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THE MICHIGAN DAJLY

s9IAY, OCTOBER 16, 1927

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what it should, and what that student to that discussion. Yet the auto ban
deserves to have. enters largely into the issue.
The over-emphasis of either one of One member of the faculty has pri-
these ends will be disastrous to the vately characterized the executive
cause of education, just as the over- policy of the present administration,
emphasis of any one phase of college as it affects the students, as "patern-
life is disastrous to the best interests alistically repressive." This man,

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of the student. The danger of this1
over-emphasis, however, is not a bit
more alarming than the dangers of
co-education' or any of the other pos-
sible digressions from the regular
university curricula, and after all, the
persons who raise the loudest outcry
against commercialism will be those
who find themselves unable to earn a
respectable living in the competitivej
order of the day.
A 3#IAN'S HOME
The National Civic league is pre-
paring a vigorous campaign in the at-
tempt to enforce the prohibition law
of the United States during the com-
ing year. A representative reported
to the headquarters of the league re-
cently that he was preparing twelve
bills which are to be laid before Con-
gress in the coming session.
Many of the bills which they pro-
pose may be practical and will prob-
ably be considered. But one plea
which they are making is a plea that
is never to be considered as possible
in this country. They advocate as a.
means of enforcing the amendment
that the law requiring a search war-
rant before private residences may be
entered, be abandoned.
If this measure were to be passed1
it would remove every privacy which
the American home now possesses.
On the slightest provocation, and
without any accounting for motives or
acts, officers could enter any home,,
make any search they wished, and
leave, without more ado. Such a meas-
ure would lay every home open to at-
tack, slander, and would put a power-
ful instrument in the hands of the en-
forcement officers - an instrument
which would soon become unwieldy
and which would unnecessarly violate
the lives of the citizens.
A man's home has been, is, and al-
ways should be, his castle. If sus-
picion requires that the officers enter
a home it should be only through legal
channels and after the proper rights
of the individual have been properly,
considered. Laying the home open to
vicious and unexplainable attack and
search, strikes at the first principles
of American liberty and independence.

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ANE4§NT. MATERIALISM
This is a great University. Its stu-
dents are here, in theory at least, for
a very definite purpose; and just what
that purpose may be has been the
couse of more controversy, more wor-
ry, more academic disputes, and more
investigation than any other single
phase of education.
The primary object of every young
man is to become equipped for life;
that is an axiom. The object of the
University then; it follows, should be,
to train these young men for the prob-
with which they deal; but here comes
the issue, for there are two possible
ways in which one may be trained.
He may be trained for an enriched
existence, or he may be trained merely
to the end of accumulating more of
the world's goods in the form ofj
money.
To denounce the end of college
which teaches the student to make a
better living as "crass materialism"
Is unjust. To view with scorn the
commercial side of a university edu-
cation and contend that that kind of
stuff has no place in an American col-
lege is a reversion to the archaic idea
of a student or a scholar. Nine of
every ten of our present day students
are not of that type, and the problem
of earning a living, And a comfortable
sustenance, is not only important but
of paramount interest to them.
Nor is this emphasis on ghe com-
mercial side of the matter wrong, for
after all, men who have spent years
of their lives preparing to serve hu-
manity should be rewarded in a larger
measure than those who add nothing
but their native intelligence to the
common cause. If the college bred
are to be the parents of the next gen-
eration, what is more, as seems some-
what desirable, they must be able to
adequately finance the rearing of that
generation - something which the
theorists who deplore "commercial-
iswn" sometimes overlook.
To enrich one's existence by his col-
lege course is, of course, desirable. To
say that itis the primary end of the
present day college, or to say that it
should ble the primary end of the
present day college is false. The col-
lege bred man or woman should have
learned to do two things; first, he
should have learned to appreciate the

CAMPUS OPINION
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lishcd should not be construed as ex-
pressing the editorial opinion of The
Daily.
REGARDING POAlCY
To the Regents of the University,
Greetings:
You gentlemen are vested with con-
stitutional power to super vise the
University. From the fact that you
choose a president, regulate the grade
of faculty members and grant de-
grees, it is reasonable to assume that
your jurisdiction extends as well to
the faculty and administrative officers
as to the students, over the latter of
whom recent events have indicated
your wje powers of control.
In your hands is reposed the con-
fidence of the people of the State. To
you they have said, in effect, "Kindly
see that our University is properly
conducted." And they have provided
annually - millions of dollars with
which to help you.
What have the people of Michigan a
right to expect? Why do they sup-
port so expensive an institution? Per-
haps because they conceive that here
is an opportunity to train a more in-
telligent and useful citizenry. And
why do students come here? Perhaps
because they see a chance to develop
their capabilities. If these two
motives are sound and really do rep-
resent the two-fold purpose of the
Tniversity, the question which the
writer urgently refers to you for an-
swer is, What are the characteristics
of this University when 'properly con-
ducted' by its Regents and their
agents?
The Regents have usually recogniz-
ed realities in dealing with the stu-
dents. One more that they shouldf
recognize without delay is that stu-
dents, in the mass, are human beings
to whom a natural incident is an in-
telligence; of greater or less degree.
They are not, in the mass again, er-
rant puppies strayed from mother's
capacious bosom, although some few
may seem so earmarked. I presume to
say that generally they are purposeful
beings, even, sometimes, with high
ideals. That is a doctrine streaked
with red heresy for the Michigan
campus if we are to take seriously
certain recent fulminations by the2
agents of the Board of Rengents.!

! whose academic grade is entitled to
respect, takes (privately) heated issue
with the President and Regents in
their stand on student automobiles. It
is needless to say that the students
are similarly opposed. The Regents
have seen fit to adopt the view spon-
sored by the President. That I shall
designate as Grievance Number One.
Under that I should like to mention
what seems a most unfortunate and
ill-advised action of University offi-
cers in "shelving" the very moderate
petition of the Student Council. Are
the students then not only unimportant
but denied a voice before the deposi-
tories of the people's confidence? If
so, then their degraded status in the
University can be no longer in doubt.
In December, 1925, the President
imposed a system for supervision of
fraternity houses in regard to enforce-
ment of the eighteenth amendment.
There has been no energetic enforce-
ment of this system. -Yet at the open-
ing of school this fall the Dean of
Students saw fit to deprive the fra-
ternities of one of their most prized
privileges-the holding of Saturday
night dances-on the grounds of
liquor law violations. ' And this with-
out a hearing of any sort, or explana-
tion of its necessity. The result is a
serious reflection upon both the fra-
1 ternities and the University, for whose
good name the students still have
some measure of regard. That is
Grievance Number Two.
On the "Sunday that closed Fresh-
man Week last month, it was decreed
that all entering freshmen attend
church at some place of worship of
their own choice, or as an alternative
be present at an address by Professor
Reed on "A Scholar's Religion," which
I assume to have been some sort of
religious topic.
There can be no doubt but that all
the good people of Michigan would
laud that regulation. But it has been
many years since persons of intel-
ligence have been required under
penalty to attend religious services
when that is not the prevailing custom
of the community. Grievance Number
Three.
Mr. Harry Tillotson, admittedly
much wrongfully maligned czar of the
ticket distribution bureau of the Ath-
letic association, has come in for his
share of abuse. It is not a all cer-
tain who is to blame, but the fact re-
mains that under the seating arrange-
ments adopted for the new stadium
students are relegated to the more
undesirable parts. Who takes pref-
erence? Bond-holders, faculty, M
Club, visiting conventions, and just
plain citizens. Almost anyone who
doesn't wear the stigma of "student."
Is that sound? There has been much
talk about commercialism in sports.
Students generally have found that
hard to believe. But what conclusion
is left when the group from which is
chosen the eleven men who form the
box-office attraction is left to take
what remains after the various hues
of others have been cared for?
That grievance illustrates more
clearly than any other how the con-
victions seems to have become domi-
nanhere that students are after all a
comapratively unimportant considera-
tion at the people's University.
In his address to entering students
at Hill auditorium in September, 1926,
the President said, in effect, that his
greatest hope as President was to
make Michigan a more "human" place
in which to live as student or faculty
member.
It is possible that the writer mis-
understood the purport of that ideal,
and that what follows may rank as
"misinformation." Ygt it seems that

the expressed ideal must be meaning-
less unless it promises as a working
principle in education the application
of human fairness, human sympathy,
and above all the recognition of stu-
dent humanity in its wider sense in
handling the problems incident to so
large a university.
If the President or Board of Regents
can say, after consulting mind and
heart, that the recent course of events
at the University has been consistent
with a doctrine of humanity, then
there seems nothing left for the stu-
dent but bend to the yoke of more
elderly wisdom. It is the sole pur-
pose here to point out to the honor-
able Regents a trend in the policies of
the administration that inevitably
classifieg the student as a tolerated
nuisance.
It is the writer's premise that such
a status is contrary to the desires of
the people of the State; that it is bad
faith toward the students who have
come here with the purpose of devel-
oping, not having squeezed and re-

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MUSIC
"ANATOLE FANCE AT HOME," by
Marcel Le Goff; The Adelphi Coni-
pany; 1927; $2.50.
A Review, by Harold May
To one who has not become sur-
feited with memories and recollections
about Anatole France "Anatole France
at Home" ought to prove interesting
and amusing. It is interesting be-
cause it deals in detail with France's
life at "La Bechellerie," his country
estate in Touraine, because of France's
low opinion of the highly touted Tou-j
rainians, and amusing, partly b'cause
some of the anecdotes are pointed and
witty, and partly because of the "and
then the Master said-" reverential
manner of the writer.
. The book was written by Marcel Le
Goff, one of those Frenchiest of all
Frenchmen-an army officer; it is
evidently his firm belief, many of his 1
anecdotes are pointless and vaporous,
that anything the "Master" said was
precions, most worthy of conserving,
whether it meant anything or not. Le
Goff devoted a great deal of space to
Anatole France's opinions on the war,
on political situations, on the assassi-
nation of Jaures, and on the Caillaux
trial. These opinions are dull and un-
interesting mostly because they de-
pend, for their true meaning, on the
conversation in which they occurred,
and because they are not representa-
tive; opinions shouted in the heat
of an argument never are. Monsieur
France's opinions about our wartime
Americans are very low; they some-
what gripe my latent patriotism they
are so manifestly superficial and un-
considered. The two things, though,
that the book does bring out well, that
age had not dulled Anatole France's
mind or memory, and that, intspite of
his 70 years, the "Master" still con-
sidered himself the most attractive
man in France to young and fiery
ladies.

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THE ORGAN RECITAL
Margaret MacGregor, a member of
the organ faculty of the University;
School of Music, will give the next
Twilight Organ recital in Hill audi-
torium, Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 4:15
o'clock. She will take the place of
Palmer Christian, regular organist,
who will be in the East on that date.
This will be the next to last organ
recital to be playedon the old organ.
Her program:
Piece Heroique ..............Franck
Reverie................Dickinson
Minuetto antico e Musetta...... Yon
Prelude ind Fugue on BACH... .Liszt
The Bells of St. Anne de Beaupre
.Russell
Romance sans Paroles.....Bonnet
Rhapsody Catalane ........... Bonnet
THE MASONIC SUBSCRIPTION
SERIES -
Usually the Masonic Auditorium
subscription series in Detroit prom-
isese something more than usually in-
teresting. Last year there was the
Chicago Civic Opera company in four
performances to close the season-and
everybody enjoyed Rosa, Raisa in "The
Jewels' of the Madonna" and "Aida"
and something even stronger might be
said of Muzio reception in "Tosca."
And Mary Garden entertained her
public nicely by her vivid performance
of "The Resurrection." There was
quite a bit of unpleasant gossip fol-
lowing in the wake of the company,1
due to Miss Garden's stupid inter-,
views in the papers, and also to some
misunderstandings between press and
management.
But nevertheless the Civic is re-
turning this spring with four per-
formances. And events of as inter-
esting import are occuring in the
meantime. For instance Grace Den-
ton is bringing the New York Theater
Guild's road company for four per-
formances of their last season's suc-
cesses-the sam& ones which will be
given in Ann Arbor at the Whitney
theater later this fall.
The initial number each year is aI
symphony orchestra-last year it was
the Philadelphia with Stokowski, and
this year it is the Boston symphony
and Koussevitski. Symphony orches-
tras of this magnitude are rare in
these parts and with the exception of
the New York symphony and the
ubiquitous Mr. Gabrilowitch and his
gang, concerts of this type are rare.
As the final number of the season
the Metropolitan ballet will present
a program on April 18. Rosina Galli
who was announced as the season's
ballerina has been replaced by Ruth j
Page who occupied that position as
guest artist last year. Adolph Bolm I

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OCT. 30-'WILLIAM MONTGOMERY McGOVERN
Distinguished Orientalist
Subject: "To )hasa in Disguise"
NOV. 18-HARRY A. FRANCK
Noted Author and Lecturer
Subject: "What's Happening in Palestine?"
NOV. 22-COMMANDER RICHARD E. BYRD
North Pole and Trans-Atlantic Aviator
Subject: "The Atlantic and Other Flights
NOV. 30'-WILL DURANT
Author of the "Story of Philosophy"
Subject: "Is Progress a Delusion?"
DEC. 13-EDWIN M. WHITNEY
Popular Dramatic Interpreter
Subject: "The Tailor-Made Man"
FF3. -GOVERNOR ALBERT E. RITCHIE
Prominent Political Orator
Subject: "Centralization of Government"
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FEB. 9-GAY MacLAREN
Well-known Reader of Plays
Subject: "Father and Dad"
FEB. 20-SYUD HOSSAIN_
Indian Statesman and Orator
Subject: Eastern and Western Ideals"
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