Sim THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25, 1936 Erasmus' Life Will Be Feted By University Hyma Selected As Speaker For Local Celebration Here On Dec. 8 The world-wide celebration of the 400th year since the death ofDesid- erius Erasmus, famed Dutch scholar, who died in 1536 will be observed on, the University campus on the after- noon of Dec. 8, in the Natural Sci- ence Auditorium, it was revealed yes- terday by Prof. Arthur E. Boak, of the history department, chairman of the Erasmus celebration Committee. The fourth centennial of Erasmus was celebrated throughout the past summer in Holland under the aus- pices of the Dutch government. Most collegs and universities in the United tSates commemorated the event on Sept. 19. The University celebration is to take the form of a lecture at 4:151 p.m., Dec. 8, which will be given by Prof. Albert Hyma, of the history department. To 'quote Professor Boak, "The lecturer has attained in- ternational recognition as an author- ity on the life of Erasmus and was one of those who gave an address at the Holland celebration, chosen to represent American scholars on this occasion." A statement concerning the mean- ing of Erasmus to civilization is be- ing prepared by Professor Boak, committee chairman, and wil Tbe re- leased for publication about a week before the celebration. Photographs Shown Exhibit Of Persian Photographs of Persian architec-, ture will be shown in an exhibit opening Nov. 27 in the west gallery of Alumni Memorial Hall. The dis- play has been arranged by the Re- search Seminary in Islamic Art. The photographs were obtained through the courtesy of the Ameri- can Institute for Persian Art and Archeology. The display here will be the second showing in this coun- try. The photographs were exhibited in London last year. In connection with the exhibit, Dr. Aga-Oglu will speak on the his- tory of Persian-Islamic Art, Dec. 2. One group of photographs of spe- cial interest is that of the tower tombs of the Seldjuk period in the 12th and 13th centuries. Ann Arbor Groups To Join Local Sing A number of groups in Washtenaw County will participate in the tra- ditional Ann Arbor Community Christmas Sing, it was announced yesterday by a combined committee of representatives from major camp- pus organizations and from the city of Ann Arbor. The date for the Sing has been set for either Dec. 16 or 17. Uni- versity students, the Glee Club, Stan- ley Chorus, St. Thomas' Ciurch 'Choir, St. Andrew's Church Choir, Methodist, Presbyterianhand other churches of Ann Arbor, the public schools under the leadership of MissE Juva Higbee, and the University High School under the leadership of Miss Odina Olson will participate to the accompaniment of the Carillon in the program. enef it Show To Be Helped BII By Glee Club The University Glee Club will ap- pear in a benefit program at the An- gell School auditorium at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 8. The proceeds will be used for necessary stage equip- ment for the school. Included on the same program will be a dramatic skit by Mrs. Carlton Peirce and Mrs. W. W. Gilbert. Swed- ish and Norwegian songs in costume will be presented by Miss Odina Ol- son who has spent some time in Scandinavian countries. The program of the Glee Club will be varied by baritone and tenor solos and double quartet arrangements. One of the featured soloists will be Ralph Clark, '38SM who was the first recipient of the Stanley Memorial I Scholarship given by the Glee Club alumni. Also appearing on the pro- gram will be Henry Austin who re- cently returned from the East where he gave a week's performance with a light opera company. He is known for his work with Play Production and School of Music operettas. A third soloist will be Martin Thomp- son, '37SM, director of the Presby- terian Church choir, who held a solo part in "Pirates of Penzance" last summer. The program is under the spon- sorship of the Angell School Parent- Teacher Association. Tickets will be sold at the door of the school at. 1608 South University by a commit- tee headed by Mrs. W. C. Steere. War Correspondents Have Ringside Seats At Madrid Fight Rainich To Speak Befoare Ma t h eGroun Approximately 20 members of the People wishing to attend the Tri- mathematics department will attend State Y.M.C.A. Conference at Albion the meeting of the Michigan Section on Dec. 4, 5, and 6 have only until of the Mathematical Association of.-, ;_-_ i Tri-State 'Y' Meet ReserP:PYvations Du78 America at Albion College, Albion, on Nov. 28, Prof. Cecil C. Craig, its sec- retary-treasurer announced yester- I day. Prof. George Y. Rainich of the mathematics department will deliver the invitation address on J. L. La- Grange, eminent mathematician, thej 200th anniversary of whose birth isl being celebrated this year. Other members of the department who are scheduled to speak before the convention are Donat K. Kazar- inoff on the "Generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem" and Prof. John D. Elder on "Note on the Class Number Function." Paul Nims, '37, a student at the University will discuss "Complex Numbers and Triangles," a relation which he ,discovered. the end of this week in which to make reservations for it, officials ofr the Student Christian Association an- nounced yesterday. The Student Christian Association, which is sending at least two dele- gates of its own to the conference, is handling the registrations of anyone else who is interested in going. Frank McDonald, '39, publicity manager of the group, said, and is planning to organize transportation to the meet- ing and back again for people at- tending under its auspices. Registration can be done in Lane Hall or through Richard Clark, '37. h. Al Make Your - Associated Press Photo War correspondents and cameramen covering the Spanish civil war are shown watching an engagement between Fascists and Socialists from the roof of this tailb.uilding on the outskirts of Madrid, scene of recent bitter fighting and aerial bombardments. New Pine Tree Disease Found By D.V.Baxter Forestry Professor Says Canker Is Latent Threat To Growth A canker disease new to this region and potentially a serious threat to the growth of Norway pine has just been discovered in Michigan by Prof. Dow V. Baxter of the forestry school. The disease, caused by a fungus, produces a distinct depression in the wood of the infected tree, but unlike many such diseases of conifers, res- inous on the exterior is notImarked, Professor Baxter said. Black fruit- ing bodies appear on the cankered wood and on the branches from the diseased areas on the trunk, he de- clared in describing the appearance of the disease. Any new disease affecting this tree is only visualized in its fullest import- ance, Professor Baxter explained, when it is realized that approximately 80,000,000 Norway pines were planted on national forest land alone in 1935. He further declared that this species has long been recommended for planting because of its rapid growth and general freedom from disease and insects. Because the disease was only recently discovered, little is known. about its seriousness, but it is felt that any newly found pest on this species should cause concern. Lo- cally the importance of the tree, the forestry professor said, is in its wide use in reforesting Michigan's waste- land. Jones Studies Bricks To Find Ancient Agricultural Conditions Laboratory On Air As Lay Broadcasts' The microphone of the University Broadcasting Service was taken directly into the automotive labora- tory yesterday where Prof. Walter Lay of the mechanical engineering department demonstrated how parts of an automobile were tested by students. The program, which was one of a series of "Actuality Broadcasts" pre- sented every Tuesday, was conducted in an informal manner, Prof. Waldo Abbot, Director of University Broad- casting, assumed the role of inquiring reporter. &L& Ag Reservations Early For Party Pictures call "Bob" and "Herb" Gach Tie Arcade Camera Shop 9028 Multifarious' Describes Duties' Of Manager Of.Dormitories By JAMES E. DUNLAP Believe it or not, Voiney H. Jones of the anthropology department is studying bricks to find out the agri- cultural conditions of the ancient city of Awatovi, once located in what is now a Hopi Indian reservation in northern Arizona. "You see, it's like this," Mr. Jones: explained as he dusted off a brick he had brought back with him from his recent trip to the reservation, "up until the past few years, little at- tention has been given to the extinct city, and for that reason occasional- ly unusual methods of approach are needed to acquire the desired facts -even to the extent of studying bricks to find the old local types of vegetation." Back in the seventeenth century the settlement of Awatovi was a prosperous Hopi Indian town. In 1629 the Spanish, who were continually moving up from the South, built a mission-house in the village. It was the bricks from that structure that Mr. Jones brought back with him. As a result of the mission, the In- dians in Awatovi soon became Chris- tians, much to the resentment of the neighboring Hopi towns. In fact, the feeling toward the converted Hopi's grew so bitter that finally, in the year 1700, the heathen groups made a mass attack upon them, razing the town, murdering the men, and dis- tributing the women and children among the victors. The adobe bricks which went into- the construction of the mission house were made of clay throughout which ...and after the show or before- DANCE (Free) and EAT' at the MICHIG INN 320 South State Street "At the Sign of the Clock" were scattered wheat straws to help keep the bricks from crumbling. Fortunately for the anthropologist, foreign matter happened to make its way into the bricks, along with the straw, giving a clew to the type of agriculture the Indians had de- veloped. By dissolving the brick, which -after more than 300 hun- dred years of service-is still as hard as stone, and straining out the bind- ing material, seeds of several fruits, including peach and watermelon, have already been discovered; and it is hoped that further investigation will uncover clews to other plant life. Mr. Jones, who spent a little less than a month in the Hopi Indian Reservation, conducted his research as a part of the five-year program of the Peabody Museum at Harvard. The program is half-way toward completion. BIBLIOPHILES TO MEET There will be a meeting of the Bibliophiles of the Faculty Women's Club at 2 p.m. today at the home of Mrs. C. N. Wenger of 1319 Olivia St. TURKEY CHICKEN DUCK STEAK THANKSGIVING DINNER Best Imported and Domestic WINES and CHAMPAGNES th lo al ce se vi U h¢ al in na in m th an do So tic of Many are the duties entrusted to women's dormitories are handled by ie care of Mrs. Ellen S. Stanley, who j the office of Dean Alice C. Lloyd and oks after the financial affairs of applications for Fletcher Hall, the L1 the University's dormitories ex- only dormitory for men on the cam- apt Martha Cook. pus, are handled directly at Fletcher Mrs. Stanley shares an office on the Hall. .cond floor, of:.University Hall with "It is hard to compare dormitories ce-president and secretary of the of Michigan with those of other niversity, Shirley W. Smith. It is schools," Mrs. Stanley said, "because er job, she explained, to purchase of the difference in accommodations, 11 the food for the students eating service, prices, and other differences dormitories and supervise all fi- in general conditions." ancial #dealings entering the secur- Iowa, which was found in a surveys g of sundry provisions for the dor- conducted by The Daily to have dor- itories. mitory facilities for 910 men, was Curiosity was initially aroused at mentioned by Mrs. Stanley as one ie disappearance of a little placard example of the difficulty of drawing i which were the printed words, comparisons between facilities of dif- anager of Dormitories, from a little ferent universities. According to Mrs.. aorway on the first floor of the Stanley, one of the dormitories at )uth Wing. This raised the ques- I Iowa is no more than a huge barracks on of what had happened to the that houses scores of men. lice and, posthumously, what had I FRWTERNITY JEWE LRY I DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN I Burr, Pa q (Continued from Page 4) P"m Harris Hall: All Episcopal students and their friends are cordially in- vited to attend a Thanksgiving party at Harris Hall on Friday evening, Nov. 27 at 9 p.m. been its function. After a fruitless search over the greater part of the campus, which in- cluded a visitation of almost every University sturcture with the excep- tion of the Intramural Building and Hill Auditorium, a return to Univer- sity Hall found the office on the sec- ond floor of the central wing of that building. And it was not de- funct, as had been hastily supposed, but alive and active and-what is more-the placard in its proper place. Mrs. Stanley has several assistants to help her in the adminitration of the dormitories. 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