Data book reveals talk series history
To mark the 20th Anniversary of the Humanities Lecture Series, Elmer F. Beth, committee chairman, announced the Humanities Committee is publishing a booklet which presents all the significant historical data about the growth of the series.
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This will include a complete list of lecturers, their topics, and dates. The booklet will be distributed widely to libraries, universities, and communications media.
The KU Humanities Lecture series "has become one of the foremost continuing lecture programs in America and the oldest series of its kind," he said.
THE SERIES is unique, Beth said. "The Humanities Committee invites visiting scholars to stay at KU for three days—speaking to classes and other student groups, conferring with faculty members and graduate students, participating in several kinds of forums and discussion sessions and giving a formal lecture in the series.
"Many of the benefits that accure to the University and to the visitors result from the more leisurely pace of the three-day visits," he said.
Beth invited comment from scholars who have participated in previous Humanities Lecture series, so that their reactions and evaluations might be included in the historical booklet.
To date, he said he has received more than 50 replies. Some of these follow:
DONALD GROUT, professor of music history at Cornell University, wrote: "KU is to be strongly commended for maintaining a series in the humanities, especially in these times when humanistic studies everywhere tend to be eclipsed, as far as the public is concerned, by interest in the sciences.
"Essential as the natural and social sciences are, both for their application to practical affairs and as parts of a rounded educational program, it is equally essential that the values with which the humanities are concerned should not be lost to view. The quality of students and faculty at Kansas made an excellent impression." Grout said.
Horst Woldeman Janson, Art History, New York University, who lectured here in 1958 and is slated as the lecturer for Oct. 25, 1966, wrote: "It is a strenuous but rewarding experience. I found the students alert and enthusiastic, and the general response altogether gratifying."
Yale professor of philosophy, Paul Weiss, wrote: "The experience was memorable; I wish it were duplicated elsewhere. I was impressed with the responsiveness of the audiences; I was delighted with the thoughtfulness and courtesy of my hosts."
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WILLIAM McDERMOTT, classics,
Pennsylvania wrote: "I know of no other series at a major university of greater value to the intellectual community than your series at Kansas. I was especially impressed by the hospitality, by the variety of opportunities to meet faculty and students, and above all by the size and enthusiasm of the groups to which I spoke."
Lawton said "It would seem illogical to pre-empt space in the heart of the main academic area that doesn't add to the academic mission."
Bids for the proposed University Printing Service building west of Iowa Street will be opened at 2 p.m., September 28, in the purchasing office in Topeka.
Vice-chancellor R. Keith Lawton said the Glover and Newcomber, Topeka architect, designed concrete-block structure is the first of a number of projects intended for the west of Iowa Street site.
William F. Albright, Semitic languages & archaeology, Johns Hopkins University, wrote: "The idea is excellent, especially in these days when science is already so important and is increasing in relative significance. When the lectures are as well selected as they seem to have been in this series, it can provide a valuable corrective to the increasing one-sidedness of university curricula. You deserve great credit for your efforts to make this series effective."
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W. Bedell Stanford, Latin and Greek, Trinity College, Dublin, wrote Beth: "I think that this is an admirable series and I congratulate its organizers on their enterprise and efficiency — and on their generous hospitality. I found it most stimulating and refreshing to address students in several departments besides classics. Many of the questions and comments by students opened up valuable vistas for me." Stanford is a senator in Dublin's Parliament and during his visit here spoke to political science groups on the subject of International Relations, Beth said.
Alfred Harbage, Shakespeare, Harvard University, wrote: "You are very successful in assembling a group of congenial and interesting people on all these occasions. I felt that I had taken from the meetings considerably more than I had contributed.
Princeton University art and archaeology professor, Robert Rosenblum, wrote: "I find the system an admirable way to expose students and faculty to the scholarly and rhetorical talents of a visiting professor, and I sincerely hope that the program will continue to flourish at KU and be adopted, too, by other universities.
"I WAS THOROUGHLY pleased with my visit to KU, thanks to the warmth of the hospitality, the picturesque charm of the campus and the liveliness of the faculty and students I met," Rosenblum said.
"I was particularly impressed by the good attendance at the sessions and the spontaneity of the discussion; there was nothing stuffy about them."
These and similar comments appear in the historical booklet. Individual requests for the booklet should be addressed to Professor Beth.
K-State seeks stadium through private funds
MANHATTAN —(UPI)— The Kansas State University Athletic Council today called for immediate plans on a new football stadium with private, non-tax funds.
THE PROPOSED K-State project called for a stadium of 34,000 seats, expandable to 55,000, to be located northwest of the main campus and costing about $1.5 million.
It was the second such announcement in as many days. KU plans for a new law school to be built without state money were announced yesterday.
"THE NEW stadium plans have had the benefit of painstaking investigations by a faculty-alumni committee and serious consideration by the athletic council," said K-State President James A. McCain.
has 15,000 permanent seats, expandable with bleachers to 22,500. It was built from alumni, faculty, student and public donations in 1924 as a memorial to Kansas State World War I veterans.
The council, made up of representatives of the faculty, alumni, students and administration, recommended the proposed stadium unanimously and asked for immediate plans to raise the money.
"We shall now begin exploring ways of financing a stadium," he added. "Of course, all aspects of this project must be approved by the State Board of Regents.
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"Entirely aside from other considerations, the time is not far off when the present stadium site will be required for academic facilities."
There will be no fee change in the operation of X-Zone after the 100 parking space addition is completed.
R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor, said, the Constant Construction Company of Lawrence may finish the lot expansion by the Oklahoma-KU game, October 15.
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SDS to support loyalty oath suit
After wrangling for almost two hours with organizational procedure last night, the KU Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) resolved to support a KU Medical Center professor in his refusal to sign the Kansas loyalty oath.
The professor, Dr. Gerald Ehrenreich, is slated to speak to members of SDS and the Humanists Committee at KU next week.
SDS will consider a new form of organization for the group, a "libertarian system."
DON OLSON, Lawrence junior and acting chairman of SDS, explained the system to the 36 people at last night's meeting.
"The libertarian set-up involves a rotating chair—whoever wants the chair at the beginning of a meeting can have it. The only elected officer would be a secretary, who would serve in a strictly non-political sense." Olson said.
Most of the meeting was spent discussing future plans for KU SDS, and several members questioned the purpose of the organization.
ATTENDING AN SDS meeting for the first time, a student asked if SDS did anything.
"No," replied an older member, "this should be an action organization, but it isn't."
Chairman Olson replied that SDS has taken an active role on campus. He cited women's closing hours and their recent alteration as an example of SDS activity.
A similar committee system last year partly split SDS when the Viet Nam Day committee broke with the central group, members reported.
OTHER STUDENTS attending the meeting for the first time expressed confusion with the role of SDS at KU. Several regular members nodded in agreement.
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As the meeting continued, comments from the members indicated that separate committees of SDS would form to concentrate on issues such as Viet Nam and the draft.
Old car hailed
By Maury Breecher
He bought the automobile on his birthday, July 11, 1932. That December, Rush and his wife, Anna Laura, took their honeymoon in it. It has served them well since.
A picture of a 1932 Model B Ford hangs in the office of Henry Ford II. The auto, owned by Clarence Rush, 2019 Ohio, has over 200,000 miles on it, its owner estimates. It is still used daily.
Rush wrote to Ford several years ago hoping to sell the car. Ford was unable to buy it because of agreements with used car dealers. In his personal letter to Rush, Ford asked for a picture of the car. It hangs on Ford's office wall today, Rush said.
FORD ADVISED Rush to keep the car as it would become more valuable as it gets older. Rush has had several offers to sell the car but has declined them.
Rush said that no major replacements of parts or repairs have been made on the near antique. Even the body has not been
restored. The auto has been hand-painted three times by Rush. "Slight wear to the main bearings," Rush said, is the only problem with the car. It has been throwing oil for the last couple of years.
THE CAR still runs on its original four-cylinder engine. Its top speed is a little above 60 m.p.h. even though Rush holds it down to 45 m.p.h. on the highways.
Rush's gas mileage?
Rush has driven the car as far north as Winnipeg, Canada, and has driven it throughout the northwest country and the Rocky Mountains. Often the old car has been used when the family's later model car would not start.
"I'm getting about 17 miles to the gallon and I used to get 22 or 24." Rush said.
Daily Kansan Friday, September 23, 1966
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