THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGEF ' _y.... 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." -Daiy-A..Ja .so SUMME-12:2 A3y A DailyiPhoto Feature Story by Peter Hotton Pictures .by Wally Barth, Carlyle Marshall, Bud -Rauner and Alan Reid. A 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 27-7 4 I -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. '4 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 Newv Courses for 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. MARRIED COLLEGE. GRADUATE VETERANS A lifetime career opportunity for two married veteran college graduates 'with one of Amer- ica's leading life insurance companies in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Muskegon. Immediate salary plus commis- sion. Earnings will equal salar- ies offered by leading national firms. Complete two-year train- ing program at our expense. Promotion when qualified. Pen- sion and Group Insurance bene- fits. 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