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THE SUMMER MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, TULY 11, 1926
Gail Lyons
George T. N\cKear
Assistants
Thaddeus Wast \alwsk
n .\orris Zwerdling
man investigation because he believ-
ed there was a possibility of injus-
tive in arresting a man of such prom- M U S I C
inence. AND
Action of this sort hardly marks
Mr. Barry as a safety director-he is D R A M A
doing anything but looking out for
the public safety. A policeman ought ~
to be capable of knowing when to "BELINDA"
make arrests but Mr. Barry doesn't Next week will see The Players pro-
seem to place much faith in Cleve- duction of A. A. Milne's "Belinda" one
land's bluecoats. The court room and
of the best modern English comedies,
not the private probe is the correct
means of dealing out justice, and a distinct success some seasons
Individuals of the "upper stratum" ago with Ethel Barrymore in the cast.
are just as susceptible to minor law For delightful, half-fantastic comedy
violations as any vagrant. And in the Milne is only to be compared to J. M.
land where "all men are created free B~arrie, and add to that a certain in-
and equal," why chould partially be souciant gayety and lightness of
shown anyone? These special prlv- touch, which are most certainly his,
ileges have no place in a democracy. and his plays are ever a rare treat for
Inquiries of this nature are unjusti- the epicurean palate. "Belinda" to1
liable and if Mr. Barry's tactics are the "Dover Road" is a long transition,
employed consistently they will lead and not altogether a happy one; and
to a greater abuse of the law by a neither "Mr. Pim Passes By" or the
select few. deliciously funny "Truth aboutj
--~~ Blyads" quite match the freshness and1
- sponteneity of the earlier plays, of
EDiTORIALiCOMMENT h "Belinda" is assuredly the
I ___ ~crown-jewel.
~----------Robert Henderson will be absent!
DEGREES OF HONOR from the cast, as the program ex-.-
(The Nation) * plains, due to the "great difficulty" of
The season's crop of honorary de- the next production which will be
grees reaveals several new varieties, Moliere's "Doctor in Spite of Him-
rouced by methods of cross-b ree d-, self", and Miss Amy Loomis is incon-
ing whose secret is best known to un- spicuously cast as the maid. We were
iversity administrations. The honor- not aware that the part of Sganarelle
ary degree used to be for the most was so arduous, but the director may
part a simple though glowing recogni- be having some trouble in operating
tion of scholarly or artistic or scien- the much advertised prompt-book of
tific achievement,. with an occasional the great Jouvet, which we take it, is
stooping from academic fields to pick pretty complicated.
up a gem from the vague field of pub-1 The role of the poet, will be sharedl
lic service. But a complex civilization by William Bishop and Richard Woell-
has changed that, until now one never haf, the latter acting it on Tuesday
I knows where our sharp-eyed univer- and Saturday, and the former Thurs-
sity heads may discover a Doctor of day, and the following Monday in
Laws. It may be in the House of Rep- Ypsilanti.
resentatives, where New York Uni- The complete cast is as follows:
versity found Speaker Nicholas Long-B.
worth. Or it may be in the embassy Delia, her daughter ..Camille Masline
of a nation for whose friendship we lartld Baxter, a statistician......
ytarn.l- Columbia University went....................Warren Parker
bravely fishing in political seas and 'Claude Devenish, a poet..........
I despite its very Republican president...................Richard Woellhaf
rI William Bishop
cault Governor Al Smith, upon ,h T Willam shop
whom it conferred his first academ- ohnT- Dale Shafer
is degree. But fishing was best in Betty, Belinda's maid. ..Amy Loomis
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town University caught Herbert Ioov- (iVNTEt-ATTACK FRM 'IRE
er, and ashington niversity (St. LEGION
Louis) caught Secretary of War Day- The coming season in New York
is, and any number of lines hooked a xill see the production of a play en-
great scholar in the Secretary of the titled "Who Won the War" written by
Treasury. Kirke Mechem, editor of the Kansas
Mr. Mellon, in this annual hood-g l- Legionnaire and a lWorld war veteran,
letting contest, was clase pressed by as an answer to "What Price dory."
Owen I). Young. Mr. Mfellon won withi This should he interesting to the many
} rvard, Yale, and Amherst to his who saw and appreciated the play,
idrdit but ltr. Yterng was not far .he- yet felt that as a picture of the life
reti l buth rges and Prineton. The "overthere" it was hardly altogether I b
VY, Is degree was ,;on ferr-ed xipon Mfr. fair or complete.
lMellon with the tribute "No in in Pr-derick Palmer, the noted war
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SUNDAY, JULY 11, 1926
Night Editor--PAUL J. KERN
PICKING THE ( AREFUILLY
Nett fall Princeton will embark on
a new policy of limiting its freshman
class to 600 carefully chosen men.
Besides bringing his high school prin-
cipal's recommendation as to his lion-
or, industry, reliability, and general
character, and giving certifier proof
that his secondary school work w as
of extraordinary high quality, he
must pass both a psychological test
to determine his possibilities of de-
velopment and a rigid entrance exam-
ination.
The idea of the Princeton admin-
istration hoard is that they can serve
civilization better by devoting all their
energies to developing men who have
the necessary brain power to start
with than by turning oat a large num-
bIr of mediocre students. Princetoi
should be heartily congrattulated on
her new policy. It is a fact that, our
i'niversities today are wasting time
on a lot of "dummkopfs" and nincom-
poops which tends to drag down the
general level of the more intelligent.
This plan is merely a scientific methi-
od of improving the breed wlhich oth-
er educational institutions might well
follow.
It is to be lamented that Michigan
will not or cannot do the same thing.
Our campus today is overloaded with
men and women who might better be
out earning money than wasting the
time of professors and other students
who are more capable by trying to
garner a degree for some unknown
reason before their feebl brains b'-
come too solidified.
PRESIDEN'r FRANK EXPERMfENTS
This fall Pres. Glenn Frank of Wis-
consin, will start putting into practice
his theories of education. Madison is'
now the scene of rapid construction
of dormitories and school buildings.
September will see the opening of
President Frank's experimental col-
lege under the direction of Professor
Meiklejohn anti a special faculty. The
student body will be composed of 125
recent graduates of high schools who
have volunteered to take the two'
years of "project study." At the end
of the second year e- class will be{
returned to the university as jun-i
lors where ther work may be compar-
ed with that of the regular juniors.
Besides carrying out Doctor Frank's
ideas, the college will be a laboratory
in which to test the educational the-
ories that lost Doctor Meiklejohn his
presidency at Amherst in 1923.
Certainly the project cannot harm
the students who willI be under the
new college's supervision for twoI
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henelit to the publiie' "Very true -he
gave as much as $25,000 in the Penn-.
s ylva ia ptri marti (s, and le very likely
has sevei-al thousands left for worthy;
educational instititions. Mr. Young's
service on the Daw(,s commission and!
his pronouncemn ts on th( 'problem!
correspondent, is quoted in the New
York Times, as declaring "What Price
Glory" an "immature view of one
type in one angle of the war when
truth demanded a generic type and
the full view." M1r. Palmer continues
farther, "It pretends to be realism;
but it happened that I saw the brigade
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of power development might have from which its types Were supposed to
(ualifai edhirm for the oldl brand of be drawn in billets after their heav-
a ctde-moic degree with< a touch of lest action. In that deserted little
modernity in the fact that he sits on French market town there were no
dozns of wealth- corptyration boards. ,cafes open, no drinking, no carousing,
But in the business of delivering de- only utterly weary, exhausted soldiers
gr-es for cash, paid up or prospective, isting." Well, this is the other side,
11 at-%arrl Was this year boldest of them and Mr. Palmer should know of what
all. She presented her LL.D. to he speaks, but the picture he -draws
George Fisher Maker, of the First Na- is not exactly roesate, either.
tional hank of New York, who recent- Of course nobody is gullible enough
ly gave $5,000,000 to Iter Graduate to bhlieve that the conduct of Amer-
S-hool of Business Administration. ican soldiers in France was exactly
Mir. Baker's degree cost more than a !inghelic, but it is equally falacious
Pennsylvania primnalry. to conclude that Captain Flagg and
At Amherst an old custom has taken S'argent Quirt, whisky sonsed, and
on new sign ificance.i.Phe seniors con- lecherous, are in any measure repre-
fetr honorary membership in their sentative of the average doughboy.
class as they see it, but it has been At any rate "Who Won the War" will
usual that the president of the col- very likely dispute that conclusion.
lcge should be among those so honor- and if it is nearly as good a. play as
(Ir This yar President 01 ds was "What Price Glory," it may prove a
conspicuosly neglected. On the list gooc antidote. There has been con-
of honorary members in absentia, how- siderable suspicion in New York crit-
ever, appeared the name of Alexander ical cir-ees of late that the appeal of
Meiklejohin. ThIbis was not,, we hilieve, "What Price Glory," particularly in
primarily meant as a slight to Dr.{ the case of tlie ladies, lay in the gen-
Olds. xx'ho has always been regarded erous offering of profanity and dirt.
with a ffsction, especially during his (My dear, did you hear 'em swear?"
lotig year's of deansliip. In 192 Dr. "And did you see them fight?" "And
Mo'ik ljohn had spent eleven years in did you see them quarrel over that
making arnhem.rst the reality of his cafe harlot?") That sort of thing,-
dream of a libral college. By that perhaps. But the new play will open
time the trustees thoru hl.b re, rttod itself to much the san e sort of crit-
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the rashness which had proimpLted
them. in the height of a fashionable
progressive wave, to intrust the sacredI
tradiitions of Amherst to the hanis ofI
years, and it may prove to be some- st1i a man, ad they requesteI his i
ing new in educational fields. At resignation. The class of 1926 had
least, the results will he interesting jumst lunshed its freshman year. It was
to watch. It may even be the begin- perhaps too young to take a large part
ning of purely graduate universities I in the demonstrations of undergrad-
in the fields of arts and letters. 'nhate indignation at the time---thirteen
seniors refused their diplomas---but
PRIVITEGE1) evidently it was not too young to have
It is a decided asset to live at the profited by its brief experience of a
University club in Cleveland. Recent- lberal president and to have learned
ly, a member of that club was arrest- self-determination. The last Amherst
ed, and Edwin D. Barry, a safety di- class which knew Dr. Meiklejohn ef-
rector of the city, noting the address, ( fectively recorded its undergraduate
took it upon himself to start a one -stand, while the trustees were follow-I
icismli if it is infused wth a spirit of
jingo patriotism, of the 4th of July
flavor.
After all we wonder if that great
motion picture, "The Big Parade,"
isn't about the best comment on the
war to date. And Laxvrence Stallings
is responsible for the story.
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The amusing Erksinc novel ,"The
Private Life of Helen of Troy," is be-
ing adapted for the stages Ethel Bar-
(rymore will he seen in the role of
Helen, and the production is announc-
ed for next fall.
ing the academic procession of hon-
oring millionaires.
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