OBER 24, 1928 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIVE THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE FIVE IA&9 . . " i , r PLANS AE COMPLETE FOR FRESHMA SPREAD Big Sisters Will Greet Freshmen At Door Of Gym And Help To Organize Grand March PARTY TO BE INFORMAL Plans for the Freshman spread to be held Friday evening in Bar- bour gym have been completed; more than 550 invitations have been sent to freshmen of the Lit- erary college and the school of nursing, junior advisors, faculty advisors, and patronesses. All of the freshmen Will come to the gym in their original groups and will meet their "big sisters" at the door. This will serve as an easy means for the freshmen and their "big sisters" to get acquaint- ed, and start the ball rolling so that none will feel left out or un- comfortably strange. Shortly after everyone has arriv- ed and successfully passed the re- ception line there will be a grand march. The party throughout will be very informal; there will be games for those who do not dance and dancing for those who do, so everyone may have a good time. The committees for the spread are as follows: general chairman, Eleanor' Cooke; favors, Isabelle Rayen and Janet Woodmansee; in- vitations,, Jane Yearnd, chairman, Bertha Howard, Marie Willstead, 1 and Josephine Turko; finance, Hel- en Wilson, chairran, Frederica' Baeslack, Alice Charles, Ruth Ellis, Louise Rorabacher, Pauline Stroup, and Elizabeth Wood. Refreshments, Elizabeth Sunder- land, chairman, Marion Brock, Edith Higbie, Marjorie Rehfuss, and Alice Sunderland; attendance,' (each girl to have sub-committee of 3 members), Hilda Braun, chair- man, Kathleen Clifford, Helen Dominie, Ruth Ellis, Helen Humph- rey, Hattie Krye, Margaret Morin, and Janet Woodmansee; P r o g r a m, Margaret Eamon, chairman, Frances Jennings, Marie Eddington, Albertina Maslen, and Mary Stuart; publicity, Katherine Wilcox, chairman, Edith Higbie, Beth Valentine, and Elizabeth Wood; decorations, Marion Gimmy and Barbara Swift, chairmen, Vir- ginia McLaren, Jeanette Dale, Phy-1 liss Moore, Florence Frandsen, and Dorothy McGuffie. American beauties are provided an opportunity of visiting CubaF this winter as the guests of thea Cuban National Tourist commis-] sion. Invitations were sent to nu- merous cities in the United States to send. their prettiest girls there. as guests of Cuba for the carnival parade February 10. China Is Experiencing Rapid Changes, States Miss Ao Dju, Barbour Student China experiences such rapid' changes that a statement which might be true one day might well be false the next, according to Miss Ao Dju, Barbour scholar from Pe- king, who is working here for a Master's degree in history. "The older generation may' be conservative and slow to accept new movements but when changes come, it is with rapidity," Miss Dju said. "For instance, until three years ago, the educational system which is not compulsory, was di- vided into two sections, the gov-1 ernmental and the missionary, yet today, through the influence of the nationalist trend, the system is quite different. "At that time, I was attending missionary school," Miss Dju con- tinued,, "and the government and the missionary school which give training through the grades, high schools and college, were supple- mented by the so-called popular education movement. By this plan, one thousand Chinese characters were to be taught in the free pub- lic schools to which the poorer classes not attending the private; institutions, could go. Then, the newspapers, text books, and other publications were to be printed us- ing only these fundamental words, the object being to give every man, poor or rich, some idea of condi- tions existing in his native coun- try-China. "Added to these, there was the tutorial system, most often employ- ed by the richer classes. Under this method," Miss Dju explained, "the tutors came to the house and in-, structed the children at home. Be- fore co-education became general- ly recognized in China, this was; almost the only way in which wom-; en could receive an education." When asked whether she liked our foods, Miss Dju replied that in the first weeks of her visit to this country her diet consisted largely of oranges, rice and tea, though she now enjoys almost everything. Rice in China, is used as we use potatoes in the United States, the annual consumption being about. 400 pounds per person every year. Dishes combining other ingredi-' ents with rice form a staple part3 of the Chinaman's diet, which con- trary to the average American's idea, do not resemble Chop Suey except in a slight degree.' "I have to smile often," Miss Dju said laughingly, "when I think of a girl I knew who said to me that she had a whole book of Chinese recipes from which she could pre- pare real Chinese dishes. For Ii know that in China, cooking is an] art, and though the cook may put ' down the essential ingredients of a dish, because he is an artist, he cannot transfer his individual touch asuccessfully to paper. Family life in China is a com- plex problem, according to Miss ju, for all of one's relatives live' together in one large establish- ment, the ruler of the house usual- ly being the eldest brother. "In my family, my uncle is the head of the family; he is a scholar and by this," Miss Dju pointed out, "I mean that he studies literature and the arts. He is like a profes- sional man of the United Statesl only his profession is literature. In this field, he was preceded by my grandfather and great-grandfath- er. In, his generation, the children of the family were sent to Japan to complete their education, but in my generation they come to the United States. "The contracting of marriage is much easier than in the past. The, young man has only to become ac- quainted with the father, brothers, and other male relatives of the girl whom he wishes to marry," she said in conclusion, "and then there is only a simple matter of gaining their consent and approval before the marriage is completed." Adviser Of Women Will Give Tea For Oriental Students Oriental women students will be the guests of Miss Beatrice John-, son, adviser of women, at a tea! from 3:30 to 5:30 o'clock tomorrow in the Women's Athletic building. This tea is an annual affair, but this is the first time that it has been given in the athletic build-1 ing. Hitherto it has been given in Barbour gymnasium, and it is ex- I pected that the use of the new field house will add much to the attract- iveness of the occasion. The members of the world fel- lowship committee of the Women's league are to assist Miss Johnson as hostesses at the tea. About 70 guests are expected to attend.) Among them will be wives of fac- ulty members and women instruc- tors who are interested in foreign s t u d e n t s and in international friendliness. Memphis, Tenn.-The so-called jazz age is an important contrib- uting factor in the alarming in- crease in deaths from heart failure here, according to Dr. L. M. Graves, superintendent of health. FACTS ABOUT 'PORGY' The play is sponsored by the Michigan women, who have brought 'Porgy' to Ann Arbor for the sole purpose of giving the citizens and students of Ann Arbor an opportunity to see the greatest dramatic pro- duction of the day. There is only one 'Porgy, cast. Unlike many plays, nu- merous casts have not been put on the road for the pur- pose of making its fame more widespread. The cast of 'Porgy' is an all- colored cast. The story is as true of negro life in the South today as of any other period. Dramatically, 'Porgy" is perfect. It combines sadness and gaiety with just the right proportions of each. In no locality does 'Porgy' appear as a regular number of a Theatre Guild series. 'Porgy's' negro spirituals are sung by the entire coin- pany. .Not only have the ac- tors received specialized train- ing in acting, but the voice of every member in the cast is trained. The fact that Ann Arbor people who saw 'Porgy' when it was in Detroit in the spring are consistently ordering tick- ets to see it for the second time and even for the third time is the best advertising that such a play can receive. -Oi ciyi S P 0 R Ts Daily Bulletin of SportswoHers Freshman Athletics Were Most Enjoyed Just a little more than a month ago Freshmen who are now sophis- tocatedly breezing around the cam- pus, were rushing madly from clas- sification committee to parties in their honor, from library trips to Palmer field, trying desperately to get places on time, and to keep from getting lost during that per- iod called Freshmen week. Now, such memories of times when they were lords of the campus are hazy and reminiscent of blunders they1 made on entering their college ca-{ reer. , However, according to Miss Ethel McCormick, assistant head of the physical education department, 'who arranged the athletic program, for the Freshman women, the games' and demonstrations of skill- ed athletics on Palmer field, are the part of Freshmen week which, most of the women who attended, them enjoy remembering. Never-. theless, although practically the entire body of Freshmen women. were at the field to witness the exhibitions, a considerably smaller. number participated in the sports themselves during the next two days. Out of three hundred and sixty-five freshman women on the campus during Freshmen week, only one hundred and seventy- nine are recorded as having taken part in the meet. This difference in figures is par- tially explained by the fact that many of the contestants entered the meet late, joining their groups after the time of starting, and no attendance for these women was taken. The final scores of the meet were so close that Groups 87, 103, and 99 were all asked to come back and compete again. The final scores showed Group 87 to be the winner, with 103 a close second. In an- nouncing these scores Miss McCor- mick added that' group 87 was made up of almost entirely major physical education students who ORCHESIS TRY-OUT PLANS ARE M.A DE Try-outs for membership in Or- chesis, natural dancing club, will be held soon for the group of girls who are interested in meeting the entrance requirements of the or- ganization without taking any1 more work in dancing, it was an- nounced yesterday. All those who are interested in trying out at this time are requested to see either Janette Saurborn, 29Ed, or Miss Ione Johnson, immediately. This yeear part of the time at the meeting of Orchesis on Wednes- day evenings will be given over to a study and discussion of all phases of natural dancing. Miss Johnson will instruct the girls. Saturday morning classes will be organized, beginning on Dec. 8, for girls who are new at the Univer-! sity or who have never had an op- portunity to take elementary dancing. They will meet from 10:30 until 12 o'clock. The only require- ment for attendance is that the girls should have some kind of cos-' tume for the classes. They may come to the class any time they wish and stay as long as they wish. have undoubtedly had more ex- perience and practice in the events than the members of any other group can possibly have had, and as they had no handicap whatso- ever, the department decided to announce the two groups, 103, and ,87, as the winners.1 CORA PLEADS FOR CLEAN ELECTIONS Well, my deear, we will have a chance to see today whether the sophomores will follow the noble example set them in how to con- duct class elections by the two up- per classes or whether they will go their own sweet way and be origi- nal in the matter. It seems to me that it is really about time that someone around here did get or- iginal in the matter of politics and pulled off a really clean election. What I mean is that everyone is just a little fed up on having to have recounts and reelections and things and that it would be quite a change if there was an election held that wasn't crooked. Really, my dear, I think quite a few people feel that way about it. Anyway, if the sophomores have to have several recounts and maybe have to vote on their president or somebody a second time because both factions suspect each other of doing them dirt it will prove that there is something in the power of suggestion after all, and that it wasn't a mere coincidence that the juniors followed the seniors in their methods. I'm interested to know justwhat the results will be, because I always did think there was something to psychology, and this will probably prove that I am right. Or else, maybe a sociologist would blame it on environment. Anyway, I think the whole situa- tion is just another of those vicious circles, like which comes first, the hen or the egg. I mean this is a question of whether dirty cam- pus politics come before dirty civic or national-or whatever they are -politics, or whether it is the other 1 way around. -- __ -r-fol Notices There will be a meeting of Pe- gasus at Barbour gymnasium at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Orchesis will meet in the Wom- en's Athletic building at 7:15 to- night. W. A. A. will sponsor a steak roast at the, fireplace on the island on Saturday morning if the weath- er is good. The girls will leave the field house at ?8:30 o'clock. All who are interested are invited. Subscribe to The Michigan Daily, $4.00 per year. It's worth it! What is the Nation's Favorite Flavor? MEMMMMMU Phone 4161 11 Mack & Co. Store Hours 118:30 A. M.-5:30 P. M. 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