THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Freshmen Hear
Weaver Speak
On Personality
Third Orientation Lecture
Presented Yesterday At
League Theatre
Hatfield Presides
How To Study
Are Planned
Year Students
Lectures
For First
More than 150 freshman women
and their advisers filled the Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre at 5 p.m. yes-
terday to hear Prof. Bennett Weaver,
of the English department, give the
third in the series of orientation lec-
tures. Professor Weaver's subject
was "Personality, Toccata and Cul-
tured."
Professor Weaver explained his
choice of a topic as one nearest the
heart of every woman. "We are all
in the process of choosing between
two different personalities," he said.
The toccata personality, the subject
of one of Browning's poems, he de-
fined as extremely light, evanescent
and soulless. "A social order built
upon the toccata type passes intol
nothingness," he said.
Describes Cultured Personality
The alternative kind of personality
is the cultured type. One of the most
important requirements for this is
serenity, Professor Weaver empha-
sized. "The rushing system," he said,
"brings 'collegiate dizziness'," and
he urged the freshman women to4
build serenity into their personalities.
The next requisite is largeness of
spirit. Professor Weaver warned the
first year women not to become
over-anxious about the merits of an
individual sorority over others as.
they must practice largeness of
spirit if they are to be poised and
charming.
Stresses Faith And Beauty
The third requirement of a cul-
tured personality, he said, was faith
in the beauty and good of life. "Your
generation," he stated, "has got to
put up a battle for that faith." The
characteristic of faith, in Professor
Weaver's opinion, is peculiar to the
personality of woman. "Woman has
always . carried the burden of faith
and beauty. It is her nature as well
as her duty and obligation,"he said.
Professor Weaver concluded his
lecture by stating that the urge to
move toward beauty is universal and,
by encouraging his audience to trust
that instinct. "Within your heart
lies your, destiny," he said.
Jean Hatfield, '37, chairman of or-,
ieritation, introduced the speaker,
Music Will Swing
As Ragtime King
Leads Band Friday
The strains of "Song of the
Islands," theme song of Ben Pollack
and his orchestra will swing out
promptly at 9 p.m. tomorrow in the
Union Ballroom when the Beta Theta
Pi fraternity sponsors the first for-
mal dance of the season.
Ben, commonly referred to by news
writers as the "Dean of Sophisticated
Swing," will bring with him a versa-
tile band which will offer as enter-
tainment a combination of swing
music, "sweet" rhythm and novelty
numbers.
This band leader started his career
in the Friar's Society Orchestra
which gained early fame as the New
Orleans Rhythm Kings and in which'
he was the ragtime "shimmy" drum-
mer of the early twenties.
This orchestra included Leon Ra-;
polo,rone of the greatest clarinet
players of this period and Steve,
Brown who was the first to introduce
that type of playing called "slapping
the fiddle."
" In 1926 he introduced his original
swing orchestra at the Southmoor
Hotel in Chicago and made the first
recording of this type of music. His'
theme song was brought to America
from Honolulu by a native Hawaiian
orchestra and was introduced by Pol-
lack in 1923. Ben believes that this
song has brought him more recogni-
tion than any number his band has
introduced.
New Members
Are Admitted
To Riding Club
Preceded by a week of tryouts for
new women, the new membership list
of Crop and Saddle, women's riding
club, was announced yesterday by
Eleanor French, '39, women's riding
manager. The judging for the club
was done by Miss French and Mrs.
Robert E. Lyon.
Former members of the club in-
clude: Mary Katherine Andrus, '38,
Marietta Arner, '39, Mare Jane At-
lee, '38, Margaret Carlson, '38, Marie
Eichelbdrger, '39, Betty Greve, Grad.,
Jean Harley, '39, Jane Higbie, '38A,
Mary Katherine Johnson, '37, Eileen
Lay, '38, Betty Lyon, '39, Elizabeth
White, '39, and Dorothy White, '38.
New entrants are: Betsy Ander-
son, '38, Anabel Avery, '40, Virginia
Barroughs, '39, Mary Frances Browne,
'39, Sally Connery, '40, Martha Cook,
'40, Virginia Eaglesfield, '38, Mar-
guerite Ganzhorn, '39, Virginia
Griffin ,'39, Violet Grosbeck, '40,
Betty Hood, '40, Nancy Kinnear, '39,
Mary Alice McKenzie, '39, Frances
Robinson, '39, Alice Stevenson, '39,
Betty Walker,. '39SM.
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Main Positions Pledging Slips
For Sophomore To Be Sent Out
ProjectOpen By Sororitiesk
Group To Select Theme;Dean Alice Lloyd Advisesr
Of Cabaret; Traditions Limiting Bidding Due To,
To Be Repeated Rooming Situation
Petitioning for all positions on the Preference slips for pledging will
central committee of Sophomore Cab- be sent out today it was announcedt
aret, to be held Dec. 4 and 5, will yesterday by Betty Anne Beebe, '37,E
continue through today and tomor- president of Panhellenic Association.t
row in the Undergraduate Office of The slips will be delivered duringi
the late afternoon and up until 1C
the League, according to Maryanna p.m. Friday. The extension of thei
Chockley, '37, head of the Judiciary length of time is accounted for by
Council. the doubling of the number of league
Central Theme Predominates houses on campus this year, Miss
Ceta hm rdmnts Beebe said.I
Sophomore Cabaret is the tradi- After being filled out by the wom-t
tional project given annually by the en desiring to pledge a sorority, the
second year women. It is held in the preference slips must be handed in
League Blrom adrositfeecslpmutbhaddi
L i Bada floor show The affa at the office of the Dean of Women
dasting anrdt afteroosondehenafaibetween 8 a.m. and noon Friday,t
lasts for two afternoons and evenings, Miss Beebe stated.r
usually a Friday and Saturday. The sororitiesdwill receive their
A different theme is devised each lists sometime late Friday afternoon1
year by the central committee and or evening and pledging will take
the entire cabaret is based on the place at 12 noon Saturday according
chosen subject. Last year the League to the Panhellenic rules.
ballroom was transformed into a Miss Beebe mentioned again thec
railroad depot and the "Sophomore fact that the silence period will comet
Special" was the theme of the proj- to a close at 9 a.m. Sunday ratherc
ect. The floor show was centered than Monday, as previously an-E
about this idea with "porters" and nounced.
members of the "Traveler's Aid" act- The number of bids sent out by ther
ing as chorus girls and hostesses. sororities this year may be limited
Expect 100 Hostesses due to the talk given by Dean Alice
One hundred sophomore women C. Lloyd at the recent meeting of the
actd a hoteseslas yer ad i IPanhellenic Association. Miss Lloyd1
acted as hostesses last year and it advised the sororities against bidding1
will assist this time, Miss Chockley more women than their chapter
said. The general admission will be houses can accommodate because of
25 cents with an additional five cents the acute rooming situation on cam-
for each dance. There will be a stag pus this year. However, the entire
line as in former years, Miss Chock- squestion was left up to the sororitiest
ley announced. themselves, Miss Lloyd stated.
The central committee consists of
10 positions. Besides the general No Tickets At Door
chairman and the assistant chair- i Contrary to a popular supposition,
man, the heads of the following com- there will be no tickets sold at the
mittees are also on the board: pub- door at the Beta Theta Pi formal
icity, decoration, hostess, ticket, pro- to be held Friday night at the Union,
,ram, entertainment, costume and according to John Seeley, '37, chair-
music. man.
League To Change W
System Of Awards
.At
A reorganization of the League
merit system is being undertaken
by the merit system committee, it was
announced yesterday by Rita Well-
man, '37, chairman. Th
Letters are being sent to the heads pentce
of all the various campus activities Wilb
in which women participate in an Herb
effort to modernize the award system been
and to make it more inclusive. Ac- take
tivity heads will be asked to state Bot
the number of hours per semester liken
each woman works and to award tiviti
the points accordingly. One point Delta
is to be given for ten hours work liken
during the semester, with a possibil- terni
ity of two additional points, accord- Th
ing to each woman's individual worth. '36, t
as computed by her superior. Dr. a
Heads of every organization are to River
report on the women working under Bruc]
them at the end of the semester and Delta
it is from these reports that points 1935.
will be given. The reorganized sys- mitte
tem will also includemore activities of Al
than were formerly done, Miss Well- We
man said. '35, d
erick
Archery Club To Meet also
ry will1
First Time Saturday Ian <
Sh(
The first meeting of the archery
club will be at 8 p.m., Saturdays, at tiviti
the Women's Athletic Building, ac- Gami
cording to Barbara Eppstein, '39,
archery chairman. Anyone desiring
to belong to the club may attend this 1
meeting, and no tryouts will be nec-
essary.IL
Miss Eppstein also announced that
a ladder tournament is now being
held, in which anyone may partici-
pate.
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PHI KAPPA SIGMA.
Phi Kappa Sigma announces the
pledging of James Nichols, '38, of
Oswego, N. r., and Grey Nelson, '39,
of Ann Arbor.
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