Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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I801 REED lie. Meanwhile the meetings furnish abundant entertainment and occasional intelligible French conversation. BIOLOGY CLUB N THE spring of 1913 some of the men interested in biology formd the Biology Club. This began as a center of discussion for current biological prob- 8 lems, and the latest research relating to these prob- S lems. The meetings wer held every fortnight. At LWQ some of these meetings there wer lectures by ont- siders to which the college was invited. One interesting evening was given over to hearing Mr. W. L. Finley speak and seeing some of his bird pictures. Other meetings wer conducted by the members. In the folloing fall women wer admitted to the club and the meetings wer opend t0 the college public. Some general biological questions and certain tecnical ones wer discust by the members. Dr. C. F. Hodge spoke to the club concerning nature study for children, Dr. Ralph Matson, concerning tuber- culosis, Dr. C. S. White concerning public helth. The attend- ance was regular and considerable interest was manifested. During the current year the club has confined its discus- sion to the general subject of heredity. Lectures hav been given by Dr. Torrey and by members on varius aspects of the subject. COLLEGE ANNUAL -1- 1915 Altho none of the charter members wil be in college next year, the traditions of the club hav been wel establisht and handed down to the newer members. These traditions may be summarized: the dominant interest of the club is intellectual; the club is concernd only with the vital biological problems of the day; it meets regularly and never postpones its meetings; each member in his turn to address the club givs a thoughtful and carefully prepared paper. CHES CLUB RGANIZED ches playing was introduced into Reed s College in the fall of 1912 when a ches club was organized under the direction of Mr. XVood with Qj Lloyd Carrick and Roland Bristol as president and secretary. Except for occasional games among the members, little playing was done until the fall of 1914. At that time Lowell Bradford was elected turnament manager and conducted a three months' ranking turnament in which thirty men participated. The playing during the spring semester was supervised by Walter Carl as president and Horace Miller as secretary-tresurer. Two turnainents wer held; one was a percentage turnament won by Mr. Carl, and the other a challenge turnament with the Acacia Club of Portland. With enthusiasm stil high, ches bids fair to become permanently a favorit indoor game at Reed.

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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL + 1915 late in the spring. Papers wer red dealing with the origins of tragedy, with the beginnings of comedy, with the Greek theater, and with modern recasts of Sophoclesl O'cdipus Tyrannus; a play of Aristophanes was red aloud and discust. At the end of this course of study the club put to the test its knoledge thus gaind by presenting a tragedy of Sophocles, and so completed the work of the first year. During this last year the club has made a brief survey of the facts about Greek and Roman society. At successiv meetings different members hav traced upper-clas Greek and Roman thru their lives. Their customs in matters of birth, nursing, pedagoging, marrying and buryinOt; their work and their play; their duties as citizens, in the agora and forum; their religins duties, as priests of their households; their dres and manners; their modes of social intercourse; their ideas regarding the position of women; these ar the salient points coverd in the second year's study. Again, putting to the trial the practical value of a theoretical course, the club gave a dinner in the style of the early Roman Empire. The members, all in tnnics and togas. reclined at 10 tables; they drank the helth of the poets, proposed by a pseudo-Maecenas, in grape-juice Falernian; listend to a Greek bard Chant Theocritus; watcht bnffoons and dancing girls, and feasted all the while on classic pabulum above reproach,-both mere food and Latin cone versation. And as at the banquet. so thruout the year, n'from eg to appleil work and play hav gone on wel together. FRENCH CLUB HE members of liAcadcsmic wer not, so far as any- one can recall, brought together by any dominant or earnest purpose, and to the present time there has l: $ been no constitution, by-laws, or other instrument to insure the perpetual existence of this body. There is no charter, no code of procedure; the election of offisers has never been cald to mind. Roberts' Rules of Order hav never been studied by IiAcadi'ml'eJ-and all the members may talk simultaneusly if they wish. In short, the one common tendency, and the one regular habit of the group is to support the rule, clzaczm faz't comme 1'! lm' plait. The business of llAcadcgmie has been to amuse itself with anything in French that makes an appeal. Readings and con- versation in a more or les pure form of Gallic diction ar prac- tist when the members come in session. Moliere has his ad- mirers among those of the members who ar inclined toward comedy, and consequently several of the meetings hav been devoted to selni-performances of the Bourgeois Gentilhonmir. The members say they wil do a great deal more presently, and possibly they may persist in their intentions. There wil soon be several complete sets of plans to cover the activities of l'Acadeiizic for several years to come. Accordingly the mem- bers, if their minds hold, wil sometime put several perform- ances of favorit French dramatic masterpieces before the pub- ,ffjrv-i w J .4351-

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1 REED COLLEGE ADUWUAL COOPERATIV STORE N THE spring of 1912 President Foster decided I to start the cooperativ store for the purpose of sup- plying such things as paper and books to the stu- fg? dents more conveniently than was otherwise possi- S ble. He shoed his faith and interest in the new bag venture by himself advancing the capital necessary to make it a reality. It was decided that the profits for the first year or two should be used to bild up a stock sufficiently large and com- plete to put the store on a permanent footing. In consequence of this decision all merchandise has, up to the present time, been sold at regular retail prices. A plan is now in the hands of the Student Council to make the store truly 1icooperativfi The present stock is such that in future the profits can be returnd to the purchasers as divi- dends. Beginning with September, 1915, as many students as de- sire to do so may become stockholders in the store. Upon pay- ment of the price of his share the stockholder becomes entitled to receive dividends on the earnings of the store. A record wil be kept of the purchases made by each stockholder and dividends declared accordingly. In addition to a percentage of his own expenditure each stockholder wil receive a dividend upon the purchases of those students who own no stock in the A;4 m. LGuwX + 1915 l$l store. Each stockholder wil, upon leavingeollege, receive the original sum which he spent for his stock. Thus the mony invested in shares wil constitute a trust fund which wil serv to insure the credit of the store and keep it on a firm financial basis. It is hoped that this plan wil effect a considerable sav- ing to the stockholders. The government of the store wil be in the hands of a board of directors elected by and responsible to the stockhold- ers. This board wil hire the manager, audit his account, and determin the general policy of the store. LITERAT CLUB HE Literat Club has met every two weeks during 1 I the past semester in Dr. Cushing's apartments. Each member has red at every meeting a piece of $ his own riting for the criticism of the others, and, in connection with the verse and prose sketches submitted, the club has discust informally matters of style, tecnic, and literary effect. The club is without formal organization, and has no ofhsers.