University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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m ' The H DTYLLC o m e G u a r 33] HI d T] ' ) ;;i i ' tlir I ' lilK ' st uicasui ' f of .Mipj)()i-t to the Wasliingtoiiians who have gone to the firing line, the faculty members remaining at the I ' niversity liave devoted more time tliis year to solving practical problems than they have to tlieir classes and lecture routine. President Henry Snzzallo as chairman of the State Council of De- fense has led tlie way of service in promoting the industrial etificicncy and social welfare which are so essential to victory. The cost of living survey, which foi ' iiied the basis of wages in the shipbuilding industries of Seattle, was compiled by the late Carleton H. Parker, dean of the school of business adminis- tration, whose sudden death in ilarch shocked tile entire campus. As mediator in the labor dis- ])utes at Camp Lewis, fifteen threatened walk- outs were averted by Dr. Parker. In. December lie presented a plan to the lumber interests of tile eastern part of tlie state Avhich resulted in an eight-hour day for the lum- berjacks. In his capacity as unofficial member of the mediation commission of Secretary Wilson. Dr. Parker investigated a raise of wages for the local gas employees and was mediator in the tlireatened iongshoremen ' s strike. Witii keen insight into the coming military needs, about fifty faculty members started intensive military drill shortly after war was declared. As a result twenty-one of these have rendei-ed invaluable sei-vice tliis year as captain-instructors in the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps. Through lectures, pamphlet.s, and newspapers, the home economies department, under the lead- ei-ship of Miss Etfie I. Raitt, in co-operation with the late Miss Mary F. Rausch of the extension division, has reached the women of the entire state with advice on the most practical ways to save wheat, sugar, fats and meat, and instructions for the successful use of substitutes. At the Home Economics exiiibit March 1 and 2. l.. i(IO Seattle housewives had a practical demon- stration of all pha.ses of food and eltttlies con.servation. Sliortly after the ()]ieiiiiig of sehool in the fall tlie Students Friendshiji ' ; v Fund campaign be gaii. The ([Uota lor the I ' liiversity UN M Join

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n [DC iTYggr iU w hour, for tostiiifr puri)ost ' s. A ddii-atc wiml Imlaiiei ' valui-d at $900 tests wiinl lircssures at all aii rk ' s as they aftVet the plaiu ' s of tin- machine. Ill afconiaiici ' with the vision of prai-tieal service to which the university has aspired in its war preparations, the fnur-ciiiarter system was inaugurated. I ' lider this plan the hufre investment w hich the university represents is utilized eleven months of the year, and fornii r torn- year courses may now be eoin- ])h ' tiMl in threi ' . Ill an atlcliipt adci|ua1cly to sii|i|ily tin- needs of tlic state, tile sehoiil iiT Imsinrss adiniiiistration was advanced to the rank of coUefre. It had already siiown its :reat praetieal value in cout rihutiiif economic surveys and solving labor j)rolilenis, wlicii Dean ( ' arletoii II. Parker ' s sudden (b ' ath oeeurrccl lo interfere with the iiuiinMJiate ]ilaiis. The advancement of tlie department of journalism to a school makes a total of nine colleges and three schools on the campus. The razing of the ■ Daily Shack and the removal to new ([iiarters in Commerce hall was iiiarkecl by a reunion of former students in the department, to many of whom the old building meant college. The spirit of the old department survived the trans])lanting and is building new traditions around its new haunts. The next to the last of the temporary structures left from the A. Y. P. K. met its doom along with the Daily shack when the law building was torn down. The law students also were given a tloor in Commerce hall, where their valuable library is no longer endangered by dampness and rains. But the appreciation of beauty and sentiment has not been Avholly crowded out by the stern necessity of war time curricula. In September the Scandi- navians of the Northwest presented to the university a bronze bust of Grieg, their immortal composer. In tlie spring the college of business administration received as a gift from the city of Paris a miniature of the Joan of Arc of Fic- miet. Baron de Constana, member of the French senate, who visited the eani- ]ius several years ago. was in.strumeiitai in eeuring the gift for the university. nil oo

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HIoc ITYELC :o VN was . ' i ii.L ' oO. Till stiiilciit I ' ommittee raised the amount to slO.OOO and in tin- week foHowin aftually pledfrcd over sl.i.OOO. lar}, ' cly tlirou rli tin- cnthusiasni nf K. M. I ' adcH ' oi ' d. professor of Enjilisli. who lia l eliariri ' of iIm- inniitai ' rn. He- lore llie Cliristinas liolidays tlie Retl Cross drive took I lie lauipiis by stoi-m : a reeord of practically one iiundred jier rent nienibersliiji was achieved by the university under thi ' direction of Leslie .1. Ayer, jirofessor of law. -Mr-. Ayer is also eliairinaii of the campus Minute Men. lloiace !. livers, head nt llie elieinisliy de]iarl Mien I . lel ' l his |)(isiii(in as head ol I lie war eiiier cnev coniiniliee to ro into uiiitorni as a cajitain in the as and flame regiment. William M. Deiin. associate professor of chemistry, has co-operated in i-esearch directed toward the improvement of a special line of explosives, and has exiiei-inuMited wilii poisonous jrases for offensive ■warfai-e. A Doctor of Philosophy degree did not deter Conrad Tressman, instructor in German, from spending his summer as an emergency harvest hand in Ion- tana. E. O. Eckelmau, assistant professor from tin- same department, woi ' ked in a local shipyard as stage helper. Sphagnum moss, which grows so aliundanlly in western Wasliington. has been found to be one of the finest surgical dressings known, and tin ' in- vestigation, testing, and developing of the local siipply has been largtMy in the hands of J. W. Hotson, assistant professor of botany. As recognition of his entliusiasm and energy he was appointed director of sphagnum moss for the northwest division of the Red Cross. Bacteriological analyses of products sent in by the United States district attorneys of Seattle and Portland for poisons and diseases have been made by ( ' . W. Johnson, dean of the College of Pharmacy, and Edith Hindman. in- structor in pliarmac.N ' . Two Red Cross institutes for home service workers were conducted during the year by William F. Ogburn, professor of sociology. A six-weeks ' course for non-commissioned officers in the quartermaster ' s corps was iiardly completed under the direction of Lewis Lilly last winter when he received appointment as assistant to the comptroller of the American Red Cross in France, and forthwith sailed for Europe. Arthur R. Priest, dean of men. was completing a comprehensive card catalogue of university men in service when he was selected by tlu ' Parents ' Association as their representa- tive in Paris and went to establish lieadi(iiai ' ters there for all nn-n in service from the State of Washington. To sorting sphagiuim moss practicall.x ' ever, - ■• w , member of the faculty has devoted sonu ' time, uuin. - a great deal. Facult.y women have assisted the Fac- ulty Wives ' Red Cross Auxiliary in making the sui-gical liressings, and through theii- co-operative effort and the help of the freshman antl sophomoi ' e girls who were required to devote two hours each week during the third (piarter to the dressings, man.v tiiousanils of pads were finished and sent to hos]ii- iSlIH 3nIQ