FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1928
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PAGE FIVE
Prof. A. Crafton Plans Activities for New Theater
May Offer Series of Plays
Using Club Members
And Players
This Year
With work on K. U.'s little theater virtually complete, a season of interesting and successful dramatic production is in the offing. The University Dramatic Club and Kansas Players will co-operate in offering a series of worthwhile plays during the winter. Prof. Allen Crafton, head of the department of speech and drama at the university, Europe, has returned with several interesting ideas for this year's work.
"The facilities now at our disposal should enable us to put on better productions than ever before," Professor Crafton said, "provided we can secure sufficient actors. As long as I've been here I have never had enough people to put on a really good performance."
The new theater will eliminate the difficulty with local stage hands which the organizations have experienced in previous productions. The cost of staging will be greatly diminished, and there will more plays and better costuming.
Most of the performances will be repeated from two to three times in order to accommodate the crowd, as well as to allow only about six hundred and fifty.
The Dramatic club will probably present two plays this year. Professor or Crafton also plans to present a comedy and a revue.
"I should like our work this year to be more of an experimental nature," Professor Craft said, "and I should use the Giselle play on a Theater Guide play, possibly 'Ned McCobb's Daughter.' I would too, too, have a foreign play produced. We might give The Game of Thrones the drama of the French revolution."
The entire front of Fraser chapel has been reconstructed and a new proscenium face for the stage is now in position. The electricians are in charge for the rather elaborate wiring which will be a feature of this theater.
A fire escape has been built for the window exit on the south side of the stage. Three tiers of dressing rooms are to be completed on the south side of the stage. Twelve stage flood will be installed on the south side of the stage. These will permit many beautiful scenic stage effects.
On the stage itself will be three light borders, each with three independent circuits. In the (lightpaths, in the (lightpaths, escapes from them to the auditorium, are six circuits on separate switches and dimmers. The switchboard on which all the actual switching will be placed is placed in the basement of Fraser.
Y. M. C. A. Program Made Many Affairs for Freshmen Are Planned for First Week
Y. M. C. A. Program Made
An extensive program for new students has been planned by the Y, M, C, A, for the opening week of school, and now the rest of the chological examinations printed programs of the events of the first week will be given out. K books will also be supplied to those new students who have not yet arrived too late to have them sent to them.
The first event is a garden party at Henley House at which all new students are invited by the W. Y, C. A. Hake for men has been planned for Sunday, and it will be led by Leroy Lumley, c29, Y. M. president.
mixer is scheduled for Wednesday,
while on Saturday interested freshmen
will hike to Broadview Im where the
school will be located. The Commission
will be affected.
The annual Y, W. C, A.-Y, M. C, A.
E. B, Shultz, Y. M, C. A, secretary,
will arrive in Lawrence, Sept. 10, ready
to take over his duties for the coming
term.
Grades Cause Suspension
"Flunk Out!" List Numbers 147
for Spring Semester
According to available figures from the offices of the various deans, 147 students were suspended from the University for a period of one semester on account of poor grades for the spring semester. These figures come from all of the schools excluding the School of Business and the School of Medicine.
The general rule is that students who fail in more than 40 per cent of their work are automatically sus- pended and taught in university for at least one semester.
According to Paul B. Lawson, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 78 students were suspended by that rule in the College.
The second largest number was in the School of Engineering, where 55 students came under the suspension rule. The number was the same in the School of Pharmacy and the School of Law, seven each, while the School of Fine Arts and the School of Education had clean records in this respect. The School of Education has 42 students individually. No statistics were available for the School of Medicine or the School of Business.
The number of students who "flunked out" during the spring semester is considerably smaller than for the fall term. Most of the failures are among the students who were in school at the start of the fall. Of the seven "flunk-outs" in the School of Law in the spring term, six were first-year men.
Poor Dwarfed Egyptian
Became Favored Prince
Washington, Sept. 7- The rise of Herbert Hoover from an Iowa farm village, and that of Alfred E. Smith from the sidewalks of New York, will be the focus of the exhibit of poor and ambitious boy this fall, with the moral that "only in America could such a thing happen." But that will be claiming a little too much for our country, for similar careers were our goal in the exhibition in the Egypt of the Pharaohs. Excavations near the famous pyramids of Gizeh, reported by Prof. Hermann Junker, of the University of Vienna, have disclosed the climb of a poor young man to a place in the museum of the ancient nation on the Nile.
Seneb, the prince who started as an underling in the chambers of the royal wardrobe, had an even heavier handicap than most modern self-made men, for he was a dwarf. Scorned and laughed at by his fellow servants, he stuck to his job and learned it from his master. He worked job and took that over, climbing by degrees until he held several portfolios in the King's cabinet. In a land where rulership was not only hereditary but a divine office, and the Pharman considered a god, he could not, of course, aspire to the throne. He did the next best thing and married a royal princess. Their three children were born and studied in the sculptured family group in Seneb's tomb.
The expedition of the University of Vienna also turned up in the same "city of the dead" a tomb with a true dome. It has always been taught that it was built by the ancient know of making arches and domes, and that they learned this architectural device from foreigners. But this burial place dates back to the fifth and sixth dynasties, whose kings were so powerful that long before foreign influences ever
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University's First Curriculum Too Hard for Early Entrants; Preparatory School Necessary
D. II. Robinson, professor of ancient language$, was the author of the first course of study in the University of Kansas. He modelled it on the courses offered to students of eastern schools.
The schedule was made out under the impression that this would be a regular college, as it was understood in the East. The subjects offered to the seeker after wisdom were as follows:
Freshman-first session: Latin;
Greek, algebra, geometry, Greek
history; second session: Latin, Greek
history, plain trigonometry, Roman
history
Sophomore—first session: Latin Greek, spherical trigometry, surveying, German history; second session: Greek, Latin, French, calculus, outline of history.
Senior—first session: Geology, mental philosophy, zoology, English literature, elements of criticism; second session: moral philosophy, political economy, evidences of Christianity, Butler's analogy, constitution.
Junior—first session: Latin, Greek natural philosophy, chemistry, logic second session: chemistry, natural history of literature, autonomy, history of literature.
Taken as a whole, it was a very satisfactory course from the standpoint of a young professor just out of college. The students had been left out of consideration however. This was the question as to where the students, capable of following this course, were to come from. On examining applicants for enrolment in this course, I ever had any Greek, but that six wanted to take the subject. Sixteen (new a little Latin grammar, enough it, least, to form a class to study Caste.
The story was the same in all of
name up the Nike. The first Egyptian domes shows evidences of a foreign pattern are of a date over one thousand years later than this.
Commons Building Used for University Officer
The University stenographic bureau recently moved to its new quarters; the old hallmouses, just east of Snow Hall, was made acent last year when the cafeteria was moved to the Memorial Union building. The rooms of the bureau fsk avant in Fraser hall are to be
the other departments. A preparatory school was formed and subjects were taught to prepare applicants for entrance to the college. During the first year there was not a single person admitted, and classified as regular college student.
During the second year of school there were two college classes, Henrietta Beach was the junior class and Lucie Carruth was the freshman. It was not until 1872 that a course received faculties of arts degrees.
taken over by the Kansas League of Municipalities.
The school increased greatly in size during the first few years, and new courses were added to the curriculum. Several instructors were bired as the need arose, and new courses were offered, mostly in the junior and senior years, where three students to take advantage of the offer.
Plans are to move the Jayhawk office from the basement of the Administration building to the Commons building in the fall. The stenographic bureau is occupying the northeast part of the building and the Jayhawk office, and is being furnished in room on the other side of he building. The K. U. Aero Club rooms will be maintained in the back part of the building.
The department of music received an early start when college credit was given for work with approved instructors who were not actively contended in the class. One of these music teachers, when turning in his annual report, explained his grading system, "I grade on the basis of 100. You will observe that you output very good marked 125. They would say very good and give them to that high grade."
This must not be inked as a sample of the all professors' work, because they were some unsatisfied, outstanding students during their few years, but they had to do the best that they could under very trying circumstances. There were no standards by which they could measure success, so they had previous training that they had received was very casual. There was practically no library, and the laboratory equipment was a joke. Under the guidance of all teachers at the school we now attend was founded.
The tube of lipstick proves the deciding factor in a series of fencing matches hold between Ohio State University and another college.
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Instructor Marries Student.
Instructor Marries Stuken.
Jacob Esan, instructor of physiology in the School of Medicine, and Miss Anne Goldberg, a junior in the School of Medicine, were married Aug. 18 in Kansas City, Kan., Mr. Esan, Mme. Goldberg, the director of Philosophy in physiology from the University in the spring. The couple are at present visiting in Hillsboro, Kan.
Stanley Lindley, A. B. 27, who for the past year has been studying at Leiland Stanford University, has been a professor of computer technology at the University of Illinois.
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September Means School—and Work
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Jayhawkers All
Another Fall has rolled around and with it business is picking up at K. U. on the Kaw. Bill Hargiss has come over from Emporia to take charge of the football team; Professor Mechem is stepping to the deanship of the School of Law; Quiet afternoons are being broken up by student golfers on the campus courses yelling "Fore!."—and sometimes other things—the Chancellor is greeting everyone with a cheery smile, and some use has at last been found for the old cafeteria.
The Kansan is going to be on the job again, as it has for the past twenty-five years. This first issue of the year is sent to you as a gentle reminder of that fact, to jog your memories a little bit, so you'll be sure not to miss the news of what is happening on Mount Oread. You students of last year, of course, will turn in your $4 early because you already know the Kansan and can appreciate that it will be worth your Sunday dinner—at least—to have your own copy.
We'll meet you new students delightedly when you climb the Hill to look around.
You old grads and former students may just drop us your name and address on the coupon on page 2 and we will help you keep in touch with the old school this year.
Au revoir.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
DELBERT C. ROBERTS,
JAY WELLS,
Circulation Managers.