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Vol.3. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C OCTOBER 4, 1894. No. 3.
On the Foot Ball Field.
The first thing- that attracts one's
notice when one enters the Athletic
Park is a dense crowd, usually abou
the center of the foot ball field and
occasionally agitated by some sort
of internal convulsion that appears
quite inexplicable to any one who
may have been foolish enough to go
out to view the practice and has ta
ken a. seat on the grand stand.
On nearer view though it conies
to light that the dense crowd is sur
rounding the teams, lined up for
practice, and the internal convulsions
is caused by some vain attempt on
the part of the. side that has the ball,
to advance it through the crowd,
On inquiring the reason for such
a position of the crowd the visitor
would no doubt be informed that
such intense interest and curiosity
was caused by the laudable desire
on the part of the students to shield
the players from any little stray
breath of cold air, which might per
chance injure the delicate constitu
tions of the players, who with wait
ing's and smash inss of teeth and
many prayers to the crowd to keep
back, are perforce obliged to submit
to such a state of affairs, and con
sea uentlv the practice suffers
through lack of room to properly
conduct it in. lack of room indeed
out of two complete fields.
Intense interest in college athlet
ics is praiseworthy, but when suff
ered to stray in a wrong direction as
this sort of interest seems to have
done, or at least manifest itself in
such a direction, it needs to be set
arisrht and the interest directed into
its proper channels.
Go see the practice by all means,
but stay outside the lines and on the
seats provided for spectators, cheer
every brilliant play made, every de
termined attack, every successful re
sistance, but do it from the proper
place, which evidently is not the cen
tre of the field,
If spectators do not keep within
their proper bounds, to secure the
best interests of the team, and there
fore of all concerned in its welfare,
the management will be compelled
in self defence to make the practice
private, a hard step but a just and
necessary one.
So then boys when we view the
practice games in future let us do it
from the proper places, and leave
the field to the teams.
The University German Club
have decided to give their regular
October German on the nineteenth.
Messrs. Stamps Howard and E. C.
Gregory have been appointed floor
managers.
Graham and Settle.
On Saturday last Graham and
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Settle, the respective candidates o
the Democratic and Republican par
ties for Congress in this district
met here in joint discussion. Not
withstanding the disagreeableness
of the day the streets were crowded
with a large number of people from
different tarts of the county, with
villagers, and with students all ea
ger to hear the discussion. Each
candidate spoke an hour and a quar
ter after which each one was al
lowed fifteen minutes in which to
reply to the arguments of his oppo
nent. Mr. Graham first arose amid
the cheers of his sympathizers, and
began by stating the position of the
two great parties on the leading is
sues of the day. He said the Re
publican party had allied itself with
the protective idea, and were taxing
the great masses of the people for
the benefit and enrichment of a few
manufacturers while the Demo
cratic party held to principles which
would give equal priveleges to all
He said that it was the idea of his
party to remove the burden of taxa
tion from the shoulders of those who
were least able to bear it and to place
it upon those who could bear it with
out suffering greatly thereby. He
said that the great panic which his
opponent attributed to Democratic
legislation could not be attributed to
his party, since it had begun within
two months after Grover Cleveland
had taken his seat and before any
legislation whatever had been en
acted. After Mr. Graham had ex
hausted his alloted time Mr. Settle
took the stand. He defended in an
able way the principles of his party
and the high protective idea. He
tried to justify his party while in
power and to show from a Republi
can standpoint the benefit of a high
protective tariff even to the South
ern people. He also attempted to
defend his record in Congress and
o attack the Democratic party
along" certain lines. After he had
closed, Mr. Graham ably defended
his former speech and also attacked
some of the leading points of his op
ponent in a fifteen minute reply.
Then Mr. Settle closed the discus
sion for the day in a short speech of
about five minutes.
Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spencer
has left Chapel Hill for Cambridge,
to live witn her daughter. Mrs.
James Lee Love, whose husband is
now a member of the faculty of
Harvard University. Mrs. Spencer
is one of the most accomplished lit
erary women which the State has
ever produced and she stood by the
University in its darkest hour when
it was closed and by her pen did ex
cellent work in its revival. She
will not return to North Carolina,
and her many friends in the State
will deeply regret to lose her.
News and Observer.
Dewey's Decimal System of libra
ry classification has many points o
superiority over the old shelf and al
cove plan. A brief general outline
of the system is this. The field o
knowledge is divided to a certain ex
tent,- arbitrarily, of course, into ten
parts. There are few books that
can not readily be assigned to one
of these departments. Under each
of these divisions there are ten sub
divisions; this process is carried as
far as may be necessary.
By this means a book may be clas
sifid as minutely as may be desira
ble: e. g; all works of a general na
ture.' General Encyclopedias, News
Papers, etc. are placed in division
0; Religion is 2; Natural Science, 5
History 9; etc.
Then every book in the depart
ment of Natural Science is number
ed 5; in the department of History
9. Under Natural Science, Mathe
matics is 1; under mathematics, Al
gebra is 2, Geometry, 3, etc. There
fore all Algebras in the library are
numbered 512; all Geometries, 513
and so on.
If a minute classification is de
sired, it can easily be secured by
the use of decimals, e. sr.. John
Fiske's Discovery of America
numbered 973. 1 9, History in gen
eral; 7, history of N. America; 3
history of the U. S.; 0.1 the period
of discovery.
A book on the Colonial period
would be 973.2. By usiug decimals
of two, three, or more places, the
classification can be made as defi
nite as may be desired, even to the
history of a township. The same
principle, of course, obtains in its
other departments, as well as in His
tory.
Now for some of the advantages
of this system.
1. It is not. difficult to learn to
use it.
2." If at any time it becomes neces
sary to change the position of the
books in a certain department ,it can
be done easily and quickly; there is
no renumberinc- ot books, and no
rouble beyond the mere removal.
3. It is possible always to keep
books on the same subject together.
These are some of the more promi
nent features of the Decimal System
but by no means all.
The third point can be especially
emphasized for its . superiority over
the shelf and alcove classification.
Take an example under the latter:
A reader went into the University li
brary, a few days ago, to see what
he library has in Longfellow's life.
Knowing that the leading biography
is by Samuel Longfellow, he looked
at the catalogue and was referred
to Alcove 8, shelf A. He went there
expecting to find, not only Samuel
Longfellow's book; but every biog
raphy of the poet that is in the li
brary. In this, he was disappoint
ed. It was not until he consulted
the catalogue again that he learned
that another 44 Life ", by Robertson,
is to be found on shelf B. The rea
son for this is obvious. Shelf B
was full when Sam'l Longfellow's
"Life" was purchased. As every
book had its alcove and shelf num
ber, it can not be moved, and the
new book, had to go on another shelf
out of its place. This, under the
Decimal system, would have been
avoided.
The writer of this article thinks
that the advantages of the system
would amply justify the time and ex
pense that would be involved in re
classifying the University library in
accordance with it. This could
hardly equal what was necessary in
making the card catalogue, and the
other work could be done during the
Summer vacation.
There are other systems in use
that are highly recommended by the
users of libraries; but the Dewey
Decimal system is spoken of because
the writer of this happens to know
more about it than any other.
. Moot .' Court.
The members of the Law Class
met in their recitation room on Sat
urday evening the 29th, and organ
ized the Moot Court for the year.
E- D. Strawford, Ph. B. '94, was
elected Judge of the Court; J. N.
Pruden, ex 95, Associate Judge; W.
E. Brees, ex '95 Sheriff; and T. N.
Hill, Clerk. A committee composed
of W. H. White, W. B. Guthrie,
ex '94, and T. S. Rollins, B. Lit.
'94, were elected to secure cases for
trial. The court will meet every
Saturday night, beginning with
next Saturday. Dr. Manning made
a talk showing tne great Denem
gained in the experience of this
mock court. It was decided to have
footfall team to contest for the
class championship. Another meet
ing will be held to organize.
Hazing at Princeton.
The associated Press dispatches
of the 28th, contains an account of
mass-meeting of the Princeton
students, at which the practice ot
of hazing, which for a long time
has been in general use there was
unanimously abolished. The mo-
lon was made by a senior, and car
ried amid enthusiasm. President
atton and Dean Murray addressed
the students, thanking them for, and
congratulating them upon their
action.
This untrentlemanly custom is
gradually disappearing from all the
colleges in the country, it ceasea
to exist at the U. N. C, in 1891,
when the class of '91, then rising
sophomores, passed resolutions abol
ishing all hazing, blacking, and '
maltreatment of new students.