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STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LAWRENCE KANSAS THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941.
38TH YEAR.
NUMBER 132.
Celebration Atmosphere Leaves
Predict Light Vote in Election Spurt Expected We Want To Say--- In Late Voting
An unusually light vote appeared probable today in the Men's Student Council election. A check-up of the five polling places at 1 o'clock showed that only 881 men had voted. Party leaders attributed the small vote to lack of excitement and muckraking.
The sudden spurt of voting that usually follows at the end of the 1:30 classes and continues until the polls close at 5 o'clock
is expected to bring about a
is expected to bring about a better showing for the Hill politicians.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon a total of 1483 men had voted.
Using Auto Squads
The last minute drive for votes today saw both Pachacamac and P.S. G.L. sending squads of autos through the rooming house districts to pick up prospective voters. Parades of cars through the campus during lunch hour were undertaken by both parties to stir interest in the election.
Spokesmen for P.S.G.L. estimated that they were using from 25 to 30 cars to carry men to the polls today. The Pachacamac fleet was said to consist of 25 cars. The autos were on call from either party headquar-ers.
Leaders of both parties agreed in classing today's election as one of (continued to page eight)
. . outgoing prexy of the Men's Student Council.
Bill Farmer
Overnight Topeka Trip Jayhawk Hossbackers To Emulate Pioneers
Red shirts, straw hats, red saddle blankets, and gloves will be the distinguishing features of the University equitation classes as they leave tomorrow morning for Topeka.
The group is making the trip to present Governor Payne Ratner with a ceramic Jayhawk and an invitation to attend the Seventy-fifth Anniversary dinner on the campus this June. roughing it taking along the
E. B. DeGroot, riding instructor and Gayle Mott of Mott stables, will accompany the 15 or more students who will make the trip. Riding will be military style, and both the United States flag and University colors will be carried.
The class expects to reach Topeka by evening, when the horses will be put up at Shawnee lake. Each student will take charge of his own horse, feeding, saddling and rubbing him down.
Straw Hats Against Sun
The men making the trip are
Severe sunburns on last year's trip to Kansas City explains the straw hats and gloves used this year.
roughing it, taking along their own bedding and sleeping in a hayloft. Station Wagon Too
The return trip will be made Saturday. Students making the ride are Margaret Butler, Harriet Hutchinson, Margaret Brown, Frances Gray, Lucian Nelson, Jack Parker, Martha Jane Hayes, Kathryne Whitehead.
Curtis Alloway, Lawrence Hensley, Margaret Titus, Betty Alphin, Bill Arnold. Dorothy Jewell of Lawrence will also make the trip. Four extras will substitute for tired riders, and a station wagon will afford tired riders a more comfortable ride.
To the Students and Faculty:
Dandelion Day was a tremendous success and likewise a profitable experiment.
It was a success because of the large number of you that turned out to cooperate with your captains. Even greater was the thought that there were only prizes for the first team, though there were eighty-five teams at work throughout the entire morning.
The day was an experiment in the sense that it was the first of its kind ever held on the campus; however, not the last time that it will be held. There were several details that were not foreseen that will be realized when the day is run off next year.
Once again, we want to express to each of you, to the organization in the carnival, to the Extension Division and Buildings and Grounds, and the University Daily Kansan, our sincere gratitude for the success of Dandelion Day.
Each of you no doubt had a fine time out of the entire day. To you who missed it by accident or purpose we want to say that you missed something that would have stood out in your memories after you leave Mt. Oread.
Charles Wright,
Dandelion Day—Field Marshal.
Bill Farmer,
President—Men's Student Coune
Look Ahead To Dandelions For Next Year
It's all over now but hauling hay and trucking the trash away. Dandelion Day, 1941, is history. Seventy-three teams dug slightly more than 93,000 pounds of dandelion fodder.
All the students on the Hill yesterday dug the daisies,but the most efficient diggers were those on the teams of Mary Lou Randall, college senior, and Bob Holmer, education senior, who were cowned Dandelion King and Queen. Collectively, they dug 8,150 pounds of weeds.
The afternoon carnival was something which probably never will be equalled—until another Dandelion Day arrives. Darts were thrown, fortunes told, baseballs thrown, roulette wheels spun, boys dunked into water tanks, and a greased pig chased.
Broken Field Runner
The greased pig—yes. He was chased by a mad horde of 35 pork-hungry college boys, and finally captured twice. He was caught the first time after a run of only 25 or 30 feet, (continued on next page)
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Suspense Is Almost Over Honors Convocation
The suspense is almost over!
Tomorrow morning at Honors Convocation the Honor Man of 1940 will be announced as well as members of Sachem, Mortar Board, and the Chancellor's Honor Roll.
The Honor Man is selected each year as the outstanding senior man in the previous year's graduating class. He is judged on the basis of outstanding character, excellence in leadership, scholarship, breadth of interest and unselfish service to the University. The man to receive the honor tomorrow will be the nineteenth man to be so honored.
All seniors in the upper 10 percent of their classes and highest ranking freshmen, sophomores and juniors in all the schools will be recognized. Sachem and Mortar
Classes will be shortened as usual on convocation mornings and the following schedule will be in effect
First Period—8:30 to 9:05 a. m.
Second Period—9:15 to 9:50 a. m.
Convocation—10 to 10:50 a. m.
Third Period—11 to 11:35 a. m.
Fourth Period—11:45 to 12:20 p.
m.
Board will honor the outstanding senior men and senior women of next year respectively.
Besides the honor awards, the morning's program will consist of a talk on "The Importance of Scholarship" by Judge Merrill E. Otis, federal judge from Kansas City, and several selections by the University orchestra. Among the musical numbers will be a composition, "Prelude from Electra" by the late Charles S. Clinton, professor of organ.
No one wanted them so two men from the buildings and grounds department pitched the wilted dandelions into a truck and hauled them away to the Lawrence city dumping grounds.
Haul Weeds Away
Few Rocks
The men said they found surprisingly few rocks, although there was plenty of campus sod included. They were not surprised though, for among the tools students used to dig the posies, they saw a scoop shovel and an axe.
Lawrence dine stores were said to have sold every knife in stock to enthusiastic students, even sold putty knives to the diggers.