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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1924
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Frocks That Will Grace the
Fairest at tPe -Hop
The novel setting chosen for the 1924 J-Hop, picturing the glittering arctic
land, the scintillating music, and the bId black and white of the masculine
attire, will form a decidedly picturesque background for the alluring gowns
of the feminine dancers-.
Pastel shades of georgette sparkling with rhinestones,, glittering metallic cloth.
gowns, crisp taffetas, the ultra-fashionable black and white, all will have their
place in the social event of the season, the 1924 J-Hop.
And those college women who are fortunate- enough to be part of this gay
picture will want to express thenewest style tendencies. Gowns that will lend
endearing charm to their wearers are found here.
Venice lace 'kerchiefs with
real linencenters are fine
enough to be carried' at the
Hop! Priced $1.35, $1.75 and
$2.50.
Flower ornaments for the
gown in dainty colors or sil-
ver will add a grace much to
be desired. Priced $2.50 to
$7.00.
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A pair of sheer chiffon hose
for a dark gown, glittering
silver or gold ones for the
bright frock. Priced $2.00 to
$3.50.
The pumps that will dance
most merrily at the Hop will
be of silver brocade. Priced
most moder-tely, $7.00 or
$9.00.
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Long whte gloves must be
worn enroute to that great
social event. In 16-button
length the French kid are
priced $6.50.
A wreathe of silver flowers,
a rhinestone head-band or a
coronet of unique design will
adorn the coiffure. Priced
$2.50 to $5.00.
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The righ t underthings must
be chosen. A pliable elastiz
girdle and a lace brassiere,
probably strapless in style.
The fan wi:l be of feathers,
without doubt, chosen to
match or contrast with the
gown in just the right size,
Priced $5.01) to $12.50.
SUNDAY MAGAZINE
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1924
The World Looking Into Our Bier
Artist i
ROBERT BARTRON HENDERSON E ucationalEWELL Bl
In this day when aimless smutt is Translator's Prefac
mistaken for subtle literature and1a precognition of in
prosey novelty regarded as great act-- and cursed with a pr
ing; in this day, I say, when all forms "soft-buzzing slander
of art from novels to theatres are Harrold has paid the
overrun with fakirs of every descrip- A of prophets: he is m-
tion, there is one man, Edward Gor- !nored. It might, in ft
don Craig,-the founder, strangely LISLE ROSE his obscurity in the we
enough, of all the present ferment- y est promise of succe
who is consistently advancing his FREEDOM AND THE COLLEGE. By cedents of a Latin Subjunctive of has been ascertained
theories and doggedly insisting on Alexander Melklejohn. The Cen- Characteristic.I life and occupation;
his principals. tury Company. Three-fourths of college students f standing the fact that
Gordon Craig's field is largely the I have yet to see an honest review hold this same realistic, matter-of-fact porary writer, probab
theatre, yet his talents, are by no of this book. Most reviewers, like view. "How my managership of the his native Austrian vi
Mr. Meiklejohn himself, fly in the face Glee Club helped me get a head-start whereabouts are a blh
of the facts and keep prating idal-t in business," "The money-value of a also his previous aci
istically about the humanistic purpose collegiate personality," "Why my four this tiny volume e
fof the university, about the "mad, im- years in university were not wasted" Voilfls" (not to be p
peuusisn wicsnu-in L i L tL a
petuous vision" which should inspit e these are Lypcai Lies of ar es sand -Waffles"}bigt
educators, about such academic ques- by alumni, that appear in student pub- tion of his genius.
tons as To Whom are College Facul- lications. 1eorhscenis.
tions.paranie from rsociet:
ties Responsible, and Is Our World Thus the average college student Edgar Poe's escapade
Christian. is one step ahead of Mr. Meiklejohn years (1808-1&10) he
No one will own the truth; that the in sophistication, because he has heard of, save for, a t
college of today is only secondarily learned to base his ambitions and rumor that he was tz
concerned with the "disinterested pro- taeories on fact. sia, or had gone toy
pagation of knowledge"; that both The average student is nevertheless kans.
faculties and students regard a uni- dumb because he has accepted his Despite our deprive
versity as a big business institution, world as unreflectively as Meiklejohn himself, however, we
interested in preparing men for prac- accepted another kind of world. He dence of Hoffman voi
tical life, in furnishing them with a fails to see that all which matters is cannot die. That is
-From "Scen" 'by Gordon Craig modicum of social polish, and in af- to live in bodily comfort and to pur- "Bierne Voiffuls." T
fording them a grand continuous sue whatever fads he is by nature in-
means limited to such a petty scope. four-ring circus. The pitiful part of clined to. I have no quarrel with I hardly more than a
He was at one time a leading actor the situation is not that such is the the average student for going after tains the innnermost
in support of Henry Irving. Later he truth, but that we refuse to admit money and social position; what is thinking and feeling
became stage manager and director that it is the truth. In spite of our wrong with his attitude is his assump- written in all the e
for his mother, Ellen Terry. Still boasted common-sense, we are all- tion that these symbols are intrinsi- vor of which such a
later he worked with Eleanora Duse educators, students, legislators-ready cally valuable. He is committing the capable. He burden
and the Moscow Art Theatre Players,...... +h h d t n M irlpi. h clous literary prejudi
uu ;41G}r~w r i ,,aw+ i+.T _tto assert ioudliy that, in the words oT same sort of mistae as L~e Ke n:
until finally he retired to edit his Meiklejohn, "colleges exist for teach- that is, he is erecting his private likes
quasi-vitriolic magazine, "The Mask,"' ing and study"; whereas we know that and hobbies into Immutable Princl-
and to publish four books which are they exist for no such purpose. We pies, and the only words which de-
destined to become, if they are not are not concerned with the questions' serve to be italicized in this world are
already, the keenest and most scholar-Ithat agitate Mr. Meiklejohn's soul; I Hunger and Comfort. The student
ly contributions to the aesthetics of we are concerned with conducting a is right in going after wealth and so-
the theatre. business institution with most profit cial position because those are the
These books conain dogmas on and enjoyment to ourselves. only qualities held valuable in our
every limitation of the stage from its It would be idle to take up Meikle- society. And to conform externally
present -decadence to its growing fu- john's theories in detail and show . to the views of the majority is always
ture, in a style which would alone their great distance from the world a safe and helpful policy.
assure him fame as a dramatic critic of fact. It may be objected that an The man of real sophistication, how-"
ranging, let us say, from a superior ideal is, by definition, opposed to a ever, will use riches and power as.
George Jean Nathan to a profound fact. Of course; but there must be a I means only, well knowing that intrin-
Inigo Jones. Obviously, it is Impos- possibility of rising-or passing--from, sically they are worthless. He will
sible to estimate in a few paragraphs the fact to the ideal. But in a society not fly off to the clouds, because he
the significance of all the doctrines constituted as is the America of the realizes that a cloud is worth even
developed in these volumes, but at present, there is no chance of realiz- less than a lump of dirt or a "correct-
least it is plausible to re-valuate ajing the ideals set forth in Freedom. ly-cut" bit of cloth.. Outwardly he
few of his researches in his major and the College. We are, in fact, get- will accept the standards of his group
discovery, Scene and Movement. ting further away from those ideals; because in that action lies safety nr
In the first place, the popular con- all the time. The average American comfort: inwardly he will pursue
fusion that Gordon Craig is concerned does not care a continental about whatever hobby calls him-whethert
with the many faddist isms of the the- whether our world is Christian or not; it be art or science or politics-and{
atre-wrought on him, probably, -by _what he is after is some source of he will use the unsophisticated, who
his many imitators-should be care- comfort in adversity. If he can get in their ignorance of what they really
fully set aside. On the contrary, Gor- that comfort out of religion, well and want can be deluded easily, as aids1
don Craig is one of the most thorough- good; and almost any form of religion and as sources of amusement.
going realists the stage has ever will do. Neither can the average What is wrong with our system of
known, far out-distancing the eccen- American get heated up over the fact education is that we produce so few
tricities of our local Belascos. When that football is the foundation of most men of sophistication. Most of us are
he shows a pair of steps they are real educational institutions; he accepts ' completely naive, and therefore com-
wooden walkable stairs though they the fact, and is willing to help support pletely helpless before any one who
be as long as Jacob's ladder itself. a whole college faculty for the sake can conceal his real aims. Mr. Meikle~-
It a setting requres several dozen of seeing some clever sport. Nor does john's ideals would only make stu-
Egyptian pillars he may show you it trouble the business man to think dents more weak and helpless still.
.only one and let your imagination do that a lot of colleges hire their foot- The Michigan campus is crowded with
the rest, but that one pillar, neverthe- ball players: he does not wax melan-I living examples of Mr. Meiklejohn's
less, will be as definite and as solid choly over our degradation, Mr. Mei- ideals; and what do those students
as the rock it represents. Again, in klejohn does, but considers it a sign amount to?
the matter of lighting, rather than of business acumen on the part of That is one side of it; but the rest
messing his sun-flecked garden with college officials and loyal alumni. And' of us cannot smile complacently on
yellow and purple paint according to he is rather pleased than otherwise the "poor, pale grinds"; for we are
the laws of perspective he will throw when Son spends his time strutting little if any ahead of them. In the
real light on the stage and let it his stuff at the Alpha Sigma Sigma first place, we have not learned the
create its shadows according to the formals or heading the Reception real value-or worthlessness-of our
Infinitely safer laws of nature. Committee for Visiting Coaches, in- own ambitions; in the second place,,
All this, of course, is merely pre- stead of memorizing the Platonic by hypocritically pretending to ac-,
(Continue on P Qiv ix) Theo r of the$Bautiful and*IM.ant- I (Continued on Pag Three) !
est affections of love
tacks our commercia
he abhors, and illu
ments on intellectua
current and historica
book was first print
press in Vienna, and
lated for the first tim
literally as is cons
spirit of the text.-N.
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days to visit her pare
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garden. She was h
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physics fades: she p
theology is dispersed
a wee melody and
infinite. Is it that
fool, or that his min
or is it that in ju
problem hides the leE
is difficult to conque
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