LIBRA MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE OF AGRI.AND APP. SCIENCE iS>! :P? 111 m~ -X ' ^ • ^ i *. Michigan Agricultural College Association Publishers ffl East Lansing Vol. X X V ni Dec. 11, 1922 No. 12 2 THE M. A. C. RECORD Est. 1897 See the 1923 MOTORS PRODUCT When choosing a motor car you will find at your Oldsmobile dealer's showrooms a most complete line of quality automo biles priced on a quantity production basis. For power and economy the Oldsmobile Four surpasses all others. The Eight Cylinder Oldsmobile is the only car eight-cylinder power, flexibility and smoothness of operation at a low cost. that offers FOURS—$955 TO $1575 EIGHTS—$1375 TO $2025 TRUCKS—$1095 DEALERS IN ALL PRINCD7AL CITD3S AND TOWNS OLDS MOTOR WORKS Division of General Motors Corporation LANSING, MICHIGAN OLDSMOBILE Fours Wins By Comparison Eights THE M. A. C. RECORD 3 A Complete Service The Robert Smith Company has been identified with M. 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Give Farm Bureau Virgin Wool Blankets at Christmas! Virgin wool blankets have that softness, bright lustre, and durability ' . _ _ .. only with the first use of the wool. the Ottawa, ioo per cent virgin wool, in gray and For Christmas shipment we have white 72x84 inches, weight slA lbs. at $12. Also the Washtenaw, 100 per cent virgin wool, same size, another finish, at $8.50. Durable dark green outing blankets at $5. Virgin wool auto robes at $6.50. We ship comes that . - - ' promptly by parcel post. Write for blanket circular. Farm Bureau Suits and Overcoats tailored-to-measure. MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU Fabrics Division Lansing, Mich. DANCER-BROGAN'S STORE IS A VERY GOOD PLACE TO CHOOSE GIFTS FOR WOMEN There is scarcely an article in this store which is not suggestive of a gift for some woman. That is because we specialize in things for women. Holiday time finds every aisle in this Christmas Store trans formed into an aisle of gifts, and every nook and corner has its own unique gift suggestion to make. So thoroughly has this merchandise been assembled, and so ex clusively is it in character that to whomsoever it is sent or given; the stamp of Dancer-Brogan Quality is the imprint of good taste and distinctiveness. THE M. A. C. RECORD LET US HAUL OK STORE YOUR TRUNKS Fireproof Storage & Transfer Co. SERVICE—SAFETY—SATISFACTION—GUARANTEED Warehouse 430 North Larch St. Bell 816; Citz. 3396 Member:—National Furniture Warehouseman's Association, Michigan Highway Transportation Association, American Warehousemen's Association Quality Dependability Service Furniture — Rugs - Funeral Directors Jarvis-Estes Co. Quality Furniture Priced Low WASHINGTON AVE. AT FRANKLIN IDEAL POWER LAWN MOWERS There's an for every lawn, whatever the size: Ideal Mower The 22 in. Power Mower The 30 in. Power Mower The 84 in. Power Mower The 16 in. 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Write Today Do Not Delay The season is advancing THE MARL EXTRACTOR CO. (Not Incorp.) Marshall, Mich. W. G. Merritt '93 TWENTIETH CENTURY RADIO CORP*N L. V. Williams, Manager. Distributors of Westinghouse, General Electric, Western Electric Radio Apparatus. ,. , 2311 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Mich. Phone Main 7809. Barker-Fowler Electric Co. Electrical Supplies—Motors Radio Equipment Mail Orders 117 East Michigan Ave., Lansing After Every Meal * N *1 VJV & c#> The F l a v or Lasts THE M. A. C. RECORD VOL. X X V I I I. No. 12 E A ST LANSING, M I C H I G AN DEC. I I, 1922 PLAN STRONG IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM Legislature Will Be Asked to Fill Needs of College for Several New Buildings—No Room for Expansion in Present Equipment M. A. C. is due for a period of expansion such as it has never experienced. Governor Groesbeck and L. Whitney Watkins, '93, chair man of the state board of agriculture, have legislature repeatedly stated would be called upon to give the college its due and provide for its growth in a manner which will insure its future. the corning that As it stands, dependent upon the lawmakers of the state for every step of progress, M. A. C. must show results to get the funds it needs. It has a regular tax for upkeep and opera tion but in the past fifteen years but little has been done to increase its facilities. With the exception of the veterinary the gymnasium and dairy buildings, it has had no opportuni its accommodations were ties to expand for limited its class rooms have been crowded and labora tories working overtime and there is no place the students un for a general assembly for is used, interfering with less the gymnasium In spite of the work in these handicaps creased its value to the state. to a certain number of students, it has forged ahead and in physical education. We have the horticultural building with its tiny class rooms and inadequate equipment for carrying on some of the most vital work in the interest of fruit growing, one of the big is no other industries course of a similar nature in the state. in Michigan. There in this the students The chemistry building cares for but a small important proportion of course. Veterinary class rooms and labora tories are widely separated. The agricultural the various building is filled with offices of arts and science courses to the detriment of the courses which should make it their head quarters. In other words we have the spec tacle of a make shift arrangement which tends to confusion and a consequent lessening of the value of the class hours. A slight relief will be felt when the home economics and library buildings are complete. The former will center offices, class rooms and the laboratories for the women students and latter will allow to be used as an administration building with all offices relating to the executive conduct of the that point. This, how college centered at the ever, will in horticultural and chemical departments and in the matter of an auditorium which the col leave a need to be filled the present library lege has grew the old chapel in College Hall. lacked since the student body out to provide a suitable athletic The governor and Mr. Watkins have re peatedly assured their hearers that steps would field be taken with accommodations for the crowds, drawn to M. A. C. athletic events so that the people of the state may see their sons and acquaintances Improve in action at their favorite sports. further ments at the athletic field will mean in athletics facilities and in better physical edu cation. for general competition thus will result the public. the completion of As a forward step the school and, If the building program which has been mapped out by the college authorities will stand alone as through an achievement for the school, for the plans are carried out as they have been made and addi tional dormitories are constructed for the Use of the women the college will be in a position to care for a much larger enrollment. The next pressing need will be dormitories for men. The other buildings are emergency projects upon which the college must depend to allow for growth; men's dormitories are a necessity but they can wait until the more necessary fa cilities are provided. It is an ambitious effort to seek such an amount of money from the legislature at one time but represents the accumulated needs of the college over a period of years and means that M. A. C. will be equipped to go forward in her assigned fields to an ever broadening scope of usefulness, educating a larger pro portion of the citizens of the state and doing It is a movement which a better job of needs the support of alumni the state, their example in life, their careful ex planations of the value of the college and their active work to interest the legislators will bear fruit and the monetery shackles of M. A. C. will be cast aside so she may assume the place of command in the world of free education which is her birthright. throughout it. A. K. Chittenden, J. C. DeCamp and P. A. Herbert of the forestry department attended a recent meeting of the state conservation com mission at which policies of taxation and fire the forests of protection for the state were formulated. discussed and 8 THE M. A. C. RECORD ENGLISH COURSE STICKS TO IDEAL Department Has Unusual Opportunity to Develop Thought Along Non- Technical Lines—Emphasizes Thought of Noted Writers. the pleasure of A course of study which presents an ideal without marring the student by dwelling too much upon the mechanics of its component parts, yet through the use of the the best best usage and prepares a groundwork of the purest fundamentals is the aim of the English department, to Prof. W. W. Johnston. the precepts of illustrations according instills the only department on "We aim to give some of the practical and some of the impractical in our teaching," said find our Professor Johnston, "Because we selves the campus which through its elective work instructs stu to dents their daily job. There to aid in broadening the narrow viewpoint of the try the technical student and we the direction of evident demand for thought along learning the paths and by-paths of which are not encouraged in other courses. in matters not pertaining directly is an opportunity to supply time ideas there is no "The freshman year is devoted to "Our essential object is to teach the college man and woman in either to express In this task we are spoken or written form. faced with a condition which confronts none of to the other departments. A man comes • college without being expected to know chem istry, engineering, physics and other branches of the curriculum but any student is supposed to have training in English. Thus we cannot give time to the important fundamentals but must rely upon the student to gain his knowl edge as he goes along if he did not obtain it in high school. In the correction of material presented by students we indicate poor spelling for and punctuation but classes in the rudiments. We must give them the ideas which we wish to convey and allow their own minor deficiencies. them to perfect training in writing. Sophomores are instructed in pub lic speaking and the later classes in elective literature. Most subjects branch out colleges demand that students read along the lines with which to deal. The agricultural student reads books relating to agriculture, the engineer concentrates upon engineering information and others follow like the rules but in our case we try to enlarge the student's outlook. To field and broaden this end we are taking up freshman in our this year a compilation of essays, by work modern authors as a rule, which introduce some of the problems of life. Bertrand Rus the sell's "A Free Man's Worship," opens question of man's destiny. Another treats of the student's attitude toward his work and to Stewart Edward White's works ward into one viewpoint on; the gives an they are expected insight life. into a It style them foreign thorough the valuable truths which the stereotyped wonders of nature. All have the elements of good ac through and quaintance with the student gradually assimilates the principles of good writing. into literature we "When we get have departed from rule of many colleges which seek to give a resume of all literature of a certain period and through doing this fail to impress upon the mind of the student the noted writers of earlier days sought to con vey. is the latter point we are trying to emphasize. The biographical and historical features of literature are unimportant when the messages imparted by the early writers are considered. We try to carry out his idea by selecting the best works of the best men In this way we or the most typical of each. have arrived at the conclusion that Greek and Hebrew the are works of the ancients, thus we study these two. We confine this class of work to the Bible and the Greek classics and emphasize the thought of these productions rather than their literary significance which of course is apparent to the student and needs no emphasis. literature leaders the in the to read "Under old systems of education it was deemed necessary to learn Greek, Latin and Hebrew to appreciate the literature of earlier times, then there was a reaction which said it was unnecessary literature of those languages. This question we believe has best been solved in the attitude We have taken that translations of the languages are just as valuable from a literary standpoint as was the original. For centuries English speaking peo the He ple have been given the message of brews through the Bible and translations of there is no reason why translations of other works cannot be ap languages in foreign preciated as. thoroughly. "In other courses we have followed a sys tem of selection. In the so-called Elizabethan period we have singled out Shakespeare as typical and have decided to dwell upon his im tragedies as the most typical of his portant ' work. the 19th century works we have In taken Browning and Tennyson as our stand this ards and spend all the time devoted to period, outside of American literature, to these poets. In American literature we shall apply the same principle when the course is started next year. in building up "In general, our object a course in English is, by example and practice, to equip graduates with the power to express themselves in speech and writing. When a student elects work in the department we try to give him as broad a view of the field as THE M. A. C. RECORD 9 and C. H. Kuhn is a contributor to magazines. Debating teams are organized and coached by J. C. Milne and E. S. King is in charge of most of the public speaking classes. Mrs. the course Roseboom specializes the in novel and A. H. Nelson teaches elementary journalism. in 17 MONOGRAMS ARE GIVEN FOOTBALL MEN '24, Detroit; G. A. Thorpe, '23, Alpena; J. C. McMillan, At the recent meeting of the board in con trol of athletics Acting Director Barron pro posed the following list of football men for they were granted by varsity programs and the board: W. C. Johnson, '24, Newberry; Maurice Taylor, '24, East Cleveland, O .; R. A. Morrison, '24, Detroit; H. Swanson, '23, Ishpeming; H a r ry C. Graves, '23, Stephenson; J. O. Brady, '23, Allegan; H. Eckerman, '25, Muskegon; E. C. Eckert, '25, Grand Rapids; E. G. Neller, '25, Lansing; R. R. Richards, '25, Lansing; H. A. Robinson, '25, Detroit; V. G. Hultman, '25, Grand Rap- . ids; E. L. Lioret, Ishpeming; P. H. '25, Tefuer, '25, Muskegon; Arthur Beckley, '25, Bay City. Reserve monograms will be given to A. W. Hughes, '25, oyal O a k; R. L. Kipke, '24, Sault Ste. '25, Lansing; T. F. Burris, '25, Ishpeming; B. L. Marie; G. Swanson, Goode, '25, Charleston; B. R. Crane, '24, Fennville. Gold footballs were awarded the seniors on three years the team in recognition of of service. their lies within our power arid to pass on to him the truths which are carried in literary mas- tterpieces rather in tricate details which mean nothing to him un less he elects a literary career and in that case he gains this knowledge for himself. than fill his mind with "I believe M. A. C. should offer a major in English which would allow students to spe cialize as they do in* other courses. We have the staff and equipment for thorough instruc tion and allowing special work always adds interest to a course. In addition to the regular courses the Eng lish department has a sub department of mod ern languages in which French, Spanish and German are taught. Two former members of the English de partment have been selected by the college for student special work. R. B. Weaver, new pastor, and J. B. Hasselman, in charge of pub lications, began their work at M. A. C. in this department. Creative work, an inspiration to students and members of the faculty, is fos tered by the department. There are weekly discussions of departmental problems by those connected with the staff and Professor John ston has formed a small club which meets fortnightly and discusses the creative work of its members. This latter includes members of several other departments and several students in its membership. Professor Johnston has published poems and articles but perhaps his most ambitious work was the compilation of a series of volumes for the American Educational Institute upon "The Romantic Poets." R. B. Weaver, who still teaches one class in English, has published a book of poems which has been well received, /fit*.