THE MICHIC DAILY W'ED i: '.,:? J .:'UARX -.- a OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Published every morning except Monday during the Univer- sity year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and the local news published therein. Entered at, te postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second cless matter. Subscription by carrier or mail, $3.50. Offices: Ann Arbor Press building, Maynard Street. Phones: Business 960; Editorial, ^14. Communications not to exceed 300 words, if signed, the sig- nature not necessarily to appear in print, but as an evidence of faith, and notices of events will be published in The Daily at the discretion oi the Editor, if left at or mailed to The Daily office. Unsigned communications will receive no consideration. No man- uscript wig be returned unless the writer incloses postage. The Daily does pot necessarily endorse the sentiments ex- pi essed in the communications. "What's Going On" notices will riot be received after 8 o'clock on the evening preceding insertion. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 2414 MANAGING EDITOR ............GEORGE O. BROPHY JR. News Editor ..........................Chesser M. Campbell Night Editors- T. H. Adams H. W. Hitchcock B. P. Campbell J. E. McManis J. I. Dakin T. W. Sargent, Jr.- Renaud Sherwood Sunday Editor..... .........-..... .J......J. A. Bernstein Editorials..............Lee Woodruff, L. A. Kern, T. J. Whinery Assistant News...........................E. P. Lovejoy Jr. Sporis . .................. ...........Robert Angell Women's editor........ ...................Mary D. Lane Telegraph ..w............West Gallogly relescope ...... .............. ..Jack W. Kelly Assistants Josephine Waldo Thomas. E. Dewey M. A. Klavet Paul G. Weber Wallace F. Elliott E: R. Meiss Elizabeth Vickery Leo J. Hershdorfer Walter Donnelly G. E. Clark Hughston McBain Beata Hasley George Rei glel Frank H. McPike Kathrine Montgomery D~orothy, Monfort 3 A. Bacon Gerald P. Overton Harry B. Grundy W. W. Ottaway Edward Lambrecht Frances Oberholtzer Paul Watzel William H. Riley Jr Robert E. Adams . W. Hume, Jr Sara Waller Byron Darnton H. E. Howlett SLANG AND THE COLLEGIAN When one undertakes the study of philology, es- pecially of our own tongue, he is beset with two problems - English our forefathers handed down to us and English "as she is spoke". If an accurate account were taken, it would more than probably be found that the greater part of the student popula- tion discourses in a dialect which is strange to the outside world and yet serves the same purpose in conversation that god old formal Anglo-Saxon does among the older generation. Slang seems as vital to the student as the war- whoop was to the Indian. "How's to go to class ?"- "How are you hittin' 'em" - "that prof hands out a mean bluebook" - these are but a few illustra- tions of the special code by means of which verbal messages are delivered on the campus. Contrary to some lay opinion, highbrow Bostonian-words are out of style among students. No wonder, then, that when a born-and-bred-in-New-York man, of "Toidy-toid street" fame, once paid a visit to his son at a large university, he immediately ex- claimed, after listening for several moments to the talk of a group of students, "This is just like home." - We have all heard vaudeville performers swing from "Russian Rag" to selections of Debussy, Drdla, or Tschaikowski with apparently the great- est facility; but anyone who has noticed the meth- ods of musical pedagogy knows that such talent is unusual, and that the rule in teaching the classical is to eliminate ragtime completely from the stu- dent's musical diet for the time being. Does this point to the danger in slang? If we can George Ade it without losing our ability to converse on oc- casion as becomes a university man or woman, all well and good; but when our college jargon has as- sumed a weedlike place in our conversation and crowded out of our vocabulary the mother tongue as it is spoken in cultured society, it is time to do some pruning. Those greasy shoulders in the Wisconsin game looked bad, even to a Michigan audience. Happily, it proved to be merely a case of too great anxiety to get on the floor for the second half - the rub- ber didn't have time to towel off the liniment. "Fox Men Urge Federal Fur Farm in Michi- gan" -- Detroit headline. Why not? A glance at our campus would convince anybody that this must be the center of consumption. A ten o'clock curfew is being rigidly enforced in Dublin. What would the midnight roll-seekers do if such a law were passed in Ann Arbor? A COMPLETE LINE OF DIARIES AND DESK CALENDARS AT G RAH Both Ends of the Diagonal Walk DETROIT UNITED LINES In Effect Nov. 2, 1920 Between Detroit, Ann Arbor and Jackson (Eastern Standard Time) Limited and Express cars leave for' Detroit at 6:05 a. m., 7:05 a. m., 8:10 a. m., and hourly to 9:10 p. m. Limiteds to Jackson at 8:48 a. m. and every two hours to 8:48 p. m. Ex- presses at 9:48 a. m. and every twoI hours to 9:48 p. m. Locals to Detroit-5:55a.m., 7:00 a.m. and every two hours to 9:00 p. m., also 11:00 p. m. To Ypsilanti only, 11:40 p.m., 12:25 a.m., and 1:15 a.m. Locals to Jackson-7:60 a. m.., and 12:10 pjn. ®... .® ® . . .e. , 999 TAXI 999 4 a- A Dodge Car and Dod g e Service enough said ,,, 999 TAXI 999 JAI UARY S M T W T 2 3 9 10 16 17 23 24 30 31 me 4 18 2 5 12 19 26 6 23 20 27 F S 1 7 8 14 15 21 22 28 29 I .1 I Why are you so Insistent? . , BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 960 BUSINESS MANAGER..........LEGRAND A. GAINES JR. Advrtising ......................................D. P. Joyce classifieds........... ...........................Robt. 0. Kerr Publication ......................................F. M.HIeath Accounts...... ................................. E. R. Priehs Circuglation. ..........................V. F. Hillery Assistants: R. W. Lambrecht P. H Huthinson N. W. Robertson B. G. Gower F. A. Cross R. C. Stearnes Sigmund Kunstadter, Robt. L. Davis Thos. L. Rice Lester W. Millard M. M. Moule D. G. Slaws6n J. 1. Hamel Jr. D. S. Watterworth ,fR. G. Burcbell Last season's hats turn- ed inside out, refinished and re- blocked with all new trimmings look just like new, wear just as long and saves you five to ten dollars. We do only high class work. Factory Hat Store, 617 Packard St. Phone 1792. i Because YI !" J ii ...w , . Persons wishing to secure information concerning news fdr any issue of The Diailyshould see the night editor, who hai full charge of all news to be printed that night. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1921. Night Editor-T. W. SARGENT, JR. NOTICE! ALL SENIORS Due to labor conditions affect- ing our engravers and printers the final date for taking of Sen- ior pictures for the Michigan- ensian IS JANUARY 22. Ar- range for sittings immediately. Saturday, January 22 is the final date. Don't wait until the last few days. fir. esimer's Beefsteak Dinners are so Hard to Lual i i THE HONOR SYSTEM ON TRIAL Beginning with small classes, and carrying pro- visions 'for choice of supervised or unwatched ex- aminations the honor -system is to be given a fair trial in the Literary college. If it succeeds, one of the greatest forward moyements yet taken in the University will stand accomplished. If it fails, there will be plenty of alibis: the lit school is too large and too loosely organized; the honor system has seldomsucceeded "in large universities; and a host of others. The principal point to be made is that the honor system's success or fall depends entirely on the re- action of the same student body which, in class meetings assembled, voted unanimously for its adoption. This very significant fact - that the initiative came from the students and not from the faculty- is a highly promising sign. The senior class, which was the first to vote for the new regime of honor in examinations, is to be the first to put it in effect; and the example of that class should prove a tremendous influence in favor of successful adoption throughout the entire college. There are two catdinal rules of attitude which must be followed to make the honor system a suc- cess: first, that the person giving help shall be con- sidered as guilty as the one receiving it; second, that failure to report the cheater is dishonorable. The observance of these rules and the enforcement of honesty by strict trial and punishment of cheat- ers is essential. Minnesota has upheld the system for five years by holding to these rules. The En- gineering college here, a smaller and more hetero- geneous body, has enforced it with a remarkable de- gree of success: The whole-question is simply one of attitude. The students of Michigan's largest college have voluntarily taken upon themselves thestask of up- holding and abiding by the honor system. What we have started w'e have generally carried through. GOING TOO FAR Last year The Daily ran an editorial stating that the good old custom of shuffling the feet to let a movie operator know about dimness or faulty fo- cussing is a blessing; and that such action, to ex- press disapproval of a poor film or of a poor vaude- ville shove, has much to justify it. We still think the same, and represent most of the theater-going student body in that-opinion. But there is a limit which any college man of sense can name as well as we can. When Michi- gan students go to the absolutely unjustifiable ex- tent of throwing rotten eggs, ante bellum fruit, and- a hail of coppers at the performers in any enter- tainment, no matter how si'mple, those students are getfing entirely too collegiate for a University of the size and prestige and supposed discretion of Michigan. This is no Siwash. A theatrical enter- prise is a business deserving decent public consid- eration and protection; and, which is much more to the point, a Michigan man is supposed to be a gentleman.. I i i2 r Biggest Turkey in Michigan at Poul- try Show this week. Seybold and Ess- linger Bldg., Fourth Avenue.-Adv. Feathered Aristocracy struts on midway at Poultry Show, on Fourth Avenue.-Adv. Opposite D. U. R. Station Just Above Rae Theatre he Teles-ope r William in a fit insane Thrust his head beneath a train ; All were surprised to find How it broadened William's mind. - Telescope Nov. 2. The above has so moved one of the 947 Williams on the campus that he has risen to fathomless depths and now comes forward with the following gem: I just have read with deepest pain Of William's fate beneath the train. How touching is his sad demise No doubt he left some broken ties. And yet with Bill no fault I find 'Tis always well to train the mind. And at the inquest did they find A load was on poor Willie's mind? But 'twere a waste of thought, I say To smear Bill o'er the right of way. Yet "Dust to dust" - Bill doped it fine, They're needing ballast on the line. How to Be the Life of the Party LESSON III In order to establish a background for many of your stories try to give the impression that you are a man of affairs with the ladies. Toward this end you might begin by remarking, "Yeh, it's all off between my girl and me." If you're in polite circles and everybody is too polite to ask you why, just say, "We had a quar- rel. She wanted me to buy her a fur coat for Xmas, and I told her that I didn't really care a wrap for her and wouldn't." Then laugh boister- ously so all may know that the quip has been sprung. Also you might chivalrously add, "But at that, she acted like a lady. She even returned every- thing I had ever given her. And, of course, under those circumstances I did the only thing possi- ble." By this time. if you have carefumy studied the previous lessons, your audience will be so agog with attention that somebody will ask: "W/hat did you do ?" In a holier-than-thou tone of voice you answer: "Why -naturally I returned everything I had ever taken away from her, including a box of pow- der and stick of rouge." Famous Closing Lines "A reel sport," he murmured as the fellow be- gan loudly applauding the film. 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