12 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 23, 1918. " HOLDER OF ST. JOHNS AMBULANCE MEDAL, SENT FROM MILITARY GOLLEGE DECLARED nUarlTAL TO TRAIN RECONSTRUCTION AIDES AT REED COLLEGE. TO BE DOING DUTY President of Reed Board of Trustees Commends Work of Local Institution. 1 ' ' r "J IMMENSE TASKS LIE AHEAD ' 1 " ' u '- -' ' i Executive and His Faculty Said to 1 x ' Have Caught Spirit Which Makes , for Preservation of Vital Principles. Dr. Thomas Lamb Eliot, aa president of the Reed College board of trustees, has rendered his annual report and recommendation to the trustees, look-in- s ' to the past and to the future of SI the institution. Dr. Eliot found the general business conditions of Reed improved over last year and he holds the outlook bright for the field of cipher education with its added im- petus and reconstruction of ideals due to the war. He commends the presi- dent and his faculty for having- caught the spirit of action which makes for the preservation of the vital principles of education. In the response of Reed College stu- dents and faculty to the call of service and the war work undertaken by the institution. Dr. Eliot sees the college In the light of an inspiration to the higher forces of the community and one which oan help meet the fearful and sublime challenge of a world at war. Community Feeling Grows. Dr. Eliot's report follows: Referring to the general business of the Institute, it may be said that on the whole (ir conditions are better than a year ago, and ONE WEEK the outlook seems to be upon a. steadier basis. Wt are still a part of a world at OPENING TODAY war. In the midst of which, however, there 1 has come great growth of community feeli- ng-, which again has set alive all the higher V I 9 'V-- forces that make for a better humanity; and of these forces thus set alive none Is attracting more attention than that of . work in fractures and dislocations in It is my own conviction, after much read- the Lambeth Infirmary. ing, that the field of higher education is REED GETS EXPERTl She returned to Liverpool in 1910 and I being regarded as more and more a vital In December, 1910, started working in one, and along with the desire to throw the Southern Hospital with the Sir greater responsibility . upon higher educa- tion there Is coming about almost a recon- Robert Jones clinic. The following struction within the objects and the meth- year, in addition to her work at the ods of education itself. At our commence- Southern Hospital, she was In charge I ment we a paper from of a hospital heard the Miss Mary McMillan, of Eng children's and gymnasium . of Harvard College, which is one Illus- of which Sir Robert Jones was surgeo- M r tration of this fact. n-in-chief. A V She was J . connected with I i We are most fortunate in our own college land, to Be Instructor Here. I ii f it v in having wise and progressive leadership the Southern Hospital as "medical i on the part of the president, with his fac- gymnast and masseuse" from 1910 to 17 A ulty, and are given evidence every year of 1916. w their ability to keep In touch with the most Wounded Belgians Cared For, W vital forces in the world of thought, and their desire to bring into action the most In October, 1914, one of the first ship- vital principles of true education and a men- WAR EXPERIENCE OF VALUE loads of wounded Belgian soldiers was tal and spiritual discipline for the common taken to an improvised hospital In people, espectaly with a view to the leader- Liverpool. Sir James Barr was the ship which is becoming more and more Im- surgeon-in-chie- f. minently a necessity for the preservation Miss McMillan volunteered her serv- and uplift of society. Medical Gymnast and Masseuse Was ices for massage work in this hospital College Doing Full Doty. and continued to give them from Octo- At this annual meeting I think It Is in Charge of Liverpool Clinic ber, 1914, to February, 1916. She was worthy of record that our college is already hospital sending 105 of Its students and faculty Into Which Received First Belgian at the regularly three days a the active service of the country during the week and at other times when called. war, and that at this time a most Impor- Wounded in August, 1914. There were no patients but Belgians tant work is being undertaken by the presi- for two or three months. Later many dent and his assistants for the training of Irish and Scotch were reconstruction aides and for a Summer soldiers treated. school of physical education. The trustees Miss McMillan came to the United KAIETEl'R" The first of the great Ootlnsr-Ckest- er also understand that the United States States in 1916 and from 1916 to 1918 she Picture a hair-raisi- camera ad- Government has offered a method of co- Miss Mary McMillan, of Liverpool. was associated with the Children's MSCHOLLM venture through the river jungles of British operation with colleges by which the stu- England, holder of the St. Johns Am Hospital, in charge of Dr. E. C. Abbott, ON OUR NEW Guiana in South America, including a visit to body can be enlisted, uniformed and in Me. During a waterfall five times as high as Niagara dent ex- bulance medal, who has been sent by Portland. this time she Indian shooting on the drilled. In part, for future call in the also taught nurses' training classes in 'SYMPHONY-ORGA- N' Patamonan fish life igencies of war. the United States Government to Heed massage Mary's Coorlal Trails Over Mountain and Mail In conclusion, I take this occasion to College Summer school to assist In in St. Hospital at Water Courses. commend to you the work of this office, training reconstruction aides under the Lewiston and Webber Hospital. with its superintendent and assistants, and Surgeon-Genera- to express renewed confidence In the whole direction of the l, is February 26, 1918. ehe began work as V college administration. We are living in expected to arrive early this week. head aide in physical therapy in the an extraordinary age. presenting to us Miss McMillan, it is said, is probably Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, ' 11 extraordinary problems, and a peculiar bur- the only woman so trained available D. C. den is laid upon us, as trustees of what we in the country, as her experience since All the oversea cases of wounded believe is a great institution, to do all In 1914 American soldiers that have been sent our power In making It an Inspiration to has been largely with wounded back to this country up to the present whole life of the community. soldiers returned from the battlefields. time have been sent to the Walter Reed the Her selection for Reed College is con- Hospital. ImmpnM Tasks LI Ahead. sidered important. She was in charge TVe are challenged by a world of fearful nd of sublime realities, and all the high- of the clinic which received the first er Institutions of society have at once the Belgian wounded in August, 1914. Since "U" Students Give Annual task of facing these realities and shaping last February she has been at the things that are into the things that ought Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, Commencement Play. perilous time, is not the col-l.- to be. In this among those receiving American soldiers returned an elect instrumentality " saving from Fance. She was sent to Reed "Cyrano Bera-erae- which strive to ennoble the people, College course de Presented by thm from the equal perils of a false con- for the reconstruction Dramatic Classes. PHOTOPLAYS OF servatism and a false radicalism, instruct- only after repeated requests from MERIT ing them In the arts of having life and of President Foster through Senator having it more abundantly, and' empower- Chamberlain, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene. ing for manifold responsibilities them , the June 19. (Special.) of social sen-Ice- arising out of the stress Hospital Work Began In 1010. Powdered and and strain of the Nation's life? Miss McMillan attended the Liverpool simpering women of fashion and beruf-- college for girls affiliated with Liver- fled and becurled marquises made a pool University for four years. She frivolous Parisian 17th century back- was graduated in 1908. She started in ground for Roxane, the beautiful, and LOYAL WOMAN PROTESTS the academic course, but changed to a Cyrano, the man of the monster nose. scientific course after two years. She who scintillated in Kostana a five-a- ct spent nine months in the United States heroic comedy. "Cyrano de Bergerac," 20c Children 10c after her graduation from college. presented here Friday night at the out- MRS. CHRISTOPHER NOFZIGEg Upon her return to England she went door theater In the city park on the to the National Hospital for Nervous north slope of Skinners Butte. what she believes Is Christian's mind per cent is to be made shortly of the SEEKS STATUS OP CITIZENSHIP. diseases In London, studying massage This was the annual commencement and soul as expressed by his letter-s- Public Service Commission by the nerve only one year. At play, given by university written by Cyrano. Christian is killed Grays Harbor Railway & Light Com- and work for the classes In In shortly marriage pany in- the end of one year she was placed in dramatic Interpretation under the di- battle after the of this city.