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THE A F F A I R S OFSTATEENROLLMENTStudent AffairsEnrollment is becoming a happily unpredictable factor in the phenomenalgrowth of Michigan State College.Final winter figures reached 15,756,highest winter total in history, and something over the usually pin-point predictions of Registrar Robert S. Linton. Thistotal compared with the 15,334 registered last winter.The new record appeared despite asharp drop in veteran enrollment, amajor factor since ex-GI's began a marchback to campuses in 1946. Veterans, whocomprised 52 percent of the student bodylast winter, dropped to 40 percent.Enrollment of new students for falland winter quarters, however, forecasta drastic change in the "three-men-to-awoman" ratio which has existed sincethe war. With women students constituting 40 per cent of the freshman class,coeds may find themselves having to "getalong" next year with two or two-and-ahalf men each.Final fall enrollment figures, however,tell the story of the growth of MichiganState.The end of World War II, 1945, wasthe last year for Michigan State as asmall college. Fall enrollment was 5,329.The next fall brought an unprecedented13,126, double the highest pre-war figure,to East Lansing. In 1946, fall registration reached 15,208, and some 16,010were enrolled in the fall of 1948.Total enrollment in the fall of 1949was 16,243, and Michigan State becamethe eleventh largest university in thenation.Future enrollment is just as unpredictable. With the graduation of veterans,other college enrollments are on the decrease. At Michigan State, however,each new term brings a statistical surprise.Carefullong-rangeplanningforstrengthened and expanded curricula inthe hands of a strong faculty, in additionto vastly improved physical facilities,enable Registrar Linton, and manyothers, to eye the next few years withconfidence.Collegiate flagpole sitters and goldfishswallowers of another hectic era werea little aghast this winter at the ingenuity of their sons and daughters at Michigan State College.Generally the goals were the same,but the procedures varied some.Barbara Lampton, 18-year-old Detroitcoed, was trying to forget "half a publicity stunt," in which she played theinnocent victim.Arthur Miller, a Chicago senior,paddled her before between-class throngson the steps of Berkey Hall. Miller, whoclaimed to be her steady boy friend afterone date, said "she'd been going aroundwith another guy."Fables of FantasyThe Spartan magazine, campus humorpublication, cut a few new touches in theJanuary issue as a swan song for EditorMary Stewart, Detroit, who polished off30 pages of campus humor, and preparedfor graduation in March.The magazine ran a gruesome gamutfrom "East Lansing's Own Skid Row,"a fantasy inspired by a series in a De-4. . . . THERECORDTHE SPARTAN: It is later thanyou think!troit newspaper, to "The Ten Worst Movies of 1949," a tongue-in-cheek reviewof films that were weighed and foundwanton.Big drawing card of the January issuewas "I Escaped From the U. of M.," apurportedly true account of an MSC student who was first lured to the "institution at Ann Arbor."The cover was in lurid green andshowed half the face of an unshaven,wasted derelict, which satirized for artistWill Peterson the fantasies of modernsociety.Aid in CommencementSeniors will have a hand in planningthe 1950 Commencement for the firsttime in history.Two students, Betsy Green, Mt. Clemens, and Paul Pettit, Bucyrus, O., wereappointed to the college Commencementcommittee as non-voting members byClass President Edward Pino.The faculty committee asked thatPino appoint representatives after aclass referendum at fall registration disclosed seniors favored holding commencement in Macklin Field stadium andreestablishing baccalaureate services.Administrative officials voiced the belief that students could contribute muchin constructive advice in planning graduation week-end. In view of possible rainor other adverse weather conditions, thematter of holding Commencement outdoors was still a big question mark.The stunt was a spectacular successfor the nation's radio stations and newspapers.Miller got his come uppance when itwas reported that he had made arrangements to have a photographer and reporter on the scene. From that point on,the publicity stunt and his social prospects, fizzled.Other student antics were less spectacular. Senior men, led by their classpresident, Edward Pino, blossomed outin green corduroy trousers to "distinguish ourselves from underclassmen."Student Council members who votedthemselves pin awards to be purchasedfrom the Council kitty fund found themselves needled by John Ringle, GrandRapids, president of the sophomore class.He organized a "Pins for the Council"campaign and rounded up hundreds ofclothespins, hair pins, safety pins andold "Willkie buttons" in two days, afterwhich he terminated his campaign.One student, who dreaded goingthrough the arduous fraternity hazingof pledges, would like to do it all overagain.Terry Olson, of Grand Rapids, wasassigned by Phi Delta Theta actives to"capture" a 36-inch sports trophy fromthe Phi Gamma Delta House at Northwestern University.Olson drove to Evanston, 111., reportedto the Phi Delta Theta house there andwas ordered to kiss a certain coed he hadnever met. He carried out orders. "Notrouble there at all," he reported.Then he contacted the Phi GammaDeltas. Their hospitality included a datewith another coed—and a night's lodging.While trusting Phi Gammas slept, Olsonheaded back to East Lansing with theirtrophy.

THE A F F A I R S OFQuonsets AbandonedQuonset Village, a community of steelhuts which since 1946 has housed anoverflow of male students from the college's dormitories, will be abandoned atthe end of March.Housing Director Richard A. Geer saidthat there is now sufficient dormitoryspace for all male students desiring oncampus housing.Completion in March of Shaw Hall forMen, which will house 1,600, will bringto 4,500 the number of men that can behoused in modern dormitories.Karl H. McDonel, secretary of the college, said the quonset huts would not bedismantled or removed. "We still haveplenty of use for them," he added.The 104 metal eight-man huts havehoused more than 6,000 Spartans sincethey were erected four years ago.Faculty AffairsDistinction came to faculty membersfrom many educational areas during thepast few months. Some became officersin professional and national organizations and others published books inspecialized fields.Pres. John A. Hannah became chairman of a committee appointed by Gov.G. Mennen Williams to study the prospects for bringing the proposed UnitedStates Air Academy to Michigan.Pres. Hannah and members of hiscommittee conferred in late January withPres. Harry S. Truman and other highofficials of the Department of Defensein Washington on proposed sites for theacademy in Michigan.Dr. H. J. Stafseth, director of biological science and head of the Department of Bacteriology and Public Health,was named to the American Board ofVeterinary Public Health. The boardestablishes standards for veterinarians inthe U. S. Public Health Service. He wasalso named a special consultant to USPHS disease center in Atlanta, Ga.Prof. Ralph F. Turner, of the policeadministration department, became acharter member and secretary-treasurerof the American Academy of ForensicScience in an organizational meeting atChicago Jan. 26-28. Prof. Turner wasalso made an honorary member of theCuban Society of Police Science andCriminalistics in recognition of his "distinguished efforts for improvement ofscientific police service."New books published included "TheChallenge of Modern Art," by AllenLeepa, associate professor in the designdivision of the department of art; "Structure of American Industry," a textbookby Prof. Walter Adams, of the economicsdepartment, and "Public Finance andFiscal Policies," a college textbook, byEconomics Prof. R. W. Lindholm.Bagwellelected presidentof the NationalSociety for the Study of Communicationat Chicago. Clyde Dow, associate professor of Written and Spoken English,was named secretary of the latter organization.Inspects MSC CampusDr. Hachiro Yuasa, president-elect ofthe yet unfounded International Christian University in Japan, had a look atthe Michigan State campus Jan. 31.Ideas on curricula, buildings and facilities were main points of interest for theJapanese educator, who is planning toopen the university in Mitaka, 14 mileseast of Tokyo, in 1951.Top MSC administrators and educators, including Dr. Albert T. Cordray,foreign student counselor, conferred withDr. Yuasa on his campus tour.Of particular interest to Dr. Yuasawas the Michigan State College physicalplant and educational philosophy becauseof its rapid rise to prominent nationalstature in the past decade.On The Cover . . .Is Prof. Carl M. Horn, MichiganState's "Flying Prof." Horn, thenation's leading exponent of utilizing air travel for mass educationalmovements, now prepares for hismost ambitious venture—a sixweek "Flying Classroom" studytour of 11 European nations.Sixty-eight top flight college andhigh school educators, selected andfinanced on a state basis, will comprise the passenger list. (See storyon page 3.)STATEGifts and GrantsResearch and study grants totaling 63,325.53 for extending the scope ofeducational programs at Michigan Statewere received in January.Largest single gift was 10,000 fromthe Institute of Applied Hotel Economics,Detroit. The sum was the first paymentof 90,000 pledged by the Institute forfurnishings and equipment of the Kellogg Center for Continuing Education,now under construction on the campus.Swift and Company of Chicago gave 6,200 for a study of the microscopicanatomy of the fowl in the RegionalPoultry Research Laboratory of EastLansing.The National Dairy Council of Chicagoprovided 5,000 to be used on a study ofthe food requirements of aging women.The work will be done under supervisionof the Department of Foods and Nutrition.Other research grants included 5,260from the National Institute of Healthof the U.S. Public Health Service and 4,500 from the American Potash Institute of Washington, D.C.New Grants AwardedSeven scholars began new research andwriting projects into Midwestern cultureunder a 5,055 fund approved by a Michigan State College committee administering a 30,000 grant from the RockefellerFoundation, New York.Three of the recipients were MichiganState researchers.The grants bring to 7,650 the totalallocated for the study since inception ofthe long-term project in July, 1949, according to Dean Lloyd C. Emmons, chairman of the committee.Selected in the second group were:Dr. R. H. Pierce, Ohio State University;Dr. Richard N. Current, Mills College,Oakland, Calif.; Dr. Albert H. Marckwardt, University of Michigan; Dr. JohnF. McDermott, Washington University,St. Louis, Mo.; Jackson E. Towne, MSClibrarian; and Clyde E. Hensen and Dr.Bernard J. Duffey, both of the MSC department of literature and fine arts.Towne will compile a history of Midwestern university libraries under a 975grant and Henson received 500 for research on "Joseph Kirkland, PioneerRealistic Novelist of the Middle Border."Dr. Duffey, currently tracing Midwesternliterary activity from 1890 to 1920 willreceive 300 to continue the study ofpoets, novelists and critics of the Chicagoschool from 1890 to 1920.MARCH,1950 . . . .5

MSC Herbarium Serves as Valuable New Greenhouse RangeResearch Laboratory in Many Fields Will Increase ResearchBlushing brides who press weddingcorsages in the family dictionary havethe makings of a herbarium.This may come as quite a shock, butfor more than 300 years men with moreat stake than a fond memory of theirwedding day have been pressing flowering plants for a more practical purpose.Is Sixteenth OldestAt Michigan State College, keepers ofthe nation's 16th oldest herbarium watcha steady parade of people who seek theiraid in everything from weed control tocrime detection."Our herbarium here is a sort ofvoucher to represent what grows in certain areas," said Prof. William B. Drews,head of the MSC botany department."It's a research tool for work on vegetation," he said.But that's only half the story.Work in Crime DetectionIn the past several years, technicianshave dipped into mammoth files ofmounted plants to identify samples ofmarijuana confiscated by police and vicesquad officers.Farmers throughout Michigan are themain "customers" of the college herbarium. "Weeds, of course, are theirproblem and we identify thousands ofsamples for them each year and recommend methods of killing them, or preventing their spread."Thousands of Alumni SeeMSC Through New MovieA new color movie, entitled "Invitationto Learning," is giving thousands ofalumni their first view of the "new lookin education" as exemplified at MichiganState College.The movie has become standard equipment for college alumni personnel, alongwith football films, in their contacts withalumni clubs all over the nation. It isalso being utilized in college cooperationprograms with high schools, extensionpersonnel, civic and other groups.Produced by the Department of PublicRelations at MSC, the 30-minute movieoutlines the teaching, research and extension programs of the college, in addition to the physical plant and recreational facilities available.The movie was directed by W. LowellTreaster, public relations head, withscript editing and narrations by Alvie L.Smith, college news editor. The moviewas filmed by Don Doane, '47, of DoaneProductions, East Lansing.6. . . . THERECORDMichigan has some 2,500 types ofplants, including trees, according to Prof.Charles L. Gilly, keeper of the herbarium.The herbarium has well over 100,000types of plants from all parts of theworld, and ranks 12th in the nation andsixth among other state colleges.Started by Prentiss in 1865The MSC herbarium was begun in1865 by A. Prentiss, and many of theearly mounted species were cataloguedand contributed by George F. Comstock,of Lenawee county, brother of the lateDr. W. J. Beal, noted MSC botanist.These early samples are used frequently to establish relationships betweenthe first plants in Michigan and laterones.The orchid, which grows wildly inMichigan swamps, is dying out mainlybecause of the march of science. Manyof the swamps have been drained forsanitary and health reasons.Too, orchids are picked more rapidlythan usual—many, no doubt, are wornto weddings.MSG6aMetflStateResearch in botany, entomology, horticulture, farm crops, and soil science isbeing speeded in the new greenhouserange located on MSC's south campus.Official dedication of the strucUrre earlyin the year drew a crowd of 1,500 toEast Lansing. Industry leaders and research scientists praised the buildingand predicted an expansion in neededplant research.The 57,000 square foot greenhouse hasmany unique construction features, suchas automatic temperature controls foreach of the 14 separate houses, hydraulicventilators governed by house temperature, and humidity controls. Conditionscan be adjusted to resemble almost anykind of climate.The greenhouses were constructedfrom funds appropriated by the MichiganLegislature at the request of the Michigan Agricultural Conference.Otherassistance came from the Farmers' andManufacturers' Beet Sugar association,Saginaw, and the Federal Bureau ofPlant Industry.QUe GluL(Haficelt ouiThe popular Michigan State CollegeMen's Glee Club will launch a ten-dayconcert tour of alumni clubs, high schoolsand civic groups throughout Michigan onMarch 22.Starts in Detroit March 22Dates have been set for ten Michigancities and the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near Chicago.John McGoff, Wilkensburg, Pa., senior,president of the Glee Club, said thatalthough a concert excursion had beenplanned for Eastern alumni clubs, a number of factors forced cancellation of thetour.Eastern Tour Next SpringMcGoff said that the 60-member clubdefinitely plans to make the Eastern tripnext spring, however. Alumni desiringto have the group appear before theirclub should contact John McGoff in WellsHall, or Club Director David Machtel inthe Music Building.The advance schedule was as follows:Mar. 22, Detroit, at McKenzie and Redford high schools during the day andDetroit Alumni Club, evening; Mar. 23,Saginaw Arthur Hill high school, afternoon, and Gaylord civic auditorium, eve-ZmLabhiMatch22ning; Mar. 24, Sault Ste. Marie, publicevening performance; Mar. 25, Ironwood;Mar. 26, Iron River; Mar. 27, Houghton;Mar. 28, Gladstone; Mar. 30, GreatLakes Naval Training Station; Mar. 31,Sturgis.Bagwell Writes ForewordFor "City in the Forest"Prof. Paul G. Bagwell, head of theMSC Department of Written and SpokenEnglish, will write the foreword of thenew Lansing history, "City in theForest," by Birt Darling, well-knownLansing newspaperman.The book, scheduled for release byStratford House, New York, in the nextfew months, has one section devoted exclusively to the growth and developmentof Michigan State College. The volumeis another in the "American Heritage"series by Stratford House.The Lansing Junior Chamber of Commerce has taken over sales promotion ofthe book as their number one projectfor 1950. Prof. Bagwell, now a nationalJaycee director, served as president ofthe U.S. Junior Chamber of Commercein 1948-1949.

PlOfioAed GenteljpiVetesiinatiy, MediomeReturn Athletics to Faculty Control,H a n n a h A s k s in Philadelphia S p e e c hBy ALVIE L. SMITHFootball coaches and athletic directorsquibbling in New York Jan. 10 on actionto be taken against member schoolsaccused of violating the so-called "sanitycodes" of the NCAA might have turnedan ear to remarks being made in Philadelphia by Michigan State's PresidentJohn A. Hannah.His remarks were in an address beforethe annual dinner meeting of the Maxwell Club, which saw the awarding ofthe famed Maxwell trophy to NotreDame's great end, Leon Hart. Theaward is made annually to the best college football player of the year.Avows Faith in College AthleticsPres. Hannah, long respected as oneof college football's big boosters, beganby avowing his faith in college athleticsas an integral part of American education. He did not call for drastic deemphasis or elimination of collegiateathletics. But he did have some sharpwords about current trends in the fieldof college sports.Briefly, the MSC president called forthe return of athletics to faculty controland for the adoption of simple enforceable regulations concerning recruitingand subsidizing athletes.Pres. Hannah told the group, containing many of the nation's top athleticdirectors and coaches, that athleticsshould not be separate from the rest ofthe college philosophy—an independentor autonomous empire—nor should alumni groups be allowed to dictate athleticpolicy. He pointed out that MSC's ath-letic set-up is operated the same as anyother department, and coaches have professorial rank and tenure.Raps "Weasel-Worded" CodesPres. Hannah added that the "weaselworded" collegiate athletic purity codescould be "thrown into the wastebasket"if all schools would adopt two simpleeligibility rules.First, all athletics c h o l a r s h i p s orother financialaids would be administered by thesame faculty committee that handles scholarshipsfor non-athletes.Second, eligibilityto compete wouldHannahbe limited to fulltime students who have completed inthe past year work of quantity and quality to earn a college degree in four years.Students First, Athletes Second"No college will get into trouble withits athletic program if it remembers thatits football players are students first andathletes second," he said. "Universitiesmust be true to their traditions as centers for the preservation and discoveryof knowledge. It is only when they desertthose traditional roles for the pursuit ofathletic glory that they damage themselves and the games they prostitute,"he added."Colleges and universities must actually and continuously demonstrate thatathletics are truly a part of the educational program, and not a carnival side-atM&GFOR ANIMAL HEALTH: Michigan State College officials have requ

Howard S. Worthington, '48, assistant director of alumni relations, resigned . Clark Gets Kedzie Cane The class of 1900 will enter the ranks of the Patriarches at a special Saturday . recorded on a screening test in effective living—which de