Here on the Hill---
an account of Mt. Oread Society
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WED., NOV. 6,1940
Harbur To Furnish Music For Midweekers Tonight
Tired business men and women will forget their Midsemesters tonight to dance for an hour in the Memorial Union ballroom to the music of Clayton Harbur and band.
Tonight's Midweek, which will be the first in two weeks, is expected to draw a large crowd of dates, as well as the 200 stag limit, it was announced yesterday by Carter Butler, president of the Student Union Activities commission.
A DINNER . . .
for members of the department of mathematics will be given by Dr. and Mrs. U. G. Mitchell in the English room of the Memorial Union building at 6:30 p.m. Friday evening.
Doctor Mitchell is head of the department of mathematics.
PHI CHI THETA . . .
... professional business women's sorority, held rush tea from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoon in the Old English room of the Union building. Mary McLeod, president, was in charge of the tea.
CO-OP CLUB . . .
RESIDENT SCHOLARSHIPS . . .
of Lawrence will entertain the freshman football squad and football coaches for dinner at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Hotel Eldridge.
in two of the new men's dormitories have been awarded to Paul Woolpert and Wilson Gilliat, filling vacancies caused by withdrawals earlier in the semester. Woolpert has moved into Carruth hall and Gilliat into Templin.
THE SOCIOLOGY CLUB
wants everyone who is interested in sociology to come to a party in the Memorial Union ballroom at 7 o'clock Thursday evening. Royal Humbert, said today that the party is open to all students regardless of whether or not they are enrolled in sociology.
There will be free refreshments and no admission charge. The party will be limited to one hour so that everyone will have an opportunity to attend Warden Lawes' lecture in Hoch auditorium.
Entertainment features of the evening will be group singing, folk dancing, and marimba numbers by Bob Jenkins accompanied at the piano by Vic Miller.
THE BOTANY CLUB
. . will meet tonight at 7:15 p.m. in Snow hall. Dr. R. H. Beamer, department of entomology, will speak on "Scenes from the Southwest" in an illustrated lecture describing the work done by the entomology survey.
FACULTY MEMBERS . . .
. . . entertained by Gamma Phi Beta at a faculty dinner last night included Miss Beulah Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Schowe, Mr. and Mrs. S. Mickelson, Myr. Byron Sarvis. Miss Veta B. Lear, Mr. and Mrs.
Field and Stream --sign painted which reads "It don't mean a thing if you don't pull the string." A gag which flying squadrons are likely to adopt after seeing the picture.
A group of college queens wearing various and sundry clothes suitable for a country campus. Notables are: In the upper right hand corner a single breasted tweed suit worn with a skull cap and seven foot feather. And in the lower left hand corner, a fleece trimmed jacket with a fur trimmed hood.
Mural Designs Are Now On Exhibition
Done under the Federal Works Agency, these designs were made in competition for placement in post offices and public buildings, among them the Department of the Interior building in Washington, the Washington post office, the Department of Justice building, the New York customs house, the post offices of Cleveland, Ohio, and Pittsburgh.
A collection of mural designs will be exhibited in the south gallery of Thayer museum during the month of November.
Lawrence Woodruff, Miss Kathleen Doering, and Mr. Clarence Chrisman, and Miss Nellie Barnes.
The murals were not painted as
PHI KAPPA PSI . . .
... dinner guest last night was Dean Paul Lawson.
According to the department of painting, this collection should give the visitor some idea of what steps a mural design must go through before it is finished and becomes part of the wall ornament of a building.
Three of the artists represented are former Kansas men, Henry Varnum Poore, Chapman; Ward Lockwood, Atchison; and Frank Mechau, Wakeeney.
Reserve Officers To Hear Marshall
WPA relief projects but directly were commissioned by the government to the various artists represented.
Prof. T. H. Marshall, head of the chemical engineering department, will speak at the regular meeting of the Reserve Officers Association at 7:45 o'clock tonight in Fowler Shops. All officers who are connected with the reserve, regular army, or the National Guard are invited to attend and hear Captain Marshall's lecture on "Wartime Chemical Engineering."
'Feed Her The Ink And 'Drag The Field'
What Goes On?
Hollywood, No. 5.—(UP)—Every new picture which requires a star to learn some new trade or profession in order to portray his role authentically brings with it a vocabulary of technical terms and specialized slang.
Among the completely new expressions which they picked up were the following:
Which explains why Robert Taylor, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelly and the rest of the naval fliers in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Flight Command" had to master a new phraseology before they could understand the script. $ ^{a} $ its dialogue and its dis
To feed her the ink, giving her the soup, pour on the ink or pour in the coal, means to give the plane gas—open the throttle wide.
Hitting the silk is the equivalent of balling out—using a parachute.
Bounce drill is landing practice.
To hang on the prop is to hold the plane almost in a fixed position for a moment.
A duck is an amphibian.
Scrambled eggs is the term used for the gold oak leaves on an admiral's hat. Full-dress trousers are railroad pants and an epaulet is a swab.
Chief petty officers are known as hack drivers.
To these phrases. Producer J. Walter Rubin added one of his own, which he thought might give audiences a chuckle. On the wall of the squadron ready room he has a
To drag the field is to fly low across a field to determine landing conditions.
Authorized Parties
Saturday, Nov. 9
Homecoming Varsity, Union Building, 9 to 12.
Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs.
DE LUXE CAFE
Our 22nd year in serving K.U. Students.
More than a million dollars is required to operate a first-class battleship one year, including pay, clothing, victuals and repairs; submarines of the smaller type cost $135,000 annually for operating expenses.
711 Mass. St.
CHIP-PROOF NAIL LACQUER
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*Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.
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