_ PAGE S'X THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1951 IT TAKES ALL KINDS: -:r Peeping Hawk Makes Quad His Home By JON SOBELOFF Some people keep dogs or cats or goldfish. But Clarence Hardy, '54, has a young red-tailed hawk in his South, Quad room. HARDY'S hawk has not received an enthusiastic reception from his roommate, Babe Nelson, '56E. "It makes it smell an awful lot," Nel- son explained. "Well, if you'd keep the box clean-," Hardy answered. The as yet featherless two-week-old bird is being kept in a cardboard box on Hardy's bookcase. "The only sound it makes is the slight peep of a chick," Hardy main- tained in a hurt tone. "Yea, you can hear it four rooms away," Nelson countered. The bird was meanwhile regularly emitting a monotonous peep of moderate volume. The hawk was a gift from Marv- in Leech,. '55A, who lives down the hall from Hardy. Leech was shoot- ing chicken hawks for a Brighton farmer last week, when he potted one adult bird whose nest was 125 feet up a tree. SCALING the tree, Leech dropped two baby red-tailed hawks in his knotted coat sleeves and climbed down. He presented one to a natural resources student and the other to Hardy. Zoology major Haray, a past president of the Botany Club, also received a hawk egg from Leech. An attempt to hatch the Plays Scheduled Three plays, an opera and a musical comedy Will be presented by the speech department during the coming session. The first, Jean Giraudoux's comedy, "The Madwoman of Cha- Mlot," will be given from July 1-4. Maxwell Anderson's and Kurt Weil's musical, "Knickerbocker Holiday," July 8-11; Clifford Odets' drama, "The Country Girl," July 22-25;'G. B. Shaw's "Pygma- lion," July 29-Aug. 1; and Jacques Offenbach's opera, "The Tales of Hoffman" will conclude the series on Aug. 6-10. > 1 KoreanArt on Display In Lane Hall, Bong Yol Yang. Grad., whose paintings have been exhibited in New York's Creative Gallery, the University of Miami Art Gallery,' and several national displays, is currently exhibiting a selection of his paintings in the lobby of Lane Hall. Scheduled to continue through June 10, the display is sponsored by the International Center and includes vibrantly colored oils, etchings, and lithographs. Although Yang's earlier style was realistic, he now paints, he said, "from imagination and recollec- tion." Born in Korea, Yang lived in Tokyo and came to the United States in 1948 to enroll in the Uni- versity of Miama, from which he graduated last year. The Lane Hall exhibition is open to the public. U' Extension Courses Set The University will offer 10 six- week extension courses this sum- mer at Grand Rapids, Flint and Traverse City. The classes, which will be given for graduate and undergraduate credit, will begin June 22. Univer- sity students who wish to enroll in any of the courses are requested to get approval from their academ- ic advisers before they leave Ann Arbor. The courses include Geography of South America, Geography for Teachers, Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary School and Im- provement of High School Teach- ing, to be given in Grand Rapids; Roosevelt to Roosevelt, Michigan DEVELOPS BLOOD TEST: Kahn Wins Student, World Praises . By FRAN SHELDON Prof. Reuben L. Kahn of the medical school is a "lucky guy." World famous in the field of medicine as a result ofhhis devel- opment of the Kahn Test, "a sim- ple technique for the detection of syphilis," Prof. Kahn who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1887, came to the United States with his parents when he was'twelve. QUIET, modest and intensely interested in young people, Prof. Kahn posses an inexhaustable vitality and interest in life. Claiming that he did his un- dergraduate work at a "poor man's college -Valparaiso Uni- versity in Indiana," Prof. Kahn points out that he made up for this by doing his graduate stud- ies at Yale. "I was a dull student," he insists, citing mathematics and physics as his areas of greatest difficulty. "I really enjoyed literature, though," he said, "and going from a class in mathematics to a liter- ature class was like -entering a new world entirely. OH, I PASSED most of my ex- ams-but I had to take physics twice. My instructor was a sympa- thetic man though, and the sec- ond time he gave me an 'A.' "It was encouraging to to me to know that Ralph Waldo Em- erson had trouble with math too. He did, you know." A world traveler, Prof. Kahn said, "Everything was always fi- nanced for me. Don't you think I'm a lucky guy?" Organizations rang- ing from the League of Nations to various medical associations have sent him on tours throughout most of the civilized world. To date, Prof. Kahn has written six books on blood serology. Sever- al of them have been translated into foreign languages. * * * OBSERVING that he had "lost the Russian translation which was done 25 years ago," he said that it had been done without his okay. "The country was already under Communist rule," he said. The walls of the Kahn labora- tory in the University Hospital are lined with hundreds of med- ical journals, many of which contain the more than 200 ar- ticles written by the scientist. Kahn who is ashamed to admit he hasn't "had much time for hob- bies" is well known by the many students on campus in whom he takes a very active personal inter- est. His reason for this interest, he says is "a selfish one. My wife and I both enjoy young people and being with them." "Besides," he will tell you, "young people need all the sup- port we can give in a world where there are so many problems to solve. We older folks have really messed things up, and the real hope now lies in youth and in the future. It's quite a problem to be young today," he concluded. THE MAJOR interest of Prof. Kahn and his staff at the present time is a study of "blood patterns of universal reactions in different ethnic (an anthropoligst's word for population) groups." The single achievement in which Prof. Kahn takes the greatest personal pride occurred when in May, 1952 he received a letter from "a group of Polish scientists requesting me to use my influence to stop the Unit- ed States from engaging in bac- teria warfare." Prof. Kahn notified the State Department and was told to an- swer the letter in any way he saw fit. "So instead of answering their accusation, I raised ten questions for these men-questions not eas- ily answerable by Communist fol- lowers." In explaining why he chose this means of answering, Dr. Kahn said, "I heard nothing more from any of them. I guess'the reason for this was because the outstanding feature of my reply was that I didn't scold, I reasoned with them," he concluded. Let us help select your' GRADUATION GIFTS Jjtc 116 Jeweli JEWELRY REPAIR DIAMOND SETTING 347 Maynard-off William "When your timepiece goes bad -Bring it to McNab." 4 1 4S 4. I -Daily-Don Campbell IT'S A BIRD-Clarence Hardy's baby red-tailed hawk grabs for a bit of raw hamburger. * * * * * * egg under a study lamp proved i Hardy's house mother's refriger unsuccessful. ator, and fortified with cod-liv The young bird will be ready to oil, eggs and high protein foods lik fly in about a month. Hardy has beef heart which is "cheaper tha been studying books on falconry, steak," Hardy pointed out. and plans to train his hawk to hunt small game this summer. Fries To Address "Be kind and make sure the Linguistics Club bird knows its food comes from you," Hardy advised potential prof Charles C. Fries of th bird trainers. English department will discu When mature, the red-tailed "Meaning and Linguistic Analy hawk will have a three to four sis" at A meeting of the Linguis foot wingspan, and will be able to tics Club at 8 p.m. tomorrow i catch rabbits and retrieve them the East Conference Rm., Rack for its owner. ham Bldg. At present, the hawk is living on The meeting will be open to th a diet of raw hamburger, kept in public. r- er ke in he tss a y- !s- n Since 1827, Major Major Ameri- - can Writers and Practical Criti-' cisc, to be given in Flint; and Mod- e ern Drama and The Novel Since 1850 at Traverse City. -Daily-Don Campbell PROF. KAHN, blood serologist, and discoverer of the Kahn test, says he studied at a poor man's college before entering Yale. 41 Home Run BY TRAIN! X~ 1 IT'S A HIT I The fun of a train trip home with friends ... enjoying roomy comfort and swell dining-car meals. 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