AL NEWSPAPER OF T ERSITY OF MICHIGA) SUMMER SESSION every morning except University Summer Sess in Control of Student1 >ciated Press is exclusiv use for republication ofa sredited to it or not o this paper and the local: ne When we consider these factors, the reasonsfor the increasing popular- ity of the Summer session are very HE evident. The Summer session is a N positive, constructive part of the Un- iversity,-it is no longer the retiring lion by place of the failures. Publica- What difference does it makes if ely en- all news Amundsen did return safely, the the wise newspapers still have the Bryan- Darrow Evolution classic to fill up T, _ space-. OASTED INTRODUCING -THE CHARACTERS Rolls office force for the Summer session, reading from the wastebask- et to the right and straight down: Tamam, Beezlebub, Olaf the Great, Jo and Metta Zilch, Washington, Beano, The Old Man, Peat Bog afid others. With such a staff, Tamam expects to be frequentl guided by the muse (see illustration), but not too often.I 9S red at the Ann Arbor, .dichigan, ce as second dass matter. cription by carrier, $1.50; by mail, es: PresshBuilding, Maynard Street, rbor, Michigan. nunications, if signed as evidence of aith, will be published in The Summer at the discretion of the "Editor. Un- communications will receive no con- on. The signature may be omitted in >ion if >esired by the writer. The r Daily does not necessarily endorse atiments expressed in the communica- EDITORIAL STAFF Telephone 4925 MANAGING EDITOR NORMAN R. THAL Editor............RobertS. Mansfield $ditor..........Manning Houseworth ian of the Editorial Board........ . Frederick K. S p arrow, Jr. s's Editor............MarionMead, ph Editor........ Leslie S. Bennetts Editor........... .Willard B. Crosby Editor..........W. Calvin Patterson Assistants n T. Barbour MVarion' Meyer 1 DuBois Catherine Miller C. Finsterwald Robert E. Minnich me Lardner Kenneth B. Smith Lehtiner Nance Solomon eE. Lehtiner Marion Welles R. Marcuse Mary L. Zang EDITORIAL COMMENT Cte stock BUSINESS STAFF Telephone 21214 BUSINESS MANAGER JOHN W. CONLIN ertising..............Thomas ounts...........Charles lation................Kermit lication................Frank Olmstead Daugherty K. Klein Schoenfeld TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1925 ight Editor-ROB'T T. MANSFIELD ADDED ATTRACTIONS The thirty-second annual Summer ession of the University ifas started. "dications are that the enrollment ill be larger than ever, despite the act that it has increased beond all ex- ectations during the past few sum- iers. In these facts we. find a vindi- ation of the Summer session from lie old idea that formerly surrounded There was a time when only those rho had failed in their work return- d to summerschool,-it was more or ss of a disgrace to attend school uring the summer. But the old order has changed,-the ummer school has come into its own, ; is as much a part of the University ear as is either of the regular seme- ters, and to many it is more cultur- 1. The' bulk of the enrollment of bie Summer sessions is no longer lade up of regular students who ave failed, in fact quite the oppo- ite. is true, many 'of the best stu- ents return in the summer for the pportunity that is offered to take ourses .that they are unable to fit ito their schedules during the reg- lar year, others come back to take ourses that are not offered during hie regular session, or perhaps are ot offered by their favorite profes- ors, and still others return because liey prefer scholastic. work to indus. rial work or sheer laziness during lie summer months. Then there are many students who ake summer work in order that they iay shorten the time required to get degree. And also, in increasing tmbers during the past few years, re find men and women who have een engaged in teaching and su- ervising schools, and Who are broad- ijuded enough to undgfstand that as tie world advances, so do education nA teaching methods, and these peo- ae attend themelaboratories of ed- .caton,-namely specialized schools t education,-in order that the school hildren who are entrusted to their are may have the benefits of the cost advanced methods and teach- ngs. During the summer the University nakes its closest approach to the 7uglish type of education. Classes ,re more informal, and aided by the 0-operation of the school teachers ad supervisors, they assume a more cholarly air. For this reason many ourses that are given during' the ummer are not applicable during the egulap session, and it is such courses biat offer the student a positive in- icement to return to summer school.. For the regular student, the Sum- er session combines education with acation. The work is comparative- r light, and so arranged that the stu- ent has a great deal of time for ree- ation; In fact, in many ways, the immer session .offers everyone who ;tends a more satisfactory type of i*mer vacation than is ordinarily ud it the city or small town. - WHY DO SCHOOLS CLOSE (The Chicago Daily Tribune) In a few- days, now, Chicago's pub- lic schools will close for the sum- mer vacation. Nearly half a million children will not have to go back to their classrooms until after Labor day in September. A few pupils- more than ever before, but still only a few-will attend the summer class- es which the board of education is providing. Many more will find Jobs. A handful will spend the entire vaca- tion out of town; others will have a few days away. That leaves tens of thousands of children who will do nothing at all. We wonder why, Unquestionably the chief reason that schools close in summer is his- torical. When free public education was established in this country most of the boys and girls lived on the farm. They were needed in summer- time to help tear a living from the soil. That situation still holds in many rural districts. It certainly does not hold in Chicago in 1925. For Chicago the year round school offers a partial solution of the problem of overcrowding. This city is lack- ing' in adequate school facilities. We have more raw material than our edu cational factory can handle, working as it does only ten months a 'year. We believe the board of education for that reason alone should consider op- erating on a much larger scale than at present during the regaining two months. Educators estimate that the child who now goes to elementary schol for eight years could save two of them if he went to school during his summer vacations. He could save a half year to a year in high school. The summer school is sound peda- gogically, the experts say, and most children thrive under it. Chicago summers are often hot, but take them by and large they are not unbearably so. 'Cooling plants such as have been installed in the larger movie theaters might solve that dif- ficulty in the schools. Teachers, in any event, should be given consider- able freedom to take their children out of doors and into the parks. We would not penalize the child whose parents feel he should earn something in the summer months; nor would we penalize the fortunate child whose parents are able to take him out of town for his vacation. Rather, we believe, the schools should remain open for those who care to at- tend. Compulsory attendance laws might remain as they are; but any parent who wishes to send his child to school in summer should be able to do so. Some of the children would pro- test, but it is our observation that the traditional dislike of school by the child is to a considerable extent just a tradition and nothing more. Most children like to go to schol. And even if they didn't, we can't see that as an edequate reasn for closing the schools in summer. We don't believe that the child's whims should be al- lowed to govern educational policies. A SENSE OF HUMOR (The Daily Illini) "It may be that the most serious need of the human race just now is comic relief," Glenn-Frank said at the commencement exercises of the University of North Carolina. "We are ii possession of the knowl- edge and power we need to establish social control, but we lack the poise, the sense of relative values," he de. lared. A freshened sense of humor will help us to achieve poise and also to avoid an undue emphasis of one aspect of life at the expense of the others. An era of fun will be redemp- tive if it enables us to avoid the path- ological seriousness of the reformer and go gayly to the task of recon- struction. Mr. Frank's is the most agreeable of all the recent diagnoses of "what the world needs today" since Thomas R. Marshall opined it was a five cent cigar. Mr. Frank agrees with Carlyle, in implication, of course, when Carlyle said that no man can be wholly wrong who has once wholeheartedly laugh- ed, and Walter Hines Page once wrote, "No man can be a gentleman who does not. have a. sense of humor." . DAILY DISSERTATION After wading through our copious mail, we feel that it is only meet and right that we answer the greeting of our little friends with a suitable wel- come. Michigan welcomes you, fellow stu- dents, to the joys of higher learning, Ypsi, and the Tap Room. Make the most of it or they as the case may be. You have come to a vast institution. The next move is to leave it by your own volition and not at the toe of the administrative board's number 15 sea- boot. There are two ways of accomplish- ing this worthy end. The first is by assidious attention to your books and professors. The second and more generally used method is known in the venacular as "Bluff," an ancient Persian word meaning "Bull." If you do not already know the methods pe- culiar to this system, you had better take the former. But what we started out to do was to welcome you back or here, depend- ing upon your age in the institution. Well-here goes: - - - "Wel- comer" Down home they're diving off the tower or playing golf or tennis, but here we sit in a hot, stuffy office. It's hell to be- homesick in summer school. * * * FOLKLORE Legend has it that not so very long ago at this big University there was a blonde youth named Timothy Arbor who was aceistomed in his own home town way up in the blue-mountains to go away from everyone and spend his time angling for speckled beau- ties in the clear and limip streams on the Skothicnbal mountain. When Timothy came to Ann Arbor, which as you very likely know, child- ren, is the home of the University of Michigan, Timothy yet liked to now and then get away from everyone and spend his leisure hours, which I can assure you children were too few be- cause of the distractions lieing about this city and open his soul to God in the mystery of solitude and nature. He did it very often. Timothy was beloved by both young and old, and every time he walked down Hill street or Washten- aw (as the case might be), the lit- tle sorority sisters flocked at his heels, looking admiringly at him for in those days I can tell you, just as your Uncle Bill in his younger days, Timothy was no slouch. Timothy how- ever did not let his head be turned and remained the same modest man that he had always been. One time Tim went out on the Hur- on river with a can of fishworms to regal himself with a few hours of quiet and fishing. But he couldn't catch a fish. This so disheartened poor Timothy that he took out his bait can, aid each worm, one by one, he ate 'um. He of course died. In honor of Timothy's beautiful character the place where he died was christened the "Arboretum," for it was there that (Timothy) Arbor et'um. And that my children is the story of how the Arboretum got its name. -Beezlebub. * * * ....and it's too hot to play cards .... oh well.... Tamam. Perhaps Professor Frayor was right when he said, in his Cap Night ad- dress, that teachers can learn more as students than the students them- selves. In order to get front page publicity in the nation's newspapers, one must only be a millionaire and have a divorce trial. Subscribe for the Summer Daily. Newest i lakfofl n r , o mnie SERVICE SATISFACTION COURTESY c 0 Suppl0 Fiction ; . ' ' !' f.o r. q / 320 South State 549 East University A illT igts75C Starting I. Matine T 7CThirs. an. kTomorrow n V 0-T"hus.a (McNI. 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