UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XIII.
NUMBER 43
HEAR GREAT PIANIST
Lawrence Music Lovers Have Great Expectations Fulfilled in Bauer's Playing
Harold Bauer, whose coming to Lawrence has been heralded for weeks, played to a large audience in Robinson Gymnasium last night; and when they left, Lawrence music-lovers understood why he has been pronounced by many, to be the greatest pianist before the public today.
Mr. Bauer's performance was not spectacular. It did not need to be. He swept his audience from their feet by the sheer justice and perfection of his interpretations and但 he estimated e'where in these columns by Prof. Charles Skilton of the department of Fine Arts.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 10, 1915.
By Prof, Charles S. Skilton
The recital by Harold Bauer last night met the highest expectations of the musicians who attended and was a revelation to all of the paperweights in the room, meanings. This was perhaps the keynote of the recital; the pianist made the audience feel the moods and meaning of the music he performed. The Sonata Appassionate revealed the soul of the music, while the character of the master, his tenderness and his magnificent force. The 'Scenes from Childhood' by Schumann were not mere descriptive pieces, though their descriptive qualities often moved the audience to applaud. Everyone present a memory of past childhood, standing out as a vivid picture. The Chopin Ballad was an entrancing romance in tone, while the Gluck Air de Ballet brought to life the stately graces of the old time.
Pianist Made Audience
Feet Meaning of Life
Mr. Bauer did not aim at display for itself, and the program contained no hackneyed virtuoso pieces, although in "The Wind" by Alkan he gave a vivid demonstration of his powers in that direction, when he chose to exert them. His great art concealed technical difficulty, and he played with the ease, piece by piece, as the extraordinary player would have seemed immensely difficult. In this lies the secret of his greatness as a pianist, that he seeks not to astonish his audience but to uplift them, not to glorify his own abilities, but to transmit the messages of the masters.
Mr. Bauer Recalls His First Concept Attempt
"Yes, I once played in a concert on a piano which had soap boxes for legs," remarked Harold Bauer yesterday afternoon, and his good-natured countenance lit up with a smile as he spoke. The Kanser reason for it is that he covers all he leaved forward expectantly. "Yes?" he encouraged.
"It happened in Syracuse, New York." Mr. Bauer continued. "You know, it is impossible to ship these immense concert pianos all in one place. The instrument is the crates is put the piano and the pedal attachment; in the other go the legs and stool. The two boxes are then placed aboard a train in the hope that both will arrive at the same time. Generally they do."
"But this time one of the boxes failed to appear. We waited and waited. We unloaded the body of the piano onto the stage, hoping that the legs would come at the last minute and that the instrument could then be set up. The great hall began to fill. Still no piano legs. Finally in design, he decided the instrument upon four soap boxes; the curtain lifted, and the program commenced." The incident serves to illustrate Mr. Bauer's genial common sense and ready adaptability to conditions. Mr. Bauer is, in fact, famous for his matter-of-factness. He is the "business man" among musicians. And this freedom from the finickiness of music allows him to characterize musical artists has greatly enhanced Bauer's reputation in America.
As he sat in his room in the Eldridge hotel yesterday afternoon, entertaining a group of college professors and newspaper men with stories of his life. Mr. Bauer was a striking proof of the fact, that a great musician can be just like any other man. His round jolly face, under a head of thick brown hair, slightly tinged with a fairy tale smile with good humor. His jolly blue eyes and his generous mouth were continually cooperating in the friendliest of smiles. He was most charming in conversation.
One story followed another. He recalled the good times that Prof.
Arthur Nevin and he used to have in Boston; how once Raymond Hitchcock, star of "Yankee Consul," and he manufactured an impromptu musical comedy for a Boston club. On this occasion, according to details furnished jointly by Professor Nevin and M. Bauer, Mr. Hitchcook took his place in the center of the club with Dr. Randy Delgallo, director of his audience—while Harold D'Bauer sat at the piano, improvising an accompaniment to the affair.
Then Mr. Bauer laughed as he produced a letter which he had received before coming to Lawrence and then sending the gram, as the audience at the University was more or less ignorant of music and possibly would not appreciate it, so Mr. Bauer less to add, Mr. Bauer considered the epistle a joke and paid no heed to it.
NO REWARD—GONE FOREVEE
"Lost Somewhere Between Sunrise and Sunset, One Golden Hour with 60 Diamond Seconds"
Mr. George Foster, Registrar, has the following schedule for interviews, posted in a conspicuous place in his office:
H. M. S.
Book agents 0 0 0
Pretty Girls selling books No limit
People collecting bills 0 0 3
Friends wishing to borrow money 0 5 2
(It takes some time to explain why you have none)
People with sure things 0 0 2
Customers calling to pay bills 2 30 0
(And a good cigar) 0 0
Poor relations 0 1 0
Employees wishing a raise in salary 0 1 0
Childhood friends wishing to talk over old times 0 0 2
Traveling men with a NEW story 0 30 0
Your wife you can be estimated
The kids any old time
Your mother-in-law ! *!*!*!*!..!
What little time there is left is devoted to the prosic duties of his
The first of a series of faculty concerts to be given by the members of the faculty of the School of Fine Arts, will be given by Dean Harold L. Butler, baritone, and Mrs. Florence H. Butler, reader, with Miss Pearl Emley, accompanist, in Fraser Hall, Wednesday evening, Nov. 19, at 8:15, in Italian, German, French and English, while Mrs. Butler will give readings by Kipling, Myrtle Reed and Stephen Phillings.
What little time there is left is devoted to the prosasic duties of his life.
DEAN AND MRS. BUTLER
TO APPLEAR IN CONCERT
Dean Butler will follow the plan he used so successfully in the East, that of saying a few words in explanation of the song. Butler also singed the song. These explanatory remarks are of special value to the hearer when the song is to be sung in a foreign language, and are a aid to a right appreciation of music.
Watkin's Scholarship Given
Frances Auswald, of Kansas City, has been awarded the 650 scholarship which was offered by Mrs. J. B. Watkins to any Kansas freshman woman in the University. Most schoolships require a spring, but this is a special one given by Mrs. Watkins so that it might be used and enjoy this term.
TWO HUNDRED Y, W.s.
HOLD CANDLE INITIATION
About two hundred women attended the Y. W. meeting Tuesday afternoon, which was held for the recognition of new members. After tea had been served the initiation ceremony took place. The woman was lit and placed before the picture of Christ; then as the new members, sixty in number, came in, Stella Simmons president of the Y. W. took the large candle, and from this each new member lit the small candle that showed her the crown. Keeper of the Light, read a portrait from Van Dyke's "The Keeper of the Light."
A series of art exhibits will be given at the University during the spring months, under the direction of Prof. W. A. Griffith, of the department in drawing. Drawing will be exhibited in January, February in February, and if Professor Griffith can secure them, exhibits of water colors and graphic art will be shown in March and April respectively. These exhibits are secured from public sites and are circulated in the middle west and are circulated from school to school.
A definite announcement, give the titles of paintings and drawings from Mr. Griffith's exhibitions, will be given by Professor Griffith later in the week.
UNIVERSITY WILL HAVE ART
EXHIBITS HERE NEXT SPRING
A Trio of Cornhuskers
Riddell, right end;
Corey, left tackle
RHODES SCHOLAR WRITES Few Scholars, Some Soldiers, Zep Raids, and London Fog Features of Oxford Life
and Shields, left guard
School life at Oxford brings one some novel experiences according to a recent letter written to his father by C. A. Castle, of the class of 1914, who is now a Rhodes Scholar at Wadham College Oxford, and has been abroad a year. Extracts from the letter follow:
"Back in Wadham again for eight weeks more. We find all the undergraduates pushed off on two stairs, and the rest of the college filled with soldiers. We seem to be the part of a hole in a doughnut here, and all of us feel sort of unimportant and in the way. We have eight freshies; we have eight burgers! There are about thirty in college, not counting some fifty officers, who shout and run their motorcycles around as if we were a boarding house instead of having all the dignity of over 300 years of age.
"You may call it custom here," returns Arizona Bill, "but in our country we call it graft," and with that he left.
Memorial Chapel Service Held
What do you think of this? A Rhodes Scholar from Arizona, he went to school in Tuscan, had to pay 3d a week for the use of a huge ornamental chest that stood on the table where he ate at his college. He had a large collection more he thought of that 3d a week the madder he got. So he went to the Bursar and told him we wasn't going to pay, that he never used the money, says the Bursar, "a custom here; you must pay for the chest."
We were at a picture show when the last air raid occurred in London, and we were there.
Tonight the warden preached to us in chapel, breaking a precedent established before the time of Cromwell as he himself told us. He exclaimed that he should not be in our work, to aid in fighting, and to follow the King's example and drink nothing, as well as to join the church, and then he told us that some seven Wadhamites have been killed since last July—one of whom I knew. We were all in their presence and the white gowls of the scholars and the black ones of the commoners, in the dark chapel, lighted only by candles in a sort of glass goblet, inspired you with the sort of feeling that a citizen of the middle ages had felt when she met the gates of his city. It was almost a recruiting speech that he made.
Branscomb and I are at last settled in a double room—that is a large sitting and drawing room, with two bedrooms. The Office of its Chief combs was in Germany this summer and came back through France and Switzerland. He says trains and train service is very good, that every one is at work, and that it is going take a lot of whipping to really work on the office. Foreign Office told him he could go to Switzerland by way of Germany. He actually bought his German Railroad ticket with English money. They were not allowed to enter Germany. He was not allowed anything of the sort—not even blank stationery. They were searched, their itinerary was telegraphed ahead of them, after they got fairly started on it, they had no trouble, for they were expected. However, they had not enjoyed the trip, being rather nervous all the time.
Smooth Traveling in Germany
"Graft Not Custom"—Arizona Bill
got back to the hotel the lady told us that the Zeps had been to London so we walked down town and looked at the streets paved with broken glass, saw a pool of blood, a hole in the street, where one layer of bricks topped up by a drummer had been torn up by a bomb, saw several buildings in the vicinity with most all their window-panes broken, and that was all. As we went down town half the population was returning from looking at the destruction, and the other half, in his hat, cane, cigarette, and light coat was strolling down to look at it. The next day we went to the museum there that it took the busses some-think like a half hour to pass the four blocks.
British Not Alarmed at Zeppelins
British Not Alarmed at Zeppelins Of course you saw the casualties as officially announced. But even than usual, and with the opportunity for it to have been much greater since certain bombs could have hit crowded theaters, save for a rather rare event. It is unclear whether his does not seem to be alarmed.
"Swede" Carlson of the Ever-Victorious '08 squad who returned yesdone.
But London is so dark now—much darker than Paris—that I wonder at the possibility of getting to the Thames and thus try to locate their goals. It is impossible to see a man across the street and on cloudy nights you have to walk or sit in the middle of stumbling. Only about one street lamp in four is lit, and then only one butte instead of four, and this lamp is painted from the top to within a few feet of the building that only lights up a little circle of movement just below it.
Physical Science Teacher Wanted
Prof. W. H. Johnson of the School
of Education announces that he has
received a call for a teacher of chemistry
and physics in a high school.
The position is a good one. He asks
that all those interested call him by
phone at K. U. 8.
An Old Star
Send the Daily Kansan home.
HAMILTON PREDICTS RECORD
BREAKING CROWD FOR GAME
The demand for tickets to the Kansas-Nebraska game continues and good seats are growing scarce. "We can safely say that five thousand are sold," said Coach Hamilton this morning, "and if the demand continues this game will have the largest attendance ever seen on McCook Field.
"Very few of the reserved tickets are coming back. Those expecting to sit in the rooter's section must procure their tickets by Wednesday morning as we can not afford to keep them any longer. All K. U. backers should make their reservations at once."
LOAN FUND HELPS STUDENTS
Twelve Assisted on Way Through
College—Governor Capper
Contributed $100
on their way through college by loans from the Student Loan Fund, averaging $50 each. Four other applications are on file, and will be gr... as soon as the money can be raised.
A contribution of $100 from Government grants is $100 from Era Palmer, 95, of Denver has raised the total amount of the Student Loan Fund to approximately $2000, in addition to the $1000 placed in the hands of the committee. The same program offers a student new head of the Mead Cycle Co., of Chicago. This money was not a contribution to the fund but is to be loaned to the students under the same conditions as the
The original Student Loan Fund was started in 1904 by Ezra Palmer, a graduate of the class of 1895. The need for a larger fund was recognized and a campaign was started last winter with a $50,000 Student Loan Fund as the ultimate goal. Prof. F. E. Engel was appointed as chairman of the campaign committee with Prof. George Hood, and Miss Alice O'Reilly, who led the campaign zimng students added about $250 to the fund and contributions from graduates and friends of the University increased the amount still more.
Friday
Alumni Association Program
The primary object of the fund is to assist students to obtain a degree. So upperclassmen are given the first change to make a loan. That no loans exceeding $100 will be made to one student at a time, and that only students of the College and School of Engineering will be granted the funds of the conditions under which money may be obtained. The notes are made for varying lengths of time and 4 per cent interest is charged.
PREPARATIONS COMPLETED
FOR RECEIVING ALUMNI
9:00 a. m., registration opens in the alumni secretary's office.
10:00 a. m., meeting of the alumni Board of Directors.
10:30 m. chape' rally, every one will be given a chance to shake hands with every man on the squad.
3:30 p. m., tea for women at the rooms of the administration of women.
7:00 p. m., rally in Robinson gymnasium.
8:00 p. m., torch light parade.
8:00 p. m., senior-alumni smoker in Eagles' Hall.
*Saturday*
2:15 p. m., Cross Country run ends.
2:30 p. m., Kansas-Nebraska
Edna Lambert, of Horton, who attended 20 years ago, is the oldest
2:30 p. m., Kansas-Nebraska game.
Practically all preparations have been made for the big alumni entertainment, to be given in Engles' Hall Friday night at 8:30. Aside from speeches that will b emade bypromotion companies, the students will be talks by well known alumni. The tickets will be on sale tomorrow and will be sold by a committee at fifteen cents each. Only seniors from the student body will be in attendance for the event. "K" men will be held Saturday morning to form a "K" association.
Ida Tarbell Speaks in February
Armed Speaks in February
Ida M. Meyer, magazine writer and author of "The History of the Standard Oil Company," will contribute to the course of lectures to be given in Fraser Hall on Art, Music and Literature. Miss Meyer will lecture at 10:30. The subject of her lecture has not yet been announced.
PLAN MONSTER RALLIES
Students Will Give Vent to Accumulated Pep Friday Morning and Night
Eusphoria for the battle with the Jayhawk's ancient enemy from the north is rapidly attaining large proportions. That feeling of "someone dead" in a distant circles, football is the only subject for conversation at the clubs and fraternities and letters are arriving daily from old grads and students, signifying their intention of being homecoming and Saturday for the big Homecoming.
It is improbable that Gaitskill's Lusty Legion of Jinx Killers will be able to conserve the high pressure of "pep" until the time of the authorized rally in the gym Friday morning at 10:30 as the idea seems to be growing that the back alleys are again prolific with obnoxious boxes.
Will Show Visitors
Joe Gaitskill is hoping to make Friday's record breaker for working up real Kansas spirit to show, not only the 700 invaders from the north, that K. U. can still come back and prove the same thing to many of the old gods who will be guests here Friday night and Saturday.
In order to hold the record breaking crowd both rallies Friday will be held in the gym. The team and he band will occupy the platform as they follow along owing the speech-making by Chancellor Frank Strong "Uncle Jimmy" Green, Conch W. O. Hamilton, and Sept. Tony James the crowd will have the opportunity to hear the Kansas spirit will dot on its favorite pastime—bonfires.
Olcott Will Speak
The cheerleaders and the promoters of the senior-alumni smoker hope to start the evening rally as soon after 7 o'clock as possible, in order to get the crowd going to the smoker that will be held for the old graduates in Earls' Hall.
The feature of the evening rally is Coach Beau Olcott's talk—his first one to the students of the University. J. G. McCanles and his large combined first and second band will be there and will be assisted in the effort to boost Kansas spirit by the Men's Glee Club.
NO OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Studio
Pictures for Jayhawker Can be Obtained at Any Downtown Studio
"The students are at liberty to have their pictures for the 1916 Jiahawkewater taken at any of the downtown stores or from the Basenbush, today when asked photographer chosen, who would take whether there had been an official all of the pictures for the Annual. The answer is that uniform pictures be turned in.
The seniors and junior cuts are to be cabinet size, that is, $5\frac{1}{2}$ by 8 inches, with a dark back ground. The sophomore pictures are a so-called picture but will be 4 by 6 inches, with a light background. All of the down town photographers understand these specifications. That the student photos should include the pictures they get the right kind of pictures and that no extra expense is involved, was a suggestion that Busenbark made.
It is also urged that the students get their pictures in as soon as possible because of the alphabetical arrangement of the pictures. It is now safe to do this, and we need to upon those who do not have their pictures in before Christmas.
MORNING PRAYERS
Leader, Dr. Andreas Bard, pastor of the First Lutheran church, Kansas City, Mo.
Subjects
Subjects
Thursday, "The Light of the World."
Friday, "Inspiration."
"Thought, beauty, harmony, and wisdom could not come out of the Universe if it had not been placed there," Dr. Andreares Bard said this morning. "Why should we prove that in which we have our being? The first impression is that there is behind us this infinite power. By philosophy or reason alone we can never be a superior altitude toward us. We must admit that the Infinite is too much for us; He must come down to us in a human life, and that is the reason we believe in a revelation of Christianity."
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