OE FOUR THE MTCHT("',AN nAYITL I 'rMr Tn A D ,LI4LP1~ fir, OCTODE1,, 31, F Published every morning except Monday luring the University year by the Board in Control of Student Publications. Member of Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to thie use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited thie paper and the local news published herein. I of studying that the more advanced classes. Perhaps the present m rk- ing system would have been cotin-TLL ued there. But for the las twvo y e a r s a little experimentation WINTER might have been attempted. in the I line of marks. Perhaps a snmple COMING "pass" or "not pass," with a higher requirement for a passing grade, We would certainly hate to inti- would cause a little more intensive mate that a member of the faculty study and real thinking instead of might be a prevaricator, but when the usual beating-around-the-bush we noticed yesterday that Doc and repetition of ancient formulae Hussey said "Ice disappeared from by the students. !Ann Arbor about 30,000 years ago November 7... " we shook our heady sadly and _._.. _ __... _. ._.._ _______ ----------._..M...._ t _ I About Books . LITERARY LEGI'RDEMAIN R. V. R.: The Life and Times of Rembrandt van Rijn: Heiidrik Willem Van Loon: Published by Horace Liveright: Price $5. a-. Entered at the postoffice at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant Post- master General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Offices:.Ann Arbor Press Building, May- card Street. 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Vedder Mildred Postal Marjorie Rough ser Ann W. Verner JMary E. Watts Joh~anna Wiese Professor Peter Odegard, of thehat belo abu share that belief. Notably among political economy department at them are Ann Arbor house owners. Ohio State university, has released especially those who live along the what is perhaps the finest piece of streets leading to the campus, un- criti4cism of censorship to reach the fortunatelyd American reading public within the r e past few years in "The American Public Mind." The book has been We can distinctly remember give n unusual recommendation going down to some basketball throughout the nation's press, and game last winter, and starting little wonder, for it combi'nes a out at the top of State Street terse, vivid attack of freedom of hill. In a very short time we thought with common sense argu- were sitting down at Packard ments. Not only is it readable but street i a most undignified it has force and its theme is an position, much o the amuse- excellent one. ment of several co-eds who "Censorship prosecutes bad books were most unnecessarily hang- and they become best sellers; bad ing around. Wait - hanging plays and they become box office would be too good for them. hits; immoral movies and people* flock to the theater," says Professor Which brings us to the subject Odegard. "Even Canon Chase ad- cf our campaign against co-eds. mits that i the long run people The latest contribution comes from don't want immoral pictures, so the want ad columns, so we see why add to their ,attractiveness by that we have the whole-hearted censoring them?" co-operation of the business staff. Freedom of the press is an age-' old question and one of the most Bachelor Apt. 2 or 3 students basic clauses in our social, political OR co-eds. Steam Heat.. Fire- and economic life. Ever since the place. Close to campus or court ruled, i'n Colonial days, in fa- downtown. vor of Zanger, world famed now as the man whose case was the basis That is what our calculus prof. for American freedom of the press, would call a nicety in differentia- the 'pros' and 'cons' have been up- tion. But it certainlyadvances an held with equal vigour. It takes, excellent point in our favor. We however, a perspicacious viewpoint hope they get students in there. such as Professor Odegard's to shift * * the weight of evidence definitely on And this, boys and girls, will be the affirmative balance. absolutely the last report on the "Censorship killed Socrates and Library Seal situation. Dan Baxter crucified Christ. It has lynched was supposed to present it, but he murdered, robbed. Freedom is the has already started, hitch-hiking handmaid of democracy as censor- down to Harvard, which means I ship is the sister of oppression." will have to write the colyum for But with all these generalizations, the next few days. Anyway, he Professor Odegard sites examples ought to have taken the bus. At such as the famous American Mer- least it stops in Canada. However cury ban i'n Boston, the Sacco- the campaign was a complete suc- Vanzetti execution, the Patterson, cess. Before it started, everybod N.J., strike trials, and many other walked on the Seal. Last night we famous cases of liberty vs. the law. counted them, and of the 368 peo- He is clear in his arguments against ple that passed (Hey-none of the "silly hand of censorship" which that stuff . . . Editor) 178 carefull3 really doesn't know what is or what walked around the seal. We have is not food for the public, for the at least educated half the campus public is, after all, decent at heart, which is as good if not better thar and doesn't need a yes and no the faculty is doing. committee to tell it what it should * * * read and see and listen to. Dear Elmer: Professor Odegard has struck a This, on the front page yes- ringing note in his book on free- terday: "Dean Bursley stated dom of the press, of speech and of that the purpose of the cards thought. He hasn't been any too is to enable the student to careful with his choice of words identify himself . .. concerning censors but who cares? After all, who am I? Yes you After reading him, one feels per- heard me. Who am I? (1) I was fectly justified in abhoring the Freddie Bobbsey last Thursday, term and its principles. He is per- but what does that prove? The fectly right in his assertion that by picture on this card looks like saying, "No, no, you mustn't" to me, and then again it looks everything, we only excite the caui- like Eddie Tolan, Dan Baxter, osity and develop the desire to see, with a bit of Eugene O'Neill read and ditest those things which thrown in. Perhaps Hume was we, as grown-ups, are not admitted right. Perhaps the self is, after to because we wouldn't understand all, merely a flux of percep- them and our morals might be tions. That's it. Merely a flux ruined. of perceptions. Freedom of the press, of thought Who am I? What of it? (2) and of speech are principles which Vaguely, every sane American advocates and Freddie Bobbsey. now, with such an addition to the * * * cause as this academic view, the Well Freddie, we see that yo case is stronger than ever. A pro- have been studying that Phil. 3 fessor has really said something. course, even if we haven't. But the ,i FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1930 Night Editor:CARL S. FORSYTHE GRADES AND KNOWLEDGE An editorial in the Barnard Col- lege paper recently advocated the abolition of the marking system user there, namely the A, B, C, D,j and E grades, in favor of some bet- ter method of determining a stu- dent's progress in education. Back in the early 1900's Michigan had only three marks: not passing, passing, and very satisfactory. With the institution of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, the system was changed, and the present method of grades w a s instituted. Many excellent points, however, may be presented in favor of the old system. At present, the student forces hismself to memorize too much. His incentive is not to learn anything for the future, but to work for a grade. The more important goal, that of cultivating a more intelli- gent process of thought, as well as adding to his general store of knowledge, is forgotten in the effort tq cram down a few facts that will enable the student to get an A or a B on a certain test. Knowledge its forced into the student in short doses, and after certain timse, it leaves him; he derives no benefit from the courses. The system as worked out in Eng- land and Germany is far more suc- cessful. Everything usually depends on the final examination, and the work of an entire year cannot be crammed into the brain in a few days of intensive studying before the examination. The information has to absorbed slowly, and when it is done in this. manner, it is usu- ally permanent. Michigan has advanced in this partitcular 'field through the honor courses that are offered in various departments. Lectures are given, and recitation sections are really used for intelligent discussion; in- dependent and logical thinking is encouraged, instead of the repeti- tion of opinions of others; argu- mentation is encouraged. This type of education is of far more value to the student than the intensive drilling of facts that is usually of- fered. We do not mean, above all, to identify ourselves with an attempt Indian drug Hasheesh with which the narrator of this history does so much experimenting. I am sure that someone or other will say that the indiscriminate use of emotions and moods which make this book. is a literary illegitimacy. For there is a reason why our urbane Ameri- can literary brethren should label Van Loon's work illegitimate art. There sits the author and from his quiet Dutch eminence in Zeeland gazes placidly at the universe and sends forth thick tomes one after another which become best sellers as soon as they are sent forth. Van Loon's work is peculiar. It rolls on and on like small ripples breaking on a sheltered shore, never changing the easy tenure of its ways, never developing into nor responding to storms and disturb- ances. When something is happen- ing, we tell it by what the water washes up, blood or fire or, as is very often the case, that good dutch beer which by the end of the book must have reposed gallons deep in the belly of our chronicler. This may not be very clear but neither is the style. It is Van Loon's way of giving his books power, and I it is his way of making them po- pular, for it is certain that it does not make them great. He takes a sort of outer world attitude toward man and living, and this is re- flected in his work. I said before that the book weaves a pattern. It does and in doing so presents an impression of timelessness which is false. Rembrandt is never realized fully. The doctor's chaneo meeting with the great artist might have been one of the high spots of the book. It is not, and a great opportunity is lost. It is true that the character is built up faithfully and in great detail. But, the book fnished, all we know of him is his lack of prac- ticality and his consumate passion for work. There is also, at times, some of the bitter disappointment and the hopelessness of battle which seems to have bsen the poi- tion of most artists. Perhaps this is Van Loon's purpose. It seems that he is writing purely for popu- lar consumption. He has figured out that Rembrandt's absolute financial incapability is the surest method of introducing him to a practical public. So he harps on and on about money, never giving us that insight into the rich life of Rembrandt that we most desire. And this was a great mistake. There could have been nothing more fascinating than an attempt to portray for us the passions and sestasys that burned in the man as he sat till four in the morning painstakingly working at an etch- ing or a dry point, his stern face playing tricks in the shadows that his single candle threw; or the cealization he had of the ruffians that he saw one day in his youth as he leaned, sketching, against a tree during a flerce street battle. The strong current of hopes and dreams which runs like a second life in a man and only touches the surface on occasion is entirely lack- ing. However if we don't get Rem- brandt, we do get the age. It is built up by a thousand little details which the length of the book makes possible, until through very fami- liarity we start to believe that there is no difference between now and then. Very cleverly for a best seller, the book is written by a liberal and a very liberal, liberal n an age of strictest orthodoxy. 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