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Spencer Library features rare collections
By JAN BLACK Kansan Staff Writer
Want to know something about Buddhism in Japan in 700 A.D.? Go to Spencer Library and you will find the original manuscript dated 700 A.D. concerning this subject; in fact, there are 125 manuscripts dating before 1500.
The Spencer Library is filled with hundreds of fascinating collections covering many fields of interest.
A collection of 18th century English literature housed in Spencer is said to be one of the best in the nation.
According to Alexandra Mason, Librarian, the renaissance period is well represented with a great collection of books and manuscripts concerning the history of science, literature, law and linguistics during the period.
by the Library of Congress as the third best in the country.
The Slavic collection is rated
Miss Mason said printing began sometime in the 1450's. The period from 1450 to 1501 is called the incunabula—"eradle period." These books are considered the experimental books. They had no title page and instead on the last page a paragraph containing the day, month and year and who the author was and who the printer was are printed.
The criticisms Vice-President Agnew leveled at college admission policies Monday night in Des Moines do not apply to the University of Kansas, because there is no quota policy concerning minority groups.
No admission quotas are enforced at KU
Unqualified students, Agnew
Teachers strike for more state aid
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Student absenteeism rose Thursday in Los Angeles, the nation's second largest school district, as about one-half of the system's 25,000 teachers stayed off the job for the fourth day.
The board of education planned to go to court to seek contempt citations against the striking teachers, and pickets were served with copies of a restraining order directing them to return to work.
Thirty-seven per cent of the district's 641,000 students stayed out of class Wednesday and the rate was expected to go up Thursday as substitute and non-striking personnel attempted to conduct classes.
In many cases students were sent home early from the district's 616 schools and others were let out into playgrounds. No schools were technically closed because to do so would endanger the $150 million in aid the district gets from the state each year.
The United Teachers of Los Angeles, which claims to represent 88 per cent of the teachers, called a strike with the avowed purpose of pressuring the state legislature to allocate more funds for schools.
The teachers' union, which rejected a 5 per cent wage increase, said it would reject a 100 per cent raise if that meant cutting back on educational programs. The school board, trying to make up a $40 million projected deficit next year, said it will have to cut programs anyway.
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said, are being swept into American colleges "on the wave of new socialism" which can devalue education and create campus disorder.
"Any attempt to subordinate the great universities of this country to social goals for which they are ill-designed and ill-equipped can only result in tragic losses to both these institutions and the nation," Agnew said.
up less space because the shelves can be adjusted allowing more room for shelves on the shorter book shelving section.
Michigan University was specifically criticised by the Vice-President for what he called a surrender to militant black students who demanded a 10 per cent Negro enrollment by 1973.
Admission requirements at KU for in-state students are that any graduate of an accredited Kansas high school who has not previously attended a college is eligible for freshman enrollment.
The Ellis collection ornithology is the best in the country. It is quite interesting how K.U. acquired this collection, said Miss Mason.
According to a KU policy statement, out-of-state students who are well qualified graduates of accredited high schools are admitted each year. All other things being equal, preference goes to children of KU alumni
KU has no quota policy, as referred to by Agnew, for enrollment of members of minority or disadvantaged groups. Officials say there is no evidence that there will be such a quota policy.
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An interesting collection, the Curll Collection, is made up of books printed by the "unspeakable Edmund Curll," said Miss Mason. He stole manuscripts from other authors and printed them. Of Curll's unwilling authors the best known is Jonathan Swift, whose Meditation upon a Broomstick (first printed by Curll in 1710 from a manuscript obtained by theft) is one of the most notable items in the collection.
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The books with leather bindings are oiled regularly to restore their beauty and keep them well preserved. The books are kept in the stacks which has a constant temperature of 70 degrees and a constant humidity of 50 per cent;
Barbara Baccus, assistant librarian, said the books are arranged completely different from a normal library number system. They are placed on the shelves in the stacks according to their height. This is necessary for preservation of the books. A tall book standing next to a short book causes the taller book to bend over. The books when arranged by height will also take
Hugh Ellis was a sickly boy and by the time he was 15 years old he had become a collector of bird skins, nests and eggs. His collection burned in a fire in California shortly after his fifteenth birthday and so he started collecting books concerning zoology. He lived to be 37 years old. The year he died he moved his collection from California to New York. However, on his way he received a telegram from a friend in Lawrence pledging him space and appreciation because Ellis was considered eccentric by most people. Ellis had the train stopped in Lawrence with the 65,000 volumes aboard.
Ellis had been promised a three-year grant and office space in return, he promised that if he should die while he was here he would leave his collection to the University. He died six months later and KU became heir to the most significant collection of its kind.
Miss Mason said the library also houses an excellent collection of material concerning voyages and maps.
Most of the voyage manuscripts are concerned with travel in Europe in the 19th century and coastal travels of Africa during
the same period. The maps are concerned with all parts of the world but mostly of maps of America ranging from an atlas map of 1650 to the important British maps of the Americas of the late 18th century.
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Housed in the Regional History section of Spencer Library is Quantrill's flag, Carrie Nation's hatchet and the Smasher's Mail, a paper by Carrie Nation and a cannon named Old Sacramento. Old Sacramento was used in the Battle of Hickory Point in Jefferson County, Kansas in 1856
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