UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NUMBER 91.
VOLUME XXXVII
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1940.
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Prom Tickets On Sale Now; Limit Number
Tickets are on sale today at the Memorial Union building, University business office and Bells music store for the Junior Prom. Fred Littooy, dance manager who recentl ysigned Jimmy Dorsey and his band for class party, March 9, announced today.
Since the Prom is being held in the Memorial Union ballroom there will be a limit to the number of tickets sold, Littcoy said. He urges that those who plan to attend purchase their tickets early. The advance price for stags and per couple is $2 plus the state sales tax.
The junior class party was originally set for March 15 but the date was moved up to March 9 to schedule Dorsey and his band. Dancing will be in the Memorial Union building from 8 o'clock until midnight. The earlier hours are required by a University ordinance which prohibits Sunday dancing.
Littooy announced that only bona fide press passes would be honored for admission in accordance with a specific statement in the contract. If there is no sell-out before the dance, the gate price will go up to $2.25.
Dorsey, who has been acclaimed the world's greatest saxophonist, features with his orchestra Bob Eberly, balladeer, blond entertainer Helen O'Connell and Buddy Schutz on the drums. Dorsey is now on an extensive midwestern tour after engagements at Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook near Cedar Grove, N.J., and at Chicago's hotel Sherman. He will play at a University of Iowa dance the Friday night before he comes here.
Debate Tourney Here Tomorrow
The annual state high school debate tournament will be officially opened at 12:20 tomorrow afternoon when Class B high schools hold their opening session in Fraser hall. Debates for this class will begin at 1 o'clock. Class A and Class C will debate at 2:20.
Weather
Increasing cloudiness, probable rain tonight turning to snow tomorrow; colder.
The state debate tournament began in 1910 with the organization of the Kansas High School Debating League. In 1938 this organization was merged with the Kansas State High School Athletic Association to form the Kansas High School Activity Association. Since then, the organization has carried on the debates, although the general program has not been changed.
Song Bird--mine, C. O. Wilson said, as she glowered over the thought of Littioov being alive .
Helen O'Connell, beautiful feminine vocalist with Jimmy Dorysey's orchestra, who will appear here March 9 at the Junior Prom.
Require Filing Of Scholarship Applications Soon
Students interested in receiving scholarships or loans for 1940-1941 should begin writing applications now.
Applicants for the Edna Osborne Whitcomb scholarship in English for women students should file their applications immediately with Miss Persis Cook, executive secretary of the Committee on Aids and Awards, room 1. Frank Strong hall.
Applications for scholarships or renewals at Watkins and Miller halls must be filed by March 15, Miss Elizabeth Meguiar, chairman of the Residence Halls Scholarship committee, room 202, Frank Strong hall.
This scholarship is a gift scholarship fund established in 1931 for needy women students majoring in the English department who show ability in creative writing. Applications are considered on recommendation of a committee of the department of English.
Students applying for other scholarships, gift or loan, for 1940-1941 should file applications with Miss Persis Cook, before March 1.
Because of the war situation in Europe, no Rhodes scholarships will be granted to students for the ensuing year, 1940.
Littooy, M.S.C. Peace; W.S.G.A. 'Inconsolable'
Venus and the Stags---- Four Planets Cluster About Celestial Queen
By Reginald Buxton, c'41
If a major offensive against Dance Manager Fred Littooy is expected soon, the chiefs of staff of the M.S.C. and W.S.G.A., don't intend to carry it out, according to a number of communiques received this morning.
"I don't think the council will nullify its present dance pass bill (it limits Council passes to student's enrollment in school) over something as inconsequential as the Junior Prom, at least
Wilson Glowers
A buzzing of irritated activity is going on behind the Wilson Line, however, as General Velma Wilson, c'40, and her stooges remain inconsolable over Litttooy's failure to inform them that Council passes would not be honored for the Prom.
Mullen, president of the M.S.C., who was reported in yesterday's Kansan to have refused to make any comment was still a little bit nettled this morning over the failure of our war correspondent to ask him to comment. "If it is necessary that Council passes be declared invalid in order to bring the big bands the students want to hear, then I, personally, am in favor of their being declared so," Mullen said this morning.
Source of the women's irritation is that Littoy had supposedly promised Wilson he would inform the Council of the status of their passes before the story appeared in the Kansan. Littoy's logical answer to this, that is if the answer weren't directed to women, is that he was in Topeka, and could not inform them. Littoy has apologized but the women, being women, haven't accented it gracefully-vet.
By Lyle Eggleston, c'42
Litttooy, weary of being known as an old meany who goes around stealing dance passes from weak women, explained his position on the matter of accepting only bonaide press passes for the Prom.
Littooy Defends Self
During the last days of February** who will take the trouble to look ** W. Storer, professor of astronomy sa today.
The lowest and brightest is Venus. The next brightest and next above Venus is Jupiter. Above Jupiter are Mars and Saturn, not far apart and reddish in appearance. The best time to observe the planets will be about Feb. 28. By this time Mercury will
"This is not an arbitrary ruling
Venus of the sky invariably has a few celestial admirers dancing attendance but seldom so many as the four which now surround the queen of the heavens.
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have appeared low on the western horizon.
e planets will be visible to anyone d the southwest after sundown, N.
Uranus will also be in the picture, but too far away and indistinct to be sighted by the ordinary person. "The appearance of these planets is of no special significance," Storer said. "It is only once in a great while that they happen to line up at the same time."
'Quality Street' Nears Sellout
With "Quality Street" rounding out its last two productions tonight and tomorrow night, the ticket salesmen in Green hall are faced with empty pigeon-holes where once there were tickets.
Don Dixon, instructor in the department of speech and dramatic art, in charge of ticket sales for the play, is expecting a near sellout tonight and will probably have to put out the Standing Room Only sign for tomorrow night.
The Dramatic Club play will not run beyond its scheduled closing performance Friday, Director Robert Calderwood, has said. Calderwood has indicated satisfaction with student acting in the Sir James M. Barrie production, and his gratification with the way the audiences have received it.
K-Book Editor, Business Manager To Be Chosen
Applications for editor and business manager of the K-book are due Feb. 20, C. H. Mullen, I'42, president of the M.S.C. announced today.
Qualifications and applications for editor are to be sent to Eda Paddock, secretary of the Y.W.C.A. Applications for business manager should be sent to John J. Moore, secretary of the Y.M.C.A.
The committee for selecting these officers is composed of the secretaries of the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A., the retiring business manager and editor, and a representative from the M.S.C., the W.S.G.A., and the business office. Selection will be made by March 1.
W. A.A. To Hold Meeting On Wheels
W. A.A. will hold its regular meeting Thursday, 4:30 p.m. at a skating party at the Rollerdrome. All members are urged to be present. Officers will be selected to fill second semester vacancies.
Burr Sifers Will Head Relays Group
Sifers will head the student committee which does much of the preliminary detail work for the event. He is serving his fourth year on the student group.
Burr Sifers, c'40, has been named senior manager of the student committee for the eighteenth annual Kansas Relays, April 20, GwinnHenry, director of athletics, announced today.
BURR SIFERS
The student committee annually is composed of six freshmen, four sophomores, two juniors and one senior. Upperclass members are chosen from the group which served from their class the previous year. Sifers, a cousin of Henry Iba, basketball coach at Oklahoma A. and M. college, served on the intramural board of the Men's Student Council and has participated in intramural sports with Phi Delta Theta fraternity teams.
Ex-Chancellor Heads for India
Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Lindley left China for India, Jan. 18, according to a letter received recently by the alumni office from the Chancellor-Emeritus. The Lindles intended to spend about two weeks in India.
While in China, Dr. Lindley met five Chinese alumni of the University who entertained him. The alumni, loyal to the University, are planning to send their children here to study.
The Lindleys plan to return to China from India by way of Singapore and the Dutch East Indies.
Young Democrats To Meet Monday
The Young Democratic Club of the University will meet at 8:15 p.m. Monday in the Pine room of the Memorial Union building.