THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Opthalmograph Diagnoses Reading
At the end of this semester 400 students will be able to repeat a number that they saw flashed on a screen for 1/100 of a second, says Henry P. Smith, assistant professor in the School of Education.
"Who cares," would seem to be the typical student reply. Well there's a reason for it. Utilization of the Renshaw projection method which is based upon a theory developed by Dr. Samuel Renshaw, an experimental psychologist at Ohio State university, is aiding hundreds of students each year at the University to become more adept at understanding what they read.
Dr. Renshaw's machine, called a "tachistoscope," is patterned after an ordinary slide projector. The figures can be flashed on a screen at intervals varying from 1/25 to 1/100 of a second.
In addition to the tachistoscope, the clinic employs two other machines in its training course, a reading rate controller and an "optalmograph." The latter instrument photographs the action of the student's eye while he is reading a paragraph of written material. "By this means we can diagnose the students reading habits and tell whether he reads by phrases, the desired way, or by words," Dr. Smith said. "The tachistoscope, although in an experimental stage, is designed to aid the student to read by phrases," he added.
Library Has Expanded Under Baker's Direction
C. M. Baker is the man who keeps one of the busiest places on the campus running smoothly. Mr. Baker has been the director of libraries since 1928.
A busy man behind the scenes,
Mr. Baker may be seen at his desk
year around examining stacks of
papers, talking with librarians,
surveying library departments,
and "soothing students and professors."
Under his supervision are 32
library staff members and 90 student assistants.
Library improvements have been encouraged and supervised by Mr. Baker since 1928. Florescent lighting has been installed. A $380,000 building project has added west and east wings to the library. The capacity of the stacks was increased from 120,000 to 400,000 by four floors of stacks in the east addition. The west wing includes the Green room for home economics, journalism, social work, sociology, and speech publications. The Kansas room is devoted to books and papers about Kansas and books by Kansas authors. Administrative offices also are in the west wing.
A past president of the Kansas Library association, Mr. Baker has represented the University at association conventions. He belongs also to the American Library association.
For the Kansas State Library Survey commission, Mr. Baker is assisting in preparing recommendations for the state legislature.
In 1934 Mr. Baker collected information regarding records of newspaper holdings of public and college libraries and newspaper offices throughout Kansas. The information was incorporated in the Union List of Newspapers, a volume listing U.S. libraries with newspapers on file and information about publications. The study was conducted by the Bibliographical society of America.
This quiet, reserved director, in addition to supervising departments of library work, administers all the collections of books belonging to the library, which were either received as gifts or purchased by the library.
He approves of book selections made by various departments in the University. Reference and miscellaneous books not clearly within
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the field of a University school or department are chosen by the director.
Recommendations of the annual distribution of funds for purchase of books and administering the library are presented to the Chancellor by Mr. Baker. Regulations for library management are framed by Mr. Baker and the Senate Library committee.
The "short, sharp" facts of his life furnished by Mr. Baker tell a story in themselves. Born in Boston in 1887, Mr. Baker graduated at 19 from the Roxbury Latin school. Harvard university awarded him a A.B. degree in 1910 and an A.M. in 1911. Seven years later he received a bachelor of library science from the New York State Library school.
Mr. Baker instructed in English at Syracuse university between 1913 and 1915. He was a camp librarian during the first World war for the American Library association. Before coming to K.U. as director of libraries in 1928, he was the assistant librarian at the University of North Carolina.
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The course is of 12 weeks duration and meets three times weekly in the basement of Fraser hall." Instructors are present to plan the students study program and help him over the rough spots." Dr. Smith said. "If a student has been studying two hours a week we arrange his schedule accordingly, we don't expect a student to change his habits all at once but rather by degrees."
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