THE BATTALION
Collegiate World
PENNSYLVANIANS NOT
FROM PA.
Ann Arbor, Mich.— (IP)—Waring’s
Pennsylvanians got their start at a
university, and it wasn’t Pennsylvania
either.
It came to light here just recently
that the famous jazz orchestra was so
broke back in 1921 that the members
decided to bust up, and would have
done so had not Fred Waring been
invited to come up and play at the
University of Michigan.
Here’s how it happened.
One of the boys went to Ann Har
bor, where a friend told him that the
University of Michigan committee
was looking for a small band to play
in an old gymnasium for the overflow
crowd at the annual Jay Hop. The
committee already had two famous
bands for the main dance. The or
chestra member telegraphed to Fred.
Fred wired the committee and the
band assembled.
“That was the greatest night ever,”
Fred tells the story himself. “We
stole the crowd right away from un
der the Big Names. All our successes
started in that old gymn. And we
didn’t even have hotel money. A
fraternity put us up on condition that
we play free ‘for their house party
the next night.”
From there the band went to a De
troit theater and radio station and
after one night they got an eight-
week stage contract. They’ve been
going ever since,.
MUSIC AIDS STUDY
Minneapolis, Minn.,— IP — Tests
made by students of the University of
Minnesota in cooperation with Radio
Station KSTP have proved that stu
dents can do their best studying when
listening to jazz music on the radio.
Less distraction was found to pre
vail when the loud speakers were vi
brating than when the absolute sil
ence reigned in the student’s room.
ACCIDENT SHAPES CAREERS
Yellow Springs, O.,—IP—Accident
instead of aptitude is shaping the
careers of far too many college stu
dents, according to Dr. Arthur E,
Morgan, president of Antioch college
here.
“In the practical administration of
our colleges,” he said recently, “far
too little attention is paid to the na
ture and significance of student in
terests. They are commonly looked
upon as being determined by nature,
like the color of the eyes.”
Wellesley, Mass.,—IP—What is to
be the largest map in the world, to
cost more than two million dollars, is
under construction here. It will meas
ure 63 feet from east to west and 46
feet from north to south.
The map was begun about five
years ago, and is expected to take 50
years to complete. When finished it
will be a perfect likeness of the coun-
Did You Know
By J. A. Barnes
During the four days of registra
tion $826,504.77 passed through the
fiscal office?
? ? ?
There have been as many as 4000
students checks written in one day?
? ? ?
During the past two weeks approx
imately 2310 telegrams have passed
through the Western Union office on
the campus ?
? ? ?
A carpenter’s saw was used to cut
the limestone now being used in the
new agricultural building?
? ? ?
There are least five, instead of two,
graduates of the 1930 class, now
teaching in school here ?
try which makes up the United
States and Canada.
A gallery 15 feet high will encir
cle the map, and viewed from this any
section reproduced on the work will
appear just above as it would if act
ually seen from an airplane at a
height of 12 miles.
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