irH;D M'1CH] . DAILY "I'H~ MICH DAILY for the Xmas holi- evailing styles in and colors includ- Calcuttas, Bengals, ents, Empires, Pe- sets, Lyntons, Club garments made in fit you and be long Vy L, . , l _ : _ ' - --, r,'l '1 l tl , cif i7 D CO. ors State St. s I STMAS GLFTS PRESENTS BEFORE LEAVING FOR HOME. JEWELRY SONG BOOKS CELETS COLLEGE SEALS 00NS PILLOW COVERS HATPINS BANNERS BRASS DESK SETS, $2.50 iP. HARRISON FISHER GIRLS, $2.75. THE MICHIGAN CALENDAR, 50c. Leeha' THE MICHIGAN DAILY Official newsp)aper at the University of Michigan. Published every morning except Monday during the university year. Entered at the post-office at Ann Arbor as second-class matter;. Offices, Ann Arbor Press Building. Sub- by carrier, $2.50; by mail, $z.5o. Want ad. stations: Quarry's, Univ. Pharmacy, C. H. Davis, cor. Packard and State. Business Office Phone 960 Editorial Office Phone 2414 H. Beach Carpenter......Managing Editor W. Sherwood Field......Business Manager Fred.Foulk.................News Editor F. F. McKinney.........Associate Editor T. Hawley Tapping.........Associate Editor F. M. Church.............Sporting Editor Night Editors James I.Barrett, Jr. E. RodgersSylvester E. C. Roth Joseph J. Brotherton Reporters Chester II. Lang Edward P. Wright Howard R. Marsh J. C. B. Parker Charles Weinberg Lee E. Joslyn Edwin A. :Lyman Eug ene L. Belson Tom C. Reid L. Greenebaum Irwin C. Johnson Assistants to Business Manager Tohn Leonard Ray Leffler Rudolph Hofman Arthur H. Torrey Business Staff Ferris Fitch 11Edward Mack C. V. Sellers Y. R. Altsheler Delos Smith WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1914. Night Editor-Tom C. Reid. THE "BEST EVER" HABIT. There is a tendency to rate every passing event in student life as the "best ever." Tis is discredited rath- er generally, but it is particularly ob- jectionable to men who have been on the campus for a number of years. They claim, quite reasonably perhaps, that such a monotone of comment re- sults in losing all sense of values; the worst is as good asthe best, as far as advance predictions and follow-up criticism are concerned. Nothing is described in its true colors, because pr~aise is la.vished on everything, 13ut there seems to be some excuse for the "best ever" habit. Its optimis- tic tone is almost a justification in it- self. It is a healthy symptom when the campus in general enthuses over anything, so it is somewhat pardon- able for individuals to enter into this spirit, or even for them to work stren- uously in order to stimulate such an atmosphere. The inexcusable thing seems to be dampening undergraduate enthusiasm; over-extravagance in commendation is a minor sin. With early shopping methods in, full force, the late hinter is likely to get a bopk where he wanted a shiny silk hat. Tags are now being printed to be worn by university women during the days of the vocational conference, January 7, 8 and 9, and the programs, many of which will be sent to the state colleges interested in the movement, will go to press within a few days. Albion is the latest to fall in line, having asked that it be permitted to send a representatix-e. The civil service commission at Washington has forwarded literature valuable to women interested in that field, which is now available in the library at Barbour gymnasium. Names and addresses of Washington alumnae who are willing to act as advisers to university women planning on enter- ing the civil service may be obtained fromn Marjorie Delavan, '15. The four large Kermess posters, drawn by Raymond Perlins, '16, are on sale at $2.00 apiece by Ruth Cran- dall, '15. Members of the Girls' Glee club will meet at Rentschler's at 10:00 o'clock Saturday, January 9, for the annual picture, instead of at the time previ- ously set. * * * The first odd-even basketball game of the year between the 1915-'17 and 1916-'18 teams, will be played in Bar- bour gymnasium at 4:50 o'clock this afternoon. -* * * Part of the regular gymnasium peri- ods today and. on January' 6 will be given over to lectures on hygiene by Miss Evans. Everyone taking required work is required to be present on both these days. Omega Phi meets at 4:30 o'clock to- day at the Gamma Phi house. ** * * The Women's League suggests that university women take homeone or more garments for Belgian relief over Christmas vacation. Call the Church of Christ, or Miss Mildred Seyster, 1073-W, and the garments, already cut, will be delivered. DECEMBER ALUMNUS CONTAINS REVIEW OF GRIDIRON SEASON Song Books Scrap Books Stationery We carry all the latest Fiction, Books of Poetry, Art, Travel, Biography, etc., etc. Michigan Jewelry Banners Pillow Covers MAIN h ook ores STATE st. U U U TT GOOD BOOKS make the Best Id G ilbert's at 60c, 80c and $1.00 per lb. Crane's at 80 and $1.00 per Ib.' Chris tmas Chocolates We Pack and Ship to any point Book Racks, &c., &c. S TABLg THE LITTLE SCHOOLMASTER SAYS: for Detroit--7 :10 o p. in., also 8:I0 4o a. m., 6:o6 a. mn., 6:o6 p. M.,7:o6 p. m., and 10:45 P. m. P. m., 12:1s p. M., n-7:46 a. m. and p. Mn. 12 a. i., 6:5 a. m., o 6:s p. M., also "Prize Tal (By a S "The Price sents the gr in Clothesdo Price & Co., ,, Lorgrain" 3. itdent) that repre- -atest value m is Ed. V. Chicago. est woolens ured today! . Gross berty St. Quarry r The Druggists on the corner. Saote artd N. University V wood and other, rade machines, it, Sold, Rented 1. TAKE THE Michigan Music Home With You That Michigan Band" The New song NOW READY ncr !1ynflduandtc lb ouse Corner Maynard and William Streets See our new and be meai Fred W 123 E. Li WAI KING LOO COME UP AND TRY George's Chop Suey Delicious Chinese and American Dishes 341 S. State St. . Phone 1244 L We are better prepared. 1 a 24' than ever before wants for the Fall, 1914 - S5 to meet your and Winter of Containing a review of the 1914 18 Eng. Phone 1242 Michigan football season, and featuring Appointments to Union committees v. Ave. IPRICE & ROWE printers, Stationers, I ngravers 6st Suggestion "The Popaxlar Play+" TRADE-MARK CONTEST will be the only consolations for the crew which is left over. Now it is that southerners sit over steam pipes and tell about the sun- kissed Dixie land. It is questionable whether that moustache willsurvive the home-town staff of critics. Someone suggests turning on foun- tain pen ink in that fountain on the campus. The wise student will spend the first and last night, anyway, with the fami- ly. The Union's Christmas present is the Spotlight Vaudeville show tonight., Sour grapes are hanging high these days. On past Harvard. cuts of the Michigan smoker at the Copley-Plaza hotel In Boston, andtof the Michigan stadium just before the start of the Pennsylvania game, the December issue of the Michigan Alum- nus was sent out from the press yes- terday. The football article contain- ed several cuts of the Cornell game, and the season is reviewed in detail. The faculty salary advance and the Michigan-Albion co-operation' plans are discussed in the editorial columns. The meeting of the alumni secretaries, recentlyheld at Columbia University, is discussed, and its importance, in the eyes of the American universities, is shown both by the number of univer- sities attending, and by the spirit shown in the work. The Alumnus contains the constitu- tion of the newly formed Association of Class Secretaries, which drew up its constitution the night of the Penn game. The object of the organization is to promote the interests of the uni- versity among the alumni, and annual meetings will be held in Ann Arbor each June. SHROEN BROS.. DRY GOODS, NOTIONS Ready to wear. The store that always treats you fair 124 S. MAIN are in every style sulic for City or country, froliC or funCtion. The cors arC fast, the styles smart and right-the patterns Q o rre Ct-i n si st o n th C label. $1.5 and up Cluett. Peabody &Co., Inc. Macr PHONE 1000 E, I] -,- 'I -- " High Shoe Weather Is Here We have all styles of black and tan shoe tttleton Bond St. in prices ranging from $3.5o to $7.oo Wahr's Shoe Stores, State and Main Sts. -Dean Karl E. Guthe, of the graduate department, will leave December 27 for Philadelphia, where he will at- tend a convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held from December 28 to December 31. -Librarian Theodore W. Koch will spend a part of the holidays in Chi- cago, attending the meeting of the executive board of the American Li- brary association. While in Chicago, he will give an address before the annual meeting of the American Bib- liographical society. -As many as 50 men have been in the boxing classes which have been held in Waterman gym under the direction of 0. S. Westerman, this number tak- ing up:the entire time of the instruc- tor, but with the graduation of about half of this class, those who have not been able to arrange hours will now be able to do so. -Fred Bolton, 'iE, who is confined to the university hospital with an attack of appendicitis, is reported by hospital physicians who are attending him to be improving. -Mr. J. J. Cox, of the engineering de- partment, is in Chicago, attending the convention of the, American Road Builders' association, which is being held this week. Mr. Cox prepared and is conducting the exhibit of the univer- sity at the meeting. -Young ladies of the Baptist Guild are preparing an entertainment, in the nature of a campus burlesque, to be given in the parlors of the Baptist church at 8:00 o'clock Thursday even- ing. Everyone is invited. -Prof. F. N. Scott, of the rhetoric de. partment, will go to New York city during the holidays, where he will attend a meeting of the Modern Lan- guage association, and the meeting of the Association of Teachers of Jour- nalism. The conventions will be held at Columbia University. -Uniersity hospital authorities re- ported yesterday, that R. M. Allan, '17, and D. C. McIntyre, '17, who are suf- fering from diphtheria, were improv- ing nicely. -There will be no meeting of health service representatives before Christ- mas vacation, because of the shorten- ing of the time before vacation. The next meeting will probably be held shortly after college reopens in Janu- ary. -Dr. Victor C. Vaughan was in o- lunbus, 0., yesterday, where he. deliv- ered an address before the Ohio State medical college. -Dr. C. W. Edmunds, Dr. W. P. Lom- bard and Dr. G. C. Huber, all of the medical department, will go to St. Louis, Mo., December 28, to attend the meetings of the American Physio- logical society and the American Ana- omical society, held in connection with the Washington University medical college of that city. -Harold Schradzhi, '15L, and Prof. H. C. Sadler spoke to the soph engi- neers at their dinner last night at the Michigan Union. Prof. H. G. Rasch- bacher, who was to have spoken, was unable to appear on account of ill- ness. Music by the class orchestra and a string quintet were other numn- bers on the program. YOUR --- Baggage Delivered By Our Auto Baggage Trucks Quick Service Cu 2280 Arbor Taxicab Co. 515 E. Liberty