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16th Century Wood Painting Loaned to KU Art Museum
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A 16th Century color portrait of Martin Luther is the Masterpiece of the Month at the University Museum of Art.
The painting, done in oil on wood by Lucas Cranach, the Elder, was loaned to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. E. William Cooper of Atchison
Edward Maser, museum director, praised the painting as a splendid example of German renaissance portrait painting. "It certainly does justice to its subject, Martin Luther, by successfully suggesting the strength of character found in the man," he said.
He said the immaculate technique used in the painting attests to the continuation of the traditional craftsmanship of the Germany of the medieval artists' guilds and workshops.
The artist Cranach signed the painting with his monogram, a winged dragon, and dated it 1532. He also painted portraits of many other famous figures of the Reformation.
Monday, May 9, 1955
Th painting will be on display in the main gallery of the museum until the end of May.
Tri-Delt Wins State Award
MARTIN LUTHER
Frances Hanna, chemistry senior,
received the outstanding girl award
at the Delta Delta Delta social
sorority State day in Baldwin re-
cently.
Theta Omega, the University chapter of Delta Delta Delta, received the Kansas State day school-activities trophy which it may keep until the next State day two years hence. The chapter with the winning candidate for outstanding Tri Delt member takes this traveling trophy. Miss Hanna also received a trophy with her name inscribed upon it which she is entitled to keep.
Miss Hanna has served as social chairman and vice president of Westminster Fellowship; treasurer of North College hall; vice president of Mortar Board; correspond-
Allen Will Speak At South Dakota U.
Dr. Ethan P. Allen, director of the Governmental Research center and chairman of the department of political science has been invited to address the Political Science league at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, Wednesday. He will speak on "The Duty of Intelligence."
secretary and chaplain of Delta Delta Delta; a member of Red Peppers, the freshman women's pep organization, and the Associated Women Students' organization, where she served in the House of Representatives for two years and was also House representative to the Senate for one year. Miss Hanna has maintained a grade point average of 2.48 and has been on the Dean's Honor Roll every semester.
Murphy Shows Poems of Millay
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Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's personal collection of first editions and appearances of the poems and stories of Edna St. Vincent Millay are now on display in Watson library.
Miss Millay started publishing poems in "St. Nicholas Magazine," a literary magazine for children, at the age of 14. Several issues of "St. Nicholas Magazine" are on display.
A first edition of "Renaissance and Other Poems," one of Miss Millay's better known works, is on display. The first appearance of "Renaissance" in a 1912 edition of "The Lyric Year," is also on exhibit. "Renaissance" was written when Miss Millay was only 19 years old.
The book form of "The King's Henchman," a highly successful American opera, is being exhibited. Miss Millay wrote the words and Deems Taylor, noted music critic, wrote the music for the opera.
About 25 of Miss Millay's poems were set to music and while none of them became "hit" tunes many are still remembered. The sheet music for some of these songs is being exhibited.
A first edition is a copy of the first edition of a book and a first appearance is a copy of the magazine, newspaper, or other form of printed matter in which the poem or story first appeared. It is quite common for a poet's works to first appear in magazines or newspapers.
A phonograph record of Miss Millay reading some of her best known works is one of the main features of the 40 items in the display.
The exhibit will be open until the beginning of the summer session.
formosa Agreement Plan Seen Djakarta, Indonesia. (U.P.) Indonesian Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjloo will visit Red China late this month to present his plan for bringing about a general agreement on Formosa.
Official Bulletin
Mathematical collegium, 4 p.m. 203
Strong hall. Prof. Thomas C. Holykeye.
Northwestern university: "Transitive
Extensions of Permutation Groups."
TODAY
Graduate club sponsored discussion,
"Is Socialism in Europe a Threat to
America?" 7:30 p.m., Jayhawk room,
Student Union.
Museum of Art record concert, noon and 4:00. Bach's Royal Instrument.
Post-war German sound film (1952)
A portrait of Germany's pre-
The Original Sin), full length picture
Showings at 4 p.m., Strong auditorium and 7:30 p.m., 426 Lindley. Full length picture. Everyone invited. No admission charge.
Episcopal morning prayer, 6:45 a.m.
communion, 7 a.m. D, a n f t 1 hs
chancel.
TOMORROW
Morning meditation, 7:30-7:50 a.m.
Danforth chapel. Everyone invited.
Museum of Art record concert, noon and 4 p.m. Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, and Quartet for Piano and Strings.
Pre-Nursing club picnic, 5 p.m. Fraser dining room. Election of officers.
ISA, 7:15 p.m., Oread room, Student Union.
THE GREAT CAP and GOWN CONTROVERSY
The cap and gown season is upon us, and with it comes the perennial question: which side of the cap should the tassel hang on?
This is an argument that arises every year to roll the academic world, and it is, alas, no closer to solution today than it was in 1604 when Fred Tassel invented the troublesome ornament.
ment.
Fred Tassel, incidentally, never made a penny from his invention. The sad fact is he never took out a patent on it. This tragic oversight becomes understandable, however, when one considers that patents were not invented till 1851 by Fred Patent, himself a pitiable figure. A compulsive handwasher, he died in his fourth year, leaving behind a wife and five spotless children.
But I digress. We were discussing which side of the cap the tassel should hang on.
For many years the universally accepted practice was to hang the tassel over the front of the cap. This practice was abandoned in 1942 when the entire graduating class of Northwestern University, blinded by tassels hanging in their eyes, made a wrong turn during commencement exercises and ended up at the Great Lakes Training Center where, all unwitting, they were inducted into the Navy for five year hitches.
There is one school of thought-large and growing daily larger -which holds that the tassel should be worn on the same side you carry your Philip Morris cigarettes. Thus a quick glance will show you where your Philip Morris are and save much time and fumbling.
This makes a good deal of sense because when one wants a Philip Morris, one wants one with a minimum of delay. One does not relish being kept, even for a second, from the clean, delicate flavor of Philip Morris, so artfully blended, so subtly connected to please the keen and alert taste buds of young smokers. One chafes at any obstacle, however small, that is put in the way of enjoying this most edifying of cigarettes, so pleasing to the perceptive palate. Here, in king size or regular, at prices that do no violence to the slimest of budgets, is a firm white cylinder of balm and pure, abiding content.
There is another group, small but vocal, that insists the tassel should hang over the back of the cap. The tassel, they say, is a symbol like the bullfighters' pigtail, signifying honor and courage.
courage. They are wrong. Bullfighters wear pigtails for only one reason: to keep the backs of their necks warm. Do you have any idea what a draft a bull makes when he rushes past you? A plenty big one, you may be sure.
In fact, upper respiratory infections, contracted in the wake of passing bulls, are the largest single cause of bullying fatalities. I have this interesting statistic from the Bullfighters Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, one of the few insurance companies in Hartford, Connecticut, which writes insurance exclusively for bull fighters. Incidentally, Hartford, the insurance capital of America, is a most interesting city and well worth a visit if you are ever in New England, as northeastern United States is, for some reason, called. Hartford can be reached by bus, train, plane, and the Humboldt Current. Try to make your visit in spring, when the actuaries are in bloom.
But I digress. We were talking about what side to wear the tassel on. An ingenious solution to this troubling problem was proposed a few years ago by Fred Sigfafoes, perhaps better known as "The Quoit King of Delaware." An early forbear of Mr. Sigfafoes, Humboldt Sigfafoes (who later invented the current which bears his name) was granted a monopoly by King George III on all quoits manufactured in Delaware. Somehow the royal appointment was never rescinded and from that day to this, every quoit made in Delaware has been a Sigfafoes Quoit.
Well, sir, Fred Sigafoos once suggested that an equitable settlement to the great tassel controversy would be to starch the tassels so they stood upright and hung on no side of the cap at all. Mr. Sigafoos was, of course, only seeking to broaden his market, because after graduation, what can you do with an upright tassel but hurl quoits at it?
The makers of PHILIP MORRIS who bring you this column make no recommendation about what side to hang the tassel on. But with cigarettes they say: Stay on the gentle, tasty, vintage side - with PHILIP MORRIS, of course.
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