*THE MICHIGiAN
DAILY
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1929
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1OUN G LAUDS COOLEY
IN'yINITIATIONSPEECH
BEFREHORNRGROUP
WOOD SUPPLEMENTS PRAISE IN
ADDRESS FOLLOWING TALK
ON LANGUAGE
MEMORIAL TRIBUTE READ
Eight Men Taken Into Sociological
Society at Dinner Hield in New
Women's League Building
Prefacing his address with an
eulogy of the late Charles H. Cooley,
for many years head of the soci-
ology department, Prof. Kimball
Young of the University of Wiscon-
sin spoke on "Language and Cul-
ture" at the annual initiation ban-
quetof Alrha Kappa Delta, honor-
ary sociology society, at the Wom-
en's. League building Wednesday
night.
Professor Young's remarks were
supplemented by Prof. Arthur E.
todd of the sociology department,
who termed the late Professor Coo-
ley " a "true scholar and a real
friend." A statement in memorial
to Cooley was read as a public trib-
ute, praising the work of the fa-
mos Michigan sociologist and cred-
iting him with many of the achieve-
ments which he attained in profes-
sional and private life.
Eight students were initiated at
the banquet. Those honored were:
Isaac Avramoff, Maxine Buene, Dor-
othy Griffith, '30, Mildred Kuenzel,
Grad, Elma Lundahl, Elmer Mitch-
ell, Margaret Sabom, and Pauline
Unger."
Speaking of the relation of lan-
guage to symbolism, Prof. Young
said, "In the case of signs we care
nothing for what they are them-
selves but everything for what they
mean or represent. Men operate in
a world of meanings laid down by
one whom they accept as an au-
thority, and they live in a world
created by the cultural concepts
which they accept."
"John Jones, a plain man, is one
day a week a member of the Mystic
Order of the Vale of Prophets, he is
imperial, exalted, royal, ancient,
expressing his vicarious enthusiasm
*fo', royalty or ancientness, neither
of which he has, and he glories in
possessing in a world of gabbiness
a secret. What people come to be-
lieve they act on as if it were true,
and it then is true in its social con-
sequences, which is the actual cre-
ating of ther myth of the world.:
The distinction between fact and
hotion ris the distinction between
what men believe and what they
communicate."
"We come finally to build our
whole world of reality into verbal
symnbols. We come to depend on
their meaning, and if we accept
them they come to be true. As an
example we see the power of belief,'
the social atmosphere of the Ori-
ent, over the stranger who yields
himself at last to the faith of those
around him, more by sympathy
tuandby conviction. Language
comes to have a veneration by its
mere feeling-tone, and mystical and
hereditary ideas are as real as ob-
jets for those believing in them." I
"We cannot separate language
from culture, nor the forms of
thinking from language: if Socrates
hJ1l' been teaching in Chinese, his'
fundamental philosohical categories
would have been different from his
teaching as it actually was in
Greek, because the whole social
content and communication of
thought is different."
Secretary Davis Asks
Berry To Conference
Profesor Charles' Scott Berry of
the school of Education recently re-
ceived an invitation from the Hon-
orable James J. Davis, Secretary of
Labor, to participate in a confer-
ence on child welfare which is be-,
ing called May 18 at Mooseheart,
Ill.
The conference will be attended.
by 20 of the leading psychologists
and investigators in the field of
child welfare and education in the
United States, and Professor Berry
has been chosen because of his long
experience and ability in this spe-
cial subject.
The main purpose of the confer-
ence is to consider the most ef-
fective type of school to develop for
the children that are being cared
for in the orphanage at Mooseheart.
Professor Berry is leaving tonight
for the conference.
International Con gress
Will Convene Ina
For the first time in the his-
tory of the organization the Inter-
national Congress of Psychologists
will hold its annual convention in
the United States. The Congress
which has chosen New Haven as its
convention city will meet the week
of September 1-7, inclusive. The
organization which includes in its
roster many European psychology
authorities of note, has met many
times previously in various Europ-
ean centers, but never before has
it chosen America for its meeting.
The Psychology department will
send several representatives to the
gathering among whom are, Prof.
John F Shepard,., Prof. Adelbert
Ford, Prof. Henry F. Adams, and
Prof. Walter B. Pillsbury.
Several of the Michigan delega-
tion will present papers before the
congress on topics which as yet
have not been announced. Every
;paperwill be on a topic with which
the author is _familiar and in which
he has done considerable research.
As a feature of the summer ses-
sion of the psychology department
of the University, six of the foreign
delegates to the congress have
agreed to present a series of lec-
tures to the students enrolled here.
The speakers will lecture on various
:phasesof European psychology.
All have contributed noteworthy
achievements in their chosen field.
Each visiting professor will be in
Ann Arbor for one week during
which time he will present several
lectures. In this way there will
be' six successive weeks during
which time the series will be pres-
ented. Those who have accepted
the invitation to appear here are:
Professor Aveling of the University
of London, Professor Drever of
Edinburgh' University, Professor
Kohler of the University of Berlin,
Of Psychologists - EXAMINERS NAME
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of Utrecht, Professor Thouless of aminers for the registration of
the University of Glasgow, and 1 architects, engineers, and survey-
Professor Wynn-Jones of the Uni- You won't go wrong on either the have announced that the next
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98 HIGH SCHOOLS Alan Hale is seen today in 'The
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