'THE FIRST 100 YEARS'
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Rare book exhibit at Watson
By Joyce Grist
Now on display in the Special Collections department of Watson Library is a special Centennial exhibit entitled "The First Hundred Years." The exhibit will remain on display through the end of this month.
The purpose of the exhibit, said Alexandra Mason, head of the department of Special Collections, is "to demonstrate the sort of material the library has acquired in its first 100 years."
ONE PART of the exhibit includes letters and papers designed to show the feelings of the people of Kansas during the period from 1854-1865. During this time, Kansans experienced two Civil Wars, that of the nation as a whole and one within the state.
A letter dated February, 1865, written by President Abraham Lincoln to the Secretary of War is included in this part of the exhibit. The letter asks the secretary to act favorably on military promotion requests from Kansas Senator James Lane.
Former Senator Lane was the counterpart of W. C. Quantrill on the Union side during the Civil War period. He became a United States senator after the war. Also in this exhibit are a letter written in January 1860 by Quantrill to
Peace Union plans protest
The Student Peace Union yesterday announced its intention to picket the Chancellor's ROTC Review May 20. At a meeting in the Kansas Union yesterday, Dean Abel, Michigan City, Ind., graduate student and president of SPU, said the purpose of the picket will be "to protest against militarism in general."
Arrangements for the picket will be started immediately, and people from other schools will be invited. Abel said.
SPU is also planning talks on conscientious objection. The scope of activities will be widened to embrace such subjects as world federalism. Up till now the emphasis has been on the draft and the Viet Nam War.
Where's my rear end?
STAFFORD, England—(UPI)—Ronald Shelverdine was fined $70 for driving a truck with faulty equipment. The rear wheels fell off as he was driving through town.
his mother when he was teaching school in Lawrence and a proclamation by the citizens of Lawrence in 1855 to Governor Robert Walker. The proclamation lampooned Walker because he brought troops to Lawrence when the citizens defied the territorial government and elected an illegal city council.
Another part of the exhibit displays books and pamphlets written by four famous Kansas printers, editors and publishers. Included are a pamphlet by Jotham Meeker, owner of the Shawnee Baptist Mission Press, the first printing establishment in the state. Meeker attempted to bring the Gospel to the Indians. He used an orthography of his own for this project.
A BOOK BY Moses Harmon, Valley Falls, "preaching the gospel of radicalism," a book by E. W. Howe, Atchison, "whose message was literary realism" and booklets by Bill Jackson, Wichita, which are "remarkable for their beauty" are also included.
A third exhibit case contains several items from the J. B. Watkins Collection, which has been a major source of information about the economic history of the American West. Watkins was a Lawrence businessman who had built a financial empire which stretched from Lawrence to Louisiana to London. Real estate loans, mortgage deeds, pasture leases and wills from the late 1800's are in the collection.
Several early Cervantes editions acquired by the library in 1958 from the library of Sir William Stirling Maxwell make up another exhibit. A copy of the second edition of Don Quixote, printed
in 1605 and a 1689 English version are in the exhibit.
THERE ARE MAPS in the exhibit showing the areas of concentration in the library's collections. These areas are the Old World, depicted by a Roman Army road map, the New World, depicted by an 18th century North American map, and the region including and surrounding Kansas represented by an 1834 territorial map showing the locations of the area's Indian tribes.
Travel and geographic description books make up another part of the exhibit. Books about North America, Persia, Africa, Russian and Japan are included. The oldest book was printed in 1556 about Russia and the most recent was printed in 1843 about North America. The North American book is one of the few reliably illustrated early works about American travels.
A RENAISSANCE LAW book printed in 1475 concerning Roman marriage laws is another part of the exhibit. The Renaissance law books were printed in two center columns with the commentaries of various medieval and Renaissance lawyers on the outside. This particular section is illustrated with the figures of a priest, bride and groom in color.
The subject of a Master of Arts thesis provides the focal point for another part of the exhibit. It is a 15th century book, "Book of Hours," by an unidentified French artist. It is a miniature which demonstrates both the color mastery and perspective of late Medieval art.
Books about science make up the last two parts of the exhibit. One case contains books about animals and the other about plants.
Class runs TV news as weekend lab job
Kansas City television station KMBC-TV and the KU School of Journalism have launched an experiment in television news. The schools 16-member TV news class produces TV 9's weekend news shows.
The station serves as a laboratory session to supplement the course lectures. The students use the station's mobile units, communicate by two-way radio, handle the news wire machine and wire picture machine and screen and pick stories from the daily news feed of video tape.
Because of labor union restrictions, the students can not appear on camera. But they are functioning in every other phase of producing a television news show, according to Marvin E. Arth, who teaches the course and makes the weekend assignments to the students.
Actual on-the-air work is handled by Claude Dorsey, KMBC TV news director, and regular news casters Charles Gray and Pat Petree, who alternate in handling the three weekend news shows.
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The first American work about birds, printed in Philadelphia in 1799, and a 1518 edition of Pliny's Saturday History described by Carried M. Watson are included in this scientific portion of the exhibit.
Watson Library contains well over 1 million volumes at the present time, said Miss Mason. In 1874, the library had less than 1,000 volumes. There are 90,000 volumes included in the Special Collections department. Thirty thousand of these are part of the Kansas Collection.
"THE EXHIBIT REPRESENTS the major subject areas in Special Collections," said Miss Mason.
All Special Collections will be housed in the new Spencer Library when it is completed, said Miss Mason.
The department of Special Collections was formally organized in 1953 and the Kansas collection was informally started in 1910. "No organized attempt was made to deal with Special Collections volumes until 1953," said Miss Mason.
The next exhibit in Special Collections will contain works of W. B. Yeats, an Irish poet. It will be in honor of the meeting of the American Committee on Irish Studies which will gather here the first week in May.
Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 19, 1966
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