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The Campus Mirror
I he Links Between Fort
Dearborn and Art
Institute
Edwin-a "Westmorland, ’37
As the crowd at.-the Century of Progress
look at the. painting called Arrangement in
drag and Black: by the artist Whistler lmt
known simply as The Mother by the public
who love it and look upon it as the symbol
of l niversal motherhood and then go to visit
the famous old Fort Dearborn, I wonder if
they realize the link between the two; for
there is a very definite and interesting link
between them, historical as well as cul
tural. It was Captain John Whistler who
drew the plans for Fort Dearborn about
1833 and was second in command there^, and
it was his grandson James Abbot McNeil
\\ histler who painted this famous picture.
But we must not overlook the. other mem
bers of this famous family for they .gre of
interest and importance to us also. Captain
John Whistler’s eldest son served as a lieu
tenant under his father’s command. His
eldest daughter, Sarah, was manned in Nov
ember 1804, to James Abbot, a trader of
Detroit, thus becoming the first bride of
Chicago. Another daughter manned Lieu
tenant Joseph Hamilton who was also a su
baltern under Whistler at Fort Dearborn.
But we are most interested in his son
George Washington Whistler and his grand
son James Abbot McNeil Whistler. The
former graduated from West Point at the
age of nineteen and was assigned to the
artillery branch. He resigned his commis
sion and embarked upon the engineering ca
reer which was to make him world-famous
and win for him the decoration of the Order
of St. Anne by Czar Nicholas of Russia for
his services in constructing the railroad from
St. Petersburg to Moscow.
He married Anna Mathilda .McNeil and
to them was born James Abbot McNeil
Whistler whom we have mentioned before.
James tried to follow the profession of his
father and his grandfather, that of a mili
tary life, but his training at AVest Point
lasted only two years.
“Yet the loss of the military world was
the gain of tin* artistic world of art,” we
are told. This world-famous artist never saw
Chicago, the home of his grandfather, a
thing that he lamented many times. He
would be consoled if he knew that today
thousands of his fellow-Amerieans in this
same city are standing reverently before his
memorial to his mother “who had been the
greatest single guiding force in his life and
tin* further fact that not far away is another
memorial t»»■ the first of his name in Amer
ica, the log walls of Fort Dearborn."
Nursery School \ r isitors
There are many visitor- frequently calling
at tin* Spelman College Nursery School for
the purpose of getting an idea of tin* type
of work that is carried on there. Among
the visitors of this week were the Supervisor
and twenty-five teachers of the DeKalb
County Public Schools. The visitors arrived
Friday. November 10, at 10:45 A.51., and
were greeted by members of the staff, who
showed them the rooms and equipment, and
explained the purpose of each. They were
given literature to read so that they might
be acquainted with the systematic routine
of the day. They were shown pictures of
the early morning activities and were given
an opportunity to read daily records of the
child’s physical, mental, emotional and social
development.. Each person observed the
children as they engaged in activities on the
play ground; the placing of toys in the
garage, the routine of toilet activities and
getting washed for dinner, the short period
of rest just before dinner. They were able
to see the youngsters in real action, each
one performing his part to make the dinner
hour an interesting time. The visitors re
mained throughout the period for dinner and
leaving at 12:45, saw the youngsters tucked
in bed.
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“We Appreciate Your Patronage”
What Arcturus Means to the
Fair
By Beulah Johnson. '37
The star Arcturus has a direct relation to
the Chicago Exposition of 1933. It symbol
izes the progress attained by science in an
interval of forty years.
Arcturus is only a pin-point of light in
the constellation Bootes; only students of
astronomy know how to locate it at all sea
sons. It has been an object of concentrated
scientific interest for many years, is approxi
mately forty-light-years from the earth, and,
because of its highly luminous qualities, sci
entists believe that it consists largely of the
same substances as the sun.
This star has always been a source of
more or less romantic sentiment for all those
who have spent a large portion of their
time in the open. Shepherds, while watching
their sheep on balmy nights, have watched
this star and wondered. To them, it was
just a star among many others; so it was to
many persons. But scientists began watch
ing it and things began to happen. Observa
tion of the star Arcturus was made easy
because of its regular appearance. It ap
pears early in our northern hemisphere and
on nights in the warm months as well as in
the cold ones. Finally, science won and now
Arcturus functions for science.
When the great Chicago Fair of 1893
opened its gates to the world, Arcturus
flashed forth light rays that opened the
gates for tlie Fair of 1933. The official
commencement of the Fair of 1933 was sig
naled by causing an Arcturus beam to im-
pigne upon a photoelectric cell that, in turn,
transmitted its power to instruments that
opened doors to the science exhibits. Could
there be a more significant way to mark
progress?
The light rays of Arcturus form a con
necting link between the Chicago Fair, 1893
and the Exposition of “A Century of Prog
ress" in 1933. Thus the two greatest fairs
of the world are linked together by the path
of a star ray. The star Arcturus dramatizes
the achievement of mankind in the world of
science, and it is one of the things that
make the Chicago Exposition an Exposi
tion belonging to the world.
Since there has been no opportunity in
lIk* May-June or the October is-ues to give
space to the Century of Progress, we are
devoting this issue to it.
Instructor: You must have concentrated
on the writing of that Autobiography.
, Freshman: X<>, Miss Wilson, I wasn’t
concentrating. I just -at down to think.
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