FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1945 Viennese Art Educator Teaches Summer Session "An art teacher must be a psychologist as well as an instruc tor in the techniques of art," declared Dr. Viktor Lowenfeld, em inent Viennese psychologist, now teaching art education at the Col- lege for the summer session. • "It is impossible to know children and their desires without being familiar with their psychology," Dr. Lowenfeld, a member of the faculty tat Hampton Institute, Va., went on to say, "and at pres ent I am very much concerned with understanding children and youths in relation to their creative work in art " When a child scribbles, he is learning the connection between his motions and the signs he makes on paper, declared Dr. Lowen feld. This, is the same principle of motor coordination concerned 'with the child's being taught how to eat. Thus psychology and art are equally important to bring out the creative qualities which are in nate in every •child, he explained. Dr. Lowenfeld, born in Linz, Austria, was educated in Vienna at the famous Kunstgewerbeschull, at the Academy of 'Fine Arts, and at the University of Vienna, where he received his final degree equivalent to doctor 'of education. Working to 'bring out the artis tic talent of the Regro not only for the sake of art but as a matter of self-expression to the Negro himself, Dr. Lowenfeld points out that art has proven a great bene fit in terms of racial cooperation. For example, he recently put on exhibit some of the works of his students from Hampton Institute in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 'Richmond. The exhibit at tracted so much attention that several prominent people in the city gave a reception for the tal ented Negro students. Recognition, unheard of before, was gained for the Negroes of Hampton. Dr. Lowenfeld divides people into three groups, hapticals, vis uals, and in-betweens. He states that hapticals think in abstract terms about experiences which re fer to the body; visuals, on the other, hand, think in less abstract terms about experiences seen by the eyes. Hapticals, since they Must depend on touch impressions, make the best surgeons, pianists, and typists; visuals, since they de pend almost wholly upon sight impressions, always • make good surveyors, architects, and engi neers. • In relation to art, Dr. Lowenfeld explained that visuals are sensi tive to colors and place objects in the background which are farth est away from the eye; hapticals, however, often cannot see shades of 'color and place objects in the background which are. least im portant. Thus with visuals the po sition of the objects in the paint ing is a matter 'of perspective, while with hapticals it is a mat ter d importance. In connection with this theory, as explained in his latest book, "The Nature of Creative Activ ity," Dr. Lowenfeld designed tests which enable him to discriminate between visuals and hapticals. He stated that these tests, which the U. S. Air Forces are now using, are extremely important in the post-war choosing of occupations. Summing up his findings, on the basis of over a thousand of these tests, Dr. Lowenfeld states that one person „in four is haptical, For. Your Fall Wardrobe \ 'w. `~ {~~ —Photo By Cheyne Dr. Viktor Lowenfeld * . two are visuals, and the other is in-4between. "In testing art students, if they are stimulated as customary, only the visuals respond," emphasized Dr. Lowenfeld, who came across his theory while working with blind children. "Thus art educa tors frustrate all the hapticals, who make up 25 per cent of those tested," he said. In conclusion, Dr. Lowenfeld explained that modern expressive art is haptical; therefore visual minded people prefer impression istic art. Common Sense Features Negro Relations Movie Common Sense will show the movie "George Washington Car ver" at its next meeting, in 10 Sparks, 7 p. m., Wednesday. This movie of the prominent promoter of Negro rights will open , a series of five meetings which will dis cuss solely the prc4blem of Negro racial relations. Discussions will take into con sideration the existing problems in this country and the techniques that . are in use to deal with them. The five specific problems to be discussed will be chosen from suggestions of members at the next meeting on Wednesday. lAt each of the five meetings the aim of the discussion will be directed towards trying to over come the difficulties of the situa tion in question. To deal with each of these problems of Negro rela tions there will be an attempt to employ accuracy, intellectual honest y, openmindedness, sus pended judgement, true cause and effect relationships, self-analysis, and self criticism. Crepe Jeweled Neckline • Many other styles Z'OriN 0:1 4te* to • Black • White • Lime • Melon SMART SHOP BLOUSE rT . w.mswq $4OOO Given To Lingnan During the past year, Penn State chapel-goers have for the second time contributed a total of $4OOO to Penn State-in-China, the university which war has chased from two locations but which is still flourishing in Free China. Lingnan University was origin ally founded in 1884 by a Pres byterian missionary and had no contact with the College. However. it wasn't until 1907 that it organ ized its firSt college freshman class, since it first had to educate the Chinese to the college level. Just at that time G. 'Weidman ("Daddy") Groff was a Penn Sate senior intensely interested in the future of the Far East. In affiliating himself with Ling flan, "Daddy" began the relation ship which has continued for 32 years as "Penn State in China." The primary educational need in China was instruction in modern agriculture, and this was the sort of help that Penn State was best a'ble to • give. This, plus chapel collections and other voluntary contributions, as well . as the ser vice of numerous Penn State grad uates who have gone to China, has made up the College's part of Lingnan University. MODERN HOME CAMPUS- The university's home campus was a 560-acre site in Canton, with 'lOO modern fire-proof build ings. It was - one of the show places of- East Asia. Normal en rollment was 630 in the university, .800 in the surbordinate schools which included all pre-college levels. The war first reached Lingnan in 119 37 - 38, when it continued on its own campus in spite of Jap anese bombs. In September, 1938, it opened with the largest enroll ment in its history, and in Octo ber the Japanese took Canton. The university evacuated its stu dent body, most of its Chinese faculty, and the larger part of the American community to Hong kong, where it made use of the British Colonial Institution, Hong kong University, during the after noon and evening hours. For three and a half years the university stayed at Hong Kong, during which time it pushed its enrollment much above the pre vious record. But gradually the desire to transfer to a free home land took hold of the university, and the College of Agriculture was transferred to northern Kwangtung Province. Shortly af terward, an incident on a Sunday morning in December sent the staff of the university out of oc cupied Hongkonk, through the Japanese lines to •a site in Kwangtung. )1500 ENROLLED AT !COLLEGE The university now has an en rollment of more than 500, and in Canton a few of the staff members have remained to take care of the campus. Recently, First Anniversary Dance Informal Senate Group Approves Radio Club Organization The Senate Committee on Student Welfare approved the organization of a radio club with Eleanor Phillips as chairman, up on the petition of a group of stu dents. The club, whose name has not been decided, has been formed for the purposq of studying radio program techniques. They will present radio programs whenever the opportunity presents itself over local stations. The club's officers will consist of president, vice-president, secre tary, treasurer, business manager, production engineer, and director. The committee approved for the present the existing interfratern ity dating code, with minor changes. The Senate group added im petus to a proposed drive by the Alumni Association to obtain funds for three new buildings, in cluding a Student Union build ing, by recognizing the need for the 'buildings and directing the committee secretary to commend the Association and urge it to go ahead. however, the Japanese military set up a make-believe university on the Canton campus. Penn State students, Dr. Henry S. Brunner, chairman of the local Penn State-In-China committee, says, should not think that their contributions to Lingnan arc charity donations, but should realize that Lingnan is a manifes f-qtinn of the Penn State spirit in th Far East. Dennis Morgan, and Barbara Stanwyck as they appear totegher in Warners'. sparkling comedy-romance, "Christmas in Connecticut," now playing at the Cathaum Theatre. Also starred in the film is Sydney Greenstreet. Dick Berge Orchestra Class of 1900 Aid the Weary Benches, benches, benches, and more benches. There will be 50 benches on campus by next sum mer, Mrs. 3. W. Henszey, secre tary of the class of 1900, said to day. The benches are a gift from the. class of 1900 to the College for its 45th reunion which was to take place in June, but had to be called off because of transporta tion curtailments. The class of 1900 wanted to give the College a gift that it could use and appreciate. The problem was solved when a visiting friend of Mrs. Hensziey's said, "such r lovely campus, but no place to site down." the obvious answer wa:f benches, nice permanent benchea that couldn't be taken up and used for fuel in bonfires. Col. Arthur S. Shoffstall of Huntington, W. Va. contacted the various mem bers of the class and arranged for the benches to be built in Huntington. This summer, 20 of the sfl benches wil be put up. The rest will be made next winter, and put tip on campus as soon as possible. At present, there are eight benches standing on campus, Two more will be put along Allister Hall. Three will be placed between the Lion Shrine and the water tower. Three are going to be built in Hort 'woods, near Park avenue. The rest will be put along the mall. Lakonides sponsored a swim ming party for their Phys Ed ma jors at Whipple's Dam Sunday. X-GI Club AUGUST IL 9415 9:00 - 12:00 REC HALL $1.50 Couple—inc. PAGE FIVE
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