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Ia BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 960 [SINESS MANAGER........LEGRAND A. GAINES, JR. w tising..................... D. P. Joyce its and Classified Ads ....................J- .W.Rawlings cationt ........ . .. ....( F. . M. Heath nts............-----.----.---....-......... R. Priehs ulation ...................- - -.........C P. Schneider Assistants V. Lanbreeht B. G. Gower Lester W. Millard rt 0. Kerr Sigund Kurnstadter V. F. Hillery he night editors for this week will be: Monday t, Hugh Hitchcock; Tuesday night, T. W. gent, Jr.; Wednesday ''ight, B. P. Campbell; rsday night, T. H. Adams; Friday night, J. I. :in; Saturday night, John E. McManis. persons wishing to secure information concerning news for ay issue of The Daily should see the night editor, who has full charge of all news to be prirted that night. "SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1920. LOWELL ON EXAMINATIONS Michigan's student body would have liked to hear the address which President A. Lawrence Lowell oif Harvard nade at the banquet of educa- tional conference delegates Friday evening. Not only would Dr. Lowell's fame as an educator have drawn a large audience of the more serious minded among the student body, but, looking at the mat- ter iin retrospect, one reading of the 'text of the ad-. dress convinces that no speech of the entire con- ference, aside from the inaugration, would so have riveted student attention. For Dr. Lowell talked about examinations-a subject which gets under the student's epidermis the minute it is mentioned. "Most of our examinations are adapted to as- certain little except knowledge, which tends to pro- mote mere cramming; whereas the tests in the great school of active life depend rather upon the ability to use information," said Dr. Lowell; and every student who has struck the sad experience of failure to retain, and inability to apply knowl- edge will 'agree with him. Most students today realize that two functions of the University are to train the mind to think, and fund it with a stoie of positive information as the. material of that thinking. But the football star who has been pam- pered and "slid through" high school to rue his lack of the fundamentals later, and the all-A man who finds that his mind is a storeroom without transportation facilities, are merely the extremes among many types who will welcome any effort to bring the educational system of America to the more perfect realization of those two functions. If a change in "the mechanical process of credit" given in high schools, plus research in the art of examinations, will in the end enable Ameri- can undergraduates to grasp more successfully the problems of the classroom, and prepare them more thoroughly for "the real thing" later on, the na- tion's educators may be sure that their work along these lines is going to receive the co-operation and appreciation of student bodies everywhere. TO DAILY PATRONS Although confronted with a twenty-five per cent increase it student subscriptions alone, in addition to the inevitable difficulties in getting under way encountered by any enterprise serving nearly four thousand individuals directly, The Michigan Daily is rapidly reducing causes of circulation complaints to a minimum. At this time, however, The Daily staff wishes to express its appreciation of the pa- tience exercised by those of its patrons, who, due to almost 'unavoidable causes, have failed to re- ceive their copies regularly at the beginning of the school year. It is the aim of The Daily to make its circula- tion service perfect. In pursuance of this policy all reported omissions of delivery are followed un- til correction is assured. But before reporting the failure of your paper to appear, please make sure that no non-subscriber has taken it, as a large share of the complaints registered turn out to be due to this rather than omission in delivery. CURRENT HISTORY Speaking before the educational conference in Hil auditorium Thursday afternoon, Professor Williston Walker, Ph.D., Provost of Yale univer- sity, stressed the fact that students should lave college with a thorough working knowledge of everyday political and industrial problems that face the world, and the lamentable fact that usually they do not graduate with that knowledge. The university can and does offor its courses in Economics, Political Science, Sociology and kin- dred subjects, but it can only attempt to inculcate the fundamental structure of these broad sub- jects, leaving to the student the application of the- ory to practical problems. Professor Walker in his address sought to find a way in which the univer- sity could divert the interest of students to these current problems that are being faced now and that will be faced for years to come. That interest should come not only from the Lits, the Laws and the Business Ads among us, but also from the En- gineers, the Medics, the Scientists and the stu-, dents of every branch of learning in the Univer- sity. The only hope to be seen, Provost Walker ad- mitted, was an intelligent awakening of the stu- dents to what is going on in the world outside. To- day one of the most momentous presidential cam- paigns in the history of the country is in progress; today the United States is looking upon a gigantic social struggle between capital and labor; today ele- ments unknown till now are entering into our na- tional life, yet liow much do we, the students, know of these? This sort of knowledge is not to be brought to us by professors, nor is it the stuff of text-books. It is to be found in intelligent conversation, in the pages of -current history, in the best newspapers and magazines. THE RULES-OF THE GAME No doubt the term tradition means very little to the average freshman who comes to a great uni- versity with only a rather hazy idea in his mind as to what university life really means. Possibly ,the freshman pot seems to him a foolish kind of headgear; while the fact that he is neither allowed to smoke a pipe on the campus, sit on the senior benches, carve his name in gaudy lettering on the tap room tables among those of departed seniors, nor do a thousand and one things he sees other students doing, grates on his nerves merely' as a bit of foolish and ratheraunfair domination. But traditions are all a part of the preparatory life of the University. We chose Michigan as a college of things worth while, as a university which possessed ideals and the sort of spirit which tradi- tions engender. If we are to become a part of such a school we must obey its dictates and follow the path which others have done before us to become true Michigan men. Class of '24, be sportsmen; for your own sake and that of the University, obey the rules of the game. The Telescope Owed to the School of Music A maid named' Elizabeth King, Dropped dead while attempting to sing, Then the staff next door, Whom her songs had made sore, Bowed heads and said, "Death, where's thy sting?" His Skirts Were Clear The instructor in English history was a per- sonage of imposing mien and awe-inspiring man- ner. Regarding the class sternly he asked: "Who signed the Magna Charta ?" Then, receiv- ing no response, he centered his attention on a meek little frosh in the back seat and repeated his ques- tion, "Young man, will you tell me who signed the Magna Charta ?" The poor frosh gulped a few times and then fin- ally in a quavering voice he mangaed to stutter: "I don't know, sir, but I know I didn't have any-, thing to do with it." Dear Noah: I was reading in history the other day where Alexander the Great always had from twenty to thirty court jesters around him. What do you suppose was the reason for this? Student. We don't know unless it was that Alexander fig- ured that it was a good plan to always have your wits about you. They Had Been Engaged But One Short Week "Can you recall the happiest moment of your life, George ?" she shyly asked. "Yes, indeed," he responded quickly. "And was it lately?" she queried with bated breath. "Yes, indeed, darling, only last week," he an- swered, a tender smile playing around the corner of his lips. "Oh, George," she said ecstatically, "you don't know how happy your saying this makes me." "And do you know, darling," he continued in a hushed, reminiscent tone, "when I went into that pot with a pair of deuces I hadn't the least idea in the world that I'd win it." Famous Closing Lines "Brushing her heir," he muttered as he saw the mother whipping her son with a hairbrush. NOAH COUNT. 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