THE SUMMER. MICHIGAN DAILY
TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1931.
THE SUM1WI~R MICHIGAN DAILY TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1931.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
MANAGING EDITOR
HAROLD O. WARREN, JR.
itorial Director........... Gurney Williams
y Editor..r...........Powers Moulton
ws Editor . ...........Denton Kunze
sic, Drama, Books .... William J. Gorman
men's Editor........... Eleanor Rairdon
>rts Editor.............0. H. Beukema
egraph Editor............. L. R. Chubb
Night Editors
sometimes ruthless but undoubted-
ly necessary.
And so, to those old students who
have returned to the University
this summer, and to those who are
establishing residence here for the
first time, The Daily wishes to ex-
tend a hearty welcome, untinged by
apology for the existence of the
Modern Touch. Enjoy today's ad-
vantages today; for tomorrow they
may be obsolete.
Editorial
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Comment I
Kunze
n Bunting
len R. Carrir
W. Carpente
gar Eckert
bara Hall
rar Hornik
ian Manchem
Powers Moulton
Gurney Williams
Assistants
Alfred Newman
Mi Jack Pickering
er Sher M. Quraishi
Edgar Racine
Theodore Rose
Brackley Shaw
ater P. Cutler Showers
BUSINESS STAFF
BUSINESS MANAGER
WILLIAM R. WORBOYS
Assistant Business Manager .. Vernon Bishop
Circulationd&rAccounts Manager .. Ann Verner
Contracts Manager............. Carl Marty
Advertising Manager.s...Erle Kightlinger
Assistants
Corbett Franklin Ralph Hardy
Don Lyon
TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1931.
Night Editor-GURNEY WILLIAMS
Keeping Pace
Varying from its usual custom of
pointing out to summer students
the specific cultural and recreation-
al advantages to be found in Ann
Arbor, The Daily this year wishes
merely to extend to all Summer
Session 'students-and especially to
members of the teaching profes-
sion-a warm welcome, aided and
abetted by the weather.
Students attracted to the Univer-
sity by its cultural advantages
quickly acquaint themselves with
the obvious recreational facilities;
hence their enumeration at this
time would be superfluous. What
The Daily does wish to point out
Is that the expanding campus is
keeping pace with the rapid spirit
of the times and is consequently
exhibiting to old students a chang-
ing plan--conceived, approved, and
adopted after due and careful con-
sideration of modern educational
conditions.
Each year the University regis-
tration totals reach new high lev-
els, each year new educational fa-
cilities must be provided for the
increased number of students; and
because of this the campus under-
goes a gradual evolution that is not
obvious to those who stand by and
watch it, but which is striking to
former graduates.
Last week many an old grad,
drawn back to the scene of his col-
lege career, was shocked by the
greatly altered appearance of his
alma mater's campus. This is nat-
ural from the standpoint of sen-
timentality, but the change that
shocked them is quite as natural
from the standpoint of progress.
What many old grads did not seem
to realize is that their old school
is growing, and growth means phy-
sical expansion. This should be a
source of pride to those who have
remained loyal to the University
through the years and should still
the disappointed cluckings of those
who return and search vainly for
the old buildings and old haunts
that served them so well but which
are no longer adequate.
To stand still is to stagnate.
Standing sill would gratify the
sentimentality of many old grads,
but the resulting stagnation would
be too big a price to pay. Criticisms
aimed at constant improvement
and increasing service must be ig-
nored if Michigan is to keep abreast
of the times.
Despite these changes, and argu-
ments to the contrary, Michigan
spirit remains much the same. The
lapsing of traditions occurs only
when those traditions become more
and more ridiculous or impractical
in the modern scheme of educa-
Uion; the old grad's cry of "The old
time spirit has gone to the dogs!"r
won't hold water when it is thor-
oughly analyzed. The essential ele-
mnents are there and will remain as
long as University life retains its
basic characteristics.r
Today's student enjoys many
things that old grads never heard9
Of -and he leaves college more
thoroughly equipped to cope with{
nodern conditions, simply because1
the system has been stepped up1
o dovetail with today's problems.
or this he must thank the much
C) ------
(The Michigan Journalist)
Fault could easily be found with
almost any of the contemporary
schools of psychology for neglect-
ing to study one of the most curi-
ous and inveigling of mental phe-
nomena-unnamed and strangely
taken for granted in this day of
the psycho-analyst. For purposes
of discussion, we may here refer to
it as the Alumni Complex.
Its symptoms, at times intricate,
almost inscrutable, are none the
less familiar even to the layman
unversed in the mysteries of psy-
chological terminology. They take
a peculiar form of expression eas-
ily discussed under the headings of
style and form.
Style: Feverish wails, frequently
in a derogatory tone, adressed to
"Alma Mater;" often complicated
by delusions of former grandeur,
loss of which is attributed to an-
other group of persons to whom the
patient refers technically as the
"Younger Generation." Mere men-
tion of this group causes voluble
sneers directed at a diminishing
virility. At times, during periods
of extreme hallucination, the pa-
tient directs invective toward a
person called "Coach."
Form: Patient's mode of expres-
sion frequently takes the form of
an open letter. This he invariably
signs "Old Grad"-an epithet com-
monly followed by an apostrophe
and two digits. Of these latter the
patient is particularly proud, and
imagines that in some occult man-
ner they render him oracular. Pa-
tient shows distinct fondness for
turgid rhetoric, interspersed with
frequent references to the "ol'
fight," "school spirit," and other
confusing phrases. Tone of letter
alternates between anger, sorrow,
and despair.
Patient often gathers with oth-
ers of his ilk. These organizations
are termed "Alumni Associations."
Despite ordinary laws of expecta-
tion, patients, when organized, are
relatively harmless as long as they
are expending energy in eating in-
digestible foods at luncheons. Food
renders patient sentimental; anes-
thetizes his critical faculties; whets
his memory, leading him to recall
techniques applied as an under-
graduate to provide amusement.
These he once called "pranks" but
now refers to them as "rackets;"
following the recitation of each he
repeats a favorite formula, "Those
were the days."
Despite his eccentricities, the pa-
tient is highly prized by an Alma
Mater that often takes pains to
render him malleable through food
and association; for he is valuable,
able to render existent the thing
dearest to the hearts of Boards of
Trustees-a bequest.
Campus Opinion
Contributors are asked to be briet,
confining themselves to less that. 300
words if possible. Anonymous com
munications will be disregarded. The
names of communicants will, howver,
be regarded as confidential, upon re-
quest. Letters published should not be
construed as expressing the editorial
minion of The Daily.
OASTED ROLL
HERE
, WE ARE
AGAIN
For the benefit of all the new-
comers in these parts, it might be
just as well for us to do a little
introducing of people and places
that all you strange, new people
from Dubuque and Columbia and
Lapland are going to meet in your
next pleasant eight weeks on this
campus. And then again it might
be just as well if we did not.
For you'll find out soon enough
just what a dull column this one
you are now reading usually is,
how stupid the editorials on our
left will be, just how idiosyncroni-
ous the reviewer on our right can
be at times, how little real news
you'll pick up on the front page
of this rag, and how few of the
notices on the back page will ever
really concern you. We learned all
that long ago when we first came
to this town, when State street was
still just a little dirt track in a
meadow and when there was a big
mud hole right in front of what
now is known as the M Hut. Of
course State street still is a little
dirty, and the mud hole is behind
the Hut in the alley now-right
under the Press Building windows,
but you won't come in contact with
that mud hole much except
through this column and the Pub-
lic-Opinion-Letters-to-the - Editor
Column; so we won't go into that
further for the present.
However, there are a few things
you might learn about the place
right off at the start. To begin
with there is the new hedge that
has been put in in front of Angell
hall next to the side-walk. You
may have noticed it already. It
was put in, so we are told, about
three months ago by the Buildings
and Grounds department before
there was any rumor about cut-
ting down the University's appro-
priations. They did it to keep the
town children from playing foot-
ball on the lawns and the town
dogs from-well, from playing on
the lawn, too. The motives were
pure, all right, but the results were
mixd. As witness what we have at
present. You see, it was that $45,-
000 cut in the budget. It came
along, and now the University can't
afford to water the hedge; so it
isn't doing as well as it might.
There is a movement on foot, how-
ever, sponsored by the Alternate
Tuesday Afternoons Reading Sec-
tion of the Faculty Women's Club,
to buy some spanish moss and hang
it on the hedge until the hedge
either learns to grow without wat-
er or it is dug up to permit ex-
cavations for a new Law Library.
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Those of our readers who were
with us last summer will undoubt-
edly recall the somewhat heated
controversy that raged at one time
over the dress which gentlemen ef-
fected when in attendance upon
the Tuesday night musicales in
Hill Auditorium. There was not a
little stir over what was termed-
rather crudely, too-"sloppiness" in
masculine taste. We want to pre-
vent all that nasty mess from crop-
ping up to spoil this summer ses-
sion, which, we are assured by
Dean Kraus, will be the Thirty-
eighth Annual Summer Session of
the University of Michigan, and so
we are going to publish some fash-
ion hints from time to time. Right
now the only picture we can find
has really little connection with the
men (we hope)--at least, the thin
ones-but in absence of a better
one, we will print it.
What the women WILL wear.
Our out of town correspondent
sends us the following clipping
from the New York Times.
BOSTON, June 24. (P)-Nicholas
J. Tiffany of Chesterfield, Mo., a
Harvard senior, who was seriously
injured in a plunge into an empty
swimming pool,.was reported slight-
ly improved today.
Anyway, that's the first we had
heard that the Wellesley wenches
were taking over even masculine
names, too.
Music & Drama
GHOSTS
A Review
In the opinion of this reviewer,
it takes a greater Mrs. Alving than
Doris Rich was able to give last
Thursday night to make Ibsen's
"Ghosts" a very well integrated
tragedy. Except for the sure-fire
moments of horror in the last act,
the local production seemed very
sadly dull, very haphazardly con-
ceived.
Surprisingly enough, the play has
weathered the years very poorly.
Pastor Manders proved an insuf-
ferably colorless character to whom
quite too much time on the stage
was granted. IL3s weakness, his
amiable stupidity, and his gullibil-
ity could all be grasped in the first
few minutes; after those he was
entirely tiresome. The character
was not much helped either by
Ainsworth Arnold's shiftless, ill-
varied acting. On the other hand,
Engstrand was performed quite
amazingly well by Reynolds Evans;
yet even this character, having very
little to do with the play anyway,
was again tiresome, his hypocrisy
being very stagey and as it seemed
purposely distended by Ibsen to
make the pastor's gullibility the
more obvious. The two or three
long scenes between these two at
the most evoked a few half-heart-
ed laughs.
But more important, the scenes
between the Pastor and Mrs. Alv-
ing were all very dull. This was
not quite so necessary, though it
is understandable. "Ghosts" repre-
sents perhaps the play in which
Ibsen employed the "retrospective"
technique most completely. The
tragic protagonist is Mrs. Alving;
yet all the very crucial and reveal-
ing moments in her tragedy lie in
the past. Thus it takes a very com-
manding, extremely evocaitve actor
to give Mrs. Alving full tragic mag-
nitude. That is, the actor must
make such terribly prosaic mo-
ments as those during which the
Pastor and Mrs. Alving discuss fire
insurance very significant not only
of some things about the Pastor
(which was all the present produc-
tion gave) but about Mrs. Alving
(her tact, her sensitiveness, her
kindly understanding for example).
Miss Rich, for some reason or
other did nothing to raise the level
of scenes like these. Consequently
they remained dull. Miss Rich
'seemed not to have grasped the
fact that all the difficulties of Ib-
sen's much heralded retrospective
technique rest with actress and de-
mand a more inclusive type of act-
ing effort than she put forth. Mere
mediocrity can be best grasped per-
haps khen one tries to imagine
what Miss Yurka could be in the
part.
WHAT'S GOING ON
JUNE 30-JULY 6
TUESDAY
4:00 p. m.-Assembly of students
and faculty of the School of Edu-
cation, University High school aud-
itorium.
5:00 p. m.-"Our Infinite Uni-
verse," illustrated lecture, Prof. H.
D. Curtis, Natural Science audi-
torium.
Theatres
Majestic-"Fifty Million French-
men."
Michigan - "Laughing Sinners"
with Joan Crawford.
Wuerth-"The Vice Squad" with
Paul Lucas and Kay Francis.
WEDNESDAY
5:00 p. m.-"The Levels of Hu-
man and Animal Learning," illus-
trated lecture, Prof. Adelbert Ford,
Natural Science auditorium.
ONE SUMMER DAY
Affords ample time for a delightful 120-mile
round trp cruise on Detroit river and
Lake Erie from Detroit to
PUT-IN-BAY ISLAND PARK
Scene of the Battle of Lake Erie. Golf, bathing, boating,
fishing, picnic in the grove or dine at the fine hotels. Perry
Victory monument and wonderful caves.
7 5c FR THE ROUD TRIP.1 c CLD 40C
WEEKDAYS .25 and
Return same day
Str. Put-In-Bay leaves foot of First St., Detroit, daily, 9 a.m. Home at 8
p.m., except Fri.,10:15 p.m.,for Put-In-Bay, Cedar Point and Sandusky,O.
$ 7A BARGAIN TWO-DAY OUTING $7
The Crescent Hotel Company and Ashley & Dustin
SteamerLine have joined to offer the extremely low rate of $7fora two-day
outing atPut-In-Bay.Leave Detroit any day at 9a.m., arrive12noon.Lunch
at Crescent Hotel, also evening dinner and room; breakfast and dinner
the next day. Round trip on steamer and dinner on the boat returning.
CEDAR POIINT
The Lido of America. Special excursions every Friday with over three
hours at the Point, $1.50 round trip; other days one hour stopover, fare
$1.75 round trip, Cedar Point or Sandusky. Return same day.
DANCING MOONLIGHTS
Leave Detroit :45 p.m. Wednesday - Thursday, 60c.
Home 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, 75c.
Finzel's Snappy Band.
ASHLEY & DUSTIN STEAMER LINE
Foot of First Street Detroit, Michigan
TAKE A RIDE:ON
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any day this Summer, park your car on the dock, and enjoy this all-day
sail over the great International Highway of Lakes and Rivers. Free
Dancing on the boat. Splendid Cafeteria and Lunch Service. See Detroit
river front, Belle Isle, Lake St. Clair, the Flats and the celebrated "Venice
of America." This cruise of 61 miles each way takes you through a con-
stantly changing panorama of rare land and water views.
Port Huron, Sarnia, St. Clair Flats, Algonac
Starting this trip from Port Huron passengers leave at 3:10 p. m., arriving
in Detroit at 7:45 p. m. Returning, leave Detroit at 9 the next morning,
arriving in Port Huron at 2:10 p. m.
Str. Tashmoo leaves Griswold St. Dock at 9 a. m., Daily and Sunday; arrive
Port Huron 2:10 p. m. Returning, leave PORT HURON, 3:10 p. m., arrive
Detroit 7:45 p. m. FARES: Tashmoo Park or St. Clair Flats, week days 75c;
Sundays, $1.00, R. T. Port Huron or Sarnia, Ont., one way, $1.10, R.T. $2.
TASHMOO PARK
half-way between Detroit and Port Huron is Detroit's favorite pleasure park
where you may spend six hours and return on Str. Tashmoo in the
evening. Free dancing in the pavilion; picnic in the grove, baseball, golf
and all outdoor sports and amusements.
reading G. T. Ry., between Detroit and Port
Railroad Tickets Huron, are good on Str. Tashmoo either direction-
Dancing Moonlights to Sugar Island
Drive to Detroit and enjoy an evening of music and dancing on Str.
Tashmoo and in the pavilion at Sugar Island. Tickets 75c. Park on the
dock. Leave at 8:45 every evening.
RANDOLPH POPULAR STR TASHMOO '**TRO**Iwld'.
953f * DETROIT, MICH.
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To the Editor:
I would very much like to know
why there is not greater coopera-
tion between the Michigan Daily
and the Department of Journalism.
It seems to me that the Daily could
provide a most desirable training
for journalism students.
Like all professional students,
students of Journalism require
training under expert guidance.
This training is provided in the
medical school by a year of interne-
ship, something similar is needed
for the department of journalism.
Perhaps it is even more badly
needed for in most cases doctors
deal with the physical bodies of
people whereas the journalist
makes daily impression on the
minds of newspaper readers. Jour-
nalism, too, deals with the major-
ity of citizens both of healthy and
unhealthy minds. So it seems to
me that it needs to be even more
socially creative and professional
in character.
With the help of the Department
of journalism such an ideal could
be well worked for and the Michi-
gan Daily could be a good training
ground for journalism students.
Yours very truly,
A Jorniu indnt
Lydia
Bound"
ers.
Theatres
Mendelssohn - "Paris
with the Repertory play-
Majestic-"Tarnished Lady" with
Clive Brook and Talulah Bank-
head.
Michigan-"Laughing Sinners."
Wuerth-"The Vice Squad."
THURSDAY
2:30 p. m.-Tour of Ann Arbor
and vicinity. Students meet on Li-
bary steps.
5:00 p. m.--"Geology of Niagara
Falls and Vicinity," illustrated lec-
ture, Prof. William H. Hobbs, Nat-
ural Science auditorium.
Theatres
Lydia Mendelssohn - '
Bound."
Majestic-"Tarnished Lady
Michigan-"Mel Fall in
with Adolphe Menjou.
Wuerth-"The Sin Ship"
Louis Wolheim.
FRIDAY
"Paris
r."
Love,"
with
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Theatres
Lydia Mendelssohn
-" Paris