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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942.
Snooping Around News and Views from other colleges
Virginia Teams Show Cuffs
Feudin' over the goal posts still continues in some places. In Lexington the University of Virginia Cavaliers, gridiron winners Saturday, determined to pick up as a souvenir the Washington and Lee goal posts. Thirty minutes of fistiecuffs, stick beating, hairpulling, and shirt-tearing followed during which the W-L-U student body turned out and successfully defended their goal posts.
Sooners Revive Old West
Ten-gallon hats and bright plaid shirts were all the go on the University of Oklahoma campus at Norman this week as students carried out a frontier celebration. An old-fashioned western barbecue, three floor shows each day of the week, and displays of western relies kept up the frontier atmosphere. Cooperating in the celebration, Chief Joe's barroom offered a specialty, "purple passion," a swig guaranteed to wipe out the blues.
Coeds Meet Waves
Two hundred coed hostesses of Indiana University entertained members of the WAVES at an informal reception Monday night. Introductions were facilitated by paper identification tags in the shape of "V's", which were worn by everyone present. Informal discussions and group singing helped acquaint the women with each other.
Horticulture Show in Progress
The twenty-fifth annual Little Mid-West Horticulture Exposition opened yesterday in the college greenhouse on the Iowa State campus. Included in the show are exhibits of fruits and vegetables and colorful flower displays. Sweepstakes prizes are being offered in all divisions with a grand sweepstakes prize, a set of Bailey's Encyclopedia of Horticulture, offered to the student who compiles the most points in all divisions. All divisions are open to
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Bigger Prizes For Writers
The Statewide Activities committee, at its opening Tuesday evening, increased the prizes which will be awarded the home town correspondents for their individual work.
The first prize of $25 will remain the same but the second prize has been increased to $15. Other prizes are: third, $10; fourth, $5; and ten prizes of $2 each to be given as the fifth prize. The prizes will be awarded on the basis of quantity, quality, and the conditions under which the material was obtained.
The committee also authorized another committee to work out a plan for competition between writers in high school leagues. Another plan in the process of formation will arrange dual contests between writers in two towns, disregarding any league affiliation.
A dinner at the end of the year will climax the work of the home town correspondents.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association, said that the committee has appointed these correspondents but if anyone wants to write, they should report to John Kreamer, college junior; Max Webster, business junior; or to the Alumni office.
The appointed correspondents will meet in the Kansas room at 7:30 Wednesday evening.
White signs with black lettering, "Military Area, Restricted," have been placed on the campus around the Naval Training School.
horticulture majors with a special apple selection contest for freshmen, and a floral arrangement contest for home economics majors.
Fruits, vegetables, and flowers used in the show will be auctioned off after the show closes Saturday morning.
Outlining the use and effect of poison gas in World War I and suggesting the possibility of its use in this war, Captain Elverson Baker. assistant professor of military science spoke to the Amtrican Institute of Chemical Engineers Wednesday in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building.
Captain Baker Warns Chemical Engineers Of Poison Gas Use
"If the Axis nations begin using poison gas," he said, "the United Nations will be ready to retaliate."
Captain Baker described eight different war gases by telling of their odor, color, means of dispensation, and means of counteracting them.
Dave Boylan. engineering senior was elected to the Engineering Council as a representative of A.I. Ch.E.
Washington, Nov. 13—Hope of finding Capt. Eddie Rickenbacher and his entire crew alive was revived today with the finding of Capt. William P. Cherry, one of the crew.
Rickenbacker's Aide Found Alive on Raft
Capt. Cherry was found floating on a raft in the South Pacific ocean. Although weak, he was considered in good physical condition. From information he gave, it is thought possible that others of the crew which was forced down enroute to Hawaii, would be rescued.
ISA To Have Skating Party
The Independent Student Association will have a skating party from 10 until 12 tonight at the Rollerdrome. Membership cards will admit, but a charge of 25 cents will be made to non-members, according to officers of the organization.
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Seventy-Fourth Vespers Service in Hoch Sunday
An Unforgettable Experience
The first of a series of four All-Musical Vespers programs sponsored each year by the School of Fine Arts, will be presented in Hoch auditorium at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. It is the 74th of a series of such programs over 20 years.
Performing in the vespers faculty members, representing the University, whose selections range from Tschaikowsky's Fourth Symphony to a lively Russian folk song by Gretchinoff.
Howard Sutherland, a sophomore in the School of Education, will sing the baritone solos, accompanied by Professor Joseph Wilkins' University Men's Glee Club in Grieg's "Land Sighting" and in "Hark, the Vesper Hymn is Stealing," a Russian air.
The University string quartet, an ensemble composed of Professor Waldenmar Geltch and James Lerch, violinists, Professor Karl Kuersteier, violist, and John Ehrlich, cellist, will appear on the program, playing "Elegie and Serenade" by G. Strube. Miss Edith Ann Fleming and her contra-bass has been added to the quartet for the vespers.
Pechakowsky's Fourth Symphony
Tschaikowsky's Fourth Symphony Tschaikowsky's Fourth Symphony will be played by the University Symphony Orchestra, directed by Professor Karl Kuersteiner. The orchestra will present the finale of the symphony.
The a cappella choir, directed by Dean D. M. Swarthout, will perform in four numbers. The selections are: "Be Joyful All Ye Lords," by Gretcheninoff; "Music When Soft Voices Die," by C. Dickinson, a Rus-
will be some 300 students and five musical organizations of
Calderwood To Give Reading
sian folk song; "Where'er I Roam or Laugh," also by Gretchaninoff; and to close their portion of the program, a choralogue, "Thanks Giving" by W. B. Olds.
In the latter number, Professor Robert Calderwood of the department of dramatics will read the text to an accompaniment of a humming choir. Solios will be taken by Zendra Kass, soprano, and David T. Lawson, baritone. An arrangement of a 17th century hymn, "Now Thank We All Our God," will close the number.
Opening the hour's program will be an organ prologue, "Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne" by Buxtehude, played by Professor Laurel Everette Anderson. The University Band, directed by Professor Russell L. Wiley, will close the vespers with a tone poem, "Jericho" by Morton Gould.
Other vespers given by the entire School of Fine Arts are the Dec. 20 Christmas Vespers with "living pictures," and Sunday afternoon vespers the third Sunday in February and March. The vespers were begun in 1923 when Dean Swarthout began his work here at the University.
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