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Richard A. Meyer Advertising.:Edward L. Hulse Advertising.......John W. Ruswinckel Accounts.. . Raymond Wachter Circulation.........George B. An, Jr. Publication..................Harvey Talcott Geerge Bradley Assistants Geore Brdley Ray Hofelich Marie Brummeler Hal A. Jaehn lames Carpenter Jmes Jordan Charles K. Correll MVlarion Kerr Barbara Cromel Thales N. Lenington Mary TDively Catherine McKinven Bessie V. Egeland Doroty Lyons 'Una Felker Alex K. Scherer KatherineFrohne George Spater Douglass Fuller Ruth' Thompson Beatrice Greenberg Herbert E. Varnum Helen Gross Lawrence Walkley E. J. Hammer Hannah Wallen Carl W. Hammer S'ATURDAY, MAY 12, 192. Night Editor-JOSEPH E. HOWELL CAP NIGHT Older by years than the hospital whose giant, beetling brow frowned over it last. nig .,older than the col- lege careers .pf the graduating class- es, and" older, even, than the very freshmen who tossed their caps into the roaring bon-fire is Cap Night. Steeped in a tradition of Michigan his- tory which makes it almost a part of the very hillside where it occurs, and a part of the universe which hangs solemnly over it. Michigan has few; more colorful or more impressive ceremonies. Freshmen are no longer freshmen but sophomores,- sophomores have as- sumed the dignity of juniors, juniors have.entered their last year of col- lege life, and the seniors, as a class, are no more. It is the turn of the college year for a University, the event which marks the academic age of Michigan's student body. A college student lives but four years, and each Cap Night is a birthday, with the great fire serving for as many candles as he deserves. The analogy to life does not end here, however, for while the freshmen view the occasion as a merry incident, a senior class, aged' in college years, is likely to look+ somewhat more serious upon the flickering blaze which marks the last outpost on their collegiate way. To allow this ceremony to deter-f iorate into the nominal travesty which1 overtook it last year when it was held on South Ferry field, with no audience but the freshmen themselves, closely approached tragedy. One of the most serious misfortunes which can over- take the University is the possibility of the decay of her traditions, and with the apparent indifference toward Swing-Out, the apparent neglect to enforce the tradition of the freshmen pot, the apparent general apathy on the most ancient customs of the Uni-1 versity, it is refreshing to find at leastt one tradition-Cap Night- suitably preserved. THE MTCHTr.AN DAYL'Y SATTIRDAV 'MAY 12_ 1429. sportsmanship will cause him to say so, in print. When I say that dozens of engineer- ing faculty members and dozens of responsible seniors declare the Honor System to be remarkably successful, I am not guessing. It is a fact. "S. T." says, "-talk to any honest engineer and he will tell you of the amount of cribbing that goes on during exam time." That is a good suggestion: It has been done. I have talked to hun- dreds of honest engineering students. That is one reason why I believe the Honor System works. "S. T." says, "Everybody knows that the system isn't working over there." Except as a repetition of a certain kind of gossip, that statement is un- true. "S. T." says: "They say that there are students who plant books around the buildings some place and go out during an exam to get the dope. It isn't hard to believe." To begin a statement with "They say" marks the mind of a gossip who is willing to pass on slander without himself tak- ing any responsibility for statements made. On the other hand, no sensible person would attempt to deny such a statement, utterly. So to deny would be to claim that all students are hon- est, which is not so. The Honor Sys- tem does not work perfectly. It never has, anywhere, and never will. Always, some students get into college who are unfit to be there: unfit, because they .do not react decently to decent treatment. "S. T." says: "And yet the Frosh want to augment this cheating by in- stalling a so-called 'honor system.' Does "S. T." realize that by thus ques- tioning the motives of the "Frosh" concerned, he attacks each of them personally and slanderously? Doeshe realize that at other points he sim- ilarly attacks the majority of engi- neering students and equally ques- tions the good sense and judgment of over a hundred members of the faculty, who strangely enough, em- phatically believe in the Honor Sys- tem? Of course, he does not realize it. Please, "S. T.," be fair. Take at least a little thought before going to prinL" with a batch of loose, un- supported, and unsupportable opin- ions. "S. T." is right just once in what he has heard: he hears of one pro-' fessor who will not teach except in connection with the Honor System. But "S. T." has not heard -enough. I would like him to meet several pro- fessors like that. If he will come over some day, we will arrange it. Or if he would rather not walk that far, we1 might stay in the Literary CollegeI and meet several men there who be- lieve in the Honor System and have used it. "S. T." like many others, thinks an Honor System's purpose is to preventI cheating. It isn't. If those who install and participate in an Honor Systemr do so to prevent cheating, then itt isn't an Honor System. An Honor System is a situation created in re- cognition of the fact that people would rather be decent than otherwise. Its1 primary function is to enable normal1 people to work under normal condi- tions; to permit the large majority of students who will respond to trustI imposed, to have a decent opportunity to respond. Cheating is incidental. It will always, to some degree, be with us. But the small progress the cheat- er achieves by cheating should be of so little concern to the honorable stu- dent, in so far as it affects the hon- est student's standing, that it does not affect his judgment of the Honor System or its relative success. Cheat- ing raises but one question, and that is the ultimate elimination of the cheater.s "S. T." would not himself, cheat un-t der the Honor System. But he doest imply his complete lack of faith in his fellows. Does"he realize that to ex- l press such a view is to add to the burden of cynicism an Honor System has to carry? And that such expres-d sions tend definitely to break downc the Honor System?s The engineering Honor System isV not perfect, but it does work very suc- cessfully. Literary students and en- gineering students come from the f same homes and, the same high ;1 schools. From the raw materialsp standpoint, why is it "impossible" to t have an Honor System throughout the campus? True, there would be hard work, and difficulty. Was any P general movement for improvement o ever easily accomplished? b The Honor System in the Engineer-o ing College is not what it ought to t be and that is why a good deal of hard work is being done on it every year to make it better as time goes on. But c imperfect and incomplete as it is, t it is so much better than anything i else that those in the College who t have followed it closely would em- S 1 ALA l vll..lA * S ** ... A 1 17S L A .Ja.Lfl. A.1*16, .AQSJ. 1IOAEDROLLV SETEN WE EKS THEY LAB ORED AFTER WORKING FOR seven i weeks, 300 of them "in shifts," the architects had a dance last night at the lady-barber gymnasium. Only 250 couples attended, from which we judge that a goodly portion of the toilers, on' seeing the result of their work, were overcome. THAT SCENERY WAS supposed to represent a "terrace of Old Inca." If the information that a certain profes- sor of Hispanic American history giv- es out is authentic, the land of the Incas was quite romantic. * * * IT WAS SOMEWHERE near that place that the old boy, Montezuma, had to fill up a room as high as he could reach with gold and other things we call valuables.. They say, and this is reliable, that enough fraternity pins to fill two rooms as high as a certain past chairman of the J-Hop could reach, standing high on the shoulders of a certain past captain of a Mich- igan swim team. * * * ALL OF WHICH teaches us that the fair, only fair, co-eds are greater slave-drivers than Pizzaro, Cortez, and all the rest of the Spaniards ever thought of being. * * * BUT, BACK TO the scenery-ooh, there were red cushions on the floor. There were also some holes in the wall. 'Nuff said, the cushions weren't red and the holes weren't empty when the heat began to tell on the dypso- maniacs. * * * ONE OF THE BOYS - " This one was in the Opera, can't you tell? *,* AGAIN, BACK TO the scenery-ooh, and they had a contest to get the idea for those decorations. We'd hate to see THEATER BOOKS music TONIGHT: Play Production presents Ferenec Molnar's "The Play's the Thing," in Mimes Thea. ter at 8:3O." Girls Glee Club in their annual , concert in the Masonic Temple at 8 o'clock. As a 8o&t of aperitif for the May; Festival Palmer Christian will give the first recital on the new organ in Hill auditorium on Tuesday evening, May 15, at 8:15 o'clock. As a necessary but futile gesture the School of Music has announced that, in order to allow concert goers plenty of time to get seated, the regular evening concert time has been changed from 8 to 8:15. A useless expedient-Ann Arbor con- cert goers will continue to arrive breathless and noisy fifteen minutes after the concert has begun. For those who have a taste for statistics, the School of Music bulletin is especially informing; it says "The size of the largest pipe will be 32 feet long and approximately two feet square, whereas the smallest pipe will be about four inches long with the diameter of a straw. In between are, innumerable pipes of all lengths and diameters, some of which are conical in shape, some straight tubes resemb- ling a tin.whistle; and others with a ball at the top, while still others are triangular and of many shapes and forms." Sic transit $75,000. It is to be hoped that this new instrument has not been equipped with those stops made popular by the movie pal- aces because of their particular suit. ability to the sticky, and billowing nature of sentimental songs, and whose tones sound like the morning gargles of the Immortal Nine. This particular concert is given so that Michigan organists, who have watched the installing of this organ with mounting interest, will have a separate opportunity to hear it, other than at its formal dedication in the first May Festival program. However, the attendance is unrestricted and anyone may come who likes. The following is the program of '_I1111111f1111111l111111111111(EIliflflfl IIliilllllllllllllltlllilllllllllllllll l TE A HAND TAILORED SUIT OF STYLE I C EKniekers to Match if Desired - To College Men e 2 Ap We can cut the brim of your 1319 South University hat down to any width you like tSits Cleaned and Pressed, $1.00 and clean and reblock it into the SPressed Only 35c very latest shape.-Alrkse an e NO 0DO01-NO GLOSS Ai Work Guarantecd _ No burned or cracked sweat { IliIIIIIIIIhUlI1hEI1IhIlIIII111111thI1111111 IlI bands. Panama hats and straw hats of all kinds bleached and re- blocked to look like new. No acids used. New sweat bands and outside bands. 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SALADS PICKLES OLIVES BAKED BEANS SPAGHETTI MACCARON I COTTAGE CHEESE PLATES NAPKINS MUSTARD Everything You Need to Complete a Lunch for that Picnic Our Cafeteria is Different Just a Good Quiet Place to Eat 114 South Main St. Phone 3454 In an electric' refrigerator, milk and 'cream keep sweet and pure, and foods are safe relieving your' mind and safe- guarding your health. :a .. , - IJ 'V the other designs, in the first place; furthermore, what if they had been hard-pressed for time. Seven weeks! For further details, see the extra sec- tion of this noozepaper. CAP NIGHT ANYHOW, WE CAN'T GIVE the boys at the May Party all the space. While they were dancing, the fresh- men were engaged in throwing awa y their pots. * * * THERE WAS A FIRE 'neverything over at Sleepy Hollow. And while the Headless Horseman was chasing ater lehabod Crane to the tune of "Where, Oh 1vliere, Are the Verdant Fresh- nen?" one out of every litteen of the pots managed to fall int. the blaze. * * * HOT STUFF OuLOM'f Fanned by the hot air from the speakers' stand, the fire got so hot that they had to call Colonel Charlie to put it out. But the words of Bo Chamberlin and Cathcart Smutz mere- ly added fuel to the flames. * * * AFTER IT WAS all over, they all; dashed over to Hill, auditorium to crash the movies. On finding no re- sistance they all left. What's a movie without tear-gas? * * * THIS FOR THE freshman boys - from Polonius Jeb-"Don't go out now and lose your heads along with your pots and think you amount to some-' thing." * * * SENIORS HAVE THEIR Swing-Out; freshmen, their Cap Night; the fair, nly fair, yearling coeds, their Lan-' ern Night. Why not have a joint soph- omore-junior Swig-Night or some-' thing of the sort?1 * * * AT LEAST THE council deserves credit, if not for other things, for get- ing the affair to be held back where t belongs. We really feel sorry for he class of '30.- * * * Mr. Christian's recital: Eric DeLamarter soloists. Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C -Bach Landscape in Mist.......Karg-Elert Scherzo...................Gigout Choral in A'minor.........Franck Cantabile (Symphony IV) Cantilene (Symphony "Romane") -Widor Final (Symphony "Gothique") Mr. DeLamarter Address by representative of the Board of Regents, followed by re- sponse by Mr. Ernest M. Skinner, the builder of the organ. Prelude.................Saint-Saens Up the Saguenay ...........Russell The Fountain (A Chinese Garden) -DeLamarter Cradle Song ................. Held Finale (Symphony I) ......... Vierne * * * "Money Writes," by Upton Sinclair; New York; Albert and Charles Boni: Having finished with the press, pul- pit, and schools, Upton Sinclair .turns his weapons upon literature and dis- covers in the literary woodpile the identical dusky gentleman whom he found in all the other timber heaps. For the benefit of the illiterati allow me to explain that the aforesaid dus- ky gentleman is Capitalism. The de- sign of every contemporary writer, from Anderson to Wright is to give the glad hand to this prospering, or fail- ing, depending on whether you take an upper or lower berth, young gentle- man. "Take,, for instance, Mr. Men- cken," says Sinclair, "he has always had his cocktail and always intends to have it." Hence "The American Mer- cury" with its arsenical green covers is the tool of the liquor interests. And Mencken, being devoted to the return of the saloon, is on their payroll. Like- wise, Sinclair Lewis is a fellow-work- man because "Elmer Gantry" takes a slap at the prohibition laws. Poets he dismisses with a shrug. Amy Lowell bought her reputation. Edwin Arlington Robinson is lacking in social sense, hence-to the junk heap. Nor do the critics escape cas- tigation. They are told that they have been bought by the capitalists. Accord- ingly their criticism defends capital- ism while detracting proleterian ef- forts. Upton Sinclair's sincerity cannot be doubted. Neither may his opinions be dismissed with a complacent shrug. F . .-- _ -. I frozen desserts, frozen salads, chilled bever- ages - electric refrig- eration multiplies the menu to suit a variety of tastes. The DETROIT EDISON Company .. ... 1 CAMPUS OPINION Annonymous communications will be ditrrsgrird.i. The names of communi. cants will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Letters pub. lishel should not be construed as ex- nrPesing the editorial opinion of The Daily. THE REPLY TO S. T. I