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Summer Session Kansan Friday July 24,1950
Concerts, Recital Anyone?
We admit that we gripe about "the campus being overrun by band-campers," but there are some benefits. For example, the concerts. A heterogenous group gathers and brings forth homogenous sounds.
Perhaps if some of the summer students have been too busy or have found an excuse to avoid previous concerts, you will take advantage of one of KU's cultural opportunities and attend the last concerts presented by the camp students Sunday afternoon and evening. These concerts are the culmination of six weeks of concentrated musical study and training.
Time is also running out for art appreciators. The last exhibition of the art center of the camp is on display in the South Lounge of the Union.
They're not painful; in fact, you might possibly enjoy them.
The ballet division of the camp will-present a recital at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium. For an evening of pleasure, this production is recommended.
To the campers themselves—we hope your stay at KU has been a pleasant and a profitable one.
—Janet Juneau
Alaska Peak to Honor Botanist
The highest peak of Alaska's Katmai National Monument, the spectacular volcanic wilderness that comprises the largest unit in the Nation's park system, will be named for the man who explored it.
The United States Board on Geographic Names has approved changing the name of 7,600-foot Knife Peak to Mount Griggs. The action honors Dr. Robert F. Griggs, the former George Washington University botanist who led six National Geographic Society expeditions to Katmai four decades ago.
Dr. Griggs named many prominent features in Katmai for those who helped make the explorations possible, but neglected to name anything for himself. Now 77, he teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Griggs' early expeditions so impressed President Woodrow Wilson that he created the Katmai National Monument in 1918. In his proclamation, President Wilson declared, "This wonderland may become of popular scenic, as well as scientific, interest for generations to come,
inasmuch as all its phenomena exist upon a scale of great magnitude, arousing emotions of wonder at the inspiring spectacle, thus affording inspiration to patriotism and to the study of nature."
President Wilson's prediction is at last coming true. Seaplanes now ferry guests to the area's blue mountain lakes. Katmai this summer is attracting thousands of visitors. Sprawling over 2,697,590 acres of southern Alaska's Aleutian Range, it is more than twice the size of Delaware.
Before 1912, Americans were hardly aware of Katmai's existence. It was known to a few ship pilots navigating the unfrequented Shelikof Strait between Kodiak Island and the Alaskan mainland.
Katmai sprang into prominence in June, 1912, when a volcano in the region erupted. Volcanic ash fell over all of northwestern America.
The National Geographic Society, in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey, sent out a reconnaissance expedition that same year. Three years later Dr. Griggs began his exhaustive survey of the territory and the effects of a blast surpassed only by Krakatau in 1883.
Daily Crossword
ACROSS
1 Exclamation.
2 Assuage.
3 At an end: Colloq: 2 words.
4 Turning over a new leaf.
5 "The ___ Mutiny."
6 Currer Bell: 2 words.
7 Nothing: Fr.
8 Gnawing animal.
21 About: Abbr.
22 Lees.
24 Aqua ___.
25 Implements.
27 Unes of men.
27 Positive: Abbr.
2 Frenchman.
30 Prayer.
31 Jersey, Guernsey,
Alderney, etc.
36 Of an arm bone.
36 Character in
"Gone With the Wind."
38 Plan.
40 Luther of the stage.
41 The gamut.
43 Prior to.
44 Seized.
46 Four-poster.
47 Baseball initials.
48 Water bird.
50 Cheese.
52 European capital.
53 Cells.
54 Drudge.
54 Auk genus.
56 Wit stealth.
56 Noted violinist.
62 Set aside for a special purpose.
63 Stops.
64 Be quiet!
65 Classified items.
**DOWN**
1 Rainbow.
2 Quering sound.
3 1929 novel by Hemingway: 4 words.
4 Gardner and others.
5 Egyptian sun god.
6 Be located.
7 Manifest zeal: Colloq.
8 Israeli port.
9 Member of a Tai race.
10 Middle West capital: 2 words.
11 Loosen.
12 Equals.
Puzzle
14 Originals: Abbr.
15 Equipment.
18 Talk big.
22 Theatre.
23 Wandered over.
24 Europeans.
25 Dance.
27 Greek letter.
29 Subtle atmosphere.
31 Small Japanese receptacle.
32 Oregon's capital.
34 With a broad smile.
35 Dodger player.
37 Time immemorial.
39 Postal abbreviation.
42 Old Testament book.
45 Source of iodine.
47 Return periodically.
48 Last one in.
49 Egg.
51 Love to excess.
52 Puff up.
54 Enclosures.
55 Purposes.
57 Relative of a lemming.
58 Numerical prefix.
59 Began.
60 Yards: Abbr.
Improvements In Monument
WASHINGTON — Summer visitors to Washington find ultramodern equipment in a popular memorial whose origin goes back to days before there even was a federal capital.
The 555-foot Washington Monument, which honors the first President, was finally opened to the public 89 years after George Washington's death, says the National Geographic Society. Intermingled in its biography are accounts of false starts, setbacks, and triumphs, patriotic oratory and hoodlums.
The monument's latest improvements include a new elevator, floodlight system, and aircraft-warning lights. Doors on opposite sides of the elevator relieve the old single-door congestion. Sight-seers reach the 500-foot viewing level in one minute, compared with 12 "precarious minutes" in 1888. They hear amplified records giving monument details.
The idea of a lasting memorial to General Washington was born when the Continental Congress, meeting at Philadelphia in 1783, authorized an equestrian statue to be set up wherever the seat of government should be located.
George Washington himself approved the project, and confessed that he found such evidence of his countrymen's esteem "the most pleasing reflection of my life."
Eight years later, Pierre L' Enfant's layout of the embryo cap by the Potomac set aside a site for the statue on the Mall between the Capitol and White House.
The golf links lie so near the mill that almost every day the laboring children can look out and watch the men at play.—Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
Dailu Hansan
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SAFE CONDUCT, by Boris Pasternak, Signet, 50 cents.
Originally published by New Directions, this autobiography—self-styled—and poems and short stories now are available in paperback. They reveal the same pull of nature and nation that made passages of "Doctor Zhivago" so worth reading and remembering.
Pasternak's autobiography is a strange one; for brevity and incompleteness one can point only to those of Franklin or Darwin. It really isn't an autobiography; it's a near-poetical impression of life.
It describes the young Pasternak, studying music, giving it up because he lacked absolute pitch. Law was his next choice; he gave that up for philosophy.
It tells how he went from Moscow to Marburg, Germany, where he studied and recited in the seminar and fell in love and became versed in Kant and Hegel, and then in Plato. Of this city, he says:
"Marburg shone in an operatic glare upon the hill. If the brothers Grimm could come here again, as they came a hundred years ago, to learn law from the famous jurist Savigny, they would leave here once more as collectors of fairy tales... I met only students. They all looked as though they were performing in Wagner's Meistersinger..."
Equally expressive are his impressions of Venice. "...something smooth slipped softly by my wet feet. Something malignantly dark like swill and touched by two or three gleams from the stars. It rose and fell almost imperceptibly and was like a painting dark with age in a swaying frame. I did not at once understand that this image of Venice was Venice. That I was in it and that I was not dreaming this."
Pasternak's appreciation of nature is a sensual one, a thing almost mystical, that recalls the raptures of the romantic poets. The young Pasternak is in love, and he is penning his hymn to the earth:
"Because it was spring, which was roughly completing the eviction of the cold half-year and all around on earth lakes and puddles like mirrors which have not been hung, lay face upwards, and told of how the wildly capacious world was cleaned and its site ready for the new tenant. Because it was then possible for the first being who so wished, to embrace afresh and live through again all life which exists on earth."
This last year, when Pasternak first accepted, and then declined, the Nobel Prize, there were American mutterings: "Why doesn't he leave Russia? Why don't he get out?"
Because Russia is his country. His writings are full of it, full of beauties that we in the West know nothing of. His love for Russia appears in these stanzes from a poem, "Spring 1944":
1ms spring there is a change in everything. More lively is the sparrows' riot. I shall not even try to tell of it, How bright my soul is and how quiet.
My thoughts and writings are quite different, And from the choir's loud octaves singing The mighty voice of earth is audible Of liberated countries ringing.
A dreamer and a thinker in the night. Moscow is dearer than the world.Her dower Is to be home and source of everything With which the centuries will flower.
The breath of spring across this land of ours Wipes winter's marks from off its spaces And washes off black rings that tears have made Round red eyes of Slavonic faces. . . .
PAT READ
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