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Sunday, July 20, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN, STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PAGE THREE [illo]The President's Home ABOUT THE CAMPUS THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE "Oh, Iowa, calm and secure on thy hill, Looking down on the river below...." Almost on the very edge of the Point ("edge" in the sense that the ancients used to speak of the "edge of the world") where the precipitous nature of the drop is concealed by the tangles of vine and shrub, there is in the shape of an "I" a gray stone seat, so solidly dimensioned that it seems an embodiment of the calm, dignity, and security of Iowa, whose virtues are extolled on its engraved stone tablet. One does not know exactly why stops to read the words on the tablet, since they are even more deeply cut on the tablet of his mind. But as he goes on up the walk to the long brick house, of colonial line and proportion, he somehow feels that it, too, carries out the theme. The President's home is, in a sense an epitome of Old Gold. The men who have honored Iowa, and whom Iowa has honored more than it is in her power to honor any other, have lived here; so it is about the great brick mansion that the achievements, hopes, and sentiments of hte University are peculiarly centered. Here is "Iowa, calm and secure on her hill," and there is the river, a subtle, silver vista through the trees. The architect has caught the tradition, and embodied it in the aspect of the place. The four gigantic columns at the entrance bespeak permanency; the lines of the walls are firm and dignified; and over it all woodbine infuses an aura of sentiment. Even details echo it. Here on the glass of the main doorway is the seal, with the eagle, of Iowa. But the house, inside and out, most admirably combines two aspects: with the dignity of its place as a part of the University, it blends the grace and charm of a home. In the main entrance hall, a white colonial stairway commands one's attention to the skilled artistry of its lines, while at the left, an open door invites to the comfort of a fireplace and many rows of books. There is the same spirit outside. Here stately borders of shrubs, pillars, and a long slope of lawn say, "I am the University of Iowa," and there a swing, a sand-pile, and a garden patch reply, "I am home." A little blue spruce in the yard lives for a wistful memory of one Christmas when it was bedecked with many lit candles and a tall elm is ecstatically happy because a scarlet tanager often comes and sings in it. Here is a bush of hydrangeas, and there a clump of bridal wreath, and a tall cluster of hollyhocks. One stops again at the seat, when he passes out, and reads the lines on the tablet, their meaning enriched by a new experience. This time the words stand out with peculiar significance: "Till the waters no more in thy river shall run, Till the stars in the heavens grow cold, We shall sing of the glory and fame thou hast won, And the love that we bear for old gold." [advertisement: Garden Sunday and Monday BERT LYTELL in "THE LION'S DEN" by the same author as "THE SPENDER"] John Hail, Phi Beta Pi, has left the University on account of sickness. [advertisement: Vest Pocket Kodaks As small as your note book and tells the story better, the fish that got away, the good looking sunset, the first dive--all make interesting subjects for your Kodak. We now have the following Vest Pocket Kodaks in stock: Vest Pocket Kodak--Regular Model ...$8.00 Vest Pocket Kodak--With R. R. Lens ...$9.60 Vest Pocket Kodak (anastigmat lens) ...$14.40 Mail us your films and we will promptly finish and return them. 124 East College Street HENRY LOUIS The Rexall & Kodak Store] HOW TO FINANCE NATION Chicago History Professor Would Have Students Work Problems "The child should be trained to think and reason rather than memorize," declared Prof. Rollo M. Tryon of the University of Chicago in his lecture on "The Problem and Project Method of Teaching History," before a large audience of teachers in the liberal arts assembly hall Friday morning. Give the child a problem or project to work out and he will not only get an insight into it but he will remember and enjoy it, said the professor. Then he proceeded to tell how this might be used in teaching history to high school students. "Have the pupils go back to the time of Alexander Hamilton, for instance and ask them what they would do to finance our bankrupt nation," advised Professor Tryon. "They would actually have a problem to meet which would require a great deal of thinking, reasoning, and reference work." In a like manner other events in history might be dealt with, he declared. MISS KNEASE TO COLORADO Miss Tacie Knease, instructor in French at the University, will leave Friday for a two weeks' visit at Oklahoma City and St. Louis. From there she will go to Boulder, Colo., to attend summer school; she intends taking a special twenty-six hour course in French. TO HELP COMPILE DICTIONARY Prof. Charles Bundy Wilson has been elected as one of the scholars to collect and classify the material for the Dialect dictionary, a monumental work on the English language to be published by the American Dialect society. Professor Wilson is district secretary of the society. Candidates for degrees are requested to meet Prof. E. H. Lauer in the N. S. auditorium at 11 o'clock Friday. [advertisement: UNITARIAN CHURCH Iowa Avenue, three blocks east of campus 11:00 a. m.--Service. The Referend Vincent B. Silliman will preach on "Salvation,"--the fourth of the present series of sermons. 7:00 p. m.--Special meeting of the young People's Religious Union. Reminiscences of "The Good Old Days."] [advertisement: TRY THE Bon=Ton Cafe Tables For Ladies Newly Furnished Throughout] [advertisement: WRIGLEY'S The longest-lasting benefit, the greatest satisfaction for your sweet tooth. WRIGLEY'S in the sealed packages. Air-tight and impurity-proof. SEALED TIGHT KEPT RIGHT WRAPPED IN UNITED PROFIT-SHARING COUPONS The Flavor Lasts 30] [advertisement: PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Mary V. Burns Manuscripts copied Suite 8, Paul-Helen Bldg.]
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Sunday, July 20, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN, STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PAGE THREE [illo]The President's Home ABOUT THE CAMPUS THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE "Oh, Iowa, calm and secure on thy hill, Looking down on the river below...." Almost on the very edge of the Point ("edge" in the sense that the ancients used to speak of the "edge of the world") where the precipitous nature of the drop is concealed by the tangles of vine and shrub, there is in the shape of an "I" a gray stone seat, so solidly dimensioned that it seems an embodiment of the calm, dignity, and security of Iowa, whose virtues are extolled on its engraved stone tablet. One does not know exactly why stops to read the words on the tablet, since they are even more deeply cut on the tablet of his mind. But as he goes on up the walk to the long brick house, of colonial line and proportion, he somehow feels that it, too, carries out the theme. The President's home is, in a sense an epitome of Old Gold. The men who have honored Iowa, and whom Iowa has honored more than it is in her power to honor any other, have lived here; so it is about the great brick mansion that the achievements, hopes, and sentiments of hte University are peculiarly centered. Here is "Iowa, calm and secure on her hill," and there is the river, a subtle, silver vista through the trees. The architect has caught the tradition, and embodied it in the aspect of the place. The four gigantic columns at the entrance bespeak permanency; the lines of the walls are firm and dignified; and over it all woodbine infuses an aura of sentiment. Even details echo it. Here on the glass of the main doorway is the seal, with the eagle, of Iowa. But the house, inside and out, most admirably combines two aspects: with the dignity of its place as a part of the University, it blends the grace and charm of a home. In the main entrance hall, a white colonial stairway commands one's attention to the skilled artistry of its lines, while at the left, an open door invites to the comfort of a fireplace and many rows of books. There is the same spirit outside. Here stately borders of shrubs, pillars, and a long slope of lawn say, "I am the University of Iowa," and there a swing, a sand-pile, and a garden patch reply, "I am home." A little blue spruce in the yard lives for a wistful memory of one Christmas when it was bedecked with many lit candles and a tall elm is ecstatically happy because a scarlet tanager often comes and sings in it. Here is a bush of hydrangeas, and there a clump of bridal wreath, and a tall cluster of hollyhocks. One stops again at the seat, when he passes out, and reads the lines on the tablet, their meaning enriched by a new experience. This time the words stand out with peculiar significance: "Till the waters no more in thy river shall run, Till the stars in the heavens grow cold, We shall sing of the glory and fame thou hast won, And the love that we bear for old gold." [advertisement: Garden Sunday and Monday BERT LYTELL in "THE LION'S DEN" by the same author as "THE SPENDER"] John Hail, Phi Beta Pi, has left the University on account of sickness. [advertisement: Vest Pocket Kodaks As small as your note book and tells the story better, the fish that got away, the good looking sunset, the first dive--all make interesting subjects for your Kodak. We now have the following Vest Pocket Kodaks in stock: Vest Pocket Kodak--Regular Model ...$8.00 Vest Pocket Kodak--With R. R. Lens ...$9.60 Vest Pocket Kodak (anastigmat lens) ...$14.40 Mail us your films and we will promptly finish and return them. 124 East College Street HENRY LOUIS The Rexall & Kodak Store] HOW TO FINANCE NATION Chicago History Professor Would Have Students Work Problems "The child should be trained to think and reason rather than memorize," declared Prof. Rollo M. Tryon of the University of Chicago in his lecture on "The Problem and Project Method of Teaching History," before a large audience of teachers in the liberal arts assembly hall Friday morning. Give the child a problem or project to work out and he will not only get an insight into it but he will remember and enjoy it, said the professor. Then he proceeded to tell how this might be used in teaching history to high school students. "Have the pupils go back to the time of Alexander Hamilton, for instance and ask them what they would do to finance our bankrupt nation," advised Professor Tryon. "They would actually have a problem to meet which would require a great deal of thinking, reasoning, and reference work." In a like manner other events in history might be dealt with, he declared. MISS KNEASE TO COLORADO Miss Tacie Knease, instructor in French at the University, will leave Friday for a two weeks' visit at Oklahoma City and St. Louis. From there she will go to Boulder, Colo., to attend summer school; she intends taking a special twenty-six hour course in French. TO HELP COMPILE DICTIONARY Prof. Charles Bundy Wilson has been elected as one of the scholars to collect and classify the material for the Dialect dictionary, a monumental work on the English language to be published by the American Dialect society. Professor Wilson is district secretary of the society. Candidates for degrees are requested to meet Prof. E. H. Lauer in the N. S. auditorium at 11 o'clock Friday. [advertisement: UNITARIAN CHURCH Iowa Avenue, three blocks east of campus 11:00 a. m.--Service. The Referend Vincent B. Silliman will preach on "Salvation,"--the fourth of the present series of sermons. 7:00 p. m.--Special meeting of the young People's Religious Union. Reminiscences of "The Good Old Days."] [advertisement: TRY THE Bon=Ton Cafe Tables For Ladies Newly Furnished Throughout] [advertisement: WRIGLEY'S The longest-lasting benefit, the greatest satisfaction for your sweet tooth. WRIGLEY'S in the sealed packages. Air-tight and impurity-proof. SEALED TIGHT KEPT RIGHT WRAPPED IN UNITED PROFIT-SHARING COUPONS The Flavor Lasts 30] [advertisement: PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Mary V. Burns Manuscripts copied Suite 8, Paul-Helen Bldg.]
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