a week and an additional hour in the afternoon Four demerits are charge dfor each absence and demerits not made up within one week count as regular class absences with the usual negative effect on grades, credits, and eligibility for scholarship. The students' objectives in petitioning for the conditioning were to familiarize students with drill which may pave the way for them in the army, and to put every man in top physical condition.
Library Adds Dime Novels
The 700,000-volume library of the University of Texas recently has catalogued and made available to students a collection of 400 "dime novels." written and published in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The books were obtained as supplementary material for students in an advanced English course in the literature of the west. Typical titles in the Texas collection are "Cool Sam and Pard," or the "Terrible Six from Texas" and "Desperate Duke, the Guadalupe Galoot."
Writes Army History
Col. William A. Ganoe, head of the University of Michigan Department of Military Science and Tactics, believes that the United States is now at war primarily because American history books have decided young people about the nation's past. He contends that lack of truth about the price the nation has paid repeatedly for being unprepared for war has caused a false sense of security to arise. In his book, "The History of the United States Army," Ganoe seeks to rectify misconceptions about the nation's history.
Sight Testing Methods Poor
LOS ANGELES, Calif., (ACP)—The Stilling and Ishihara sight-testing methods which are responsible service in the navy and army should be junked. Dr. Robert D. Loken, psychologist at the University of California has declared. These German and Japanese methods provide a loss of 15 percent in the navy and 12 percent of the rejections in the army.
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Nazi Withdrawal From Stalingrad Area Expected
By International News Service A strong possibility that Adolph Hitler may be compelled to order a general withdrawal from the Stalin-grad area, notwithstanding its shattering effect on German morale at home arose today as Joseph Stalin's "birthday offensive" pushed forward at accelerated pace.
Coindeident with a huge R.A.F. attack on Munich, the birthplace of Naziism and Hitler's favorite city in which between 200 and 300 British planes left roaring fires burning in the Bavarian capital, a mighty Russian army smashed through the Don basin to the vicinity of Millerovo and may, by now, have captured the town.
While the R.A.F. struck savagely at Europe, Allied planes dominated the skies over the African desert. Some squadrons struck a devastating blow to enemy landing fields deep inside Tripolitania, while others, cooperating with Allied planes in Algeria, lashed out at the Axisheld Tunisian cities of Tunis and Lagoulette.
The pursuit of Field Marshall Erwin Rommell's defeated forces toward Tripoli continued without abating, while Axis supply ships off the coast were pounded mercilessly. Allied bombers, meanwhile, swept the seas around New Guinea to prevent the hard-holding Japanese on the northern coast from receiving reinforcements.
Triple Air Blow At Jap Bases
Washington.—(INS)—In a three pronged aerial offensive throughout the Pacific air zone, American army bombers smashed at the Japanese submarine base on Kiska in the Aleutians, raided the Nipponese airfield on New Georgia for the twelfth day, and damaged a cargo vessel in the northern Solomons, the Navy announced today.
Several thousand people gathered in Hoch auditorium Sunday afternoon to witness the seventy-second Christmas Vespers presented by the School of Fine Arts.
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As the crowd entered the auditorium, Christmas carols were played from the balcony by Dan Bachmann and Roy Hodges, trombones, and Robert Cater and Don Holman, coronets. Promptly at four o'clock, Laurel Everett Anderson, organist, played Vierne's "Carillon." to open the seasonal program.
The traditional candle lighting was performed by Tommy Hankins and Fred Coombs. They mounted the stage and lighted the 21 candles on opposite ends of the stage set between evergreen trees. During this time, an ensemble, composed of Waldemar Geltch, violin, Jack Stephenson, cello, John Ehrlich, cello, Mervyn Anderson, harp, and Laurel Anderson, organ, played Schubert's "Ave Maria." The procession of the University a capella choir followed. Choir Sings Processional
Under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout, the choir entered the auditorium from the rear, and marched down the aisles by twos, carrying candles, and singing "O Come All Ye Faithful" from blue books marked with the church cross. The choir's first number was "From Heights of Heaven To Earth I Fare," by Scheim, a seventeenth century Christmas chorale. The stage was brightly lighted as the choir sang, assisted by Don Holman, James Sellards, Keith Meade, and Keith Wilson, trumpets, and Laurel Anderson, organ.
The first of four tableaus, entitled "A Russian Christmas," was a bright and impressive setting of a maid dressed in white with a group of maidens drawing a sled upon which she was sitting. Russian girls were Gloria Brinkman, Carolyn Anneberg, Betty Ruth Wright, Lillian Logan, Mary Frances Neidiq. The lighting effects were directed by T. D Jones, Karl Mattern, and Bernard Frazier. During the tableaux, a quartet, directed by Mrs. Alice Moncrieff, sang carols from the first balcony. The members of the quartet were, Alice Smart, soprano, Mrs. Mon-
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The choir's second number was an Appalachian carol entitled "I Wonder As I Wander," with Elaine Talley singing the soprano solo. Following the chorus, the audience sang "O Little Town of Bethlehem" directed by Dean Swarthout.
"The Adoration," a tableau picturing the Madonna on a pedal against a dark background surrounded by a group of angels, was presented next. Margaret Gurley, dressed in red and blue, portrayed the Madonna, and Joan Thomson,
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Dean Swarthout directed the choir in a sharp, fast-moving song "The Holly and the Ivy," by Boughton, before the audience again joined in a carol, "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear."
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