Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL for the study of English. In cooperation with the Amanda Reed Association a handbook for new students is to be put out next fall. During the present semester a talk was given at the college by Dr. Mason of Seattle under the auspices of the association. Discussions wer held to consider missionary opportunities in China for fysicians, chemists and teachers; Mr. McClellan, fleld secretary of the Student Volunteers of America, was here at the time. The association sent four Reed men to the Northwest Yung Men's Christian Association Student Conference at Columbia Beach, Oregon, in June, 1914, and this spring two men wer sent to the College Yung Menls Christian Association Conference held at Newberg, Oregon. DEUTSCHE VEREIN HE Deutsche Verein was organized in 1912 as a club for the study, interpretation and appreciation of all fases of German life. In pursuance of this $ aim, monthly meetings hav since been held, at which the members hav heard lectures on filosofy, literature and art, thereby increasing and enriching their comprehension of German culture. Under the presidency of Arthur Hauck, several interest- ing talks wer arranged. One evening was devoted to a dis .. I .. -4.-. 4.361.; .4.vnn + 1 9 1 5 1771 cussion, by Mr. Stahl, 0f the poetry and filosofy of Nietzsche; another, to the reading of Sudermannys Illagda. Dr. C. H. Chapman gav two talks; on the social dramas 0f Hauptmann, and on the filosofy 0f Rudolph Eucken. Bismark, the man of ilblood and iron was presented to the Verein in a direct, anecdotal fashion by Reverend A. Krause. Another evening was given to Dr. Edward O. Sisson, whose personal contact with the filosofer, Friedrich Paulsen, made possible an in- timate description of this versatil caracter. The Verein en- tertaind its frends with a lecture-recital by Mr. Lucien Becker, in which compositions of Schumann, Strauss and other musicians of the Teutonic strain wer presented. On another occasion, Miss Henrietta Eliot interpreted the art of Holbein and Diirer. In the fall of 1914 the Verein was reorganized into a regular departmental club with Helmuth Krause as Varsit- zender. Since the Great War is now closest to the hart 0f the German, art, literature, and filosofy wer relegated to the fringe of discussion, except as they bore upon the present struggle. Mr. Stahl spoke on some fallacies concerning the Emperor and the war, and Stephenson Smith gave a com- prehensiv talk on William of Germany. Nucia Niemiec de- scribed the Civilization and position of the Poles, giving such a talk as only one can whose whole hart and soul is in her subject.

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VG REED CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HE Reed College Christian Association was 01'- ganized in the spring of 1914. It is not con- nected with the national Yung Menis Christian 52 Association, the basis on which admission is made being somewhat broader than in the national or- g9 ganization. The association has at present titty- seven members of whom thirty-three ar activ and twenty-fonr associate members. Activ members at Hthose who wil con- scientiusly endevor to carry out the interests of the organiza- tion? Associate members ar those Tin sympathy with the work of the association who ar unable to participate activly? The purpose of the association nis to promote Christian felloship and to provide an avenue for its practical expression in servis t0 the communityfy The association has the folloing offisers, elected last spring and continuing in offis this year: President, Milton Runyan; vice-president, tresurer and hed of the budget committee, Henry Norman; secretary and hed of the social and member- ship committees, David Brace; hed of the Bible-study come mittee, Alvin Bradford; and hed of the social servis committee, Marvin Howes. These offisers and heds of committees form a cabinet which is the governing body of the association. The Bible-study committee has this year conducted four courses, two each semester. Those for the first semester, both REED COLLEGE ANNUAL -:- 1915 given by Dr. Latourette, wer The Manhood of the Master, for freshmen only, and The Teaching of Jesus and His Apostles. During the present semester Mr. Wood has conducted a course, The Social Teachings of Jesus, and Dr. Latourette has given seven lectures on China. The social committee has given three smokers, open to all men students. No membership fees at charged by the association. Each year a budget of probable expenses is made out and the amount raised by subscription. The principal item of expense so far has been the social affairs, but the association hopes to be able by next year to make compensation to those of its members activly engaged in social servis work. The social servis committee has done much work during the current year. A Red Cros fund of about a hundred dollars was raised early in the year and much poor relief work, such as the collection of old clothes, was carried on. In the state prohibition campain last fall men wer sent to check the counting of ballots. Six or seven men hav conducted boys, clubs for the Peoples Institute and investigations ar being made as to the feasibility of organizing boysh clubs in connection with the branch libraries. Entertainments hav been given at the Peo- pleis Institute. A survey of the men students of the college has been made to discover how many had experience or ability in social servis work. It is pland to continue this general type of work and to organize classes among the foren immigrants

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1781 In the last semester of this year, literature again came to the fore. The specific fase of inquiry was the drama. Discussions and readings of von H-offmansthal and Schnitzler culminated in the presentation of two one-act plays on Thurs- day evening, March twenty-fifth. Schnitzlerts satire, Die Literatur, was playd in German, and von Hoffmansthalts tragedy, Beth and the F001, was given in translation. While the Deutsche Verein has had an intellectual aim for its prime purpose, it has by no means slighted the social. The German customs of Lieder singing and Kaffce drinking hav added to the plesure of the informal social hour after the program. They ar always regarded by the members as among the most delightful and distinctiv features of the Verein gatherings. CLASSICAL CLUB HE Classical Club was organized in the winter of 1913 by Dr. Rees and the twenty-flve students in the department. Their purpose was to gain some g of that 11knoledge by the way, of Greek and Roman life and letters which the work of the k9 clasroom does not giv. During the two years of its existence the club has met monthly; it has pland a regular course of study for each year and arranged as wel for two REED COLLEGE ANNUAL 4- 1915 lectures by outsiders. Dr. Wilson spoke at one of the regular meetings on Troy as a trade-route, and at another meeting Miss Mary Frances Isom gave an interesting account of her trip thru Greece. These talks wer, however, only interludes in the regular work of the club. During the first year attention centerd 0n the drama, since it had been decided to stage the Antigone ROMAN BANQUET 1915