PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, INIARCH 16, 1941 PAGE TWO SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 19~1 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Traditional Ball Will Take Place Graduation Eve Committee Will Sponsor Theme Of 'Last Fling' Theme Of 'Last Fling' Bowing to tradition, Michigan's seniors will hold their last under- graduate fling, the Senior Ball, on the night before their graduation, Friday, June 20. Because no definite theme has as yet been selected, the dance commit- tee, headed by Hubert Weidman, '41, is sponsoring a contest with a free ticket to the annual affair as the prize for the best theme idea. Last year's Ball was held in the Intramural Building with Glenn Miller and his orchestra furnishing the music. Assisting Weidman on the central committee are William Elmer, '41, chairman of the publicity commit- tee, who will be assisted by Robert Buritz, '41E; decorations chairman Paul Rogers, '41A, and Helen Bohn- sack, '41; and patrons chairman Lee Keller, '41, and Catherine McDer- mott, '41SM. Others on the committee include George Nadler, '41, programs; Wil- liam Volmer, '41E, building; Fred Dannenfelser, '41E, music; Herb Bro- gan, '41Ed, tickets; James Lau, '41F&C, secretarial and finance, and Dorothy Carter, '41SN, project. Debaters Enter Third Section Of Tourney Third round of men's intramural , debates on military service for this week was announced yesterday by R. Ervin Bowers, '41, student direc- tor. Sigma Phi Epsilon will oppose the second Kappa Sigma team and the third Fletcher Hall team will meet Lambda Chi. The Kappa Sigma first team will argue the proposition with the Delta Tau Delta two-man team. The second Alpha Nu team will op- pose the first Allen-Rumsey house twosome. Theta Chi will meet Sigma Alpha Mu. The second Wenley House team will engage in an intra-house contest with the fourth Wenley House team. Pi Lambda Phi will meet the sec- ond Alpha Nu team, while the first Wenley House team will debate Ty- ler House. Hale Champion, '44, and George Sallade, '43, will comprise the team which will oppose Phi Epsilon Pi. Zeta Beta Tau will meet the third Wenley team and the second Inde- pendent team will argue with Roch- dale Cooperative House. Allen Rumsey will meet Sigma Nu; Zeta Beta Tau will oppose Fletcher Hall. Sigma Alpha Mu will meet the fourth independent team. The tournament is under the aus- pices of the Union and Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary forensic group. Handshake, But No Agreement Birkhoff Cites 'Esian Keynote Will Be Modernism gL With the first batch of copy already TI 1at the printer's, The 1941 Michigan- M ath Pr-oblem ensian, campus yearbook, is rapidly nearing its publication date. When the book will be available for dis- "It is an interesting, purely math- tribution, editor-in-chief Charles ematical problem to determine just Samuel, '41, refuses to reveal, but, he what kinds of drawings can be made says, it will be out earlier than it by means of uniform, indefinitely was last year. Modernism-in makeup and con- extended straight lines," declared tent-is to be the keynote of this Professor George Birkhoff of Harvard year's 'Ensian, according to Samuel. University in an address yesterday "We aren't calling it the book of the to the mathematics section of the future," he declared, "but it will be Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences, the book of the present." n ticheganL ettrs.The art work, especially that sep- and the Letters. arating various departments, will be Professor Birkhoff divided this pro- almost surrealistic, but not, Samuels bcm into three phases: figures drawn emphasized, so surrealistic that it is without any erasure; and figures incomprehensible. Margaret Whitte- drawn witll a single uniform erasure. more, '41, has been in charge of art Practically any drawing can be re- work, which has employed much of pm'oduced if only rectilinear erasures the vignette effect. are allowed, he said. Portraits of Modern Layout, Makeup Adolf Hitler and President Roosevelt, "We have been able to work out new drawn only through the use of these pages makeup, consistently modern, straight lines, have been published in through the innovation of a specific a national photographic magazine. layout department headed by Robert Professor Birkhoff answered this Nickle, '42," Samuel explained. problem fully by reducing it to a Natural color photography, intro- simpler problem solved by the cele- duced in last year's 'Ensian, will be brated Norwegian mathematician, 1 included in this year's book, but Abel, in 1828. there will be added pages, making four in all. The League, the law quad, and a shot of the diagonal from Hiilman Asks Settlement the Engine Arch will all be shown in WASHINGTON, March 15.-P)-_ natural color. "All the photographs -.-- Sidney Hillman wired striking work- ven the usual high stand ers today at the Vanadium Steel Company's Bridgeville, Pa., plant to- YOUR E .1. . day, urging them to accept a pro- and you will enjoy a - posed settlement advanced by the home-cooked meal at the s Office of Production Management 'U I n x GItI1,1 1 and not "hamper" the defense pro- Two Floors 615 E Wiliam gram. ards of the book," Samuel said. Four tial candidates, taken by student hundred pictures taken by student photographers, as well as other side- photographers will run, besides those lights on the election. taken by professional photographers. - Along with the pictures of the Campus Chronology campus today, the 'Ensian staff was A new edition of the campus life able to borrow several scenes .rom section will feature activities of the the Archives, showing the University year in chronological order, a cal- as it was at the latter part of the endar form. Shots from the big 19th and the beginning of the .20th dances will be included along with Century. We tried particularly to the other affairs occurring the same find scenes in which students ap- month. The section for November peared, because the clothes are in will contain pictures of the presiden- period," Samuel said. Fun! Laughter! HHilariousEnetim t H . SELSA MAXWvVE;LL 77 "AMERICA'S MISTRESS OF UNCEREMONIES" SH il l Auditorium Tuesday, April I1st Lr 8:15 P.M. Prices: $1.00, 75c, 50c r Mail Orders Taken Now By r r~MICHIGAN ALUMNAE CLUB - MICHIGAN LEAGUE John L. Lewis (left), president of the United Mine Workers of America (C10) shook hands with Charles O'Neill,' spokesman for the soft-coal operators in the eight-state Appalachian area at a contract conference in New York City. Operators rejected a Lewis proposal for continuance of operations in the soft-coal industry if negotiations run be- ond March 31, expiration date of the present agreement. Scott Elected Head Of Academy (Continued from Page 1) down in literary history as a study in frustration." Prof. Nelson W. Eddy of the Ro- mance Languages Department, in a discussion of the famous contem- porary Spanish author, Pio Baroja, asserted that in terms of everyday attitudes the Spaniard might pos- sibly be called conservative. "How- ever," Eddy continued, "if liberalism is defined as belief in the value of human personality, then he was cer- tainly a liberal." Eddy also pointed out that Baroja never allowed personal prejudices against the "middle class and aristo- cracy's stupidities, or against the Jew and Catholic priests to divert his artist's brush from depicting plaus- ible and psychologically interesting figures." In a fourth discussion before the literature section, Prof. Jacques Sal. van of Wayne University considerec the influence of French romanticism upon the poets of mid-Victorian Eng- land. He declared that a certain familiarity with the works of Alfred de Musset was part of the formatior of such Victorian Swinburn, Rossetti, Thompson. Romantics Mereditht , e-a * You'll want to see it twice to get all the laughs .. . because they crowd each other so fast you haven't finished one before the other beginsi ... If this isn't the funniest picture ever released, it'll have to do until a funnier one comes along! Zionist Group To Hear Simon Shetzer Today a Simon Shetzer, president of the De- troit Jewish Community Council and an official of a national Zionist or- ganization, will address Avukah, stu- dent Zionist group, on the topic, "The American Jewish Community," at 8 p.m. today in the Hillel Founda- tion, Evelyn Sislin, Avukah presi- dent, announced yesterday. Long prominent in the Zionist movement, Shetzer is a Michigan graduate and is also a graduate of Harvard Law School. J I I f Clear those fairways for action. Golfing weather us comin9 bock. To prepare you for the greatest season yet, Moe's offer the most complete selection of golf equipment in Ann Arbor. Start this season with the best. For golf, it's MOE'S! -THE BEST IN SPORTING GOODS :_. .. .:.: .. Y y'': _ .