Plans Include
Mass Exercises
As the chief event of the "Fun,
Fitness Field Day" planned to cul-
minate the women's physical fitness
program, five mass exercises by all
sororities, league house zones and
dormitories and two individual ex-
ercises by each group will be pre-
sented at 4 p.m. Saturday at the
WAB and Palmer Field.
After the judges have announced
the daily exercise winners in the
campus - wide drive for increased
sports activity, mass relays, dodge
ball and other games will be held.
The last event on Palmer Field will
be a lengthy snake dance in which
everyone will participate.
Representatives from the Ann Ar-
bor high schools will attend the Field
Day.a
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Dressings Unit
Invites Houses'
Houses that have been especially
invited to attend the Surgical Dress-
ing Unit sometime between 1 p.m.
and 5 p.m. today include Alpha Omi-
cron Pi, Delta Gamma, Alpha Xi
Delta, Jordan Hall, and Alumnae
House. Special guests for tomorrow
are Theta Phi Alpha, Gamma Phi
Beta, Alpha Delta Pi, Martha Cook,
and Adelia Cheever.
Special instruction will be given to
those students who have not rolled
bandages previously. Cotton blous-
es or smocks are required for this
work, and students have also been
requested not to wear chipped nail
polish.
The unit will probably be closed
before finals.
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By NANCY GROBERG
There wasn't any question when we left the dorm this morning about
the fact that this time spring meant business. The man who served us our
coffee looked as if he were going to take a running jump out into the air
any minute, and we sat there and prayed that he'd give us our breakfast
before he did. Our philosophy class had that faraway look in its collective
eye, and when we got to history lecture our professor was sitting on a
table, staring at the ceiling. All of which goes to show you that the fact
that spring is probably here poses a very definite set of problems. We do
not propose to solve them-only to list them-cautiously.
In the first place, how many courses are there that mix with this
sort of weather? Only two that we can think of--philosophy and Eng-
lish-and they don't mix very well. For example, who wants to slave
over a test tube in a building that smells like a refuge for mummies,
when he could be out smelling the crocuses? Who wants to identify
bones in a laboratory? Who wants to trace a historical trend when he
could be out making history himself in the sweet spring air? It's a
case of Back to Nature vs. Back to Books.
Then there's the matter of study halls. They've lost that "please-
conform-to-the-academic-atmosphere" sort of thing. The chances are
that tonight the noise on the first floor of the library will sound like a train
coming into a station. The rustle of spring is getting so loud you can't
even hear yourself think.
And you know what Chaucer always says-"Whanne that Aprille,.
the droughte of March hat perced to the roote . . . thanne longen folk
to goon on pilgrimages . . ." He probably has the right idea-come
spring and people want to go on pilgrimages all over the place. For in-
stance, we know some people who make daily pilgrimages all during
April and May-to the Arboretum. And take our case-we'd like to
make an immediate pilgrimage to New York City. No doubt there are
people like that all over campus-dying to go on pilgrimages to some
place or other. And why not? A little trip is a good thing once in a
while.
In the face, of all this, we are obviously quite helpless. These are try-
ing times, and any genuine impulse to commune with the green grass and
blue sky should not be smothered. The ethical aspect of it, however-i.e.,
to cut or not to cut, to study or not to study-is up to the individual. If
you think you know your work and can get much more out of a solitary walk,
then sacrifice the class and get down to the real job of understanding na-
ture. If, on the other hand, you're way behind and are naturally not going
to catch up via a mere sixty-minute session, you'd be a fool to wilt in a
classroom when you could be outside, studying in the fresh air. These con-
siderations leave you quite a wide choice as to what to do.
We do not, of course, set ourselves up as an authority in this. Indi-
vidual cases must differ with the individual professor and the indi-
vidual course. It's just that we got to thinking about the problem and
decided that it was something we'd all have to think out. Maybe a fresh
air seminar would be nice-then we could all work on it together.
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On Active Duty
I n Reserves -rdo
$Dear Editor,
It was recently announced by the IHOPE The Daily and a certain
Third Naval District Headquarters private too cowardly to reveal his
that fifteen thousand women are name, are proud of themselves. If
now on active duty in the Women's you set out to arouse the anger and
Reserves of the Navy, Coast Guard absolute disgust of several hundredE
and Marines, coeds, you certainly succeeded.
The Navy pointed out that less These coeds worked hard and
than a year ago the Waves alone spent a lot of money to show the
were planned with a complement of soldiers a good time, and the ma-
11,000 and they now have 14,000 in jority of soldiers enthusiastically
training or doing Navy jobs, with agreed that they did a darn good
others awaiting orders. The Marine job of it. And the soldiers are
Corps Women's Reserve has sworn still coming back. What better
in 1,100 women in its first month, sign of approval?
and the SPARS number 1,750.
The Naval Training School for B UT you pick a private, the chronic
The avalTraiing choo for complainer, and, attempting to
Women's Reserves in the Bronx, tak-beovelandractattentin la
en over from Hunter College, is the be navel and attract attention, play
primary indoctrination center for
enlisted WAVES, SPARS and Marine
Reserves. The number of special
training schools to relieve men for sea
duty has risen to nineteen.
Recruits are needed by the WAVES,
SPARS, and Marines, said the Third
Naval District, as the success of wo-
men in shore jobs has led to the ex-
tension of their duties in various
fields.
The nineteen training schools in-
elude one in Detroit where the wo-
men learn gunnery for instruction
duty in this field by the use of "syn-
thetic devices." They learn to oper-
ate Link trainers which are used in
instructing aviators in instrument
flying at the Naval Air Station in
Atlanta._
up his opinion. You have the nerve
to give the impression that his opin-
ion is a representative one.
Our dorm has given two huge par-
ties, and for every soldier you can
find that didn't have a good time, I
can find you ten that did. Besides
infuriating the coeds, you have also
annoyed the many soldiers who did
have fun at our parties, and whom
you represented in your one private
as not only being ungrateful, impo-
lite, but hypocritical.
In closing, may I say that I hope
your soldier gets KP for the rest of
his life. He'll probably get along
much better with the potatoes than
with anyone else.
-Anne Kelsey Singer
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There will be an important
Panhellenic meeting at 4:00 p.m.
today in the League. It is im-
perative that the meeting be well
represented because rushing plans
for next fall will be discussed and
adopted. Also, there will be a dis-
cussion of plans for next year's
Panhellenic War Program.
Sophomore orientation advisers
for next year who missed yester-
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p.m. today in the Grand Rapids
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All sorority house presidents
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the meeting today. Be sure that
the name of each house is in-
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{ It is a Saturday night in Ann Ar-
bor, annum 1933, and Bill is waiting
for Molly, his best girl, to come down
for their date. There's nothing very
remarkable about Bill. - He wears
gray flannel trousers, cut rather full,
wing-tip brogues and a tweed jacket
and he smokes a briar.
Here comes Molly now! She's real-
ly dressed to the nines in her new
spring outfit. She's wearing a hat,
(honestD, a neat little number in
pastel felt shallow crown and a brim
which dips sharply over her fore-
head, putting one of her eyes out of
active service. Her new swagger
coat has big leg-of-mutton sleeves
and beneath it her slender silk skirt
hangs just nine inches above the
soles of her pointed-toe, T-strap,
snakeskin slippers.
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instead of the usual Medium. Bill
may not like this innovation and will
tease her about "hanging around
the slaughter house."
For it is 1933 . . . ten years ago.
Molly and Bill will talk about the.
movies . . . "King Kong," "Caval-
cade," "Rasputin and the Empress."
And Molly, typically a clothes-con-
scious coed, discusses the possibility
of designers following Schiaparelli's
lead to bring back the short skirt.
Schiaparelli's models this season are
twelve inches from the floor! Molly
thinks that this is just a passing
fad, though.
Bars To Let Down
Bill is very happy that beer is go-
ing to be sold in town within the
next few days-real 3.2. And Molly
feels triumphant that smoking privi-
leges are to be extended to three
more women's dormitories: Helen
Newberry, Martha Cook and Betsy
Barbour, in spite of a State Repre-
sentative's protest that the dormi-
tories will become "smoking dens of
cigarette-sucking coeds at our state-
supported -university."
Molly and Bill may spend their
evening dancing at the Union or the
League to "Three Little Words,"
"Stardust," or the insouciant "Happy
Days Are Here Again." It is improb-
able that they will spend much time
discussing the recent visit to the
campus of a Japanese League of Na-
tions delegate. He told a lecture
audience that "War between the
United States and Japan would be
an act of madness," and just about
everybody agreed with him.
Quasi "Hell Week"
Probably too they won't be overly
upset about the news from Germany
where the students of the University
of Berlin have just burned several
hundred books as being "un-German
or Marxian," with the excuse, "When
a Jew writes German he lies." This
seems an adolescent gesture to Molly
and Bill; rather like Hell Week which
is falling into disfavor or being
toned down all over campus.
The recent statement of a Univer-
sity professor that "Hitler is a wild
man" doesn't overly perturb them.
"It's the Communists we've got to
look out for," says Bill, and Molly
remarks that each country should
mind its own business.
But April means that politics won't
be the topic of conversation for long.
It is 1933.
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