Mr. Chips'
As He First Glimpsed it 50 Years
By DR. JAMES T. MATTHEWS
September early September,
in the year 1883, I reached Sa
lem by the mid -morning train ?
from Portland, inquired of the
agent at the; station how to get
to Willamette university, and
set forth.
The campus was enclosed
with . a five-board fence. So I
walked round to the front to find
a gate. I had the feeling that it
would be irreverent to climb a
university fence. There was no
gate, only a gap guarded with
posts reminders of an early
culture, when even the cows had
to be restrained from coming to
college. The spaces between the
posts looked encouraging, even
inviting; so I passed through and
stopped to look around.
Only one building on the cam
pus, the tall stately edifice that
we now call Waller hall. The
university year book for the aca
demic season 1882-1883, the cata
logue that had bewitched me into
coming to Willamette, showed
two excellent cuts of this noble
structure. One cut called it Col
lege of Liberal Arts, the other
named it University hall. But I
did not hold this against the uni
versity. You see I was used to
plain and humble fare. This was
the first college or university hall
I had ever seen, and for all I
knew the gods and goddesses of
science and classics might hold
sacred carnival there, drinking
divine nectar and eating the am
brosia that confers immortality.
Van Scoy Was Head
I found President Van Scoy in
little 'office on the west side
Of the first floor. (At that time
the chapel had no east and west
bays. President Doney caused
them to be built. So this office
would be Just outside the chapel.)
He took my tuition, asked me a
few questions and then- placed
me in my studies. I was a Wil
lamette university student.
And now I perceive that I
must be careful to obey my peda
gogical canons. Being a teacher
and compelled by virtue of that
office to speak topically, I shall
try to discourse analytically with
heads as old-fashioned preach
ers used to say. Be it understood,
at once, that I was to study at
Willamette for the next six years,
except two when I was absent,
and my narrative will be an at
tempt to give a picture of rendi
tions at Willamette during that
time, as well as some account of
customs and class procedures.
When I entered the univer
sity, the dormitory for young
women stood on Court street.
It was called Woman's college.
In my time as student it was
moved to the campus and fitted
First 100 Years
In the Making
Feb. 1, 1942 Willamette unl
. versity, then known as Oregon
Institute, came into being
through a board of trustees.
There is : unbroken legal con
tinuity from that day, four
years, before Oregon's alleg
iance was decided.
Aug. 13, 1844 Oregon Institute
opened to students on the pres
ent campus in three-story frame
structure.
1845 University trustees laid
ut the city of Salem and
started sale of lots.
Jan. 12, 1853 University char
tered by the territorial legis
lature as "Wallamette Univer
sity." Institute became the pre
paratory department.
1867 Waller hall, then known
as University hall, ready for
use. Bricks made of clay exca
vated for the basement.
1867 Medical college estab
lished, first in the northwest.
Combined with University of
Oregon medical school in 1913.
1883 College of law organised.
1891 Waller hall roof burned.
1905 Medical college building
erected. Now the music hall.
1906 Kimball School of Theol
ogy organized and housed in
Kimball hall. Continued until
1930.
1909 Eaton hall completed.
1912 Sweetland field was de
. veloped.
1913 naif million dollar en
dowment campaign completed.
191S Willamette academy clos
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One more year and Dr. James T. Matthews will have rounded out
a half century as professor of mathematics at Willamette university,
his alma mater. Shown here in the study at his home on South 12th
street, Dr. Matthews is renowned among past and present Willam
ette students for his philosophical chapel talks. He was born in
England and came to Oregon, an Immigrant, in 1872.
with tower and basement. Still
later it was glorified with the
name Lausanne hall; and dur
ing the Doney regime was torn
down to make way for the
present elegant Lausanne.
But during all my student days
here and through the first fifteen
years of my teaching here, Waller
hall continued to house all de
partments of our university ex
cept law (established the year I
came), and music and medicine.
That means that in this house,
scarcely large enough for an ad
ministration building for a mod
ern city high school, was space
for a large chapel, two rooms for
the literary societies, a fair sized
library, and class rooms for the
ed after continuous operation
since 1844.
1919 Interior of Waller hall
destroyed by fire.
1920 New, brick Lausanne hall
replaced the frame building by
the same name.
1923 New gymnasium construc
ted to replace the one burned
shortly before.
1930 Million dollar endow
ment campaign completed.
1938 Library building finished.
1939 Former postoffice moved
to campus to house college of
law.
1941 Collins hall completed to
house all science departments.
War-End Prophecy,
Nol Guaranteed
SALISBURY, Md. (JP "When
will the war end?" a truck driver
asked a gypsy hitchhiker who
offered to tell his fortune,
"Nine months from the day
you carry a dead man in this
truck," was the reply.
A few days later, on January
9, the truck was commandeered
by Delaware police to take an
accident victim to the hospital.
The victim died in the truck.
Two Things at a Time
NEW YORK -VP)- Manhattan
Girl Scouts hike not only for
health but to survey the borough
these days. They're finding out
how long it takes to get an in
jured person from specific areas
to the nearest first aid station
which can be a hospital, a clinic
or an emergency first aid set-up.
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college, the academy, -and the
grammar school.
Waller's Stairs
As at present stairs extended
from the first floor to the attic,
but the original stairs, the ones
my feet used to press, were of
the corkscrew species, and one
could look from the attic down
to ,the first floor.
But I had come to Willamette
to study and to learn. And so
far from seeing faults and blem
ishes and defects in my new sur
roundings was I, that I felt thrill
ed and satisfied and delighted
with everything. Especially with
the instruction. And remember,
kind reader, that my description
of this instruction covers the six-
WISE! ... 0?
By ETHAN
Something I can never understand is why people make
pencil marks in library books. I
sentences and sometimes whole
know who did it, and I wouldn't
the gentleman, but I would like
to know why. If he was doing it
for my benefit he wasted his
time, for it so happened that I
wasn't particularly interested in
those marked sentences and para
graphs. Marking in books is, I presume,
a habit with some, like biting the
fingernails, only worse. A fellow
can bite fingernails, because they
belong to him. But you never saw
a fingernail biter biting someone
else's fingernails, did you? Then
why can't they mark their own
books, and leave those that be-
long to somebody else alone?
In the Rate
It so happens that I'm sort of
screwball, when it comes to
books. Oh, yes, and everything
else. But books is the subject.
Now take those paper book cov
ers T.HiHn't ucArl in minH fiAim
for they protected the pretty
bindings. But when they started
putting cellophane on io protect
the paper covers that1 protected
the bindings, I rebelled. Now the
first thing I do when I buy a
new book is yank off the double
epidermis. I like my tomes in the
raw -
raw,
And since I own the book, as
I read I mark, and to my heart's
content. I mark everything the
book contains that I think worth
rereading. Here are a few ex
amples, from a priceless little
volume I've had for years:
"If you would succeed, deep
down in the very fibre of your
being you must light an urge
that can never be put out It will
catch this side of your life, then
that side. It will widen your hori
zon. It will light up unknown re-
serves and discover new capaci-
ues lor living and growing. .
And to its blazing glory a thous
and other lives will come for
iignt ana warmtn ana power." .
When I first read that, -1 lit
the fire and went out onto the
street to watch the multitudes
gather around to get warm. But
I guess it was only heartburn, as
it attracted only a poor bloke who
wanted a, dime for a cup of cof
fee. And coffee was only a nickel.
,The reason your talents lie
buried Is that yon haven't the
courage to dig them up and
use them." The author wasn't '
talking to me, for I 414 have
the courage t dig. up my tal
ents. I took boxing lessons, and
the very first chance I got to
Campus
Ago
year period of my story. .
Recitations in the languages
and mathematics were very for
.mid, so arranged and combined
as by the consent of the faculty
to leave students almost entire
ly to their own resources. Most
ly, if a student's answer missed
the mark, he could go back to
his books to try again.
' In ethics and psychology and
the like opportunity for brief ex
planation and discussion was af
forded. But never until the stu
dent had answered a question as
best he could. Never. That un
written law was inexorable. The
student would , be interrogated,
must be, and if his reply reveal
ed need of further help, that was
promptly given.
How well do I remember this
incident. In my senior year. Pro
fessor: What is reasoning?" Stu
dent: "Oh, that is when you just
get in and dig." Spontaneously the
professor at some length revealed
the real nature of reasoning. Here
is another incident that I recall.
Lasted through two recitations.
The problem concerned the possi
bility, the legality, the propriety
of dividing by zero. I smile every
time I think of it.
Faculty Was Small
Faculty. A sonorous, resound
ing, majestic word. But ours was
pitifully small. Those wonderful
teachers taught many hours and
many subjects. I wish now and
have wished for a long time that
there had been more professors
of equal, caliber. But, after all, all
education is self-education. Stu
dents learn by their own efforts,
not by "being sprayed with
ideas," and if an earnest learner
is wisely directed to the great
books and along the highways of
science and philosophy, he can
not fail to gather knowledge and
mental strength and a sense of
values.
Let me mention a few odds
and ends. I loved the chapel
compulsory and formal though
it was. And I had one college
year of dormitory life. Presi
dent Van Scoy established a
dormitory for men on or near
the present site of the cider and
vinegar works south of Waller
hall. The place was popular
from its beginning and was al
ways filled in the college year.
President Van Scoy and his
family lived here and ate in the
common dining room. As I gaze
with admiration and gratitude
upon our present home for the
presidents as they come and go,
I reflect on the humbler habita
tions that President Van Scoy
lived in. When I matriculated, he
dwelt on Court street in a two-
story box house. Later he carved
out of Waller hall's unpromising
basement a suite of rooms where
our bookstore Is now.
demise
GRANT
read a book recently that had
paragraphs underlined. I don't
be at all interested in meeting
use my newly acquired talent
was during an argument with a
Boston, Mass., taxi driver. It
turned out that he also had
some talent and half an hour
later I had a black eye and
some stitches In my face.
"The mind of man is an emer-
gency organ, which relegates ev-
erything possible to other tunc
tions of the body as long as it
is able. And when the old order
of things won't work any longer,
it gets the job." Like putting off
writing the column till the very
last minute. Or does it take a
mind to write a column?
Be Your Self
"Be your own self with all peo-
Ple' wlleer be prince or
pauper, me uest ym i ever naa
was like that: just his own self,
always. I had some "influential
iends' and was anxious to have
them meet him, for he wanted
terJJb f WT l0650
The boy had talents, and I thought
eyd Probably offer him some-
"un wu"n 7mie' ne aran
to much wme at dinner, and
wnejx e w m lew nanos
of bridge, he said if we didnt
mind he'd take a snooze on the
lounge. When the guests left at
2 a. m. he was still snoozing.
One day he decided to take a
trip to Europe. 1 took him to
the station and asked if he'd
remembered to have his bag
gage checked. "Baggage?" he1
said. "All the baggage I'm tak
ing Is this camera and my tooth
brush." He was gone two
months, and he hadn't even
worn a hat.
"We learn practically nothing
from 1 victory." reads another
passage I've underscored. "All we
remember comes from defeat.'
And that I think, exolains the
reason whv I am endowed with
what is called an "excellent mem-
ory."
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Fifth Columnist
With Fins, cV? .
JUNEAU, Alaska -JPY- A
chum salmon, bearing a Japanese-marked,
tag with the legi
ble number 1547 and a string
of ; f Japanese " characters, I was
caught in the Kobuk river last
summer. It was the second such
Japanese tag , found in Alaska
waters during the summer, season.
Hints of Future Aircraft
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This "bat" (above) is a single-encine airplane- with the motor sub
merged and having the advantages of an enlarged center section
wing with a relatively thin percentage characteristic.-. It Is one of
the trends being explored by American designers for war planes of
the future.
I . r . , ' yty - "y .
Propeller at the extreme rear is a feature of this design which would
eliminate turbulent or rough air over the entire airplane. The "wind
mill" is a single-engine design with a thin wing. (Official US army
air corps photos.)
Radical Air Models May
Result From Experiments
WRIGHT FIELD, Dayton, Ohio The turn of this year, Anno
Domini 1942, presents one of the world's strangest paradoxes.
On the one hand we have the whole automobile industry of the
United States, not only the world's greatest but expanded many
hundredfold under war pressure,
swinging into mass production on
the world's newest major automo
tive vehicle the airplane; on the
other, Air,Corps Materiel division
design engineers vying with the
world's air laboratories and draft
ing rooms for the purpose of ac
complishing the greatest aircraft
advancement possible in a con
stantly changing picture.
Mass production and experi
mental design! Paradox indeed!
The tendency of the first to freeze
upon an approved form, that of
the second to flout existing form
for the purpose of obtaining re
sults beyond anything in the exist
ing picture. And both foremost
air force objectives.
The production airplanes upon
which the nation's factories, are
to concentrate at the rate of
turning out an ever increasing
number each year rank with the
world's best. Not frozen models,
they are constantly under the
study of engineers and technical
experts for the incorporation of
Improvements which are
planned and arranged for suf
ficiently far in advance, "sneak
ed in" so to speak, so as not to
interrupt the steady flow of the
production line.
Nevertheless the United States
dare not rest upon such laurels.
For locked away in the labora
tories of all leading nations, scru
tinizing the production procession,
their own and their . neighbors',
are groups of scientists, who look
upon the most successful, of cur
rent aircraft as already obsoles
cent. Sound aerodynamists, the
whole field of modern design is
to them finger-tip knowledge.
Their job is to conceive and create
from the apex of present design
achievement, the airplanes which
are to fly higher, faster, farther,
or more effectively, one, two, or
five years hence.
It is a fascinating privilege to
be permitted to peer into this air
plane future as embodied in the
advance designs of the design de
velopment unit. Many pusher pro
peller types are noticeable. Push
ers offer benefits in speed of
climb. Likewise the pusher pro
peller does not have the limiting
effect upon the speed of the air-
clane in the . approach : to the
speed of sound possessed by the
tractors.
There are "swelled"- wings and
very thin wings.
' There are bombers mounting
eight engines, obviously, for
long range; whose gas tanks
are virtually Invisible. There
are six and four-engine types
. with combinations of . pusher
and tractor propellers.
A tailless (Pterodactyl) fight
er has . wing tip rudders, and
pilet and gunner seated back to
back. .
J Fish, swallow and bat may be
suggested in some of the shapes
shown, but it should be recalled
that man has far excelled nature
in the speed, range, height and
efficiency of flight Man has: often
New Edmonds
Novel Lies
In New York
By JOHN SELBY
"YOUNG AMES," by Walter D
Edmonds (Little, Brown; $2.50).
The peculiar and deceptive
simplicity that always has char
acterized Walter D. Edmonds'
books is very palpable in "Young
Ames," which is the novel from
which certain episodes have been
chipped for the recent stories in
the Saturday Evening Post. Often
this process is not too good for
the finished product. In this case
it seems to have done no harm
beyond leading Mr. Edmonds to
include one or two incidents
which might as well have been
omitted. Such as the scene in
which Young Ames first meets
the girl he must, according to
modern fictional technique, mar
ry in the end.
Young Ames comes to New
York in the 1830s from upstate.
He is really just a boy, but he
charms, within reason, the pow
ers that be In Chevalier, Dem
Ing and Post, and he becomes
their Junior clerk. For the pur
poses of novel making, Young
Ames must rise by varying de
grees, but steadily, to a partner
ship in that old and respected
and wealthy firm. He must do
it fast, and be winning to the
reader on the way.
It is a kind of social study of
early day , New York, for one
thing, influenced and inflected as
it is by the business methods of
the period. -
There are moments, too, when
the reader Is reminded of Dick
ens. This is partly because the
period Is approximately that of
which Dickens first wrote, bnt
there are tangs and flavors in
the writing of Mr. Edmonds
that fit the comparison Mr.
McVitty, the chief clerk,
character out of Dickens"H
there ever was onei And Young
Ames' beloved, whose name Is
Christine, has the likeable but
vague outlines qf some of Dick
ens' "good women.
Finally, Mr. Ames has suck
ed up Into his narrative a good
many historical incidents, and has
integrated and employed for le
gitimate purposes , the political
add business framework of the
time-i-even the . Five Points gang,
the fire companies," and "such
things. It gives the novel a feel
ing ,of . solidarity", and ; hides the
fact that Young Ames himself is
not, as the children say, "such
a much."
demonstrated this superiority In
the past. The rork of the design
development unit may well be
looked upon as most important for
insuring : our national superiority
lit flight for the future: - - .
West
Solenu Oregon. Sunday
Neglected
May Be Reclaimed by
Pruning and Cleaning
By LILLIE L. MADSEN f j
w- nld shofild a fruit tree be before it is discarded?" la
a question that came to me during the past week,
I really do not know what the correct answer should be,
but my guess would be that it would depend greatly upon the
care the tree had been given.- - r- j '
Another ' questioner wants to has analyzed the subject which
know if there will be a shortage is to be pruned. There are certain
of fruit during the' war-time and principles that are general. The
if one, should "reclaim" an old wounds should be as small as pos
family orchard.' sible and should be made to heal
Again my answer is that I do quickly. Thin out weak, imperfect
not know; but if an orchard to ' interfering : branches. How
be left at all it should be re- mUchor how little to thin is a
claimed" if reclaiming means SDecial Question that almost al-
taken care of.
There is really no reason why
trees, which have bean neglect
ed and so have failed to bear,
should not be made to bear just
as well as extra vegetables
planted where there were no
That trees wi live to great old
ages is demonstrated in many of
pioneer orchards. At the
in. fh WaiHn
Hills is strn'ttejematas ctanld
fruit orchard which wasjorigmally
planted from;seedi brougfacross
the nlains. Here and there thTouch-
out the Willamette vaileyr are-sucn
bits of old orchards.
Spread Diseases
Because caring for home or
chards has become somewhat of a
chore in recent years when so
much spraying for disease and
pests has become necessary, or
chards have not been cared, for
and now many a remnant of an
old apple, peat or prune orchard
stands around ' suburban homes,
full of diseases and pests, scatter
ing these to nearby trees which
may have had better care. Now
that work around the home is to
some extent going to take the
place of weekend trips during the the commercial grower of fruits-war-time
period, it might be well not even for his reading. They are
to look, to these orchards or to just aimed at a group of questions
the occasional fruit tree which received from the owners of oora-
has been left standing. If the tree
is to continue to be neglected and grounds. But care of these occa
if it is full of disease and pests Sional trees is urged not only as
then disregarding sentiment it a measure of better looking trees
snouia oe removea. u, however, 0n the lawn but also as a pre
it can be saved to provide shade vention of disease and pest breed-
as well as .fruit, it should be given
care.
In reclaiming any tree, one of
the first moves should be one
for sanitation. All dead or sickly
branches should be removed.
Gather up all fallen branches
and burn. If the trees have long
been neglected there Is likely
much dead wood which should
be removed. Also there Is likely
to be much brush-growth which
will serve the tree better off
than on.
If you cannot have the services
of an experienced orchard or tree
man, then del the best you can
yourself. It is well to bear in mind
the actual definition of pruning:
"The, memodical removal of part,
of a plant with the object to to!
prove it in f some respeS for the
purposes of the cultivator." This
may keep you;from hit and miss
Cutting.
It is rather impossible to give
any advice for pruning until one
You
Maybe you're been going on
the assumption that you are
made of some sort of indestruc
tible material. Weil, "it ain't
so." You have jour physical limi
tations. Be sensible and admit iu
To tell the truth, harep't you
been feeling a bit under par
lately? Why not do the smart
thing and go to a good Physt
cian oow, while there's noth
ing seriously wrong? It may
sits you much trouble later!
You'll agree that this is good
adrice, even if we are a bit
prejudiced. Yes, of course, we'd
like to fill the prescriptions
your Doctor gives yon i
:t v4.
WILLETTS
; CAPITAL
Cor. State & Liberty
Mr
Morning. i February I. 1942 6
Fruit Trees
ways has to be answered by il
lustration on each tree as an in
dividual. Let in Sun, Air
But sun and air help keep a
tree healthy. Branches should not
-
air r -
,
seems to be to keep the centers
open to the sun. The shoots thus
restricted to the main branches
a headed back, by pruning to
branches, growing ouiwara. msiae
branches are also best thinned out
on sour cherries. Even heading
back the main branches occasion
ally, seems to give stronger growth
and better fruit.
Use a dormant disinfecting
spray such as lime surf or solu
tion. Follow the directions on
the container. But a cleanup ,
spray, before growth starts, Is
very essential. It might be well
to remember that lime sulfur
sprays react strongly to house
paint, and care should be taken
that it does not come in contact
with the paint on the house.
These notes are not intended for
sional fruit trees on the home
ing places from which other trees
may become infected.
For those who want more de
tailed information on spraying and
pruning orchards (this is for F. L.
in particular) consult your county
agent He has all the Information
at hand and he is willing to serve.
That No. 13
Pops up Again
PONCA CITY, Okla. ()- The
number IS figured so prominent-
l ? maucuon into tne army
" national
?h?tnlstoaUoS "
1! ear n
figg t
the month, were No. IS in order
nd the figure 13 appeared four
tilTWS nn ihm Vim nrnhlnins
their instructions. The train
which they left had IS cars.
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