UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVIII
NUMBER 19
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1940
Torchlight Parade Tonight Starts K. U.'s Big Weekend; Rally and Frolic Tomorrow
Tom Dorsey To Feature Alma Mater
To accommodate the 1,200 persons expected to dance to Tommy Dersey and his orchestra Friday night, the Kansas room and the Pine room of the Union building will be opened to part of the crowd.
A feature of the Frolic will be Dorsey's playing of the Alma Mater during the evening. After the song, the cheerleaders will lead the Rock Chalk. Banners will be hung on
CLOSING HOURS
... will be extended to 1:30 o'clock Saturday morning for only those girls who are attending the Freshman Friulc.
the walls of the kiddroom, bearing
the inscriptions "Beat Draske," "Beat
Miscarel," along with the rest of
the Kauai football schedule for the
season.
There has been a complete sell-out of the tickets, announced Fred Littow, dance manager, and there are no more available, as the quota of 700 has been reached.
P.S.G.L. Calls Frosh Meeting
A "Get Acquainted Meeting" has been called by P.S.G.L., Progressive Student Government League for freshman men at 7:30 tonight in room 105 of Green hall.
No freshman organization will be made at this meeting, but the freshman men will be instructed in P.S.G.L. folklore and the history of student government on Mt. Oread.
Rowland Raup, president of P.S. G.L., and Ben Matassarim, P.S.G.L.'s chairman for the freshman campaign, will have charge of the gathering and all freshman men are invited.
Sigma Xi To Hear Retiring President
An informal reception will follow the address.
Dr. Herbert B. Hungerford, retiring president of Sigma XI, honorary science fraternity, will deliver his retiring address next Thursday, Oct. 17, in Spooner-Thayer Museum.
Professor Hungerford has chosen for his subject "The Age of Insets."
Dorsey Vocalist-and then down to Tennessee street to Fourteenth street where the arm of the law had muffled the forced screams of the lot.
FRANK SINATRA —Hell union
41 Have Not Paid Their Fees
A check on unpaid fees ravened today that 41 students had failed to meet the payment deadline of Oct. 2, Karl Klooz, bursar, said. Those students who have not paid are having notified to call at the business office immediately and pay or their enrollments will be cancelled.
Frosh Rules Into Effect Say K-Men
University freshmen went under a new regime of a totalitarian K-Club today as members of the letter-men organization decreed that all members of the class of 1944 would wear freshman caps form new until Thanksgiving.
Bill Beaven, ed. 41, president of the K mon, explains it this way:
"What was good enough for the apprehension when they were freshmen should be good enough for the pretrial crop. Those freshmen who do not have caps will be given until the first of next week to prey on them and then the K-Club is declaring open season on those without care."
According to the club's ruling all yearnings must wear their caps until Thanksgiving. Also, the club ruled, on designated days, which will be announced, freshmen will be required to walk on the south side of dayhawk drive.
According to Seven any freshman caught breaking these regulations will be subject to "appropriate punishment."
The freshman cap practice has a
Elliott Reports For Work
Dayton, O., Oct. 10—(UP)—Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, was ready to report at Wright Field today, to begin a year's service as a captain in the Army Air Corps production Engineering departments
He arrived at the field after closing hours yesterday too late to report officially. He and Mrs. Roosevelt drove to Dayton from their home in Fort Worth, Tex.
Later he is expected to be signaled specifically to duties inspecting material burned out for war contracts to see that it comes up specifications.
The 31 - year - old radio network executive probably will receive the customary "courtesy of the service" during his first couple of days to become acquainted with his new surroundings.
Dykstra May Be Draft Director
Dr. Glarence A. Dykstra, a former professor of political science at the University and now president of the University of Wigconsin, said today that President Roosevelt had discussed the post of draftographer with him but that President
Police Aid Ku Ku Pledges
The Lawrence City Police made 37 University men extremely happy last night, in spite of their intentions which were strictly in line of duty.
The Ku Ku's started the whole thing when they called their pledges to the front of Fraser hall at 10 o'clock last night for their traditional initiation . . . complete with everything from beating the end man with a piano leg to saturating the pledges' heads in fish oil. But at one point, the Fourteenth street hill to be exact, there was too much noise. There was enough too-much-racket that the Lawrence police department even thought so too.
The police brought relief to 37 men who were straining their voices to the breaking point while they were being pounded up the Hill. They brought an official quiet to the whole procession . . . at least for a while.
The initiates had then been at it for quite some time and they were but half way through the ceremony. They had waddled from Fraser to the Kappa house where, in spite of their chant, "the Kappas are a bunch of bags," they had drawn no water from the windows. The trek had wended its way to the Theta house
The last house visited was the Gamma Phi chapter. Here the girls grew so excited that they not only threw water at the pledges, but they threw the pans as well. One girl even turned a pan of water upside down upon herself.
The 37 were led down past the rock crusher and were herded through the icy waters of Potter's Lake. Shivering and drenched they climbed to the bonfire which had been ignited in back of Frank Strong hall. Here they were inducted into the pep club and were instructed in the password and secret grip.
The Alpha Chi house and the Pi Phi house were visited before the boys were instructed to run up Mississippi street and down Oread to the Chi Omega house. This time the cries for water were fully satisfied by a thorough drenching administered by the girls from the roof of the sorority.
The evening ended with an impressive rendition of the Alma Mater and the Rock-Chalk by the entire group.
Pep Forces Light Torch Tonight
Flame will sweep the campus tonight as the Hill pep forces—the Ku-Kus and Jay Janes, combine in a torch-light parade starting at 10.30 at the Chancellor's residence.
Accompanied by the Sigma Chi band, the parade will wind over Oread as the pepsters visit all of the organized houses. Under the supervision of Paul Vankay of the Ku Kul' and Ruth Spenner Ascraft of the Jay James, the paraders will attempt to abuse a spiritified attitude in University people concerning Saturday's game with Drake.
Miss Florence Black and Miss
Minaude Elliott will chaperone the
Jay James.
Bally AT 10:20
Tennight's show is merely the opening guan a campany to mounce the Hill people from their lethargy. A pop rally will be held tomorrow at 10:30 morning in front of Frank Strong's hall. "Flog" Allen will speak at the rally, and will introduce the acting captain for Saturday's game. The Sigma Chi band also will play at the rally.
Truth Lives In Poetry Says Phelps
William Lyon Phelps told more than 1,200 persons in Hoch auditorium last night that there was more truth in poetry than science. Speaking first on the 1940 University lecture course series, Phelps explained that a scientific treatise is out of date practically before the printer's ink is dry. A book on poetry, Phelps said, contains thoughts of undying splendor and truth.
"Billy" Phelps ran true to the pre-lecture predictions that his speech would not be dull. All during the hour and a half lecture he kept his audience laughing at the stories he told on various famous poets, and at the same time the audience was absorbing facts from his store of knowledge of English literature.
One quotable quote made in the course of the evening by the professor emeritus of Yale was in his description of his conversation with A. E. Russell at the famous Irish (continued on page eight)
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