Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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I1561 R E E D COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 ities. Too often in the past a college has been conceivd as a sort of intellectual zoo, which the people came out to see, but which never went down to see the people. Often when some of the more restless animals did migrate from campus to town it was upon some escapade that landed them in jail. We hav no fraternities here at Reed; but may we not find llmoral equivalents, for fraternities in groups of students whose harts ar fild with enthusiasm for humanity? If so, per- haps the interests of what we term bculturell wil be the better servd. ' ARTHUR EVANS WOOD. POLITICAL WORK N THE endevor to carry out practically the ideal of making the college of servis t0 the community, a number of students hav interested themselvs in Q the political life of Portland and Oregon. The 3 sponsor of the movement has been Dr. Ogburn, Lug whose solid theoretical foundation and practical experience in political affairs haV enabled him to direct the activity efficiently and benehcially. The work done has been largely in the form of speeches on political questions, The conviction behind the work is that if democracy, especially in the form of popular government found in Oregon, is to sue- ceed, it must be thru an intelligent understanding on the part of the citizens of the problems at issue. The object, then, has I been to ad the colleges efforts to those alredy operating to educate the public in matters of government. The debut of the Reed men was made in the spring of 1913, when Harry W'embridge and Everett Trousdale expound- ed the doctrins of commission government from a soap-box at Sixth and Washington streets. A more pretentius program was outlined for the fall of 1914. Under the direction of Dr. Ogburn, the twenty-nine initiativ and referendum mesures voted on November fifth wer analysed and arranged for pre- sentation. The men spoke individually and in groups, the practis at the larger meetings being: a pointed survey of all the mesures by Dr. Ogburn, singing by Harry XVembridge, and detaild discussion of the mesures by two student speakers. 1 In most cases both sides of questions wer carefully given, the opinions of the speaker being given only as supported by weighty reasons. The work once started there was greater demand for speakers than the men had time to comply with. In all, twenty audiences, totaling fifteen hundred people, wer addrest; the meetings being those of clubs of varius kinds. Aside from these organized efforts individual students hav done political work. Most noteworthy was the employ- ment of Arthur Hauck as a secretary of the Committee of One Hundred during the late prohibition campain. Other instances ar the addresses of Harry Wembridge before the Oregon Civic Leag, and the talks of Horace Miller and Clar- ence Young on proportional representation in the Socialist Hall.

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REED COLLEGE ADUWUAL e 1915 IBM EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES REED COLLEGE STUDENTS AS SOCIAL WORKERS Reed College students hav alredy made their influence felt in the social work of the city. Last winter, when the Gipsy Smith Tabernacle was occupied by unemployd men, a group of Reed students assisted in getting data which ulti- mately went to prove that unemployment in Portland was not altogether the result of shiftlessness, but rather an inevitable consequence of our seasonal industries. As a result of the education from last yearis experience, the city officials them- selvs hav taken hold of the problem this year, attacking it not as if it wer a problem in crime, but rather as one which is incident to industrial development. Again, thru the De- partment of Psycology, several delinquents of the city hav been subjected to mental tests by our students. This is a small be- ginning; but it is one of great consequence for the future treatment of the city's delinquents. By encouraging the men- tal tests, and assisting in giving them, Reed men and women at contributing very definitly t0 the social work of the city so far as it affects delinquents. Furthermore, the Recreation League Camp was virtually a Reed College affair. Three Reed men wer camp councillors, and two Reed women cookt the meals. Over fifty city boys wer reaeht in this way, many of whom had never known the joys of an out-of-door life. When the gymnasium was thrown open to them one night during the Christmas holidays, they came in hordes, and wer eager to learn about the plans for next summer. Stil another contact with the community is made by the men and women who ar leading boys and girlsy clubs at the settlements over the city. This kind of work should increase As a further reminder of the social and civic effort of our men and women, mention should be made of the fact that we supplied the Committee of One Hundred with a secretary, who helpt make Oregon dry; and that when the fate of commission government hung in the balance, it was our men who jumpt into the pan tor rather onto the soapeboxy and deter- mind the vote for the commission. Finally, when the North End threatend repeaters at the November elections, the polls wer watcht by Reed students. Much more could be said concerning the civic activities of Reed men and women, but the foregoing is simply evidence of what may be expected of them in the future. Nevertheless, of the record thus far we at all justly proud, because not always have American colleges thus realized their responsibil-

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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 In a slightly different field, twenty Reed men and women, under the direction of Dr. Torrey, addrest all the scool chil- dren 0f the city during the llSwat the Fly, campain of 1914. Thus far the college activities in political life hav been beneficial not only to the students, but also to the listening Citizens. Intelligent men and women who hnd little time to analyze carefully the complex questions arising in popular government wil often listen attentivly to the advice of college students on such topics. As an extra-curricular activity of the intellectual type, student participation in affairs of government has been firmly establisht at Reed College. THE FISH HATCHERY N 1913, the Oregon State Fish and Game Commis- sion appropriated one thousand dollars for a station for the investigation of problems in Esh culture. 83 This is the first institution of the kind to be es- 3 tablisht in the United States under either federal Lag or state control. By an arrangement with the college a bilding was erected in the ravine belo the college plant. It servs as a hatchery and experimental laboratory. It is maintaind by the State Fish and Game Commission and Reed Institute in cooperation and is operated by the Department of Biology under the direction of Dr. Torrey. It is equipt with five large fish trofs, each of l15 71 which is subdivided into five compartments. Each compart- ment can be used either separately or in communication with the others. A necessity in hatchery work is a satisfactory water supply. The water used in the Reed station comes from living springs on or immediately adjoining the campus. Owing to the constantly growing demand for Pacific salmon and the more and more serius interference of com- mercial fishing with the normal breeding habits of the fish, it is obvius that the prosperity of one of the great industries of Oregon can be assured only by the successful artificial propagation of the salmon on the large scale. In the interest of sportsmen, the propagation of game fishes is a problem only second in importance to the former. Success in artificial propagation involvs the pressing problem of economy of ad- ministration. Experiments on these problems hav been and ar to be subjects of investigation at the station. Reports of work already done hav been made at the meeting of the Biological Society of the Pacific Coast, on May twenty-second, 1914, at Seattle, and t0 the American Fisheries Society at its meeting in Washington, D. C., last summer. The first has been publisht in the Oregon Sportsman for September, 1914, under the title, Feeding Fingerling Salmon, and the second wil appear shortly in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.