THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Involved Math.
Bids Students'
Hod es cClaims
Colleges Rival Big
Business In Mass
Production Output
Athlete Turns Explorer For Science
Mr. Average American's determina-
tion to give his sons and daughters
Complexity Of Unit System a college education has made higher
Is One Main Difficulty, education one of the country's most
important businesses, figures sent to
Deelares Professor Soule President Alexander G. Ruthven's of-
fice by the U.S. Department of the In-
"The average student is so bound terior reveal.
up in mathematics involved in an So widespread is the desire to con-
equation that he forgets the chemis- tinue beyond high school that bach-
try," Prof. James,H. Hodges declared elor's degrees are becoming as com-
yesterday at the meeting of the Michi- mon as swing fans. In 1935-36 alone,
gan College Chemistry Teachers' As- the report shows, 143,125 were is-
sociation. sued by the nation's 1,628 institu-
"The blind substitution of figures jtions of higher learning.
according to a formula," Professor1i PhD's Becoming Common
Hodges said, "screens the significance Even the semi-sacred doctor's de-
of the equation and requires .very gree was won by 2,770 individuals,
little mental effort to perform. It is while 18,302 won master's awards.
one of the subtleties of the teacher's The much criticized honorary de-
job," he concluded, "to place some grees went to 1,347. In many schools
resistance into this short'circut meth- these degrees are the highest pos-
od of obtaining an end." sible award for service to humanity,
Prof. Byron A. Soule then dis- but at other institutions they have
cussed the problem from the "Analyt- fallen into disrepute as witness Bing
ical Viewpoint." The student's main Crosby's "Doctor of Music" from Gon-
difficulty, he believed, was in the zaga and Edgar Bergen's "Doctor of
complexity of the chemists' unit sys- Humor" from Northwestern.
tem. Professor Soule also suggested Assets totalling more tnan five and
that, "Class problems should come a half billion dollars were listed by
directly from the laboratory and 1,362 institutions. For 1935-36 alone
hypothetical problems should be their budgets amounted to $467,252,-
avoided." 240 with incomes for the year total-
"Experience in the Teaching of Or- ling $491,105,551.
ganic Chemistry" was the title of the Women Get Their Share
final talk by Prof. 'Joseph 0. Hal- Women composed 36.8 per cent of
ford. There is very little calculation the enrollment during the regular
required, he pointed out, in organic sessions but jumped to 63.3 per cent
clemistry His solution to the prob- in the summer, traditional period for
lem was a different equational ap- school teachers to take graduate work,
proach. After the papers the entire according to the report.
group engaged in an informal discus- Ta t hem e port.
sion of the suggestions presented. That American institutions of high-
er learning are the backbone of li-
braries in the country is proved by
Fraternity Heads T' Meet the survey when it shows that 62,858,-
'078 bound volumes are owned by the
A meeting of all fraternity house schools contacted.
presidents will be held at 7:30 p.m. Unlike the days of yore when
Tuesday in the Interfraternity Coun- "large" universities would have a fac-
cil Room in the Michigan Union, it ulty of four or five, 1935-36 saw over
was announced yesterday by Robert 110,225 men and women engaged
Canning, '39, secretary of the Coun- full-time in the production of futurer
cil. Einsteins.7
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GflD -AiBOUT
Wrestler Braves Tropic Jungle
In Search ForVanishing Tribe
By JACK CANAVAN thinking wolves were attacking his
Tracking down the vanishing rem- sleeping quarters. The wolves turned
nants of the ancient Mayas has led out to be 25 Huixteco Indians, cele-
Harlnd anne, '9, eep ntothebrating the night in traditional man-
Harland Danner, '39, deep into the ner with Mexican firewater.
jungles of southern Mexico on a Hip-deep in mud, lie then embarked
scientific quest. for Ococingo, but was soon overtak-
The former Big Ten wrestling en by the pangs of hunger. Having
champion is gathering ethnological 4xhausted their food supply, Danner
material for the University on the and his native guide attempted to
disappearing tribe of Lacandones, forage with scant success. "When-
purest descendants of a civilization ever we approached a hut," he wrote,
long buried in the dust of centuries.
Thus far he has penetrated into the "the Indians, taking us for federal
isolated Southern Chiapias moun- soldiers come to pillage, ran away and
tains without yet having reached his hid."
goal. Danner shot owls to stave off hun-
His journey has led him afoot ger until the two-man expedition fin-
through tropical jungles and across ally reached Ococingo. When last
mountain gorges on the back of a heard from he was enjoying a re-
mule. He has forded mountain tor- ,spite from jungle fare before plung-
rents, gone hungry for days, and slept ing off again on the next leg of his
sultry nights under tropic stars. De- quest for the descendants of the
scribed in a letter to the Daily, his vanished Mayas.
adventures reveal hardships mixed
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SHOP WINDOWS chocked with
gifts, sparkling tinsl, and red St.
Nick's; carols in the air, Christ-
mas parties in the offing, 'Tis the
season to be merry so let's look
about.
"'TWERE THE DAYS before
Xmas and all through the cam-
pus," everybody was party-ing to
celebrate vacation. Better take
an option on your booth now down
at the PARROT, they're going fast
boys 'n girls-'cause that's where
we gather to yarn a bit about
places and things. We'll be head-
ing in there to yarn some more'
when we're back from seventeen
days of high living. The PAR-
ROT'S the place, you fill in with
the time and "date" and then
come join the party!
"GOD REST YE MERRY GEN-
TLEMEN let nothing ye dismay"
for here's the answer to what
you'll give your women-folk this
Xmas! Breathes there a woman
with soul so dead she wont re-'
spond beautifully to a handsome.
compact? No! and CALKINS-
FLETCHER have the ones that
will: bring forth the oh's! and
ah's! Super college girl material
are these real leather, saddle-
stitched compacts with goose
feather puff. Slick as paint and
twice as new. Or the "Golden
Monkey" compact styled after an
old, gold snuff box. A flat elegant,
gold disk is another enviable num-
ber. But a trick new' oblong one
with full size lipstick in the top of
the case takes the prize for the
newest gadget.
"SILENT NIGHTS" won't be
many during the frivolous two
weeks in the offing, in fact they're
apt to be rather gay if you seec
to it that you're the "up-to-the-
minute" good looking gal with the
new hair do. DI MATATIA is
looking forward to giving you a
brand new style line and they'd
like to show you what a crowning
glory hair can be when you pep
up the sheen with a hot-oil treat-
ment. Make it soon and we know
you'll go back again.
"COME DECK THE HALLS
with holly" we carol but first come
deck yourself out in DILLON'S
lovely Christmas robes. They're
grand gifts but you'll put one tip-
top first on your own letter to'the
good St. Nick. once you cast eye
on them. For the gal used to more
southern climes, there's a warm
thick-piled, very luxurious chen-
ille. to say nothing of the "Fluffs."
Or if you've in mind making a
glamorous swish Christmas morn
you'll love the satin hostess coats,
the blue brocade sprigged with
tinv flr ,,rs r,.h riinru ffnm
MEN'S STORE, having a mascu-
line viewpoint, suggest these scor-
ing hits: Argyle °Plaid socks, the
real English imports that will
warm his heart as well as his
pedal extremities. For the fellow
who likes gadgets there's a stun-
ning pipe rack which takes the
shape of a life-size stirrup. There's
a miracle of compactness (dear
to any male heart in the clothes
brush whose top harbors a zipper
case for razor, toothbrush, files
etc. .And the gift supreme is a
cashmere sweater in the soft
smooth blue or camel's hair tone
for an unbelieveably small tug on
the purse strings.
"BEARING GIFTS WE'LL TRA-
VERSE AFAR" and you know
nothing I quite -so exciting as a
gift from out of town. GAGES
LINEN SHQP offers this sugges-
tion as one sure to. take care of
several names on your list. If
Mater or Auntie Lucy are pr-'
ving problems we'll hint and say
the woman doesn't exist who does
not appreciate lovely linens. The
ones that caught our eye are in a
collection of beautiful Belgian
linen luncheon and breakfast sets
with a glorious blending of bright
colors. Hand-blocked in colors so
gay the "Better half" would be
jostled right out of his Monday
morning mood. Even the name
suggest fascinating colors-listen
-Bloomberry, Mexicano, Kash-
mirl, and Wildberry, intriguing,
no?
AR9E YOU LOOKING FOR A
GIFT UNUSUAL?-one that is
really distinctive? What could be
a better answer than the McClel-
land Barclay sculptured bookends,
ashtrays and show pieces. Once
a Michigan man, he is the creator
of the Fisher Body Girl, and a
celebrated illustrator for Cosmo-
politan magazine., Thesignature
identifies each piece as one of a
limited edition created in his own
studio. Now doesn't that sound
unique and every piece is attrac-
tive. And just a peek in the Ro-
berts window will tell you here's
the place for those ,one-of-a-kind
gifts. Our eye lit on the mittens
embroidered with "Yes" and "No"
Wonder how effective the power
of suggestion is? and the tricky
compact shaped like a heart pad-
look is a prize plum in the collec-
tion.
LIKE TO KNOW the three re-
quisites for a really grand gift?
Here they are: loveliness, unusual-
ness and cleverness, and that is
just the description of all the eye-
filling gifts in JUNE GREY'S
SHOP on South University. This
is headquarters if you've a pro-
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ow
with humor.
Danner left Ann Arbor for Mexico
last summer with Cuidad Las Casas
as his immediate destination. Buffet-
ed by blinding tropical rainstorms
and racked with dysentry, he finally
reached this last outpost of civiliza-
tion. Here he had the opportunity to
study four different Indian cultures
on the spot which he described as
"from an ethnological point of view
the most interesting pueblo in all
Mexico."
Plunging from here into the Guate-
malan jungle regions; he severed all
connections with civilization, know-
ing, he wrote, "that I shall not en-
counter another of my countrymen
for months."
Halloween Danner spent in a native
jail, the only available shelter. Dis-
turbed by "a series of long drawn
out howls," he grabbed his rifle,
Pomeroy Wins Radio-Vic
The winner of the combination
radio-phonograph raffled off at -the
League Fair last night is Harriet iv.
Pomeroy, '39.
CO MPA NY
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