FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
DRAMA MARCHES ON New Exams For Frosh Add Courses
By JEAN MILAM
The department of speech and dramatic art is no longer in existence.
It is now called the department of speech and drama. The new name was one of many revisions passed by the College faculty recently on suggestion of the department.
The professors and instructors of the department of speech and drama recently completed a two-year study of the work being done in this field throughout the country, and after three months of conferences and discussions, have revised their work to obtain three objectives: 1. To present courses which will aid majors in utilizing their speech training as teachers. 2. To include more courses in speech education. 3. To add certain courses which will give persons enough work to obtain a master's degree in speech.
Another Exam For Freshmen
The change concerning the name of the department was made because the former name was too long and the words "dramatic art" were misleading.
The department was also granted permission to give a brief examination in speech and voice to all entering college freshmen in order to separate those who are in need of clinical corrective work from those who could proceed in their work without a Fundamentals of Speech course. This revision introduces a new course, The Speech Clinic, and the course, Principles of Speech has been changed to Fundamentals of Speech.
The course, General Play Production, will now be Fundamentals of Play Production, but will embody the same course of study and will be moved down into the sophomore division.
Another new two hour course will be Public Speaking for Professional Students, open only to students in professional schools.
Bootleg Course Introduced
At the present time, two three hour courses are offered in Acting and these will be cut down to two hours each. In this same division a new course, Stagecraft, which has been bootlegged in dramatic courses here for several years, will be introduced for the first time.
In the public speech division several new courses will be introduced and old ones revised. Literary Interpretation, now Reading and Interpretation, will have a sequel. Two separate courses will be given in debate, the first. Fundamentals of Debate, and Advanced Debate.
Speech Composition will be offered for practice in the writing of speeches. The radio speech division will remain the same. The title of the course, Speech Correction, has been changed to The Speaking Voice, and Methods of Speech Correction will be presented for the first time. Others Remain The Same
The courses named above are the only ones that are changed in any great respect. The others will remain as in the past.
These revisions were primarily to effect a masters degree in speech in order that students will not be forced to leave the state in order to get such a degree. There will be a slight
change in graduate courses, and with the present program in operation, it will be possible to obtain 32 hours of work, counting the thesis, for a masters' degree.
University faculty members will be given the opportunity to "brush up" on their after dinner speaking during the next four months.
After-Dinner Talks Give Professors Chance to Practice
As a service of the University extension division, sometime between Jan. 9 to April 30, 30 to 40 speakers, who are members of the K.U. faculty, will go to various parts of the state to speak on Democracy.
Requests for speakers have been received from the following towns: Iola, Bonner Springs, Kansas City, Kan.; Kansas City, Mo. and Overbrook.
'Bolero' Inspires Design Students
Wamego will hear the first talk, a discussion by R. M. Davis, professor of law, on "Democracy and World Organization."
Ravel's famous "Bolero" has at last justified its existence—if it needed justification—on this campus. Hours of sketching and painting to this tune have resulted in design students turning out their own individual, $ \textcircled{4} $
ing out their own individual, Bolero-inspired "Designs for Drapery."
Under the direction of Miss Marjorie Whitney, acting head of the department of design, a class has been experimenting with the idea that music helps create a mood conducive to creative work. Also it has been found that it keeps conversation at a minimum. Relation Between Color and Tone
relation Between Color and Tone The class is bearing out the theory that there is a definite relationship, from the standpoint of physics, between color and a tone in music. For example, blue might fall at middle C.
T. D. Jones, assistant professor of design, has developed a color machine along similar lines. He has tried to combine physical form with music and color. Mr. Wilferd, a Dane of New York City, has recently toured the country with his clavilux or color organ, which is similar in idea except that he does not use music—but just form and color to produce a sensation.
Class Work on Display
The University was well represented at the meeting of music Teachers National Association and National Association of Schools of Music at Cleveland, Dec. 27-31.
The work of several members of Miss Whitney's class can be seen in the department of design display windows on the third floor of Frank Strong hall.
Members of the faculty who spoke at the various sessions include Dean D. M. Swarthout, Karl Kuersteiner, Otto Meissner, and Jan Chiapasso, all of the School of Fine Arts; Raymond H. Wheeler, head of the department of psychology; and E. Thayer Gaston, assistant professor of education.
Music Meeting Attracts Faculty During Holidays
Dean Swarthout was reelected secretary of the Music Teachers National Association.
Motifs on exhibition are those of Dorothy Wiggins, Betty Brown, Marybelle Long, Doris Bradshaw, Roberta Jane Smith, Carrole Fowler, and Pauline Schmidt.
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Charles Sanford Skilton, professor of organ, and Robert Palmer, instructor in piano, were honored by having their selections played at the convention. Skilton's "String Quartet in B Minor" was played by the Walden quartet, Cleveland, and Palmer's "Poem for Violin and Orchestra" was interpreted by the Cleveland Philharmonic orchestra.
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