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of 1932 and 1933 made the eternal quest again seem
hopeless.
Never in recent years have Spartan followers
been privileged to see a Michigan game at home.
Annually large numbers of students have made
the trip to Ann Arbor, yelled their hearts out, seen
their game teams fail. This was State's year, but
it could never have been except for the undying
support of one of the most loyal student bodies in
the country.
But the goal posts are made of sterner stuff
than they were in the old days.
Forgotten In
The Shuffle...
F OR DAYS the entire country has
been lost in the playing of the
World Series. Every baseball fan has been en-
grossed in the classic of the year, listening to hours
of broadcasting and reading yards of newspaper
copy. The public has adopted new heroes: Coch-
rane, Gehringer, and Rowe; Frisch, Medwick, and
the Deans.
All the glare of this spotlight has dimmed the
passing of a famous star of yesterday: the man
admittedly the greatest drawing card in the his-
tory of the game, the man who was different and
made the game different, the man whose name
was known to every baseball follower in the coun-
try - the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth.
With his team hopelessly out of a dying pen-
nant race, the Babe's last game as a regular
was highly played up by New York newspapers.
But at the Yankee Stadium, his home grounds
where he had thrilled millions of fans with his
batting prowess, only a handful of faithful fans
came out to witness his last effort.
Ruth will not be away from the game long.
His playing days may be gone, but he will never
pass completely from the baseball picture. Some-
one will reach out and offer him a position that
will more fit his aging years.
As Others See It
The Late Joe College
IT HAS RECENTLY been brought to our atten-
tion that the day of Joe College has passed.
For this enlightening bit of information we are in-
debted to no less an authority than Princeton's own
Day Edgar, writing in that self-styled "man's man"
magazine, Esquire.
Restraint, notes Mr. Edgar, is now characteristic
of our leading institutions as loud and glorified
boorishness was in the last decade, and there are
definite signs of a growing sense of dignity and
self-respect on the nation's campus.
So far, so good. But even the optimistic Mr. Ed-
gar must admit that there is a long road yet to
travel. Merely to cease being openly obnoxious is
not enough, however much of a relief the change
may bring to these older citizens who had to rub
elbows with the stuffed coonskin coats of the
twenties. And right at the present there seems
to be an imminent danger that restraint will be
used as an excuse for letting others do the think-
ing, the planning, and the execution of all that
the future may bring to this sadly- puzzled world.
Reserve is all very well, even in a college stu-
dent, but like all good qualities it can be carried
to highly dangerous extremes. And, simply be-
cause it is easier to be snobbish than to be intel-
ligent, to be a banker's son than to be even a
moderately zealous political, social, or financial re-
former, the products of our oldest and best uni-
versities (the radjectives, it might be noted, are
not necessarily synonymous) are contributing only
a small fraction of their debt to the civilization
which placed them in their position of opportunity.
. Mr. Edgar, who has had a fairly wide experience
in writing stories of campus life, mentions one fact
of more than passing significance, namely, that
most editors and readers prefer to have their un-
dergraduate characters "amiably lampooned,
treated as butts for comedy rather than as intel-
ligent human beings." The reason behind this is no
deep mystery. It follows naturally from the great
American college custom of playing at life, of
being absorbed more in the petty ripples of campus
society, and in some cases, campus politics, than
in the really significant events which are moving
the world at large. But how to stir the American
lethargy and push it into the outskirts of the public
struggle is a problem to tax the wisdom of a sage.
A not entirely hopeless problem, however. Joe Col-
lege, as we have seen, has passed on, and in his
time he too must have seemed an irremediable
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Dances at the Union Ball are quite often an exhibit of Goldman craftmanship in
making clothes look smart. Goldman's today do more than clean. By the modern
process of Re-texturing they give every fabric the feel and hang of new goods. No
weight is lost. Garments have a freshness and wearing quality that change all your
ideas about dry cleaning. Any Goldman customer will tell you that Goldman dry
cleaning costs less because garments hold shape and resist soil and stains much longer.
An item in the University of Akron Daily gives
the following advice to freshmen:
To the women we say :
Don't loaf excessively in establishments sur-
rounding the campus - or portray yourself as a
cigarette fiend in the aforementioned places.
Leave your hi-de-ho high school manners andj
reputations right where you got them.
Don't rush the sorority - let it rush you.
Don't kiss a fraternity man on the first date -
some men talk.
To the men we say:
Forget what a big man you were at high school.
Don't carry a bottle.
Don't set yourself up as the ideal campus play-
boy - fraternities are a little solicitous about their
grade averages.
Don't be a loud mouth.
There are some other more serious things like
halitosis which may hurt your chances to rate a
social organization but we are through giving you
pointers like this.
A Phi Bete sends this word of warning to me:
WORD OF WARNING
Four long years he worked and sweated,
Labored conscientiously,
Crammed for tests and wrote his papers.
Then he won his Phi Bete key.
Now he's working at a counter,
And while waiting to make sales
Reaches for the gold insignia
And calmly cleans his fingernails.
Unless serious automobile accidents decrease a
ban will be put on cars on the University of North-
western campus.
"And what," asked a professor of economics
at the University of Illinois, "is a vicious
circle?"
"A fraternity bull session," came the reply
from the back of the room.
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The Richmond Collegian, which describes it-
self as a humanitarian newspaper will begin in its
next issue a series of articles on just how an
ideal man or an ideal girl should be. We under-
stand that the foremost lovers on the campus will
express their views.
A Manchester college student phoning to
request a date, was met with: "I'm sorry,
but I am afraid you are just a little bit late.
You see I was married two months ago."
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By SIGRID ARNE
AMBASSADOR "BILL" BULLITT of the U.S.S.R.
is such a dynamic person that he is constantly
in need of his famous nonchalance.
He was one of dozens of business men and
government officials registered at a hotel here
to speed their related conferences.
- One meeting started bright and early in Bullitt's
room while he was taking a shower. Heated argu-
ment developed, Bullitt yelling his views between
splashes. Finally he dashed out dripping, a towel
around his waist, saying he'd get someone to prove
his point.
He charged into the hall just as a cabinet wife
emerged from her suite. She gasped.
He stopped short, bowed elaborately and said:
"Good morning. Imagine meeting you here!"
A harried and hurried deputy administrator
of NRA dropped into the code record section
for detailed information he needed.
"The dog food code," he said to a fluttering
young woman in charge.
She handed him a file. He glanced at it, and
handed it back.
That's the manganese code," he snapped.
"Y-e-e-s," she cooed, "you know, those cute
little brown-eyed ones with short legs."
THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES is wondering
when people will finally stop believing that
queer story about halibut.
They still write in to ask if halibut have heads
like mermaids.
It seems the legend grew up because halibut are
always brought to shore headless and cleaned. That
is simply because they are caught far out from
shore and the fishermen have time to clean them
before they dock.
So far the ultimate at NRA has been reached
by the hoboes. They wrote asking for a code.
WHEN THE ARMY began preparations for the
Mexican-American army polo matches here
they asked that Potomac Park, the scene of the
matches, be roped off. They planned to charge
for admission.
"Sorry, this is public property," said park police.
But there were the boxes. The army sent a dele-
gation to Secretary Ickes of interior. As such, he
is director of public parks. The delegation offered
him a box at $50.
"What in thunder !" he exploded. "Say, that's one
of my parks."
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Inasmuch as the program of the National Stu-
dent League declares itself unequivocally for polit-
ical, social, and economic equality for all racial mi-
norities, the Michigan chapter of the N.S.L. has
sent the following open letter to Fielding H. Yost
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"A number of unverified rumors have been cir-
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Wara1 will be barred from the Georgia Tech game
because of the fact that he is a negro. The National
Student League, determined to fight all forms of
racial discrimination, is naturally concerned about
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