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UNIVERSITY
Exemplifying the spirit of welcome that will be extended to all visitors at the Seventy-fifth Anniversary celebration of the founding of the University of Kansas which will be held on Mount Oread June 5 to 9, is Dorothy Mae Nelson, fine arts sophomore. Miss Nelson is dressed in costume of 75 years ago and will be one of the 60 comely co-eds who will serve as an official welcoming committee and act as guides to all who attend the University's Diamond Jubilee celebration in June.
For First Time
To Present Brass Recital
Fine Arts Students
A recital of brass instruments, the first of its kind on the School of Fine Arts calendar, will be presented in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall at 8 o'clock this evening.
The program will be given by pupils of Prof. E. Thayer Gaston, assistant professor of education, and will include solo numbers for cornet, trombone, horn $ ^{4} $
(Pergolesi) by George Drew, education senior; "Rondo from Concerto for Horn in F" (Mozart) by, Edward Allsup, fine arts sophomore; cornet solo "Andante et Allegro" (Guy-Ro-
and euphonium. The program is as follows:
Cornet solo "Scherzo and Finale from Concerto in A Flat Minor" (Fitzgerald) by Robert Cater, fine arts freshman; trombone one "Nina"
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NUMBER 114.
DAILY KANSAN
38TH YEAR.
M. V. Forensics Tournament Opens Tomorrow
LAWRENCE KANSAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1941.
Approximately 75 of the best collegiate speakers in the United States will meet on the Hill this weekend for the Missouri Valley forensics tournament, E. C. Buehler, professor of speech and tourney director, said today.
Four debaters, one orator, and one extemporaneous speaker from each of the following universities will compete in the tournament: Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Dakota, Kansas, Wichita, Louisiana State, Iowa State, Kansas State and Creighton. All contests will be judged by visiting debate coaches and faculty members.
The extemporaneous speeches, to be held at 4 p.m. Friday in the Pine room of the Memorial Union, will (continued on page 167)
The tournament opens at 6 p.m. tomorrow with a banquet in the Memorial Union building. Bob McKay, first year law and tournament manager, will give the welcome address. In charge of entertainment will be Don Mitchell, business junior. The oratorical contest will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Frank Strong hall.
Open With Banquet
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Hay Speaks To Members Of Chamber of Commerce
Earl D. Hay, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the University CAA program, gave a short talk to members of the Chamber of Commerce who had a meeting at the Municipal airport yesterday. During the talk he read a letter from Arthur Capper, senator from Kansas, who praised the work being carried on here.
Pharmacy School Issues Bulletin To High Schools
The news bulletin of the School of Pharmacy has been issued and copies of the bulletin are being mailed to Kansas high schools.
The booklet contains information for prospective students of pharmacy, outlining the purpose and subjects of the School of Pharmacy.
Interested students may obtain the booklet at the School of Pharmacy office.
Ten members of the I. S. A. central council and Miss Marie Miller, assistant adviser of women, will rise at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning to start their trip to the national I. S. A. convention in Austin, Texas.
ISA Members Leave For Convention
The group plans to start at about 5:30 a.m. and will drive in two cars. Paul Gilles, college sophomore, will take one car, and Miss Esther Twente, assistant professor of sociology, has loaned her car for the trip.
The convention will last through Friday and Saturday, and the delegates from the University plan to stay over Sunday to see the sights of Austin.
Those going, besides Miss Miller and Gilles, are Fred Robertson, Mary Gene Hull, Dorothy May, Jane Lorimer, Howard Sells, Donn Mosser, Orville Kretzmeier, Claudine Scott, and Dorothy Gear.
Lawson To Address Milwaukee Alumni
Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College, will speak tonight to a group of Milwaukee alumni of the University. Lawson, who is enroute to a North Central association meeting in Chicago, will visit his daughter in Milwaukee.
Registrar Lists Spring Semester Drop of 266
A total of 4,029 students were enrolled and attending classes at the University on March 1, as reported by the registrar's official bulletin released through the Chancellor's office yesterday.
This is 329 less than in the fall semester.
Comparison with the official count as published March 1,1940, revealed that 4,295 students were in attendance at the University on the same date last year, showing a drop of 266 students. This number is no greater, however, than the average decrease in enrollments throughout the country.
The bulletin also revealed that there were 215 new registrations this semester, bringing the total number of students registered to 4,573 since last September.
The registration is divided among the various schools as follows: Graduate school, 388; College, 2,075; Engineering and Architecture, 695; Fine Arts, 356; Law, 114; Pharmacy, 82; Medicine, 452; Education, 150; Business, 345.
A comparison of 1940-41 enrollment years shows that 565 students had withdrawn on March 1 last year, while only 544 have withdrawn this year.
From a total of 4,573 students registered, 3,919 are from Kansas and 644 from other states. Ten other students represent China, Australia, the Canal Zone, Hawaiian, Japan, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
The bulletin also revealed that 49.24% of the students are partly self-supporting and 20.53% are entirely self-supporting.
Education Courses Popular
A summary of intended vocations taken from the registration cards shows that education courses are (continued to page eight)
TODAY'S DANDELION ROUNDUP---
Contest, Festival, Dance Plans Move Forward
Issue Directions For Big Race
Webster says "the dandelion is a well known plant abundant as a weed in meadows and cultivated ground throughout Europe, Asia, and North America," but students should be able to enlarge upon Webster's definition after their get-acquainted day next Wednesday.
Eradication of the "scapose perennials" will begin at 9 o'clock and last until noon, when captains will check in the yellow blossoms plucked by their teams. Trucks will carry them to the flagpole in front of the R.O.T.C. building, where (continued to page eight)
Dairyman Donates
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Ice Cream
The problem of awarding a prize to the most energetic dandelion-pullers is solved-partially at least. Thirty-five pints of ice cream have been donated for the purpose by a Lawrence cremery and will be awarded to the team whose bag of dandelions weighs the most at noon April 2.
The co-captains of the winning team will be crowned King and Queen of Dandelion Day, and team members will gorge themselves with ice cream.
Bands Will Fight It Out Friday Night
Hill bands will fight it out at the Dandelion dance on Friday night.
Clyde Bysom on one side of the ballroom and Clayton Harbur on the other will vie for harmony as students make up for the swinging they lost out on when the Junior Prom was postponed.
A trio made up of Loren Miller, Art Wolfe, and Grier Stewart, will sing to the accompaniment of the bands.
Students who wish to conserve strength for the strenuous day of dandelion digging may sit at tables on (continued to page eight)
Would Aid Defense
With Refuse
Caskis of Kickapoo Cuddley Cocktail for Kansas conscripts.
That is the use John J. O. Moore Y.M.C.A. executive secretary, suggests for the tons of dandelions which will be uprooted on the University's Dandelion Day.
That the dandelions should be used for national defense certainly is realized by everyone, said Moore, and the casks of Kickapoo Cuddley Cocktail would undoubtedly do more than anything else toward building up soldier morale. (continued on page eight)
"Hah-h-h — I see you walking through the woods with a tall and handsome man."
Many Concessions At Carnival
Those words and others of an equally serious nature will be heard by University coeds who go to seek the counsel of a Madam Booga - Wooga crystal - gazing fortune teller to be imported for the Dandelion Day carnival.
In addition to advice from the crystal gazer, students of the more vigorous type will have an opportunity to throw baseballs at milk bottles, toss rubber rings around the necks of real live ducks, shoot (continued to page eight)