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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Feb. 17, 1958
LOOKS GOOD—From left, Charles Sim, Shawnee sophomore, and John Chang, Tainan, Formosa sophomore, mix a batch of Fun Si Ha Mi at the New Year's celebration. The ingredients used are soy beans, mushrooms, and dry shrimp. (Daily Kansas photo)
It's New Year's!
A Chinese New Year's was celebrated by 25 KU Chinese students Saturday in the First Baptist Church.
An 8-course Chinese dinner disappeared under the onslaught of 50 chopsticks. The dinner was held on the weekend because classwork would interfere on Feb.18, the real Chinese New Year's Eve.
The food was especially ordered from an importer of Chinese food in San Francisco, said Phillip Quo, president of the Chinese Student Club.
After dinner, the group played
14 To Study Language Role
W. Stitt Robinson, associate professor of history, has been appointed chairman of a 14-member faculty committee which will consider the role of KU in foreign language study.
The committee has been appointed by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy to "consider foreign language instruction at all educational levels, with emphasis on what KU can do to extend and improve language study within the state, although its recommendations may apply to the entire area of the Trans-Mississippi West."
The 13 other members of the committee are: Miss Agnes Brady, professor of Romance languages; J. A Burzle, German; Cyrus DeCoster, professor of Romance languages; George W. Forman, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education; J. O. Maloney, professor of chemical engineering.
Charles H. Oldfather, associate professor of law; Robert W. Ridgway, associate professor of education; Reinhold Schmidt, professor of voice; Rhoten A. Smith, associate professor of political science; Thomas R. Smith; professor of geography, and Jack Steele, associate professor of business administration.
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Chinese games, sang and danced.
Chinese games, sang and danced. According to Chinese tradition, all Chinese people celebrate their birthdays on New Year's Day.
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 the Daily Kansan. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
American Society of Tool Engineers KU Chapter 3. field trip to Westvaco Chemical Company, 9th and Maple, Friday. Meet at Fowler Shops 6:30 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. Mississippi list in Fowler by 4 p.m. Thursday. Limited number can go.
TODAY
Mathematics Club, 4 p.m., 203 Strong. Discuss problems on Putnam examination. Engineerrettes, p.m., Kansas Union Jayahta School, Speech and Lee Hogeman, Premier Jewelry.
Episcopal morning prayer, 4:5 a.m.
Episcopal Holy Eucharist, 7 a.m., St.
Anselm's Chapel, Canterbury House.
Breakfast follows.
"High Heels and Top Hats" will be the decoration theme for the Night Club Party dinner-dance Saturday. Count Basie and his orchestra will play.
Basie To Play At Union Party
TUESDAY
Pre Med Tech Club, noon, Bailey Hall protection room. Bring your lunch.
Confession, 6 to 7 p.m. St. Anselm's Channel, Canterbury House.
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Pentient office for Ash Wednesday,
6-45 a.m., Danforth Chapel.
Departments Get Two Fellowships
The dinner will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room and Ballroom. The orchestra will play the last hour of the dinner and at the dance from 9 p.m. to 12 midnight.
Tickets may be purchased for the dinner and dance together or for the dance alone. Holders of the former will have reserved seats on the ballroom floor for the entire evening; those with tickets for just the dance will have unreserved tables in the balcony.
Receipt of two graduate fellowships each worth approximately $2,500 has been announced by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
A maximum of 540 persons may attend the dinner, and reservations must be made by 5 p.m. Thursday. Dance officials said Sunday about 360 openings remain.
The California Co. New Orleans, will support a graduate fellowship in the department of geology for the 1958-59 academic year. The fellow will receive a stipend of $1,500 while the department will get a grant of $750 for expenses connected with his research. The company also will pay the fellow's fees, which are $206 for a resident of Kansas.
Tickets are on sale at the concessions stand in the Union and at the Information Booth today, Tuesday and Thursday. Tickets for the dance only will also be sold at the door Saturday night until the limit of 1,200 couples is reached.
The American Oil Co. has notified the department of chemistry that it will renew its fellowship for 1958-59. The 9-month stipend is $1,500 with the chemistry department receiving $1,000 for expenses connected with the research.
Rocky Mountain Expert To Speak
An expert on the structure and stratigraphy of the Rocky Mountain region, Dr. D. L. Blackstone, professor of geology at the University of Wyoming, will lecture at 4 p.m. Tuesday in 426 Lindley.
He is native of the Rocky Mountain area and has spent most of his professional life doing geological work. Dr. Blackstone will speak on the "Tectonic Framework of the Rocky Mountains."
Spanish Scholar Due For Humanities Talk
A Humanities lecture by a European scholar, Dr. Luis Pericot y Garcia, will be given at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, in Fraser Theater.
Dr. Pericot, Spanish archaeologist, will present an illustrated lecture on "Roman Art in Spain," dealing with Roman influence in the Iberian peninsula dating back to 200 B.C. Some of the slides to be used reproduce materials never published, according to Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism and chairman of the Humanities Lec-
Two Europeans, Dr. A. L. Rowse of Oxford and Dr. Bruno E. Werner of Leipzig, have already given Humanities lectures at the University this academic year. A fourth, Dr. Maurice Ashley, English historian, will lecture about Oliver Cromwell on April 29.
Dr. Pericot is professor of prehistory at the University of Barcelona and formerly was dean of the faculty of philosophy and letters there. In 1923 he was professor of ancient and medieval history of Spain at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and in 1927 he taught modern Spanish history at the University of Valencia.
On Wednesday, Feb. 26, he will give an illustrated lecture about the celebrated prehistoric cave paintings at Altamira and related discoveries in the Asturias, Santander, and Northern Spain. This lecture, arranged by the Kansas chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, will also be open to the public. It will be at 8 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
He will speak in Spanish to El Ateneo, the Spanish club, at 4 p.m. Feb. 26, and will lecture in English to the class in Hispanic Civilization at 11 a.m. the same day.
Dr. Pericot is the author of more than 300 publications in history and archaeology, including books, articles, reviews, and translations. He has taken part in many archeological excavations, and he is a member of distinguished academies in Spain, France, and England.
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During his six weeks' tour of America, he will lecture at five art galleries and institutes and at Harvard, New York, Michigan, Texas, UCLA, Chicago, and Miami (Florida). This tour was arranged by the Spanish Institute, Inc. of New York as part of a program of cultural exchange between the United States and the Spanish-speaking countries.
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