University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Vs. unit ,. JOHN Ii. ANDERSON Cbilfl lVelf1H'f .46 XVILBUR H. CHERRY Law 1 -'rw T. ' i 3 5 . .2 -..,-1. 1 THE PROFESSORS STUDY XVI-IIIRE Tifna NIIDNIGI-IT ou- BURNS BRIGHT, there isn't always a senior boning for a final. The faculty knows that they can never stop studying if they are to help their students and the whole world learn. Reading, com- piling and gathering statistics is a greater part of a professor's work than the short hours of his lecture sessions. Over a period of ten to fourteen years Dr. John E. Anderson, director of the Institute of Child Nvelfare, has directed longitudinal, or long term, studies of the physical, mental and social growth and change of children. The Supreme Court has appointed NVilbur H. Cherry, professor of law, to a committee which will study revision of federal rules and statutes. Two other studies of law are in progress. The first is Roy G. Blal4ey's work on the federal income tax which is approaching the subject from the angle of distribu- tion. Also under way is his study of total and percentage income in the State of Minnesota. The fair trade laws and their effect on drug prices are being investigated by Associate Professor Harry Ostlund of the business school, whose survey will cover the entire United States. Kenneth H. Baker, assistant professor of psychology, has done extensive work on public opinion polls in an effort to determine and increase their accuracy. Through his study of Raimbaut d'Orange, a Provencal troubador, Walter T. Pattison, associate professor of romance languages, was able to locate twenty-three man- uscripts during a year in Paris and a summer in Avignon to add to the four that were available onthe poet when his work began. Dr. Peter J. Brekhus, professor of medical science, is making a study of mouth Conditions of freshmen which will form the basis for a ten-year comparison. But every professor studies. If a student works two hours for each hour of class, a professor works four or forty. From their painstaking research comes the hnger- tip knowledge that modern life demands. ROY G. BLAKEY BIIXTIIFXS KENNETH H. BAKER Psychology WALTER T. PATTISON HARRY J. OSTLUND Romanre Languages Business

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LAURENCE SCHMECKEBIER Fillf' Arlx ins JOSEPH M. THOMAS English f .a 4 Qfiifacttilfyt THE PROFESSORS YWRITE AND EXAMINATIONS AND GRADE REPORTS are only a bi-product of professorial pens. Dozens of books, en- cyclopedic and digested, chatty and erudite, are turned out by presses all over the country, the creative efforts of faculty men in every department of the University. Mexican Art, beautifully illustrated and popularly written, was the work of Laurence Schmeckebier, chair- man of the department of fine arts, and was published by the University Press. Beginners who depend upon the Burkhard series of elementary German texts now have the Hfth of the set to help them on their wayg Oscar W. Burkhard, chair- man of the German department and Lynwood Downs, assistant professor completed Schreiben Sie Deutsch this fall. In the shadow of the current war, Harold C. Deutsch, professor of history, is at work on a new history of the last world war. After three years of intensive work, Raymond L. Grismer, associate professor of romance languages, pub- lished early this fall an Index to 12,000 Spanish Ameri- can Authors, which is already widely used in this country and in Spanish America itself. Shakespeare came in for double consideration with Elmer E. Stoll's Shakespeare's Young Loversf' scheduled for early publication, and Frederic Skinner, assistant professor of psychology, analyzing his sonnets. OSCAR C. BURKHARD Gcr1na11 Five hundred fifty thousand words long and still growing is the anthology of Great English Prose Writers on which Joseph M. Thomas, assistant dean of the senior college, is already reading proof. A small book in itself is the ofhcial register of faculty publications which puts to shame any half-column list- ing of work in progress. A-m.,,,g RAYMOND L. GRISMER HAROLD C. DEUTSCH Romance Laugzuzges H isto ry

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..-wx .I B wi, ., il- fist? ai! 1.1 fit. T E .gf 'mama -J.. 1. VVILLIAM E. PETERSEN JEAN F. PICCARD MILES A. TINKER Dairy Plmlmfidp-Ji Aeromnrlinzl E1Igi!ll'C'l'fI7g Pgyfholpgy THE PROFESSORS EXPERIMENT EVERY LABORATORY isn't Bunsen-burner-equipped and tograph, he is attempting to discover the structure of lined with long tables. All over the campus-in crowded molecules. offices and unsuspected real-life laboratories as well as in the science buildings-there are professors experi- menting with theories, serums and mechanical gadgets. Jean F. Piccard, professor of aeronautical engineering, whose balloon ascensions into the stratosphere are world famous, is testing the use of sounding balloons in radio transmission. Experimental study of milk secretion in dairy cattle is the basis of a recently published text on Dairy Science by Dr. XVilliam E. Petersen, professor of dairy husbandry. With a large camera, built for photographing eye movements, Miles A. Tinker, associate professor of psy- chology, is studying the effects of lighting and illumi- nation in relation to eye strain. The separation of isotopes is the experimental work which George Glackler, professor of physical chemistry, has assigned himself this year. Through use of the spec- GEORGE GLOCKLER Physical Chemistry W P! , - Jjrzofogimy D, ARM Under the direction of Dr. NVallace D. Armstrong, who is on leave on a Commonwealth fellowship, grad- uates in dentistry are doing fundamental research on the composition of teeth and bones, the prevention of tooth decay and the mechanism of bone production. The director of the Engineering Experiment Station, Dr. Frank B. Rowley, is working on problems of housing insulation to reduce summer heat and winter cold. Dr. Milan V. Norvak is perfecting a technique for making blood transfusions safer through the use of sul- fanilimide which protects blood stored in blood banksn from the growth of bacteria. Whether they use the complicated machinery of the physics department, or merely their own alert eyes and ears, the professors let no opportunity for intelligent experimentation pass unnoticed. Closely allied with every phase of academic work, it is the basis of the ideas and the proofs, the scientific writing and the study, that makes a university more than a drill-field. ALLACE Cbefrlisflj, 1155123 ONG ezzfjxfljl flfgpflvlg B- R0 Wlfllcfll L- lVLFv