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Show Ml Ml M k j UUVI La cj . 5j Splendid' Great Academic Year Is 1930-31 Forecast Glimpse of Downtown x And University .Hill Campuses; Is Ready For Work rpnnnnn mm (WE Al U zJ Faculty University Educators able Study in All Parts of World; Well Trained Members Are Added. When September 15 calls faculty j E members of Brigham Young uni-vt-islty back to work on the cam- j)U3. that racuiiy w;u De sirengm- ned by the return of a number cf tn ho since September 1929 have .dded materially to their academic tcture by study at other univers es or by tiavel in this and in for ign countries, a glance at the 1930- ;l catalogue will Indicate. - It. F. Larson Returning ; Among those returning wil. be Unt F.f Larson, artist, who.has pnt approximately 16 months in Europe .traveling and painting vith a group of eminent artists, and n studying in Paris and other itics of France. Prof. Larson, al-eady'well al-eady'well known in America be-ore be-ore leaving for" Europe, has re-eived re-eived special recognition in Paris vhere his paintings have been lr.ce J on exhibition in exclusive ex-dhits ex-dhits and have been featured - In irt magazines.. Prof. Larson will je ready to take up his work at the jcginning of the school year. Another European traveler who vill return for the opening of the tchool Is Dr. .Thomas L. -MartTrC iead cf the ag;onomy department. )r. Mai tin left last March for New Jersey where h- did some research vork at Rutgers university before ailing for- Europe where he has pent the summer attending agri-u!tural agri-u!tural -and botanical conventions nd in studying the rurjl and, soil rcblema of the continent. During Is stay he has visited Russia and pas become - acquainted with , the poviet agricultural system Among these who have been en-aged en-aged elsewhare In this, country ither in "study or research are Dr. Valter P. Cottam, head of the bot- ny department, who has charge f the courses in plant ecology and otany at the University of Chi-ago; Chi-ago; Prof. Harrison V. Hoyt, dean f the college of commerce, who. has ecu doing planning md systema-izing systema-izing work for a large firm in Phil-Uejphia Phil-Uejphia during the summer; Dr. 'asco M. Tanner, head of the zool- gy department, who has been do- pg research work among the fresh ater lakes of Utah for the United tatej government; Dr. Lowry Nel on, dean of the College of Applied cience and head of the extension i is:on, who has been carrying on bcial research work among the (loimcn - vommunities of Canada; jrof. Elmer Miller, who has been jtudying'for more than a year at Itanfoid university; Prof. LeRoyX '.ofcertson, who has been studying iusic, including composition. in an Francisco; Clarence E. Boyle, isociate processor of accounting nd business administration; Har- ,Wcn R. Merrill, associate profes-br profes-br of English-, who took his mas-t.r's mas-t.r's degree in Journalism at Co-1 (tmbia university In June; Dr. tianklin Madsen, associate profe3--i or of music, who has been teach-: j'-ig in the Chicago musical college )r the summer; William II. Boyle, isijtant professor of elementary iucation, when has been studying :t the University of Southern Cali-'jinia Cali-'jinia for a year and has since een teaching In the8irmmer school ' t Juarez, Mexico; Ed M. Rowe, ! distant professor in, English, .who , as been doing graduate work a. le University of Chicago; Miss 'ilmR Jeppson, assistant prcfessoi physical education for women, ho has been studying" for a yeai t Columbia where she took her Masters degree in June; Percival . Bigelow, instructor in auto-mechanics, auto-mechanics, who has been in the ist studying during. the summer; William F.- Hanson, Instructor in ':usic, who spent a year at Colum-ia Colum-ia university studying in the Co-imbia Co-imbia school of music; and Hugh . Peteison, instructor in chemis-y, chemis-y, who has been doing graduate -ork in the east. ddit.vns To Faculty Among the additions to the fac-ity fac-ity are Guy C. Wilson, professor d.! ?l;gous education, former presi-ent presi-ent of the Latter-day Saints uni-,'isity. uni-,'isity. Salt Lake City, and direc-,r direc-,r of teacher training for 'the hureh of Jesus Chi 1st of Latter- ay Saints; Karl E Young, instruc- r in English, a graduate of the tah' Agricultural coilege, and t udent of both Harvard and Ox-jrd; Ox-jrd; Jeni C Folsom, instructor in bme economics; Etta Scorup, in- ructor in home economics; lanche Thomas, instructor in of-ce of-ce practice; and G. Lynn Hay. aid, instructor In zoology. Despite" the fact that "the usual umber of faculty members will be i leaves' of absence for the year, ie faculty will be stronger than it is ever been, according to . t. arris, president of the institution. Now that he has recalled Primo arnera to the Italian army, Mus- lini will feel that war can begin ly time. Cyclones In the northern hemis- iere always whirl to the left and l the southern hemisphere to the ght. In Kurdistan, music of any sort considered' immoral-.".. . Return After Valu 5- I ALPINE SCHOOL IS REMARKABLE Unusual Methods of Summer - ,.- - , .. Education Possess . - Great Value. BY EDNA BALL Who -would . hot , like, to go to school in the summer if glacier- cooled breezes might be substituted substi-tuted for heat waves from glar ing pavements, if one might wear old soft shirt3, open at the neck: instead of stifling class-rooms airy tents or screened buildings were used for recitatitm-arrd study? This,, you say, sounds more like vacation than education. It is both. At the Alpine summer school conducted each year by Brigham Young university, all these novel features and many others, lend charm and enrichment to summer study. Picturesque Location-Situated Location-Situated nearly 7,000 feet high in the Wasatch mountains, about 18 miles from the main campus m Provo, Utah, the school is mot picturesquely located. On every side are rugged peaks, some starkly stark-ly rocky and austere, others verdant verd-ant with dark pines and tho more delicate green of slim, white-bodied aspfens. Sti earns of clear water rush down over the rocki, here and there plunging . downward in sparkling waterfalls. - This is the setting for the school's camp- The camp Itself is adapted to its surroundings. It carries with it something of the air of a summer resort. "There are screened-in sleeping cabins, for the girls, tents for the men studenta. and small private cabins for-the faculty members and, their families. Warm water shower3 are pfovldea : by. means of sun-heated pipes through wheh the water passes or. its way to the shower rooms. Married students may bring the; families and "tents and camp near by, thus giving their families an outing In the mountains while they attend school. ' " In these romantic surroundings. however, learning actually does progress. At any rate, many of tho students - are . mastering, such academic matter as "group require-' ments," and some are even doim graduate study.. The greater part of the curricu lum in this Alpine school consist of courses In botany, geology and ait. Other subjects, -such' as Eng lish," history, and education, art also offered, but the greatest in terest 13 centered in 4 those courses for. which this region offers a na tural laboratory. Here the artist finds a wide range of subjects, simple and complex com-plex mountains, near- at hand anJ distant, with varying lights and 'shadows; small streams; gracefu aspens; staunch evergreens; skies of turquoise ' blue that r vie with Italy's very own; and many interesting inter-esting type3 of people. When the botany students need specimens for a herbarium, they have 'only to go a short distance into the hills. In this region are found about 450 species of summet flora. The differences in altitude supply them in their various stages Perhaps a plant may be seen first with the seed-pod developed, on a little higher, altitude it will be found in flower, while higher up it it only a bud. The students are conducted on numerous field trip3 into this vast garden of Nature. Geology Made Easy Geology . students . find in this vicinity vivid examples of what the textbooks endeavor to describe. They may see for themselves anticlines anti-clines and synclines. They mat hunt fossils and-feel the thrill o) a discoverer with each find. They may observe the effects of erosion and deposition; and form a clearer conception of - earth formation and their changing nature" in these mountains and canyons than iJ any other locality, .Certainly no textbook alone can so adequately describe these conditions. Regardless of what Is being studied, however, the Informal ou-of-door spiiit is maintained. Theie is much spontaneous humor at thi dinner table. During the early evening eve-ning impromptu games of volley ball and baseball are played by both the men and women. A group may gather around a large bonfire bon-fire and sing to the accompaniment of a ukelele. At other times there are fun parties and dances. The numerous beauty spots near at hend entice many hikers, and cn moonlight nights provided they are on the campus by 9:30 groups of them visit Salamander Lake, Stew-ait'3 Stew-ait'3 Cascades, and the water fall3 along the trail to Mt. Timpanogos. Even the dress worn by the students stu-dents reflects the carefree life & - ; . .(Continued 'on Page & t , i'li' in i in nil i wn. ,fiii.m iu n.imiiiii at v r"ryri mt?pyvrrji'ii myyrriirnnii wjiw i "m m. 'imilh s ."' . v - t " - . ' . . - , . . v - .- .' v . .. , , . .... .-v..vf v,. . ' : ' 1 r-'-zsi i., - -r.;v!; -4H' -''- !" h: '.'4 iiv, ; v. t-'.v;M:-u Is . .. . T.s - - -'-it' IK : ' - A : ' Am- l w i;y- m - . . , .. "r.-h-:T '-.v , , : ! - ' ; " ' -:v;- ,-. ; , , T iT-ririi.irimi ! i ,i ' in n i wmrn m il .-n. u Tnr . - , r t n. -' 1T1 im-fii - - Tf -T tit --Tft! r.r wii fmiail i ' fi. ,i. ia .1 1 f - r - ll'il i IM ,mm tMnrnm iwi-M I i I , . M .y..yW.Wr..,..m,M....,,v..,,.H , .. r...n.. L T. r. j,TTMjrTt7TT. Aoove: View from the air cf the XJnivcrsity Hilt Campua showing the II bunding at the left; the shops and ' T- -.1 . rr t,j a; i,ji : ociow ; i He t-uucaimn cuiiain usea Beautiful" CampusCives University Adequate Room For. Needed Expansion 0- Additions Prepare "B. Y. U. For Future Growth; Excellent Excel-lent Buildings, Grounds. With 75 anres of campus in Provo city and on University Hill, 80 acres at Aspen Grove where the. Alpine ' summer school Is located, and a lakeside biological laboratory and small campus, Brigham Youn university 13 prepared for further growth, according to F. S.' Harris, president of the; institution, through whose earnest efforts additions have been made. . . Downtown Campus The downtown campus, the first to be acquired by, the institution, covers more . than .a.city ;. block During the past few years addi tions have been made to it until the university owns a number of choice lots surrounding" the campus proper, which has on it four of thi older buildings the Education building, the Art building. College hall, and the Training school build ing. Across the street, west from the Education building, ia the Ladies gymnasium, a spacious building used at present for dancing, ladies gymnastics, and basketball. South from the education building isthe building that formerly housed the shops, but which ,npvhouse the Provo Book Bindery. Three blocks northeast from thi3 original campus begins the campus on University hill, counted by resident resi-dent faculty members and students as well as" by visiting professors, one of the most naturally beautiful college campuses in the,worl. This campus comprises more than 50 acres of choice land extending from Canyon -road" back toward th'j mountains beyond Raymond park, a recent acquisition. , . v This campus lies across an old delta of Lake Bonneville and Is backed by Rock canyon. Squaw peak, and the "Y" - mountain, si panorama of rugged mountain beauty unsurpassed among collego campuses. . The University hill campus is approached from the -downtown campus both by means of a wind ing cement path lined with masaive cottonwood trees and by a stairway stair-way .leading up 'th$ .point of th2 the president's residence in the back . . . ...t a .... as me Aamimscrauon ouuuing, on delta .ta the rolilng campus above, Thi3 concrete stairway has bee lined with shrubs. .From its top two ' volumes and one o the light-, light-, j- x I st, airiest reading rooms in tha paths lead by different routes . to j YVest. ' the Maeser Memorial building, a structure of chaste reformed Greek design built toy a loving alumni to the . memory of the great -leader Karl G. M,aeser. From the step3 of this building a magnificent view may be had of Provo, Utah valley, and beyond, the glistening water s of Utah lake. . Behind the Maeser a hundred yards or mora is the mechanic arts building which houses the woodworking wood-working and the automobile shops, both splendidly equipped for teaching. teach-ing. all forms of carpentry and auto repairing. Between the two building build-ing is a spacious' lawn automatically automatical-ly . ' watered and . appropriately parked. '; - On the brow ' of -.University hill . ' -' '- ,- '- v - - f A Phenomenal Growth "tOOO- -fVQO- 1300- -IZ0Q--U0h-IO0O-- eoo-' 700- - (O h z UJ Q O 0JH u CD Q u n y iooA il YEAR tS-20 fcol tl-ZZ tzzi g3-zV Growth of tm& B.YU ISIS-EO TOiqzq-o Brigham Young university has had a th port elsven years. It now ranks West. " eb - tr - J. t:ra:it library in the middle ground. The old athleticjiield and grandstand are at the extreme right. .'if''. .. . . ' uie uowniown campus. facing south is the Heber J. Grant library, which houses more than The only other building belong; ing to the university on' the Uni versity hill campus is the residency of the president. This is a modern structure both -inside and out and fits in perfectly with the landscaping landscap-ing scheme. Find cut-leaf, birches and Colorado blue spruce add their charm to' this corner of the campus. , " N.Stretching far behind the university uni-versity buildings : isthe university farm and the parking spaces for the automobiles when the stadium is in use. -Jf x - Stadium Scats 5,500-- .. -. . The stad:vm.'ijul:t on .a. natural site, the.eats being on the side (Continued oh Page 8) V- Q 5 il: ii H-g3 & &n ZJZQ growth of about 200percent during with the largest universities of the . foreground; the' Maeser Memorial ARTISTGETS RECOGNITION Prof. B. F. Larson, a member of the teaching staff of the art department de-partment of -Brigham Young university, uni-versity, who has, been studying art in Europe .for the past 16 months received splendfcjTrecognition by the French magazine "Revue du. Vra et du Beau' in a recent, issue. , The ma'gazine published pictures of three of Prof. Larson's paintings and along with them a" review of his work. A translation of the printed matter follows:, "After" -the- story rendered so elegantly el-egantly by Comte Chbrier which eppeared hercs June 23, 1928,. on the subject of B." F. Larson and his works exposed at New York, it i not without pleasure; that I found the Artist at the" vSocicte des Arr tistes Frahcais and ' not without cmicsityV that I, studied his work, 'La Barbacane a Cordes. - "The enlarged characteristics ex-piessed ex-piessed by "my colleague" arc here in sorae'way humanized, but' the study is nevertheless' '.carefully worked, out. , Looking" .down 'from the" top of the canvas; we cannot overlook neither thel richness of the color, nor the brightness of the light, nor the surety ' of. the lines, ntr the sincerity of ithe vision. "With a great flexibility of ex- 1 ecution and a sreat consciousness also the" talents of .''Larson .adapt themselves to the subject. "Our readers surely remember the four pictures of June 28, 1928, "The Gateway," t "Timpanogos Snows," '"The Mother - Tree," and "Pushing Upward." These works J which are pure mountain studies are treated largely .without superfluous super-fluous j details and tend to create abeve',. all the right 'atmosphere' In thewvaried light and to, give to the s."jcht that which one would call in a few words its soul. ."Temperamentally, ' the artist is powerful 'and .determined and Is called to art by an inevitable desire tVexpress himself ' .. ' "Our correspondent rfrom' America, Amer-ica, having acquired information on the subject,, then sent biographical details to the . Review .which published pub-lished themwith a 'portrait of the artist in 1928." ... IJublished In Paris. Vrnnm Prof. Larson, who has - been in Paris for a number of' nontha: will Increase in Enrollment Expected Because of Unusual Opportunities Offered Su-dents; Su-dents; Predict Great Activity. For the fifty-fifth time, Brigham Young; university will open its doors' at the beginning of an academic year on September Sep-tember 15. The buildings and laboratories have been reno-vated reno-vated and put into shape for a big year of work, according to officials of, the school. ; , , - ' - With more than 100 faculty members on hand to welcome wel-come and take charge of students, and with hundreds of courses in 33 departments of five colleges ready the institution institu-tion is prepared to care for th heeds of any students who may apply. - '.. " '. 1 Although last year was a record RECREATIONAL WORK PLANNED Uomney, Miss Jeppson, Hart anjl Dixon Head Important Import-ant "V Department. Coach G. Ott Romney, Miss Wil ma Jeppson, Coach C. J. Hart, and Coach Fred "Buck" Dixon will head the recreational work at Brigham Brig-ham Youig university during the hoo! year 1930-31. which will open Monday, September 15. Coach Rornney is at the head of the department and will direct all recreational activities, including the off -campus hikes, but much of the detailed work will be left to other members of his staff who are spe: cialista In certain forms of recreational, recrea-tional, activity, according to F. S. Harris, president of the institution. GIrU' Physical Education Miss Wilma Jeppson, director of physical education for girls, will have direct charge.- under Coach Romney, of all of the girls' activities, activ-ities, including a class in recreational recrea-tional leadership in Nvhich she in-, structs 1 young people in the fine art of helping people to enjoy their leisure time. . Miss Jeppson is fresh fromNCo- lumbia. vunlversltv where she tobk work leading to her doctorate in recreational leadership and physical physi-cal education. At Columbia Miss Jeppson's work at Brigharn Young university was looked . upon as be ing of a high order and very un usual, so much so that on several occasions she was asked to explain her work before her Columbia classes of graduate students. Since A leaving Columbia she has been engaged ,in recreational work in fa. v rious parts of the east. Coach C. J. Hart will alsoteach classes In "recreational .leadership, and. will have charge ofjnahy of' the activities -on and oil the campus. cam-pus. For-the past two years Coach Hart has been director of recreation recrea-tion at the Alpinesummer -school and chairman of the annviarTimpa-nogos annviarTimpa-nogos hike. 'i. Coach Dixon- will assist with all of - the recreational work and will teach classes in physical education. Hewillhave charge of the tennis and will assist in coaching football, "Located as it is in the heart of Utah in close proximity to these gigantic Wasatch peaks and on the shoies of Utah lake the west's larg--est body of fresh water, Brigham Young university offers the best opportunity for extra-curricular recreational activities of any . institution in-stitution I know anything about," Coach Romney said recently. "I am, enthusiastio for this school with Its, splendid traditions and its fine school spirit. I am of the' opinion that nowhere can a student find better opportunity ; to develop hlsj talents; especially if he is interested in physical education and recrea tional leadership, than here at Br igham Young. . '"It was no surprise to me to learn of the success of Miss Jeppson' at Columbia 'where she was asked' to explain her work' here. I knew that she was doing something unique and carrying on a program almost unmatched in higher education. Our other staff members are equally gifted in this work.' Numerous Activities Among the off -campus annual re creational activities are Utah lake trips, the Maple leaf hike to the summit of Timpanogos in October, the' ice and snow carnival In ProVo canyon, the annual Timpanogos Timpa-nogos hikes, and miscellaneous trips. . Some of the campus recreational features besides the 'intercollegiate, contests in football, basketball' track, wrestling,, tennis and swimming, swim-ming, are the B. Y, U. circus, and the invitational track; and relay carnival car-nival that draws' more ; than 1500 athletes from all parts of the west each year. ' The mayor of a North Carolina town who was arrested for- drunkenness drunk-enness recently i probably . felt It was his duty to. lessen that infernally infer-nally long-time between drinks. - .Humming birds can. fly as well backward as they can -forward, pects to b In Provo by September 1.X He will be ready to take Up his work at Brigham 'Young university when school opens on September 10. i for the "Y" in the matter of regi-H-tiation. when 1492 students from ltf states and five foreign countries registered 1'or work, the coirlng school year promises to see a utill further' increase in. the enrollment, officials say.; They point out that though haid times may cut down the registration in some, sections, it may have the opposite effect in others where , young people and eyen adults are out of employment and, might .more yiofitably be' in school thun merely idle The graduate school has advanced ad-vanced so steadily that "Dr. Christen Chris-ten Jensen, Its dean, believes that there will be an increase in .the number of those who will couie to Brigham Young for" Master's degrees de-grees in varl. ua department." Thu secondary and primary training schools have grown in populaiity until every vacancy in both will likely be filled n?11 before school starts. ! The institution prepared to give training to, students looking to ward career in busineHs, medicine, law, engineering, agriculture, home economics,! fine arts, teaching, Journalism and .scientific rent-arch, according to official who point to the faculty well trained in the higher high-er Institutions of1, this country and .Europe. , Botanical, zoological, and geological geolog-ical expeditions headed by well trained collectors such as Dr. Walter Wal-ter P. Cottam, Dr. Vasco M. Tanner, Tan-ner, Dn Murray O. Hayes and Dr. Geoi ge H. Hanson have brought back to the institution a collection of plants, animals . and mineral that serve as excellent laboratory materials lor the students and 'at the same time establish herbariums and museums that rank higlt among depaitments of their kind in other institutions of higher learning. learn-ing. The collections of the Doseret museum, a, gift from the church, form a nucleus. for a museum that is rapidly growing in importance and .interest. .Though'Brigham Young vmiver-eity vmiver-eity has long been favorably known for .. its., extra-curricular activltieM, impetus will .be given them thi:j yeart by-the' renovation of Collegii hall and the Improvement of facilities facili-ties connected with the athletic department. de-partment. A. new 'floor arrangement arrange-ment of the auditorium and new stage, changes are expected to make the historic old hall more pleasant and attractive to the students. A full. program of recreational activities activ-ities and sports has been outlined for the coming year, the catalogue would indicate. 1 The big ' events that have drawn hundreds to the institution during the pas:t few years are scheduled rgain this year. Leadership week and the commercial contents for high school students are leading events among these and will carried on as usual. "With the tolling of the fitbt bell to call students to classed or to registration on September 15, a new year will be ushered In, a year that premises to be bigger and 'better than any that have gone before." t-ajd E. H. Holt, secretary and treasurer, treas-urer, of the institution. "Everything "Every-thing points to an unusual year of school activity." B. Y. U. Calendar ' ' 1030 . AUTUMN QUARTER September. 15 and 16 Registration Reg-istration of students.- September 37 rnstruction begins. ; . October .'1C Founder's 'day. November 2S to ' December 1 - (Wednesday evening until Monday evening) - Thanksgiving Thanks-giving recess. December 5 Autumn quarter quar-ter closes." . WINTER QUARTER December 8 Winter quarter quar-ter begins. December 19 (Friday evening) eve-ning) Christmas recess begins.' be-gins.' - ' ' ; . 1931 'January 5 School work resumes. re-sumes. . . January 2G to 30 Leadership Leader-ship week. ' March 13 Winter quarter closes. SPRING QUARTER , March 16 Spring quarter begins. ' .... May 31 Baccalaureate services. ser-vices. "... June 3 Fifty-fifth c o m-mencemcnt m-mencemcnt exercises. . : June 8 Summer quartet- ' begins. , " July 1R 20th annual Timpanogos Timp-anogos .hike. ... . . .. , |