Evening star., 1925-11-15
GERMAN LIBRARY
AS GIFT T0U. OF NJ.
Valued Volumes Presented to
Institution by Washing
ton Business Man.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


COLLEGE PARK. Md, November
14.-University of Maryland has been
presented with a German library by
a Washington business map. a lover
OF Goethe, Schiller and Heine, who
wishes to remain anonymous, Dr. Il.
A. Fucker. head of the modern Ian
guage department, has announced.
Among the works are complete
set of the German National Litera-
ture," a uniform edition of the mas
terpieceS of German literature from
the middle ages down to the present
time. This edition comprises 222
volumes.
There is included in the library an
other set, the translations into Eng
lish of German poems, dramas ana
novels from Goethe down to the
twentieth century. This edition OF
20 volumes was prepared under the
editorship of Prof. Kune Francke OF
Harvard and is illustrated in an ar
tistic manner with numerous repro
ductions of the works of the best
German painters.
Grain Exhibit Proposed.
Results of 80, years of study and
investigation of wheat will be shown
in the University of Maryland expert
ment station exhibit at the interna-
tional grain show in Chicago. begin
ming November q. The exhibit will
cover results that have been obtained
in determining the responses of diff
ferent wheat types to environment
and the probable influence on yield.
Data on the problem has been col
lected by w. r. Kemp, associate pro-
fessor of ag1-onomy
DIR. s. NJ. DeVault, professor of
agricultural economics, has been ap-
pointed chairman Of the committee
on crop and live stock estimates of
the National Association of Market
ing Officials The committee will
give a report at the meeting in Chi
cago from November 80 to December
2, inclusive.
DIR. T. b Symons, director Of the
extension service. and DR.. F. B. Bonn
berger, assistant director, will attend
the annual meeting Of the land grant
colleges at Chicago, which starts Mon
day and lasts until November 1s.
Honor System Endorsed.
Members of Maryland's faculty are
in favor of the honor system, which
is coming in for much discussion at
many of the colleges. Their position
was stated in a set of resolutions as
follows:
l. The faculty reaffirms unre-
servedly their faith in the principles
of the honor system.
.. The faculty conceives this prin-
ciple to be an attitude alike by stu
dents and faculty of mutual conf
dence and mutual respect.
8. The faculty desires to cooperate
wholeheartedly with the student body
in carrying out any reasonable plan
that will tend to foster the principles
Of the honor system.
4. The faculty recommends that
the technique Of the honor system be
re-examined by the committee on stu
dent affairs and the student execu-
tive council and such revision be
made as would seem desirable.
Eddie Morgan Of Washington, who
was graduated from Maryland in
1922 and who received his NJ. D. from
George Washington last June. now is
interne at the University Of Mary.
land Hospital in Baltimore.
Will Welcome the Delegates.
H. f. Cotternan. associate dean of
the college of education and presi-
dent of the Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Agricultural Teaching,
will deliver the address of welcome
at the opening of the sixteenth an
nual meeting Of the organization In
Chicago Monday. There will be a
number of talks on the problems Of
agricultural teaching.
A series of experiments to de-
termine the effect of ultraviolet rays
on tubercular guinea pigs is being
conducted by NJ. B. Melroy under the
direction of DR.. E. NJ. Pickens, pro-
fessor of bacteriology.