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mental attitude of the men who are
allowed to play.
It is as much your team as it is
their's, and you can help to better
your team by helping to better the
attitude of the players. At least
don't be the type that discouragesI
them from the start. "Red" Grange
can be defeated, has been defeated,
and will be defeated again!
IIARDLY APPRECIATED
For the forty-seventh time the
University School of Music is pre-j
senting two concerts series, but this
time with a slight-but marked-
change of policy.
Heretofore emphasis seems to have
been placed on the Choral Union
series, in which the more important
artists were scheduled, with orches-
tral programs comprising the greater,
number of concerts on the Extra!
Concert series. As a result, the for-1
mer series seemed to carry the label
of the two "best," while its sister
series was somewhat neglected.
Any such label this year would be
too discriminating. John McCormack
graces the Choral Union series but
no less a personage than Madame
Schumann-Heink, perhaps the most
loved of the world's contraltos, will
appear on the Extra Concert series.
The rest of the recitals on both
lists surely hold something for mu-
sic-lovers. Their excellency can
scarcely be questioned.
When such an organization as the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra can en-
tertain and be appreciated by hun-
dreds of thousands of Detroiters for
the greater portion of a summer it
is indeed time for the supposedly
"educated" to take advantage of some
of the truly unforgettable things of-
fered here.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1925
Night Editor-W. C. PATTERSON
L. ET'S. SI0OJ IT
When the freshman throws his lit-
tle gray pot into the fire on Cap
Night, he ,I.said to cast -aside the
playful pranks and irresponsibility
that so often characterize first year
men, and to assume that dignity
which is supposed to- accmpany
higher education. t freshmen do
throw away their childish habits with
their pots, but every year there are
those who do not, and who return to
Ann Arbor to exercise them under
the cover of sophomore hood.
This year has been no exception;
here and there are second year men
who think that they must go out of
their way to prove to the world that
they are no longer freshmen, that
they have assumed the cares,. re-
sponsibilities,-and privileges, of
sophomorehood.
Among the methods by which these
people attempt to achieve this end
are boisterous conduct in the campus
theatres and the public hazing of
freslfimen. The conduct of certain
loudrnaouthed students in the the-
atrefpr thppast iweek h been any-
thing butflecent. These men seem to
be under the impression that college
mel are expe%d to cast aside every
seinblance of gentlemanliness as
soon as they arrive on the campus.
In regard to the hazing which has
been carried on on the campus, and
public streets tring the past few
days, there is mre that could be said,
but less that sbluld be. Undoubtedly
hazing is fast becoming a lost art,
and perhaps there is reason to regret
the passing of certain types of haz-
ing, but no eyes will ever be dimmed
xy the p Assage of the nasty, degrad-
ing sort of hazing that some of our
AT p arer students indulge in annually.
Most of us are proud of our univer-
' sity, and feel that everything about
it can stand the strain of public
scrutiny, but such petty things as
have occurred during this ,first week
pan surely have no other effect than
5o cheapen the University.
HEY'LJL SEE " PK T IS YEAR
Classes have hardly started, but it
t is not too early to say a word abUt
hose non-scholastic classes that
ave been conducted on the campus
'er the past two weeks, classes in
hich the students work harder,
,uch harder, both mentally and ph-
4 sically, than does the average stu-
dent. These classes are those which
are held daily on Ferry field under
the direction of Coach Yost and his
assIlI istts
INTELLECTUAL SNOBBERY IN A
STATE UNIVERSITYI
The eyes of the multitude have
been directed toward the clash of
state educational figures on the ques-
tion of what students shall be grant-
ed entrance to the University of
Michigan.
It appears, if one be permitted to
judge from newspaper reports, that
Dr. Little, our Presidenj, favors a
rigid policy of selection,-that he
seeks to eliminate the more backward
and mediocre students and to induce
thereby the more rapid advancement
of the mental alert group.
Dean MacKenzie of the City of De-
troit College, and C. H. Sleeper, Dean
of the Commerce School of the Uni-
versity of Detroit, believes that such
a course would work an injustice on
the average students who, while not
having scintillating intellects, could
derive much from the University
training and environment. Dean
MacKenzie feels also that a true se-
lection of the capable students from
the dullards would be highly imprac-
tical.
Choosing prospective collegians In
accordance to grades received in high
school, the only available method,
would defeat the purpose, in many
instances of the whole movement in
that the "plodders" and bookworms,
not the highest type, would flock in,
while seemingly backward high
school students whose slugginess was
due merely to belated development
and who might eventually bloom into
leaders would be excluded.
Both of the above authorities would
substitute for the "appraisal plan"
changes in class organization and in-
creased competence among the in-
structors.
But the observation that in my
mind bobs up immediately is that
even granted it would accelerate a
minority's progress, granted that the
plan is entirely laudable in that it
might work for the greatest good in
the long run-assumptions, of course,
not proved-it is wholly incompatible
with the spirit of democracy on which
state education is based. The ethics
of the proposed movement in a re-
public such as we constitute would
be of a dubious nature. We would
set up an intellectual aristocracy
which, though excellent for the Intel-
lectual aristocrats, would be potently
out of place in this country.
The problem is not only one of in-
justie to a few, it involves the whole
idea of democracy. Could such an
element of educational favoritism
enter into a tax-supported school?
State education must essentially be
as democratic as possible. Its pur-
pose is the dissemination of knowl-
edge to the people at large.
Even now the college or university
is actually the most aristocratic in-
stitution of its time in America. Can
we, in the face of our diametrically
opposed pretentions, logically and
consistently increase that element
OASTED ROLL
PIANO
PIANO
PIANO
Before we forget it, a friend of ours
asked us to put a little ad in the pa-
per for him about a piano. We got
here after closing time and our con-
science forces us to put it here, al-
though we realize full well that this
is no place for such matter. Let's
have it understood right now, more-
over that we will under no circum-
stances do this again for anybody.
There is another column in this paper
which takes care of that. Anyway
this fellow wants a piano, for some
reason which he did not disclose.
Maybe he has an enemy in the next
flat, or maybe he just wants to an-
noy it for his own amusement, never-
theless he wants it.
But please don't send in any of
your old pianos by mail, we can't
have them cluttering up the office;
it's bad enough already. Just tell us
about It and we'll send the boy
around.
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This West Side Henry and his
"Daisy" song started our memory
working. We just thought of lots of
good old Songs. Remember the
"Lime Juice song? "Lime Juice Wild
About Harry" and the Humphrey
classic-you know-"Humphrey Ever
Blowing Bubbles" and Oh, there are
lots more!
Lady T. suggests the "Mice' song.
Gee! that's easy "Mice weety Turned
Me Down" and so on-
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TREVELYAN used no less than
two sheets of the finest copy paper
to get the following off his chest:
Hotsy Totsy
Tweedle Dee Dum
Sister thinks an Oboe
Is worse than a bum.
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DISCUSSION
It may be a shock to the more
habitual readers of this department
to find here a thought which has even
a suggestion of the serious, but we
have our serious moments, too, and
so after most humbly begging your
collective pardons, we wish to pre-
sent a bit for discussion.
The details escape us, but we be-
lieve that during the summer some
time a vocalist appeared at a local
theatre, who apparently? did not meet
with the entire approval of the audi-
ence; and being a group of students
they made no secret of the fact that
the singer aroused their mirth. We
believe that the expression was very
nearly unanimous. After -one or two
solos the performer stopped and pro-
ceeded to lecture the audience In the
best grade school'style on their gen-
eral discourtesy and lack of thought-
fulness. Of course the audience con-
tained itself thereafter and the per-
formance continued. But a question
of ethics was thereby brought up.
It seems to us decidely poor taste
on the part of an audience to cause
such an outburst, but it is, in our
opinion, an infinitely greater lapse on
the part of the singer. After all the
audience has paid for its amusement
and has the moral right to enjoy
itself in anyway it chooses.
The artist had, it would seem, very
little ground to stand on. He was
being paid to entertain and if he
could not do so, he should have been
prepared to take the consequences.
The audience owed him nothing ex-
cept its attention which it gave him,
and if he could not arouse anything
but mirth he should have either quit
the business or improved his voice.
At any rate he had no right to as-
sume that the listeners were at fault
because they expressed the mirth
which he aroused.
We realize that this opinion will
meet with much disproval, which
we lope will be mailed to us. There
is another side, of course, and we
should like to hear from it. Again
we apologize, and again we beg your
pardon.
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Some gentleman who hides behind
the name UNANLIIOUS wrote us to
say: "It required no particular ac-
umen to see how manifest it was,
when you referred to having blown
all your friends to Convocation, that
the motive power was a gust of that
balloon juice which so permeates
your literature."
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Now that's what we call consumate
nerve!
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The Right Reverend Herbert A.
Jump, Pastor of the local church on
the Corner, is carrying things just
about as far as possible again.
At eight o'clock tonight, when all
good boys-ad girls should be in bed,
he will hold a "Knicker Kut Up."
There's -no telling what these mod-
ernists will do next-
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"THE GOLD RUSH"
It was hardly more than a year and
a half ago that Charlie Chaplin-his
name has now even reached the dig-
nity of Mr. Charles-was discovered
by the New York intellectuals
through such men as Gilbert Seldes,
Stark Young and Kenneth MacGowan,
who in. turn focused the .fiashlight ofI
their talent towards his genius. For
the majority of them it was' but an-
other respite in their inevitable at-
mosphere of the weary yawn, and
during a brief six months it became
as much the fashion to regard this
erstwhile pie-slinger in the light of
an Artist as it now is to rhapsidize
over the muscle dances of Clara
Smith.
As a matter of actual fact, Charlie
Chaplin is a very great artist, wheth-
er the several Ven Vechtens recognize
it or no-Max Reinhardt, in fact, has l
called him the most perfect panto-
mimic genius in the world today, and
even asked for, his services in his
coming American production this
winter. By every nuance of technique
he stands as the incomparable master
of burlesque, that art, out of the
eight, most difficult of all to master.
In his latest picture, "The GCld
Rush," to be shown shortly at a local
theatre, he does the subtlest work of
his career. There are so many fine,
delicious shadings to his scen's that
one has to see the picture three, four
or even five times to really appreciate
all the nice points he hides beneath
his surface situations. With "Thej
Last Laugh," it is the only picture I
ever wanted to applaud at the final
fade-out.
You have heard, of course, about
many of the more famous scenes-
the fight in the bar-room, the New
Year's banquet, the cabin on the edge
of the cliff, and above all the Oceana
Roll! In this scene, with a pair of
forks and biscuits, he reaches, I be-
lieve; what mfst be the heights of
pantomimic satire. And even the
pure sentiment introduced for the
sake of the conventional sob 'behind
the, smile is sincere anl effective.]
After all, the theatre is little more }
than a bundle of emotions and cer-
tainly "Auld Lang Syne"- is as legiti-
mate a trick a Sara,,, Beruardt'.
tear-strained contralto or Bernrd
Shaw's slapstick sermons.
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Walter Damrosch
Mengelberg, according to the le-
gend, is very npch of a frenzied art-
ist when he conducts, waving his
arms furiously, tossing his head,
swinging his torso and even ,for
climaxes stamping his feet. Kousse-
vitsky is more subtle in contrast,
making a studied use of graceful
rhythmic gestures 'with his hands,
while Leopold Stokowski is even
more reserved, content to be digni-
fled and merely exploit his profile
that makes him a matinee idol at his
Philadelphia box-office,
Walter Damrosch, however, who as
conductor of the New York Symphony
orchestra is to open the Choral Series
this year, Thursday evening, October
15, has grown quite beyond pure phy-
sical extravagances and gains the
necessary sympathetic attitude of his
audience through an informal ohd~iqe
position on his stand. Occ&sIonaly
'he turns and chats with, his f'ron row,
his wrath that is so terrible'thiring a
rehearsal turning to a charming con-
descension for the actual concert.
Despite the thumbed and worn-dijt
phrase, he is our grand old man in
music, a studious, careful artist, a
gentleman and a genius.
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"LADY, BE p001)"
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the New Detroit theatre, Detroit, a
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