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Whiskers Caused
War—Hoogenboom
Chin
Civil
By DICK LEIGHTON
The 100-year-old question of
"What Really Caused the. Civil
War?" has finally been an
swered—and the man to get
the credit for the answer is
Dr. Ari Hoogenhoom, assist
ant professor of history.
In an article in the current
Wisconsin Magazine of History,
Hoogenboom comes to the con
clusion that the whole thing was
started by beards. "War is caused
by the aggressive spirit in men
and nations," he says. "and beards
provided the aggressiveness that
brought on the Ci War."
Even on campus, Hoogenboom
says, men with beards are defi
nitely more aggressive than
their clean-cut classmates. He
also agrees that the dropping
of the shaving requirement in
ROTC would make our future
military leaders more ferocious.
"Historians have neglected the
impact of a beard upon the per
sonality of a hitherto beardless in
dividual," Hoogenboom candidly
points out. "Cover a receding chin
and eczema with a beaver and
the possessor tries to lick every
man in the house," he said.
The United States was a clean
shaven nation before the late
1850's, Hoogenboom said. The
founding fathers were beardless
and all the presidents from Wash
ington to Buchanan were shorn-
Indian Artifacts
Being Displayed
In Pollee 19brary
Arrowheads, spearheads, axes,
hoes and tomahawks are all part
of the exhibit of North American
Indian artifacts now on display
at the Pattee Library.
Pensonally collected by Ste
phen Hyatt, graduate student in
rural sociology and agricultural
economics. over the past 20 years,
the artifacts come from all parts
of the United States.
Hyatt has found implements
along the coast of Maine, the
plains of Oklahoma, Okefenokee
Swamp in Georgia, Long Island
and the states of Washington;
Kentucky and Texas among other
places.
While stationed at Fort Ben
ning. Ga.. when he was in the
army. Hyatt found arrowheads,
old implements of warfare, right
on the ground being used to prac
tice modern warfare.
Also prized by Hyatt are the
trade tomahawks, so named be
cause they were made by the
white man to trade in exchange
for furs. Today they are also quite
scarce because, being made of
metal, many rusted and wore out,
Hyatt said.
While looking for Indian arti
facts, Hyatt has also found but
tons, bullets, cannonballs and
other items of historical interest
at the sites of the Revolutionary
War and the War of 1812.
An amusing sidelight of his
experiences is that when asking
owners of private land if he may
search for Indian relics, Hyatt has
often encountered people who are
suspicious and believe he's really
looking for gold or uranium.
Sigma Tau to Hold Meeting
Sigma Tau, honorary engineer
ing fraternity, will hold its first
meeting, of the semester at 7 to
night at Alpha Epsilon Pi,
Refreshments will he served aft
er the meeting.
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chinned, but by 1857 the bushy
look-was so popular that Harper's
"Man About Town" asserted he
could judge a man's character by
the cut of his beard.
"After the election of 1860.
remaining hope for peace dis
appeared when a previously
clean-shaven Abraham Lincoln
raised a beard in order to lead
I the country to war," according
I to Hoogenboom.
"Chin wreathes" actually affected
the quality of Civil War leaders."
Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson,
Ulysses S., Grant and William T.
Sherman owe their martial merits
to their whiskers, according to
Hoogenboom._George B. McClel
lan, with the disadvantage of hav
ing only a moustache, "was con
spicuously unaggressive." If he
had had a beard "the South would
have been defeated in 1862."
Hoogenboom sajd he fir s t
thought of his hair-in•cheek idea
when walking to an early class.
He had just read Aldous Huxley's
"Antic Hay," in which the hero, a
rather shy type, dons an artificial
beard and becomes an aggressive
lover.
In the contemporary vein,
Hoogenboom points out that "the
key to harmonious relations with
Cuba is shaving, not sugar. When
asked if there was any signifi
cance to President Kennedy's
shock of hair and Premier Khru
shchev's lack of hair, Hoogen
boom replied that he was a beard
man, not a toupee man.
Jazz Workshop
Set for Sunday
The jazz club is sponsoring its
second svorkShop of the semester
at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in 117 Car
negie.
Featured guest at the workshop
will be Bill Schupert, jazz com
mentator for radio station WGBI,
Scranton. He will talk on the ele
ments of jazz and of a jazz fan.
Also present will be Bruce
Mitchell, artist in residence at
Bucknell University. Mitchell has
been called one of the finest jazz
pictorialists in the country by the
noted jazz critic, Leonard Fea
ther. He will show and discuss
some of his pictures, including
those he has done of Ray Charles,
jazz pianist.
The program also will include
the Kenny Kuhnes Quartet with
guest artist Dave Atkinson on the
vibes. The Penn State Folklore
Society will sing early blues
from the history of jazz. Every
one on campus interested in jazz
may attend.
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East Halls
Will Have
'New Look'
The East Halls, now being
constructed, 'will be wearing
a "new look" for dormitories
on campus.
The project, presently emerging
from the piles of wood, debris and
mud which accompanies all con
struction, has several features
which are not found in any other
residence hall.
Included in the project are four
residence halls and one dining
hall. Two more residence halls
will be built later when there is
a need for more housing.
The four dorms are connected
to each other and to the dining
hall by covered walkways which
form a portico in the center. There
is also a broad pavement running
diagonally to the dining hall
which will not be covered.
- All buildings feature precast
concrete columns built specifical
ly for this project. Perpendicular
to these vertical columns are
smaller ones which form an ex
ten d e d frame-like structure
around each set of two windows.
Because this type of structure
is being used, the buildings will
'have coffered ceilings with re
cessed panels. This produces a
waffle-like effect, entirely new
for residence halls.
The first floor of each dorm ex
tends 8 feet over the ground
floor and is supported by the ce
ment columns, making a covered
walkway around each building.
According to Otto Mueller, di
rector of housing, two halls will
be used for women and two for
men.
LP Completes
Activity Report
The Lion's Paw report requested
by the University Senate Com
mittee on Student Affairs last fall,
has been completed and submitted
to the Senate Subcommittee for
Organizational Control, accord
ing to Alex Black, chairman of
the subcommittee,
The Subcommittee on Organ
izational Control will consider the
report tomorrow afternoon and
direct any comments or recom
mendations to the Student Affairs
ICommittee for further consider
ation.
Monroe Newman, chairman of
the Student Affairs . Committee,
asked for this report last fall
after his special investigation com
mittee exonerated Lion's Paw
from charges leveled against it.
These charges stated that Lion's
Paw, as an organization had
exerted undue influence or at
tempted to manipulate student
affairs during 1959-1960.
Criticism, Analysis
Lag Behind Art
Criticism is always slow in catching up with art, accord
ing to James S. Ackerman, professor of art and architecture
at Harvard University, who - spoke at the Graduate Lecture
Series Tuesday night.
Abstract art is not well-analyzed and criticised today,
Ackerman said. "We in atomic
times, are apt to be impartial to
modern art and to criticize it
alone on a separate standard," he
added.
If each art were approached dif
ferently, Ackerman said, art
would be reduced to relativism
and, as a result, would have no
point.
Ackernian commented that
he regarded art as a dialogue
between painting and observer.
The art expresses something,
and the receiver is not expected
to be simply a sponge but an
active agent, he said. Observ
ing a modern painting involves
creative effort on the part of
the observer and it is the cri
tic's job to aid this observation,
Ackerman said.
Modern . art, he commented, in
spite of its apparent separation
from so-called conventional art,
reflects and emphasizes previous
art. In Ackerman's words, "Twen
tieth century eyes have been
formed by twentieth century art."
An observer of art is influenced
by previous paintings he has seen,
just as an artist, painting an ab
stract, is unavoidably influenced
by previous abstracts he has
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painted or seen, Ackerman said.
The critics problem, he -ex
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standards for abstract art have
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"There is no simple answer to
this problem," Ackerman con
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critics is that they have a sense
of responsibility and knowledge
of previous art.'
New Members Selected
By University Readers
Seven new affiliate members of
the University Readers were
chosen last week.
They are: Roy Altman, Jose
phine Barger, Prestonia Davis,
Carole Kismarie, Barbara Lem
men, Jeanne Melley and Julianne
Russin.
Students trying out read selec
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were five minutes long.
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