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Visitors Try
To Steal
Church Sign
There’s a sign on Route .322
north of town that invites people
to attend the Church of Christ on
Hillcrest Avenue and the Rev.
F. P. Higginbotham probably
wishes that more people would
take notice of the sign.
On Sunday morning five stu
dents from Johns Hopkins Uni
versity saw the sign and took
notice. In fact, they even tried
to take it with them back to
Baltimore.
It all began when a resident
of Woodsdale Trailer Park, across
the street, saw the five climb out
of a car at about 10 a.m. and
lurk mysteriously around the
sign. When he saw that one was
equipped with a hacksaw, he be
came suspicious, copied down the
license number and description of
the car and called the police.
The police searched for the ear
and found it at a restaurant south
of State College. The license
number was the same as reported.!
Four of the group were seated in!
the car, while the fifth was com
ing out of the restaurant with a
hacksaw under his arm.
Uponqueslioning the quintet,
the police found that the five
were members of the Johns
Hopkins University chapter of
Zeta Beta Tau fraternity who
had been sent to State College
to grab the sign. They had spent
Saturday night at the local
chapter house of the fraternity.
The officers then investigated
the sign and found that the stu
dents had succeeded in cutting;
one bolt from the sign, which was
still well-anchored to its post.
The four were arraigned before
Justice of the Peace Guy G. Mills
on charges of disorderly conduct.
They were fined $25 each plus
$11.50 costs and sent back to
Baltimore empty-handed.
DeLevie Writes Article
Dr. Dagobert deLevie, associate
professor of German, is the author
of the lead article in the Decem
ber issue of “Monatshefte,” a
journal devoted to the study of;
German language and literature!
published by the University of
Wisconsin.
ARY 11, 1959
dnesday to Begin!
Lenten Period
By CAROL BLAKESLEE
nten period before Easter begins today
ce of Ash Wednesday in most liturgical
it varies from year to year because it is so
that of Easter, which falls this year on
March 29. Specifically, however,
Lent refers to the 40 weekdays
and six Sundays before Easter.
In the Roman Catholic church .
asnes from the burned palms of
the previous year's Paim Sun
day are placed in a jar on the
altar and blessed. This ritual
goes back to Old Testament
limes and ancient Jewish rites
when the wearing of the sack
cloth and ashes symbolized a
sign of sorrow for wrong-doing.
Ash Wednesday is also observed
m the Lutheran, Episcopal and
Eastern Orthodox church in a
similar manner.
During Lent the members of
these and other liturgies practice
acts of self-denial anu otner acts
showing their devotion.
Locally, the Wesley Founda
tion will hold its annual Lenten
Services beginning at 7 a.m. to
morrow at the Student Center,
The guest speaker for the first
in the series will be the Rev.
Nelson H. Frank, pastor of St.
Paul's Methodist Church. A
post-service breakfast will be
served at 7:30 a.m.
Connected to Ash Wednesday,
especially in earlier times, was
the observance of Shrove Tues
day, the day before Lent begins.
The celebration of Shrove Tues
day, or Mardi Gras, in many £u
repean Catholic communities
marks the last of several days of
festivities before the beginning
of Lent. The cities of Paris, Rome,
Nice and Venice have long been
famous for their festivals on this
day.
The French phrase Mardi Gras,
which literally means “fat Tues
day,” refers to the fat oxen which
were paraded through the streets
at festival-time.
Men's Debate Club
To Hold Tryouts
All men in good scholastic
standing may try out for the de
bate club at 7 tonight in 214
Boucke.
Tryouts will consist of a 5-
minute speech on either side of
the proposition: “Resolved, that!
the further development of nu-|
clear weapons shall be prohibited
by international agreement. !
According to Marshall Jacobson,
club president, there is no set;
j number to be chosen for the
! novice group. He said individual
performance will determine the
1 number.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Indifferent to Meaning
Artist Explains Works
By AMY ROSENTHAL
’T am not concerned with
the significance of my paint
ings.” said noted surrealist
Kurt Seligmann Sunday be
fore a reception in his honor
!at the Hetzel Union Building.
, Seligmann was questioned
about -the meaning of his paint
ings which will be the featured
art exhibit at the HUB until
March 2. He said the importance
of his paintings were that they be
.aesthetically pleasing.
"Sometimes I don't even
know the significance myself,
and then the art critics tell me,"
he said.
He said he had no precon
ceived notion of what he was go
ing to paint.
“I put down my drawings at
the risk of spoiling expensive can
vas,” he joked.
Seligmann admitted that the
painting Dance of Death by
Holbein could have influenced
him to paint bony and skeleton
like forms of people. Stuart
Frost, instructor of art, said
that Seligmann's paintings
might also be influenced by his
Student Attempts
' Sleepy ' Approach
To Intellectualism
Students are responding to
President Walker’s policy of all
owing anyone to sit in on a class
in order to gain the cultural bene
fits of that class.
Or at least one student is. He
sat in on the televised Air Sci
ence 4 class yesterday afternoon.
No one objected; that is no one
objected until he fell asleep. Un
der new Air Force policy a stu
dent who has fallen asleep no
longer receives any demerits. He
must merely stand in the back
of the room.
C apt. Gordon Brigham, the
television instructor, temporarily
off screen, ordered our knowl
edge-seeking student to do so.
The student countered Brigham’s
order with an emotional one of
his own, abandoned the intel
lectual cause and stomped from
the room.
Perhaps he’ll seek his culture
elsewhere.
Soph Board Will Meet
The sophomore class advisory
'board will meet at 8:15p.m. to
morrow in 216 Hetzel Union.
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tury medical drawings. j
The artist said that because he
believes in the ai-t of color, form
and presentation he is not a sur
realist in the strict sense of the
word.
“Art,” he said, “is a bad word
to a surrealist; surrealists do not
want to produce art.”
Seligmann told his audience i
that surrealism as he knew it I
in the late 1930's in France was j
a revolt against representation
of real life and against planned j|
pictures. He said that these sur- ;
realists painted what aulomali- j
cally arose in the mind. J
Self -'-'O"- Md the surv»»' : -'
ieligmann saic. the surrealists j
as he knew them before he wer.t!
to America in 1939 believed in j
teasing the imagination by alien- j
ation and by arousing irritation.!
He explained alienation as a!
seemingly senseless combination,]
such as the phrase of a surrealist]
writer, “as beautiful as the meet-]
ing of a sewing machine and an
umbrella.” |
He said the surrealist wished !
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that he could be led from ra
tional thought to a world of ir
rational dreamlike ideas.
i Also exhibited with Seligmann’s
paintings are some paintings of a
fe 11 ow - surrealist Max Ernst,
iErnst’s method of painting is to
cover shingles, tin cans or string
I with paper and to rub a pencil
lover the paper to make designs.
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