PAGE TWENTY'-STV 'i'IIE MICtiGiAN DIA lw ---..- scl'rr-,NmrR 21, 1935 rAGE TWENTY-SiX SEPTEMBER 24, 193w Yordmeyer Brings Scholarly Regents Give Approval For NewBudget Allotment For 1935-36 Exceeds Total For Last Year fLy$800,000 Reduced Salaries Are Not Changed Departments Hit By Cuts Of Past Year Benefit By Action Of Board Climaxing several months of con- fusion over the University's income for 1935-36, President Alexander G. Authven recently announced that the Board of Regents had approved a budget with nearly an $800,000 in- crease over last year's total income. For the school year of 1935-36 the grand total budget has been set at $7,877,550.72. This figure also in- ekides the budget of the University Hospital. For. the same period last year the Regents had determined $7,081,622.55 as the grand total, or nearly $800,000 less than all Uni- versity agencies will have at their disposal for the current year. The 1935-36 budget allots approxi- mately $2,200,000 to the University Hospital, whose expenses are de- ft yed by itsownoperating income. Slightly more than $1,900,000 was the amount budgeted to the Hospital for the 1935-36 year. n interpreting the budget, Presi- dent Ruthven stated that it was formulated on the basis of income from state appropriations, from the receipts for the general funds from tuition and various other miscellan- eous sources. Unless they are specifically donated to increase the operating income, special gifts are not included in the budget figure. Usually the purpose of special dona- tions is to foster a specific division of the University. The major use of the $800,000 in- crease will be to resuscitate depart- ments of the University which were severely crippled by income cuts of the past few years. A meeting of the Regents will be held here Sept. 27, at which time the details of de- partmental budgets are scheduled to be perfected. -President Ruthven supplemented his announcement on finances- with the statement that the Regents took no action toward restoring reduced salaries by a blanket increase. Left - Handers Are Not Inferior, Says Teacher At Illinois Are all left-handed people infer- ior? In a paper read to the Ameri- can Psychological Association during their recent conention here, Floyd L. Ruch of the University of Illinois stated they are in no way inferior to their righthanded companions as far as he could determine by tests of scholarship, inteligence, emotional stability, and contrariness, or in ability to perform unimanual motor tasks. 221 students were tested on a "handedness" performance scale of 38 single hand operation tests, with no difference found between the right and left-handed students tested. Dr. Ruch offered these results as a refutation of the traditional belief in the inferiority of the left-handed. He pointed out as examples of this be- lief the French "gauche," Latin "sin- ister," and German "linkhaendig"' (clumsy), all meaning "left" in those languages, and the expressions: "left- handed compliment" and "left-hand- ed Irishman," for a clumsy compli- ment, or the Irish expression mean- ing a Scotchman. ENROLLMENT RE CORD SET GRAND RAPfDS, Sept. 22.-(/P)- Registration at Calvin College has reached the 400 mark for the first time in the history of the school, Reg- istrar Harry G. Dekker announced to- day. Wasp Engine Used In Automotive Laboratory .. sb.f+ w -. ,Y . .- s n ..r . - "._._ . 1 _-.> r This 450 horsepower Wasp motor is utilized jointly by the aeronau- tical and automotive departments of the engineering college as part of their laboratory equipment. The three blades of the test propellor are shortened and redesigned for laboratory work. * * * Laboratories Are Used By 12 Divisions Sizes Vary From Metal Processing Foundry To Tiny Research Rooms (Continued from Page 25) probably the roomiest laboratory in the college - the entire area sur- rounding and including the campus. Students interested in radio will find available the University radio station, W8AXZ, employing 500 watts and used in maintaining contact with foreign expeditions and summer camps of the University. Illustrative of the equipment in the civil engineering department is a large experimental flume used in the hydraulic laboratory for studying be- havior of water in open channels. The marine engineering department pos- sesses a 300-foot-long naval tank, together with machines for produc- ing wax models of ships. The metallurgical laboratories are equipped with electric and gas fur- naces, X-ray and Pyrometry ma- chines, and machines for testing the physical properties of metals. Lab- oratories in the departments of chemistry, physics and astronomy, not separately included in the College of Engineering, are also available to engineering students. Radio Program To Offer Many New Features ornet Engine To Be Used In Airplane Tests Prof.Lay Secures $10,000 Motor For Stiidents In Engineering College A 550 horsepower Hornet airplane engine, valued at nearly $10,000. has been acquired recently by Prof. Walter E. Lay, head of the automo- tive engineering department, and will be used for special test runs by students in the department. The Hornet motor, together with the Wasp engine already in the pos- session of the department, will be taken out to a new building now being constructed at the Ann Arbor air- port where test runs may be conduct- ed without disturbing the campus by the noise. The building is a small steel shack, and will be completed sometime this week. The Hornet engine was obtained by Professor Lay from Lieutenant Wilson of the Grosse Ile Airport. It was mounted in one of the airplanes destroyed by fire this summer, and although the motor was undamaged by the fire, officials of the airport decided not to risk using it again. A large steel device to measure the resistance of the airplane motors has been constructed for use in the test runs. A steel cradle is delicately balanced on supporting girders rough- ly resembling a huge sawhorse. The motors will be mounted on the cradle and measurements will be taken of the distances by which the motors tip the cradle to one side or the other. country being discussed will also par- ticipate in the program. Adelaide Adams of the fine arts department will discuss original paintings with Marie Abbot, '35, in the American historical art series Listeners may secure in advance prints of the paintings to be dis- cussed. -~ - Iopwood Prize Novel Will Be Published Soon Doubleday Doran Plan Toj Ibssu iNovel Written By Hlbert Skidmore, '35 The novel which shared the first prize money of $3,000 in the Avery and Jule Hopwood Contest offered by the University last May is to be pub- lished next February, according to an announcement issued last week by Doubleday. Doran & Company. Hubert Skidmore, '35, author of the novel, which was written under the title, "They Shall Inherit," is at pres- ent in New York preparing his book for publication. While a student in the University, he was the winner of two other prizes in the contest in addition to his final award. The prize winning novel has as its locale the region of the Cumberland mountains, and deals with the evolu- tion of character of a group of people in the course of their simple life. "They Shall Inherit" was written by Skidmore while studying here under Prof. Erich A. Walter of the English department. Awards Since 1930 Recognition of the importance of the Hopwood contest has been gained through the measure of literary suc- cess that has come to other Hopwood winners in the five years in which the contest has been conducted. "What- e'er You Reap,' 'a group of poems by Annemarie Persov, which won $2,500 in the contest, has been pub- lished with an introduction by Max Eastman; "Fireweed," a novel by Mildred Walker which won a prize of $1,100 has been followed in pub- lication by her second novel, "Light From Arcturus," which has strength- ened her position as a young writer of considerable ability. Other prize winners, such as Dorothy Tyler, Lorna Chambers, and Van V. Alderman, have made their appearance in pe- riodicals from time to time. The awards have been presented each year since 1930 under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, famous author of light comedies in the first decade of this century, and have been executed by a committee under the direction of Prof. Roy W. Cowden of the English department. Judges Well Known Judges for the contest are selected from among the most prominent fig- ures in contemporary American lit- erature. Sinclair Lewis, Henry Haz- litt, and Ezra Pound were among the prominent judges who served in last semester's contest. In order to equalize the competi- tion, the committee in charge of the contest has divided the awards into three divisions: the freshman con- test; the minor contest for the gen- eral student body; and the major con- test in which senior and graduate students alone may submit manu- scripts. Competition for freshmen is under the direction of Mr. Carlton Wells, from whom information is now avail- able concerning the contest. Sep- arate awards are given for the dif- ferent fields of the essay, prose, and poetry. I Three prizes of $50, $30, and $20 are given within each of the three . fields in the freshman competition. In the minor awards, two prizes of $250 each are given in each of the four fields of dramatic writing, the -- -i Nordmeyer Brings Scholarly Background To New Position (Continued from Page 25) added, 'should take a high place among other departments in that field." He then taught German at Ohio State University and at the Uni- versity of Illinois. When in 1918 there was a dearth of German stu- dents, he became associated with the University of Chicago Press, doing editorial work. From 1921 to 1924, to prove his in- terest and capability in the field languages generally, he was profes- sor of modern langues at Grand Rap- ids Junior College, where he taught Spanish and French as well as Ger- man. In 1924 he went to Swarth- more College and in 1925 to Wash- ington University in St. Louis, where he remained until taking the position as chairman of New York University's German department in 1929. Professor Nordmeyer has traveled extensively. Besides roaming nearly all of central and western Europe, he has toured Mexico, Canada and the United States. He is interested in swimming and canoeing, and because Michigan fur- nishes ample opportunity for these sports, "that is one of the reasons I came here." Librarian Attends Congress In Spain. Dr. William W. Bishop, librarian of the University, is back on the job after presiding over the Internation- al Congress of Libraries and Biblio- graphies this summer in Spain. Dr. Bishop, who is also president of the International Library As- sociation, besides heading the gen- eral congress ,also lead the section on professional library training. "The congress discussed principally international questions affecting li- braries," he said. Some of these were the simplification of customs proceedure so as to facilitate loans between libraries and the coopera- tion of libraries in matters other thar loans. "The congress was very suc- cessful," he declared. essay, fiction, and poetry. The major awards present four prizes of $2,00( each or the equivalent distributed in the same four fields. Material submitted for the contest variesfrom sociological analyses t _fanciful poetry, and follows closely the trend of contemporary literatur in this country. While much of th material that has been favorably re- garded by the judges has represente a mature outlook. Attention of students is called tc the Hopwood Room on the third floo: of Angell Hall, a library and study devoted to current books and mag- azines, in which persons interestec in contemporary literature may gather for informal discussion. Or file in the Hopwood Room are the prize-winningmanuscripts of prev- ious contests. As a sideline, Professor Nordmeyer is interested in history, and studied in that field at first. He is constantly doing research and is regarded as an authority on Goethe and his period. He has written much on that subject, as well as on problems of medieval German lyrics. He has a library in his home, at 1416 Granger Street. of some 2,000 volumes, but he doesn't think this is many. "In fact, I've never both- ered to count them," he said. "I like Michigan a lot," he smiled, "and I look forward to happy andI interesting activity here." Every new German professor should be asked about Hitler, and Professor Nordmeyer took it with a grin. "Frankly, I don't have much use for Hitler," he said, "I look upon the European situation as an Ameri- can, and as a man who believes in academic freedom, freedom of thought, of research and of learn- ing. "Granting that the German people have the right to arrange their own affairs as they see fit," the new professor contiued, "the ideals of the party in power do not jibe with ours," whereas we have a great deal in common with the Germany that was." But Professor Nordmeyer saw hope for Germany in the future. "The spirit of the nation will go on through the ages," he asserted, "no matter what political forms may pre- vail at a certain time." DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1935 VOL. XLVL (. I LaVcrne Noyes. Scholarships: Per- sons intending to apply for LaVerne Nyes Scholarships for the present year are requested to do so before October 10. Applications should be made at the President's office, 1017 Angell Hall. World War veterans and their blood descendants are eligible. Frefhmen Glee Club: Tryouts Wed- nesday, Octover 2, 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Glee Club rooms, third floor, Mich- igan Union. Regular rehearsals each week Wednesday, 5 to 6 p.m. Mich- igan Union. Freshmen eligible for Varsity Club in second semester. Varsity Glee Club -Tryouts and first rehearsal, Thursday, Oct. 3, 7 to 9 p.m., Glee Club rooms, Michigan Union, third floor. Regular rehear- sals each Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m. The Lutheran Student Club will hold its first meeting Sunday eve- ning, September 29 at the Zion Lu- theran Parish Hall, 309 E. Washing- ton St. Social half hour at 5:30 - Supper at 6:00 prepared by Zion Lu- theran ladies. Informal program at 6:30. JEWISH NEW YEAR CARDS A Large and Choice Selection at 0. D. MORRI LL'S 314 South State Street hr, - _ - I IF ' U. ofM. Freshmen The Mayflower Restaurant Extends A HEARTY WELCOME To You ! An Exclusive 1cst/aurant Service For Your Approval. Mayflower Restaurant Corner of Liberty and Fourth I I"---- - ------- ----. - - -*--~--- -- (Continued from Page 25) at 8:30 p.m., and on "Current Events and Research," at 8:45 p.m. Students in speech classes will pre- sent laboratory pnrograms, dealing with campus news, dramatics, and interviews, at 9:15 a.m. on Wednes- days, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sat- urdays. The "Parent Education Series" will consist of talks on the general sub- jects of "Juvenile Delinquency," "Guidance," "Youth and the Modern World," and "Health," Prof. Joseph E. Maddy of the music school, who is conductor of the Na- tional High School Orchestra, will be in charge of the music instruction broadcasts. The talks in the "Michigan, My Michigan" series will be designed to inform students and citizens of the state of the natural resources, in- dustries, educational facilities, and history of Michigan. 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