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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. April 9,1958
Poetry Is Alive A Way Of Life'
Poetry as a game is "active and alive." Poetry as a holy game is "a way of life and a very peculiar craft."
This description of poetry as the poet sees it was expressed by May Sarton, poet and novelist, in a Phi Beta Kappa sponsored lecture Tuesday in Fraser Theater.
"Certain words in certain combinations with other words make magic." Miss Sarton said. "The manipulation of words to produce this effect makes poetry a game."
It is a holy game, she said, because it is a way of disciplining the writer's life so that he may see everything with an open eye.
MAY SARTON
"The poet must keep the door open between his conscious and his subconscious," she said. "This is where the creative process happens."
This is not all there is to writing poetry, she said. After the poem begins to form in the mind it must be analyzed and put down on paper.
In writing poetry the writer takes the abstract image or experience and makes it concrete, thus bringing the reader into the experience, she added.
"To do this the poet must not only have had the experience, but he must have understood it," she said.
Poetry comes from silence, Miss Sarton stated.
"A good poem has silence flowing through it. A very good poem has a long period of silence after it," she said.
She demonstrated points in her discussion by reading poems to the audience.
"Notice the silence," she said after
Four Faculty, Staff To Discuss Education
A Conference on Learning Difficulties of the Emotionally Disturbed Child will be held April 25 in the Kansas Union Ballroom by the Kansas Institute for Research in the Education of Exceptional Children.
Speakers will include: E. Thayer Gaston, chairman of the music education department; George Frankl, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, Harry G. Giannau, director of the Child Study Unit, and Roger Moon, instructor, all of the KU Medical Center.
Official Bulletin
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TODAY
Men's counselor position open: Triple-cate applications for men's residence hall counseling positions for 1958-59 are available. Please note the dean of students, 228 Strong Hall.
Quill Club, 7:30 p.m. Pine Room, Union, Manuscript reading.
Newman Club, 7:30 p.m., Castle. Executive meeting.
THURSDAY
Le Cerulee Francais se reunira jeudi a quatre heures dans la salle 11 Fraser. Caucherie sur La Suisse par Mlle Nadine Donn de Lausanne
Jayhawk Aerial Club, 7:30 p.m., 119
Stonegate, interested in becoming a member welcome.
FRIDAY
Museum of Art record concert, 11 a.m.
and 3 p.m. Schutz, four small sacred concer-
tion and four symphony琴。Palestina:
pieces performed by the Sistine Choir.
Dr. Birkmaier To Speak Here
Dr. Emma M. Birkmaier, one of the nation's leading authorities on teaching foreign languages in public schools, will give a public lecture at 4 p.m. Monday in Bailey Auditorium. Her topic will be "Teaching of Foreign Languages in the Public Schools."
reading one, "A poem creates silence around it and inside it."
"The game of writing poetry is not played for material stakes," she said. "It is played for joy.
"The joy of creation is not given. It is earned only through discipline in 'The Holy Game,' " she said.
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It's Still Raining, Sod's Still Slipping
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During class breaks and the noon hour, students have been seen walking up to the edge of the knob between Flint and Malott halls and peering over the edge.
What they see is a large piece of Mt. Oread turf that's slipped its moorings. Measuring about 100 by 50 feet, the sod on the slope northeast of Malott broke loose about two or three weeks ago, and has now started to fold itself over at the bottom.
"The Case of the Sliding Sod" has drawn the attention of a few KU students for the last few weeks.
Until a landscaping crew performs a little sod surgery, the geology majors will have a practical demonstration of geological forces in action. Meanwhile, be careful walking downhill—you might convert the campus into Oread Valley.
ITS GOING FAST—Jim Bedford, instructor in journalism measures the sod that is slipping down hill on the south slope of the campus. (Daily Kansan photo)
The slippage is not severe in the area where the slope is contoured to match the steps and sidewalks.
At the top of the slide is a foot-deep fissure where the sod broke loose. At the bottom is a fold that resembles the edge of a rug that's been thrown carelessly on the floor.
The sod apparently soaked up too much water from the above-average rain and snow during the winter, and the weakened ground parted.
The sod slippage stops at the steps that lead from Malott to the top of the hill, although the ground has separated slightly from the cement steps.
Sulphur is used in converting wood pulp into rayon, phosphate rock into fertilizer, and soft rubber into hard, the National Geographic Magazine says.
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11 Seniors Get Awards
Eleven KU seniors have been named recipients of Woodrow Wilson Fellowships for 1958-59.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation makes the awards to outstanding seniors interested in college teaching careers in the humanities, social sciences and certain sciences.
A grant from the Ford Foundation, supplementing programs already devised by the American Assn. of Universities and the Carnegie Corp., made possible the granting of 1.080 fellowships nationally.
The 11 Woodrow Wilson fellows named from KU are John Beam, Ottawa, Donald Coyne, Hutchinson, Marcia Fullmer, Mission, Donald R. Hopkins, Kansas City, Kan, Elizabeth Hoover, Lawrence, Frederick B. Misse, Jr., Highland, Joy A. Yoe, Mannattana, John F. Zoellner, Tonganoxie, Dale M. Brethower, Nevis, Minn, Joanne Beal, Lawrence, and Arlan B. Ramsay, Dodge City.
Awards are $1,400 plus fees. Winners were selected after nomination by faculties of their own institutions and interviews by district committees. Dr. Walter E. Sandelius, professor of political science, is a district committeeman.
Scarab Will Hear Resident Sculptor
Bernard (Poco) Frazer, sculptor in residence, will speak to Scarab, professional architecture society, on "Sculpture and Architecture" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Oread Room.
Mr. Frazer, who created the doors on the Campanile and did the sculpturing over the entrance to Lindley, will illustrate his talk with pictures of work he has done on buildings and churches in Kansas.
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