Cervantes Day To Be Saturday
The air will ring with Spanish Saturday as the activities of the 35th annual Cervantes Day unfold.
Cervantes Day marks the death of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of "Don Quixote," on April 23, 1616.
The traditional "Programa de Variades" will be held in Fraser Theater at 2 p.m. Students from KU and other schools and colleges throughout Kansas and western Missouri will present plays, sketches, songs and dances on Spanish and Latin American themes.
A Spanish dance and the comedy, "La Venta de Don Quixote," will be given by KU students. Victor Baptiste, assistant instructor of Romance languages, is director.
Players in the comedy are William Charles, Oak Park, Ill.; Roberto L. Diaz, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, and Albert Palmerlee, Lawrence, all sophomores.
Sandra Ackerman, Leavenworth; Faxon House, Mission, and Frank Villarreal. Pratt, all juniors.
Richard Reitz, Council Grove; Dolores Villarreal, Pratt, both seniors.
Robert Scott, Massillon, Ohio; Adolph Snaidas, Brooklyn, N.Y. both graduate students.
At intermission awards will be made to the outstanding Kansas high school students of Spanish. The awards are based on a special examination sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. The Kansas winners will be eligible to compete for a national award.
Miss Marietta Daniels, a 1933 graduate of KU and now associate librarian at the Columbus Memorial Library of the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C., will speak on "Quixote Transplanted" to the AATSP at 10:30 a.m. in Fraser.
Displays and demonstrations will be on view all day in the Union and Fraser Hall, and from 9 a.m. to noon in the sound laboratory in Blake Annex.
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56th Year, No. 131
The appointive council's selections will be subject to ASC approval, as they were when made by the student body president and vice-president.
Reed said his committee will start taking applications immediately so committees can be organized and a plan of work outlined for each committee.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, April 22, 1959
Members of the appointive committee are divided between the no-
New Group to Give ASC Committee Jobs
William Irvine, Humanities lecturer, said yesterday nearly all writers of Darwin's time were influenced one way or the other by his theories.
By Douglas Parker
All Student Council committee appointments will not be made by the student body president and vice president this year. They have relinquished their right to make the appointments to a committee composed of non-Council members.
Darwin Influenced Writers Of His Time, Irvine Says
"There will probably be appointments made in excess of 100 students with around 20 to 25 committees to be Silled." Reed said.
William Reed, Kansas City, Mo. senior and chairman of the newly organized Student Committee Appointment Council, said today his committee will start screening applicants for appointments next week.
Dr. Irvine, of Stanford University, spoke on "Darwin and Literature" last night in Fraser Theater in the sixth Humanities Lecture of the year.
"In the strict sense Darwin wrote little prose and less poetry, yet few English prose writers have influenced English literature so much," he said.
The lecture was an event scheduled for the year-long Darwin-Linnaeus celebration at the University.
"Tennyson did not fully accept
Darwin was an inspiration to both Marx and Freud. He undermined orthodox religion by undermining Genesis and was the first and most influential of the Victorian thinkers who flooded minds with unpleasantities until they ceased to be Victorian. Dr. Irvine said.
the 'Origin of the Species.' In a world that grew steadily more Darwinian, Tennyson became more pessimistic. he said.
Thomas Huxley was one of the first to be affected by "Origin of the Species." In the 1860s Huxley saw man as an ape and in the 1870s he saw man as a "remarkable" ape, Dr Irvine, said.
Thomas Hardy refused to be encouraged by Darwinian evolution. He brooded on the methods of evolution rather than examining the end result. He was indignant at the blind nature of evolution, Dr. Irvine said.
"He saw that natural law and moral law were two different things The suggestion that man could make his own environment was courageous and profound," he said.
The journalist always is a part
"Hardy is almost the classic example of the evolutionary pessimist He felt no enthusiasm for the moral and intellectual achievements oman," he said.
The journalist must work for personal integrity and always keep in mind the dignity of man, Miss Turkington said.
"There are so many people you come in contact with who can influence your life by their knowledge." she said.
Magazine Editor Cites Journalism Essentials
Miss Turkington added that buding journalists shoul never underestimate things that can be learned from other people.
Self-confidence and the courage to uphold convictions were cited last night as cornerstones of a foundation for a journalistic career by the editor of The Kansas Transporter, monthly magazine of the Kansas Motor Carriers Assn.
Mary Turkington, speaking in the Kansas Union at the annual Matrix Table dinner of Theta Sigma Phi, professional fraternity for women in journalism, said:
"Cultivate your self-confidence and never turn down challenges or opportunities."
Generally fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight 35 to 45. High tomorrow 65 to 75.
The students parked their cars about a quarter-mie from the train and began their sneak attack. But the hardy pioneers had posted a guard and he invited the students to have coffee.
The coffee soothed the students who were seemingly in a weakened state.
Thirty University of Kansas students were foiled when they attempted to raid the Oregon Trail wagon train at 1 a.m. today.
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of public life. Contribute what you as an individual can do and remember the influence of the pen. Above all, don't be a snob," she said.
Wagon Train Guard Foils 30 KU 'Tribe'
"Both Meredith and Hardy are Darwinian in their willingness to discuss unpleasant subjects," he said.
In the 1890s the emphasis on Darwinism came from novelists. Many novelists turned to Darwinism as a way of achieving easy popularity. The novels of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells were greatly influenced by Darwinian thought, he said.
Hardy, and George Meredith,
while refusing to accept Darwinism,
had a tint of Darwinism in their
writings, Dr. Irvine said.
"Science has long been the stepmother of romance and fantasy," he said.
litalical parties. Vox Populi and Allied Greek-Independent.
Members are: John V. Black, Vox,
Pratt senior; Nancy L. Varney, AGI,
Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Lance
F. Johnson, AGI, Wymore, Neb.
junior, and Dorothy Wohlgemuth,
Vox, Cummings senior.
"We plan to have all the committees fully orientated and familiarized by the end of the school year." Reed said.
Applications for committee appointments will be available in the dean of men's office tomorrow. The committee will go over the applications after they are returned to the office a week later.
Reed said the committee will interview the applicants. Experience, desire and ideas will be the criteria for the appointments. Reed said
"We were going to try some sort of merit system for the committees and also try to exercise the power of removal." Reed said.
The appointive council plan was outlined in the Little Hoover committee report asked for in 1958 by former student body president Bob Billings. Russell senior.
At that time the report pointed up inadequacies in the functioning of committees and the appointment of students to the committees. Reed and Miss Wohlgemuth were members of the Little Hoover committee.
"By the end of this spring the committee will want a report from the students appointed on the plan of action for the committees next year and confirmation from the Kansas Union of meeting dates planned." Poed said.
ASC Appropriates Total of $550
Appropriations totaling $550.64 and the entry of two new bills highlighted last night's meeting of the All Student Council.
Members of both the outgoing and newly-elected Councils were present at the meeting, but the new members were only observers. Patrick Little, Wichita senior and ASC chairman, announced that the swearing in of the new council and the election of officers for next year would take place next Tuesday.
The Council voted $350.64 to finance the trip of the KU entries in the National Debate Tournament being held this week at West Point ASC treasurer Edgar Dittmore, McLouth senior, said such a trip has been ASC-financed.
At the suggestion of the Jayhawker Advisory Board, a resolution was introduced proposing to grant $700 from the Jayhawker fund to be split into bonuses for the yearbook's editor and business manager
of two years ago. The motion was amended to $200 before being passed.
W. J. Argersinger, associate dean of the Graduate School, pleaded for funds to carry the expense of two foreign fellowships or next year. Dittemore expressed doubt that the Council had sufficient funds, so the resolution was tabled until he could give the treasury better study.
Bill No. 19 provides that ASC members may not miss more than three meetings dring the year without excuse, or at the most, seven meetings with or without excuse. According to the bill, all members exceeding the maximum amount of absences are to be removed from the Council and replaced by their political parties.
The other bill is an amendment to Bill No. 5 and provides that the Fowl Magazine be issued only at the discretion of the student body president.
ATTENTION!—Col. Carl F. Lyons, professor of military science and tactics at Kansas State University, inspects a tuba held by James Ferrell, Atchison freshman, during the annual federal
inspection of the Army ROTC unit here yesterday. Standing next to Ferrell is Evert Uldrich, Fairbury, Nebr., sophomore, a baritone player in the band.