Show o WHAT IS WORTH WHILE Founders Founders' Day has haa come and gone Apparently neither students nor faculty members members members' mem mem- bers bers' reared cared wh whether it came or or not The Ther r recent recent ent Fou Founders Founders' Day observance might be called in theatrical parlance a flop It was was just iba that Attendance at the assembly which was for exercises in honor of the founders was was ridiculously ridiculously poor Whether this was due to lack of interest p poor poor or management or any other cause does not sig sig- n y The attendance was not there When we say attendance we mean not only the attendance of the student body but of the faculty If the students are to feel that the observance of Founders' Founders Day Dayis is worth while they must have havet t the leadership the he of the faculty in promoting this be be- lief Of course man many times the students of the University University University Uni Uni- do not follow where the f faculty culty attempts to lead b but t it is Certain ertain that in a historic event the knowl knowledge dge of of which is far greater far greater among the faculty members rs than among the students the faculty must assume assume the assume the leadership We cannot condemn non non attendance of students when the the lack of faculty members was just as no no- In regard to the management ment of of the the affair affair the speaker of the d who was y wh man su supposed supposed supposed- s to d to have the chief message t to convey convey was given a ar arela rela- relatively la- la brief f time tini to Discuss discuss the This was was both poor judgment arid and poor poor taste Any tradition which lis' lis is is not worthy of having an alL observance which c conforms with the dignity of the occasion should be dropped entirely If an anything cannot be done well done well it jt is better to eliminate it en- en V Va a are e n favor of the the perpetuation perpetuation of f Founders' Founders Day as one of the great traditions of the the University but if f it is to be be continued c let Jet us us' us bave a while worth observance e of the he occasion and not a recurrence of the hearted half attempt at observance which was perpetrated last week The f faculty culty must come com come first the first the students will follow |