THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JUNE 5,1931
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The case of the unorganized activity-hunter has
perhaps been worse. He usually has no one, pre-
judiced or unprejudiced, to turn to for advice, and
oftimes gives up in despair because some one told
him that the unorganized man had no chance in
activities.
Next year, if the highly commendable plan for-
mulated by the sophomore honorary, Black Tongs,
is carried out successfully, this undesirable situation
will be largely eliminated. The project entails the
establishment of an activities bureau in the Union.
A member of the organization, well instructed in the
qualifications and requirements of each activity,
would be placed in charge of an office on the Union
building. The leaders of the various activities would,
then turn in up-to-date lists of positions open and
vacancies to be filled. These lists would be filed, and
the office would become an information desk for
freshmen seeking extra-curricular work. The mem-
ber in charge would be able to give unbiased advice.
and suggestion to the applicant.
Such a plan would make for less confusion, men
better fitted for their jobs, more friendship and bet-
ter feeling among activity men, and best of all, a
great elimination of the politics that have more or
less dominated activities in recent years.
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About Books
PROCESSION
"Procession" presents a curious anomaly. On one
side is the insistence on the name of Ivor Richards.
Both Professor Campbell and Professor Jack use it.
Mr. Richards is one of the outstanding exponents
of a non-emotive criticism, and the increasing im-
portance of his work should be evidence that it fills
a current need. Non-emotive criticism is a classical
characteristic. It did not exist in the nineteenth cen-
tury; it did in the period of the Restoration. Mr.
Richards work might be considered the modern
counterpart of Dryden's. - On the other side is the
creative material, in the magazine, and Professor
Campbell's statement that modern art (Professor
Campbell is speaking of modern drama, but his state-
ment can I think be applied with the same meaning
to the other branches of art) is based on contempo-
raneous appeals to imaginative sympathy, that the
modern drama is "evidence of a temporary swing
of the literary pendulum to the side of a nieo-
romanticism." Professor Campbell takes "the tre-
mendously strong impression that Paderewski made
upon the audience in Hill auditorium" as "another
indication of the direction of our emotional sym-
pathies."
I respectfully submit that to me it seems that the
reception accorded Paderewski's playing, that the
popularity of such work as the highly personal
"Scraping of a Scythe," which delineates an experi-
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NIGHT EDITOR-FRANK GILBRETIHI
FRIDAY, JUNE.5, 1931
ONLY
THREE
MORE DAYS!
a Experimental
udent Advisor System
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! problem of the adaption of the new student ence of doubtful value is due to the tag end of a
his University, a matter which has been { romantic period which Eliot, Richards and Rach-
y the administration in some measure under manioff are ushering to a finish. How explain "the
e direction of Professor Philip Bursley, has growing current popularity of Bach, the triumph of
been taken up by a student organization. Toscanini.
nion announced last week its upperclassman Professor Jack relates his interesting contacts to
The time is getting shorter all
the time and still we haven't an-
swered that chain letter that pro-
phesied bad luck. Our only hope
now is to have some of our dusty
readers send in some of their
friends addresses so we can tend to
this thing before it is too late.
There's going to be something pret-
ty awful around here in three days,
we'll bet.
What an indulgent Univer-
sity this is. All the boys are
back in their raided houses
now, in order to enjoy the glor-
ies of commencement week.
There is real sportsmanship for
you.
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Just the same, though, we bet
that the University has its boot all
polished up to use in case, well, you
know what. What an indulgent
University this is, to be sure.
Indulgent Boot.
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CAMPUS CHA.TTER
(after reading that same high
school newspaper)
Mr. Lily said the other day that
if a dentist had to change places
with a man working on a drill
press he would probably last as long
as some of his fillings do. Coming
from you, Mr. Lily, that certainly
is rich!
When asked why he thought
Latin (7) easier than Latin (6)
Philip Renack (16) replied that
it was probably because he had
never 6 (6).
AN OPINION
Why must the grade schools and
intermediate schools lead us in im-
proving home life? When the re-
foresting campaign came up, they
led us in improving home life. In
gardeningr they have reigned su-
preme for years. The high schools
have not introduced it in any form.
It would be a good idea if we could
be the first to have an organiza-
tion devoted to gardening. It would
furnish boys and girls with a hobby,
and so keep them out of much
trouble. It would also help to bring
about a closer union of parents and
children, and thus create a love
of home life, improve home life,
improve the city, improve home
life, and eventually improve the
home life of the whole country.
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The hostess had forgotten the
napkins and the tablecloth, but
t h e guests didn't mind-It
made the dinner feel more
homelike.
ALUMNI NOTES
Joe Parsnik, '21, operates the
switchboard at the old Harvey
Building besides studying dentistry
nights.
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Two attorneys, O'Hara and Lev-
nitz, who have been practicing law
in this city for a number of years
with noteworthy success, employ
Lucy Parsnik, '28.
Nathan Sedan, '18, works for the
Bamberger Cast Wheel Co., as well
as claiming the University of Walla-
Walla as his alma mater.
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THE QUESTION BOX
Dear Noah Tall,
Is Miss McNooley go-
ing to teach here next year. It has
been rumored that this is true. Is
it true?
Eddie Kation
Dear Eddie Kation,
Miss McNooley will
teach next year but no one knows
where because Miss McNooley has
asked to be transfered to some
other High School. We certainly
will miss Miss McNooley but we
wish her luck in her new position
if she gets one.
advisory project for freshman students next fall,
which, it is hoped, will acquire a sort of perman-
ence that the faculty cannot at present give its
sstem.
During Orientation week, a group of chosen
faculty men devote all their time in getting the
freshmen settled in their particular colleges. After
that period, their time is necessarily devoted to
other matters, and the freshman has in the past-
been left to shift for himself. Only those students
who came of their 'own accord, or those whose
-ecords showed that they were experiencing diffi-
:ulty in adapting themselves to the University,
visited the counsellor of new students for advice
n their problems. Nor could one man be expected
:o act in loco parentis to approximately 1,500
a not entirely unrelated issue, the necessity of a
knowledge of contemporary literature as a focal point
for the study of the works of the past.
It is unfortunate that Walter Donnelly has not
better integrated his article on Ezra Pound's cantos.
As they stand now its evident value is impaired by
its aimlessness.
Yvor Richards contributes an entirely uncharac-
teristic poem: unusual in its effort to be explicit, to
affirm everything in quite dull heroic couplets. Mr.'
Holden's poem is an interesting imitation of Hart
Crane in diction and in the effort to recreate a scene
# by fusing rhythmically bits of heard conversation.
Miss Boillotat's sketch tries to get into verbal sym-
bols (as do Joyve and Virginia Wolff) the important
intangibles in the minds and in the air when two
people meet silently.
The magazine is interesting. S. F.
THE SPEAKING OF POETRY
Miss Blanche Yurka's delightful recital of poems
yesterday afternoon raises an interesting question
as to the way poetry should be read aloud. Miss
Yurka read nearly everything on her program dra-
matically-that is, conversationally. If a line seemed
to contain a conversational stress Miss Yurka gave it
-even at the expense of metre.
We have heard Mr. I. A. Richards read with for-
mal intonation and a single pitch. His manner of
reading refuses to take the poem as something per-
sonal to him. He takes the poem as a structure and
purposely reads it artificially.
The ways are fundamentally opposed. Mr. Rich-
ards' way seems better for the reason that neither his
freshmen.
Until the University obtains funds to develop
a more permanent advisory system for freshmen,
however, the Union will provide an opportunity
for first year students to discuss their problems
with a picked delegation of juniors and seniors.I
Although the latter can not be expected to give
as mature advice as professors could, they can,
nevertheless, help the student in the many petty
questions which he may face during his first year.
He is naturally loath to approach his Orientation1
week advisor from time to time with what appear
to be insignificant details, but which to him are
grave questions. In such cases, the undergraduate
advisor will be on hand to assist him.
Purdue recently inaugurated an "activities
bureau," comment on which is reprinted below.
The Union plan, however, goes much further than
that. As an experiment next year, it will be well
worth supporting, anA deserving of the success it
should show.
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Editonrial Comment
AN ACTIVITIES BUREAU
(Purdue Exponent.)
THE plight of the average Purdue freshman who
in former years has sought connection with one
of the many activities on the campus has been in-
deed a sorry one. Unless the newly arrived student
had already decided before entering the University
as to what particular phase of extra-curricular work
he desired to follow, he usually became involved in
a maze of confusion and ignorance, which coupled
with well-meant prejudiced suggestions often led to
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1taste nor his experience of the poem enters into his
reading. We are allowed to receive and judge the
poem for ourselves. This is not true of Miss Yurka's
way of reading. I submit the experience of being
uncomfortable while she read Rupert Brooke's "Dust."
For her manner of reading (the excitement, the im-
passioned climaxes, the expresive modulations lead-
ing to them) are meant to force on us the opinion
that it is a good poem. If we disagree with that
judgement, we have to fight against the ecstasy in
Miss Yurka's voice as she reaches a certain climactic
word which we feel is silly.
Mr. Richards' reading would set no such problem;
the poem would have to define the validity of its
own ecstasies by something inherent in it, by its
structural relations. Mr. Richards' monotony is really
a reticence about using his voice to convince us of
his judgment of the poem. Miss Yurka's voice-beau-
iful in quality and expressively modulated-could
make nonsense exciting and meaningful if we would
abandon ourselves (which would be easy). When she
is reading Electra's line there is no problem. There
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