"'THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1932 _ _.- _- -__, V Yi" iyvu Published every morning except Mond.y during the University ar by the Board in Control of Student Punblications. Member of the Western Conference Editorial Association. The Associated Press. is exclusively entitled to the use for re- lication of all news disipatches credited to it or not otherwise lited in this paper and the local news published behein. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second ;s matter. Special rate of postage granted by Third Assistant trnaster General. Subscription by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50 Offices: Ann Arbor Press Building, Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, higan. Phone;: kditorial, 4925; Business, 21214. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR FRANK B. GILBRETH 'Y EDITOR........................ KARL SEIFFERT its Editor ........... .........John W. Thomas men's ditor.............................Margaret O'Brien stant Vomen's Editor ........................Elsie Feldman graph Editor............................. George A. Stauter the smoothest course is to let things remain fund- amentally static., During the past ten years, growth has been taken for granted; present hard times are teaching that there are other forms of change besides growth; some time Michigan may learn this; then institutions and offices now taken for granted will be re-examined, re-evaluated. I LMUSlC andl IDRANA I Editorial Comment ACADEMIC GRADES- (Indiana Daily Student) That academic grades are not a true measure of students' ability but probably are the best that can be hoped for under the present plan of education, has been pointed out in statements made by deans Of four uiniver gitiP ton En ztp DIAGONAL Love and the Faculty. No Pets Allowed. Ex-Politician. By Barton Kane Professor Wood is a pretty good TYPEWRI T2R8 A11 Makes -Lge anil Portable Sold Rented Ech ed Repaired large choice stock.EhsyTe9ns. 0. D. MORRI L L 1 Se Stot St., Ann .Arbor.* SALE All Shades . . $20.00 SPRING SUITS All Alterations at Cost C. DOUKAS 1319 South University LL Atif .tiMnf(A/fM .sn .sff .if John W. Pritchard Brackley Shaw - Fred A. Huber stanley W. Arnheim Edward Andrews Hyman J. Aronstam A. Ellis Ball Charles G larndt J ames Bautchat onald R. Bird Donald F. Bkanert Willard E. B laser Charles It. rownson C. Garritt Buting Arthur W. Carstens Jessie L. Barton leanor B. mIIM Jane H. Brucker Miriam Carver Beatrice Collins Alary 3. Copemnan Louise Crandall Mary M. Duggan NIGHT EDITORS Glenn R. Winters S horn : v Connellatn C. . art Schaaf Sports Assistants P~oland Mairtin REPOR'TERS Theodore K. Cohen Robert S. I)entsch Donall Elder Robert I ;noel Albert Friedman E';d ,rd A. Genz FIsirold CI ross Eric If~ll John C. (lealey Ftbert I. Iliewett M. 11. iggxins Prudence Foster Alice Gilbert (arol .. Hannan Therese R. icherman F rances Alanchester ,II:.tbetli Mann'T1 ~d ith 1. A; aples Nliarie Metzger BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 Joseph W. Renihan =. Jerome Pettit Albert NewmanI Alexander Hirschfeld Walter [E. Morrison Ward D. Morton Robert Rnwitch Alvin Schleifer G. Edwin Sheidrick Robert W. Thiorne George Van Vleck Cameron Walker Robert S. Ward GUy M. Whipple, Jr. W. Stoddard White Marie J. Murphy Margaret C. Phalan Sarah K. Rucker Marion Shepard Beverly Stark Alma \Vadsworth A arorie Western Josephine Woodhans -- ______- A G R A H A M s u er' s Ok) an Las ern s a MAiiTHA GRAHAM college newspaper. Two of the four fellow. A few days ago, John Hoad, A Review by William J. Gorman would favor abolishing the close one of his students asked him if it In a letter to The Dial after the first London grading of students, simply using would be possible for him to take performance of the "Sacre de Pritemps," T. S. Eliot the term failed, passed or excellent his examination a few days early wrote: "Frazer's Golden Bough can be read as a reve- to denote the final standing of the because he wanted to go to Virginia lation of that vanished mind of which our mind is student each term. with his girl. a continuation." This was the key to his own poem In commenting on the present Professor Wood said he might let The Waste Land which contains all the emotional system of grading college students, him go if his girl came to his office horror implicit in that interpretation of Frazer. With Dean W. H. Wannainaker of Duke and asked for permission. Hoad his precise technique of irony, Eliot showed "the dis- university takes a stand favoring brought his girl over; pushed her credited religious forms emerging against a back- a "quality" requirement for grad- into the office; got permission to ground of our new secular faith." He crossed many utoiamc sasml un ot igna threads of ancientriulndrmnewtbtso uation, inasmuch as a simple quan-' go to Virginia. thed facetritual and romance with bits ofj modern existence; the result being itself a sort of tity requirement is vicious and in * * * ritual which evoked the most typa sense puts a premium on medio- William Gorman, music and dra- ritul wichevokd te mst ypical emotional crity. He believes that every stu- m rtc ett e ataGa aspects of the contemporary spirit, its disillusion, itssy ma critic, went to see Martha Gra- apathy, its feeble groping toward new water, its in- dent should make at least a C" ham Wednesday night; wrote half tense exasperation and disappointment with the average, a column review; became temper- results of its revised, secular attitudes. The personal Dean H. E. Hawkes of Columbia mental; tore up his work; said he mood of the poet, implicit throughout and giving college, Columbia university, be- would go and see Martha Graham singleness of tone, was a deeply spiritual mood in lieves that a grade received in a again before he made any com- i~iglessofton, ws . depl situlmoincollege course ought not to reflect mns which the death of the spirit is plaintively mourned the instrcor .ougmntonc*ments, and its rebirth quietly hoped for. Since then, Mr.,in the nstudts behavior court- Eliot has found what is called a 'refuge' in organizedi-oMargaret Z.WindhamSorosis religion, which has dictated to him the mode and!esy, industry, regularity of attend- M ance or anything else excepting his pledge, lives on the fifth floor of the rationale for renouncing those aspects of con- accomplishment in all of the work Jordan hall. Breaking the ruling temporary life which disgusted him. assigned in the course. At best says about co-eds having pets, Canine The obvious seriousness of Miss Graham's interest an Hawkes, a college mark is a Lover Windham brought a Boston in Primitive Mysteries," implies, it seems to me, a very rough measure. He prefers a Bull puppy up to her room. The renunciation. The program is not without sugges- system which involves four, or at girls at Jordan were so delighted tion of a reason either; for with admirable precision most, five letters or else thenotifi- with the dog that they played with and thoroughness she makes her criticism of the m it continually. Finally the dog ot cations-failed, passed, excellent,. tcniuly ial h o o contemporary feminine social equipment (Petulancei sick, all over one of the girls. Miss Remorse, Politeness, Vivacity) and of the two insin-ion in eo Windham got rid of the up cere and superficial simplifications (Optimism and ment of a more appropriate atti-' - Pessimism). These dances were eminently successful tude on the part of the student to satire and one believes Miss Graham could extendJ, p this type of comment, if she chose, to include a good ward the opportunities for a sub- s w u n g Mosher-Jordan hall to deal of what exasperated the early Eliot. stantial education which the col- State Street by his "six feet of mas- In her most serious dances, Miss Graham turns leges may afford. Such is the opin- culine charm" and blonde wavey Innher most sri ou 's dncsissGrhamur Iion of Dean L. P. Eisenhart of hair" haiun nct.1ranth, LU~~~~hi"hs ie a A)IIUiti1 0.L1c.UvitiiienIIIU01Wthi you had when YOU IFFERENT from .n:j a the stove ., '' , were a bride!" CHARLES T. KLINE ........................ Business Manage, NORRIS P. JOHNSON . ................... Assistant Manages! Department Managers Advertising.........-......-...-.-.............Vernon Bishop Advertising Contracts.......................... ..Harry R. Begley Advertising Service............................Byron C. Vedde, Publications .................................William T. Brown Accounts'...........................,...... Richard Strateneit Women's Business Manager............Ann W. Vernon i even the most expensive homes, in your day, ever had a stove like this! I can't believe that such a lovely range can cost so little to buy and operate. Brides today are lucky-even with a modest budget, they can afford an Electrochef. "There are so many superior fea- tures about electric cooking that I wouldn't be without it. The cleanliness, the convenience, the Irvil Aronson Gilbert F. Bursley Allen Clark Robert Finn Arthur E. Kohn Bernard Schnacke Grafton W. Sharp Donald A. Johnson, Dean Turner NightI Assistants Don Lyon lternard i. Good Donnia Becker Maxine Fischgrund Ann (;alhmeyer Katherine Jackson Oorothy l ayiin IlVirginia AlcCromb Caroline Mosher Helen Olson Helen Schmde a a Seefried Ifelen Spencer Kathryn Spencer Kathryn Stork Clare Unger Mary Elizabeth Watts coolness, the better flavor and healthfulness-all these things are reasons why electric cooking is the finest that money can buy. And the ElectroGhef is truly modern -its graceful, flowing lines and distinctive appearance set it apart from other stoves. I'm prouder of my Electrochef than anything else in my kitchen!" I to a consdaeration oxthatPvanisieeminoonuwievst our mind is a continuation,' exploring and recon-= Princeton university structing its attitudes and forms. As the anthro- western nddison Hibbard of North- pologists have shown, primitive religion was enor-u mously complex. At some times, the primitive be- there are two divergent attitudes leved in the presence within his own tribe of a man- towards the importance of grades. god to whom was attributed magical power. The One school holds for extreme em- tribe believed in the real and resistless potency of phasis on grades, arguing thatI his incantations and on certain occasions of desire without grades the incentive for i a student's work is removed. A sec- the members would group around him and support!- - , - Editor-GLENN R. WINTERS SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1932 A Budget Cut That PaCigies Everyod~y M ORE than a week ago with the announce- ment of salary readjustments the University felt the first big shock from the reduction in the state appropriations. Dr. Ruthven is to be con- gratulated on having brought the University through this trying crisis with a minimum of con- troversy, for the status quo has been maintained so perfectly that, while almost no one is satisfied with the cut, on the other hand very few can ob- ject to it on grounds of having lost their positions. A month, before the cut was made we tried to point out that the impending reduction offered a great opportunity for strengthening the institution through drasic cutting out of offices and depart- ments which had not proved their worth. A chance to rebuild Michigan along stronger and more fundamental lines was offered. We feel now that this chance has been lost, for the salary cut was in effect a blanket reduction which cut out nothing, offered no new realignment of University progress, and left the whole University much the same except that it has been weakened throughout. A preliminary announcement of the reduction promised a great deal. Dr. Ruthven stated, "We have made a detailed study of the whole situa- tion." It was also announced that the case of each individual had been studied as a problem in itself and as an integral part of the general situation. Yet when the final announcement of the revised budget appeared we were surprisd to read that the number of courses in the catalogue had remained essentially the same and that the number of faculty changes was no greater than those taking place in other years. As a politic measure to meet a bad situation with the least amount of outcry from the faculty the cut has been a decided success, yet we can not help feeling that as a constructive step toward building a stronger and healthier Michigan the salary reduction has failed signally. To avoid the charge of excessive generalization and to try and show where the present set up might have been improved we will point to the budgets of certain colleges. Some colleges have accomplished much on relatively small budgets; other colleges have spent much and done little. If the number of faculty changes are no greater than in ordinary years, it should be safe to assume that the percentage of funds alloted each college will be the same under the new budget as it is now. At present the Law school spends annually $158,000 and graduates annually about 155 stu- dents which means a cost of slightly more than a thousand dollars a graduate. The school of For- estry and Conservation spends $90,000 a year and graduates about 12 men a year or a cost of $7,500 per graduate. The would-be keeper of the forest wealth of the nation here may well ponder over the idea that his education has cost the state more than six times that of a mere student in the college of Literature, Science and the Arts. Foresters are useful but, even so, only God can make a tree. ..The school of Education is too large a subject for cursory treatment; however let us examine one item on its budget, the University High School. him in a dance-ritual, the power of which would produce the desired effects. At other times, the prim- itive would hypostatize the things he feared, then worship and supplicate those hypostatizations and thus reduce his fear. Whatever else she believes about these processes, Miss Graham must think that the various rituals1 which sprung from them include and integrate into, rich forms much -that is fundamental in the mind? and body of man. This is the only excuse for study-j ng the forms, for reworking and sublimating themj into her own dance-designs. Unless, for example, anl 'Incantation', when enacted, expresses fundamentalI attitudes-invariants throughout all cultural and social contexts-the criticism that the 'idea of anj incantation' is folly would be a relevant and in some ! sense final criticism.E T~rtha rriPr nt l at fthera is nnuestion that ond school places-little or no em- phasis on grades, but argues that the reward of work accomplished should be enough for the student and 'that, after all, the professor can only estimate in a rather un- successful manner what he thinks to be the quality of the students. These le realize that grades should t be an cnd in taemseives and that, after all, they have very little to do with life as it is lived. Dean Hibbard leans to the latter group, and would be satisfied with four or even three grades: excel- lent, passed and failed. As long as the human element enters into the meting out of campus. He no longer goes to Stu- dent Council meetings. but spends his time on the golf links and thinking about getting married as soon as he gets his diploma. There are approximately three members of the baseball team that wish they had never played football for the University. These men will be unable to go to Japan with the team this summer. They have to stay in Ann Arbor and train for football. * * * Donal Haines, tin soldier collec- tor, is first a sportsman, second, a journalism instructor. Thursday night, during the final examination period, the room became filled with June bugs who had been attracted by the bright lights. Fun Lover Haines allowed the class to ad- journ; swatted June bugs; hit them on the rise. BUDGET PAYMENT PLAN $10 FIRST PAYMENT- Installed, ready to cook. Balance small monthly payments. Sales under these con- ditions to Detroit Edison customers only. THE DETROIT E DISON co. Miss Graham's "Primitive Mysteries" meet this test. grades, which undoubtedly will be h To begin with, the rhythms she achieves when she forever, there probably will be nodOn t tpage of the new 'Ensian taks te pimtiv's eliios ipules s er oin Esingle, scientific solution to the devoted to the story of the early ta departure are tremendously, however vaguely,oit problem of grades. The general co-ed, it is stated that she died last >f dparureare remndosly howvervagely tendency in recent years has been year having entered the University 'tirring. One general thing she does superbly i to abandon the practice of hairline in 1771. Whew! Even if there had 'Incantation" and "Ceremonial." With the primitive'sp e arinben Uvrs fMch effort to bring about effects by the sheer force of grading. Many colleges and uni- been a University of Michigan in ais ritual as her subject, Miss Graham is able to versities have, even in the last year, markable still require a re- reveal the body's powers of concentration and intens- I adopted the system of three grades, mrabelongevity td make this y.erethod, generallyis culirlytwe adated excellent, passed and failed, true. Further, on another page is ty. Her method, generally, is peculiarly well adapted E eeec oabto cligb IEven in the three grade system a reference to a bit of sculping by to this. As John Martin puts it: "Miss Graham has there undoubtedly are yet some Avard Fairbanks, called "Stature of built her physical system upon the basis of percus-flas A perfect sysm illo a Girl." It would really have been Aive movement-a stroke of muscular effort and its fas efc ytmwl o onsequent vibrations of recovery." That is, through- be effected until we reach that far- I easier for Mr. Fairbanks to just sut we are either experiencing a sharp, insistent, off Utopia. And, in the words of write down "five feet, two" or some- ccentual thrust or simultaneously recovering from Dean Hibbard, "the ideal college, thing if he wanted to indicate her neand expctings othermutone. Tesen anxiet, composed of an ideal faculty and stature instead of making a whole mne and expecting another one. Tenseness, anxiety,anielsuntbdwldcr statue about it. utter absorption in the task Miss Graham conveys to an ideal student body, would cer- perfection: in "Incantation" with the nervously tamly pitch all grades out of the * * * tamped circle at the base of upstretched imploring window at the first meeting of the o'loc clas o Mndaymor- O~n the program for Martha Gra- uands; in Ceremonials" with a huge, awkward angle ham we noticed that Bobbie Hen- aeld in suspense and aching for its resolution into ing' derson had gushed at some length the quick wide falls which Miss Graham executed I with such perfection. The other dances in the "Primitive Cycle" were 'Offering" and "Dolorosa." The Primitive's offering was as simple and warm as the opening out of a bud.: The Primitiv's experience of Evil was harsh and be-; wildered; in this dance Miss Graham was bold and' unsparing in pure ugliness of sculpture and motion; the primitive was ignorant of means to palliate evil, < of means to deceive himself. Miss Graham's most important group-composi- tions, I understand, are similarly based on Primitive Mysteries. This interest of hers, I am convinced, promises to be exceedingly important. The process she, as a dancer, can achieve would seem to be something like the following: she can lead our pas-t JOB HUNTING A REAL TASK (Ohio State Lantern) University graduates who will be endeavoring soon to sell themselves to employers should go about the task intelligently. Merely hunting a job never gets anyone very far. The graduate should take an inventory of himself and determine what he has to sell. Then he must proceed to locate a demand for, his services. He ought to advance systemati- cally in selling his capital to the employer. His capital consist of about how Miss Graham dancing consisted of arrested circles which the audience was supposed to com- plete in their minds. There are enough wheels turning in the minds of most of us right now, without having Miss Graham to go and start a lot more. Marie "Mah-ree" Abbot, fresh- man daughter of English professor and Christian Science Monitor cor- respondent Waldo, ran into diffi- culties recently with her Plymouth roadster. The new juggernaut of thi tnic1rn i nnic vinan~ sional lives into an awareness of our bodies; to an awareness of those elements in our bodies which made the body (what was always considered) the' best communicative medium for primitive religious impulses; and thus to an understanding, not 'no-i tional' but 'real', of those exhibitions which anthro- pologists have been finaing and describing. Miss' Graham ca4i relieve the horror of the paradox, byj revealing the elements of identity between that which is 'vanished' and that which is 'present'. "Serenade" was, for the reviewer, confusing. It had to do with Pierrot but one was unable to decide what the point of approach was. The usual thing consists of depicting with great joy-in-the-process the springhtly attitudinising of this conventionalised character. What Miss Graham was doing was not pl~ai' Tt i ininnecvab~olp that eho was ex~nroe~qino' education and experience, and UI~U~La1IhJ1U i ~fhJt inepedesran majority on campus edu ction a d expesinc e ,wiandb was stolen; later, it was returned. based. It is rumored that somebody want- But education and experience ed to cross the street once in safety. alone cannot always clinch the job. . Incidentally, the Plymouth has The applicant must have energy inoreased facilities for making and ability to perform efficiently Mah-ree s victims wrathy. It car- any task assigned to him plus a ries two bird" horns; the De Soto, willingness to work. I traded in recently, had only one. Personal appearance often goes far toward securing a position. The Examinations are getting harder job seeker should appear clean and every year. This year the univer- have his clothes pressed. Charac- sity has added to the already diffi- ter and reputation of the gradu- cult game of finding out where and ate are also graded heavily by em- when the final ordeals are to take ployers. 'place. They have reduced (as an Finally the graduate should be economy measure) the number of