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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Elxtension.
DECEMBER 24, 1919
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
VOL. VI, NO. 7
Editorial Board i E. 0. Branson,
Li. H. Wilson, E. W. Knight, D. D. Carroll, J. B. Bullitt.
Entered as
second^lass matter November U, 1914, at the Postofflee at Chapel Hill, N, C., under the act of August 34,1913
THE FIRST YEAR AFTER THE WAR
' which they manage and finance, and their
own secretary. Through their Y. M. C.
A., they carry on a score of activities of
value to the life of the community—relig
ious occasions and Bible study work
BREAKING THE RErORD
The full-term students now registered
at the University of North Carolina iium-
ber 1,350. Counting those students who .
tn,,k work during the 1919 summerscliool
,rut!h.° them to credit toward a uuiver- ^ong the students, welfare work among
■sitv degree, the number is 1,702. Count-: "egroes of the community, hunday
mg other students registere.l during the ; school teaching and managemen in the
‘summer school, tlie total number of stu- ; country churches of Orange county, Boy
•dents of all kinds who have enrolled at ^coutwork ,n Chapel Hil They ha^ e
4he university since the 1919 commence- t'^eir social department, they arrange a
. ^ , . lyceum course tor the students, they
m,mt 1^ , . Qt-it.o miivpi- maintain information bureaus, self-help
Of the stmlenCs wlio are at tlie uiuvei-,
n.1 V f orp Vorfli Tarn ' bureaus, lost-aud-fouiid bureaus, they do
aity now, 94.7 per cent are Aortti Caro- ’
iinians, representing 92 counties. This
THE HIGH LAW OF DUTY
Woodrow Wilson
Here in America, for every man
touched with nobility, for every man
touclied with the spirit of our institu
tions, social service is the high law of
duty, and every American university
must square its standards by that law
or lack its’ national title.
is the widest distribution of students witli-
in tlie state the university has everknown.
Mecklenburg leads ail other counties with
69 students, Guilford following closely
with 67. Otlier counties with large rep
resentations are Buncombe with 51; Or
ange, 51; Wayne, 43; Wake,42; Rowan,
41; Korsyth, 38; Catawba, 36; New
Hanover, 28; Durham, 25; Iredell, 25.
The summer school of 1919 had a total
enrollment of 921, of whom 273 were men
aud 648 women. Three hundred fifty-two
students were studying for university
credit, 569 were taking normal and pre
paratory courses. North Carolina furnish
ed 869 of the 921 enrolled, and 89 coun
ties were represented. Tims in the sum
mer school only 11 counties were not
represented and in the regular session
the number was reduced to 8.
A Manifest Democracy
Classified according to religious aflilia-
tions, more than half the university stu
dents are either Methodists or Baptists,
with the Methodists leading 432 to 341.
Presbyterians follow with 238 and Episco
palians with 152. The remainder re)»re-
sent 12 other religious bodies, the largest
single group being only 30 strong.
The fathers of these students represent
nearly every business or profession to be
found in a state that extends from the
mountains to the sea and that offers a
wide diversification of interests. The de-
Aiiocracy and universality of the stu
dent body is everywdiere evident on the
■camims. Farmers lead with 339 sons at
the univertity and merchants follow with
196. Thirty-three ministers have sent
thwr eons to Chapel Hill. Other vocations
in 'llie list include plumbers, butchers,
l.iakem, florists, fishermen, lumbermen,
ship-builders, tanners, moving picture
men, miilets, hotel managers, barbers,
photographers, meclianics, tobacconists,
liverymerq orcliardists, stock dealers,
druggi.sts, telegraphers, doctors, manufac-
tu';er.H, iawjers, railroadmen, public otti-
ciale, salesmen, lir.nkers, teaol.ers, real
estate dealers,contn.ctor.-i, insurance men,
brokfi’s, automobile dealers, editors, jew
elers, bookkeepers, engineers, dentists,
auditoTS, arebileeff, and dealers in naval
stores.
The number of women now studying at
the university, not counting those who
aUended .-lummer school, is 41. Unavoid
able housing (iiliicutties in Chapel Hill re
sulted tliis fall in the rejection of a num
ber of other applic.-Aions. The scope of
the w'ork uuderiuken by ttiese women
■show.s UiC iireadth of tlio educational ap
peal to their .sex. Three are .studying law.
dhree are in medicir.e, two in pliarmacy,
.three are taking graduate work in English,
and one graduate work iu Latin. One
woman i.s taking a coursr^ in electrical
engtiieeriiig, for the very good reason that
the Wiurse desired could not l>e found in
Any woman’s college in the United States.
Training for Leadership
•The methods, habits, ami traditions of
living in thisotudent community are those
of a normal democratic community. The
students have their own government, in
which etudeut sentiment and thought,
interpreted by specially elected student
TCpresentatives, control the action of life
on tlic campus. They have tlieir activi-
tAeiq covering all things that normal young
persons are interested in, from religious
groups to atliletic teams, from scholarship
and debating clubs to social organijiations,
{rou4 musical and dramatic associations
to military units. They publish and con
trol iu every way a weekly newspaper,
T'heTar Heel; a monthly literary maga-
zijie, the University of North Carolina
Maga.riti'..'; a hi-weekly humorous paper
Tlie-'l’ar Baby; an annual of college act
ivitlcs, the Yaekety Yack; and, through
their Y. M. C. A., a Handbook of infor
mation for new students and a directory
of the students and the faculty of the uni
Torsity.
They have their' own Y. M. C. A.,
any and everything they find to be of
service to the life of the community.
The students have their debating soci
eties, the Dialectic and the Philanthrop
ic, vvitli more than a century’s traditions
of public speaking. Tliis year they have
thrown one of them into an open forum
for discussion of any matter of importance
to the university. The other they have
organized into a legi.slative assembly,
modeled after the lower house of the
General Assembly at Raleigh. Bills and
resolutions are presented as the state leg
islators present them at Raleigh, and the
committee W’ork. the readings and the de
bating are carried on precisely as their
model carries them on. The two societies
debate against each other and, uniting,
they debate against other universities on
matters of national moment. During the
Lift twenty-five years the university has
won 70 percent of its debates against in
stitutions ranging from Pennsylvania to
New Orleans.
Of the students at the university ap
proximately 200 are dependent upon
their own efforts for the money to keep
them at college. They are self-help stu
dents, they are ■w'orking their way through
college. Ninety of them are w'aiters at
the university dining halls, the others do
many kinds of work, from soliciting as
agents to stenographic, secretarial, and
clerical work,from teaching and tutoring
to chopping wood, firing furnaces, work
ing in stores, in restaurants, anywhere
they can find work that will pay them.
They are among the most valuable stu
dents in the university.
Physical Well-Being
For these and all students tlie univer
sity this year has taken significant steps
tow'ard the improvement and preserva
tion of student health. A new physician
of experience has been placed in charge
of the university infirmai-y. A professor
of physical education has been added to
the faculty, with general supervision over
the play and recreation of the student
body. Freshmen are closely examined
for physical defects and wherever possible
proper exercises are directed to overcome
the difficulty. All freshmen are required
to take athletic work as part of their reg
ular college work. Otlier students are
provided with greater opportunity for
sports than ever before. A system of cam
pus athletics is being developed that will
give every student in college the cliance to
play any^ sound, healthy game that he
wants to play— all to the end that the
standards of health and physical devel
opment may be raised.
The Carolina Club 1
The North Carolina Club, a volunteer
organization to which any member of the
University is eligible, has made an inten
sive study of the economic, social, civic,
and industrial problems of North Caro
lina during Die last five years. It has
published the results of its investigations
iu three volumes, the last one being 190^
pages in length on the subject of County
Government and County Affairs in North
Carolina. This year it has taken for its
program the working out of a plan of
state reconstruction, following the lead of
Governor Bickett’s f^tate, Reconstruction
Commission. well known has its work
become, so highly regarded are its inves
tigalionsof North Carolina problems, that
Mr.E.O. Branson, Chairman of theSteer
ing Committee of the club, was chosen
as a member of the state commiasion and
Mr. J. Y. Baggett, the club president
was invited as a student representative to
sit with the commission at all its meet
ings. Other student representatives were
invited to sit with the committ^s ot the
commission at their investigations and
meetings. This is volunteer student work.
sional work. Of 55 students in the School
of Pharmacy, 43 are first-year students,
the largest junior class the school has
known. The other 12 are seniors. The
small senior class is due to unsettled con
ditions during the war years. The total
enrollment in this school is approximately
the same as in the last pre-war year, but
the marked increase in first-year students
would indicate a correspondingly marked
increase in the total enrollment next year.
The Medical School has had the same ex
perience. The total enrollment is not
late inThe fall, the division has already
undertaken several projects in the utili
zation of natural water powers and has
much work ahead of it. Its investiga
tions and work are free of all charge.
Serving the Clu^b Women
New and far-reaching strides have been
made during the last year in the univer
sity’s work with women’s clubs, contin
ued now by Aliss Nell Roberson. Three
distinct groups are reached by this
branch of the bureau of extension; (1)
individuals requesting suggestions for
study and reading and desiring informa
tion for use in patriotic, civic, and social
i :
Members of the faculty are club meinben,
if they so choose, but the invesugations
and reports are tlie wmrk of students.
Physical Expansion
The university has shown substantial
physical growth during the kst year.
Nearing completion now and available for
occupancy^ early in the new year is the
new physics building, Phillips Hall, one
of the largest structures on the campus
and a model in everyway for tlie purposes
planned. Here ivill be the headquarters
of the scliool of applied science, the home
of pure physics, of electrical engineering
and civil engineering. In the town of
Chapel Hill, but closely connected with
university life, the new post office'and
the new Presbyterian church will be ready
for use early in tlie new year.
Two new dormitories are projected and
planned for the next collegiate year. To
gether they will hold 175 students. Their
location south of the famous old South
Building -will open up a new area of uni
versity expansion. Ne\v plans have been
agreed upon for the creation of a new
fraternity center on the western side ot
the campus where eventually all the fra
ternity houses will be placed. Five of
the fraternities are planning to build in
the spring. A laundry for the university
community and a hotel for Chapel Hill
are two additional building projects com
ing in the near future.
Nevtt Schools and Courses
Within the university cur r i c u 1 u m
growth and development are evident in
many places. The present college year
has seen tlie beginning of a School of
Commerce, born out of'the demands of
the people of the state for more and bet
ter business training, intenser, more com
prehensive acquaintance with the keen
business world of present-day industrial
ism.
A four-year c ourse leading to the degree
of Bachelor of Science in Commerce lias
been started, the first two years broadly
comprehensive, the last two more techni
cally bound up with such fundamental
business subjects as accounting, money
and banking, business organization, in
surance, transportation, corporation fi
nance, industrial management, foreign
trade, salesmanship, business psychology,
markets and marketing, and other kin
dred subjects.
Besides the courses of study, a lecture
program has beeu arranged, which will
bring well known business men of the state
and the south to speak before tlie stu
dents. Representatives of tlie Tariti' Com
mission, the Federal Trade Commission,
the Census Bureau, and the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce will out
line to the school business problems from
a national point of view. During the sun.-
mer between the .Junior and Senior years
eacli student will be expected to spend
his time working in an establishment in
the line of business for which he is pre
paring. In its first year the school lias
enrolled 150 students, 117 of whom are
freshmen and sophomores.
In addition to the school of commerce,
the jiresent year has seen the beginning
of a new School of Alusic, now organized
as a department of music. Lectures on
the history, theory, and appreciation of
music will be given as regular elective
courses, and encouragement and guidance
for musical undertakings by communities
throughout the state will be furnished
through the Bureau of Extension. The
department will have supervision of the
group music of the students, and eventu
ally instruction in music will be given.
Professional Schools
Other departments of ttie university
have shown grow’th in many ways. The
Law School, with a long record of service
behind it, has a larger enrollment than
ever before. It has added a new member
to its teaching staff, and the course has
been increased from tw'o years to three.
Tlie lengthened course, which is in keep
ing with the practice of the most success
ful law schools in the country, is a direct
effort to give a more thorough training in
the fundamentals of law, and at the san;e
time to present some courses which will
cmptiasize phases Of the practical work of
the lawyer. One hundred and four stu
dents are enrolled in the law school, of
whom 84 are first-year students. Includ
ed in the list are three women.
The other schools have seen a similar
increase in students preparing for profer-
only Iaro-er but tivo hundred students are I activities, (2) women’s clubs choosing
taking ^re-medical work; which again | their own subject/or litemrymh_isto™
would indicate that next year the school
will have more students than it can take [
care of.
University Publications
As a publishing and magazine center
the University now issues eight regular
periodicals. The University Record con
tains the catalogue, the president’s' re
port, and other official records of the un
iversity. Studies in Pliilology is a quar
terly edited by the language departments
of the University. It has a circulation
among liighly distinguished scholars and
learned ■ societies both in the United
State.s and Europe. The .lournal of the
Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society has the
same high rank among the
bodies of the country. The
Chemist is published by the Chemistry
department. The .Tames Sprunt Histori-
tudy and asking for outlines and material
to use in preparation of club meetings,
and (3) clubs adapting the outline pro
grams published by the university exten
sion bureau and officially adopted by the
North Carolina Federation of IVomen’s
Clubs.
The scope and reacli of the work inay
be seen, in part, in figures. The outline
program on the Historical Background
and Literature of the Great IVar, prepar
ed by Mrs. T. W. Lingle, was studied by
806 women enrolled in 42 clubs represent
ing 30 North Carolina towns and 4 states.
Seven hundred fifty books and 250 pam
phlets were issued to club niembers. The
program on Americanization, also pre
pared by Mrs. Lingle and adopted by the
state federation, is now being studied by
75 clubs with a total membership of
1,316. Forty of the clubs, with a member-
scientific ! ship of 672, are located in 32 North Caro-
Carolina • lina towns; thirty-five clubs, with amem-
rehip of 644, are from other states.
I Four hundred books and pamphlets were
loaned for use in this course during
In Oc-
cal Publications are published periodical-1 September and October alone,
ly by the North Carolina Historical So-1 tober a course on Citizenship, Prepared
■ ^ rr,, TT- 1 c U 1 T „ 1 I- „ ! tw Professor D. D. Carroll, was issued
ciety. The High School Journal is a ; ^4 ^ ^ ^lubs with an enrollment
monthly published by the school of Edu- j 73 adopted it. Thus within the
cation. The News-Letter is published j last year 124 women’s clubs with a total
weekly by the university for the Bureau membership of 2,210, more than half of
of Extension, and the AlumiA Review is ' "'ll"!"
published by the Alumni Association of
the University.
Library Facilities
The University Library jiad on
cords up to August
its
15, 1919, a total
88,316 volumes/which includes 5,165 vol- !
umes acquired during the previous year. |
It does not include, however, three im- i
portant acquisitions since August, the;
IVeeks collection, and the gifts of the late
Col. A. B. Andrews and of E. V.
Zoeller, which are now'being catalogued.
As these amount to more than 10,000
I volumes, the library at the present time
led the courses prepared for them by the
Women’s Clubs Division of the bureau of
university extension. The library has
cooperated by sending to these clubs, at
! their request, more than 1,200 books and
re- ' many additional pamphlets.
Serving the High Schools
Reaching out in other ways to the peo
ple of the state, the university has con
tinued its high school debates and ath
letic contests. The seventh annual con
test of the high school debating union
was held at the university with represen
tatives from 41 high schools present. A
total of 180 schools, representing 75
has very close to 100,000 volumes. This | counties, participated in the preliminary
makes it one of the tliree largest libraries | contests. Unsettled conditions due to
in all the southern states. Down the | the war and the influenza cut into the
sweep from IVashington all the way out | number as against that of previous years,
through Texas, there are only two other | but there is every reason to believe that
libraries of about the same size, but it is 1 this year the eighth contest will include
doubtful if either of the other two has
material of the same value from a liter
ary or historical point of view.
The IVteks collection, added within
the last year, is the largest and most com
plete collection of literature on North
Carolina history in existence. It includes
books, pamphlets, bound and unbound
periodicals, bound and unbound news
papers, maps, reports of state officers and
state institutions, and is a gold mine of
tremendous value to historical students.
Swinging out from its own buildings at
Chapel Hill, refusing to be bound by the
stone walls of its campus, the university
has continued during the past year tlie
work of carrying its educational resources
to the people of the state. As the head of
the state educational system, it seeks not
only to link itself with all other parts of
that system but to go through and beyond
the system to the people themselves for
whom and by -whom it was created and
to whom its leadership will always call.
The Bureau of E.xtension has continued
its work in many directions, and has in
augurated important new services.
State and County Council
Co-operating with tlie Governor of the
state, the state association of county com
missioners, and the state departments of
education, liealth, highw^ays, public wel
fare, and taxation, the university held
in September a four-day conference for
the benefit of North Carolina public wel
fare wprkers. More than three hundred
of these workers were in attendance, and
every session of the conference was de
voted to the consideration of some topic
of vital importance to the common weal
of the state. Governor T. ’\Y. Bickett
f,resided throughout the conference and
a number of out-of-state speakers parti
cipated. Seventy-six counties of the state
were represented. Provision has been
made for the continuation of the council
in 1920, and special instruction in several
subjects will be provided for in the sum
mer school prior to its assembly next
August.
Country Home Comforts
At the request of the state highway
commission the bureau of university ex
tension has organized the division of
country home comforts and conveniences
under the direction of Prof. P. H. Dag
gett, assisted by a group of engineering
experts from the university faculty. The
division i\nll advise and assist in provid
ing rural communities with water supply
systems, electric light and power plant,
mutual telephone systems, and better
sanitation. Authority for the work
comes from an act of the General Assem
bly of 1917 which commissioned the high
way commission to promote these coun
try home comforts and conveniences.
Though the work was not started until
300 schools. Restricted Immigration is
the debate subject for the current year.
A 90-pago handbook for the debaters
will be issued by the university, contain
ing outlines and arguments on both sides
of the query with abundant references to
other sources of information.
Last year state high school champion
ship contests were conducted in football,
basketball, tennis, track, and baseball.
This year the football championship, just
completed, aroused more interest in the
state than ever before. The contests are
conducted as the seasons for tliem ar
rive.
Reconstruction WorK
The whole force of the university’s ex
tension lectures and general publicity re
sources, which during the war period had
been thrown into the problems of the
causes of the war, was upon the armis
tice and demobilization shifted in a new
direction and thrown into the new prob
lems attending reconstruction, citizen
ship, and the re-gathering of the strength
of the nation for its new 1:asks. Com
munity centers were organized at IVins-
ton-Salem, ' Salisbury, Kinston, New-
Bern, and Goldsboro for the special con
sideration of these questions. Pamphlets,
bulletins, and leaflets describing methods
of procedure and suggesting fields of
study were prepared and issued. Besides
the News Letter with its 50 issues a year,
and an average circulation of more than
12,000, the bureau of extension published
fourteen pamphlets with a combined cir
culation of more than 45,000. The num
ber of lectures delivered by members of
the faculty on these and other subjects
was approximately 175; the number of
articles of every sort published in various
periodicals all over the country was
proximately 70.
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Alumni Loyalty
Alumni loyalty, alumni faith and hope
in the university, alumni determination
that the university shall press forward to
greater and greater service to the people
of the state, have been exemplified this
year in the interest shown in the univer
sity’s develoiiment, in wise counsel and
sound advice, and in response to the
Graham Memorial campaign. More than
$100,000 has been given by alumni and
friends for the erection of a student activ
ities building in memory of Edward Kid
der Graham, the late president. Tire
campaign is being pushed now towaid
the $150,000 mark and from its success
thus far there appears no doubt of the
ultimate goal. To tlie Alumni Loyalty
Fund the contributions also have been
liberal. For jAlma Mater her sons re
tain the love that sprang from the reali
zation of their debt to her.—Lenoir
Chambers. f.