THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Wilkins' to Present Joint Song Recital
The faculty recitals will be continued Monday evening in the Auditorium of Frank Strong hall, with a joint recital by Joseph and Marie Wilkins.
The training and professional experience of the singers have been almost parallel. Both graduated from Cornell University where their vocal study began, then they went to Paris, France. Here Mrs. Wilkins attended the Schola Cantorum, the famous school founded by the pupils of Cesar Franck and won a Diplome
de Chant, the first American to receive a diploma in singing from that school. Mr. Wilkins also studied in Paris where the couple were married. Later they went to Milan, Italy, where for three years they continued their study of Italian operatic repertoire, singing in many performances of opera.
Within a week after their return to the United States, Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins were engaged by the Schubert Theater Corporation of New York and for the next four years they appeared in all the large cities of the East and Middle West. They also played for two summer seasons at the St. Louis Municipal Opera appearing in some twenty different productions.
More study in Munich, Germany followed these engagements where they spent six months. After two more years of concert work Mr. Wilkins sang for Dean Swarthout in New York and was engaged as head of the voice department at the University where he has been since 1935.
Recently both Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins were soloists with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in the Beethoven Ninth Symphony and only this summer Mrs. Wilkins scored a great success as soloist with the Symphony Orchestra in the Fifth Annual Mozart Festival at Ashville, North Carolina.
Botany Professor Plans Field Trip
Worthie Herr, associate professor of botany, is planning a field trip. He intends to leave tomorrow noon, if the weather is favorable, and possibly will not be back until Sunday night.
The purpose of this trip is to collect plants for exchange herbaria and botanical survey. The specimens are to be gathered mainly from Chautauqua and Montgomery counties. These plants are to be treated with a solution of bichloride of mercury and alcohol, pressed, and exchanged for specimens from other states. Some will be mounted and added to the collection belonging to the University of Kansas.
Mr. Horr makes frequent trips of this kind to check on what is growing in the various counties and note any changes in vegetation. He will be accompanied by Ronald McGregor, and they are hoping that they may be fortunate enough to find a late blooming orchid.
President Roosevelt's youngest son, John, was among 376 naval reserve ensigns recently graduated from a three months training course conducted by the navy's supply corps at the Harvard business school.
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Corpse Saves Comanche
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Little Soldier Talks
Tom Charles, University graduate of the class of '98, thinks he has the answer to a question that has been bothering historians for decades.
Recently Charles questioned an Indian brave, Little Soldier, who was present at the massacre, as to how the phenomena occurred. The explanation given by the Indian differed greatly from any previously offered.
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a reputation on the gridiron despite the fact he tipped the scales at only 140 pounds. Since his graduation some 40 years ago, he has led an adventurous life, being at various times a United States commissioner, owner of an irrigation farm, an archeologist, an author, operator of an insurance office, and custodian of the White Sands National Monument.
A picture of Comanche, famous horse belonging to Captain James Keogh, and lone survivor of the massacre when Custer made his last stand at Big Horn, appeared on the cover of a recent issue of the graduate magazine, and recalled to Charles' mind a story concerning the fight.
Experts are puzzled as to how Comanche escaped the wholesale slaughter which claimed the lives of all the men in the ill-fated outfit, and the 276 other mounts.
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Little Soldier explained it was the white soldiers, not the redmen, who killed the horses to serve as cover from behind which they fired. However, Keogh retained his mount for emergency duties. When the captain was finally killed, he died with
John C. Crouse, chairman of the new department of Secretarial Training, has recently been appointed editor of the National Business Education News, a publication sponsored by the Department of Business Education of the N. E. A.
All women students who wish to attend the Nebraska-Kansas football game Saturday, Oct. 11, in Lincoln, Neb., must sign out in the office of Adviser of Women, 220 Frank Strong Hall, and have their parents send letters of permission direct to the Office of Adviser of Women. — ELIZABETH MEGUIAR, Adviser of Women.
the reigns of his horse in his hand. Indian superstition, according to the brave's story, prevented the victors from molesting the horse whose reins were held by a corpse. To this superstition the famous Cherokee horse owed its life.
Ronald Colman has a hectic time of it with Anna Lee, the blond and beautiful English star, in the fast moving, spicy, scintillating comedy "My Life With Caroline" now at the Joyhawk through Saturday.
During his undergraduate days at the University Charles established
Ronald Colman now at the Jayhawker in "My Life With Caroline"
University of North Carolina, which opened its doors in January, 1795, is the oldest state University in point of operation.
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