Yeats' work on display
Special collection honors poet
PATRONIZE KANSAN ADVERTISERS
By Norma C. Romano
"We only begin to live when we conceive life as a tragedy."
Thus wrote William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet whose original poetry, letters and plays are now on display in the Special Collection department of Watson Library.
The Law School's Student Bar Association elected officers and changed its constitution this week.
All the items in the exhibit, except some of the autographed letters which were acquired separately, are part of the O'Gheary
The officers, all second year law students, are: Chuck Zarter, Leavenworth, president; Frank Tice, Arkansas City, vice president; Frank Kirk, Kansas City, Mo., secretary-treasurer; Jack Kennedy, Leawood, American Law Student Association representative.
SBA elects officers
The constitution was changed to allow the election of the three officers below president, Kirk said.
Before the change, each class had a representative in the Student Bar Association and the president delegated jobs to them. Now these jobs have been better defined and will be carried out by the new officers.
WEATHER
Cloudy skies with occasional light rain is predicted by the U.S. Weather Bureau for tonight and Friday. Cooler weather will be accompanied by northwesterly winds 15 to 25 miles an hour.
collection. The collection was purchased in 1955 from P. S. O'Hegarty of Dublin, Ireland, former Secretary of the Irish Fost Office. It was given to KU's library by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
O'HEGARTY, a one-time book-seller, bibliographer and editor, was well acquainted with Yeats and his family, Lady Gregory, and the Abbey Theatre group.
The collection is a remarkably rich one; all of the works in first edition except the very rare "Mosada" and "The Hour Glass."
The 25,000 items of the collection consist of books containing contributions by Yeats, and several score more from his personal library or having close association with the Yeats family.
RUNS OF periodicals with which the Irish poet was associated, such as "The Arrow" and "Shanachie," are also found in the collection display. Many single issues of periodicals in which material by or about Yeats appears, is included. Even the published Debates of the Irish Parliament in which Yeats was Senator and a considerable amount of manuscript material, notably correspondence with A. H. Bullen, is available.
"The O'Hegarty collection, along with the James Joyce collection has given Kansas vital resource material," Thomas R. Buckman, director of libraries, said.
pictures. They also express Yeats' disillusionment with contemporary Ireland.
AMONG YEATS' poems there is a copy written in ink to "Lady Morrell from W. B. Yeats, Dec 20, 1921." On the inside cover he wrote in pencil, "50 copies only, done for private circulation."
These poems were inspired mainly by the Dublin Corporation's refusal of a building for Sir Hugh Lane's famous collection of
"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave."
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