UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Herbert Hoover Says Latin and Greek Are Of Great Importance
Conference of Celebrities A Princeton Declares In Favor Of Classics
To slay the ghost of "dead" Latin that often arises in this commercial age, a group of representative men from all lines met in a conference at Princeton last summer. Business men, professors, ministers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists, editors, authors, artists, statements—for thinking that Latin is not and ever will be dead.
"Latin and Greek aid more in clearness of thinking than perhaps any other subject," said Herbert Hoover, food administrator. He didn't allow enough time from his all-absorbing job to emphasize the importance of the classical languages.
Taft, Roosevelt, and Harvey Wiley agreed with Alfred Noyes when he said, "they speak of 'dead' languor when they are living literature."
Champ Clark pointed out that most people misunderstood the Latin enthusiasts insisted upon it as a foundation. "They do not mean that Latin is all-sufficient, but essential to anything further."
editors, such as Charles R. Miller of the New York Times, Edward P. Mitchell of the Sun, and Robert Lincoln O'Brien editor of the Boston Journal, expected to be successful reporters to learn their mother language, Latin.
"There is only one way to gain a clear and sure sense of the just word in English and that is by knowing Latin and Greek," they said.
Statistics issued at the conference show that the classical students in school and college succeed better in taking tests than non-classical students do.
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Miss Evelyn Hoyle entertained with a one clock luncheon Saturday for fourteen of her most intimate friends. A color scheme of pink and white was carried out, and clever rose place cards announced Miss Strong's engagement to Mr. P. W. Clasman, Mr. Clausen was assigned professor of emolomy in K. U. law years and Cornell as instructor in entomology.
Boarding Clubs
Miss Helen Trovillo, '19, and Mr. Woodman Gibson, c'18, were married today in Chicago. Miss Trovillos' home was formerly in Lawrence and she attended K. U. in 1915, but for two years she studied at Ohio University. Mr. Gibson attended K. U., and was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. They will live in Lawrence.
The Ramblers' Club, 1345 Tennessee night-from given until eight o'clock.
The Stevenson Club will entertain with a post-Halloween party tomorrow night at the house, 1343 Kentucky Street.
Westminster Party
Friday evening of next week the four morning classes in the school of religion will give a party at Westminster Hall. It will be a book party, the guests being dressed to represent the title and action of various books.
Kanza Dance Postnoned
Kanza Dance Postponed
The Kanza Club has postponed its
dance season which was to have been given November 23, since this date conflicted with the Soph Hop.
Dances
Acacia will give its annual homecoming party Friday, November 16, at Eaton Hall.
Fraternity Notes
The Kanzas will be at home to the Alpha Xi Deltas Tuesday from 7 to 8.
M. W. Vaughn, c16, manager of the Kansas City bureau of the United Press, was guest at the Kanza house Sunday.
Rebecca Cooper's mother, Mrs. S.
Cooper, spent Friday and
midday with her
Mrs. George Dimond of Wichita
Spencer Perdue and Saturdine with her
wherbal medicine, who is a member of
the Eggplant Society.
Edna Willman, c'17, is teaching in Pratt this winter. She has classes in German, Spanish and Modern Hispanic. Edna will be very busy and likes her work fine.
Addie Underwood, c15, is teaching in South Bellingham, Washington. The last two years she taught in Lawrence schools.
Fine Arts Recital
A recital will be given at 8:15 o'clock in Fraser next Tuesday night, by the faculty of the school of Fine Arts. Prof. Wm. B. Downing, and Prof. Frank E. Kendrie, violinist will make up the program.
Coal Mines In Vicinity Could Be Opened Again
There are coal mines within a few miles of Lawrence says Dr. E, H. S. Bailey, fuel administrator at the state mine in connection with vantage in a creature like the present.
One of the mines is located near Deercreek, about twelve miles west of here, and the other at Sibley five miles south. The coal in these mines is soft and resembles the Wyoming coal in fuel qualities.
A number of years ago the farmers around Lawrence furnished most of the coal for the city says Mr. Bailey. If the present fuel conditions are improved, Lawrence more ants may again be burning Douglas county coal.
Rare Thayer Collection
Lies Waiting In Boxes
Collection Contains Paintings Antiques, and Carvings From Many Parts of World
Stored on the top floor of the Administration Building is a 150,000 dollar collection of paintings, antiques, and Oriental work. This collection was given to the University by Mrs. W. B. Thayer of Kansas City,
Mrs. Thayer has personally collected every article given. If the collection is not exhibited within three years it is to be returned to her. At present it lies in dry goods boxes behind closed doors.
In this collection there are three Winslow Homer paintings, one in oil and two in water color. Winslow Homer is the artist of the best American artists of today.
There are antique cabinets, high boys, a lantern made in Paul Revere's shop, a silver bowl which belonged to George Washington's mother, and numerous other things of historic interest.
One entire cabinet is filled with small' pieces of Oriental art, carvings in ivory, combs, gods, Chinese lacquer, and pieces of rare embroidery. Another cabinet contains glass ware and crystals, examples of Venetian antiquities. That material gave a collection of 12,000 books, mostly on art and artists. Prof. W. A. Griffith has charge of this collection.
Entomologists Met
The Entomology club met Wednesday at 3 o'clock to conform with the new schedule. C. P. Alexander, assistant curator of the entomological museum, gave an address on the "Beginnings of Systematic Biology." This is the first of a series of talks to accomplish the mission of entomology as a science. Last week Prof. S. J. Hunter spoke to the club regarding the connections of entomological staffs with the food conservation movement.
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Former K. U. Professor Directs Intelligence Tests for Army Men
Tests to determine the intelligence of men in army camps are described by Lieut. W. S. Hunter, formerly professor of psychology at the University, now stationed at Camp Lee, VN., in a letter to Dean Deln Templin. G. Paterson, instructor in psychology, standardizing these tests last summer.
Lieut. W. S. Hunter Now Stationed at Camp Lee, Va., Writes of Work
This work is an epocalh event in science, according to Mr. Hunter. It is being carried on in four National Army camps and will soon be extended to all of them. Forty psychologists are employed in it.
Mr. Hunter said in his letter: "Our problem is to make an objective diagnosis of the general mental ability of each officer and soldier in the 80th Battalion of the National In order to accomplish this it was first necessary to devise a series of tests that could be validly applied to large groups of soldiers and that would serve to pick out the various grades of mental ability.
"There are ten tests in all. Each one has from ten to forty parts. Grades are based upon accuracy and quantity of work. The general mental capacity is largely independent of environment and is completely developed about the age of 16. Younger students than the older one. This is further evidence of the innateness of the mental characteristics tested.
"The detection and cataloging of cases of feeblenessindness is one
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