Student Life Differs In Degree Not in Kind (Continued from Preceding Page) its passengers around campus as Great Playwright, then a Visiting a link to downtown was regarded Writer on campus, was enlightened almost as a social menace by an the social mores of the times,-shocked townspeople when student o"thesocil es oft,"thetimes. dates openly held hands on the "The bull eleP'hant," the Great owl run after a traveling musical Playwright asserted in his simply- or vaudeville bill at the Whitney. furnished second - floor roomo around on Oakland Ave., "will kill HERE WERE no hi-fi's, but any other beast in sight before th THere were windup phono-, mates:"teeweewnup'oo Exhibitionism, it almost seems, graphs and jazz, or syncopation. has replaced this mistaken Puri- The latter was practiced by stu- tanical, or pachydermous, reti- dent trios, quartets and quintets- cence, on the Diag, in the corridor the bass viol added to tenor sax, and even in the classroom. The cornet or trombone, drums and Arb once served a functional pur- piano made it a posh ensemble for pose. So did those cold stone class the better - heeled Greek letter memorial benches, lately derided parties. by a Daily writer. One working-his -way -through The old streetcar line that jolted senior taught himself to play the The New Cultural Mecca of An Lincoln Center for Performing Arts Begins To Rise Frosh-Soph battles of the 1920's Now! a fast 8mm daylight color film! NEW ANSCO MOVIECHROME8 Offers a wonderful new world of color and action to all 8mm camera owners. " a 4 piano by ear and hired himself out for a-frat dance to tide him- self over till the next check from home. He couldn't read music, could play only in the key of C and as piano player, dictated to his trap and sax players only those contemporary numbers he had memorized. Requests he responded to by taking a cigaret break. Waring's Pennsylvanians and Gene Goldkette packed the Ma- jestic on their annual campus visits but Paul Whiteman with his all-white grand piano and 27 play- ers hung the SRO sign on the formidable doors of Hill Audi- torium. After unexpected football vic- tories Ann Arbor's constabulary guarded movie entrances but sel- dom prevented the favorite frosh and Joe College pastime of Rush- ing the Show, a hoary ancestor of panty raids. STUDENT hangouts were sparse, and catered to a self-selecting clientele. Home of the Beats of that day was La Carmignole, a spider-webby firetrap reached by an outdoor cellarway off the alley on Williams just below State. Bobbed-hair coeds in knee-length skirts and cloche hats sat at rough plank tables lighted by candles stuck in wine bottles and tried to get their dates to discuss Proust while slugging tea. Independent men of the Chimes- Union Opera-Red Seal Records axis preferred a Chinese joint up- stairs over a State Street book- store, where many a plot to save the nation for culture was hatched, or they frequented a soda parlor across from the courthouse where real Italian spaghetti was served. Women couldn't enter the Un- ion from State Street and pre- ferred to stay at Bill & Mert's, a counter-service greasy spoon where you'd meet male friends to indulge in the one distinctive Michigan ration -- toasted rolls. Bill or Mert would run a breadknife side- wise through a thick slab 6f sweet roll, brown each half under the broiler and plaster each with but- ter. Today's 32-24-32, diet-conscious coed would recoil at the sight. PERHAPS AS BIG a difference as any is marked by the rela- tive locations of the President's Office and the University Admin- istration. Instead of the 'Salmon Loaf,' they occupied one range of corridor on the ground floor cen- tral wing in dingy U. Hall, tucked ignominiously behind Angell Hall. Even then change was in the offing. Henry Ford the elder grad- uated with the Class of '26, and the University expectantly award- ed him an honorary Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering. But, last year the new automotive lab was ceremoniously inaugurated on North Campus without the ex- pected Ford gift to replace the ancient lab which formerly occu- pied the Undergraduate Library site. Chimes, lately altered from a semi - literary monthly imitating Mencken's American Mercury to the Time-New Yorker emulative Sunday magazine section of The Daily, and The Michigan Journal- ist, fresh hatched, "both cam-. paigned vigorously against Hurry Up Yost's campaign for Stadium bonds. They lost. By THOMAS KABAKER LIE THE Phoenix, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is rising from the ashes of the brownstones to take its place as the cultural mecca' of America. The New York City center will house the Metropolitan Opera House, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, a dance theatre pre- sumably to be used for the New York City Ballet, a repertory thea- tre and the Julliard School of Music. The question arises whether the project will really contribute any- thing to the arts in America, or if this cultural center will simply house the same old institutions in new buildings. Part of the problem will lie in the success of the new auditoriums and whether they will increase cooperation among these organi- zations. The New York Philharmonic is scheduled to move into its new quarters in time for the 1961-62 season - one year too late, for Thomas Kabaker is a junior in the literary college and a Daily night editor. Carnegie Hall is to be demolished at the close of the present season. In the interim, the orchestra will use the Hunter College Audi- torium and will pray that the new building is finished on schedule. WHAT WILL this new home mean to the Philharmonic? For one thing, it will have fewer seats than Carnegie Hall. Research has shown that people are larger than before and need more space to be seated comfort- abliy. But architects feel that to enlarge the auditorium would sacrifice acoustic excellency and the orchestra's management has decided to seat fewer persons. Smaller capacity in the auditorium --smaller capacity for box office revenue. But the concern for good acous- tics points out a far greater prob- lem in moving into a new hall. Poor acoustics, practically speak- ing, could destroy a performing orchestra. A hall with acoustical problems makes the music inaudi- ble or distorted in parts of the auditorium. If the inner voices, the fine shadings of the music, are blurred in the new building the blow to The New Metropolitan Opera hous the orchestra would be tremen- perform in a "dead" auditorium, ANC dous, the Philharmonic 'is pretty well a Mr. Bernstein is restoring the sunk. 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