Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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1301 REED COLLEGE ANNUAL -t- 1915 associate editor during the first year of its existence, and assist- ant editor in 1913. She is now vice-president of the senior clas. Miss Fatland has been identih tied with numerus college activ- ities. She was president of the Bibleestudy clas in 1913-1914 and has been sergeant-at-arms of the Current Events Club since its beginning. She has also belongd to the Deutsche Verein, the Biol- ogy Club, and the Psycology Club, and has been prominent in athletics, especially basketball. She made the womenls all-star team in 1914. Tho she is a filosofy major, Miss Fatland has also done important work in the Department of Psycology, conducting a series of mental tests upon delinquent girls at the Police Court last year and assisting in further mental tests given by the department this semester. Her major thesis is a compar- ativ study of Bergson's and Royce's conceptions of time. A; Robert Lincoln Sabin, Junior, is tresurer of the senior Clas. He has demonstrated his executiv ability by the successful work he has done as the chairman of several important committees, among which wer the High- Scool Day committee of last year, the committee entrusted with the task of drawing up the Annual charter, and this years senior Clas-day committee. Mr. Sabin has been activ in debating, beginning his interest in this direction by his member- ship in the John Adams Debating He has debated on his He has distinguisht himself Society. clas team for the last two years. in several lines of athletics, especially tennis, baseball and foot- ball. for three years, and was baseball captain in 1913. He has playd on his clas team in the latter two sports He also rankt recond in the first menis tennis turnament and, paird with Donald Lancelield, won the interclas series of 1914. Mr. Sabin is doing his major work in economics. His the- sis is to be on the Industrial Revolution. Jana. 47.::'-r .,-....l.;:s...,. .V. .

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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL 1915 mg THE SENIORS Donald Elwood Lancefield has a predominant interest in science, with biology as his major subject. During his last two years at Reed, he has been assistant in the biology department and has had charge of the fish hatchery maintaind at the college by the State of Oregon. In con- nection with the hatchery he has conducted a series of successful experiments on the best methods of feeding and raising salmon and trout. His seminar work was on adaptation in relation to chemical equilibrium, and his thesis is on the salmon industry and problems of fish culture. Mr. Lancefield has collaborated in in working up two papers; Notes 012 file Rearing of Salmon, pub- lisht in the Transactions 0f the American Fisheries Society for March, 1915, and Feeding Fin- gerlizzg Salmon, in the Oregon 5170113711071 for September, 1914. He took part in a specimen-collecting trip to Friday Harbor in the summer of 1913. His Other interests in academic work ar also along scientific lines, including sociology and chemistry. He is a member of the Pacific Coast Biological Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A scientific imagination, a judicial quality of mind and the ability to correlate his knoledge on a given topic mark him as a tru scientist in all branches. In athletics, Mr. Lanceheld has been on clas football, base- ball, basketball, track and tennis teams, and captaind the dor- mitory football team in 1912. In tennis, he is one of the best players in college and in the spring of 1913, won the singles championship. He servd on the nrst Athletic Council. As a member of the Student Council his junior year and president of the senior clas, Mr. Lancefield has been prominent in stu- dent affairs. He has also been an activ member of the Drama Club, and was a member of the cast of The Pigeon. CA Ellen Evelyn Fatland has been, from the beginning, one of the most loyal members of the first clas of Reed College. During her freshman year she was elected vice-president of the first Student Council, holding that position until 1913. Be- sides helping in the establishment of student government at Reed, she did important pioneer work on the Quest, was

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REED COLLEGE ANWUJAL 1915 1311 Bessie Catherine Owens has been a major student in the Department of Education. She is interested in her subject chiefly from the sociological standpoint, and supplementary courses which she has elected hav been in the Departments of Sociology and Psycology. Miss Owens had an article, Fighting Unemployment and Destitzttion in- Portland, publisht in the Sur- t'cy for April seventeenth, 1915. For her senior thesis she has workt on a study for mesuring ability in spelling fonetic and non-fonetic words, both studied and unstudied, based on a text given to the ninth grades of thirty-four Portland grammar scools. Miss Owensl extra-curricular activities hav been numerus. In her freshman and senior years she was secretary of her Clas, and as a junior she held the same 0th in the Current Events Club. She has also belongd to the Consumer's Leag and the Drama Club. Possessing a strong contralto voice, Miss Owens has taken part in college musical activities. She has sung with the corus, the Antigone corus and the college quartet. In 1913 she servd on the staf of the '? E Quest. 1n social activities, she has been activ in promoting hiking and skating parties. Miss Owens has taken a very activ part in athletic affairs. She was on the clas basketball team, and was captain in 1914. She is also a good tennis, hand- ball and baseball player. For the past year she has servd as viceepresident of the Athletic Council. After teaching for a few years, Miss Owens expects to do graduate work at Columbia University and later to enter admin- istrativ educational work. As president of the Student Council and student body dur- ing the last two of his three years at Reed, Arthur Andrew Hauck has been intimately connected with the development of student government here. Tact and cheerfulness hav helpt to make him the Choice of the students. Debating and public speaking hav receivd a considerable share of Mr. Haucks attention in his college career. In his freshman year at the University of California he was president of his clas debating club. At Reed he has been vice-president of the John Adams Debating Society and a member of the debate team which defeated the University of Washington at Portland. He has also seen servis in political and social cam- pains in the city, and as reader in Reed Extension Course XI, The Voter and the City of Portland.