THE. MICHIGAN DAILY 1 I, AMATURE MARE 00m A school, Room 27-No. 8 W. Warren, Detroit Would you like a try out? A FREE TRIP THE JOY ROUTE THIS TICKET AND 8$ CENTS GOOD FOR ONE ROUND OF PLEASURE -at the - ARCADE SUN., MON., TUES. TO SEE THE INIMITABLE ACTOR Y CHARLES RAY IN A SCREEN VERSION OF GEO. M. COHEN'S BEST PLAY "FORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY" S C.HUBER T The Winter Garden Eighth Annual Revue The Passing Show of 1919 WUERTH THEATRE TUESDAY- William Farnum in "If I Were Hank Mann in "The Nickel Snatch- er." Fox News. Orchestra and Pipe Organ Music. WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY H. B. Warner in "Haunting Shad- ows." Kinograms and Hall Room Boys Comedy. Orchestra and Pipe Organ Music. FRID^ ,SATURDAY- Dustin Farnum in "Big Happiness." Pathe Review and Pollard Comedy. fOrchestra and Pipe Organ Music. rA R R I CAK DETROIT THIS WCIEK PICCADILLY TO B ROADWAY ORPHEUM THEATRE TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY- Buck Jones in "Firebrand Trevi- sion." Clayplay Comedy and Serial-"Hid- den Dangers." THURSDAY, FRIDAY Jack Pickford in "In Wrong." Comedy-"mullets and Bullies." SATURDAY- Mary Miles Minter in "The Eyes of Julia Deep." Universal News and Pollard Com- edy. (I FRIDAY -SATURDAY *' BURTON OFFIC1IALYT GIVENPRES1INCY (Continued from Page One) "The striking fact about America is that more than any other nation, she has been released from the past. Here is at once her strength and her weak- ness. Forward looking movements in Europe are inevitably counterbalanra- ed by the traditions of the past. "In America a modern prophet could truthfully proclaim, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge," At first thought, it may seem that, above all nations, America has a passion for education. We expend huge sums for1 the training of our youth. /At the pres- ent moment more than 20,000,000 children are being trained at public expense. Today as never before thea people believe in schools. The war revealed to literallymillions of men that positions of leadership and opportunities for service go to theE men of training and knowledge. But America suffers today from ignorance more than any other single tyranny. Our children may have knowledge of the facts necessary for individual liv- ing. Our youth may acquire profes-j sional training of a high degree. Their' minds, however, have not been focusedI upon those truths which are so es-; sential to a democractic .community. The magnitude and diversity of our country accentuates the problem.9 The multitude of our concerns smoth-1 ers our social instinct. America Has Burdens! "Here then is a hint of what Am- erica is. She lacks unity. She has burdens. She lacks unity. She hask thrown off the limitations of the past1 and cast in her lot with the future. She is ,just coming into her own. She is terribly deficient in knowledge and experience. She is rich in faith and imagination. She believes in human beings and worships worth. "Our deepest interest, however, must center in the teaching and in- vbstigating staff. To be told that they number 650 is enlightening. To re- member the work they have done, to appreciate the contributions they have made to learning and to recognize the powerful stimulus that they have been to all that is highest and best in our civilization, helps up to realize why Michigan believes in higher learning. The casual, superficial observer might pause here and say these facts tell us what the University is. "If this observer remains for a year he would find himself going deeper and deeper into university life and sensing more and more fully the mar- velous intricate and complete thing which thrives upon tAis campus. Sooner or later he would essay a' mental venture to which there wouldl be no ending. Especially if he shouldl interrupt his visit at tae university by a trip out into the "real world," he would be compelledto think upon this subject. He will discover thel campus a most powerful and enigmat- ic influence. He would never be able to fathom it. It never congeals. It is th "academic mind." All in all, I' should prefer to defend rather than' attack the academic mind. I should not want to be the president of any university which did not suffer from this disease in chronic form. It makes for stability, for sound weighing of evidence, for scientific scholarship, for the absence of sentimentalism, and for the frank recognition of a powerful mind. Attacks Examninationis party to a primarily respons the entire situation is a ferqu tim of 'academic mind.' Surely the examination syst employed in American univer a symptom of the same ailmt ask the student to peruse a vr courses and then submit to a examinations. If he is rea successful, he piles. away his like so much wood that he ha He repeats the process eigb and we give him a diploma. have been searching for a m killing intellectual curiosity genuine spirit of inquiry, we h diabollicaly successful. "It is not strange that ti academic has come to stand broad culture and vital acti, for a general aloofness from a theoritcal detachment fr( world of action. Some such r' these may. with justice, be ai to the 'academic mind.' (Continued on Page Si -1 AT THE THEATI TODAY I THE JOY ROUTE FROM NEW YORK CITY :: to .. NEW ROCHELLE "FORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY" THE JOY ROUTE NEW ROCHELLE -- to : COLUMBUS, OHIO August, 1904 FIRST PRESENTATION "FORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY" THE JOY ROUTE COLUMBUS, OHIO ::- to -:: GEO. X. COHAN THEATRE NEW YORK CITY' BIG~ REVIVAL OF "FORTY-FIVE- MINUTES FROM BROADWAY" THE JOY ROUTE NEW YORK CITY :-to -: THE ARCADE THEATRE Sunday, Monday, Tuesday CHARLES RAY IN A SUPERB PICTURIZA. TION OF GEO. M. COHEN'S "FORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY" , , I I am inclined to believe that we E must charge against the academic mind much of the dead formalism, andJ mechanical externallity of Americant education. I should dislike to tellI here all that I think of the various systems of admission which have been in vogue in our universities. Surely by these methods we have not intend- ed to find real college material, but rather to encourage the accumula- tion of credits which will serve as an admission ticket. At any rate we have not encouraged intellectual in- terests and recognized vital facts which do not appear in record sheets. Character, purpose, and spirit are more important than skill to pass ex- aminations or ability to secure a di- ploma. "When the student is once in the University he is face to face, though he sees ascthrough a mirror darkly, with the 'academic mind.' The atmos- phere of the average classroom is not stimulating and inspiring. Doubtless a variety of causes produces this gen- eral situation and it Is manifestly un- fair to attribute it to a single force but we cannot deny the fact that the ! - Screen Majestic-"Lady Rose's : ter," with Elsie Fer Mack Sennett comedy Pathe News. Arcade- Jack Pickford i Man Who Had Every Regular novelty film an Pictograph. Wuerth-"Big Happiness, ring Dustin Farnum. Pollard comedy and Pal view. Orpheum- Jack Pickfor ring in "In Wrong" and edy, "Bullies and Bull THIS WEEK Stage Garrick (Detrot)-The n comedy success, "Picca Broadway." Shubert (Detroit)--The Garden's eighth annual "The Passing Show of justinTarn urn .. IN .' "Big Happiness"' PATHE REVIEW - COMEDY ADMISSION: ADULTS 25c CHILDREN 1lOc SUNDAY -- MONDAY - TUESDAY BLANCHE SWEET IN "HELPWANTED: MALE" Something New -- "The Lost City" HANK MANN COMEDY I I BRIGHTE SPOT IN TOWN I I Fox News - - Exceptional Music I I 0"R PH EU M LAST TIME TODAY JACK PICKFORD --- IN "IN WRONG" SATURDAY MARY MILES MINTER IN "THE EYES OF JULIA DEEP" I I COMEDY: ""The Hasher" TODAY AND TO MOR ROW "The CastawE ALSO Bray Pictogn ... - - i I i I &- ...............:.............:::::: K.. . .{ - 6iAEU.....O:::W:M 3Pr'17:t ELSIE Ferguson IN "LADY ROSE'S DAUGHTER" ' ALSO by BEN AMES WILLIAMS Directed by AL GREEN MACK SENNETT COMEDY "SHERIFF NELL'S TUSSLE"