Friday, April 9, 1948
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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8 Art Works Receive Approval
By Regents for F M Hall Groups
SEA AND BOATS, waiercolor by Vaclav Vylacil
. . . even wharf odors depicted
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HANDS UPREACHING. oil by Abraham Raitner
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PROCESSION, oil by B. J. O. Nordfeldt
. . . dull colors, quiet effect
I M Sports Program Lures
Record Number of Women
Are university women plotting
to take over varsity athletics?
Before the war scarely a hand
ful took part in the women's in
tramural athletic program. This
year 75 percent of the sorority
women will take part in events,
according to Miss Frances Mc
Pherson, director of the program.
Pre-war years averaged 50 per
cent. The women's intramural pro
gram is entirely voluntary, and
separate from the physical edu
cation required for freshmen and
sophomores.
Fourteen sports are featured,
including team games and indi
vidual events. The schedule in
cludes volley ball, basket ball,
socer, baseball, softball, tennis,
badminton, and swimming.
Tournaments increase the in
ferest in each sport, Miss Mc
Pherson explained.
She thinks the boom may be
a carry-over from the war years
when university women sought
sports as a pastime when social
activities slumped. Somehow,
she added, interest has increased
even with the current surplus of
men on the campus.
The program is hampered tem
porarily by lack of space, she
said.
Miss McPherson expects 2400
women to participate before the
years is over. So far, she said,
1261 have participated, nearly
double last year's total.
Six paintings and two drawings
from the recent Nebraska Art
Association exhibit have been ap
proved for purchase for the F. M.
Hall collection by the Board of
Regents, upon the final choice of
guest experts Howard DeVrce of
the New York Times and Paul
Parker, director of the Des Moines
Art Center.
Described by Dwight Kirsch,
director of the university art gal
leries, as one of the most thought
provoking groups chosen in many
years, the purchases, totaling
$7,500, included the three paint
ings pictured at the left, "Hands
Upreaching," an oil by Abraham
Rattncr; "Sea and Boats," an
opaque watercolor by Vaclav
Vytlacil; and "Procession," an oil
by B. J. O. Nordfeldt.
Included also were "Saint
Christopher and the Lost Ones,"
an oil by Eugene Berman; "Skin
of Our Teeth," another oil by
Henry Kocrner; and "Trouble," a
tempera by Ben Shahn whose
drawing, "Southern Family," was
also purchased. The eighth selec
tion was an ink drawing, "Morn
ing," by Joseph de Crecft.
Purchased by the Nebraska Ai t
Association for its own collection,
which also hangs in Morrill Hall,
was "The Bridge," an oil by
Gregorio Prestopino.
The Rattncr oil, "Hands Up
reaching," was popular during
the exhibit's four week run with
spectators and critics alike. Done
in rich primary hues, the painting
was described by Professor Kady
Faulkner as a great religious af
firmation of faith. It symbolizes
the search of man for God, and
God's ready response. An ab
stract hand, painted in a white of
almost unbelievable brightness,
represents God.
Also of religious significance
is the Nordfeldt oil portraying
the bearing away of Christ's body
from the cross. Painted in calm,
dull colors, the picture achieves
exceptional quietness of effect,
Miss Falkner notes, by the adher
ence to horizontal and vertical
lines alone, with no diagonals to
disturb the tranquil design.
Paintings of social significance
are Shahn's tempera, "Trouble,"
which concentrates all the hate
of prejudices of our day into the
figures of two struggling men,
and Koerner's "Skin of Our
Teeth," which presents allegori
cally the frustration and despair
of our present society. Of
"Trouble" Miss Faulkner said,
"It isn't pretty, and I don't like
it. But it says that we must face
our unsolved social problems now,
and stop pushing them aside."
Professor Kirsch praised the
Vvtlacil gouache, "Sea and Boats,"
for its effect in a single view of
an entire harbor, with all the mo
tions, sounds and odors of a
wharf. "It will be an excellent
example of this medium for our
students to study," he said.
50 Cornhuskers
Still To Be Sold
. . . Ayers
Rusty Ayers, Business Manager
of the 1948 Cornhusker, said yes
terday that there are approxi
mately 50 annuals left to be sold
at $5.50 per copy.
Miss Ayers also asked that
those who made partial payments
on their Cornhuskers earlier in
the year complete their payments
at the Cornhusker office soon.
The annual is in its final stages
and will be out in the latter part
of May.
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Henzlik Outlines Role
of Pupils, Teachers
By Millie Hodtwalker
::We should have a secretary
of education in the President's
cabinet; that's how important I
think education is," said Dean
Frank E. Henzlik of Teachers Col
lege in a recent interview.
Dean Henzlik, like Jefferson,
believes that democracy to exist
must have an informed citizenry
and a trained leadership. "In
Jefferson's time, however," the
Dean said, "a person acted as an
individual. Now he must think
of himself as a member of a
group and of society as a whole."
The Dean believes that schools
and colleges today should have
as their goal the producing of
free men and women equipped to
live in modern society. Dr. Henz
lik gave his evaluation of such
men and women, "No man can be
free who lacks belief and trust
in himself. Self-respect rests on
a feeling of personal competence.
The man who has the ability and
is convinced of his capacity to
make a home, to earn a living, to
work and live hapily and effec
tively with others, can hold his
head up in a crowd."
Need Self Respect
"Each man's self-respect," ho
continued, "needs the support of
respect from others. Therefore,
respect for others is the price
each must pay to maintain his
own self-respect. Cooperative
behavior, based upon understand
ing and willingness to work ef
fectively with others, is so im
portant that we cannot leave it
to develop as circumstances de
cree. The ability to see with the
other fellow's eyes and also to
avoid self deception is an essen
tial attribute of a truly free man."
Dean Henzlik believes that
teachers can help pupils to build
self-respect by recognizing the
value of all talents, not just ver
bal skill and academic ability but
also mechanical, vocational, pro
fessional, artistic and social, and
but understanding and respect for
talents of others.
Sharing Process
"Teaching is not confined to
the imparting of knowledge, nor
even to simulation of learning,'"
the Dean continued. "At its best,
it is never a one-way affair but a
sharing process, a two-direction
communication. It is a way of
life by which we help others as
well as ourselves to discover and
fullv realize a happy and good
life."
When asked if he felt that
teachers should have the right to
strike, Dean Henzlik replied that
he did not feel that teachers
should affiliate themselves with
any one group of society, such as
labor, since teachers serve the
community as a whole. "How
ever," he said, "they do have a
right to organize as a group to
place their needs and complaints
before the community authorities.
Their problems may become so
acute that they have to enter into
some form of collective bargain
ing which might even take the
form of a strike."
Teacher Shortage
Commenting on the teacher
shortage, Dean Henzlik said that
150,000 elementary school teach
ers are needed next year whereas
colleges throughout the country
will produce not more than
10,000. High school teachers will
meet the demand in most areas.
The war, although not the only
cause of shortage, drained from
the profession 600,000 teachers,
300,000 never returned to teach
ing due to better salaries and
greater personal freedom in other
work. He continued, communities
which want good, properly trained
teachers must pay better salaries
and recognize that teachers are
human beings entitled to the same
privileges that other respectable
citizens of the community receive.
Public Concern
The public will always be more
or less concerned about the hab
its and behavior of people who
teach their children and rightly
so, he commented. "But more
freedom is now being allowed to
teachers who merely want to be
like other citizens. It is the ec
centric and extremist that most
often gets into trouble. A lot of
the griping that goes on is just
that!"
"Teachers College prepares the
very significant role the teach
er plays in society," Dean Henz
lik said, "by giving them broad
general education as well as pro
fessional and technical prepara
tion and finally, carefully planned
experiences through observation
and student teaching under ex
pert supervision and guidance.
"There is a great opportunity,"
he continued, "for the young man
or woman who wants to prepare
properly for a carrer in teaching
at the teachers college level, if
they want to work with people;
and after all, there is nothing
more important or satisfying than
working with the young men
and women who constitute the
future of democracy in America. '
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