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University Daily Kansan
Jriday 17
Thursday, Jan. 16, 1964
Ancient Eras Depicted Through Sculpture
By Carol Lathrop Knupp
Ever wish you could find a time- machine that would transport you back to the ancient civilizations of the world?
If you haven't found any workable time-machines lately, you might try the next best thing for living in the Greek and Roman eras-visit the Wilcox Museum on the second floor of Fraser.
A visitor can approach the great Julius Caesar there without any trouble. Vergil, Homer, Socrates, and Plato are there too, all staring back at visitors with cold, sculptured eyes.
WOMEN CAN marvel at the lamps, pottery, rings, buttons, and metal hair pins that more closely resemble today's hat pins. Men can be amazed at the Roman bricks, metal armor, and strange-looking nails.
The Wilcox Museum contains those items as well as many others, such as reliefs of Helen and Paris,
Orpheus and Eurydice, displays of glassware, fragments of a Roman wall painting from Pompeii, and Etruscan pottery.
All that is just part of a collection begun by A. M. Wilcox, who was a professor of Greek for 40 years at KU. It was organized by the Board of Regents in 1880, designed to aid instructors in their classroom teaching.
THAT IS still the function which the museum performs today, explained Stephen L. Glass, director of the museum and instructor of the classics.
"Education is dependent upon feeling and seeing things. A student can easily write down the name of something, but he remembers it much more if he can see and touch it."
All the pieces in the museum can be taken from their display cases to the classroom. From the artist's
viewpoint, many of the reproductions and fragments are of no value. But from an educator's view they are next to being priceless.
The process of acquiring antiquities continues. Dealers who know the interests of the museum contact Glass with photographs of their objects. Glass examines them to see if the museum needs any of the offered objects. The originality and cost of the object are two other determiners in the selection.
If an object is needed to fill in a gap of some part of the Etruscan, Greek, or Roman civilizations, it is purchased and put on display for all to enjoy, and especially for students to use.
IN THE EARLY 1940's THE brothers Di Maggio were playing with these major league clubs: Joe, Yankees; Dominic, Red Sox, and Vincent, Pirates.
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