Ex-Chancellors Form Select Bearded Group
By Eileen Charbo
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Among decorative arts used to ornament the second floor of Strong Hall is a double row of likenesses of former chancellors. There's not an unhandsome face or untrimmed beard among them.
Up to 1920 when cleanshaven Ernest Lindley became chancellor, all but one predecessor wore whiskers.
Back in 1890 to 1901 Francis Huntington Snow showed a beardless face. He happened ahead of the television panacea for the tough-bearded tender-skin brotherhood. The painting in Strong might have caught him between beards.
The first chancellor, R. W. Oliver,
1865-67, wore short white fringe
whiskers with a shaven upper lip.
New England sea-captain style.
Either the painter was heavy handed with his brush or John Fraser, 1867-74, wore a Smith Brothers black stack, with matching brows and collar-length bob.
You can't be sure of his features but the effect will remind you of kinfoks in the old velvet album. James Marvin, 1874-83, back-
swept hair and sideburns that grew down into his beard. Ernest Hemingway might scotchcape such a pix as this to his bathroom mirror on the day he lays out the trimming scissors.
Joshua Lippincott, 1883-89, is the most handsome of the group, in a marcelled, expensive silver-fox beard. Taxes and inflation have done away with any modern counterpart of this splendid looking gentleman.
Frank Strong, 1902-20, for whom the building was named, wore an Einstein-Schweitzer type moustache.
With all this hirsute trim around, the old game of Zits could revive. Zits is a good card game, or Trail Room pastime. No formal equipment is required. That is, none beyond a competitor and the ability to keep count.
Whoever spots a set of whiskers first cries "Zits!" and racks up ten points. He gets five for locating pikers with only a moustache.
The story of Christmas—in the form of the stunning poetry of the Bible—was read yesterday by John H. Patton, professor of religion, at the Poetry Hour in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
If the one person beats the others to the hundred point limit, a handicap can be made by requiring the winner to find whiskers worn in combination with Homberg hats.
Christmas Spirit Told in Poetry
Official Bulletin
Prof. Patton said the Christmas story had its origin in Judaism long before the Christian era. Both the Old and the New Testament reveal that God is the sovereign of His creation and that His righteousness will come into existence on the earth. The Christmas story tells how the hopes of mankind for a redeemer are fulfilled.
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Prof. Patton said the poetry of the Bible is damaged in translation. The beauty of Hebrew poetry is in its rhythm and cadence.
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Noteworthy Deaths Are News in 1958
Pope Pius XII, Mike Todd, Tyrone Power and Mel Ott are famous persons who died during 1958.
The death of Eugenio Pacelli, 82 popular pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, was mourned by millions this fall.
Todd, 54, the millionaire movie director-producer and husband of Elizabeth Taylor, died in a plane crash. Todd produced "Around the World in 80 Days."
Power, 45, hero of more than 40 movies, died while working on a movie set in Spain.
Ott, 49, baseball immortal, died after an automobile accident. He spent his playing days in centerfield for the New York Giants. He was regarded as one of the finest fielders and hitters in the game. Other famous baseball players who died were Tris Speaker and Morton Cooper.
President Eisenhower's brother, Arthur, 71, oldest of the Eisenhower brothers, also died this year. Arthur, a Kansas City banker, was a strong anti-McCarthy man.
Other deaths of 1958 included
Walter Schumann, composer-conductor; Alfred Noyes, poet; Moses C. Migel, founder of the American Foundation for the Blind; Guy Pene Du Bois, modern painter; Martha Bowers Taft, wife of the late Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio; Betty Mac-Donald, "The Egg and I"; Mary R. Beard, historian; Herman Hickman, Yale football coach; Matthew Mansfield Neely, Augustus O. Stanley, W. Kerr Scott, and Eugene D. Milliken, U.S. Senators; Andrew Geer, Dr. Ernest Jones, and Elliot Paul, authors; Charles Pathe, Charles Kettering, and Ernest Heinkel, inventors.
Ben White, dean of harness racing drivers; W. C. Handy, "Father of the Blues"; Walter Carey Lindley and John J. Parker, judges of the U.S. Courts of Appeals; The Rev. George Bennard ("The Old Rugged Cross"), composer; Malcolm Lockheed, R. Stanley Dollar, Windsion T. White, James D. Dole, Sir Louis Sterling, and Martin L. Straus, business, and Joseph P. McEvoy and Rachel Crothers, playwrights.
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UDK Thanked, Husar And Car Check Rapped
A Well-Founded Gripe
Editor:
What's this bit about the Highway Patrol issuing summonses for defective brakes?
So who's playing games? You guys get a commission from the cops?
Seems to me I read an article in last Thursday's Kansan concerning the campus auto check. It states: "It is strictly a protective measure and no tickets will be issued for faulty equipment."
John Plumb
De Soto semhomoro
The Kansan has not stated whether or not a summons for faulty brakes will result in a fine or merely a receipt showing the default has been corrected. Clue us in! I might still run my car through the safety check
(The Kansan was told no tickets would be issued. We apologize for the misinformation we received.)
You're Welcome
Editor:
I should like to thank you for your cooperation in the publicity for our German Christmas program.
We believe that this program is a wonderful experience for our students and friends of the German Department and sincerely appreciate your kind consideration.
Sidney M. Johnson
Associate Professor of German
Too Much Heat
Editor:
Having acted in six University productions. Mr. Husar has familiarized himself with some of the elements of the drama. Obviously Mr. Husar feels he has acquired the necessary qualifications, if only by a process of osmosis, while acting
The quality of Mr. Husar's reviews of KU drama productions this year has raised the question of his qualifications as a critic.
At any rate, he is a drama critic serving over 9,000 students. Add his gibl style of journalism, stir gently with colorful adjectives and topical
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terminology, and you have Mr. Husar's ingredients for a critical review.
Two-stage rockets that don't orbit until second act and actors caught in unhappy mediums between fantasy and realism are vague terms for what a man felt.
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This is the inherent right of any patron of the theater, but this man is posing as a critic. Many people accept what he writes in good faith and belive his observations valid, based on sound foundations.
If Mr. Husar desires to write more piercing reviews of KU productions, he might spend an evening...reviewing the techniques of men like Shaw, Nathan, Brown, Kerr, and Brooks Atkinson. With this...it might be possible for Mr. Husar to temper his writing and generate more light than heat.
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