At Your Door Three Fifteen Hundred Sum- Evenings a Week, 75c j mer Session Student VOL. IIL ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JULY 6. No. 5 FORMER NUMBERS ARE SURPASSED Present Summer Enrollment, 1269, Bests 1910 Record of 1235. NET TOTAL OF 1300 EXPECTED. Official count last night gave the present number of students in the Summer Session as 1269, or 135 more than the entire net enrollment of the 1911 session and 34 more than attend- ed in 1910 which heretofore has held the high-water mark of summer school enrollments. A total of 1300 students net is expected before the close of the session according to Prof. E. H. Kraus. As early as Wednesday night the mark of 1238 had been reached; with 672 in the Literary department, includ- ing graduates; 296 in the Engineering department; 101 in the Department of Medicine; 159 in the Law school; and 10 in the School of Pharmacy. The following table compares the enrollment of the 1911 and 1912 ses- sions; PROF FILIBERT ROTH, HEAD OF FORESTRY DEPARTMENT DEAN VAUGIN ilHONOREDs BY DOCTRS FTREES'TATES, With the election of officers, the session of the Northern Tri-State Medical Association, held in the rooms of the Wayne County Medical Society, was brought to a close last Tuesday afternoon. More than 15 physicians representing the highest medical and surgical talent of three states, were in attendance; and they ceose Dean Vaughan, of Michigan's Medical De- partment, to be their president. SLOW TO "TUMBLE" - TO THE HUMOROUS Professor Scott" Audienc uTakes Notes on Imaginary Congress of Letters. LECTURE WILL BE PUBLISHED. That the summer students here at Michigan take themselves and their work seriously was demonstrated by the stolidity with which Prof. F. N. Scott's humorous paper on the "Con- gress of Letters" was received by the audience collected at the West Physics lecture room, Wednesday afternoon. For at least ten minutes there was no suggestion that the audience "fell;" many were busy with their note taking and not until the dance of the Zulu chieftain did the humor of the situa- tion present itself to all. In comment- ing upon the fact Prof. Scott said that the paper had been received with equal seriousness at Vassar college-but only for a few mniutes. PROFESSOR F. N. SCOTT, 1911 Graduate School ......... 135 Literary Department .:... 470 Engineering Department.. 278 Medic Department ........ 97 Law Department ........ 139 Pharmacy School ....... 15 Total ...... . .. ....1134 1912 152 541 301 103 162 10 1269 SCIENCE AIMS TO a. UPLIFTHEREDITY Dean Vaughan Says Scientist's Phil. osophy Centers in Desire to Im. prove Physical Status. WOULD LIKEN EARTH TO HEAVEN. The West Amphitheatre of the Med- ical Building partook of the nature of an oven on Wednesday evening when Dean Vaughan talked about the Phil- osophy of the Scientist, but the dean held the undivided attention of an audience that almost entirely filled the room. His speech was an expression of his own views on his subject, and was devoid of any feeling against any religious sect or creed. Ini its entirety it was a defense of the man who devotes his life to the gathering of facts, to dealings with material things, and to the improve- ment of man's environment. It denied the supernatural in man, and argued for the effect of body upon mind, rath- er than for the effect of mind upon body. It praised the Pasteurs and the Listers, the Watts and the Fultons, the Marconis and the Edisons, for the great parts they have played in the betterment of human conditions. The doctrine of evolution according to the dean, is the keystone of the scientist's philosophy, and the belief in heredity is for him a high incentive, because these things make possible that advancement which is to lift man to a still higher civilization. Paraphrasing the Dean, one might say, "Let us be careful what we do and think and say that the heritage of our children may be better. Let us fight against ignorance because it is bad environment. Let us continue to battle with the ubiquitous germ the omnipresent menace that visits us in our drinking water eats wtih us in our boarding houses and sleeps with us in Pullman cars; for the death of the germ is the death of disease. Let us encourage the invention of ma- chines of war until they become so deadly that war will be no longer pos- .sible. Let us aid inventors in their harnessing of nature and in their im- provement of plants and animals-not forgetting that man is an animal. Fin- ally, let us do all these things because PROF. ROTH'S WORK SHOWS RESULTS, IN CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS. Another proof of the pre-eminence times in the past Michigan has at- to which Michigan's Forestry depart- tained the same distinction. ment has been brought by the remnark-caThe examination, in which Michigan mblentehasienbougts he Proemkcarried off the honors, was for the ahie efficiency of its head, Professor position of Forest Assistant in the Filibert Roth is offered by the fact Government Service. Other univer- that in the country-wide civil service sities which were represented are examinations held last March not only Yale, Harvard, and Penn State. did all but one of the- Michigan for- Prof. Roth Now En Route to Europe. estry candidates pass "with flying col- Prof. Roth sails from New York for ors" but highest mark of any man in Europe today with his family. They the country was that of Robert C. St. will visit Spain first, then France, Clair, of Berkley, Cal., a student at Germany, and perhaps England, and Michigan during the past year. For will return before college opens in four years in succession and many the fall. TRUE EFFICIENCY HAS MANY PHASES President Hutchins Declares Essen- tials to be Thoroughness, Enthus- oasm and Sympathy. The requisites of true efficiency, as s'et forth last night by President Hutchins, in his address on "The True Measure of Efficiency," are ability to master detail, familiarity with all de- partments of one's, work, vital interest and enthusiasm in the work, sane optimism, sympathy for things human and vital, thoroughness, and an intel- ledtual equipment. The president discussed briefly the application of scientific methods to business as evidenced by higher com- mercial education, also to the profes- sions, and to industry, particularly agriculture and forestry. Sane optimism was declared to be a real necessity in rising above the ob- stacles which confront one in the per- formance of one's daily duties. Of supreme importance, however, is the ability, which university graduates should possess, of being able to attain a larger and higher efficiency than that called for by their business or pro- fession. While specialization "is in the spirit of the age," President Hutchins cautioned his hearers from burying themselves within the nar- row limits of a single calling, and urged that something must be done by every citizen for the public, for hu- manity, and for the uplift of Civic standards. Hold Reception in Gymnasinm. Following the address the faculty reception to the summer students was held in Barbour gymnasium. About 300 couples attended the reception and dance which followed. NEW YORK ALUMNI TO HELP GRADUATES GET POSITIONS. Committee on Business Information Organized with E. D. Babst, '94 L, as Chairman. Following close upon the announce- ment by the Chicago Alumni Associa- tion of the establishment of an advis- ory committee for Michigan graduates who intend to make Chicago their home, comes the news that the New York alumni have taken a similar step. The Governors of the club have ap- pointed a Committee on Business In- formation, with Mr. Earl D. Babst, '94 L, as chairman. Its purpose is to bring together in a business way grad- uates of Michigan and New York busi- ness men who may desire to employ such men. It is planned to make this commit- tee much more than an employment agency. The University faculty will endeavor to furnish complete infor- mation about graduates who intend to locate in New York, and employers, whether Michigan men or not, may list their requirements with the com- mittee. The systematic working out of the plan will accomplish the pur- pose of the originators, namely the putting of specialists in places which need them. NEW NURSERY FOR FOREST RS. Department Buys Land to Grow Trees, East of Ferry Field. A purchase of about two acres of land has just been made by the de- partment of Forestry, across from Ferry Field. The plot is to be used as a nursery for trees, and for experi- ments by the classes in forestry. The present nursery is east of town, near Geddes and is difficnalt of access, causing unnecessary inconvenience in the students' work. This work con- sists mainly of producing seedlings of different forest trees and transplant- ing them in neighboring farms and they will bring nearer the time when premature death will be no more, when peace will abide with us, when every man will labor and possess in a just proportion, when Earth will be as good a Heaven as one could ask.'' PROF. ROUSE ADVISES DIRECT METHOD OF TEACHING LATIN. "Self expression is the end of all education," said Prof. W. H. D. Rouse, noted educator of Cambridge Univer- sity, in his lecture yesterday on "The Direct Method of Teaching Latin," "Grammar is too often made an end; it should be a means." Professor Rouse pointed out that a thorough knowledge of English should be the foundation of learning other languages and that a good start should be made in each one before another is taken up. The direct method re- quires the student to think the sounds of the language directly and to put them into action without the use of words. The child is made to speak before he writes just as he learns his native tongue. In continuing his talk on Latin teaching this morning Prof Rouse said that English should be excluded as much as possible, from the class room. The value of the direct method is to get the child to associate the word with the thing and to think in Latin. After four years of this method the child can understand nearly every- thing said to him. FACULTY ADVISERS APPOINTED. Foreign Students Will Have' Older Men to Guide Them. A committee of faculty advisers has just been appointed by President Hutchins for the foreign students in the University. The chairman of the committee is Prof. J. A. C. Hildner of the German department The plan has long been advocated by members of the Cosmopolitan Club of which all foreign students are members, and last March the enate Council of the faculty decided that it should be given a try-out. Already fifty-eight colleges and universities have faculty advisers for the foreign students. There are in the University over 150 students from other lands including Canada during the regular session and the majority of these continue their studies through the summer session. The members of the faculty committee besides Prof. Hildner will be announc- ed later. The plan amounts to ap- pointing older men to whom the stu- dents from abroad, perplexed by some problem in university or outside re- lations, may go for counsel. Summer Students Flock to Ypsi. Ypsilanti Normal has taken the lead of Michigan in enrolling students for summer school. There are already 1,475 students in attendance at Ypsi, and the authorities say they have no idea where the enrollment will stop. His Presentation of a Fanciful "Con. gress of Letters" is Taken Seriously. The paper is a discussion of the ultimate principles of literary critic- ism in the form of an imaginary Con- gress of Letters. For the sake of diverting the minds of the revolution- ary party the Chinese government calls a Congress of Letters to which every civilized country is to send representa' tives. Such men as Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Chesterton from England ex- pound their ideas in a humorous way; the Zulu chieftain, the American copy- write, the German scientist, also con- tribute; while the most serious ideas are put in the mouth of the minister of war from San Marino. The Con- gress breaks up with the inraid of the Chinese police, the various rep- resentatives departing after being bribed to secrecy concerning their great work. The only intimation of the momentous affair is received from the diary of one of the Chinamen who has escaped to this country and set himself up in the laundry business in Chicago. Prof. Scott's manuscript will appear in one of the current magazines. PRES B YTER IAN 'CHURCH: Communion Service, Sunday, 10:30 a. m. ADDRESS BY LEONARD A. BARRETT Students in attendance at the summer session of the University are cordially invited woodlands.