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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Sunday. May 5, 1953 College of Arts and Science -'Heart of University' 2M By HENRY W. CLUNE SEND YOUR 0KY CDMtt TO TAUB'SU 1 GREATEST HUMAN BEING The place was filled; all of the tables were taken. People, waiting for seats, stood three deep in the back of the halL The lights were low and the band was moaning. The hour was going on to midnight For more than four hours we had been waiting for a phenomenon that already as more than two hours overdue.

A little sourly, I recalled a remark of the late Ernest Hemingway. The sole purpose of the cabaret," said Mr. Hemingway, "is for unattended men to find complaisant women. All the rest is waiting time in bad air." "Dearie," I said, looking across the table at Mama, whose enthusiasm for this expedition, hardly febrile at the beginning, had now congealed almost to solid ice, "if you want to leave But she said "No," quite tactfully. Besides, she implied, it would be impolite to get up and walk out on the others at the table.

One was Romolo De Spirito, an excellent baritone; the other. Art Argyries, who books Mr. De Spirito, and other acts, in night dubs. So we continued to wait. MIX STANDARP BP BE.

I Can for Pick-Ma Salivary lMfni Vin'hv'iiirtr iif inini -yr; if healthy piece of the Wilson gift was earmarked as "seed money" for the humanities; this has permitted the College to accelerate the pace of its progress in many fields linguistics, anthropology, comparative literature, and others. 3IO.NEY AND BUDGET problems are never far from a dean's thoughts, however, and France talks with equal candor of these. The growth of the College's activities in the biological sciences has brought pressing needs for new facilities: in biology itself, with its expanding programs in genetics and microbiology; in psychology; and in Prof. E. Roy John's youthful but already nationally Brain Research Center.

The most urgent space pressures in brain research were temporarily relieved last fall by a one-story building for the ter. At best, however, the temporary structure is only a stop-gap solution and a fairly unsightly one, as a number of faculty and students have pointed out. In addition, the enormously increased use of Rush Rees Library by students and faculty has mads it necessary for the University to consider major expansion of its library holdings and facilities. Some faculty also see a growing need for an arts center to house the Col lege's Department of Fine Arts, painting and sculpture studios, workshops for resident artists and writers, and facilities for campus theatrical productions. Actually, of course, many of these problems are the result of the College's successes.

Its students are, academically, the best in its history. As the Campus Times commented, many of them want to do independent work, to pursue the very Interests the College is trying to develop through 1 1 recently established four-course curriculum, its expanding Honors Program, its increasingly varied cultural events. Small wonder that campus facilities that were developed several decades ago no longer meet the needs of such students or of their scholar-teachers. To some thoughtful members of the College, the problems of success are weighty indeed. And a recent faculty report indicates that the College of Arts and Science, having come a long way, still has a distance to go.

With this, few would disagree. Yet the feeling particularly among younger members of the College is that the forces set in motion during the past several years are leading the College steadily toward the academic summit. And, they're looking forward to the climb. of scholars as essentially a hermit breed, most of them depend on the intellectual give and take of living and working among colleagues in their own and related fields. Moreover, they are shrewd enough to know the value that accrues to their own work by having to subject their pet 'ideas to the hard-boiled scrutiny of competent fellow-faculty.

Today the College Is finding it easier to attract outstanding people, despite the fact that it is competing with some of the nation's top universities for the relative handful of first-rank men and women. Equally important, Rochester has been successful in holding on to its faculty. (More than one member has turned down the lure of a college presidency or deanship elsewhere, and not long ago one refused an appointment as a Fellow at Oxford.) Himself an economist, France candidly observes that no small part of the College's attraction lies in the University's increasingly favorable salary schedule and its generous program of faculty benefits. He notes, too, that "the real thrust in the development of the humanities has come since the $1 million gift of the Joseph R. Wilson and Joseph C.

Wilson families a couple of years ago. A Aggravated by LOW WATER PRESSURE DISCOLORED WATER TOO LITTLE WATER SUDDENLY, like a wraith, a young man noiselessly slid a chair up to our table, tat down, and turned upon us eyes that glowed through the witching hour gloom of the Glen Casino, Williamsville, N.Y., like incandescents. Indeed, they glowed hotter than incandescents. There was something in them of tha consuming fire of a man who had all but seen the Holy GraiL They were the eyes of Pygmalion at the moment Galatea turned from ivory into living flesh. They were Napoleon's eyes at the time of his august declamation in Egypt: "Soldiers, from the summit of yonder Pyramids, 40 centuries look down upon you:" "She's here," the young man said, and there was a reverential tremor in his tone.

"She has returned." He paused, to steady his voice; resumed majestically. "She outdrew the Queen by thousands. By tens of thousands!" "What queen?" The Queen of England," the young man said. "She is back from Hamilton, by helicopter. The mass of humanity was dense around Ask About Our NEW BATHROOMS and BASEBOARD HEATING For Campttaat Installation of Cepptr Tublnf Cnnsuft JAMES J.

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Great salvos of applause. Bravos! The mayor could hardly be heard above the din. Ah-a-a he broke off, and shook his head at the wonder of it. He was speaking of Miss Jayne Mansfield, the stellar attraction at the Glen Casino. Incredulous, I asked the young man, "How could she possibly outdraw the Queen in the Queen's own do- mm iw 4mf lit of your your a super ft of beautiful decorator cor- tea JW' -W SA (o) m) Va related furniture choice.

Imagine bargain like this. IT'S EASY TO PAY THE RUBEN'S WAY! II Sum Catiaue4 from Peqt 1M mainly undergraduate work to a college whose departments run the full academic gamut from bachelor to postdoctoral programs. And it takes some doing to provide the physical base and the scholarly climate for productive research in a dozen or more new areas of academic inquiry. That Rochester's College of Arts and Science has made this jump adding five new doctoral programs in the college during the last six years is primarily due to three things. Dean France believes.

They are not necessarily in order of importance men, motivation, and money. Getting the men who could tackle the job of building new departments in some cases, from scratch was the first task. The University concentrated much of its initial recruitment efforts on getting top-drawer department heads men who themselves were able teacher-scholars and who, in addition, enjoyed the prospect of "creating" their own departments. The chairmen, in turn, set their sights on attracting a corps of men in the prime of academic life who are in the process of making their reputations, not living on them," as one faculty member described the newcomers). It was obvious that for a college of moderate size it would be foolhardy to try to cover the entire spectrum of scholarly activity in every field.

As a result, in their research and graduate programs, the departments have tended to specialize in few, highly significant subject areas. In a sense, each newcomer's arrival made it easier to hire the next, France explains, because, despite the popular image Oregon Holds Mystery of Lost Tongues By JAME J. DOYLE PORTLAND, Ore. The vanishing Indian languages of Oregon may unlock some linguistic mysteries for anthropologists, according to Dr. Joe Pierce of Portland State College.

When the white man arrived in the Oregon country about 150 years ago, Dr. Pierce said, there were possibly 52 separate languages being spoken here. Many have died, and a few are on the way out. Pierce, who is going to spend the summer trying to track down and record the dying tongues, says about 15 languages remain, of which little is known. They have never been written down or recorded.

OREGON may have the key to "upset or confirm the linguistic theory," he said. This theory Is part of a study to unravel the languages that derived from the six basic language stocks that were spoke on this continent. Of those six stocks, four of them and possibly five-were spoken in Oregon. And three of them were spoken by tribes living side-by-side for centuries in a coastal strip area of Oregon no more than 200 miles long. A fourth dipped into Northern California.

As far as anthropologists have determined, this has never happened anywhere else in the world. In all Europe here are only two language stocks. Another mystery is how these tribes lived so closely without one dominating the others, which' would have resulted in a single tongue for all. PIERCE thinks the tribes of that time, before the arrival of the white man, would not cross mountains. So even if they were aware of another tribe's existence, there was no interchange.

The hard part of track-ing down these languages is to find the "informant" or Indian who does speak a certain language and will cooperate. peP WEEK! THAT'S jLT- RIGHT OUHITV fOI CV 71 YCa7T 1 -4200 fcj ll if i i 1 1 0. a 0001 Si if A innna INSTANT CREDIT Yea bat your credit It aood hr. Terms arroitfod aroitiatlyl imm (o) iff i in 1. aV la lh.

and wa'H tna y8-r CH arrsmQt we II timt Any St.ek Cirt RjV-- fmm-- i Hila'ilSI 111 v- tlv.SIi 111 o-Pc. 8-Pe. ft minion?" "She is beautiful beyond dreams," said the young man. "She is the greatest human being in the world!" ART ARGYRIES wagged his head approvingly. Mr.

Ar-gyries will book any kind of an act: the Four Hawaiians, performing monkeys, ladies known as "exotics," because of their predilection to undress in public; a poodle dog that will ride a unicycle. "If you got the champion human being of the world for your show," said Mr. Argyries, "she should have top billing. Tops in any line should rate that." "Rumor has it," said Mr. De Spirito, "that besides being the champion human being, Miss Mansfield is the possessor of shall we say? certain ancillary attributes." Mr.

Argyries gave him an arch look. "Roue," said the booking agent. "Romolo, you're a roue." "She has the true artistic flame," said the young man, who had come unbidden to our table, speaking from the wisdom of his vast experience with life since, three years ago, he was graduated from the Fredonia State Teachers' College, not to pursue a pedagogic career, but to publicize the high purposes of the Glen Casino, Harry Altman, Prop. "I say this," the young man added' "not as a press agent, but as one who worships at the feet of genius." "Splendid! Splendid!" approved Mr. Argyries.

"Well declaimed. Whoops but here comes the star!" fHE PHENOMENON that we had been keenly anticipating was about to materialize. The house lights dimmed out, and a baby spot picked up a tall, swarthy young man, a master of ceremonies, who was telling us, "Now ladies and gentlemen now, the MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD!" There was a sound, from the bandstand, like the splitting of the heavens or 1,000 trays of dishes being dropped by careless waiters. The emcee disappeared. And from the wings minced a lady in a dress as tight as a pipe wrench, who reminded me of nothing so much as that fluffy, pinkish candy on a stick that is sold on carnival lots.

She was full of little gasps; she talked baby talk, "Tweet-tweet!" she sang a little song about Plain Jayne and then, running out of genius, she went among the audience to kiss the bald head of a Brother Elk, to cuddle a Brother Moose, to pretend that she carried a very hot torch for a Woodman of the World, whose wife (or lady friend) at his gave Plain Jayne a cold, hard eye of disapproval. She "tweeted" up from the audience, in time, and disappeared, in tiny steps, back stage; reappeared, five minutes later, in another gown, which she removed, in the semi-nebulosity of a cloudy spotlight, in what Plain Jayne announced was a "take-off" of a strip teaser. And that was that! THE FIRST SHOW' which had been announced for 8:30 p.m., closed near midnight, because Miss Mansfield had gone to Hamilton, to draw more people into cheering throngs, we had been told, than the Queen of England had been able to attract. Leaving the hall, I could see that Mama was disgruntled. "Did you like the show?" I asked, timidly.

"If that woman's a movie actress," Mama said, "I can play Beethoven's Ninth on a jews-harp, and I can't EVEN play a jews-harp." And that was all she would say, until we were in the car going home. Oddly, her feeling was shared by Mr. Altman, who had hired Plain Jayne for tha week's run. We encountered him before we left Glen Casino. "That dame said Mr.

Altman, in an opinion diametrically contrary to the dithyramb of his press agent, "she can't do a thing! Not a thing," he emphasized, "and she wants $18,000 a week!" We didn't ask how much he was paying her. But he had filled the hall with a performer who apparently couldn't sing, dance or whistle, getting a fee at the door and adding a minimum table charge. It was the late H. L. Mencken wasn't it? who said, "No one will ever go broke underrating the American taste." And years before and I thought of this in connection with Plain Jayne's reported triumph in Hamilton the dour Scot, Thomas Carlyle, wrote "America's mission is to vulgarize tht world." bee fcU'WJ W.

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