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T HE USUAL ATTRACTIVE PRO-
GRAM of University lectures will
feature the Summer Session of 1935. Three talks
will be given during each of the first six weeks,
all by regular or visiting members of the Univer-
sity faculty. The range of subjects is itself suf-
ficient to offer something of a liberal education.
One reason why this annual program has de-
veloped into its present elaborate form, we sup-
pose, is that only in that way could visiting stu-
dents become acquainted with members of the
local faculty and Michigan students with out-
standing visiting professors in the short period
of the summer term: The University also does
a large share to sponsor activities that during
the regular year are taken care of by student
groups of various kinds.
One cannot help feeling that the lecture pro-
gram during the regular school year, for all the
lecturers brought here or chosen from the faculty
by groups of the most diverse sort, lacks some-
thing that the summer program offers. The
winter University lecture series is not suffering
from the fact that members of the local faculty
have been largely substituted for outside speakers,
but perhaps has actually gained by that move.
However, the winter series, with its eight faculty
lectures in 31 weeks, is in embryonic form com-
pared to the summer program.
The aim of such a program, if it is to be con-
tinued and possibly expanded, should be not to
make available further technical facts and princi-
ples in fields of specialization, but to give every
student an opportunity to become better ac-
quainted with some of the many other branches of
educational activity and with the University's
work along those lines. A definite step in this
direction would be a logical extension of the edu-
cative function of the University, now every-
where recognized to be broader than the mere
classroom curricula.

COL L EG IATE
OBSERVER
By BUD BERNARD
Here's a letter received today by a reader
whom I wish to clarify.
Bud Bernard;
Just because you happen to be disgruntled
with a certain A. E. Phi is it necessary to print
such a pasty parody and dedicate it to the
whole house. A Curious Reader
Curious Reader, first of all I know no certain
A. E. Phi who I'd care to be disgruntled with,
and secondly, I am sure the contributor of
that parody meant it with no malice. The
statement which dedicated the parody to the
A. E. Phi House, however, should have been
deleted, and if the A. E. Phi House feels of-
fended by it, this column is sorry.
A student at the University of Chicago recently
was saved from serious injury and possibly death
because he carried a full wallet. Held up while
escorting a co-ed home, he resisted and a shot
was fired by one of the bandits. The bullet pierced
his dinner jacket and lodged in his wallet, which
was crammed with bills. Moral! Never go out
on a date broke.
LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES
In which we take neither one side nor the
other......
A certain sophomore at the University of
Illinois made an average of 2.6 last semester.
He missed a perfect average of 3, because of
a C in an English course.
He registered for the second semester, and
had just gone through the rigamarole of regis-
tratin red tape when he met his English pro-
fessor of the last term in the Administration
Building corridor. They began to discuss the
reason for the C.
One word led to another. The sophomore
took a swing at the professor.
The very next day he was dismissed from
the university.
In many papers throughout the collegiate world,
there was announced the death of "Joe College."
Now comes an editorial in the Duke Chronicle
which implies that the publishing of "Mr. Col-
lege's" obituary was just a bit premature. We
reprint from the Chronicle:
"Joe College has not passed away, he merely
changed his make-up a little. Instead of bell-
bottom trousers he now wears the kind that look
like store pants after a rain. True, he talks a
lot of economics, demands of society, and the
future of culture, but he has as indefinite idea
about them as he did about the wild escapades
accredited to him five years ago. He has never
left the school, he is the same young man with a
different name and an altered exterior."

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Haiptmnann' s
Trial.0.


HE STATE of New Jersey, to its+
o w n satisfaction, has finally
avenged the death of the Lindbergh baby. Wheth-
er Bruno Hauptmann was guilty or not guilty of
the murder is now no more than an academic is-
sue. It is sufficient to say that 12 jurors, after
carefully weighing all evidence presented by both
the prosecution and defense, we believe intelligent-
ly, decided the case' on the basis of that evidence.
Never has the administration of criminal justice
been more forcefully brought before the public eye
than in this "crime of the century" and the final
outcome will go a long way toward restoring the
faith of the people of this country in the demo-
cratic principle of the jury system, and will tend
to discourage such summary action as lynchings
and third-degree methods by stern law-abiders
who heretofore have believed that jury trials are
farcical and inefficient.
Sociologists in general, including a number of
members of the sociology department here, have
long argued that reform in crime will come about
with certainty of punishment rather than with
severity of penalty. The Hauptmann decision
might prove either correct, but it will certainly
show the' mood of the public toward what it has
come to consider the most hateful of crimes.
To be sure, the trial was hampered at every
step by the fact that to not only the morbidly
curious butthe public as a whole it came to be
a grand show. Both attorneys were at their dra-
matic best. Why not? For both it meant a great
deal of publicity, and the political prestige of the
winner will uj doubtedly be mightily enhanced.
Many of the players, including the correspond-
ents, overdid their lines.
The trial also illustrated an unfortunate situa-
tion seemingly inherent in criminal administration,
in that perjured testimony cannot be excluded.
It is obvious that when defense and prosecution
witnesses offer directly contradictory testimony
that someone is lying,'either consciously or un-
consciously. In these 'situations the only solu-
tion proves to be a greater dependence on the
character of the witnesses.
In the last analysis, however, despite its ex-
ploitation by the public and the questionable na-
ture of much of its evidence, the Hauptmann trial
could not help but be an extremely valuable edu-
cational force in the not-too-well-understood mat-
ter of American criminal procedure.
Prof. Paul A. Witty of Northwestern University
has conducted experiments which have proven

[As Others See It]
Sniping At Professors
CRITICISING THE COLLEGE PROFESSORS1
has gone on in spirited fashion in one college1
daily and another throughout the year. Typical
of the spirit of the average attack is this de-1
mand from the Syracuse Daily Orange that the
profs be given a dose of their own medicine:
Students go to a movie-spend 25 cents to
get in-movie is terrible-they come out dis-
gusted - tell friends about it - results: No
one goes from his particular circle of acquaint-
ances. Fortunately for the movie it is out of
town before everyone learns of its quality.
Another familiar picture:1
Students go to a class 93 times a year -
spend $30 for the course - professor is terrible
-they finally finish course disgusted - tell
friends about it - result: Other students have
to take course whether they like prof or not.
The law of supply and demand isn't given
a chance to work in college. The prof, though
the students are, in effect, his employers, has
the upper hand over them. It is difficult for
the administration to check up on him, thus
leaving him to ramble through the years with-
out really putting his course across to the
students.
In Europe students walk out on lectures
when they don't like them. Even here, in our
own law college and philosophy department,.
the students have been given the opportunity
to express their opinion of their instructors
via ballot.
If students had a chance to grade their
courses and their instructors the University
would investigate each one voted "poor."
Where the fault of the instructor is merely
carelessness, the fact that such a judgment is
regularly made would put a taut rein upon,
the professor himself.
Comments of The Minnesota Daily on the
dangers of overspecialization strike a different and
more restrained note:
The values of a liberal education for the
college student have been highly lauded by the
country's most esteemed educators for the past
decade. The manifold ills resulting from a
too intense specialization in a single field have
often led this group to denounce the student
who enters college with the sole ambition of
becoming a doctor or lawyer, for example, and
charge him with eternal ignorance of affairs
outside his immediate circle. Only in rare
instances, they predict, does he retain that
openmindedness which characterizes the first
year student. #
Now, however, the educational spotlight has
been shifted to glare mercilessly on the pro-
fessors themselves who, it is charged, have
too frequently narrowed their scope and are
resting content on knowledge pertinent only
to their individual fields. Dr. John Bryant
Conant, president of Harvard University, at-
tributes the detrimental "horizontal" move-
ment in our large universities to this disinter-
est of professors in departments and colleges
other than their own. He believes that if this
development continues it will make the insti-
tutions simply "federations of separate aca-
demic entities" fatal to acquiring a liberal
education both by the students and the
faculty.
In certain subjects, especially, it is essential
for an instructor to have a thorough under-
standing of more than his single field. As
illustration, a political scientist who has no
concept of economic theory and a not well
integrated knowledge of history cannot pre-

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mere size of the job underlies treasury ob-
jections to listing for probable publication all
holders of more than $50,000 or $100,000 worth
of tax exempt Federal securities.
That was the only reason cited by Secretary
Morgenthau in opposing the Fish and Blanton
resolutions. Going over a million or two income
tax records to get the data for a single year would
be a job; but it would create jobs also. It could
not well be on that score alone that House Demo-
crats sunk the resolutions by overwhelming vote,
even Blanton concurring.
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tions. The house itself followed suit. A bit of
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