TH-E --MICHIGAN -DAILY TUESDAY, TUESDAY, This Week Is Only The Beginning.. . E ARLY TODAY the class of'38 enters upon that strange interlude known officially as Orientation Period and more infor- mally as Freshman Week. Such a period is no novelty at Michigan, but has come into vogue at the great majority of American colleges and uni- versities, which fact alone may indicate some- thing of its value as an educational weapon. Helpful as such a week may be to the admin- istration of the University, it has beery conceived and designed primarily for the benefit of . the freshman himself. It is successful only insofar as it justifies itself from that standpoint. .If the program as a whole lacks some of 'the attractiveness of a.college football game or one of the big dances of the year, its. directors are scarcely to be blamed-for poor showmanship. Their purpose is not to compete with more alluring forms of entertainment. What is more, if the schedule is not perfect in every detail, or if it fails to suit students of widely varying interests, it is still much more than the whim of college professors who have lived too long. Probably no;freshman :will realize ,until next semester and the several semesters followingthat getting through the registration and classification lines intact is more exacting than any course in the curriculum. To the freshman alone is granted the privilege of a personally-conducted tour through the No Man's Land of red tape in this large University. Beginning today the University is catering espe- cially to the incoming class. After this one week, the individual freshman will be leftto his own devices; he will be one more or less among a student body of eight or nine thousand. After this one week the University will no longer come to him; he must go to the University. The Figures Can Do No Wrong.. . (N ALMOST every University office I administrators and clerks have been hopefully peering since early summer at every set of figures that might give some hint as to the student enrollment for 1934-35 With registra- tion actually underway, the situation is bound to become even more alarmingly tense in the next week or two. Students, faculty, alumni, and towns- people will daily peruse the latest statistics, trust- ing that in the end the University may record six more freshmen than ever before, and that the literary college will number 53 students greater than last year. "Early figures make an increased enrollment seem highly possible. An increase is desirable not because mass production is the prevailing ideal of an institution of higher learning, but because it is a worthwhile index of return to more normal times, both on and off the campus. No one holds any brief for the continuance of depression years. They have worked great hard- ship on students who have had to struggle along on very little. They have worked general hardship on all who have atterjded a University with cur-3 tailed facilities. But just as the score may not always tell how good the game has been, depression years-have not been all bad. In many ways they have been saner ones than those that went before. Certainly they have been interesting and challenging to college students. Michigan's name has become no less famous because it houses fewer students or treats them a little less royally. Whatever the outlook for the future as regis- tered in this year's figures, at least one more year of hard times, of trial and error, of challenging problems is ahead. The upperclassman has be- come hardened to it; the freshman will be no worse off for beginning his college career under such conditions. Collegiate Observer ! By BUD BERNARD Blessings on thee little frosh Fertile soil for brother's bosh With that silly freshman cap, And the smugness of thy map, With the tales of high school years Falling flat on college ears, Care not what the Greeks may tell you Our house is the best one for you, Your dough, you know, they do not hate Blessings on thee '38. At the University of Maryland it is a custom that freshmen shall not wear tuxedos or full dress. The rule originally was made in order to spare freshmen the expense of purchasing formal eve- ning wear. * * * * At the University of New Mexico a freshman has gained prominence already. He has drunk so much coffee and has eaten so many dough- nuts .that he has everyone calling him a a regular dunkard. * * * * At Stanford University the freshmen co-eds can stay out until 12 o'clock week nights and until two o'clock Saturday nights - if she passes a physical examination. Must be a, strain. NEW CARS FOR TAXI SERVICE PP H H 00 E4545N CAMPUS CABS 24-HOUR SERVICE NEW STUDENTS You will be impressed by the kind of Service you will find at the Uni- tarian Church. It Is intellectually progressive and emotionally sound - Bring your honest doubts and your most dangerous ideals with you. September 23rd at 10:45 - Mr. Marley will speak on "Religion and Social Sanity." September 30th - Five o'clock Devotional Service. 6:00 -Fellowship Supper. 7:30 - Student discussion. The Fellowship Of Liberal Religion State and Huron Streets A REAL SCOOP! Never before have the students been able to receive the attentiot and service we are able to offer them in all musical lines. I the Ann Arbor store does not carry the article, the Detroit offic< does and it takes only a few days to complete an order. VICTROLA RECORDS - CLASSICAL AND POPULAR MUSIC - PIANO RENTALS - RADIOS - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS GRINNELL BROS. 116 South Main St. Phone 7312 I- -i - III.___ _ _________ READ THE DAILY CLASSIFIED ADS ,% ". * ATTENTION PROSPECTIVE PLEDGES! Students who give in when they are wrong are wise, but the one who gives in when he is right is a pledge. * * * * A frosh at the University of Missouri on receipt of a box from home wrote a note of appreciation. "Dear Aunt Mary. Thanks for the cake. The piece I got was fine." * * * - Nowhere will freshmen feel more at home than in the University of California's Memorial Stadium which was painted green during the summer months. , . * * * * I will not vouch for the truthfulness of this article but the story came to me about a fresh- man at the University of Kentucky who signed up for a language -class and attended a geology class for two weeks before discovering it was not his German section. * * * * The average college fraternity man spends some- thing like 10 times as much on fraternity ex- penses, cigarettes, candy, movies and dates as he does on textbooks, the National Association of Teachers of Marketing has discovered. And with a little more perseverance it should be possible to eliminate the last item altogether. * * * * Frosh customs, including the wearing of "pots" =has been revived at the University of California fby so-called spirited upper class groups. Under the new order of things, "Co-operation - not en- forcement," the vigilance committee will have no authority to punish offenders but will report "unsocial"men to sports, activities, class, and fra- ternity heads, "who may act as they see fit." Wasington 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, Oklahoma, 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 RAYMOND MOLEY, who used to be known as "Brain Truster No. One," slips in and out of town so unobtrusively that his visits often pass unnoticed. But one sure way of finding him is to search the Cosmos Club at lunch time. There he usually is found with Under-Secretary Rexford Tugwell of agriculture, present "Brain Truster No. One." Their presence recalls a favorite Washington story, which goes: "There are only three clubs here - the Cosmos Club,- where men with lots of brains and no money belong; the So-and-So Club where men with no brains and lots of money belong; and the This-and-That Club where - well, you figure it out." When Washington's ambitious building program is , completed, historic Pennsylvania Avenue - street of many notable parades - is scheduled to relinquish its prominence to the new and hand- some Constitution Avenue which is emerging from the confused building operations. In years past, Constitution Avenue was a canal running through the capital. An old canal house still stands on one corner. THE YOUNGER Washington crowd is enjoying some laughs at the expense of the pretty and popular Helen Defrees, daughter of the comman- dant of the navy yard. She is afraid of only one thing - thunderstorms. One terrfic storm struck as she was entertain- ing a caller in the parlor of the commandant's home. Without a word of explanation Miss Defrees arabbed a sofa nillow. nulled it over her head CHORAL UNION CONCERTS HILL AUDITORIUM ANN ARBOR See it Metropolitan Opera Association Nov. iLAWRENETBET Metropolitan Opera Association Nov. 19-DONCOSSACK RUSSIAN MALE CHORUS SERGE JAROFF, Conductor Consisting of 36 expatriated officers from the Imperial Army in a program of Russian Church music, folk songs and soldier songs. Dec. 3-josef Szigetil "Hungary's greatest Violinist" Dec. 1-BOSTO N SYMPHONY ORCH ESTRA SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, Conductor More than 100 players. Jan. 25-LOTTE LEHMANN, Metropolitan Opera Association Feb. 12-ose Iturbi, Distinguished Spanish Pianist Feb. 20-GORDON STRING QUARTET JACQUES GORDON, First Violinist RALPH SILVERMAN, Second Violinist PAUL ROBYN, Viola NAOUM BENDITZKY, Cellist Mar. 4-ARTUR SCHNABEL, Eminent German Pianist Give Us More Women! There is a woman at the beginning of all great things, says Lamartine, but if that philosophic gentleman had lived to see the University of Illinois campus at registration time he would -have amended his statement to read "There is a dearth of women at the beginning of some great things, Alas, alas!" The University of Illinois- has sought for years by means of its publicity department and otherwise to bring worthy students under its academic wings. But in this effort there has been, so far as we can see, no attempt to equalize the newcomers on the basis of sex. And the ratio remains, sadly enough, about 2.86 males to 1 female. (We saw the .86 running around here yesterday.) This improper balance of the sexes has dire so- cial consequences. First, ittends to make the one female, whatever be her physical aspects, much dated and inclined to be snooty toward the 2.86 males. Second, it deadens the academic life of the faculty. A professor has a hard time getting a grade A line-up of feminine attributes in the front row of his class-room. The first consequence is by far the most disheartening. The element of competition must be introduced into feminine social life at the University. Other- wise we turn out a pack of female snobs, entirely too conceited about their degree of popularity. There just aren't enough women to go= around, and the incoming freshman class isn't helping the ratio much. We would like to poinit out to the University ad- ministration that while women.are not necessary during our four-year sojourn here, they are very nice ornaments to have around. It does not lie in MAr. 28-CLEVELAND SYMPHONY ORCH ESTRA AnRUR RODZINSKJ, Conductor SEASON TICKETS (including $3.00 May Festival coupon)i may be ordered by mail.