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Here on the Hill----
an account of Mt. Oread Society
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WED., OCT. 9, 1940
Clyde Bysom To Play For Midweekers Tonight
By BETTY WEST Kansan Society Editor
Tonight's Midweek, with its stag limit of 200, will be the third regular Midweek on this year's schedule.
Clyde Bysom's orchestra will play dances from 7 to 8 p.m., in the Memorial Union ballroom.
Though the dance was slated for last night in early announcements. it will be at the usual time tonight. At first it was believed the dance would interfere with the William Lyon Phelps lecture but as it now stands, there will be no conflict there. The Midweek will be finished 20 minutes before the scheduled time for the Phelps talk.
THE FALL WEDDING . . .
of Howard E. Miller of Tonganoxie and Barbara Steinmesch of St. Louis, took place early this week in St. Louis.
Mr. Miller was graduated from the University in 1935, and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. For several years he has been associated with the Curtis Wright Airplane company in St. Louis, and more recently has accepted a position with the Lockheed Aircraft corporation of Burbank, Calif., where he and Mrs. Miller make their home.
1. 1 announces the pledging of Ray Evans, c'44.
PHI DELTA THETA . . .
TO BE MARRIED . . .
... Oct. 23 in Topeka are Clarice Sloan of Topeka and Stearns Newton Belden of Hatfield. Mass.
... luncheon guests Monday were Virginia Cannon, c'43, and Rosemary Brannine.
CHI OMEGA . . .
Miss Sloan is an alumnus of the University where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta. Mr. Belden was graduated from Massachusetts State College where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
THE FRESHMAN CLASS . . .
. . . of Alpha Delta Pi entertained the pledge class of Sigma Phi Epsilon at an hour dance last night.
FORMAL PLEDGING SERVICES
... for 21 new members of Kappa Phi, national college organization for Methodist women, were held Sunday afternoon at the First Methodist church.
The girls who piedged are: Roberta Breitweiser; Geraldine Knight; Juanita Smith; Meda Gae Litton; Mararet Brown; c'43; Jane Reed; Pauline Kallaras, c'42; Jessie Irene McClune; c'42; Regina Allen; Dolores June Sutherland; Margaret Ogden; c'41; Betty Brownlee; Geraldine Humphrey; Kay Bozarth; c'41; Elenor Harris; Lois Burns; Margaret Anne Summers; Alice Anne Stone; Phyllis Kipp; Hazel Pennington; and Charlotte Robson.
High School Girl Takes Education In Short Doses
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 9—(UP)—Jane Handke, junior at Soldan high school here, has set some sort of a record for number of schools attended. Miss Handke, 16, has entered 75 schools in the 10 years of her scholastic life. She has enrolled in schools in every state of the union, Canada and Mexico, but she has never missed a grade. Her father is a salesman.
An increase in the German, Latin and Greek departments has necessitated the addition of two assistant instructors in German I classes according to Dean Paul B. Lawson, acting chairman of German, Latin and Greek. Elon L. Hiller and Alfred L. Berg, graduate students, are doing part time instruction to supplement the staff cut in the German department. There has been an increase of two students in German I and the enrollment in the other classes, according to Dean Lawson, "is much better than anticipated." Latin nad Greek classes show a decided increase over the enrollment in those departments for last year.
No Drop In German Class Enrollment
PI BETA PHI . . .
. announces the pledging of Catherine Boyd, c'43, of Larned.
Faculty Men Back From Iowa Trip
Four members of the University faculty returned Sunday from Des Moines where they attended a meeting of the National Resources Planning board.
The four who attended the meeting are:
John J. Jakowsky, dean of the School of Engineering; Frank T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business; Prof. T. H. Marshall, chairman of the department of chemical engineering; and Raymond C. Moore, of the Kansas Geological Survey.
A study of the utilization of raw materials in the development of industries and in defense industries was undertaken at the meeting. Representatives of the different states gave outlines of the research projects under way in their institutions. This material will be recommended to the National Defense Council, the committee from here reported.
Minnesota and Kansas, Dean Stockton said, stood out as having the best knowledge and having studied with effectiveness the way in which resources could be put to work in general industries and as a part of the defense program.
The kings in modern card decks all contain the jovial physiognomy of King Henry VIII, the husband of many wives.
Femme Derides Writer Of Awful Truth' Fashion
BY ANN NETTLES
In a recent article by Reginald Buxton, Sour Owl editor, nothing more than ill-founded prejudices was shown. What does Mr. Buxton think women dress for? The "awful truth" that he manifested about again proves that the masculine eye is indeed not particularly intelligent when it comes to women's clothes.
In rebuttal to Mr. Buxton's accusations, generally it can be said that the coed of 1940 dresses practically and in good taste. Specifically, this matter of knee length stockings. Surely not even the most enthusiastic opponents to this article of apparel would rather see a pair of frozen limbs encased in nothing but ankle sox, than a neatly clad pair of legs in stockings to the knees.
The test which Mr. Buxton presents, that of "Do I look like anything I've ever seen before?" is also shaky, He forgets that a girl will find her counterpart many times just walking across the campus.
It's only humanitarian. Not only that, but it's not every girl who would be willing to sacrifice comfort for masculine approval.
And since there are, roughly speaking, 1.500 girls on the Hill, their very number and unanimity of opinion should prove something in their faver. "Fifty million Frenchmen can't be Wrong."
As for the fingernails, there are relatively few women who can grow three-quarter inch fingernails every day of the week. During the growing process fate always strikes in the form of a rough edge or a too-quick gesture, and their three-quarter inch career is nipped in the bud.
It is not an easy thing to achieve such heights, and in the rare cases that they are achieved they should be appreciated as a work of art, not condemned as a "terrifying exhibit of feminine ingenuity."
In regard to the modern girls who are sans hips, it could be said to date that no coed has had any trouble in knowing whether she was going or coming, as Mr. Buxton has been led to believe, nor have persons had any difficulty in knowing her direction. It is not an easy thing to confuse, really, and so far there have been no complaints.
Authorized Parties
Friday, Oct. 11, 1940
Friday, Oct. 11, 1940 FRESHMAN FROLIC, Union Ballroom, 1 a.m.
Saturday, Oct. 12, 1940
Gamma Delta, Picnic, State Lake, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 12, 1940 Kappa Kappa Gamma, Open House at Union Ballroom, 12 p.m.
Watkins Hall, Open House at Hall,
12 p.m.
Elizabeth Meguiar, Adviser of Women, for the Joint Committee on Student Affairs.
Journalism Meet Committee Named
The hospitality committee for the high school journalism conference, to be held here Oct. 18-19 has been named and will meet this afternoon to begin plans for the convention.
Virginia Gray, chairman, Stanley Stauffer, Bob Patterson, Betty West, and Jim Surface compose the committee, and will have charge of the registration of the 300 persons expected.
All in all, it would seem that the Senior Who Tells Girls the Awful Truth has been one of three things: misinformed, too indolent to make a thorough study of his subject, or else hard up for a feature story.
Torture was once recognized as part of criminal procedure in Scotland.
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