CRE TD ae é EI © PRBS SORRY Vereen, CH eae ’ ; dume 10, 1939. wpa - ye | : it Hh as ii ey fil i He a i it i i Ha a 8 A al as HG Very truly yours, Ve We Lapp October 29, 1936 B. Be Stouffer, Dean Ootober 27, 1938 Seee tsi ae hoes vio eng ‘a a “kg Be eas aa yi Be: Sag oes eh shoe ‘ a an aa Fi aa . Ay ea 4 y a “Sea aes we eh & RESEARCH NEWS The University of Southern California GRADUATE SCHOOL Rocxwe.u D. Hunt, Editor Vor. IV LOS ANGELES, MAY, 1939 No. 3 - RESEARCH IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION Research in the field of physical education has taken on increasing importance in recent years, as physical education has become more fully accepted in the educational family. Wider recognition is being given to the fact that proper physical development and continual physical adjustment of the individual can have a vital bearing not only upon his physical health, but perhaps even more profoundly upon his mental-emotional and social health and well-being. Research in this field, accordingly, is coming to deal more and more with broad fields of subject matter, general teach- ing techniques, teacher training, tests and measurements, and administration, as these affect the physical, mental, and so- cial welfare of the child. Since physical activity of necessity produces a profound effect upon the life pattern of the child, it is essential that subject matter fields for such activity be carefully selected, and be presented in terms of child needs and interests. i Among significant investigations of this problem is that conducted by the National Curriculum Research Committee of the College Physical Education Association. For the past ten years, this committee has made a nation-wide study of the selection, organization, and administration of the subject matter in the field of physical education, assisted by thou- sands of leading teachers and administrators. Annual reports have appeared in the Proceedings of the society and have been republished in the Research Quarterly. In 1937, a con- densed manual, entitled The Physical Education Curricu- lum, A National Program, presented the results of the pre- ceding nine years of research. A revised and enlarged edition appearing in 1938 included objective score cards for rating the programs in elementary and secondary schools. The manual serves as a basis for revision in courses of study in many cities and states and as a text in teacher-training courses dealing with curriculum and administration. The score cards are in use for the objective rating of schools in several state-wide surveys sponsored by the respective state superintendents of education under the supervision of the writer. Upon the completion of these surveys, the records of the various schools will be filed in the office of the state superintendent. A number of city and county superintendents are also conducting ratings of their schools under this pro- gram. The Curriculum Research Committee is continuing its studies with the hope that ultimately a thoroughly uni- form core curriculum in physical education may be estab- lished in all states. WILLIAM RatpH LA PorTE INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT The eleventh annual Institute of Government, under the general direction of Emery E. Olson, dean of the School of Government, will be held June 12 to 16, 1939. This in- tensive course of study, developed in thirty-seven sections by lecture and discussion, is professional in attitude and spirit and has as its aim the creation of high standards in the rapidly developing profession of governmental service and, more specifically, the furnishing of inspiration and informa- tion to persons engaged in public administration. To pro- vide leadership the committees in the various fields have selected authorities who represent the best minds in govern- mental service, and annotated bibliographies for each section will be prepared by experienced librarians. Faculty members who will act as section leaders include Shelden D. Elliott, associate 'professor of law; John M. Pfiffner, professor of government; and W. Ballentine Henley, John McDiarmid, and Carlton C. Rodee, members of the staff in public ad- ministration and political science. WOMEN’S CIVIC CONFERENCE The ninth annual Women’s Civic Conference, a study program arranged through the co-operative efforts of women’s organizations in southern California and sponsored by the School of Government, was held on March 29 under the general chairmanship of Mrs. Arthur J. White. The conference theme, “Democracy versus Dictatorship,” was based on court trial patterns, in which there were forty- four participants, representing state and local government, the Board of Education, Parent-Teacher Association groups, and members of the faculties of six colleges and universities. With Judge Turney Fox of the Juvenile Court presiding, current governmental problems were presented. The afternoon was devoted to public hearings of the court on the topics: “How to Assure Vigor and Efficiency Through Political and Organizational Reforms”; “How to Insure Intelligence and Integrity in Public Office”; “How Rationalization, Prejudice, Emotion, and Reason Affect Citizen Decisions”; and “How to Assure Democracy through Home and School.” The University was repre- sented on this program by President R. B. von KleinSmid; Alan Nichols (speech) ; Stanley Howell (law) ; Carlton C. Rodee (public administration and political science) ; John M. Pfiffner (government); Shelden D. Elliott (law) ; William H. Burton (education) ; Merritt M. Thompson (education); Frank H. Jonas (political science); and Nancy Holme (Associated Students). 2 RESEARCH NEWS RESEARCH NEWS 6. THREE NEW TREMATODES FROM THE GALAPAGOS Published bimonthly under the auspices of the tice re oe GRADUATE SCHOOL 7. EIGHT NEW SPECIES OF GOBIOID FISHES FROM THE THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN PACIFIC COAST, Isaac Ginspurc. 1938. Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 8. LAND AND BRACKISH, WATER MOLLUSCA OF COCOS aces ISLAND, G. DaLLas HANNA and Leo Georce HERTLEIN. 1938. Editorial Staff J 9. NEMATODE PARASITES OF THE GALAPAGOS LAND Rockwell D. Hunt ee eee eee E ditor IGUANA, Asuton C. CuckLer. (Plates 13-15.) 1938. Welcome A. Tilroe........--------------------eoonoeo Assistant Editor 19 4 NEW SPECIES OF NYCTERIBIIDAE (D1rTerA Advisory Editorial Board PupipaRA) FROM ISLANDS IN THE GULF OF CALI- Emory S. Bogardus Milton Metfessel FORNIA, Hucu Scorr. (Plate 16.) 1939. Harry J. Deuel, Jr. Lawrence M. Riddle 11. A REMARKABLE NEW GENUS OF SEA-URCHIN eee ee ore Shey e eae (SPATANGIDAE), Hupert LYMAN CLARK. (Plate 17.) 1939. 12. MARINE MOLLUSKS FROM PANAMA COLLECTED BY VoL. IV MAY, 1939 No. 3 THE ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDITION TO THE GALA- ALLAN HANCOCK FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH The floating marine laboratory, Velero III, recently pre- 1. sented to the University by Captain Allan Hancock as a companion gift to the Allan Hancock Foundation for Scien- tific Research, is now on her eighth major cruise in equa- torial waters of the eastern Pacific, which will take her for the first time into Atlantic waters. With Captain Hancock , as director of the expedition, collections of flora and fauna will be sought along the coasts of Mexico, Central America, South America (particularly Venezuela), and in the waters 4. of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Darien. Participating in this search for rare specimens are Dr. Waldo Schmitt, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum; Dr. William Randolph Taylor, department of botany, University of Michigan; Dr. Harry M. Wegeforth, president of the San Diego Zoological So- ciety; C. B. Perkins, herptologist of the San Diego Zoo; Karl Koch, ornithologist, San Diego Zoo. Research Asso- ciates from The Allan Hancock Foundation of The Uni- 2, versity of Southern California include Granville Ashcraft, Francis Elmore, John Garth, L. Hogan, Alex Hill, Anker Peterson, Charles Wade, and Fred Ziesenhenne. 3. Within the next month the following reports of the scien- tific results of these expeditions will be ready for distri- bution. i VoLUME Two A NEW BRITTLE STAR FROM THE GALAPAGOS IS- LANDS, FRepD ZIESENHENNE. (Plate 1.) 1935. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW BLENNIOID FISH OF THE GENUS Acanthemblemaria FROM THE PACIFIC COAST 2. OF PANAMA, Georce S. Meyers and Earu D. Rep. 1936. A NEW GENUS OF DISTOMES (Trematoda) WITH LYMPHATIC VESSELS, H. W. Manrter. (Plate 2.) 1937. PARASITIC COPEPODS TAKEN DURING THE THIRD 1. HANCOCK EXPEDITION TO THE GALAPAGOS IS- LANDS, CuHarLes BRANCH WItson. (Plate 3.) 1937. SOME MONOGENETIC TREMATODES FROM THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS AND THE NEIGHBORING 3, PACIFIC, Frank G. Meserve. (Plates 4-10.) 1938. PAGOS ISLANDS, 1931-1932, A. M. Stronc and Leo GEORGE HERTLEIN. (Plates 18-23.) 1939. VoLUME THREE MOSSES OF THE G. ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDITION OF 1934, COLLECTED BY WM. R. TAYLOR, WILLIAM CAMPBELL STEERE. (Plate 1.) 1936. MYXOPHYCEAE OF THE G. ALLAN HANCOCK EXPE- DITION OF 1934, COLLECTED BY WM. R. TAYLOR, FrANcIS Drovet. (Plates 2 and 3.) 1936. LICHENS OF THE G. ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDITION OF 1934, COLLECTED BY WM. R. TAYLOR, Carro.i WILLIAM Dopce. 1936. PLANKTON DIATOMS OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA OBTAINED BY THE G. ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDI- TION OF 1936, W. E. ALLEN. 1937. PLANKTON DIATOMS OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA OBTAINED BY ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDI- TION OF 1937, E. E. Cupp and W. E. ALLen. (Plates 4-15.) 1938. VOLUME Four HYDROIDS OF THE 1934 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITION, C. McLean Fraser. (Plates 1-15.) 1938. HYDROIDS OF THE 1936 AND 1937 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS, C. McLean Fraser. (Plates 16-18.) 1938. HYDROIDS OF THE 1932, 1933, 1935, and 1938 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS, C. McLEAn FRASER. (Plates 19-21.) 1938. DISTRIBUTION OF THE HYDROIDS IN THE COLLEC- TIONS OF THE ALLAN HANCOCK EXPEDITIONS, C. McLEAN FRASER. 1939. VOLUME FIve THREE NEW ANOMURAN CRABS FROM THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA, Steve A. GLASsELL. 1938. NEW BRACHYURAN CRABS FROM THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, JouHn S. GartH. (Plates 1-10.) 1939. VoLUME SIx A REPORT ON SOME ARENACEOUS FORAMINIFERA, JosepH A. CUSHMAN and IRENE McCuttocn. (Plates 1-12.) 1939. VoLUME SEVEN POLYCHAETOUS ANNELIDS, Part 1. APHRODITIDAE TO PISIONIDAE, OtcA Hartman. (Plates 1-30.) 1939. RESEARCH NEWS 3 NOTES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH At two recent meetings of the Philological Association of the University, papers of unusual interest were presented by staff members of the department of English language and literature. Dr. Eleazer Lecky presented an analysis of the critical theory of I. A. Richards, and Dr. Garland Greever reported on the manuscripts of Sidney Lanier, one of the lines of research in which he has been engaged during his recent sabbatical leave. H. W. Hill, professor of English language and literature and University Editor, who was also on sabbatical leave during the first semester of the current academic year, visited England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium with the object of studying the Renaissance movement in these countries as reflected in their art and literature. Recent publications by William H. Davenport, assistant professor of English language and literature, include “An Uncollected Poem by George Crabbe,” in Notes and Queries (London), Vol. 175, No. 27 (1938); and “Shelley and the British Government,” in Notes and Queries, Vol. 176, No. 2 (1939). Doctor Davenport discussed “Shelley as a Political Reformer” in the University Lecture Series, April 12, 1939. Dr. Quicksilver, a biography of Charles Lever by Lionel Stevenson, professor of English language and litera- ture, was published in London, January 30, and was re- viewed in the London Times Literary Supplement of Feb- ruary 4, 1939. A Canadian edition of Doctor Stevenson’s book has also appeared. John Edgar Berry, candidate for the A.M. degree in English, has just been awarded the James D. Phelan Fel- lowship in Literature for the coming year in recognition of the promise he has shown in creative writing. Mr. Berry, who has published poetry in Lyric and First the Blade and has won several prizes in poetry, including the Teague prize for 1937, received this latest award on the basis of a portion of his narrative poem entitled “The Exorcists.” William White, graduate student in English, has recently published “Fifteen Years of Shelley Scholarship: A Bibliography, 1923-1938,” English Studies (Amsterdam), Vol. XXI (1939), pp. 8-11; “Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler,” American Literature (1939) ; “Samuel Richardson: Idealist or Realist?” Modern Language Review (London), (April, 1939) ; “Osler on Shakespeare, Bacon, and Burton,” Bulle- tin of the History of Medicine (April, 1939). EXPERIMENTS IN SPEECH TECHNIQUES During the summer of 1938, a co-operative study, which involved the use of certain speech techniques in nonspeech subjects such as English and the social sciences, was begun in selected high schools of Detroit by Preston H. Scott, head of the department of speech at Wayne University, and Ray K. Immel, dean of the School of Speech of The Uni- versity of Southern California, who was a member of the summer session faculty at Wayne University. The results proved so interesting that these educators projected and initiated an experimental study of speech techniques, es- pecially dramatizations and group discussion setups, in the elementary and intermediate grades, which is still in prog- ress. Dean Immel, during the first semester of 1938-1939, visited many colleges and universities of the Middle East and West and made a study of their various curricular and extracurricular programs in radio, dramatics, and speech correction. He found that instruction and practice in the several fields of radio, the university theater as an educa- tional enterprise, and speech correction techniques are all showing steady development in the majority of larger insti- tutions. Dean Immel also delivered addresses before the Wisconsin State Teachers’ Association and at the universi- ties of Wisconsin, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio Wesleyan, and Syracuse. VOCATIONAL PLACEMENT CONFERENCE Under the general chairmanship of President R. B. von KleinSmid, the annual Vocational Placement Conference was held on the campus, March 14, with W. Ballentine Henley, assistant professor of public administration and di- rector of co-ordination, as conference co-ordinator and Mulvey White, director of the Bureau of Employment and assistant to the Counselor of Men, as program chairman. Supported by a selected group of Los Angeles business and professional leaders, seventeen panel discussions on diversi- fied vocations were conducted. Faculty members of the sev- eral departments of the University presided over these dis- cussions: Frederick Woodbridge (accounting), Reid L. McClung (advertising, marketing, and retailing), Clayton M. Baldwin (architecture), Earl W. Hill (aviation and transportation), Harry J. Jordan (banking and finance), Thurston H. Ross (business management), Robert E. Vivian (chemical engineering), Robert M. Fox (civil engi- neering), Philip S. Biegler (electrical engineering), John M. Pfiffner (government), William G. Hale (law), Thomas T.. Eyre (mechanical engineering), John F. Dodge (petroleum engineering and geology), Laird J. Stabler (pharmacy), Richard E. Huddleston (radio), and E. G. Blackstone (secretarial administration). AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS The University of Southern California was represented by Osman R. Hull and William H. Burton, professors of education, at the sixty-ninth annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators, which con- vened in Cleveland, Ohio, February 25 to March 2. Both Doctor Hull and Doctor Burton conducted discussion groups at the convention, which had as its general theme, “The Foundations of American Education.” Doctor Burton gave an address on “Supervision Which Improves Learn- ing,’ and Doctor Hull spoke on ‘“What Can Be Done with Old Buildings.” 4 RESEARCH NEWS Personal Mention Reprinted from the Romanic Review, February, 1939, is a Dante note by Herbert D. Austin, professor of Italian and French, on “Storpio” (Purg., XXV, 1). In a recent issue of the Science of Mind, Hans Nordewin von Koerber, professor of Asiatic studies and director of the Foundation of Asiatic Studies, has an article on “Lao Tzu and China.” Olga Hartman, research zoologist of the Allan Hancock Founda- tion for Scientific Research, has been awarded the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship by the American Association of University Women. Charles F. Lindsley, Ph.D. 1932, head of the department of speech at Occidental College, has been appointed to honorary mem-. bership on the Advisory Council of the Association of Teachers of Speech of Southern California. Thomas Clements, head of the department of geology, who is at present on sabbatical leave, has been commissioned by the Colom- bian government to make geological surveys in the eastern range of the Andes. At a meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, held at Whittier College, March 4, 1939, Franklin R. Butter, Jr., instruc- tor in mathematics, presented a paper on “A Note on a Certain Exponential Equation.” George B. Mangold, professor of social work, has been appointed chairman of the Los Angeles County Probation Commission, which has charge of Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a home for delinquent boys, and El Retiro, San Fernando, a similar institution for girls. Alastair M. Taylor, teaching assistant in general studies, has an article on “The Historical Novel as a Source of History,” in a recent number of the Sewanee Review. Mr. Taylor is president of the Associated Graduate Students of the University. George R. Johnstone, professor of botany, has an article on “Sodium Hypochlorite for Poison Oak, Poison Ivy, or Poison Sumac,” in The American Biology Teacher, Vol. I (1939), No. 4, pp. 77-8. Doctor Johnstone has recently been appointed to the board of directors of The Southern California Botanists. Gregory Mason, Ph.D. 1938, a member of the faculty of New York University, is the author of Remember the Maine, a new his- tory of the Spanish-American War. An earlier book by Doctor Mason, dealing largely with archaeological materials, is entitled Columbus Came Late. J. Eugene Harley, head of the department of political science, is co-author of Contemporary World Problems, a textbook for use in the field of international relations and related subjects. This volume of some 800 pages is edited by Francis J. Brown, Charles Hodges, and Joseph S. Roucek of New York University. Southern California Business Review for February, 1939, is de- voted to a study of “Governmental Taxation of Business,” pre- pared by Rex Ragan, assistant professor of accounting and taxa- tion. The study offers a number of constructive criticisms against the Federal Revenue System and its actual administration. Karl Olsen, A.M. 1936, who has held a fellowship in political science at Yale University for the past two years, has been awarded one of the seven fellowships given by the Lady Julia Henry Fund for advanced study in England, which includes a year’s study at Cambridge University. Samuel E. Gates, A.M. 1929, Law ’33, has been appointed acting chief of the new international division of the Civil Aeronautics Authority at Washington, D.C. Mr. Gates was awarded the Car- negie Foundation fellowship for international law in 1930, and received a degree in international law from the University of Paris. Four advanced students of botany under the direction of George R. Johnstone presented the program for the February, 1939, meet- ing of the Metropolitan Aquarium Society. Earl D. Gowin, 1939, spoke on the culture of blue-green algae in filtered light; Fenton Feeney, A.B. 1938, on red algae and their uses; Francis Elmore, M.S. 1936, and Charles Herbst, M.S. 1933, on the difficulties en- countered in maintaining a balanced water aquarium. On the comprehensive program of the International Association of Microbiologists, whose third congress will be held in New York City, September, 1939, the University will be represented by John F. Kessel, Anson P. S. Hoyt, and Carl Lindegren of the department of bacteriology. Doctor Kessel is a corresponding member of the sections on Viruses and Viral Diseases, Medical and Veterinary Bacteriology, and Fungi and Fungous Diseases. Carl Sumner Knopf, dean of the School of Religion, addressed groups in Bishop and Bakersfield, March 2 and 3, on “Democracy and Religion.” From March 28 to April 4, Doctor Knopf conducted a community series of lectures and discussions in Tucson, Arizona, before representative groups in the University of Arizona, local service clubs, and churches, with the purpose of promoting the religious factor in varied community interests. Ernest W. Tiegs, dean of University College and professor of education, is serving as consultant to the College of Medical Evangelists in the study of diagnostic and comprehensive exami- nations and marking practices. This progressive medical college is investigating the desirability of establishing a unified examination system for all departments in order to improve the validity and comparability of final course marks. Clinton H. Thienes, professor of pharmacology in the School of Medicine, has just published 4 Field Manual in Toxicology at the request of the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commission. This volume, which is the result of two years’ research, is intended as an aid to persons subjected to sprays and other poisons in agri- cultural pursuits. The manual is now in use by the California State Department of Agriculture and by experts in the Federal Service. Rockwell D. Hunt, dean of the Graduate School, and Emory S. Bogardus, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, are making a three months’ goodwill tour to South America, where they will visit universities and major points of interest in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and the Canal Zone. Dean Hunt is collecting data on economic and political problems in Latin-American coun- tries, and Doctor Bogardus is making a special study of racial problems. “Co-operative Research Within the Faculty” is the title of a paper presented by Reid L. McClung, dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, before the twentieth annual meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, held at the University of Illinois. In this paper, which appears in the Proceedings of the Association, Dean McClung pleads for “thorough co-operative research for the study of specific human and business problems.” With Ira L. Wiggins of the Botanical Society of America, Dr. Howard de Forest is engaged in arranging a joint symposium of this organization and the Ecological Society of America, to be held at the June, 1939, meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Stanford University. The subject of this symposium will be “Recent Contributions of Botany and Ecology to Society.” Dr. de Forest is chairman of the executive committee of the western section of the Ecological Society. Reprinted from Food Research, Vol. 3, No. 4 (1938), is an article on “Bactericidal Activity of Crotonaldehyde” by Robert L. Inger- soll, Bernard Scott, and Carl C. Lindegren of the department of bacteriology and Richard E. Vollrath of the department of physics. Other publications from this department include ‘Physiological Effects of Garlic and Derived Substances” by Maxwell Carl, Robert McKnight, Bernard Scott, and Carl C. Lindegren in The American Journal of Hygiene, Vol. 29, No. 1, Sec. B, pp. 32-35 (1939) ; and “Non-Random Crossing Over in the Second Chromo- some of Neurospora Crassa’ by Carl C. Lindegren and Gertrude Lindegren in Genetics, Vol. XXIV (1939), pp. 1-7.