Vol. 40, No. 47 Z-149 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940 Price Three CentsFootballEchoes* <» *LESTER DEAN, BOB REYNOLDSThe boy from Penn said, “Chicagohas a halo now. It was a smart move,abolishing football. Within 20 years,1 think, most of the major universi¬ties will have followed Chicago inbouncing football off their curricula.”Bruce Wright. University of Penn¬sylvania, ’43, speaking as one of themany eastern college boys who hadbeen moved to comment on the actionof the University’s trustees in unani- jmously relegating football to the ash |can, applauded the surprising holiday |decision. He felt, as did many of hisPenn classmates, that grid game’s as¬cendency had lowered academic workto a side show status and made itselfthe main attraction in the three ringcircus of American collegiate life.« « «In accord with him were three PhiGams of Ohio State, who said theyrealized poignantly the detrimentaleffects of cancerous growth this ex¬tra curricula sport had wrought.“Sure,” said Jim Woods, “I like tosee a good football game as well asthe next person. But down at Colum¬bus we see its corrupting influence.Even the legislature dabbles in pull¬ing the prize high school stars toOhio. You get disgusted seeing in¬structors favor lazy 200 pounders.”♦ ♦ *Another, Bill Nichols, was of theopinion that Chicago with its pres¬tige should be retained as a memberof the Western Conference. He di¬verged though in condemning the se¬verity of dropping the sport com¬pletely. Play a lighter schedule, washis advice.From the other side. Will Sapp, aMichigan Beta, objectively pointed outthe impossibility of other schools inthe Big Ten following the Midwaylead mainly because of the huge in¬vestments in field houses and stadia.« « «“You know as well as I do thatfootball pays the freight for all othersports and activities like the glee cluband orchestra trips. Try and get thebond holding alumni to go to foot¬ball’s funeral.“But,” he continued, “it’s a goodthing anyway. The rabidity of thegame will tone down to a norm morecompatible with college life by thismove of Hutchins’.”Surprisingly, a Cornell student,Lowell Rutherford, tossed aside theperfect record his school’s team turn¬ed in by saying there would probablybe a drop in enrollment next fall duepurely to the notoriety Cornell re¬ceived during the season.♦ * •Harvard’s contribution came fromWilliam Hodsow, who gave forth with,“It was the most sensible thing Chi¬cago could have done. They either playball and subsidize or quit the bigleague football circles. More powerto them for refusing to compromisetheir morals.”Perhaps, said the majority whospoke on the subject, the move wastoo violent. John Quincy, of Lehigthought Chicago should play in thesame league with Lehigh. As he said,they do not subsidize there, ratherturn the sport over to boys who wantnothing more than exercise.Discuss SkitsOf 1940 Mirror“A good skit,” remarked Dean Wil¬liam Randall, director of the Minorshow, “is very much like most funnystories. It presents an unusual situa¬tion with an unexpected ending.With that idea as a guiding principle.Mirror veterans and newcomers havescheduled a meeting in the Toweiroom of the Reynolds Club next Tues¬day at 3:30, to discuss the materialfor the 1940 presentation.Mirror is an annual productionstaged by the University women; it is ioften referred to as the female coun- |ter part of Blackfriars. As a rule it iconsists of a succession of three-to-)five-minute skits, the most successfulof which, to quote Dean Randall again,“have a gag at the end and get to itas quickly as possible.” ASU HoldsNationalMeetingVoice Demands to KeepOut of War and DefendCivil Liberties.Keep America out of war, defendcivil liberties, and legislate for humanneeds are three of the salient demandsvoiced by the American Student Unionat its convention which met during theChristmas vacation.The German-French-English war isbranded imperialistic in one of theresolutions passed. German aggres¬sion and English appeasement whichwas directed at bringing Germanyinto conflict with the Soviet Union,were two w'ar causes listed. Chiefdangers for this country lie in thedesires big business might have forsuper-profits, according to the reso¬lution. Proposals for this country arecomplete neutrality, anti-profiteeringlaws, and exposure of pro-v/ar, andpro-allied propaganda.Among the things the ASU opposesis the recent ten million dollar loanto Finland, and the sale of 44 navyordered planes to Finland. The ASUalso disapproved of advocating a mor¬al embargo against the USSR.Other planks in the peace programare the continued support of Chinaand the extension of the good neigh¬bor policy in Latin-.\merica. Thegroup also asks the government tohelp end the war in Europe.In a section on Civil Liberties, theASU asks that the Dies committee beabolished and the funds appropriatedto the LaFollette committee. Oppo¬sition is also voiced to anti-alien billswhich have been proposed. Academicfreedom for students and faculty isdemanded.The ASU supports the CIO legisla¬tive program for 1940 and calls or¬ganized labor the most powerful pro¬gressive force in American life.Agnes Reynolds of this Universityis college secretary of the ASU. Syd¬ney Lipshires, chairman of the localunit, is on the national executive com¬mittee of the organization.Plan TwelfthNight PartyJitterbugs, a water ballet, a Christ¬mas-tree burning ceremony, songs,dances, sports and refreshments—inshort, everything but the well knownpurple cow—will be featured at theTwelfth Night Party this Friday nightin Ida Noyes. Purple cows may ap¬pear later to some of the more joyousguests, but they will definitely notbe under the auspices of the IdaNoyes Council, as is the rest of thecelebration.I The party, first all-campus affair ofthe Winter quarter, will begin openhouse at 8:30. Chuck Pfeiffer and BobReynolds of the Student Social Com¬mittee will carry in the Christmasgreens at 9:30 for the traditionalTwelfth Night burning, when Dr. A.Eustace Haydon will lead the cheeryand convivial ceremony with a shortspeech, after which the green will bethrown on the fire to blaze merrilyand pungently.There will then be dancing to thehep-cat strains of Bob Mohlman’s or¬chestra and dancers can then adjournto the pool, to witness chief mermaidPeggy O’Neill and the swimmingtroupe. The carnival cast will give a'fehort portion of the water ballet andan additional swimming exhibition, jStudded in a first-rate fioor show iwill be new stars Don Warfield. Dekerug-cutter; Ardis Mollitor, a “sweetand low” songstress (adjectives per¬tain to her song style); and M. C. LeeHewitt of the Blackfriars. '^^Magic” CastGives ComedyBy ChestertonWith Demarest Polacheck acting asslave-driver and director, the cast ofthe DA Workshop’s first production ofthe winter quarter took no vacation,but' held two rehearsals over theChristmas holiday. The vehiclethrough which the all-freshman bodyof players will display their talents todrama-goers on January 16 will beG. K. Chesterton’s “Magic.”The play is a fantastic comedy, andthe novice cast will be bullied into be¬ing funny by Polacheck, who has twoweeks to v/ork with them before thecurtain goes up.The players will be Margaret AnnRathje as Patricia, William Godsaveas the Stranger. Robert R. Miller asDr. Grinsthorp, Robert Cook as theReverend Smith, Charles Murrah asthe Duke, Jeffery Mongerson as Hast¬ings, and Marshall Patulo as Morris.With the exception of Murrah who 1played the lead role of Danny in“Night Must Fall” and Patullo who ^had a small part in Uncle Vanya, none Iof the players have had any DA ex¬perience.Polacheck will handle the directionof Magic entirely alone, since DAboss, William Randall, is busy mak¬ing plans for the Mirror production.He will be helped by most representa¬tive Henrietta Mahon, who has comeback from Sun Valley to act as assist¬ant director, and by Jerry Gordon andLynn Hill.Sound Movies,Recorded Talks,Sent To AlumniBloomered girls and high-collaredboys on bicycles pass across thescreen in the sound movie the FiftiethAnniversary Committee is ready torelease. The movie pictures the Uni¬versity back to the days of PresidentHarper and All-American Walter Ec-kersall. It will be sent to variousalumni groups throughout the coun¬try in a drive for funds for the Alum¬ni Foundation. Skull,CrescentReleasesBid Bearing BalloonsUp in the AirAL DREYFUSSForum DebatesHobo CollegeP.y DAN MEZLAYOne of the most remarkable cres-cive institutions in the world is locatedat 708 Noi-th Clark Street. The nameof this establishment is the Institutefor Social Science, formerly HoboCollege. It is here that the finest hoboculture, known for its uniqueness, isdisseminated. All of the members,many of whom are “fellow travelers”,are broadminded because of extendedtours throughout the United Statesand other countries.The three leading lights of this in¬stitution are “Deacon” Morris, “Stepand a Half” Sheridan, and the “Cos¬mic Kid.” They and their friends willdebate Student Forum membersMaurice Reichstein and Robert Rammon, “Is College Education Worth¬while?”, at the institute this Satur¬day at 8. The itinerant travelers, ofcourse, will uphold the negative sideof the question.The three leading lights debatedwith Forum members at the Univer¬sity last month and enlightened thestudents with statements that theyadhered to regardless of how their op¬ponents dialecticized. Hold Contest to PickTop Blues Singer forMirror Show.Concluding preliminary arrange¬ments for its dance January 13, Skulland Crescent announced today thattickets for the annual CorsagelessFormal had gone on public sale.By day of propagating the dancewhich is to be held in Cloister Club,the sophomore organization will placein the hands of their beauty queen,Clarabelle Grossman, the balloons Ar¬thur Holley Compton has been usingin his cosmic ray experiments. Theseshe will release today in the circle.Aside from containing hydrogen eachof the five ballons will encase bidsto the dance.Annie OakleyWhoever picks the floating AnnieOaklies up will be informed of thecontents by a letter President DinkMcLellan has written. The misselgoes thusly: Whether you be black,red, brown or white, healthy or in¬valid, inmate of penal institution orVassar house, present this ticket Sat¬urday night, January 13, at the doorto the Cloister Club in Ida NoyesHall and you will be royally wel¬comed as guests of the Universityof Chicage^s sophomore honor so¬ciety.Peg Hutchins of the Mortar Boardand Mirror Board Hutchins and Mc¬Lellan have combined efforts tochoose a blues singer for Mirror.Skull and Crescent will select sixcandidates and audition them todayin the Reynolds club theatre. Amongthe prospects are Jane Tallman, Pol¬ly Kivlan, Ruth Martin, Marge GreyExeter, Betty Lu Furry, and RuthWhalen. Whoever fancies that theirvocal talents are equal or superior tothe above named are invited to com¬pete today at 3:30.(Continued on page two)Esquires PlayAt FirstIn addition four undergraduate stu¬dents are preparing a discussion onundergraduate life to be recorded al¬so for benefit of interested alumni.The first recording, already distribut¬ed, is a discussion between PresidentHutchins and Clifton Utley.The official launching of the cam¬paign for Alumni Foundation fundswill take place January 18 when Trus¬tee Harold H. Swift holds a specialgifts dinner at the Drake Hotel. PaulHoffman of the Fiftieth Anniversaryexecutive committee will be toa.stmas-ter. Scheduled speakers of the eveningare Dr. George Vincent, Frank Mc¬Nair, and President Hutchins. Part of the “Cosmic Kid’s” viewsran as follows, “I ventured into litera¬ture and found that those who spenttoo much time with it became drunkand dizzy with books.”“Step and a Half” Sheridan con¬tended that the world’s progress hasnot been made by thinkers, but bythose who know how to handle things,not ideas.Said the “Deacon”, “The Hutchins’plan is too exclusive. The Humanities,engineering, and social reconstructionshould be the main program of anyUniversity, however, the danger ofwearing an educational badge shouldbe avoided.” 1 Reynolds DanceBand Boasts of PeggyHodgin, New Vocalistfrom South.Thirteen men—the Esquires, and agirl—Peggy Hodgin, their vocalist,will be the musical hosts of univer¬sity basketball fans next Saturdayevening at the Reynolds Club Basket¬ball Dance. The Esquires, a coopera¬tive band, have enjoyed unusual pop¬ularity on campus this year playing atthe Psi U “Hard Times” party and thePhi Psi Esquire Party, and recentlythe annual Quadrangle dance. Lastsummer they played at the ChannelLake (Ill.) ballroom where OrrinTucker got his start on the road tobig time engagements.Mid-Year Freshmen TopGrades of Regular EntrantsThe derived scores made by a groupof 35 mid-year freshmen were foundto be much superior on the whole tothe scores made by a similar groupof regular freshmen according to asurvey made by the office of the Deanof the college.The 35 freshmen were divided inquartiles according to marks made onpsychological tests taken during theirfirst week here. A group of 35 regularstudents who made the same scoreswere selected as a test group for theexperiment. Derived scores based oncomprehensive grades showed that inthe highest group, according to nativeability, there was little difference be¬tween the regular and mid-yeargroups, but in the three other quar¬tiles there were differences in favorof the mid-year group, the highestdiscrepancy being four points in thethird highest group.Merle Coulter, director of the bi¬ological science survey, has put forthseve»'al factors which would explainthis great difference in scores. How¬ever, it is not possible at this stage to weigh the factors. One factor isthat it is much easier to prepare fortwo subjects than for four, the mid¬year group took Biological Scienceand English 102 while most of theregular students took four compre-hensives.Another consideration Is that thisgroup is the start of an educationalexperiment and that such a venture isusually accompanied by enthusiasmon the part of the students. However,the material used in lectures, sylla¬bus and required readings wereidentical for both groups and the pro¬cedure used in discussion groups wasnot changed.The most weighty factor is that theinstructors in charge, know that themid-term students worked more con¬sistently than the regular students.There was practically no cutting andthe work was done on schedule. Themid-students closely adhered to thework schedule set for them. One ofthe reasons advanced for this proced¬ure is that the mid-year class did not(Continued on page three) The Esquires are especially proudof their new vocalist, Peggy Hodgin.Peggy, who hails from North Car¬olina, is an accomplished singer witha definite style of her own in additionto those other indispensable “items”which go into the make-up of a pop¬ular singer.Soft colored lighting with over¬hanging Big Ten pennants will con¬tribute to the collegiate atmosphereof the evening while the Esquires willbe decked out in light grey coats a-gainst a black velvet backdrop.Season tickets which cover admis¬sion to all five Basketball Dances maybe purchased for $1.00. Single admis¬sion will be 35 cents.RegistrationThis year there are 5,116 stu¬dents registered on the Quadran¬gles at the end of the second dayof the Winter quarter. Last yearthere were 5,202 at the same time.f.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940Liberty on CampusProtecting civil liberties has recently be¬come a matter of great concern to AmericanCommunists. This new interest of theirs is aworthy and important one; and is a pointabout Which no good American could disagreewith them. It is a trifle strange, however, tofind the Communists, themselves exponents ofa totalitarian philosophy, so devoted to thecause of democracy. But perhaps they turnedto this cause for want of more likely material.As a means of preserving civil liberties inAmerican schools Communists are sendingtheir outstanding speakers to various univer¬sities. Evidently they hope to make tolerationstronger by giving it hard exercise on unpopu¬lar causes-That the spirit of liberty at this universityis strong enough to take such a challenge inits stride is shown by the fact that the admini¬stration has seen fit to allow Earl Browder tospeak in Mandel Hall January 17. In the opin¬ion of the administration, at least, nothingBrowder might say about “America and theImperialist War” could be potent or dangerousenough in its effects on the morals of his au¬dience to justify denying him the right tospeak.But according to rumors we have heard, asmall group of students don’t share the ad¬ministration’s attitude about the harmlessnessof Communist rationalizations of their part inthe present world situation. Either this groupthinks the Communist arguments are validenough to convince adult and rational listenersor it believes that the University audience isnot sufficiently mature to keep its democratic Traveling BazaarBy ERNEST LEISERPoetryWith football the center of talk at fraternity houselunch tables, and with even scholars losing some of theiracademic aloofness to comment pro and con the ad¬ministration’s coup, the Maroon was not surprised toreceive comment. But it was startled and shocked toreceive a contribution of poetry—revision of traditionalMaroon songs. The songs were pasted on the bulletinboard and swiped—but their spirit lived on, and withthe collaboration of Ruth Early, we were able to recallmost of it. Edited for good taste, they follow!Wave the flag for old ChicagoMaroon her color grandNever shall her team be victorsFor football has been bannedWith philosophy to lead themWithout a team they’ll standWave again the dear old textbooksFor they’re pedants every man... .and then there’s:C stands for cranial courageH for her brow so highI for her iron-bound interest (declined from 6% to3.96%)C for her College Cry(Cash moneyCash moneyRah rah rahFootballFootballHah Hah Hah) Disc andDescantprinciples unsubverted from the wiles of Mr. AqumasBrowder. So great a menace is the Browder ^meeting to the eyes of this group that it plans nto break up the assembly by violence. ^ ^ Joyboys they all yellWhatever the group’s motives might be, its By FRIEDA WEITZMANThe genuine French elegance, dis¬played by Ravel in his orchestralworks is nowhere found morecharmingly or imaginatively than inhis “Ma Mere L’Oye” (Mother Goose)suite. The recording, Howard Barlowconducting the Columbia Broadcast¬ing Symphony (Columbia Master-works Set X-151) is divided into thefive sections of the suite: I. Pavane ofthe Sleeping Beauty; II. Hop-o’-MyThumb; III. Laideronnette, Empressof the Pagodas; IV. The Conversa¬tions of Beauty and the Beast; V. The jFairy Garden. The work was com-'posed for children, and the tonal ef- jfects which Ravel produces a r e jsplashily picturesque and thoroughlyappealing in their colorful descriptive- ,ness.A mature and elderly Haydn is rep- iresented in the "LondoTi” Symphony.No. 104 (Victor Album M-617) as iplayed by Edwin Fisher and his ■Chamber Orchestra. This symphony iis far removed from the delicate, stu-!diously-graceful minuet-style with ■which many associate Haydn. The fi¬nale movement uses as its main sub-;ject a melody popular in London atthe time (1795). It is called “Red HotBuns’’, and the popular character ofthe melody is evident. Skull^ Crescent-—(Continued from page one)Drey fuss PublicityAllan Dreyfuss, handling the pub¬licity, adds that three of the vocal¬ists will be selected as finalists. Theywill perform for the crowd at thedance and from them a winner willbe chosen to sing the blues in theMirror production.Charles Gaylord, heading the com¬bination scheduled to play for theaffair, just finished a 52 week N.B.C.air show for Maybeline Cosmetics.Ghostwriter: Themes, Theses,Editing, Notes, Book Re¬views. Make early contacts.WRITE: 130 MorninKxidr Dr., Apt. 4.New York City. (J. H. Smith, M.A.Learn GreggThe SUindard Shorthandof AmericaRegular Stenographic, Secretarial,ana Accounting Coursea; also In¬tensive Stenographic (bourse foreducated men and women.thyandEvtnint Oattm. Call, w-Oa,•r tdtpkont 1881 for BaUatla.Fna Employment BimaaThe GREGG CollegeHoaa or casco tmomrmxMD6 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago.As they burn the midnight oil.To be on the cover of Pulsemagazine is an honorDoris .Alt was on the cover of Pul.se. But she wasalso other places. In the Forward, Jewish paper published in Chicago, and circulating throughout the Mid¬dle West, of January 2, was the same picture of thesame Doris Alt. Underneath was an inscription. Withthe aid of the staff of the Oriental Institute and Pulse’sdepartment of Semitic Languages, the code was de¬ciphered, to wit: “Doris .Alt, 19 year old student of theUniversity of Chicago, was chosen as beauty queenThis was the second time she was chosen as beautyqueen.’’ (The repetition was in the translation.)We hear that Miss Alt was also in the Rochesterpurposed unAmerican and ungentlemanly be- lAlthavior would play right into the hands of theCommunists. Browder is slated to discuss the“curbing of Communist civil liberties in theUnited States during the current war.’’ Tryingto prevent his speech would provide this cam¬pus with its first serious violation of Commu¬nist civil liberty in this period.And the Communists would make the mostof this lapse. Right now they have little elseto talk about. Their accusations of imperialismdo not sound so righteous in the light of whatis happening in Finland: they do not like todiscuss world revolution. Martyrdom would betheir surest road back to the sympathy of ! New York, paper. She certainly gets around,liberals who at present have turned away fromthem.Besides gaining sympathy for the Commu¬nists, breaking up their meeting would makethe subversive activities problem seem moreimportant than it actually is. The downtownpapers could be relied on for lurid accounts ofUniversity of Chicago students who had beengoaded so far by the Red menace that finallythey had to resort to violence against it- Thiswould not be good publicity for the fiftiethanniversary campaign. At the University ofWisconsin the students showed indifferencerather than excitement about Browder’sspeech. It would be far better for us to indicate Inside StoryRICHARD C. MASSELl.PEARL C. RUBINSCampus fraternities have recognized in the abolitionof intercollegiate football their own swan .song. Theirfuture plans based on bigger and better footballerplayer membeis have fallen through with a thud. Un¬known to most is the fact that one fraternitv’s nationalorganization has had the foresight to prepare for thisour disapproval or disagreement by absence or | even bigger calamities. Beta Theta Pi has decidedsilence than by violence.There is no doubt that students should bewarned of dangers to civil liberty in thesetimes of chaos. If the Communists are sincerein wanting to perform this service they oughtto do everything possible to prevent violenceat the Browder meeting. They should do thisby restricting the audience to University mem¬bers so that they have a better chance of at¬tracting those who are really interested in theproblem and who will be able to behave them¬selves as intelligent adults. And if these adultsdo not behave properly they will deserve allthe shame they will get.Datlu ^arnnuFOUNDED 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 : .$1 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.RCPRCSeNTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISINO BYNational Advertising Service, Inc. .College Publishers Representative420 Madison Ave. New York, N. Y.CHicAao ' Boston ' Los Angeles - San FranciscoBOARD OF CONTROLEditorialRUTH BRODY WIELIAM H. C.RODYHARRY CORNELIUS DAVID MARTIN, ChairmanALICE MEYERBusinessHARRY F. TOPPING, Business Mgr.ROLAND I. RICHMAN, Advertising Mgr.BUSINESS ASSOCIATES•lohn Bex, Herb Gervin, William Lovell, and Julian LowensteiiiEDI TO RIAI. A SSOCIA TESMarion Gerson, William Hankla, Pearl C. Rubins, John Stevens.Hart Wurzburg, Marian Castleman, Ernest LeiserNight Editor: Dan Mezlay to do somethinpT about the decline of fraternities.In the spring: of ’34 Beta was very badly off bothfinancially and numerically. Three Beta alumnis, Nor¬man Maclean, Bob Tieken and .Albert Long: took thelead in doing: something: constructive about the disin-tegfiation. Maclean knew a g:roup of underg:raduateswho informally I'articipated in di.scussion g:roup.s, in¬tellectual bull sessions. Maclean spoke to these boysand by the fall of ’34 they were established in the Betahouse. The extent of the reorg:anization can be realizedby the fact that only two activities lasted througrh thereorganization. This was the start of the Beta intel¬lectual tradition.* if SfIt is the Beta intellectual tradition that now prom¬ises to save Beta again. Psi Uish looking Paul VanRiper, De Pauw Phi Bete now doing graduate workhere in Political Science, is the key man in the scheme.Van Riper is the representative of the Chicago AlumniChapter, house manager, and adviser. He also rep¬resents the national organization and it is that workwhich is the most important. Beta Theta Pi’s nationalboard of trustees thinks that the Chicago chapter isnow and will continue to be what the modern fraternitywill have to be if fraternities are to exist in the future. !''■'-..1 Riper is here to ob.serve and buih/ up the Chicagochapter, to make it a model for all Beta chapters.The three objections raised against fraternities arethat they are too expensive, that they have too muchemphasis on social matters to the exclusion of educationand that hell week, paddlings are foolish. The nationalchapter believes that Beta with its low rates, intellectual ;and social mean and abolition of hell week meet all jthese objections.* K He IAnother spectre which hangs over fraternity heads 'is the fact that college dormitories are springing up at |a rapid rate. The building of dormitories has proved !to be one of the best revenue raisers for colleges during Ithe depression, and it is quite evident that the increase !will not be limited. As far as living facilities are con-1cerned fraternitie.s will have to meet the competition of!the dormitories. They will have to offer something ithat the dormitories cannot; the national chapter thinks ’“Model Beta House” does this. * ■miwwlnFor YourCOLLEGENIGHTENIOYMENT★EVERY FRIDAYProfessional Flotpr ShoivsGfiy College ShoivDancing with Ted Weems★Get Half Rate Student Tickets atPress Huildinff or Maroon OfficeEDGEWATERBEACH HOTEL5e300 Block Sheridan RoadTHE DAILY MAROON, THURSDAY. JANUARY 4, 1940 Page ThreeJudge Braude TalksAt Hillel Fireside j Canterbury Text Pays■ Tribute to Edith RickertJudge J. M. Braude, widely knownoxpert in the field of Juvenile Delin-(|uency, will open this quarter’s se¬ries of Hillel Fireside Programs Fri¬day, January 12 at 8:30 in Ida NoyesHall with a lecture on “Why I LikeHad Boys.” He presides over theBoys’ court which is the only courtin the Country to deal specificallywith adolescent hoys 17 to 21.A graduate of Michigan he re¬ceived the degree of Doctor of Juris¬prudence from the University of Chi¬cago. During the war he servecl asa second lieutenant. Long active asa politician Braude has served inmany important state positions. Hehas been .Associate Director of Fi¬nance and an Associate Attorney(leneral of Illinois. He also wasChairman of the National Conferenceof State Liquor Administrators.Seminar IIDavid Solomon will lead the firstdiscussion group of the quarter whenSeminar 2 will meet on Thursdayafternoon at 4:00 in Ida Noyes tocontinue the discussion of “The De¬velopment of Jewish' Institutions andIdeals since the French Revolution.”The othe” Hillel Discussion Groupwill meet the following week.Van PaassenPierre Van Paa.ssen will be broughtto campus by the Hillel Forum Se¬ries on February 20 to deliver thesecond lecture of the series. Therehas been an unusually heavy demandon the tickets and all those intereste<liti hearing Van Paassen are request¬ed to i>urchase their tickets early.Sex Rears HeadA tDolphinShoivThe 1040 e<lition of the annualWater Carnival j)ut on by Dolphinand Tarjmn is taking every advan¬tage of the obvious chance to presentsex as raw as it can possibly be donean<l still have it conform to the stan-(lartls of decency.A beauty queen to be pre.sented ina svelte bathing suit, girls also inbathing suits chasing men about thepool in a South Sea version of SadieHawkins Day, a hula hula dance, andPeggy O’Neil in all her curvy gloryare just a few of the features whichare calculated to draw crowds bothFriday an<l Saturday nights.Six camlidates for the title of“Campus Dream Girl” were photo¬graphed for two hours last night inthe Ida Noyes pool by downtownnewspapers, and some of the posestaken will do no harm to the car¬nival’s publicity. The girls were KayChittenden, Shirly Rorman, DorothyDieckmann, Gail Grassick, and Janet Judge J. M. Braude. . . Speaka at Hillel Fireside.Howard Buck MakesSuicide AttemptHoward S. Buck, former assistantprofessor of English in the UniversityCollege, attempted suicide yesterdaymorning. Mr. Buck was found lying onthe floor of his room in a downtownhospital. He was in a state of coma,the result of an overdose of poisonoustablets. Mr. Buck was removed to theSt. Luke hospital, but was transferredfrom there to the Cook County hospi¬tal. Attendants in the psychopathic di¬vision reported that he was serfouslyill, and that his physical condition wasvery poor.and Margaret Peacock. If one of theindividual jiictures taken of Kay isprinted before the election ends onFriday, she will be an odds-on fa¬vorite for the title.The adventures of a group of sail¬ors, who are first captured by pi¬rates and then shipwrecked on aSouth Sea island, form the i)lot ofthe show. Trick swimming strokesby members of the swimming teamand two water ballets, one an underwater flashlight job, arc outstanding.The Friday performance begins at8 p.m.; Saturday’s at 9:30 in Bart¬lett pool.4 MONTH INTENSIVE COURSEfO» COLLEGE STUDENTS AND GRADUATESA thorough, intensive, stenographic course —starting January 1. April I, July 1. October 1.Interesting Booklet sent tree, without obligation— write 01 phone. \o sohcilors employed.moserBUSINESS COLLEGEPAUL MOSER, J.D., PH BRegulm Courses fo’ Beginners.open to HighSchool Grailuiilts only, start first Mondayof each nionfh. .Advanced Courses startonv Mo.nlay. Day and Evening. EveningCourses open ..16 S. Michigan Ave., Ch.cogo, Randolph 4347 At the beginning of a scholarly,eight volume work, the product offourteen years’ research and compil¬ation, comes a moving tribute to awoman who devoted her physicalstrength and her mental efforts toits success, but who died before shecould .see her work published. Thework, which was published by theUniversity Press Tuesday is “TheText of the Canterbury Tales,” acollation of 83 manuscripts, collectedfrom England and the continent,since 1926. The woman is the lateEdith Rickert, who died a year be¬fore the work was completed. Thetribute was paid her by her colleaguein the work, John M. Manly, SewellAvery distinguished service professoremeritus of English.The tribute says “it would be dif¬ficult to exaggerate the loss to thework during these three years offinal revising and preparing for pub¬lication of her wonderful familiaritywith the details of every part of it,her vigilant eye, her keen criticalfaculty, and her faultless taste...Toall her co-workers, her passing hascaused a grief too deep and too per¬sonal to be expressed. She was assweet and fine as sl:e was strong.”For his part in the work. Manlyreceived the Sir Israel Collancz Mem¬orial prize for “long and distin-gui.shed work on the textual study ofChaucer.”The eight volume, conservativelybound set, inti'oduces no startlingchanges into the study of the textsof Chaucer. But the collection andanalysis of 83 of the texts marks itas a work conductecl with painstak¬ing accuracy, and makes it one ofthe most valuable of the contributions to the knowledge of the work of thelight of medieval English literature.Previously no more than about eightof the manuscripts had been collatedfor publication.In their labors on the book. MissRickert and Dr. Manly were aidedby Mabel Dean, Helen McIntosh, anda staff of other assistants.The first volume of the work isdevoted to a description of the Man¬uscripts, the second to a classificationof them, the third and fourth to textsand critical notes, and the last fourto a corpus of variants on the man¬uscripts.Federation ChecksOn Freshman WeekFreshman women and their counsel¬lors are asked to report to Cobb 205any time between 12:30 and 4, nextTuesday through Friday. A check-upis being made by the Federation ofUniversity Women on campus reac¬tion to the freshman week orientationprogram which they sponsor eachautumn. Postcards have been sent toall freshmen and counsellors remind¬ing them of the date and time.Mid-Year—(Continued from page one)come under the influence of upper¬classmen to the extent that the regu¬lar students did. To a large extent,however, they had their own sociallife and were under the influence ofadvisors and instructors more thanunder-graduates. Thus there was notendency for the freshmen to be ad¬vised by classmates to let things go. RovingReporterTalks OverWages, HoursReturns from South toAsk Questions of RoundTablers.Fresh from a two week sojourn inthe Deep South the University of Chi¬cago Round Table’s roving reporterreturns to the air Sunday to discuss“Wages and Houi’s in the North andSouth” with two experts on the sub¬ject. WMAQ and the Red Network ofNBC carry the program at 1:30.The roving reporter will put thequestions and problems of the peoplehe interviewed in his tour of Alabama,Georgia, and Florida to Maynard C.Krueger, assistant professor of e-conomics in the University of Chica¬go, and Arthur W. Marget, professorof economics in the University ofMinnesota.The discussion Sunday will markthe second appearance of the “rovingreporter” on the Round Table broad¬cast. The first program December 17featuring a layman reporter in discus¬sion with two experts brought widecomment and requests for the returnof the reporter.Not regularly scheduled, the rovingreporter will appear from time totime as subjects adaptable to thetechnique are chosen for discussion.The reporter gathers information onthe average citizen’s opinions andsuggestions on the topic to be dis¬cussed and presents them for discus¬sion by the authorities on the broad¬cast.TEXT BOOKSUSED and NEWFOR ALL UNIVERSITY COURSEStWJWJWJWJWm"mWWW^M/WmVmVA\'WmVmVmVmVJVJ‘mVm"^LAUGHTER\ ☆ DRAVf ☆LOVETHE DAILY MAROONTraveling BazaarThe Soul of The CampusBIG and JUICY NEWSFOR1940 Fountain Pens, Note BooksZipper Cases, Laundry CasesBrief BagsCOMPLETE LINE OF |TYPEWRITERS. FOR SALE. RENT or EXCHANGE IWOODWORTH'S IBOOK STORE |1311 EAST 57th ST. Store Open Evenings gNear Kimbark Ave. — 2 Blocks East of Mandel Hall %PHONE DORCHESTER 4800 |llllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^it-. ■Vm Page Four THE DAILY MAROON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1940THE DAILY MAROON SPORTSReserves Practice toImprove Varsity PlayZimmerman Shows BestForm in Fight to GainBerth.‘Red out! Keep moving!! FAST¬ER!!!’ Island, who played on last year’steam for a short period, may see someaction during the present season, buthe has not yet shown up in any gamesto date. Wilson, Miller and Mathewsare the three remaining members ofthe practice opposition.Basketball practice sessions in theFieldhouse resound with these andsimilar commands from the lungs ofCoach Nels Norgren. Practice, con¬ducted on the scrimmage basis, re¬quires the efforts of two full teamsand a little bit over to develop a con¬tending quintet, and the Midway re¬serve forces are tops when it comesto hard work.During vacation the Maroon teampracticed from two to three hoursdaily, working at top speed up anddown the ninety foot court withoutrest. The first string five, wearingwhite shirts, is opposed by the shocktroop team, clad in red. And the re¬serve forces, while outplayed by thetaller, more experienced starting five,display no small measure of talent.Red Team |Leading the “Red” team is flashy |sophomore Paul Zimmermann, an• experienced ball handler, accuratemarksman, and steady team playerfrom Dallas. Zimmermann, while oneof the smallest men on the squad, isrunning Carl Stanley a very closerace for the starting position at for¬ward opposite Captain Lounsbury.Next in line is Jack Fons, tall forwardwho starred at Hirsch High Schoolbefore coming to Chicago two yearsago. Another local light is secondyear man Jim Charlton, who has seenaction in the games to date at guard.Other Reserves The ColumnBy DEMAREST POLACHECKThe conference basketball race forthe University of Chicago Basketballteam opens Saturday against the Uni¬versity of Wisconsin at the Field-house. The pre-season schedule offour games has shown little or noth¬ing of the team’s chances (with theexception of the Utah game last Mon¬day). This is not hard to understand,since both Richardson and Lounsburywere both busy making Henry Mc-Lemore’s All-America football team.A1 Norling and Chuck Wagenbergare two more members of the secondline who are sophomores. Morrie Al¬len, forward from Providence, RhodeLaude, RhodesScholar. Enters HereHorton M. Laude. Hyde Park Highgraduate and Rhodes scholar, regis¬tered yesterday at the University ofChicago, where he will continue hiswork toward a Doctorate in botany.Laude, whose father, H. H. Laude,received his Ph. D from the Univer¬sity in 1936, entered the University ofChicago under a full tuition scholar¬ship offered by the University to allRhodes scholars from the UnitedStates who were unable to continuetheir work in England because of theoutbreak of the war. Laude took hisundergraduate work at Kansas StateCollege and went to Oxford in 1937.He is the fifth Rhodes scholar toregister at the University since theoffer was r.'.ade last fall. As far as form will permit predic¬tions, the chances of the Midway fiveare better than they have been forsome time. The team has height, ex¬perience, shooting ability, good de¬fense, and they have the confidencethat comes of working together for along time. The triumvirate of Stampf,Richardson and Lounsbury matches inspeed and height anything that anyother conference team has to offer.The improvement shown by tennisplaying Art Jorgenson will prove ofvalue to the team, and the increasedconfidence shown in the play of CarlStanley rounds off a veteran first five.This starting team works with aclose-knit zone defense, the effective¬ness of which was shown in the Utahgame. If they had allowed the Wes¬terners to shoot more often unham¬pered, the score might have looked asthough the football team were playinginstead of the cagers. It was a gamethat they deserved to win, and de¬served to lose at the same time. W’hatthe future will bring only God aiidgamblers know; God won’t tell, andgamblers make you pay to find out. HockeyThe first hockey practice of theyear was held last night but the rath¬er lean turnout was the result of thefact that the drill had not been pub¬licized enough.In order to accommodate as manypucksters as possible, a meeting isscheduled for this afternoon at 4:30in the Bartlett Trophy Room to de¬cide on future practice hours.Shaughnessy SaysHe Will Stay HereWhile attending the conference offootball coaches in the West CoachShaughnessy announced that hewould remain at the University ofChicago in the role of professor ofphysical education.Shaughnessy’s role, should he notchange his mind, would be to teachhandball and to instruct participantsin intramural football. Whether Chi¬cago will begin to have intra-class orintra-squad football is still problema¬tical but should they decide to do soShaughnessy could continue coachingthese teams.As for the remainder of the coach¬ing squad, those that are engaged inthe teaching of other sports will re¬main at the University. Such coachesas Jay Berwanger, Vin Sahlin, andWally Nyquist have been contracte<lon a yearly basis and therefore willnot have their contracts renewed fornext year. Abolition Has NegligibleEffect On Chicago—MetcalfBy LES DEANAs yet the dire predictions of theLaSalle Street coaching bench, thenow defunct body of downtown grid¬iron authorities, regarding the effectof Chicago’s abolition of football onthe undergraduate enrollment havefailed to show their ugly heads. Nocomprehensive survey of former pig¬skin aspirants has been made as yet,but T. N. Metcalf, director of athleticssaid yesterday that he had talkedwith a great many of the University’sformer gridders and that not one ofthem was considering transferring orleaving school.Rumor hath it that Davy O’Brien,the highly touted triple threat (no,not board, room, and tuition) backwho considered himself too good toreport for freshman football, has leftschool. “As far as I am concerned,”said Metcalf, “I don’t want to haveany further dealings with him.” InMetcalf’s opinion, O’Brien was notany particular loss either to the Uni¬versity or to the football team.Many of Chicago’s reputedly sub¬sidized freshman have had short per¬sonal interviews with the Athletic Di¬rector and have all assured him thatthey are still with us. Many a bullsession had conceded that such play¬ers as Guttler, Weinberg, Parisi, Ni¬ cola. Moynihan, Kosaez, Labuda, Boyd,and Stenberg would in all likelihoodfall by the wayside with the abolitionof football, but by their own admis¬sion, such is not the case.As far as being dropped from theconference, Metcalf said, the idea isfantastic. “The Big Ten,” he ex¬plained, “is an alliance of Universitiesto establish .standards and regulatecompetition; it is NOT in any senseof the word a playing league.” It fol¬lows then, that a school may partici¬pate in a sport as it pleases, maycompete with whom it pleases, or maydrop the sport completely, at its owndi.scretion.The whole furor about the Maroons’being dropped from the Conferencewas started by Professor O. F. Long,who committed himself at greatlength to the downtown papers, say¬ing that Chicago had violated thespirit of the Conference. 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