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Michigan marking system remains1
in the hands of the committee.
It is a step in the right direction,l
and one which should be given the
aeartiest co-operation.
SOMETHING TO DO.
Just a year ago in October, Ann
Arbor saw the opening of her first
miniature golf course. Last spring
there were a dozen within the im-
mediate vicinity of the campus,
ranging in name from the pat-
ented phrase to the most ingenius
cognomin.
Ten months ago, had a student
been in the Union pool-room he
would have been seen playing ping-
pong before a larger gallery than
most professional billiard matches
draw.
Back in the days of 1925, every-
body played Mah-Jong because
everybody else played it. Cross-
word puzzles became the rage in
New York just after the war and
by 1925 the fad was widespread in
the east, middle-west and south.
Today, but few newspapers in the
country carry the crossword puzzle
as a daily feature.
Last year it was contract bridge.
Everyone played it; nobody thought
about auction. The other day a
poll by a prominent New York
paper found that its readers pre-
ferred articles on Backgammon to
expert advice on Contract.
Why did the Dandy of the late
18th century love his prize-fights
and his frills only to have his son
go into a period of the deepest
thinking and sobriety in modern
times? Didn't Backgammon exist
before this year? It's been on the
under side of checker boards since
the year one. Why didn't people
always play ping-pong? They did,
but it wasn't a fad and there was
no incentive for wholesale partici-
pation. The cross-word puzzle used
to be known as the "cross-word
enigma" in St. Nicholas magazine
when most of Michigan's under-
graduates were in their cradles and
1t was popular too. But it never
couched the tremendous appeal
which the "cross-word puzzle" at~
°ained.
We're a funny lot and we move
very much in cycles. What's the
..ext old-fashioned game scheduled
ior popularity? Who knows except,
perhaps, the boys who cash in on
juch revivals of "something to do."
Campus Opinion
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words if possible. Anonymous Co-
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construed as expressing the editorial
pinion of The Daily.
RESEARCH: A FETISH
The new leader of the Research
:lub is to be congratulated not only
n being a member of that illus-
rious body, but more especially on
laving reached the highest distinc-
,on that body can confer upon
aortal man: the presidency of that
rilliant association of researchers.
1 In connection with this extra-
>rdinary event the new president
aw fit to utter some oracular pro-
iouncements, as for instance "that
i. member (of the Research Club)
s always a marked man in his de-
)artment and is always counted on
o do more than ordinary work."
Comment: If I were the Dr. I
vould omit the little word "always,'
lecause, in this connection, "al-
vays" promises too much.-When
he Dr. claims that a researcher
loes "more than ordinary work"
e means to convey the idea that
;uch gentleman does "always" ex-
,raordinary work. One may be per-
nitted to ask this simple question:
low often does this happen? Inci-
lentally we may refer to the defi-
ition of "a marked man" as given
n the Concise Oxford Dictionary,
atest edition: "one whose conduct
s watched with suspicion or hosil-
ty." Of course the new leader of
,he Research club did not wish to
onvey that unfavorable sugges-
,ion. Moreover it is quite possible
shat, as used in the United States,
he expression means a man of
aark.
Among other remarks of the new
resident we find that he "stressed
he fact that work accomplished
.uring the routine of departmental
nstruction is not looked upon as
)roductive scholarship."
Here one is inclined to ask, when
she honor of the presidency was
>estowed upon him, why the Dr.
elt moved to belittle what may be
considered the noblest of all pro-
essions: teaching. - Routine in-
Atruction? There is no room for
routine instruction in a university
nor, for that matter, in any school,
unless schools and universities are
eicational factories as some neo-
tive of
is it 99
the imposing name of research? I
In 95 out of 100 cases this so-
called research work (origiality?)
consists of scraps of knowledge
raked together from the dusty
shelves of libraries. Let the Dr.
prove that I am wrong. In this
connection there occurs to me a
passage from one of the greatest
poets:
"You sit forever gluing, patching;
You cook the scraps from others'
fare;
And from your heap of ashes
hatching
A starveling flame, ye blow it bare!
Take children's, monkeys' gaze ad-
miring,
If such your taste, and be content."
But apart from this, does the Dr.
not know that, as constituted at
present, our universities require of
the professors first of all and above
all that they be good teachers-or
does he think that the thousands
and thousands of young men and
women crowd the halls of learning
in order to take in with open
mouths the learned papers of the
researchers? What the young fre-
quent the universities for is to be
inspired by great teachers, by men
who love their profession above
everything, men who disregard en-
tirely the fetish of research be-
cause such teachers will not violate
their most sacred trust which is to
develop the immature minds of
young students by teaching them
what is most important in all edu-
cation viz. to think for themsElves.
Here are some of the ideas of
one who may perhaps be considered
the most advanced thinker on the
subject of American university edu-
cation I refer to Hamilton Holt of
Rollins College. He writes among
other things: "At Rollins we hold
t h a t t h e individual student's
growth and development are the
all-important things, and that to
justify itself, every course, by its
subject matter and manner of
being taught, must deepen and
broaden the student's understand-
ing of life and enable him to
adjust himself more quickly and
more effectively to the world in
which he lives."-Does this sound
like routine instruction?-The same
eminent authority has this to say
in regard to the make-up of his
faculty: "To make successful a sys-
tem (he refers to the conference
system) which depends so much
upon personal guidance of young
minds who must be shown the in-
spiring possibilities in gathering
knowledge, the c h i e f requisite
seemed to me to be teachers whc
not only were qualified to teach
but loved to teach. We therefor
sought inspiring teachers wherever
Vwe could find them, disregarding
the modern fetish for research...
"we made no offer to a teacher'
no matter how scholarly the man
might be or how many books he
might have published. In other
words, he was not considered un-
less he seemed to have that divine
Sgift for guiding and encouraging
others which is the essence of good
teaching." (The Nation, October 8
1930).-This is good sense and puts
the emphasis where it belongs.
M. Levi,
Professor emeritus.
LAW ELECTIONS.
To the Editor:
Not being endowed by nature
with the fluency of a Beveridge of
the dramatic apeal of a Bryan, I
must beg leave to use this means of
protesting against the unscrupu-
lous methods employed in the
freshmen law election. Perhaps I
may not be in a position to criti-
cize the actions of those in charge
of the elections, because of my
ignorance of political technique
Nevertheless, I cannot conceive of
a man with any sense of fair play
who could have witnessed the con-
duct of the "ward heelers" in the
freshmen law election and approve
of such as being part of the game.
In the afternoon after the 3
} o'clock classes the students assem-
bled in the class room and three
minutes later the officers were
elected without a single vote being
cast. Even in an age of 'racketeers'
and beer kings such organization
is astonishing to say the least. The
candidates nominated by students
living outside of the Lawyers' club
1 were rejected because they had not
complied with certain regulations
of which they had no previous
knowledge. On the other hand the
nominees of the Lawyers' club had
been notified beforehand of such
regulations and had complied with
them. While the students were re-
covering from the paralyzing effect
of having their nominees rejected
the nominations had been closed
and the election was over. Hence
no opportunity was afforded them
to move for the notnonment of
i
good than 95 per cent (ors
per cent?) of what goes by
C AND DRA 4A
T O N I G H T: In Mendelssohn
theatre at 8:15, Mr. and Mrs. On-
gawa in a program of Japanese
songs, legends, dances, and a short
play, The Fox Woman, with four
characters. The program will be
carefully explained in English.
ALEXANDER BRAILOWSKY.
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.....Bach-Busoni
Pastorale andl Capriccio.... .......... Scarlatti
S o..ata, .1. 2y(Monlight...Beethoven
Adagio Sosteimtu
Allegreto
Presto Agitato
Balade in Minor
Waltz in A Flat Major
Two Etudes
Nocturne in F Sharp Major
Scherzo in P Flat Minor..............Chopin
Poeme in F Sharp Major............Scriabi
Ritual Dane of Fire...............DeFalla
La piue (Ie lente...................Debussy
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6............Liszt
A Review by William J. Gorman.
Alexander Brailowsky is very evi-
dently by choice and temperament
a romantic artist. This made the
merits and defects of last night's
recital quite clear-cut. The Bach-
Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D
Minor and the Scarlatti Pastorale
and Capriccio were quite incom-
petently rendered; the long list of
Chopin on the program and in en-
cores was amazingly satisfying.
Mr. Brailowsky's physical abilities
seem to function only on modern
keyboard effects: that is, on speci-
fically pianistic detail. This being
conditioned to what one might call
"physical" music suggests that his
intellect is only very slightly parti-
cipating.
Mr. Brailowsky's maltreatment of
and uneasiness in what one might
call "intellectual music" furthei
suggests this. He hadn't the force
of an unpianistic technique to pro-
ject Bach's intricately planned
music or even Scarlatti's gay extro-
version. He seemed to see nothing
distasteful in attempting to lyri-
ese the Bach Fugue, by indulging
Sin retards preparatory to intricate
passage work (effective enough,
ev'en indicated, in Chopin), and in
several other minor freedoms. He
seemed to see nothing violently un-
historical in imparting to the Scar-
latti Capriccio a nervous, eccentric
gayety: a matter of effects. The
number of technical mistakes in
these two numbers, too, was sur-
prising.
In the Chopin numbers, however,
Brailowsky was entirely at ease:
giving anything but strict readings
but certainly convincing ones. Few
pianists can give to performance
of Chopin, familiar Chopin like the
G Minor Ballade, the spontaneous,
recreative illusion Brailowsky gives
it. Chopin, clearly, stimulates all
his more prominent physical abili-
ties. Chopin proves an exceptional
focus for his superabundance of
pianistic technique, for his excep-
tional resources of tone, color, bril-
liancy of bravura, and loveliness of
lyric line. In pianistic detail,
Brailowsky is possibly unsurpassed
among contemporary pianists. In
f his Chopin performances there is a
consistent quality and variety of
tone and color that almost no pian-
ist attains to.
Comparison with Horowitz is in-
evitably suggested. It proves, I
think, damaging to Brailowsky.
Horowitz has an even more bril-
liant technique; in addition he has
. an intellect flexible enough to al-
low him to use that technique for
more than one composer. One
thinks of his Bach-Busoni Organ
Prelude and Fugue in D majorgas
compared with Brailowsky's Toc-
cata and Fugue; and particularly
of his lucid reading of the thor-
oughly unpianistic Brahms inter-
mezzi, Opus 118 and 119.
Despite his virtuosic temper one
thinks of Horowitz as primarily the
classicist: recalling the crisp bril-
liance and clarity of his passage
work, the- insistence on chiselled
sarticulation of individual notes
even at the expense of a steel-like
tone quality, the clarity of his dy-
namics, his refusal to indulge in
imperceptible shading. From Hor-
owitz, one seems to detect a com-
plete process: his style deriving its
vitality from musical impulses or-
ganized by the intellect and trans-
lated into pianistic terms by ener-
gy, reaching from mind to figures
Brailowsky's playing seems to be
merely a question of fingers: fing-
ers with sheer instinct for the fund
of lovely effects the modern piano,
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Dr. Frederick B. Fisher, Minister
10:30 A.
Sermon
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M.-Morning
topic: "What
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Worship.
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12:00 N.-"Comparative Religions."
Sunday school class led by Mrs.
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6:00 P. M.-Dean Henderson will
speak on the topic: "Hands and
Arms Across the Sea."
7:00 P. M.-Social Hour.
HILLEL FOUNDATION
615 East University
Rabbi Bernard Heller
Sunday Lecture Service 11:15 A. M.
Address by A. L. Sachar, subject:
"The Romance of History."
7:30 P. M.-Open Forum. Address
by Floyd K. Reily of the Univer-
sity Speech Dept. Subject: "Set-
tling the Problems of the Next Ten
Years."
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1930
Night Editor-DAVID M. NICHO'
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THE RIGHT STEP.
With the appointment of a com-
mittee to be made this week b
Dean John R. Effinger, of the liter-
ary college, the members of whicl-
will make a special study of mark-
ing systems used in colleges and
universities throughout the coun-
try, the faculty in the future will
be able to compare our present
system and its effectiveness with
systems used in other institutions.
The old question of marks i>
always coming up, and it ha:
reached the place where marks ar(
no longer the expression of thi
college but of the department, ant
sometimes, quite unfortunately, o:
the individual professor.
There can be no doubt in th(
mind of the undergraduate that s
great amount of unfairness goe.
on in the distribution of markes
However, the extent to which this
is practiced in comparison with
other institutions will only be re-
vealed when the committee has
made its report.
It will be remembered that back
in the early 1900's the University
had only three marks-not pass-
ing, passing, and very satisfactory
However, with the installation of a
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on the
campus, the plan was changed and
the A, B, C, D, E system was
adopted.
If the committee is to make a
thorough investigation, it must
take into consideration the condi-
tions that now exist on the campus
Under the present system the stud-
ent forces himself to memorize to
a great extent, often leaving his
work until the last minute. This
habit of depending on the gods for
assistance quite frequently leaves
the offender dangling in the mud.
If he happens, however, to be suc-
cessful he continues with his ac-
quired habit of learning for the
present, with total disregard for
the need of obtaining knowledge
for the future.
Any system which might be
named, however, will have its
faults as well as its good points.
FF1.r rnhlom.the -k -rnmi++ fa nrc,
.IRST BAPTIST
E. Huron, below
R. Edward Sayles,
Howard R. Chapman,
Students.
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Minister of
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9:45 A. M.-Church School. Mr.
Wallace Watt, Superintendent.
10:45 A. M.-Church Worship. Mr.
Sayles will preach on
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12:00 N.-University Students' class
at Guild House, closing promptly
at 12:40. Mr. Chapman.
5:30 P. M.-Hour for social fellow-
ship. Refreshments.
6:30 P. M.-Devotional hour. G.
Ronald Innes, leader. "Lessons
from Great Characters.'
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9:00 A. M.-Bible School.
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Washington St. at Fifth Ave.
E. C. Stellhorn, Pastor
9:00 A. M.-Sunday School.
10:30 A. M.-Service with sermon
by the pastor on "Gospel Shoes."
4:45 P. M.-Student Study hour.
5:30 P. M.-Student Fellowship and
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7:30 P. M.-Wednesday
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Evening
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The Reading Room, 10 and 11
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