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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 26, 1965
Wilcox Museum Closing Planned
Bowing to progress, the doors of 208 Fraser will soon close to the public—leaving Venus homeless.
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But she is not alone in her plight. The Emperor Augustus, Apollo Belvedere, and the other figures in the Wilcox Museum will also be evicted when Fraser is razed.
The Curator of the museum, Ned Nabers, instructor of classics, has been faced with the problem of what to do with the exhibits. Unfortunately, he said, he has concluded the only answer is storage.
NABERS SAID that early this summer the University will move most of the museum pieces to places on campus where they will be stored until the new humanities building is built.
Nabers referred to the proposed structure to be constructed on the site now occupied by Haworth Hall and Robinson Gymnasium.
"The University has promised us space to re-establish the Wilcox Museum." Nabers said.
Nabers added that next year a few articles are to be kept out of storage. They are to be displayed in Carruth-O'Leary Hall beside the new offices of the classics department.
"THESE ARTICLES will be chosen for their convenience in displays and for their usefulness in teaching," Nabers said. "This does not necessarily mean that the displayed pieces will be the most valuable in the collection," he added, "for some of the least valuable are the most instructive."
Nabers explained that the ancient coins, vases, glassware, and bronzes will most likely be the articles kept out of storage.
"OF COURSE, it was called the Classical Museum in those days." Miss Grant continued. She explained that it was renamed the Wilcox Museum after the death in 1915 of A. M. Wilcox, a distinguished professor of Greek.
"The museum was officially established in the south room on the second floor of Fraser in 1888," Prof. Grant said. "It was moved down from the third floor in that year.
"Mr. Wilcox was the man most responsible for the upkeep of the museum," she said.
Prof. Grant said that, at first, the museum contained only five plaster casts of classical statues, purchased from an Italian company in Boston for $75 to $200 apiece.
Most of the 17 or 18 major casts now in the museum were purchased between 1910 and 1930 with none coming after World War II. Nabers said that casts such as these were probably no longer available for purchase.
ANOTHER IS one of Hermes masquerading as the young Germanicus. A tortoise at his foot identifies the figure as Hermes, for it was he who made the first lyre from a tortoise shell, Nabers pointed out.
There is, in the museum, a statue of Hermes tempting the infant Dionysis with a bunch of grapes held just out of his reach. The original was made by Praxiteles in the 4th century B.C.
Other, more familiar statues, Nabers said, are The Borghese Warrior by Agasias of Ephesos and The Satyr by Praxiteles. The former statue is well known for his participation in the deodorant commercials of a few years ago. The latter is better known as Hawthorne's "Marble Fawn."
Prof. Grant said that the point of view in acquiring the museum pieces changed since early years.
"In the early times in Kansas, the casts were brought here to show the people things they had no way of seeing otherwise," she said. "Now the stress is on getting genuine antiquities," Prof. Grant said.
Schedule Established For Orientation Night
Anne Machin, Ottawa sophomore, said the orientation steering committee of Associated Women Students (AWS) will be in charge of orientation night. The purpose of the program, she said, is to introduce AWS to the freshman women.
Orientation night for next year's freshman women is to be Sept. 29 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
FOLLOWING THE program the freshman women can apply for AWS committees for the year, Miss Machin said.
Election of the four women to represent the freshman women in the AWS House of Representatives and the Senate is to be in the fall. Explanation of the duties and responsibilities of these positions also is to be presented by the steering committee, Miss Machin said.
The AWS program for the year is to be presented to the freshmen during orientation night.
THE CWENS, national honorary organization for sophomore women, is planning to again help the freshman women move into the residence halls. CWEN members will explain the standards rules set up by AWS. Fashion Board also is scheduled to meet with the freshmen. Miss Machin said.
Members of Miss Machin's steering committee are Karen Kreider, Chanute sophomore; Joan Heimovies, Prairie Village sophomore; Jennifer Nilsson, Chicago Heights, Ill, freshman; Martha Ziegelmeyer, Shawnee Mission freshman, and
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