SUPPLEMENT FEATURES THEATRES LITERARY SUNDAY FEATURE SECTION - - _ Tiri lau ait SECTION TWO VOL. XXXI. No. 70 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS EXECUTIVES FORECAST 1921 AS BANNER YEAR FOR UNIVERSIT i All See Need of Nelv Buildings, 7'oreLqnipmen: SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND DEAN OF MEN AMONG NEW FEATURES WHICH MAY BE INTRODUCED; WILL ATTEMPT TO STRENGTHEN FACULTY -_ nn nn nn nl unulll ull nnnull lll tlnnlli lll nlll n nlll l lll lll ll llnlll l ullun h Su d tit .4round The World on Foreign Students The MichiganCam In UJi st. iUlIIIIIII111Ui 11111Ut111111Ullil II I 111IIIIIl i111llllllllli1111111111111111111111111ll U1, ligis 8 8 C -4 s, (By Gerald P. Overton) What, in your opinioni does the yea 1921 hold in store for the Universit: of Michigan? Predictions that promise a decide advance in the already envious posi tion of the University and a period o substantial and solid growth, regard less of what the business condition throughout the country at large ma: be, were made when this question wa asked of President Marion L. Burtol and the deans of the various college during the past week. Although th answers were from as many differen angles as there are units in the insti tution, all established the firm convic tion of the leaders of the University that it will add fresh pages of credit. able history to its story during th coming twelve months. Now that the unusual conditions i educational fields brought about b the war are being rapidly readjusted it is anticipated that the enrollmen during the year may not show th same phenomenal growth of the las two years, but there is every reaso to believe that there will be a materia increase over former registration fig- ures. Need New Buildings In one very significant respect all were agreed-there must be adequate provision of new buildings to meet the normal growt" of the institution, or else the crowded condition in all de- partments will rapidly produce an im- possible situation. Complete confi- dence is expressed by President Bur- ton that this need will be recognized and provided for by the state fegisla- ture during its present session. Granting the approval by the legis- lature of the building program, this year will see the beginning of new structures which, when brought to completion, will entirely change the appearance of the campus and provide the additional space now needed so badly. Whatever construction work is undertaken will be done along a gen- eral plan of development which will eventually give the campus an ap- pearance of unity and architectural beauty that has been found to add very much to the atmosphere of some of the larger universities over the United States which have followed such plans of campus development. Several plans and policies with re- spect to the organization of the Uni- versity which President Burton has been formulating for some time will undoubtedly become realities before the beginning of another year. There are excellent prospects of the estab- lishment of a School of Education as a separate unit at an early date. The appointment of a dean of student af- fairs is under consideration, and such a position may be created during the second semester. Urges Building Program "I think that on the physical side we simply must go into a comprehen- sive building program," said President Burton, in explaining his view of the outlook for the coming year. "I feel perfectly sure the state will make pro- vision for this. My confidence is due to the fact that I am certain anyone who sees the situation and- gets the facts will be convinced of the impera- tive need of the program. "Educationally, the most outstand- ing probability is the establishment of a School of Education as a separate unit. The Board of Regents has voted that 'it is inclined to look with favor upon the organization of a separate school for the Educational depart- ment,"' he said, adding that the nec- essary steps will undoubtedly be made within the year. "There is also under consideration the appointment of a dean of student affairs," continued President Burton. (Continued on Page Three) (By T. S. R.) "There's the Argentines, and the Portoguese, the Armenians, and the Greeks." That makes four, and if you will add just 27 others to that list you will have the number of countries that are represented on the Michigan campus. Thirty-one foreign nations have sent 323 men and women to Michigan, and these 323 come from all continents, all climates, and all races. And there are some mighty interest- ing characters and some mighty inter- esting histories bound up in the 323. Take Keizo Horiuchi for a example. Horiuchi is a senior in the Engineer- ing college who hails from Tokio. He is also taking work in the School of Music, being a bit gifted in that line. His hobby is writing music. And he will knock your conception of a "com- poser at work" for a whole chain of loops. Uses Pen, Not Piano When Horiuchi feels the urge to write a couple of measures he simply reaches for his fountain pen and tears it off. There is none of this agonized searching around the piano for the missing chord, or any "tum-tee-daa" used in the process. He draws the notes and grace notes and the rests; lays out the entire composition in musical hierglophics, and when he is satisfied he steps over to the piano and tries it out. Simple, isn't it? One of his friends tells of accompanying Horiuchi to a concert. The talented Jap liked one of the pieces very well, so when it was encored he took it down in a notebook. No, he didn't copy the name of the selection in the notebook-not a bit of it-he took the music as it was dictated by the violin player. Then he went home and "tried it over on the piano." There's an idea for a new course-musical shorthand. Then there is Miss A. L. Haldar. She is a Hindu, and Just to show that she knows English as well as the next one, she is now writing an article for Chimes. In Charge of Meet Feng Chu Liu, '21L, has absorbed the spirit of American ,initiative and push. He was in charge of the two-week Chinese conference that was held in Ann Arbor last summer, and in order to defray the expenses in connection with that event he put on a Chinese play for the Chinese residents of De- troit and cleared the tidy sum of $2,000. Dean Effinger has given Liu the nickname of "General." South Africa has sent up a delega- tion numbering 43 and 40 of these are dents. There evidently -is a shortage (Continued on Page Four) 8r BusinessFactorj BEING TRAINED BY MICHIGAN AND OTHER SCHOOLS TO HANDL INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE; AMERICA TO PROFIT FROM WORK IS CLAIM ( By William W. Ottaway) Christmas Holidays Down, Atid- Year Finals To Go I American business will profit to a vast extent in the future, from the appointment to positions of trust in its outside branches of foreigners edu- cated in the United States, and these same foreign countries will derive vast benefit from the educating of their peoples. This is the opinion.oP Prof. Henry E. Riggs, of the Engineer- ing College, who is prominent in the work now under way in this country to educate foreign students. The University of Michigan, accord- ing to Prof. Riggs, is one of the fore- most universities of the country to carry on this system of education, and to co-operate with manufacturers and railroads in the employment of for-. eign graduates. It is rendering a dis- tinct service and in a few years the effects of the work will be seen much more clearly than at the present time. Wonderful Opportunity o "There is a wonderful opportunity," said Professor Riggs, "for American business due to the fact that South Americans and other foreigners want to spend several years in engineering work after they graduate from our universities. American business has been slow to get into foreign countries because their ways were not, known and no effort was made to discover them. It will be a fine thing for our people to do business with South America and China. The South Amer- icans and Chinese are loyal and hon- est." The Standard Oil company, Truscon Steel company, and Singer Sewingi Machine company all have offices1 throughout the world, and are looking for engineering graduates among for-I eign students. They employ regular! managers of foreign offices whose business it is to keep in touch witli American universities' and seek outj foreign students to act as representa- tives of their business. , "The University of Michigan has had a larger number of foreign students since the war," stated Professor Riggs. "Many men who before the war went to Belgium or France, especially South Americans, are coming here. In 1913 we had in the Civil Engineering de- (By Leo Hershdorfer) Now that it's all over, and the worst is past, we don't mind looking back - in a retrospective manner over the two weeks of Christmas vacation that we spent in Ann Arbor, while our many friends and others departed. on the first day of the recess to their homes to enjoy a real vacation. Let's begin at the beginning. Hos- tilities suspended on Tuesday, Dec. 21, and that day the town was as busy as a bee-hive, with the departing ones hurrying hither and thither-mostly thither, to the railway station. The rones were those unfortunates whom the income tax hit so hard that they were obliged, to put it politely, to re- main here for the entire two weeks.1 Well, anyway, we went down that aft- ernoon to see our friends off, and after they had boarded the train and the locomotive started to pull out of the station, a certain heavy weight seemed to find its way down our throats, and we found it hard to swal- low. We walked slowly up State street, where the day before crowds of students were always in sight. But as we hit Liberty street, and looked in the direction of the campus, you should have seen how the town had changed! De-population Without exaggerating, not more than ten persons were walking about, and one lone Ford was parked against the curb in front of the Arcade. Other- wise, it was so still that, as one fel- low remarked afterwards, you could have .dropped a pin and it would have sounded like an explosion. And that's the way it was for the rest of the va- cation. What was a fellow to do with all that spare time hanging on his hands, and no place to dispose of it? We began with the movies-counted them all upon our right hand, and found that there were just five. So we went to one movie in the afternoon and one in the night. But the shows .in Ann Arbor are only of ninety minutes' du- ration, and With only two a day, it's easy to see that this recreation didn't go very far in an average day of twen- ty-four hours. Another way we passed the time was eating. The Union tap room relieved us of our change thrice daily, and gave us in return a platter of food. Allow- ing an hour for every meal, we thus consumed three more hours. - Got to SkateI But it's an ill wind that brings no breeze, and a slight change in the temperature had a double effect-first, the rink froze and we coulds go skat- ing, and second, sleigh rides. This seemed to dispel somewhat the gloom which had pervaded our minds for sev- eral days, and we soon began to grow accustomed to it all. The sleight rides, though; were "all to the good," be- cause they gave a fellow an oppor- tunity to do three things-relieve his mind of his worries, get out in the open air, and to meet some nice girls. Two or three sleigh rides, and then would come invitations to parties and dances, which, to quote Bugs Baer, was "better than good.", Talking about parties, Lane hall blossomed out into society with two swell affairs. They had real music and a jazz band that had some "wick- ed" instruments-a laughing trom- bone, a shouting cornet, a raggy piano. And the floor was waxed so well that every time you slipped your feet across the boards with your partner you really began to pity the boys who had to go home for the holidays. That wasn't all we did with our time, though-there was still lots of spare time to be found. We wrote letters, mostly for the purpose of diversion, and hoping that we would get cheer- ing answers, and also knowing that we could safely wait for the mail car-, rier and know that he owed us some- thing. Books! Why, we read all we could get our hands on-the Saturday' Evening Post, Al Taylor's book on "How to Play Billiards," and one other, the name of which we forget now. No-Not So Bad So, after all, it wasn't such a bad vacation, taking it as a whole. We had our good times here in Ann Ar- bor, although, if the price of food weren't so high, and the railroads didn't have to raise their rates to keep their presidents and directors from' starvation, we would have much pre- ferred to go home. But it's all over now, and all of us -those who went home and the others who remained in town--have one thing to look forward to-finals. It's a great and glorious feeling to have blue-books to top off a good, long va-i cation, is it not? Yes-IT IS NOT! - a thorough knowledge of the business,, and two years ago was appointed gen- eral representative of the National. Manufacturers' association in Spain He will return next year to Soutf America to take charge of the inter ests of a numbea of American manta facturers of machinery. He was on of our best men and can do more witt. South America than an American it able to do in 25 years." One of the Chinese graduates of the class of 1915 spent three years with an American firm learning the busi- ness of designing, manufacturing, and sales. He went to China in a branch office' and is now at the head of an office i Shanghai. He is one of the firm's best men, and the only native manager of an American hous4 in China. "Three of our graduates," stated Professor Riggs, "are with the Trus- con Steel company. One Chinaman, a fine electrical engineer, now with the. Detroit Edison company, will go back to his country In charge of important American interests there, and with a (Continued on Page Three) Cam~pus Societies Number Over ioo; IncludeAll Types Each year sees the formation of several new organizations on the cam- pus, until now, starting at the begin- ning of the alphabet with the Adelphi House of Representatives and ending with the Youngstown-Michigan club, Michigan has more than 100 honorary, sectional, and educational societies. Dating from 1843, Alpha Nu debat- ing society is the oldest organization, while the Players' club and the Uni- versity Shrine club,'the two latest ad- ditions, were formed this semester. Most of the clubs are educational, one-fourth are honary, and approx- imately 20 of fhe societies sectional. The educational clubs include organi- zations for the promotion of lan- guages, such as the Cercle Francais and La Sociedad Hispanica, ad or- ganizations for the different kds0.e engineering, as the American Institute' of Electrical Engineers, American So- ciety of Mechanical Engineers, and the Civil Engineering society. In fact, there are educational societies for al- most every activity in which a stu- dent may be interested. Others fur- ther interest in law, forestry, educa- tion, aeronautics, business, debating, politics, pharmacy, and dramatics.pk Many of the honor 'societies picki their members from a certain col\pe and in most cases from a certan class in that college. Iii the lit school, for instance. Sphinx is the junior honor society, while Druids is thb senior society. Some societies, as Griffins and Michigamua, are all-cam- pus and t ke men from any college. I partment only where we now two South Americans have twelve. French and Belgium universities were seri- ously affected by the war, and that is the real reason for the influx'of for- eign students. Many are coming from the west. coast of South America to take up work in irrigation, water' power, and other lines of hydraulic work, including road building. One South American graduate of this Uni- versity has been an employee of the Michigan State Highway Commission for four years. Prove Successful "Our graduates," continued Profes- sor Riggs, "are proving their worth. One member of the -class of 1913, who went with a Pittsburg iron concern in! their engineering department, secured 1 I 1 1 1 l t l I - ," Both Ends of the DiO''onal Wa I A Complete Line of Dairies and Desk Calendars at GRAHAM'S Both Ends of the Diagonal Walks I 0 1 ^. o-... ..- ...,. : .a.7. ....,o