AT YOUR DOOR THREE THE ONLY OFFICIAL EVENINGS A WEEK, 75 SUMMER PUBLICATION Vol IV. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THIiRSDAY, AUGUlIST 21, 1911. No. 25. No. 21. FINAL ENROLLMENT SHOWS LARGE GAIN Michigan Has More Regular Student At Summer Session Than Any Otlher Unaiversity. ONLY 369 OF THESE ARE WOMEN The final figures just issued by Prof E. H. Kraus at the administrative offi ces of the summer session, show gain of 96 in the enrollment of thi year over that of last. The enroll- ment by departments is as follows: Lit .........................641 Engineering .................... 299 Medical...................... 13 Law ........................... 196 Pharmacy ... . ...............15 Graduate ...................... 180 Library Methods ................ 23 Biological Station ............... 29 Total ........................1515 Duplicates .................... 95 Net total .....................1420 An interesting fact is that of this total only 369 are women, which is scarcely more than half of the regis- tration in the literary department alone. Since the institution of the first summer session in 1894 more and more students have taken advantage each year of the opportunity offered to shorten their regular course by com- ing to summer school, as the follow- ing figures witness: Previous Summer Sessions. No ;b 1894 ......................... 91 1895 ... . .. . . . 187 1896- ... . .- ... ....224 1897 -...... . ............... 225 1898 ......................... 235 -899 ... . ..- ..- ... .......... . 263 19.0 .1......-.8......-..-.... 404 1901 ..-......................... 416 1902 .......-...-.-. ... 462 1903 ......................... 524 1904-....- - ............... 551 1905 ............................ 813 1906 ..-... .......... ....1034 1907 ........ ...................1070 1908 .....................'......1085 1909 .................. ..... 1225 1910 ...- .................... .1226 (Continued on page 4) ISSUE LICENSE TO LOCAL WIRELESS TELEGRAPH PLANT Station is Assigned Wave Length and Will Take Commercial Mfessages. Michigan's wireless station has re- cently been registered with the Bu- reau of Navigation, Department of Commerce, and a license has been re- ceived regulating the station in vari- ous ways and granting it certain priv- ileges as an experimental station, not granted to-establishments of the com- mercial or amateur classes. The li- censing of the local station is a part of the world-wide movement, to regu- late and control the numerous stations which have sprung up in all quarters, in order to procure the greatest ben- efit to the general public and to mini- mize as much as possible the interfer- ence of minor stations with the im- portant nautical and commercial in- telligence now transmitted by wireless. This interference is done away with by assigning to the stations of each particular class a definite wave length , with which to work. A wave of a par- ticular length will be picked up only by a station tuned to receive that length, and will not interfere with sta- tions of another wave length. A wave length of 450 meters has been assign- ed the Michigan station. Being an ex- perimental station the local office will (Continued on page 4) MICHIGAN UNION OPERA WOKE PROGRESSES DUR'ING SUMMtIER Author Puts on nshing Toehe While Music and Lyric lien Cooperate. Summer vacation has not put a sto to work on the Union opera for nex year. W. R. Melton has been busy i i Detroit revising the manuscript an polishing up certain passages wit] , which be was not entirely satisfied - Though one is in Holland, Michigan a and the other in Washington, D. C. s Willis A. Diekema and Sylvan S. Gros - ner have been working together o some new song hits, the former writ ing the music and the latter the lyrics g Melton has decided not to go to Kan- 2 sas to teach next fall as he had plan ned, but has secured a position in De- troit and will be able to come to Ant Arbor and help to get the Opera intt shape when he is needed. In the judgment of the committe which selected the opera, the one chos- en was clearly the best of a large number submitted, and is in some rec spects an improvement over any tha have thus far been given. OPEN HOUSE DAY PROVES BIG SUCCESS Increased Circulation Witnesses Amazing Progress of the "Black Fly." CAMP DAVIS CLOSES THIS WEEK. "Open House Day," Saturday, Au- gust 16, at Camp Davis proved a most successful affair. It had been widely advertised and nearly two hundred people, resorters chiefly from nearby Mullet Lake and Burt Lake summer colonies spent the day in camp. Everything "took" well, the report has it, from the exhibition of regular camp work in the morning to the"Good Night Ladies" at 5:00 p. m. The program: 9:00-10:00-Regular Camp Work. 11:00-Roll Call. 11:05-Laying Corner Stone at the new Storehouse. Speeches by Prof. Johnston and "Les." Keliher 11:45-Aquatic Sports and Foot Races. 1:00-Buffet LunchMess tent. 2:30--Hall Game, Camp Champions vs. "All-Stars. 3:30-4:30-Dance. Music by Camp Orchestra. 4:30-Camp Sing Around Fire. 5:00--Good Night Ladies." The camp league pennants, one for each man on the winning team, were awarded to members of Party "4." The current number of the "Black Fly"car- ries a two-column cut of the victors and their spoils. Waxing reminiscent the "Black Fly" tells its readers of the progress it has made since "Jinks" Otto, "Nig" Kuhn, "Mort" Hunter, and "Mac" McGee put it-through its swaddling-clothes days. Only in its second volume, it has in- creased its circulation some 3433.333 per cent over last year's total. In 1912 but 15 copies were printed while this year 530 more of the blue sheets have been issued. So efficient did the office force become'that a paper a min- ute was printed. Next year a special office is to be given the staff, and if "Raselues' plans materialize they arc going to have "some" paper. The work of the summer camps will come to an end Friday, August 221 To date not a day has been lost on ac- count of bad weather, setting a new record for the camps. Make Use of Many Fire Extinguishers. There are 185 fire extinguishers dis- tributed in the varioss University buildings. ROWE APPOINTED IFOREIGN STUDENTS GENERAL COACH pp eCls" ssrsA-siued io TO GIVE LECTURES _ ~ Prospecel e1{reshnten Before School Opens. To Have Chlrge of AIlMMilor Sports, _ -(I1der Ispiccs Un1iiversity Extension ('arrying o nWok Started Work has been carried on all sum- Bureau Partial Program bcy Isa~tg-his mer by the senior lit committee on Is iAoiicwd. freshman advisors. Before the end of NEW FEL, O E 'T'US E TE 1BUILT. last semester, such members of the A('ULTY LE TU'IiES CON''INI'E. junior class as were interested in the To carry out its policy of interesting work left their names with a commit- In the next bulletin published by every student in the university in ath- tee consisting ofcKarl I. Hoch, Ren- the university extension bureau and letics, the Athletic Association has ap- ville Wheat and James E. ond. f sent ,out sto variostowns throughout pointed Floyd A. Rowe, '09E. director This committee has been in com- the state it is planned to include a of general athletic activities. Simus- munication with the registrar and list of talks by members of the Cos- taneously with this appointment, the dean of the literary department, and mopolitan club. These talks by for- ground has been broken for a new such freshmen as have signified their eeign students will not be a part of the locker house at Ferry fielsd capable of intention of cossing to the university regular extension lecture course in- accommodating 450 men. have immediately been assigned to asmuch as no part of the cost will be This field house will be a frame senior advisors. Indications are that paid by the university. Aside from structure 85 by 20 feet in size. It will several hundred men will be assigned the fact that the towns desiring such in this way before the opening of the lectures will have to pay the entire nsext session. expenses, they will be under the aus- As in the past, this work will only pices of the lecture bureau, and it is supplement, and will not supplant the hoped that they will be successful work of the faculty advisors. The plan enough so that they may be made a was entirely successful last year, and permanent feature. the work this year will involve very The program so far as arranged is few changes. as follows: Floyd . Rowe. contain two cold showers, and 226 lockers. The lockers will be open wcoden ones, which will be placed along both walls and down the center of the house. They will be built to accommodate the clothes of two per- sons each, and will be free to all stu- (Continued on page 4) MANAGER-MAGNATE SAYS SELECTIONS CAN CLAIM CLASS In his double capacityas president of the summer school baseball league, and manager of the law baseball team, Francis S. Rosentlhal has selected a first and second team from the sum- mer session league, which he herewith UNION COMMENCES ACTIVE CAMPAIGN Iliram Cody Homer Heath and Edward Ketup Appointed ' 'Take Charge of Work. WIll ('01MENCE IIIME)DIAT'EILY. At a recent meeting of the commit- tee in charge of the campaign for funds for the Michigan Union, Hiarm S. ody, '08, Homer H eath, '07, and Ed- ward Kemp, '12-'14L, were selected to take personal charge of the work of preparing the ground for the final campaign. These men will each be assigned to a differenst section of the country, and will go to all the important alumni centers, with a view to ascertaining the amount of financial support which the Union can expect in each section, and the plan of campaign which would be advisable in each instance. This work will begin immediately, and when it has been completed, the committee expects to begin at once on the final campaign for funds. Thus far the work has consisted chiefly in educating the alumni as to the need for a Union clubhouse, and in ex- plaining the possibilities of the mil- lion dollar project. ORATORICAL ASSOCIATION PLANS EXCELLENT PltOGAt1.'. Arrangements Delayed By Negotiations With iJustice Hmghles, of U. S. Supreme Court. As yet the plans of the Oratorical Association for next year have not been fully worked out, but the officers hope to arrange a program which will include speeches by a number of world-famous men. Up to this time arrangements have been retarded by the fact that Justice Hughes, of the U'nited States Supreme Court, who was to have delivered the first address, was unable to give a definite answer. He was finally forced to notify the committee that the press of business would prevent him from making the trip to Ann Arbor. Besides the regular Varsity con- tests, Prof. R. D. T. Hollister is to give a recital. Professor Fulton, who has collaborated with Professor Trueblood on a number of books, will also be on the program. The Oratorical associa- tion play has not yet been selected, but an attemept cilii he made to stage something more elaborate -than any-. tlsiisg that has yet been produced. C. P. Wang---"Why the Foreign Stu- dents Come to America." W. P. Cheng-"Political Relations Beteween Chin asnd the United States." A. A. Scheerer "'olitical Cosdition in the Philippine Islands, and the Question of Independence." Juan Bonilla-"South America." Il- lustrated lecture. W. W. Welsh-"How We Are Cosmo- politan." V. P. Maw and Y. F. Yabin Hsu- "China." Lectures by faculty men will be of the same nature as those given last year, though the indications are that there will be a greater demand for them. As in the past, only a very small proportion of these lectures will be read from manuscript. In each town in which the lectures are, given there is a local committee which reports to the central committee at Ann Arbor. In this report is embodied the judg- ment of the local committee as to whether or not the talk went over the heads of the aundience, and in what respects it might be improved. This opinion is brought to the notice of the lecturer, and in this way it is hoped to eliminate any features of the work which are open to criticism. SHAKESPEAREAN RECITAL PROVES GREAT SUCCESS "ttc, AdoA bout Nothing" Receives Great Applause From Large Audience. With a cast that might have done credit to any metropolitan play, Prof. Thomas C.Trueblood's class in Shakes- pearean reading gave its second recital of Much Ado About Nothing in Sarah Caswell Angell Hall last evening be- fore a capacity audience. In spite of the change of cast in ev- ery scene and the length of the play, which lasted two and one-half hours, the audience was kept constantly in- terested. The success of the play is doubtless due to the keen enthusiasm and talent of the class and its perfect team work, though much must be accredited to Louis Eich, graduate, who has been starring in all the recent Shakespear- ean plays, Edward Moseman, '14, who has been playing initial roles in the Union operas, "The Prosenium," and other plays, and Jabin Hsu. The opening scene . in Leonato's house, struck the keynote of the play. The acting of Louis Eich as Leonato, Moseman as Claudio, Hsu as Don Pe- dro, Claude Swift as Benedick, and Miss :Lena J. Kraku as Beatrice being especially noteworthy. In ihe arbor scene, when the aged "(Continued on page 4) submits: First'Ieam Barringer Webber Price Pontius Bauman Labadie Hyames Seward Corey Carter G. Smith. lctFie Position Second 'eam Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Catcher 1 Base 2 Base, 3 Base Shortstop It. Field L. Field C. Field Utility Nelson Nichol Arnold McFarlin Clay Wanner Kervin Collette B. Smith Metcalf Hlarrington O'Conner To the Editor of The Wolverine:- Being duly appreciative of the fact (Continued on page 4) THE WEATHER MAN Forecast for Ann Arbor. Increasing cloudiness, and warmer. Possible showers today or Friday Yesterday's Temperatures. Maximum 92; minimum 68. Wind velocity 24. Precipitations .1. {Osse yessr en oomxiImums 0: smi- Mum 62. I'recipitation. 1