IURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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'Pumpkin Prom' Planned By Student Union Board
The Student Union Activities commission has come up with new idea in Halloween parties this year. Pumpkin Prom scheduled for Friday, Nov. 1, with just a note of horror and a lot of erriment.
Besides "bobbing for apples" and pop-corn contest, there will
he rhythm of a new Hill band, pick Tibbins.
Tibbins will lead off with a wiera one as the lights are dimmed and the guests will pass through the "hall horror." Later refreshments will be served.
Carter Butler, president of the student Union Activities commission, has promised that the Union lroom will be "extravagantly" decorated for the new prom. Theansas room will be used in connection with the party for games of ping, bridge and bingo.
The dance, for all University students, is to be a "sweater and skirt" face, with a 10 cent admission charge to stags and a 5 cent fee for couples. This is the first dance to be sponsored by the Student Union activities commission and; if it is a success, three more dances, will be held during the year.
opeka Banker Speaks
Laird Dean, president of the Merchants National Bank, Topeka, will speak at 4 o'clock this afternoon before Joseph Taggart's class in Commercial Bank Credit in room 327. Frank Strong hall.
The height limit for flying cadets has been raised from six feet, two inches, to six feet four.
Language Exams At 10 Saturday
Proficiency examinations in French, German, Latin and Spanish will be given new students at 10 o'clock Saturday morning in room 107 Frank Strong hall, W. H. Shoemaker, chairman of the department of romance languages and literatures, announced today.
The purpose of the language proficiency examination is to test freshmen and new students upon their ability to translate in languages which they have learned in high school. Foreign language dictionaries may be used by the students when taking the examination.
Registration for this examination will continue in the College office today and tomorrow.
All students who pass the proficiency examination will be allowed to waive the University requirement for ten hours of foreign language as well as ten hours of required work in Division I.
The examination will be supervised by Professor Shoemaker and will last for one hour. Any additional information concerning the examination may be obtained at the College office.
Lambertson Here For Debate Meet
Despite the fact that Congress is now in session, Congressman W. P. Lambertson has definitely agreed to meet Mr. Hilden Gibson of the University political science department in a debate tomorrow afternoon in Fraser theater, it was announced today by Lee Gemmell, field representative of the University extension division.
Mr. Lambertson will uphold the case against increasing the power of the Federal government, for t he benefit of high school debaters attending the annual state-wide Debate Institute, which will be held here Oct. 25 and 26. Mr. Gibson will take the affirmative case.
Another feature of the institute will be the debaters legislative assembly which will convene Friday morning for the purpose of electing a speaker and a clerk and the reading of bills and their assignment to committees, also to be appointed at that time. The delegates to the assembly will be four debaters from each of the high schools represented. Coaches and alternates attending the institute will not be allowed on the floor of the assembly, but will sit in the balcony.
At the first assembly meeting Dean Paul B. Lawson of the College will give a welcoming address and Dudley J. Bilstrup, assistant director of forensics at the University of Missouri will explain the procedure of the debaters assembly.
In the afternoon, E. C. Buehler of the University department of speech will speak to the students on "The Place of Debate in Democratic Society," which will be followed by the debate between Lambertson and Gibbon and an open forum led by them.
On Saturday morning the assembly will reconvene for consideration of committee reports and debates on the floor of the assembly. After a complimentary luncheon in the Memorial Union ballroom the University of Kansas and Missouri teams will debate the high school question "Resolved: That the power of the Federal government should be increased." These University debaters will conduct a panel discussion, after which the institute will be adjourned. It is estimated that 200 students will attend.
Pharmacists To Topeka
Seniors in the School of Pharmacy attended a merchandising clinic of the Kansas Pharmaceutical association at the Jayhawk hotel in Topeka this afternoon. Dr. L. L. Boughton, assistant professor of pharmacy, accompanied the group.
Square Dancing At Congregational Parish Tomorrow
It's still open season for barn dances, and all University students are invited to swing their partners left to right at the Congregational Parish house at 925 Vermont tomorrow night.
Beginning at 8 o'clock, barndancers will dance a square to the tune of a fiddle and guitar played by Arthur and Bertha Brisbane. Miss Ruth Hoover and Miss Joie Stapleton of the department of physical education will call the dances.
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After an interlude of square dancing, students will participate in social dancing until 12 o'clock. Refreshments will be served.
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