THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, JUNE 5,1931 tr t'; n ti lhed every morning except Monday during the University year ard in Control of Student Publications. er of the Western Conference Editorial Association. Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- n of all news 'dispatches credited to it or not otherwise n this paper and the local.news published herein. d at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second~ ter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant :r Generals iption by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50 Ann.Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Phones: Editorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR RICHARD L. TOBIN tor ,..................David M. Nichol Director........... ......Beach Conger, Jr. or .............................. ......Carl Forsythe litor ..............................Sheldon C. Fullerton Editor ..........................Margaret M. Thompson eflections ....................Bertram J. Askwith City Editor......................... enton Eune News Editor _..... .................... Robert L. Pierce bor........................ ...... William F. Pyper B. Gilbreth Goodman Earl Seiffert NIGHT EDITORS Denton C. Kunze George J. Cullen Kennedy Jerry E. Rosenthal A. Stauter Charles A. Sanford John S. Townsend Sports Assistants ea Wiher J. Myers es John W. Thomas REPORTERS rnheim James Krotozyner ley Robert Merritt Becker Henry Meyer Connellan Marion Milczewski Cooper Albert Newman Harrison . erome Pettit [elper John Pritchard offman Joseph Renihan hart Elsie Feldman unt Prudence Foster Brockman Georgia Geisman Collins Barbara all andalli AMarthahLittleton urniings Susan Manchester Cule Miller Brackley Shaw Parker Snyder Ford Spikerman Alfred Stresen-Reuter William Thal G. It. Winters Charles Woolner Margaret O'Brien Eleanor :Rairdon Marjorie Thomson Anne Tobin Alma Wadsworth 1Joeephine Woodhams 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. O 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- t . ti BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 LES T. 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Watts e Fischgrund Dorothy Laylin NIGHT EDITOR-FRANK GILBRETIHI FRIDAY, JUNE.5, 1931 ONLY THREE MORE DAYS! a Experimental udent Advisor System 21'-- - r I- ! 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. 0- 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 I 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 11 I * * * Ia r,, 1lTr.,-h1Troll1 1111