T1E FUCHIGAN D LY Olficial Newspaper at the University of Michigan. Published every morning except Mon- day throug.out the school year. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Ar- bor, Michigan, under Aet of Con- gress of March 3, 1879. ITANYAGING EDITOR- Walter K. Towers. BUSINESS MANAGER Albert R. Dilley Editors. News Editor........Harry Z. Fol Assistant...........Frank Pennell Athletic Editor......Karl Matthews Assistant..........G. C. Eldredge Music and Drama ....Earl V. Moore Intercollegiate News Harold G. McGee Files..............Emmett Taylor Editorials. Arthur B Moebimn Frank E. Shaw EdwardG. Kemp Maurice Myers Night Editors. Maurice Toulme Mack Ryan Wallace Weber C. Harold Hippler H. Beach Carpenter Robert Gillett BReporters John Townley Morris Houser Frank Murphy William Daugherty J, Selig Yellen Fred B. Foulk Hal C. Tallmadge J. V. Sweeney Morris Milligan Leonard M. Rieser Morton R. Hunter Rusell H. Neilson BUSINESS STAFF. Assistant to Mgr. ..Joseph Fouchard Advertising Mgr ... Elmer P. Grierson ^irculation Mgr.....ll. Ray Johnson A. R. Johnson, Jr...Emerson Smith Edgar L. Jaffa.......W. T. Holland W, J. Wetterau. J. I. Lippincott Want Ad Stations. Press Building; Quarry's Pharm- acy, State and North Uni- versity. OFFICE HOURS: Managing Editor, 1-2 p. in., 10:30-11:30 p. m.; Bus- iness Manager, 1- p. m.. Both Phones 960. Subseription price: By carrier, 12.0; By mail, $3.00. OFFIES: Ann Arbor Press Buldin g. Maynard Street. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1912.T Night Editor-H. Beach Carpenter. The Track "w." A man receives his "M" in football and in baseball because he made the team and is the best man in his par- ticular ine in college. When he re- ceives an "M" in track work, it not only signifies that he is the best in college, but one of the four best ath- letes in his event in America. This is the main reason for the apparent lack of interest in the work. The track men feel that they are not receiving a fair show, in comparison with the men in other branches of ath- letics. In these sports, it is only es- sential to be the best man in the uni- versity. Michigan has had many teams, both in football and baseball, which were far removed from the class of national champions. Yet the men re- ceived their "M's" not because of their showing in competition with other teams, but because they were the best players Michigan had and had been selected to represent the Maize and Blue. In track work everything is changed. To win the coveted letter, a man must "place" in the Eastern Collegiate meet, against the best athletes America can produce. He must not only run gruel- ling races to get into the finals, but, in these, he must be one of the first four, to receive recognition in the form of the college letter. When Michigan was in the Western Conference, track "M's" were given to those men who "placed" in the Confer- ence meet and in the dual meet with Chicago. The Conference meet was not considered as large an event as the Eastern Collegiate and Michigan men generally had little trouble in winning places. This, with the Chicago dual meet added, furnished enough clancess for the track men, and the letter was given out much more frequently than since the Wolverines have been com- peting with the East. When Michigan left the Conference, the rules were changed to meet the re- quirements. From that time on, it be- came necessary for a man to "place" in the big eastern meet to secure the let- ter. It was harder to win a place in this event and -the chance of gaining a letter for work in some dual meet was cut out. Thereafter a Michigan track man did not wear the "M" un- less he could point to the fact that he was one of the first four of American athletes in his especial event. The number of "M's" given out for track work has yearly grown smaller, while the number in the other branch- es of sport has increased. A man may run and win points in every dual meet for Michigan. Yet, if he fails to place at. the Intercollegiate, he misses his chance for an "M." Try as he will to disguise the fact, the athlete strives be- cause, in large measure, he wants something which he prizes. This some- thing generally takes the form of the "M." To the men, this is the greatest thing and, if this fact be ignored, then interest will lag and we will drift into a period of lethargy and general life- lessness which now pervades the spring sport. It is not the desire of the track men to cheapen the letter. Far be it frm them to belittle something that means most to them, but they do believe that the barriers should be let down a few bars.; We have a dual meet wth Cor- nell and this might take the place of the "M' meet we formerly had with. Chicago. Again, it might not be a poor idea. to give an "M" to a man who places in the finals at the Eastern Col- legiate, without making it obligatory to be one of the first four across the line town Ca h Ceme on cubs, we're for you-the high-brow staff men are suffering from conT-in the head, not in the chest. Forty Years Ago Today. The directory will be out June 16. -x-- Here's where us safety-razor fans can rest in peace safe from the germ- laden tonsorial boogy-man. .._. A Michiganuisance. T persistent early-rising School of Music novice in the room next door. It: is understood that prolific fresh- T'ext and for Draw ig and Eng ]Laboratory I WAHR " _ E Ple.tinurr, portreudt Wht en% Y Prorir 10 319 I '1s #I .um Poarfrmdts I IThe Phone 1534-L i L A 42nd Year DIC in Ann Arbor Cal re ANN ARBOR BRANCH: 'STAT man rhetoric themes are arguing the question "Why is a Snowflake?" 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