Oerter Sets Olympic Discus Record
(Story on Page 4)
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
54th Year, No. 51
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1956
'Best Criticism Is In Classroom,' Weinberg Says
The best criticism today is the criticism that takes place in the university and college classroom, said Dr. Bernard Weinberg, specialist in literary criticism, in an open discussion with Arvid Shulenberger, associate professor of English, and Richard Burgener, visiting assistant professor of philosophy, Monday in the Student Union.
Dr. Weinberg will give the year's second Humanities lecture at 8 tonight in Strong Auditorium.
"A critic who rushes out after the first movement of a symphony to make a newspaper's deadline will not write a proper criticism. He will write a report. A criticism requires deliberation and this process of interpretation is found in the classroom." Dr. Weinberg said.
The functions of a critic are to help the audience understand the work of art, enjoy it and arrive at a judgment of it, he said.
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The critic evaluates the art in terms of form, structure and the effect it has on the emotions.
"Critics don't try to do over what the artist did badly. They attempt to discover the beauties and qualities of the art. A critic is an interpreter of works for an audience and not a guide for an artist," Dr. Weinberg explained.
Senior Awarded $800 Scholarship
Frank G. McKnight, Alma senior has been awarded one of 29 scholarships given by the Radio Corporation of America for the current academic year.
Each scholarship is for $800 and is intended to enable the winner to continue his studies in science, industrial relations, dramatic arts and music-fields related directly to the electronics and broadcasting industries. Holders of the scholarships are now enrolled at 27 universities.
Teachers Confer On Speech Problems
Margaret Byrne, assistant professor of speech and drama, conferred with Wichita teachers of special students, classroom teachers and administrators Monday and today on speech and hearing correction programs.
Registration for the English Proficiency Examination, Dec. 8 will be held Dec. 3, 4, and 5 in the deans' offices of the various schools.
Prof Byrne is a consultant for the department of special education of the state department of public instruction.
Proficiency Exam Registration Dates
Juniors and seniors in the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the schools of Education, Journalism, Fine Arts and Medicine are required to pass the examination to graduate.
AL OERTER-KU's great discus thrower from Hyde Park, N.Y., won the Olympic gold medal and established a new Olympic record for the discus by throwing it 184 feet, 11 inches. Details on page 4.
Watch The Birdie-Photo Bureau Serves Many
Looking for a picture of a beautiful homecoming queen candidate or of a zoological specimen? If so, go to the photographic bureau. Its files contain these pictures and many more.
A yearly job for the bureau is to take the pictures of the queen candidates for homecoming. On the other end of the scale is a series of pictures of snakes and frogs to be used in a scientific publication.
Commencement week is fully covered for the KU Alumni Magazine by the bureau including all of the class reunions. Pictures were also taken this fall at the freshman-varsity basketball game to be used in the alumni publication.
Taking the pictures for student identification cards is "one of our minor jobs although it seems big at the moment," Harry Wright, director of the bureau said. "We also take portraits of anyone on campus, pictures for job applications and passport pictures," he said.
Microfilming is one of the services of the bureau. Books and articles are microfilmed for a permanent library reference.
The bureau has been in operation at the University since before 1937. Mr. Wright said. He has been with the bureau a year and a half, coming from a private photography business.
"The nice thing about it is that we charge 50 per cent or less than the price charged by commercial photographers," Mr. Wright said. "We are merely a University department and a service of University Extension."
Other work of the bureau includes public relations pictures, illustrated brochures for University departments, picture coverage of conferences and institutes, art and history slides, senior class calendar and Jayhawker annual pictures.
Winning Pictures On Exhibit In Flint
Daily Kansan Photo Contest prize winners for October are now on exhibition in the William Allen White Reading Room in Flint Hall. Photographs not prize winners but of unusual or special interest are also being shown.
Persons having photographs on exhibit may pick them up after 3 p. m. Friday. The November contest is now underway. Those wishing to enter photographs are asked to bring them to the Daily Kansan Business office, 111 Flint Hall, as soon as possible.
AROTC Cadets To Get Medals
George B. Smith, dean of the University, will represent the administration at the ceremony.
Distinguished Military Student medals will be presented to 36 Army ROTC cadets at parade formations at 4 p. m. today and Wednesday on the drill field east of Allen Field House.
Distinguished Military Students are eligible to apply for regular commissions in the Army.
Student To Appear With Symphony
Norman Chapman, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, graduate student, will be soloist with the University Symphony Orchestra at its winter concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
Senior Calendar On Sale For $1
The 1957 senior calendar went on sale today in the information booth and outside the Hawk's Nest in the Student Union. Senior class representatives in organized houses will begin distribution tonight. Cost of the calendar is $1.
Harvey Bodker, Mission senior editor, said the calendar contains 25 new pictures of the campus and campus activities.
Calendar Queen Ann Straub, Chicago senior, is pictured on the cover. Her attendants Pat Bohannon, Bartlesville, Okla. junior, and Merrilyn Coleman, Lawrence senior are also featured in the calendar.
Sales will continue through the week. Next week calendars will be available at the alumni office.
Tommy Dorsey Dies At Connecticut Home
GREENWICH, Conn.,— (UP)
Tommy Dorsey, famed band leader,
was found dead in his home
here Monday. He was 51 years old.
Mr. Dorsey and his saxophonis brother, Jimmy Dorsey, were under 5-year contract to the Hotel Statler in New York at the time of his death. The Dorsey's reorganized their famous band, which they first formed in 1934, several years ago.
Mexico Trip Data Meeting Wednesday
Information on customs procedures for students taking a trip to Mexico during Christmas vacation will be given by the International Club. sponsor of the trip, at a meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the activities lounge of the Student Union.
Only three weeks remain for students to get free vaccinations at Watkins Hospital and the required six photographs.
Princeton Man To Give Talk
The origin of life and how plant matter changed protoplasm or living matter will be the subject of the third Sigma Xi-sponsored lecture at 7:30 p.m. Aug. Dec. 4. Harold F. Blum, professor of biochemistry at Princeton University will give the lecture in connection with the Geophysical year.
To Discuss Hungarian Fund
To Discuss Hungarian Fund
The World University Service will meet at 4 p. m. Wednesday in room 306 A of the Student Union to discuss the emergency fund-raising campaign for supporting Hungarian students.
Weather
Kansas—Fair this afternoon with increasing cloudiness tonight. Warmer this afternoon and east and central portions tonight. Wednesday considerable cloudiness with strong northerly winds. Colder over state and much colder northeast. Low tonight 25-30. High Wednesday 30s northeast to 40s southwest.
He will play Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto in his appearance with the orchestra directed by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra.
NORMAN CHAPMAN
The "Fourth Piano Concerto" is considered by musicians to be the most intimate and poetic of Beethoven's five piano concertos. It was first performed publicly in 1808 with the composer as soloist.
The orchestra will play Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" by Brahms, three preludes from the opera "Palestrina" by Pfitzer and "Symphony in B Flat Major" by Chausson.
Chapman started piano study at the age of four. At 16, he was soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and was awarded the Aitkins Trophy, highest honor given at the Winnipeg Musical Festival. He won a scholarship to study at the Juilliard School of Music, in 1952.
On the advice of concert pianist Roslyn Tureck, Chapman came to KU to study with her former teacher, Jan Chiapusso, professor of piano.
He received the bachelor of music degree from the University last spring, majoring in piano. He is now doing graduate work with Mrs. Angelica Morales von Sauer, visiting professor of piano.
To Collect Ski Trip Deposit Wednesday
Students planning to go on the KU-Y annual ski trip to Winter Park, Colo., Jan. 24-28, and students interested in instructing skiers will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 305 of the Student Union.
A $10 deposit will be collected for the trip, which costs $55 including bus transportation. The group will be limited to 70 students. KU-Y members who have never taken the trip will have priority. Vacancies will be open to all students.