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Guidance T alk
Tells Qualities
Of Law Student
Analytical Mind And Keen
Imagination Stressed By
Dean Bates
An analytical mind and a keen
imagination were listed by Dean
Henry M. Bates of'the Law School
yesterday as two of the chief require-
ments of a successful lawyer. The
talk was the first of a series of voca-
tional guidance lectures for students
of the College of Literature, Science
and the Arts.
Although the profession of law is
overcrowded at present and compe-
tition is very strong, DeanBates
said; the man with real ability sup-
plemented by courage and ambition
can succeed. "It is the cool, rea-
sonable, open-minded man who
makes a success at the bar," he de-
clared. Leading law firms, he stated,
prefer to pick. their young assistants
from among students with high scho-
lastic .averages, for they have found
by experience that the best law stu-
dents make the best lawyers.
In connection with the require-
ment for an analytical, mind in the
profession, Dean Bates offered the il-
lustration of a client who wished to
draw up a will. "Not one time in
20 will your client have a very clear
idea of what he wants to do with
his money and property," he said.
Speaking of the ethics of the legal
profession, Dean Bates expressed his
belief that in spite of a large number
of so-called "shysters" of which the
bar is at present trying to purge
itself, there is every opportunity for
a man of high integrity and charac-
ter, who can be trusted not only by
his clients but by other lawyers as
well. "'It is not necessary for a man
entering law to sacrifice any of his
principles," he said.
While many of the old types of
legal work are dying, the dean ad-
nitted, he pointed out that a world
of new opportunities for good law-
yers was being created by the new
advances of science, as new methods
of transportation and communica-
tion which create new problems in
interhuman relationships. Moreover,
Dean Bates said, the legal profession
like the medical is turning more and
tmore today to preventive work.
The next lecture in the series will
Ve given at 4:15 p.m. Thursday in
.doom 1025 Angell Hall by Prof. Rus-
sell W. Bunting of the School of Den-
tistry, on dentistry as a profession. ;
Mid-West Governors At Parley In New York
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Affected Goethe I
Wagner's Work Is Similar Tempering the perennialc
To Bismarck's In Its of the typical freshman ist
difficult problem faced bye
Effect, Hohlfeld Says counselors in the engineering
Prof. Arthur D. Moore, head
The great influence of English of the college, said yesterd
manners and customs upon Goethe interview.
as evidenced by the closing scenes of The counseling plan nowi
bis "Faust" was emphasized yester- tion in the engineering colle
day by Prof. Alexander R. Hohlfeld some 25 years ago by Dean-
of the ,University of Wisconsin in a Mortimer E. Cooley, was des(
regular University lecture in the Prof. Erich A. Walter, head
Natural Science Auditorium. demic counseling in the litec
It was Goethe's contention, Pro- lege, as the oldest and moE
fessor Hohlfeld said, that the Ger-- developed facility for schola:
mans could learn much from the ance in the University.
peace-loving English whose well or- To Reach JIdividua
dered, complete lives were quite an- "Our system," Professor Mc
tithetical to the distraught Germany "is an attempt to reach the ii
of Goethe's day. and thus mitigate one of tY
Assist Each Other difficulties in a large univec
Goethe maintained further in the tin educational institution o
final scenes of "Faust," the speaker gan's proportions there are ne
went on, that the time for national many problems of adjustm
literature was over, that conditions fronting the entering freshm
were ripe for an internationalism of if not solved are liable to effec
culture, that the nations should as- hindrances throughout the rE
sist each other so that the culture of his college career. "It
and natural endowments of each our office then," Professor Mc
peoples would be brought to their "to make the individual feE
greatest development. part of the campus just as
Giving some literary interpreta- possible."
tions of Richard Wagner, before a He explained that the
packed auditorium on Monday night, counseling system has two n
v sI0ns
the as;embily and the men- Iable to insure individual handling of
-Associated Press Photo
The chief executives of three Mid-Western states attended a confer-
ence of governors of. six states at the New York City home of Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman of New York, to discuss relief problems their states
have in common. Seated, left to right: Governors Henry Horner,
Illinois; Lehman, and Charles F. Hurley, Massachusetts. Standing, left
to right: Governors Philip F. LaFollette, Wisconsin; Elmer A. Benson,
Minnesota; and Robert E. Quinn, Rhode Island.
JournalismDepartment Plans
Picture Institute For Reporters
tors. The assembly, he said, is a
weekly one-hour meeting of the whole
freshman class at which time differ-
ent professors of the engineering col-
lege lecture on topics related to ori-
entation, such as how to study, the
relation of extra-curricular activities
to later attainment and some aspects
of different engineering fields.
Others Speak
"In addition to talks by engineering
professors we annually issue an invi-
tation to other men connected with
the university," Professor Moore said,
"as for example President Ruthven,
Prof. Jesse S. Reeves of the political
science department, and T. Hawley
lapping, general secretary of the
Alumni Association, who are asked to
lecture on their respective fields. "It
is curious to note that the amount
of time needed to call the meeting to
order keeps increasing each week,"
Professor Moore observed, "as the
freshmen become better acquainted.
Perhaps this in itself is sufficient
testimony to the efficiency of the
assembly."
Students' Reports
"The mentor division," he ex-
plained, "provides the actual contact
between advisor and advisee. Under
each mentor there is a group of 15 or
20 freshmen. It is the office of the
mentor to do the actual advising -
academic as well as general, and he
is entirely responsible for those in-
dividuals of his group. "We now
have the system so integrated," Pro-
fessor Moore went on, "that each
mentor receives every six weeks a
complete report from all the instruc-
tors on the progress of his students.
These reports contain not only the
grades, but also a list of the special
deficiencies of the student in the
subject-ie. preparatory school train-
ing, class absences, insufficient home-
work etc.-so that the mentor has
concrete evidence to present in his
conference with the student.
"By use of this plan we are also
Arthur D. Moore Explains
eerma( College Mentor System
delinquent cases," he added. "The
first Monday after examination week
the home list is brought to me and I
then interview each individual and
make recommendations accordingly
to the committee on delinquent stu-
dents. Following this careful proced-
ktre we usually find it necessary to
dismiss less than a half-dozen stu-
Glents per semester."
When queried on the most com-
mon difficulties found among the
{freshmen, Professor Moore said that
lack of ability, inadequate prepara-
tion before entering college and poor
work habits were responsible for most
of the academic problems.
"Then too," he said, "there is, of
course, the problem of mental hy-
giene. At any one time there are at
least 10 per cent of the students on
campus in need of some kind of psy-
chiatric help."
In conclusion Professor Moore ob-
served that the neophytes on campus
seem to withstand admirably the rav-
ages of Cupid's shafts. It is the up-
perclassmen, he said, who are most
subject to amorous annoyances.
150 Take Tuberculin
Tests During Week
Approximately 150 students took
the tuberculin test given last week
at the Health Service, Dr. Margaret
Bell of the Health Service said yes-
terday.
Dr. Bell said that 14 per cent of
the women who tested negative three
and four years ago tested positive last
week. The number taking the test
was better than average, she de-
clared, although 234 letters were sent
to sophomore, junior and senior
women, urging them to take the test.
"I am pleased with the result," she
said, "but I am disappointed that
more of the women did not respond."
By EARL GILMAN
An institute for practicing jour-
nalists interested in news pictures,
and a series of demonstrations on
the selection of camera subjects and
camera technique will be sponsored
by the journalism department this
spring, Prof. John L. Brumm, chair-
man of the department, announced
yesterday.
Professor Brumm said the institute
will be -given because the picture is
becoming daily a more important1
factor in news presentation. He said
that since the picture tabloid first
made the public picture-conscious a
few years ago the larger papers have
demanded reporters who could get
candid camera action shots equal to
the printed word.
"The test of a news picture is its
relative superiority to the text it dis-1
places, judged by news values," Pro-
fessor -Brumm declared. "A picture
of an automobile wreck, for instance,
may or may not have pictorial news
value. If it is that of just another
wreck, it merely clutters up the page.
But if it exhibits something vividly
unusual, such as a motor car lodged
in the branches of a tree, or some
other freakish accomplishment, then
the picture may doubtlessprove to be
more exciting than a description cov-
ering the same space," he continued.
"There is likely to be real im-
provement in news pictures now that
reporters are being taught to take
action shots," Professor Brumm said,
"and :many papers are establishing
staff photography departments." The
picture agencies, he said, have been
so haphazard in the service they
provide that editors have come to ex-
pect little of them.
Professor Hohlfeld termed the work
of the great German composer as
strikingly similar to that of Bis-
marck, the statesman. Whereas Bis-
marck accomplished the political
unity of the Germanies, he said,
Wagner tied together the cultural
heritages, especially of South Ger-
many.
German Folk Lore
In order to effect a cultural unity
in Germany, the speaker continued,
Wagner seized upon the German
folk-lore and legends as the main
themes of his drama and thus
through his work he hoped to link
together the traditions of the coun-
try.
Wagner brought a great innova-,
tion to the opera, Professor Hohlfeld
pointed out by himself writing the
words for his music. By doing this
he attempted to combine word, tone
and motion. Much effort was spent
on making the character of the mu-
sic consonant with the words of the
drama that accompanied it.
The ethics of Wagner were pro-
foundly affected by Schopenhauer,
the speaker went on. Like the
latter Wagner pictures life as con-
stant suffering mitigated only by
love, love as characterized in pity and
compassion. This theme is especially
exemplified in "The Flying Dutch-
man" and in "Tannhauser," Profes-
sor Hohlfeld said.
In concluding Professor Hohlfeld
illustrated the versatility of Wagner
by terming his "Mastersingers" one
of the greatest German comedies ever
produced.
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