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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1934
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Editor-in-Chief JAMES PATTerson
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SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1934
GOOD NEWS
Students will be given an opportunity to see a novel method of dramatic presentation when Cornelia Otis Skinner, nationally famous artist, will appear here with a repetoire of character sketches. The sketches are said to be outstanding for their clarity of character expression.
In late years, little in the way of professional drama has been presented here except at infrequent intervals. Since the discontinuance of road shows at the Bowersock theater several years ago, students have gone to Kansas City, where stage productions with important actors have not been numerous. Motion pictures and personal appearances of screen stars have, for the most part, usurped the place once occupied by stage personalities.
The decision of the lecture course committee to include the presentation in the activity ticket makes it possible for every student who has a love for drama to view Miss Skinner's work.
ENROLLMENT INCREASES
A check-up on enrollment for this semester up to March 1 shows an increase of 67 students more than last year. New registrations for the semester number 316 as compared with the 273 of last year. This is an actual increase of 43 students.
Several causes may be cited for the increase. The CSEP and other federal aid projects, such as the desire among students of college age to further education, a breaking up of the depression, and transfers from other colleges to the University.
The CSEP is perhaps the greatest factor responsible for the increase. As another, there probably has been a change of attitude on the part of students of college age, who tired of trying to find jobs, borrow money to complete their education in hope of finding work plentiful when they are graduated.
Other federal aid works have perhaps aided students by giving employment to parents on new project works. There are certain signs of relief from the depression that may lead numbers to continue in school since they have lost the fear of a permanent decrease in the family purse.
But, while there are many advantages in that more youths are gaining a college education, certain hardships are worked on faculty members and on the University itself.
About a year ago, when the state legislature appropriated funds for maintaining the University, there had been a decrease in enrollment of approximately six per cent and nine per cent respectively for the previous two years. In the belief that the decline would continue the legislature voted a twenty-five per cent decrease in the expense budget which would be arrived at by cuts in salaries of faculty members and other maintenance funds.
Salary cuts were made on a graduated basis depending on the amount of money the instructors were making yearly, the decrease
averaging approximately eighteen to twenty per cent per person. No faculty members were discharged, but fewer graduate and other student assistants, working on part time salary, were appointed. This lengthened the hours of the faculty members.
Instead of the expected decrease in enrollment for the fall term this year, total number of students was diminished by only approximately one per cent, and this semester there is an increase of about one-half of one per cent. If the enrollment increases next fall, as it seems likely to do, the burden on the faculty members will be increased. In lecture courses there is little difference, since an instructor can lecture to an entire room full of students as easily as a small group, but in writing classes there is the increased labor of grading papers.
As the situation now stands, the University must struggle on with an increased amount of work, operating on a decreased budget until more appropriations are made, after another year.
Mount Oread Fantasies
By Peegy of the Flint Hills
It was our great pleasure to spend last Thursday visiting the campus as a guest of the Journalism department. We had such a good time that our guide was confronted with a difficult and delicate duty—that of tearing us away in time to catch our bus without seeming discourteous.
Among the things which entrusted us were the textile designs done by Miss Ketcham's students. One of them, with a sort of iris-looking motif, was really the loveliest design we have seen of the kind. Some day we're coming back and see how they do them.
A trip through the exhibition room of of students' paintings made up steep lively and keep close to our guide. From the wicked-looking faces on the wall, we had a shivery feeling that the students had used gangsters for models. And not Pretty Boy Floyds, either.
We discovered one thing. We now know where they got the heroine for that movie, "Damaged Lady." She is in the statuary room on the hill, not too well cared for either, sitting disconcertedly with both legs off close to her body, both arms gone, and her head missing. Damaged goods.
But we are more than ever confused about another thing. We had supposed that grade school was the "Johnny loves Esther" age, chalked up in prominent places, and that High School was the "Say, kid" age. But on the steps of the Journalism building were two hearts, pierced by an arrow and bearing the age-old legend that one person lover another person. Maybe we were wrong. Maybe college is the "Johnny loves Esther" age.
Somebody is doing all he can to encourage romance on the campus. A dance poster advertises "Dates 50c, stags 75." We wouldn't be a bit surprised if the University Girls' Association for More and Better Dates was back of it.
The Browsing room in the library is a charming place. Considering that it is plainly labeled, "Not for Study," we can't see why it isn't crowded all the time. The shelves are filled with books selected to pass away an idle hour.
What happy meetings of eyes, flashing deathless messages faster than Marconi ever dreamed of. Even the dull phrases of a dead language became living words of fire. A lovely place—the library.
Loitering couples here and there in the library made us realize that education has not changed much since we tripped off a college to inhobble skirt the year the war broke out (The World War, you understand, not the Spanish-American). The library was a popular place. Of course it wasn't so jolly on the main floor, beneath the watchful eye of the old lady of 28 who handed out the books, but down in the basement a happy pair could study together behind 46 heavy volumes of the "Stories of the Operas" and all the copies of the "Eden Enterprise."
A few days ago we bought a copy of "The Gale," the new literary magazine on the campus. We sat down and read it through, delighted to the last drop. Several of the poems were beautiful and all the work seemed excellent for students to have done.
And we saw Uncle Jimmy Green for the first time, forever handing some books to the young law with a button of his sweater unbuttoned.
You did feel a little as if you had flown blind through a fog as you emerged from the somber tragedy. But it is true and
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
There will be an important meeting of Steel Key on Tuesday night, March 27. The meeting, which will be held in room 102 of Marvin hall, is for the purpose of electing officers and new members.
Notices due at Chancelor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:36 a.m. on Saturday for Sunday issues.
STEEL, KEY:
No. 118
DICK WULFF, President.
There will be a meeting of the Jay Janes in room 216 of the Administration building Wednesday at 4:30. JESSMANN JACKSON, President.
JAY JANES:
Le Cerule Francais se reuinure mercredi a quatre heures et demi dans la salle 306 Fraser hall. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invites.
LE CERCLE FRANCAIS:
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION:
A meeting of the Christian Science Organization will be held Tuesday at 4:30 in room C of Myers hall. All those who are interested are cordially invited to attend. LUCIENE THOMAS, President.
FRESHMAN COMMISSION:
FRESHMAN COMMISSION
The Freshman Commission will meet Monday at 4:30 at Henley house.
MARY LOUSE ANDRESSON.
The annual training course in Girl Reserve work will be held on April 6, 7, and 8 at Henley house under the direction of Miss Florence Stone, state executive secretary. The course is open to all senior women preparing to teach and it is urged that those who are interested in attending the course register at Henley house this week.
FRANCES BALLARD, Chairman.
high on the ladder of success, we shall feel it our duty to elaborate on this story to our grandchildren until they believe that we were first in her heart.
GIRL RESERVE TRAINING COURSE:
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
THERE IS a meeting Monday, March 26, at 4:30 in room 211 Administration building. Mr. William Edson will speak on "Empirical Equations." Visitors are welcome. ELIZABETH HINSAW, Vice President.
All persons who have passed Senior Red Cross life saving test and wish to qualify as examiners, see Mr. Almith, 105 Robinson gymnasium.
LDPHN
RED CROSS EXAMINERS SCHOOL:
SIGMA ETA CHI:
About a month later word reached Lawrence that she had been signed at a fabulous price by the movie magnates. The shy young woman had become famous over night, and if she goes very
Sigma Eta Chi will have a regular meeting this afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Plymouth Congregational Church. Important business. All members are asked to be present.
ELIZABETH HINSHAW, President.
Y. W. C. A.;
natural that youth is the age which feels tragedy most deeply. A sensitive and imaginative youth running against the hopeless injustices and harsh realities of the world for the first time, is stunned and hurt.
There will be a meeting of the Industrial Discussion Group on Tuesday at 4:30 at Henley house. Miss Jameson, the County Social Worker, will speak on the economic aspects of her work. DORIS WESTFALL, Chairman.
We were happy to meet the editors of the Gale, John Gilchrist and Robert Gard. Mr. Gard must be older than he looks, for he admits he has read Anthony Adverse.
He made us rather uncomfortable when he fastened his large brown eyes on us and asked, "Why do old people forget the tragedies of the world?"
--permit himself a three-day vacation on earth as a human being. He materializes in the form of a mysterious prince, first explaining to the host. His experiences on the earth and his eventual falling in love makes up the story.
UNDERCURRENT
We were undecided whether Mr. Gard meant it as a rhetorical question from one comrade to another, or whether he wanted us, as a representative of the old people, to tell him why.
It was away back in the spring of 1933 that she was playing with Walter Hampden at the Shubert, and she came here with one Mr. Kane, who talked in the Little Theater in Green hall on his friendship with the late John Galsworthy. When he had concluded his talk, he introduced the shy nineteen-year-old actress, saying that he hoped for a great future for her. She stood for a moment and mumbled, "Thank you very much." After this brilliant speech, she sat down, and the audience hurried to its next class.
In either case, we found it difficult to answer him, to say something which would excuse a thoughtless generation in his young eyes.
It's just that people get used to things as they grow older and get tired of a struggle which seems to them futile Your generation will be the same. They will learn to accept and shrug away the cruel injustices of the world as they would accept an amputated limb.
It is this apathy which makes it so hard to reform the world. If one generation could keep its youthful enthusiasm through life, the next one would inherit a beautifully rebuilt earth.
Now that Evelyn Venable has displayed her talent twice this week in Lawrence, first in "David Harum" and today in "Death Takes a Holiday," we feel that it is time for us to draw our rocker up close to the fire, adjust the shawl over our shoulders and tell you about the time Miss Venable visited Lawrence in person.
Only a few strong ones hold out against the wrongs of the world and they live unhappy, troubled lives. Your generation will forget, too, and leave you fighting alone and fighting the battle of those who are hostile or indifferent.
So don't blame the older people too much. The stress of making a living beats down their spirit and forces compromises they would never have made in their youth.
--permit himself a three-day vacation on earth as a human being. He materializes in the form of a mysterious prince, first explaining to the host. His experiences on the earth and his eventual falling in love makes up the story.
If someone doesn't take that tractor away from the young fellow who had so much fun in front of the library a few weeks ago, he is going to plow up every acre of ground in this University. Now he is back of the Administration building having the time of his life with his snorting mount. In order that the curious may be relieved of their suspicion that the workmen are going to plant corn on their new ground, we hasten to say that it is to be a garden of some sort or other—probably one devoted to flowers and such.
Our heart went out to the three sincere young men who were on hand at the Vespers last Sunday to change the stage furniture between numbers. After the combined symphony orchestras had left the stage littered with folding chairs, over-grown violins, and music racks, these lads came out to prepare for the ensemble.
They pushed back the chairs and jugged the piano into position. One of them, evidently the chairman of the house committee, produced a bit of paper and pointed out the spots upon which the three chairs and music racks were to be placed. After a few minutes of shifting and reshifting, they finished their work and retreated into the wings with satisfied smiles on their perspiring faces. The audience settled back in its seats to rest after giving the stage hands mental assistance, but it did not rest for long.
In a moment the three appeared, heads hanging low, and changed the arrangement to the opposite side of the piano. Their hearts were in their work, and they once more left the stage completely bogged in the quaamire of embarrassment.
Now that spring has blustered in according to schedule and we are enjoying the beautiful balmy breezes tearing through our overcovers, it is our duty to brush the snow flakes from our winter-worn shoulders and go into a treatise on spring. It is our advice that such things as—the brave daffalfins which have burst into bloom and the report that a young lady has plunged courageously into the Kova to prove her something or other—do not lead you into taking this new season too seriously. First of all, the mid-season grades are sure to dampen your ardor, and will surely be a heavy snow to cover your hidden Easter eggs next Sunday. So, stay away from e Grove and remain true to your woolens, and you'll live to enjoy the Fourth of July.
Current Screen
"Death Takes a Holiday" showing at the Varsity is a fortune combination of a good cast and a good story, and will probably be classed as one of the ten outstanding pictures for 1934.
It is unusual for an outstanding play to be converted into an outstanding picture, but through good direction, and the fact that the whole play lies on Frederick who can capable shoulders the play succeed. The cast, consists mostly of new faces.
The picture at the outset creates an atmosphere, which throughout the whole film enthails the audience. At first a woman is staring from whom the picture goes into comedy.
The story concern's Death's decision to
The supporting cast does fairly good work, Evelyn Venile showing up quite well in her part as the girl whom Death loves. Kent Taylor does well in his part, but those who saw him in "David Harum" will be disappointed; he does not play up to the part provided for him as he does in this earlier vehicle.
There are several scenes to watch for, notably the one between Death and the ex-statesmen of some years who discuss Death and providence in a very entertaining fashion. This is a picture well-worth the time spent in seeing it.
Our Contemporaries
AID FOR UNEMPLOYED COL-
UNEMPLOYED COLLEGIANS
For that reason the University of Iowa and other American educational institutions should have an interest in the creation of a new function for the National Collegial society, in Chicago.
With many thousands of college graduates out of work, and about 125,000 to emerge this spring into a world which has no place for many of them, the outlook for "unemployed white color workers" is not very bright, to say the least.
Concerning itself with the problem of graduate unemployment, under the question: "After commencement—what?" the society plans to exert its influence in various directions to aid the thousands of college graduates at liberty."
The society hopes to work to place many of this spring's harvest of graduates directly. In addition, it will recommend favorable legislation, encourage the entrance of graduates into public service, and in other ways attempt to solve this problem.
Special effort will be concentrated in the large industrial and business centers, where various groups of graduates go, according to current plans.
It is difficult to predict the success of such a scheme. Many agencies are at work today in an attempt to solve the problems of unemployment which confront sections of the population. There is no way of accurately measuring the success or failure of the society's efforts.
However, past experience has shown the definite value of concentrated effort. In a matter of common concern to college students and college graduates there should be a common feeling. For "in union there is strength.
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