tTESDAY, JANTJARY 15, 1929 1 E MiTCHICAN UNERSTY LETURE SERIES -WILL PRESE'NT TVVO SPE[AKERS TODAY HEREDITY IS SUBJECT OF PRO- FESSOR BRACHET OF FRUSSELS BOTH ARE EXPERTS IN SPECIAL FIELDS Samuel M. Kintner To Talk Tonight On "Research Requirements of Electrical Companies" Offering a double bill for today, the University Lecture series pre- sents as first speaker, Prof. Albert Brachet of the University of Brus- sels, who will speak at 4:15 o'clock in Natural Science auditorium on "Heredity. as an Embryological Process"; while as the second fea- ture, Mr. Samuel M. Kintner, man- ager of the research department of the Westinghouse Electric and, Manufacturing company, will talk on "Research Requiremhients of Elec- trical Companies" at 8 o'clock to- night in the auditorium of the Nat- ural Science building. The first speaker, M. Albert Brachet of Belgium, an interna- tional authority on zoology and professor of anatomy and embryo- logy at the university of Brussels, is a visiting professor for the year, 1928-29. He has been brought here for a lecture tour by the educationi Foundation of the Commission forI Relief in Belguim. As builder of the Arlington radio station and present vice-president of the International Radio Tele- phone company since 1920, Mr.' Samuel Kintner, also an official of the Westinghouse electrical con- cerns, has had as prominent a ca- reer as any man in his field. Re- ceiving his degree of electrical en- gineer from Purdue University in 1894, he was professor-elect of en- gineering at Western University of Pa., 1896-1903. For the next nine years he was investigator and designer for the Westinghouse company and general manager and vice-president of the National Electric association. Mr. Kintner is a member of the Amer- ican Institute of Electrical engi- neers and of the American Physical society, being also a fellow in the Institute of Radio Engineers. I Mr. Kintner has been brought here under the joint auspices of the University and the Detroit-Ann Arbor section of the A. I. E. E. He will be entertained at dinner in the Union at 6:15 o'clock before his lecture. Faculty members may at- tend by making reservations with Prof. A H. Lovell. A { r P R SON OF HOOVER GETS RADIO JOB Study Italian And Save Money When You i! Take That Trip To Europe, Says Napoli -'if you couf elinpl:tl e a summer Neither the boy nor his father were ip 0to Europe, study Italia n !" is able to speak Italian, and they (i1 :,dviae give Uzzivrsity nd were frequently in difficulty when S h advie givey niversypuner- customers who could not speak English ent ered the store. Napoli department of Ronance languages also cited the case of a University "A good meal costs only a quarter student who studied Italian in in Italy, and a fine shirt can be connection with selling insurance. bought for sixty cents, provided one He found that after a year's study knows enough Italian to deal with he was able to write up a great rative merchants," he said. !many Italians whom before could "A trip taken through a tourist's not be approached agency is very expensive, but by "Since Italian, with the possible traveling on one's lonesome one exception of German, is the most may spend x very long vacatMion in largly-spoken foreign language in Italy for $400. even if he dirinzksthe United States, it is easy to see why above the average amount of the great, value of a knowledge of3 wine" Napoli continued. "A year the Italian language in modern of college Italian is sufficient to business,' Napoli explained. s.r' give one good foundation on which Students who expect to teach to build up easily a spearing knowl- French or Spanish in college later edge of Italian," he asserted. on are required to take advanced There are. in general five groups Italian courses in their graduate of students among those taking work. The course in Dante includes Italian, Napoli estimates. One of many of this class, as well as those t.hese is made of those students who1 who seek through Italian an in- Herbert Hoover, Jr. have lived in Italy or intend to sight on one of the world's great- Who will join the services of the visit' there. Another consists of est pieces of literature, lie asserted. rWestern Air Express, of Los Ai,- those interested in the study of Enrollment in Italian classes has geles, in the capacity of radio and music; a third, of students ma- approximately doubled in the Uni-; communication expert. The youth- joring in Romance languages; a versity over last semester, accord- ful son of the president-elect is ex- fourth, future business men who ing to Napoli. There has been a pected to assume charge of his new expect to come in contact with greater increase in advanced duties in the near future. Italians in their life work; and a courses than in beginning courses, fifth, those who take the subject which indicates an increasing real- Lai G Sfor its purely cultural value. ization on the part of students of Latin, kireeK cript"A knowledge of Italian is indis- the importance of Italian, he re- pelnsable to mfusicians," said Napoli porte On library Display yesterday. "While Germany claims some great composers, there is no question but what all musical Manuscripts, originals and facsi~ foundations are based on the Ital- A T ty miles, is the title of the displayi ation ore hn thIsa plaed n te lbray min orrdoiain language. More than this, a! placed the library main corridor m knowledge of Italian allows sing- for Desserts by Ella M. Hymans, curator of thek rare book room of the main library, lyrics to the innumerable Italian Fresh and Delicious The choice selections of the dis- !ompositions they sing, and this play are the original Latin andomo n makes for mre intelli- D a w n u o n u s Greek manuscripts written on e 7ee parchment. The library owns about t One of chnicals best Italian ng." Order by Phone two hundred of these, mostly of aN l dents, he said, is a boy whose Biblical or ecclesiastical nature. One father runs a hardware store in of the manuscripts is a thirteenth tie Italian section of Cincinnati. century edition of the Vulgate in the Old and New testam ent. ..An.-......_ ....._...... _ ................. ._...............,. other, of the eleventh century, is the Acts of Epistles, which is written on parchment of unusual1 EBE R BA C HI & N C quality and in large minuscules; it 1 E Df1'A H & SO N i has illustrations at the beginnings of the books, the initial letters be- ing in gold and marginal comments ESTABLISHED 1843 in red. The notable of the facsimiles is of the Grimani Breviary, written{ in Flemish style. SCIENTIFIC The library owns 4,846 pieces of papyri, which are chiefly Greek LABORATORY SUPPLIES and of the first century A. D. Many are fragments of the New Testa- ment. Two papyri are letters found wrapped together in a house in 200-202 E. LiBERTY S'I course of excavation by a Univer sity of Michigan expedition at Karanis, in the Fayum, in Novem- __ ber, 1926. 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