¥- A. C. Library, East; Lansing, Mich. ^== I» m i Michigan Agricultural College Association Publishers ffl East Lansing No. 5 VoT XXVII. Oct. 28, 1921 THE M. A. C. RECORD f the dear old familiar scenes the Veterinary Building. that await Homecomers, Nov. "See You at Homecoming." is the slogan of The "Peppiest Ever" the campus Homecoming committees appointed by the president of the Student Council and now getting into strenuous action. A number of important college events have been grouped this year and these should prove large number of an added attraction alumni and scattered over former Michigan who "hanker" to get back once each fall for a football-game-. The increased at the ne'w campus spirit should tendance and prove record 'drawing cards strong crowd. to the students for a T h e. annual barbecue given by the sopho mores is scheduled for Friday evening, Nov. 4, the night before the date set for the Home-, coming. The sophomores already have their committee at work for this event and promise that it is going" to excel all others. No mass meeting for the game the following, day will the speeches be held and entertainment at the annual ox roast. It is expected that a large number of the alumni will return in time for the barbecue. that night other than A student stunt parade is planned for Sat In this pa societies and classes will urday morning at 10:30 o'clock. rade present floats or stunts. ' the different '22, in charge of The committees the arrange ments are headed by the following: Publicity, '22, Moline ; Parade, F. T. Carver Don Gray '22, Traverse City; Stunts, H. L. Fleming, Ithaca; General Arrangements, C. W. Gus- tafson Parade, Belle Farley '22, Metamora; Women's Enter tainment, Mary Emily Ranney '22, Greenville. to President-elect Friday has been asked speak to alumni at the luncheon at noon in the Armory. Inter collegiate Cross Country run starts at 1:15 and the game at 2 p. m. The annual Michigan Ishpeming; Women's Contents of "Flower Pot" Trans planted. "Meet You There Nov. 5". The Flower Pot tea room, a new campus institution, established and supervised by M. A. C. alumnae of Lansing and East Lansing the in its present is moving from old Hort tool shed to the north side of the car station building opposite the Alumni Office, in quarters formerly occupied by the M. A. C. Union, the col the alumni department and lege mimeographs. The alumna; managers hope to be completely established in their new location by Homecoming day. location The Flower Pot was opened, last June dur ing commencement week tool house with the avowed purpose to raise funds for the senior Practice House. the H o rt in its first since although From its beginning the Flower Pot has been extremely popular, few months of business during the summer vaca the tion were not heavy. However, opening of college it has been to accommodate the crowds, especially at meal time. This fact has made it necessary to ar range for larger quarters. The move to the new location, which was provided by the State Board of Agriculture, makes the alumnae the permanency of for in a splendid business project and places location. impossible it The committee in charge of the team room are Mrs. Catherine Crane Cox '17, Miss Lou ise Clements '12, Mrs. Blanche McNaughton Reeves '18, Mrs. Cynda Free Cooper '16, and is being managed '18. Miss May Foley by Miss Coral Havens It '02 • It is expected that the Tea Room will be a. popular rendez-vous of alumni on Homecom ing day. 8 THE M. A. C. RECORD Enrollment Tabulation Good Looking. Practice House Project Is On Its Way. issue of the end of is still greater Figures recently given out by Miss Yakely, Registrar show an attendance of 1619 regular students this fall term, and 129 in the federal vocational guidance school, a total enrollment In giving out the registration figures of 1748. at the first week of college an error inadvertantly crept into the calculations, the figure of as errors sometimes will, and total of 1780 announced as the first week's the Record registrants in a recent In the face of was a few score high. the the enrollment of miscalculations however, regular students it has than the attendance of 1550 in ever been before, 1915 being the record enrollment up to this time. The freshman total of 660 is far above the largest previous class. the following tabulation of attendance by classes and courses a comparison of the numbers in agriculture and engineering shows these two courses to be drawing about equal numbers, with engineering in the lead in the entering class and agriculture at the in the total for all classes. The increased interest in the veterinary course is also notable as In home shown by the freshman enrollment. economics there are over twice as many fresh men entered as sophomores. top "IB With a total of 115 enrolled, 29 sophomores it would seem that the ap and 86 freshmen plied science course is firmly established as from far as patronage is concerned and that the numbers electing it at the very outset its establishment was warranted.. Ag. and For. Engineering H. Econom. Science Veterinary O 10 fe 134 202 177 86 11 m 117 137 85 29 5 t —> Vx -W. t-i 108 106 .83 87 70 70 26 6 6 7 7 532 521 421 115 30 10 660 373 304 234 38 1619 129 T7/|8 Total... T HE T H E M I AN A E U M N AE met the Flow er Pot for dinner last Friday evening. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Fletcher Gould, president; Miss Cora Feldcamp, vice- president; and Miss Helen DeMerell,. secre tary-treasurer. at Ax the direction of in dairying, INTENSIVE " M I LK AND ALEAEEA" CAM PAIGN, starting on October 26 and running for ten days is being held in Allegan County the College. Greater under profits efficient production, will be the aim of the campaign work. This is to be a "model campaign" and will serve as a guide in planning similar work in other parts of the state. through more financing The newest home economics project, one which has' absorbed the interest of M. A. C. alumnae, particularly those of Central Michi gan and Detroit who are it, has passed the dream stage into a reality and with it the old Taft home on the campus is ex re-christening. periencing a rejuvenation and The dwelling will no the Taft House, but instead the Senior Practice House, and in it from henceforth senior girls are to put into practice some of the theories of home economics.. longer be called It to note the progress is remarkable the present occupants, eight senior girls, are mak ing under the supervision of the resident in structor, Miss Irma Cross. The house is be ing some is being being refinished, effectively worked out by these girls in con junction with the house management class. refurnished, and furniture schemes color are furnishing The girls are actually getting the experience of their own homes. They are selecting and buying the furnishings with only the advice of Miss Gross to guide them. Sales men from Lansing, Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Chicago are calling on them daily.' Cen tral Michigan have and Detroit furnished the funds, Dean Mary E. Sweeny is the agent, and the girls are the actual dis- pursers of the money. The girls are buying conservatively, as they are being, allowed but $1040. This would seem to be an exceptionally small amount re furnish a twelve room house for eight people, but the girls are. going at it assiduously and determined to get their money's worth in every particular. they must, alumnae for to term each, allowing forty-eight girls The Senior Practice House will be, when completed, the type of house that people live in. Eight senior girls will live in it for one- half to occupy it during the school year. In addition the house management classes will do con siderable of their work at the Senior Practice House. Much experimental work will also be carried on. Nourishment tests are to be run. Types- of mattresses will be studied and data secured as to their weight and stitch. Kitchen cabinet are to be tried out and tables will be investigated as to their height, usability, and type of rollers. Time schedules of various kinds of house work are to be experimented and with. kitchen equipment will be studied. fact all new practical household ideas will be put to a test at the Senior. Practice House. The cataloging of commodities In The Practice House idea is one that is being. carried out in only a few colleges and in es- tablishnig such an is placing herself up front in home economics training and investigative work. institution M. A. C. J. A. Rosen, '08, Appointed on Russian Engineering Extension—My Wish For THE M. A. C. RECORD 9 Relief. The following letter has just been received by Dean Kedzie from J. A. Rosen '08, who brought to the College the Russian rye from which Rosen Rye was developed. That Rosen appreciated what M. A. C. gave 'him is unmis takably shown in his sincere tribute to his col lege days. On Board the Berengaria Cunard Steamer. September 24, 1921. Dear Prof.: I have only recently returned from the far east and am sailing again. This time I" am the American Relief going to Moscow with Administration to the starving Russian children and help feed that are incidentally over seventy years of age and I have not seen them for ten years. (Hoover's Commission) to see my own people Please tell Mr. Spragg. that I will try my best the to get for him a fresh supply of original Rosen rye, but I am afraid that dur in ing Russia have become so up-set that the strain has been lost. terrible seven years conditions these in indeed The night For an hour this country of I hope to come back alive. The dangers are great revolution, famine and disease, but we die only once and not before our time is really up, and when it is up death will reach us wherever we are. is pitch dark. I was looking into the black abyss of the sea. My inner-self watching the undulations of my thoughts and the memories of my three years came back to me as the happiest recollections of my American life. These were the years that prepared me for work that I am taking up at present. I am to be the Agricultural Advisor on the Commission and I hope to be of real service to both my native and adopted countries. While in Russia I can be reached by ad dressing me in care of the American Relief Administration, 67 Eaton Square, London, whence mail will be forwarded to destination. friends, With best regards to my college Sincerely yours, J. A. Rosen '08A. Ever 'Up in The Air' at M. A. C ? Your Chance Homecoming ' A special attraction for Homecomers the opportunity Aviator this year is Arthur Davis '23, will give alumni of seeing the campus from the air. Weath er permitting he will make regular trips all day Homecoming and the following day from the landing grounds east of the . Masonic Temple, carrying passen gers at $5.00 a ride. M. A. C. to Somebody represent recently attempted the attitude of Union Labor by a cortoon en In the car titled "A Forbidden Marriage." toon Uncle Same was the Justice, the groom was a midget representing Labor's demand for short hours. The officiating Justice refused to perform the ceremony. Many things are revealed by this cartoon, two at least of which are very significant. The First. laboring man has the in produc world's dependence on his efforts tion, and in voting the power of majorities in a republican form of government. He can control the state if he can cast a unit vote. learned Second. The employers have seen that the only way to keep the mastery of production to prevent Labor's casting a unit vote. The cartoon represents a campaign of education to prevent Labor's castnig a unit vote. The employers make success by a trained brain; the laborers make whatever success comes to them by a trained hand. It, therefore, is easy for the employers to befog all issues that are settled at the pcles and keep the workers di is being de laborer knows he vided. The frauded, but fails to understand the machinery by which he is driven as a slave to his tasks. In the end the laborer becomes fighting mad. In fighting he must fight with his hands for his brain is not trained. But if he fights with his hands the law makes him a criminal and he is put behind the employer the bars. it is with sophistry. fights If If facts of to unite for is a blessing to work together by the Farm Bureau and My wish for my Alma Mater is that some way might be found for teaching the laboring man justice the plain in production, in a way similar to the way the farmers are taught the help of the County Agent system. it is legitimate to have a Mechanical Department at our beloved Col lege, it is also legitimate- that it should 'have an extension department. At the present time to the Agricultural Dpartment every man whose occupation the soil. But the mechanical department helps only the men who own the tools of the fac their operating officials. The men tory and iota. who use the tools are not benefited an When we have fully learned that labor is not a commodity to be bought and sold like pig iron, but is a public service gladly rendered as a man's share in the public life; and that it is the duty of the public to,keep the laborer joyously efficient in his service, we will find that we have hit the highway of blessedness traverses the land of Prosperity, Liberty, and Peace. Is there not some extension work that Michigan Agricultural College can do for the muscular masses of our factory towns ? • is next to 10 THE M. A. C. RECORD ATHL ETICS Varsity Comes from Behind to Trim W. S. N. Playing with a badly patched-up lineup, as in the Michigan game last week's practice, the varsity to come from behind last Satur the strong Western State the result of and during was forced day Normal team by the score of 17 to 14. to win from injuries their Two men who started in the backfield, Crane and Frank, were playing first varsity football, while only Brady of the quartet who started behind the line against Michigan was on the field when the opening whistle blew. The recruits put up a great fight and .showed flashes of fine football, but concentrated power in offense was lacking during the early periods of the game. the registering team from Erratic work near the goal three chances line cost the varsity, two or to score, and touch-- incidentally gave Normal her second down. The "breaks" were disheartening and kept two or three touchdown margin of victory which the the two elevens difference should have permitted. the men came from behind, overcoming a seven point lead during the second half, was encour aging, however, and showed the squad has the old-time fighting M. A. C. spirit. From now on from game to game. in the strength of they, should improve rapidly The that that fact the Two fifteen yard penalties gave Normal the chance to mark up the first touchdown of the game. With the ball on M. A. C.'s seven yard line for a first down, as the result of consecu tive penalties, the men from Kalamazoo man to stage their only successful offensive aged the game and Bennett slipped over drive of for the score. No further scoring was done in the first quarter, play being in the center of the field. Early the second quarter the varsity in pulled itself together and started the kind of football which should have marked the whole game. Two or three short passes and a 45 yard the ball down into Normal territory, where H. K. Archbold, who had gone in for Noblet, went over f< r the touchdown after a line buck and a short end run. Brady goaled, tying the count. run by Brady brought last score came The sensational play which converted an apparently sure M. A. C. touchdown into the visitors' second and in the second quarter. A steady offensive march the ball to the Kalamazoo one had brought the Aggies line, and a touchdown for yard seemed a matter of seconds only. At this juncture a backfield. fumble of a direct pass gave Cornwall, Normal halfback, a chance to for a scoop up the ball and race 99 yards late touchdown. Jake Brady was on the runner's heels all the way down the field, but couldn't cut down the lead enough for a tackle. the score board The second half found the varsity returning with reading 14-7 against them, and the bleachers pleading for a come back which would sew up the game. Graves, regular fullback, spent several days last week indiges in the hospital suffering tion. Discharged Saturday morning, he came to the game in civilian clothes as a spectator, but the sight of touchdown was too much, even for a sick man's nerves. To the surprise of everyone Graves appeared the on second half and was promptly sent the lineup. the start of into the last Normal in uniform at from acute the field With Graves carrying the ball on almost every other down, the varsity took up an un interrupted march down their the touchdown, Graves going over on a second line buck. Brady again goaled with the tying point. field for the field, the Aggies The final quarter found the teams battling in the middle of finally getting deep into the visitors' territory. Line plays failed here, however, and the team was forced to resort to a kick, Graves scoring via the dropkick line. from These three points proved to be the margin of victory, the final whistle stopping another M. A. C. march toward the Normal goal. the 33 yard route Western State Normal, by the way, came to East Lansing with a really. strong team. The visitors were heavy and fast, and showed good knowledge of the game. Normal de feated Albion-20 to 9 early in the season and is generally conceded to be stronger than the the eleven which slipped over a victory on varsity the idea of improvement of the team may be gained from two this comparison and games. Even with many substitutes the lineup, the varsity was able to gain ground freely against the Normal men Saturday, rank ing as clearly the superior two weeks ago. the results of the in Some team. Defense against passes was good, as in the Michigan game, only one Normal heave being completed. The ends also performed well, turning in plays regularly, after the first quar In fact, the defensive work of the entire ter. team left last little to be desired during the part of the game, a tendency to "get-going" too late in the game being the chief weakness apparent. No further injuries were sustained, against the Normal outfit, and recoveries during this week were expected to place the squad in good shape for Marquette. Wilcox and Weckler are out for an indefinite period, but all other regulars should be in shape by Saturday. THE M. A. C. RECORD II Summary: M. A. C, Western Normal. - ... Johnson Thorpe .: Matson Morrison Swanson Bos ....... Gingrich Frank Noblet Crane Brady Van Wingen Waterman Messenger Redman Simmons Hulcher -- Miller Bennett Gill Cornwall Potter Touchdowns—Archbold, Graves, Bennett, touchdown—Brady 2, LE LF :.....LG .C ...RG RT RE QB LH RH FB Cornwall. Goals from Bennett 2. Field goal—Graves. : -. .'. M. A. C. substitutions—H K. Archbold for Noblet, Schulgen for Gingrich, Gingrich for for Schulgen, Parks Crane, Hughes for Matson. Referee—Lipski, Chicago. Umpire—Edmonds, Michigan. Head linesman—Kennedy, Chicago. Time of quar ters—15 minutes. for Thorpe, Graves Cross Country Squad Prepares For Homecoming Run. • Opening with a Novice Race last Saturday, the cross country squad has settled down for a competitive season which will keep it busy the dual meet with Notre Dame on until Thanksgiving Day. On October 29 the boys will take part in an All-College Run. This race will give Coach Floyd Rowe a chance to line up his varsity teams f o r. the annual State Meet on November 5. Klasse, a sophomore, won the Novice Run last Saturday. The run was limited to men who had had no previous varsity cross coun try work, and was intended primarily to bring out new material. The time of the winners was unusually good, several freshmen finish ing well up with the leaders. Nearly all colleges, normal schools, and junior colleges of the state will be entered in the State Run at East Lansing on November 5. M. A. C. won this race last year, and the men will make an effort to repeat. The Michi gan varsity is entered, as it was last year, and a great fight for first honors should re sult. Coach Rowe will enter three teams in the State Meet, a varsity, a second, varsity, and a-freshman team. Ted by Captain Thurston, the men have been working out every night and prospects for a winning season are good. Thurston, Brendel, Adolph and Nesman are all veterans from last year's state championship quintet, while Huston, Baguely and two or three others are traveling at a clip which-places right with the leaders. them After the State Run, the varsity will be sent to the Western Conference race on November 19, and later will meet Notre Dame in the annual dual meet between the two schools. Last year M. A. C. won the first five places against Notre Dame. All Fresh Take Opening Game from Flint High. The Freshman Varsity, showing the form for which it has been given credit all season, opened its regular schedule last Saturday by trimming Flint High School 28 to o. The Yearlings outclassed their opponents all the way, playing air tight defensive ball and gain ing ground freely when they were on the of fensive. Rollie Richards, a Lansing boy who is lead ing the freshmen at quarter, stood out as the star of the game, his clever open field running' and field generalship being a prominent factor in the victory. Richards got away with one sensational 90 yard run for a touchdown, but was called back to the 20 yard line where he stepped out of bounds. - Eckert and Eckerman starred in the line, although forward wall played splendid football. Kipke, at end, scored one touchdown after pulling down a long pass. entire the The freshmen the lineup, at game was as follows. Coach Jimmy Kolloran had practically his entire squad into the play before the final whistle. the start of Kipke, left end; Eckhart, left tackle; Hult- man, left guard; Eckerman, center; Thayer, left left guard; Brown, left tackle; Schultz, left end; Richards, quarterback; Beckley, half; Phillips, fullback; Goode was substituted for Phillips during the first quarter. right half; Neller, ALUMNI CLUBS Flint Club Organizing for Students. The next regular meeting of the Flint Club is to be held Thursday evening, November 3, in the Dort School No. 2. Flint alumni are organizing a student drive during the present school year and Field Agent " N o r m" Weil will be a speaker at the meeting and assist them in getting the drive under way. Albert Sobey '09, is in charge of the student campaign for the Flint Club. Hasselman Addresses Calhoun County Meeting. Over a score of enthusiastic Calhoun M. A. C. folks gathered at the Y. W. C. A., Battle Creek, last Wednesday which marked their first fall conclave. for dinner James H. Hasselman, formerly of the Eng lish Department and at the present time col lege publicity director, was the M. A. C. rep the association resentative and the guest of at the dinner. His enthusiastic talk on the college outlook this year and the possibilities for alumni service to the institution during the present growing and expansive stage fired the old grads, and the young ones too, with 12 THE M. A. C. RECORD a new love for Alma Mater and an earnest resolve to be organized and ready to do for her at every opportunity itself. Those who were there a r e: that presents Boyd H. Redner w'20, Ryan B. Cowles '66, C. P. Chidester w'61, J. H. Brown w'87, J- B. Hasselman, Harold King '19, Agnes M. El '97, Bill Merritt '93, liot, James A. Elliott Mrs. M. M. Fay, Josephine Zachariah '20, Sherli Blair Dedrick '19, Roy M. Hamilton '14, Harold A. Putnam '18, H. K. Wrench '18, Ruth F. Wrench, Iva Beach '20, Alice Cimmer '00, Josephine Maveety Carpenter '08, Albert J. Carpenter '07, Donald R. Stillson '11, L. D. Sears '16, Elsie Johnson '16, Nenna" Dunlap '19, 58 Grant St., Battle Creek. THE MAIL BAG Charlie Oviatt, '09, Is Game Loser. When a man has made a college track rec ord and in the making has hung it up so high that it stays for twelve years and then has it- smashed and his name erased from the boards its a hard blow. But this is what happened to "Charlie" Oviatt track and record h o l d e r ' a nd here's how Charlie came back. The following letter of congratulations was rolled cut of his typewriter to DeGay the latter had Ernst broken Oviatt's record of 51 4-5'ths second in the quarter mile, a record that has stood since 1908. Ernst ran the quarter in 49 seconds last spring. '22, last spring after '09, former Oviatt still has his name on the record board in the gymnasium in the mile relay team made up of "Jerry" Allen '09, "Jack" Knecht '11, and G. A. Bignell '09, and himself' who covered the distance in 3:31 and 3-5ths back in 1908. His mile and half mile records were broken in 1916 by E. Sheldon w'1.8. Sheridan, Wyoming; May 30, 1921. Dear Mr. E r n s t: Please accept my heartiest congratulations upon your splendid work on the cinder path. If I am not ill-advised, I have had the honor of holding the former record in the quarter since 1908. It is true that twice I ran the quarter than 52 but some faster bird copped the record for some other college. faster However, I assure you that 1 never even approachd the 49 second class and my only regret is that I am unable to see you in action. When I was captain we had a good bunch of quarter mile men—Jerry Allen, Bignell, Jack Knecht and Doc. Griffin could all kick the cinders on the quarter but 49 is out of our class. I shall watch with further successes. Good luck, boy, and may your speed increase. interest your Very sincerely yours, Chas. J. Oviatt '09. To the above copy Charlie adds this note: Say Kibby, that boy must be real hustler and capable of meeting the best of 'em. Could you find out if I still hold the half mile record, and the relay ? Let me know please if you find time. I've had 'em too long—am getting bald! You Win, Eddie. Spencer, Mich. Editor, M. A..C. Record, Dear Mac:— I am home now on a visit and while -looking through some of the old Records they have saved for me I found an error that I would like to see corrected. In the Vol. X X VI No. 33, June 24th, 1921, there is an article on In this article it "The Largest Wolverine." is stated that it has a publication of 1400 cop ies which is the largest number of copies ever edited by any class. Our 1919 Wolverine has that beaten with a publication of 1454 copies. As Business Manager of the 1919 Wolverine I feel that it is my duty to give you this cor rection and place the record still with our class ('20) if that is where it belongs. Yours very truly, Edward E. Carpp '20. MR. S. F. GATES of the class of 1903, of Ionia, and Mr. E. C Fowler of the class of 1907, of Horton, were on the campus Wed nesday attending the Guernsey sale. WITTER BYNNER of New York, writer, pub licist, entertainer, and one of the high lights in the literary world will appear on the Stu dents' Lecture Course Wednesday evening, November 2. T HE IONIA COUNTY CLUB, the student branch of the Ionia County • M. A. C. Association have elected the following officers for the '22, Ionia, president; year: C. E. Johnson '23, Belding, vice-president; Louise Kling '22, Palo, secretary and treasurer. Judith Tumans il\ CONNECTION WITH THEIR SUMMER SCHOOL WORK the Forestry department carried on a study of second growth hardwoods in north ern Michigan the past summer. The work includes a study of the composition, rate of growth and probable yield per acre -of second growth lands timber on cut-over hardwood and will also attempt to show the best method of logging hardwood lands in order to obtain a good second growth forest without the necessity of planting. The forestry camp was held near East Jordan, and eighteen* students attended. Although the weather was very warm t h e' camp was a success in every way according to Prof. Chittenden. T he students covered more territory than was covered the preceding year; re-run, forst maps made and timber estimating con ducted on parts of sixteen sections. lines were section THE M. A. C. RECORD 13 Professor F. C. Reimer's idea of a joy ride is a rough roadless trip into the remote . fastness of Asian mountains. —Courtesy Sunset Magazine. Westerners Have High Regard for Reimer, '03. the foremost Prof. F. C. Reimer 03, Director of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station at figures m Talent and one of is horticultural featured in their "Interesting Westerners." Parts of the article which is by O. H. Barn- hill and entitled "A Columbus Fields" are printed here. the West in the October Sunset Magazine investigations in Scientific section of in "The harder the job, the better, for F. C. Reimer. Paradoxically, he is never so happy as when he is up against an unhappy propo sition. To him, the scientific end justifies the sacrificial means. "The result of Reimer's ardorus travels the in, the mountains of northern China was discovery of Pyrus a hardy, blight-proof pear of Manchuria and eastern Russia. Since its introduction at Talent this pear is being used by orchardists as a stock ussuriensis, is fields, and increase to for top-working, being the only blight-proof kind known in the United States. More than five hundred varieties of pears have been tested at the Talent station at one time, Tal ent's collection being the largest in the world. A recent discovery by Reimer the value of sulphur as a plant food. In southern, cent- . ral and eastern Oregon sulphur is used by the the train-load for feeding alfalfa practice of sulphuring soils the production of alfalfa and hay has extended to-other states. through which he "Regarding traveled during successful search. Professor Reimer wrote from Peking: " ' H a ve the mountains It was the hardest trip I have east of here. ever taken, about as uncomfortable as could be imagined, made entirely on donkeys, riding on a hard mat saddle. A native interpreter was taken along and not a white man seen on the entire journey. Each night I was completely to sleep in a dirt}', worn out, yet compelled this difficult but just returned the country from 14 THE M. A. C. RECORD the water for cooking purposes and vermin-infested Chinese inn. On account of the cholera epidemic it was necessary to boil all to sterilize everything else possible. The bread we took along became covered with a green mold which had to be pared off and the re mainder of toasted before eaten. All the time we were in the midst of squalor, misery and disease. In one place I detected seventeen different smells. My interpreter was stricken with cholera but I gave him prompt treatment which prevented results. Some .very valuable material was found, so the trip was highly satisfactory.'" serious loaf the M A R R I A G ES the announcement of TARP1XIAX-KASSABIA.V Inclosed in a large square envelope and ad dressed "To my classmates, the mighty 1917'' came the marriage of Arshalouse Kassabian to Manuel S. Tarpin- ian '17, on Friday, October 21, 1921. Their at-home cards_ read 1605 Fifth Avenue, Port the Arthur Texas, where Mr. Tarpinian citv chemist. is MEETING OF THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE President's Office October 19, 1921. u o'clock A. M. Present—President Shaw, Mrs. Stockman, Messrs. Woodman, Waterbury, Doelle, and Brody. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. The special committee appointed at the last meet ing in reference to an adjustment of salaries, etc., reported as follows: "October 14, 1921. Secretary A. M. Brown, M. A. C". My Dear Sir:— The'following report is submitted by the Com mittee appointed by the State Board of Agriculture its meeting on September 21. The Committee at included Messrs. Waterbury and Watkins which and Mrs. Stockman and re port following action, authorizing: the Acting President the (1) An increase of salary for Mr. Nint. He did last year when not receive any advance in salary the increases were made. (2) An increase in salary the Poultry Department. On account of added Head of . (3) An increase of salary for F. E. Fogle. vestigation showed he was being paid much than at least a dozen others of the same rank. responsibilities In less for W. E. Newlon.. as Acting (4) An increase for A. L. Bibbins. (5) An increase for H. C. Rather. (6) Re-establishment of salary upon recommendation beth Hare French. for Miss Eliza Professor of These changes in salary are authorized into effect on the October pay roll. to go (7) No action was taken in the case of Kribbs, to Kettunen and Hain which were also referred the Committee, (8) The Committee authorized a division of Mr. Hasselman's two-thirds Extension and one- third College, the same as last year without salary change. time, (9) The Committee authorized the employment to of Weil at the same salary rate as last year. (10) An extension of the i was granted (without change of salary) S. L. Bandemer, P. O'Meara, M. L. Grettenberger, C. E. Newlander, H. E. Den- nison, Mrs. Christopher. time following persons viz: to January (11) The title of A. H. Nelson was changed from Instructor the retiring President. to Assistant Professor as agreed by On motion of Mr. Doelle, Mr. Earl Hemmenway in Economics beginning was appointed Assistant October 1. On motion of Mr. Waterbury, the recommendation of Prof. French regarding the Department of Ag ricultural Education as shown in the following let ter, was adopted: October 7, 1921. R. S. Shaw, Acting President, East Lansing, Michigan. Dear Sir:— for recommendations At a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture held in June or July, I submitted a letter making certain the Department of Agricultural Education. Conditions have changed since that time, hence I submit for your approval and for the approval of the State Board of Agri culture, following: The name of the Department to to remain or to be the Department of Agricultural changed back Education. T i t l e s- Walter H. French, Professor of Agricultural Edu the cation. ture Education. tural Education. E. Lynn Grover, Associate Professor of Agricul B. A. Walpole, Assistant Professor of Agricul • " Josephine Hart, Assistant Professor of Home Economics Education. Emma Garrison, Assistant Professor of Home Economics and of Home Economics Education. Dean Mary E. Sweeny, Supervisor of Home Eco nomics Education. This arrangement covers the Teacher Training Department and the Smith-Hughes Law for both agriculture and home economics and complies with the regulations of the Federal Board of Vocational Education. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) W. H. French." On motion of Mr. Waterbury, Mr. S. T. Flynn in appointed half-time Graduate Assistant to succeed Mr. Frank beginning Oc was Entomology tober 1. On motion of Mr. Doelle, Mr. (). E. Snow was appointed Associate Professor of Physics begin ning Jan. 1. 1 On motion of Mr. Doelle, Dr. G. H. Coons was the month of January given leave of absence for with pay to work with Dr. G. R. Lyman in charge of plant disease survey of the United States De partment of . Agriculture. On motion of Mr. Woodman, the appointment of an Assistant County Agent Leader was laid up the table for another month. the matter of On motion of Mr. Woodman, Mr. Brody was the standing committee on the Exten added sion Division. to On motion of Mr. Waterbury, request was made that the President and each member of the Board, prepare in triplicate and submit to the committed on. the Extension Division by November 1, sug gestions in regard to countv agent work On motion of Mr. Doelle, the salary of Mr. Cribbs was increased beginning November 1. On motion of Mr. Doelle, the following fees the Department of Music were adopted: lessons up band Private instruments without for credit, $10.00 per term; Instruction per term. in violin $12 =;o to the that persons On motion • of Mr. Doelle .and subject the recommendation of approval of the Faculty, twenty-one the committee of -Deans the years of age or over desiring to take work at to do so with college without credit, be permitted inter the consent of the head of the department the Dean of in fee ested and the such cass to be $1.00 per credit hour plus such laboratory fees as may be specified for the course was approved. the Division, to attend On motion of Mr. Waterbury, the following dele gates were authorized the meeting of the Association of Land Grant Colleges at New Orleans, November. 8 to 10 with expenses paid- President-elect Fndav, Director Shaw, Dean Bis- sell, Dean Sweeny, Director Baldwin Tvr0^-uT?tio,n o f, Mn Woodman, the request of Mr McKibbm for the appointment of a clerk was re- THE M. A. C. RECORD 15 is ferred meeting of to the President the Board. for report at the next On motion of Mr. Waterbury, a communication referred from Miss Savage, Dean of Women, was to the President with power to act. On motion of Mr. Woodman, the matter of publication of an alumni catalog was the table. the laid upon • of his office, President Shaw who with Prof. Burgess regarding to confer the business affairs that he had done so and that Mr. Burg-ess had not complied, with the regu lations of the institution in regard to his funds. .was authorized reported On motion of Mr. Doelle, .the previous action of the resignation of Mr. Bur ef reconsidered and same was made the Board regarding gess, was fective October 1. On motion of Mr. Doelle, the President was au to con release thorized fer with o f . t he lands now used by the Constabulary. appointed to appoint a. committee of the Governor The President three t he committee, regard such as in to Messrs. Watkins, Waterbury and Doelle. On motion of Mr. Doelle, $1500. was apportioned the Office of to the balance of the fiscal year. the Dean of Applied Science for . President Shaw, to whom was referred the matter reported as the campus, of faculty houses upon follows: "I have conferred with Professors Barrows, them that the the present college year, June 20, }922_ so institu the opening of the next college Johnston and Vedder and have expressed to the desire of the State Board of Agriculture their residences on the campus be vacated by end of that tional uses before year. the buildings may be remodeled for "I myself, am plarining to leave the campus as the site now occupied by my house will undoubted ly be required for in the location of some stitutional building in the not far distant large future. "(Signed) R. S. Shaw." On motion of Mr. Doelle, the report was approved. re Mr. Halladay, Commissioner of Agriculture, the Board a letter from Mr. Dickinson, the State Fair, regarding a claim of ferred Manager of the College for freight upon its exhibits. On motion of Mr. Woodman, this matter was re to ferred to Mr. Waterbury and Mr. Brody. On motion of Mr. Waterbury, t he following reso lution was adopted: "Resolved, That t h e, State Department of Agriculture in its conduct of the State Fair and hereby extends its good offices for the College will gladly aid that purpose." On motion of Mr. Woodman, adjourned. C L A SS N O T ES '69 Ryan B. Cowles may be reached ot R. R. 9, recently the Calhoun County Association meeting Battle Creek, Michigan. Mr. Cowles attended in Battle Creek. a in left includes '91 Kenyon L. Butterfield, president of the Massachu setts Agricultural College, was granted six months leave of absence by the Board of Trustees and the middle of August on a commission studying the problems of education in China. This commission its membership, President Wooley of Mt. Holyoke College, Prof. Burton of the University of Chicago, Prof. Roxby of the Uni versity of Liverpool and other prominent English, President Canadian Butterfield the problems of agricultural education. This commission will com-, plete the through China and United States about the first of February. During the president's absence Dean Lewis will be the acting president and Assistant Dean Machmer will have charge of the Dean's office. and American is to study especially educators. return '93 A. C. Burnham, president of the American Exten increased en students to -more comodious located at sion University, writes rollment which now has has compelled them quarters. Their Los Angeles office reached 40,000 to move their that trip its to is 123 Stimson Bldg., while now at Suite 1108 Wrigley Bldg. their Chicago office Alfred N. Clark, beet sugar factory chemist and, expert engineer late of Mt. Clemens ' Sugar Com pany is now living in Charlotte where he is caring for his invalid father. '95 W. G. Goodenough may now be reacehd at Hotel Webster, New York City. '02 '08 W. G. Goodenough may now be reached at Hotel at from Chicago living at 616 W. Kalamazoo Street, Lan Renter have moved present sing, Mich. '06 James E. Fisk is with the H. J". Christman Com pany of Detroit and lives at 2411 Richtoh Avenue, Detroit. and are Irene Farley is at 3000 E. Grand Boulevard, Detroit. Mabel Mosher requests us to 412 W. Genesee Street, Lansing, Michigan. Ward H. Parker, secretary and salesman for the Wolverine Oil Company of Flint, drove his Stude- baker 10,000 miles in in Michigan terests of his company. to send her Record this season in '09 Major R. R. Lyons has been sent to Camp Lewis, Fort Worden, Washington. Frank and Mrs. (Helen Esselstyn) Wood, with their family left this week for an extended Western automobile '10 • George H. Freear may be addressed at 61 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Calif. tour. C. D. Forster, the City Machine and Tool Company at Toledo, Ohio, has strayed from our midst. Can anyone give us news of "Chuck's" whereabouts? formerly wtih We would also appreciate any information about E- G. Forbes. He was at Seattle but mail has been returned the High School at San Diego, California, and lives at the New Palace Hotel there. teaching from Bess Frazer there. is in F. J. Richards the Works Engineer's Department of the Buick Motor Company and lives, at 1216 Benson Avenue, Flint. is with '11 '13 E. A. Yoke is now at Union City, Michigan. Nell G. Favorite may be addressed at her home, Huntington, Indiana. J. S. Sibley is gettig his Record at Box 145, Mesa, Arizona. I. J. Wqodin and Fern Liverance "aren't but are at 1339 42nd St., Sacramento, Calif. living where ('14) Woodin they moved from any more," George D. Gilbert is teaching Agriculture at Edna Watkins is principal of the High School a,t Caro, Michigan. Milford, Michigan. R. R. Kittredge and Helen Boyce Kittredge ('15) located at 1229 Hubbard Street, Detroit. are now E. Lynne Underwood '15 is a chemist for the Free man Dairy Company and lives at 238 Odette Street, Flint. • H. J. Buell is now at 3515 N. Penn Avenue, In dianapolis, Indiana. R. E. Olin is a sales representative for the Irving Iron Works Company of New York'City with head quarters at 401 Washington Arcade, Detroit. He the office October 10 and wished u« called and the rest of the college all kinds of good luck. lives at 4755 Beacon Street—at Pat Henry now in at least so the Postmaster of Chicago says. Pardon us. We in the address of S. C. and Edna Tussing Vandenburg' The address should read 530 North East 21st Street Portland, Oregon. the' North forget insert to E. J. Reeder, formerly of Flint, has moved to 1214 West Shiawassee Street, Lansing. E. E. Down, assistant plant breeder at M A C joint author with F. A. Sprague is bulletin number 108 which entitled "The Robust Bean." that Robust bean had special of is- just being issued It may be of interest its origin at M. A. C i6 THE M. A. C. RECORD '16 E- C Hamlin is with the Schroeder Mills and Timber Company at Pakesley, Ontario, Canada. '17 Roy E. Culver is machine shop foreman with the Nelson Motor Truck Company of Saginaw. He lives at . 1022 Cass Street. Culver recently put his John Henry on line of an association membership. the dotted H. V. Abel is now district manager of the Amer at Harrisburg, ican Fruit Growers' Exchange Pennsylvania. Dick" Sullivan, wdio works or the Novo Engine Company of Lansing, writes that he has been to a few of the county fairs lately and has come across an occasional M. A. C. man. Most of them say they haven't been back more than once or twice in the. last ten years. Gave them a good hand shake and the old they left feeling that perhaps the present day Michigan Aggies would be good people to get acquainted with," about Homecoming Dav. line of chatter about M. A. C. and '18 Ralph H. Sill is teaching at Gaines, Michigan. K. H. Wrench is living at 177 Chestiut Street, Battle Creek, Mich. Eldorado, Kansas. Plovd Frve is now at 105 South Topeka Street, Lost, strayed or wandered from the Crutchfield and Wolfolk Company of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, one Joeph F. Ryan. Finder please drop us a line. is now at 726 South Main Harold E. Wright Street, Ann Arbor. H, A. Putnam, according to the Postoffice author: ities, may now be addressed General Delivery, Battle Creek, but we have had a faint glimmering of news that he is now in the east somewhere. Alice McCartney is teaching at Harbor Springs. Kra'rik O. Stang • iinnne give us any whereabouts in Flint. Can information of his present longer is no "After Every Meal" . WRIGLEYS The Flavor Lasts! S. W. MacKenzie asks us to please change his address from New York City to 139 Ferguson Street, Corona, Long Island, New York. J. E. Turner has moved from Bark River to Whitney, Michigan. C. H. Strauss is the now Farmers' Co-operative Grain and Produce Associa tion- and lives at 24 N. Kane Street, Blissfield, Mich. connected with Ric« A. Beers is Assistant District" Engineer for the State Highway Department wtih headquarters at 215 P r a tt Building, Kalamazoo. '19 '19-ers, we have lost two of "your brethern and sistern" and it is up to you to locate them for us. Mail addressed to Keith Kruegar at East Lansing has been returned and Marian C. Thomas is no longer at Iowa City, Iowa. Get busy. J. M. Bennett is at 1418 n th Avenue, Port Huron. L. W. Miller writes "again a change of address little but after next January I hope Please send my Record to longer at one (Room 27, Hitchcock Hall, the above in I will get my A. M. University of Chicago), December and am grinding away now day and night on a thesis. Glad to hear things are look ing up around time. address, to be set a the school." '20 Iva Beach is now at 170 Cherry Street, Battle Creek. Burton H. Jameson is now in Olcott, New York. "Biddy" '20, we have lost Charles Beers and Kingery. Can you help us find them? in '20. interest including the Petrified Forest, and A. M. Estes recently wrote us of an account of his trip through the west this summer. He visited the Yosemite many points of National Park, Luther Burbank Garden at Santa Rose, the Experiment Station at Davis. He stopped off at Yrcka, Cali fornia and visited " P i k e" Saxton In Oregon he "took in" Crater Lake National Park and spent about two weeks hiking in the Cascades. At Cor- vallis John Bregger '17 met him with a Dodge and it, visiting Portland, they "jazzed" 4200 miles Seattle, Rainier National Park. At Kalispell, Mon they put up for a week with Bob Gorsline tana five day '20 who entertained hike up the Alps of through Yellowstone Park America. first to Salt ake City where hand information about then through Colorado visiting Colorado started East there springs and the Garden of the Gods. From they came straight on to Michigan by way of Kansas City. The M. A. C. people who helped thev were make life worth journeying were M. R. Brundage '15, Harry R Saxton '11, Prof. C. W. Mitchell Howard E. Weed '89, E. N. Bates '05, Bob Gorsline 20, R. S. Simmons them in Glacier National Park, . They went they got plenty of the Mormons. They '18, Roscoe Martin '20. '20, Betty Palm royally by a them while living for Claude M. Stover may be addressed the Road Commission at Hastings, Mich. in care of Winiford Smith and Stephena Butler have asked us to change their Records to Box 369, Bessemer, Michigan. Helen Schmidt is at Grand Blanc. road 0 ' 'T o™my" Blair is in the employ of the Dealers Sales Service of the California Fruit Growers Ex change Advertising Department. He is to be on touring eight western the in states the surelv interest of Sunkist citrus be pleased that are located anywhere north of Oklahoma to the Cana dian border. in a Ford staging Orange Weeks fruit. He will to see any M. A. C. folks six months for Laura Crissman is at Romeo, Michigan. Leonard E. Hall is connected with the American Fruit Growers Exchange at Harrisburg, Pennsyl vania, and works under H. V. Abel '17.. that he E. J. Leenhouts writes is "still being the New York Central Lines as as employed by in my sistant agricultural agent, to small way, !4Xe ™-f,or in agricultural pursuits. The Michigan game is making its usual appeal and 1 have been planning my work for weeks so that to display mv astonishing I might be on hand noise-making ability and loud winded- ness. in making our state a better one t h o se engaged thus assisting, long and