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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY MARCH 13.1934
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
TIE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAN
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Editor-in-Chief...JAMES PATTERSO
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TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934
DUAL BENEFITS
The appropriation of federal funds for the College Students Employment Project, which was originally planned to aid those students financially unable to remain in school, has proved to be of great benefit to the University itself. Departmental work long abandoned because of lack of funds, research work the need of which has been felt for years, repair and construction work, preparing and mounting of collections—all of these have been made available to the University through the medium of a federal aid which keeps worthy students in school.
Further announcements late last week made it known that even more funds would be available for the University when $10,500 of PWA money was accorded to the reconstruction of Dyche Museum. Although this project is intended to work to the benefit of the University and the state, it, like the CSEP project, will undoubtedly work to dual advantage, and worthy students, too, may benefit from it.
Money spent for educational and scientific development,looking to the accumulation of culture for present and future generations,is money well spent.
MEN OF SPIRIT
Let us pause a moment, lads and ladies, and sigh for the days when college boys were men. There was a time when professors were driven from their classrooms with books and cuspiders flying about their ears; when red-hot cannon balls rolled through the halls and stoves crushed down the stairs; when state troops had to be called to quiet pranksters.
Down the years from 1823 comes a heart-warming story of the inspired men of Hamilton College who dragged a cannon to the top floor of a dormitory and fired a load through a professor's door. They were bitterly disappointed because the shot missed the professor and the only damage done was suffered by the door, the opposite wall, a chair and the professor's pants, which were hanging on the chair and which accompanied the ball out through the wall. But, regardless of the failure, the story shows that in those days a man could enjoy the free play of imagination.
And there was arson! College boys of today have bonfires in the park, but men of other days had arson. For several years after '66 the Yale coal yard was fired annually. Three times in those years Old North at Princeton blazed merrily. The firing of presidents' and professors' houses was an evening pastime.
Students, however, didn't have all the fun. There are stories of professors who contributed to the spirit of the times, such as the one about the University of Virginia instructor who had the sweet pleasure of shooting a student in
self-defense during a lecture one fine morning.
So the faculty may join in the lamentations for the passing of a robust race that lived before civilization sickened and stifled the zest for living.
WHY GO TO COLLEGE?
Why do young men and women attend colleges today? That question is asked continually, and the answers are confusing because of their lack of uniformity and their expression of conflicting opinions.
A recent comprehensive inter view of University students did not indicate that they were here for the general purpose of "learning to live," or "to acquire an appreciation for the so-called finer things of life," as many speakers and educators seem to believe. When questioned, some replied that they were here to increase their earning power, and others merely said that a college education was an actual necessity for the securing of any type of job, thus expressing the same general expectation of financial remuneration for their time spent in college study. Still others admitted that they had enrolled in the University because there was nothing else to do and they considered going to college a harmless and pleasant way of passing time. The few who professed that the idealistic motive had prompted their attendance were decidedly in the minority.
It is true that all students are exposed to some form of culture during their short stay in college, and it is not denied that many acquire the earmarks of a higher education; but the time has not yet arrived when the majority of students can truthfully say that their sole motive for attending college is of an idealistic nature. The old get-ahead urge, the earn-more ambition, and the provide-for instinct are still important factors in the go-to-college campaigns.
WE SERVE
The Kansan has performed another noble deed. Since the day when we quoted Keats as saying, "The stag at eave had drunk his fill," and later when we lifted our praises to the "hallowed legs" of our baseball squad, we have wited patiently for the day when we could come to the rescue of the jaded columnists of the state who, we feel, must be wearying in their patient struggles to unearth material for humorous comment.
It was only last Sunday that the Kansan accredited the poem, "Faerie Queene," to one Herbert Spencer. The Kansan feels that a difference of three hundred years and a consonant is a small matter, to say nothing of poetry and science, when a public service can be rendered.
Campus Opinion
Everyone who saw the Hilarities of 1954 will admit that it was a good show. It was well put together and quickly executed, and good acting prevailed throughout. There was, however, one flaw, though whether it was a flaw depends entirely on the point of view that was the general type of humor.
The jokes and comedy scenes presented in this show were not actually obscene, but there is no denying that they were on the side of shindice. Their foundation was in large part built on off-color subjects, though it was not evident in all of the scenes. In other words "ole davil xes rares his ugly head," and college students and town-folks sat back and gave every indication of enjoying it immensely.
That calls up the question of what this intangible thing known as "college humor" is. Must a thing be slightly off-color, and have a tinge of some sex situation, to be known as typical undergraduate humor, or is college humor a satire on life composed by the students? It was quite evident last night that college students have become accustomed enough to this type of humor so that they are sometimes rassessed, nor were there any humour ladies in evidence. Twenty years ago a show, even though it were as well executed as this one was, containing this type of humor, probably would have been censored. Today we welcome a show of this type and call it refreshing. It seems to prove that dirtiness in
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
APPLICANTS FOR MANAGERSHIP OF W. S. G. A. LACHANTE.
Any woman student interested in managery at W.S.G.A. must change next year must leave her application in Dean Husband's office by noon Thursday, March 15.
LILA LAWSON, President, W.S.G.A.
Notices due at Chancellor's Office at 11 a.m. on regular afternoon publication days and 11:30 a.m. m. saturday for Sunday issues.
Vol. XXXI Tuesday, March 13, 1924
APPLICANTS FOR MANAGERSHIP OF W. S.G.A. BOOK EXCHANGE.
A. S. M. E:
There will be a regular meeting of A.S.M.E. Thursday evening, March 15.
at 8 o'clock in the welding room of Fowler shops. Mr. J. M. Raggles of the Air
Reduction sales company, will give a welding demonstration. All engineers who
are taking welding are invited to attend.
LEWIS W. BENZ, Secretary.
ROGANY CLUB:
A. S. M. E.:
The Botany club will meet at 7:30 this evening at the home of Dr. A. J.
Mix, 1134 Louisiana street. Dr. Wheeler of the Psychology department will
speak. R. H. THOMPSON.
IVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS
CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS:
A regular A.S.C.E. meeting will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The speaker will be Mr. C. K. Matthews, of Burns and MacDonnel Engineering company.
R. D. McKIM.
FRESHMAN ENGLISH LECTURES:
Miss Winston will give an illustrated talk on "The Wordworth Country" a 30 p.m. on Thursday, March 15, in room 205 Fraser hall.
INTER-RACIAL GROUP:
N. E. BROCKING
on this evening at 7:30 will be held at the home of Wanda Ed-
monds Anna Marie Tompkins is in charge of the musical program. All friends
and members are invited.
MILDRED MITCHELL, Chairman.
E. CERCELE FRANCAIS;
Le Corcelle Français se reunira mercredi a quatre heures et demi dans la salle 306 Frasher hall. Tous ceux qui parlent français sont invités.
Secretaire.
MID-WEEK VARSITY:
The regular mid-week varsity will be held Wednesday evening from 7 t
8 o'clock at the Memorial Union building. C. OZWIN RUTLEDGE, Manager.
DU DELTA KAPPA:
MID-WEEK VARSITY:
There will be a special meeting of Kappa chapter this evening at 7:15 in the memorial Union building. Dr. E. A. Collins, national historian and former district representative, will discuss enrolment problems in their relation to education. All members are urged to be present. FRED W. JEANS, President. TEEL KEY:
There will be a meeting of all members tonight at 9 o'clock in Marvin hall room 102. DICK WULFF, President.
TAU SIBIRA:
Tau Sigma Sigma meeting has been postponed until Thursday night.
RUTH PYLE.
Theta Epsilon supper meeting will be held this evening at 5:30 nt 565 Missisippi street.             ROWENA LONGSHORE
PL LAMBDA THETA:
PI LAMBDA THETA:
Pledge service for Pi Lambda Theta will be held at 7:30 Thursday evening
March 15, in room 116 Fraser. Women to be pledged meet in room 103 Fraser.
ONA MAE LARNER.
Wouldn't Say No." Besides having singing voice above the average she ha charm and an appealing personality. The story concerns an itinerant yourn
Belgian musician who meets (rather impertinent and informally) an American girl who has just come to Brussels to study. She has success with her Americanized times before he can even receive a hearing of the operetta he is writing. He becomes disgusted with living on her income and leaves Paris, where they have gone, to return to Belgium where he can work without distraction. He finally stages his operetta successfully, but not without the aid of Shirley (Miss MacDonald). Comic interlude is supplied by Charles Butterworth, who gets better as the show goes along. His beamingly abstracted expression as he plays the harp in an orchestra is good for several hearty laughs. Others who deserve mention are Jean Hersholt as the professor in the conservatory and Frank Morgan, the "villain" of the play.
humer depends entirely on the viewpoint of the generation. Our elders may have enjoyed this kind of humor, but they did not indulge in it, at least openly. Students say that the frankness and openhandedness with which they treat life today is progress; but is it?-G.L
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Ramon Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald are convincing in the leading roles. Novarro was well cast, considering that the part required a handsome youth, irresponsible and slightly immature. Then too, there can be no serious objections to his singing, which is as good as any Hollywood has to offer in this type of actor. You will like Miss MacDonald, especially when she sings "She Wouldn't Say Yes, She
Current Screen
Not only is the music good—there is enough of it but not too much—but the romance-plot is lively and entrancing. Whether or not the filming of the last few scenes in technicolor helps the picture is open to dispute. But it certainly does no harm and most people will enjoy the stimulating warmth and glamour which color adds.
If you enjoy tunes like "Love Me Tonight" and others made popular while The Cat and the Fiddle was on the stage you will like the movie version of the show. The picture is playing at the Pattee.
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Moulin Rouge, the current attraction at the Varsity theater, gives movie-goers a new Constance Bennett, one you will surely like. In this picture Miss Bennett isn't forced by fate or circumstance to lose her maidenly virtue, as so many of her previous pictures have shown her. Instead Moulin Rouge is an which makes good use of her opportunity to show that she can sing, dance, and acquire a French accent as well.
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Two pleasing popular songs, "Coffee in the Morning," and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," add to the picture's entertainment.
Briefly the story is this. Helen Hall (Constance Bennett) discovers she has a very obstinate husband (Francht Tone) when she desires to try out for a part in his musical comedy. To show her independence, she leaves him. Learning that the star of her husbands stage show is none other than her former dancing partner who strikingly resembles her, Helen visits the French star, Raquel. As a result of the visit, Helen dyes her hair and becomes the beautiful wife, "will she share it with her husband that she is a great artist?" But Helen didn't count on her husband, Doug, falling in love with her as Raquel, and trouble enues.
Franchit Tone plays a different type of role from that of the usual "play-boy." He is the stubborn husband who succeeds in drowning his temptations and remaining faithful to his wife, thus preventing an unhappy ending to the picture.
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