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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928
Night Editor-PAUL J. KERN
STUDENT DORMITORIES
Acting quite naturally in self inter-
est, Ann Arbor landladies have looked
with disfavor on any comprehensive
plans for the erection of student dor-
mitories. Behaving like any other
business in the United States, they
could not help but oppose any plan
which would- offer competition to
their product; which would increase
the supply of rooming facilities and
thereby reduce the sale price.
Yet, from the standpoint of most
students, the ,dormitory is far su-
perior to the rooming house. For
rent approximately the same, it pro-
vides individual quarters better pre-
pared and maintained;_ as well as
greater recreational and social oppor-
tunities and facilities.
At the present time, of the 2,000.
students who enter Michigan every
year, more than one-half fail to gain
the personal .and social contacts
which would benefit them. Through
the remainder of their college career,
many of them do little more than re-
ceive The required university training
in preparation for the life and citizen-
ship to be followed after graduation.
If executed, the proposed Angell
housing plan for students would do
much to remedy. thissituation. It
would require all freshmen to take
rooms in the University dormitories.
Social opportunities abundant for all
would be given to each student. Liv-
ing quarters would be of the best;
and recreational facilities would be
more nearly 'adequate than they 'are
now at Michigan. Provision of defi-
nite rooming facilities for each and
every freshman would be a great aid
in the orientation of the entering stu-
dent.
For the other students, the plan
provides that sophomores and upper-
classmen may continue in the dormi-
tories; obtain a room outside; or live
in a fraternity or sorority house. In-
cidentally,' the increased supply of
rooming facilities caused by the erec-
tion of the dormitories would lower
the price of rooms in private homes
to the level prevalent in many other
college towns.
As an improved system of housing,
the dormitory system strongly advo-
cated by President Little would bring
with it the greatest single advance
ing hours or signing out slips for
men's dormitories; faculty proctors;
and the promotion of definite "inter-
ests" by reuired participation should
certainly be avoided.
Students, of course, may be well
encouraged to additional pursuits;
but each one with his own initiative
should be allowed room to develop.
The aim should be to turn out self
reliant individuals who will be able
to solve later problems by their own
ability.
It may seem silly to raise such ob-
jections; but, while Michigan desires
improved housing as represented in
a dormitory system, it does not want
to degenerate into a boarding school.
LORD ASQUITH
With the World War already a de-
cade in the past, and with the memory
of that conflict slowly fading from the
minds of men, the curtain is gradually
drawing closer and closer on the
careers of those who towered at the
helm of nations through the crisis-.
and this week has seen the passing of
one of the mightiest of all these fig-
ures-Lord Asquith.
To further praise a man who so
defies eulogy could, be at best only a
hollow echo of the isorxlow which
transcends the boundaries of nations.
To recount the record of achievement
of this man whose courage dominated
the counsels of the Allies in the dark
days of 1914 is useless to a generation
which lived through the conflict. And
the record so rilliant in war is even
as brilliant through the preceding
years, when Asquith served his coun-
try as prime minister and as chancel-
lor of the exchequer.
A career of more than 50Y years in
the service of his country, and in the
service of humanity has been brought
to a close. Lord Asquith, great in
peace and i,ndomitable in war, has
passed from the counsels of man t1
the immortality which he so justly
deserves.
ENGINEERS' OWN HOUSE
Out of the dull gray sky of late
winter and coming as a bright spot
in the prospect of the future comes
the announcement by the engineering
council that an open-house, to paral-
lel the old exhibits which ceased 12
years ago, will be staged again on
March 23 and 24. To the present
generation of Michigan students, and
to seve"al generations back, the an-
nouncement eans little of its true
significance; btl to the few souls
still inhabiting the campus who re-
member the tremendouly interesting
and gloriously entertainitg exhibits
of the engineers in years long past,
the announcement marks thrills of
expectancy.
Some there will be, for instance,
who will remember the miniature
railroad running from morning to
night which the engineers set up
along the diagonal in those days, and
still others will remember the minia-
ture telegraphic and electrical ex-
hibits, the exhibits of motion pictures
while they were still jr. their early
stages, the exhibits of metallurgical
work, and the exhibits in the naval
tank of marine accoutrements. There
also may be a few still inhabiting the
vicinity who remember the tremend-
ous crowds that used to attend these
exhibits, and the fun which was had
from some of the devices of the more
facetious engineers.
With the added facilities of the
Physics building and the East En-
gineering building, both of which have
come since the last exhibits; and with
the added research materials and
with the growth in architecture, the
exhibit planned promises to trans-
cend anything of previous years in
intrest. Where there was one student
to help in former years, moreover,
there will be several students to help
in the impending open-house.
It is, in short, with extreme grati-
fication and a sense of keen anticipa-
tion that the student body can
view the oncoming open house, for
there are few more interesting spats
on the campus than the buildings
grouped around its southeast corner.
The flashes of the engineering col-
lege, for instance, in the University
Moving picture are among the most
interesting scenes of the whole film,
and they show only a corner of the
foundry.
The engineers are to be highly con-
gratulated on .the revival of the ex-
hibit which was abandoned 12 years
ago because of the war and the tre-
mendous time involved in its prepara-
tion. They can rest assured that if
their open house in any way com-
pares with the exhibits staged more
than a decade ago, their work will
not go unappreciated by the student
body; the townspeople, and visitors
from all corners of the state.
Ten Nebraska farmers who have
i BUT
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TODAY
WITH THIS EDITION Rolls will
endeavor to popularize an expression.
It is an expression that carries a lot
of significance and may be used in
many circumstances. We know all
the readers will be saying it, but not
today.
THEATER
BOOKS
TONIGHT: The Rockford Players
present "Great Catherine" and "The
Old Lady Shows Her Medals" in the
Whitney theater at 8 o'clock.
Fnllir thei* ne lev of open-
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THE SAYING ORIGINATED when ing Sunday night and running for a
a certain young salesman , of the solid week with Wednesday and Sat-
traveling variety, entered a shop with urday matinees, the Rockford Players
his line. After a short time the own- announce Booth Tarkington's comedy,
er said: "I like your line, you are a "Clarence" with the following cast:
very nice boy, I'm going to buy a big MRS, MARTYN.........Gene Mangus
order, but not today." MR. WHEELER ......Holman Faust
MRS. WHEELER ............
"YOU MAY ALL drive automobiles.............Kate Holland Patton
"YO MA AL drvBOBBYobiesHEELER......
around the town of Ann Arbor," said BOBBY W...... sn
some official or other, "But not to-CE...............Robert Henderson
day." CORA WHEELER.!.. Frances Dade
VIOLET PINNEY .... Velma Roynton
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CLARENCE .........Mr. Warburton
YES, THIS EXPRESSION, "But not DELLA ................Gene Mangus
today," is really a valuable set of DINWIDDIE ..........Robert Wetzel
words to have on hand. It covers a HUBERT STEM ........Franz Rothe
multitude of sins and anything else
that needs covering. Next week will Incidentally, after having talked
be offical "But not today," week so over everything from Ibsen's "Ghosts"
that all students will be able to mas- to "Hamlet"-with Charles Warbur-
ter the technique of saying the ex-I ton as Hamlet and Mrs. Mansfield as
pression in the correct place. the Queen Mother-the bill for the
* * week following "Clarence" will be
BUT NOT TODAY 'Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound"--a
NOT very good play, but a complete financial
GWLr -fiasco when Comedy Club did it sev-
s^o \\. feral years ago.
. February 27 is the date of the only
L~-appearance of Mrs. Fiske and Otis
Skinner in their production of Shake-
speare's comedy, "The Merry Wives
If anyone has heard the lerdict 3 of Windsor" at the Whitney. Sup-
given as above lie 1ows that the judge Porting Mrs. Fiske and Skinner are
eided with, "but not today." a number of the younger group of
* * * English actors who have received
THEN THERE IS ALWAYS the their training at the famous Old Vic'
stdry of the poor overworked fresh- theater in London, and the .general
man: :fproduction seems to live up to a re-
mark Dr. Furness. Shakespearian au-
rthority, made-"This, I am sure, is
wo .s-I the way ilI would like to have this
wnQ t K ?comedy acted.
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The person above is a little old for
a freshman but lie will do. There is
no doubt that after saying the above
every freshman will gladly add, "butj
not today."
OF COURSE, IN the near future a
huge sign may be hung out over the
gates to the aboretum, to wit:
THESE GATES WILL BE OPEN
BUT NOT TODAY
THE FIRST CANDIDATE
Rolls Executive Board:
I hereby nominate Ben Bolt forf
president in Rolls own contest. The
great boon he confered on the student
body by resigning his job should win
the unanimous support of all who ever
read Rolls. His experience as a col-
umn conductor will enable him to
appreciate the work of his Diplomatic
Appointees if they are as funny as
most American Diplomats. His shy,
modest and retiring nature will win
the hearts and votes of the feminine
element. All real humorists will
unite under his banner. Should we
find our task hopeless we could throw.
our votes to Will Rogers without the
loss of any prestige.
Poison Ivy.
NOW THAT BEN BOLT is placed
before the Rolls party as a candidate
all he has to do to become president
is to win the nomination and then
win the election. Personally, we feel
that Ben would make a better pres-
ident than most of the men who have
been mentioned, but try and convince
the public of that.
GOVERNOR FRED GREEN of
Michigan has decided to throw overI
the Republican party and become a
supporter of the Rolls party. He has
said that he will not he a candidate
for election this year, but if the pro-!
ceeds seem promising tae will try
later.
* * *
PIGSKIN SYMPHONY
Arthur Honneger, one of the so-
called French group of six apostles
of modern music, has announced to a
world palpitating for novelty that he
will write a symphony containing all
the rhythm, color, field strategy.and
whatnot' of a football game anit-hat
this, while not exactly descriptive ofI
the noises of a football game, will be
a tone picture of the sort of thing
that the English sporting public
spends its Saturday and Sunday after-
noons watching. The title of the opus
will be "Rugby."
The experiment will be interesting
as a study in musical ingenuity. But
the man who so successfully drew a
a musical picture of "Pacific 231"
should have little trouble sketching
a football player sliding ten yards on
his neck through the mud, or any
other of the little bizarrities of the
game.
R. L. A.
A LITERARY PORTRAIT
THE AMERICAN NOVEL TODAY:
a Social and Psychological Study, by
Regis Michaud. Little, Brown and
,Company; 1928; $2.50.
In last Sunday's Detroit Times ap-
peared the regular quarter-page re-
ligious cartoon. This time it was that
old virago, Sin, beating the dead-level
heads of humanity with her angry
bundle of switches. However ghastly
this conception of life may be it is
very typical of Michaud's ideas re-
garding American literature. For Sin
he substitutes Puritanism. The rest
of the picture, humanity at a dead-
level of misery, and the ideas of the
scourge embodied in the bundle of
switches, he keeps-and he defends
himself by quotations from our lit-
erary idols, Anderson, Dreiser, Lewis,
and Wharton, not to mention a host
of others.
Perhaps this is putting the cart
load of conclusions before the horse
of criticism for the first two hundred1
pages are rigidly colorless criticism{
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E W Acomplete conclusions, but the picture
RECENTLY,WHEN A CERTAIN is there nevertheless, whether drawn
ship of the air passed over the Econ- by Dreiser or Michaud, and a more
omics building an instructor dis- depss portrait of decaying in-
missed his class for fear the building stitutions and festering prosperity
would fall clown. But not today. I've yet to see outside of Holbein. He
ROLLS IS MAKING plan, to scud sums it up in one sentence, "Ameri-
can zpessimism is the ransom of
an expedition to the Economics build- Puritanism," and behind that state-
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by some archeologist who will make of criticism. Michaud's viewpoint is
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