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., Published Monthly by the Alumni of the State College of Washington ' l .. ~................. .....- . ................ ..... ...................... ......... ..... ........ ............. ................................................- ................... ...... 1 -- - _ _ • i i ...... + THE ALUMNUS I; Ii i t THE STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON t i • .. f I i i t Volume XV December, 1925, Pullman, W ashington Nwmher 10 t ; ; + . + ----.--..---------..-.......-...------------.------- -- ..................................................................................."........................................................................................................ • • OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 'I< G. H. Gannon, '15, Pullman, Wash. ...................President A. R. Galbraith, '13, Garfield, 'Yash. ........First Vice President • !. J . O. Blair, '08, Vancouver, ·Wash ..... ......Second Vice President Alumni Secretary "' .. H. M. Chambers, '13 . .. ... ... ..... .. .. ....... .Pullman, Wash. Treasurer C. L. Hix, '09 . ... ... .......... ...... ...... ...Pullman, Vvash. Members-at-Large 4 r L. B. Vincent, '15 ................................Yakima, 'Vash. S. Elroy McCaw, '10, .. , ... .... ... .... ... .. ...Bellingham, "Wash. J . H. Binns, '16, .................................Tacoma, "Wash. Ira Clark, '02 ............... ....... .. ... .. Walla Walla, 'Vash. Walter Robinson, '07 .... .. .. ... ................Spokane, ·Wash. (1 ,. Members of Athletic Council I , R. C. McCroskey, '06 ..... ........ ... .. ... ... ..Garfield, Wash. j~ C. A. Zimmerman, '24 ............................Spokane, ,VasIl. ;/ 'J :Earl Foster, '24 ... .. ..... .. ............. .. ....Pullman, 'Vash. :,.1; Editor and Manager of The Alumnus : jj H. M. Chambers, '13 .............................Pullman, Wash. Offici.a.l Cartoonist for The Alumnus T H. R. Fulton, '12 ..... ...... .. ... ..........Seattle, Wash. E. V. Edmonds, '11 ................... .. .....Mt. Vernon, Wash. THE ALUMNUS Published monthly by the Alumni of the State College of Washington. Entered as second class matter June 13, 1919, at the post office at Pull man, Washington, under the Act of March 3, 1879. • ~ THE p~LUMNUS A Digest of the News for the Alumni VOLUME XV PULLMAN, WASHINGTON, DECEMBER, 1925 NUMBER 10 The Legislative Outlook Just what the . :gislaturc may finally appt'opriate for the J ust a ft;w days ago it seemed apparent that a supple needs of th , Stat College is largely a matter of conjecture. 111 enta l bil l would pass through both houses, carring the There has bel' . no cnd of di scussion in thc Senate Com foll owin g items for the State College : mittee on l;duca.ional Institution s, \yith regard to the fi x in g of mil" 'gcs for institutions of hi g her Ica rning. T he Opera ti on and maintenance 56)50.00 qucsti on at ,suc was to determine thc basis 0 11 which the Mechani c A rts Building 69,200.00 mill agcs sr tiel be fi gured. W il son Hall 41 ,700.00 The fin al rcport of t hi s cOlllmittee whcn it cam e to the Reconstruct water system 28,900.00 floor of tho Senate fi xed the millage of the State Coll cge A rmory and Gymnasium 150,000.00 at approxi!',latcly .8 7 ~ '-;; mills. This rcport was adoptcd by the Senate, a nd passed on to thc House for consid eration. T otal .... .. ................................. .............. ..............$446, 550.00 As this n agazin e goes to press the report comes from O lympia that thc House adopted the report as subm itted In fact a bill in cluding the above items had passed the by the Senate The fa tc of the millage is, therefore, in Senate and was clue for consideration in the H ouse along the hands ui the Govcrnor. with the gencral appropriations bill. In vi cw f the fact that the Governor is not in favor of millage as mattcr of principl e, and stated in hi s m essage Howeve r, it appears at this wntlllg tha t both the gcn to thc Leg :"ture that he opposed any in creased appropria era l appropri atio n bill and the supplemental appropriation tions for 111 intcnance and opcration of thc in stitutions ot bill have encountcred abstacles in the H ouse and both bills hi g her learr. ;ng, it is a reasonable g uess to say that he \\'ere returned to the Senate with certain cha nges and will likcly v to the bilL a lterations. If this :ak ' s place it is then a questio n whethcr the in· stitutions w;:1 have sufficient streng th to pass the bill Latest rports have it tha t the Senate did away with the over the Co n~ rn o r ' s veto. To do so will rcquirc a t wu sup ple mental a ppropriati on bill and in corporated the items thirds vote in cach house of the Lcgisla ture. contain cd therein in the gcneral appropria tion bill, and t hen proceeded to adjourn un til Monday, D ecember 28th. With refcl ,nce to appropriations for capital outlay and T hc House is still in session and is reported to be ready supplemental appropriati ons, aside from millage, the to adjourn on Tucsday, December 22ncl , to reconvcne on· State Co lIg ~ had rcquestcd thc follo win g: the 28th . Operation and mai ntenancc ..................... .. ... .......... $209,739.9 1 Mechanic A rts Building 69,200.00 T hcrefore, un less the House acccpts the appropriation Wilson H all 41 ,775.00 bill as now constitutcd as it cam e from the Senatc, con R cconstruct water system 28,975.00 sid eration o n the bill cannot be had until after the 28th of A rmory and GYlll nasium 278,297.45 the m onth. U nit of Hospita l 60,000.00 In short, the questi on of suppl emcnta l appropriations is T otal .. ...... ...... ......................................................$ 687,987.36 very m uc h up in the air. Noone kno weth what will ha ppeti. 2 THE ALUMNUS NEWS OF THE _ALUMNI ALUMNI LETTERS -and our long, sunny balcony over ed ceiling, way down there in the dark. looks the lazy old Tiber, \~;th .St. was an altar where the sacred bull THE STEWARTS NOW IN ROME Peter's dome on beyond was sacrificed, and on either side were Vic have visited St. Peter's several stone couches, I guess you would call Rome, Italy, times, also the Vatican, which is full them, where the initiated reclined November 14, 1925. of interesting collections of marhles, while partaking of the flesh of the bull. Aftn only two weeks acquaintance books and gems, and contains, of The Coliseum, the Pantheon and the with Rome, I hesitate to cven so much course, the famous Sistine Chapel. Forum have been pictured and storied -as comment upon its wealth of charms, One feels that it should be provided so much that I am afraid I would be its monuments or its inhabitants, for with couches amI cushions, so that he intruding on your conceptions and il after our experience in Greece and our Illight lie and watch and wonder and lusions to venture my humble reac hastily formed and entirely superficial dream over Michaelangelo's ceiling, tion towards thcm However, you can dislike for the place, we have begun but instead there are wooden benches consider what little I say, merely as to realize that one is worse than no and everyone sitting with his eyes my small personal opinion. The Col judge at all of a land until he has strained upward, looking, looking, and iseLlm is so well represented by its actually lived in it, known types of its never feeling saturated. The only way many photographs that it is just as people and absorbed its spirit. And of to hope to sec it and appreciate it all onc contemplates. and actually stand course Don and I miss the true flavor is to go back and back. Rome, as all ing beside it or within it impresses one hecause we do not know the languages. the rest of Italy, is crowded with Holy with its enormity and helps one vis But at that, we had a feeling of part Year Pilgrims, especially German, it ualize it in its completeness, filled with ing with a dear old treasure when we seems. T don't know where they all ti ers upon tiers of spectators, gasping, left Greece's vivid blue water and sky, cat and sleep, but they say it was im gazing, screaming, rising to their feet her mellowed ivory temples. her pearl possible to obtain a room here this as they urged on the combats between hazed hills, and the fine friends we summer without engaging it far ahead. Illan wit and animal strength. It is had made among her people. It is It is hard to imagine what it must the interior of the Pantheon that is " hard to wax enthusiastic about Italy have been, there are still so many hun magnificent. From its marble floors now, but if it grows on us like Greece, dreds. it seems to soar right to the great and if the little towns and the country Some of the smaller churches I find dome ceiling, where a rounel opening life hold the same sort of hospitality far more appealing than the great St. is left clear to the heavens. Practi and charm on acquaintance, I am sure Peter·s. for I am vcry partial to s:m cally nothing but the floor of the by the time we have been here five plicity. rich old color and ancient mo Forum remains, though the associa or six months, as we were in Greece, saics. Of those we have seen, St. tions and the surroundings bring vi we will leave with the same feeling Clement's, with its five foundations, sions aplenty as one stands upon those of having left a bit of our hearts be the oldest and lowest, dating several hi storic slabs of rock. The castle of hind. hlllldred years before Christ, is my St. Angelo is an interesting old mass, Vole came to Italy rather suddenly ; choice. In the tribune is a rich mo too, and while the shafts in the floors that is, Dan's work in Athens was un saic of the twelfth century, symboliz of the prison rool11s connect by the certain for the winter, so we decided ing a tree which grows into the cross, shortest route with the Tiber below, we had better be getting on while we and rises from the cities of Bethlehem which.