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No. 2, Vol. 46
June 20, 3941
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Guinagh declares . . .
"Someone should picket NCA
for standards of Latin profs"
Someone "ought to picket" the
North Central Association of Col
leges and Secondary schools for
the low standards they have set
up for Latin teachers, according
to Prof. Kevin Guinagh of East
ern Illinois State Teachers college
in an address before the opening
session of the Institute for Latin
teachers in the Student Union
Tuesday morning.
Taking "The Fault, Dear Bru
tus..." as his title, Professor
Guinagh explained to the 35 teach
ers who had gathered from vari
ous Nebraska high schools and
colleges that the North Central
teaching requirements for Latin
are too low "and therefore schools
administrations too often select
Instructors who teach Latin with
their left hand."
Teachers unprepared
One particular criticism made
by the speaker was that credit is
allowed Latin teachers for high
school work which is not the case
in English, history, or social stud
ies. Thus Latin teachers really
are often unprepared, he said.
"The good Latin teacher is prob
ably better than good teachers
on other faculties, but the bad
Latin teacher is much worse," de
clared Professor Guinagh, who is
a visiting professor of Latin in
the University's current summer
school. "Latin needs more selling
and less dignity in our curricula,"
he added.
Prof. R. D. Moritz, dean of the
summer school, briefly welcomed
those attending the institute, and
Prof. M. S. Ginsburg of the Uni
versity classics department pre
sented an illustrated lecture on
"Visual Education and Latin."
Prof. C. A. Forbes presided.
J. E. Lawrence, editor of the
Lincoln Star, addressed the group
at luncheon Tuesday noon on the
value of classics in modern life.
Language has part
"Language has a definite part
in the progress of civilization, and
the better it is developed the
higher the degree of civilization,"
he stated. "Sixty percent of Eng
lish words come from Latin de
rivatives which makes Latin a
valuable study in the expression
or ciear laeas.
Tanners take
short course
on ag campus
Dean Uurr welcomes
visitors; Newell bhows
advantage of Nebr. seed
Over 150 extension agents,
farmers, and seedsmen from east
ern Nebraska came to ag campus
Wednesday for a Hhort course on
new methoda in crop production,
at the annual crops and soils field
day sponsored by the department
of agronomy.
Dean W. W. Burr welcomed the
visitors at t he opening afternoon
nession in the student activities
building, where G. T. Webster
agronomist, outlined the work be
ing done on alfalfa breeding, oat
varieties, winter wheat, rate find
date seed tests of spring grass,
"right side up" farming or sub
surface tillage, and brome grass
adaptation.
Nebr. experiments.
L. C. Newell of the federal bu-'
reau of plant industry, told the
gathering that experimental plant
ing at the college have shown su
periority of local strains of brome
grass, as compared with those
from sand regions farther north
than Nebraska.
Pointing out that most of the
seed planted in Nebraska pre
viously has been of the northern
varieties, Newell aald results of
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A panel discussion is scheduled
for Tuesday afternoon with Mrs.
Bessie S. Rathbun of Omaha Cen
tral high school presiding. The
subject will be "Getting the 'How'
of It," and taking part will be
the following:
Miss Jessie B. Jury, Lincoln:
How to Face College Latin Re
quirements. Miss Bertha Carter, Lexington:
How to Teach Derivatives.
Prof. C. A. Forbes, University
of Nebraska: How to Pronounce
Proper Names Properly.
Miss Helen Lewis, Hastings:
lopic to be announced.
Miss Florence Steuteville,
Wayne: How to Hold the Latin
Pupils from Year to Year.
Wednesday's program will in
clude a talk on "The Latin
Teacher and General Language"
by Professor Guinagh in the
morning, to be followed by "Illus
trative Aids for Latin" by Miss
Gertrude McEachen of the Teach
ers College high school. Dean
C. H. Oldfather of the College of
Arts and Sciences will address a
luncheon on "Augustus Dictator
and His Descendants," and the
afternoon will feature a panel discussion.
Urn profs taught
As the British and Free French
battle on a wavering front this
week with the Vichy government
for the ocntrol of Syria, headlines
have served to recall to two uni
versity faculty members years
spent in that country and other
parts of the near east during more
settled times.
Dean Oldfather of the arts and
sciences college was an instructor
in the Syrian Protestant college at
Beirut from 1912 to 1914. Dr.
Hokh of the college of pharmacy
was the first professor of pharma
cology, from 1929 to 1934, at the
same Institution which by time
had changed its name to the
American university of Beirut. His
younger son, Gunnar, was born in
the university hospital during the
Hoicks' residence in Beirut.
Many invasions.
The ancient capital of the Leba
nese republic bears the marks of
many previous invasions, Dr
Hoick recalls in some interesting
reminiscences of the country. Hahr
el Kelb, or River of the Dog, is the
river which supplies Beirut with
sweet drinking water the year
round from the melting snows of
the 10,000 foot high Lebanon
mountains. Running behind the
foothills of these mountains it
empties into the Mediterranean
seven miles north of the city. On
the walla of the cliffs at this place
the marching armies of the Assy
rians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Ro
mans have commemorated their
wars by now weather-worn in
scriptions. Here the crusaders
passed, and. the more modem
AmnieirocaoD student): caught
dbh vmr to teDD experiences
Jannke gets
$50 to study
varicose veins
Prof. Paul J. Jannke of the col
lege of pharmacy has been granted
$50 by the American Association
for the Advancement of Science in
collaboration with the Nebraska
Academy of Sciences for the pur
pose of seeking an improved
medicament for the treatment of
varicose veins, it was announced
Monday by an appropriating com
mittee headed by Prof. H. G. Dem
ing of the chemistry department.
Present medical substances be
ing used in such treatment are not
uniform, according to Dr. Jannke.
The department of pharmacy and
pharmaceutical chemistry will
make a chemical investigation of
the problem, while the department
of physiology and pharmacology
will make a study of the pharma
cological aspects of chemicals of
fered by the former. Professor
Jannke will direct the research
work which will probably be un
dertaken by graduate students.
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French told of their campaign in
18G0. Most recently a bronze
plaque placed there describes the
victory of General Allenby and his
allies in the wur of 1914-18.
American entrance.
But there is one invasion which
the historian will not fjful de
scribed at the Dog River site, ac
cording to Dr. Hole'.:. That is "the
Invasion of the American good
will" which had its greatest up
swing with the arrival in Syria of
Doctor Daniel Bliss, an American
missionary taid teacher, in 1862.
When BMss returned in 1864 from
a visit to England and the United
Statest he brought with him a
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Walter Illsley, American student who was trapped in nazi-occu-pied
Europe, will speak on "War Experiences in Europe " next Wed
nesday, at 8:00 p. m. in the Union ballroom. Illsley cri's-crossed the
European continent three times before he found an emergency exit
through Petsamo, Finland, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle
vu.s ttoroda in ivm to study
Two Nobraskans
graduate in east
HANOVER, N. H. Two men
from Nebraska, Paul William
Speier of 2620 Ryons street, Lin
coln, and Alfred Wallace Gor
don, jr., of 3611 Jackson street,
Omaha, were among the 485 Dart
mouth college seniors who re
ceived the bachelor of arts degree
at the 172nd commencement of the
college here. President Ernest
Martin Hopkins, whose 25th an
niversary as head of the college
coincides with commencement
festivities, will confer the degrees
in the Bema, outdoor amphitheater
which is the traditional scene of
Dartmouth graduation exercises.
Ten honorary degrees will also
be conferred. Among those hon
ored will be Wendell Willkie, Sec
retary of the Navy Frank Knox,
Van Wyck Brooks, and Carl Sandburg.
in once calm Syria
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charter granted by the legislature
of the state of New York, author
izing him to establish the non-sectarian
Syrian Protestant college.
In I860 the first classes were held
in a rented house in the foothills
of the Lebanons, a short distance
from Beirut, with a total of 16 stu
dents. Best outside U. S.
The institution has finally be
come the greatest American uni
versity outside the United States,
consisting of 44 buildings and hav
ing an annual enroll-nent of ap
proximately 1,300 students.
Alumni in large numbers have
come to occupy positions of high
in Germany, he altered his plans
ai me outbreak
of the war and
went to the Scandinavian countries
to study at the International Peo
ples College in Denmark. On nu
merous occasions he made trips
thru Sweden and during the Rus-so-Finnish
war volunteered with
Danish workers to help in the mu
nitions factories in Finland.
Returns to Germany.
When the nazis moved into Den
mark, he returned to Germany
where he worked in the American
embassy and attended the Univer
sity of Beilin. There he had an
opportunity to see the R. A. F. in
action, to live on German rations,
and to become familiar with the
German point of view.
He mingled with German sol
diers in Denmark and on transport
ships in the Baltic sea. He talked
with Finnish soldiers returning
from the Mannerheim line. He
heard Hitler's speeches and was
jailed several times on suspicion of
being a nazi spy.
Illsloy is now enrolled at Michi
gan State since his return in Sep
tember, 1940.
Overlooking the blue Mediter
ranean, the American university at
Beirut is considered the best Amer
ican institute outside the United
States.
In the extreme right is Dr
Hoick with some of his chemistry
students during this stay there.
Dean Oldfather taught at Beirut
also.
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importance in their homelands,
such as ministers, judges, direc
tors of public health anfl medical
services and of education.
A former member of the depart"
mcnt of education of Iraq has
written in part: "Beirut acts as a
magnet, attracting students from
all over Iraq. Beirut sets up a
standard of scholarship which is
independent of political influences,
and the present high standing of
a few former medical graduates in
their local communities is sure
evidence of the real worth of th
college training."
