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SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1940.
Pan-Hellenic Dance Is Tonight
They're Collector's Items---- Sweaters Indispensable In Modern Coed Clothes
College women collect sweaters like William Randolph Hearst collects art treasures but they get a great deal more good out of them.
There was a time when they bought sweaters to keep them warm, but in recent years sweaters have come out of the mothballs of strict practicability to take a spot light of their own. As much care and originality go into the designing and styling of most sweaters as go into the making of dresses. As a result today's sweaters, which are offered in every color of the rainbow and with every kind of trim, do duty on the campus with skirts
and tailored suits as well serving as part of formal evening dress.
Cardigans Popular
Cardigan and novelty jacket types in lovely pastels and soft bright shades dominate the new spring collections. "Sloppy Joes," those long jackets worn down over the hips, were introduced last fall and are still with us to be worn buttoned either in front or back.
Sweaters are following the current style trends with tightwaisted effects, novelty waistbend treatments and ruffled and frilly neck and sleeve decorations. Shoulders are tucked, puffed, or padded.
Variety of Styles
You may take your choice this spring of plain simple knits or soft
fuzzy kinds because counters are piled high with brushed angoras, terry effects, cotton and rayon knits, and loose lacy weaves. Trick stitching, jewelry gadgets, and embroidery effects all serve as trimming. Some of the embroidery is in scroll designs running horizontally along the front closing. Other sweaters are without trim and form a good color contrast for plain or tweed suits when worn with the new novelty necklaces and bracelets.
Chubbies, short jackets of angora and other brushed wools, in white and pastels, are a welcome addition to any wardrobe. They can be used as jackets with sweaters or blouses or they can set off casual tailored dresses. During warm spring nights they can be worn as evening wraps.
Vacation and Traditions Come Again With Easter
By Crystelle Anderson, e'40
This musculine mess jacket worn with a black skirt is the motif of this dinner ensemble for cool spring evenings. The jacket is white silk fallle, with one red, one white carnation in the buttonhole. The straight skirt of black crepe is gathered in the center front to a wide waistband.
March 24! Easter Sunday—the day when Americans celebrate the ascendance of Jesus Christ into heaven by wearing a new outfit of clothes, in extreme styles, to church. They are so self-conscious that they hardly benefit from their attendance. The minister celebrates by laying aside his usual sermons on finance and attendance to tell the story of the resurrection.
To college students Easter is not just a day but a week of vacation from class attendance and, for most of them, the campus.
A great many traditions have been built up around this day which have nothing particularly in common with the religious aspects of the celebration. For instance, Easter, the word, is derived from an old pagan festival in honor of Eastre, a Saxon goddess of spring and dawn. The roots of Easter as a Christian feast go back to the Jewish Passover and
Boyce Makes Inspection Of Chanute Disposal Plant
Professor Earnest Boyce, director of the water and sewage disposal plant, made a final inspection of the city water supply plant at Chanute, last Tuesday.
The inspection was made for the State Board of Health. Chanute has recently completed a $40,000 purification plant softener improvement. Professor Boyce returned to his office Thursday.
its paean of thanksgiving for the saving of the first-born of each family in Israel.
In looking back to the history of the traditions of Easter one finds that every early association of the word Easter had to do with youth and promise. It was supposed to be a time for the beginning of new things.
Ambrose, the bishop of the Church of the fourth century, A.D., said "This is the real beginning of the year; the opening of the months, the new revivals of the seeds and restoration of joy interrupted by cold weather. On this day God re-lights the sun and gives light to the moon."
Authorized Parties
Jayhawk Coop, skating party. Rollerdrome, 10 to 12.
Ricker hall, Open House, 9 to 12. Men's Pan-Hellenic Council, Union Ballroom, 9 to 12.
Friday, March 15
Fireside Forum, Congregational Church, 8:30 to 12.
Sigma Chi, masque ball, Chapter House, 7:30 to 12.
Personal Relations and Creative Leisure Commissions of the Y.W.-C.A. and Y.M.C.A., Barn Dance, Robinson Gymnasium, 8 to 11.
Westminster Forum at Westminster hall. 8:30 to 12.
Saturday, March 16
Elizabeth Meguiar
For Joint Committee of Student Affairs
Hay Elected Prexy of Coed Flying Club
Helen Hay, c'40, organizer of the aviation club for women, was elected president of the group by the 14 charter members who met in the Memorial Union last night. The two other club officers, vice-president and secretary-treasurer will be filled by Ruth Spencer, c'41, and Alys Magill, c'uncl.
The Kansas unit of the women's Aeronautical Association was first organized at a meeting two weeks ago. The by-laws and constitution was drawn up by the 14 women at a meeting last week. The purpose of the club is to promote an interest in aviation among university women. Only two of the club members are enrolled in the student flight training course.
The charter members of the first aeronautical club are Helen Hay, Nadine Bitter, c'41; Nancy Kerber, fa'42; Jane McHenry, fa'43; Viola Knoche, c'41; Beth Kirby, c'43; Lillian Fisher, c'41; Ruth Spencer, Betty Watt, c'42; Jeanne Leeland, c'41; Alys Magill, Billie McIntire, c'42; Barbara Kaniels, c'41; Jean Hinshaw, c'42.
Sweaters and emblems were chosen as identifications for members of the club. Plans for a skating party to be held March 28 were announced last night. Members and other students interested in becoming members are urged to attend. In April, activities relating to flying and aviation will be undertaken.
Pictures On English Board
A series of pictures illustrating Carlyle's "Heroes and Hero Worship" is displayed on the English bulletin board in Fraser hall. These pictures are concerned with Dante, whom Carlyle discusses as the hero as a poet.
Annual Party Will Be Informal; Other Society
By Virginia Gray, c'41 Kansan Society Editor
Fraternity men found out just how high their seniority was, when the top ten senior men, the president, and the Pan-Hellenic representative, in each fraternity, received tickets for the annual Men's Pan-Hellenic dance tonight in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building. The next five men in seniority in each house will compose the stag line, which they say, is better than nothing at all.
Music for the dancers will be furnished by an imported band, Lee Dixon and his orchestra from the Hotel Nicollet in Minneapolis. The party will be semi-formal owing to the decree of members of Men's Pan-Hellenic council who hated to drag out their evening clothes just packed away from last week's Junior Prom.
N. Wyman Storer, associate professor of astronomy, and Dr. Henry Frank, professor of chemistry on leave from the University of Canton in China, were dinner guests last night of Alpha Kappa Psi, business fraternity. Following the dinner Professor Storer led a discussion on astronomy and its relation to religion.
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William Mackie, e'43, was a guest of Alpha Chi Sigma, chemistry fraternity, Tuesday evening.
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Alpha Kappa Psi, business fraternity, announces the pledging of Lloyd Elliott, b'41; Kermit Lorenz, b'41; and Cedric Moorhead, b'41.
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Dinner guests of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity last night were Charles Baer, e'41; Mr. James C. Pettee, Mr. Thomas Hancock, Doctor and Mrs.W. J. Brockelbank, Dick Keen, and Jim Boyce, Lawrence; and Tom Arbuckle, c'41.
Acacia fraternity entertained with a buffet supper and hour dance last night with Clyde Smith and his orchestra playing. Guests were Ruby Ashland, c'41; Cailn Murray, fa'42; Betty Bowman, c'40; Georgia Ferrel, c'43; Alice Ann Jones, c'41; Estelle Eddy, c'42; Letha Epperly, c'43; Jerry Buhler, c'43; Patty Bigelow, c'43; Faye Jean Gish, c'uncl; LaDean Davis, c'42; Agnes Skoleat, c'uncl; Ann Robbins, c'42; Harriet Goodwin, c'40; Dorothy Hendrickson, fa'41. Chaperons were Mrs. P. H. Klinkenberg and Mrs. M. M. Wolf.
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All women students who are planning to attend the basketball game in Oklahoma City Saturday night must sign out in the office of the adviser of women before Saturday noon, it was announced today by Dean Megular.
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The annual Matrix Table, the banquet given by members of Theta Sigma Phi, national journalism sorority, will be held April 2, it was announced today.
The invitations are to be sent out this weekend to prominent students on the campus. Limited seating capacity will reduce the number of invitations to a minimum. Additional plans will be made by the committee in charge at the meeting.
Students Hear Lenten Speakers
Speaking on the "Application of the Spirit of Easter in the Twentieth Century," faculty members of the University have been making the rounds of the organized houses on the campus this week.
The talks have been sponsored by the Student Christian Association in connection with the morning devotional services which are held at Myers hall each day during the season of Lent.
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The Bar Harbor is a hat that everyone can wear. Its proportions are wonderful. The crown hugs your head and the brim can be worn up or down. And the best feature of all are the three different colored bands that can be snapped on and off. All colors and headsets.
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