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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVII
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1940
NUMBER 84
New Dorm To House 25
Predicts Decreased Enrollment
A decrease in enrollment for the spring semester from the record of 4,610 students who enrolled in September for the fall semester, was predicted this afternoon by Raymond Nichols, executive secretary.
The decrease, Mr. Nichols said, was normal, since enrollment for the spring semester invariably drops due, he said, to three reasons:
1) Completion of requirements for degrees.
2) Students who flunk out.
3) Financial difficulties.
The University business office today set Feb. 14 as the deadline for fee payments. However, the office allows an additional five days after that, during which a fine of 50 cents a day is assessed for late payment.
Total enrollment figures last year were 4,579, with an influx of 255 new students at the beginning of the spring semester for 1938-39. Mr. Nichols said the official enrollment figures for the second semester would not be available until March 1.
No estimate of the number of students who already had enrolled was made by faculty members at the enrollment floor.
Late enrollments for students unable to enroll yesterday or today may be made Friday, it was said. Psychological examinations for new students also will be held Friday. Physical examinations of all new students were scheduled to be completed this afternoon at Watkins Memorial hospital.
Subscriptions For New Kansan Now Being Taken
Today's Kansan marks the opening of a new semester and the first issue of a new, departmentalized publication. For this semester, the Kansan will be published in the afternoon daily except Monday and Saturday and will be regularly an eight-page tabloid in form.
Weather
Students who wish to renew subscriptions or start subscriptions to the Kansan should make arrangements at once since regular publication begins with today's edition. Subscribe at the Kansan business office in the Journalism building.
Tomorrow: Fair and not much change in temperature. Maximum will probably be about 35 degrees.
Sour Owl Gives Men The Bird
Dressed in a heavy black cover to brave wintry weather, the Sour Owl emerges from hibernation tomorrow to give men's dancing manners the merry ha, ha.
An article satirizing the suggestions of Emily Post and "Manners Make Men" is presented under the title, "Dancetiquette." The new issue also contains a treatise of the evolution of humor, a glamor girl photo, two full-page cartoons and the usual party pictures.
Preyer To Hear Work In N.Y.
For several days preceding the concert, Professor Preyer will coach George Trovillo, pianist who is to play the composition. Trovillo received the degree of bachelor of music from the School of Fine Arts in 1935 and is now engaged in advanced study in New York.
Carl A. Preyer, professor of piano in the School of Fine Arts, arrived in New York City early this week, where on Sunday his recently composed piano sonata will be played as a highlight of a program in Herbert Hadley hall.
The National Federation of Music clubs last year awarded first national prize to Preyer's composition and Sunday's presentation is under the auspices of the American Association of Composers and Conductors. Lucile Wagner, who received the degree of bachelor of music here in 1938, played the sonata with what Dean D. M. Swarthout described as "fine success" at the annual convention of the Music Teachers National Association in Kansas City on Dec. 29.
Professor Preyer and his wife will return to Lawrence Feb. 13.
Issue Warrant For Robert Palmer
County attorney Milton P. Beach said today a warrant had been issued for Robert N. Palmer, gr., charging possession of liquor.
Beach said he believed Palmer was out of town. Mrs. Palmer, who has indicated she would waive preliminary hearing and stand trial in district court, said her husband was in New Orleans attending the Mardi Gras.
Palmer's wife, Mrs. Wilma Palmer, who was arrested Friday on charges of possession of liquor, was scheduled to have a preliminary hearing tomorrow in the court of Robert Oyler, justice of the peace.
Lawrence police officers made the raid Friday on the Palmer apartment, 1231 Kentucky street, and arrested Mrs. Palmer. She pleaded not guilty at her arraignment and was released on $250 bond.
Palmer was graduated from the University in 1938 and spent a year teaching. He returned this fall to the University to take graduate work. Mrs. Palmer, a University alumna in the class of 1937, earned her college expenses by working at Watson library and at other jobs. The Palmer's are parents of a 15-month-old-child.
Kinney Volunteers To Aid In Salvaging Gold Leaf
Snow Dust Hides Truck-distance in back of the snow plow. They did not see the truck because of the flying snow from the plow. The truck sideswiped the left side of the passenger car. The car was wrecked beyond repair while the front of the truck was smashed.
Three Students Injured In Collision Saturday
E. D. Kinney, associate professor of metallurgical engineering, has offered his services in the problem of saving the gold, present as gold leaf, used for decorative purposes on the walls of the Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City. Professor Kinney believes that there would be considerable gold per ton in the wall material salvaged and it could be readily recovered by smelting or by the cyanide process.
Flying powder snow thrown up by a snow plow obscured an oncoming truck and caused the collision which injured three University students at 10:30 Saturday morning near Nortonville.
Leslie Rieger, b'40, driver of the Chevrolet coach, was accompanied by his room-mate, Charles Nice, m'43, and Rosalys McCreyer, fa'41. Miss McCreery and Nice are in the Watkins Memorial hospital and Rieger is at his home in Fairview.
Nice related that they were driving at a moderate speed a short
Immediately after the wreck the three students were picked up by another car and taken to a Nortonville doctor.
Rieger received a cut on his chin. Miss McCreary has a broken tooth and a black eye. Five stitches were taken in Nice's upper lip,
Old Chancellor's Home Made Unit Of Housing Plan
Men students will live in University dormitories for the first time next fall with the announcement today by Chancellor Malott that the home of Dr. E. H. Lindley when he was Chancellor will be operated as the second unit of a housing program with Brynwood Place.
Forums Board Presents Movies
The first of a series of motion picture showings sponsored by the Student Forums board was presented twice in Fraser theater today before small audiences.
Shown today was a comedy series featuring Buster Keaton including "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," "High and Dizzy," and "The Navigator."
All films used in the Forums board showings are to be taken from the Modern Film art library which is deposited at the University and distributed by the bureau of visual instruction. Following is the schedule for future presentations:
Feb. 20: "March of the Movies," 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
March 5: "Birth of a Nation," 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
April 2: Comedies: "The Doctor's Secret," "Gertie the Dinosaur," "His Bittler Pill," "The Freshman" with Harold Lloyd, "Sex Life of the Polyp" with Robert Benchley, and "The Skeleton Dance" a Walt Disney cartoon, at 2:30 and 7:30 pm April 18: "Documentaries, and
March 19: Screen Personalities featuring the May Irwin-John C Rice Kiss, "Enoch Arden," and Rudolph Valentino. 2:30 and 7:30 p.m
Sixty-five students will be accommodated in both houses. Supervision of the project will be vested in a committee headed by Henry Werner, adviser of men. Werner said today he had
April 16: "Documentaries and Propaganda" 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Nash To Teach Reading Course
A three hour course in the improvement of reading habits will be held this semester, under the direction of Bert A. Nash, professor of education.
The course has been conducted for the past two spring semesters and although it carries no credit, 120 students have enrolled each semester.
The class will meet three times a week for 15 weeks. Nine graduate students who have been working on reading projects will aid in the work.
suggested several names for membership to the Chancellor's office for approval. He said the committee's first meeting probably would be Thursday.
The former Chancellor's residence, located at 1345 Louisiana street, for 50 years has been the property of the University. This year it is rented to a group of men students who operate it cooperatively. It will house 25 students.
Brynwood Place, recently purchased for the Endowment association by alumni contributions, will accommodate 40 men. Standing just across Fourteenth street from the old Chancellor's home, Brynwood is to be connected to University utility lines and tunnels in the near future.
Men who will live in the two University housing projects will be selected on a basis of need and scholarship by the faculty committee on aids and awards. Meals for the entire 65 will be served at the dining hall in Brynwood.
Student Musicians May Get Award
Entries in a student composer's contest which will award a $720 fellowship will be received until May 1, according to a preliminary announcement received by Dean D. M. Swarthout of the School of Fine Arts and Prof. Allen Crafton, head of the department of speech and dramatic art.
The contest is sponsored by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and is open to graduate or undergraduate composers of musical plays.
Purpose of the competition is to afford encouragement and stimulus to the development of creative talent, particularly in the composition of musical comedies, operas, operettas, light operas, and musical reviews.
The preliminary announcement did not name judges for the contest. Future announcements are expected to give this information and to give instructions for the contest entries.