THE MICHIGArA DAILY

I ITERATR E EXOTIC

.RY
BY

e Michigan Daily:--
ate the remark that seems
veloped our local and all-
literary critics, it might
call attention to the sage
ne of the sanest of living
The following extracts are
rticle by Prof. J. F. Muir-
ed "Must American Liter-
Its Traditions" It ap-
the Independent for March

a sample must feel that any society
of which this is a real photograph
contains the seeds of its own dissolu-
tion.
"In spite of their noisy reveberation
in the press, the friendly British stu-
dent of America, cannot accept these
books as really or permanently char-
acteristic. It cannot be that the °na-
tional vein has been exhausted, that
a literature of inherent. Americanism
is no longer possible. We do not in-
sist on Buffalo-Billism 'in pen and
ink; but are we wrong in hoping for
something that will suggest America
first and not France, something that
seems to have sprung naturally from
the soil, something that, however cul-
tured or cultivated, is yet not exotic?
And are we wrong it failing to see,
how this can be produced by the de-
liberate depreciation of practically all
antecedent American work?
"This is carrying the avoidance of
patriotic shortsightedness too far. I,
for one, believe that America is strong

C enough to stand alone, and that there
is no reason to doubt that her liter-
ature, her spontaneous literature, will
somehow hold its own in any com-
pany." .GAlumnus.
Seniors Fav'horl
Revival Of Old
During the past few years the mem-
bers of the senior classes have been
discarding the tradition of carrying
canes during the last part of their
senior year. This year very little
attention is being paid to the custom,
as evidenced by the fact that up to
this time Wagner and Company, the
official dealers, have sold very few
canes.
The lack of interest in this tra-
dition during the past few years is de-
clared by several prominent men on
the campus as being but a further
manifestation of the same spirit'
which is resulting in the decline of

most of the oldest Michigan's tradi-
tions.
Owen Watt, '22, president of the
senior law class, declared himself to
be heartily in favor of the movement:
to restore the custom. Walter B.
Rea, '22, president of the senior lit
class and captain of the 1922 basket-
ball; team, expressed his approval of
the tradition and stated that seniors
ought to purchase canes if for no
other purpose than as keepsakes.
James G. Frey, '22, managing editor
of the Michiganensian, Maynard New-
ton, '22, and others expressed their
endorsement of the plan.
LOCAL COAL MEN
NOW INSOLVENT
Following the appeal of the C,. H.
and Wm. S. Heck Coal company for
receivership in circuit court ,last'
week, Carl M. Struhberg was ap-
pointed as receiver of the partnership.'
According to reports the assets of the
company amount to less than $8,000,
while the liabilities will total $42,000
Or more.

Several fraternities and sororities
whose notes for undelivered coal
have been negotiated at the bank will
suffer losses of between $200 and
$1,000 because of the failure.
Responsibility for the falure is laid
to the fact that Wm. S. Heck, the
managing partner of the firm, has
been unable to manage the business
since he accidentally shot himself
early in February. He is now seri-;
ously ill with pleurisy and pneumonia
and is not expected to live.
College LTxchanges
Brown-Radio concerts are being
given in the Union auditorium at
Brown university.1
Dartmouth-49 men have been
chosen for the spring trip of the mu-
sical, clubs. They will give concerts
in Boston and Lawrence and then
make a trip thorugh the South as far
as Atlanta, Ga.

in all depart
of Colorado
ing the last
of Colorado.
all others wi

and

California-Song Day a
versity of California will
It was started last semest
pep in backing the footbal
fore every class during th
forrila plays, California
started by a volunteer an
the class.
Dr. L. J. Boyd Out of
Dr. Linn J. Boyd, assist
sor of intenal medicine. 1

in see a marked break-
what we have hitherto
ue culture; we are not
ee anything that really
:ue national American-
achment" is as much
rican as from the Old
'ound. Can this be a
e passing of the great
n Indiscriminate
of us who sincerely ad-
cken's undeniable gifts
sympathy with his at-
smugger elements of
ature, cannot but feel
;gerated and indiscrim-
ssaults, and too often
he baby along with the

cine. He

April 12.
Harvard-Harvard and Yale willArl1
send a tennis team to England. Three "RIDER

for PENS."-

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Milton and Shakespeare, for all
ir classical lore and adroit bor-
ling, are fundamentally 'national.'
iters did not cry: 'Go to; Puritan
rature is all wrong, we must model
'selves deliberately on that of La-
a." This is why one is inclined
look with a very dubious eye on
novement which professes to see
hing in Hawthorne or Longfellow,
I everything in Baudelaire, Remy
Gourmont, Huysmans, and Flau-
-t-which regards Howells as
rely -a "maker of tpretty waxen
ups."
Americans are (possibly) apt to
more stress on apparatus and
chinery, and less on men and nia-
al, than most other people. They
not fully realize that man must
master of the machine as well as
the Sabbath. The Short stories
t have of late years been appearing
some of the leading American
nthlies are often almost impecable
their 'technique; but they do not
e, they hardly interest, there's
;hing inside the clothes, they are
y nearly for et praeterea nihil,
y are not vital literature.
Individualistic in Trend.
'rom another point of view the
ergence of this new young school
American writers, (almost all of
members the offspring of journal-
) may be described as an individ-
istic revolt against the genial so-
bility of their country. If such a
ik as, for example, "Erik Dorn,"
Ben Hecht, could be looked upon
really typical of American life,,
3 would be tempted to gloomy fore-
ts for America's future. ' Intelli-
it students of Russian literature
t (long before the revolution) that
Russian fiction gave a true picture
Russian society, that society
ild not possibly continue to cohere.
readers of the American novels of
ich "Erik Dorn" may be taken as
HE UNIVERSITY'S
COMMON HEALTH
The Human Machine
'he human body is merely a piece
machinery and must be so treated.
e child who has been neared with-
thought of future health will very
ely be a degenerate physically, and
man who is a perfect specimen
20 may be an invalid at 30 through
own carelessness.
L machine to do the best work
st be in perfect condition all the
e. If something is out of gear for
ec months, the machine may con-
ue to run, but its'efficiency will not
up to standard and its period of
fulness will. be shortened.
Che same is true in an even greater
ree in the human machine. If
Lth means wealth, no person can
>rd to gamble with his fortune.

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