THE MTCHIGAN DAILY FRIDAT, MAY 8, 1931 d every morning except Monday dur- iversity year by the Board in Control tPublications. of Western Conference Editorial Asso- sciated Press is exclusively entitled to r republication of all new s dispatches o it or not otherwise creditcd in this the local news published herein. at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michi- recond class aitter. Special rate of ;ranted by Third Assistant Postmaster r C their work is especially commend- able if only because it has success- fully passed a faculty whose ideas have been reactionary for so many years. No doubt much more could have been accomplished, and that much sooner, had the committee felt that the plan would meet fav- orably with such an ultra-conser- vative group-a group which, how- ever, in the last few years has come to the realization of the need for a new order. aSR TELL SPRING HERE! dM~siC ANDo DRAM4I iu tion by varrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. 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One of the main stories on he front page of Thursday's Daily went as follows: Determined opposition to the University Council Plan in its present form was expressed at a meeting of the Literary Col- loge Faculty yesterday after- noon, according to a dispatch in the Detroit Free Press this morning. .. ACCORDING TO A DISPATCH IN THE DETROIT FREE PRESS THIS MORNING-get that? Again I say that things have come to a pretty pass when out-of-town pa- pers are given first chance at cam- pus news. TONIGHT: The Production by Comedy Club of the medieval French farce "Pierre Patelin" in the Mendelssohn Theatre beginning at 8:15. THE GOOD HOPE A Review. Mr. Windt's production of "The Good Hope" is richest and most completely successful student pro- duction this year and certainly among the best of the last four years. An excellent example of one 'ii Sports Assistants . Fullerton T.. Cullen Kennedy Charles A. Sanford REPORTERS L. Cooley Robert L. 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Vedder Ann W. verner Sylvia Miller Marian Atran Hlen Olsen Helen Bailey Mildred Postal Josephine Convisser Marjorie Rough Maxine Fshgrund ' Voay E. Watts Dorothy LeMire Johanna Wiese Dorothy Laylin FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1931 Night Editor - JOHN D. REINDEL "NEW MICHIGAN PLAN" With faculty sanction of the re- organization of the curriculum of the literary college, the University has taken a step which should have been taken years ago. But no less desirable now because of its tardi- ness, the plan will transform the literary college in the next ten years until it will in no way re- semble the present antiquated sys- tem, if, of course, the faculty and the administrative officers maintain the spirit which led finally to the adoption. Significant is the fact that there was little opposition to the plan in general among faculty members ex- cept for a few who continually hol1 to the old order, and who rebel at the thought of toning up Michi gan's academic life. Educators and others who expect to see an im- mediate and conspicious change in the college will be sadly disappoint- ed, however, for the whole plan leans toward a very gradual revi- sion of the curriculum. The three objectives of the plan are without doubt sound, and will prove of more value as time passes. Lack of concentration in work during the four years in college is undoubtdly a worthy objection to the present system, and will be remedied if the proposed plan is approved by the Regents. Formation of an efficient advis- ory system is one of the desirable features of the plan. Under the present system a student may have his courses approved by any one of an unexhaustable list of men, the majority of whom. have no parti- cular interest in the student or the courses he elects. With the adop- tion of the new plan a system will be evolved whereby students will be assisted throughout their under- graduate courses in arranging their1 work on a co-ordinated and intelli- gent basis. The breaking down of artificialf departmental lines and the corre- lation of courses is a tendency oft the new plan, the possibilities of which are limitless. When depart- ments realize that their courses aret of sninfiance t other nors and4 groun'd in indicating that national1 prohibition was the "direct oppo- X site of that much, discussed virtue1 -prohibition." Clearly, if liberal-X ism means anything, it connotes an attitude of tolerance, a feeling of "live and let live" to which all artificial straight-jackets-and na- tional prohibition has been classed as one-must be highly repugnant. The New York Herald-Tribune, long the friend of the Democratic party and one of the most liberal- minded newspapers in the country, remarks that Gov. Ritchie's liberal- ism speech shows a "respect for the fundamental liberties upon which the republic was based." Not only does this stress on 'liberty per se imply that the Governor's plat- form will include an anti-prohibi- tion plank in the coming presiden- tial election, but it indicates a re- turn to the very basis of the Alex- ander Hamilton-Thomas Jefferson dissention in the infant years of American history. "In so far as liberalism connotes freedom and tolerance," the Trib- une comments, "this not only means personal liberty to eat, drink, and provide yourself with the means therefore in proportion as you are able so to do; it also means nationaf liberty so that the large family of which every American is a part is able to follow its just aspirations without illiberal inter- ference. Liberalism thus has a con- servative aspect which seems to be completely forgotten." Our long-heralded battle to the death on the prohibition issue seems to be just over the hill, des- pite the Anti-Saloon league's firm denial that the sky is anything but Octoberial blue. And still there are members " of the faculty who wonder why the Daily shows signs of losing popularity among the student body. - * The only chance the Daily has under conditions like these is to refuse to print University news at all, and take to reporting the latest developments in the Law Club cel- lar. Here at least there can be no holdouts on what is happening. CONTRIBUTION Dear Dan: Maybe you've noticed all the trees and shrubs the B. and G. boys are sticking promiscuous- ly around the campus. Haven't we got enough trouble with the co-eds without them trying to make a wild life sanctuary out of the place! I suppose that after putting lamp posts all around last year in order to lighten up all the dark corners, they've had a change of heart and are going to give us a break by making a lot of tryst- ing places. Maybe the B. and G. boys are setting the stage for a little social campaign of their dwn. At this rate, the campus will get as common as the Boulevard and there won't be any privacy anywhere. And if you want to start a new game, something for a new thrill, just ask a forestry stu- dent if his school is doing the planting. Just ask him! If you get away with it twice, you don't need to stay in school until graduation-you're ready to face the world now! There may have been some reason for planting a couple of Scotch Pines conspicuously before the main arch of the Law Club, but it doesn't take very much com- mon sense to know that you can't handle trees like fence posts, just at any old season of the year, and expect them to stand the shock. Even a Forester knows better than that-and, Heaven knows, even the engi- neers look down on us! Greenbriar Bill. -* * * of the most important movements in the history of drama-the end- of-the century discovery of the proletariat and his social problems as dramatic material-was restor- ed in a sensitive performance. The experience was remarkably worth- while. One would have regretted missing it. Onecan for some time refer to it in one's thinking about the drama. In offering such an ex- perience, Play Production has real- ized for the first time this year the function it could be consistently realizing if, granted the necessary conditions, it would only abandon its preoccupation with year-to- year Broadway specimens; if it could perhaps get reassurance from various sources that its consider- able patronage is more thankful for this careful restoration of a solid, however out-of-the mode, play than for "Rollo's Wild Oat" or "Rebound." i E I THIRD CONCERT, "Old Johnny Appleseed" by Gaul. Hilda Burke, Soprano; Eleanor Reynolds, Con- tralto; Palmer Christian, Organ- ist, Orchestral accompaniment; Children's Festival Chorus; Eric Delamarter and Juva Higbee, Conductors, Friday afternoon. FOURTH CONCERT, Ignace Jan Padercwski, Pianist; Chicagb Symphony Orchestra, Frederick Stock, Conductor, Friday Evening. FIFTH CONCERT, Ruth Breton, Violinist; Chicago Symphony Or- chestra, Frederick Stock, Conduc- tor, Saturday afternoon. SIXTH CONCERT, tBoris Go- dunof" in English by Mussorgsky. Cyrena Van Gordon, Contralto; Walter Widdop, Tenor; Nelson Eddy, Baritone; Chase Baromeo, Baritone; Fred Patton, Bass; Chi- cago Symphony Orchestra; The University Choral Union, Earl V. Moore, Conductor, Saturday Eve- ning. May Festival1 Hill Auditorium, May 13, 14, 15, 16. Tickets (6 concerts) $6.00, $7.u0, $8.00. FIRST CONCERT, Lily Pons, So- prano; Chicago Symphony Or- chestra, Frederick Stock, Conduc- tor, Wednesday Evening. SECOND CONCERT, "St. Francis of Assissi" by Pierne. Hilda Burke, Soprano;Eleanor Reynolds, Contral- to; Frederick Jagel, Tenor; Nel- son Eddy, Baritone; Fred Patton, Bass; The Chicago Symphony Or- chestra; The University Choral Union, Earl V. Moore, Conductor, Thursday Evening. I ' i I IIII i p j lii . i Illl I Il'l I i Phonographs Ideal for Canoeing, Picnics, Parties, Motor Trips, and all sorts of fun in the Spring and Summer. A WIDE RANGE OF PRICES PAL PORTABLE - - - $15,75 PAL MAJESTIC $2500 FAMOUS VICTOR PORTABLE SEE OUR LINE TODAY Portable 1 III VII 0 VOLUNTARY CLASSES Along with the recently proposed change in the curriculum of the literary college come suggestions from all parts of the campus and from other universities throughout the East concerned with the appli- cation of new principals to our educational system. Among those suggested along the line of the present scheme are the elimination of semester courses in deference to whole year elections, a return to the former method of allowing but few elective courses, and a much more recent suggestion from Yale university concerning "voluntary classes." College life has generally been recognized as too replete with elab- .orate systems, designed to prod the student on to higher scholastic, achievement, to insure the comple- tion of the inevitable daily lessons, and to restrict the undergraduate in his expression of independence and defiance of law and order. It is indeed refreshing and unusual, therefore; when a suggestion is made that the student body cease to "buck the game" and voluntarily, hence more effectively, seize an opportunity to improve their minds without artificial stimulation. At Yale, forty-six students have re- quested Professor Westerfield, in charge of classification, to extend certain courses of value to one extra session every fortnight. Ani- mation in the thirst for knowledge is a welcome fact, and through the generous co-operation of several Yale professors this desire to learn more than just what is required has been fulfilled at New Haven. Professor Westerfield himself, in his courses in business and econo- mics, is receiving the plaudits of the Yale campus for spending many hours of his leisure time in supply- ing the fulfillment of the desire of this small group to advance beyond the minimum scholastic design. Michigan's step in the never- ending process of striving for schol- astic perfection is noteworthy in more ways than one. Aside from the direct benefits to be derived from the proposed change in curri- culum, the shift in educational trend at the University opens up a 4- fn- "any c7h1 ,VdAf-iflt C' a Cl i nn Dear Bill: I disagree with your assumption that there is a reason for planting Scotch Pines in front of Mr. Cook's recent donation. Jack Pines,-may- be, but Scotch Pines, never, never, never. And you should see me look down on engineers, too. DAN BAXTER. * * *' DAILY POEM See the B & G Boys planting Mr. Windt in "The Good Hope" was clearly working with his best students: students that were per- haps sensitive enough to work out conceptions of character on their own part. Consequently, Mr. Windt was probably able to spend his time as a director modifying these con- ceptions into subtle inter-relation- ship and manipulating their work into those final and contrasting refinements in the theatre: rythms in the smaller and through to the larger units of production; and a meaningful attractiveness of the separate static stage-pictures com- posing these rythms. The fact that a drama, which tended to be dull because of it inordinate length; a n d tendency to over-insistence and over-writing, was constantly effective with nearly everyone in the two audiences I witnessed was surely due to Mr. Windt's sensitive- ness in these matters. Everyone can supply his own particular ex- amples. Most fertile, perhaps, was the second act-with its beautifully managed transitions through the rude hilarity, the quarrel of Geert and the ship-owner, the constant- ly recurring theme of the mother's mono-maniacal insistence in her supposed duty to send Barend to sea, to the quiet curtain. If it may be put so baldly, "The Good Hope" is Mr. Windt's fine vindication of himself at the end of a feeble year. Consideration of the student work can only be a collection of too- brief words of praise. Perhaps most striking, I think, was Janet Wood- mansee's incisive, comprehending portraiture of the Dutch mother of sailors: impressive alike in her stu- pidity, in her -wretched humility, and in her peasant strength. It is a part full of curious, almost ab- normal, illogicalities of feminine emotion. Miss Woodmansee's play- aing of it was always convincing and placed the part just where it be- longed in the experience of the drama, as a prominent focal point for all thinking about it. Alan Handley was very effective as- Geert, when he was tortured with the humiliation of his prison- experience and when he was blat- antly "in the right" with all of youth's pride in revolt and all of .a big sailor's pride in his physical strength. Eugenie Chapel (though some of the difficulty of thinking herself into so earthy a character showed slightly) gave a splendid performance as Jo, being particu- larly good in the third act. Robert Adams carried the play's most diffi- cult part very adequately. A certain lack of clarity about the degree to which the ship-owner was genuine- ly affected by the results of his own tyranny may have been implicit in the part; but Mr. Adams himself should probably have made a clear- er decision about it than he seemed to have. Martha Scott, Olympia La Marca, Jack Nestle, carried minor parts well: not to mention Mildred Tood in a type of a part which she has several times done per- fectly. In fact the sheer quantity of stu- dent talent Mr. Windt assembled for this production is a good hope for student drama at Michigan. The evening that resulted when I I I I - Un iversityMuiHos Devoted to Music Wil iam Wade Hinshaw r. William and Maynard Phone 7515 Co i Trees and bushes, short and tall. Maybe they will all die off- It's a fine world after all. 4 * * I WHO IS LITTLE YVONNE GAN? Imagine, fellows, there is a FA- bus in Ann Arbor named Herbert Hoo- ver. That is nothing, however ... My roommate used to have a cat named Tennis Court. FRONT PAGE NIFTIES REA WILL MODIFY BAN ON WEEK-END It saddens me beyond the power of words to tell that I have been waiting all these years in hopes that someone would put a ban on week-ends just so I could point the finger of scorn and say "Look" -and here there has been one all the time. Dear, dear. Don't forget the COATLESS SHIRT CAMPAIGN! Wear a coatless shirt and get pneu- monia .-and get excused from classes! The coatless shirt is the coming thing in dress.