10, 1949 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE ""T""... . . " . "1 EHI l MTl{.1TETl l)LA .41 LaTTY PAGE. Entire Freshman Year In Nineties Cost $300 Are you having trouble making ends meet? You were born just 60 years too ate. If you had been going to the University of Michigan in 1888-9, your expenses for both semesters, including tuition, books, room and Position Open At 'U' Station WPOM,hthe.sUniversity ra'/.o station, has issued a call to would-be radio announcers. According to Edwin Burrows, program director of WUOM, the station has an opening for one part-time announcer. Any student is eligible for the job. It will include broadcasting in the late afternoon and early eve- ning on weekdays and Sunday mornings. Burrows said that the job, which is also open for the summer session, might lead to a perma- nent announcer's post in the fall. board and amount to all incidentals, would exactly $300. THAT IS THE SUM that Lewis J. Hill, who graduated from the University in the early part of the "gay nineties," spent during his freshman year. According to a carefully kept account which Hill's nephew, W. H. Hottinger, Jr., recently do- nated to the General Library, room and board cost Hill $64.83 for one semester. He had the added expense of oil for his lamp, which at the rate of $.15 per gallon, cost him $.98 during one year. A SHAVE AND haircut, for which local barber shops are now charging up to $2.00, cost Hill anly $.25. Hill paid $.50nfor a necktie in 1889. He paid only $20 for a suit and $5.50 for a pair of shoes. Amid the upward surge of prices since Lewis Hill's student days, only one article, like a pillar in a storm, has stood firm. Item of' Peb. 24, 1892: "Four U. of M.I Daily's-$.20." - FREE! Expert training and professional exper- ience. Doesn't cost you a thing-pays big dividends out of college. Get on the MICHIGAN DAILY BUSINESS STAFF. Today 4 P.M. 'U' Institute Undertakes Social Study By DICK MALOY (Daily City Editor) A newly established institute here will make the University the top authority in the field of social science research. Called the Institute for Social Research, the new organization combines the Survey Research Center and the Research Center for Group Dynamics. It will be directed by Dr. Rensis Likert. TWO POWERFUL tools for ap- plying the scientific method to social problems are linked in the new institute according to its di- rector. The Survey Research group measures human behavior and relationships. The Group Dy- namics people probe ways to change this human behavior. Integration of the two will make possible the application of scien- tific methods to neglected social fields. Stressing the importance of this work, Likert pointed out that tremendous advances have been made in the physical sciences dur- ing the past 25 years while little effort has been made to solve the social problems created by these technological advances. "THIS IS MOST dramatically emphasized in the discovery of the atomic bomb" Likert said. He said the new institute would work closely with the Phoenix Project war memorial, which includes among its aims the solution of problems to en- able men to live peaceably in the atomic age. In the past the Survey Research Center, operating independently, has completed 52 studies for such varying groups as governmental agencies and automotive corpora- tions. It was established in the fall of 1946. THE GROUP DYNAMICS re- search group has probed fields of labor-management conflicts, elim- ination of racial prejudice, and housing. The center came here from MIT in July, 1948. \ Likert said the new institute puts the University in the lead in the social science research field. Nowhere else in the world can more experts be found in this field, he declared, A self-supporting group, the in- stitute receives a small annual budget from University funds, but the majority of its finances come from fees charged the government and private corporations for stud- ies in specific fields. While Dr. Likert will head the institute the survey research di- vision will be directed by Dr. Dor- win Cortwright, and Dr. Angus Campbell will head the group dy- namics division. Benefit Dance A March of Dimes benefit dance will be held at 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. tomorrow at the American Legion Memorial Home on Main Street. Ralph Wilson and his orchestra will supply the music. Tickets are $2 per couple. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Contributors to What's Up in the Dorms should con- tact Dolores Palanker at The Daily or 105 Betsy Barbour.) West Quad's J-Hop breakfast at 3 a.m. Sunday turned out to be a greater success than had been an- ticipated. Afterdwarming themselves at the fire in the main lounge, West Quad residents and their' guests enjoyed breakfasts of fresh orange juice, ham and eggs, toast and coffee and milk in the candle-lit dining room. APPROXIMATELY 175 couples attended the breakfast which was arranged under the chairmanship of Joe Stone, president of Williams House. The breakfast was sponsored by the East Quad Council who wish to extend their apprecia- tion to Miss E. Irene Boelts, head dietician at the Quad, and Mr. Gene Wilson, head cook, for their cooperation. The Council hopes that thisI first successful J-Hop breakfast will start - a tradition at West Quad. off at the end of the obtain higher prices. MICHIGAN HOUSE, Quad, which for some reason has never had lounge, is at last having fulfilled. must pay a small amount for each tie they choose, depending upon its quality. The better ties will be auctionedj week to in West unknown its own this need Rooms 316 and 318, in which the separating wall has been torn down. have been turned over to the men for this purpose. The lounge should be completed in the near future. Getting Wollier? COLUMBUS, O. - Wool con- sumption in the United States rose from 300 million to 392 million pounds between 1919 and 1937. Rayon yarn leaped from 8 mil- lion to 255 million pounds over the same period of time. Substantial increases in taxicab fares may be in store for town and campus under the provisions of an ordinance now under con- sideration by the City Council. The ordinance would boost fares by substituting metered rates for! the blanket anywhere-in-the-city rates now charged. * * * UNDER THE meter system the rate for one person would be 25 cents for the first quarter of a mile and five cents for each ad- ditional quarter-mile or fraction. There would be an additional ten cents charged for other pas- sengers in the same party. "buck fl What's Up in the Dorms One solace for University users may lie in the provision that they will be able to hire the cab by an hourly rate. The charge would be $2 for the first hour and 75 cents for each additional 15 min- utes. THE ORDINANCE, which has passed its first reading before the Council, was submitted by a spe- Trial taxicab committee of the Council, after conference with the taxi companies. Committeemen will meet with taxicab owners once more before final passage of the law. ASKS METER SYSTEM: Proposed Ordinance Would Increase City Taxicab Fares BETRAYED RUSS SPY RING, ARMY SAYS-Ito Ritsu (above) one of the four or five top Com- munists in Japan, is revealed, in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's re- port to Washington on pre- World War II Russian spy ring in Japan, as the person who be- trayed the ring to the Japanese just before Pearl Harbor. Art Museumn To Open New Exhibit Sunday The University Museum of Art will display for the first time Sun- day in. the three galleries of Alumni Memorial Hall the most important objects of art that it has acquired since July, 1947. These works which represent about one third of the objects acquired by the University since that time include master draw- ings, modern water colors, prints and numerous other items. OF PARTICULAR importance and interest is the collection of Japanese pirnts, the gift of Dr. Walter R. Parker of Detroit. The museum will also feature a num- ber of drawings by modern artists including Picasso, Matisse, Lucrat and Charlot. Other works include Max Beck- man's painting "Begin the Be- guine" and a Cezanne print, "The Bathers." Prof. Otto Laporte of the physics department will give a gallery talk on the Japanese prints at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27. 'October Man' Oensoday The Art Cinema League will screen "October Man," an English murder mystery with the delicate touch, at 8:30 p.m. today in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Written and produced by Eric Ambler, author of "Journey Into Fear," the film, without benefit of gore or violence, creates and sustains the mood of intense an- guish felt by a man who, accused of murder, cannot remember whether he is guilty. Starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, the J. Arthur Rank presentation will be shown through Friday and Saturday. STUDENT SUPPLIES 1 i eM,.i - the book rush by ordering your favorite novel now at . . COONS BOOK STORE Nickels Arcade I Jttention £tudent4 I A 14ou R *,qlllov ao a e, o Standard Royal Typewriters $9900 . . . VAUGHN MONROE has the answer in "MY OWN TRUE LOVE" New RCA Victor Release Here's dream-stuff that says, "Gather 'round and let's play that again!" Smooth-singing Vaughn Monroe and his Moon Maids make love really talk in this honey of a new recording. 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