Mail $2.50 Ir The Michigan Dail i Lonal $2.00 Iail $2.50 _ _. ,. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1913. PRICE FIVE CEN' GRAM FOR f University of Michigan Musical Clubs MANY TO TAKE FINALS UNDER HOP CONCERT IS ANNOUNCED )fitsial CIjs Will Present Several Iniiovaitons in Annual Rounds and costing in postage $.O.- 43. The postmaster has asked for one aew . clerk and delivery man to han- Ile the business. Two deliveries a day are made and everyone who has had occasion to compare its operation with that of the express companies is ecnvinced of its efficiency. A new order has been issued from Washington which increases the scope of the system and enables a still great-l er saving to the people. The order is: 'Order forms, address tags, reportl :orms, letter and bill heads, insurance end legal forms, cards and other sim- lar supplies regardless of printing on .hem, blank check bcos, receiptI books and other book forms partially n print, may be mailed as fourth class natter." Formerly such matter was considered as third class and costing ight cents a pound. This will effect I big saving especially to concerns ,nailing any great amount of such Matter. No doubt many people have missed -he mail boxes' that formerly stood on he corners of South University and State and William and State. These boxes were so mutilated from being run into that they were removed and will be replaced as soon as new ones can be procured. THE WEATHER MAN Forecast; for Ann Arbor-Fair with decreasing temperature; moderate va- riable winds. University Observatory - Friday, 7:00 p. m., temperature, 32.0; maxi- mum temperature, 24 hours preceding, 38.8; minimum temperature, 24 hours preceding. 25.8: avera e wind velocity Prof. Filibert Roth left Ann Arbor Thursday to deliver a series of lec-j tures, before the Twentieth Century, club of Detroit. He spoke upon the relation of the federal government to the state forest lands, touching upon the baleful influence so often exerted upon the public utilities by politics. Yesterday he delivered an exten- sion lecture at Bay City, and today 10 mi FIRE iead esI6 pe u r. V 1U~ V 1u e .u~ he w ill give an illustrated talk at es per hour. _Hart. He will return home Sunday. - CONFERENCE (}HOOSES CI.ANOES MA E IN WEDIEMEYER PROF. ROTH AS PRESIDENT. MEMORIAL SERVICES SUNIDAY. of Forestry Department Elected Sthte Setautor William W. Smith Will by the New State Represent the State of Organization. Michigan. . Filibert Roth, of the forestry Several minor changes in the pro- Prof PROF. ROTH TO GIVE SERIES oF TALKS ON FOREST LANDS INDEP ETSM de;rartm~eat, was elected president of j gram for the Wedemeyer memorial the Fire Conference last Wednesday, services which will be held in Uni- when that body, meeting at Lansing, versity Hall at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow was made into a permanent organiza- afternoon have been announced by the tion. committee on arrangements. Con- The Conference convened on the 21st gressman Frank B. Willis, of Ada, 0., to discuss the ways and means of in-{ will not take part in the program as augurating a more efficient fire pro- previously announced. State Senator te'ion system in this state. The con- William WV. Smith, of St. Johns, has NOT HOLD DANCE Lack of Interest May Cause Hoppers to Give Up Annual Formal Party. WILL MEET AG AIN WEDNESDAY. Independents may hold no formal party on Saturday evening following the Junior hop as has been the custom in the past. At a meeting of the inde- pendents at the Michigan Union yes- terday afternoon a decided lack of in- terest was shown in the affair., Independents to the number of 39 will attend the hop itself. This is a slightly larger number than attended last year. Many of the 39, however, are not strictly independents, belong- ing to organizations which are not rep- resented in the hop management. Those organizations will hold house parties which will conflict with the Saturday evening affair which the in- dependents are accustomed to hold. Although nothing definite has been decided, Frank Kohler, independent representative, believes that the an- nual function cannot be held unless a livelier interest is displayed. The independents will have an opportuni- ty to decide whether or not they will follow the precedent of past hoppers, it the next meeting to be held at the Michigan Union Wednesday at 7:00 o'clock. It is important for all inde- pendents to be present at this final meeting. If interest in the formal party is revived the annual dance will be held !;t Packard academy, Saturday, Feb- HONOR SYSTEM CIassr in Iisto ' t n Educat:om Will Unde:go Semester' ExnmxainAtions ot. oft(: Piedy Of FACULTY MEN D9 NOT AIGREE AS TO EFFICACY OF SCHE1E Profs. J. S. P. Tatlock and W. A. Fray. er and Mr. C. J. Coe State Their Views on Plan. Various opinions are bein; express- ed over the campus as to the merits and demerits of the "honor system" which has recently been adopted by six classes under Prof. C. 0. Davis, of the education department, and Prof. E. R. Turner, of the history de- partment, and is to be used in the fin- al exams. Altogether, 455 students will take exams under the new scheme, the majority of them being freshmen. Prof. Davis' students are juniors and seniors. "The present system of giving ex- aminations is bad," declared Prof J. S. P. Tatlock, of the English depart- ment in discussing the proposed "hon- or system." "They are given under crowded conditions, so that it is al- most imupossible for a student not to see what his neighbor is writing, and, no matter what his good intentions may be, his eye falls involuntarily at times upon h:s fellowstudent's work. As a rule they are settled alternately, but that is not enough. At present we are on the fence, as far as the honor system is conerned; we should definitely decide one way or the other. While I do not believe the honor ,sys- tem would make conditions ideal, it would, I think, improve them a great deal." "The honor system is practically in ise now," declared Prof. W. A. Frayer =o his class in history 1 yesterday morning, "although it is not recogniz- ed by that name. I do not believe that : signed statement at the end of a blue-book will make conditions any 'etter than they are now: If a student will cheat, he is very apt to lie as well. Students are always, as a matter of ,ourse, expected to be on their honor .vhen writing examinations, and should be above suspicion." Mr. Carl Jenness Coe, instructor in nathematics, also stated that such a System is in quite general use, except for the written statement which the So-called "honor system" calls for. The average instructor, he said, will frequently leave his classes during examirations, for a short time, and takes it for granted that an honor code will be observed. He said he did not gee the use of introducing a scheme which virtually exists now without the name. The general opinion is that if the system is to be widely instituted upon the campus, the students should take the initiative, either as classes, or through the student council. Profes- sors Davis and Tatlock both agreed that a movement to raise the moral standard of examinations should orig- inate with the students. Barbour Gym Classes Convene Early. Miss Catherine L. Bigelow, director of the Barbour gymnasium, announces that the women students' gym classes will begin Monday, February 10. sufficiently large to warrant the use of the room and the position of the refreshment booth near the doorway vention was made up of a few state, foresters and their assistants, severalE professors, railroad men, and the rep- resentatives of some of the large lum- bering interests throughout the state. Prof. P. S. Lovejoy, representing the university, showed the inefficiency of the present state protection as com- pared with the system now used ins the Pacific Northwest. 13Before adjournin., the Conference sent several resolutions to the gov- been appointed by Lieutenant-govern- or Ross to speak for the state of Mich- igan and the Hon. Charles E. Town- send, of Jackson, will act as spokes- man from Washington, D. C. PUBLIC RECITAL GIVEN BY SHAKESPEAREAN THESPIANS Prof. Trueblood's class in Shakes- pearean reading gave its second pub- lic recital of the semester last night at Sarah Caswell Angell hall. The s t i l ernor and the state legislature, some play given, "The Comedy of Errors," ruary 8, Otherwise it is probable that of which were passed only after a stiff afforded a number of amusing situa- independents who do not attend house fight with the politicians who were tions which were well interpreted by party dances at their various organi- present. members of the cast. 'zations, will plan a theater party to __---Detroit. Woolsack Elects New Officers. Hydraulic Ram is Now Being Tested. At the meeting yesterday plans were Woolsack, the junior law honorary Tests are now being held on the hy- practically completed. The annual society, elected the following officers draulic ram which was recently in- dinner will be held at the Michigan for the second semester:- George E. stalled in the mechanical engineering Union Friday, February 7, at 7:00 Kennedy, chancellor; Robert J. Cur- laboratory. Although the ram has o'clock. The independent booth, ry, vice-chancellor; and Stuart S. been in the shops a long time, it has which will be larger than the frater- Wall, secretary. neter been used by the classes in hy- nity booths, will be done in an oriental The new executive committee is ar- draulic engineering courses, but if the effect as has been the custom. The ranging a meeting for Thursday, Feb- test proves satisfactory, it will be put trophy room will not be used. The ruary 20. in use. number of independent hoppers is not } t I would make its use awkward. I ; f, 'icloes THE GLEE AND MANDOLIN CLUBS - Present - Admission on Sale The J-Hop Concert No w 50 cents and $1.00 Thursday Evening, February 6th UNIVERSITY HALL EIGHT O'CLOCK b ,