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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MAY 25.
Spring Garden Decorations For All Weekend Parties
Spring flowers and a garden atmosphere were used in the decorations for all of the three formal parties of organized houses this weekend.
Clyde Bysom and his band played for the Kappa Kappa Gamma party at the Union ballroom Friday night, and for Corbin dancers Saturday night, also in the ballroom.
University band members laid aside their instruments to dance Friday night in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building to the music of another band-Clayton Harbur's.
Harbar also furnished the music for the Kappa Sigma party at their chapter house last night.
Alpha Kappa Alpha and Alpha Phi Alpha held their spring formal Friday night in the Community building.
CORBIN HALL
held their spring formal last night in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building. The date list included Bob Blackwell, Russell Miller, Gene Feaster, Neal Ukena, Wendell Tompkins, Franklin Zook, Bill Woolston, Pat Westhaus, Al Ward, Eden Beebe, Chel Leback, Art Thomas, Warren Snyder, Fred Wallingford, John McAllister.
Paul Conway, Conrad Marvin Bob Royer, Harold Haage, George Bonehra, William McIntosh, Cliff Nordstrom, Kermit Lorenz, Niles Gibson, Fred Dietrich, Del Case, Mark Harmon, David Watermulder, Marion Smith, Robert Pyle, Dean Ostrum, George Barhollow, Wayne Howard, Pittsburg, Melvin Adams, Jim Burdge, Thompson Holst, Bill Bass.
Wray Strowig, Salina, Jean Seymour, Kansas City, Mo., Wrex Riley, Malcolm Black, Gene Pirtle, Paul Hardman, Stan Patton, Bradley Jennison, Leslie Butterfield, Newton Lewis, John McKimens, Ralph Hoke, Dale Lowery, Dee Potter, Ted Hopper, Sabetha, Earl Balthazar.
Donn Mosser, James Johnson,
Morton Green, Warren Blair, John
Conard, Bob Goss, Bill Atwell, Harvey Hefner, Fred Robertson, Floyd Frederick, Edgar Haage, Dwight Geiger, Byron Caskey, Harry Nelson, Maurice Baringer, John Strandberg.
Bill Morrison, Brent Campbell,
Motton Reynolds, Kansas City, Greg
Stinder, John Anderson, Red
Thompson, and Earl Riddle.
Chaperons for the party were Mrs. C. F. Brook, Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, Miss Marie Miller, and Miss Maude Elliott.
DELTA UPSILON
... dinner guests Thursday were Annabel Fisher, Mollie Tanner, Dorothy Chumn, Margaret Kreider, and Olive Joggerst.
CARRUTH HALL
. . announces the election of the following new officers: Ralph Anderson, president; Dick Mankin, vice-president; Le Roy Johnston, secretary; Jack Pattie, treasurer; Dale Ewing, social chairman; David
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Boylan, scholarship chairman; Maurice Hill, intramural chairman; Neil Ukena, publicity chairman, and Floyd Frederick, inter-hall council representative.
PI BETA PHI
. . gave a formal farewell dinner Thursday night in honor of their housemother, Mrs. Jane McLean, who will retire after this spring. Table decorations were spring flowers.
PI KAPPA ALPHA
. . . announces the pledging of Dale Lowery, and Kenneth Becker.
SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON
...dinner guest Friday night was Barbara Benton.
ANNOUNCEMENT
... is made of the engagement of Neva Garrett, Zeta Tau Alpa at Kansas State, to Ralph Adams, senior engineer here, who lives at Jayhawk Coop. Both are from Clay Center.
KAPPA SIGMA
... guests at their spring formal last night were Mary Millsom, Fern Stranathan, Alice Harrington, Jean Ott, Wilma Jean Hadden, Harriet Ojers, Margaret Schoolcraft, Sybie Duft, Betty Brownlee, Dotty Noble, Jerry Humphrey, Libby Metcalf, Martha Jane Starr, Marilyn Duncan, Helen K. Moore, Marjorie Barben, Mary Louise Belcher, Faith Seeley, Mariann Lacey, Margaret Anne Reed, Alice Raffington, June Hammett, Betty Gaines, Letha Epper, Ada Lee Fuller, Nancy Leathers, Jean Bailey, Mary Brower, Margaret Neal, Virginia Scott, Margaret Little, Ruth Iankes, Gwen
Couch, Ida Mae Giddings, Viretta Shaw, Mary Beth Dodge, Dorothy Jean Harvey, Norma Brooks, Ann Staley, Mignon Morton, Virginia Phipps, and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Clover.
Chaperones were Mrs. Helen G. Shinn, Mrs.H. C. Lyons, Mrs.James A. Hooke, and Mrs.C. D. Wilson.
ENGAGEMENT
... of Blanche Smith, college senior,
to Herbert Morrell, senior engineer,
has been announced recently. The
marriage will take place sometime
this summer.
... entertained with its annual
senior banquet Thursday night.
DELTA TAU DELTA
KAPPA SIGMA
... dinner guests Friday were Margaret Neal and Dick Hansen.
PHI DELTA THETA
. . dinner guest Thursday was
Prof. J. H. Taggart.
. . . dinner guests Friday night were Bob LaGree and Dick Basket, Holton.
. . . weekend guest is Jack O'Hara,
Kansas City, Mo.
TEMPLIN HALL
... dinner guests Thursday were Mary Maude Smelser, Lawrence, Jannette T. Wheeler, Lawrence, Carrie M. Watson, Lawrence, and Ellis Swarts, Osage.
BATTENFELD HALL
. . . Thursday guests at dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Garth Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Werner, and Bill Dixon.
WATKINS HALL
... weekend guest is Mrs. B. E
Stember, Ozawkie.
. . announces the engagement of Margery Lewis to Harry Wigner, Kansas City.
WAGER HALL
Hill Gives Senior Recital Tuesday
Winifred Hill, fine arts senior, will present her senior piano recital at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Frank强壮 hall. Miss Hill is from the studio of Ruth Orcutt, associate professor of piano
... weekend guest is Anna Mac
Malm, Silver Lake.
Selections to be played include 'Prelude in E Flat Minor" from "Well-Tempered Clavichord," by Bach; "French Suite, No. 6," by Bach; "Waltzes, Op. 39," Brahms; "The Spinning Maidens of Carantee," from the suite "In Brittany," by Rheene-Baton; "The White Peacock," from "Roman Sketches" by Griffes; "El Vito," Infante; "Concerto in C Minor," Beethoven.
Orchestral parts will be played on the second piano by Miss Orcutt.
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Students Pranks As Old As Colleges
A Nazi flag flying over Frazer Hall last week represented the most successful student prank in a number of years — if success may be measured by the amount of attention attracted.
But there have been other pranks this year that were played, created their share of attention, and then sank quickly into the limbo of things forgotten, — pigs in sorority houses, a new coat of paint for Uncle Jimmy Green, an occasional K-State football player tossed into Potter's Lake, a pile of sod mysteriously turned for the Pioneer.
In 1873 fierce little General Frazer was delivering a commencement address in the unfinished auditorium of Frazer Hall. As yet the auditorium had walls roughly plastered, windows closed with boards, and a great gaping hole about eight feet across in the center of the ceiling. In the midst of the exercises, a grinning skeleton slowly descended from the dark ceiling, shaking and rattling his naked bones. Attached to one big toe was a cardboard sign inscribed, "Prex."
Except for a few notable exceptions, student pranks today are tame things compared to those told of other years. For instance—
"What," asked the Chancellor's young wife of her angry husband, "What does 'Prex' mean?"
"The faculty!" he snapped.
Rivals To Greeks
When Greek letter societies first appeared on the campus, any number of rival clubs and groups were formed by independents. One of these groups appeared wearing large 2-inch badges inscribed "T.C." When it became apparent that these boys had no purpose for their club, and no regular meeting-place, they were watched closely. At that time, turkeys began mysteriously to disappear from farmyards close to the campus
Finally, one unlucky night, the barnyard of the kindly Judge Nelson Stephens was raided. The next week, members of the "T.C." club were invited to the Judge's house for supper. Each boy was served with one whole baked turkey and nothing else. All during the long dinner, the judge imperturbably told stories to his disquieted guests. After dinner, he quietly dismissed them. That was the end of the "Turkey Catchers." Temperance Pledges
When woman's temperance was in full swing, the University was invaded and the temperance pledge
CARRUTH HALL
... dinner guests Thursday were Bill Remley, Kansas City, Mo., and Jack Walton, Florence.
... weekend guest is Henderson Six, Lyons.
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was passed around among the professors. One of those who signed happened to have a few bottles of good old wine in his basement for use in sickness.
A few evenings after the unfortunate professor had signed the pledge, a group of college men played a purely social call to his home. They played the piano; they sang college songs; they roared with laughter until the rafters shook.
The next morning the professor discovered that under cover of the noise the night before, his cellar had been raided. The wine was gone, but in its place was a note:
"Dear Professor — Inasmuch as you have signed the pledge, and therefore can neither drink this wine yourself, nor sell it, nor give it away, as that would be abetting the great evil, we have concluded to take it, and thus relieve you of all temptation. Yours truly, CRUSADERS." Disastrous Prank
One of the most disastrous pranks was a supposedly authentic letter to Chancellor Marvin in 1881, telling of the death of F. T. Ingalls, brother of the famous Senator J. J. Ingalls. The Chancellor had left Lawrence to attend the funeral, and memorial exercises were being held in Fraser theater before the hoax was discovered. The two perpetrators were suspended in disgrace for the remainder of the year. One came back the next year: both went on to school to become successful lawyers.
There have always been college pranks and probably always will be—some funny and harmless, some with serious consequences. They are no modern invention.
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