9 wvxw, THE MICHIGAN DAILY .... ....r.w" AOtatt ida r Published every morning except Mo Luring the Uversity year by.,the Boar Contrcel of Student Publications, Members of Western Confereace Edit 'Association.1 The Associated Press is exclusively titled to the use for republication of all. dispatches credited to it or not other c~edited in this paper and the local news1 fished therein. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Ar Michigan, as second class matter. Special of postage granted by Third Assistant P mIaster General. * Subscription by carrier, $375; by 9 4-oo.. Offices: Ann ArberFress Building, IM fird Street. Phones: Fditorial, 4925; Business 212T day da orial en- news .wise pub- 'bor, rate 'ost- nail, fay- 4. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR SMITH H. CADY JR. editor...............W. Calvin Patterson City Editor ...............Irwin A. Olias News Editors.........Frederick Shillito jPhilip C. Brooks Women's -Edtor....... ...MarionrKubik Sports Editor...........Wilton A. Simpson Telegraph Editor...........Morris Zwerdling Musi and Drama......Vincent C. Wall. Jr. Night Editors Charles Behymet Ellis Merry Carlton Champe Stanford N. Phelps o Chamberlin Courtland C. Smith awes Herald Cassam A. Wilson Assistant City Editors Carl Burger Henry Thurnaw Joseph Brunswick Reporters Y n cl e M { I f 1i i y J 1 1 r fi t t In short, the Athletic assoclati has made two serious mistakes in i two new regulations. It may be th the new idea is only planned as an e periment; but Michigan has expel mented for years with cheering se tions, and has run the whole gam from flags to uniforms. In the pa season the uniforms have proved ve satisfactory, and that should settle tl matter for once and for all. The student body of Michigan is e, sentially loyal, and will support an reasonable project for the welfarec their school. If a cheering section i worthwhile, however, it must be cor ducted on a rational basis, and thi the two regulations have failed t note. It is asking too much to expec the students in the cheering sectio to give up the right to tickets whic all other students can secure, and i is foolish to abolish a plan of organ ized' cheering which shows such prom ise as the uniformed cheering section PROTECTION NEEDED AGAIN With the conflict between the Pek ing and the Nationalist forces ii North China endangering the lives o foreigners, world powers may sooi be forced to order troops movement! to safeguard the lives and property o- their nationals. The action contemplated will only be aken for precautionary purposes When the split in the Cantonese rank: showed the slender balance in whicl the control of China rested, Englanc and the United States decided that in. tervening action, even for reparation for the Nanking outrages, would be delayed until some responsible Chin- ese party was apparent. Consequently, it is practically certain the powers will confine their activity to defense movements. In that action, however, hey are justified to go as far as the everity of the situation demands. ion its at x- ri- c- ut st ,'y ; he is- ay of is -_ It 's o ct >n r i n- n. n >f 3 a f I I ht l 2 f , OASED OLL1~Mu1sic Drama SPRING RIOT- ITPRACTICE W FTHE M IES Candidates for the riot squad of the Although the present dramatic sea- Ann Arbor police department have beenb son is staggering to a timely death beeien a number of strenuous workouts lately. According to per- with nothing of interest apparent ex- sistent rumors, they are working out cept the Senior Girls' Play, the next on the canine population. promises renewed activity to a re- * * 4markable extent. There will be a pro- Tear gas, riot guns and all the latest duction by some dramatic society in equipment in 100 per cent subjection Mimes theater each week, with the ex- is being used by the rioteers. A city ception of the week of the Union championship is the goal of the squad. opera and the Junior Girls' Play. * * Mimes alone are planning some twelve A special demonstration in the use to fourteen plays ranging from Shaw of tear gas was given yesterday under Shakespeare to Ibsen and "Uncle the direction of Coach O'Brien. The Tom's Cabin." "Seventh Heaven" men reported it a huge success, and 1 (which is already cast) will opeii the could hardly be restrained from tak- season, and a revival of "Anna ( ,ris- ing some right down to the campus tie" Yill follow. Besides the formal to try on the students. offerings of "The Wild Duck", "The * ,* *Devil's Disciple" and "The. Merry COP MAKES TACKLE Wives, of Windsor," there will be something in modern expressionism, SUGGESTIONS r GRADUJ r- r FOR XTION GIFT$ T " AT GRAHAM'S 4 ~- ' AMERICAN RUG CLEANING WORKS There are only a few in the United States like this high grade works, "and none other near you. Oriental Rugs washed by Experts. 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KERN - CAMPUS OPINION Anonymous : communications will be disregarded. The names of communt- cants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. l -.----------.---~ II I nl isi THE UNIVERSITY LOSES A cheering section is desirable There seems to be very little doubt about that either in the minds of the students or the Board in Control o1 Athletics. It is desirable first because it is colorful and second because it gives the team an organized group for cheers, which scattered over the sta dium would not and could not re- spond. In view of this generally admitted fact as to the desirability of a cheer- ing section it is queer indeed that any group should deliberately take an ac- tion that seriously jeopardizes both the effectiveness and the possibility of the section. Yet the Board in Con- trol of Athletics, by two recently pass- ed rulings, have done just this. They have enacted, in the first place, that no student sitting in the cheering sec- tion can have the extra tickets to which he is ordinarily entitled, and second that they have provided that the tickes in the section shall not be permanent for the season, which elimi- nates the possibility of having uni- forms for the men who take part. As a substitute the Athletic Association proposes cardboard squares. , Both rulings are unsound, if not totally wrong. In the first place few students are going to give up the privilege of buying the extra seats to which they are entitled merely to aid in the formation of the cheering sec- tion. It may be true, as the Athletic association claims, that there was sortfie small amount of scalping of these tickets last fall, but the students who desire to scalp tickets will no be pre- vented from it by sitting in the cheer- ing section. It may be bold but fair to ask whether any of the 1200 com- plimentary seats between the 35 yard lines will get into the hands of scal- pers, and whether this would be any reason to lessen that number. The second provision which the Athletic association has made is that the section can not be permanent for the whole season, thus precluding the uniformed section. In place of the t cl. tr k USES OF CLASS AVERAGE To The Editor: The substance of the recent report of the Literary College Faculty Com mittee on the examination and mark- lng system has been wrongly stated in one or two particulars of consider- able importance. This error was made both in the first report in the Dail3 of the contents of the Committee's re- port and in the editorial comment a day later. The Committee actually deprecated the mechanical use of class averages and the normal curve of distribution but in the Daily it was represented as opposing their use altogether. There is a considerable difference between the use of class averages and the normal curve and the miechiaical use of the same devices. The latter is the application of the method to all class- es however small and however varied the circumstances surrounding the teaching of that class. The former is determining the general meaning of A, B, C, D, E, with reference to the class average and a normal distribution as they would be if the number of cases were large enough to eliminate ap- preciable error. The larger theclass the nearer you canareasonably come to the mechanical application of the method, but in no case should it be applied without some use of judgment. The joint committee of the faculty and students of some months ago on the. same subject suggests that as the number of students approaches 200 the distribution of grades should con- form more. and$ more to the normal curve, though it should not be arbi- trary in any case. It seems reasonable to assume that the average knowledge of the subject and ability to think in the subject possessed in successive years by groups of 400 or 500 students, let us say, should have considerably more stability than the quality of the final examination set by the instructor, hence if the final examination one year yields an average of 70 for all stu- dents while another year it yields an average of 60 the chances are great that most of that difference is due to difference in the quality of the two ex- aminaions and B for instance ought to begin at a higher numerical point for the class with 70 average than for the class with 60 average. As for the normality of distribution which assumes that there are about as many students below the average, as above and located at symmetrical distances from the average, so that the average is called middle C and there are as many D's and E's as there are A's and B's, giving a point aver-' age of 1.0 per hour, this assumption perhaps should be applied only to large groups of unselected Freshmen (such as they are the first semester) and even then not without some use of judgment in any particular semes- ter. s (ER f . AR~ES' s .a 1 f l s3 h Junior Howls, star quarterback of Coach O'Brien's riot squad now en- gaging in spring practice, completes s a long run. - " " "Only a championship team will ' satisfy our alumni," declared Coach O'Brien, as he wiped an honest tear from his eye. "Our men are round- ing out in fine shape. Our star bomber caught sight of a couple of students yesterday and we could hard- ly hold him back. We expect some wonderful riots next winter." s* s SPECIAL SEATS for the policemen are being included in the plans for the new Michigan theater. Some of these riots last quite awhile, and it's a shame to make the coppers stand up all the time. * s Pictures and diagrams of the lob- bies of the Arcade and Majestic thea- ters are the latest devices used by the coaches. No effort is being spared to train the men for the great Michigan sport. * * * ASSOCIATION HAS SCARE "Kill it by kindness," seems to be the plan of the Athletic association for the elimination of the student cheering section in the new stadium. . * s * ,The prospect of a few students get- ting a chance for a good view of sev- eral football ganes before they be- come alumni was evidently too galling- a prospect for the Grand Moguls of the association. So they had to take, some action. * a a Several instances of scalping by, students in the cheering section lasty year is the reason given for prohibit- 1 ing the allotment of extra tickets to those in this year's section. Maybet they can use the same method and cutI down on those '1200 complimentary 1 seats. * * * MAKING it impossible to use any. thing but cardboard squares, instead of the uniforms of last year, was an- other good move by the association., Evidently they want to make every-r body so disgusted with the cheering section that'they won't 'yant one next year. * a a" There's at least one bright angle to h the situation. The Student councila an opportunity to show that they eally would like to do something forv he rest of the campus. * s , , Of course teir violent protests won't have any effect on the associa- tion. After all, they're only students. * a a POOR BUTTERFLIES N word from Hollywood has come o C to "Daisy" Denton and "Peaches" Wilcox, erstwhile students of the Uni- a versity. And now the lads are wond- t ering if they're really going to be 1 movie stars, after all. o * * * "We'll turn down their contract and take one with another company," de- C clared one of the beauties excitedly. h "We owe it to our public," added his N companion. h * Ip We've found a good use for the Gar- a goyle. It's a good place to send the 0 things we can't use. e * * * t SENDB THAT PENNY TO THE i HOBBS FUND. n S* * * MR. MADDY'S CLASS IN ORCHES TRA SUPERVISION A review, by Joe Bates Smith. The' merit of the Supervisor's Or. chestra lies not with the orchestra a nit, but to each individual comprisa ing it. The orchestra itself is not a functioning organization only in thai it affords experience for students planning a profession as supervising music, teaching and orchestra work in the grade and high schools. Each member of the orchestra is planning to carry the work farther in this di'- rection, and, in order to give practice and co-operation, the orchestra was established. The recital does not rep- resent meritorious work in synchron- ization, but rather in individual abil- ity. This does not imply that the num- bers rendered were not without due credit. The first two selections, "Serenade" and "Allegro" from Mo- zart's "Suite" were above the average of the usual orchestral interpretation. Greig's "The Last Spring" was also praiseworthy, but "Molto Lento" and "Waltz", the two selections played by the string orchestra were lacking not only in the successful combination of the stringed instruments, but also in the playing as well. Several violins wailed pitiously above the rest in an attempted solo, and others missed hit- ting a note agreed upon by the rest by a few shades. But then the direc- tor had previously told the audience that this string work was new and the members lacked practice so all is forivep. A 'erinet solo by Nicholas Falcone with orchestrasaccompaniment was ex- ceptionally well played, although in the intervals of rest, when the ar- chestra carried on tbe theme, Mr. Fal- core , emed unusually ill at ease on the platform. Throughout tht program different members of the orchestra took their places as conductors, not to show their versatility, but for practice. Of these, 'Miss H-elen Hayes, the only woman conductor of the afternoon seemed to obtain the best results. * * * THE THEATER GUILD PLANS Besides the new O'Neill play "Marco1 Millions" which the Theater Guild will probably offer next season, the plans of that organization have so far been rather tentative. Definite announce- ment has been made, however, that they will open "The Doctor's Dilem- ma" in Chicago,, with an additional handful of this season's successes for a brief fall program. Mr. Lunt and Miss Fontanne are among those who will go; Miss Gillmore will not, due to no vagary on her part, but rather to fact that the plays to be presented are not those in which she figures. * * * And at the same time, the Guild will open the New York season with 'Porgy", a dramatization of a novel f Negro Life on the Charleston wat- rfronts. The' cast calls for practic- lly all Negroes, which accounts for he appearance of the leading mem- ers of the Guild in the Chicago sea- on. * * * Glenn Hunter has been quoted in a leveland paper as saying that he as rejected the Marco role in "Marco Milions." Mr. Hunter intimated that e considers Harry Wagstaff Gribble's lay on the same subject far superior s material for the theater than Mr. 'Neill's. 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