FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 1925
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PAGE ELEVEN
Museum to House Thayer Collection by First of Year
Paintings, Textiles, Glass Furnitures and Dolls Are Included in Treasures
The Spencer-Thayer art museum which is being remodeled to house the Thayer art collection, is expected to be ready for part of the collection by the end of 2015 and is now stored in two rooms on the third floor of central Administration.
The Thayer art collection was given to the University in 1917 by Mrs. W. R. Thayer of Kansas City. She made addibitious contributions to the gift until her death in September. She took an active interest in collecting antiques and valuable art works for her collection. She also collected during her trips abroad when she visited several countries in Europe and Egypt.
Textiles representing the work of different nationalities and periods of history from some of the most important items of the collection. There are samples of Coptic and Byzantine textiles. *Varanian embroidery* of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Indian and Persian shawls and rugs, and a large collection of Paisley shawls and American cancunaries.
Collection Is Complete
**Collection 14.6** **College**
The museum offers sufficient in scope and size to make a complete museum. It contains paintings of noted American artists, Chinese and Japanese prints, an important collection of Japanese prints, which includes some of the best works of this sort now attainable. Some European artists are represented among the
The collection of Chinese art is large and interesting. Cameo glass ceramics, and jade articles; including over 100 maufloxes, in this part of the exhibit. Oriental combs bronze cavities, awards, and aew ware are included. Bristen art are large Buddhist shrine is included in the collection.
The glass ware dates back to the Egyptian period. There are some articles of glass taken from Egyptian tombs, glass ware of several nations and periods, and a case of American glass ware.
The furniture collection contains many antique pieces. Two rooms of the new museum will be fitted out with colonial furniture and furnishings. Greener lamps, pewter credit holders, and a candle mould represent different periods in lighting. Doll houses form the part of a past form of the collection.
Egyptian Glass Found
Moe Mimise S. Moodie is curator of the collection. At the present time he works with artists to move into the new quarters and is making parts of the collection which have been on exhibit at Bafour Park during the Biennial Diego, Calif., for the past two years.
Program Being Arranged
Christmas Committee Appointed by Cabinet
Committees to arrange for the annual Christmas program of the University have been appointed by the chancellor's cabinet. These committees consist of the presidents of the leading student organization from the chancellor's cabinet, the usual method followed in the past four years.
There have been two meetings of the committee to discuss the matters of securing funds for this year's charity. Improvements in the program are being arranged and variations from previous years will be followed.
The appointment of an executive, committee has been authorized. Jacqueline Stice and Pete Welty are the joint chairmen.
Four years ago the entire friendship fund went to European student relief purposes. A change was made two years ago in this policy and only one half was devoted to this purpose one-fourth of the remaining fund going to East Europe. An equal share was donated to the University of Kansas loan fund. Last year the policy tried out four years ago was again incepted and the fund was funded by Conrad Hoffman, former secretary of the University, Y.M.C.A. C.
Signa Delta Chi Elects President William Allen White was elected honorary president of Signa Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, on Nov. 18 at their convention held in Boulder, Colo. There were 35 delegates from the three states and the nation. Clark of St. Louis was elected the new president. The convention will be held next year at Madison, Wis.
An international institute for the study and cure of malaria is to be established in Rome.
Harper Publishers Offer Prizes for Prose Writing
A new effort to encourage the younger American writers is the content of a notice received by Prof. W. S. Johnson, of the department of English from Harper & Brothers, published from $200 to $500 will be given for the best prose manuscripts submitted by undergraduate students of American colleges and universities. Each college or university will be allowed to submit three manuscripts to be accepted by the faculty of the English department.
Full details of the content will be announced by Professor Johnson at an early date, and it is hoped that the interest in the contest will be large.
Convocation Is Dec. 8 to Make Organization Plans of County Clubs
Meeting Places and Temporary Chairmen Named by Main Committee
Committee
A county club conventure, during which the clubs of the various counties of the state will organize and forge a committee scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 3. At this time, groups composed of students from other states have been formed.
A total of one hundred and five organizations is expected by the county club committee which has prepared a list of temporary chairmen and meeting places. These will be announced in a future edition of the Kansas.
The temporary chairman will meet with the county club committee shortly after the Thanksgiving vacation when the plans and procedure of the county club organization will be explained.
It is planned by the main committee, of which Edward Kinnail is chairman, to have the pictures of the campus ready by the middle of December. We will present the pictures for their county high schools may take them home with them at the Christmas vacation and make the presentation a part of their holiday activities. A framed view will also be shown on display during the showcause.
The pictures which the county club committee hope to have installed in every Kansas high school are large and distinct. The original price includes a wide gray frame that harmonizes with the gray tones in which the pictures were taken, to be sequestered from the county clubs and this, with the sum set aside by the chancellor, the contributions of the two student councils, and those of the student enterprise committee, will go to make up the purchase price.
Whale oil is now being extracted Norwegian companies in floating oil refineries equipped with machinery for the whales on board in the open sea.
A medieval glamor settles over the University of Kansas at twilight. It is something that the students do not speak of. It breathes of ancient secrets and of magic, of alchemists bending over烫 potions, of Egyptian gears, of crystals gazing into crystal globes, of science and wisdom in its infancy.
At this hour, a mist rises from the river in the valley below. Lights gleam from the long windows of the halls. Outlined in the pink afterglow flicker, the trees seem to lose their individuality, and from the valley, seen to melt into a huge, thick-walled castle topped by domes and spires. A tall chimney becomes a lookout tower, a peaked gable a narrow window, and a low roof that man's turret, and the roadway a gate.
Medieval Glamor Fall Over K. U. at Twilight
From across the Kaw, a stranger might easily mistake the shadowy castle, planted on the crest of a warped crang rising above the level of the wall. On the other side, a German castle perched on a towering point above the Rhine. Even the lights of Lawrence, twinkling at the foot of the crang might be mistaken for a village of serfs nestling far below, but the protection of the rulers of the citadel.
Distance lends entchantment, but after twilight, distance does not limit it. In the center of the城 is an courtyard, a flat square intervenew with walks, that is surrounded by rough rock walls on three sides, and by tall trees and a nearby building on top. The walkway is made of campus; at night, if one stands on the firge escape that juts out from the west wall of Frasier hall like a watchman's backbone, and looks down on the grassy plot, there is a feeling of unreality, as though one had suddenly been transformed back to King Arthur's court. On the left, Watson library ablaze with lights might be seen in the path, but the feast was in progress. Lovers stroll slowly along the paths, hand in hand.
Then high in the gable of the opposite building, the light from a narrow window catches the eye. A man is standing in front of him, in his work, playing with the secrets of nature—the black arts. Below, another figure arrests the attention, he is drooped, he walls slowly, as though walking were merely a device to occupy space. He stands on powder; a thinker, a man of letters puzzling over the workings of the minds of men. Other people walk, leisurely past, a couple stop to look at the stars, they call each planet fascinating, but though wise in the lore of the skies.
From the hall behind come strains of music, not music that one thinks of as modern, but music that has no age. It might be an organist or an orchestra practicing, but at right, looking across at the glow of the library, the dancers in line, the thinker, the astronomers—it is magic. It is medieval, touched with barbarism; it is an expression of the mystery of science.
Marco Polo
knew a thing or two about China but he never saw the
Get Your Date Before Thanksgiving
Dec. 7
and so he missed a good chance to put some wit and frolic in those musty old books of his. Maybe you've never read a word he wrote— perhaps half the profs on the Hill haven't either, but most of them will be at the Bower-sock when the curtain rises at 8 o'clock
"Little Mandarin"
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