UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1938
Harvard's Conant Here Next Spring
★Crimson's President Is Secured by Lindley For Commencement June 12
When Dr. James Bryant Conant, twenty-third president of Harvard University, delivers the Commencement address here this spring, a native New Englander will speak to a "child of New England."
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For the University, now approaching the celebration of its seventy-fifth year of service, received $10.000 of its original endowment from Amos Lawrence, treasurer of Harvard College 75 years ago and secretary of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society.
Chancellor Lindley in extending a personal invitation to President Conant, who is a native of Massachusetts, emphasized the New England universities. While he was in New York last week.
Elected In 1933
Dr. Conant who was elected president of Harvard in 1833, received his A.B. degree from that university in 1913, and his Ph.D. three years later He holds numerous honorary degrees, including that of L.D. from Chicago University, New York University, Princeton, Yale, and Amherst. He obtained his D.C.L. from Oxford College, England, in 1836.
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President Conant became a member of the faculty at Harvard when he was made instructor in chemistry in 1918. By 1927 he had advanced to the position of professor. For the next four years he occupied the chair of the Sheldon Emery professorship of organic chemistry, and was chairman of the department during the last two years of this
Dr. Conant was a lieutenant in the sanitary corps of the army when the United States entered the War and was made a major in the chemical warfare service during the next year.
Was In Army
He is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Imperial Academy of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Chi Sigma.
ON THE SHIN
by jimmy robertson
A K. U., couple got the bird at Wiedemann's Sunday night ostensibly because they were dancing a waltz. An informer who writes of the incident says 50 of our so-called "upper-crusts," with apparently no feeling of shame, outwardly ridiculed an unaffiliated couple who institutionally within their rights when attempting to dance a waltz.
The informer adds that the booing and hissing was climaxed by false applause when the record ended. Now I wasn't there so I did a little checking up and discovered that the Greeks accused of embarrassing the unaffiliated couple did not boo or aplaud until the particular waltz before she disarmed him; he played three times in a row. And anyway, how can one tell by looking at a person whether or not he is affiliated?
Those old men who trump around the Hill with faltering steps and have green bags slung over their shoulders are law students. The shoulders are law students. The paper clean shirts, soap, and a lot of other things they never use.
I was quietly minding my own business yesterday afternoon just like I always do and chatting with Shirley Smith in a stage whisper that couldn't be heard more than five miles when Lou Fackele, who evidently took offense at one of my comments, asked a pair of scissors and amputated my neckie just 3 inches below the knot.
It was a tie that Ross, my brother,
gave to me six years ago come
Christmas next; a pretty tie and
I had worn it daily since then and
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Chancellor Returns From Eastern Trip
Chancellor E. H. Lindley, who just returned from a week's business trip to New York and Washington, and Dean R. A. Schwegler, the School of Education, are attending a meeting of the presidents of state colleges and heads of departments of education in Topokta today.
While in New York, the Chancellor attended the meeting of the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Learning and was elected vice chairman. He also attended a dinner for the trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr Lindley is not a member of this board.
Record Number Of Kansans Here Foster Reveals
★Registrar Shows Each County Represented in University Census by Two or More
More Kansans than ever are attending the University, according to a study of Nov. 1 registration prepared by Registrar Geo. G. Foster.
The number this year is 52 greater than that of last year, which, in its turn, was a record. Moreover, for the first time in years, all the counties of Kansas are represented at one time, there are no single-student counties — Haskell and Heridan have two each, and the others have three or more, up to the five counties having more than a hundred. These latter include Johnson, 112; Sedgwick, 131; Wynndotte, 297; Shawnee, 336, and Douglas, 297.
Thanks to an increase of sixty in the Summer Session, the total different names registered to Nov. 1, greater than it was a year ago, the figures being 5,253 and 5,237 for the two years respectively.
Out-of-state and foreign registration dropped this fall, and as a result the actual attendance on Nov. 1 was lower than women—from last year's Nov. 1 actual attendance. This, however, is more than 800 above the registration of five years ago. Following is the Nov. 1 attendance this year, *last*
Year Men Women Total
1938 360 1485 4575
1937 3095 1491 4588
1937 2425 1491 3648
It will be noted that the ratio o two men for each woman registered at the University continues each year. Engineering, Law, and Business are largey men's schools, with the College more evenly divided.
The Graduate School and the Schools of Fine Arts, Medicine, and Education show increases, and the others show slight decreases. The School of Pharmacy is stabilizing with more than 80 students, now in a full-time program installed and law shows a decline from the abnormal figures of the several years before new bar admission rules went into effect.
University Is Starting Point For Buddy Rogers
The University of Kansas was given credit Sunday night by Charles "Buddy" Rogers, on the Fitch Exchange, on a place from which he got his start.
After two years of successful acting, Buddy gave up his promising screen career to organize a band and lead a leading dance bands of the nation.
In 1926, when Buddy was a student at the University, majoring in journalism, Adolph Zukor and Jessie Cimmings were conducting a talent search in the colleges and universities of the United States. They chose 10 women and 10 men. One of these 20 students, and the only one to become famous, was Buddy Rogers, who was at that time playing in a five piece band here on the Campus.
All University members of the Witan are requested to attend the meeting tonight in the Memorial Union building at 7.30, it was announced by Haven Glassmire, c'42, secretary.
Witan Will Meet Tonight
Varsity-Frosh Contest To Open Cage Season
★Jayhawkers Face Loss Of Two Stars In Seeking Eighth League Title
In 11 Years
Kansas" eight Big Six basketball championship in 11 years is the goal of University of Kansas basketball players as they prepare for their annual game with the freshmen to be played next Tuesday.
Dr. F. C. Allen, the dean of basketball coaches in the United States, lost two great players from his championship team of last year, but has some fine material from which to mold a队. In 29 years of coaching, Dr. Allen has turned out 22 championship quintets.
Lost by graduation were Fred Pralle, all-American guard, and Sylvester Schmidt, center. Last year's team was built around Pralle who led the Big Six in scoring with an average of 12.1 points a game from his guard position. Pralle's loss means that the team's offense must be reorganized and new scoring threats found.
Schmidt directed the team's play from the center position, known in Dr. Allen's system as the "quarter-back" post. Schmidt was one of the four most successful pitchers in ball history and also rated as an outstanding ball handler and passer.
Returning are 10 lettermen and they are augmented by a number of sophomores. Dr. Allen lettered 16 men last winter, because he attributed the team's success to squad spirit. Four sophomore lettermen have decided to spend their time on their studies this year.
The 10 lettermen on the squad are Don Eling, forward; George Goyal, forward; Bruce Reid, forward; Carl Johnson, forward; Lorren Flor伦, forward; Lester Kappelman, center; Dick Harp, guard; Lyman Corlis, guard; Fenlon Durand, guard; and Wayne Nees, guard.
Sophomore additions to the squid include forwards Howard Engleman, John Kline, James Arnold, Maurice Jackson, Bill Southern, and Weaver McCasilm; centers Robert Allen, Bruce Voran and Jack Sands; and guards Kenneth Messner, William Hogben and Bill McKinley.
Ralph Miller, one of the freshmen's two scoring sensations last year, suffered a knee injury in football this fall that will keep him out of basketball indefinitely. Miller might be able to play in a few weeks or he may miss the whole first semester.
Announces Cast For 'Hau Fever'
With the casting of characters completed, rehearsals are getting underway in earnest for the Dramatic Club's second production of the year, "Hay Fever" by Noel Coward. The modern English comedy will be given in Fraser theater Dec. 6, 7, 8, and 9, instead of from Dec. 12 to 15 as was listed in the activity book.
McCarty is cast as Saudy Tyrell and played Homer in "Begger on Horseback." Miss Cook will play Myra Arundel and Lucille Gaynor will play Jackie Coryton. They both had parts in "Spring Dance."
*Rehearsals Have Begun For Second Production Of the Year
Returns to Squad
The cast, as announced by Prof. Allen Crafton, director, will have Mary Noel, c'40; and Bob Rhode, c'39 in the leading roles. Miss Noel, who will play Sorel Biss, is remembered by the actors and Rhode, who will be Simon Bliss in the current production, is well remembered as Carr in "Winterest." Others in the cast are Marvin Moon, c'11; lucille Waggoner, g; betty Bradley, c'40; Earl Porter, c'36; Roberta Cook, f'39; Elmer McCarty, c'39; Lucille Gaynor, c'39. Moon will play David Bliss and is remembered as the Jewish cashier in "Lilom." Miss Wagner will play David Bliss and be remembered by some of the upperclassmen for her part in "This Thing Called Love." Miss Bradley and Porter, who will take the parts of the maid and Richard Greatham, more both in "Lilom."
Lyman Divens, senior halfback, will be in the starting lineup against Missouri Thursday. Divens has a tie with the Tumis State game at Mishawaka where he was injured.
LYMAN DIVENS
Parental Fears Draw Comment
★Student Correspondent Bureau Hears Lawson Defend University
"I as I travel throughout the state, parents repeatedly tell me their three fears about sending their children to this university," said Paul B. Lawson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, yessometimes at the second meeting of the Student Correspondents' bureau.
"These three fears are," Dean Lawson continued, "first that the school is so large that parents are afraid their children will be lost in it and will not receive personal attention. The second fear is the erroneous propaganda that Kansas is an irreiligible institution. The third fear is that University is a rich man's school. It has been circulated that children of poor parents cannot come to school and be happy."
This latter point was emphasized by Dean Lawson. He pointed out that from statistics, 25 per cent of the undergraduate students at the University are self-announcing.
Dean Lawson pointed out that there were definitely many advantages and yet many drawbacks to sororities and fraternities. About one-third of the students on the University of Washington have been on to say that many of the independent men and women attain the highest honors of the University. For example, four 'out of the last six men who have been president of the Men's Student Council, have been non-fraternity men,
NOTICE
As for financial difficulties, many students actually go through a year at the University on $300 or less. Last year three children of the same family lived together, cooked inexpensively, and got through both semesters on $700. Although this plan is not advisable, it can be done. C. H. Mullon, c'39, last year's chair of the organization told us news from the University creates among citizens of far away towns, and the hundreds of taxpayers that help support this institution.
This is the fourth year that the Correspondents' Bureau has been in existence, and there are now 256 students writing for their home town papers, in every county in Kansas.
Women students who will be available for work during the Thanksgiving vacation are requested to report to room 220, Frank Stong hall, before tomorrow.
MARIE MILLER,
assistant to the ad-
visor of women.
Velma Wilson is chairman of the organization.
The Jayahawk was sharpening his beak and giving his tabula a final palish on the turf of Memorial Stadium yesterday afternoon in preparation for its annual tussel with the Missouri Tiger. Though a cold north wind blow across the field in gusts, it served to weep the bird's appetite for that Thanksgiving dinner Thursday afternoon.
Jayhawker Sharpens Beak For Turkey Day Feed
By Jim Bell, c'40
Spirit ran high as the Lindseymen worked through passing drills
hed up on their formations.
Dummy scrimage was the only thing the Kansas coaches would risk. The injury situation has become so acute that Ad Lindssey and his staff are almost afraid to let their charges run around the track for fear that broken legs and mangled jaws will be the result.
Mason Optimist
"I'm sure that we will win Thursday if our sady deduced backfield can hold up," said Paul Masonner, senior quarterback and game captain for Thursday. Paul has yet to play on a Kansas team which has defended Missouri in his sophomore year he played in the 19-3 Missouri rout and last year the game ended in a scoreless tie.
During the history of the Kansas-Missouri games Kansas has emerged winner 24 times while Missouri has celebrated victory on 15 occasions. Seven games have resulted in ties. The game is perhaps more
Union Building Directors To Meet at Minnesota
Preparations are being made for a student group of five to represent the University of Kansas at the annual convention of the Association of Union Building Directors to be held at the University of Minnesota during the first three weeks. Desiree Mizzippe, who will head the group, three boys and two girls will make up the party.
Union building directors from all over the country attend these conventions to discuss and exchange ideas.
Love, Marriage Exert Influence
*May Be Detrimental or Beneficial in Personality Development
"Love and Marriage as Factors in Personality Development" was discussed Sunday evening at the Unitarian Church in the first of a series of three meetings on "Love, Marriage, and the Home."
John J. O. Moore, secretary of the Y.M.C.A.; Mrs. Carroll D. Clark of Lawrence; and Dr. Florence Sherron, professor of home economics, presented their views on the subject. In opening the discussion, Mr. Moore personality as "the achieved best of one's possibilities." "Love and marriage, either or both may be powerful elements in the construction of personality or its destruction," said Mrs. Clark. She presented a scheme in which she gave plus or minus values to individual characteristics so that if one partner had plus in one element and minus in another part they would cancel each other. According to this mathematical program two women could be well-matched if they had a large number of pluses on both sides of the union.
Dr. Sherbon remarked that two people should not be expected to be very rational in a love situation; and he discussed several of the elements that tend to cause difficulties in the marriage relationship. In answering questions, the panel stressed compatibility in the field of affections and common interests in life work and social activities.
The second meeting of the series will be held next Sunday at 6:30 in the Unitarian Church, Dr. Fritz Moellenhoff, Topika psychoanalyst, speak on "Some Emotional and Problem Problems in Love and Marriage."
Christian Scientists Meet
There will be a meeting of the Christian Science Society at 4:30 p.m. in room C of Myers hall. All those who are interested may attend.
steeped in tradition than any other contest in the Middle West. The series which started in 1801, has been the occasion for some of the greatest football played in this section of the country. Tommy Johnson, "Stoney" Well and many other famous players—greaters have risen to their greatest in the Missouri game.
Dope Favors Missouri
Missouri is favored to give the Kansas team a thorough beating this year, say the sport's writers, but those who have followed the game through its 46 years of play will tell you that you can never predict the outcome when these two teams meet. Comparative scores and contests are just what they thing in all. Many times one team has gone into the game top heavy favorite and emerged a sadly defended group of battered men.
Both coaches are pessimistic as to the outcome. Ad Lindsey fears that his boys will not be able to stop Christman's passing and Don Fauret points to the foot that Kannan deflected. Kannan's goal was to fill all of our team earlier in the season. So, while the coaches wait and sport's writers turn out reams of material on the traditions of the game, the football fans in the Missouri Valley sit back in their chairs and wait. I know that no matter what the outcome is, the game will be a classic.
Plans Being Made To Give Nativity
Plans for producing "The Old Coventry Nativity" Dec. 14 in Fraser hall are being made by the department of speech and dramatic art, according to an announcement yesterday by Rolla Nuckles, instructor.
There will be a special meeting of the Dramatics Club at 8 o'clock this evening in the Little Theater of Green hall to complete arrangement for the production. All members and apprentices are required to attend.
This will be the first time a Nativity play has been given in this part of the country, and it will be the Christmas gift from the department to the students and community.
The Campus Shivers As Ol' Man Winter Blows Frosty Breath
Signs of winter again blew across the Campus last night as the mercury fell to 20 degrees at 10:00, or 31 degrees from noon yesterday.
As the library closed last night,
students who had been in the habit
of basking in the balmy air stirred
their pace and hurried home to get
Snow was predicted yesterday but the heavy morning clouds cleared leaving it clear and cold.
Y.W.C.A. To Sponsor Christmas Bazaar
The annual Christmas Bazaar, sponsored by the Y.W.C.A., will for the first time, be held in the main lounge of the Memorial Union building. The bazaar, to begin Dec. 8 and continue through Dec. 10, is for the purpose of raising money for the Y.W.C.A. budget.
It will be divided into five departments this year, featuring Chinese, Russian, Brasstown, and Mexican work, as well as the homemade candy department sponsored by various commissions of the Y.W.C.A.
Dorothy Blue, fa39, is the general chairman in charge of the bazaar. Other committee chairmen working under her are: Alice Ann Jones, c41, invoicing committee; Dorothy Cucher, c39, selling committee; and Viola Knoche, c41, inventory committee.
WEATHER
Kent Speaks to Zoology Club
Kent Speaks to Zoology Club
Dr. C. V. Kent will speak to the Zoology Club tonight at 5:30 at Snow Hall. Dr. Kent's student will be "the Scope of Biophysics." All memebers are asked to attend.
Weather: Kansas fair today and tomorrow; colder in extreme south-east portion today. Somewhat warmer Wednesday.
Hitler Considers Recall of Envoy From England
★London Papers Claim Move Would Be Protest Against Nazi Anti-Jewish Drive
London, Nov. 21—(UP)—Reports that Chancellor Adolph Hitler is considering the early recall of the German ambassador to London, Herbert Von Dirksen, as a protest against British condemnation of the Nazi anti-Jewish drive were in big headlines on Monday's morning newspapers today.
The Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Mirror reported the probability of the recall of the German envoy.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's statements in the House of Commons, Monday, and bitter anti-Germ attacks made during the debate which followed it, were said to have been partly responsible for the move.
The Daily Mail said that if Von Dirksen is recalled, it will be officially described as being for the purpose of reporting to Berlin authorities on the reaction of British opinion to the anti-Jewish measures.
The explanation, the Daily Mail said, will be similar to that given last Friday for the recall of the German ambassador to Washington, Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, who was interviewed to report the "injurious attitude" of President Roosevelt and other United States officials. Previously the United States had called him to Rush Hugh R Wilson. The Daily Mail said Von Dirksen's recall might be for the purpose of reporting on last nights commons debate as well as Chamberlin's statement, but it was understood that the move would be intended primarily to show German anger toward the British attitude. The Daily Express said the German government's unfavorable reaction to Chamberlin's mention of Tanganyika—a former German colony whose return Hitler demands as a hawk of refuge for German Jeans had not been anticipated in Japan.
The Express said that Hitler was expected to send his personal adjutant, Captain Fritz Wiedemann, to London soon to obtain a complete rehearsal for the speech. He said the state of British opinion regarding the Jewish and other problems.
The Daily Telegram, close to the government, said it understood that a final decision on the recall of Von Dirksen would not be taken in Berlin until the general character of the House of Commons debate and Chamberlain's statement had been studied thoroughly.
Commerce Article By Smith Appears
James Barclay Smith, professor of law, is the author of an article which appeared in the Dickinson Law Review for October. This article, the first in a series of law reviews, is entitled "Local-Interstate Commerce and the Power to Prohibit Commerce."
It deals with the regulatory power of Congress over commerce, allocating the power of the state and the national governments over* trade. Professor Smith analyses the cases in which state authority is supreme, those in which the national government is supreme, and those in which the regulatory power is concurrent. The basic thesis is that "ours is a government of the state" through the ages with the capacities to meet crises as they arise."
Start Gymnasium-Science Building at Chapman
Chapman, Kan., Nov. 21.—(UP)—Construction of an $80,000 combination gymnasium-science building at the Dickinson county community high school here, is expected to be started soon. The board of education has let the contract for the work.
The basketball court and dressing rooms, chemistry, physics and biology laboratories and the heating plant will be located in the building which will be connected by a corridor with the main structure.
A PWA grant of $38,250 will help finance the project.