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Representatives: College Publications Representatives, Inc., 40 East Thirty-Fourth Street, New York City: 80 Boylson Street, Boston; 612 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR............WILLIAM G. FERRIS CITY EDITOR ........................ JOHN HEALEY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR..........RALPH G.COULTER SPORTS EDITOR .................ARTHUR CARSTENS WOMEN'S EDITOR..................ELEANOR BLUM NIGHT EDITORS: Paul J. Elliott, John J. Flaherty, Thomas E. Groehn, Thomas A. Kleene, David G. MacDonald, John M. O'Connell, Robert S. Ruwitch, Arthur M. Taub. SPORTS ASSISTANTS: Marjorie Western, Joel Newman, Kenneth Parker, William Reed, Arthur Settle. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Dorothy Gies, Florence Harper, Eleanor Johnson, Ruth Loebs, Josephine McLean. Rosalie Resnick, Jane Schneider, Marie Murphy. REPORTERS: Donald K. Anderson, John H. Batdorff, Robert B. Brown, Clinton B. Conger, Robert E. Deisley, Allan Dewey, John A. Doeile, Sheldon M. 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WARD WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER........JANE BASSETT DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Local Advertising, John Og- den; Service Department, Bernard Rosenthal; Contracts Joseph Rothbard; Accounts, Cameron Hall; Circulation and National Advertising, David Winkworth; Classified Advertising and Publications, George Atherton. BUSINESS ASSISTANTS: William Jackson, William Barndt, Ted Wohlgemuith, Lyman Bittman, Richard Hardenbrook, John Park, F. Allen Upson, Willis Tom- linson, Robert Owen, Homer Lathrop, Donald Hutton, Arron Gillman, Tom Clarke, Gordon Cohn. WOMEN'S ASSISTANTS: Mary Bursley, Margaret Cowie, Marjorie Turner. . NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT S. RUWITCH Let Hiram Dolt. . T O MANY a college educator, Hiram College may be nothing more than a funny name for an educational institution. Not worried by its obscurity and lack of size, however, Hiram is pioneering in the field of higher learning. ;The student who decides to attend this little Ohio college this year will never have to rush from a 9 o'clock in analytic geometry to a 10 o'clock in Victorian literature, composing his mind as he goes. Nor will he be obliged to study simultane- ously for final exams in physics, political science, French, sociology, and economics. For Hiram is in the vanguard of a new movement. With the college year divided into four quarters each student devotes one entire quarter (or nine weeks) to a single subject, thus thoroughly cover- ing four subjects in the course of a year. The purposes of the plan are obvious. Given nine weeks in which to do nothing but concentrate on a single course, the student no longer has such worries as how to budget his time and how to keep Greek from mixing with R.O.T.C. Above all, he is no longer pro- vided regularly with five or six overwhelming as- signments by five or six. different faculty members who don't seem to realize how the other half lives - and gives assignments. And when he comes to his final reckoning he will probably have more than a superficial knowledge of the subject in question If not, then he has lived nine weeks in vain and will never learn anyhow, probably becom- ing president of a bank in the end. Hiram had tried this system for several summers before the faculty voted to put it into full opera-' tion. Apparently its success in practice was suffi- cient to warrant further experimentation. No one has yet enjoyed four years of the Hiram system, and it remains to be seen what happens when someone attempts it. If the individual's total edu- cation is any more narrowly classified and pigeon- holed 4according to subjects, let us have none of it. It's hard enough to make the pieces fit under the present hodge-podge system. Then, too, you can probably think of a lot of courses you wouldn't want to "live" in for nine weeks. Market For its readers may gather from a recent editorial on traditions. Declaring truthfully enough that a tradition is only what the student body cares to make of it, the editorial goes on to "submit as worthy of respect" two other traditions in addi- tion to pot wearing: no dating of any athletic event and no smoking on the south campus. A news story in a following issue of the campus paper relates with an air of shock and amazement the fact that Michigan freshmen have been eman- cipated from their badge of shame. Strangers vis- iting the Michigan campus will be at a loss to dis- tinguish the freshman from the upperclassman, the story goes on. Strangers, and pthers, too, will find students here interested in matters perhaps more essential to a good education. Michigan has enough worthwhile traditions so that it will not miss the passing of such an empty one as branding first-year men. Few freshmen here will feel that anything is iissing from their college lives, but if they should they will find Northwestern a sanctuary for all who cannot be persecuted elsewhere. Prepared For P SYCHOLOGY seems to differ. Ath- letes, turning out for college teams, begin the season's work with warmup practices to get into shape for the more gruelling grihd to come. Most of them are already -in condition, but they don't start scrimmaging the first day. In the classroom it's different. If the instructor can't bowl you over the first day with the heaviest assignments of the semester, he isn't earning his keep and soon loses out to the more fit of the species. Not until he has discouraged a round dozen into dropping the course and convinced everyone else that they'll do well to get D's, does he slow down the pace. Possibly, td continue the analogy, the Michigan faculty sees no reason why student minds should not be trained to perfect condition when students arrive for classes in the fall. Whether they can understand it or not, the average student is never more mentally lazy than when he goes to his first section, inspired chiefly by the fact that he will only have to stand it 10 minutes. Starting out courses at the stiffest pace accom- plishes just about one certain thing: it convinces the student that he can't keep up. From then on he's never really abreast of things, ngt even when it comes to the final curtain. As Others See It Collegiate Radicalism A PROFESSOR in Liberal Arts asked his class at their first session: "How many of you are Socialists?" Five students held up their hands. If this same question had been asked at either the University of Chicago or the University of Wisconsin in a typical class probably only a few hands would have remained down. Paradoxically enough, it seems that college students,themselves the children of capitalism, are leaning toward the left. According to Edward A. Hayes, national com- mander of the American Legion, Communist meet- ings have been held on the University of Illinois campus. Commenting upon the meeting Com- mander Hayes said: "These are the things we must guard against. Young people are being taught to scoff at our patriotic principles. Of course, the university board would not have permitted such a meeting had the board members known about it, but the fact remains that young Communists are growing up in the classrooms."- Although no doubt college students are more or less idealistic and socially minded, we find little basis for the charge that any modern college is a hotbed of Communism. However, the failure of our capitalistic structure to absorb collegegrad- uates has produced a sliglit swing to the left. If our business structure could successfully place college graduates, there would be no need for any campaign to wipe out radicalism in our universities. -The Daily Northwestern. A Student' Experience WITH every agency striving to aid the needy student on this campus it didn't seem plausible that an incident of this type would occur, but it did. A student in an electrical engineering course was instructed by his professor to purchase four bulle- tins from a bookstore at a cost of 20 cents apiece. The student did this because it was necessary to have the bulletins at that time. However, he also wrote to the General Electric Company for the same pamphlets. The result of his correspondence was that he received'the identical bulletins from the company at no cost and with the postage pre- paid. It is hardly necessary to comment on this inci- dent. The facts are self-evident. -Tfhe Daily Illini. Throwing Away Prejudice The ideal aim of education is to develop "real thinking," but that goal is often blocked by nothing other than sheer prejudice. In a recent survey made in New York City, it was discovered that out of one thousand Americans of average intelligence, 98 per cent were prejudiced against Bolsheviks, 90l per cent against the Turks, 50 per cent against the Mexicans and 30 per cent against immigrants. Why should such prejudices be tolerated by any intelligent man or woman? One's prejudices basically are due to the great stress that is placed on primary values and con- tacts rather than upon ultimate ones. That is to say, people are primarily interested only in the groups which comprise their immediate family, neighborhood, fraternal organization, or even, com- r Collegiate Observer By BUD BERNARD In the Book-Cadillac Hotel the other night, two Detroiters were discussing new iaces seen around the Detroit Fair Racing Grounds this season. "Joe's brother Is a nice kid," observed one. "He ought to make some good dough for him- self pretty soon." "Aw," returned the other, "I don't think much of him. What does he know about horses?" "What are you talking about," cried the first man seriously. "He knows plenty about horses. Didn't he graduate from Michigan." We hear that theUniversity of Oklahoma will hold a short course for fraternity scholarship ,chairmen. The course is planned to teach the chairmen the best methods of study which they in turn will adapt to the study system of their respective houses. Not a bad idea! An A. E. Phi at the University of Illinois calls her boy friend "Omelet" because he needs "egging" on. Because of the strike conditions the daily news- paper of Northwestern University found it neces- sary to leave the editorial page blank. The stu- dents soon after openly admitted that it was the best and most interesting editorial page the Daily" Northwestern ever printed. With a ready come- back the editor retorted that it was probably the only one they were able to understand. With flies becoming a general nuisance here, B. B. L. sends in the following contribution: The while I swat The buzzing flies, I can't restrain My thought and sighs. I needn't swat Until I'm blue, If Noah had Just swatted two. Here's a story coming from the University of Missouri. It seems as though a co-ed- there was taking Latin. One class hour the professor asked her what XXX stood for. She promptly replied, "Love and Kisses." - * * * A girl may now marry and continue her course at Vassar, aefording to reports made by the dean of that institution. She is expected to live in the dormitory unless factors in her particular case make other living arrangements necessary. Like for instance her husband. Zion Lutheran Church Washington at Fifth Avenue E. C. Stellhorn, Pastor September 30. 1934 9:00 A.M. - BibleSchool -Topic: "God in Hebrew History" 10:30 A.M. - Service "Ministering Unto Jesus Needs"s 5:30 P. - Student Fellowship and Supper. 6:45 P.M.--Prof. Preston Siosson will address the student club on- "The Church as Pronoter" The Fellowship of Liberal Religion (UNITARIAN) State and Huron Streets ANNOUNCING NEW FALL SERVICES Scptember 30, 1934 11:15 - School of Religion 5:00 - Candle-light Devotions 6:00 - Buffet Supper 7:30 - Student Round Table H illel Foundation Corne East University and Oakland Dr. Bernard Heller, Director September 30, 1934 11:45 A.M. - Sermon at the Women's League Chapel by Dr. Bernard Heller- "What the- University of Michigan Offers and Expects from the Student" 2:00-6:00 P.M. -Tour of Inspection of the NewHillel Foundation. Refreshmtents. Reli"gious Activites Subscribe NOW to The MICHIGAN DAIL'Y . Da ily Official Bulletin Associated Press Sport News Women's Pages Campus Gossip Sunday Rotogravure Section LOCAL SUBSCRIP TION: $4.00 pr Yea r Student Publicat ons Building 420 Mayn-ard Street - - -e- --1- BYSTANDER By KIRKE SIMPSON THAT PALLADIUM of American politics, to say nothng of American liberty . . .the Constitu- tion . . . must be wondering at itself these days. It has never known such a birthday anniversary as that through which it has pust passed. The other 146 were just dates. No one made a fuss about them. An assorted lot of defend-the-Constitution or- ganizations has blossomed into being this year as leagues, associations, committees, incorpora- tions or what have you. The mails, particularly the outgoing mail of an unascertainable number of industrial concerns, are flooded with get-out-the- vote circulars which have a "defend-the-Constitu- tion" tail to wag the whole dog. The Cook County Republican organization out in Illinois even managed to put on a Constitution Day show at the fair with Democratic support but with no sharing of the proceeds. Highly-practical politics, that. WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT? The best to be made of it is that opposition to present or prospec- tive future policies of the "New Deal" administra- tion, both inter and intra-party, so far has found constitutionalism its only common rallying cry: And with the primaries over, there is very little to indicate that the voting public has responded to cries of alarm over alleged perils to the con- stitution in any striking fashion. No one, so far as available records show, has been nominated on that issue. Quite the contrary. Men have been nominated in far separated parts of the nation both for House and Senate and for highest state office who reck nothing of the constitutional questions raised by the "defend-the-Constitution" boys. Some are already assured of election. The great difficulty about framing or attempting to frame a campaign issue out of a constitutional question is that most of it goes over voters heads entirely. It is too legalistic, too much to the general public a matter for argument among lawyers and legislators. Realization of that essential weakness in practical politics of the defend-the-Constitution drive by "New Deal" foes probably accounts for the bland ignoring of the whole matter by "New Deal" spokesmen from the President down. D EFEND THE CONSTITUTION!" they say. "Why, of course. Who is attacking it? We are not. We do not propose to change it. If we violate it, the Supreme Court is there to call us to order. There has been no "New Deal" appointment to that court. Republican presidents named almost all the justices. And, up-to-date, those justices have not found any constitutional flaw in "New Deal" legislation." Nor is it at all probable that any controlling opinion by the high court on any aspect of the "New Deal" now attacked on constitutional grounds will he handed down hefore the Congressinnal How Old A4r e You- r EYES?* 4 23% of people under 20 years of age . . 39%.at3 ...48% at 40...95%overb60... HAVE D-EFEC TIVE E"YES THESE figures are derived from a series with age? Certainly abuse of epesegom~~ of tests just concluded by science, with improper and inadequate lighting c vof eye tribute towards this serious increase in def~e- They indicate the prevalence o y tiveness with increasing age." troubles at varying ages among nearly one million human beings. Concerning these Bear this in mind when you consider figures two eminent scientists have this the lighting of your home. ChoosehlaMp to say:. that give adequate light and so help' t6 Why, are the eyes of young people so defec- prevent the strain that impairs the sight Live Why do the eyes become more defective of young and old.