THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1942
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
No Easter Vacation Lonesome Hare
By Forest Hashbarger
There has been no little griping on the Hill about the cancellation of the Easter vacation, said to be necessary because of the war program. We are not the only ones affected by this policy, and students at other institutions, though they are also muttering in their beards, are accepting their fate as a necessary evil.
Attitudes toward the loss of spring vacation swing from one extreme to the other.
The students at the University of Indiana are screaming because the beginning of their vacation has been moved up to start six hours earlier than scheduled. It seems that they had been cramming to make a good impression in their Thursday classes, and now all that work is gone for naught.
Dorsey at Purdue
At Purdue University, Tommy Dorsey was a welcome substitute as a temporary parole from studies. Saturday night he played for a convocation from 7:30 until 9:00. General admission required identification passports and 50c worth of defense stamps. For a $1.10 ticket and another 50c worth of stamps, swingers danced to the music of the "Sentimental Gentleman."
University of Oklahoma students will have a vacation from at least one Saturday class. One professor held her class last night, so her students could have Saturday off. A move is being made to allow all students a like chance to get out of weekend classes.
Dance is Traditional
Unkindest news of all is that the Aggies at Manhattan will have their vacation, beginning tomorrow noon. But then___?
Tradition at the University of Virginia "demands" that the weekend of Easter week begin with a dance on Thursday night, so today was the last of school for this week.
Here's that other extreme: 500 students at the University of California got together and raised a bit of noise last Thursday, after President Robert Gordon Sproul announced that the Easter bunny would have to find other playmates. Students at the Los Angeles branch decided it would be "childish" to mimic the Berkeley students, when they learned that Sproul decree would also apply to them.
Lawyers vs. Engineers Again
Among other things, the struggle on the lawyer-engineer front distracted the attention of Michigan University students from such uneventful things as Easter vacation. A strong force of lawyers swiped the giant slide rule the engineers hung in the Union ballroom an hour before their Slide-Rule Ball last Saturday.
Unable to find the slide-rule, the engineers hung a dummy in the ballroom, which they identified as "the lawyer who stole our slide-rule."
"An Open Letter to the Engineers"—
Tuesday, the lawyers issued this challenge to the engineers:
"Whereas it has come to pass that the most sacred symbol of your craft has been taken from under your very noses, and inasmuch as such incident has proven beyond all doubt that the mind of one lawyer is infinitely mightier and greater than all the numbers of the engineers added together, we, the undersigned, do publicly challenge each and every engineer to find and retrieve the slide-rule that was delivered by and to us out of your portals on Friday, March the twenty-seventh in the year nineteen hundred and for two.
Pour It On
"If you cannot find it you are admitting to the world as well as to yourselves, that your mathematics, your physics, and your mechanics are to no avail when it comes to solving what to you is an insurmountable problem which we coected in our spare moments. And even if you find it, if you cannot recover it you will be forced to concede that you, who have prided yourselves on the practicality of your creed, are as meaningless as the false dogma that you think makes you necessary to the world
"Believing, therefore, that without this useless item, which serves as a perpetual crutch for you to pry yourself into a niche of society, you cannot function in our daily affairs even now, we say unto you, in the style of Daniel Webster, 'Until the lawyer onlightens you, you will forever remain ignorant.'"— "The Lawyers."
Eastwood Speaks on Art Display in Topeka Tonight
Raymond Eastwood, associate professor of drawing and painting, will speak tonight at the Topeka Community Art Center in connection with his exhibition of paintings currently displayed there.
Many of these paintings, together with part of the exhibition displayed during March in Kansas City, will be shown at Spooner Thayer museum in May.
Discuss Hope For Post-War Planning
That post-war planning will not be difficult if all countries wor ktogether for democratic ideals was the decision reached last night by University students from foreign countries whose discussion, a Forums Board program was broadcast over KFKU at 9:30.
Those wh oparticipated were Marmaduke Grove of Santiago, Chille, Mou-Hui of Peking, China, and Dew Mar, who spent 10 years in China. W.E. Sandelius, professor of political science, was moderator for the discussion.
Senior Committee Duties Assigned
Senior committee members met in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building at 3:30 Thursday afternoon to discuss the duties of the various committees during the next few weeks of school.
Largest issue discussed at the meeting was that of the sales campaign for senior announcements and invitations.
Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the alumni association, outlined the duties of the committees, after which committees were assigned their duties.
The Memorial committee will meet late next week to hear suggestions for class gifts to the University.
Miller Brothers Take Bridge Tourney Opener
Brothers Clarence and Malecolm Miller emerged winners of Tuesday night's playoffs in the first round of the spring bridge tournament in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building. Charles Owsley and Bob Stewart, junior engineers, tied with Frank Coulter and Bob Love, college freshman, for second place in this round.
Other players in the Tuesday playoffs were Mary Adams, fine arts junior; Virginia Cochener, fine arts freshman; Bob Plumb, college junior; Bill Stowits, pharmacy freshman; Jack Burns, college freshman; and Duane Smith, college sophomore.
The second round of the tournament will be played tonight in the Memorial Union building. The tournament is sponsored by the Student Union Activities committee.
JUST TIME to care for those last minute rush orders
Call us Early Friday and we can still fix you up for Easter.
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Fort Worth, Tex. (UP).—Cotton tweed stockings and shoes which are more simple and less colorful are in prospect for women this year, according to predictions of Esther Lyman, merchandise editor of Harper's Bazaar.
Speaking before a recent South-west shoe convention, Miss Lyman displayed samples of a new lisle hose, cross-dyed in two colors to give the appearance of tweed. She said that women would use them for work, country and casual wear, and that they will be substituted to a great extent for silk and nylon.
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The fashionable shoe for women next spring will be a step-in model with medium to low heels, and sandals with ankle straps. The colors will range from navy blue to neutral biege and gray.
Victor Miller Gives Senior Voice Recital
Victor Miller, senior in the School of Fine Arts, presented his senior voice recital last night in Frank Strong auditorium. Miller, a bass-baritone, is a pupil of Joseph Wilkins.
Miller opened his program with two classical Italian songs; Calda's "Come Raggio Di Sol," and Seecchi's "Lungi Dal Caro Bene." "Sweet Nymphe" of Morley's was followed by four German songs: Schubert's "Der Wanderer" and "Aufenthalt," Brahm's "Wie Melidien Zieht Es Mir," and Strauss' "Dedication."
The evening's operatic aria was "Vision Fugitive" from Massenet's "Herodiade." Miller's last selections were four French and four English songs.
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