Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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sciation 3W. ,madened the r. VQrse and n1 Edith Tume: . by her sum 3 i 00mm M 3 pie to give 34; ngly summ . A. this year lice department a Industrial Girls a d the Biblem? ge. Elizabeth .; r the administratiw nmwmmt Thomas as M 4P3. Rier Q . gTHE. GRIPPI 1920 v THE BIOLOGY CLUB Scientiflcally speaking, if you are a twin you are a tumor. Dr. Torrey, in his talk on cancers and tumors before the Biology Club, proved this dramatic state- ment by definitions. The early part Of the year the Club discussed the physiology of the blood as a tissue. The spleen as a ngaveyard in an incubator of red corpuscles caused a hot discussion. Students presented papers as foundations for informal considera- tions of such topics. Since vacation have been presented the latest developments in such problems as cancers and protein poisoning in talks by Dr. H. B. Torrey, and George Burget of U. of 0. Medical School, and Dr. E. T. Tucker of Portland and Mr. Grant of Oregon Hygiene Society and Mr. Riddle of Reed. Very welcome have been our new members, Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Griffin. The Club has enjoyed their home as its meeting place thruout the year. Dr. Griffin addressed the club and a number of Visitors upon his research work in the Philip- pines for the Carnegie Institute. These meetings were guided the flrst part of the year by Theodore Eliot, President, and Arthur McLean, Secretary. When the president was given op- portunity to work in the University of Kansas, Clinton Wilson was elected to succeed him. CHESS CLUB Chess is one of the most popular indoor sports on the campus. Those indulging in that line of activity are organized into the Reed College Chess Club, an exclusive society in that it excludes from membership all who have not been able to prove Wu themselves sufficiently skillful to defeat a member of the Club in a scheduled game. 0rd Among the many Opportunities offered by the Chess Club are that of competing in a grand tournament once a term and that Of bearing a title, the officers being 65 anWn as King, Queen, and Bishop, winners of the First and second places in the IlOumament as King's Castle, and Queens Castle, respectively, ex-Castles as Knights, and members in general as Pawns. Aspirants to membership should 5 f apply to the executive committee as soon as possible for a try-out game, so as to ants ; get an early date on the calendar and avoid the rush. For the education of those interested but unlearned in the art Of chess, there is a reserve shelf in the library devoted to literature on the subject. Although a knowledge of chess 1s not re- qUiFed for graduation, students will flnd it a very prohtable and delightful outlet for excess energy. It does not count for gym credit. 57

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1.920 A. R. A. No year since the war has seen the Amanda Reed Association as active as it has been during the year 1920-21. Every department has hroadened the scope of its works, and successfully carried on its campaigns. So dlverse and numerous have been the pursuits and endeavors that the chief executlve, Edith Turner: has nearly turned gray trying to keep track of the work being done by herlsubordlnates. The vice-president, Gertrude Opp, also chairman of the social committee, declares after her experience managing parties, that iilt isn t as s1mple to give a party as It looks? but simple or not her management was surpassingly successful. Some of the largest projects credited to the A. R. A. this year have been launched by Orpha Phelps as chairman of the social service department. Of these the distribution of Christmas baskets and the party for Industrial Girls were most notable. Carol Cummings most efficiently conducted the Bible-study group with the help of Mrs. Runyan, an alumna of Reed College. Elizabeth McKinley, chairman of the civic department, evolved a new plan for the administration of her responsibility: the HFireside Discussion Meetings, which will become a lasting institution. A hiking club was formed with Margaret Thomas as chairman. When the roll is called up yonder, Saint Paul will have a special air-express and a clear track reserved to transplant the Reed College Co-operative Store counter and cash-register into the iiHappy Abode. For the worldly existence of that institution is nothing but one kind Samaritanian deed after another. If it isn't supplying a new hair net for some luckless co-ed whose thoughtless dance partner has wrecked her last one its providing a square meal, to one of those hapless individuals whose alarm clock always beats him to breakfast Incidently, the Co-op. endures so much of Pluto brimstone on earth that the celestial Gate- Keeper will rush it to heavenly reiel ut of pure humanitarian principles. Under the astute generalship of Hobart Benson, the Co-op. has completed the eighth year of its existence with coffers overflowing and pennants flying. The iilnfant Industry, of 1913, which has progressed steadily thru two student genera- tions, reached the height of modernity during the past year with a live-Wirevad- vertising campaign and a stock of everything from tweezers to shoestrings, nOt to mention a 1930 model cash-register and a mountain of candy bars endowed with mystlc powers for inveigling stray nickels. 56 33:33.17 1 a 3,3113. l: m 31..er V691 ff :mnvw

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H3 GRIPF'I MCSbe Kimmie 5500K 473 UST where the Jimmy book ever got its nom de plume is a question that Wit: J some Senior might write a thesis on. As far as we know there arent Let 3 any jimmy libraries, or jimmy book stores and all we can say about the '4 : . . z 85 thing is that its just like the old family album, only different. Anyhow, g? a: 39 while we were marauding around the sunset end of the dorm the other 5' : 1' L a . day we discovered one of these rare animals and took it into captivity. Not ?wmn . much to look at! just a little black scrap book With jAMES gilded across it i L W, ,. and 1920-21 down in one corner. But oh! What tragedies, what triumphs, what: romances, what wonders, its sober covers camouHage! On its title page is a picture of Dr. Scholz, Mrs. Scholz and the three little 2 ? prexies. For undoubtedly the coming of our new Prexy was a super-Climax for a M4 b r ., successful year. Who could forget that epochal noon when Doe. Knowlton ruined ;? f H a perfectly good potato salad lunch by telling us that Reed had a new president innifi; due in about five weeks? No one, we say, no one! And breathes there a man with ... L - my soul so dead as to lose the mutual open-heartedness and friendship with which we m: m? L. met our new president when he took his place at the head of the faculty table for : the first time? Not one, we affirm, not one! There was no blasting of bells and ringing of trumpets when he reached the campus. He just slipped in one morning . while everybody was sleeping and had his carpets half laid before anybody dis- 1'- U l ' covered him. And there was a lot of Reed history made in the reception with which m z: '1 .--. we welcomed him and his little family to our midst. Yes, undoubtedly President time t? .; - Scholz is not only the crowning event of a year gone by, but a herald of a new and m . , rejuvenated Reed. , t Lulmfuz Either Cupid had such a volume of Reed business last year that he haSn't mag; recovered yet or Reed has found its place on the Minervian boycott list. Anyway 3:er ,3 a the Jimmy book has a sad tale for the impregnable bachelor strongholds, for even 15! m : as we go to press, the engagement section of the little tell-tale volume is deplete 1W save for two small cards. ::Clifford Zollinger-Helen WattaDaydodger partyH Ru V one says. Nuff sed. But Heavens! ::W'ard FosteraaElizabeth PeataApril 267 ii We , Cupids aim must be true when he lands such small quarry. Step forth, you : laggatds! Tis three years yet till leap year, and theres a place waiting for your .. card in the Jimmy book. Wonder if Cupid doesn't think Reed is going to the 1375 n. proverbial bow-wows? mum L Oh, the cold irony of Fate! we must bestow honors for the first undergraduate h; w- : nuptials upon a fallen member of the spinster clan. :Tis cruel, but so sayeth the h m 3 :: Jimmy book. Mrs. Gertrude Hungate Hodgson broke the sad news to her mournful i 'aL V's sisters on her return from Christmas vacation. The old ship of emarriage shouuldnyt h; i' K 9 r 1de $0 rough SIHC6 some of our physics majors spread oil on the chOppy sea of gift wIr- i3 matrimony. Ed Kline demded to international about it by choosing Canada for X; ' i i n 3 I n a his hbetter 1, but the bands that unlted our 011 king and a former freshman sparkle W: L Wit romance that gives the Vreeland-Mayo announcement a significant place in ear. in. : 58 We l. .. a x Q?