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Arboretum Gets Heavy Use from Spring t
) Spring
Favorte Spot for All, Sports
undergrads. To the Architec-
ture School it's a bonanza of
rolling hills and dales with
shrubs and trees and flowers all
laid out and ready to be experi-
mented on by a host of design-
ing landscape architects.
The prime, if not the most
popular purpose of the Arb is to
serve as a laboratory in which
classes in landscape design can
experiment in carving good-look-
ing forms and figures from the
woods,
Contrary to wide belief, the
Arboretum has not been the pro-
perty of the botany department
for 40 years when in 1911 botan-
ists discovered too many frost
pockets to grow plants effectively,
so they set up shop at the Univer-
sity Botanical Gardens at the end
of Packard Road.
ONLY REMNANT of the bot-
any department's day at the Arb
is a peony garden near, the U'
Hospital entrance, containing
some 360 varieties of peonies from
all parts of the world.
The Arb itself, formally
named "The Nichols Arbore-
tum," was given to the Univer-
sity in 1906 by Walter H.
Nichols, '91 and his wife, '94.
Nichols first acquired 64 acres
and grew grapes on the tract for
his living while at the Univer-
sity.
Later on, the City of Ann Ar-
bor gave a little extra 30 acres
and ever since has helped by
keeping up the roads. Just after
the war the Detroit Edison Com-
pany gave 36 acres, which is now
used by engineering and land-
scape students.
THOUGH MOST STUDENTS
might not conceive such dimen-
sions of the Arb, its measurements
are 125 acres, a mile on each side,
and 185 feet at its loftiest point
near the Geddes Entrance from
the river, which is counted as
zero.
Only sign of permanent civili-
zation is Arb Superintendent
C. I. Moody's cottage, perched
on one of the highest hills and
out of sight of prying eyes. Be-
hind the cottage is the Arb
greenhouse, used for propagat-
ing plants from sprouts collect-
ed all over the world.
Aside from designing plant
schemes and growing peonies by
the hundreds, the Arboretum has
its other uses. In the Michigan
Alumni in 1906, Prof. Frederick C.
Newcomb observed the new gar-
den, listing its attributes as:
1. Instruction in various orders
of plants.,
2. Economic collections of medi-
cinal and economic plants.
3. Scientific - "in which gene-
tic relationship is studied and ex-
perimental work is carried on."
4. "The aesthetic value to be
gained by walks among the land-
scaped gardens."
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SUMME-12:2 A3y
A DailyiPhoto Feature
Story by Peter Hotton
Pictures .by Wally Barth, Carlyle Marshall,
Bud -Rauner and Alan Reid.
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FALL, FOOTBALL AND THE
ARB--Listening into the Stan-
ford football game last October
is an enterprising group of Sig-
ma Nu men who trooped off to
the Arboretum with their wom-
en to simulate a home game as
much as possible. It was one
time the listening parties didn't
end in misery - Michigan won
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-Courtesy College of Architecture and Design
DON'T EVEN HAVE TO WALK--Winding and shaded,' the road
through the Arboretum provides a, one-way thoroughfare to casual
WINTER WONDERLAND--Believe it or not, this is the arboretum, all decked out in clean white
sheets. But students won't need them until they can get home, thaw out and sleep off their
skiing or tobogganing parties. Arboretum officials generously kept the biggest and best slope free
of trees for just such recreation.
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drivers who don't have to worry
road headed right for him. There
where the view is exquisite.
about someone ripping up the
are even 'several stop off places
CAMPAIGN JITTERS!
Senior Candidates Tense
As Election Day Nears.
With posters, telephone calls
and postcards, candidates for se-
nior class offices in literary and
engineering college have shifted
their campaigns into high gear
for the upcoming all campus elec-
tions Tuesday and Wednesday.
In. all there are 16 candidates
for the four literary college offices
and 19 seniors competing for the
SL To0 Give
Platform Data
More than 2,000 brochures con-~
tamning the qualifications and
campaign platforms of all can-
didates in next week's all-cam-
pus' elections will be distributed
among student residences today by
Student Legislature's public rela-
tions committee.
The nine-page brochures, fi-
nanced by a group of Ann Arbor'
merchants and compiled by the l
public reations committee, con-
tain a campaign statement by each
candidate and a list of every ac-
tivity in which he has participated
at the University.
Pointing out that in the past
"many students have failed to
vote because they didn't know
any of the candidates," Legis-
lator Tom Creamer, '51, said
'engineering college's four posi-
tions.
l THlE RACES FOR the presiden-
i es of the two schools are devel-
oping into particularly heated
campaigns. Each office is being
sought by three men.
' The literary college presiden-
tial campaign has Chuck Mur-
Iray, Frank Butorac and Ed Lew-
inson vying for the office. The
engineer candidates are Bob-
IBrungraber, Ned Hess and Gor-
don Saxon.
'The importance of senior class
officers is sometimes underesti-
mated," Bill Upthegrove, presi-
dent of the engineering senior
class, commented. "Actually a se-
nior officer has many jobs of con-
siderable importance to perform,
and a large turnout on election
day is a great help to any officer.
s"IT GIVES the elected man con-
,fidence in the backing of the stu-
dents he represents, when he has
carried out his campaign promises,
if he knows that a large majority
of the students participated in the
election," Upthegrove explained.
Candidates for the other senior
offices are also conducting heated
campaigns and election officials
are hoping for a record turnout.
Young Democrats
Dean Stason
To Speak in
Cooley Series
"Administrative Discretion and
Its Control" is to be the topic of
the fourth series of Thomas M.
Cooley Lectures which will be de-
livered by Dean E. Blythe Stason
of the law school, April 24 through
28.
The Cooley Lectures will deal
with the extent, control and dis-
cretion of administrative powers.
Each address will begin at 4:15
p.m. in, Rm. 150, Hutchins Hall.
Dean Stason remarked that the
lectures will be especially timely
because of the current farm aid
and health insurance bills before
Congress.
"The fourth lecture, 'Some
Foreign Experience,' is based on
my eight weeks' trip through
England. At that time 1I had a
chance to observe practices that
are connected with the subject
of the current lecture series,"
Dean Stason remarked.
By PAUL BRENTLINGER
Because his generation had
"forgotten how to think for it-
self," Hanns Stumpf, G ra d.,
founded and edited one of post-
war Germany's first student peri-
odicals.
The "Munchner Studeritzeitung"
(Students' Newspaper) was pub-
lished by Stumpf and a few other
University of Munich students to
BiisAd Alums,
Students Will
'Meet Today
Students and alumni of the
School of Business Administration
will meet today at the 20th Alum-
ni Conference in the Business Ad-
ministration Bldg.
Following registration from 9 to
9:30 a.m., two discussion sections
twill meet. Donald C. Cook, of the
Securities and Exchange Com-
mission, will speak on "The Rela-
tion of Information Objectives of
the SEC to Problems of Invest-
Sment and Capital Raising."
Prof. Clare E. Griffin, of the
economics department, will dis -
cuss business conditions assisted
[by two alumni in the second morn-
ing section.
Luncheon at the Union wil fol-
low these meetings.
Those attending the conference
will have a chance to be "stock-
reflect postwar German student
opinion both to, student and non-
student readers.
THIS OBJECTIVE presented
quite a challenge, for when
Stumpf left the German army in
1945 he found his fellow veterans
in a rather confused state of mind.
"Most of my generation had
been. taught to worship the
fatherland and to conform to
the nation's aggressive, auth-
oritarian leadership," he ex-
plained. "When the war ended
in 1945, this whole generation
lost its idols and ideas over-
night."
In an attempt to introduce some
constructive thought into this in-
telectual vacuum afflicting Ger -
man students, Stumpf and his col-
leagues began publishing the Stu-
dentzeitung.
"WE HOPED TO prevent fur-
ther glorification of militarism,
which we thought was responsi-
ble for much of Germany's diffi-
culty," Stumpf said.
Stumpf's paper was strictly
a private enterprise. "German
universities in no way support
extra-curricular activities as do
those in this country," he de-
clared.
"Students in Europe are much
more on their own than are those
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Engineering; Grads
PIONEERING GERMAN STUDENT:
Newspaper Founder Now at University
in America, in a sense. They de-
velop a great deal of individualism,
which may not be so good," Stumpf
added.
Hle commended American uni-
versities for turning out "great
numbers of fine, cooperative citi-
zens, with perhaps less emphasis
on pure scholarship." In his opin-
ion, a system meant to turn out
mere scholars "just does not work
in 20th century society."
THOUGH STUMPF had words
of praise for Ameircan college
students, he pointed out what he
considers to be a serious flaw in
university administration.
"The ingenuity and enterpri-
sing spirit of American students
demonstrates to me that stu-
dents here are willing and capa-
ble of handling their own af-
fairs, with necd for less of the
paternal care which seems to
be offered them in such liberal
quantities," lie said.
Stumpf is studying journalism
here with the aid of a Michigan
Press Club felowship. After com-
pleting a year of study here in
June, he will spend a year working
for newspapers thi'oughout the
state in journalistic interneship'
training.
With this training. Stu mpf plans
to returni to his; native Germany.
even though he said that under'
present conditions he can "make
no plans for. any sort of secure,
permanent way of living.
Organizations
Elect Officers
In recent Spring elections, the
Pre-Medical Society and Scabard
and Blade, chose officers for the
coming year.
The Pre-Meds will be headed by
John Harper, president; Walt
Pearson, vice-president; Jim Ja-
cobs, treasurer, a n d Juanita
Brown, secretary.
Elected to head the national
military honor, society, w e r e
George Boucher, '51, captain; Jack
Armstrong, '51, first lieutenant;
Don Hayden, '5iBAd, second lieu-
tenant and Paul Ross, '5iBAd,
first sergeant.
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