The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-08-23
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
PLANNING NEXT TERMS WORK
New Members Of the Faculty Have
Arrived - Excellent Lecture
Course Arranged For.

G. NJ. Rood, a graduate Of the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin and general Sec
rotary Of the Y. M. c. A. at the Uni
versity Of Washington for the COM
ing year, is now at the university pre-
pairing for the opening Of college.
Mr. Rood is the first secretary to de-
vote his entire time to the Y. M. C. A.
interests at the university and will
undoubtedly strengthen the work ma
terially. The association maintains
an employment bureau to help
students secure positions while in
college. Also it publishes an annual
handbook containing a diary,
schedule of classes, facts about the
university, athletic records and cal
endar and other Information concern
ing all phases Of university life.
This year. for the first time. the
University of Washington will offer
really first-class lecture course in
Denny hall. Ebert Hubbard, editor
of the PhIlistine and chief of the
Roycrofters, will open the course on
October I'd with lecture on "The
Gospel of Work dorado Taft,
Americas greatest sculptor, will ap-
pear late in October; the Jackson
Sammis Concert company will offer
a program in December; Edmund
Vance Cook, the poet, will present
the fourth number in February, and
the series will be closed in April with
an address by U. 8. Senator Robert
NJ. La Toilette.
The University of Washington
footban schedule for the coming sea-
son is now practically complete as
follows: Oct. Z, Whitworth college,
Tacoma or Seattle; Oct. IA, Whit
man college, Seattle; Oct. %, Uni
versity of Idaho, Moscow; Nov. 2,
Washington State college, Pullman;
Nov. II, Sherman Institute (Indian) ,
Seattle; Nov. 1S, University of Ore
gon, Seattle; Nov. 80, Oregon Agri-
cultural college, Seattle. Negotia-
lions are pending for game in Sc
attic on October 21st, which will
complete the schedule.
Two of the fifteen new members of
the faculty at the University of
Washington have arrived preparatory
to the opening o. the college. DR..
Vanderveer Curtis graduated from
Harvard in 1901. took his A. M. de-
gree in 1908, held the Austen Teach
ing fellowship in economies at
Harvard for the past year. He comes
to the university as assistant profess
sor of economics. Professor Frank
Marion Morrison took his A. B. de-
gree at the University of Michigan in
1892, taught in the high schools of
Ohio and Indiana from 1892 to 1897.
was graduate student at the UNIVERSE
ty of Chicago during 1897-8-9, pro-
fessor of mathematics In Illinois col
lege, 1908, and held the same posi-
ton in Duchtel college. Akron, Ohio,
19O3-5. That he comes to the Uni
versity of Washington as assistant
professor of mathematics testifies to
the growing recognition which the
university is commanding throughout
the Eastern and 4-.ddle States.
| Among the improvements to meet
the eyes of returning University OF
Washington students this fall will be
the new School of Mines building.
This structure, 40x110 feet, is situated
next to the power mouse and will con-
tain FORCES and foundry, three
stamp mil and feeder. ore bins,
crusher and concentrating plant COM
plete. The work of the state school
of mines is distinctly practical in its
nature, the students having an ex-
detrimental mine on the campus. A
winter school for prospectors Is one
of the features. Inquiries indicate a
largely increased attendance.