THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1940.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREI
Paul K.A. Revere Mounts Chester, The Nag, for Gallop About Campus
Dear Throckmorton:
I am about to relate to you an episode which will no doubt cause you to doubt the sanity of certain characters involved, and for which I do not blame you.
As Told by Ed Garich
Last evening I am sitting at home taking care of a sick headache when a certain brother at the Pi K A lodge calls me on the Bell invention and inquires as to whether I would be interested in getting a good picture. In face of the dearth of good pictures around here, I of course fall in with his plans.
A Novel Plot
Another brother of the lodge comes for me in a very beautiful automobile, and we proceed to the chapter house. Arriving at the place, I find the boys have cooked up a rather novel plot for distributing the invitations to their party this Friday evening. One of the pledges is attired in the best Paul Revere fashion, cape, hat, and so on, and the idea seems that this character is to ride a hay burner to all the sororities and announce, a la town crier, the party and the names of the co-eds from the house who are invited.
who are invited. Well, I grab camera and flash bulbs, and we proceed to the Theta house, this being the first port of call, stopping in the meantime to borrow a lantern from Johnny in the Barrel Inn to lend rustic atmosphere to the pictures. We arrive at the KAT house and get one of the girls to come out on the front stoop to lend the proper comph to the scene.
A Horse Lift
All this time the dobbin has been objecting on the grounds of non-parliamentary procedure, but we finally calm him by blowing a
couple of puffs of smoke from a Camel cigaret in his face, and get him and the rider and the Theta all in the same general area, and proceed to make a couple of art shots.
Since it is about 11 p.m., we greatly arouse the wrath of the housemother, who direly threatens to lock our model out of the house if she doesn't come in immediately. Fetish a Trombone
Fetch a Trombone
Well, our horseman has done his hear ye, hear ye, so we proceed to the Kappa house, where the deed is done again. About this time, someone suggests that we need more noise, so we go and fetch a character from the house who plays a slide trombone. This greatly increases the exuberant aspect of our visits.
All and sundry pile into automobiles, except our nocturnal equestrian, who climbs back on Chester, that being the nag's name, and continue to the Gamma Phi house. At this point, the crier decides he needs his speech written out, so while waiting for this to be done, I engage the trombonist in conversation and find he has neglected to don socks for the occasion, which lack off good judgment causes him to resemble somebody on the other end of a pneumatic drill.
More To Go
The act goes off according to schedule, and we then include the Alpha Chi's and A.D. Pi's in our itinerary.
This about ends the eventful evening except for taking the horse home and rubbing him down, an act which might well be applied
to all concerned. I finally get home, and develop the negatives, finding them passable, and wind up in bed about, pondering the difficulties of existence on this planet in the year of our Lord, 1940, and wondering, if after all, civilization is worth it. Hoping you are the same, I remain.
Your friend,
Doubt On Three Remaining Charges
Uncertainty whether John Claflin, '40, would ever be tried for the three remaining charges of first degree arson was expressed today by County Attorney Milton P. Beach.
Claflin was acquitted last June 26 in a district court trial on the first of four arson charges. The trial followed Claflin's confession last spring to a series of fires at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house. Claflin later repudiated his confession.
Socialists To Form Liberal Club Here
Beach said he would not know until Tuesday whether the remaining charges against Claflin would be pressed.
Hill Socialists met last night in Henley House to decide the nature of their post-election work.
A meeting for the formation of a liberal club will be called sometime next week. The present group will absorb itself into the liberal club. Ten persons were present last night with Freeman Meyer, college senior, chairman.
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Volume Honors Former Teacher
Dr. Clarence E. McClung, a former K.U. professor and managing editor of the Journal of Morphology since 1920, has been honored in a dedicatory volume of The Journal of Morphology.
McClung was graduated from the University of Kansas. He served as assistant professor of zoology in 1899, associate professor and head of zoology department in 1901, and professor of zoology in 1906. He also became a professor of histology and served as acting dean of the School of Medicine for three years.
He is credited with separating the department of zoology from the museum and re-organizing it at the University.
The volume contains a biographical sketch of Dr. McClung and is highly complimentary of his work done at the University of Kansas and later at the University of Pennsylvania. McClung is recognized the world over for his work in biological science.
He has traveled widely in his studies. He carried on research in South Africa and Europe, was sent to Japan for two years as a goodwill scientific ambassador in 1933 and organized the division of biology and agriculture of the National Research Council.
A copy of the book has been sent to Watkins library.
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KFKU on Air With K.U. Band Program
KFKU was on the air at 6 o'clock last night with a program by the University band, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley.
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