Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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WALTER S. LEATHERS M.D.. i i n. I) tan of the Sthool of MtdUint SHIRI HY C. TITUS R.N.. M.A. Dean of the School of Suning GEORGE B. WINTON M.A., n.n. Dr.in of the School of Religion Society at Tulane University, had articles in he Yule Review and I he 1 irginia Quar- terly. Donald Davidson published articles in I he American Review. Dr. Randall Stew- art published an article, Hawthorne in England, ' in he Sew England Quarterly. Dr. Walter Clyde Curry contributed an article to the Journal of English and Germanic Phil- ology. Dr. Walter C. Reckless received recognition with his article, Prevention of Juve- nile Delinquency, which was quoted in the Literary Digest and he Manchester Guard- ian. Dr. C. S. Shoup and Mr. S. L. Meyer collaborated on an article published in the Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science. Contributions were also made by the fol- lowing faculty members: Doctors Lyle H. Lanier, G. R. Gage, C. W. Wilson, S. L. Clark, and James W. Ward. Dr. L. C. Glenn, professor of Geology, was made a member of the Board of Consult- ants of the Tennessee Valley Authority. An important discovery by Doctors E. W. Goodpasture, C. D. Johnson and G. John Buddingh of the Department of Pathology of the School of Medicine is the demonstration of the possibility and practicability of producing anti-smallpox vaccine in incubating hen eggs. It was also shown that the cause of mumps is filterable virus and that experimental mumps may be studied in monkeys. In view of all these activities it may be said that the University has made a great con- tribution to the development of Southern resources. It has helped to stimulate a scientific habit ol thought concerning scholarly attainments. Continuing in these lines of services, anderbilt will live on as a type ol the finest influence which the men and women of today can provide for the future.

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 A gift of £2,500,000 was made in the General Education Hoard of the Rockefeller l:oundation to the t Iniversitv for the benefit of the School of Medicine and Teaching Hos- pital. This money ill he used for the extension of the hospital plant and for endowment. All departments have ! een active in bringing speakers ot note to the campus. Dr. I lenrv E. Sigerist, Director of the Institute of the i hstorv of Medicine at John I lopkins University, lectured on Medicine in the Renaissance.” Dr. Hugh (Jabot of the Mayo Clinic, conducted a clinic at the Medical School during December. Dr. Richard I:. Scam- mon. Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, gave the sixth annual Phi Beta Pi lecture. 1 Its subject was Medicine and the Social Pattern. The first science institute to be held in an American college or university as held on the campus earlv in April under the auspices of the Vanderbilt Institue of Public Af- fairs and the Vanderbilt Student t nion. The speakers err Dr. brederick Slocum, pro- fessor of Astronomy at Wesleyan University; Dr. J. C. Merriam, president ot the Car- negie Institute of Washington, D. C.; Dr. C. 1 I. I lertv. director of the Savannah Pulp and Paper I aboratorv; and Dr. W. F G. Swann, director of the Bartol Research boun- dation of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Dr. Rufus M. (ones, professor of philosopy at I laverford ollege, gave the annual series of Cole I ecturcs during the Rural Church School, held for visiting preachers of the various denominations representing almost every Southern and Middle estern State. A great many contributions to magazines and periodicals were made by faculty mem- bers. Professor John C. Ransom, who delivered the annual address ot the Phi Beta Kappa

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