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forewarning can hardly be given, and
as a result the assemblies will tend
to hamper the work of instructors or
make a change in their schedule nec-
essary. On the other hand, if to
avoid this the deans intend to call
convocations at a late hour and not
dismiss classes for the occasion, it
would be decidedly unfair to those
men who arecengagedtin studies at
the time and cannot get away.
There is a place for convocations
in the University schedule. They are
important in furthering the aims of
the University both by helping to
consolidate the student body and by
bringing it into closer relation wit h
the faculty and administration. IA
arrangements were made definitey
for a series of convocations to be
OAST hLL
DIG ON, THOU
SQUAT AND DARK
STEAM SHOVEL
THESE ROLLS contends, and Is
firm in its contention, that the steam
shovel over in the new Lit building
is human in its intelligence. As a
proof see how it minds what the
grimy man says to it. "!*?-!&!" says
he. And the shovel bites off another
cb unk of the sidewalk on which our
fathers played marbles as freshmen.
* * *
IN THE LIGHT of this great in-
telligence we think it would be nice
extra time in June if they could go
EA CE home for Thanksgiving. But they
EDITORIAL COMMENT know they will go to their eight
o'clocks Friday morning unless they
EDISON'S QUESTIONNAIRE AGAIN have been judicious in taking their
cuts. That is one of the things the
(New York Times)student body does at Illinois.
Mr. Edison's questionnaire and his Wwe have no traditions?
poor opinion of college education have on
been so provocative of helpful con- i - -
troversy that he must behregarded as $50.00 reward for recovery of green
a public benefactor. Singularly, it wardrobe trunk marked T. P. G. Call
a~~~~~~~~ pbebnacr. inuryt 300 or T.P. Gies, 3039-M.-Adv.
was never his intention that his mem-
ory tests should be made public. His
fame as a man of science had cast a
long shadow before he attained celeb- HILL AUDITORIUM
rity as a self-made authority on edu- ELECTRICAL
cation. Thousands now know him as SCOREBOARD
such who could not tell for the life NOVEMBER 25TH
of them what he has invented. One
morning he awoke to find himself
famous as a critic of the colleges. He
had declared graduates who submitted
to his questionnaire in the hope of
getting a job "amazingly ignorant," j I ( (
with comparatively few exceptions. OR V
oNevertheless, the memories of some of
2e "plucked" were extraordinarily High Quality
>o1, for they could give a list of G U A A NT E E D
Imost of' the questions asked them. G AR N E D i
S- hsequently the complete question-
naire was published with the right Hose for Men
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MANAGING EDITOR
MARION B. STAHL
News Editor.,................Paul Watzel
City Editur........James Bi. Young
Assistant City Editor..........Marion Kerr
Editorial Board Chairman ... ..E. R, Meiss
Night Editors--
Ralph Byers Hairy Hoey
J. P. Dawson, Jr J, I,. Mack
I, I. Hershdorfer R. C. Moriarty
H. A. Donahue
Sports Editor .............. F. H. McPiike
Sunday Magazine Editor.......Delbert Clark
Women's Editor..............Marion Koch
Humor Editor................Donald Coney
Conference Editor..........H. B. Grundy
Pictorial Editor ................Robert Tarr
Music Ediur................E. H. Ailes
Assistants
M. H. Pryor Maxwell Vead
Dorothy Betinetts John Garlinghouse
Maurice 3e~ma n Isabel Fisher.
R. A. Billington Winone A. Hibbard
W. B. Butler Samuel Moore
H. C. Clark W. B. Rafferty
A. B. Connable W. H. Stoneman
Evelyn J. Coughlin Virginia Tryon
Eugene Carmichael P. M. Wagner
Bernadette Cote A. P. Webbink
Wallace F. Elliott Joseph Epstein
T. E. Fiske J. W. Ruwitch
J. A. Bacon
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Assiants
held on definite dates, instructor,
would have no difficulty in providing
so that four hours a semester would
not detract from the efficiency ofG
University courses.1
AND AVOID THE RUSH
With the good weaaher just be-
t
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;
to christen the steam shovel with
some appropriate name. Personally
our choice would be "Alfred"-Alfred
the steam shovel. But we'd be pleased
to hear suggestions from the vast mul-
rittide of readers we know these rolls
must have. And when we find a good
name we shall have a tag day to col-
lect enough money to buy a bottle of
champagne to bust over the bow of
the steam shovel. (Ye-es we will!)
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V,
Womens Haberdashing
and
Tots Shop
ginning to fail, and the first flurries
of snow unusually late in their ar-
rival, with the intervening period, bb-
tween the approaching Thanksgiving
and Christmas cut down by almost a
week, it is he-d for us to realize
that the twenty-fifth, of December is
only one month off.
It is rather early in the year to
mention the holiday season, but it
really does no harm to do things a
little ahead of time. And in this
conection there is an old plea, orig-1
inatd by the postal system of the
country and taken up by the business
men of. the nation, "Do your Christ-
mas mailing early." To 'this has been
added the advice to shop as soon as
possible so that we may avoid the
rush.
The advice is excellent, well-meant,
and, like all things of this descrip-
tion, trite. But to follow the line of
thought, trite things are usually
those which are so obviously sensible
that they are generally ignored. And
so it is in this case. The request
of the postal system and of the busi-
ness men of the country is not that
they alone may gain something. By
shopping, and shipping early, one
may be assured of the best selec-
tion, and the safest delivery possi-
ble. To wait until the last minute
is both senseless, for one can never
get the best late in the season, and
indonsiderate, for the friends to
whom one sends presents prefer to
receive them in good enough condi-
tion to enjoy using them, and in plen-
ty of time to prevent ill-feeling. The
suggestion is a good one for all con-
cerned. Send your presents early,
2nd avoid the rush.
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Towrsend if, '\Vulfe
Kenneto t'eick
(co~gc R~kv, oud
Perry M fThvden
Eugene 1,. Dunne
Wtn Graulich, Jr.
John (2. ilaskin
FIarv~y 1',. Used
C. 1,. Putnam
E. 1). Armam.txoot
H. XV', Cooper
XV~tilaem- Plower
Edw. '11' bZ;c4lt.
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VALE answers. A lot of people refreshed
We're not so sad at losing their memories by reading the an-
The U Hall portico, swers, or learned something new. But
Though it wasn't half-bad look- Mr. Edison's strictures upon college
ing; courses made him a target for retorts
Too bad it had to go. from every point of the compass. He
was assailed himself as "amazingly
But what we're sad at losing ignorant."
In building program's sprees Dr. Henry van Dyke tells Mr. Edi-
Is the air of true tradition son that he misapprehends the nature
And the very pleasant trees. of a college education. "The object
* * * is not to enable a man to make a
living, but to teach him how to en-
COtMMUNICATIONlarge and enrich his mental and mor-
i . Ral life, to be more of a man, to be
Dear Sir: a real person, and not a mere cog in
It has been called to my attention the machinery of industry." Dr. van
that in yesterday's column you hadDn
reference to refer to the venerable Dyke scores when he remarks that
reiherenceotoherito thnrablemthe trouble with Edison's idea of ed-
Smith Brothers distinguishing the ucation is that he merely wants Ia-
only by their genial* appendiages. I bo that he erly banss.
would like to refer you to all the pub- Mr t at he can use in his business.
lished pictures of these gentlemen
whereby you can plainly see that the "dirty work" is repugnant to college
men, Dr. van Dyke enters a stout de-
one on the left is called Trade andnial.. President Gray of Bates also
a the one on the right Mark. In; other
takes up the cudgels. Quoting the
words they should be referred to as wa s saigha he maoit
Mr. T. Smith and bMr. M. Smith, students are afraid "to look dirt in
Yours till rubber tires, the face," he says: "More than half
*a gP -of the boys here are earning a part
*Hirsute appendages, m'boy, hir- Io l fterwytruhclee
or all of their way through college,
sute. These fellows are not afraid to look
* * *
dirt in the face." It would appear
WE NOMINATE for president of the that Mr. Edison is not familiar with
new Irish Free State the lad who the chores that many students do to
tells us the Lit school excavation is get an education. A list should be
Volstead's grave because it has the prepared for him.
water-wagon in it. In justice to Mr. Edison, it should
* * * be said that, while he is a critic of
MORE FROM OUR NOVEL college methods as he understands
them, he prefers to employ graduates,
if he can catch them young. Thirty-
*j two out of six hundred college men
who took his questionnaire made a
mark of 90 per cent., and he engaged
them. "Most of them," he said re-
She met him on the Diagonal with- cently, "are now in executive posi-
out a topcoat. (Him, not the Diag- tions, and have executive ability and
onal.) good judgment." Mr. Edison wants
"My, I should think you'd be chil- no man about him whose memory is
1 ly!" she said in a melodious woice. not good. His questionnaire was
"You should think I'm silly!" de- mainly a test of memory. Much of the
manded him. ) information he asked for wopld be of
"Silly--I said CIILLY." no service in the Edison plants. The
"Oho.'' questionnaire was a hobby with him.
"Why; don't you think we should When one of the most practical men
say what we think?" she askedim. of the age, George W. Goethals, cast
"Nope," said he, "F'rinstance, you his eye over it he waved the list
say, 'Oh, my hairs' a fright!' and I aside, and said "Good-bye" to the re-
agree with you, you get angry." porter. Charles M. Schwab, another
"Well, it is," she scowled. "But you hard-headed man, says there are no
don't need to say so. questionnaires, at the Bethlehem Steel
"Ain't that just like a wimen," he Works. A Yale graduate of 1910
murmured as she left. thought that he was the man Edison
wanted, for he had "an inexhaustible
supply . of useless information." A
thorough test of a man's powers of
observation would prove his eligibil-
ity for a job under an inventor bet-
ter than his ability to answer ques-
tions like: Where is Kenosha? Who
was Cleopatra and how did she die
. and Who wrote "Home, Sweet Home"?
"Wot!" vocalized the All-American There is room for improvement, edu-
Frosh, "Bury U hall in that little cators agree, but, as Dr. van Dyke
hole?. Can't be done!" submits, Mr. Edison has never un-
derstood the purpose of the college
course and the college life. Yet the
THE OPEN season for Christmas controversy is salutary.
Cards is fast approaching. Watch for _
the rolls Own Xmas Cards. (When AN ILLINI TRADITION
we get around to it.)
Here we are, back to the days
of assured service in men's hos-
iery.
"ORVO" is the guaranteed, high-
quality lisle or silk hose for
men.
The guarantee means exactly
what it says: No darning neces-
sary during the periods speci-
fled.
Without Darning
Means freedom from a very
nuisance; a nuisance for the
wearer and for the women who'
have to mend.
Get away from it now by buy-
ing "ORVO" at these prices.
Lisle
3 -pairs "$1,20
3 months
Thread Silk
2 pairs $2.25
3 months
Bullet Proof
6 pairs $1.50
6 months
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S "R W -, N1 : .ER 25, 1922
Night Editor - ROBT. C. MORIARTY
TII -; ยง1H STONE
This ftite oonx. \fi ligau meots
cor edt mci: nos mor titan bappar-
eit at it thong hL. marks the
cnd oi t Ia- iotbalJ -eason of 1922.
The game me-n; tait once more the-
radit~hm of playing the last game of
th 3eir with Minnesota is being
ob ervc Ti old Brown Jug, the
sy~boJ of numerous hard-fought con-
tests, is again at stake. Whether itl
will repose at Ann Arbor for the
next year or not will be decided this
afternoon.
But the game this afternoon has a
deeper significance than those of oth-
er years have had. On its outcome
depends the championship of the Con-
ference, so far as Michigan is con-
cerned. This year has been a difh-
cUt otto to weather. The climax
of the season did not come t Co-
lumbus, nor did it come during eith-
er of the games on Ferry field. The
nervous tension has been extant
through all of the games. And to-
day's contest is no exception to its
predecEdssors. The team must re-
turn to Ann Arbor tomorrow with the
Brown jug under one arm, and the
. .ninfo bi of thRim B Ten under
SEEING THE CAMPUS
The new system of campus guides
seems to be by far the most efflicent
Method of acquainting visitors with
the campus which has yet been de-
vised. The operation of the system is
under the supervision of the Dean
of Students.
The tours of the campus are con-
ducted by students. Anyone who wish-
es to be shown around the Univer-
sity, may, by application at the office
of the Dean of Students, be assigned
the buildings. Each hour a different
man is on duty, and each tour lasts
one hour.
The advantage of this system lies
in the fact that those who are thus
introduced to the campus mays be
certain that they are missing noth-
ing, and that the important features
of each b7 lding are being pointed out
to them by persons who really know
each structure. The visitor who has
thus seen the University goes away
with a clear picture of all that he
has seen in his mind, and what is
equally important, he passes this in-
formation on to his friends, who thus
become acquainted with the Univer-
sity themselves.
There appears to be no reason why
this project should not be a suc-
cess. The fact that there is no
charge for the services of a guide
should insure it as many patrons as
it can care for.
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the other. Used to be that every stereotyped
picture of how a building was going
CONVOCATIONS-CLOSED$ to look when completed had a few
Although the convocations plan buggies standing out in front. Then
inaugurated late last year was set they beganl putting in automobiles.
aside as impractical by the commit- And now the sketch of the new Mich-
tee of deans at a meeting Thursday, igan dormitory boasts an airplane fly-
no reasons were given out for the ing overhead. What progress is regis-
oflicial disapproval which they, be- tered in these drawings!
stowed. The announcement was
made, however, that convocations of Michigan stands today on the
the student body would . be icalled brink of not only one, but two cham-
from time to time during the year pionships. While the football Varsity
"when the occasion presented itself". confronts Minnesota the cross coun-
The plan as used last spring called try squad fights for Conference hon-
for general assemblies to be held ors at Purdue.
once each month on a specified date.
This provided for eight convocations The class of '69 has shown its spir-
during the year, requiring four hours it by demanding the salvation of its
each semester to be cut fom the memorial tree.. Now all the old boys
classes otherwise held at the time of ought to come back here for a re-
the meetings. Four hours a semester union and move it to some safer
is not evry much when compared to place.
the number of times a course meets.j
And with the instructor in possession Perhaps those of us who have not
uaity Imini)
* *
Fully as much a tradition as the
The Sheep from the Goats hobo parade is the erennialpetition
"Alogi .~tol aid clas tra- I oopraei h peena ptio
All organizations andclasstreas-from the student body to be excused
urers from classes on Friday and Saturday
Who play musical instruments following Thanksgiving. As inevita-
meet' in front of ble as final examinations is the coun-
Waterman gym-" cil's refusal. No school year is com-
- OOD. plete without it.
Where they will be surrounded by Each year some imaginative student
the state police and sent on a long va- is fired with the zeal to take the
cation to Jackson over the midse- matter in his own hands, to start the
mester season - particularly saxo- petition that will result in his and
phoners! More particularly incipient 9,000 other students being able to
exponents of the saxophone. gather round the festive board at
* * * home. He phrases the petition in
Only the First Edition pretty language and respectful, and
"Knowing you to be a literary man takes it about the campus until the
I would like to know, is the hole be- list of signatures is yards long. Every-
side the medic building the campus' body signs. It is the annual custom.
best cellar?" And everybody prepares to stay here.
QWATEMALA. It is a yearly habit. Because the
* ~* *petition is always turned down as is
They should try to get the physics the wont of those to whom the pe-
Theyshold ty t ge thephyicstition is submitted.
building out of the ditches by Christ- T is submted.
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