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University Daily Kansan
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Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1958
Museum To Open 30th Year
The year-long 30th anniversary celebration of the Museum of Art will open Feb. 22 with a loan exhibition of masterworks from United States college and university art collections.
According to Edward Maser, museum director, letters have been sent to the museum's friends and patrons outlining plans for the celebration.
"Any clubs, organized houses or other groups who are interested in placing a permanent gift on the campus are urged to consider a gift to the museum." Mr. Maser said. "The gifts are marked with the donor's name and are a lasting and worthwhile monument."
The museum was formally dedicated in 1928 when the entire William Bridges Thayer memorial collection of paintings and other works of art was installed. Mrs. Thayer's decision to give her husband's decision
lection to the University in 1917 marked the actual beginning of the museum.
In 1926, the Thayer collection was put into the old Spooner Hall library and the museum was officially called the Spooner-Thayer Museum. With the addition of other collections, it became the Museum of Art
The museum is considered one of the finest university art museums in the country, Mr. Maser said. An active exhibition program has brought national and international recognition. The building was completely redecorated in 1949 and interior improvements were made after a fire in 1955. 4
The exhibition programs have included the John Steuart Curry collection and a display of prints and drawings from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna for its first showing in this country. A collection of the work of Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri is planned for this year.
KU Gets $2,700 Grant
KU has received $2,700 from the Research Corporation as a Frederick Gardner Cottrell grant for the support of research entitled "A New Method for the Synthesis of Olefins from 1, 2-Dihalides." The grant is for one year.
Dr. Calvin A. VanderWerf, professor of chemistry, will direct the fundamental research. Two assistants will be named in February.
Dr. VanderWerf came to KU in 1941 as an instructor and received his full professorship in 1949. He
Debaters To Oppose Baker
Larry Ehrlich, Russell freshman, and Brad Lashbrook, Kansas City, Kan. senior, members of the KU debate squad, will oppose a Baker University team Wednesday morning during a convocation on the Baker campus. The question of debate will be Resolved: "That Kansas should adopt the right to work bill."
has served as acting chairman of the department of chemistry at KU and has been secretary and chairman of the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society. He also is the co-author of two textbooks of general chemistry.
Winter Jayhawker Being Distributed
The winter issue of the 1958 Jayhawk is now being distributed in the Information Booth on Jayhawk Boulevard and in organized houses.
The issue features organized house pictures and write-ups and football and party pictures.
Anyone wanting to purchase a yearbook can do so at the Information Booth or in the Jayhawker office. B114 Student Union.
THE MOST FAMOUS-Kay Reiter, Beloit freshman, looks at the most famous work of art in the museum, St. Cosmas made by Joseph Gotsch in mid 12th century in Bavaria
18th century in Bavaria.
Rural children, as a group, have a school term about 6 per cent shorter than city children; their teachers are paid about one third less and current expenditures per pupil are 16 per cent lower.
KU Teachers Oppose Chou's Language Plan
Four KU language teachers don't think much of Communist China Premier Chou En-lai's proposal for a universal language.
Chou proposed Friday that all the world's languages be merged into one language. He didn't specify what the new tongue would be called.
The Premier said, "Whether the Chinese ideographs, which have made an imperishable contribution, should be replaced by a Latinized or other phonetic language form is a question which we are not in a hurry to decide."
Seymour Menton, assistant professor of Romance languages, said the idea of a universal language has come up in the past and he feels it is extremely difficult to make up a universal language.
"A language has become international in the past because the country was a world power; French was such a language at one time and English is today."
Old Idea
Miss Agnes Brady, professor of Romance language, said, "This is not a new idea. For generations and generations people have been talking about a universal language but it could never be. The great nations would never agree to give up their own language. Esperanto, an artificial language, has been tried before but most people agree it is a failure.
"There can never be a language unless it has a people and a culture behind it. An artificial language does not have a culture behind it so it would be useless except for the exchange of a few symbols," she added.
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Walter J. Meserve Jr., assistant professor of English said, "I suppose as far as Europe goes many schools are teaching English, which is becoming the diplomatic language. French was the diplomatic language before. The Orient is an entirely different matter because it has a different culture.
He concluded, "In one sense it would bring the world closer together if they understood the same language, but they would lose their distinctiveness and in some ways they are made closer through their distinctions as well as their likenesses."
Miss Anne Marie Christiansen, instructor of German, said, "We should stick to the languages that are already in existence but we must try to learn other languages.
"Other people should try to learn English but English-speaking people should learn more languages than we do because we are leaders in the western world."
Miss Christiansen added, "A language is something which grows. An artificial language hasn't the spirit of the genuine language."
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