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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KAN
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LAWRENCE KANSAS THURSDAY, MAY 1. 1941
38TH YEAR.
To Reward Scholars At Initiation
At 5:30 o'clock tonight will come the big moment for 26 University students.
These talks will include a speech by L. R. Lind, professor of Latin and Greek, based on Protagora's quotation, "Man is the measure of all things." Ernest Klema, college senior, Mrs. Robert Calderwood, and Betty Kimble, college senior, will give talks based on other quotations of leading men.
Initiation in Phi Beta Kappa will be their reward for four years of outstanding scholarship. The new members will be the guests of honor at a banquet in the ballroom of Memorial Union building following the initiation.
Miss Josephine Burnham, professor of English, will preside. The theme of the banquet is "The Scholar in a Troubled World." Following the banquet theme, five students and faculty members of Phi Beta Kappa will give talks which are based on quotations of famous people.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott will conclude the program with the statement of H. G. Wells, that "Mankind may expect America to be the intellectual synthesis of the world."
Students who will be initiated to night are Robert Allen, Ruby Ashland, John Bacon, Kenneth Barnett James Bernard, Ruth Burdorff, Carter Butler, Vivian Clark, Mary Elizabeth Coulson, Marion Crenshall.
Polly Gowans, O'Thene Huff,
Margaret Hyde, Mary Elizabeth
Janes, Alice Ann Jones, Jewell
Kirby, Jennie Irene May, Melvin F
McDonald, Verleen Miller, Ilse
Louise Nesbett, Margaret Ogden,
Lois Schreiber, Jean Stouffer, Betty
VanDeventer, Dorothy Weidmann,
and Doris Winzer, all college
seniors.
NUMBER 137.
A Free Movie
Don't Sniff
A free movie is not to be sniffed at on anybody's campus. So saying, many students will troop to Fraser theater at 3:30 this afternoon or at 7:30 tonight to see "The Count of Monte Cristo," sponsored by the Forums board.
The movie is based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, and stars Elissi Landi, Robert Donat, and Raymond Walburn. It is the story of a man who was convicted without trial and condemned to a life in prison. After 20 years he escaped, worked his way to wealth and power, and sent his three former accusers to their graves.
ToTheEditor--
Accusations being circulated on the campus and in the Kansan imply that some secret and subversive organization planned and distributed the peace circular on "Dandelion Day."
This traditional peace day has been observed on hundreds of campuses and has the support of some of the most eminent American leaders. The idea expressed in the peace leaflet was, "Get Out and Stay Out of the War." The leaflet represented K.U.'s part in the Student Peace Day. The Gallup poll shows that $79\%$ of the American people oppose participation in the war, and we believe that most K.U. students support this stand.
No specific organization sponsored this leaflet. It was the result of efforts by a spontaneous group of students.
Signed.
Russell H. Barrett
Jessie M. Lemon
Wayne R. Jones
Bill Stafford
Marjorie Houston
Harold Gregg
Art Peters
Lloyd Estes
Dale Bruce
Stephen L. Stover
Richard Edgar
Mary Helen Wilson
Bertha Peters
E. Laitala
Kenneth Wagner
John Cress
Keith Martin
Terrace Dancing Union Plans
"The work is going as rapidly as possible," said Henry Werner, adviser of men, "but before we con-
Would you like to dance on a terrace overlooking the valley surrounding Mount Oread to the strains of one of the Hill bands?
This is just one of the improvements and additions which preliminary plans for the north wing of the Memorial Union building call for. These preliminary plans and studies, partially taken from the original plans drawn up by Pond and Pond of Chicago,
are now being completed by George M. Beal, professor of architecture.
Sometime within the next week, when the definite drawings have been made, they will be placed on lantern slides, which will be shown to various student organizations and at meetings of groups of student interested in having the proposed north wing. Student Opinions
The plans proposed so far include a bowling alley, a pool and ping pong room, and a dine-and-dance hangout on the sub-basement floor. The biggest improvement planned is the northward extension of the ballroom which calls for the entire north end made up of windows and french doors opening out onto a terrace. The terrace would also be floored for dancing.
tinue we want to find out the student opinion."
Browsing Room
Tibbett Tickets Sell Like Hot Cakes
A browsing room, new music room (continued to page eight)
If tickets to the Lawrence Tibbett concert for May 12 were hot cakes they couldn't be selling much faster.
Tibbett's appearance here is in connection with the University concert course, and students may be admitted by showing their activity books at the auditorium door. The remaining tickets for non-students are priced at $1 and $2, and may be obtained at the School of Fine Arts office.
Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, and interested persons should make reservations at once.
A check on sales at noon today showed that tickets for the first balcony of Hoch auditorium were completely sold out, 40 ducats remanied for the second balcony, and only 100 seats were left on the main floor.
A large number of tickets are being sold every day, said D. M
Dummy Warfare Climaxes Inspection
The annual federal inspection of the University R. O. T. C. came to a close this noon with an exciting anti-aircraft drill and an infantry attack problem. General opinion of inspecting officers and staff members was that the inspection has been satisfactory.
Sigma Xi, honorary science fraternity will take 23 new members into the organization at its spring initiation and banquet Tuesday in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.
Science Fraternity To Initiate 23 At Banquet
M. H. Wallace, graduate student; Frank Kalich, assistant instructor of zoology; Otis Moots, graduate student; Dr. Thomas R. Hamilton, graduate student and staff member of the University of Kansas hospital; Wellesly Dodds, graduate students; Major M. Swan, physiology instructor.
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Those who have been elected to membership in the organization are: James Crabtree, college senior; Ernest Klema, college senior; Donald M. Black, New York City alumnus; Prof. S. M. Pady of the botany department of Ottawa University; Miss Bette Wasson, student at Rosedale; Harold Nelson, graduate student and freshman in medicine; Russell Mellies, graduate student; Elias Burstein, graduate student; Willard Goodrich, graduate student.
Colonel Briggs conducted the administrative inspection, Colonel French, the coast artillery, and Colonel Davis, the infantry.
The review of the regimental parade yesterday afternoon, classroom tests yesterday and this morning, and the inspections of practical drills on the campus grounds this morning were conducted by Colonel Raymond E. Briggs, R. O. T. C. officer of the Seventh Corps Area; Colonel C. A. French, University of Minnesota, and Lieutenant Colonel H. H. Davis, University of Arkansas.
In commenting on the inspection, Lieutenant Colonel Davis said that the units "compared favorably" with other units and Colonel Karl F. Baldwin, commander of the University R. O. T. C. said, "The review and parade yesterday was the best we've ever had at the University of Kansas."
Units 'Compare Favorably'
With flags waving, the 625-man regiment "fell in" north of Fowler shops and marched down to the intramural field at the southwest corner of the campus where the parade, review and inspection were held.
Cloudy weather threatened the ocasion, but late in the afternoon the sun slipped out from behind the (continued to page eight)
Maypole dancing is no longer in fashion. It used to be quite a thing when people could dance around the maypole to two-to-the-bar fiddle playing. But at a Maypole dance conducted to the strains of some modern music. Somebody would probably strangle himself in a garland of flowers.
May 1 Brings Flowers No Maypole Dance
Egyptians Celebrated
With all the fifth-column rumors people are afraid to hang maybaskets on doorknobs.
Spring flowers, such as tulips, lilacs, and violets are in bloom. And the row of peonies flanking the statue of the Pioneer are budding, and should bloom well in advance of the Decoration Day deadline.
May Day celebrating is an old idea. The people of India and Egypt are believed to have conducted a festival to hail the return of spring, and the sun-worshipping Celts had an affair caled Belfire or Baal's Fire, probably to celebrate the coming of warm weather.
Today is the day when Ma Nature is supposed to get hep to the fact that spring is here. So it looks like rain.
any formal celebration. Caesar's legions carried the custom to England when they conquered the island.
The Romans were the first to have
The origin of the maypole is not well known. Chaucer tells of maypole dances in some of his works. Some of the poles towered over 100 feet in height, and in London permanent poles were set up. On May Day, people would get up early in the morning to go out and gather flowers and hawthorn branches to decorate their houses. Wash Faces in Dew
Wash Faces in Dew
According to Samuel Pepys, the 17th century Winchell, women would go into the country on May Day and wash their faces in the dew. Good for the complexion, the story goes.
One of the high spots on the program was the crowning of the "Queen of the May," the prettiest girl in town. People danced around her, and then around the maypole.
When the Puritans came into power in England, they quickly put the squash on May Day as a sinful and immoral custom. But when the Puritans were driven out, the custom back into prominence.