THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPT. 22 Largest University Hospital In The United States Psychologists Can't Explain BlackLegion Cult's Large Membership Defies Any Explanation, Says Prof. J. F. Shepard By JOSEPH S. MATTES The Black Legion, terroristic or- ganization reputedly of national scope, is a phenomenon beyond psy- chological explanation, Prof. John F. Shepard of the psychology depart- ment said recently. "Until a motive that will bear sound reasoning is suggested," he said, "the psychologist is at a loss to explain the movement." He cited the many instances in his- tory-and those of today-when se- cret societies have existed, but none that he could recall were as vicious as the Black Legion. Most underground organizations have obvious motives and none of them are as malicious as the Black Legion, he pointed out. "The lack of motive makes the Black Legion a phenomenon to the psychologist," he added. He cited the false importance acquired from membership in a secret organization as an incidental motive. A secret organization tends to make a meglomaniac of many men, he said. "The uniforms of cross-bones and skulls," he suggested, "would induce many men to join, of course, just as the glamour of marching and uni- forms induces many to join the army."~ There is also the desire, herbelieved, in some men to act as supreme ar- biters over what is right and wrong, but cautioned that this too, is only an incidental motive. Professor Shepard said that he could probably explain the organiza- tion's psychological aspects if it were of small membership, but that 120,- 000 citizens of the State of Mich- igan should belong is beyond his un- derstanding. Aside from the psychological as- pects of the membership of the or- ganization, he said that if a political motive is found to be behind the movement the liberal cause will be increased by large numbers. "There will be a strong reaction against such terroristic .strong-arm methods that will swing many per- sons to the cause of -liberalism," Pro- fessor Shepard said. FORMER EDITO RGETS POST Beach Conger, Jr., '32, former ed- itorial director of The Daily, is nov on the staff of the New York Heral Tribune after working three years as field editor for World Letters, Inc. Excavations At Tel city, dating to the second century, A.D., brought to light descriptions Umar Continued which were deciphered by Prof. Le- roy Waterman of the oriental lan- University excavations at Tel guages department. The Inscriptions give reason to believe that Seleucia, Umar, modern site of the ancient located near the Tigris River in Iraq, city of Seleucia, which were aban- near Bagdad, is also the site of Su- doned in 1932 after four years of merian Akshak, predating Seleucia work, will be resumed this year under by thousands of years. the direction of Dr. Clark Hopkins, Earlier excavations there were fi- who two years ago was a member of nanced for the University by the the Yale expedition to Dura-Europo. Toledo Museum of Art and later by Partial excavation of the ancient the Cleveland Museum. F ifll I III 11 Shown here is the University Hospital, one of the largest and finest in the country. It has a bed capacity of 1,295, employs more than 1,700 people and offers opportunity for many internes to get pracitical experience. Students may receive medical attention at a minimum of cost. L i I+ Scholars Flock To Harvard To Celebrate Tercentenary Michigan Represented By 22 Members Of Faculty At Meeting By ARNOLD S. DANIELS To old Cambridge town and Har- vard University's beautiful Yard this summer have thronged outstanding scholars representing every people and section of the world. The Uni- versity of Michigan was well repre- sented in this distinguished group which was gathered to celebrate Har- vard's tercentenary by 22 of the out- standing members of its faculty. More than 1,500 scholars including 14 Nobel Prize winner representing the universities of every great nation of the world with the exception of Germany were invited to attend meetings and read papers at the ex- ercises celebrating the three hun- dreth anniversary of America's first institution of higher learning. Cli- maxed by a speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, class of 1904, the assembly, which will be con- tinued until late in September, will have marked not only the tercenten- ary of Harvard University, but also one, of the greatest discussions of liberal education ever held. Curtis Reads Paper One of the papers which attracted the greatest interest was that read by Dr. Heber D. Curtis, director of the University of Michigan Observa- tories. The subject of the paper was the pictures taken at the University's McMath-Hulbert Observatory, utiliz- ing the new spectroheliokinemato- graph, a special camera for taking . "movies" of the sun. The pictures were taken in July and August of this year by Robert R. McMath, di- rector, and Dr. Edison Pittit. Ac- cording to Dr. Curtis, "the import- ance of the McMath films lies in the information they will give us as to the astonishing rapidity and com- plexity of the motions of the gases of the-sun's atmosphere." With the films shown at Harvard, Dr. Curtis said, we have for the first time a continuous record of the ti- tanic changes and motions going on in the prominences. A solar pnenomena hitherto un- observed was shown in some of the film when a cloud of clacium gas was seen to develop at an alitude of one hundred thousand miles above the sun's surface and then to descend in great streamers as a veritable "rain of fire." Dr. Curtis is unable to explain thee. clouds which appar- ently form out- of nowhere. Attended Convention The majority of the Michigan fac- ulty men who attended the tercen- tenary celebration were guests at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Association and the Mathematical Society of America, which was held at Harvard. This convention, which was held in Aug- ust, was attended by the following: Prof. Theophil Hildebrand, Prof. W. L. Ayres, Prof. John Bradshaw, Prof. Arthur H. Copeland, Prof. C. C. Craig, Prof. Peter Field, Prof. Louis C. Karpinski and Prof. George Y. Rainich, all of the mathematical de- partment of the University. Other University men who attend- ed the celebration were Prof. Camp- bell Bonner, head of the Greek de- partment, Prof. Arthur Dunham, of the history department, Prof. Max S. Handman, of the economics depart- ment, Prof. Camillo P. Merlino, of the Italian department, Prof. Warner F. Patterson of the French depart- ment, Prof. Frederick W. Peterson ofa the English department, Prof. Walterj A. Reichert of the German depart- ment, Prof. A. H. White of the Eng- ineering department and Prof. Ar- Wood of the sociology department. State Forensic Group Selects Debate Subject Greatly increased enrollment in the Michigan High School Forensic As- sociation debate and declamation contests this year has been an- nounced by the Extension Division. Subject for the debate this year will. be: "Resolved, That all Electric Util- ities Should Be Governmentally Owned and Operated." Last year 20,488 high-school stu- dents from 355 high schools partici- pated in the forensic contests of the association which is under the gen- eral direction of the Extension Di- vision and the Department of Speech and General Linguistics and other Michiganeorganizations. Dr. William P. Halstead is manager of the asso- ciation. The schools of the state are di- vided into "A" and "B" class schools, with the schools debating within their r4espective classes. In general, schools of 250 or more will be classi- fied as "A" and those with less than 250 as "B." Preliminary debates will be held on four different dates, and the schools with highest number of points will enter the elimination series of five debates, to- be climaxed by the state championship debate on April 30, which will be held in Hill Auditorium. 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