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Kenan Assistants the professional ranks were dis- armed by the resignation of Presi- dent Little and in the subsequent months of duress and uncertainty as to future administrative policies, the faculties have suffered a deple- tion hardly comparable in degree to any previous period of the Uni- versity's history. These losses were augmented by an unusual number of unfortunate deaths among Mich- igan's most scholarly and beloved teachers. In keeping with the proiises of President Ruthven when under- taking the duties of his position last fall, these appointments go far toward filling up the lamentable gaps in the teaching ranks. While in some instances the new men do not excel their predecessors in ex- tent of reputation or recognition accorded their academic abilities, it is interesting to observe that younger men who have exceptional capacities and brilliance, both as teachers and conductors of re- search, are given 'preference over men who stand higher in their fields. This may be construed as indicating a very praiseworthy tendency to turn over Michigan's vast facilities for investigation to men of exceeding promise in the knowledge and hope that through availing themselves of these oppor- tunities they will achieve for them- selves and their University a place in the scholastic sun. Of such stuff have many Michi- gan faculties of the past been moulded, faculties whose member- ships included the country's most notable teachers. We welcome these new members in the hope that their success as authorities in their fields will be excelled only by their perspicacity and willingness as teachers and that they will heave a shoulder to the Michigan pro- fessorial tradition which had too long shown vast signs of faltering. POLITICAL FLYPAPER. Michigan's present gubernatorial situation reminds one of a recent assertion before the Lawyers' Club on Founders' Day that crime, in- justice and political graft are the direct results of an old-fashioned law code attempting to solve the problems of the modern era. That unwieldy piece of political flypaper which makes possible such un- necessary delays in the ascendency of either one man or another to the office of governor is at least being studied by a body of able lawyers and eminent judges whose first dutie* will be to explain to an anxious state just what is wrong with her judicial system. It is not that either man in the present gubernatorial recount is to blame, for neither can speed up the machinery of the recount by a mere wave of his hand. It is rather the fact that, as never before, the blemishes and faults in our present system of state law and entangling procedure stand out in a bold relief. Few realized the complications which a recount would include when news of the closest race for governor in Michigan's history first spread itself over the state. There are few who are not thoroughly disgusted by this time after waiting for weeks for the answer to the question, "Just who will oppose Mr. Comstock in the November elec- tion?" Our point is not a criticism of either candidate; it, is rather a word of praise for the men who are now' taking the law-code of our state apart in order to determine why it isn't ticking the way it should and what should be done to remedy the. situation. It remains only for such instances as the re- count to bring out the absolutel unwieldiness of our "modern"I judiciary. 0 0 1Editorial Comment I OASTED ROLL TWO MORE DAYS I I i i i { 3 I, i i i A { About Books ANDRE GIDE. My, my, only two more days and it will be Saturday again (Special to those who have Saturday classes, 'fTHE IMMORALIST: by Gide: published 19A by Knopf: Price $2.50. French critics, Jacques Andre Alfredt Riviere ' i t --only three more days until Sun- and Albert Thibaudet, assure us day). It certainly is wonderful how that Gide is the deepest influence the prospect of week-ends enlivens nyra the outlook. Pretty soon now it will in contemporary French literature. -~K net- - i1h B',- k- l id j {{ f! " i I Thomas E. Hastings Harry R. Begley William Brown Richard H. Hiller Vernon Bishop William W. Davis H. Fred Schaefer Joseph Gardner Ann Verner DrteaWterman Alice McCully Dorothy Bloomgard Dorothy Laylin Josephine Convisser ernice Glaser Hlortense Gooding Byron V. Vedder .Erle Kightlinger Richard Stratemeier Abe Kirshenbauin Noel D. Turner Aubrey L. Swinton Wesley C. Geisler Alfred S. Remsen Laura Codling Ethel Constas Anna Goldberg en Virginia McComb Joan Wiese Mary Watts Marian Atran Sylvia Miller 802 PACKARD ST. LUNCHEON SPECIAL DAILY 11:30 to 1:00 r 25c 1DINNER SPECIAL 5:30 to 7:00 TODAY ROAST PORK, APPLE SAUCE SWEET POTATOES OR h SHORT STEAKS FRIEDPOTATOES TOMATOES 35c be only a month or so until Christ- mas. Another banner in the morn-j ing paper (Ann Arbor's fore- most morning sheet) has met my astounded gaze. It seems that someone has been sucked in to buying the old barn back of the Union at last. What could be more deserving of notice. I think that if any real money had changed hands it would be worthy of a special edition. S * * SUGGESTION. The graceful thing for some loyal member of Mimes to do would be to dash around to the Ann Arbor Sewer Commission or whoever takes care of such things and have them condemn the place. I'will say, in connection with their calling it a laboratory,-it has all the appear- ances of one as regards the number of broken bottles, the condition of the paint, and the general atmos- phere. ., * The Rolls Artist, having nothing better to do, has taken to reading the papers, and finds that someone else is arranging more freshman mixers. From the looks on the faces of most of those I have seen gazing askance at the room-numbers in A. H., this is entirely super- flous, not to mention unkind, * * * Jed-writes in to say that he wonders how long it will be before we will be having lights out rules now that our rushing problems and traffic worries are all so ably cared for by our elders. * * * What are you kicking about, Jed? They still let us smoke don't they? - Do they? - cross out one, take three steps to the right and fill in blank space with a picture of your favorite movie actress. * * , * Jake-tells me that if you are too poor to afford concert tickets, -as who isn't?-You can get quite as good an effect by visiting the Study Hall in A. H. one of these days (I'm told people do some- times) and listening to large num- bers of coeds chewing their gum ,in varying keys. Dear Dan:, I-Iave you observed the painters working on the Law building? They started on the windows at the north side last spring, and now they have worked around to the south side. By the time they get the rest of the way around the building- oh, say next spring sometime-the north side windows will be ready for a new coat. Heh! and people talk about the unemployment situ- ation. Committee on These and Those. a * * If those guys don't think there is an unemployment situ- ation I'd like to ask them why they think I am sitting here writing this bilge, thats all. I'd just like to ask them. * * * Dear Dan Baxter: I take my fingerly operated type- writer in hand to record for your edification the fact that, facing page 33 of volume six of the En- ciclopedia Italiana, there is a full- page illustration of a bunch of ripej bananas.f Yours for bigger and better gobs of perfectly useless information, P.-U.O.! * * * Aside from deducing that the author of the above had a port- able typewriter, I was at a loss as to his identity until I put the Pherret on his trail. He tells me that the gent is a professor who teaches math. or The Ethics of Roman Band Instru- ments or something. All I can say is that he has a different , volume of the Encyclopedia Italiana from mine, - not to mention spelling it differently. * * * _ ._ n ur ei m a in a spendti aricel in the June Bookman has- contri- buted the only suggestive American interpretation of Gide. From an examination of the work of Thomas Mann and Andre Gide, Burke reaches a negative attitude or tem- porary acceptance of the present chaos of values that has extraord- inary interest on its own right. Its accuracy as interpretation of Gide I should like to question. Of Gide, Burke says in my sum- mary the following: Gide's work is characterized by experimentalism, vacillation, a distrust of all sys- tematisation'in the realm of value and a consequent attempt to humanize that state of cautious doubt (clearly a common contem- porary experience). His art then, Burke says;purposely confines itself to the problematical as a corrective for the too facile assertion of vari- ous Certainties, such as the one with "the deceptive allurement of tradition" (i.e. Humanism). It is a strikingly ingenious inter- pretation of Gide. It seems to fit his most important novel, The Counterfeiters, a d m i r a b1 y. For there, surely, is an unresolved in- tricacy of values; a set of males and females each savouring some elegant perversion; with never an implied judgement from the author. But Burke's thesis seems quite less valid in the light of The Imi- moralist, Gide's first novel, just now translated. And, I might add, in the light of Gide's public defences of sexual inversion, and the exqui- site delight with which he details his famous trip to Algeria with Lord Alfred Douglas and Oscar Wilde. In The Immoralist, Michel is awakened by a near-experience of death from the somnolence of a contented Calvinism and his stu- dies in archaeology (which means, if one knows Gide's "symbolism," that he les .ailed to tend to his sexual orienation) to the delights of sensation. ls intellectuality now seems utterl futile to him. The solution is the utter affirmation of the senses. Returning to Normandy he pushes geyond good and evil into the fields at night where he cavorts with the coarsest help on his farm. His wife, who had nursed him, falls ill with tuberculosis. Though he caresses her with tender pledges of affection, Michel grad- ually takes her from village to vil- lage, killing her. Though professing grief, he finds immediate consola- tion in an Arab boy. The outline of the story should not be unfamiliar to American readers. We have often seen the meeting of two human bodies given the significance of the gravitational shift of two unhinged stars. Puri- tans finding resolution in utter paganism are almost types in con- temporary literature. The most annoying thing about Anderson and D. H. Lawrence, both of them artists, was that they dissipated the contemporary problem with just such sex myths. Gide is similar. The inversion one can label "continental." In addition, he has surrounded his story with all the fin-de-siecle glamour of the cult of sin (the Arthur Symons version of Baudelaire, the early Huysmans, the nasty elegance of Wilde, etc.) By a masterly use of insinuation and a superb finish to his prose that gives the illusion of sincere precision in analysis and which dis- guises the actual distortion of the novel's contours, Gide has almost succeeded in "making Michel's whole conduct legitimate." That this was his aim he somewhat self- consciously denies in the introduc- tion. As I see it, a character that is no more than a "case" (Gide's own personal case indeed, as one learns from his autobiography) is being seductively urged on the reader. I can see in The Immoralist none of I the studied vacillation that Burke 1 so admires in Gide. But rather, offensively clear admiration for his character, the immoralist. The whole texture of the book has a testamental accent. There is the same urging, seductive, prophetic spirit one finds so obnoxious, be- I !111111111111111111111111111111 Farmers & MechanicDan1111k 1111111111111 111111111111iit liltl i E205, East Huron 330 South State Street I WELCOME / f Again we extend a hearty welcome to the mmbers of the University. As a part of your community we represent an ideal of progress and achievement, and it is a policy of this Bank to Foster that ideal in others. Make our Bank your guide. Member Federal ReserVe System 11M111e11111111111111r1111l R se1111 111111rvell l 1111111. 1 1 1 Satisfaction--Service PLEDGE PINS BUTTONS, BADGES GUARDS STATIONERY GIFTS Burr, Patterson & i THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930 Night Editor-BEACH CONGER, Jr. I PFA WE ARE REDUCING. Signs that Michigan may even- tually be relievdd of her sometimes aggravating elephantine condition were apparent in the enrollment figures published in Tuesday's Daily. These facts showed that' the University had experienced a healthy decrease in membership of roughly 7.4 per cent under the number of persons enrolled at this time last year. But of pertinent and gratifying significance is the fact that over 85 per cent of this de- crease occurred in the Literary col- lege registration. It was; further revealed that in this college one- third of the registrants were women, showing a striking increase of their enrollment since the time several years back when they were only one-fifth of the Literary col- lege's population. . Inasmuch as virtually the same number of freshmen were admitted this year as formerly, the decrease of enrollment was largely in the upper classes. While it may be argued that in these months of de- pression and economic bamboozle- ment the falling attendance may be attributed to financial reasons, it is our hope that the decrease is due to a sharpened sense of dis- crimination on the part of the ad- ministration regarding those who have cluttered up the classes of the Literary college without serious academic intentions. Such weeding out, as we have earnestly and re- spectfully suggested in these col- umns on many occasions past, would: be a most efficacious and immediate cure for numerous Liter- ary college ailments. What we have in mind when we suggest a pruning out of undesir- ables is not the ruthless sort of reducing which (speaking allegoric- ally) may be had by a vigorous shakedown, but a persistent dim- 0 - - - A UNIVERSITY OF HUMAN BEINGS.E (From the Daily Cardinal) "Fraternities," says Pres. Robert G. Sproul of the University of Cali- fornia, "are important in develop- ing individuality as well as in supplying color and enthusiasm Certain outside influences are continually decrying the 'mass pro- duction' system of the university, and it rests with the fraternities! to remove this stigma." "I," he concluded his recent speech to the interfraternity coun- cil of his university, "have no desire to head a university of grades and papers and reports and mechanical functions, but a desire, to head a university of human i : 11 fi 1p. . ..