Batlp iHlamonVol. 40, No. 46 z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940 Price Three CentsEight Million, Beta, D U, PhiCountry Qub, toj Psi Top GreeksUniversity | In New SystemLasker’s $3,500,000 Es¬tate Tops List of Christ¬mas Gifts.Eight million dollars came to ‘ theUniversity during the month of De¬cember. Five and one-half million ofthis was received during Christmasvacation.The first grant was Albert D. Las¬ker’s 480-acre estate near Lake Forestworth $8,500,000. The property,known as Mill Road Farm, includes alarge residence, barns, theatre, green¬houses, farm land, a golf house, andthe celebrated Mill Road Farm golf j Kappa Epsilon, last year in eleventhFraternity grade ratings this yearreally mean something. They are com¬piled, not from last quarter’s grades,but from e.xamination averages offraternity men over the past fiveyears. Several upsets resulted.Beta Theta PiLast year’s leader. Beta Theta Pi,once again is easily on top with a B-rating. But in the next two placesstands, not the usual occupants ZetaBeta Tau and Pi Lambda Phi, but Del¬ta Upsilon and Phi Kappa Psi who al¬so rated B-. ZBT had a seventh placeC followed by Pi Lambda Phi whoranked .052 of a grade lower. Delta Hutchins Talks on ^UndergraduateLife” January 12 in Mandelcourse, known as one of the three bestin the United States. Under the termsof the gift, Lasker asks the Univer¬sity to hold the property for at leasttwo years. If at the end of that timeno educational use is found for it, theUniversity may dispose of it as it seesfit.Former GiftsMr. Lasker, formerly chairman ofthe board of Lord and Thomas, is atrustee of the University. In 1928 hegave one million to establish the I.as-ker Foundation for medical researchand subsequently gave $125,000 morefor the same purpose.The next gift came through the willof Orson C. Welles. Mr. Welles, a re¬ place, hugged bottom.In the past when quarterly gradeswere used, only the best fraternitystudents had their grades recorded inthe Dean’s office. Furthermore, sev¬eral fraternities withheld the worstgrades of their members. As a resultno true indication of the respectiveratings was ever evolved.All Above CBut this year weighted gradingswere used and only college compre-hensives, preliminary Bachelor’s ex¬aminations were counted. All fra¬ternities once again rate above a C,but the real differences between in¬dividual fraternities are very small.The greatest difference, .270, existedtired stock broker, was influenced to I between Beta Theta ^i. first-ranking,donate to the University by the lateDr. Billings. Under the terms of thewill the residue of Welles estate, ap¬proximately $2,000,000, goes to theMedical School.The gifts have warmed the heartsof the Fiftie<^h Anniversary Commit¬tee, according to Chairman Wood- and Delta Upsilon in second place.A B- was 2.5 or more, A Ct wasover 2.2, and C was everything over2. In the compilation A-4, B-,8, C-2,D-l, and F-0. In past rankings C wascounted 1, D-0 and F was -1.Weighted (’omprehensivesIn addition the various examinaward. Besides giving good publicity to, tions were weighted. College compre-the University, December’s endow-1 hensives counted 8 apiece and de¬ments have relieved strain in two vital' gartmental examinations were allow-spots, the Medi(‘ar Schont ^hd fhe Bi-led no more than 12 points all Udd.ological Sciences Division. But $200,- j Separate courses counted one point.000 yearly is still needed for the gen-1 Grade points were multiplied by theeral budget. William B. Morgenstern,! (Continued on page two)chief of publicity for the .\lumni iFoundation Fiftieth Anniversary Gift, I I» ■ ■ ■is working for University support iniHutchins’ Record Scliudiiles FirstAlready a few contributions have ■ .i ■■been received by the Alumni Founda- ISilSK.t‘tl)cll I I "illlUCtion, but have not been officially an-nounced. The disc recording of the ^ Smooth swing will be the tempodialogue between President Hutchins | Saturday night when, after theand Clifton Utley on the University b^st Big Ten basketball game of theand its present needs with a state- season against Wi.sconsin, the Es-ment by Alumnus Utley on what the quires will unleash their rhythmicFoundation proposes to do about these | charms to start the first Basketballneeds, is in the hands of several alum-1 Dance of the season in -the Reynoldsni groups. j Club South Lounge.I The Basketball Dances which areGrossman Chosen to to be better than ever according toHoward Mort, Reynolds Club boss.The Esquires have been signed forthree of the five bills offered andChuck Towey with Marjorie Grey asvocalist will play the other two.Last year only four dances wereheld and a $1.00 season ticket coveredthem. This year the season ticketstill sells for $1.00 despite the addiSingle adLead S and C DanceSkull and Crescent, sophomore hon¬or society, chose Clarabel Grossman,Mortar Board member of BWO, itsbeauty queen yestc*rday to officiate atthe organization’s annual corsagelessformal on January 18.Thursday at noon the sophomore i tion of another dance.<iueen will release three hydrogen ' mission at the door will be 35 centsbaloons bearing bids to the dance. Inwhoever’s backyard the little re<l bal¬loon lands, he will be admitted freeto the dance accompanie<l by wife,friend, sister, or any female easilyaccessible. If a woman receives thebid, she can bring any of a similarvariety of men. No holds will bebarred.Charlie Gaylord and his band will})lay music and the Cloister Clubfloor will bounce under the staccatoof formal feet. Bids for the danceare $1.65.Water CarnivalIn connection with the annualWater Carnival, Dolphin and Tar¬pon Clubs are sponsoring anotherof those beauty queen contests.This time the winner’s official titlewill be “Campus Dre.im Girl.”Voting will take place in theisual places—the main haV’.s ofCobb and Mandel with ticketethe carnival also available at the /balloting places.Although it will be a write-incontest, Kay Chittenden, Punkylohnson, Jane Wells, CarolynWheeler, Gail Grassick have beenprominently mentioned for theaonor. Dancing will start immediately afterthe game and continue until 12:30.Special decorations and lighting anda public address system in each loungewill be a feature of the dance. TheCoffee Shop will be open for refresh¬ments.The other four dances will be heldon the following dates—January 20,De Paul; February 3, Loyola; Febru¬ary 10, Ohio State; March 2, Minne¬sota.Name C. Pritchett asPolitics ProfessorDr. Charles H. Pritchett, consultantof the Immigration and NaturalizationService of the Department of Labor,formerly associate in public admini¬stration with the Tennessee ValleyAuthority, has been appointed assist¬ant professor of Political Science ofthe University during the Winter andSpring quarters.Dr. Pritchett, who recentlv com¬pleted two years’ research in Englandon a"Social Science Research Councilpost-doctoral fellowship, will replaceDr. Marshall E. Dimock for the nexttwo quarte’*s. Dr. Dimock is at pres¬ent absent i. i leave as Second Assist¬ant Secretary of Labor FRATERNITY RANKINGSNewly RankComputed Last 5 YearName Rank Year Perc’tBeta Theta Pi 1 1 2.870Delta Upsilon 2 6 2.606Phi Kappa Psi . 3 9 2.507Phi Kappa Sigma 4 8 2.422Phi Gamma Delta 5 10 2.357Kappa Sigma 6 7 2.354Zeta Beta Tau 7 2 2.351Pi Lambda Phi 8 3 2.299Chi Psi 9 14 2.244Sigma Chi 10 5 2.219Phi Delta Theta 11 4 2.221Alpha Delta Phi 12 15 2.172Phi Sigma Delta 13 12 2.167Psi Upsilon 14 13 2.077Delta Kappa Epsilon 15 11 2.066 Expect Explanation ofUniversity Move onFootball Ban.Send SpecialTower TopicsTo AlumniHoward Mort ’29, editor of TowerTopics, now sends a special edition ofhis six-year old publication to threehundred members of the NationalCommittee of alumni once every oth¬er week. The new release is a part ofa .scheme to interest alumni in do¬nating to the Alumni FoundationFiftieth Anniversary Gift Fund whosepublicity is handled in large part byMr. Mort.ContributionsThe first contribution to the Fundcame fi’om 'Miss Laura H. Loetscherwho .sent $100," an amount'eqQ'al to ascholarship granted her in her fresh¬man year. Leland H. White sent thesecond contribution of $5. The thirdgift of $12.50 came from CharlesGreenleaf Jr. Greenleaf is the son ofthe president of Conn & Company,manufacturer of musical instrumentsand donor of the instruments in theUniversity Band.SenatorThe fourth gift came from T. V.Smith who returned to the Universitythe check for $125 he was paid forhis series of lectures on “The Legis¬lative Way of Life.” Said T. V. Smithin the note enclosed with the check:“I have never ceased to be sentimen¬tal about this University. Age cannotwither nor accustomedness stale herinfinite variety.”Conncil SponsorsTwelfth NififhtParty Friday Man on StreetGets His SayOnRoundTableFirst all-campus affair of the Win¬ter Quarter will be the annual TwelfthNight Party on Friday evening at IdaNoyes Hall. Sponsored by the IdaNoyes Council, the party will includedancing to the scintillating strains ofBob Mohiman’s orchestra, the cere¬monial burning of the Chidstmasgreens, and a short talk by Dr. A.Eustace Haydon, head of the depart¬ment of Comparative Religion.Floor ShowIn addition there is a floor show tobe MCed by Lee Hewitt, sweet singerof Blackfriars who was a terrific hitas Master of Ceremonies at one of theSocial C Dances. Among the new tal¬ent to be presented is Deke jitterbugDon Warfield who will do a little rug¬cutting. Ruth Steel, chairman of theparty, has promised a short, fast mov¬ing show with people who are newand different.After the Water Carnival, RalphMcCollum, president of Dolphin, willbring his troupe to the Ida Noyes poolto give a swimming exhibition and toperform a portion of the water ballet.The committee for the party is com¬posed of Ruth Steel, chairman; MaryHerschel, in charge of the program;Mai’y Lou Price and Mimi Evans, pub¬licity; and Clarissa Rehill and JeanScott.The Twelfth Night Party is freeand everyone is invited.Dr. Harold A. Swenson will not, aswas previously announced, give a talkat the party. By DICK HIMMELThe University has found a son ofthe people; a man who keeps hisfingers on the pulse of the nation andwhen called on will tell what truck-drivers, housewives, sharecroppers,prostitutes, business men, and almostany other form of human life, thinkon any topic at any time.Ghost of the PeopleIf you happen to be listening toMaynard Kreuger and a gentlemanby the name of Marget chattingabout Wages and Hours; North andSouth on the Round Table next Sun¬day morning, you may hear the ad¬olescent voices of Henry Aldrich(luizzing the economists in a boyishmanner. It won’t be Henry Aldrichat all, of course, but the Univer¬sity’s son of the people, the RovingReporter.Tried as an experiment severalweeks ago, the Roving Reporterscored a solid hit. The farmers hadfound a boy of the soil. Althoughhis real identity will remain anon¬ymous, the Roving Reporter has beenspotted on the Round Table, whichis one of the most popular e<lucation-al i)rograms on the air, to make surethat the discussions will be lucid toall listeners. Often technical termsand fancy language make argumentsunintelligible for some of the coun¬try’s “less fortunate”.Ranges CountryThe Roving Reporter is beingsent about the country discussingset topics with the people. He willbring intellectual mug-wumps downto the level of the truck driver. Hewill make sui-e that the housewife’spi’oblem will be considered. He willwiden the scope of narrow mindedprofessors.If someone stops you, offers you acheap cigar and says, “What’s new.Buddy”, it might be your brother-in-law, but more likely it’s the RovingReporter feeling your pulse.Browder DiscussesAmerica and War By MARIAN CASTLEMANand ERNEST LEISERRobert Maynard Hutchins will giveUniversity students a second chanceto view him on Friday, January 12at noon, when he speaks on “Under¬graduate Life” to all interested under¬graduates. The meeting, sponsored bythe administration, will be held inMandel Hall.Football?Presumably Hutchins’ speech willbe devoted, at least in part, to theUniversity’s stand on football, al¬though no official announcement ofhis subject matter has been released.But it is certain that Hutchins can inno case ignore the storm of contro¬versy aroused by the University’swithdrawal from intercollegiate foot¬ball. University students will expecthim to explain and justify his stand.The sudden announcement of themove on December 21 reached radiosand newspapers throughout the coun¬try. Football men were stunned andangry, students were divided in theiropinions, but all were startled at thecompletely unheralded announcement.The University reportedly took thestep in answer to demands of alumni,that they take definite action on thefootball situation soon. Those alumniwho demanded action of some sortbefore they would support the FiftiethAnniversary Celebration wanted ac¬tion in the opposite direction. But theyinsisted on action at all costs, and therequest was respected. The Board ofTrustees had been considering drop¬ping football for mora-than a month,and the decision was not, accordingto official statements, the result ofsnap judgment. The fact that the stu¬dents were away and that most of theadministration including Athletic Di¬rector Metcalf was totally surprisedat the action was not premeditated,says the administration.Schommer SpeaksJohn Schommer of the Alumni Club,a group of ex-University men dom¬inated by the C club, immediatelyraised a howl. They claimed that ifthey could raise $5,000,000 for the(Continued on page three)Professor AlbertReceives ColePrize in MathEarl Browder’s speech on “Americaand the Imperialist War” January 17,will touch on the “curbing of Com¬munist civil liberties in the UnitedStates during the current war” ac¬cording to publicity man Jim Peter¬son who paused on his rounds yester¬day from bulletin board to bulletinboard with advertisements of theMandel Hall speech of the Commun¬ist’s candidate for president.Peterson said that there has beena steady movement to illegalize theCommunist Party in the UnitedStates and that a national committeewith such outstanding eastern acad¬emicians as Franz Boas, was beingorganized to present leading Commun- 'ist si)eakers in the Universities, as ameans of protecting the civil libertiesof the Communists and other “anti¬imperialist War” sympathizers.Browder’s speech is not a part ofthe campaign, says Peterson, but heexpects it to serve the same purposeon the Chicago campus. The younger generation of scien¬tists received distinguished impetuslast week with award of the Cole prizeby the American Mathematical So¬ciety to Professor A. A. Albert, 34-year-old University faculty member.Dr. Albert received the award—thesecond time it has been presented—atthe A. M. S. meeting in Columbus,Ohio, yesterday, for his solution to thefamous algebraic problem dealingwith “Riemann” matrices.A coincidence is the fact that theonly other winner of the award re¬ceived it in 1928 when his young pupil.Dr. Albert, was receiving his doctor¬ate. The first winner is Dr. LeonardE. Dickson, Eliakim H. Moore, Distin¬guished Service Professor Emeritus ofMathematics at the University. AndDr. Dickson at that time was 54, just20 years older than Pr. Albert istoday.The Cole prize was established inhonor of Dr. Frank Nelson Cole, sec¬retary of the Society for more than20 years and distinguished mathema¬tician in the field of Algebra at Col¬umbia University.Roundtable HoldsHigh Audience RankOf NBC’s educational and publicservice features, only To.scanini’ssymphony series commands a greateraudience than the University of Chi¬cago’s Round Table broadcast, ac¬cording to latest audience surveys.The weekly audience is now estimat¬ed to be in excess of four million.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940Bailg ^aroonFOUNDED IN 1901MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESSThe Daily Maroon is the official student newspaper of the Uni¬versity of Chicago, published mornings except Saturday, Sunday andMonday during the Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters by TheDaily Maroon Company, 5831 University avenue. Telephone: HydePark 9222.After 6:30 phone in stories to our printers. The Chief PrintingCompany, 148 West 62nd street. Telephone Wentworth 6123.The University of Chicago assumes no responsibility for anystatements appearing in The Daily Maroon or for any contractentered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly reserves the rights of publication ofany material appearing in this paper. Subscription rates: $3 ayear; $4 by mail. Single copies: three cents.Entered as second class matter March 18, 1903, at the post officeat Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.RieSCStNTED FOR NATIONAL AOVERTISINO BVNational Advertising Service, Inc.College Publishers Representative420 Madison AvE. NewYork, N. Y.CHICASO ■ BOSTOS ' Los ANSILII • SAN FNANCISCOBOARD OF CONTROLEditorialRUTH BRODY WILLIAM H. GRODYHARRY CORNELIUS DAVID MARTIN, ChairmanALICE MEYERBusinessHARRY F. TOPPING, Business Mgr.ROLAND I. RICHMAN, Advertising Mgr.BUSINESS ASSOCIATES.Tohn Bex, Herb Gervin, William Lovell, and Julian LowensteinEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESMarion Gerson, William Hankla, Pearl C. Rubins, John Stevens,Hart Wurzburg, Marian Castleman, Ernest LeiserNight Editor: Uemarest PolacheckDelayed Obituary come associated with smaller colleges. Andeven with less powerful competition, it is notcertain that the University would emerge witha gloriously victorious record. With the fiftiethanniversary fund-raising going on now we can¬not aflFord to take such chances with our goodname. Playing football with smaller collegesmight have provided only an unnecessarilymuddled solution to our problem. Taking a de¬cisive step is better; it shows we still havecourage enough to be leaders-It is true that not having football any morewill make autumn duller for a few people. Buteven those few were not able to become veryenthusiastic about this year’s games. Thedances afterwards and the Monday morningquarterback sessions were much more inter¬esting than the games themselves. Removingfootball, after the current excitement about itsextraction dies down, will result in removingone of our leading topics of conversation. Itrobs the Maroon of one of its traditional is¬sues, just as the downtown papers would berobbed if war and murder suddenly stopped.But the Maroon has already indicated thdtthere are more important subjects for mem¬bers of an educational institution to be inter¬ested in.Traveling BazaarLong ago football used to be a great sportat the University of Chicago. But the dayswhen the game was glorious were past yearsago. Since then it has become a miserable af¬fair, good neither for the participants nor thespectators, nor has it afforded favorable pub¬licity to the University. At this school footballhas been dead for years. We can only breathea sigh of relief now that it has had a burial-By withdrawing from intercollegiate foot¬ball the University has taken a step that keepsit in the pioneer class of schools. The eight mil¬lion dollars worth of gifts it received recentlytestify to the fact that the American public isstill willing to support institutions of its type.We wonder whether other large universitieswill follow the lead of this one and dare to be¬come true educational institutions.Its educational function is the essential rea¬son for a university’s existence. Intellectualpurposes should be primary; for them most ofthe money should be spent. But intercollegiatefootball as it is played by the big schools to¬day is a big business; it involves heavy em¬phasis, financial and otherwise, on other thanintellectual matters. This kind of emphasisdistorts the functioning of an educational in¬stitution: it is appropriate neither to a realuniversity nor to real sportsmanship.For the University to enable itself to com¬pete creditably under present conditions withthe other big school teams would have re¬quired, however tactfully it may have beenurged, a powerful drive for subsidization. Sucha drive, of course, would have been illegal. Itis even far from certain that it would havebeen successful. But successful or not, the evilsthat engaging in high-powered subsidizationwould certainly lead to overbalance all thedubious goods.Besides sacrificing the intellectual idealsthis school boasts of, subsidization would in¬volve throwing over ideals of sportsmanship.Regardless of how many other schools may en¬gage in subsidization, to advocate that thisUniversity carry out such a practice on a scalelarge enough to get a team able to put up agood fight against the other large colleges isto advocate something unwholesome and en¬tirely opposed to the spirit collegiate sportought to foster. This .school is known for keep¬ing its athletics free from commercialism.Sometimes bad habits develop fast- If the Uni¬versity yielded to the so-called “pragmatic”arguments for subsidy it would risk gettingthe habit of making football its business. Butfootball should be a game, not a business; andcertainly not the business of an educational in¬stitution. And even as a business footballmight not be a success here. If we can keepthe sport of college football alive only at thecost of destroying both sportsmanship and thereal purpose of colleges, then we are far bet¬ter rid of football.With subsidization ruled out as illegal, im¬moral, and dangerous what else could the Uni¬versity have done about the football problem?Without buying a new, strong team, it wouldhave had to make the be.st of the teams it had.But since this is largely a graduate school wedo not have many players; and those we havefind fitting football in with academic require¬ments extremely strenuous. To alter conditions.so as to lessen this .strain would involve chang¬ing the curricular set-up and lowering stand¬ards, To alter conditions so as to allow grad¬uates to play was made impossible by the de¬cision of the Big Ten faculty committee thisDecember.Obviously, idealistic motives did not play asole part in our withdiawal from intercol¬legiate football. If they had, we could merelyhave left the Big Ten and competed with lesspowerful teams. But such a step would lead tobad publicity: the University’s name would be¬ By DICK HI.MMELMAGIC. . .and then the nice tall gentleman removed hi.shigh silk hat, rolled up his sleeves, took his trusteewand, and went hokus pokus over the Quadrangles andStagg field overnight became a parking lot, the footballteam became the “Dead End Kids,” and Shaughnessybecame a tenthousand dollar ayear handballcoach...On an e m p t y;ampus, the Boardof Trustee.*! andits friend Mr.Hutchins, cut outa cancerous foot-b a 11 condition,and listened tothe screams ofrebellious frater¬nity men alter¬nating with melo¬dious Christmascarols. To drop... a prestidiffitator, he . . . football when theschool was recessed, was probably a dirty trick, how¬ever, no one can really tell if it was a smart moveor not.From the lowdiest janitor to Dave .Martin, wenteager newspaper men quoting. From the-lowliest jan¬itor to Dave Martin there didn’t seem to be a unanimityof opinion. The ('hicago Daily Tribune said that theannouncement was ill received. Other papers disagreed.Most griped, how'ever, were alumni who had been suc¬cessfully working to turn this University into a moretypical joyboy institution, and consequently were get¬ting better football material.Inside stuff is that Hutchins pretty nearly blew oneof his precious guts when an alumni accosted him aboutkeeping a freshman football player in school. He evi¬dently decided like a shot that things were going toofar and worked fast to clear up the mess.XMAS IS GONE ISN'T ITCampus socialites left in town over the holidaysmade noise on schedule and most of the time got dressedup pretty to do it. New Year’s Eve saw lights shiningbrightly and sometimes dimly in fraternity houses..\lpha Delts shut their curtains so your guess is asgood as mine as what went on. Chi Psis had a spatter¬ing of dancers on the main floor and quiet noises in therest of the house. Champagne and Myra Kovan wereflowing out of the Beta house. ZBT.s had too muchgood food to off.set liquors so'nobody got very drunk butthen nobody got very hungry either.The Ballet saw lots of University people. Swankson the main floor. Esthetes in the gallery. RhodaRothbaum and a silver fox at the bar.Best of all w’as the gigantic Freudian ballet Salva-[dore Dali did with marvellous black umbrellas openingopportunely. It w'as called the Kachannale, but thatain’t what I call it.LIFE GOES ONLife went at Hanley’s with Joe whipping up Tomand Jerries, which were fine. Clarabel Grossman wasthere one evening reading the morning paper with herfriend and laughing uproariously. Dave Wiedemanngot clubby and smoked a giant cigar with friends.Tadge. Miss Tadge made her debut in these columnsfootball team.Best of all I found a Lillian Luter come to life, EllieTadge. Miss Tadge made her debut in these columnsvia illegal columnists Florian and Ruml. They madevarious cracks on how when she stood up once six menfainted and that she came in Hanley’s with three menand went out with three others.I was in the middle of a drink, and all of a suddenan apparition appeared which wasn’t an apparition atall, but Ellie Tadge in the flesh and a lot of that. Ner¬vously she said, “Are you the one that does write-upsfor the Chicago paper?” And this was the beginning ofbeautiful friendship which was strengthened becauseshe wanted so to hit me in the teeth for what I wroteabout her (I didn’t). “Don’t you think any woman cando it?” I looked at her. You know what I answered. United StatesCalls ProfessorsForCensusTasksTo engineer its colossal, decennialtask of taking the census April 1, theFederal Government is calling heavilyupon the brain-power of the Univer¬sity.Professor W'illiam F. Ogburn, so¬ciologist and frequent aid to Wash¬ington, has been appointed by the Sec¬retary of Commerce to the AdvisoryI Census Committee of five, whichI drafts questions asked every Amer-I ican in the land.j Professor S. A. Stouffer has beenI called in as a consultant on methodsj of sampling, while three PhD’s pro-! duced by the University have alsobeen called to the colors. They are Dr.Phil Houser, who has been made As¬sistant Chief Statistician of Popula¬tion, Dr. Richard Long, and Dr. S. A.Jaffey who have been appointed tothe research staff of the bureau’s cen¬tral office.The United States census is themost compelte and .scientifically ad¬ministered in the world, but it is acostly and difficult task. The regularauthorization for the job is $40,000,-000, and the number of enumeratorsrequired is approximately 120,000..According to Dr. Ogburn, this cen¬sus will include a number of newquestions on income, mobility andfamily life Round TableReplaces OldTriangular OneTo present five professors in a spe¬cial “review of the year” broadcastDecember 31 the University of Chi¬cago Round Table speakers used around table instead of the speciallyconstructed triangular table regularlyused for the broadcast.The history of the Round Table’stables has been a colorful one. In theearliest days of the broadcast thespeakers used a collapsible squarecard table and later a more stablesquare desk.For the last few years, however,the speakers have used a specially de¬signed triangular table with slopingsides for notes and outlines, warninglights and sound-proofed rubber sur¬facing. The triangular table enablesspeakers to refer to notes withoutlowering their heads, and to bo equaldistances from the microphone in thecenter. Its design has been widely du¬plicated.Fraternities—((’ontinued from page one)value of each cour.se, totaled for eachfraternity, and the average found bydividing this total by the number offraternity men of the past five yearsfor whom grades were available.Supposedly the 2.066 of the bottomfraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, isstill above the absolute C-average ofthe University as a whole.Band Carries onThough I IniversityGives Vp FifothallThe loss of football is not going toaffect the University band and the or¬ganization intends to go along andtend to its duties in spite of the factthat its stirring mid-half perform¬ances will no longer be in order.In addition to its usual basketballa.ssignments, the band has planned aconcert on h'elxluary 18, and a seriesof Spring concerts. What to do nextfall presents somewhat of a problem,and any suggestions, say bandmen,would be most welcome. Severalthings have been suggested, such asserenades at the residence halls dur¬ing Freshman Week, and there willprobably be a fall concert next year,something that has not yet takenplace on the quadrangles. LAST 2 DAYS"The Golden Key"Tolatoi'i Adaptation of th« Tale of'Pinocchio'ALSO"Marching Youth"SPORTS DAY CELEBRATIONSONOTONE “ £ .THE NEWLEX THE.ATREFEATl’RI.Nt; “PUSH BACK" SEATS1162 E. 63rd St. Opon 11:30 A.M. DailyWEDNESDAY & THURSDAY"Pack Up YourTroubles"Jane Withers & Ritz Bros."Television Spy"RIDING HIGHThe Daily Maroonfor 1939-40Has Had and Will HaveMORENewsPicturesColumnsFeaturesStaff Members... and Circulationthan it has had in the last four years. We havea long way to go to perfection, we admit, butwe are on our way!READ THE MAROONSubscription Rate for Winter & Spring Quarters $2.25THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940 Page ThreeDAILY MAROON SPORTSThe Column!* * *By BILL GRODYThis correspondent, as were moststudents, was stunned by the an¬nouncement that the University ofChicago had decided to withdraw fromintercollegiate football. Waiting foran opportune time when the studentbody had scattered to their respectivehonies President Hutchins and theBoard of Trustees announced that“the University’s particular interestsand conditions are such that its stu¬dents now derive no special benefitfrom intercollegiate football.”While it seems apparent that littlecan be said or done to alter the pres¬ent situation, this writer would like toraise his voice in protest in the hopethat Chicago may once again havefootball at some future date.• ♦ *It .seems plausible that the admini-‘^tration abolished football rather thanreceive the uncomplimentary publicitythat accompanied the past campaignon the gridiron. Believing that Chi¬cago’s prestige would receive a set¬back if we were to play smaller schools—schools that in reality are more ourequal in scholarship and actual un¬dergraduate enrollment—the officialstook their pre.sent stand. The only al¬ternative was to openly subsidize play-( rs and even the Daily Maroon agreesthat out and out subsidization was notcompatible with the school’s stand¬ards or objective in .American educa¬tion.However, I fail to comprehend theaction of the trustees. Is it, in reality,better to discontinue our simon-purefootball and supposedly save ourface? Or wouldn’t it be just as easyto play a lighter .schedule with schoolsof our equal? Would the loss of pres¬tige in playing smaller schools be sogreat as to outweigh the advantagesto be gained by the students partici¬pating?* * * Maroon CagersLose to Utah inExtra Periods“Stolen” Ball Sets theStage for Thrilling 40-39Defeat.By DEMAREST 1‘OLACHECKChicago B F PI Utah B F PI.ounsbury, c ...1 2 li W^tts, f 8 3 1Stanley, f .... 1 0 ll Sheffield, f 6 1 4Stampf, f 7 4 2 1Zimmerman, f 20 00 I.owe. c 0 0 0Kirhardson, 2 1 j Atkinson, c 0 0 0Jorirenson, k ..0 0 1* Johnson, k 2 0 0Charlton, k ....1 0 1 Smith. K 0 0 116 7 91 17 6 7Referee: Robinson: Umpire: Burtt.In a mad, fastbreaking contest thatlasted through two over time periods,the Maroon cagers dropped a heart¬breaking decision to a scrapping quin¬tet from the University of Utah, 40 to39. It was a close game all the way,the margin separating the two teamsnever being more than five points.With Joe Stampf leading the Chicagoscoring with seven field goals and fourgift shots for a total of eighteenpoints, the Midway five showed anamazing improvement in form overtheir showings earlier in the season.Strong OppositionTheir opposition was undoubtedlythe most maddening that has beenseen in the F’ieldhouse since the g4methe Maroons put up against the de¬fensive machinations of Mike Novak,formerly of Loyola University. TheUtah boys were accurate in thshooting; they connected at least 'iof the time, and their defensea (logged man-to-man. Watts, a fward was high point man for the »(ling, counting eight field goal'three free throws for a tpoints.The high spot in thein the first overtimeafter Ralph Richards-free th» SwimmingClubsGive CarnivalTo get returning students back inthe swim of things, the Dolphin Cluband Tarpon Club is presenting the1940 Water Carnival Friday and Sat¬urday nights in the Bartlett Gymna¬sium pool. Friday’s show begins at 8P.M., Saturday’s at 9:30, followingthe Wisconsin basketball game.Biggest innovation of this year’scarnival is the use of a plot, ratherthan having just a hodge-podge ofaquatic exhibitions. Built around thetroubles of a crew, ship-wrecked on acannibal and girl-infested island, theGilbert-and-Sullivanish plot includessuch features as a girl’s water ballet,a hula hula dance, a demonstration oftrick swimming strokes, and an under¬water flashlight ballet. Peggy O’Neil,best remembered for her picture on aPulse cover and a member of the LakeShore Athletic Club swimming team,is the star of the ballet.Women—MenOther characters floating hitherand yon during the course of the eve¬ning include pirates, cannibals, scan¬tily-clad voluptuous women, and virilemembers of the men’s swimming team.Following the custom of electing aqueen to preside over the festivities asmost campus affairs have done, thesponsors are holding an election tochoose the campus “Dream Girl”. Vot¬ing will be during Thursday and Fri¬day.Ralph McCollum, Dolphin President,and sprint star on the swimming teamhr>lding several state and Centralswimming records, is director'W. Austin QuintetWins HolidayBasketball MeetThe annual Holiday interscholasticbasketball tournament was run oflf inthe Fieldhouse during the vacation pe¬riod, the w'inner being an underdogquintet from Austin High school. Therunnerup was the favorite five fromWells High school, followed by LaneTech in third and Calumet in fourth.The big disappointment of the meetwas the poor showing of last year’schampionship team from Crane Tech.The star of last year’s race, centerHorace Marshall, could not get start¬ed, and his team failing to functionas a unit lost in the second round toa fighting Hirsch outfit. The standoutplayer this year was the big centeron the Championship team, GeorgeFelt. Amazingly fast for his heightand accurate and cool-headed in hisdirection of team play. Felt and LenNavigato, star forward, showed theirheels to all the opposition. 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(te. -L'I’lfA f aAAi iwVi IMPERFECT IN ORIGINALaPage Four THE DAILY MAROON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940Outline DowntownLecture ScheduleFaculty Members Dis¬cuss Variety of Sub¬jects. of the University of Chicago and apracticing attorney will discuss“Woman Meets the Law.” Yerkes StaffMan DescribesSolar ResearchCelestial dust clouds, resemblingclouds of the earth’s atmosphere,Public lectures of the downtownUniversity College begin next week.At the Art Institute Davis Edwards,associate professor of Speech, willtalk on “Recent Dramas” on Tuesdaysfrom January 9 to February 6. Fol¬lowing this series will be one fromFebruary 13 to March 12 by Carl H.Grabo of the Department of Englishon “Five Great Poets in English Ro¬manticism.” On Wednesdays fromJanuary 10 to February 7, J. FredRippy of the Department of Historywill lecture on “The Caribbean Dan¬ger Zone.” Also at the Art Instituteon Fi’idays from January 12 to Feb¬ruary 9, Dr. Waldo H. Dubberstein,research associate in the Oriental In¬stitute and instructor in Oriental His¬tory will describe “Archeology andthe Origins of Civilization in the NearEast.”“Chinese Painting”Two series of illustrated lecture-conferences by Lucy Driscoll of theDepartment of Art will be given atthe Art Institute and at the Univer¬sity College at 18 S. Michigan Avenue.One on “Chinese Painting: The Inde¬pendents” will be on Tuesdays fromJanuary 9 to March 12, and the other,“Psychology and Modern Art”, onTuesdays and on Wednesdays.At the University College, SunderJoshi, lecturer in Comparative Re¬ligion, will speak on “The Fundamen¬tals in the Culture of Asia” from Jan¬uary 12 to March 15. Dr. Leslie W.Irwin, the Laboratory Schools, willdiscuss.“Safety Education” on Wed- Award SpeakingAssignments atForum TodaySpeaking engagements will be as¬signed for January to Forum mem¬bers at a meeting today in Lexington5 at 4. In order that members willbe prepared for future engagements,groups will be formed for the follow¬ing types of presentation—the RoundTable, the debate and the lecture.Principal topics that will be discussedare, “The Election of 1940,” “The In¬ternational Problem,” “Youth Prob¬lems of Today,” “Higher Education,”and “Civil Liberties.”Any University student may par¬ticipate in tryouts in the form of asix minute speech next Monday inLexington 5 at 3:30 to see who willrepresent the Student Forum of theUniversity in a tour of several col¬leges in Missouri during the week endbeginning Febi'uary 10. The topic ofthe speech can be either “Youth Prob¬lems” or “What Type of Educ.etionBest Fits a Man for 20th CenturyLiving?” Additional information nia>’'be obtained from Webb Fiser, A1Pitcher, or Jacob Ochestein in Lexing¬ton 15B.Hutchins—(Continued from page two) make many stars appear red that areactually blue.The effect of reddening is describedby Dr. W. W. Morgan, assistant pro¬fessor of Astronomy at Yerkes ob¬servatory, in the current issue of theAstrophysical Journal.Dr. Morgan reported the discoveryof a number of stars near the centerof the constellation Cygnus, the Swan,whose intrinsic color is known to beblue but whose light is made to ap¬pear red by the effect of clouds be¬tween the constellation and the earth.The study indicates that the absorb¬ing particles are not distributed even¬ly in interstellar space. The celestialdust clouds resemble the scatteredclouds of the earth’s atmosphere rath¬er than a continuous mass whichwould redden all stars evenly. Starsonly a fraction of a degree apart arcreddened in differing degrees, accord¬ing to Dr. Morgan. jSome of the stars included in the jstudy are reddened to a greater extent {than any previously known to as- jtronomers. Dr. Morgan reported.Some stars which actually are asblue as the first magnitude star Rigel, |in the constellation Orion, appear as ired as the star Aldebaran, in the con- !stellation Taurus, because of the ac- jtion of the dust clouds, he said. ! Dr. KeppelBlasts ValuesOf Degrees“Only in a few strong professions,notably medicine and law, and theolder branches of engineering, can itbe said that the possession of adegree today necessarily means any¬thing. Elsewhere, all too often, a de¬gree as such may mean literally noth¬ing. All over the country teachingand other vacancies are being filledby degrees, not by men or women,the appointing bodies accepting thediploma as a substitute for thetiresome process of really findingout something as to the professionaland personal qualifications of in¬dividual human beings.”Keppell BlastSuch was the blast made at thecollege degree by Dr. Frederick P.Keppel, w’ho is a Bachelor of Arts,twice a Doctor of Letters an<l sixtimes a Doctor of Laws, in the an¬nual report of the Carnegie Corpor¬ation of New York of which he ispresident, according to an articlewhich recently appeared in the NewYork Times.IDr. Kepi)ler continued, “Some- |times the situation presents curious Ianomalies, as in the fine arts, where jthe possession of a Ph. 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