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University Daily Kansas
Friday. Sept. 21, 1956
KU's 'Stolen' Alma Mater First Used By 1891 Glee Club
At the end of this story, you will find the words to KU's Alma Mater, "The Crimson and the Blue." The song has an unusual and interesting history.
In 1591 there was no University song, which distressed George Barlow Penny, dean of the School of Music. He was taking the glee and mandolin club on a tour through Kansas to Denver and he needed an alma-mater song. He appealed to the public but no one responded with an original song.
He thought of the Cornell song, "For Above Cayuga's Waters," and changing a few words, he gave it to the glee club men to sing on the trip. The song was used to close their concert and "no little share of the success of these early programs was due to the closing number," says Robert Taft, late professor of chemistry, in "The Years on Mount Oread."
The music is not originally Cornell's. It's an old English folk tune, "Annie Lisle." It is popular with many universities and high schools as an alma mater song. In addition to Cornell and KU, the University of Missouri and Kansas State College also use the melody.
The words of the KU song, "Crimson and the Blue," are simple and meaningful, but not many students
Radioisotope Attic Low Bid Announced
The apparent low bidder to remodel the attic of the radioisotope laboratory was the Constant Construction Co., Lawrence, with a bid of $15,749, Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said today.
Other bidders last Tuesday were the Kapfer Construction Co., Lawrence, who bid $17,890, and the B. A. Green Construction Co., Lawrence, who bid $17,930.
A lecture room and five small laboratory cubicles are to be built in the attic of the laboratory, Mr Lawton said.
Hillel To Show
Yiddish Film Sunday
"The Dvbuku," a Yiddish language film with English subtitles, will be shown at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Jayhawk Room of the Student Union by Hillel, Jewish student organization.
The movie is a 2-hour adaptation of the successful Broadway play which tells the story of a couple in love and the Middle Age belief in the transmigration of the soul.
Humanities Lecture Slated For Oct. 16
Sterling Dow, Harvard University's John E. Hudson professor of archaeology, will deliver the first Humanities Lecture at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Oct. 16. in Fraser Theater.
Prof. Dow, former president of the Archaeological Institute of America, will spend three days on the campus meeting with classes, students and faculty groups.
Just Like The Cafeteria
LONDON—(UP)—James O'Brien, who was jailed for refusing to pay a $4.25 bill at an Indian restaurant, has been awarded $14 for unlawful imprisonment, court officials said today. Mr. O'Brien said he walked out of the restaurant without paying because his curry contained no onions.
Costly Vacation
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — (UP) —
Clothing store owner Philip Amato
hung a sign on his door which
read: "Gone on vacation. Be back
in a week." When he returned,
thieves had stolen practically all
the stock, valued at $5,000.
The Department of the Army is an administrative complex that requires the civilian services of people in more than 1,200 occupations ranging from laborer to research physicist, from file clerk to skilled machinist and from automotive mechanic to procurement specialist.
know the 4-line verse and 4-line chorus.
The Gila monster, like venomous snakes and scorpions, is immune to its own poison.
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The "Alma Mater" will be played and sung as soon as officials complete the coin flipping ceremony before the opening kickoff at Saturday's game, followed by the Rock Chalk Chant.
Here are the words:
Far above the golden valley Glorious to view,
Stands our noble Alma Mater Towering toward the blue.
Chorus:
Lift the choosus ever onward,
Crimson and the blue,
Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,
Hail to old KU.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt were fourth cousins.
Answers to revision problems in English curriculum of secondary schools in Wichita have been published this month after two year's research by Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education, and Wichita English teachers.
Prof. Haugh said the investigations have attracted national attention. A description will be given at the meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English in November.
The resulting three books are "A Developmental Reading Program for Wichita Intermediate Schools," "Guide for Teaching Social Living in the Seventh Grade" and "Curriculum Guide in Teaching of English."
Research Aids Wichita Teachers
No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black and none has been developed artificially.
If You Need Help In Writing, This Clinic Will Give It
A writing clinic is being conducted from 2 to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday in 19 Strong Annex E for students who want help in English composition.
John Lamb and Charles Moyer, English instructors, will conduct the clinic on alternate weeks. The primary purpose of the clinic is to help students not enrolled in an English composition course who have been referred to the clinic by instructors of other courses because of poor writing.
wait too long in seeking help, as the proficiency examination will be given Dec. 8.
Students preparing for the English proficiency examination, especially transfer students are urged to attend the clinic for review and to make certain they can meet the University's standard of composition, said Albert Kitzhaber, associate professor of English. He emphasized that students should not
Students may attend the clinic at any time from 2 to 4 p.m., any day of the week. Themes may be written during the clinic or at the student's leisure, and will be gone over and discussed by instructor and student.
In the past three years, the clinic has established an 85 per cent average of success among students taking the proficiency examination.
New Model?
BOSTON — (UP) — Arriving here from Quebec with friends in his 1904 Reo, Robert Harrison observed. "Next time we come to Boston we'll come in our 1918 Dodge. We got a terrible windburn in the Reo. No windshield, you know."
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