THE MICHIGAN
DA1 LY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928
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KENNETH G. PATRICK
spirit at Michigan-a thing we.
have been hearing about ever
since we have known of Michigan.
It seems that sincerthe persons
who -benefit most 'from activity
by Blue Key are those interested
in athletics, it is logical to believe
that the Athletic association
should contribute generously to-
ward the support of an organiza-
tion whose work is done in the in-
terest of better sportsmanship.
All reports to the contrary, "In
Abraham's Bosom" will be neither
a lecture on President Lincoln or
a University lecture on dietetics.
ED RLL
A FRESHMAN'S
DOUBLE
"DOES ANYBODY EVER drink
at these mineral water fountains?
I would 'if I didn't feel so con-
spicuous.
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FELLOWS WHO WEAR long top-
coats -- even overcoats - a n d
KNICKERS!
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WELL, I HAVEN'T eaten in the
same restaurant more than twice
since I've been here.
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I Music And Drama
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TONIGHT. The Province-
town Players present Paul
Green's "In Abraham's Bosom,"
at the Whitney theatre. Cur-
tain at 8:15 o'clock.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1928
ight Editor-PIERCE ROSENBERG
CONGRATULATIONS
SMichigan's block "M" cheering
ction is again a reality. Accord-
g to announcement made last
ght at a meeting of the Student
>uncil, the entire section of 1,187
ats is sold out, and a number of
te applicants have been turned
tvay.
Congratulations are in order;
ngratulations to the Student
uncil, because it was only
rough persistent effort on its
rt that the objective was ob-
ined. C o n g r a t u lations and
.anks are due to the Athletic
sociation which made possible a
etion much larger than any pre-
Qus cheering block in Michigan
story. And lastly, but perhaps
ost of all, congratulations are due
the Student body, the group
hich has accepted the challenge
d agreed to make this larger
eering unit an outstanding fea-
re of Michigan football games.
BLUE KEY
Iomorrow will mark the open-
g of Michigan's 1928-29 athletic
ogram which is composed of
any and varied contests in both
kjor and minor sports. There is
ble to say in regard to the way
e visiting major sports teams
11 be entertained while they are
Ann Arbor, for during the little
e time that they 'will have they
11 be well cared for by the Uni-
rsity and by the Athletic associa-
n. But unless a change comes,
out, the minor sports teams
ich visit the University will be
Pt pretty much to themselves.
There is, in existance, an organ-
,tion called Blue Key, made up,
the joint membership of Sphinx
d Triangles, the purpose of
LiCh is to entertain 'visiting mi-
r. sports teams. Due to a lack
financial resources this organi-]
ion has been rendered practical-
inactive during the past two
ars, but since new members have,
en taken in there has been a
)vement started to restore Blue
y to its former place of activity.
before, the only thing that is
ding up the parade is a lack of1
ids
Blue Key is an organization"
tat:. n4 ~ nn crl 1- - fa Wac_
CAMPUS OPINION
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confidential upontrequest. Letters pub-
lished should not be construed as ex-
pressing the editorial opinion of The
Daily.
To the Editor:
H. C., '31, who wrote of the
Housing Problem in The Daily of
October 3, neglects the first princi-
ple of good argument: assertion
without evidence is vain. Neither
in establishing a case, does one
say, "Here is my opinion. It is the
right opinion. Go out and get all
the evidence you wish to substan-
tiate it."
In justice to the housing situa-
tion as it is, I beg to present for
impartial consideration a few facts.
According to the Agreement (the
University contract entered into
by every househead and every
student resident), there is heat in
every League House, a temperature
of 68 degrees, kept from 7:00 a. m.
to 11:00 p. m. daily.
There is hot water daily for two
hours in the morning and for baths
upon request until 10 p. m.
The Women's Housing League
has flaunted no new ban. On the
contrary, this organization met on
Monday evening last, to consider
how they should carry through the
agreements they had entered into
for the current school year in face
of the announcement of a dormi-
tory to house five hundred women.
They showed themselves reason-
able and generous. In practics, the
regulation which H. C. cites has
no more significance than.the one
which follows it: "Each student is
required to prepare her room for
its weekly cleaning ..." or "Pen-
nants and decorations 'must be
hung from the picture moulding."
The state fire department in-
spects all houses and specifies
what devices for ,protection will
prevent their being or ever be-
coming "fire-traps."
The Health Service has power
to render null and void the con-
tract of any student with any
household by recommending that
the conditions of the house are
considered to be detrimental to the
student's health.
The contract is an agreement for
one semester. Any woman is free
to move if she gives four weeks'
notice. The fact that 20 out of a
possible 732, or .028 per cent availed
themselves of this privilege speaks
for the situation.
The refuge of a sorority is not
always so perfect a boon, from the
inside. There are sorority houses'
at Michigan crowded beyond any
'degree that would be thought of
for an approved house. No resi-
dent of a League House occupies
an upper hall. No suite is ever ap-
proved for four.
Women students have from the
beginning been encouraged to talk
oveg their housing difficulties with
the Housing Committee, Miss Lloyd
and Miss Richards of the Advisers'
staff. It is the residents in the
house who know the situation
there. If that situation can be
remedied, the Housing Committee
will undertake to remedy it. If it
cannot, they are the agents to en-
list in order that the house mayl
be closed before it offers discom-
fort and unhappiness to other girls.
No one is content with the hous-
ing accommodations. However, the
househeads have offered a real
service. They have not all perfor-
med it in the same way nor to the
same ends, but'- this is no time to
disparage or underestimate their
effort or accomplishment.
The Regents of the University
have just authorized the construc-
tion of a new dormitory, to be
ready for occupancy in September,
1929. Heat, light, hot water,
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THROUGH MY WELL-consider-
ed plan of not eating in the same
place I've discovered something.
Do YOU know where the pretty
girls eat-with all your experience
on campus?
* * *
RUBBER-NECKS ON the Union
tower. What if I did look out
from there once!
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NO, I'M NOT homesick but I'll
bet there are lots of frosh that are.
G. F. K.
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BY THE WAY, G. F. K.-
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-ARE YOU WEARING YOUR
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SOMEHOW, AFTER READING
good old Tap Faucet's poem every-
thing else seems tame. We just
can't seem to show any of the old
zip today. "'Twas a home-com-
ing party, and all through the
house were gay preparations for a
time-honored souse."
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WE'RE EXPECTING A contrib
from C. C. L. along about the mid-
dle of the afternoon. Only in
American they don't call them by
that name.
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"NO ONE WAS STINKO, just
nicely whoopee."
THIS IS THE time of the year
whenIa hazy mist clings to the
stalks of waving corn; when
through the Injun Summer maze
of romance there comes the echo
of that perennial plaint-hear it-
oh, most assuredly Mr. Amos Al-
onzo, the "grand old man," feels
a premonition of impending dis-
aster in the forthcoming gridiron
encounter between his eleven and
that conducted by Ward Lambert
down along the Wabash. STAGG
FEARS PURDUE.
"FOR WHICH, ONE can hardly
blame the dear gentleman," just
chuckled a certain other "grand
old man" about these premises.
NOW SPEAKING OF football,
here is an illustrated joke suggest-
ed by one of Coach Clarence W.
Spear's athletes, famous through-
out the land for their general in-
telligence. Now we don't know any
of those players personally, but
we'll tag this one on Bronko
Nagurski, that's not a pseudonym
either. It happened last year when
the "Nag" helped beat Michigan
at the local (?) stadium.
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NO LEFT TURN
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Chief O'Brien-Hey, you, you
can't turn left here.-
Bronko Nagurski-I tink may-t
be I can if you move over a
little, dar.-
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AND THAT REMINDS us-Min-
nesota's gift to Michigan is going1
to contribute regularly to Rollsg
from now on. Watch for his first.-
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OR RATHER, THAT was his first,1
the O'Brien-Nagurski affair above.-
* * *
WHILE WE'RE AT it, don't for-
getthe contributor's day is rolling
around again. How about a ballad1
on Doc Lovell's new paper stand,
or something like that?
* * *
A LIMRICK
Ann Arbor puts tar on the
streetsr
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AT THE WHITNEY
On Friday and Saturday nights
the boards of the Whitney Theatre
will support Paul Green's Pulitzer
Prize play, "In Abraham's Bosom."
The life of the play has been long
and healthy, receiving the unani-
mous approbation, of the critics. It
was selected by Burns Mantle as
one of the ten best plays of the
season of its brith, 1926-1927.
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ONE REACTION
Music and Drama Editor:
Your comment in yesterday's
Daily has struck a note which I
wonder that students and faculty
are so seemingly indifferent to.
With other universities throughout
the country providing adequate
means of expression for talented
young writers, and stimulating the
creative activities of students,
Michigan gives , lamentable com-
parison.,,
The Mines- is' 4opelessly inade-
quate for a representative campus
theatre both from the point of
view of its productions and ca-
pacity to handle the crowds of stu-
dents interested-in seeing campus
talent. Why the organizations in-
terested in dramatics and produc-
tions on the campus have not
banded together to remedy this sit-
uation, is a mystery to me I
should hate to think that petty
jealousies between the organiza-
tions would keep them from coop-
erating for the good of all and for
the reputation of Michigan in this
highly important field. At present,
it is a well known fact that as a
leader in the drama, Michigan is a
nonentity among other universi-
ties; and the publicity from a gam-
boling flock of muscle-bound ath-
letes masquerading in the Union
Opera, or our Mimes productions
of the latest, last year's hokum's
from New York, is hardly likely to
lure those interested in drama to
Michigan rather than to any of
several colleges who are making
real progress.
The advantages of a campus the.-
atre are obvious. It would mean
that ALL organizations would be
given an opportunity to produce
plays before the student body pro-
viding they were of sufficient
merit. If it were still necessary
to produce uninspiring melodramas
for the 'purpose of amusing the
more child-like intellects upon the
campus, a larger theatre would at
least make it possible to run these
things for only a few nights.
Such a theatre, being uncontrol-
led by' no one group, would be
available for experimentation in
student productions which is not
possible at the present time, and
in which respect Michigan is very
nearly hopelessly out of date.
I most heartily second your ap-
peal that faculty and students
band together, forgetting the sel-
fish and small interests of the dif-
ferent groups within both, for this
great and imperative need at
Michigan today.
P. L. A.
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"SPEAK RIGHT OUT IN
MEETING, GENTS"
The verbal opinions and words
oif nc3n wiih theonf+imrnfeR It
"YOUNG LOVE"=
A Review, By R. Leslie Askren
When this show opened Sunday
night it was greeted by a fairly
unanimous chorus of critical dis-
approval in Detroit. This reaction
last night extended to the audi-
ence, who. writhed in their seats
when they were not tittering with
embarrassment. The play is in
abominably bad taste.
Based on an absurd promise-
that a young couple in love could
carry idealism to such an extent
that each would tolerate infidelity
in the other before marriage if by
so doing their love could -be made to
last a life time, the play develops
into three acts of rather ghastly
tragedy mixed with some extraor-
dinary fine comedy which finally
end happily.
The play is on the whole admir-
ably written, and Tom Douglas and
James Rennie give marvelous per-
formances. Dorothy Gish cannot
escape her movie training. Her
acting is altogether too broad. But
from the point of view of good
taste, the show has no excuse for
existence.
COULD GREATER
PRAISE BE GIVEN?
> Y' 1 Dr. C. C. Little says:"-.4
"A GREAT PICTURE FOR THE AD-
THE PRODUCTION OF REAL
THRILLS.HAVE SEEN IT AND WILL
' '' SEE IT AGAIN." '
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TWICE DAILY THEREAFTER
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