Tines Tar Heel.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. .
BOARD Or EDITORS.
Raph H. Graves. - - Editor-in-Chief.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS.
T. .1. Wright - - - W. J. Bbuamy,
Bukton Craigb, - - - W. S. Myers.
S. S. Lamb, - - - - - S. W. Kenney"
F. O. Rogers, - - - Business Manag-er.
Published erery Saturday by the General
Athletic Association.
Subscription Price. $1.50 per Year
Payable iv advance or during- first term.
Single Copies, 5 Cents.
All matter intended for publication should be ad
dressed to the Editor-in-chief and accompanied by
jaate of writer.
Eatereel at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N, C as
second-class mail matter..
Since our last issue the Tar
Heel board has had the misfortune
to lose two of its most valuable
members. Mr. David B. Smith,
our successful editor-in-chief, and
Mr. Edward K. Graham, have been
obliged to resign on account of over
work. The present board desires
to express many regrets over these
serious losses, and also to congratu
late Mr. Smith on his able manage
ment of the Tar HEEL up to this
time. We realize fully that his
natural journalistic talents, togeth
er with much hard work, have great
ly elevated the standard of our col
lege weekly and given it a prestige,
both in the University and through
out the State, that it has never at
tained before. It shall be our en
deavor in the future to emulate as
far as we are able the example set
by Mr. Smith and, as we recognize
our inefficiency to improve his mod
el, our chief effort will be to keep
up to the standard that he has ac
quired. As the base-ball season approach
es' and the time nears when we are
! to have on our grounds visiting
teams from Virginia and several of
the great northern universities, we
should like to make a suggestion to
those who have charge of our ath
letic park. The "grandstand," or
rather the disreputable-looking mass
of lumber which is dignified by that
title is, and has been for some time,
an eyesore to all of us. It will be a
pity to send back our northern vis
itors with such a picture of deso
late despair lurking in their memo
ries, and if it is possible the athlet
ic park managers should have it
torn down or at least remodeled. Not
only are' the looks of this perch re
volting, but any lady who, attempts
its perilous ascent, does so at the
risk of her life. It is uncomfort
able, ill-looking and dangerous,
having no advantageous qualities eo
far as we are able to see.
At the recent Princeton Sesque
Centennial quite an impression was
made on visitors by the universal
use of caps and gowns. Many who
had heretofore been averse to this
custom, which they knew only by
hearsay, became highly in favor of
it after seeing how much impres
siveness and solemnity was added
to the ceremonies by the presence of
orthodox collegiate paraphernalia.
Why should not we conform to a
custom which is adopted by almost
' everjv large university in the Eng-
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iisn-spt;aK.in! vunui a ne tap ana
the gown are as much the proper
uniform of the student as brass butv
tons and regulation . clothes are of a
soldier. In addition to this they
will be a means of economy. At
commencement, for example, the se
nior thinks it his duty to get a new
suit, although he may not be able
financially to do so. The cap and
gown may be worn over any kind of
clothes, both during the session and
at public ceremonies and will un
doubtedly , decrease the student's
expenses enormously. We only
need to break the ice and then this
innovation could easily be made ac
ceptable to the student body. We
venture a suggestion that, in order
to introduce caps and gowns, the
University begin by purchasing
enough for the senior class to use
at commencement, each; senior to
pay a small price for the use of his
uniform. In this way the suits
will soon pay for themselves. More
over every one will see how much
more impressive our exercises are
made by their use, and the idea will
ultimately gain such a hold that the
students will adopt caps and gowns
as an habitual dress.
The Tar Heel welcomes on its
board Messrs. Burton Craige '97,
and Sam Lamb, law '97. Mr.
Craige was an editor of the Univer
sity Magazine, and Mr. Lamb won
quite a reputation as a literateur
at Horner's School. We may con
gratulate ourselves on two such
valuable acquisitions and feel that
we have made the best possible se
lections in supplying the vacancies
left by Messrs. Smith and Graham.
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If we may be allowed to ask the
question, why are there any arc
lights suspended over the campus?
They are never used any more than
if they were a thuosand miles away.
Last week, when the weather was
as bad as weather can be and the
walks ankle deep in slush, one was
obliged to walk through it all in ut
ter darkness. Nor are the hall
lights in 'the buildings turned on
more than half the time and having
to stumble up stairs in the dark is
by no means pleasant. I
As to the arc lights, we cannot
see how they will ever be needed any
worse than during these inclement
times. There is no use saving them
for the warm spring and ' summer
nights when the moon gives all the
lisfht we want.
On , another page is printed the
new schedule of recitations, now in
effect, and we are unable to see how
it is any more convenient than the
old one. In fact, a less convenient
and a more cumbersome affair is in
conceivable and we think that a re
turn to either of the previous sys
tems would be welcomed by the stu
dents. If one desires to know how
long he will have until the next bell
an arithmetical calculation is neces
sary before he obtains the desired
information.
. As it is a very difficult, matter
to get all items of local arid person
al interest through the few editors
of the ,Tar HEEL, we shall be
greatly obliged for any news item-,
our subscribers may find it conve
nient to send us. Whether they
pertain to the college, village 01
alumni we shall be glad to have
them handed in to any member of
the board.
During the recent bad weather
we have heard several complaints
about cold recitation rooms. This
is a matter that ought to remedied,
for there are too many bad colds and
incipient cases of grip to make one
stay cold even an hour at a time. In
several instances boys have left the
class room and been marked absent
in preference to running the risk of
contracting grip or pneumonia, and
the professors cannot reasonably
blame them for doing so.
From time immemorial it has been
rumored at the beginning of each
athletic season "that such and such
of our old star players would cer
tainly return." This old story has
been made good for the first time
in man's memory by the return of
our last year's star catcher, Mr.
P. Bailey. His presence brings us
one step nearer our last team's
standard, and if Pearsall ' will only
come back with Captain Stanly,
we may laugh at rival claims to
the Southern championship.
Staff Changes.
After the resignation of Mr.
Smith, as editor-in-chief, and Mr.
Graham, as .associate editor, the
Tar Heel board was organized as
follows: R. H. Graves, editor-in-chief;
T. L. Wright, associate edi
tor; Burton Craige and W. S. My
ers, local editors; W. J. Bellamy,
athletic editor; S. S. Lamb, liter
ary editor. Messrs. Rogers and
Kenney still have charge of the
business management.
Mr. Sitterson is out again after
having been confined to. his room
for several days.
Prof. Harrington's lecture on next
Friday night will include streopti
con views of Rome.
Mr. F. H. Bailey has returned to
enter college. . His presence will be
much felt in the base ball circle.
Superintendents Noble, Graham,
and Howell stayed over several days
after their school teacher's meet
ing. .
Mr. J. H. Faber, the Norfolk
photographer, has been kept quite
busy for the last few days, taking
the "phiz's" of most of the hand
some men in college.
W. II. Borden, Jr. '99, who left
college at Christmas, is now at Co
lumbia University, N. Y., taking a
course in mechanical engineering.
Mr. Eubanks' store was robbed
Tuesday might of goods amounting
to $75.00. As yet there is no clue
to the thieves.
Mr. Miller, who has been doing
work for the United States Geolog
ical survey in the vicinity of Chapel
Hill, has been recalled to Washing
ton. , . ,
Miss Margaret McCaull and Miss
Annie Hankins, with Mrs. Martin,
returned to Greensboro Monday
morning. The University is always
glad to entertain such loyal sup
porters.
Now is the time for our skilled
jeweller to add to his pecuniary ad
vancement by remodelling watch
dials on the basis of the college
bell.
Dr. Hume has .been - confined to
5 the house during the past week by
an attack ot grippe. We hope
the Doctor will soon entirely recov
er from his indisposition.
The University Magazine. A pjea
for its Restoration.,
Some said, "John, print
others said, "Not so."
Some said, "It might do good."
others said, "iVb."
IBunyan's Apology for his Book
From the point of view of the
collegian much of college pride cen
ters about its literature.
y With us at .this time athletics is
the dominating influence in college
life' and purpose. Yet assuredly
the aim of the University should be
to promote its fame in every depart
ment of legitimate effort.
The truest university and most
worthy of the name is that one best
represented by every enterprise
characterized by this common end.
And this 'end is not attained by that
university or, that college which di
rects its energies within one chan
nel. Such an influence is restrictive
and narrow, and is not a part of the
University in its broadest develop
ment. And because of this it is a never
ceasing regret with all who have a
proper pride in the standing of our
University in the college world that
it is to-day without a magazine.
Still there i little cause for sorrow
that the University Magazine, as it
was, has ceased to exist. For it
is a thing of common knowledge
that several years preceding its
death it was edited by the Univer
sity faculty. The college monthly
was never intended as a refuse
ground for the -antiquated idiosyn
crasies and fogyism of the profes
sor. It is above, all part and parcel
of the student body, an expression of
its life and thought. And as a mat
ter of simple logic such an expres
sion is not best secured through the
medium of the faculty. This consti
tuted in itself an unhealthy spirit
and was undoubtedly an immediate
cause of the final dissolution of the
magazine, it is said by many that
college politics killed it Let that
be as it may. "Causa latet: vis est
notissima." It should be our pur
pose to realize a corrected and
amended edition.
For after all the college monthly
is the most representative feature
of college life. , As the customs and
culture of the time are reflected,
and in their turn influenced by let
ters, so college opinion is mould
ed and college pride fostered by its
own, if it must confessed, somewhat
crude and un-formed literature. It
may be contended that the an
nual or weekly serve the purpose.
It is not so. The Tar Heel is
athletic, but ephemeral; the Ilclle-
nian literary, but aristocratically
exclusive. Neither are truly repre
sentative nor lasting.
Without; the preserving medium
of the monthly the literary spirit of
the college declines, the traditions,
and stories of the college life fade
from the lips of succeding students
and are at best but faint memorials
of a forgotten past. The annals of
the magazine are the only sure linliS
that bind the college past to its pres
ent. If you would know something
of a pride in 'a college literature
read a few of the sketches in "Stor
-
ies frnm :t1ip Harvard Advocate,
and you will know its place and
its need. . The magazine is morever
the truest expositor of college ideas
and though t;fet all times the surest
Cbntnuef, to. fourth fae.
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