THE MICHIGAN
DAILY
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HOLD HIGH SCHOO0L
3ATE CHAMIONSI .
Arbor Will Meet AlbiQu In Final
Contest For Tenth Annual
State Championship.
MITH WILL PRESIDE
the concluding event in th-a high
I debating program for this year,
enth annual state championship4
e of the Michigan High School'
ing league will be held at 7:451
k Wednesday night in lill audi-
n.
this time, Ann Arbor High
l's affirmative team will meet]
a high school's negative team on)
ubject, "Resolved, That the Unit-
ates Government Should Own the
Mines." Ann Arbor entered the
by defeating Roseville, and Al
qualified by its victory over Rog-
ity.
River Floods Kansas
City Streets.
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UNITED STATES HAS PROMINENT LIST OF NOTABLES WHO HAVE BEEN
EXPELLED FROM UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES FOR POOR SCHOLARSHIP
Has the United States a distin- be known publicly. ered by everyone'at the university tolcomposed.
guished kicked-out-of-college list? Ox- Stephen Crane is one of those who be an intellectual mis-fit. Commenting on the list of dismis-
ford, records show, expelled such fa- l.ef I colle<e voluntarily, feeling the At the end of 1i5 freshman year,1sals of famous people, Mr. Gerald
mous men as Shelley, John LOcie, college atmosphere was too stifling. Eugene O'Neil was expelled from Fling, who was expelled from Kansas
William Penn and Edward Gibbon. The A man in Syracuse University which I Princeton for a trifling offense. He City Junior college for writing out-
question has often been brought: up as was Crane's school has said, in speak- would have been permitted to return spoken editorials, said, "A student dis-
to wheth'er the United States has such ing of him, "He lounged at Syracuse withni a year but by the end of a year missed for criticizing the authorities
a list. in the back room of a restaurant and he had become .so interested in the is better off than one willing to be 'put
Investigation shows that James spent his freshman year sketching at world outside of the campus that he in his fplace' without objecting." To
j MacNeill Whistler, the great painter, the police court, assuring ever"ybody decided never to return. Edna St. put the faculty benediction on under-
as well as Poe, the well-known writer, that that court was by far the most Nicent Millay was nearly -expelled graduate independence of thought,
was expelled from West Point for poor interesting place in the town." One from Vassar shortly before commence- Prof. Walter L. Whittlesey of Prince-
scholarship. John Fiske who has year was all that 'iteodore Dreiserlment. Her class would have nothing ton says. "Young Jeffersons or Fra ik-
gained an excellent reputation as a needed at the University of Indiana. to do with her, as a whole, many of lins would be fired in short order to-
i historian was nearly expelled from le had to plod through his first year, them refusing to be graduated with day. They would not be likely to sub-
.Harvard in 1861. He was one of the then left, conscious only of an acute her. She was graduated ' with her mit to restraints put upon modern stu-
early believers in the Darwinian dis- inapprehension concerning the polite I class, however, to the tune of the dents. I doubt if either would ha /
,coveries and let his interest in ther usages of education. He was consid- "Baccalaureate.Hymn" which she had lasted through his freshman year."
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The Ann Arbor team, coached by
iss Maysel E. Evans of the Ann Ar- J .....r
r high school faculty, is composed "..{ '
Patrick Doyle, Roland Stanger, and
anklin Forsythe. The' members of
e team representing Albion, which Scene in, Kansas City, Mo., when a deluge caused the Blue river at
,s been trained by Mr. E. B. Thomas the eastern border of the city, to sw eep over its banks, routing hundreds
the Albion high school faculty, are of resideits in the lowlands. Cities hundreds of miles from the Missisippi
)bert McCulloch, Harold Spiegel, have sufflered as much from the flood, in many instances, as communities
.d Milton Williams. on the main stream-tributaries havin g risen to unusually high stages.
The presiding officer of the debate Kansas City's flood, however, may be conzidered- a minor affair in compari-
11 be Shirley W. Smith, secretary of son with deluges elsewhere.
e University. The judges have been
nounced as Dr. Charles McKenny, M'1- ,p T
esidentof ' 'ichigan State Normal ARMY C H ANG ES WILL SOON MAKE
llege at Ypsilanti; Stuart Perry, DAYTON WORLD'SAVIATION CENTER
itor of the Adrian Telegram, Adri-
; and Merlin J. Wiley, ex-Attorney-
pneral of the state of Michigan. Dayton, the home of the inventors eludes engineering or test functions,
The competition for the state chain- of the airplane, will soon be the cen- purchasing and production, and repair
onship will be thre final forensic goal ter of the world's aviation, when the and disposal.
ward which more than. 235 high United States army will have , com- } Public spirited citizens, who wanted
pools of the state have been striving. pleted the task of transferring the ( to make Dayton the world's center of
iring the debating season last win- engineering and supply operations to l aviation, raised enough money to pur-
r and this spring 500 debates have the new 5000 acre Wright field from chase the field and donated it to the
en held, in which more than 1,000 McCook field where operations and 1 government. A 500 acre field under
gh school pupils have participated, experimentation have been going on -construction,, and a building contain-
icials of the Michigan State Debat- since the war.- ing the laboratories, having a floor
g League estimated that more ,Than The new field offers unlimited facil- ;space of 144,000 square feet, rank as
0,000 people of the state have at- ities for experimentation and develop- the finest and largest in the world.
uded these contests. ment for the material division of the Scientists and physicists have turn-
ihe officers of the league have al- air corps, commanded by Brig. Gen. ed laborers in order to complete the
ady been notified by 50 high schools William E. Gilmore, which will be herculean task of moving all the
the state that they will send their quartered there. This division in- equipment.
legates to Ann Arbor to witness the
ampionship debate. These ' dele- tIIII l 1111tllill lllilll111111111111111 1111 1111l 111119111641E 1111t11111E1111,
tes, together with the local support-
s of the Ann Arbor and Albion teams
licate an andience attending the de- "
te Wednesday, which will far ex- -
Slast year's record attendance of ,..E R ,;
>re than 3,000 people.
All the debates during the year have
en held under the auspices of the
chigan High School Debating
ague. '
KANSAS-tAsk me another' tests
.1 probably be instituted here next -
ar in place of intelligence tests.
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STUDENT
LEADERS
CHECKING
AIR
BOYS ENROUTE
CAMP
TO THE FRESH
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The Staff of University students needed as counsellors at the
the season, June 21 to August 6 is being rapidly completed.
Fresh Air Camp for
A CAPABLE BOTANIST AS NATURE STUDY DIRECTOR IS WANTED
Also five or six mere to be tent leaders. These men should have the interest of
boys at heart, and be willing to do stiff, hard work. Camp leadership is not designed
as a summer vacation- Rather it is an educational venture in living with needy boys,