University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Dr. Wilson 3. Paul Dr. Dwood Murray «ss The Speech Department made headlines, not only with a new edition of the “Speech Personality , but with its successful debate teams and discussion groups. Its daring experiments in general semantics further served to enhance its widespread reputation. 'Don Hayakawa. author of Language in Action , spent the summer on our campus teaching semantics. Remaining in close contact with the Department of Speech the School of the Theater stood on its own feet, delighting campus audiences with such hits as Berkley Square . Regular camp show units (all DU talent) entertained members of the armed forces with great success. 24

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Joyful disorder and the Intoxicating fragrance of turpentine are life and home to the university's largest and closest—the Department of Art. Very highly rated, the department suffered a severe loss through the illness of Professor John E. Thompson, but remembers the power of his teachings. This year another Colorado painter, Frank Vavra. gives the group an additional viewpoint. Alice Nichols, Assistant Professor, enchants freshmen, teaches crafts and education, and adds her enthusiastic personality to every phase of student life, while ably handling the problems of administration of the department. Working with inadequate facilities and little support from the university, the Art Department has within it a solidarity that makes its work important. Hard-working art students have a humor that is unique and continuous. CHARLES RAMUS teaches the classes in art history and lectures at the exhibitions which appear in the library's Treasure Room. DONALD WIEST, Assistant Professor of Art, is the excellent guide in the commercial fields of art. Exacting and worthwhile classes, greqt energy, and dry humor make him popular. 23

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The Department of English closely cooperated with the Speech Department with its course on English Expression, which is offered in addition to Freshmen English, as well as the literature courses. Laurels were heaped on Dr. Davidson by the Rockefeller Foundation, and he was given a grant to study Western culture, a subject in which he specializes. Students interested in journalism (and there were a few) submitted articles and in'erviews to Mr. and Mrs. Foster of the Rocky Mountain News (a Scripps-Howard paper of which Mr. Fos:er is the editor.) Practical journalistic experience was acquired by budding editors and columnists on the Denver Clarion, our own weekly paper, which managed to get its usual share of trouble. 25