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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 7, 196'
Classical History Viewed At Museum in Fraser
By Paula Myers
A fragment of the history of ancient Greece and Rome may be seen on the KU campus: Wilcox Museum, on the second floor of Fraser.
The blue, shadowy, wide hall that leads to the main room contains four showcases and white plaster busts of those never-to-be-forgotten Romans and Greeks. The dim lights cast shadows on their faces giving them the expression of deep concentration or whatever frame of mind in which they have been captured.
AT THE ENTRANCE of the museum there is a small statue of the Nike (Victory) of the Paionios. It originally stood on a pedestal 19 feet high at Olympia in 420 B.C. The hall is lined with white busts of the headless Dancing Faun, Eros of Centocelle, Modusod, Julius Caesar, Vergil, Hadrian, Homer, Plato, Trajan, Socrates, So-called Clytie, Roman Woman, and the helmeted Pericles.
Previews Foretell Higher Enrollment
A sharp increase in new student totals in September is indicated by attendance at five of the 11 "KU Previews" scheduled this summer.
Last year, 1,698 new students attended previews, at which they took placement tests, conferred with advisers and made housing arrangements.
The first five previews this year drew 1,054 prospective students, and 249 have registered for the sixth session.
KU Pulls One-Fifth Of National Scholars
More than a fifth of the holders of National Merit Scholarships attending members schools of the Big Eight conference last year were at the University of Kansas.
The annual report of the National Merit Scholarship Corp. shows that 22 scholars were at KU and 22 at Iowa State University, or 22.5 per cent of the total at each.
However, the 14 scholars at Oklahoma and 12 at Oklahoma State gave the Sooner state the highest number at member schools within a state.
One of the four showcases contains Roman lamps of terra cotta chiefly from Porta Salaria, Rome. A vegetable oil was burned in them by means of a wick, and holes for the filling may be seen in the bowls of the lamps. They must have given off very feeble light. These lamps belong to the first century B.C. and the first century A.D. for the most part.
ACROSS THE WAY another showcase contains ancient Roman bronzes: keys and locks, nail, arrowheads, handle of a bronze vessel, furniture decorations with a gold leaf, shoulder brooches, ring, buttons, half of a belt buckle, tweezers, hair pin, and ear pick. Another shelf contains five pieces of Etruscan pottery, and on the lower shelf are terra cotta antifixes.
In the third showcase are fragments of a Roman Wall painting from Pompeii-ca. 63-70 A.D. The case also contains glassware. Some of the glassware has the rainbow-like effect visible on the surface of many glass objects. It's termed "iridescence" and is highly prized by collectors. It is due to the action of moisture and oxidation from the earth in which such objects have been buried for centuries.
IN THE GREAT museums of the world, one may see impressive displays of vases which, through some trick of chance, are beautifully preserved. In Wilcox Museum there is only a representative selection of these invaluable fragments found in the fourth showcase. Such fragments, or "sherds," as they are called, are nonetheless of inestimable value to the archaeologist as a means of dating the various levels in which they are found.
When one walks into the large room he will find impressive white plaster statues. The largeness and the brilliance of the statues make the room shrink in size and make one glance about in awe. There are glass cases containing Roman funeral inscription, Pre-Christian coinage, most of them being Greek or from Greek colonies, and a gift showcase from Alice Rohe, representing the class of 1896.
If you haven't been to Wileox Museum, take a break and wander through and enjoy the relics and statues.
SUA Presents
Billiards & Table Tennis Tournament
July 7 - 6 p.m.
Sign up at the Jay Bowl in the Union (Trophies Given)
Bridge Tournament July 8-7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room in the Union (Prizes Given)
SAN FRANCISCO —(UPI)— A news story bearing the code letters "HW" moved out of this Republican national convention city yesterday on the trunk wires of United Press International.
UPI Getting Set For Work at GOP Meetings
The code letters were a signal to editors that the vanguard of UPTs 1964 convention team was on the job.
"HW" stands for UPI's hotel work-room which will be home base for more than 100 reporters, editors, photographers, cameramen and technicians who will cover the convention for UPI's newspaper, radio and television subscribers.
In the interval, they will appear over millions of words dealing with high political drama, secret backstage maneuvering and emotional moments of individual triumph and defeat.
Before the letters are used for the last time 13 days later, the Republicans will have decided between Sen. Barry Goldwater and Gov. William W. Scranton or some dark horse, picked a vice-presidential nominee and hammered out a platform on which their choices will stand in the November election.
The sights and sounds of the politicking will be carried to UPI radio and television subscribers by separate crews of specialists. UPI photos will be on the scene with more than 50 men.
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