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The Daily Iowan the Student Newspaper of the State University of Iowa Vol. XVIII - New Series Vol. III Iowa City, Iowa, Tuesday, July 1, 1919 Number 121 UNIVERSITY WOMAN COLLEGE PRESIDENT IN CONSTANTINOPLE Dr. Mary M. Patrick Wins Praise for Years of Service in Near Eastern College --- ON STAFF FOR 38 YEARS --- College Has Been Through Seven Wars Without Closing Doors - Has 544 Students --- Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, awarded an honorary master's degree from the University in the nineties, and [illegible] of Professor G.T. W. Patrick of the department of philosophy, has been highly complimented by the [illegible] of this country for her work as president of Constantinople college. Constantinople college is an American institution for gils of the Turkish empire and the Balkan [illegible] and at the present time has [illegible] students. It was founded by [illegible] Americans and is supported by them. War Relief Center Dr. Patrick has been in the Near East for more than forty years. She went to Armenia as a missionary teacher and has been in Turkey since the age of twenty. Her unusual linguistic talents and her special interest in the education of girls led to her appointment as associate director of the American high school for girls at [illegible] American high school for girls at [illegible] in Constantinople. From this school, under her leadership, has [illegible] the present college for women. During the last seven years the college has weathered the storms of [illegible] wars without closing its doors for a single day. It has been a relief center for the surrounding country especially the sufferers of Constantinople and the Bosphorus villages. To Teach Medicine L.F. Olmstead, bursar of the college, writes to the University: "As the problems surrounding Constantinople become more and more vital to every American, Iowa may well be proud that one of her own women is in charge of an American institution at that strategic point which has brought the ideals of our civilization to the very heart of the Near East. Through thirty-eight years of revolutions, epidemics, massacres, and wars, the doors of this American college have been open to the young women of those regions." The college is now planning to introduce into its curricula, a medical department, and funds are being solicited in this country for the extension. ------ TO GIVE THIRD TALK ON MODERN BIOLOGY "The Evolution of Animal Life and [illegible] Causes as Viewed by Biologists of Today," is the subject of the third weekly lecture of the series on "Modern Biology" by Dr. Gilbert L. Houser. This lecture will be given Saturday morning, July 5, at 8 o'clock in room 107 natural science building. All students of the summer session are invited to this lecture and the remaining numbers, which will come successive Saturday mornings at the same time and place. ----- EXCURSION IS POSTPONED The excursion to the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, scheduled for July 5, has been postponed to July 12. ------ Y.W.C.A. ROOMS ARE OPEN During the summer session the Y.W.C.A. rooms on the first floor of liberal arts building are open as a rest room for University women. Current magazines are placed on the tables and a daily copy of the Chicago Tribune will be found there. No one is especially in charge but the rooms are open at all hours. TWELVE LAWS PASS STATE BOARD EXAMS Several Graduates Will Practice in Their Home Towns - Others Not Located Twelve laws who were graduated in the June Commencement are now members of the state bar by virtue of their passing the state board examination last week. One of them, Eleanor Steinberg, was the first women to take the exams in several years. The complete list of the University graduates who are now qualified to practice law in the state is: Marc Mullaney of Dubuque. Eleanor Steinberg of Eldora. Howard Remly of Anamosa. Ross E. White of Storm Lake. Edward Korab of Iowa City. Frank Seydel of Iowa City. J.S. Carstensen of Lyons. W. Keith Hamill of Iowa City. George Stewart Holmes of Cedar Rapids. Walter W. Jewell of Decorah. Clyde E. Jones of Agency. Hal. G. Mosier of Wapello. Several of these graduates will practice in their home towns and others have not decided upon a location. Clyde Jones and Ross White will form a partnership and establish offices in Ottumwa. PSYCHOLOGY TESTS ARRIVE FROM CAMP Mental Ratings of Officers and Students to be Used in Class Illustrations Camp Grant was transferred to the University of Iowa yesterday, from all appearances, when dozens of boxes of army psychological test work arrived in the liberal arts building for Capt. R. H. Sylvester. Much valuable material is contained in the boxes. The mental rating of every officer who served at Camp Grant is stored in those boxes, not to mention the complete intelligence rating of all high school students in Sioux City, Madison, Wis., and Rockford, Ill. These will form interesting psychological material for graduate students in education to work upon, in the opinion of Dr. Sylvester. The psychological tests, which will be demonstrated and given in various classes at the University, were used upon every recruit in the army and formed a distinct basis for promotions. The material which arrived yesterday consists of charts, apparatus, 18,000 blank forms, and the results of the tests mentioned. Dr. Sylvester will give a talk before the women's conference this morning on army intelligence tests. The lecture is scheduled for 10 o'clock in room 103, liberal arts. ------ F.M. Weida, instructor in mathematics, left yesterday in his new Cadillac car for New York City. ----- R.H. FITZGERALD TO BE Y.M.C.A. STUDENT SECRETARY University of Tennessee Man has had Successful Experience in College Work ----- COMES WELL RECOMMENDED --- Has B.A. From Gilford College and Master of Arts Degree From Tennessee --- R.H. Fitzgerald, of the University of Tennessee, has accepted the position of University Y.M.C.A. secretary, according to a wire received from him by Prof. Ellsworth Faris, yesterday. He comes very highly recommended and with a successful and varied experience in college work. In 1911, Mr. Fitzgerald received his B.A. degree from Gilford college in Gilford, N.C. The following year he was Y.M.C.A. secretary at the University of Mississippi. During the summer of 1912, he studied biblical history in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, returning in the fall to the Y.M.C.A. secretaryship in the University of Tennessee. He served in the latter capacity until the school year of 1917-18, when he was appointed athletic director of the University of Tennessee, having charge of basketball and track. As the faculty representative form Tennessee, he spent several months at fort Sheridan, and under the S.A.T.C. regime was instructor in military law. During the spring of 1919, he has been instructor in mathematics and supervisor of vocational students at the University of Tennessee, and from this institution he received his M.A. degree in June. Mr. Fitzgerald is expected to arrive in Iowa City the first of August and will take up his duties immediately. Horace W. Tousley, the acting secretary, is leaving soon for a short vacation, and in the fall he will take a course in architectural engineering in the University of Minnesota. ------ DISCUSSES FOOD VALUES --- Prof. Ruth A. Wardall Instructs Women in Economical Buying --- In the last of her series of lectures on food, yesterday afternoon, Prof. Ruth A. Wardall took up the cost consideration of the various foods. We must have a certain amount of food to maintain health and efficiency, but this food may be obtained at various costs, Miss Wardall impressed upon the women present. To be economical and at the same time efficient, Miss Wardall believes it is essential to have a more than superficial knowledge of food values. In explanation of this, she illustrated her lecture with bits of food, showing the different degrees of food values at relative costs. Following Miss Wardall's lecture, Miss Donnell talked briefly on the various ways of canning. The Conference will continue Tuesday and Wednesday; both days will be taken up with lectures on child welfare and the woman movement. Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Miss Wardall will conclude the lectures on home economics with a detailed discussion of the household budget, taking up the various classifications of household expenses and their proper recording. SEASHORE AT ASSEMBLY Dean Carl E. Seashore of the graduate college will speak at the weekly assembly tomorrow on "The Individual and the School." The summer session choir, led by Prof. W. E. Hays will sing "rejoice today" by Bruce Steane. The choir now has twenty-four voices. ----- ALUMNUS TO BE OUT INDEPENDENCE DAY --- Commencement Festivities Will be Featured in Last Issue for This Year --- Red, white, and blue to harmonize with the spirit of Independence Day and the Victory Commencement will be used in the cover design for the last number of the Iowa Alumnus for this year, which will be issued July 4. Commencement festivities will be featured in this number. "A Notable commencement" is the title of a major article by the editor. There is also the story by Marian Dyer, "the Man Who Came Back," which won the prize in the short story contest recently conducted by the women's literary societies. Geo. L. Glock, '14, assistant professor of public speaking in the University of Minnesota, has an article on "Eloquence - What Is It?" Dr. Mabel C. Williams describes Mr. C. C. Bunch's invention in the psychological laboratory in an article, "The Pitch Range Audiometer." Students who contribute to the July Alumnus are Leon Brigham, on "Athletics," Rowena Wellman, on the "Victory Hawkey," and Horace Tousley on the "Y.M.C.A." Numerous cuts will appear in this issue. A full page cut of commencement exercises under the trees of the campus forms the frontispiece. ------ BACHELOR'S DEGREE IS NOT SUFFICIENT --- Graduate College at University Larger Than at Other State Universities --- One college degree does not satisfy the student of today, if conclusions may be drawn from the students at the University during the present summer session. More than 250 students registered here have already received their bachelor of arts degree and are working towards a more advanced academic standing. The University has more graduate students than any other state university in the country proportionately. Only two or three endowed educational institutions have more advanced students in comparison with undergraduates. The superior facilities for research and advanced study makes the University so widely sought for graduate study. Dean Carl E. Seashore of the graduate college explains this trend towards graduate work in this manner: "The reorganization in education at the present time are so rapid that it is impossible for the teacher to keep pace without going to school in the summer where he can get things in a nutshell. To the educators of the state the summer session is one long conference, where they can confer in small groups and compare notes on their experiences of the year." AMERICANIZATION IS THEME OF LECTURES FOR COMING WEEK University Will Devote Five Days to Series of Lectures on National Problem --- KLINGAMAN MAIN SPEAKER --- University Extension Division Has Promoted Movement in State of Iowa --- "Americanization week" will be observed at the University July 7 to 11 when a series of lectures will be given pertaining to this new national program. O.E. Klingaman, director of the state committee on Americanization, will address the weekly assembly on that subject. The assembly will be advanced to Monday at 10:30. Tuesday at 8 o'clock Dr. G.G. Benjamin will continue the series of talks on "The Composite American Nation." The following morning Dr. E.D. Starbuck will speak on "the Ideals of Democracy." Dr. B.F. Shambaugh and Dean William F. Russell will conclude the series with addresses Thursday and Friday. Dr. Shambaugh will speak on "Our Attitude Towards Government" and Dean Russell on "the School and the American." Illiteracy in All Counties The Americanization movement has for its aim, says Prof. O.E. Klingaman, the removal of illiteracy and teaching the value of our democratic institutions. Iowa has 1.7 per cent of its population composed of persons who cannot write their own names. Only 11 per cent of the population of Iowa is foreign-born, and most of them are not illiterate when viewed according to the test of making a signature. Iowa has not a single county where there is no illiteracy, Professor Klingaman states. O'Brien and Osceola have the lowest per cent. More than two per cent of the total number of males of voting age are illiterates. Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, defines Americanization as "the interpretation of the attitude, ideals, standards, and life of the American people to those who come here from abroad; it is also a movement for the fuller realization of all the opportunities of one who lives in America." Extensions Division Active Courses in Americanization are being introduced into the universities of the country. The University of Wisconsin was the first institution to establish a chair of Americanization. The University of Iowa extension division has been most active in promoting the general program through its Iowa Patriotic League, and the influence of Professor Klingaman and Mrs. Max Mayer, chairman of the state speakers' bureau. A recent letter was sent out from the extension division to the mayors of the state asking them to put something pertaining to Americanization in their speaches. ------ SPEAKS ON SEX EDUCATION E.F. Van Burskirk of the United States public health service lectured on sex education at the liberal arts assembly hall, and before groups of teachers and the scoutmasters last Friday. Mr. Van Buskirk is the author of a bulletin on sex education prepared by the United States surgeon general.
 
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