I THE MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1934 THE MICHIGAN DAILY a rushee to inquire into the financial condition of a house. The better houses will acquaint rushees with this data without being asked. Much has been said about this or that fraternity being the "best" on the campus because it has a lot of men in activities, or because it ranks high in scholarship. There are absolutely no "best" fraternities on this campus. The best fraternity for you is the one in which you find conditions most congenial. Houses in desperate straits for men will attempt to railroad or "hot box" a man into their house. They will attempt to pledge rushees before they have a chance to see other houses. The freshman should remember that it is absolutely against the rules of the Interfraternity Council to pledge a house in any other manner than that one set down by the Council. It has always been a delicate question of eti- quette with rushees as to whether it is proper to break dates with houses. It is perfectly proper as no house is interested in rushing a man that is not interested in it. If a rushee breaks a date under such circumstances it really is for the good of both sides. Finally, it should be remembered that as hard put as some fraternities are to stay in existence they still are not asking any man that will take a pledge button. Freshmen wanting a certain house should try in every manner to make an impression at that house. Collegiate Observei By BUD BERNARD An overjoyed senior sends in the following con- tribution My nerves can hardly stand the shock I got stuck with an eight o'clock. And my habits will change For I surmise It will be early to bed And early to rise. * * * * The Daly Illini tells us the remarkable story about the family that named the fourteenth offspring "Finis." The fifteenth, very appro- priately was named "Postscript." U Drugs & Prescriptions QUALITY and DEPENDABILITY College trained men (Michigan Graduates) in Charge. 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A Kappa at the University of Illinois recently told a group of prospective pledges that most of the fire in the co-ed's eye is quenched by the water on her brain. An English professor at the University of Kan- sas had the right idea when he reversed the usual class order and gave the snappy comeback himself. On answering his own question on why horses weren't used on the English stage he stated -seriously -"Back in the old days, the stages were too unstable." Intelligent and Interested Service SEE US FIRST Calkins-Fletcher Drug Co. THE DEPENDABLE STORES Finis To The Pot Tradition. . Unfinished Business .. A PPARENTLY WELL CONTENT with their routine manner of exist- ence, Michigan students are shocked only at stated intervals into cheering or booing, holding mass meetings, and writing letters to the editor. But even at Michigan the calm seas are occasionally troubled by the insistence of burning issues. Some of Michigan's problems have been com- mon to collegiana everywhere, others entirely lo- calized. Most of them have been, either in prin- ciple or form, truly Michigan. Many of them are perennial favorites that will rear their ugly heads again before the year is over. No question of academic or administrative policy concerned the campus as much last year as did one of city paternalism-- the beer ban east of Di- vision Street. East side merchants and students were joined by prominent citizens and faculty men in a bitter fight to oust the antiquated bit of city legislation that has no sanction under new State laws but sticks all the more firmly. Granted an opportunity to vote on the issue, Ann Arbor citizens determined that the misguided student must be forever guarded from the demon rum. For a political, economic, and social issue, the question of war participation gained an abnormal amount of student interest. But a year of stirring debate at the Spring Parley, the Anti-War Confer- ence, and many lesser meetings, as well as in newspaper columns and midnight bull sessions changed few prejudices and did little for the peace of the world. Campus radicals, confronted by the greatest op- portunity for conversion of souls that may ever come their way, decided upon a May Day junket to Detroit as the means of showing their "solidarity with labor." Arrived in Detroit, a strange composite of sincere radicals and college boys out for a good time, they were met by an augmented police force with little to claim its attention. Back home, their outraged dignity won them little sympathy from even liberal student thinkers. They remained, as before, more of a laughing stock than an influence for good. The Undergraduate Council, by continuing into its second year, managed to set some sort of record for longevity among Michigan student governing groups. Like its predecessor, the Student Council, it frequently tottered on the brink of ruin, was the subject of plots to overthrow it, and failed to interest even its own members. Probably because the student body was too disgusted and bored to do anything about it, the Undergraduate Council has tottered on into another year. To say that this body has wavered is not to imply that it is any worse than others that have gone before; perhaps it is less obnoxious and more anusing. But not until Mickey Cochrane's Tigers have won the World's Series and the Wolverines have tucked away another Big Ten championship will the open season on these lesser issues really begin. As Others See It Men of Spirit LET US PAUSE a moment, lads and ladies, and sigh for the days when college boys were men. There was a time when professors were driven from their classrooms with books and cuspidors flying about their ears; when red-hot cannon balls rolled through the halls and stoves crashed down the stairs; when state troops had to be called to quiet pranksters. Down the years from 1823 comes a heart- warming story of the inspired men of Hamilton College who dragged a cannon to the top floor of a dormitory and fired a load through a pro- fessor's door. They were bitterly disappointed because the shot missed the professor and the only damage done was suffered by the door, the opposite wall, a chair and the professor's pants, which were hanging on the chair and which accompanied the ball out through the wall. But, regardless of the failure, the story shows that in those days a man could enjoy the free play of imagination. And there was arson! College boys of today have bonfires in the park, but men of other days had arson. For several years after '6 the Yale coal yard was fired annually. Three times in those years Old North at Princeton blazed merrily. .The firing of presidents' and, professors' houses was an evening pastime. * * * * THE POT TRADITION has ended, abruptly and undeniably, by mu- tually spontaneous consent. The unanimity on the matter, after so many years of kiddish bickering, is startling: First, the clothing . stores supplied themselves with only a very limited number of pots. Second, the Undergraduate Council has an- nounced that it believes the tradition is outworn and therefore the Council will make no efforts to- ward enforcement. Third, and most important of all, the freshmen have simply forgotten all about their pots. It will be a long while, if ever, before pots are again worn on the Michigan campus. They have been relegated into the same waste basket that bustles, pantaloons, and raccoon coats occupy. They are out-dated, out-grown. They pass into the limbo of forgotten things a good deal like the mournful figure of Sir Walter Scott's imagina- tion: "unwept, unhonored, and unsung." The Hunting Season.. HEY ARE PLAYING a game at the University this week and next. It is called rushing. In this game fraternities line up against each other and in the mad scramble ensuing each house endeavors to get as many of the rushees as pos- sible. These rushees are'exceptionally diverse. There are smart ones and dumb ones, there are rich ones and poor ones, there are "smoothies" and "spooks." The object of each fraternity is to pledge the smart, the rich, and the "smooth." All in all it is a rather nasty game, with doubt- ful strategy employed by both sides. A lot of feel- ings are hurt, some unnecessary slandering com- mitted. This is true of the fraternity system here as much as it is at any other college. It should be understood by rushees that they are prizes in this game and like all prizes are treated with the utmost care. Fraternities will in every way parade the good points of their houtes, leav- Add this to your list of definitions: An egoist, says a senior at the University of Wisconsin, is the fellow who, when kissing his sweetheart, murmurs that he must be the second happiest person in the world. * * ** Here are two fraternity house rules of a promi- nent house at Ohio State University: 1. No liquor of any kind will be allowed in the house. 2. Bottles will not be thrown from upper story windows. * * -* * Co-education was once a race for supremacy between the sexes, but now it's neck and neck, * * *. * As a punishment for stealing pencils from the library at the University of Oregon, students are deprived of their shoe laces, which are used to tie pencils to the desk. * * * * A freshman here, thinking he knows all about co-eds sends me the following: Eanie, meanie, miney, mo; Don't ever take a co-ed's "no." If she hollers let her know There is just one way to get your dough. * * * * The students at the University of Kentucky have already taken steps towards freedom. Recent plans made it possible for co-eds to visit fraternity houses until 11:30 unchaperoned. * * * * If a co-ed does it, she exercises the feminine privilege of changing her mind. If a man does it, he's a cock-eyed liar. vs Washington Off The Record EDITOR'S NOTE: The author of this column is a University of Michigan graduate who has done news- paper work in Ohio, Oklah6ma, New York, and Wash- ington, D.C. She gathers material for. her column, which will appear on this page from time to time, in the daily round of the Capitol reporter. By SIGRID ARNE SECRETARY WALLACE grinned when the lady next, to him at dinner professed concern because there were 13 people at the table. He called her attention to the great seal of the United States, which has 13 stripes, and over the head of the bald eagle, 13 stars. The motto "E Pluribus Unum" has 13 letters. The olive branch which the eagle holds in one talon has 13 leaves, and the arrows he holds in the other number 13. On the reverse side is an unfinished pyramid of 13 stones, and the motto over it, "Annuit Coeptis," has 13 letters. The lady, who had worried, marveled. When Amelia Earhart, the flier, drops into town she usually eats lunch quietly in a par- ticular hotel coffee shop where she can hide at a table which stands behind a large pillar. BRUCE KREMER, former democratic natiorll committeeman from Montana, is a man who likes the dinner table plentifully supplied with guests. They arrive when they like and stay as long as they like at the Kremer home. So his wife was surprised when Kremer wanted to take a summer home 60 miles from Wash- ington. "Our friends won't come so often," she argued. "I know," said Kremer, "but when they come they'll have to stay longer." 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