FIFTY POEMS LISTED FOR WATTLES' PRIZE
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Additional Details of the $50 Poetry Contest are Given
Nearly fifty poems from native-born Kannas, have been submitted to Willard Wattles, for the $50 prize he is offering for the best specimen of Kannas.
"While not all the conditions and rules have been given out," W. Matties told that poems must be in by May 1, 1920, is being fulfilled, as I have received requests for strength of my announcemen at the state teachers association in Topeka last month."
Mr. Wattles is preparing a list of books of the Middle West typifying the Kansas spirit which it is recommended that all contestants read. The list will be published in the Kansan soon. Other details of the contest:
The poems must not have been published previous to the time of making the award.
The names of the judges in this contest are to be announced later but will be men and women of state and national reputation as writers. Some, though not all, of the judges must have been born in the state, and all the judges must have a significant influence of the virtues and failings.
It is hoped that the better known writers of the state will be willing to submit poems in this contest. The giver of the prize and the judges are barred from contesting. The contestants need not be living in the state at the present time, but must have been born there.
The prize is offered by the present giver for one year only. He understands, however, that there are plans in process of formation by men who command much larger resources, by which an annual prize may be established for a period of five months greater interest and value, and in which the prizes will be much larger. But since the present plan took form in the giver's mind as early as 1911 when he and Harry Kemp, Anma Manley, Gale Goessel, Adella Peper and John She published their "Songs from the Hill," the first book in which an author has been the intention of the giver always to establish such a state contest as soon as he was able to do so.
The giver of the prize, to whom all manuscripts are to be mailed at Lawrence, Kansas, will sort such manuscripts as are plainly not of value. Those which are found to be worth consideration and conformable to the rules of the contest will then be forwarded to the final judges who are to be men and women of high literary pre-eminence. This sorting is to save time of the final judges, whose names are yet to be announced.
It shall be the privilege of the giver of the prize to say which periodical shall first publish the prize poem and to reprint it in "Sunflowers," a book of Kansas poems. All other rights reserved to the author.
A contestant by his entry into the contest thereby signifies his willingness to abide by all the rules of the contest.
It is hoped that through this contest the people of Kansas may come to clearer understanding of the principals and significances of our state, and see ourselves in relation to the Middle West of which in a sense we are the contenders that the case. This union is a fineher spirit of Americanization as well as to a more intelligent pride in our state institutions and manners.
Alpha Chi Omega announces the pledging of Grace Gaskill, c'21, of Lawrence.
Pi Kappa Alpha is to entertain the freshmen of Alpha Delta Pi from 7 to 8 o'clock Wednesday evening.
Deltasigma Rho, honorary debating fraternity, an announces the pledging off Professor Harno, of the School of Law.
Prof. H. W. Nutt, director of Oread Training School, is still unable to meet his classes because of illness.
Four dinner talks by faculty members are to be given this year to each fraternity and sorority of Purdue.
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Chicago, Dec. 10—One preacher, a paper hanger in spare moments, another a barber and a third a shop keeper, were reported here today, as a result of an interchurch investigation of spiritual affairs in Illinois.
Twenty-Five Dollars Goes To Winner In W. S. G. A. Scholarship Contest
"The preacher should be a leader in community affairs," and the report "but this is the way we found them to spend their time to earn a living."
FIFTEEN IN CONTEST
Fifteen houses, five of which are sorority houses, have entered the scholarship contest offered by the Women's Student Government Association. Twenty five dollars will be given as first prize and fifteen as second, organized house making the highest average grades for the first semester.
The purpose of this contest is to stimulate interest in scholastic standing among the women of the University, and to provide a prize bin. From a possible fifty-two organized houses the following are the houses who entered their names at the office of the Adviser of Women Affairs: the college vacation, the last day to register;
Campus Cottage, 1320 Ohio, Florence Knott, president; Alomania house, 23 E 13th, Lillian Cottrall, president; tucky, Helen Thompson, president; Kappa Kappa Gamma house, 1602, Louisiana, Mary Samson, president; Chi Omega house, 1137 Indiana, New York, Mary Samson, president; 1140 Mississippi, Olive Creek,
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The dramatic club will hold try outs for the two plays, "Frank Glynn's Wife" and "Rather Rough on Robert" Wednesday afternoon at four in the Little Theatre in Green Hall. These are open to the students and especially are the members of the dramatic club asked to be present.
Dramatic Club Tryouts
Dismiss Marine Captain Who Told Daring Story
Washington, Dec. 9—Captain Edmund G. Chanbelander of the U. S. Marine Corps who claimed to have made one of the most spectacular exploits of the war has been dismissed from the service by Secretary Daniels because of alleged untruths, connected with his story of daring, it was announced today.
B Chamberlain is said to have claimed to have borrowed a British airplane in France, flown over the German lines and downed several German planes.
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