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VOLUME XV.
UNIVERSI DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERS
"Comus" Is To Have Elaborate Setting In Hillside Theater
Milton's Masque Will Be Given On Golf Links Thursday Night
NUMBER 145
Special Colored Lighting
Play is Innovation Among Amaateur Dramatic Circles of University
Elaborate preparations were made today for the stage setting of "Comus" by Prof. Arthur MacMurray, John M. Shea, and assistants. A broad wooden platform large enough for the dancing is being built before a background of trees and shrubs. Shrubs have been transplanted to form the wings of the stage and give a rural scenic effect.
The play will be given Thursday night at 8:30 o'clock regardless of the state of weather conditions, the management said this morning. It is expected that the golf links stage across the small raine west of the Museum can be used, but if the night prows unfavorable, Robinson Gymnasium will be used with the same stage features as the outdoor scene.
"We are leaving nothing undone to insure success and brilliance," said Professor MacMurray who is directing the play. "Comus will be a brilliant spectacle with its fluffy costumes and the vari-colored lighting effects." Miss Genevaer Parker, assistant in the department of public speaking is manager of costumes of the production.
Special colored lighting effects have been ordered from Kansas City for the production. Ample seating will be provided for the audience on the hillside facing the stage in the natural amphitheater.
Craig Kennedy will take the lead in the part of Comus. The part of the Attendant Spirit will be played by Florence Butler. Leah Stewart plays the role of the Lady. Sabrina, the nymph, will be acted by Helen Clark, the part being one largely of dancing. Burney Miller takes the part of the old shepherd, Thysura, Karl Brown and Raymond Darby are the First and the Second Brother, respectively.
There are eight nymphs and country dancers. They are: Ida Ratodinsky, Hazzel Martin, Irene Stratton, Katherine Fulkerson, Nadine Weibel, and Dorothy Cole. The court dancers are Eda Roberts, Lena Pittering, Eileen VanSandt, Jane Waters, John Winkler, Ralph Emerson, Louis Morgan, and Herman Friesen. The dancing parts have been coached by Dorothy Cole.
The six satyrs of the play are: Myr
ron Husband, Charles Goss, Luther
Hangen, Clifford Tenney, Dan An-
thony, and John Phipps.
The proceeds from "Comus" will be divided up between the W. S. G. A. and the K. U. Dramatic Club. The production was arranged to try out this type of outdoor plays, and it is an innovation among amateur dramatic circles of the University. The masque includes a large variety ofmatic effects, comic flushing and acting of the characters. It was written by John Milton and is especially for public presentation.
To Play Prof. Skilton's Indian Music at Oregon U
Feature
"Deer Dance" to Be Used as Commencement Feature
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AS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 8, 1918
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As the special number of the commencement exercises this year, the University of Oregon has selected the "Deer Dance," a well known composition of Prof. Charles S. Skilton.
Professor Skilton obtained this dance from R. R. DePoe, chief of the Rogue River Indian tribe at Siletz, Ore., and arranged it for the orchestra.
The "Deer Dance" is a dance used by the Rogue River tribe in their memorial ceremony service for those who have died the preceding year.
Chief DePoe was bandmaster at Haskell ten years ago and left in order to teach the Indians of his tribe. It was while he was at Haskell that Professor Skilton became acquainted with him.
Seniors must get, their invitations a check stand in Fraser Hall, Friday.
Architects to Meet, Eat And Talk Tuesday, May 14
The Architectural Engineering Society will hold its annual dinner at the Midway Cafe, Tuesday night, May 14. The committee is making arrangements to entertain about forty members.
Besides speeches and toasts by faculty members and students, several former students now in service are expected to be present and will give short talks. According to reports the society has lost for military service fifteen per cent of the total enrollment of the year.
The War Here and Over There
The week beginning May 20 has been designated "Red Cross Week" by President Wilson. A drive for a 100 million dollar Red Cross fund will be carried out then throughout the United States.
The Allied forces in Flanders and Picardy expect a renewal of the German offensive soon. German newspapers say the drive will be against both the French and the Italian fronts. Another report says they are preparing the people for an abandonment of the drive.
Germany and her allies have an additional foe in Nicaragua, who entered the war Tuesday.
The Y. M. C. A. needs hundreds of men to direct athletics abroad at the front, in Italian and French forces as well as American. Many former college athletes are taking up this work.
The Germans have invented a new drug that will allay the pangs of hunger. Semi-official reports to Washington say that the German food situation is critical.
The casualties of the British army for the week ending Tuesday numbered 38,691, 6,056 were reported killed or died of wounds and the rest wounded or missing.
A popular way of Kansas towns to raise money for the Red Cross is to hold auctions of quilts, canned fruit, various animals, and the like. The sales and resales of these webs net large sums of money, the dependence of the amount being on the willingness and finances of the buyers rather than the value of the article.
Freshman Women Win Annual Swimming Meet By Margin Of One Point
Juniors Enter But Half of
Events and Score Five
Points
By the close score of 34-33 the freshmen defeated the sophomores in the third annual swimming meet held in Robinson gymnasium last night. The senior team was third with 20 points and the juniors, who were entered in but half of the events, made 5 points.
50-foot side—First, sophomore, H.
brown; second, freshman, Jeannette
hafer; third, senior, K. Redding.
Time 13.5 seconds.
Helen Brown, sophomore, scored 16 points for her team, which was the largest number of individual points. Margaret Hodder, for the seniors, and Josephine and Jeannette Shafer for the freshman, each scored 13 points.
100-foot breast—First, senior, Capt.
M. Hodder; second, sophomore, Capt.
D. Dawson; third, freshman, G. Gas-
kill. Time 36 4-5 seconds.
By winning the 50-foot side event in 13 1-5 seconds, Helen Brown broke her record of last year by one second. Jeannette Shafer completed the 50-foot back in 14 2-5 seconds, which is two seconds less than the time for the same event last year. Josephine Shafer made the 100-foot overhand in 22 4-5 seconds. The time for this event last year was 31 1-5 seconds.
50-foot overhand—First, freshman,
Josephine Shafer; second, sophomore,
Helen Brown; third, junior, M. Clark
Time 13.5-1 seconds.
Following are the events and this
inners:
(Continued on page 4)
50-foot back—First, freshman, Jean
nette Shafer; second, sophomore, D
Fina
inations Are To Begin if the Universal to be present Day, May 25, End May 30
On
The schedule of final examinations to be held May 25 to May 30 was adopted at the meeting of the University Senate Tuesday. The Senate also authorized appointment of a committee of seven to investigate the question of military drill for next year.
The schedule for examinations is as follows:
3-00 classes, Satur day afternoon, May 25
3:00 classes, Satur day afternoon, May 20
3:00 classes, Mon. morning, May 27
10:00 classes, Monday morning, May 27
1:00 classes, Monday afternoon, May 27
1:00 classes, Monday afternoon, May 27
8:00 classes, Tuesday morning, May 28
9.00 classes, Thursday
Exclusively Saturday classes, Tuesday afternoon, May 28
8:00 classes, Wednesday morning, May 29
2:00 classes, Wednesday afternoon, May 29
4:30 classes, Wednesday evening, May 29
Three-hour classes (and 1-hour classes meeting on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday) will be examined from 8:00 to 10:00, if scheduled above for the morning; from 1:00 to 3:00 if scheduled above for the afternoon.
Two-hour classes (and 1-hour classes meeting on Tuesday or Thursday) will be examined from 10:10 to 12:00, if scheduled above for the morning; from 3:10 to 5:00 if scheduled above for the afternoon.
from 3:10 to 8:00 if scheduled above for the morning; from 1:00 to 4:00, if scheduled above for the afternoon.
Kappa Phi will hold an important business meeting Wednesday night at 7 o'clock in Myers Hall. This will be the last business meeting of the year.
ooh! laboratory classes will be examinend at the time corresponding in the schedule above to the first laboratory period or at the time corresponding to the lecture hour (when such an hour exists) at the discretion of the head of the department concerned.
State Defense Council Will Americanize All Foreign-Born Kansans
Students wishing to take entrance examinations should apply to E. F. Stipmion, Room 202, Blake Hall, on or before Wednesday, May 22, giving name, street address, and telephone number if he has one.
National Council of Defense Asks Committee to do Important Work
At the request of the National Council of Defense, the Committee on Public Relations of the Kansas State Council of Defense of which Chancellor Frank Strong is chairman, will take up work in Americanizing the foreign-born people in Kansas. The purpose of this work will be to install American ideals into the foreign born of the state and to break up alien units that formed in foreign communities.
All state councils of defense have been asked to aid in this work which is important since the outbreak of the war. The local committee will investigate the use of foreign languages and the teaching of these languages in school. The committee will try to promote the teaching of American history and American ideals to this foreign element of the state.
An important part of the work will be the attempt to break up the alien units which form in foreign settlements without interfering with their rights.
The committee which has charge of the organization of this group of volunteer workers is: Mary Nicholson, chairman, Esther Moore, Mary Brownlee, Margretta Stevenson and Esther Roop.
Women of University Plan Patriotic League
Work of Red Cross, Camp Fire Girls and Y. W. C. A. to Be Coordinated
An effort to promote patriotism in Kansas towns, through University women, is the purpose of the Patriotic League which is being organized by a committee of W. Y. W. C. A. workers here. Miss Katharine Duffield, Y. W. C. A. secretary, presented the plan to university women at the regular food conservation lecture this afternoon.
The patriotic League is a national organization and is intended to be worked out in conjunction with the Red Cross, Camp Fire Girls, Y. W. C. A., and other such organizations. It represents the patriotic side of these organizations. The members pledge themselves to be patriotic; to give any special service they can; to do their best in all places they may be put; and to live up to the highest standards of efficiency.
The aim of the organization here is to organize a group of University women who are willing to go out to their home towns this summer and organize such leagues among the girls and women. A call for volunteers to do this work was issued this afternoon.
Many Delays Hold Up Printing Of Jayhawker; Will Be Out May 25
Breaking of Copper Halfton Causes Delay—To Mail Some Annuals
Unforeseen delays at the engraving plant, resulting from the accidental breaking of a copper halftone, will make necessary the postponement of the date of publication of the University annual, "The Jayhawker," and the book now is not expected on the campus before Friday, May 24th. This is the statement made this morning by Don Davis, manager of the book.
"We regret very much that the book will not be completed on May 15, as we had expected," said Davis. "Students who have subscribed for copies, and who are leaving the University before the date of publication, will be able to secure their books parcel-pulled; they will pull their address, a hawker," giving their names and addresses. These notes can be mailed in any University mail box, or sent to 1220 Louisiana street.
Subscribers who owe a balance on their books will receive their copy by collect-on-delivery parcel post. The mail copies will be sent direct from the printing plant at Jefferson City, Missouri, and will reach the subscribers as promptly as the bookswhich are distributed here on the campus from the check stand in Fraser Hall, according to Davis.
Naval Recruiting Officer Here To Advise Students
He Considers It Advisable for Undergraduates to Remain in School
First hand advice to students who are considering enlistment in the various departments of the navy or training to become naval officers was brought to the University today by M. B. Whitzel, a petty officer of the first class, who is attached to the naval recruiting station at Kansas City. He conducted a commission Chancellor Strong and Dean Shaad and expects to remain in Lawrence today and a part of Thursday to talk to students.
Lieut. Ralph Campbell, in charge of the naval recruiting station in Kansas City, wrote to friends on the faculty that he believed Kansas men would find the opportunities the navy offers university men exceedingly well worth looking into. He said Mr. Whitzel was prepared to answer all questions and would be pleased to talk to as many University men as possible.
"While the navy has branches of service that should interest and offer excellent opportunities to every university man," said Mr. Campbell, "we are particularly eager to have students of the School of Engineering to consider the advisability of their remaining in school until graduation. After they are graduated the navy offers excellent training facilities for them to become naval officers."
K.U. Architects Enter Beaux Arts Race Again
A "Country Chapel" and "A Problem of the Order" is the title of the six competitions that have recently been entered in the Beaux Arts competition at New York, by the department of architecture of the School of Engineering.
The drawings are entered in two classes and will be judged about May 27; announcements will be made in June.
To date the department has the honor of being 100 per cent efficient in all competitive exhibitions entered in the Beaux Arts this year.
Plain Tales From The Hill
A CORRECTION COMES
A correction—Arthur MacMurray desires to be quoted as saying that the presentation of "Comus" on the golf links Thursday is not a May Fete.
The reason for making this sweeping statement is that he fears the K. U. play-goers will not come with sufficient funds. This is an honest-to-goodness vaudeville show, music, dancing, costumes, scenery, special lighting effects, and everything.
The expense of presenting the coming production has been, and is being, cut to the minimum. Natural scenery has been obtained for many scenes. And even the leading man is sparing the expense of a wig by denying himself a hair cut for nearly twelve weeks, now.
AFTER THE SWIMMING MEET "Oh-oo-o," sighed Mary, "my ribs are so sore!"
There was a roar.
"I've been in swimming," explained the shy young thing, a bit embarrassed.
"Yes," was the rejoinder in a typical sophomorism, "swimming in an ocean of love, with a kiss on each wave! ! ! "
Euthanasia for adopting military life (to some extent) has penetrated to one of the rooming houses on Tennessee Street. One co-ed has purchased a tin bugle, and every night she sounds "taps" for all lights out.
In the morning though, she sleeps until after time for "reveille."
From the group of men and women gathered around the table in Fraser Hall, and from the amazing rapidity which a dapper, smooth-hairged gentleman flourishes a tape-measure and takes down measurements, one would think that the dignity of r raser Hall had been affronto!
"Brick" is only taking measurements for commencement gowns.
Professor Elmer was discoursing a sermon texts in sociology class.
He said: "A minister strenuously objected to the fashion of women's hair dress at one time when the prevailed style was empire, a high top knot on the head. So he preached a sermon on the text, 'Top-knot come down.' His text was taken from the verse in Revelations which reads 'and let those on the house top not come down.'
"Another minister about this time preached on the text, 'The wicked fee,' taken from the Bible verse which reads, 'Then shall the wicked fee.'"
Professor Boynton asked one of his classes if there were any automobiles manufactured in Kansas. One stude piped up with a, "Yes, Professor, in Tulsa."
The class laughed.
Professor Boynton then asked if there was any coal found in Kansas, and after receiving an answer in the affirmative he asked what kind of coal it was. Another student spouted "Black coal." The class laughed again.
"Well, we will talk about some
we are interested in"—the dairy
N. B. Whitzel Will Lecture
N. B. Whitzel, naval recruiting officer from Kansas City, will lecture to engineering students in the lecture room in Marvin Hall, Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. All interested are invited.
Men's Student Council will hold a special meeting Wednesday night, at 7 o'clock, in Fraser Hall, Room 110. Plans will be made for a permanent Income Bill campaign.
Owls will meet Wednesday night at
8:30 o'clock on the Phi Delt house.
Send the Daily Kensan home.
Plans Are Completed For Engineer's Annual All-Day Jay Festival
Clown Band Is Guaranteed to Put Sousa in the Shade
Raise 500-Star Service Flag
Public Invited to Watch Wheels Go Round—Open House at Marvin Hall
The annual Engineers' Day is coming Friday.
"Plans are all complete," said Joe Mahan, chairman of the committee, "and everything is expected to go off like clock work. The customary floats for the parade have been done away with on account of the expense, but we're going to have a parade just the same.
"After the 10 o'clock class Friday the whole School of Engineering will parade the campus with their new serenity," he said, that "will put Souza in the shade."
After the parade, the service flag with its 500 stars will be dedicated and raised in front of Marvin Hall. Chancellor Frank Strong will give the dedication address.
The Engineers will hold open house in Marvin Hall all day. There will be an exhibition of the work of each department in the school. All the laboratories will be open and running Everything will be opened to the public.
Moon To Cast Shadow Across United States Afternoon Of June 8
Line of Totality Strikes Garden City, in Western Kansas
Scientists Much Interested
Eastern Kansas Will See Partial Eclipse for Nearly Two Hours
Thence it will pass directly across the continent from Oregon and Washington to Florida, making the entire cross-continent trip in forty-seven minutes. The eclipse finally stops at sunset close to the Bahama Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
On the afternoon of June 8, 1918, a notable astronomical event will occur. The passing of the moon directly between the sun and the earth will cause a shadow to fall on the earth. This shadow will be seen first at sunrise far out in the Pacific Ocean. Traveling swiftly eastward it will soon arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River.
FIRST IN NEARLY FIFTY YEARS
FIRST IN NEARLY FIFTY YEARS
The path of the total eclipse passes through southwestern Kansas diagonally and hits Syrucne, Garden City, Dodge City, and Gurling. It can be seen at Lawrence it is to be ninety-two per cent total. Here the eclipse will start before 5:30 and end about 7:30 o'clock.
It is the first total eclipse in the central part of the United States since 1869, and if the weather man does not interfere with its beauty by ordering a cloudy day, it will be an experience worth remembering.
The eclipse will be total at Dodge City for one minute and five seconds and may be seen as a partial eclipse for more than two hours.
Astronomers will flock to the path of totality from almost every part of the earth to see and record the special phenomena.
VISIBLE AT MANY PLACES
VISIBLE AT MANY PLACES
Those who stay at home will not miss the entire show, for the eclipse will be visible in all parts of the United States, the moon covering three-fourths of the sun's surface with a black disk at even such distant points as Los Angeles and Washington.
The shadow will be sixty-six miles in diameter in the state of Washington and will become gradually smaller. Anyone happening to be at a high point may see a starling sight by watching its approach. A spot on the earth's surface will present an awesome and terrifying sight.
When the eclipse becomes total the sun's corona will be seen around the earth.