THE MICHIGAN DAILY Leadership Class To Hold Play Day at Fresh Air Camp Honors Dinner Salutes Active GRADUATION GARB: Caps, Gowns Steeped in Custom Today will mark the 15th an- nual play day of the Recreational Leadership Program sponsored by the WAA to be held at the Fresh Air Camp from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Recreational Leadership course meets each Friday from 3 to 5.p.m. at the WAB. The pur- pose of the course is to provide its students with valuable lectures and practice in the organization and the actual administration of summer camp work. There are 50 members in the class. Freshmen who have com- pleted their standard requirements for Physical Fducation make up about two-thirds of the class. The remaining students are upper- classmen, sociology and psychol- ogy majors who are interested in this type of group work. THE COURSE is conducted 1y the students with the aid of their sponsors Miss Marie Hartwig and Miss Mary Smelser. There is no credit given for the course. It consists of lectures, camp practice and making a work book which is a general out- line of the various activities and schedule of each week's work. The play day will open with a general meeting for camp routine. A waterfront and nature period will follow. The afternoon will close with a picnic, story-telling' and a game period. THE PURPOSE of the play day is to put into practice all that has been covered during the semester. Several of the students have attained summer positions at var- ious camps as a result of their interest in this project. Klein Founds Arts Choral' Mosher Coeds Two scholarships were award- ed at Mosher Hall honors banquet last Thursday. Patricia Patsloff received a 75 dollar scholarship and Miriam Sager received a 50dollar schol- arship. These Mosher scholar- ships are awarded on the basis of scholastic achievement, activity participation and financial need. Honored juniors and graduat- ing seniors and guests were serv- ed in the small dining room. Wo- men receiving activity honors wore red carnations, and women re- ceiving scholarship honors wore white carnations. * * * THE SCHOLARSHIP cup was awarded to Marion Blancett and Marilyn Keck. Gloria Korhonen, Mosher Hall choir director, receiv- ed a miniature copy of the cup awarded to the dormitory at Lan- tern night. The Mosher Glee Club sang at the banquet. Barbara Whiting and Marilyn Keck were in charge of the hon- ors program. Graduate foreign students also received activity and scholarship honors. * * * PRISCILLA WOODWARD was installed as house president. Resi- dents had voted last Monday, and the election results were kept se- cret until the banquet. Seniors suffering from the heat at June graduation in their full, black and not-too-well-ventilated gawns might find some consolation for their discomfort in knowing how the traditional graduation garb came into use. Back in the days when colleges and universities were first estab- lished under the church, monks and friars wore long robes, sim- ilar in design to the present day graduation gown. Longhours spent in study or prayer in the cold stone churches of England required, full, warm garments. Propriety, too, strictly prohibited excesses in costume. It Ushers Needed For Drama Fete All coeds interested in ushering [or the Drama Festival may sign up in the Undergraduate Office of the League. Many women who have signed up for ushering are not appearing for the plays, according to Mary Davidson, chairman of the Per- sonnel Committee. She asks all women unable to usher on the dates for which they have signed to call the Undergraduate Office or send a substitute. All ushers will report to the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre 45 ninutes 'before performance time. kny woman who fails to report nay not usher at any other play, MXiss Davidson said. Posture Better, Says Dr. Bell "The posture of the women par- ticipating in the Lantern Night sing showed a remarkable im- provement over former years," said Dr. Margaret Bell, chairman of the Women's Physical Educa- tion Department. Although several groups had a rather artificial straightness, pos- ture on the whole was nearly per- fect, she stated. Dr. Bell also emphasized that correct posture, along with good grooming and manners, makes a great deal of difference especially when a woman is applying for a job. "If an applicant slouches into a business office and shakes hands limply with her prospective em- ployer," Dr. Bell said, "it is a pretty safe bet that she will not get the job." "Good posture practiced during college years and maintained throughout life will create a more youthful appearance in later years," she said. "Arts Choral," the literary school choir, was founded last September through the efforts of Dr. May- nard Klein, associate professor of choral music and director of the University Choir, and Lilias Wag- ner, a junior in the literary school. Lilias, who had known Dr. Klein at Camp Interlocken last summer, encountered him during orienta- tion week last fall. Dr. Klein men- tioned that there was no choir for those students in the literary school who enjoy music.. It was then that the idea for "Arts Choral" was formed. Dr. Klein made the plans and Lilias handled the publicity. * * * THE FIRST meeting was called several weeks after school started and the membership grew in suc- ceeding meetings. Later, the choir was opened to all students except those in music school. At the first election of offi- cers, Lilias Wagner became pres- ident. Helen Dillman was elect- ed secretary, Janet Pierce, lib- rarian, Peter Hotton and Bob White, publicity chairmen. The choir gave a concert at Wil- low Run and sang at several meet- ings in the Rackham Building. They also presented two radio pro- grams, one of which was given during the Christmas season. * * * DR. KLEIN plans to hold try- outs for the choir next fall, and whill choose a hundred mixed voices. The new choir will then elect their second set of officers. Lilias Wagner, this year's presi- dent, stated, "Dr. Klein has so much enthusiasm and skill that he can't help but produce a fine choir. He is our guiding light!" was considered unseemly for the clergy "to exhibit lower limbs," according to canon law. WHEN EDUCATION gradually passed from ecclesiastical to sec- ular control, academic fashion failed to change with it. The long, full robe was retained. It was adopted in America during colon- ial times. This style was considered es- pecially appropriate by early Americans in that it represent- ed the continuity and dignity of learning. They thought, also, that a single and uniform gar- ment, worn by everyone regard- less of financial or social back- ground was suitable in a demo- cratic country. "They thought of everything but comfort," might be the complaint of some graduating se.Nor, squirm- ing under the folds of his full gown. But at least the heavy wools worn by those shivering monks of the Middle Ages have been re- placed by lighter materials. * * * THE TRADITIONAL CAP prob- ably evokes much less complaint than the gown. Most coeds re- gard the mortarboard as a be- coming chapeau, or at any rate, did so before short hair cuts came into vogue. The square cap was adopted by universities in 1520 in imita- tion of the University of Paris. Its technical name is the Ox- ford cap but it is more com- monly known as the mortar- board. The dangling tassel that decor- ates the graduates headgear has a more interesting origin than the cap itself. The idea behind the tassel stems from the phrase "tuft- hunting," the equivalent for our term "social climbing." IN MEDIEVAL DAYS gold tufts or tassels were worn by noblemen to designate their rank. The cus- tom was carried over into the academic world and today tassels are used to indicate the faculty or college to which the Bachelor belongs. Thus the undergraduate is "tuft-hunting" or "social climb- ing" when he works for the tassel which will indicate his bachelor's degree. Carrying on the long battle for sobriety and uniformity in both cap and gown, a student move- ment for a more general use of academic costumes arose in this country in 1885. * * *. INTEREST GREW among the presidents and faculties of insti- tutions. The custom of wearing academic dress increased and spread until, in 1893, the Inter- collegiate Bureau of Academic Cos- tume formulated a definite style which was adopted by almost all American colleges and universities. And so, for better or for worse, the traditional cap and gown have continued in long use from monk to graduating senior. Activity Reports Women personnel activity re- ports are due Monday and Tuesday in the Undergraduate Office of the League. ENGAGED-Mrs. J. Burchley Williams of Detroit announces the engagement of her daughter Jean K. Leonard to Richard S. Hait. Miss Leonard is a senior in literary college, and advertising man- ager of The Daily. Mr. Hait, a senior in the School of Business Ad- ministration, is business manager of The Daily. II liptic Plates." 23, 274 W. Chairman, G. 4 p.m., Mon., May Engineering Bldg. E. Hay. SDAIL OFFICIAL BULLETIN (Continued from Page 4) Arts, School of Education, School of Music, School of Public Health: Students are advised not to re- quest grades of I or X in June. When such grades are absolutely imperative, the work must be made up in time to allow your instruc- tor to report the make-up grade not later than noon June 6, 1949. Grades received after that time may defer the student's gradua- tion until a later date. Doctoral Examination for Clay Lamont Perry, Jr., Mathematics; thesis: "The Bending of Thin El- Doctoral Examination for Her- man Hodge Long, Psychology; thesis: "Sensitivity Response Pat- terns of Negro and White Groups to Anger-Producing Social Stimu- li," Tues., May 24, 311 West Medi- cal Bldg., 3 p.m. Chairman, H. F. Adams. Doctoral Examination for James Alexander Boyer, English; thesis: "Thomas Henry Huxley andehis Relation to the Recognition of Sci- ence in English Education," Tues., May 24, East Council Rm., Rack- ham Bldg., 7:30 p.m. Chairman, L. I. Bredvold. German 1, 2, 31 final examina- tions, Tues., June 7, 2-4 p.m. Room assignments: 1, sec. 1, Fuehrer, 2203 AH; 1, sec. 2, Hascall, 2029 AH; 1, sec. 3, Gaiss, 231 AH; 1, sec. 4, Bigelow, 35 AH; 1, sec. 5, Bernard, 1025 AH; 1, sec. 6, Halley, 1035 AH; 1, sec. 7, Goettler, 229 AH. 2, sec. 1, Gaiss, 231 AH; 2, sec. 2, Goettler, 229 AH; 2, sec. 3, Pott, 18 AH; 2, sec. 4, Reed, 25 AH; 2, sec. 5, Thurber, 2235 AH; 2, sec. 6, Graf, 225 Al; 2, sec. 7, Thurber, 2235 AH; 2, sec. 8, Haley, 1035 AH; 2, sec 9, Fuehrer, 2203 AH; 2, sec. 10, Norton 16 AHl; 2, sec. 11, Bige- low, 35 All; 2, sec. 12, Gaiss, 231 AH; 2, sec. 13, Hascall, 2029 AH; 2, sec. 14, Reed, 25 AH; 2, sec. 15, Heilbronner, 2231 AH; 2, sec. 16, Mertens, 209 All; 2, sec. 18, Heil- bronner, 2231 Al; 2, sec. 19, Ber- nard, 1025 AH; 2, sec. 20, Yates, 2013 AH. 31, sec. 1, Willey, 25 AH; 31, sec. 2, Bergholz, 6 AH; 31, sec. 3, Ber- nard, 1025 AH. German 1, 2, 31 special senior final examinations, Tues., May 31, 7-9 p.m. All sections will meet in 231 A.H. German 12 final examinations, Fri., June 3, 7-8 p.m. All sections will meet in 25 A.H. Concerts Carillon Recital: by Percival Price, University Carillonneur, 2:15 Sunday afternoon, May 22. Program: Ave Maria byArcadelt, The Lady Piper, by Chambon- nieres, greludium by Bull, Dead March by Purcell, Courante; a group of carillon compositions by Wilhelm Bender, and four of his arrangements for carillon. University of Michigan Choir and the Michigan Singers, con- ducted by Maynard Klein, will pre- se#t its annual Spring Concert at 4:15 p.m., Sun., May 22, Hill Auditorium. Program: composi- tions by Palestrina, Bach, Healey Willan, Brahms, Ross Lee Finney (of the School of Music faculty), Randall Thompson, and Kodaly's (Continued on Page 6) Graduation Gift Suggestions HANDKERCHIEFS make fine graduation presents for both men and women. 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