NEW YORK SCENES COLORFUL
IN EYES OF OREGON SCULPTOR
Avard Fairbanks Sees Point of Spiritual Value in Upbuilding
Of America as Exemplified by Metropolis
Clad in a clay daubed smock,
Avard Fairbanks, sculptor and pro
fessor, received the reporters in his
little north studio. He is a rather
tall man, kindly and quiet. Within
his eyes there glows the clear light
of an idealist, a seer, a lover of
beauty.
In reply to a question, Professor
Fairbanks said that one should see
New York city from the river or
bay, coming in from an ocean liner
or one of the ferries, to appreciate
it. Another wonderful sight is to
see New York as you come towards
it down the Hudson, the whole city
ethereal in a haze of mist. “It
doesn’t look real,” he said. “The
buildings rising from the mist seem
literally the fairy castles of a fairy
dream.”
As one comes back from this ex
cursion down the Hudson he would
probably land at Lackawanna sta
tion, Professor Fairbanks said, in
the midst of the towers of New
York, almost at the very foot of
the Woolworth building. As he
walks up the street and looks up
ward, it seems as if he were in a
,great canyon, as though the build
ings rising above him would never
stop.
Another splendid view is the one
from sea, the picture of America
that the immigrant sees first. This
first glimpse of their ‘promised
land’ is very lovely. Usually the
boats enter in the morning and
these people, stationed at Ellis
Island for government inspection
and quarantine, see the sun rise on
New York.
“To these people who long to see
America, to whom it means homes,
fortunes, rights and freedom, the
haze and dew on the great city,
with the sun gleaming through it,
must be a wonderful sight,” Pro
fessor Fairbanks said. “The pic
ture suggests imagination, a dream,
yet it is a reality. One seems to
see a great fairyland with towers
and turrets.
“In the light of these experi
ences,” he continued, “one gains a
sense of the spiritual significance
of New York city. One ^thinkjs
usually of brokers, stocks, bonds,
money and capitalistic interests in
connection with New York. But it
has a point of spiritual value all
its own.
“All buildings have been dreams,”
said Mr. Fairbanks thoughtfully.
“They are the realization ,of men’s
dreams, produced by men’s desire
to make grand the things of ma
terial life. In steel, stone, terra
qotta and brick, temples to men’s
dreams have arisen.
“As one wanders down "Wall
Street, many things attract his at
tention,” the professor continued,
“especially the hurry and scurry of
people in and out of the great
buildings, like ants about their
mounds. Some are there to see the
sights, others for the necessity of j
earning a living; there are still
others who desire to build and to
beautify.”
Farther down Wall Street one is
confronted by one of the buildings
of early American history—the Uni
ted States Treasury. In front is a
statue of Washington on a pede
stal. On one side of the steps is
a plaque of bronze which tells a
story significant to all America to
Avard Fairbanks. This plaque shows
George Washington kneeling in
prayer.
The story of Washington’s pray
er, the essence of his faith and de
termination in the face of terrible
odds during the Revolutionary per
iod, is well known. “The same
spirit of prayer and faith is a great
factor in upbuilding America to
day,” Professor Fairbanks declared.
“The plaque in Wall Street and the
huge buildings towering above it
alike are evidences of men’s faith
in humanity.”
Recent Bboks Of Student
Interest Discussed,
“The Peasants,” One of Mbat
Popular In Library
It would seem presumptuous for
anyone but a master of prose to,
attempt to discuss “The Peasants”
by Ladislas Reymont. Although it
is a four volnme work and the full
meaning of it cannot be obtained '
itntil all is read, it is one of the
most popular books in the library. ’
It was the Nobel prize winner last*
year, and is the author’s only work
translated into English.
The scope of “The Peasant” is
enormous. It is not only the trag
edy of a girl fighting against her j
environment, it is the story of a
family, of a village of Poland, and
of the whole of mankind. The
series of climaxes and the final
tragic scene are marvellously writ
ten. To describe the book adequat
ely one would need a vocabulary of
superlatives larger than that of a
movie press agent.
The naming of the volumes for j
the seasons of the year .indicates I
the strength of the book. Tor feel
while reading it that the real
struggle is not between the temper
aments of the eharaeters but be
tween the characters and the. soil.
You feel the soil beneath all the
action. You learn to feppreclate
the fierce battle with the peasants
fight against nature in their efforts
to wring their poor existence from
the overcultivated land.
From the four volumes of “The
Peasants” could be made a dozen
smaller books, about half the life of
the poorer agricultural class of Po
land. There could be made for in
stance, a fair sized book of* Polish
anxious in rhyming couplets, a book
of religious customs, a book of folk
ways, a book of social customs, and
a book of descriptive passages
which are almost prose poems.
“The Peasants” will, beyond
doubt, take a place among the
works that live because of its el
ementary nature and because it is
the best description we have of the
Poles. It is, I think, even greater
than “The Growth of the Soil” or
“Main Street” because it treats its
subject in a broader and more
artistic way.
• • •
There has been, this year and
last, a great interest in the lives of
the poets. It seems to have started
with Marois’ “Ariel, The Life of
Shelly,” and now E. Barrington’s
“Glorious Apollo,” a life of Byron,
is among the popular books of the
her active literary career with a
her activie literary career with a
monumental, but somewhat ponder
ous, two volume life of John Keats.
The main value of this book is for
reference since it is too long to be
read with any degree of sustained
interest. Then too Miss Lowell’s
greatest literary ability lay in the
field of poetry not prose. She is,
however, America’s, if not the
world’s best authority on Keats so
her book is worthy of attention for
that reason if for no other.
Harold Bruce has just had pub
lished a book called “'William
Blake in This World.” This is a
beautiful tribute to Blake but is
unfortunately written in a rather
stiff and pedantic style. This fact
will make it a little less popular
than Barington and Marois, who
write charmingly, and Lowell, who
was a national figure.
• • •
Gamaliel Bradford, chronicler of
the lives of interesting people, has
a new book called “Wives,” Brad
ford has the knack of including in
his very readable books of short
biographies of what seems at first 1
to be totally different types of peo-1
pie and in the end drawing the j
readers attention to a similarity
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! which no one but. Bradford had
noticed before. In “Strenuous
Americans”, for example, he treats,
among others equally as different,
Frances E. Willard. F. T. Barnum,
Brigham Young, and Jessie James,
who were, as the title suggests,
Americans who lived strenuously.
His new book includes in the table
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Mts. Jefferson Davis, Dolly Madi
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wife but a famous daughter, but
Bradford could not change so good
a title as “Wives” for one chapter.
Lynn Montross, who won what
noteriety he has by writing “Town
and Gown,” the primer for innovent
Frosh, has come out with a new
book called “East is Eden” adver
tised as being “American as the
corn—. ” Montross, like Percy
Marks, showed very little literary
ability in his story of college, and
if his latest book is as bad as
Marks latest you needn’t trouble
to bring it home from the library.
The advertiesment states further
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reading Phillip Gibbs terrible novel
“Heirs Apparent,” the worst I’ve
read in years, I am very skeptical
of these good intentioned middle
aged people who know all about
their sons and daughters state of
mind.
EDUCATION CLUB TO MEET
“Motor-ability Testfe,” la paper
written by F. W. Cozens, head of
the Southern Branch of the Uni
versity of California Physical Edu
cation department, will be read
Thursday evening at the Educa
tion club meeting, which will be at
7:30 in room two of the Education
building. Professor Cozens is on
! the University of Oregon campus
! at present studying for his doctor
| ate. Another paper “New Phases
of Speech Education,” by Stanley
Gray, fl professor in the English
department, is also to be read.
WOMEN’S TEA TODAY
Women’s League will entertain
1 with a tea this afternoon at the
Women’s building between the
1 hours of 4:00 and 6:00. An invi
! tation is being issued to all Uni
versity women, and freshmen are
especially urged to come. These
teas are given every wCtdc and are
very informal. Girls are expected
to come in their school cjothes,
and to get acquainted with every
one. The usual forms of amuse
ment wil^be featured, dancing and
eats.
—
! Miss Mary Dallera
Tells of Universities
In South America
(Continued from page one)
country. One building was built
and as the University grew, addi
tional buildings were needed to ac
commodate the increase of stu
dents. Naturally the city had grown
up around the first building leav
] ing no space for another. The
next building waa therefore con
structed somewhere distant.
The technical and theoretical
work of the major d partment is
in the same building. For instance,
the medical student has his labora
tory courses in a building adjoin
ing the city hospital. He works
in the hospital fr*om the very first
of hjs course, viewing operations,
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watching treatments given by prac
ticing physicians, .etc.
The medical training offered in
the South American colleges ip
noted for its thoroughness. Nine
years are required for the degree;
seven of these are spent at the Uni
versity and two in general practice
at a hospital. “Twenty-eight is
very young for a doctor,” Miss
Dallera said.
“There are very few students
from Chile attending schools and
colleges in the United States,” she
went on. “The main reason for
this is the unusually high exchange
between the two countries since the
war. An American dollar is worth
ten in Chile.”
No scholarships are offered for
students of that country. “There
are only two ways in which stu
dents from my country come to the
United Sthtes for schooling be
sides, of course, paying their own
expenses. They may be sent by
the government or by institutions
helping unusually brilliant stu
dents. In both cases the money
must be returned with interest
within a short time.”
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Miss Dallera is here from the
University of Illinois where she
was a Spanish teacher last year.
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She is taking the place of her
sister, Miss Italia Dallera, who
has been granted a year’s leave
of absence. Miss Italia Dallera
returned to her home in San Tiago,
Chile, last June and will return to
her old position at Oregon ajgaii
next year.
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