THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY l1 I!l Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Sessiond Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other mattes herein also reserved. -Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan, as second class mal matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $40; by mail. $4.50 Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 REPRESENTED POR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY NationalAdvertisingService, Inc. College Publishers Reresentaeva 420 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. CIICAO - .BOSTON - LOS ANGELEs - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors { MANAGING EDITOR ...........JOSEPH S. MATTES ASSOCIATE EDITOR ............TUURE TENANDER ASSOCIATE EDITOR......IRVING SILVERMAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR.........WILLIAM C. SPALLER AOIATE EDITOR......ROBERT P. WEEKS WOMEN'S EDITOR.......... .HELEN DOUGLAS SPORTS EDITOR.................IRVIN LISAGOR Business Department BUfS_ INESS MANAGER.......ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER.................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER ....NORMAN B. STEINBERG WiOEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER .......BTTYDAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER .. MARGARET FERRIES. NIGHT EDITOR: WILLIAM J. ELVIN It is important for society to avoid the neglect of adults, but positively dangerous for it to thwart the ambition of youth to refohrmthe world. Only the schools which act on this belief are educational institu- tions in the best meaning of the term. - Alexander G. Ruth ven The editorials published in The Michigan Daily are written by members of the Daily staff and represent the views of the writers only. What Price Education?. T HE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION'S re- cent Bulletin 29 or "The Student And His Knowledge," sounds a singular note among criticisms of American higher education, singular because it is, oddly enough, intensely factual. No abstraction concocted by a philos- opher and tossed off in pretty words,this. Bul- letin 29 has dissected American higher learning with a precision and method as cold as a mathe- matician's mind. It talks not of pragmatism vs. scholasticism or Dewey Vs. Hutchins or Abstrac- tioh A vs. Abstraction B. Bulletin 29 talks of the 55,000 students of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 'to whom it has subjeted a bar- rage of tests and measurements over a period of nearly ten years, in a sustained effort to de- termine the probable constituents of the bac- calaureate mind and how its exposure to school and college has' fed or starved it. Briefly, the Foundation finds that in hustling along the American 4-year assembly line of culture the student sometimes comes out a suitable product, sometimes comes out half- baked and 15 per cent of the time comes out a rawer product than he went in. Students in any one specific stage of accretion are found to range in knowledge.from 10th and 11th grade to col- lege graduate levels. Thus one-tenth of the high school seniors know more than the average col- lege senior and 22 per cent rate higher than the average sophomore. Probing a typical college the Foundation found that if degrees were to be awarded on the basis of general knowledge 28 per cent of the seniors, 21 per cent of the jun- iors, 19 per cent of the sophomores and 15 per cent of the freshmen would have parti ipated in graduation exercises! Four thousand high school graduates who went on to college were found bringing up the rear guard to three thousand high school grad- uates who never established residence on cam- pus! We recall a study the Foundation made several years ago in reference to the vocabularies of col- lege students,. Of 100 words "in familiar use by educated people" the average senior recognized 61, the average freshman, 56. Three years os- tensibly of study, netted a nifty five-word mar- gin! "The story of the test," the annual report of the Foundation said at the time, "brings us face to face with the familiar poverty of campus language and the dearth of general reading on the part of the students. A student out of the lower quarter of this same group, in a paper completed with meticulous pains, recognized only 23 out of the 100 words correctly; is ig- norant of such words as insert, lenient, baffle, and immerse; things that culpable means tender; that declivity means climate; that demure means abject . . . To a senior,with an average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy." Possibly," added Dr. Williams S. Learned, director of the tests, "the fact that he takes the word assiduous to mean foolish, may help explain his case." So higher education under the knife has not a few blemishes. What to do? the gamut of personal problems from soup to nuts or we made of ourselves little more than unskilled amanuenses who recorded copiously and clumsily words or sometimes even thoughts of the professor standing before us. The lecture passes in through the ears, walks over the brain with its rubbers on and comes out through the pencil onto the note paper, where it is checked. Recalled just prior to examination it parks in the memory this time until the bluebook affords a permanent outlet. We have acted as middle man. It has been our province to transfer the ideas of the professor to the examination paper as efficiently and as literally as possible, and it is upon this accuracy of translation that our academic worth is adjudged. Clearly the hodge-podge residium of informa- tion distilled from such tactics masquerades under the aegis of knowledge. The Carnegie Foundation 'sees a purge of the universities as the only solution. Perhaps. But we have scant faith in a small band of sixteen cylinder minds which would spin panacean for- mulae while peeping into microscopes and hid- ing in libraries. We think association with the hoi polloi keeps academic feet squarely on the ground and raises general public opinion aboid crack-pot emotionalism. Why not expose education to everyone and his grandmother, but let them all travel at their own rate. Why not abolish semesters and course credits and all the trimmings of "package" learn- ing and get down to the plain business of getting educated, with certain minimum requirements set up for a degree? Robert Fitzhenry. Don't Miss The SpringParley.. .. IVE EXAMS come in three days Sand several sleepless nights are spent in cramming. Your eyes sink out of sight be- hind your cheekbones and your body feels as though it's gone through the mangler with your underwear. Your tongue is swollen, your lips cracked, and your head pulsating in time to what you're sure is the tick of the carillon crock. Sometimes, then, in the early morning of the third day, if you haven't fallen across the alarm clock, you begin to wonder whether it's all worthwhile. It isn't often that college students, question whether what they are receiving in the name of education is worthy of the name. The pres- sure must be pretty strong. But this weekend at the Union approximately 500 students will gather at the Spring Parley for three sessions of debate and panel discussion-three sessions at which they hope to thrash out the grievances of the student against all parts of the Uiversity set-up. What's your pet gripe? What do you think of the examination system, class attendance, lecture courses? What do you think of the new tutorial system for Michigan, the Chicago plan, the An- tioch curriculum? These are only some of the questions that will be discussed. There will be debate on the housing situation and fraternities; on freedom of expression on the campus, both for professors and students; on the question of se- curity for the student, student labor, coopera- tives and Ann Arbor prices; on racial and relig- ious problems, sex education and social restric- tions. A large faculty panel of well-known men rep- resenting every shade of opinion has been select- ed for the Parley this year. The general sessions on Friday have been eliminated, the subject limited to campus problems and a student, "in- dicter" to attack the existing situation and a stu- dent "defender" to uphold the status quo have been added to the panels. Everything points in the direction of more concrete and objective discussion this year than ever before. At the Sunday morning meeting an attempt will be made to pass resolutions embodying the consensus of opinion on some of the more vital subjects argued. There have been signs that the University Administration will welcome these expressions of opinion and seek to put some of the suggestions into practice. The value of the Parley in past 'years as a place where the emotional veil of dogmatism could be lifted in the interest of concrete dis- cussion, where students could meet faculty mem- bers and debate significant problems and where opinion could be crystallized on a strong foun- dation of fact has been self-evident. This year there is in addition the opportunity to give force to some of these opinions in resolutions. which may very possibly be acted upon by the University. The success of the Parley depends upon its broadness. The very name connotes a dis- cussion group representing all viewpoints. Here is your chance to effect a change in the educa- tional set-up, in the life you lead on the campus. Are you satisfied with the education you are receiving? S. R. Kleiman. Literary AZI LEADERS in Austria began a N purge of the Austrian National Li- brary last Saturday. Two weeks ago they con- demned the works of Thomas Mann, Stefan Zweig, Vicki Baum and others to the bonfire'or the cellars of the public bookstores. The move- ment surges onward toward a higher culture, unimpeded by the works of non-Aryan writers! If the officials pursue their course to its finish countless thousands of dollars, and what is more, hundreds of unreplaceable volumes will be lost to the world forever. The National Library, started in the sixteenth century by Maximilian I, and containing now over 1,200,000 volumes, is especially rich in Ger- man and Slavonic literature from old Austria- Hungary. It has also a rich manuscript collec- Heywood Broun The recession seems to have touched baseball lightly, if at all. Indeed, over in Brooklyn a boom is on, and Chicago is full of fire about the acquisition of Dizzy Uean. Mr. Dean has won two ball games and his last one was a shut out. However, Hal Schumacher pitched a one-hitter and at- tracted less attention. Much of Dean's value to a ball club lies in his nickname rather than his right arm. By now it may be difficult to discover which one of the sports scribes put the golden fruit into the toe of Dean's base- ball stocking. Magnates seem to be a little slow in realizing that their industry is one allied to the theatre. I raised this point in conversation with Larry MacPhail, the new executive director of the Dod- gers. Mr. McPhail met me half way and then went on much further. "The theatre nothing," he said, "big league baseball is a first cousin to the circus." And it is true that the National League needs some Gargantuas and elephants. It has plenty of living skeletons and midgets already. In all fairness to the Brooklyn club of today and recent seasons it has developed the atmo- sphere of a side show beyond all other rivals. The only trouble with the state of affairs is the fact that it has kept the club out of the main tent. Indeed, for several years it hasn't even been able to crawl in under the canvas. Of course, the neat trick, is to find eccentrics who can also play a little baseball on the side. I am willing to admit that Dean could be even dizzier and still not fit if he were devoid of pitching ability. In fact, there is a grave suspicion that the young man has both feet on the ground and merely does a little play acting for the sake of the record and the gate. FORUM Proud Of ROTC To the Editor: I am a member of the ROTC, and proud of it. I am not going to the Military Ball only because I have another date for that same night. Yet I would like to defend it. The Lawyers have their dance, as do the Engineers, Honor Societies and all other campus organizations; so why not rhe ROTC? So-called "pacifists" like to deride the R YTC. ir3t as a profession. I don't see es it is any worse than being a crooked lawyer, robjag banker --r poisoning physician. True you get :1 est men in these fi6s, but i do believe yu get a g_lter percentage of them on the shady "d than yo t get in te -ROTC. With Fascism fighting Commu- nism throughout the world any nation must be prepared to defend itself in time of attack-and nIations now-a- days do not need a very good rea- son for assaulting another. Should Italy, Germany or Russia invade a defenseless United States, just what would we do about it? No one will dare to attack a well defended coun- try. ROTC, as I see it, is but the "manly art of self defense" on a larger scale, always ready to protect any American citizen, at home or abroad, male or female, whether he is unable to fight, or just afraid to do so. I, as a member ofthe ROTC rea'ize the horrors of war, and cer- tainly hope I never have to go, but I wouldn't give 10 cents for any able- bedied citizen who would net be willing to give his life for his country in time of stress. But disregarding the military angle of the ROTC there is still the edu- cational value of the course. Each student therein receives careful in- struction and practice in leadership, which develops self-confidence, a sense of responsibility, ability to think quickly and rhake decisions, and a facility in imparting instruc- tions to groups of men and supervis- ing other instructors. If you do not believe me, just try to drill a patoon yourself. The Daily seems to agree with Presi-. dent Ruthven's educational policies. Here is what he said abot the RoTC, "The University of Michigan has included courses in Military Sciences and Tactics . . . in the belief that they have a positive value in them- selves, and that they present oppor- tunities for able-bodied and serious- minded young men to prepare them- selves most effectively to fulfill, in case of need, one of the primary ob- ligations of citizenship-participa- tion in the country's defense The training which they offer is in any case valuable for its lessons in cooperation, discipline, loyalty, judg- ment, decision and physical com- portment; it may prove to be in- valuable." B. M. Huttlinger. A Well-Balaneed Man To the Editor: * * C DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Publication in the Builletin is constructive notice to all members of the Universtty. Copy received at the office of the Assistant to the President until 3:30; 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. * Old Daye More Interestitg This suggests a way out for the manager who wishes to achieve both color and a high position in the standing of the clubs. There might be a training season prior to the excursion to the camps in the South. During the winter it might be expedient to farm all the rookies out to stock companies or enter the entire club as sub fresh- men in some good dramatic academy. Maybe the old days will never come again. The fans took baseball very seriously in the years when much partisanship entered into politics and when our foreign and economic problems were less passionate than they are today. For instance, in the year in which, John W. Davis was running against Calvin Coolidge it was easy to get more excited about the baseball race than the presidential one. And in days before the Nazi peril the average man found an opportunity to drain himself of incipient hatreds by rooting hard against the Cubs or Cardinals. To grow fervent all over again about the na- tional game might be a retreat to infancy. And yet I fear that a fine pastime may decline and perish if the modern game is to be played in front of sportsmen who applaud brave deeds on either side. That is a very proper mood for lawn tennis or international polo, but baseball won't be base- ball any more when no part of the crowd is ever articulate in calling for a purging of the umpires. Turbulent Days Of McGraw And it seems to me that it might be tossible even now to pull a few tricks calculated to stir up the animals, one of the present modes which has promoted a dull neutrality is the practice of play- ers arriving at the park in taxis or their own limousines. They come in civies and to the pass- ing throng along the streets they might well be vice presidents of banks. In the heyday of the Giants, John McGraw made his players dress in the hotel and then ride out to the park on the top deck of a bus. Naturally the vehicle carried huge placards identifying the visiting athletes. And in addition John sat on the front seat with his jaw thrust out waiting for somebody to throw something. Agrees Whole eartedy To the Editor: Permit me to thank Professor Levi for his wise and timely reminder that disapproval of the foreign or domestic policies of present day Ger- many should lead no one to neglect the study (, the great classics of German literature. In fact/, if Germany had listened to her own men of gen- ius, Luther would have prevented the erection of the swastika above the cross, Lessing would have annihilated anti-semitism, Schiller would have contributed a liberal constitution, Kant would have fashioned a league of nations, and Goethe would have made citizens of the nation into citizens of the whole world. It is significant, too, that practically every modern writer who rises above mediocrity is on the side of freedom and enlightenment. Even Neitsche, almost the solitary great writer to applaud a ruthless militarism, so greatly dis- trusted the totalitarian state that he inclined towards anarchy as the more tolerable alterna- tive. As against Mann, Werfel, Feuchtwanger, Ludwig, Fallada, Remarque, a constellation of genius of which any age or country might be proud, the Nazis have not produced a single writer of even the third rank. Much the same might be said of all other modern dictatorships, with one or two minor exceptions such as the Fascist D'Annunzio. It is significant that the present Greek dictatorship frowns on the popular reading of the classics because they talk so much about "freedom." Could the mind of the whole people really be THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1938 VOL. XLVHI. No. 147 Honors Convocation: The 15th An- nual Honors Convocation of the University of Michigan will be held Friday, April 29, at 11 o'clock, in Hill Auditorium. Ciasses, with the exception of clin- ics, will be dismissed at 10:45. Those students in clinical classes who are receiving 'honors at the Convocation will be excused in order to attend. The faculty, seniors, and graduate students are requested to wear aca- demic costume but there will be no procession. Members of the faculty are asked to enter by the rear door of Hill Auditorium and proceed di- rmectly to thebstage, where arrange- ments have been made for seating them The public is invited.s Alexander G. Ruthven. Pay Day: In view of the fact that the regular pay da for April, April 30, is Saturday and a half day, April salary checks will be ready for dis- tribution on Friday, April 29. Shirley W. Smith. Note to Seniors, June Graduates, and Graduate Students: Please file application for degrees or any spe- cial certificates (i.e. Geology Certifi- cate, Journalism Certificate, etc.) at once if you expect to receive a de- gree or certificate at commence- ment in June. We cannot guaran- tee that the University will confer a degree or certificate at commence- ment upon any student who fails to file such application before the close of business on Wednesday, May 18. If application is received later than May 18, your degree or certificate may not be awarded until next fall. Candidates for degrees or certifi- cates may fill out card at once at office of the secretary or recorder of their own school or college (students enrolled in the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts, College of Architecture, School of Music, School of Education, and School of Forestry and Conservation, please note that application blank may be obtained and filed in the Registrar's Office, Room 4, University Hall). All ap- plications for the Teacher's Certifi- gate should be made at the office of the School of Education. Please do not delay until the last day, as more than 2,500 diplomas and certificates must be lettered, signed, and sealed and we shall be greatly helped in this work by the early filing of applications and the resulting longer period for prepara- tion. The filing of these applications does not involve the payment of any fee whatsoever..' Shirley W. Smith. To The Members of the Faculty of the College of Litreature, Science, and the Arts. The seventh regular meeting of the Faculty of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, for the aca- demic session of 1937-38 will be held in Room 1025 Angell Hall, May 2, 1938, at 4:10 p.m. I Edward H. Kraus. Agenda. 1. Adoption of the minutes of the meeting of April 4, 1938, which have been distributed by campus mail (pages 419-427). 2. Reports, a. Executive Committee, by Pro-7 fessor R. A. Sawyer. b. University Council, by Profes- sor H. H. Bartlett. c. Executive Board of the Gradu- ate School, by Professor F. E. Bar- tell. d. Advisory Committee on Univer- sity Affairs, by Professor A. S. Ai ton. e. Deans' Conference, by Dean E. H. Kraus. 3. Resolution of the Committee on Certification of Teachers. Candidates for Election to Senior Honors. Application for election to Senior Honors must be in the Eng- lish Office not later than May 16. Students wishing information about the course may see Professor Strauss, Professor Mueschke, or Professor Weaver. All persons having rooms available for the delegates to the M.I.P.A. Con- will be postponed to Thursday, May 5. Orders may be placed at a desk near the Mechanical Engineering of- fice in the West Engineering Build- ing between the hours of 9 and 12 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m. throughout the week. The announcement booklets in- clude the names of February and August graduates as well as those of June. concerts Organ Recital: Miss Clare Coci of New Orleaps, student of Palmer Christian, will appear as guest or- ganist in recital on the Frieze Mem- orial Organ in Hill Auditorium, Thursday evening, April 28, at 8:30 o'clock. The general public is in- vited to listen to an interesting and varied program. Graduation Recital. Charles Mc- Neill, violinist, accompanied by Al- bert Zbinden at the piano, will give a violin recital in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree, Friday evening, April 29 at 8:15 o'clock, in the School of Music Auditorium, to which the gen- eral public is invited. Exhibition An Exhibition of paintings by Er- nest Harrison Barnes and of paint ings and pastels by Frederick H. Ald- riep, Jr., both of the faculty of the College of Architecture, is presented by the Ann Arbor Art Association in the North and South Galleries of Alumni Memorial Hall, April 18 through May 1. Open daily includ- ing Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m., ad- mission free to students and mem- bers. Lecture University Lecture: Miss Marjorie Daunt, Reader in English Language, University of London, and Visiting Lecturer, Smith College, will lecture "The English Accent-What Is It? How Is It?" on Thursday, April 28 at 4:15 p.m. in Natural Science Audi- torium under' the auspices of the Department of English. The public is cordially invited. University' Lecture: Professor Bar- ker Fairley of the University of Tor- onto will give a lecture in English on "Goethe and Frau von Stein," on Wednesday, May 4, at 4:15 Natural Science. The public is cordially in- vited. Annual Mayo Lecture: Dr. M. S. Henderson of the Mayo Clinic will deliver the Annual Mayo Lecture to the Medical, students and faculty on April 29, 1938, at 1:30 p.m. in the Main Hospital Amphitheater. The subject of his talk will be "The Treatment of Fractures of the Neck of the Femur." Alexander Ziwet Lectures in Math- ematics: Will be given by Professor Erich Hecke of the University of Hamburg, beginning Friday, April 29 at 4:15 p.m., in Room 3017 An- gell Hall. The general topics of the lectures will be Dirichlet Series, Modular Functions, and Quadratic Forms. Announcement of the dates of succeeding lectures will be given later. Henry Russe Lecture: Professor Heber D. Curtis, Chairman of the Department of Astronomy and Di- rector of the Observatories, will de- liver the Henry Russel lecture for 1938 at 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, May 3, in Na- tural Science Auditorium. His sub- ject will be "Receding Horizons." An-. nouncement of the Henry Russel Award will be made at this time. University Lecture: Professor Einar Hammarsten, Professor of Chemistry, Carolingian Medical University, will lecture on "The Secretin of Bayliss and Starling" on Monday, May 9, at 4:15 p.m. in Natural Science Auditor- ium under the auspices of the Medical School. The public is cordially in- vited. Events Today Students of the College of Litera- ture, Science, and the Arts: The final meeting in the series of voca- tiona talks will be held this after- noon at 4:15 p.m. for students of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and others interested in future work in architecture. There will be an informal discussion with Dean W. I. Bennett of the School of Architecture in Room 207 Architec- ture Building. Institute of the Aeronautical Sci- ences: There will be a meeting of the University of Michigan Student Branch of the Institute of the Aero- nautical Sciences tonight, 7:30, in Na- tural Science Auditorium. Moving pictures prepared by the government aeronautical laboratories of England, Italy and Germany will be shown. Some of the features shown in these films are the various types of wind tunnels and seaplane test tanks used at the 1nhnraoies_ and o rf Pna i For the past three years University pf Michigan has tured me in its cradle of higher cation. the nur - edu- In this time I have worked for my room and board four hours every day of every semester. I have almost never missed a Fri- day or Saturday night social func- tion of one sort or another. Fre- quently I have had afternoon and evening engagements during the middle of the week and on Sunday,. I have spent at least two hours a; day four days a week -exercising in the intramural building and addition- al time at physical recreation in the Arboretum and other of Ann Arbor's beauty spots. I have gone out of my way to keep up with current events, having read from cover to cover every issue of' "Collier's," "Life," the "Saturday Evening Post," "Look," "Esquire," "Click," and "Spicy Detective." To the movies and radio I have devoted as much of my leisure as the development of a well-rounded per- sonality nowadays demands. And, of course, I have inevitably spent much time in bull sessions, now, with three years' discussion be- hind me, being an authority on birth control and marital relations. vention, nights of Thursday an- 1Fri- Yet, having done all these many dne things regularly, I have still found day, May 5 and 6, are requested to time to live up to the high scholastic telephone University Extension 485, standards of this our highest edu- r write to Room 213 Haven all, stadars o ths or hghet eu rnumber of arconmmon1tin i, cational institution in the state of Michigan. For five semesters, and i hope this one, I have maintained a strong C average in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. And I daresay that if I had had 15 minutes more a day in which to study, this coulA very well have been a Phi Bet' record. I have surmounted obstacles and conquered opposition in a truly American manner; and I believe that my example is one that can be ob- served to advantage by younger stu- dents. That, to explain, is the reason for this letter. In anotherv var uwhen I sha~l hv 1 , I V 11 & 11 l.t ltltll,.L Vl 41VS1+J and whether boys taken. or girls car be1 Attention: Senior Engineers: You are hereby reminded that the sale of Commencement Announcements will continue through this week only and that it will be absolutely impossible to place an order after 3 p.m. Fri- day, April 30. Sophomore Engineers: Place your orders for class jackets now at, Wag- ner & Co. The full price is $1.50. Those who placed their orders before ,prang vacation, will be able to get