A~z;I e - Dal y I OF ALL t Ill MANV] son" - _ ., as. .. .. PRICE FIVE No. 59. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, )ECE M BE R 6, 1913. I f SHOW ;AN AS E OF BESTI ritage of Fiuture for West Will Be 1"ound i" Slate Uinivers M hges.n chigan flatly For Michigan Readers of The Michigan Daily, who have noticed, in this column, during the past few weeks, a series cf articles dealing with the history of the univer- sity, the scope of its work and the range of its influence, probably have been in some doubt as to the plan un- der which the articles have been pre- 1:ared, and the purpose which they are intended to serve. The idea in a few words is to spread the reassuring facts about Michigan among the stu- (dent and alumni bodies, and to the outside world, but primarily to sho the student at Michi-an what he ha gaindl by enrolln; her. The average, undergrad"ato whc comes with high hops and over- wrought ideas of things Michigan, and especially the undergraduate who finds himself in Ann Arbor more by chance than by cice because he happens to live in Michigan, or because he fol- lows a path well-worn by preceding members of his family, or for no very definite reason at all, is likely, after he settles down, in his own little groove to lose sight of just hew great Michigan really is. Also a certain reverence for eastern schools, to which distance lends enchantment, is likely to augment the idea of provincialism, which the established east is accus- tomed to ascribe to us. It is therefore necessary to bring facts and figures to show that Michigan must stand un- challenged with the few first unihokt sities of the country. But mere facts and figures are not enough. It is not sufficient that Mich- igan has more living alumni than any American college and stands second in total number of graduates among schools four times its age; it is not sufficient that Michigan has a plural- ity of college-bred congressmen, the largest union, the largest alumnal as- sociation In New York, and a major- ity of Chinese indemnity students. These are but incidents of a larger truth. Michigan is the dean of the large western institutions, William Rainey Harper, one time president of the University of Chicago, said, short- ly before his death, "No matter how liberally the private institution might be endowed, the heritage of the future, at least in the west, is the state uni- versity." Michigan has a history and it has traditions, and The Michigan Daily be- leves it is time we cease to deplore the lack of things which we already have, and begin to take advantage of them. Michigan would be a failure if she were doing only her routine work of turning out doctors, lawyers and engi- neers, however good. But along with their professional training these doc- tors, lawyers, engineers, teachers. writers and business men, have always and must always take away with them a larger training in humanity which stands for the bigger things in life and seeks to conserve the best ele- ments of our modern civilization, at the same time doing the work of the world. Let them have their Prince- ton idea, their Dartmouth idea, and, their Yale idea. That is the Michigan idea. Be it as old as the hills, and as monotonous, it is the criterion by which every university must, in the last analysis, stand or fall. It is a few of these little things that we want to bring home to the student who is apt to overlook, because he is living in the midst of it, the fact that there is such a thing as a Michigan spirit, alive and at work. We want to make him feel while he is in the university that, like Saul of Tarsus, he is "a citizen of no mean city," for we know that when he gets out he will soon realize that there is only one Ann Arbor, andone University of Michigan, and that the time will come when he will be glad.that he can say, WERNICKE WILL SPEAK AT VNION SUNDAY AFTERNOON 0: H. L. Wernicke, of Grand Rapids, president of the Macey Company, man- ufacturers of sectional book cases, will be the speaker at the Union Sun- day afternoon. Mr. Wernicke is an au- thority on shop management, and may take up some phase of this in his talk tomorrow. Gerald Strong, '15D, will be on handy with his violin, accompanied on the piano by "Ike" Fischer. C. W. Fergu- son, '15L, will present a number cf banjo so'os. The varsity quartet has consented to be present to present sev- eral numbe:s. JUNIORS AGREE ON PLANS FOR J-HOP The conditional 1915 Hop Committee assented to the plans recommended in the petition which the 1914 committee will present to the faculty for the re- instatement of the Junior Hop. The petition will be given to Prof. A. 11. Lloyd, of the non-athletic committee today, who will repcrt to the senate -.ouncil at its meetimg Monday night. The policy of the 1914 Hop com- miittee has been complete secrecy as to the nature of its proposals. That the organization will closely resemble that of last year is deduced from the ad- mission that the offices and chairman- ships of the various committees wil. be filled by men from the fraternities whose turns come according to the old plan of rotating offices. The general chairmanship, accordingly, will go to Delta Kappa Epsilon; treasurer, Alpha Tau Omega; secretary, Theta Delta Chi and reception and Hop leader, Sig- ma Phi. The student council committee, to which C. A. Brown, '15, and L. F. Mer- rit, '15E, have been added to represent their classes, has not met yet. In case the non-athletic committee decides not to show the petition to the student council committee for its opinion, there Is a possibility that a new plan for the Hop will be instituted without any expression of sentiment from the general student body. TO DISCUSS ADVISOI{Y SYSTEM TOP I'ICt r r r "NOTHING TO DO BUT------ FS TUR 0 KEINTUTKIANS DECIDE TO "" IVRIE ALUA MATER At its monthly meeting last night, the Kentucky club voted a sum of mon- ey to print 500 booklets containing both descriptive material of the uni- versity facilities, and statistics on Michigan's greatness in various de- partments. These booklets' will be mailed to every high school in the state in an endeavor to attract more men of the Bluegrass state to Michi- gan. The naterial for this booklet will be prepar:id shortly after the hol- idays 1y various members of the club and the booklets mailed be ore the spring vacation. TWELVE MEN FILE} CONTEST ORATIONS TENDERED I THREE PLANS I MEND ). .L- i ^ n 9x11E84c9' i L Vk z . .rt/i KEENE THINKS MICHIGAN BEST CIVIC CLUB SEEKS FOOTHOLD Syrmc-iie Coach Judges After Seeing I Biig Teamis of East and West in Action. Tom Keene, the veteran trainer who has had charge of all the Syracuse athletes, said recently that Michigan played the best article of football th"at he had witnessed during the past grid-' iron season. He was especially enthu- siastic over the unified team play shown by the Wolverine warriors in all the contests of the latter part of the season. In a- recent statement, Keene said Prof. Sait of Columbia Persistent in Efforts to 1ave Michigan Reenter Association. Overtures have been niade by the Intercollegiate civic league of the United States, through Professor Sait, lprofessor of political science at Colum- bia University, to establish a local chapter of the organization at Michi- gan. As a matter of fact, Michigan was once a member of the league, but since 1908, the time when interest in civic affairs at the university dwindled to comparatively nothing, Michigan ceased to be represented at the annual conventions. Professor Sait in communication with Mr. Harry Rottschaefer of the Twelve orators filed their manu- scripts of orations for the Peace ora- torical contest with the oratory de- partment yesterday, exceeding last year's record by two. Among those entered in the contest are five who competed last year. Paul B. Blan- shard, '14, who won the state, inter- state, and national Peace cntests last year is ineligible for this year's com- petition. The preliminary contests will be held on December 11-12, and the final contestant to represent the university in the state contest will be picked on December 18. About 30 states will be represented in the Oratorical peace contest, They are divided into groups of six according to geographical loca- tion. In the group with Michigan are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The winners of the state contests clash in an interstate contest, in which one orator is selected to rep- resent the group of states in the na- tional contest held at Lake Mohonk on May 14, 1914. The state contest for Michigan is to be held at Olivet on March 28, and the interstate contest at Cleveland on April 25. Following are the contestants and the subjects of their orations: F. W. Hoogsteen, '14, "The Concert of the World"; B. B. Watkins, '14L: "Peace"; E. A. Cournyer, '15, "Jour- nalism and the World's Peace"; H. M Rosa, '14, "The Burden of Militarism"; W. E. Morris, '16L, "The Price of Peace"; C. O. Chan, "The Unity of the World"; J. W. Harding, '14L, "The Price of Peace"; N. H. Goldstick, '15L, "The World's Crisis"; R. S. Fulton. '14, "The Commoner and Peace"; H. C. Tallmadge, '14, "The Passing of the Soldier"; W. J. Goodwin, '16L, "The Chief Ends of Life"; N. J. Gould, '14L, "We Kill No More." Fiel, Kemp r d li ily Seek Re of Th'thods of Nominating utnd Eiecfiig 11embers, ALL VA VOR REDU1TI)N' 0TO S1aIALLER NUMBERi OF iE hal t ion of Eect ion 1etring,4 Voles 4,is Wilt Veneral Asproyalt Rowland Fixe], ' 2-'14L, Edwa Kemp, '12-'14L, and The Michigai ly have submitted plans for the on of nominating and electing hers of the student council, in ac n:Ice with the council's request campus opinion. Kemp's plan is ed in today's Michigan Daily, tit or'two are filed with secretary McCoy, of the council. Each system would change the ant methods of nominating candi The Daily plan would have the cc candidates named by a small coi tee elected by the class, acting a similar committee appointed b student council. These comm would nominate two or three tim number of candidates to be elec the council. . Fixel's plan calls for nominatic the oral method of simply prese the name of the candidate by member of the class, at a meeti which 55 per cent of the class is ent. As soon as the nominatior closed, the class shall vote upo names proposed, and the two m ceiving the highest number of shall be declared the nominee office. Kemp advocates a reduct size of the council and allowing Mors only to be members. The remaining features of the posed plans, are similar in mo spects, candidates to be electi popular vote, with n6 campaigni: votes or pledging for support, fre open discussion of candidates ft ucational purposes, being alloy Fixel's system would give the c power of disciplining in some su tial manner, anyoie found gui pledging or soliciting votes. A feature in the latter plan, would reduce the number of cc men materially, is the rule would limit the representation council of each class, to one. Freshmen to Express Their Opinions in Rhetorie Classes. With the assignment to their fresh- man rhetoric classes of a theme on the faculty'-senior advisory system, a few instructors began yesterday to cooper- ate with the advisory committees in a plan to reveal the efficiency of Mich- igan's advisory system. The commit- tees, in a letter sent to the instructors in freshman rhetoric, request that they assign to their classes a regular theme on the subject, "The Significance of the Advisory System to Me Personal- ly." Each theme is to state specifically in what way the writer's advisors aid- ed him either before or after he came to Ann Arbor, and any criticisms or suggestions he has to make concerning the system. The themes, after being graded, will be turned over to the ad- visory committees. The information gained by this move is to be especially a test of the senior advisory system. A similar report from all senior.advisors will be obtain-, ed later, and the opinions of both ad- visors and advisees will be classified for the benefit of the senior advisors next year. Senior Engineers Divide for Exhibit. Senior engineers decided last week to divide the class into sections of me- chanical, civil and electricals for the spring exhibit, each division having its special committees to provide for their separate displays in the annual engineering carnival. J t I 4 { j t t f E { c E. c that not only the team play but thetd 1economnics department has made per- individual prowess and brilliance of sistent efforts to persuade Michigan to Michigan's men gave them a place far again assume relations with the asso- above all other teams whose contests rciation. This organization is open par- he had witnessed during the season. ticularly to students of political sci- ence, economics and sociology, though Keene's statement has great import- membership will not be restricted to ance in the football world, for he, those pursuing these subjects. above all other men, has had greater' The Intercollegiate Civic League opportunity to be present at a great consists of an association of under- aumber of Intersectional contests. He graduate political clubs in fifty-five not only saw the better of all the east- colleges and universities with differ- ern elevens in action but was present ent constitutions, but all with a com- at the Chicago-Minnesota game which mon purpose, namely to interest their decided the championship of the con- members in the political life of the ference. day. Annual conventions are held at either Washington, A. C., or in a city Ee tmti~t~aining iamtt Are Alppointedwhere some legislative body is in ses- sion and where in consequence it is The personnel of the committees of possible for the organization to listen the senior engineer class appoint- to men prominent in civic life. ed by President Paterson, with the Professor David Friday and Mr. exception of the four that were an- Rottschaefer believe that this is one nounced yesterday, is as follows: of the most effective and comprehen- class day--R. H. Braun, chairman, C. I sive methods of studying the workings S. Schoeffle, A. Eckert, R. T. Bayless, of political life and have expressed a and II. 0. Swanson; nermorial-1, hope that a Michigan chapter will be Dillman, chairman, E. B. Drake, A. J. 'established some time in the future. Hebert, R. A. Devos, and F. J. Chatel; -_ finance--H. W. Lichtner, chairman, W. AVTOM N0 BLE ENGINEERS TO Cook, F. C. Morse, L. C. Fiske, and C. .MAKE SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH J. Taylor: and pipe and stein-S. R. Prof. W. T. .Fishleigh, who has Brush, chairman, R. A. Yerrington, A. charge of the automobile courses in S Irvine and ' L. Bentley the engineering department, has been Union Unable to Provide Holiday Jobs The Union employment committee has about twenty requests for work during Christmas vacation, and as yet very little work has been offered. The committee is doing everything in its power to find places for those who have left their names, and hopes to be able to place nearly all of them before the recess starts. Permanent quarters have been furnished for the bureau in the regular Union office.The hours are from 4:00 to 5:30 o'clock every day but Saturday and Sunday. 'LASS FOOTBALL PROVIDES TRAINING FOR MINOR STARS The interclass football series this -tall proved successful in several ways besides merely offering an opportunity for those, not of varsity caliber, to{in- dulge in the national college sport. The contestants in every game were closely observed by Director Rowe in an attempt to unearth promising var- sity material, and as a result several of the shining lights will undoubted- ly receive initations to attend early football practice next year.I (10MMUN ICATION. (The Michigan Daily assumes no sponsibility for sentiments expr ed in communications.) .DecI 3, 191 Editor, The Michigan Daily:- The article printed by The Mich Daily concerning the newspaper s alleged to have been written by was brought to my attention. I w say that the "Advocate" which pri this article is an irresponsible we publication which is struggling for istence and doing all in its powe harm the other papers, especially one upon which I am employed. F tically all of our force have had I names signed to articles in the p which have never been written by t It. H. Babcock, editor of the Advoc was formerly associated with the zette. The article which he publi is from his own pen. Had I wr it I would have lost my position this paper at once and I am still h Trusting you will make a retrac of the story which you publishe remain, Yours very truly, \WALLACE B. BLOC Chess and Checkers Club Entel Clarence B. Steinem, '12L, wi. the guest of the Chess and Che club, Wednesday, He will give a: hibition of simultaneous play ai Union that night. While visiting atives in Munich, Germany, last men, he. engaged several strong ponents and defeated the majorit them. In 1911 and 1912 hewas ident of the local club, and is The chairmen of the other commit- tees follow: banquet-L. J. Keliher; general arrangements--A. R- Patron; executive-A. F. Bassett; cane-H. J. Trum; promenade-L. F. Campbell; auditing---T. M. Robie, senior sing-= E S. Marks; and picture-I) Dudley. appointed a member of the research committee of the Society of Automo- bile Engineers. This committee will cooperate with the leading automobile manufacturers throughout the country,3 in an attempt to systematize experi- mental research in automobile motors. ------ i t s Ia For the' Rest of the Year 2 0 Del eredi at your THE ICH IAN DAILY door s mr