NOVEMBER 26,1918
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Skilton's Latest Work To Be Given in St. Louis
K. U. Composer's New Cantata Founded on Whittier's Poem On Witchcraft
The Carl Fischer Music Company of New York has recently published a cantata by Prof. C. S. Skilton entitled "The Witch's Daughter" on the poem by Whittier dealing with Salem witchcraft. The work will have its first performance at St Louis, January 14, by the St. Louis Pageant Choral Society and Symphony Orchestra with soprano and baritone soloists. Following are some opinions by prominent musicians.
Emil Oberhoffer, director of Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra: "You have written a beautiful and attractive work. I admire especially your fine part for the voices, your choice harmonization, which is in places strungly effective and 'up to the minute.' The love motive of Mabel, which you handle throughout the work in a mastery way, is so ingratiatingly sweet and pure that it alone will help your cantata to a speedy recognition."
Waldo S. Pratt, editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians:—I congratulate you most heartily on the fine imagination and rich technical resource with which you have treated Whittier's spirited poem. The whole seeme to constitute a notable and valuable addition to our literature of choral cantatas. You have certainly achieved a remarkable freedom and freshness of style, both vocal and instrumental."
The New York Musical Coeurier::: The composer has chosen a thoroughly modern style for his music. His harmonic progressions belong to that international style which is in vogue today. There are plenty of excellently written contrapuntal passages that are entirely free from the older mannerisms of the fugal blind. In choral writing the Witch's Daughter" is solidly strong. There's some areOFFICIAL bits of unaccompanied chord part writing which would do credit to any composer, and there are many strikingly dramatic passages. The composer has made use of styles and forms that are modern without becoming in the least degree a plagiarist. His pages do not suggest well known or rare effects in the works of his predecessors.
By the Way
Dr. P, V. Faragher, of the department of chemistry, and Mrs. Faragher visited Mr. Faragher's father in Sabetta during Saturday and Sunday.
Gertrude Clephorn, c'22, is ill at the University Hospital.
Mrs. Robert Rose and Mrs. H. L.
Williamson of Kansas City, Mo,
were guests at the Alpha Xi delta
house Monday.
Sibyl Martin, c'19, had as her guest Miss Helen Roberts of Marion from Friday until Monday.
Miss Corinne Case and Miss Mary Thies of Marion were the guests of Grace Olsen, c21, from Friday until Monday. They visited the University Monday.
Mrs. Luu Holcomb, c'22, spent Sat
urday and Sunday with her parents
at her home near Topeka.
Catherine Fitzsimmon, c'21, has been unable to attend classes for several days on account of illness. She is at the University Hospital.
Miss Mae Sullivan of Logan, is a guest of Miss Eulalia Dougherty, c'22. She is also visiting her brother Glenn Sullivan of Company B, of the S. A. T. C.
Alpha Omieron Pi will entertain with a house dance Tuesday afternoon Nov. 24, from 4 to 6 o'clock.
Pi Lambda Theta, Presbyterian women's fraternity, held a meeting Monday afternoon, at Westminster Hall from 4 to 6 o'clock.
Anne Forsythe, '18, visited in Law
rence during Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Forsythe is teaching home
economics in De Soto.
Miss Margaret Hamilton of Kansas City, Mo., will come Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with her sister, Elizabeth Hamilton, c22.
Catherine Oder, c'21, was the guest of Miss Margaret Merkel in Kansas City Saturday and Sunday.
A dance will be given Thursday night in Eagle's Hall by the War Camp Community Service Club for the S. A. T. C, men and their friends
Misa Bertha Banker, of Sapulpa,
Okla., spend Saturday and Sunday at
the Chi Omega house.
Mu Phi Epilion gave their annual Founders' Day banquet Monday, November 24, at 6 p. m. Covers were laid for thirty-one women. After the banquet the guests were entertained with a farce by the freshmen.
Alumnae tnd other inactive members present were: Mrs. Frank Jennings, Mrs. Maude Cook Anderson, Miss Mabel Popanoe, Miss Louise Wiedman, Miss Abbey Louise Fuller, Miss Helen Weed, Miss Ruby Whitcroft, and Miss Bentrice Jones, all from Lawrence.
The gobs have been staging some lively boxing bouts in Barracks 4 and some good men have been located, Deering and Googins are the best of the light men while Gross in the best welterweights, and there is open challenge for a boxing tournament with the companies on the Hill.
Sea Foam
The navy hits some good basketball men and expect to have a company team. Bunn and Matthews, the only letter men in school, are in the naval section. Slonaker and Dotson are two other good men from Brackocks 4.
The Jacks must have a clean home. They purchase brooms and mops from the company fund. They wear them out so fast the authorities cannot keep the supply ahead.
When told they would be allowed to sign application for release in several days the men in the naval section did not cheer. It wasn't because they were not anxious to get out of the service and into civilian life.
Y. W. Secretary here for Week Miss Anna Seesholtz, traveling secretary of the National Board of Y. W. C. A, for state universities, will be here Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week and any student who is contemplating Y. M. C. A. work as a profession will please make an appointment with her by calling Miss Duffield, phone 1315.
Miss Seeholtz will speak on "Foreign Missions" at a meeting at Dr. Braden's home in Myers Hall at 5 o'clock, Wednesday. Supper will be served without charge. Those wishing to attend please notify Dr. Braden or Miss Duffield.
Dr. Braden Will Talk at Y. W.
Y. M. C. A. will meet Tuesday afternoon at 4:45 in Fraser Hall Chapel. Dr. Arthur Braden will speak on the subject, "Is Christ Divine?" This is the second of a series of lectures which Dr. Braden is giving to the women of the University through the Y. W. C. A. There will be special music and the meeting will be over by 5:30 o'clock.
Dates and figs for the Thanksgiving dinner. —Dummire's—Adv.
Plymouth Jottings
Maybe you come from a small town or some little over-churched village. Maybe you have seen five churches struggling where one could do better work than all five are now doing. Maybe your notion of denominationalism has been one of unholy, unseemly, sometimes quite scandalous competition. Maybe the doctrine you have heard preached has been narrow, mediaeval, dogmatic.
You are in Lawrence now. You have struck a new type of church life, a new breed of preachers, a thoroughly modern situation which is in some respects just a little bit Christian.
Naturally we of Plymouth think that Plymouth is the best of them all. If you don't go elsewhere, why not come with us?
Well, forget all that.
There is the finest fellowship among our Lawrence churches. We work together most happily. There is room for us all. The success of one is recognized as the success of all. Absolutely no effort is made by any body to steal sheep from another pastor. We play fair with each other. More than that, we all boast for the other fellow. You will hear very little out-of-date, uncharitable sectarianism from any Lawrence pulpit. We are all out in the new day, with our faces toward tomorrow. If you haven't caught the spirit of Lawrence church life, you have missed something. We have some fine churches in Lawrence.
Yours very cordially
ROSS W. SANDERSON,
Pastor of Plymouth Church
Week-End Passes Few Despite General Ruling On S.A.T.C. Holidays
"Black Marks" Cut Down Time Off On Saturdays and Sundays
S. A. T. C. men are off from Saturday noon until taps Saturday night, and from Sunday morning until taps Sunday night, according to military headquarters. There has been considerable confusion over the amount of time off at the week-end, owing to the fact that the matter of week-end passes and the time each company must get in seems to be wholly under the direction of the commanding officer of each company.
Although headquarters has announced that the men are off from Saturday until taps, and from Sunday morning until taps, this general order does not seem to figure. One-fourth of the men in each company are supposed to get taps, but only two of them are not given if the men have any black marks. In one company only six week-end passes were given this last week-end.
Because of a prevalent idea that members of the naval section were not getting sufficient sleep, the sailors were all ordered to be in bed at 9 o'clock Saturday night, except those who had week-end passes.
A number of special instructions have been made recently, and the plan seems to be to tighten up on discipline.
S. A. T. C. men are doing only six hours of drill a week now. On Tuesday and Thursday they do kitchen police and various detailed duties, instead of regular drill. During the week, they are off each day from 4:30 to 6:45 o'clock, and of course each man has the privilege of not going to mess unless he chooses. The study period does not begin until 7:30 o'clock.
The payrolls were signed Saturday morning in the orderly rooms in the barracks. The November pay probabil will be issued about December 2.
Dr. Braden
desires to meet, at his home.
In Myers Hall all new men and women, who are contemplating the
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