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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXII
Plays Are Chosen For Presentation In Coming Year
Jitney Players Will Bring "Streets of New York" as an Added Attraction
The Department of Speech and Dramatic Art, in co-operation with the Dramatic Club, will offer another inter-acting experience at the learning of activity tickets and others.
The first play of the season will be a modern comedy, "Aren't We All," which will be presented Oct. 22, 23 and 24, by the Kansas Players. This year the usual policy has been reversed, and instead of a serious play by the Kansas Players, followed by a comedy by the Lions, it will have been performed with this English comedy by Frederick Lonsdale, which has had successful runs in both London and New York.
This will be followed on Nov. 15 by a presentation of the grand old melodrama "The Streets of New York," to be presented in the Auditorium by the famous Jitney Players of New York, who are being played the schools of the East for the past ten years. It will be their first appearance at the University of Kansas and the first time a traveling company has been included on the activity ticket. This presentation will be a boon for them, as "Journey Hes" was last year.
The third production, to be presented Dec. 16, 13 and 14, in Fraser theater, will again reverse the usual procedure. The Dramatic Club will present the grim, modern radical of Mr. Chancellor's play. The play is "modern" in thought, language and construction and was included in Burns Mantle's Ten Best Plays of 1932-33. In speaking of this production Prof. Allen Crafton said, "The most potent impute, these being dame in danger, these is found in revolutionary plays of this type."
For a number of years the Kansas Players have endeavored to get a cast for an Ibn play. This year, the last regular activity, play, to be given Feb. 11, 12, 13 and 14 will be Ibn's "The Musical." The writing by the greatest playwright of the 19th century. This play will be given by the Kansas Players.
MT. OREAD NOTES
Another dramatic innovation this year will be the inclusion of a play in Fine Arts Week in May. This year the Department of Speech and Dramatic Art plans to present "Poila and Francesca." This play is the best telling in English of the world famous love story. This play will be staged in the Auditorium
After Professor Crafton had gone into a lengthy discussion of how he happened to name the class then meeting. Introduction to Theater Art, one of the brighter students raised his hand and asked, "Is this a principle of Speech?"
It took one of his students 25 years to understand the purposes of his course in literary criticism, say Prof. E. M. Hatcher. And it didn't that it wouldn't do any good to get out of the course now just because it might look distasteful, but it usually takes about four weeks to get it right and the students are wondering what to do.
As far east as Chicago, most persons were, of course, baffled by the fighting aspect of the little bird.
We hear that a Jayhawk was on the Northwestern University campus this summer, with the Jayhawk emblem displayed on the front and rear of his sweater.
Walking along the street, our man from Kansas was hailed by a kid on the street, "What's that, Mister?"
"That's a Jayhawk; don't you know what a Jayhawk is?"
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"Oh, sure," said the kid. "You're from Kansas where Glenn Cunningham comes from."
TRYOUTS FOR CHEERLEADERS ARE ANNONCED BY MYKLANI
Tryouts for cheerleaders will be held
Troye, 2 and Gumar Mykland, pres-
ident of the Men's Student Council,
announced today. Men who are inter-
should apply now to apply to Me-
nner's secretary of the Council,
Keen Tillford.
Lawrence High Meets Valley Falls The Lawrence High School football team met the Valley Falls High School eleven on the practice field south of the University stadium this afternoon. The game was called at 3 o'clock.
Bicycle Fever at Indiana University Attracts Attention
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1934
Reminiscent of the gay '90s and yet definitely modern are the bright red and white bicycles which are taking smart Indiana University students to classes, on dates and on cross-country jaunts these days.
Even professors, who once either walked or drove an automobile to classes, seem to have caught the bicycle fever, says the Indiana Daily Student. One member of the faculty even has gone so far as to offer to do stuents in the new cycle shop, if only the propriators will fund him the $4 a bike.
Amatur bicycleies who have not yet reached the point where they can coast nonchallantly down a hill with arms folded and feet on the handy holds will find encouragement in the fact that the shop proprietors have ordered a small bicycle.
Use of the machines has been restricted at night in the past by the lack of red reflector lights on the fenders. City police requested the addition as a safety measure to the compiled with, thus allowing cyclers to cycle until 10 p. m.
All Students Invited to University Reception
Chancellor to Head Receiving Line Tomorrow Evening
New students and new members of the faculty will be afforded an opportunity to meet the faculty and returning students at the all-University reception to be held in the Memorial Building tomorrow evening a 8:30.
The reception will last until 10:30
Dancing will begin at 10 in the ballroom
and will continue until 12 o'clock.
boating will begin at 12 in the ballroom and will continue until 12 o'clock. In the receiving line will be a waiter and the following deans and their wives; Paul Lawson, Frank Stockton, Raymond Schwegler, George Shadw, D. M. Stewarthorn, E. B. Stufauer, W. L. Burkholder, J. J. Werner and Dean Agnes Husband.
The following professors and their wives will assist at the reception: F. E. Kester, Walter E. Sandelus, J. K. Stier, Robert Warren, A. J. Mix, Bert A Nash, Verner F. Smith, S. Johnson, Albert A. Ohl, Alberto Corda, Carl A. Preyer, Major W. C. Keenig, Adrian Lindsey, Dinnore Alter.
Indiana Adopts Ceremony
Brief Formal Exercises Precede Calling of First Class Rolls
Bloomington, Ind., Sept. 21—Fir's classes at the University were opened Tuesday with a formal ceremony, participated in by President William Lowe Bryan, deans, and members of the faculty. This was the first time such a ceremony was used at Indiana, and since it was intended to imply University involvement, it served the formal opening will itself join the traditions $ \mathcal{o} $ the University.
At 7:30 in the morning, chimes called the students to assembly before the Stusd building, and at 7:45 the university band added its share to the pro
Just before 8 members of the faculty in academic costume filed from the doors of the Student building, and with President Bryan and deans in the center, formed a semi-circle before the building. Across the walk the students of the university were assembled by classes.
A young woman, appropriately costumed, represented the Spirit of Indiana, and explained briefly what also typified President Brian read the Oath of Allegiance, with his wife. The singing of "Hail to Old I. U." the opening ceremony was dismissed and work began in i o'clock classes.
Corbin Hall will entertain with a open house Sunday afternoon Sept. 13 from 3:30 to 5:30.
According to Mrs. Eli Lewis, house-
mother at Corin Hall, all women sten-
dents and any one else connected with the University are invited.
Campus Sister Picnic Saturdays
The campus sister picnic sponsored by the YWCA, for all new and returning women students will be held Saturday afternoon at 4:30. All women we interested in attending are asked to call Evanlage Clark, 1376J, or Henley House, 1315, this evening.
The pepiners will meet at Henley
House at 4:30 and from there will go to
Potters lake for the supper. There
will be a charge of 15 cents.
the University are invited.
Tulsa Alumni Ask That Band Attend Grid Game There
bkahma Graduate Group Sees Opportunity to Display University Spirit
Chancellor E. H. Lindley this morning received a communication from the Kansas Alumni association at Tulsa asking that in order "to display the school spirit of the University" the University of Kansas band he allowed to play in the Kansas football game to Tulsa when the college slash there on Oct. 6.
The communication was in the form of a resolution, unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Alumni group in 1984. H was signed by T. H. Judd, secretary.
In discussing their request the alumni said: "We present the above resolution for your consideration believing our request to be reasonable, as this will be an outstanding game this year in the state of Oklahoma."
"Whereas, there are a great number of prospective college students in Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma, many of whom are interested in the University of Kansas, and to whom it is desirable to be engaged in the stages of attending our University, and
"Whereas, an opportunity to publicize and display the school spirit of the University of Kansas is offered in the forthcoming football game between the University of Kansas and the University of Tulsa.
The resolution in full follows:
"Now, therefore, be it resolved that a request be made to the proper authorities at the University, that they, if possible, have the University of Kansas band and cheerleaders in attendance at the football game to be played between the University of Kansas and the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Ola."
A similar attempt to secure the attendance of the Kansas band at the Kansas-Tulsa game last year failed because a group were found to be insufficient.
KANSAS GRADUATE REPLACES
HAIG IN SPEECH DEPARTMEN
Seven Rhetoric Classes Added
The English department announces seven new Rhetoric classes opened this fall for fresh students, due to an unusually large enrollment. Courses in upperclassman work are still open.
Mary Merys Elliott has been added to the faculty of the department of speech and dramatic art. Mrs. Elliott will take the place of Robert Haw, who works in the language and dramatic speech work and assist in the dramatic work of the department.
Mrs. Elliott, who is a graduate of the University, will be remembered as having played the leading role in the Kansas Players' production of "Distant February." For the past five years she has taught at Kansas State College.
Next to the diamond back is a sassy
Over in the little room in the northwest corner of the sub-basement of Snow Hall Dr. Edward H. Tayler is ex-tenured and he will be collected by he collected on a ten-weeks expedition
in among the rows of cages on the first table in the room the visitor sees a sign which reads, "Danger. Stay away from wire."
Students Begin Burning the Mid-Night Oil on First Assignment
In the little cave lice a huge Crotalus Atrox, or diamond-bound rattle snake. As soon as a visitor enters the room it can be seen that he is so long as there is any movement in the room. His bite is not necessarily fatal, but extremely unstable. A snake simulate to this one bit the wife of the Americans who was tortured too close to a sack in which it was kept by Dr. Taylor. Quick action with a razor blade prevented any serious consequence. Dr. Taylor reports that she was struck in the dead death "I was its disease," he states.
stone, with snake stick and lantern.
br. Taylor took the reptiles in their native haunts, the wildest parts of Mexico. The hunting was done at night, for snakes stay below ground during the day to avoid the heat of the sun, which can be fatal to any snake long exposed to its rays.
to Mexico this summer. There are also some snakes that have been brought in by persons interested in herpology.
Capturing Deadly Snakes Not as Hard As Feeding Them Says Dr. E. H. Taylor
Student's tables so neatly arranged like monochromed cookies in a box, they give air of air. And chiefly within these windows are dramas of rush content now after the rigors of rush week, registration and enrollment.
The first day in the classroom is over. Lights from basement to the attic in most of the apartments, fraternities, nortices and boarding houses beamed in windows last late night and occasionally heads peeled anxiously through curtains. Yes sir, the midnight oil is burning again.
Every house seems bright, assured and hopeful. All glowing with proud but dishectic property. The business of insuring a bright prospect for the fu-
Fees are paid and students from now on, what is left on that grigly student budget skeleton so often disguised as a baited toy (to be sold with a creature) who stand guard like royal sentinels. An extra pack of cigarettes is treason, a date and a splurging filling to the point where they will lose their investment they will have; that for higher education.
Haley Brewster will be back with the club again this year after having spent an engagement with Henry Halstead's orchestra at the Mauchchuck Grill this weekend. She will join the glec club on its trip last year through north-central Kansas.
The officers of the club are Walter Lapham, president; Maurice Carter, business manager; Leslie Reed, public agent; Neal Haggart, librarian. The student director will be chosen by a popular vote of the club.
Tentative arrangements for the week's trip next February are being made now, according to Lapham. Dates have already been arranged for concerts in Tulsa, Bartlesville, Wichita, Chanute, Parsons, and Independence Other surrounding towns will probably be included in the tour.
Now and then for the tackling of the first day's assignment the flash of tragedy with the grim phrase "I should have loved you" on the lodge plus idolize it. Is he a fraternity brother?"
Howard C. Taylor, professor of piano, will direct the club again this year. One-half hour of college credit is given for satisfactory service. No previous glee club experience is necessary for tryouts.
Spring Trip Will Include Concerts at Tulsa And Wichita
tight-bog snake snake from Texas. He will hiss and puff out his head in an effort to intimidate enemies, but Dr. Teyrus to quote quite tightness and, in knuckle, a fine fist.
Trupons for membership in the Men's Glee Club will be held Monday and Tuesday afternoon, Walter Lapham president of the club, announced today.
Tryouts for Men's Glee Club to Begin Monday
On the other side of the ratter is a beautiful little water snake which is also a native of Mexico. It is black, with three yellow stripes running the length of its body. The head is a bowl of water that is its keeper but thoughtfully placed in its cage.
Students whose last names begin with A to M, inclusive, are to try out the group by trying to group will try out Tuesday at 8 p.m. All tryouts will be held in room 32. Administration building. All men trying out will bring a song of our own selection.
Next to this beauty is caged a boa constrictor. Dr. Taylor took it in a cave in Sonora, where it dwell among other boas, one of which made a trunk in the dust of the cave floor six feet deep. He never sighted this specimen, he estimated its length at 12 feet. The one on exhibit is a small boa, measuring between five and six feet. Its keeper says that although boas are usually even tempered and easy to handle, this snake never loses an opportunity to take a nip at him with its forepaws. On another table in the room is a cage that contains a huge shiny black swamp snake from the Olefinekew swamp in Georgia. Although Dr. Taylor did not collect this specimen, he is faced with the problem of feeding it.
The food it will voluntarily eat is a type of salamander found only in its natural habitat.
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Initiation Service For New Students To Be Wednesday
Group Will Meet on North College Hill and Go From There to Stadium
Stadium
The special program of events planned for new students will be concluded on Wednesday evening, Sept. 25, with the Freshmen District at
Students will meet on North College Hill, back of Corbin Hall, the original site of the University of Kansas. There, they will gather around a huge bonfire and hear a short program before going down to the stadium. The University Women's Glee Club will present several numbers of students from the University of the new members of Mortor Board. Senior women's honor society.
Under the direction of K men, the freshmen will march in a body to the stadium where they are to be seated in front of the speakers stand. In the past Miss Hannah Oliver, professor emeritus of Latin, graduate of the first class of the University, has addressed the group. It is hoped that she will be remembered again next year, Raymond Nichols, see below, to the Chancellor said today.
During the address by Chancellor Lindley, a brand firebrand from North College Hill will be brought by a runner to the stadium to stand in the building to the stadium where it is presented to the president of the freshman class who will lift a new fire before the seed of the University. Last year the team won a national title in Cinnamish, famous Kansas runner.
nigraham, tambour Kambala-Athanisi.
At the conclusion of the Chancellor's
address, freshman men will don their
caps for the coming season.
Pat Page Loses Lawsuit
Indiana University Not Required to Continue Football Salary.
Indiana-palep, Sept. 21 - Harlan O. (P) Page this week he lost his in Federal court for $1,500 damages against Indiana university, Judge Robert C Battell he did not have a court order and was terminated as football coach in 1930.
Page alleged he was dismissed by the University's athletic board of control in 1920 before the expiration of his contract.
It was brought out at the trial that I. Pace signed a three-year contract with Indiana university beginning April 1, 1026, and that it was awarded for the two years of his service in the annual salary of $12,000. Paper asserted he was assured the contract would be renewed for the two years following his retirement at salaries of $15,000 and $13,000 respectively.
It was his contention in the suit that he contract, whether verbal or written. was valid.
Answering the charges, Indiana university introduced evidence intended to show Page had refused to say whether he would stay another year after graduation, the same time as with other schools for a coaching position.
Open House Dates Named
Kappa Alpha Theta, and Alpha Delta Pi to Begin Season
Open house dates were set at a special meeting of the Women's Pan-Hellenic Council, held yesterday afternoon. Dates finally chosen by eleven sororities are Friday, September 28. Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Phi, Gamma Phi Beta and Delta Zeta; Friday, October 12. Chi Omega, Alpha Gamma Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma; Saturday, October 20, Sigma Kappa and Alpha Omicron PI.
Possibilities of raising a fund to provide new uniforms for the University band will be discussed at a meeting of the committee on educational interests of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Van Bruner, Lawrence business man, is chairman of the committee.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR FRESHMAN WEEK
Sept. 22, Saturday
9:30-11:30 a.m. Enrollment con pleted
pleted.
4:30 p.m. Campus Sister picnic
Henley House
p. m. Chancellor's Reception Memorial Union.
Sept. 23, Sunday
3:30-5:30 p.m. At Home to all Uni
30-5:30 p.m. At Home to all University women, Corbin hall.
GUY V. KEELER
Assistant Director of Extension Mr. Keeler, who has had charge of the Lecture Course and Extension Class Burgeu for this course. As Assistant Director of Extension. He will announce the football games over KFKU this fall.
Five Big Six Schools on Air Nebraska Alone Declines to Broadcast Football Games
K. U's home football games will be back on the air this fall, the University athletic department having approved their broadcast over the school's radio station. The reports will be strictly non-commercial enterprises, however
The Big Six broadcast question has been raised repeatedly during the last year, and widespread opposition to last year's han has resulted in opening the air waves to those schools who desire to broadcast their home games.
The job of broadcasting the Jay-hawkier grid clashes over Station KFKU will in go to Guy Keeler, staff man in the external scaffolding of the microphone often and is also a former K man, KFKU operates on the same wave length as the Lawrence station WREN, and will have increased power for the football team.
A public address system with E. R. Elbel of the physical education department at the hospital will furnish running games in the game, enabling the players in this season.
Students Need Employment
A plea for more old jobs for men students was made by Fred Ellsworth, head of the employment bureau for men, today.
red Ellsworth Makes Plea for Odd Jobs for Deserving Students
At the present time there are twelve emergency cases which must be taken care of at once. It is necessary that those students have employment if they are in need of such assistance several of the extreme cases. One student, a senior, must work to pay for his board. Another student lost the money he had saved to pay his fees. A student is without employment because the head teacher where he was to have a job did not open.
The bureau has been more successful this year than in placing students but there is a shortage of odd jobs. Anyone wanting yard work done, cars or windows well maintained, he also urges boys desiring odd jobs to leave their enrollment cards and Lawrence address at the office of the employment bureau.
LEIGH URGES ORGANIZATION HEADS TO REGISTER NAMES
Presidents of all professional and honorary fraternities, and departmental clubs are asked to leave their name, telephone number, and address in order to move to the student directory, Lawrence Leigh, editor of the publication, announced today.
Those clubs in which the president was elected last spring and failed to return to school this fall, should hold a new election immediately, according to Leigh, to enable the directors to ask for the publication as quickly as possible.
NOTICE COLLEGE STUDENTS
All changes in enrollments and all late enrollments are to be made in Robbins gymnasium Saturday, Sept. 27, from 9:30-11:30 only.
Students who are enroling for the first time or those who are enroling late will enter at the WEST door.
Students wishing to make changes in their enrollments will enter at the EAST door.
Advanced standing students, transfers, and special students will enter at the NORTH door.
PAUL B. LAWSON, Dean.
REGENT HARRIS FIRST SPEAKER AT CONVOCATION
Ottawa Lawyer Comes as Envoy of Good-Will From Two Millions of Kansas Residents
HUGE CROWD ATTENDS
Faculty Marches in a Body To Auditorium Platform During Prelude
Preceding the program the faculty convened in the Administration building and proceeded in a body from there to the Auditorium where they marched down the sides to the platform. Laurelnett Anderson played the organ prede
The program opened with the Doxology led by D. M. Swarthowt, dean of ice School of Fine Arts. W. L. Burick, dean of the School of Law led be assembly in a responsive reading nd the Lord's Praver.
A large crowd of students attended
se opening all-University conventione
i the University Auditorium this
orniring at 10 o'clock. Mr Fred M.
Marris, member of the Kansas Board
f revents addressed the body.
Following these open numbers, Waldemar Gellch, professor of violin, played a violin song "Rovee" by Vieuxur at the piano by D. M. Searhout at the piano.
Following the violin solo, Chancellor E. H. Lindley announced that the annual new student induction will be held Wednesday, Sept. 20 in the Stadium.
The Chancellor spoke in commemoration of two members of the faculty, the university professor and the professor in the School of Engineering and Dr. Frank Strong, former chancellor, who died during the summer. A memorial of memory of these men will be held later.
In commemoration, the audience stood and sang a hymn, "O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand" (Duke Street).
Chancellor Lindley then introduced the speaker of the morning, Fred M. Harris of Ottawa, representative of the Board of Regents, and several years ago president of the K.U. Alumni association.
Mr. Harris said that it was "not his purpose to preach or give a 'vital message'". He had come as the representatives of the Islamic community, an envoy of good will from the two million residents of Krasan who believe in the Muslim faith and make it their own.
"There was a time," said Mr. Harris, "when I thought a speaker ought to inspire his college audience and address its members as 'college boys and girls' with the skill of an undergraduate student, with his age, experience and background, does not yet consider himself an adult citizen able to look out for his own welfare, it is not the position of
more, more than ever, Mr. Harris pointed out, the University must act as a guide and a steading influence in times when the air is filled with half-baked thoughts. Mr. Harris looks to the University as a force for bringing about "Sanity of vision, and charity of purpose."
"We are living in a world in which the dominant note is fear," the speaker pointed out. "The psychology of fear is spread everywhere by advertising in newspapers and magazines. Even the world is surrounded with tufft."
But, Mr. Harris declared, this era of fear will disappear and conditions will return to normal, just as the drought has been. Fewer people have become green after the recent rains.
He believes that the time will come when there will be a demand for young men and women educated in the universities. The day of individual effort is not gone, he declared. If these things cannot be accomplished, he will no place for a University of Kansas.
In closing, Mr. Harris said that the name of the University in the future would depend on the records of students when they went out into the world.
The assembly was concluded with the singing of the Alma Mater, "Crimson and the Blue," and the chanting of the famous "Rock Chalk."
Ise to be Guest Speaker
John fax, professor of economics, will be the guest speaker at the University class of the First Baptist church Sunday morning at 9:45. His subject will be "Community, Fascism, and Christianity" are interested are invited to attend.