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tion time; and 'consequ'ently in a
great many instances there is a ten-
dency on the part of students to learn
rather than to recollect and to think.
But this tendency is not so marked
as to cause undue consternation. The
Northwestern personnel director is far
from being the first educator to note
and bemoan the tendency in this di-
rection and a great many modern
college professors, realizing this, have
earnestly endeavored to conduct their
courses so as to stimulate deeper
thinking on the part of their students.
Michigan has some of this type of
professors: in all probability, North-
western has them; and in reality
there are educators in almost evelly
institution who are alive to these
facts.
Indeed, if there is any marked ten-
dency today in regard to undergradu-
ate thinking, it is one which finds the
modern univerisity and college for-
getting much of its present organiza-
tion with the better aim of developing
mental muscles rather than mere
memory. More creative courses in
American colleges and universities
will give birth to better undergradu-
ates and more constructive thinkers.
This age should witness this change,
if it is not already doing just that.
TUESDAY,
MAY 1, 1928.
THE MICHIGAN DAILY TU
ght Editor-MILTON KIRSHBAUM
HONORS CONVOCATION
'his morning at 11 o'clock the Uni-
rsity, or at least a large portion of
will gather in Hill auditorium to
y the year's final tribute to those
idents who have in some way dis-
guished themselves academically
ring their careers as undergraduat-
It will be a solemn occasion in
double sense, for in the first place,'
will be one of the few public recog-
ions of scholarship during the aca-_
mnic year and in the second place it
11 be the final instance of such
cognition for that large portion of
9 student body which will graduate
THE BOULDER CANYON DAM
With the most highly organized lob-
by of the present session of congress
massing its forces behind the Boulder
Canyon dam bill, and events so shap-
ing themselves as to indicate that the
$125,000,000 measure can only be de-
feated by a protracted filibuster which
will last out to the end of the ses-
sion, one of the most important pub-
lic questions of the generation is again
in the foreground. The House com-
mittee on irrigation and reclamation
has reported favorably on the meas-
ure, and with a'clear majority pr.ac-
tically assured for the bill the sixth
session which has dealt with the
problem at last holds promise of ac-
complishment.
A regrettable situation has develop-
ed in regard to the same powerful
lobby which is furthering the bill in
the fact that its methods have been
attacked from the floor of the House.
Representative Leatherwood, Repub-
lican from Utah, claims that half a
million dollars have been spent in
maintaining this lobby,. and that un-
scrupulous gifts ofCalifornia fruit
and other products have been distrib-
uted in an effort to line up votes.
The Utah representative also has as-
serted that city and state govern-
ments, in addition to private individ-
uals have contributed to the fund.
All of these facts are extremely re-
grettable, to be sure, for the enthus-
iasm of the proponents of the bill
may cause their downfall. Such in-
discretions, nevertheless, must not be
allowed to weigh too heavily against a
plan which4 has been approved as
sound engineering and as still more
sound economics. The prospects that
the supporters of the measure will
be able to muster a two-thirds vote in!
the House to bring about cloture and
prevent a filibuster are extremely 1
good, and barring further indiscre-
'tions it is possible that the most ex-
tensive irrigation and reclamation.
project which the government has
ever undertaken will be under way
within a year.
CAMPUS OPINION
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Daily.
DASTED ROLL
HERE
THOSE TRYING OUT for the Rolls
Editor job have begun to send n their
contributions. We receive all sorts
of flattering remarks on the envelopes.
One calls us the "Honorable Jeb"
which title is usually used in refering
to judges. Well, bring on your liquor
and we'll try it.
* * *
ANOTHER CONTRIBUTOR CALLS
us "The Daily Funny Man" and we
don't know if that is flattery or not.
* * *
ASTHMA APPLIES
Dear Jeb:
We see in your Daily column where
you are calling for help, and being
of the stronger sex what could never
stand aside and see a lady suffer,
we just seized the pen and paper,
(we'd used the telegraph if last night's
date hadn't asked for whipped cream
and nuts on her sundae) and forth-
with inject this. Now, mind, we ain't
casting any insinuations that you
might not be a male, but then you
know since you never announce your
sex, that the chances are, according
to our statistic prof 1:1 of your being
either a male or a female.
Now, let's talk business. I want your
job above all others on the Daily staff
for two or three reasons. I know
I have the qualifications, because I
haven't got any brains either; I get
drunk and have an awful time stay-
ing outsof the "A" average group. One
of my best reasons is that there are
two or three profs on the campus that
I want to get even with and your
column is the only means to my end.
I'm no fool and I know that al-
though your column is supposed to be
innocent wit, it means everything it
says. Of course, the poor slandered
ones smile and titter> when they read
it, but if they could see the look in
your eyes while you were writing such
bunk, you'd get fired out of school.
Asthma.'
* * *
THERE WAS MORE in the above
application but we judged it well to
stop at this point. Asthma offered to
take over the space of Music and
Drama and write two Rolls columns
every day, but that can't be since 99
per cent of the students only buy
The Daily for the Music etc. column,
ABER NICHT HEUTE
* * *
ANOTHER APPLICATION
Jeb: .
I have two blue books next week
-but after reading the contributions
in your column-I feel it my duty
to the school to help you along. Lucky
Jeb.
Now for the outburst of wit.
* * *
According to Prof. Trow, one-third
of all students keep diaries-now here
is a chance for a telephone booth full
of wise cracks-let's see, first come
the nurses.
THEATER
BOOKS
MUSIC
TACEL LINDSAY
The appearance of Vachel Lindsay,
poet, essayist, lecturer, painter, and
man of letters, which was scheduled
for Hill auditorium this evening, has
been indefinitely postponed because of
Mr. Lindsay's ill health. Further de-
tails will be found elsewhere in this
issue.
However, despite the fact that Mr.
Lindsay's lecture is cancelled, it is
most gratifying to know that there ex-
ists on the campus an organization sup-
plying a long-ekisting need. Out of
the 4umerous lecturers that annually
address Ann Arbor audiences only one
or two are men of letters, and some-
times a whole season will go by with-
out the campus hearing a literary
character. This need was once ful-
filled by the Inlander Literary Lec-
tures which once brought such cele-
brities as Amy Lowell, Louis Unter-
meyer, Dorothy Canfield, Alfred
Kreymbourg, Hamlin Garland, Carl
Sandburg, Harriet Monroe, Hugh Loft.
ing, and Vachel Lindsay. After a few
years of inactivity the Inlander Lit-
erary Lecture Series has again func.
tioned, beginning its revival last
Thursday by bringing Zona Gale,
The Inlander Literary Lecture Ser-
ies hopes to present a more extensive
program next year, and for such a
plan the faculty members of the In-
lander are to be congratulated and
heartily thanked by the campus, which
has long suffered through the negli-
gence and shortsighteness of the Ora-
torical Board Lectures and similar
organizations. . J. G.
* * *
"RIGHT YOU ARE"-
If you really think so, or words to
that effect is the title of the play
which the Harris Players are givipg
in their downtown theater, corner of
State and Huron, beginning Wednes-
day evening and running through Fri-
day. It is a three-act comedy of poetic
irony by one of the leading living
Italian playwrights, and while not
Pirandello's masterpiece, is neverthe-
less an entirely worthy thing which
has received the accolade of produc-
tion by the New York Theater Guild
and in general is the sot of thing
that deserves production in a locality
where statistics encourage the illusion
that there exists a number of intelli-
gent people.
The Harris Players insist that they
are a definitely community organiza-
Lion with no affiliation with Campus
activities. As such they seem to feel
themselves free of the boxoffice re-
straints imposed on go-getter Mimes
and pack-em-in Comedy Club with the
result that they can present such
sophisticated stuff for critical apprec-
iation. At all events, they. are pro-
ducing in a community way what cam-
pus organizations, with their greater
resources of material and talent,
should have done long ago.
The cast with which the painstaking
J. Raleigh Nelson of defunct "Mas-
ques" fame will present this comedy
includes:
Laudisi... . a.. . James Dahl
Amalia ........... Charlotte Wagner
Dina .............Jeannette Dale
Sirelli .............. Joe Bates Smith
Signora Sirelli ..... Frances Menges
Signora Cini......Albertina Maslen
Agazzi ............. Earl Fleischman
Ponza................ John Donal
Signora Frola....... Elizabeth Pike
Centuri ............. Archibald Judd
Signora Nenni .........Stella Hunt
Butler ................. Don Stoner
IL L.A.
VOICE RECITAL
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock the)
students of Mr James Hamilton of
the voice faculty of the School of
Music will appear in recital in their
auditorium. The program is made up
entirely of selections from the more
familiar classics of grand opera.
The following students will partici-
pate: Carolyn Slepicka, Thelma Bolin,
Agnes Pilliod, Lura Simpson, Fanny
Shiff, Hermann Hildner, Benjamin Z.
N. Zing, Julius Neihaus, Miles Beamer,
John Nicklin, Newton Detzer, Clement
Wright, J. F. Walker, and Rudolph
Jedele.
The complete program includes:
Prologue, from "I Pagliacci"
-Leoncavallo
Scene from Act I "La Boheme"
-Puccini
Aria, "Hear Me Ye Winds and Waves"
from "Scipio" ............Handel
Duet, "Ai Nostri Monti" from
"Il Trovatore".............Verdi
Aria, "Ah! Je Veux Vivre" from
"Romeo et Julliette".....Gounod
Duet, "Solemne In Quest' Ora" from
"La Forza del Destino" ... Verdi
Aria, "Vissi L'Arte" from "La Tosca"
-Puccini
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June.
ro add an editorial word of praise
these students who have achieved
h scholastic records is entirely fit-
g and proper, at least upon this
asion when such a large portion
the day's activities is to be de-
ed to that purpose. Through their
rs of college training the excep-
aal students probably get smaller
sonal reward, other than personal
isfaction, than those who disting-
h themselves in any other line,-
[yet their field, the field in which
y excel, is the very purpose for
ch educational institutions are
aded.
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* * *
Are they included among students,
because if they are, here's one boy
who's going to cut out dating. Us,
B. M. O. C.'s can't be any too careful.
* * *
If the trees in the arboretum could
only talk! Or the benches on the
Island, no use reading diaries for a1
thrill then.
* * *
According to this article male stu-
dents also keep diaries. After lis-
tening to some of these boys tell their
girl friends their names, we wouldn't
trust their diaries any farther than
Prof. Hobbs could throw a male cow.
* * * *
Did you notice the investigations atj
the University of Idaho in. regard to
student sleep? Students, as a whole,
average 8 hours and 20 minutes each
day. How about the night-they don't'
say anything about that.
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LEARNING VS. THINKING
rhe undergraduate in American uni-
rsities and colleges continues to be
e subject of much discussion -
ated, intellectual and otherwise.
>es he go to college to have a good
ne? Are too many students going
college nowadays? Does a college
ucation pay? Are automobile bans
visable?,Do undergraduates learn to
nk, or do they merely learn? The
inions of Dr. Delton T. Howard,
>fessor of psychology and director
personnel at Northwestern univer-
y, on the last of these questions is
most recent to attract comment.
Professor Howard is concerned with
.ether it pays undergraduates ' in
nerican universities and colleges to
nk. He believes that under the
sent educational system a student
.y be more successful by listening,
ording, memorizing and ultimately
roducing than by trying to think
ngs out for himself. He feels that
undergraduate is required to ac-,
t solutions rather than make them,
IN DEFENSE
To the editor:
Perhaps it is somewhat quixotic for
a student to take up his pen in de-
fense of the President, but it seems
to me that the editorial criticism of
President. Little's message to pros-
pective freshmen was grossly unfair.
Thinking the President's address
might throw some light on a per-
sonal problem of mine, I deliberately
went to hear him. tHe did not dwell
long on extra-curricular activities. He
began by giving one reason why not
to come to college, the essence of
which is this: if you are an athlete
do not come to college to be an ath-
letic hero; if you are something of an
actor do not come to college for the
sake of showing your wares; if ora-
tory is your weakness, there are many
good schools of elocution.
What the President stressed is the
unlimited opportunities for self-im-
provement, and among those not cata-
logued and bound up to form the Bul-
letin are athletics, dramatics, and for-
ensic societies. To place a proper
value on opportunities and to devote
the time and energy warranted by
t-hemn -nQ ta +l av,- a of fh-n a 1,n.aanh I
THAT ENDS THE attempts at con-
tributions for today. We hope that
there will be many more tomorrow.
* * * '
AS WE GO to press we have not
learned the result of the staff ball
game which was played yesterday. We
are sure the upper staff defeated the
lower staff. For the story see the
sports page.
* * *
Another One Sneaked In
Dear Jeb:
"In accordance with The Daily's
customary practice of characteristic
inaccuracy," as Prof. S. so well put
it I notice both Michigan and Syracuse
made 19 putouts in the box score. It
seemed to me each team batted more
than six and one-third innings. Per-
haps you will be kind enough to in-
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