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AMERICAN ART IS INITIATIVE
THE PAINTERS NO LONGER FOL LOW EUROPEAN MODELS.
Pictures Depicting Stricly American Art Shown in the Big Collection in the Museum.
"There is no better collection of paintings in the Chicago Art Institute thn we have right here in this exhibit," was Prof. W.A. Griffith's comment on the art exhibit yesterday. "Each picture that we have has been passed upon by a jury of ten or twelve old exhibitors and experienced painters."
Until recently, American painters have been content to imitate rather than create. They have been followers of the great painters of Europe. But in the United States there are new ideas and new conditions. To express these ideas and those things that are American, a new technique is required. This is the aim of the younger school of American painters.
Birge Harrison is one of these new painters. He is said to be the discoverer of the charm and picturesqueness of New York's streets. He has traveled in all parts of the world but it is in New York that he produces his best pictures. He is a creator rather than an imitator. One of his best New York scenes, 'Bryant Park at evening" is in the exhibit here.
John Sloan gives a typical scene in New York in "The Haymarket, Sixth Ave." The poor washerwoman, the ragged urchin and his hoop, the dance hall, the bald-headed, red faced doorkeeper and the gaily attired young ladies, all show that the scene is in the "Bowery" district. "Pennsylvania Excavations," by George Bellows shows the industrial side of New York. Joseph Pennell is represented by two of his best etchings of New York scenes, "Park Row" and "Forty-second Street."
"Two of the greatest pictures in this collection," said Prof. Griffith, "are the 'Mill Team' and 'Winter on the Deleware', both by E.W.Redfield who has taken almost every prize that can be taken in the United States." He is a painter who sees the truth and then paints it fearlessly and faithfully. His work is characterized by lack of detail and texture.
Visits Good for Appropriations.
Prof. R. E. Bassett of the Romance languages department was a member of the faculty of the University of Missouri at the time the legislature of that state made its first visit to Columbia. The era of liberal appropriations for the University, he says, dates from that time. The visit of the legislature to Columbia is now an annual event, and as the statesmen learn more about the institution their liberality toward it grows.
Lincoln's anniversary post cards at McColloch's Drug Store.
IN OTHER COLLEGES.
The University of Washington at Seattle has a very unique forestry building. The building is built of huge logs five feet in diameter and forty feet long. It is built stockade fashion. The estimated cost of the building is $100,000.
The Japanese students at the University of Washington have organized a fraternity. Their constitution is written in their native tongue.
Illinois lost the track meet to Chicago last week by 44 to 42.
The registration at the University of Washington has reached the 1600 mark.
Yale held its famous Junior Promenade last week in its armory. The cost totalled over $10,000. The fee for admittance was the lowest it has been in years, being only $15 per person.
F. W. Cooke, editor of the Healdsburg Tribune of Healdsburg, Cal., has enrolled in the school of journalism in the University of Missouri. Mr. Cooke is 49 years old. He intends to take a four year course.
The Baker Orange says the following of their new editor "He has had a half year's work in journalism at K. U., where they teach the yellow kind. We expect some Conan Doyle dope from him, judging from his source of training.
Twenty-two per cent. of the student body of the University of Washington are entirely self-supporting, while twenty per cent. more are partially dependent on their own resources.
There is a total enrollment of ninety-two in the department of Journalism at the University of Missouri. The growth of this department has been larger in the first year than any department of the University.
In order that Nebraska may not be troubled on account of having some of her best athletes perpetually on the danger line as regards their scholarship requirements, the senior society of Innocents has appointed a committee to consider means of keeping the delinquent men up to the mark. The Innocents will attempt to tutor deficient students who are making good in athletics and to urge their attendance on classes so that they will not fall down in attendance.
Osborne Farmer: The University of Minnesota is to have a chair of refined humor, and the newspaper men are wondering if the school of journalism at K. U. doesn't cover the same ground.
The library of DePauw has a good collection of old books. The prize of the lot is an edition of Shakespeare, published in 1623.
Oscar Hammerstein, who built the new opera house in Philadelphia, is planning to give special favors to Pennsylvania University. He wishes to make every Saturday "Students' Night," giving the students and faculty special blocks at rates sufficiently low to place
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Professor and Mrs. H. Louis Jackson have purchased a new home on South Maine street.
Sam Howe, a junior engineer has withdrawn from school. He will go to Ellis, Kansas, where he will do the drafting for a contractor, installing an electric light plant.
Mr. W. L. Sippy, who has been making water analyses in the chemistry building, of waters obtained from Kansas City Kansas, has accepted a position in the chemical laboratory of the Santa Fe Railroad in Topeka.
Harry Singleton, last year a sophomore in the college, is visiting at the Phi Psi house.
Miss Mae Rossman, a freshman in the college, is visiting at her home in Paola.
Miss Mina Johnson, a freshman in the college, is visiting friends in Paola.
G. W. Froelich, '87, of Chicago, visited Monday and Tuesday with his nephew, J. F. Froelich.
H. B. Stevenson, who was a sophomore in the Engineering school last year, has returned to enroll for the spring term.
Tonight Miss Helen Phipps will give the third faculty recital of the year in Fraser Hall. She will be assisted by Miss Bancroft, contralto. Admission will be free.
A. D. S. Peroxide cream a mild bleach, absolutely harmless, an ideal preparation to soften and beautify the skin. 25 cents. O. P. Barber & Son Druggist.
Walter Stark, of Jefferson county, who has been attending the State Agricultural School for the past two years, has enrolled in the freshman medic class of the University.
Miss Julia Willard, of Leavenworth, is visiting Blanche Millis, a freshman in the college.
John Dadisman, state Y. M. C.A.secretary, is here on business for the Y.M.C.A.
The Junior class will give a party in Fraternal Aid Hall this evening.
Attend the grab sale at Gustafson's Friday, beginning at 9 a. m. 1000 packages, your choice for 50 cents. Diamond rings, gold watches, cut glass, fountain pens, K. U. jewelry etc. are included in these packages.
Spring Suits AT PROTSCH'S
Oyster stew at the Hiawatha.
A third shipment of Professor Carruth's book of poems entitled "Each in His Own Tongue and other Poems" has been received at the University Book Store.
After the dance the Hiawatha.
New students! The Hiawatha Cafe is always open.
Nearly every senior photographed by MOFFETT has brought or sent another, because everyone has been satisfied. The MOFFETT STUDIO has a still better record: Not a cent of money paid it in Lawrence but that satisfaction was given. We go still better: Not a cent WILL BE RETAINED if we fail to please. Studio in the 800 block—the one at which work is finished when promised.
Miss Madge Lane is responsible for a new postal card—a "take-off" on the K. U. smoker. It is for sale at McColloch's Drug Store.
Gustafson wishes to emphasize the fact that he is the college jeweler and deserves your patronage.
Notice to New Students.
Reasons for Segregation
The University of Bologna in 1237 gave the following reasons for barring women from the University: "Whereas, woman is the foundation of sin—the weapon of the devil—the cause of man's banishment from Paradise—for these reasons all associations with her are to be diligently avoided. Therefore we do interdict the introduction of any woman, however honorable she may be."
Sophs Would Debate Freshies.
The committee in charge of debating in the sophomore class has issued a challenge to freshmen for the annual inter-class debate. The subject suggested was as to the sanity of Hamlet but was turned down by the freshman committee as being too ethereal for their consideration. Another subject will soon be submitted. Louis LaCoss has charge of the arrangements for the sophomores and A.R. Buziek is chairman of the freshman committee.