Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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H581 REED COLLEGE ANNUAL-it1915 GOOD ROADS DAY cause, is the enduring satisfaction of Reed Colleges partici- pation in Good Roads Day. N SATURDAY morning, April twenty-fourth, 1914, a special train left the Portland Union Depot bound for Oneonta, on the Columbia High- QJ way. The occasion was Good Roads Day and the five hunched men who boarded the train, tho wel disguised as laborers, wer in reality business and professional men of the City. There wer representativs from the Ad Club, the Rotary Club, the Commercial Club, and other civic organizations. Among them was at Reed College delega- tion of sixteen men, captaind by Dr. Foster. One of the objects of Good Roads Day was to hav some work done on the Highway. So after the arrival at Oneonta, the men wer divided into gangs of sixteen and assignd to jobs. Competition was made keen by the offer of the Portland Ad Club to dine the cm doing the most work. The picks and shovels had not been elnployd long before it became evident that the other gangs would have a hard time keeping up with the ttReed Huskies? And so it proved, for when the work was stopt to give the excursionists an opportunity to inspect the Highway and view the beautiful Columbia River scenery, the judges declared the Reed gang an easy winner. There wer many features which make the day a memorable one for the Reed people. Above all, the opportunity to co- operate with the civic organizations of Portland for a common

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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.

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STUDENT RESEARCH WORK