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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1953
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By CRAWFORD YOUNG
Daily Managing Editor
'T WAS interesting to note that the staid
Senior Board, never a leading organ of
student agitation, voted unanimously to con-
demn the arbitrary methods employed by
the Administration in juggling the final ex-
amination schedule.
When even normally conservative opin-
ion is stirred to unanimous indignation
over an Administration attitude, it would
seem high time for some top level re-
evaluation of procedure in matters affect-
ing the student interest.
The issue is clear cut. Over the week-
end, the story of the exam switch inadvert-
ently leaked out of the Administration Bldg.
The change had been made in the upper
reaches of the University hierarchy, with
no effort made to feel out the opinion of the
students on the issue.
Why were the students overlooked? Of-
ficials give various answers. We didn't think
of it-an academic matter of no concern to
the students-an oversight-but one can find
neither substance nor satisfaction in any of
them.
Why was the change made? There was
a real problem to be faced. Previously, stu-
dents were only "candidates for gradua-
tion" on Commencement Day-there was
not time under the existing examination
schedule for the faculty to grade final exam-
inations and determine semester grades. get
the diplomas made out and the final process-
ing completed. Approximately ten per cent
of the graduation candidates dropped by
the wayside when the final tallies were in.
Difficulties in publicity were created by the
procedure. Most important, it was felt that
the ceremony was not very meaningful to
the student if it was not the actual occasion
of his graduation from the University.
The Regents and President Harlan H.
Hatcher were concerned with the general
lack of interest in the Commencement ex-
ercises on the part of a goodly proportion
of the degree candidates. The time had
come, they felt, to act.
A committee headed up by Assistant to
the President Frank E. Robbins was as-
signed the task of coming up with a solu-
tion to the problem.
Their answer: move final examinations
up from the scheduled date of Monday, June
1 to Friday, May 29. knock off the classes
scheduled for that Friday, and arrange for
all seniors to complete their examinations
by Friday, June 5. In that way, it would be
possible to officially graduate the seniors at
Commencement, planned for Saturday, June
13.
This formula was then submitted to the
small executive committees of the various
schools and colleges concerned, which are
empowered to give sanction for the entire
unit they represent. These duly endorsed
the change; it would have been surprising
for them to object to a proposal which
ha dsuch strong high-level backing. Thus
the shift was made with the knowledge of
a handful of faculty members and officials
and no students.
It is hard to believe that this plan is the
best answer to the problem. There are sev-
eral serious disadvantages immediately ap-
parent:
1) Elimination of the "dead" weekend
for study will seriously handicap many stu-
dents. At the end of the semester, deadlines
for innumerable term papers and projects
fall. For the most part, these projects can-
not be - undertaken till the latter part of
the semester when the student has sufficient
background in the course material to tackle a
specialized assignment. With regular class
obligations until the day before the begin-
ning of examinations in addition, the Uni-
versity is putting the entire student body
under a good bit of pressure for the benefit
of the small percentage of graduating stu-
dents.
2) Many faculty members will have to
make out two sets of final examinations.
Those whose classes "are not scheduled for
finals before June 5 will be required to give
a special exam for the seniors-a most un-
satisfactory arrangement for both the stu-
dent and teacher.
3) There will be an eight day interval bp-
tween the time the seniors complete their
examinations and Commencement. With
many unwilling to wait the three or four
days customary in the past, it would seem
quite probable that many more students will
return home to begin work or wander off on
summer ventures.
Until three years ago, final examina"
-tions began on Saturday and seniors re-
ceived diplomas. However, at that time
the policy was changed when the faculty
strongly protested the necessity of giving
two exams in many courses and the rush
to get senior grades in.
The Student Legislature had also been-
working for a couple of years in an effort
to win a "dead" week before finals, as is the
practice at many other schools. The re-
sult of their efforts was a compromise ar-
rangement by which finals were deferred
until Monday, leaving at least a "dead"
weekend.
One alternative to the plan would be a
scheme of exemptions for graduating seniors
who were doing satisfactory work in any
course. This method is used elsewhere with
profit; it might well be applicable here.
But regardless of the merits of the plan,
which are at best dubious, the methods
used in changing the procedure are com-
pletely inexcusable. One wonders whether
the Adminktration will ever learn that ar-
bitrary decisions handed down from above
will inevitably be resented. The matter was
THE FITZGERALD STORY:
Simply Tragic?
"Oh-Oh, They Found Another Democrat"
'j HE TENDENCY to moan and weep over
the "overwhelming tragedy and disil-
lusionment" of the life of Scott Fitzgerald
has been, for the dozen years since his
death, almost a literary vogue.
Robert Rice's one act play, "The Late
He and She" performed as part of the
Inter-Arts Festival last weekend, is no ex-
ception. The poor production only em-
phasized the stifling veil of bitter failure
which cloaked the play.
Rice has joined the ranks of those who
have allowed the irony of Fitzgerald's later
years to virtually blind them to the other
side of the scale.
These critics search "The Last Tycoon"
for the greatness it would have had, had he
finished it and they bemoan his tragic end.
I wonder if their tears and sentiments might
not embarrass Fitzgerald. For the alcohol,
the tuberculosis, mental anguish and the
final heart attack from which he died on
December 21, 1940, were the climax to the
orgiastic tumult of earlier productive years.
The irony is that shortly before he died
he wrote his own epitaph.
"Your books were in your desk
I guess and some unfinished
Chaos in your head
Was dumped to nothing by the great
janitress of destinies."
Every one of his books was out of print;
his novel was unfinished; his reputation was
only a faint shadow of what it had been.
And he had lived "to give that chaos in his
head shape in his books and to see the
knowledge that he had done so reflected to
him by the world. He died believing he had
failed."
Yes there were the ironies but there is
more.
"You can take off your hats, now, gentle-
men," Stephen Vincent Benet wrote. "and
I think you had better. This is not a legend,
this is a reputation-seen in perspective, it
may well be one of the last secure reputa-
tions of our time."
Let's take a look at what was the hectic
life that wrote the books that built that
reputation.
Once at Bar-le-Due, Montaigne saw a
portrait which Rene, King of Sicily, had
painted of himself and asked, "Why is it
not, in like manner, lawful for everyone
to draw himself with a pen, as he did
with a crayon?" "Off hand, one might
reply," suggests Virginia Woolf, "not only
is it lawful, but nothing could be easier.
Other people may evade us but our own
features are almost too familiar. Let us
begin! But then when 'We attempt the
task, the pen falls from our fingers; it is
a matter of profound, mysterious, and
overwhelming difficulty. After all, in the
whole of literature, how many have suc-
ceeded in drawing themselves with a pe?"
There have been many writers who have
given us reflections, glimpses, flashes of
understanding; but the giving of one's self,
completely, successfully, honestly, above all,
consciously, has been rare. Throughout ev-
erything that Fitzgerald wrote, he re-crea-
ted experiences of his life (his few attempts
to write of another period were abandoned
as failures); his work is one long series of
personal revelations, colored by imagina-
tion.
This reliance on actual experience for
subject matter suggests to Andrews Wan-
ning that sheer lack of material may have
been responsible for the falling off in vol-
ume of Fitzgerald's output in the last fif-
teen years of his life. "It is suggestive that
between 1920 and 1925 he published three
novels in which he used (or used up?) the
backgrounds of his youth; that much later
he drew on the international background of
bars, beaches, and asylums for Tender is the
Night; arid that ironically, the pot boiling
excursion in Hollywood gave him material
for the last serious work, the
Last Tycoon."
unfinishe
Take his life story and trim it off into
a paragraph of commonplace: talented,
ambitious, attractive, early years embit-
tered by failure to make the Princeton
football team and a gentle bounce out of
that ivy-covered haven; an armistice
which was signed before his overseas cap
got a chance to go overseas. Then, in
spite of immediate acclaim for his first
book, "This Side of Paradise," there fol-
lowed the inability to be the Jazz Age idol
on $36,000 a year; short stories for slick
magazines earning the derision of the
critics; then redemption with "The Great
Gatsby." The paths that wound to Zelda's
sanatarium also led to periodical alcoholic
holidays and finally script writing in Hol-
lywood where, wasted by drink and disease
and torn by his own mental anguish as
well as Zelda's, he had begun to work on
"The Last Tycoon" and, where at the
time of his death in 1940, he had begun
to build himself a new life.
For the story of that life in its imagina-
tive entirety and the unconsciousness of im-
pending destruction there are his novels
and over two hundred short stories.
AMORY BLAINE was the pseudo-intellec-
tual Fitzgerald of Princeton. It was he
who bore Fitzgerald's dismissal from college;
his love affair was that of his creator, writ-
ten when Fitzgerald's love was still "bleed-
ing as fresh as the skin wound on a hae-
mophile."
Anthony and Gloria of "The Beautiful
and the Damned" are embarrassingly real,
they say what Scott and Zelda said to
each other with that curious shocked im-
maturity about sex.
Fitzgerald's theory of "emotional bank-
ruptcy" was deeply imbedded in both The
Great Gatsby (who, at one point ceased
being Gatsby and became Fitzgerald him-
self) and, especially, in Tender Is the Night.
Dick Diver's destruction is Fitzgerald's own
self judgment, his ironic prophecy. Diver's
emotional bankruptcy deprives him of his
personal discipline and his ability to
strengthen other people which sends him
back to being a doctor, just a doctor with
an unfinished treatise on his desk and noth-
ing else, closely paralleling Fitzgerald's own
return to writing - preparing his endless
notes for the final, unfinished Last Tycoon
and the hack work film scenarios.
Just as he had used the story of Zelda's
emotional breakdown, their adventures
which took them from St. Paul to New York,
to the warm beaches of Antibes to the psy-
choanalyst's couch, his own emotional col-
lapse was expressed publicly in an almost
masochistic confessional. In a series of
short essays for "Esquire Magazine" he
comes, perhaps, closest to intentionally cre-
ating that pen drawing of himself. It is in
these essays that the psuedo-selves, the
selves as romanticized in his novels are
bared;'Fitzgerald's search for his "real" self
came eventually to be a "moral inner com-
pulsion to symbolic destruction." It may
have been such an inner compulsion that
drove him to stand before his audience-
naked nerves exposed-wasted body bared
-and bravely point out the ugly wounds.
Fitzgerald himself saw only the failure.
Saw himself as a piece of cracked crockery+
If that was to be his weakness it should not
be ours. Surely from this distance the hap-
piness, the production far outweighs the
tragedy.
If we insist on standing over his dead
body and repeating quietly what Owl Eyes
said at Gatsby's funeral, as Gertrude Stein
said at Fitzgerald's: "The poor S.O.B.," let's
keep the pity out of our voices.
-Gayle Greene
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DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN
DEP'ARTMENT cOF
Xetter4 TO THE EDITOR
The Daily welcomes communications from its readers on matters of
general interest, and will publish all letters which are signed by the writer
and in good taste. Letters exceeding 300 words in length, defamatory or
libelous letters, and letters which for any reason are not in good taste will
be condensed, edited or withheld from publication at the discretion of the
editors.
English Prisoners . . . 1
AFTER Mr. Samra's charge in
his Behid te Lies"that
the majority of the prisoners
transported to the Southern Col-l
onies from England were "noth-!
ing but thieves, murderers, and
profligates," I have been reading
in the library on the subject. I
have found that Mr. Samra wast
unjustified in both his statements
that the Southern Colonies were1
populated by criminals, first, be-~
cause of the unusually severe penal
code of England in which trans-
portation to America was part of
the system of pardons; second, be- t
cause of the economic conditions 1
of the time in which the popula-
tion was divided between those int
dire poverty and those who were
wealthy, with no middle class.
The laws of England werel
unique among those of all other
nations for the severity of pun-
ishment for petty offenses. In
1600 over three hundred offenses
were punishable by death, rang-
ing from stealing a loaf of bread
to sustain life. (Or for stealing
anything worth more than a shill-
ing.) Even just before the Ameri-
can Revolution there were over
150 capital crimes.
The word "felon" conveyed a
different meaning in the seven-
teenth and eighteenth centuries
than it does now. In addition,
transportation to the colonies was
regarded as a mitigation of pun-
ishment and awarded to those
thought deserving of leniency,
which included a large proportion
of debtors and religious and po-
litical offenders. The worst crim-l
inals were not transported but
executed in large numbers after
every session of court.1
The permanent influence of the
convict element on society in the
colonies was comparatively small,t
since the rigid discipline of colon-
ial laws and the expenditure of
seven years of hard labor as in-
dentured servants in a new land
of hope and promise converted the
greater number into respectable<
and self-supporting citizens.
Transportation of prisoners was
by no means limited to the South-
ern Colonies. The committee of
trade for New York petitionedr
authorities in 1693 to send them
all of the prisoners who were to
be transported from Newgate
Prison.
-Douglas Carr
Ed, Joe & Gene ...
ED LEVENBERG seems to have
changed his tune with regard
to Joe McCarthy. Ed now says he
doesn't like Joe. The fact is how-
ever that Ed always took Bob
Taft's view of McCarthy last year.
This view was well-stated by the
Ohio Senator himself when he
came to Hill Auditorium, seeking
the Presidency, and said for every-
one to hear, "I think the junior
senator from Wisconsin is doing
his country a great public ser-
vice." We must also recall that
General Eisenhower, whom Ed
supported (though reluctantly),
said that he wanted Joe on his
"team." Now it appears that Ike,
and Bob, and Ed want nothing to-
day with him, but there are a few
of us left to, remember the facts.
Now Ed says he didn't mean
that there should be an immed-
iate invasion of the Chinese main-
land. This reminds me of Ike's
recent statements that he didn't
mean that he would give the peo-
ple a tax cut immediately, or bal-
ance the budget immediately, or
end the Korean conflict immed-
iately. These will hardly suffice
as excuses to the thousands unon
rupt government of Chiang who
lost free China, and no one else.
We poured billions down a rat
Thole to help save free China, but
Chiang has no one to blame but
himself.
It may very well be that the
leader of Formosa h'as reformed.
If he has, that is good. But this
does not answer the argument
that Chiang is not ready for any
invasion and will not be for a
long, long time. The best advice
to him is sit tight, and keep build-
ing.
And the best advice to Ike, and
Bob, and Ed is to keep fighting
the McCarthy's with all their
heart-as the Democrats always
have-and maybe they will be able
to salvage a little self respect for
the once proud political party
which boasts the names of Abra-
ham Lincoln and Theodore Roose-
velt!
-Gene Mossner, '52
'Right You Are'
AS ONE WHO has been interest-
ed in the theatre, both pro-
fessional and amateur, for many
years. I have naturally attended
at least one performance of every
play given this year by the Student
Players, Speech Department, Arts
Theatre, and Civic Theatre. I have
often disagreed with the Daily crit-
icism but never so strongly as with
Bob Holloway's review of "Right
You Are If You Think You Are."
I was completely enchanted with
the play, and particularly with this
production. I have seen it done on
other campuses but never so de-
lightfully.
Mr. Holloway devotes one half
of his review to a statement of
Pirandello's philosophy. Never once
does he state that this is his opin-
ion. Is Mr. Holloway such a Piran-
dello authority that he can say
"this is without doubt what Pir-
andello thinks?"
Far from giving what Mr. Hollo-
way considered an "inconsistent
performance," I thought Tony
Georgilas gave a disarmingly de-
tached performance as Laudise
that consistently captured the hu-
morous and yet deeply critical at-
titude toward busybody humanity.
The character of Laudise obviously
represents Pirandello homself, and
Georgilas caught this serio-comic
attitude in a nearly perfect man-
ner, I thought.
While I was leaving the theatre
Wednesday night, my opinion was
expressed by a stranger to me, also
leaving. "The Speech Department,"
he said, "has finally come of age."
-Edward A. Ravenscroft, '56A&D
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Personnel Interviews foro
Week of April 13.
rheAmerican Brass Co., Detroit. will
have an interviewer here on Tues., April
14, to talk to men graduating in June
interested in Sales, Management, and
Engineering positions within the firm.
Royal-Liverpool Insurance Group, New7
York City, will be here on Wed., April
15, to see men for such positions as
Special Agent, Underwriter, special
Representative, Accountant and Sta-
tistician, as well as for other admin-
istrative trainee positions; also women
for Underwriting Trainirig.
On Wed., April 15, there will be a
representative from Eli Lilly and Co.,
Indianapolis, Ind., to talk to indi-
viduals receiving degrees in Bacteriol-
ogy, Pharmacy, and Business Adminis-
tration.
Pan American World Airways, of New
York City, will be on the campus,
Thurs., April 16, to talk to June gradu-
ates interested in their Sales Execu-
tive Training Program.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
New York City will be at the Bureau f
Appointments on Fri., April 17, to see
June graduates for their Management
Development Program,
The Halle Bros., Co., Cleveland, Ohio,
will be here on Fri., April 17, to see per-
sons interested in positions In their
Merchandise, Personnel, or Store Man-
agement Divisions.
Companies Coming.
Those organizations coming during
the remainder of the semester will in-l
clude: YMCA, Owens-Corning-Fiberglas,4
Equitable Life, Dow Chemical, Doehler-7
Jarvis, Winkemans, Zurich General Ac-
cident & Liability Ins. Co., Muelle
Brass, Chemical Bank -& Trust Co.,
Time, Inc. (Subscription Dept. for wo -
en), Penn. Mutual, Chicago National
Bank, Cold Metal Products,- New York,
Life Ins. Co., Michigan Bell (for wom-
en--Training Program). Dates and fur-
ther details will later be announced.
Personnel Requests.
Personnel Requests.
An Ann Arbor Organization is in-
terested in finding a woman to fill a
position which would include some su-
pervision and planning. One with a
knowledge of typing is preferred and
also with some office or school expe-
rience.
Frame Master, of Chicago, has avail-
able opportunities for Architecture or'
Structural Engineers expecting their de-
grees this June. The position would
train one in all phases of the business.
Modern Plastics Corp., of Benton Har-
bor, has sent some detailed booklets to
the Bureau of Appointments concerning
the possibilities within the 'firm. Those
interested may contact the Bureau for
further information.
Radcliffe College, Cambridge. Mass..
announces that May first is the dead-
line for Fellowship applications for their
Management Training Program, 1953.
Seismograph Service Corp., of Tulsa,
Okla., has openings for Electrical and
Geographical Engineers, Geophysicists,
Geologists, Physicists, and Mathemati-
cians. This firm, in addition to geo-
physics, is engaged in.Electronic De-
velopments.
For further information, ' applica-
tions, and appointments, contact the
Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Admin-
istration Building, Ext. 371.
Academic Notices
Doctoral Examination for William
Harold Dawe, Education; thesis: "A
Study of Cognate Work in the Program
of Preparation, for Superintendents of
Schools," Thurs., Apr. 2, 4015 University
High School, at 4 p.m. Chairman, H. R.
Jones,
Doctoral Examination for Gerardus
Cabble deRoth. Fisheries; thesis: "Rela-
tionship between Bottom Fauna and
Production of Largemouth Bass, Mi-
cropterus salmoidest(Lacepede), in the
Absence of Competing Sport Fishes,"
Fri., April 3, 2122 Natural Science Bldg.,
at 1 p.m. Chairman, K. F. Lagler.
Doctoral Examination for Samuel Al-
exander Pratt, Sociology; thesis: "The
Impact of Transportation Change and
of Flint Metropolitan Expansion on the
Linden Community," Sat., Apr. 4, 5602
Haven Hall, at 9 am. Chairman, A. H.
Hawley.
Doctoral Examination for Jacob Isaac
Hurwitz, Education; thesis: "Some Ef-
fects of Power on the Relations among
Group Members," Mon., Apr. 13, East
Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 4 p.m.
Chairman, A. F. Zander.
Seminar in Applied Mathematics will
meet Thurs., Apr. 2, at 4 in 247 west
Engineering. Speaker: Dr. I. Marx. Top-
ic: Weyl and Mueller's Existence Proof
for the Wave Equation.
Course 402, the Interdisciplinary Sem-
inar in the Applications of Mathematics
to the Social Sciences, will meet on
Thurs., Apr. 2, at 4 p.m., in 407 Mason
Hall. Dr. Paul Henle, of the Philosophy
Department, will speak on "Hypotheti-
cal. Constructs and Intervening vari-
ables."
Geometry Seminar. Thurs., Apr. 2, at
7 p.m., 3001 Angell Hall. Dr. R. Buchi
will talk on "Gewebe and Affine Ge-
ometry."
Chemistry, Department Seminar.
Thurs., Apr. 2. 7:30 p., 1300 Chem-
istry Building. Mr. J. Richard Weaver
will speak on "Irreversible Reductions
at a Streaming Mercury Electrode," and
Mr. Stephen L. Wythe will speak on
"The Structure of Astoniline."
Interdisciplinary Seminar in the
Theory of Growth (Econ. 353). Profes-
sor Pierre Dansereau, of the Depart-
ment of Botany, will speak on "Growth
Patterns and Environmentar Response,"
at 4 p.m., Thurs. Apr. 2, in the West
Conference Room of the Rackham
Building.
Concerts
Woodwind Quintet Concert Cancelled.
The program by the University Wood-
wind Quintet, previously anounced for
Tues., Apr. 14, in the Rackham Lecture
Hall, has been cancelled due to illness.
Events Today
International Center Weekly Tea for
foreign students and American friends
from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Congregational Disciples Guild. 5:05-
5:30, Mid-Week Meditation in Douglas
Chapel on "The Last Word" of Jesus.
Pi Sigma Alpha. All students invited
to become members are reminded that
Sat., Apr. 4, is the last day on which
initiation fees may be paid and reser-
vations made for the initation ban-
quet. Old members are also asked to
make their reservations for the ban-
quet, to be held on Tues., Apr. 14. Res-
ervations may be made and fee paid
by contacting Miss Kieske in the Po-
litical Science Department Office.
Frosh Weekend. The Decorations Com-
mittee for the Blue Team will be
working tonight at the League from 7
to 10 p.m. All members of the commit-
tee and any others interested are
urged to come.
The last meeting before spring va-
cation of the Publicity Committee will
be held at 7 p.m. in the Publicity room.
This is a very important meeting and
all girls are urged to come to work
on stunts and skits. We will be work-
ing on posters after the meeting. This
is very important so come and bring
your dates if necessary.
weekly Graduate Record Concerts will
be resumed tonight at 7:45 p.m. in the
East Lounge of Rackham; program:
Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 (Pastorale);
Copland, Appalachian Spring; Wagner,
Prelude and Good Friday Spell from
Parzifal. All grads codialy invited.
La Petite Causette will meet today
afronte3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the North
Cafeteria of the Michigan Union. All
interested students are invited.
U. of M. Sailing Club will hold an
informal meeting Thurs., Apr. 2, in
West Engineering Building. Final plans
for the Annapolis regatta will be dis-
cussed.
Roger Williams Guild. We participate
in observing the Lord's Supper this
evening at 8 p.m., when our choir will
sing Stainer's "The Crucifixion."
Christian Science Organization. Tes-
timonial meeting at 7:30 Fireside Room,
Lane Hall.
Ukrainian Students'Club. Meeting at
7 p.m. in the Madelon Pound House
(1024 Hill St.). Guests are welcome.
Graduate Student Council. Meeting
tonight at 7:30 p.m., West Conference
Room, Rackham.
Lutheran S9udent Association. Com-
munion Service at the Center Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. Good Friday Services on
Friday at Trinity. Lutheran Church-
12-3 p.m.; Zion Church-1:30 and 7:30
p m.
Coming Events
Unitarian Student Group will meet
during Spring Vacation for informal
group discussions. The April 5 meeting
will be at the home of Neil Weller, 523
Packard; the meeting April 12 wll be
held at the Unitarian Church. No trans-
portation provisions have been made.
S.R.A. Coffee Hour, Lane Hall, Fri.,
3:30-5:30 p.m. All students and faculty
invited.
Gilbert and Sullivan. Principal re-
hearsal Sunday and Monday nights,'
Aprils12 and 13, at the Union. Pinafore
action rehearsal for the chorus Mon.,
Apr. 13, at the League.
Motion Pictures, auspices of Univer-
sity Museums, "Shell Fishing" and
"Seashore Oddities" (color), Fri., Apr. 3,
7:30 p.m., Kellogg Auditorium. No ad-
mission charge.
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THROUGH APRIL 22nd, the University
Museum of Art will feature a loan ex-
hibition-"Early Chinese Jades"-in the
Oriental Room, within the West Gallery of
Alumni Memorial Hall. It is a small show
in some ways, but fetching, and should prove
rewarding, apart from the attractions it has
for specialists in oriental studies and ar-
chaeology.
Anyone whose only previous acquain-
tance with jade comes from reading Sax
Rohmer's tales of Fu Manchu or the ex-
otic descriptions in similar fantasies may
be disappointed. There are no large,
translucent and sparkling incense burn-
ers or willowy goddesses among these
samples; they exist, but not during the
chronological confines of this exhibit.
Most of the items are quite small, and
understandably so, since the medium is a
species of semi-precious stone, not often
available in boulder size. Since they are
valuable, the pieces must be kept under
glass, and in a regrettably large number of
instances, they cannot be as attentively ex-
amined as they deserve.
The show is small in another respect,
that is, with things on an almost miniscule
plane physically, differences in quality are
necessarily equally infinitesimal (my apolo-
gies for this opaqueness). At any rate, many
of us haven't the necessary experience to
objects within any of the groups do not
differ greatly except to a practised eye,
despite the (possible) variance in time of
anything up to two millenia. There is, for-
tunately, a considerable variety in color
and texture.
The color range, so far as I can tell,
does not include more than perhaps two
or three pieces in the emerald green Fei
.Ts'ui that (other things being equal) is
most valued by collectors of jade. Pos-
sibly it wasn't available until later, but
in any case, there are various shades of
yellow, brown, green, etc.. some grained
and streaked with other colors.- Since we
cannot touch the pieces, we can only im-
perfectly apprehend the many textural
qualities present, but they are at least
easily discernible visually, and can con-
tribute much to the viewer's enjoyment.
There are but a dozen figures in the
round, of which only three are larger than
three inches. To some extent, these are
merely modelled in outline with incised de-
tails. My favorite is a tiny human head
(No. 53) in pale green, practically smooth,
with facial detail lightly carved in or in
low relief, and in much the same spirit as
some contemporary negro primitive art.
It would be quite in order to call special
attention to a great many other samples
from every category in the show: beads,
ceremonial utensils. various ornaments and
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