'WHIGAN AT ZT r J-ritrl Urd.eIrA iAriteria Remain fo M-odern Art O'Connor Describes Failure Of Too Talented Personality can be judged rds as the old ob Rosenberg r department on "Can We Distin- . from Bad in Com- Art," Prof. Rosenberg, rofessor from Harvard I artists must "express in the formal organ- expression which has he same and which is ective standard." y4 we can't distinguish lack the objectivity of ld, tadding, "If it were ng artist should des- Didn't Wait e are some discriminat- r~ in this country who it to wait for the test :, relying on their in- good judgement were ssful." osenberg pointed to h thoughtful intuition rison to other modern e keys to quality judge- itenmporary art. "By With other works we comfirmation of our , he stated. des ranging from the s to Picasso, Prof. drew comparisons of standards involved in ments. acobs Dream ing on a Rembrandt another of a minor t same 'period, both j the biblical subject Dream, Prof. Rosen- the Rembrandt to have and sensitive organ- activity of accent and wile the other draw- more superficially at- remains unclear with scents." tg a Van Gogh and a forgery, he found one aigh originality, con- space, and expressive kes" while the forgery isy drawing, poorly re- pith confused planes." raws Parallels these parrallels into rary representational Lstic art, Prof. Rosen- atrct art forces us ito the formal n- hich the artist explores ry new effects." if there are any, can- gnzed; they have been their normal context." Lng comparisons, Prof. discussed a Picasso ab- Oig hszng the lines and color, the color, not loosely pour fully selected." ribed a Picasso line a nude as "a master- istic economy and sug- Ih allows easy inter- of forms, not inter- h. whole dominates, a the details." In a wing by Dufy he saw titiousness, with the what unrelated, though does have charm." Cites Matisse Matisse nude, Prof. found "clarity and sub-' citectural feeling per- picture with the con- ight and the gradua- full of rhythmic move- "and balance." painting with the same subject matter as having "poor relation- ships of forms and space." Prof. Ros'enberg also discussed several other contemporary draw- ings and a woodcut. "There are two objections to my thesis," he stated. "First, analysis is too narrow an approach and we must also relate to content. The second is that abstract art can hardly be a great work of art without great subject matter." "As for the first," Prof. Rosen- berg said, "I did not suggest neg- lect of all other considerations; only that through formal organ- ization can we comprehend the artistic value of a work apart from the subjective means of personal likes." Content Great "Concerning the second," he commented, "content in contem- porary art is as real, as great, and as, elevated as that of any other period." "If content is all-important we must throw out many paintings since the 17th century when the movement to sublimate subject matter first began." "This is a philosophic question; we only want to find workable criteria for discerning quality in modern art." "Modern art likes to move in the twilight of consciousness and in content is somewhat intangible," he concluded. PROF. JAKOB ROSENBERG . . . discusses art However, in comparison to a contemporary, he complained of "harsh hard outlines" and the "lack of gradations." Prof. Rosenberg also discussed a Cezanne, which, though "not strictly contemporary," has been one of "the chief inspirations to modern twentieth century art." He cited the picture of a land- scape with nudes for its "rhyth- ,cimal elements which play in all directions" and the "easy inter- play of forms and space," He pointed to a somewhat later SUPER MAXIMUM PAY: Teacher Merit System Succeeds. In Connecticut. .4i Teachers can be paid like busi- ness executives on merit as well as seniority, the school board in Canton, Conn. is proving, accord- ing to Superintendent of Schools H. B. Jestin. Here in Ann Arbor the public school system is considering a similar plan for "supermaximum" pay. A committee of teachers working with the board of edu- cation is developing an equitable and sound means for compensat- ing teachers who are considered to be superior. A merit system has been work- ing successfully in Canton's schools for four years. The National Educational As- sociation has for years resisted proposals to introduce the merit pay raise. Two years ago, in Indianapolis, teachers threatened to strike at the mere suggestion of a merit pay system. They said it would produce all kinds of jealousies and back-biting in the schools. "It has not done that -in Can- ton at all," Jestin declares. "It simply has produced more educa- tion for our money." About 40 per cent of the teach-. ers in the Canton school system have qualified each year for the 'superior' rating in merit evalua- tions by their principals. Conse- quently they receive as much as NEA To Hold Certfielation Code Hearing Ferris Crawford, state assistant superintendent of public educa- tiori, will conduct the final local hearing for the proposed Teacher Certification Code at 8 p.m. to- day in Aud, A. The proposed changes to the certification code provide for cer- tification of school superintend- ents and community college in- structors, and increased require- ments for provisional certificates on the elementary and secondary levels. This hearing is sponsored by the local Student National Edu- cation Association Chapter. Conservatives To He-,ar Creal Cecil Creal, Ann Arbor mayor, will speak on municipal govern- ment at 7:30 p.m. today in Rm. 3-R of the Michigan Union. The talk, open to the public, is sponsored by the University chap- ter of the Young Americans for Freedom, a national conservative organization. The YAF's will also discuss plans for the future, including conserva- tive speeches and political debatps to be presented on campus. double the regular seniority salary step-up in some years." Jestin believes that the merit pay plan can be used by any school system, no matter how large, if sufficient time and effort is taken to adapt it carefully to local conditions. "School boards interested in the merit pay should realize first that it's not a way of pinching pennies -it's pretty sure, to run the pay- roll up instead of down, because! every teacher has to be allowed to1 try for the merit raises," Jestin says. "But in the long run it will be economical because it enables the pupils to learn much faster." League Phtns 'Get -Toether' The Women's League "Get To-, gether" will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday in the League Un- dergraduate Office, Linda Hyatt, '62, member of the Interviewing and Nominating Committee of the League, said. All the League officers, commit- tee chairmen, and committee members will be there to answer any questions undergraduate wom- en may have concerning the League and the positions open to them, Miss Hyatt said, "The purpose of this 'Get To- gether' is to stimulate interest in the League among the undergrad- uate women. It will be informal and everyone is welcome. Peti- tioning for League positions opens after rush," Miss Hyatt said. Michifish To Hold Squad Contest Michifish, women's swimming club, is holding an inter-club stunt contest among its members at 7:30 p.m. today in the Women's Pool. The contest will be judged by Prof. Kathryn Luttgens and Jean C. Waterland, women's physical education department, and Sally Hanson, '61, past presi- dent. Shaw T o Lecture On Lung Cancer Lung cancer will be the topic of a lecture to be given at 8 p.m. today by Prof. Robert Shaw in University Hospital. Prof. Shaw is chief engineer of the department of thoracic sur- gery at 'Baylor University, and at Southwestern Medical Colloge he is clinical professor of surgery. The "brilliant failure" may be the victim of mutiple aptitudes, John~son O'Connor, head of theI Johnson O'Connor Research Foun-l dation, believes. Despite the fact that his num- erous aptitudes would appear to insure his success in college and in his career, the opposite is fre- quently the case.- . The student with multiple abil- ities may perform brilliantly through high schodl, but may in fact became completely lost in college. There he may frequently change his major and is even likely to drop without obtaining a degree, O'Connor pointed out. In a job for which he apparently has every aptitude, this individual ,may be unsuccessful because his unused aptitudes tend to "get in the way.' "These people with many apti- tudes should be the most brilliant people we have, and instead they are completely lost," he said. "We S C, SGC'To Fill Open Posts On Boards The interviewing and nominat- ing committee of Student Govern- ment Council will ask jghat group for approval tonl ht on 17 com- mittee and related board positions, Administrative Vice - President Richard Nohl, '62BAd., announced. Mark Moskowitz, '63, Robert J. Wilensky, '63, and Bruce Lipp- man, '62, are recommended for one year terms on the early re- gistration pass committee. One year cinema guild board posts for Bonnie Cross, '63, Doug- las Kirby, '63, Sandra Gentry, '62, Harold Zanoff, '62BAd., and Michael Lewis, '63, are proposed, along with semester terms for Joel Jacobson, '62, Henry A. Shevitz, '63, and Norris Lyle, '62L. The committee will recommend Fred Neff, '63, as chairman of the cinema guild board and Fred Riecker, '63, as manager of stu- dent book exchange-both for one semester One year terms on the human relations board will be recom- mended fo Barton Burkhalter, '61E, Mary Wheeler, '61, and Nancy Nasset, '63. Herbert Heiden- reich, Grad., will be recommended for a semester term, and Kay Pomerance, '64. to a one year term. SGC's Executive Comittee 'wi move to appoint David Casbon, '62BAd., for a one-semester term as elections director, and Robert Brimac6mbe, '63, as assistant elections director for the same period of time. Barth To Speak Onm Public Safety Alan Barth, editorial writer for the Washington Post and Times Herald, will speak on 'Public Safety and Private Rights" at 3 p.m. today in Rackham Amphi- theatre, Author of the book, "The Loyal- ty of Free Men" for which he re- ceived the signey Hillman award and "Government by Investiga- tion," Barth has won numerous awards including the American N ewspaper Guild Award. The lecture will be second in a series sponsored by the journal- ism department. Dial2-264 The glamor girl who wakes up ashamed... ELIZAETTAYLO R< LAURENCE HARVEY EN FISHER *SHOW TIMES 1:00 - 3:00 - 5:00 7:05 and 9:10 just do not know what to do with them." The aptitude tests administered by O'Connor's organization are de- scribed as "work samples" since not all require writing. The tests are presently used for eighteen or nineteen separate aptitudes, in- cluding tonal memory, structural visualization, number memory and foresight. In studies conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, the Johnson O'Connor Re- search Foundation noted that suc- cess increased as the number of strong aptitudes went up, until a maximum of four or five was reached. "The nine-aptitude man almost never graduates," O'Connor said. "I feel that it goes back to kin- dergarten," he explains. "The child who succeeds easily at everything is highly praised and never learns to work, while the person with one aptitude learns to work almost from the beginning. -, "The person with many apti- tudes works at something untilhe hits a problem, and then it be-. comes easier to change his field of interest than to work odt the problem." If young people with many ap- titudes could be discovered early enough, O'Connor suggested, he could be given a solid foundation in each aptitude as it developed.- Pick Women T1o Coordinate Senior Night j The Senior Night Central Com- mittee was announced yesterday by Ellen Weinberger, '61. Those chosen were: Sue Gaike- ma, '61, General Chairman; Susana IKreisler, '61, .Assistant General Chairman; Jean Hartwig, '61, Publicity Chairman; Patricia Wells, '61, Tickets Chairman; and Ceci Gaivan, '61, Entertainment Chairman. Senior Night is the oldest tra- dition observed at the University and is strictly an entertainment night for all senior women. Spe- cially chosen members of the sophomore class serve the seniors' supper, Miss Weinberger said. Orchestras by ud-Mor 1103 S. University NO 2-6362 By FRED KRAMER East Hall, the brick home of the engineering English department,, will be demolished this spring to makeroom for the new physics and astronomy building. A stone tablet reading "Tappan School-1883" reminds us of the building's origin as Tappan public grammar school in Ann Arbor. It ws sold to the University in 1922 for $76,000, re-named East Hall and repaired. Shce then, it has served as the home of the old engineering language depart- ment, the engineering English department and the literary col- lege's German department. "There are no legends associat- EAST HALL ' Built in 1883, the present home of the engineer- ing English department, will soon be demolished to make way for the new Physics .and Astronomy building. The buildinghas been called a "fire trap" for twenty years. Plan To Raze East Hall; Termed Old Fire Trap' Acqui Build Subject, to final approval by the Department of Health, Edu- cation and Welfare, the Univer- sity has acquired two government- owned properties at Willow Run Airport, Congressman ' George Meader (R-Mich) announced yes- terday. The transfers, which were given preliminary approval by the United States General Services Adminis- tration, are the 30th Air Division installations, now vacant, and the Packard hanger, which has been leasedbby the. University since November, 1959. A spokesman of the Departnent of Health, Education and Welfare said in Chicago yesterday he could "foresee no obstacles to the im- mediate transfer of the property to the University." The spokesman said the land would be deeded at a 100 per cent public discount-with no cost to the University. A provision of the agreement will require the University to use all the property's facities for twenty years. The Air Division installation in- cludes a total of 31 buildings with approximately 115,000 square feet of space on 133 acres of land while the hanger has approximately 50,000 square feet of space and~ is located on a 23-acre piece of land. University officials indicated the new areas would be used for expanding the research activities of Willow Run Laboratories, which are a part of'the Institute of Science and Technology. Rep. Meader estimated the mar- ket value of the Air Division in- stallations at $425,000 with an acquisition cost' of $615,465, and the Packard. land's fair market value at $400,000 with an acquisi., tion cost of $615,465. ed with the building, but there are many complaints," Prof. George M. McEwen of the engineering English department said. He. pointed out that parts of' the building have been used as storage areas. He recalls the incident of six years ago when someone dis- ceovered a number of old howitzer shells in the basement. When asked if he felt any nostalgia with the passing of the old edifice, Prof. Ivan H. Walton" of the engineering English depart- ment, who has taught there since it was purchased, said, "When a building has been condemned as a fire hazard for the last 20 years, you can't be too nostalgic." ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE Opening Thursday n _, f "Every good thing of which th pr tr + is rrynt _ _ _~ , Dramatic!t Ieu .t ,5 rIUU .. . ---N.Y. Journal Americarr Comic! 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