MAY 16, 1919. M\ VOL. X X IV No. 30 Tke M A G RECORD Appropriation Bill Signed by the Governor. Prof. Dirks, New Head of M. E, Department, Engineer of Wide Experience. Lansing and M. A. C. Make Gala Day for Returning 119th F. A. Lieut. H. K. Wrench '18 Gets Croix deGuerre, M. A. C. Needs a New Athletic Field. 5*AS m 'O&JbQcannot live onHerpast- SOr^S £* *S •SW5 S* What will you do forHerjiitureT tsz iS^SS ^MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ASSOCIATION - East Lansing J&tichigan umimiiiu mmiimi mum liu 2 ALUMNI =£ DIRECTORY PAGELSEN & SPENCER Patents, P a t e nt Law, T r a d e m a r ks 1107-10 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Detroit, Michigan E. N. Pagelsen, *89 L. M. Spencer, "06 Formerly Examiners U. S. Patent Office. Telephone Grand 2635-M ALLEN & BOONE, ENGINEERS Electrical, Automotive, Mechanical, Chemical. Testing- Laboratories, 870 Woodward Ave. G. H. Allen, '09. Detroit, Mich. SMITH POULTRY & EGG CO. Commission Merchants Solicit consignments in Poultry — Veal — E g gs Guy H. Smith, *11 Western Market, Detroit. GOODELL, ZELIN C. (Forestry, M. A. C. '11) Insurance and Bonds of Every Kind salary, If you haven't insured your better see or write Goodell about a good proposition. Lansing Insurance Agency, Inc., 208-212 Capital National Bank Bldg. T HE BIRNEY ELECTRIC CO. 119 E. Mich. Ave. Leo J. Hughes, Vice Pres., With Class of '15. A Variety of Fixtures for Students' Rooms—Students' Lamps and Mazda Bulbs. LANSING BATTERY SHOP 123 E a st Ottawa St., Lansing, Mich. E. E. Kinney, '15, Proprietor. Storage Batteries and Auto Electrical Troubles Our Specialties. SAMUEL L. KILBOURNE, ex-'Bl Lawyer 214% Washington Ave. S. Lansing, Mich. M. A. C. ASSOCIATIONS. Central Michigan. President,- L u t h er H. Baker, '93, Michigan Millers Ins. Co. Vice-President, E d w a rd C. Krehl, son, '12, E a st Lansing. Secretary and treasurer, E a rl Hot- chin, '12, Michigan Millers Ins. Co. Detroit Club. President, H. B. Gunnison, '00, De troit Edison Co. Vice-Presiden, E d w a rd C. Krehl, '08. J o hn H. Secretary and treasurer, '13, Mutual Benefit Ins. Co., Kenyon, 80 Griswold St., Detroit. Rapids. Grand President, H. I. Duthie, '11, F a r go E n g i n e e r i ng Co. Vice-President, Mrs. L. B. Littel, '03. Secretary and treasurer, Mrs. C. H. Perkins. '11. Washington, D. C. President, Clay Talman, missioner of the Land Office. '95, Com Vice-President, H e n ry J. Schneider, '04. Secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Mary Ross Reynolds, '03. THE M. A. C. RECORD. A. M. EMERY, '83. 223 Wash. Ave. N. H. C. Pratt, '09, in Charge of Office Supply Department. Books, Fine Stationery, Engraved Call ing Cards, Fountain Pens, Pictures, Frames, Filing Cabinets and General Office Supplies. BLUDEAU, SIEBERT & GATES Bookbinders File Boxes, Map Mountings, Etc. Citizens Phone No. 3019. Cor. Washington Ave. and Allegan St. LOUIS BECK CO. 112 Wash. Ave. N. Best in Clothes for Men and Boys. J. E. STOFPER, D. D. S. Office 203-5 City National Bank Bldg. Bell phone 61 Automatic phone 2361 ALLEN & DE KLEINE CO. 124-130 West Ionia.. Printers—Office Outfitters The finest equipped plant in Central Michigan Bell 1094 Citz. 3436 ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT CO. Electrical Contracting and Engineering. Dealers in E v e r y t h i ng Electrical. 117 Michigan E. H. KOSITCHEK & BROS. 113 N. Wash. Ave. The Home of Those Celebrated Ed. V. Price Tailor-Made Suits and Over coats (Fashion P a rk Clothes) (Style Plus, Suits and Over coats.) A. G. BISHOP, Odorless Cleaners, F a n cy Dyers 114-6 Washtenaw W. Citz. 2268 Bell 580 J. H. LARRABEE 325 S. Washington Ave. Sport Shop—Athletic Goods of AH Kinds. Member Executive Committee, Roy Potts, '06. Minneapolis. President, J. Allen Miller, '12. Vice-President, I ra J. Westerveldt, '12. Secretary and treasurer, C. C. Cav- anaugh, '09. D E T R O IT ALUMNI regular weekly hold a at the Detroit Board of Commerce on alumni Wednesday and former students and visiting M. A. C. people are being welcomed. noons. Detroit luncheon CORYELL NURSERY Birmingham, Mich. Growers of High Grade Ornamentals. We raise a large variety of vigorous stock for home grounds and public parks. R. J. Coryell, '84, president; Ralph I. Coryell, '14, sec'y and treasurer. DR. OSCAR H. BRUEGEL Hours: 11 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays 12 to 1 p. m. Kveiling hours: Mo'n., Wed. and Sat. by appointment. Office in East Lansing State Bank Bldg. Phones: Res. Bell 830, Citz. 3244. Office Citz. 2572 Your barbers for "HANK" AND "FRANK" the Pool, Billiards, Cigars. last Ave yea*\s. In the new Dickson Building. C O L L E GE C A FE A ND T EA R O OM Grand River Ave., E a st Lansing. A Real Good Place to Eat. Operated by the Misses Smith, Former Pro prietors of the Wildwood Cafe. A. B. HARFORD College Watch Maker Variety and Gift Shop. HARVEY PHOTO S H OP P O R T R A I TS Kinds Photographic Work All We Do Framing E. M. Harvey 1915. J. H. Pratt Mgr. ABBOT AVE. SPECIALS FOE T©«5I L«CMEJ • ©RdHQEJT Southern California. President, 234 Wholesale T e r m i n al Bldg., Los An geles. I. J. Woodin, '13, Secretary-treasurer, H. C. Schuyler, '13, Leffingwell Rancho, Whittier. Member of Executive Committee, G. C. Davis, '89. Alumni Member, H. A. Marsh, '08. Milwaukee. President, Wm. L. Davidson, '13, Scout Executive, 84 Mason St. Secretary-treasurer, George B. Wells, '00, Schrader L u m b er Co. Portland, Oregon. President, J. V. Gongwer, Vice-President, J o hn Decker, '04. Secretary and Treasurer, C. W. Bale, '08. '00, 39 Barnes Road. mm CIPMEJ LOFTO5 T HE M. A. C. R E C O RD VOL. X X I V. E A ST L A N S I N G, MICHIGAN, MAY 16, 1 9 1 9, immediately A COLLEGE VISITING DAY, if p l a ns Of the Athletic Department a re carried out, will feature as a p a rt of t he in- terscholastic t r a ck meet a nd athletic carnival which is to be held May 31st at t he college. On t h at day high school teachers, p a r e n ts of high school students as well as t he students at tending t he Interscholastic track meet are being especially invited to visit the college on t h at day, a nd inspect its various departments. T he regular spring term athletic carnival will be given as an e n t e r t a i n m e nt feature of follow the day a nd will the track meet which probably will be finished by 4 o'clock in t he afternoon. The carnival in which every college organization will p ut on a stunt, is scheduled in t he gymnasium from 4 In designating t he day to 10 o'clock. of t he interscholastic meet and t he carnival as a visiting day, t he athletic board of control a re seeking to bring not only a large representation of Michigan high school athletes to t he college, b ut also state school teachers, a nd p a r e n ts w ho a re look ing for a college for their sons and daughters. Departments of t he col lege will be open for inspection dur ing t he day a nd every effort will be made to show visitors t he facilities and advantages of M. A. C. It is in reality a big publicity movement in the campaign for more students. Com mittees of students now in college from various cities a nd localities in the state a re being organized as hos pitality committees by C h a i r m an G. A. Garratt, '20. T he hospitality com mittees will meet t he visiting contin gents from their localities at t he t r a in and will entertain their they a re on t he campus. m e nt while look after high T i n: HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT h as just completed a very attractive plant ing of shrubs about t he gymnasium improves t he building which greatly appearance of t he approach. Lilacs and larger shrubbery have been used close to t he building while barberry and smaller varieties were used along the walk a nd t he drive. AN OUTDOOR MEETING and " w i e n ie roast" w as held T h u r s d ay evening of this week by t he Community Church Sunday School Board in Prof. New m a n 's grove on Oak Hill. DR. YUTAKA M I N A K U C H I, famous Japanese orator, gave a very fine ad dress to a college audience last Sun day afternoon in t he armory. H is subject w as t he "Yellow Peril against the White Peril—American-Japanese Relations." Dr. Minakuchi h as lived twenty-one years in America, a nd at four tended universities, different having gotten h is doctor's degree from through Yale. He w as brought here the College Y. M. C. A. A Y. M. C. A. TEAM c o n s i s t i ng of Harold Johnson, Vern Ward, Melvin Wolford a nd S. E. Wolf, all of t he class of 1920, conducted a very suc cessful meeting in t he People's Church last Sunday evening. t he issue w as never LANSING WAS SAVED S a t u r d ay morn ing when Major K e nt a nd h is R. O. T. C. soldiers beat off an attacking a r my from t he east. T he city's safety h u ng on t he defense of a knoll on t he strategic college campus a nd t h at defended mound w as so successfully t h at in doubt. The attack was by three companies under L i e u t e n a nt Schroyer. T he s h am battle w as p a rt of t he a n n u al inspec tion of t he Student A r my T r a i n i ng Corps which began F r i d ay u n d er t he critical eye of Lieut. Col. Hester, U. officer S. infantry. T he refrained from m a k i ng a decision on the s h am battle, b ut pointed o ut t h at the attackers, on occasions, got themselves into such positions in their efforts to outflank t he defenders they would have on t he knoll been all but wiped out under actual war conditions. Lieut. Col. Hester departed from t he college at noon. He expressed himself well pleased with t r a i n i ng the quality of t he military stu t he afforded a nd complimented dent officers on t he way in which they handled their m e n. inspecting several t h at AT T HE LAST MEETING of t he Lan sing Ministers Association, Rev. N. A. McOune, '01, of t he Community church, E a st Lansing, w as elected president for t he coming year. Mr. Behrens, student pastor at t he college, w as in troduced to t he members of t he Lan sing Association, who gave h im a very cordial welcome. He will speak in time to time to L a n s i ng pulpits from tell of t he work being done at t he college by t he People's Church. At the meeting, x-rof. Ryder, director of the S u m m er School, outlined for t he Lansing pastors t he plans for t he min isters conference at July. t he college in BULLETINS ANNOUNCING t he s u m m er school a nd conferences to be held at M. A. C. a re j u st being mailed by Prof. Ryder, director of t he s u m m er session. T he first term of t he sum m er school will begin J u ne 23d, a nd extend to August 1st. T he second term is from August 4th to Septem ber 12th. A nuniber of conferences will be held during t he summer, in cluding t he Fifth A n n u al Conference for Ministers a nd Laymen, J u ly 7th to 19th. T he a n n u al Boys a nd Girls Club Conference a nd t he conference of teachers of domestic a rt a nd domestic science, J u ne 30th to July 3d. A course in agriculture, home econom ics, r u r al organization a nd pedagogy teachers of selected especially for r u r al schools who a re interested in improving their fitness for teaching in the country h as been a r r a n g ed for t he coming summer. T he division of t he s u m m er school in two t e r ms is made students to accommodate t he m a ny whose courses were i n t e r r u p t ed by war service a nd who a re now r e t u r n ed to resume their college work. Every effort will be p ut forth to facilitate this readjustment a nd it will enable their to many courses far more promptly. Many will take this opportunity to catch up with the college classes with whom they entered. complete students T HE TRADITIONAL MAY QUEEN, a senior girl, chosen for h er good looks, her general popularity and h er ability as a student w as selected last Wed nesday by a popular vote of t he wom en students. T he result of t he elec tion will n ot be m a de known however until she is crowned on t he day of the pageant of t he "Festival of May Time," which is to be given t he even ing of J u ne 10th as one of t he com mencement features. The pageant is t he first of its kind to be given at t he college a nd every girl It will at M. A. C. will have a part. be staged out of doors probably in Sleepy Hollow a nd seating arrange ments a re being made for 2,000 spec tators. T he girl, who as t he " ^ p i r it of Democracy," will crown t he May Queen is Miss Alice Bronson, '19, of Ganges, Michigan. e n t e r t a i n m e nt state graduate A NEW COURSE to be k n o wn as a field school in crop m a n a g e m e nt is to be i n a u g u r a t ed at t he Michigan Agri cultural College t he coming summer. -_ie course is to last six weeks a nd most of t he time will be spent in viewing model t he t o u r i ng agricultural farms. Only students a re allowed to enroll. Five weeks of t he time will be spent in looking over agricultural districts of the state such as those around Grass Lake, Saginaw a nd some p a r ts of H u r on a nd Shiawassee counties. T he other week will be spent at M. A. C. in m a k i ng a resume of t he data se cured. T he school will have an ad vance agent who will make arrange ments for accommodations. 4 THE M. A. C. RECORD. THE M. A. C. RECORD Entered as second-class matter October 30, 1916, at the post office at East Lansing, Michigan, under Act of March 3, 1879. the Published every Friday during the Col lege Tear by the Michigan Agri cultural College Association. \V. K. Prndden, 7S, Lansing President E. W.Ranney, '. (ireenville. Vice President II. H. Musselinan. 'ox, East Lansing, Tresis, 0. W:. McKibbin, 'il, Bast Lansing, - Secretary and Editor A. C. McKinnon. "'.»5, Hay City Anna Cowles, '16, East Lansing Alexander Mac Vittie, '11, Cam. Members of Executive 06m- Tiiittee Elected at Lar^e. MEMBERSHIP IN THE M. A. ('.ASSO CIATION which Includes subscription to the HEI'(IKI), $2,tify us tit once. Students who have moved into different halls since last term will please notify us at once. the best in Patronize S H E A R E R 'S Steam Laundry the state, W I L L EV & KAINS, .___„_..__ Agents. the best sporting goods of You can buy C L A RK & C H A S E. Oil house open every evening from 6.30 to 7 p.m. Mrs. Duratkl is visiting Mrs Bea! S»b.if on the part of alumni and friends of %- matic moment for Lansing than when M. A. C. at the action of the last leg the e the train came to a halt islature in providing these funds. The tanned, smiling warriors started to is appropriations projects pour from the coaches to the narrow T have been made are most essential for platform space kept clear by State e the the growth and development of troops. it college. Alumni realized this and put 3- forth their best efforts for the pass n age of the bills. Credit must be given 3, them, both individually and in groups, e along with President Kedzie, for the successful completion of the task. they were dined and feted and entertained, the whole city stretching forth is utmost to do honor to "her own" returned. On Tuesday morning ^ LANSING DOES HERSELF PROUD IN HONORING RETURNING 119TH F. A. largest and best miliary parade Lansing has thrilled the gathered ever witnessed throngs. Six hundred thirty artillery men of "Lansing's Own," the 119th Field Artillery, who made history as the few other crack regiments n World war, swung sunny A celebration without parallel, in lined g the history of gala days in Lansing 0 with the greatest crowd Lansing ever marked the home coming of the 630 turned out, as the feature of the next e the officers and men who comprise day's celebration the 1, 119th Field Artillery, Lansing's Own, Ingham county men who fought de- Monday afternoon. e mocracy's battles. As escort Being host to the men who were t- were all Lansing's military and semi- in the thick of the fight on the west re- y military organizations and ern front six months ago is an easy 't turned soldiers and sailors including task for the home town which hasn't A many M. A. C. men. seen these lads in 21 months. A d crowd greeted the returning men and the merry making which joined h justified, seemingly, any claim for size ;e one might make for Lansing. The dawn of the most beautiful day of spring left nothing to be desired by a city which had closed store and shop to do honor to the veterans. streets, bright with color and in honor through their her the of of in 5 M. A. C. students and members of the faculty abandoned work Tuesday for a day in honor of the 119th Field artillery. The student soldiers and the Aggie band under Major Wrightson early boarded cars for Lansing to take part in the big parade. Extra cars took the girls. The R. O. T. C. unit was accorded a distinguished place in the parade, leading the long marching line immediately behind Governor Sleeper and his staff who with the Marshals were at its head. The 119th Regiment left Lansing for Camp Custer at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. K. L. BUTTERFIELD '91, TELLS OF A. E. F. UNIVERSITIES. Four Other M. A. G. Men With Him Serving Important Mission in France. The following extracts are from a letter dated April 20th from Kenyon L. Butterfield, who is directing Y. M. C. A. Educational work for the Ameri can Army now in France. "We came down to Beaune from Paris about the time your letter ar rived, for the purpose of starting our "American E. F. University," and to say that I have been occupied is to of mildness. A use the minimum shortage of clerical help for taking letters and of time for writing them myself is a bad combination so far as personal letters are concerned. "I have sent you some news items about our work. It has been a most interesting experience to start an edu cational institution of 10,000 students in a month, but that is what we did and it is running too! The men are very much in earnest and are doing good work. Our farm school nearby is a "winner." We have 2,500 hun dred men there now and will have 4,000 the middle of May. '91, "Burnett (E. A. '87) is here and just now is in the field speaking and su pervising. Fred Mumford, is probably in France, but I have not seen him yet. Howard Hall, '90, has been with us here from the beginning I have had of ou« University venture. several good visits with him, among them a fine hike on the nearby hills. He and I go out again this afternoon with a small party similar tramp. We are in the heart of old Burgundy, wine growing all about us, especially on the hills. These hills remind me very much of those west of Amherst, the resemblance at times being very striking. for a "Sorry to hear of the burning of land Williams Hall. The real old marks are reduced in number. "I heard of Pattengill's death but not that of McEwen. "Glad to hear of the drive for an M. A. C. Union. I'll help some, al though the calls on me the past year is have been pretty stiff and there 6 THE M. A. C. RECORD. certainly no game over here. financial profit in the '89) down here over t h at he all but forgot "Expected R. S. (Ray S t a n n a rd Ba t h is week ker, end, but he h as not put in an appear imagine he has been so ance and I I crowded in P a r is and for saw h im frequently from r e t u rn a few m o m e n ts on his r e m a r k a b le America. He h as h ad a opportunity to be on the inside—some day he'll have a great book out of it I h a ve no doubt, it. "Secy. Baker and General Pershing Wet get are to look us over the Peace Conference tomorrow. probably more meager than the States. Our English small, the host of enterprising newspa for news of you do E d i t i o ns of P a r is papers a re and permen w r i te home t he A. E. F. r a t h er t h an in "I shall probably stay over here un til October. " K E X Y ON L. BUTTERFIELD. '91." CHAPLAIN W. A. A T K I N S ON 119TH BACCALAUREATE S P E A K E R. t h at in every things military will be Following out the idea t h at the 1919 commencement will be an after the w ar commencement respect the and general tone, Rev. William A. Atkin son, Chaplain of the 119th Field Ar tillery, h as been selected as the Bac calaureate speaker, and will deliver t he Baccalaureate sermon Sunday aft ernoon, J u ne 8th. t h at his record as religious disfigured. However Chaplain Atkinson has a very en viable leader of the 119th Field Artillery. He was se the head dur verely wounded about ing t he s u m m er fighting while attend ing h is duties and for a time it was face would be per feared m a n e n t ly the hospital t r e a t m e nt was so successful as to almost wholly remove disfigure ment. T h r o u g h o ut strenu fighting of the 119th regiment on ous fronts on which the m a ny different itself, the Chaplain Atkinson was continually with the command, assisting wherever h is services were needed a nd cheering t he m en when days looked blue. He is loved and revered by every battery- to m a n, all of wnom have something tell of h is among them. regiment so ably carried splendid work the very Rev. Atkinson is an Episcopal cler g y m an and previous to his service in the St. the arnf^ he was pastor of Methais Episcopal Church of Detroit. t he a r my as chaplain of He entered the 31st Michigan in 1915 Infantry and served w i th t h at organization on t he Mexican Border. He was trans the artillery u n it and en ferred tered his present regiment as it was the reformed F i r st Michigan from Field Artillery to the 119th at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas. to The subject of address it can scarcely be other the Baccalaureate is not yet made known, but the t h an of w ar a nd fighters who finished it. the spirit of the American HEAD OF M. E. DEPT. BRINGS WIDE ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE. Prof. H e n ry B e r n a rd Dirks, newly appointed chief of the d e p a r t m e nt of mechanical engineering, arrived at M. A. C. last week from Princeton Uni versity a nd h as actively entered upon his duties. He has had a thread of connection with the M. A. C. engi neering d e p a r t m e nt for a n u m b er of years in t h at Mrs. Dirks was Blanche the daughter of Prof. Breckenridge, Lester P. Breckenridge who was pro fessor of mechanical engineering and director of the mechanical d e p a r t m e nt at M. A. C. from 1891 to 1893. in Prof. Dirks graduated in mechani the University of cal engineering Illinois in 1904 and became a Fellow in Mechanical E n g i n e e r i ng t he same receiving in 1904-5 the degree of M. E. He t h en served as an assistant in Mechanical Tech nology in the E n g i n e e r i ng E x p e r i m e nt Station of Illinois University from J u n e, 1905, until September, 1907. institution in at engines teaching thermodynamics, During t h at time he conducted tests the re with high speed tool steels, sults of which were reported in Cir cular No. 1 and Bulletin No. 2 of the Station, and boiler tests with Illinois coals, the results of which were re ported in Bulletins No. 7 and No. 39. He was an instructor in mechanical engineering Illinois University from September, 1907, to September, and 1910, steam elementary boilers, machine design, kinematics, graphic statics, and graphic kinetics. He at tended the meetings of the American in Society of Mechanical E n g i n e e rs and England the summer of also visited schools of Germany. He entered commercial work as assistant mechanical engineer of the National Machine Works, Chi cago, from December 1, 1910, to Sep tember, 1915. In this capacity he was in direct contact with the design, con struction and repair of steam engines, ammonia compressors and the machi nery of gas production in large water- gas plants. While there he started a • gas new b u r n i ng equipments and furnaces of all types, such as forges, a n n e a l i n g, and case h a r d e n i ng furnaces and met al melting the engineering constructing department furnaces. 1910, profesor He became assistant of civil engineering at Princeton Univer sity, September, 1915, in charge of engineering drawing, machine design and heat power engineering, in which work he continued until coming to M. A. C. Prof. Dirks is a member the American Society of Mechanical En gineers having been j u n i or grade from 1907 to 1915 and associate grade since 1915. of He was editor of t he Bent, of T au two years about 1908, Beta Pi while at the University of Illinois and for t n r o u gh t h at honorary fraternity be came acquainted with M. A. C. and h er work. Prof. D i r ks a nd h is Dirks and their a re moving to E a st L a n s i ng ately. two-year-old family, Mrs. child, immedi AGGIES FIND KALAMAZOO EASY TO BEAT. little trouble t h e ir combined efforts of Kalamazoo. t he tak The Aggies had from Western ing S a t u r d a y 's game F o ur State Normal one pitchers performed d u r i ng the Celery city crew sided affair for not b ut 20 prevent Brewer's m en started times tallies. Donnelly j u st to t he game for M. A. C, and divide up honors, s l a u g h t e r i ng H a r t w ig went in in the middle of the game. The W e s t e rn State was al lowed 12 r u n s. M. A. C. plays a re t u rn game at Kalamazoo next Satur day. circling did the for 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF '89. Wm. Lightbody, s u p e r i n t e n d e nt of the Lillibridge School at Detroit, a nd president of the class of '89, is send ing out announcements of the plans for the 30th b i r t h d ay of t he class of 1889. If for any reason eighty-niners do not receive a letter from Mr. Light- body w i t h in a short time, it will be because of an incomplete address and they should know t h at t he class is go its 30th a n n i v e r s a ry ing to celebrate Incidentally on J u ne 10th and 11th. each one should communicate with Mr. Lightbody who may be reached at the Lillibridge School, Detroit. F L I NT M E E T I N G. t he speaker of Alumni and former students in arid holding are about Flint, Michigan, their t he w ar get-together first after in t he Y. M. C. A. at 6:30 on F r i d ay this week. Prof. F r e n ch evening of will be the evening. Howard R. Estes, '17, and - ercy Rice, in 21, have been ar r a n g i ng There a re a large n u m b er of M. A. C. engineers in F l i nt not to mention a considerable the F l i nt vicinity n u m b er of Ags in for and an unusual crowd is looked —one itself w i th its own numbers. t h at will really surprise t he meeting. i n s t r u m e n t al in the college WEDDING. The wedding of Miss Leola Lewis, '17, a s s i s t a nt library, and Donald W. Sessions, of Lansing, took place Wednesday afternoon, May 7th, at t he bride's home, Lansing. Mr. Sessions is a graduate of the Univer sity of Michigan Law School with the class of '17. Since leaving college he has been in service with Shurley Base Hospital Unit a nd has only recently r e t u r n ed from eighteen m o n t h s' ser vice overseas. Mrs. Sessions will con the present. library for tinue the in THE M. A. C. RECORD. 7 AGGIES TRACK MEN MEET NOTRE DAME SATURDAY. their Aggie cinder path men m a ke initial appearance before home fans Saturday, May 17, when Notre Dame sends a fast squad to E a st L a n s i ng for the a n n u al t r a ck meet. V^OU will find all three flavors in the sealed packages—but look for the name because it is your protection against inferior imitations, just as the sealed package is protec tion against im purity. Misfortune h as stalked both into loss. camps and dopesters a re at a Notre Dame has lost Gilfallen, their s t ar performer, who injured his knee at the Pennsylvania relays and may be permanently out of athletics. The Aggie squad owe their hardluck to the im weather man, who has made possible to do the proper outside work. The Aggies have shown up well on the few occasions weather has per mitted outside work. Gymnasium work the is a none the outside practice, however, squad two weeks of favorable weather would have too good second finish which furnished. for and lacks the it t r a ck meet track and the About the only line local fans have field men was on their t r a c k s t e rs appeared gained when last the a n n u al class in fields the week. The uneveness of prevented a n y t h i ng of a sensational nature, but some fast time was made in the sprints. Gingrick cleared five feet j u mp a nd Dear 21 feet in the broad j u m p. Ten and two t e n t hs seconds was the 100 yard dash, a record for the event set by Hatland. the high time the in in NORTHERN OHIO ASS'N PLANS MEETING. Major M. F. Loomis, '95, President of the M. A. C. Association of North ern Ohio, is a g i t a t i ng an early meet ing the Cleveland and N o r t h e rn Ohio M. A. C. people. Because of the war the w ar activities of the officers and of the N o r t h e rn Ohio Association, the regular winter m e e t i ng h ad to be dis It is the hope pensed with this year. t h at a reorgan of P r e s i d e nt Loomis very be ization meeting can the purpose of calling to shortly for find gether all the old members and ing out terri t he newcomers tory of . the N o r t h e rn Ohio Branch. President Loomis' address is 27 Villa Beach, Cleveland. held the in A L E T T ER W I TH A SUGGESTION. Dear E d i t o r: As an a l u m n us of M. A. C. I am interested in the growth and progress is of the being done t he t h is spring campus back to its old-time beauty. institution. A great deal to b r i ng The r u i ns of Williams Hall are about cleaned up, but there still stands to College Hall. an ugly m o n u m e nt Of course, a place m u st be provided to store autos and tractors, farm im plements and cement, but it is seldom in t h at such store houses are placed the front yard, and this spot is like a front y a rd to M. A. C. Now t h at we are assured of a new 8 a u d i t o r i um a nd a new library build ing, we m u st begin to wonder where these buildings will be placed. ideal location the crest Each day as I pass between the re m a i ns of College Hall and Williams Hall, I cannot help but think of w h at an the knoll would be for one of our new buildings. As I give the thought more settled my consideration. thoughts on two schemes., one bearing I suggested my schemes on the other. to several alumni and agreed with me. have they of I My first scheme is to build the new . u i d i t o r i um on the crest of the knoll. In locating the building I suggest fur t h er t h at one it be so located corner would be on the site of the former College Hall. t h at is t h at the Auditorium My other, but not least important be scheme named "College H a l l" as a monument to t h at building which had a history parallel to no other building on the campus or elsewhere in the world. F u r t h e r, I would suggest t h at a cor ner stone be made, bearing a bronze tablet upon which would be a picture of College Hall as it appeared in its early years, with the dates of erection and informa tion closely allied. Yours for a razing, and any other larger and better M. A. C., R. G. BIGELOW. 1GE, E a st Lansing, Mich. 67 — 0*11 1 9 04