The M. A. C. RECORD. MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. V o i^ 15. L A N S I N G, M I C H I G A N, T U E S D A Y, D E C E M B ER 14, 1909. N o. 13. RADIOSCOPES FOR FRESH MEN. MICHIGAN ORATORICAL LEAGUE. be similar Twenty-five t h r o wn off by little optical instru ments known as Radioscopcs have been purchased by the Chemical de furnished partment and will to along with the other apparatus students entering that course. T h ey are very to a microscope. Beneath the lense is placed a small square glass on the underside of which is spread a thin paste of zinc sulphide containing a small quantity of radium bromide. T h is device shows the effect of radium in throw ing off emanations^ These emanat the ing particles innumer radium bromide produce able sparks when the phosphorescent zinc sulphide and when viewed in a dark room have the appearance of shooting stars. contrivance which is very unique is diffraction grating. It is a bit of gelatine enclosed be tween two thin glasses and having lines several upon one surface. photographed T h is separates the rays of white light, making them blend into -the colors of this means heated metals may readily be distinguished. These instruments were originally made by cutting about 3,000 lines per inch on the glass with a diamond point. thousand very rainbow. By they strike Another fine the THE NEW WEATHER OBSERV ATORY. structure, T he new station of the U. S. weather bureau, which is being built on the college campus just north of the postoffice, will be completed by spring. T he building will have a very pretty view, overlooking the arboretum to the w e st and the var ied landscape of the campus to the east and south. Although not an imposing the building, which is being made of brick, will have that appearance of permanency which is so characteristic of Uncle Sam's houses, and will be a very It will con dignified little edifice. tain fourteen rooms, not including hallways, and, while a considerable to amount of floor space is given the halls and corridors, nevertheless most of the rooms are comfortably large. T he building is of the square de sign so common to the s o u t h; has three stories and a cupola, which will be equipped with the ordinary observatory apparatus- is Mr. Dewey A. Seeley, who now director of the station at Peoria, 111., will have charge when com pleted. FARMERS' MEETING. T he college was well represented at the State Association of F a r m e r s' Clubs, which met in Lansing last week. L. W h i t n ey W a t k i n s, '93 ; A. B. Cook, '93 ; B. A. Holden, '91 ; H e n ry T. R o s s, '04, and perhaps other alumni were present. for M r. B. A. Holden was elected president coming year. the T he college men have always been a potent influence in this organiza .-.'"' tion. just been published league is composed of T he constitution of the Michigan Oratorical League as revised in 1909 has in book form. D r. Blaisdell, who is in charge of the archives for the permanent preservation of the constitution, by laws, books, papers, etc., received the first copies here. . T he the following colleges : Adrian, Albion, Alma, Hillsdale, Hope, Kalamazoo, Michigan Agricultural, Olivet and state contest ' T he State Normal. will be held in the first Friday March at this college. We will not get the contest here again for nine years, as the constitution decrees that the debates shall be held at the colleges consecutively in their alpha betical order. conceded." T he question to be debated reads as follows : " Resolved, T h at each Michigan city of twenty-five thou sand population or over should be governed by a commission of not over nine men, to be elected at large, constitutionality F or the interscholastic debate Ypsilanti has decided to defend the affirmative. its T he Debating Club will hold second the winter term. teams of six men each T he the sixth. the first preliminaries on Friday night of Five full have already been chosen. club hopes to' make up It question .13 3tatcc is very Well satisfied with the M r s. Landon has kindly reserved library for material a table in the to-add on the subject, and will try to the material already there. Mr. Fish, instructor in public speaking, will also give his assistance in find ing material. Those wishing to join a team may- do so by submitting their names to M r. E. L. Rodegib, or some one connected with the Club. At the business meeting held December 2nd, the following officers were elected for the winter term : President—E. L. Rodegib. Vice-president—A. H. Perrine. Secy, and T r e a s . — H. B. Wales. P r e ss R e p o r t e r — A. P. Pulling. Chairman of P r o g r am Commit t e e — E. E. Kurtz. ECLECTIC SOCIETY. On the evening of Saturday, Dec. 4th, the Eclectic Society gave a smoker for the alumni and for the new members. Mr. J. E. H a m mond and Prof. H. S. Reid were among the alumni members present. Early in the evening the following literary program was greatly en joyed : A declamation by G. H. Newhall, a musical number by the T ic Trio, an interesting talk on the Detection of Bacteria in W a t er by R . L. Taylor, and a very interesting and humorous account of " My Summer's Experience as a 'Con' on the M. U. R ." by C. D. Forster. A valuable addition of about a hundred well selected volumes of recent fiction, as well as complete editions of Scott and T h a c k e r y, was recently made to the society library by the alumni association. ANOTHER T E RM A D D E D. term. T he equipment of the engineer ing department is steadily g r o w i n g, and beginning with the coming year the instruction will be increased to another T he alumni who graduated previous to the establish ment of the new testing laboratory would be interested in the various machines, their permanent arrange the various novelties of ment and construction which the eve meets about the shops. In the the testing room are H ow was it boys, years ago when you had to take a machine down to make room for another when you wanted to make a test or carry out regular an experiment not in course ? Well, that time is over now. four steam engines, one 7" x 10" auto matic cut-off, one 8" 13" x 12" simi tandem compound, one lar design 9" x 14" simple slide valve supplied throttling governors, and one with corliss i 2 " x 3 o" N o r d b e rg long stroke, cut-off type, with cut-off ranging from practically o to S-10 or 9-10 of the stroke. These engines are used entirely for testing and valve setting, and are all arranged so that they can be run condensing or non condensing. T he exhaust steam may be turned into the heating system. in the One of shop for One 10 h. p. K e rr turbine, which has been three y i a r s, but out of order, will be in si ape to run next term. interesting the most mechanisms to the novice is an im proved Ericcson hot air engine. In reality it is a boiler and condenser combined, and uses the same volume of hot air over and over again. T he engine is not built large units, and is used only for domestic serv It is not very efficient from a ice. thermal standpoint. in T h e re are two oil engines; one gasoline and one kerosene, both de veloping 4 I I. P. as known system, T he engineering building is being installed with a new hot water heating the " R a p id H e a t e r" system. By special device known as the Honeywell generator, the water may be con fined p r e s s u r e. small hot blast heating Another system has been arranged for ex perimental purposes. to very high T he two large dynamos formerly used in generating the current of the lighting system are now used in experimental work. things of A m o ng other interest to furnish is a duplex pump, used cooling water for the condensers, a 12" Pelton water wheel and a group of injectors. are another T wo large and powerful machines the apartment in " Piehle " T he testing machines. larger one, operated by electricity, will generate a pressure of 100,000 pounds. T he smaller, a hydraulic 50,000 machine, will pounds pressure. T he stability of wyoods, cast iron, and steel of vari ous tempers is measured on these machines. A round piece of cast iron about an inch in diameter was crushed endwise under a pressure of 90,000 pounds. generate ["ALUMNI J 'S8. " P a ul M. Chamberlain, '88, has opened an engineering office at 1522 Marquette Building, Chicago, and is prepared to furnish plans, estimates, and superintendence for new plants, the improvement of old ones. and He will give special attention to power plant and factory equipment, fuel economy and smoke abatement. His previous connections as engineer with Frick Company of W a y n e s boro, Pa., Hercules Iron W o r ks of Aurora, 111., McGan Mechanical W o r ks of Los Angeles, Cal., and T he Underfeed Stoker Co. of America, together with consulting work while professor of mechanical Institute, at Lewis engineering Chicago, prepares him serve to clients to their best advantage." He was at one time on the engineering faculty of the college. '93- and D w i g ht S. Cole, '93, is in charge the of design Drake-American Steam Turbine Co., of Grand Rapids. His address is 159 S. Lafayette St. testing with in '95- T he paper prepared by Prof. H. R. Smith ('95), on " T he Problems of Meat Production the Corn BakJ" an^ read before th* meeting of the American society of animal nutrition the opening day of the ex position, met with much favor, be cause of the suggested means of im proving both the quality of beef in the United States. T he paper was published in several Chicago dailies, including the Sun day Tribune. — Xcbraska State journal. Of course Nebraska the supply and figured International prominently Live Stock Exposition. the at . ' 00 Harriette Robson '00, is teaching in Leadville, Colorado. Miss Bertha Malone, '00, is critic teacher in the State Normal at Dil lon, Montana. She has been there two years. '02. M. 15. Stevens, '02, and wife, Elizabeth J o h ns Stevens, '0.4, were visitors at the college Monday. W. R. Shedd, '02, called at the college a few days ago. He is with the Barber Coleman Co., manu spinning ma facturers of cotton chinery. He is gathering informa tion to the building of a new power plant. His address is Rockford, 111. B. A. Peterson, '02, is with the same relative firm. with '02 \ W. R. W r i g h t, with '02, former ly assistant in Bacteriology has left Stillwater, Okla., and is now assist ant in the the dairy department of P u r d ue Univer sity under the A d a m 's fund. research w o rk of '04. '04, is assistant to the city engineer of Rockford, 111. A, R. Carter, T he M. A. C. RECORD PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY DURING THE COLLEGE YEAR BY T HE MICHIGAN S T A TE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE C H A S. H E N L E Y, M A N A G I NG EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS GEO. G. COTKR ,T. W. CHAPIX W. K. WALRKH W. T. MILIiKR F A N N IE KEITH & K 0 8 SE BKWEY P. AV. MASON SUBSCRIPTION - 50 CENTS PER YEAR Entered as second-class mail matter at Lansing, Mich. Remit by P. O. Money Order, Draft or Registered Letter. Dp not send stomps. Address all subscriptions and advertising matter to the College Secretary, East Lan sing, Mich. Address all contributions to the Managing Editor. Business Office with Lawrence & Van Buren Printing Co.. 122 Ottawa St. East, Lansing, Mich. TUESDAY, DEC. 14, 1909. P R O F. FRENCH BACK FROM M I L W A U K E E. Professor French has returned from the third annual convention of the National Society for the Promo tion of Industrial Education, with a magnificent grist of ideas. It was a memorable occasion, on every hand suggestive of the startling progress of the new education and impressive of the need of practical work in the schools. T he general topics discussed dur ing the program were as follows : Indus " I lie Economic Legisla trial Education," " Na " Trades tion™ tional "E v e n i ng Las islation" "-IndustrialEduca Schools? Abroad? tion at Home and J alue of " State Schools? and Manv notable and interesting speakers were on the program, and the subject was given a complete airing from all sides of terms Education.'''' A r t h ur D. Dean, Chief of Divis ion of Trade Schools of N ew Y o r k, spoke upon the subject of " What Indus the State Can Do to Assist trial central T he thought of his address was that the public schools must be re-directed in environment. their He said that the curriculum of the public high school must extend in directions : three toward toward commer second, college; cial life; and third, toward indus trial education. agricultural He advocated that the compulsorv age he raised to sixteen vears, and the State as a whole give that special aid industrial edu cation. toward First, and thought as Such." took for his Schools Charles L. P e r r y, director of the public schools of trades of Milwau subject, " The kee, Trades He stated that these schools should be under the control of the local boards of education, and that the minimum age for entrance should be 16 years. receive He state thev should be limited in number to one school to each countv. T he attend ance at made compulsorv for those who en tered. they were partly supported by the state, and that they necessitated state control, the they should be established by authority of the state. schools should be financial aid. and Inasmuch as they should these that T he President of Ohio Mechanics . Institute at Cincinnati, Mr. J o hn T. Shearer, gave an eloquent address. He was one of the most interesting men on the program. His subject was " Evening- " Eve ning Schools," he said, are an appar ent necessary evil. T he hours of 7 :oo to 9 :oo p. m. should be spent in the home but society does not Schools." T he M. A. C. RECORD. in amusing conform to that rule." M r. Shearer credited the churches with having endeavored to counteract by offering healthy amusement, but inasmuch as the boys and girls of the cities per sist themselves else where, the public evening school has a duty in the light of social con ditions, and should be established in every city. Mr. Shearer mentioned sixteen years as the proper minimum age for entering and that free evening schools were not desir should able, be charged. that a small thought tuition One particular point in his address was that the field of the evening school was limited especially to ele mentary and industrial lines. taking A very startling statement was made at the evening meeting by .Mr. J o hn Golden, when he informed the society that 25,000 young men technical and women were courses in correspondence schools. " W h at these voung people need," said he, "is the personal touch of a live teacher." T he unions favor technical and trades schools, but that all graduates shall take a short apprenticeship." trades insist M r. Golden was the only man on the program who was not directly education. interested He is a trades union leader. industrial in T h e re was one general conclu sion arriy ed at by nearly all the speakers ; that the schools can train a w o r k m an better than he can be trained by a foreman under the ap prentice system. Germany was often mentioned as America's the argument being based on their inten sive methods of farming. competitor, future President U m p h r e ys said that the securing of culture is determined by the attitude of the individual to his subject. HOG CHOLERA S E R U M. Technical Bulletins, N o s. 2 and 3, have the just been published by director of bacteriology and hygiene of the experiment station. No. 2 is a continuation of the first one pub lished in June, 190S. It deals with the influence of salt and the decom position of proteins in the keeping qualities of butter. No. 3 is entitled "Studies of Agglutinative Reaction in H og Cholera During the P r o cess of Serum Production." T he serum method of preventing and fighting hog cholera, known as the Dorset-Niles method, being worked out with apparent success, since the Bureau of Animal Indus try at Washington turned it over to the experiment stations over a year ago. T he chief of this bureau called a conference of those endeavoring to manage this the ference met month at the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago. T he states of Ohio, In diana, Iowa, Kansas, North D a k o t a, Minnesota and Michigan, and the Industry were Bureau of Animal represented. D r. Marshall repre sented M. A. C. the disease. T h is con second of is T he future outlook for serum is verv bright. T he experiment sta tion has sent out over 75,000 cc. since it has begun its investigations, and has had many favorable reports. Miss Katherine M c N a u g h t o n, '05, of Middleville, Mich., visited the college Friday. C. A. Reed, '05, is nut specialist in the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Sunday night's meeting was favored with a ' d u et by Miss M ay Herbert and M r. R ay T u r n er and a solo by M r. T u r n e r. Dr. N'adal of Olivet college gave an exception ally strong and convincing address on " T he Real Question." T he devotional committee has outlined a series of mid-week meet ings for the winter term on "Col lege Problems," to be led by college men. T h e se promise to be excep tionally interesting and profitable. T he Y. M. C. A. will be head information students to the quarters for short-course concerning rooms to be had in East Lansing. F or this reason it is desired that residents in East Lansing having such rooms inform the general sec retary to this effect by mail, giving details of location, etc. 'HOW S T A T U ES A RE M A D E .' in Prof. Lorado Taft, instructor sculpture in the Chicago A rt Insti tute, delivered Wednesday even ing, Dec. 8th, the third of the series of entertainments given by the Lib eral A r ts Union. T he armory was well filled and the audience had the pleasure of listening to a very ex cellent lecture. things, that keen Prof. Taft h a s ' t h at ease of say ing insight and witty humor so characteristic of an artist. T he relation of things seri ous to things frivolous is a constant pleasure. At times when one feels the sculptor that to into some weighty moraliza- drift tion he all at once rises into a burst of humor and roars with laughter. is just about the audience Prof. Taft demonstrated in good shape that to be a sculptor one must be a close observer of forms. T he minutest details of the face are very expressive. He characterized one kind of sculpture as being "epider mal," which was his way of saying that the beauty of that w o rk "was only skin deep." After he had finished his intro duction he donned an apron and took up the problem of features, propor tion and expression. this he proved to be somewhat of an anat omist. He began by saying that the human face was made merely for our pleasure. He demonstrated with a large model just what mus cles and how they worked together to produce various expressions. He- spent some moments in explaining the meaning of in his witty way some of those expressions. In He next made a bust of M r. Crunnelle, his assistant. This Mr. Crunnelle made over into the head of a beautiful young woman, while the lecturer worked and talked upon other models. T he clay portrait of the Princess of Lamballe, a young and lovely girl to begin, but, growing old be fore our eyes, was an interesting part. T he muscular mask Was lightly touched upon, the artist men tioning only important requisites. the more He took up the making of masks and showed to the audience some very beautiful ones, among which was a head very similar to the little in Bambino, that it was made from life by a stu dent at the institute. interesting however He closed by saying that this stu dent's name was Leonardo, and that his name will some day be a famous one. THE STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY MEETING. in in recent years, and fruit crops of T he 39th annual meeting of the Michigan State Horticultural So ciety was held at Kalamazoo .on the 7th, 8th, and 9th conjunction with the Kalamazoo Fruit Growers Society. the most It was one of successful meetings that the Society the has held good, profitable the past year was manifest in the large the g-ood feelinsr attendance and that was everywhere evident. T he fruit exhibits were very large, and probably could be accounted for to some extent, by the fact that a.large list of premiums had and attractive been offered by nurserymen, fertil izer manufacturers, publishers and manufacturers of spray outfits. Several members of the faculty of the Michigan Agricultural Col lege appeared on the program, and the annual banquet for the Society which was held in the Elk's Hall on Tuesday evening, was a very pleas ant feature of the meeting. M r. Thomas Gunson presided as toast- master in his inimitable way. Quite a number of junior and sen ior students attended and entered the students' fruit judging contest. T he State Horticultural Society offers to the horticultural students of the college three prizes — $ 1 5, $10, $5 respectively. These, prizes are awarded to the students w ho ex cel in judging the varieties of fruits on the exhibition tables. T he prizes this year were awarded to M r. U. S. Crane, of Fennville; Mr. C. B. Tubergen, of Grand R a p i d s; M r. R. W. Voorhorst, of Lerov. At the close of two members of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon there was an impromptu gathering of M. A. C. men, and a large number were called upon for short talks. One of the pleasant features of the gathering was the class of '88, w ho were present and gave their class yell. Before the meet ing broke up it was decided to organ ize the M. A. C. students, w ho are now interesied in fruit g r o w i ng in into an experimenters' Michigan league, the object of which will be to carry on horticultural experiments on their fruit farms and announce their results at the meetings of the State Horticultural Society-. T h is work will be largely in co-operation with the department of horticulture. T he following is a nearly correct list of M. A. C. alumni and students (In some present at the meeting : cases the students are with the class indicated and not graduated.) O. I. Gregg, '07. M. D. Buskirk, '85, C. A. Reed, '05. C. E. Bassett, '86, C. A. Pratt, '06. O. S. Bristol, '82, O. K. White, '07. C. B. Cook, '88, L. A. Bregger, '88, R. L. Pennall, '07. Paul Thayer, '00, G. W. Lindsley, '07. J. H. Skinner, '01, H. A. Taft, '09. H. J. Eustace, '04, R. G. Voorhorst, '10. C. A. Seeley, '01, J. A. Miller, '10. W. S. Palmer, '02, C. E. Smith, '10. R. G. Thomas, '03, G. C. Wagner, '10. B.A. Wermuth,'03, C. B. Tubergen, '11. S. B. Hartman, '03, L. E. Babcook, '11. U. S. Crane, '11. The only occurrence that marred the meeting was the fire of the Burdick Hotel. The members of Horticultural Department, as well as a good many members of the society, lost their bag gage. It was fortunate that the stu dents who attended the meeting were guests at another hotel and so escaped this unpleasant feature. T he M. A. C. RECORD. SPECIAL SALE OF FURS ALL THIS WEEK J C A M E R ON (& A R B A U GH CO. 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