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PAGE TWO UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, MAY 21
Three Houses Defy Finals And Dance This Weekend
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Corbin Hall, and Kappa Sigma are three houses that will brave the pre-final library rush to have their spring formals this weekend.
Kappa Kappa Gamma will dance in the Union Memorial building ballroom Friday night, and Corbin hall Saturday night. Kappa Sigma fraternity will hold their dance at the house Saturday.
The rest of us are all through with this social whirl stuff. We are studying hard or resting well, depending on our own particular pre-final technique.
HOUSE MOTHERS
... of the University recently attended a picnic at Gage Park, Topeka. About 30 guests attended. Those in charge of arrangement were Mrs. Jane C. MacLean, Mrs. A. J. Ogden, Mrs. E. D. Charles, Mrs. Harry P. Ramage, Mrs. W. M. Wolfe, Mrs. J. A. Hooke, Mrs. Chas. Esterly, and Mrs. C. D. Wilson.
UNIVERSITY CLUB
... held its last dance of the season Saturday night. Hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Corlert Cotton and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oyler. About 80 members attended.
MEDICAL FACULTY
... of the University attended a luncheon this noon in honor of Dr. Frederick A. Coller, Ann Arbor, Mich. Dr. Coller lectured this morning to the School of Medicine.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA
CHI OMEGA
... had a picnic last night at their house.
DELTA PHI SIGMA
. . . alumna gave a supper for graduating seniors of their sorority last night at the home of Mrs. A. B. Matdhell.
... officers elected for the coming year are Dorothy Gear, president; June King, vice-president; Louise Poison, secretary; Dorothy Howe, treasurer; Sigrid Steeper, social chairman; Mary Louise McNown, nursery chairman; Gloria Burr, publicity chairman; and Sylvia Steeper, chaplain.
ALPHA TAU OMEGA
. . . luncheon guests yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. Bob Williams, ElDorado, Ark. Mr. Williams was president of the chapter in 1932.
ALPHA KAFPA PSI
will hold an hour dance at the chapter house Thursday evening from 7 to 8 p.m. Chaperones will be Prof. and Mrs. L. L. Waters.
CORBIN HALL
weekend guests were Mrs.
Walter T. Hunt and Lorraine Hunt
of Potwin.
. . . Sunday dinner guests were Jimmy Nelson, Evertoon Doom, Ralph Hoke, Lae Bauer, Mary Ann Bowen, Letha Jane Curtis, Mrs. A. Youngquist, Freda Youngquist, Inez Youngquist, Topeka; and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Youngquist, Karen Ann Youngquist, Blue Rapids.
Monday luncheon guests were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kalke and Le-
ers in the garden. The big hat lends glamour to the costume, accentuated by the severe v-shaped neckline and a full skirt.
Splashy flowers on a simply-cut print—the kind of dress to make you outshine all the flow-
nore Radke, St. John; Jane Krehbiel, Kansas City, Mo.
... last night dinner guest wa
Mary Alice Dietrich.
THETA TAU
. . . announces the pledging of Paul Thayer, junior in the School of Engineering, and James Waugh, freshman engineer.
... announces the engagement of Miss Shirley Shaver, Pi Beta Phi at Manhattan, to Herman Barkmann.
PHI DELTA THETA
SIGMA CHI
... dinner guests Sunday were Miss Elizabeth Rupp and Ed Safford.
... weekend guest was Jack O'Hara.
. . . dinner guests Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Reed, Jr,
Grove, Okla.
... dinner guests Sunday were Patti Duncan, Marjorie Thomas, Nadine Hazen, Belleville; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Avery, Kansas City, Mo. WATKINS HALL
. . . will hold an hour dance at the hall from 7 to 3 p.m. Thursday night.
SIGMA NU
KAPPA SIGMA
. . dinner guest Monday was Lt Edward McPheeters, Camp Robinson.
Fine Arts Music For 75th Show
The University Band, Men's Glee Club, A Cappella Choir and specialty quartets will be the contribution of the School of Fine Arts to the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration.
The Men's Glee Club will sing at the Anniversary dinner and the Alumni dinner. The A Cappella Choir will sing at the Baccalaureate services and at the big community union church service Sunday, June 11 in Hoch auditorium.
A specialty quartet directed by Mrs. Alice Moncrieff, professor of voice, will sing tunes of 75 years ago at the Anniversary dinner. A Negro quartet will sing at the old fashioned barbecue.
The band will serve as an all-purpose organization, filling in wherever good music is needed.
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K. U.'s First Year of Life
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It Was A Tough Pull
Pessimistic forecasters are predicting a drop in University enrollment down to 2,500 students next year—what with the draft and all. That, they say, will be awful. That will mean a considerable loss of prestige.
Seventy-five years ago next fall, far from worrying about what to do about an enrollment of 2,500 University authorities were frantically trying to keep and educate 27.
The only building on the campus was old North College, still in the process of completion by two or three noisy carpenters. There were no juniors or seniors, and only a few freshmen and sophomores. The rest of the students were occupied with pre-college work preparatory to taking up University courses.
The teaching staff consisted of three—two young professors, Francis Huntington Snow and D. H. Robinson, both young men just out of college themselves—and Professor Elias J. Rice, who, because of his age and wider experience, was appointed "acting president" of the young University. Rice, officially was "professor of belles lettres and
mental and moral sciences." Snow taught mathematics, and Robinson languages.
The chancellor, the Rev. R. W. Oliver, was a merry little man who advised the earnest young professors that a week of hunting prairie chickens was the best preparation they could possibly make for the job of educating their Kansas charges.
The first year of school life went smoothly enough—until spring. Then one by one, students began to disappear without word or notice. They had all gone home to plant
This would never do! It is impossible to lose very many of 27 students and still have a college. So Professor Snow went out across the state doing earnest missionary work in the interest of higher education.
Several months later, the first year of the University of Kansas, school life ended triumphantly with 22 students!
And as Professor Robinson wrote later, "Had our University yell been then invented, I have no doubt that Professor Snow and I would have shouted long and loud:
Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, K.U.
Authorized Parties
Friday May 23,1941
Kappa Kappa Gamma, Spring Party at Union Ballroom, 12:00 m.
Saturday May 24,1941
Kappa Sigma, Spring Formal at House, 12:00 m.
Corbin Hall, Spring Formal at Union Ballroom. 12:00 m.
Elizabeth Meguar, Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Interests.
Law Achievement Plaque To Outstanding Students
For giving the best service to Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity, Harry Wiles, and Moe Ettenson, both third year law students, received an achievement plaque at the fraternity's annual banquet last night at Weidemann's Grill. The plaque is an annual award.
Selected by a committee and presented by Dr. J. B. Smith, professor of law, both students were selected for the award since their service to the chapter has been judged equally important.
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