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SUNDAY MARCH 11, 1934
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SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1934
HERO WORSHIP
Three nights ago in Kansa City, Clark Gable, the erstwhil matinee idol of feminine America paid his debt to his mid-western public by making a personal ap pearance at the Midland theater and in so doing endangered fo a while whatever security he ma have had.
Wild-eyed, with clothes awry from the struggle, females from ward school age to senility crowded about him at the Union station, barring his progress and making it necessary for an escort of ten officers to clear the path to and from his automobile. Seeking a glance, an autograph, the satisfaction of touching his hat or his coat, they came to see the man who has risen to the recognized position of America's foremost screen lover.
There must have been something pathetic in that scene for an onlooker who has followed the rise and fall of idols of other days, who has seen the juvenile tendencies of womanhood exhibited without regard or reason on other occasions. Clark Gable is not the first to rise to the heights, and he will not be the last. Today he occupies a position on a pedestal, which he himself perhaps grows to appreciate less each day. He must know that his sway is temporary, for he no doubt remembers of the awesome reign of one John Gilbert whose fiery eyes drew thundering mobs to the box offices before the talking picture shifted the scene. Gilbert is now accepted with a pitiful gesture. He is forced to accept roles which seek to glorify the stars he helped to make famous.
But there is another and a more pathetic side. The picture of depression-ridden America forgetting its woes and cares to laud the achievements of a player who at best has not contributed anything substantial toward the portrayal or development of American life is calculated to inspire thought and pity. No such glamour-seeking crowds greeted Walter Hampford in the same city a few weeks ago when he brought to audiences the world's classics. There were no police escorts, no wild shrieking of women's voices.
America, while laughing at so-called outworn ideas of royalty, pomp and ceremony, is still at heart a little child, seeking the tinsel, the gay colored lights, the unrealities. Pretenitions to high civilization are shattered by such demonstrations as that by the Kansas City mob.
FAERIE OUEENE CLUB
One of the unique organizations in this country has recently admitted to membership a graduate of the University. The society is the Faerie Queene club and the new member is Dorothy Heiderstadt, who was graduated from the University last year. Announcement of the honor was made in the March issue of Scribner's magazine.
Membership in the club is somewhat limited and only those
who have read Herbert Spenser's "Faerie Queene" in the original form are accepted. By reading the extensive poem, scholars automatically become members if they apply for membership and are recommended by someone who is prominent in the literary field. Miss Heiderstadt was accepted on information from Sara G. Laird, associate professor of English here at the University.
The club is not one having social functions and pins, but is purely a literary organization of the honorary type. If members meet, it is only by accident, for there is no formal organization.
William Lyon Phelps, professor of English at Yale University who is well known in the literary world, is the chief promoter and sponsor of the club. It was he who wrote the article on the club, in one of his usual columns containing news of literature and writers of prominence.
Miss Heiderstadt was graduated from the University last year and since that time has been furthering her literary career by writing a volume of children's stories, besides occasional poems for magazines. She is working as a librarian in the children's department of a library in Independence, Mo.
While a student at the University, Miss Heiderstadt won first prize in the William Herbert Carruth poetry contest. The Gale has carried one of her poems.
William Lyon Phelps, in his article "As I Like It," said, "The club is honored by the acquisition of Dorothy Heiderstadt," and the University says, "ammen."
POPULARIZED EXERCISE
Intramural sports for all men in the University have become a reality under the leadership of the popular director, Ed Elbel. He has labored each year to improve this athletic program, and it can be said without fear of contradiction that the number of competing men has increased so rapidly that it has brought a campuswide expression of approval for his work.
The type of thing that his department is doing will improve the physical standards and abilities of our modern race more than any required physical training class ever can accomplish. Great numbers of unaffiliated men are organized and compete with their fellow-students of the fraternities in a spirit of friendly sportsmanship. Thus the program does much to promote a spirit of democracy and equality throughout the student body.
At the present time the basketball finals are being played and competition in wrestling and swimming has just been completed. Each of these sports has to be very popular this year and gives promise of being more so in the future.
Professor Eibel and his assistants are doing a laudable service in making regular physical exercise a popular activity at the University.
OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN
Sunday, March 14, 2003 11:56 AM
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No. 108
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION;
The Christian Science Organization will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in Wyers hall, room C. Everyone interested is cordially invited.
Sunday, March 11, 1934
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Miss Winston will give art illustrated talk on "The Wordsworth Country" at 4:30 on Thursday, March 15, in room 205 Fraser hall. NELLIE BARNES.
FRESHMAN ENGLISH LECTURES:
"They're All Alike"
LUCIENE THOMAS, President
LE CLICACY : Le Fraser hall remerite mercredi a quatre 306 Fraser hall. Tous ceux
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MATHEMATICS CAMP
Mathematics club meeting tomorrow at 4:30 in room 211 Administration
building. Miss Winnona Vanard will speak on "Conformal Mapping." Visitors are
welcome.
ELIZABETH HINSHAW, Vice President.
MATHEMATICS CLUB:
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB:
The regular rehearsal of the Women's Glee club will be held tomorrow, in the Marvin hall auditorium at 4:30 p.m. AGNES HUSBAND, Director.
There will be a meeting of the Girls Industrial discussion group on Tuesday at 4:30 at Henley house. All those interested are cordially invited. Dr. Brown of the Psychology department will speak.
Y. W. C. A.:
A goodly number of you are still worn out from the 2 o'clock Junior Prom Friday night, but if you had been here 20 years ago, you'd be more weary than ever. In those gay days, the party fasted until 5 o'clock. The Prom then was the affair of the year, and the young lady who did not receive an invitation to the party considered the year a total failure. Preceeding the ball a play was given on the dance floor, and at the midnight intermission, the dancers dined in great style.
UNDERCURRENT
Whether you have noticed it or not, there is a new weather gadget on the roof of Fraser hall, and its purpose it puzzling some of the more curious. Resembling a small hot water tank, it is poised atop a slender pipe above the two weather vanes so familiar to us. It might be a receptacle to register the rainfall, and then again, it might not. It is large enough to catch all the water that falls in two years.
The Prom was a gift to the seniors from the third-year students, and the latter bore the entire expense. The fee was about $3, and in those days, as in these, that was a right smart sum. A new gown was a necessity for the occasion, and there were corsages on every one of them.
Dr. Phog Allen was acting as referee in a basketball game in a small town nearby, and his judgment was questioned on one occasion by one of the assistant coaches. The young fellow told the famous mentor that his decision on the play was wrong, and that the rule book would bear out his objection. Phog interpreted the rule to the wild-eyed lad, but his dubious heart would not be convinced.
--to an end in a few weeks. It didn't, that very same 15c would be greatly appreciated now.
How different it is today, when the Prom is just another party, and it lingers in the memory no longer than any other class party. Can you recall last year's Junior Prom?
Allen silenced him with this, "It might be of some value to you to know, young fellow, that I helped to write that rule book."
Throwing up his indignant hands, the coach complained, "I don't think you know what that rule means."
If our memory doesn't play cruel tricks on us, last Monday was the first anniversary of the bank holiday, which President Roosevelt proclaimed on his first day in the White House. Having but 15c as our entire wealth on that day, we felt that the world would come
DORIS WESTFALL, Chairman.
One of our friends is so delicate that if someone flips the pages of a book near him, he catches cold. . . Is there anything more final than the scraping of the skillet?
--women in the United States are college graduates, but look what some of them have done:
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That between 650 and 700 persons attended the Junior Prom Friday night, with 322 paid admissions and 49 complimentary tickets?
--women in the United States are college graduates, but look what some of them have done:
That Jimmy Joy played mostly requested numbers at the Prom, and that he played two clarinets at the same time?
That the Prom was the most dignified formal party of the school year?
That Jimmy Cox and George Noland, ed35, are entering the A.A.U. wrestling tournament to be held today and tomorrow at Manhattan?
That Prom is an abbreviation for promenade, meaning to walk?
That Dr. R. C. Moore, director of the Kansas Geological Survey, attended a convention in New York City this past week-end?
That the French play, "Le Pattes de mouche" and the W. S.G.A. musical comedy are to be presented this week?
That J. Neale Carman, professor of Romance Languages, is directing the French play this year in place of Miss Amida Stanton, professor of Romance Languages, who is on leave this semester?
That Kenneth Rockwell, gr., who is employed at the Book Nook, reads on the average of a book a day?
That there is to be a conference with Kirbv Page in Empora next week-end3
That C. F. Nelson, professor of biochemistry, is speaking on "Beginnings of Life" at the Forum Society meeting at the Uitarian church this morning?
That Joseph Hofmann, the well-known pianist, makes his first appearance in Lawrence May ??
That some 35 students are eating on the special meal plan at the Cafeteria?
That there are nearly 150 steps in the walk up to Corbin from Louisiana
That practices for the French play are now going on on the fourth floor of Fraser hall?
Our Contemporaries
A COLLEGE EDUCATION AND THE BREADLINE Washington, Dole
Washington Daily
After reading an article which states that several college graduates are now cellmates of gangsters and racketeers in some of the nation's penal institutions; after reading a story in The Daily last spring that 7 out of 8 33 graduates were to join the ranks of the unemployed; after reading another story that the "33 graduates are now among the unemployed—some of them in the breadlines—one may ask, 'Does a college education pay?'
We answer by presenting some facts from a recently-completed survey on the ultimate success of those who receive a higher education and those who do not:
The maximum income of an uneducated man, who goes to work as soon as the law will permit him to leave an educational institution, averages $1700 per year. Very few attain this standard, the survey shows.
A partly educated man who starts to work at the age of 18 or later will reach a maximum yearly earning power of $2100. And the well educated man who generally does not start steady earning until 22 years of age or older of 30 man can be graded to the high school graduate at the age of 40, and from then on he increases his income for 20 years without a break—generally.
Thirty-six per cent of the members of congress were college graduates. Sixty-two per cent of our secretaries of state were college graduates. Sixty-nine per cent of our supreme court judges were college graduates.
fifty-five per cent of our presidents were college graduates.
Seventy-two per cent of those mentioned in "Who's Who in America" are college graduates.
The list can go on and on, to include educators, other statesmen, financiers,
There is, of course, the awful fact facing us that many college graduates are in the breadlines and living in homes little better than garments. That makes it difficult to see how education. The education, in many instances, merely helped save off the inevitable
Again, you may ask, "Well, then, is a college education worth while?" It is, if one assimilates the material presented him; it isn't if he merely writes it in notebooks and sits waiting for class hours to end. The latter falls too far short of fulfilling the definition of education: the training of moral and intellectual faculties. If you receive an education here you will know it; if you do not, a few hours in the bread-line will tell you.
Mysterious Black Cylinder Used as Marker in Federal Survey
There has been much speculation among the students during the past few days as to the purpose of the large black cylinder placed on top of Fraser hall. That it is a device of the weather bureau or a new smoke stack has been the theory of many; others have not even noticed it; and probably not a per-
The United States Coast and a Ecodic Survey has about 50 men in this vicinity doing precise surveying. The black object on Fraser hall is a marker. It performs the same function for them that the red and white pole markers do for students of surveying here at the University.
The point that the marker rests on was established by the same survey in 1835, when they were triangulating across the United States along the 39th degree parallel. Triangulation is the process of dividing a territory into triangles so that the exact area can be determined.
The marker, a cylinder of wood painted black, was made by the buildings and grounds department according specifications of W. C. McNown, processor of civil engineering. It was erected about a week ago and is visible for a distance of 20 miles.
Class to Visit Book Exhibit
Class to Visit Book Exhibit
the book-binding class will go with Miss Rosemary Ketcham, professor of design, to Kansas City tomorrow to visit Frank Glenn's shop at the Plaza. Mr. Glenn has a display of oriental rugs and books that the students wish to see.
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