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TIHE MICHIGAN DAILY
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1935
Begin Task Of
Finding 5,000
State NYA Jobs
Age Group Of 16-25 Will
Be Eligible For New
Federal Positions
1%) Spend $338, 000
Program Is Designed As
Training In Leadership
And Public Service
LANSING, Dec. 18. - (A) - The
state division of the National Youth
administration began today the task
of finding jobs for 5,000 youths be-f
tween 16 and 25.!
Dr. William Haber, state director of
NYA, announced at an advisory
council organization meeting here
yesterday that Michigan will have
$338,000 with which to finance the
jobs.
The youth employment program is
threefold: To develop community and
recreational leadership, organize
rural youth projects and train youth
for public service.
Rudyard Kipling Approaches 70th Birthday
Police Search
For Automobile
Thieves H e r e
Local police and sheriff's officers
are looking for two men who took a
Cadillac sedan from Clark Hammer.
Rt. 2, Northville, when he had stopped'
for a signal light at the corner of
Grand River and Seven Mile Road,
about midnight Thursday. The two
men told the driver that he would
find his car in Ann Arbor after they
forced him to get out at the point of
guns.j
The Wayne County sheriff's office
notified local police immediately after
the holdup took place. The squad
cars covered highways US-12 and
US-23 but no traces of the men were
found.
Both men were described as shabby
and wearing no overcoats by Alvin
H. Pommerening, 1214 W. Washing-
ton St., who reported the robbery to
the sheriff's office yesterday after-
noon. One was about 18 years of age
and the other about 24.
Sheriff Jacob Andres stated that
in all probability the thieves had toldI
Hammer they were headed for AnnI
Arbor in order to give police a falsej
lead.
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Becomes Governor
No 'Bull Sessions'
A ter Studying;Go
Directly To Sleep
fTc cn~ia7 11P .+.n....
in Washington, D. C., in a lecture at
Cornell recently.
Experiments showed that students
could more easily recall and relearn
material they had learned by rote
and partially forgotten, if they first
slept for eight hours and thenworked
(ByAsocatd olegat Pes) J for 16 hours, than if they distributed
ITHACA, N. Y., Dec. 18, -- "If a rest and activity in any other way
person memorizes certain material during a 24-hour period.
perfectly and goes to sleep imme- Two hypotheses have been ad-
diately afterward, he will recall more vanced in explanation, Dr. Johnson
of it and also relearn the whole task said. The "hardening" hypotheses
more economically after a lapse of suggests that one's brain is inactive
during sleep, and being free from dis-
24 hours, than if he waits even a few turbance, offers recent impressions
hours before he goes to sleep," said a chance to "harden." The "rever-
Dr. H. M. Johnson, professor of psy- beration" theory holds that the brain
chology at the American University is active in sleep.
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There a Wjlg Be
aDance at the
Michigan Union
Friday Night,
Do-ecember 20th.
Associated Press Photo.
William Elmer Holt (above),
one-time cowboy, became governor
of Montana upon the unexpected
death of Gov. Frank H. Cooney.
Bolt had been president of the
Montana senate.
Employment will be part-time. The
NYA will offer rural youths jobs in
improving school grounds, reforesta-
tion and agricultural projects, and
in directing rural community activ-
ities.
The recreational program will in-
elude jobs in organizing and direct-
ing rural community activities.
The recreational program will in-
clude jobs in organizing, and directing
playground activities, developing th-
letic fields, improving winter sports
areas, recreation centers, and gymna-
siums, and establishing community
centers.
Public service projects will include
social surveys, tax record ivestiga-
ions, traffic counts and studies of
local history and biological and agri-
cultural experiments.
Youths will be paid one third the
wages fixed as "security wages" for
their locality and work one third the
number of hours for which Works
Progress administration labor is em-
ployed.
Convention Of
Speech Group
Attracts Faculty
Public Speaking Teachers1
Gather In Chicago For1
20th Annual Session
Ten faculty members are planning
to attend the twentieth annual con-
vention of the National Association
of Teachers of Speech, meeting ini
joint session with the AmericanI
Speech Correction Association andi
the National Theatre Conference,
Dec. 30, 1935 to Jan. 1, 1936 in Chi-t
cagp.
According to Prof. G. E. Densmore,b
the executive secretary of the Asso-
ciation, three of. the faculty will
speak. Dr. H. Harlan Bloomer will
speakon "A Roentgenological Study
of Mechanism of Respiration," Wil-
liam P. Halstead on "Variability in
the Perception of Speech Melody,"
and J. H. McBurney on "Group Dis-
cussion and Our Logical and Rhe-
torical Tradition." Prof. Densmore
will preside at the Tuesday, Dec. 31
session on the studies in rhetoric
and public speaking.
Prof. Waldo Abbot, director of the
University Broadcasting Service, Prof.
John Muyskens, Carl Brandt, Henry
Moser, Prof. Louis Eich, of the speech
department, and Arthur Secord de-
bating coach, also intend to be pres-
ent at the convention.
The subjects of speech and of their
current, related problems have been
arbitrarily divided into ten or eleven
-tparts, each of which will be repre-
sented by a speaker in a general ses-
sion. Two such general sessions each
day will be followed, upon adjourn-
ment, by sectional meetings in which
the discussion opened in the general
session will be continued, Professor
Densmore added.
Included among the features of,
the convention will be an extensive
high school-elementary school pro-
gram, reports on experiments, new
methods and research, and a discus-
sion and analysis of the curricular
changes in colleges which have af-
fected the speech courses.
-Associated Press Photo.
This is the most recent photograph of Rudyard Kipling, who cele-
brates his 70th birthday Dec. 30. The bespectacled youth who came out
of India at the turn of the century with a pocketful of poems and
stories that brought him world fame, has lived as a virtual recluse on his
Sussex estate while his prolific writings have continued to roll up a
vast fortune.
Educators Of Four Countries
Aid Middle English Dictionary
<+-
Work Being Financed By
Rockefeller Foundation,
Learned Societies
By ARTHUR A. MILLER
Members of 60 American colleges
and universities, and institutions in
Canada, England and Sweden, num-
bering 110 people in all, have added to
the words and quotations which are
being collected by a staff of 19 people
who are compiling a dictionary of
Middle English words under the ed-
itorship of Prof. Thomas A. Knott of
the English department.j
The work is being carried on here
as part of a program originally pro-
posed by the directors of the Oxford
Dictionary, and has been financed by
the American Council of Learned So-
cieties and the Rockefeller Founda-
tion.
Oxford University completed a dic-
tionary of the English language in
1928 after working on it since 1856.
It was found, however, that many
words had been omitted because of
the great span of time which that
work attempted to cover. American
universities were consequently so-
licited to undertake classification of
relatively short periods. The Uni-
versity of Chicago is compiling a dic-
tionary of American English while
Michigan is concentrating on the 375
years between 1100 and 1475.
According to Professor Knott, quo-
tations illustrating uses and mean-
ings of words are being taken from
every known manuscript of the per-
iod. Writings which appeared before
the advent of printing in England are
also included.
There have been 40,000 words and
more than 990,000 quotations filed
since the dictionary wasbegun in
1930 under{ the late Prof. Samuel
Moore. Professor Knott, who took
over the position of editor when Pro-
fessor Moore died, said the work
would not be completed until 1942.
Because the University does not
possess original manuscripts, photo-
graphs and prints of originals owned
by other institutions are being used
by readers who select from them ex-
pressions which will be used in the
dictionary.
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