. PAL L IGIIT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1924 .... ..,... , v .. 1= .... * a )) &. ~~!I I - y 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. 4 \y 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. a 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. 1 A 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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