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EVERYONE COMFORTABLE?—The official University guest house is used by visiting lecturers and speakers. It is located northeast of the chancellor's residence.
Stone Retreat Used As Guests' Quarters
'I Fix Them Coffee'—
A mystery spot on campus is the little stone house northeast of the chancellor's home. It's not a student's retreat or the chancellor's hide-a-way, but it is the official guest house of the University.
Helju Aulik, Holdrege. Neb.
graduate student, is the hostess of
the four room house. It is her job
to see that the guests are made com-
fortable.
"In the morning, I fix them coffee and toast, but the guests eat their meals in the Union," she said.
She added that she is also responsible for seeing that the laundry is sent out and the house cleaned.
The cottage is occupied about 40 per cent of the time.
The house was originally built as a garage and servants' quarters by Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins. Following her death in 1939, the University rented it to two faculty members.
The chancellor's residence is the former Watkins home.
In 1552, the house was remodeled, landscaped and declared the official guest residence.
Reservations for guest residence are made with the chancellor's secretary well in advance of occupation. So far, no problems in having more than one guest at a time have been encountered.
Mrs. Franklin Murphy, wife of the chancellor, said all of the guests seem to be satisfied with the ar-agement. The air-conditioned house provides a sitting room, kitchen, two bedrooms and hostess apartment.
"I wish there were more such places at the University," Mrs. Murphy said.
Snow Addition Plans Formed
A laboratory addition adding 25,000 square feet to Snow Hall is in the final planning stages. Keith Lawton, director of physical plant operations and administrative assistant to the chancellor, has announced.
The 6-story addition will be on the northeast end of Snow and will run diagonally between Memorial Drive and Poplar Lane.
The new laboratory will provide additional space for all five life sciences housed in Snow. Another addition, now under construction on the north of Snow, will house the mammalian genetics laboratory.
Official Bulletin
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office, 222-A Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. Do not bring Bulletin to school. Daily Kansan. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
TODAY
Foreign Students: If you are returning home after the current academic semester, book a week in Colorado (June 13-20) at the annual Summer Crossroads Seminar. come by the office of the Foreign Student, 228 Strong Hall, for more information.
Foreign Students; If any KU foreign students would like to attend a UNESCO dinner and program at Chanute, Kansas on the evening of April 24, please see the Foreign Student Adviser by Friday noon of this week.
Jay James, Oread Room, 5 to 5:30 p.m.
Attendance required.
Fetes Françaises populaires, Mercredi a
4 h. la salle 11 Fraser.
Ping Pong Practice: SUA, 6:30 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Newman Club Executive Meeting,
n.p.m. Catholic Student Center.
Quilt Club, 7:30 p.m., 305-A of Kansas
University. Inquiries should be sent
manuscripts for possible publication
TOMORROW
Episopic Morning Prayer, 6:45 a.m.
breakfast following, Centertown, Houston
Book Contest Winners to Be Named April 23
KU Dames Bridge Group. 7:30 p.m.
Card Room of Kansas Union.
Newman Club Mass, 6:30 a.m., St. John's Church, 11th and Kentucky.
The Taylor Student Book Contest, sponsored by Watson Library, closed March 21 with 17 entries. Winners of the contest will be announced April 23.
University Women's Club. Morning Coffee and Gourmet Cooking, John Steuart Curry Room, Union, 9:30 to 11 a.m. Chairman, Mrs. Gilbert Ulmer.
Wednesday, April 1, 1959 University Daily Kansan
Business Placement Bureau, 214 Strong
Copplin, Copplin, Copplin,
Life Ins Co., Sales M. Elsworth,
Hallmark Cards, Men and Women for
Office Writing and Business Administration
"The quality of the collecting is much better this year than it has been the past two years," said Robert L. Quinsey, chief of the reader service.
The subjects which have been entered include English literature, natural history, sociology, biochemistry, Oriental culture, Russian literature, paleobotany, butterflies, mammals, birds, evolution, drama, anthropology, James Joyce, and Thomas Wolfe.
He said that more people had entered collections in the field of biological sciences than in any other field.
Christian Science Campus Organization, 7.30 p.m., Danfort Chapel.
Baptist Student Union, 12:30 p.m.丹. Dancer Rev. Bill Crews will speak on witnessing
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Taylor, Kansas City, Mo., donates the money for the prizes to the library. She will present the prizes April 23 in the Kansas Union Browsing Room, after a talk by William B. Ready.
Mr. Ready, collector, author, lecturer, and librarian of Marquette University, will present his talk at 4 p.m. It will accompany an exhibition of the "Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien.
The exhibition will be on display in the foyer of the Kansas Union through April.
Schlesinger Book Received
The William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information has received three autographed copies of "The Crisis of the Old Order" by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The books were donated by Martin Fruhman, president of Associated Retail Millinery, Inc.
E. A. Bayne, American Universities Field Staff representative arriving today for a 10 day visit, will speak to the following organizations and classes Tuesday through Friday:
Tuesday — 11 a.m., Economic Growth and Development; 7:30 p.m., Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi Journalism Fraternities. Wednesday — 9 a.m., International Politics; 11 a.m., Current American Foreign Policy; 2 p.m. The Editorial; 3 p.m., Political Geography of Nation States. Thursday — 11 a.m., Economic Growth and Development. Friday — 8 a.m., World Geography; 9 a.m., Elements of Political Geography; 11 a.m., International Trade; 2 p.m., The Editorial.
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Today's Pranks Puds—
April Fool Jests Lost in Aged Fog
By Al Jones
Despite a few premature excursions and alarums, the silly season wasn't officially open until today. April Fools' Day, with its tired jests, is more a symbol of vernal madness than a day worthy of commemoration in itself.
This augurs well.
The early spring weather this year led to college sport on three or more continents, with telephone box squash, snowballing, and good natured riots.
With a new world record in telephone booths and, a possible record for student probation (4,000 Yale undergraduates), it looks like a banner year for foolery, medical bills, clothing stores (a tux is nearly useless after a trip to the fraternity fountain), and bail bondsmen.
The origin of spring madness is lost in the mists of time, but there are recorded instances of it as far back as the Chaldean civilization.
Ripla Lofo First
Ripla Lofo (the phonetic spelling), a young Mesopotamian, was the pioneer jester. On the first day of spring, by the ancient calendar, Lofo felt the primal urge and pranked the king. He hid the royal ceremonial wig and replaced it with one made of cotton candy, which he had just invented.
Unfortunately for science, the results of this primitive prank were suppressed by the government, and news of the incident was only discovered last week by archeologists or revolutionaries (the message was garbled) working in the ruins.
Lofo was a sacrifice to the gods of jesting. The king, fitting the punishment to the crime, gave him the choice of being suffocated or of eating himself to death—in either case, with cotton candy. Lofo chose suffocation.
Pyramid Doors Closed
The next recorded spring jest came from an Egyptian, Thutmosisir. That was a slave of the Pharaoh, in charge of building one of the minor Pyramids. When madness came upon him, he decided to spring a surprise on the boss, and redesigned the pyramid so no entrance was visible. The Pharaoh, whose name is lost to us, was plenty mad.
In fact, he was so burned he instituted the practice of burying a slave or two in each pyramid—starting with Thut.
And so it went, through the ages—Aristophanes, Nero, the court jesters, the Bourbon kings, and Edward R. Murrow. And today we have the telephone boothers and the Yale student body, devoted pranksters all.
And instead of the rack or the headman's axe, they only suffer probation. Truly, this must be the best of all possible worlds.
KU, TU Tie in MVFL Debate
University of Kansas debaters tied with the University of Texas for third place in the Missouri Valley Forensic League tournament in Austin, Tex., last week.
The University of Oklahoma won first place in the tournament and Louisiana State University placed second.
The KU affirmative team, Larry Ehrlich, Russell sophomore, and Gary Dilley, Emporia freshman, won four rounds of debate and lost two.
The negative team, Robert Nebri
Leavenworth junior, and Robert Walker, Frankfort junior, had a 3-1 win-loss record.
Ehrlich also reached the finals in the extemporaneous speaking contest.
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