TWENTY-THREETOMES
Rare Books Displayed
At Science Building
By Bob Patterson
Emerald Reporter
Twenty-three rare hooks from
the private collection of Roy G.
Neville, research assistant in
chemistry, are currently being dis
played in the main hall of the sci
ence building.
The theme of the display is "The
Development of the Scientific
B. ok From the. 16th Century to
the Present Day."
The volumes lange from the
Royal Society’s journal on "Stom
ach and Guts ' to Einstein's "The
ory of Relativity." Many of the
rare volumes are first editions.
The oldest of these first edi
tions is "The Elements or Geo
metric" by Euclid of Megra.
translated into English by Sir
Henry Billingsly, Lord Mayor of
London. This first English transla
tion of Euclid was published in
1570. The preface for the edition
was written by John Dee. royal
astrologer.
Eight Copies
"The English Spaw" by Edmund
Dean, published in 1649 is one of
only eight copies known to exist
and is primarily ox medical inter
est. although it contains some
valuable material on chemistry
and meteorology.
r.obert Boyle's “The Sceptical
Chymist,” first published in 1661,
is the first book on real chem
istry. It criticizes the Aristotel
ian theory of four elements—earth,
file, air and water. It's publication
also marked the decline of al
chemy.
Nature of Light
Tssac Newton’s “Optics," pub
lished in 1718. was the first work
to deal with the nature of light.
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In it Newton attempts to explain
rainbows and other optical illu- ;
sions.
A work lampooning' the philo- j
sophical transactions of the Royal ]
Society is John Hill’s “A Review
of the Royal Society of London,”j
published in 1751. The book at- i
tacked- the credulity of the So
ciety. At the time of the book's
publication, the Society still be
lieved in mythicsrt-Cleatures. Hill's,
book did much to make the So
ciety more critical of its beliefs.
Atomic .Symbols
Andrew Ure’s “A Dictionary of
Chemistry." published in 1823, did
much to disseminate John Dalton’s
atomic symbols. The author was
a film believer of the caloric the
ory. J. Clark Maxwell's “Theory
of Heat. ' published in 1S55. de
picts the fallacies of the caloric
theory and laid down «ie princi
ples of “the laws of thermo
dynamics.”
Michael Faraday's “Six Laws on
Xon-metallie Elements," published
in 1853. gives the author’s views
on oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen,
sulfur and the halogens.
Chi Delta Calls
For Manuscripts
The deadline for submitting
manuscripts to Chi Delta Phi, na
tional women’s literary honorary,
is 4 p.m. Monday, according to
President Sue Lichty, senior in
journalism.
Women who have written short
stories, plays, or poetry will be
considered for membership only
after a sample of their creative
writing is submitted to Bernice
Rise in the Student Union brows
' ing room, Miss Lichty said.
Candidates for membership will
be approved at a meeting to be
held Thursday at the College Side.
Initiation of new members will be
held in April.
Between 1947 and 1951. there
were over a million burglaries in
the U.S. 800.000 are still un
solved.
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UNIVERSITY 5-1511
Gamblers, Calls to Japan
Usual at Campus Exchange
By Abbott Paine
Emerald Reporter
“University . . “University .
That’s what operators at the
campus telephone exchange say
200 times every hour during the
day.
The operators, usually students,
route incoming calls to any of the
214 extensions and several hun
dred faculty members and depart
ments on campus. The University
"nerve center," in operation 24
hours a day, handles from 40 to
50 long distance calls daily, helps
locate students, and answers puz
zled callers’ questions on how to
plant gardens and spell words.
Mrs. Vera Hall, University teler
phone supervisor, remembers
many experiences from her 12
years with the telephone company.
Long Distance
While placing a long distance
call to Seattle, she paused to re
late: “When I first came here in
1941, there was just one little
switch board, which took only one
operator."
'Now. two operators are on duty
during the day and there’s one at
night. A total of 11 full or part
time operators are employed to
handle the great volume of calls.
However, the number of campus
extensions now in use is less than
the total of about 260 several
years ago,” Mrs. Hal! said.
‘•Today has been rather dead.
We've had only 30 long distance
calls," said Miriam Morgan, a
student operator, as she counted a
stack of long distance call slips.
She is Mrs. Hall’s daughter, and
works part time, along with eight
other women and two men.
The switchboard can handle 15
incoming calls at one time and
lines for 17 simultaneous outgoing
calls are provided. These are used
by dialing ‘'9” from a campus
phone.
Mho’s King?
“People call and ask us every- 1
thing. . . One man even wanted
to find out who is king of Egypt."
Mrs. Hall Telated. “We try to an
swer their questions or connect
them with the library or whoever
can help them. i
“I wouldn't consider any one of
the operators really good until she
or he had been with us for about
a year,’' Mrs. Hall said. “The hard
est job is learning all the campus 1
numbers and names."
Rental on telephone equipment
costs the University more than $2,
000 each month, the telephone su
pervisor said. Mrs. Hall handles all
orders for removing or installing ;
telephones and submits the re
quests to J. O. Lindstrom, business
manager, for approval. In addi
tion to the regular switchboard op
eration, she is in charge of billing
each department for long distance
calls and telegrams.
Kitchenette
The switchboard room is pro
vided with a cot artd small kitch
enette. The night operator sets a
buzzer to awake him for incoming
calls after midnight.
The telephone system is equipped
with a battery emergency power
supply, which was put to use last
winter when a wind storm disrupt
ed city power. Two years ago an
ice storm interrupted power for
two weeks and the batteries were
the sole source of electricity dur
ing that time.
‘Long distance calls are the
most interesting to handle," said
Eilcne Whitt, a University high
student who had just begun her
hour-long afternoon shift. Calls
placed earlier in the day had in
cluded long distance connections to
New Jersey, Seattle, and Los An
geles.
About Long Distance
"I remember during the war, a
woman student van up a S60 bill
on a single call to her fiance in
Guam," Mrs. Hull said. Calls to
many other parts-of the world
have been placed through the ex
change. Recent ones were to Can
ada, Germany, Japan, Shanghai
and Egypt.
Students are no longer allowed
to place long distance calls through
the University exchange and are
urged to use the pay phones lo
cated in the dormitories, Miss Hall
said. She said dormitory officials
are now having trouble with a few
students who charge toll calls to
regular dormitory phones.
Gambling Troubles
Recalling other incidents, she
said, "We are no longer permitted
to tell callers the scores of basket
hall games because of last year's
trouble with gamblers. Many tunes
men called from Boston and Pitts
burgh and asked the scores of
basketball games, often b e f o r P
they were over." In one case an
operator delayed the caller and
notified police over another line.
Students and other employees
who operate the University switch
board are: Mrs. Mynola Kellog
Young. Ruth Nelson, Miriam Mor
gan, l'at Cauvel, Delsie Rice, Jo
Anne Downing. Eilene Whitt, Lynn
Campbell, Lawrence Lebow, and
Frank Goodwin.
Religions Notes
Compiled by Mitzi Asai
Emerald Religious New* Editor
IVCF
A social time of fellowship and a
potluek dinner has been planned
this afternoon from 4:30 to 0:30
at the home of the faculty adviser
of Inter-varsity Christian Fellow
ship. Miss Olive Slocum, 773 C E.
Sixteenth ave. All students are in
vited to attend.
Lawrence Bixler, professor at
Northwest Christian college, will
speak on “Historical Evidences of
the Resurrection” at the Tuesday
evening meeting in the Student
Union. These weekly meetings are
held in SU 333 every Tuesday at 7
p.m.
Christian House
Saturday evening there will be
an informal open house after the
Oregon State game, with Corvallis
Christian house members as
guests.
Sunday morning at 9:15 the
usual doughnut hour will be held,
followed by two Bible study
classes: “Pre-Easter Bible Study,”
taught by Victor P. Morris, dean
of the school of Business Adminis
tration, and "Prophets, Portraits
of God," taught by Martha Good
rich. A new series of evening dis
cussions will begin at 5:30 p.m. on
“Personal Religion.” A student
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panel will lend a discussion on
“What Shall I Stand for on the
Campus ?"
Executive council meeting will
be held Wednesday noon.
The nominating committee com
posed of Keith Fleshman, chair
man; Mary Peterson. Boh Randall,
Margaret McCulloch and Pat Hart
ley is receiving sugestions for offi
cers for the coming year.
Westminster
Tonight “Come As You Are”
party will Ire held at Westminster
foundation. An evening of games,
records and relaxation is planned.
Sunday morning at 9:30 there
will be a Bible study of the Book
of Amos and the Book of Micah,
led by Rev. Thom II. Hunter. The
Faith and Life commission will be
in charge of the evening vesper
service at 6:15. The first in a senes
of two forum discussions on “The
Psychology of a Christian Person
ality” will be led by J. Jewel!, for
merly dean of the school of educa
tion and head of the psychology de
partment at Trinity university,
Texas.
Wednesday from 12:30 to 12:45
p.m. chapel service will be held
in Westminster chapel led by Rev.
Hunter. Wednesday evening fellow
ship supper at 5:30 will be followed
by a program featuring V. J.'
O’Malley, warden at the Oregon
State prison in Salem. His topic is
“Capital Punishment as It Relates
to Christian Ethics."
Newman Club
Newman club members will be
the guests of the Oregon State
Newman club tonight after the
game in Corvallis at Newman hall.
There will be Benediction this
Sunday at Sacred Heart Hospital
chapel at 7 p.m.
This coming week the Lenten
devotions will include daily Mass
at 7 and 7:30 a m. on Saturday,
Benediction at 7 p.m. on Wednes
day and Friday and Rosary at 6:30
p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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