Friday. November 10, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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APPRECIATING GREAT ART—Law students have long admired this statue.
Observations on the Artistic Qualities of Law Students
Uncle Jimmy Green in front of Green Hall is a much admired statue probably more so than any other.
As every woman student who passes Green Hall knows, the male law students spend endless hours staring hungriy at the statue, and sometimes even hissing at it—"Pig, Pig."
THE WOMEN CAN NOT help seeing this devout admiration. They walk between the steps of Green Hall where the law students congregate to admire Uncle Jimmy, and Uncle Jimmy himself, directly across the sidewalk.
Small wonder though that the lawyers leer and grimace at Uncle Jimmy. He is a man to be admired.
SINCE HIS appearance in 1924, he has withstood the ravages of time and paint, especially the latter. He has been decorated with enough colors to make the rainbow look sick. In the bygone history of KU, St. Patrick's day usually saw Uncle
A SUSPICION in the past was that K-State students were often responsible for the art work. A past rivalry between the engineers and law students at KU was also suspect as a motivation for painting Uncle Jimmy.
Jimmy gaily dressed for the occasion in a coat of green paint. Of course students were never too prone to wait for a holiday to celebrate, and Uncle Jimmy saw the paint cans flying many another time too.
The sculptor was Daniel C. French, who was then one of the foremost in his field. He started work in 1920 by surveying the KU campus for the best site to erect the statue.
Evidently he had a soft spot in his heart for the education of women students in selecting the site. Where else could they learn so much about appreciation of art than by walking by Green Hall and observing the KU law students ogling Uncle Jimmy.
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SUTTON, by Bruce Cameron (Coward-McCann, $4.95): A fictional exploration of one of the touchier areas in America's current garrison society — the security investigation, specifically in the instance of a suspected homosexual. The book presents what amounts to a duel between two men: Lt. Col. David Sutton, alleged homosexual and sex deviate, and Larry Adams, the man from G-2 who seems unnecessarily eager to find Sutton guilty. The evi-
cence against the colonel is slight.
His uncle and an artist whom he knows quite well are acknowledged homosexuals. Investigators, spurred on by a vengeful general, have uncovered a few possibly damaging episodes in his life, all somewhat magnified by spiteful gossip. This is a tense and suspenseful story, building toward a denouement that probably will not startle most readers.
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length biography of one of America's greatest literary figures — the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lewis was a lonely child and a lonely man who repelled the friends he so keenly needed. Immensely successful professionally, he was an outstanding failure in his personal life. Schorer's painstakingly detailed story relates and assesses the achievements and failures of Lewis the man and of Lewis the writer in this thoughtful and absorbing book.
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