'AGE iSVC THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 195 AGE SIX [lIE MIC1IIGAI~I DAILY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2,1954 ONCE ON BURIAL GROUND: bStrange Monument Rieb i Standing directly east of the University Library is a weather- scarred column generally ignored by the student body. Made of limestone and set on a square base containing four plaques, the column is about thirteen feet high. The truncated shaft, a cenotaph, was erected on the University grounds over a hundred years ago. Exposed to rain and snow, the plaques on the base of the column are so worn that only a few words of the Latin inscriptions upon them can now be deciphered, among them the names of four men: Joseph Whiting, Douglas Houghton, Charles Fox, and Sam- uel Denton. Men's Lives Included The reason for the column's erection is tied up with the lives of these four men, especially Houghton and Whiting. A great many memorials have been erect- ed on the 'U' campus but few have the unusual history and back- ground of the cenotaph. Joseph Whiting, a graduate of Yale, was a Presbyterian minister and the principal of a branch of the Universityat Niles until 1841. At that time he caine to Ann Arbor and became a professor of Greek and Latin. The Board of Regents resolved that "the Executive Committee (of the Board of Regents) be author- ized to put up a monument to Prof. Whiting at an expense not: to exceed $100, and with the assent of Mrs. Whiting to cause his body to be removed to the University Burial Ground." Houghton - Geologist Three months after Whiting died, Douglas Houghton, professor of chemistry, minerology, and geology, and State Geologist of Michigan, drowned in Lake Su- perior during a violent storm. Houghton was one of the first to Education's n'U' History Foundation in the center of the campus burial ground. This was a plot of land located slightly east of the center of the campus which had been set By MARGE PIERCY aside for use as a cemetery for Michigan faculty members when "Besides United States' educa- the, cenotaph was provided for. tion having a much broader base Whiting was to have been the than in any other country, facili- first occupant, but his body was ties are also better and standards never placed there because of ob- equally as high," University Pres- jections to removing it from the ident Harlan Hatcher said Tues- family lot where it was originally day. interred. Commenting on a speech by Cemetery Use Unknown Field Marshal Viscount Mont- It is uncertain whether the lot gomery in which he compared was ever used as a cemetery-Uni- English and American systems of versity officials say that records education and criticized the ideal do not substantiate the clains that of "equality of opportunity in edu- three professors are buried there. cation," Hatcher stressed the point A plaque for Charles Fox, the that while our system gives wider University's first and only agri- opportunities to the less gifted, it culture professor, was added in has ample facilities for the bril- 1854. Originally from England, Fox liant." came to the United States at an In Montgomery's speech, which early age and became an Episcopal hedeliveredafter recei ia minister, rector of his own parish, hnorary degree from Columbia and assistant to the Bishop of University last week, the field Michigan. marshal accused the American Interested in agriculture, Fox educational system of failing the edited a farm journal. In view of intellectually able, lumping all his interests, he was appointed a boys into one common school in professor, but died a few months the .hope that the leaders will later, 39 years old. emerge from the muck." ]Final Space Filled Notes Improvement Only one space was left on the Prof. Kent W. Leach, assistant cenotaph, and upon the death of director of the Bureau of School Dr. Samuel Denton, it too was Service, noted that despite a dan- filled. Denton was a member of ger in our particular system of the medical staff from 1850 until overlooking the gifted child as well he died, 57 years old, ten years as the retarded one by sheer later. A professor of medicine and weight of numbers, he has noticed 'pathology, a member of the Uni- a steady improvement in the cali- versity's first Board of Regents, ber of teaching. and Stte Snat memerProf. Leach, whose job has led and a State Senate member. . him to vii 500 schools in the past When this final slab was set in ix yoasitfe00schaosin the pm-t Fplace the cenotaph had been six years, feels that if the im- moved to the second of the six provement he has noted in teach- places it was to occupy before it; ing technique and attitude con- was settled permanently. This was tinues, Montgomery's objections i about 165 feet north of the original will soon be completely invalid: site, the column being moved to "British Viewpoint" make room for the chemistry "A typically British point of building (now the economics- view," was the comment of Prof. pathology building). William Clark Trow of the educa- In 1869 it was moved north tional psychology department, on about 100 feet across the walk, Montgomery's charge. "It's the from the northwest corner of the opinion of those who favor educa- West Medical Building. tion of an elite group only. It's Again in 1884, it was trans- up to the people," he continued, ferred to the center of campus al- "and we don't like to think of most directly in front of the li- citizens as muck." brary where it stood until 1890. According to Prof. Stanley Di- In that year it was moved to the! mond of the School of Education, south side of the library, near the "America has never tried to de- southwest corner. Finally, in 1910, velop 'an aristocratic pattern of it was moved once more, this time education' since that would be a to its present site. denial of principles." Events Today HI r "THE TALL BRIDGE" is one of the 150 Whistler prints now on view at the Museum of Art, Alumni Hall. These lithographs and etchings were bequeathed to the University in 1936 by Mar- garet Watson Parker, and are exhibited ror the first time here. The bridge above is the old Battersea Bridge, a lithotint, drawn in 1878. Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays. The Whistler exhibit will be on view until Jan. 2. Better Culture Understanding Promoted by Language Study WHAT IS IT? discover copper in the upper pen- insula, and it was rumored that he also found gold deposits which he did not have time to make public before his death, which oc- curred when he was thirty-six. The premature deaths of both Whiting and Houghton probably account for the monument's bro- ken column which signifies a life untimely ended. Plaques commem- orating the two men were placed on the cenotaph at the same time, shortly after Houghton's death. When the monument was fin- ished early in 1846, it was placed I (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of articles explaining the new Literary College's language re- quirement and illustrating the var- ious language-training systems.) By ERNEST THEODOSSIN and SHIRLEY CROOG Speaking on the importance of languages in every day life, Ernest N. McCarus, instructor in Near Eastern languages, stressed the de- sirability of "knowing other peo- ples-and the best way to do this is through their languages." "A knowledge of a ne'w culture provides a basis of comparison for our own, leading to introspection, self-awareness and more effective citizens," he said. "Our University offers a student an excellent opportunity to become' acquainted with Near Eastern life and culture. As far as I know, it is the only university in the country. that gives classes in both colloquial and literary Arabic. SGC-SL Question Major campus organizations have organized an all-out cam- paign to equip the student body with a thorough background of knowledge for the vote between Student Government Council and Student Legislature, set Dec. 8-9. In addition there are courses in modern Persian, Assyro-Babylon- ian cuneiform, Ugaritic, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and Sanskrit." Near Eastern students have many unusual study aids. A na- tive informant, Adele Haddad, works with the Arabic class three times a week. "The students imi- tate her pronounciation and speech patterns," McCarus ex- plained. Students Interested "One advantage our department has is that our classes are small- we have eight people in the first semester Arabic class," he said. "These people have an intense interest in learning the language. They are not taking the course only to pass a requirement. Some learn the language out of aca- demic curiosity. Others need it for work in the Near Eastern field." Difficulties encountered in Ara- bic are different from those in European languages. "There is no great common body of vocabulary in English and Arabic. No Similarity McCarus explained that this lack of language similarity is com- pensated "by a relatively easy basic pattern of word structure. Once you master the structures, vocabulary building becomes very simple." II TAKE A TRIP TO OUR TOYLAND ..,See all our wonderful new games and toys and dolls! TIGER BEAR TROPHY RUG TROPHY RUG You'll like these GUND TROPHY RUGS and the things you can do with them. Hong them on the walls for decorations and a novelty collection. Lay them on the floor to warm bare feet on cold mornings. Sprawl one on the bed. 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