UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
UNIVERSITY Daily Kansan
39th YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1942
Shape Commencement Program
NUMBER 135
Phi Beta Kappa Holds Initiation
"New Words Well Suited to The Age" furnished the titles of speeches given at the Phi Beta Kappa initiation dinner held last night for 24 initiates in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building. General theme of the program was the life of a scholar in wartime. Initiation was held in the men's lounge preceding the dinner.
C. D. Clark, professor of sociology, presided in the absence of Miss Josephine Burnham, president of the honorary scholastic fraternity, who was ill. Chancellor Deane W. Malott gave the welcoming address.
Heidi Viets, college senior, gave a speech entitled "Thumbs Up!" and Fred Robertson, college senior, spoke on "Priorities." Both were initiated last night. Professor Clark spoke on "Conversion," and J. W. Ashton, professor of English, delivered an address entitled "Commandos." Sam
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Shakespeare
★★★
Duelism King
A man walking away from his own shadow, the world's first sun motor of its size and kind, and visible sound and audible light are some of the demonstrations which startled World's Fair audiences and will be seen here by arrangement with the research laboratory of the General Electric Company.
The presentation will be under the direction of William A. Glueesing, who in private life is a real magician as well as a scientific one, and whose gift of showmanship makes the "House of Magic" as entertaining as it is educational.
The "House of Magic" is the name originally given to the research laboratory of the General Electric Company, over the protests of the nearly 400-serious minded scientists who work there. From the research laboratory come the effects and demonstrations of the "House of Magic" show which suggest new developments for the future that the average layman never dreamed of.
A phosphorescent screen enables
Los Angeles— Shakespeare knew his stuff when it came to swordplay, for the dueling scenes and terms in his plays indicate a knowledge both of old broadsword and buckler and the newer rapier and dagger.
So says Horace S. Craig, associate in French on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California who recently wrote a pamphlet titled, "Dueling Scenes and Terms in Shakespeare's Plays." Craig was captain of the U.CLA. fencing team in 1932-33 and later served as coach.
"To the multifarious knowledge attributed to Shakespeare we must add his understanding of dueling," declares Craig. "To his interesting vocabulary of technical terms we must append those which have to do with the sword. The terms employed are used accurately, unless he chooses to misuse to effect comedy."
cured at the University business office in Frank Strong hall.
Keeps 'Em Guessing Science Magic
General Electric's "House of Magic," one of the hit shows of the New York World's Fair and of every major exposition since Chicago's Century of Progress, will be presented in Hoch auditorium next Tuesday evening, May 19. The program is sponsored by the University and the Kansas Electric Power Co. Admission, which is free, is by tickets which may be se-
Music is sent across the stage on a beam of light with the aid of a special lamp and a phototube, commonly called the electric eye. The special lamp sends a beam of light which changes with all the musical vibrations of a phonograph record
While the electric eye is making it possible to "hear" light, a cathode ray oscillograph at the same time makes it possible to "see" sound in the form of waves recorded on the tube.
Gluesing to walk away from his own shadow, shake hands with his shadow and roll it up into a box.
While the human eye is too slow to see the light changes, the electric eye sees each change and records it as a change in sound on the loudspeaker. This same experiment of carrying sound on a beam of light has been performed in Scheinectady for a distance of more than 25 miles, from airship to earth and from a moving train to station platform.
Robert C. Yates of the Louisiana State University mathematics faculty is the author of a new volume, "The Trisection Problem."
Bolt Installed As President Of Summer MSC
George Bolt, engineering junior, was installed as president of the first University summer session Men's Student Council at a meeting last night in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Composed of ten members each from P.S.G.L. and Pachacamac, the summer Council will take over MSC duties only until next fall. At that time, the regular representatives will resume their seats.
All members of the regular Council who have indicated their intentions to attend summer school were retained as representatives. They are Maurice Baringer, Garland Landrith, and Verlyn Norris, all P.S.G.L.; John Somers and Harlan Cope, Pachacamac.
Additional Fachacamac representatives are: Lewis Allen, college junior; Keith Richey, business junior; Dana Tompkins, sophomore in pharmacy; George Bolt; Bob Brothers, engineering sophomore; John Walker, college sophomore; Carl Hines, college sophomore; and Steve Fnels, college sophomore.
Completing the P.S.G.L. slate are: Oliver Hughes, business senior; Dan Marriott, business junior; Clarence Miller, engineering junior; William Young, engineering freshman; Arthur Nelson, college junior; Clifford Reynolds, college sophomore; and Ralph Michener, college sophomore.
Steve Phelps will act as vicepresident, Arthur Nelson as secretary, and Garland Landrith will retai his position as treasurer.
The group was sworn in by Vernon McKale, regular president. McKale will resume the office of president next fall.
The Summer Session Council was created by a bill passed by the 1941-42 MSC. That group felt that, with an increased summer enrollment, there would be much work for the Council, particularly on the war-dense committee.
ROTC Unit Receives A Superior Rating
The first meeting of the new Council will be on June 8, during the first week of summer school.
"Equipment in the ROTC unit at the University of Kansas is in excellent condition and shows careful and superior care," was the report just received by ROTC officers here as a result of an ordnance department inspection on April 22 and 23, by officers from the Seventh Corps Area, Omaha.
"Such a notice has never before been sent to the R.O.T.C. unit here," say officers of the University R.O.- T.C. corps.
Ellsworth Announces Graduation Plans
Plans for the seventieth annual commencement exercises to be held on the campus May 30 to June 1 are nearing completion, Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association, said today.
News Photo Contest Announcement Made
Three prizes will be offered and two honorable mentions. All entries will be judged from the standpoint of news value, structural composition, and tonal quality.
Verdun R. Daste, instructor of journalism, has announced that all students in the department will have the opportunity of entering the annual Jack Penfold contest in news photography.
Reunions planned for the commencement exercises are those of the senior alumni group, members of all classes before 1892, under the chairmanship of Mrs. C. M. Sterling, of Lawrence; the 50-year reunion of the class of 1892, to which are invited the classes of the two preceding and the two succeeding years, with Professor E. F. Engel as chairman; Oscar Brownlee will be chairman of the 25 year reunion of the class of 1917; informal reunions of the classes of 1925-1932.
The student must file his entry in the office of the chairman of the department, and every entry will be returned if requested. The deadline for all photographs is May 15.
All prints must be at least 5 by 7 inches or larger, on glossy paper, but the processing of them need not be the work of the contestant.
No entries will be accepted if taken prior to September, 1941.
For further information on the competition, see Daste.
Air Corps Cadet Exams Saturday
Recruiting officers for the U. S. Army Air Corps will return to the campus May 16 to give examinations to students aspiring to be aviation cadets. The officers will be located in the office of the Chancellor.
Col. James S. Dusenbury, professor of military science, stated today that he has received word from recruiting officers emphasizing that examinations for aviation cadets cannot be given to anyone who has not completed his application when the officers return to the campus.
Students must present three applications which are properly notarized, three letters of recommendation, and one certified copy of his birth certificate. Also, all applicants who are not of age must obtain written consent from their parents.
Application blanks may be obtained at the R.O.T.C. office.
Twenty-eight lecturers from other schools all over the nation will join the University of Wisconsin summer session staff.
The general program of the commencement will begin Saturday morning with golf for visiting alumni at the Lawrence country club. At 10:00 a.m., alumni registration will open in the Memorial Union building. At 3:00 o'clock after afternoon, the annual baseball game between members of the graduating class and the faculty and alumni will be played. A forum on "Kansas in War Production" will be conducted by F. T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, and R. Q. Brewster, professor of chemistry, in Fraser theater at 3:30. At 5:30, Torch chapter of Mortar Board, women's honor society will hold its annual reunion, and Sachem men's honor society, will hold its reunion at 6:00 o'clock. At 7:30 there will be an open air band concert on the campus. Following a reception in the Union building at 8:30, an alumni-senior dance will be given in the Union ballroom at 9:30.
At 11:00 o'clock Sunday, all Lawrence churches will hold commencement services. After the class reunion dinners at 1:00 p.m., all University buildings will hold open house for the visitors. Other events of the afternoon will be the commemorative service in Hoch auditorium, a forum, also in the auditorium, a band concert in Fowler grove, and reunion dinners. Baccalaureate services will be held in the stadium at 7:30 p.m. The sermon will be given by Dr. (continued to page eight)
Two Books In Indian Language at Watson Circulation Desk
Two books written in the Indian language are now on display at the circulation desk of Watson library. One book History of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, was printed in 1837. The other book, Gospel According to John, was printed in 1844.
In 1806 David Zeisberger, a missionary, translated these two books into the Delaware Indian language. He devised a way to print the Indian language and Jothan Meeker, a printer at Shawnee Baptist Mission, printed them.