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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 4, 1957
Oerter And Nieder—
--can be measured. In other work, from art to ditch digging, there is no real measuring stick for the best performance. Such a judgement, in fields other than athletics, is speculative and must be, for the most part, subjective.
Another Pat On The Back
The two men who last brought world honors to the University were victims of time when it came to them in turn being honored for their performances by the University.
Al Oerter and Bill Nieder, after great showings in the Olympic games at Melbourne, slipped into Lawrence during the quiet of school breaks and were met with hardly a pat on the back. Nieder returned home during Christmas vacation and Oerter returned during the break between semesters.
Both deserve the University's congratulations. Oerter set an Olympic record in winning the discus and Nieder finished second in the shot put.
An athlete is one of the few whose performance
In track and field events the culmination of years of work to approach perfection can be measured with a stopwatch or a tapemeasure—neither lie, play favorites, or make any allowances. The performance is either good or bad.
In the case of Nieder and Oerter the performances were more than good. It's difficult to be really good at anything—and it's very difficult to be one of the world's best.
Letters
'Slanted' Review
MacKinlay Kantor's "Andersonville" was published 18 months ago, so reviews appearing now should be well considered and say something significant about the book.
However, Ray Wingerson's review in the University Daily Kansan Jan.14 does not live up to this expectation. It goes along with the bulls of reviews that have greeted the book with exaggerated praise ever since its publication.
—Jerry Thomas
Why was "Andersonville" accepted so uncritically? Maybe because of the book cover's assurance that MacKinlay Kantor had studied the historical sources for 25 years!
These memoirs contributed to the falsification of Civil War history for generations to come—evidently including ours.
Critical historians have long doubted the thoroughness of MacKinlay Kantor's research and in the spring of 1956 one of them, William B. Hesseltine, professor at the University of Wisconsin, wrote a crushing review of "Andersonville," appearing in the Georgia Review.
The essence of Mr. Hesseltine's review was that MacKinlay Kanort did not consult any of the critical histories of the Civil War prisons (e.g. by himself), but blindly trusted the court records of the Andersonville trial (1865) and soldiers' memoirs.
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In addition he ordered the raions and treatment in the Northern prisons to be lowered to those of the South, with the result that prisoners' mortality almost reached that of Southern prisons.
The North had prisons almost as terrible as those in the South. Union Secretary of War Stanton for a while stopped exchange of prisoners for the double reason of keeping his own soldiers from surrendering and of draining the resources of the Confederacy.
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But such facts don't disturb MacKinlay Kantor. His easy reading style leads the reader through all the terrible cruelties of prison life in Andersonville without any perspective.
The book is anti-Southern even to the traditional generalizations on Southern character, aiming at confirming Northern feelings of superiority and righteousness.
The centennial years of the Civil War are near. Romantic histories and novels are sure to flood the innocent public already facing racial and sectional bitterness.
General respect of historical truth and the wish of warning against the dangers of MacKinlay Kantor's "Andersonville" led me to write this protest against Mr. Wingerson's review.
Sigurd Rambusoh
Carhus, Denmark graduate student
(Editor's note: Mr. Hesseltine,
a professor of history and social
sciences, has written several
works on the South, including
"Lincoln and the War Governors"
and "Confederate Leaders in the New South." This places him in
the arbitrary position of being a scholar of the South. Mr. Wingerson, on the other hand, is a junior in journalism. To compare his review with that of Prof. Hesseltine is just plain silly.)
Coffee In Library?
Editor:
It happens that we who have signed this letter have to stay in the library for some reason or another. We agree that the library is a nice place. We believe that some minor changes can make it more comfortable.
1. How about keeping one of the rooms open until 11:00 p.m. We have no urgent desire to change the time of checking books, hence one librarian would be enough to keep the room open until 11 p.m. A 1 hour increase in the library time table, as described above, would not burden the budget too much, we assume.
2. It is boring to study for any length of time. Some students like to drink coffee. At present these people go to the Student Union where they can easily waste the whole afternoon or evening.
Isn't it possible to accommodate them with a corner in the basement or on the third floor of Watson Library where a student can have a cup of coffee and a short chat away from disturbing those who are studying?
If it is possible to do something about both or either of these situations, can we hope for such a thing in the near future, and if not, why not?
Alfred Slater.
Our apologies to the Student Union Hawks Nest.
Hired Slater,
Kansas City, Mo.
Helmut Reischle,
Lawrence
Mohamed Kazem,
Cairo, Egypt
Meenakshi Tyagarajan
Mylapore, India
Hee Chung,
Seoul, Korea
All are graduate students
We were under the impression that no one likes the coffee served in that trysting place. We were so convinced that we took a poll hoping to bolster our conviction.
Bust?
Editor:
ton, "Do you like the coffee served in the Hawk's Nest?"
Alas! The best laid polls of mice and men, etc. etc.
Eleven expressed whole-hearted satisfaction with the coffee, and the remaining 16 described it as "adequate." "sufficient," and "all right," though
Of the 34 people polled, only 7 shouted a hearty "No!" to the ques-
Couldn't we get up a movement to have the bust in the Student Union Music Room rolled over to
some agreed it had to be "doctored." i.e. cream and sugar. One male volunteered that he doesn't like Perry Como.
Dawson
Our good friend Eldro has transferred to the University from a small school in Manhattan, and said he had some trouble during enrollment.
"What was your trouble, our good friend Eilred?" we asked.
"I am color-blind," he averred, "and thus was nonplussed when told to get a pink slip to enroll early, a green slip on which to register, a yellow slip on which to register my car, and a white slip on which to place my class schedule."
"It doesn't matter how you played the game," we surmised, "but only if you won or lost."
Fighting our way through the mass of students clutching early enrollment cards in their grubby little meathooks, we finally found ourselves at the "rest of the alphabet" table, where a lone coil in charge of handing out IBM cards was calmly pruning her nails.
"Pick a card, any card," she grunted, scraping a pile of pruned nails into an ashtray.
Sure enough, lined up behind us was the entire cast of "Of Thee I Sing," many, many athletes, plus a minority of students who have part time jobs or some other petty excuse of enrolling early.
"But don't you want to see my early enrollment card?" we asked.
"Oh, no," she yawned, "you MUST have one. Everyone does, you know."
We see that over 400 students are on the College honor roll. Guess we had a pretty good thing two years ago.
Ad book. Jerry Dawson
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the Museum of Art? After all, it is a work of art.
Then too, the face part is rather homely, and looking at it detracts from the enjoyment of the music.
And as the subject is still alive, he is not a proper object of worship. Wouldn't a bust of someone as dead as Poe be more suitable?
Or if we have to have a live bust, wouldn't Ferde Grofe' be more appropriate? He is far more popular than anyone else in the Music Room.
George Herman
Instructor of English
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