UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kanbara
VOLUME XXX
NUMBER 166
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1933
Skilton's Cantata Is Given on Date of Famous Battle
Men's Glee Club Presents 'Ticonderoga,' Assisted by Symphony O1.
chestra
By a strange coincidence the premiere performance last night of Charles Sanford Skilton's "Tioconderoga" was given 158 years to a day from the time General Ethan Allen "in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress" captured Fort Tiocenderola during the Revolutionary War.
Last evening the School of Fine Arts took the initiative in bringing to the public two of Professor Skilton's more recent compositions. Assisting in the production was the University Symphony phony strength; the University of Kansas Men's Glee club with soloists from the School of Fine Arts.
Abbas Is Soloist
Philipp Abbas, who made such a favorable impression here last year in his playing, was chosen as soloist for the "American Indian Fantasy" for cello with orchestra that had its first hearing in Lawrence last evening. The work was familiar to several through its original setting, that of a composition for organ from which the present setting of the composition had been made. Based upon three Indian themes, "A Rain Song," Winnibaga Love Song," and "Gambling Song," the work in a colorful paraphrase on these unusual melodies, moves through as a composition of real inspiration.
The orchestra is brilliant throughout and the three themes, varied in character, are woven in and out through cello and orchestra with great skill.
The orchestra under the direction of Dean D. M. Swarthout, gave excellent support to the solo part. The work won an ovation from the audience, shared alike by the soloist and the composer.
Cantata in Three Sections
The cantata, "Ticonderoga," a work of some 40 minutes in length, is conceived in three different sections and based on the poem "Ticonderoga," by Robert Louis Stevenson. Professor Skilton has mastered the art of orchestral writing to a high degree and last evening through the cantata he utilized this knowledge to a point probably not excelled in any previous works.
Professor Skilton Honored
The second section, with the lift of the bag-pipes in a delightful Scotch melody, announced at first by orchestra alone and later used as an accompaniment to the chorus, was especially pleasing, and again in the closing part, the composer's intimate knowledge of Indian music is put to good account in the battle episode of the work where the orchestra and chorus unite in an exciting section of music, working up to a tremendous climax, and finally dying away and closing with a tranquil final chorus of rare beauty.
Professor Skilton Honored
William Pilcher, director of the Mice's
Glee club, assisted as tenor soloist,
Professor B. D. Bowning took the baritone
soloes.
The opening of the evening's program was the selection, Beethoven's Fifty Symphony, presented by the University Orchestra and directed by its regular conductor, Professor Karl Kuesteiner.
An audience of at least 2,000 persons was present for this important event of Music Week and at the close of the concert gave Professor Skilton an ovation, who acknowledged it by coming to the platform and personally congratulating the soloists, orchestra, and conductor.
RADIO HOOKUP TO BE PLACED
IN ROBINSON FOR BROCADCAS
At 9:45 this evening a broadcast from Robinson Gymnasium will present Herbert Aliphin, swimming coach, and Professor E. R. Ebel. Tomorrow two musical numbers will be broadcast over KFKU in accordance with Music Week. At 2:30 p.m. Professor C. S. Skilton will be presented in his music appreciation period. At 10 p.m. a musical program arranged by G. Criss Simpson, instructor in organ, will be broadcast. Also on Friday at 9:45 Allen Crafton, professor of speech and dramatic art will broadcast a dramatic program.
Alpha Sigma Nu Press
At the pledging services last night for Alpha SigmaNu, women's physical education sorority, held in the Robinson gymnasium, five women were pledged. Those taken into the honorary group were: Fern Baker, ed'34; Carol Hunter, c'34; Elizabeth Hinshaw, c'34; Josephine Pyle, c'34; and Margaret Walker, ed'34.
Professor Engel Has German Radio Broadcasting Lessons Put in Print
A pamphlet containing two of the introductory broadcasts of Professor E. F. Engel, of the German department, given in connection with his radio lessons in elementary German over station KFKU, has been published by the Sunflower Publishing company, of Lawrence. These lessons have been given by Professor Engel all through the semester, and it was in response to numerous requests from his listeners that the pamphlet was published.
The subject of Professor Engel's pamphlet is "Why and How to Learn German." It is eight pages long and is divided into two sections, the first answering the question why learn German and second telling how to learn the language.
Professor Engel gives six main reasons for learning German. He says that the first claim to our partiality toward German is its close kinship to the Engl-
Two Attractions Remain on Music Week Progran
University String Quarte and Hilger Concerts Last Events
With only two remaining attractions, a recital by the University String Quartet tonight and the Hilger Trio program tomorrow night, in addition to morning and afternoon music sessions, the tenth annual Music Week draws near its close.
At 3:30 p. m. today there was group singing in hospitals under the direction of Miss Mable Barnhart. At 7 p. m. the Liberty Memorial High school band will give a concert in front of the high school, at 14th and Massachusetts streets, directed by Byron Donnyer At 8 p. m. the University String Quartet will present its concert in the Central Administration auditorium.
Tomorrow's program will open at 2:30 p. m. with a demonstration of class instruction in instrumental music by Mrs. C. W. Straffon, piano; Luther Leavengood, violin; cadet teachers from School of Fine Arts, brass and wood-wind instruments; and the elementary grade school orchestra, directed by Byron Donnymer, at the high school auditorium.
Pi Kappa Lambda, the national honorary music society, will hold its yearly banquet at 7 p. m. The annual spring exhibit showing music and other activities of the school will open at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 16, in his corner of 9th and Kentucky streets.
The Hilger Trio of New York will present a program in the University Auditorium at 8 p. m., consisting of violin, cello, and piano in a program of trios, duos, and solo numbers. At 8:15 p. m. the Lawrence High School chorus and orchestra concert will be presented under the directing of Byron Donmeyer, in the high school auditorium.
STRING QUARTET PLAYS TONIGHT
faculty Members to Present Program of Five Numbers
The University String Quartet consisted of Waldemar Geltch, Conrad McGrew, Karl Kuersteiner and D. M. Swarthout will play a concert this evening, 8 p. m. in the Central Administration auditorium. The quartet as new constituted has played together for six years and appeared at numerous Uni-
tionships. They have assoc-
ied in the University all-musical vessels from year to year. Recently the Quartet gave a concert at Doane College at Ctebr, Nebr.
The program is as follows: "Quartet in D Minor, op posh" (Scheuert) "Unfinished Quartette in F Major" (Grieg), "Riser of Roger over Coverly quartette" (F. Bridge), and "Paysages Landscapes" (Ernest Bloch).
Four movements from Gretchanin-
f's "Quartette in G Major" will be
layed after the intermission.
Seniors in the School of Pharmacy, accompanied by Dean L. D. Havenhill and Professor Lloyd L. Boughton, will make their annual trip to the drug houses of Kansas City, Mo., tomorrow. The drug houses they will visit are Parke Davis and Company, McKesson Faxon Drug Company, Ely Lilly Company, and the McPike Drug Company.
SENIOR PHARMACISTS TO VISIT KANSAS CITY DRUG HOUSE
Debate Club Postpones Initiation Initiation for Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debating fraternity, scheduled for tonight, has been postponed. The initiation will be held next Wednesday, May 17.
liah; second is that it is a distinctly phonetic language, and so is relatively simple and easy to pronounce; the third reason is the compensation offered by the literature of the language; fourth is its requirement to advanced work in science and medicine; fifth, the satisfaction derived through listening to world important figures in German politics, speak over the radio, and last the pleasure and profit of a trip through Germany which only a knowledge of the language can make satisfactorily enjoyable.
He further says, "The vocabulary consists of 80 words, the declension of the definite article and the present and past tenses of the verb 'to be' . . . This vocabulary is developed by means of pictures mounted on charts and by constant oral illustrations and drill in order to initiate auditory and articulatory habits.
In speaking of methods of learning German, Engel rather dismisses the old method used for teaching classical languages, and advocates learning by the phonetic method.
"This is followed by a class laboratory period in which the students write in their note books original sentences which are corrected as they write them . . . It is the constant and varied oral and written composition based upon this simple material without the intrusion of a single English word which develops a facility in correctly expressing an indefinite number of simple ideas and a gratifying sense of achievement."
Summerfield Applicants to Take Tests Saturday
Candidates Will Arrive To morrow for Preliminary Conferences
Twenty six high school seniors from 16 Kansas towns will arrive in Lawrence tomorrow to take the final exam. The annual Summerfield Scholarship awards
These applicants for the awards will arrive tomorrow, but will not take their examination until Saturday in the Administration building under the direction of Professor Olin Tempelman chairman of the Summerfield Scholarship committee. They will be invited by 42 Summerfield Scholarship holders now in the University, at a banquet to be given in the Memorial Union.
The students here to take the examination are: Franklin Atkisson, Independence; Lawrence Bigelow and Edwin Ebright, Hutchinson; Marion M Bolin, Climax; Gerald and Earl Dearborn, Manhattan; Paul Enriken, Canton; William Fleeson, Sterling; Lawrence Hadley, Valley Center; George Herington; Edward Herington; William Hallbaugh, Winfield; Edward Hutchcraft, Paradise.
These 26 students were selected from a field of 216 who took the preliminary examination in 10 Kansas towns, April 8. Although it is customary for 10 students to be selected for the award, no number is definitely fixed.
George Johnson, Junction City; Sam Kimble, Mulvane; Kack Kleiss, Coffeyville; John Virgil Lintner, Wayne Parcel, Claude Parish, Leland Shart and Robert Thorpe, Wichita; John Malone, Leavenworth; Charles Manlove, Larned; Salman Saina; John Pope, Kansas City, Kan.; and Welton Roosier, Augusta.
Dean F. T. Stockton, of the School of Business, returned yesterday from a trip in connection with the regional meetings of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce. He spoke at the meetings at Garden City, Colby, Pittsburg and Kan-berg. His subject was "Economic Developments of the Immediate Future."
Dean Stockton also attended, recently, the annual meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business and the triennial convention of Beta Gamma Sigma, honor society in Schools of business at Lexington, Ky. At the meeting of the association he presented the report of the Committee on Standardization of Degrees, of which he is chairman.
Stockton Back From Trip
Admittance Cards Available
Dean Speaks at Regional Meetings Kansas Chamber of Commerce
All members of the R. O. T. C. are requested to call at once at the R. O. T. C. office for admission cards to the Military ball to be held on Friday, May 19. It will be necessary to present these cards at the door that evening to gain admission.
Rock Chalk Cairn Finally Restored to Former State
Sacheim and Men's Council Direct Rebuilding of Memorial Wrecked by Vandals
The Rock Chalk Cairn has finally been restored to its upright position with the same design in construction as before with one of the large threshold stones from Old Snow Hall added. The cairn was destroyed Jan. 6 by unknown
The original Rock Chalk Cairn was erected in 1926 by joint efforts of Sachem, senior men's honorary society, and the Men's Student Council. Since that time it has been the scene of impressive ceremonies and is one of the symbolic monuments of University traditions.
Vandals, with unknown motives, destroyed the monument on Jan. 6 by knocking down the principal stone which bears the inscription plate and scattering the other stones. Police were sent to investigate the Latin phrase meaning "Which is to be proved" and a few footprints being the only clues left.
In its present reconstruction the cairn is constructed on a more firm foundation and it is hoped by members of the Men's Student Council and Sachem, that it will be more permanent. It was through their efforts that the cairn was built; it was to be built by May 21, the date of the Sachem initiation.
'Jarring Jim' Is Jarred
Olympic Decadron Champion Slugged After Party in Kansas City
"Jarring Jim" Bausch, former athlete at the University and present holder of the Olympic decathlon record, was dragged from his car and "beaten up" early yesterday morning while riding on the streets of Kansas City.
According to Bausch, he had attended a party given at the Hotel Muglebach by the Sigma Alpha Episode farniture, of which he is a member. As he explained it from his bed at the Kansas City Athletic club, he had left the party and was "just driving around."
The attack was made by "four or five men, maybe more, or may be less", who dragged him from his car and inflicted several blows on his face. A lump behind the athlete's ear indulged that he might have been his black-jacket. He was unconscious when police him and him took to the Athletic club.
According to Bauch, his assailants took his watch from him, but did not touch his money. He could think of no motive for their attack and that of robbery. "I think I could have them all in a far fight," he said.
Council to Install Members Ceremony to Be Belt Tonight at Colonial Tea Room
New members of the Men's Student Council will be installed when they dine with retiring Council members at 6:30 this evening at the Colonial Tea Room. Guests for the occasion are Chancellor E. H. Lindley, Raymond Nichols; and Henry Werner, men's student adviser.
Speeches will be made by both the retiring president, Harold Denton, c'33, and the incoming president, Gordon Schuhmacher, c'33, Kenneth Slocum, c'33, will be toastmaster and introduce the new members.
y Still Order Invitations
May Stifh Offer
All late orders are senior invitations
all late orders weekend, Don Roney,
c'33, said today. Seniors may still place
their orders at the Business office.
Alpha Chi Omega, Hotel Eldridge 12
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AUTHORIZED PARTIES
Friday
Wesley foundation, Smith's Timber. 5:30 to 10.
Sigma Phi Epsilon, house, 12. Westminster Student foundation, Westminster hall, 12.
Kappa Alpha Psi, Memorial Union. 12.
Pi Beta Phi, Ecke's hall, 12 Saturday
Music Week ball, Memorial Union. 8 to 12.
Sunday
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Brown's Grove—6-9:30 p.m.
Dean of Women
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HONORED FOR MUSIC WORK
During the 30 years Professor C. S Skilton has been a member of the University faculty, he has written many musical compositions. Among his recent works is the cantata, "Ticconerga," which was presented at the University orchestra concert last night.
Working Student Group Gets Replies to Queries
One School Has Organization Similar to K.U. Association
Replies have been received from 7 of the 11 questionnaires that were sent out by the council of the Self-Supporting Students' association of the University to colleges and universities of Kansas and surrounding states, according to Wray Chate, 'c35, of the council. The response to what other schools are doing toward the organization of self-supporting students.
One of the seven schools, the University of Illinois, has an organization for self-supporting students. Two other schools are interested in such an organization, and the other four are not interested.
The organization at the University of Illinois has as a chief activity, the discussion of problems. It includes both men and women in its membership.
E. R. Gordon, secretary of the employment bureau at the University of Missouri, said in a letter to the local association: "We have made several sporadic attempts at organization of such an association, but none of them has been permanent. I have a real interest in such movements and shall be glad to know what success you have with your organization."
"A letter from the direction of student labor at the Oklahoma A. and M expressed the same tone of interest," said Chate, in describing the attitude of the schools toward the question-naires.
Engineers at Polls Today
To Select Class, Departmental and Council Officers
Election of officers for the Engineering council is being held in Marvin all today. The officers elected will include class officers and departmental officers, as well as active council officers.
The list of nominees, as announced last week, follows: council officers, President Phil Borel, *e*; Edgar Gift, *e*; Richard Porter, *e*; Vice president, Charles Spahr, *e*; Carl Kindlaus, *e*; James Hughes, *e*; Secretary-treasurer, Howard Johnson, *e*; Carl Cooper, *e*; Olentah Oliver; Senior representative, John Herndon, *e*;墨伯 Robert Oliver, *e*; Felda Representative, representative, Wiley Woodson, *e*; Loren Craig, *e*; Sophomore representative, George Wright, *e*; John McNew, *e*; Karl Scott, *e*;
civil representative, W. C. Wyatt,
¹c34, Clayton Croisier, ¹c34, Henry Benjes,
e³5; Mechanical representative,
Maurice Brucehl, e³4; H. Ford Dickie,
e³5; John Newell, e³4; Electrical represent-
ative, Waldo Shaw, e³5; Eugene Bartlett,
¹cunel. Chemical representa-
tive, George Shaad, e³4; George Shaad, e³5.
Architectural representa- tive, Clemens Wolf,
¹c4; Ray Meyn, e³5; Mining represen-
tative, Richard Scott, e³4; Cyrus Cantrell, e³3; Edward Tucker, e³5.
DR. SHIERWOOD IS SPEAKER
AT BACTERIOLOGY SESSION
- At the meeting of the Bacteriology club held yesterday afternoon in room 506, Snow hall, the new officers elected two weeks ago took charge. The officers are: president, Letha Jenkins; c44 secretary, Katherine Browne; ticular-treasurer, Benita Jones; c34.
Lunchon was served after the meeting and was followed by a talk on "Bacteriophagy" by Dr. N. P, Sherwood. Miss Gladys Anthony of Nebraska and Robert Wilson of Ottawa were guests.
'Kansas Must Turn to Creative Arts,' Says Mr. Murdock
Special Numbers Played by New York Artists; Six Fine Arts Students Honored
"All of us are a little bit musical and can pound on a piano, saw a violin, or strum a guitar, but it is my appeal that Kansas in the future turn to the more creative side of music accomplishments." Victor Murdock, editor of the Music of the Tenth Annual addressing the Tenth Annual School of Fine Arts day convocation.
"Music," said Mr. Murdock, "is the language of the emotions—where all words end, music begins. We appreciate it more if we try to interpret it in our own emotions rather than through imitating others."
Mr. Murdock said that in 50 years he had passed no day without music, and that always he had tried to understand the emotions it expressed. He finds in Beethoven's use of the crescendo, ending in one soft note, an interpretation of life and emotion in music.
"Every one," Mr. Murdock pointed out, "uses words with facility, but when it is a question of musical notes, they feel that they have no understanding of the scale. They should acquire this, through development of the culture handed down by the centuries." The speaker told of the origin of the scale in Greece. It was Pythagoras who used it. Others have been added since and what seems discordant to one age becomes harmonious to the next.
All recent artistic creations, according to Mr. Murdock, are only reflections on the creations of early masters. In the field of music this master was Bach. "I would like to see the people of this great democracy turn from interpreting others' emotions to interpreting a few of their own," the speaker said in conclusion, "this will take labor and there will be many defeats along the path, but it is the rough road that makes the strong man."
A special musical number was the "Passacaglia" for violin and cello (Handel-Halvorson) played by Maria and Elsa Hilger of New York. The University Men's and Women's Glee Club sang "America," and a Jasaw hawk."
Announcement was made of the election of six students to Pi Kappa Lambda, national honorary musical fraternity. The students must be among the highest 25 per cent of the senior class in music following persons were Jake Blanche Sams, Simon Stover, violin; Jean Bender, piano; Jean Crabbs, piano; Helen Bronson, piano; and Sister Josephine Marie Bourassa, piano.
Salaries Will Be Settled
Delay Caused by Football Game Returns Falling Below Budget
"We expect to take care of all obligations as we have done in the past," said Dr. F, C. Allen, director of athletics, today in regard to the holding up of the coaches' salary for the last month. "It is purely a business matter. The transaction is just like any business firm that has to borrow money and the coaches have been asked to wait until this can be arranged," he said.
Until the present, the coaching staff has been paid its regular monthly salary. The difficulty lies, however, in the fact that the Kansas State, Notre Dame, and Missouri football games fell below the estimated budget. The attendance was not what was expected and therefore the budget has not turned out as formerly planned. The withholding of taxes is in line with the economy and curtailment program in the same manner as was the dropping of baseball for this year.
SIGMA DELTA CHI TO HOLD
DINNER AT WIEDMANN'S
Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, will have a dinner at Wedemann's tonight at 6 p. m. Walter will be the chief speaker of the evening.
The fraternity will have as its guests L. N. Flint, head of the journalism department, J. J. Kistler, chapter adviser and assistant professor of journalism, A. J. Graves, business manager of the Daily Kansas, W. R. Harley, assistant professor of journalism, Jack Penfield, c'35, Stanley Hormatmann, c'35, Dean Landis, c'uncl, Robert Smith, c'uncl, and Lawrence Sterling, c'4.
A special guest of the evening will be Henry McCurry $^2$ of the MacMil-
lion.