Page 2
University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 22, 1951
Art Museum Has Served Many Uses Since 1894
The Museum of Art has served as a library, housing for veterans, and music hall, as well as a display case for many art treasures.
Spooner library, now the Museum, was erected in 1894 with funds from the major portion of a $91,618.03 legacy left to the University by William B. Spooner. Spooner left the legacy to the University in honor of his niece and her husband, Dr. Francis H. Snow, chancellor of the University from 1893 to 1901.
Coincident with the erection of the Spooner building, which cost $80,000, was the building of the chancellor's residence which was financed with $12,000 to $15,000 from the Spooner legacy.
What became of Spooner library?
In the fall of 1924 the first unit of Watson library was completed and the library was moved there. On May 1, 1928, the Thayer Collection of Art was dedicated to the University and placed in the Spooner building. It now became the Spooner-Thayer Museum.
With the influx of veterans after the war the lower floor of the Museum was converted into temporary living quarters for men students. As many as 80 men lived there at
one time. When enrollment dropped, the Museum's only roomers were art treasures.
In the spring of 1950 the Museum acquired a pipe organ. It was rebuilt so that it is now possible to play music of Bach and Handel on the organ and to hear the sound of music as Bach and Handel imagined it. Occasionally organ concerts are held in the main gallery.
In 1950 the building was remodeled and complete new wiring, heating, and plumbing installed. The second floor galleries were given new ceilings and new lighting. Nearing completion is the lower floor of the Museum, which formerly consisted of small classrooms.
The floor of the main gallery will be worked on soon. Screen walls used for hanging pictures were added last year. Sun-ash paneling in the halls was stripped of paint and finished with a natural surface. Sculptures are now exhibited in the former Glass room, which opens off the main gallery.
John Maxon, director of the Museum, receives many gifts and loan additions to the Museum each year. He purchases art objects as they become available, which fill out the Museum collections.
Interested in a career in art, fashion, advertising, or magazine writing?
Mademoiselle Offers Opportunities By College Board Contest For Women
Mademoiselle magazine's college board contest offers opportunities to any undergraduate woman student in any accredited college or university in the United States.
Applications must be mailed before midnight, Wednesday, Oct. 31, to College Board Editor, Mademoiselle, 575 Madison avenue, New York 22. New York.
To enter the contest, you have to write a criticism of not more than 1500 words of either the August or September issue of Mademoiselle magazine.
Any woman who enters the contest is asked to criticize in detail the section she is most interested in (art, fashion, advertising, fiction, features); comment briefly on all remaining articles and on fashions
that particularly impress her—favorably or unfavorably.
In addition to the 1500 word criticism, each applicant must inclose on a separate sheet her name, college and home addresses, class year, major and minor, college activities, any college offices she has held, and any summer jobs she has held. She must also enclose a small snapshot or photograph of herself. All entries must be typewritten.
Women accepted to the board do three assignments during the year. She gets a chance to write features about college life and to submit art work, fashion or promotion ideas for possible use in Mademoiselle magazine.
Twenty women will be given a guest editorship on Mademoiselle and a chance to help write, edit, and illustrate the August 1952 college issue of the magazine.
One Out of Five Marriages Fail Says Sociologist
A great change in family life has come about within a single generation. As a result, today about one out of every five marriages fail, according to Dr. Lawrence S. Bee, professor of sociology.
"In grandmother's time, she had so many household chores that there was no time for a marriage to go on the rocks. We've changed from all that in quite a hurry; we have become an industrialized nation in a short time. Women are not bound to the kitchen anymore. We have thus been thrown into an adult maturity for which we are not ready," Dr. Bee said.
Dr. Ree declared that mature love is an extension of deeper feelings one has about oneself. "The feeling of well-being in oneself can be extended to another person—the spouse," he said.
Championship, or doing the same things at the "same speed," brings out the "we" feeling in love. The physical part of love is important in so much as it manifests itself spiritually. Caring about, more than caring for, round out the three ingredients of real love, Dr. Bee said.
"The greater the measure of these three," Dr. Bee concluded, "the longer marriage will last. If we can seek to develop these personal qualities, we would have more successful marriages."
College Senior Appointed University Radio Announcer
Lynn Osborn, College senior, has been hired as announcer on KFKU, University radio station, R. Edwin Browne, director of University radio said today.
Osborn will announce week-day afternoon programs, Mr. Browne said.
"Probably two more announcers will be hired in the near future," Mr. Browne said.
Baby Is Sixth Generation
Peoria, Ill.—(U.P.)A baby born to Mr. and Mrs. Carlyn Ward had 11 grandparents at birth. On the mother's side were five living generations.
Comment On Hawk's Nest 'Nightclub Look'
Bv PAULYNE PATTERSON
Soft lights, music and a warm atmosphere - these are the impressions one gets of the Hawk's Nest in the Union.
Orange and blue paper covering the ceiling lights gives a nightclub effect to the surroundings.
The majority of students questioned favor the new lighting effect but several differences of opinion have been expressed:
Charles Taylor, College senior,
"It's romantic. It's conducive to getting your mind off your studies."
Students Plan Eisenhower Drive
A campus Eisenhower-for-President drive will begin today with students from Abilene circulating petitions in the general's behalf.
The drive will be carried on in cooperation with the Lawrence campaign organization which will begin circulation of petitions today.
At the conclusion of the campus petition drive, an Eisenhower-for-President club will be formed. Roy Toulouse, education senior, is directing the campaign.
The movement began early last week in Abilene, the general's boyhood home, with the spontaneous charity of the home of Jimmy Eisenhower-for-President club.
Eldridge Pharmacy
Drugs, Sundries, Fountain,
Pines.
Agency for Mixture No. 79 701 Mass. Phone 999
Rose Marie Novotny, College junior, "My first thought was that they were the school colors. It makes a difference, but it is not very conducive to study."
Baaqr Shirazi, engineering senior,
"I don't think it becomes the Hawk's
Nest. It's good indirect lighting but
it's going to all be white. I don't
like it at all."
Madison Murray, College sophomore, "I think it's terrific but one cannot fully appreciate its effect until night. The soft music and lights make for an enjoyable evening."
Mail subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 a year. (In Lawrence add 1.00 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kans. every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays. University holidays and examination period: May 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kans., under act of March 3, 1879.
Kent Shearer, first year law, "For a person with an 8 o'clock class the lights are much too soft to wake one up."
Mary Alice Roper, fine arts sophomore. "It's hard on the eyes but as long as you don't have to see anything but the rolls and coffee it's okay."
Aaron Feldstein, graduate, "Isn't it romantic? That's my first impression."
Per
$350
Month
the
Rents or Buys A Typewriter
Phone 501
CRANE & CO. INC.
643 Mass.
Featuring French Fried Onion Rings and U.S. Prime Steaks
❷
Open 'till Two Every Morning
Democracy Recognizes Individual Philosophy Professor Tells Students
Democracy is both a political system and a social philosophy which recognizes the dignity and worth of the individual, Dr. C. P. Osborne, professor of philosophy, told the KU Disciple fellowship Sunday.
Dr. Osborne's speech, "Ethical Principles of Democracy," was the third in a series of seven scheduled by the organization. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will speak next week. His subject will be "Higher Education and Moral Responsibility."
"Behind all forms of government there is a certain philosophy of life." Dr. Osborne said. "But the theories as to the origin of the individual's rights, differ." To emphasize this he divided the theories into three groups: natural rights, rights deduced from Utilitarianism, rights deduced from the ethical principle of self-realization.
Elaborating upon each group, Dr. Osborne related John Locke's theory that man is endowed with the natural rights of life, liberty and property. According to Locke's doctrine, the function of government is to protect these rights.
"Ulititarianism stresses the greatest happiness for the greatest number, believing that each individual counts an equal amount," Dr. Osborne said. "Jeremy Bentham, an English advocator of this theory, strongly believed in equal rights for all and special privileges for none."
Bentham thought the legislature should function only to carry out the Utilitarian principle. He believed that natural rights were nonsense and that each person was motivated by his desire for pleasure, Dr. Osborne added.
Under this theory man must create pleasure for others while seeking his own pleasure. Dr. Osborne pointed to the fact that a satisfactory way to measure pleasure.
In explaining the self-realization theory Dr. Osborne divided it into negative and positive parts. The negative is freedom from coercion and the positive is power to do something worth while.
"The statement of equal rights in
the Declaration of Independence means that every person has an equal claim to his rights and an opportunity to develop his capacities, but not that he is equal quantitatively," Dr. Osborne said.
Players To Hold Lab Play Tryouts
University Players will tryout for lab plays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. today in the Little theater of Green hall.
Leola Stewart, president of University Players, urged members to pay dues to Kay Peters, secretary, as soon as possible.
Nancy Morsbach, College sophomore, was elected head usher for the year's dramatic productions at a meeting in the Union ballroom Oct. 18.
Patronize Kansan Advertisers
It's Faster -
It's Cheaper -
To Do Your Laundry
At
RISK'S
Self-Service Laundry
613 Vt. Call 623
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Job Opportunities
with
Advanced Chemists and Physicists who will graduate during 1952
who will graduate during 1952.
Engineers, Engineering Physicists Geologists,
all degree levels who will graduate in 1952.
You are invited to an assembly on job opportunities with the Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston, Texas. Company representatives will discuss and explain opportunities in all phases of the Company's operations.
Date: Monday, Oct. 29, Time: 8 to 9 a.m.
LOCATION: Room 207, Marvin Hall, Dean T. DeWitt Carr, School of Engineering and Architecture
PERSONAL INTERVIEWS: After the assembly, personal interviews will be scheduled for those interested in applying for placement with the Company.
Humble Oil & Refining Co.
Houston, Texas