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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1952
PAGE SI~ THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1952
100 YEARS AGO:
Tappan BecomesFirst'U'President
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By VIRGINIA VOSS
One hundred years ago the 21st
of this month a six-foot four giant
of a man stood up' before an in-
auguration gathering and said a
few things the young University
hadn't heard before.
He was the first president of
the University, Henry Philip Tap-
pan. His inaugural speech con-
tained several hours of idealistic
philosophies of education, which
in his 11-year administration be-
came practical University poli-
cy.
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A 'COMPOSITE educator-phil-
osopher-poet, President Tappan
felt that a University should
"make it possible for every stu-
dent to study what he pleases and
to any extent he pleases."
This was a big dose for a 15-
year-old University to swallow,
but under President Tappan's
scrutiny, the institution broad-
ened itself to include the sug-
gestions its first President had
outlined in his inaugural ad-
dress.
A critical man, President Tap-
pan saw the United States lagging
in educational development and
looked to the Prussian system of
uninfied schooling with emphasis
on the top, University level for
improvement. "In creating col-
leges, we have uniformly begun
with two things-creation of dor-
mitories and a commencement ex-
hibition," he said. This was put-
ting the small before the great.
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THOUGH he was fond of ex-
pounding on education as a
"mighty affair" or "the highest
work of society," he didn't step
in the background when it came
to practical planning.
The University should, he felt,
"establish a scientific course
parallel to the classic course."
Susequently, physics, civil en-
gineering and astronomy (with
an observatory) were introduced
to an institution which had
previously known only a medi-
cal department in the scientific
field.
And about dormitories, which
thenoccupied a floor of the main
classroom buildings, President
Tappan said: "We have begun at
the wrong end-we have erected
dormitories for the night's sleep,
instead of creating libraries and
laboratories for the day's work."
That was the end of dormitories
for the time being and and be-
ginning of a library system and
research facilities for professional
schools. within the .University.
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HE HAD ideas on finances:
"Where the State begins the work,
private munificence may be ad-
mitted, if not invited to aid it";
and on women at the University:
Airport Bus
Reservations
Still Available
Students planning to fly home
for Christmas may still sign up
from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Admin-
istration Bldg. for reservations on
the Wolverine Club sponsored
buses to Willow Run Friday.
For 75 cents, a student may take
a bus from the Union at 12:15
p.m., 2:45 p.m., 4 p.m. or 5:15 p.m.
and get to the airport in time for
major flight departures. Bud Char-
lip, Spec., in charge of the project,
said two additional buses will be
run at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. if
enough students need transporta-
tion at those times.
Charlip also announced that
there will be buses from Wollow
Run returning to Ann Arbor at
8:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Jan. 4. Additional buses will be
run at 5:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and
12:30 a.m. if there is sufficient stu-
dent demand.
Hannum, LahtiI
To Seek Posts
Two more Democrats yesterday
made known their intention to
seek posts on the City Council and
County Board of Supervisors in the
April election.
Miss Frances A. Hannum, form-
er head librarian of the Ann Ar-
bor Public Library, and Uolevi L.
Lahti, director of a local research
laboratory have announced their
candidacies for the Third Ward
seats on the City Council and the
Board of Supervisors respectively.
I Events of the Week
TUESDAY-
Prof. Richard Ettinghausen, Research Professor of Islamic Art
at the University, will speak on "Great Art Monuments of Iran, Af-
ghanistan, and India" at 4:15 p.m. in Auditorium B, Angell Hall.
The Faculty Woodwind Quintet, made up of Nelson Hauenstein,
flute; Albert Luconi, clarinet; Lewis Cooper, bassoon; Lare Wardrop,
oboe; and Ted Evans, French horn, will present a recital at 8:30 p.m.
in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.
Civil Liberties Committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Union.
The Political Science Roundtable will meet at 7:45 p.m. in the
IRRADIATED PORK:
Phoenix Research May Yield
Atomic Trichinosis Control
Atomic irradiation may soon be
used as a means of controlling
trichinosis, Prof. Henry J. Gom-
berg, assistant director of the
Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Pro-
ject reported yesterday.
The results of a year long re-
search project was told to the Na-
tional Conference on Trichinosis
in Chicago.
TRICHINOSIS, a disease caus-
ed by a microscopic parasitic worm
transmitted to humans through in-
fected pork, infects about 25 per
cent of the American population.
Prof. Gomberg found that a
relatively small dosage of irrad-
iation, which could be admin-
istered at the most economical
point in the meat producing pro-
cess, sterilizes the larvae in raw
pork, thus breaking up the
"trichinosis cycle."
"Our work to date has been
strictly at the laboratory level,"
Prof. Gomberg said, "although we
hope to work out a process where-
by it may eventually be applied on
a commercial scale."
"If all pork carcasses could be
irradiated it would be possible to
eliminate the disease entirely"
he declared.
Ordinarily, larvae are killed
through cooking or freezing the
raw pork, although neither of
these processes are fool-proof.
Rackham Amphitheater.
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WEDNESDAY -
Hatcher Tea from 4-6 p.m. in the President's home.
SL. Meeting, 7:30 p.m. at the East Quad.j
First of the Jerome Lectures on the general topic, "Manpower in
the Western Roman Empire" will be given by Prof. Arthur E. R. Boak,
of the history department, who will speak on "The Population Prob-
lem in the Later Empire," at 4:15 p.m. in Rackham Amphitheater.
The University Choir, conducted by Maynard Klein, will present
a Christmas Concert at 8:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium.
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THURSDAY -
Second Jerome Lecture: roundtable discussion of "The Rural
Population," led by Prof. Arthur E. R. Boak, at 4:15 p.m. in the West
Conference Room, Rackham Bldg.
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FRIDAY -
Three movies will be presented under the auspices of the Univer-
sity Museums: "The Deer and Its Relatives," "How Nature Protects
Animals," and "Arctic Borderlands in Winter" at 7:30 p.m. in Kellogg
Auditorium.
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FORMER PRESIDENT HENRY PHILIP TAPPAN
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"If the women's rights sect tri-
umphs, we shall have a communi-
ty of defeminated women and de-
masculated men. When we at-
tempt to disturb God's order we
produge monstrosities."
But if he held equally strong
theories about the duties of the
Board of Regents ("only to
watch and guard but not to in-
terfere"), the Regents were not
of a mind to agree.
President Tappan served wine
at his dinner table in the midst
of the temperance movement; he
was ahead of his times in insist-
ing -that religious affiliations play
no part in University appoint-
ments. The Regents liked neither
of these things any better than
they liked President Tappan's un-
compromising nature.
In a move somewhere between
resignation and firing, President
Tappan left the University in
1863, but it was not long before
future Boards of Regents began
to regret the loss of this substan-
tial part of the University's
strength.
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"Manpower in the Western Ro-
man Empire" will be the title of a
series of five lectures, to be given
by Prof., Arthur E. Boak of the
history department.
"The Population Problem in the
Later Empire," the first of the
series, will be given at 4:15 p.m.
tomorrow, in the Rackham Amphi-
theater.
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AT 4:15 P.M. ON Thursday,
Prof. Boak will discuss "The Rural
Population," in the West Confer-
ence Room of the Rackham Bldg.
The speeches are part of the
Jerome Lecture Series, established
by the late Theodore S. Jerome,
an alumnus of the University.
The remaining lectures in the
series will be delivered after vaca-
tion.,
Short Circuit Calls
City Fire Trucks
A short-circuit developing in a
temporary electrical panel on the
construction site of the Kresge
Medical Research Building near
University Hospital on E. Ann St.
about 10:30 a.m. yesterday brought
four city fire trucks.
No damage was reported,
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