E M I C H I G A N 1) A I LY
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1936
TUF MICHIGAN DAIL4Y SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1936
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Aga-Oglu Gives
Talk On Nordic
And Islamic Art
European, Mohammedan
Similarities In Culture
Described In Address
Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, lecturing
yesterday in the Alumni Memorial
Building on the subject "The Iden-
tity of Expression in Islamic and
North-European Arts," pointed out
the remarkable similarities which
may be found in Islamic and Nordic
arts of the fourth to the 12th cen-
turies.
Dr. Agla-Oglu stated that by
North-Europeancountries he means
,Scotland and Ireland, Scandanavia
and North Germany. "The artistic
conceptions of the two civilizations,"
he said, "are very simple. The cul-
ture represents itself in decorative
forms, and not in representational
art."
A number of slides showing Islamic
and Nordic works of art together were
then shown. The first showed a
title page from an Irish Gospel of
the eighth century, and a title page
from a Koran of the same period.
Dr. Agla-Oglu pointed out the simi-
larities in the design of the pages.
The close geometric design is clearly
noticeable in both pages, and it is
this, he said, which seems to point to
likeness of the artistic philosophies
of the two widely separated peoples.
The second set of slides showed an
example of bronze work from Tur-
key, and a wood carving from a shrine
of St. Patrick in Ireland. In both
of these decorative pieces, a rhyth-
mical repitition of design is the mo-
tive, and this same influence, Dr.
Agla Oglu pointed out, is also dis-
cernable in the music of Islam and
the Northern countries at the same
period.
Another slide shown pictured two
heralded horse heads, both alike in
their design, and in the use of ara-
besque features intermingled with the
natural appearance of the figures.
The use of-arabesque design, said Dr.
Agla Oglu, is common both in Nor-
dic and Islamic art. The reasons for
this, he said, are in both cases re-
ligious.
The religion of Islam dictates that
the artist must not imitate the work
of Allah, and fear of insulting their
Gods prevented the Nordic artists
from imitating nature exactly. This
fear, he said, continued after the in-
troduction of Christanity to the
northern peoples.
Weaver Speaks
On WJR On Era
Of Romanticism
Bremer Witness
(b,, (1 .1 Pep rts n forth more vigorously, and more out-
BrimmRep rs n Cat holics W ill pthan heretofore, its objec-
Press Conventions $ions to the go vernent's socialistic
Defy Nnexican article three of
An account of two journalism con- So the national constitution, reformed
ventions attended in Washington, r S c alistOrde in D., 1934, to make socialistic edu-
D. C., during he holidays was given cation compulsory, the pastoral letter
said "no Catholic can be a Socialist."
by' Prof. Jehn L. BrumR of the de- lfuse Compliance WithI It defined as Socialism any sys-
partment of journalism at a meeting tern which "does not recognize the
of Kappa Tau Alpha, national hon- Decree Inhibiting Church rights of God and the church."
orary journalism society, at the home Control Of Education Although issued in printed form
of Mr. and Mrs. Donal Hamilton __prior to being read, the pastoral let-
Haines Thursday evening. MEXICO CITY, Jan. - ter was not immediately circulated
Dorothy Shappell, '36, also spoke, Catholic church authorities said to- widely. No government official would
presenting a review of Walter Du- comment on it before it was read.
ranty's book "I Write As I Please." day instructions to Mexican Catholics ------ -__eo itar-
Plans were made at the meeting to to refuse to comply with the Federal PLEADS GUILTY
present a dance for all journalism socialistic education laws would be GRAND RAPIDS, Jan. 17.-UP)-
students sometime during the second read Sunday in all churches through- Ward Harris, fifty-one-year-old WPA
semes:er. The dance will be spon- out the country. worker, pleaded guilty before Circuit
scred in conjunction with Theta The instructions were contained Judge Thaddeus B. Taylor Wednes-
Sigma Alpha, national journalism in a collective pastoral letter, pre- day to the fatal stabbing of Mrs.
sorority for wcmen. Claire Gorman, pared by the nine archbishops and Evelyn Bouck last Saturday night in
'36, was named co-chairman of the 30 bishops, in which the church set his room in a boarding house.
dance committee. ,-
Hillel Players To Give
One-Act Play In Pontiac
"The Finger of God" has been se-
lected as the one-act play to be pre-
rented by the Hillel Players before
the Bnai Britn orgamzation of Pon-
iac. The play was chosen fromt
three presented by the Players before
the public and ranked by the audi-
ence 's applause.
Marguerite Merkel, '37, is the direc-
tor of the play and Robert Fisch-
grund, '37, Lillian Rosen, '36, and
Richard Rome, '36, compose the cast
of the production.
Al
-~-- ae d tress Proo.
Terese Carmichael (above), 29,
testified at St. Paul she saw Cas-
sius McDoinald, accused conspirator
in the Bremer kidnaping, at the
home of Alvin Karpis in Miami,
while she was nurse for Karpis'
woman companion, Dolores De-
laney.
DAILY OFFICIAL
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Moore, of the Engineering College,
will be the guest of honor. Members
are requested to sign at the Union
before the meeting. The cost is $.35,
and the time 6:30 p.m. The time for
taking the 'Ensian picture will be
chosen.
Unitarian Church. Sunday:
5:30 Twilight service, "A Battle
yet to be won" by Dr. A. P. Reccord.
7:30, Liberal Students Union. Dr.1
A. P. Reccord on "Rethinking Re-
ligion."
Elet Alumni Head
Y.M.C.A. President
Emory J. Hyde, president of the
University Alumni Association, was
elected president of the Y.M.C.A. at
a meeting of the new board of direc-
tors held Thursday night. He has
been a member of the board for more
than a year.
Recently Hyde made a trip to Cal-
ifornia, where he studied the policies
and activities of six branches of the
Y M.C.A. In his position as chair-
man of the program committee he
has cooperated with more than 30
local leaders in directing thehactivi-
ties of the local branch.
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Prying Into
Of Poets
Private Lives
Is Deprecated
By Professor In Talk
Prof. Bennett Weaver of the Eng-
lish department spoke over Station
WJR yesterday afternoon, discussing
the period of Romanticism, its effects
and significance.
Professor Weaver lent much em-
phasis to the point that as students
of literature people are liable to stress
tro much the knowing of intimate
facts about the lives of certain poets.
"There are two sides to a poet," he
said, "one with which he faces the
world, the other with which he faces
eternal love and truth."
"The period of Romanticism was
essentially one of revolution," he said,
adding that French and American
revolutions affected men's manner of
thinking, and that the old order was
broken up, yielding to a new.
He continued that as far as the
Englishmen were concerned, the pe-
riod was one of war, a condition sup-
plemented with the agricultural and
industrial revolutions - all of which
changed the very bases of life. Yet
despite this turbulent and changing
atmosphere, he added, beauty such as
disclosed in the "Ode' to a Skylark"
seemed to be the center about which
great poetical thought and expression
revolved.
Professor Weaver implied that it
was bad taste to want to know the
private facts about a literary genius
when those facts are such as to sat-
isfy only human curiosity and cannot
be used to help us understand some-
thing worthwhile which the genius
has produced. "I think it not only
bad taste," he added, "but it is bad
judgment, also. It leads to a deep
confusion of the purposes with which
we study literature, which, after all,
have to do with our learning about
life and the ways in which we may
live most abundantly."
Professor Weaver spoke admiringly
of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Burns,
in that they were truly representative
of their age, the Romantic period.
He continued by saying that the so-
cial theory of the dignity and worth
of the common man was in Words-
worth's hands transmuted into a
poetic theory. The poem was inter-
ested in the elemental passions of
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