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n Vol.12, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, S. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1903. No. 10. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. HEEL. DR. BASKERVILLE'S LECTURE Report of the Lecture Delivered Before the Academy of Science ill Chapel Hill In the lecture on "Fluorescence, Phosphorescence: Action of Ultra violet Light, Roentgen Rajs and Radium Preparations Upon Min erals and Gems," which Dr. Bas- kerville delivered before the North Carolina Academy of Science, in Gerrard Hall on November 13th. historical resume of phosphores cence of various materials, minerals and decaying vegetation and pro ducts of chemical change in dead and living matter was given, illus trated by experiments. . During the past summer Dr. Bas kerville carried out extensive inves tigations on the Morgan-Tiff any g'em and Bement-Morgan mineral collections in the American Museum of Natural History in New York This work was done with Dr. Geo. F. Kunz, the gem expert of Messrs. Tiffany and Co., of New York. , These valuble collections contained some four or five thousand cut pre cious stones and some 18,000 authen- .' ticated minerals .' About 13,000 of -the latter were examined as to their conduct under the influence of ultra violet light and many new interest- ing observations recoruea wnicn promise conclusions of considerable scientific interest. In addition to the above, some 15,000 diamonds and other precious stones belonging to Messrs. Tiffany and Co. were examined. During the course of the investigations a new gem ma terial, called by Dr. Baskerville, Kunzite, after his co-laborer, was discovered. The characteristic conduct of the different minerals was exhibited during the course of the lecture. A number of pictures of mounted gems were thrown ' upon the screen from which the influences of the Roentgen rays , upon gem material j could be seen. t inally, the effect ot radium pre-! world s leader. It ' is character parations upon gems aud gem ma- that is the final test of the strong terial Was spoken of and demon- man, and it is this that, the young strated. The strongest radium man should try to attain." preparations that have yet been had t In this plain talk the speaker had in this country were used in the ex-: reached everv man in his audience. mixing certain pulverized minerals with radium preparations of lower activity was shown. Thcv glowed with exquisite beauty in the dark. In closing, reference was made to the success that had attended ef forts to locate fractures, mis growths,, etc., in the bony process es by means' of Roentgen rays and to the possibility of locating rup tures, growths' arid' peculiarities of the veins, etc.,' by means of bodies which phosphoresce under the in fluence of ultra-violet light or radi um preparations. At the close, of the. lecture many students and visitors remained for a closer observation of some of the extremely interesting and remark able experiments given. "A Strong Man." Probably the most profitable ad dress the University has been favored with for a long time was that by Mr. Fred B. Smith, on last Tuesday night. Mr. Smith is in e Y. M. C. A. work and is known as one of the most effective speakers io men m tne united otates. tiis ubject was, "A Strong Man; and he perfectly exemplified it in hi person, being a physical giant aud showing himself a man of exception 1 a . 1 1 TT , ai menrai qualities, rie said m part: t l. TTT 1 if, vv nen we near or a strong man our first thought is of a powerfu physique. This is surely a requi site; every one should develop and preserve his body. But mere brute force is the lowest thing, and is not the true test'of the strong man. "The same is true of the wealthy and the intellectual man. It is the duty of every man to get wealth and education. But even these are not the final tests of the man. ''The real strong man is that man who stands up in the strength of Christian manhood and lives the no oie me. i nat is tne man whom the world admires and who is the periments. Several of these prep arations were passed around in the audience for their inspection. A remarkable experiment demonstrat ing the intense penetrative effect of radium preparations was men tioned. It had been shown that these emanations would pass through consecutively glass, rup: ber, silver, copper, (4 sheets), and water and cause diamonds, and kunzite to fluoresce or glow in the dark. Slides were thrown upon the screen to demonstrate the complexi ty of the rays given off from radium preparations. Attention was call ed to the possible explanation of the newly discovered element radium. The effect on . them was plainly shown in the expressions which they made. His simplicity, his sympathy, his earnestness have ad ded a new note to our religious life The effects of such an address can not' be short lived. Standing of Southern Teams. Scores Opponents Games Cumberland . .. 228 6 5 Vanderbilt 182 11 7 Sewanee 150 0 6 Cleinson 132 11 4 Tech. 10(5 121 6 Georgia 4!5 85 6 Auburn 78 70 5 Alabama 30 122 6 North Carolina 61 72 ,6 Kentucky lJ 84 11 4 South Carolina 216 35 8 Mississippi .23 39 8 L. S. U. 5 41 4 Texas - . 55 5 8 Nashville 28 34 4 "The Hymns of the Ages." Dr. Smith Just Like Folks. The comment man is proud to Dr. Thomas Hume Lectures to an acknowk-dge publicly that he has a Attentive Audience in Gerrard eat fondness for Dr. C. Alphonso Hall Thursday Evening. professor of Enfflish at the The'latest of the series of faculty State University, who made an ad lectures was that given by Dr. dress at Davidson College the other Hume in Gerrard Hall last Thurs- day. Dr. Smith is one professor day evening on "The Hymns of the who is very much like folks. There Ages." A good-sized audience was may be other professors like this, present and listened attentively to but they are generally at the bot Dr. Hume's presentment, torn of the barrel. Dr. Smith is Dr. Hume said in substance: quite on to hi s job and can discourse "The Hymns of the Ages repre- in the genuine Chaucer the bloom sent critical momenta in the devel- in' chanticleer part and all but he opment of religious thought, and is not foolish about it. He has a are often great doctrines molten in- quality of horse sense that is price- to feeling. Many a popular ballad leSs, and he picks the banjo. No pi must have sprung from the storm- ano, or guitar, or violin, but a ban- tossed Israel which has died away jQ that gives out old fashioned negro on the sands of time. But the anti- melodies and allows an unctious, phonies of Moses and Miriam and unmeaning carol of the cotton fieS. of. Deborah's ode reveal the great The fact is noted merely in passing, heart of the chosen people. If our Dr. Smith has a reputation outside survey embraced the Psalms only of North Carolina and he deserves we could enumerate high festal and it. He is a big man in his profes battle anthems, exiles' longings and sion and he will grow bigger. All miseres, nightingale notes, many the ultraisms that there may be in strains writ in star-fire and immort- his craft he has at his tongue's end; al tears. But we could not neglect and yet it is good to think that he the mysterious chant of half-inspir- is an artist with the banjo good to ed Balaam or Messianic rhapsodies think that students are under the in Isaiah. The classification was supervision of a man who, however so elaborate that this report will not learned he may be, has the heart to attempt it or the striking review turn away from the dryness of of the formative and inspiring in- book lore and knock a banjo silly, fluence of the Biblical lyrics on Yes, Dr. C. Alphonso Smith is nice- . muck of the noblest literature, ly like folks. I. E. Avery in Char How much poetry there is in the lotte Observer. New Testament had not impressed us so distinctly. Outside the canon of Scripture the forms and life of The Schubert Quartet, early hymns were suggested by the The Schubert String Quartette, parallelism and concrete imagery of of Boston, appeared in Gerrard the Bible. The 'le Deum and the Hall last Wednesday night for the Gloria are examples. From the benefit of the Musical Club. The processional hymns of crowd out was very small and as a through Ambrosian and Gregorian resut the latter organization came chants the lecture bore as in its out badly behind. The Quartette sweep through Bernard of Clair- was composed of Messrs. Walter E. . vaux's passion hymns which have Lan(j, violin; H. Faxon Grav r, so impressed Moravian, Wesleyan vj0un; Edward J. Schiller, viola; and other praises of Christ. Of an(j Frederick Blair, violincello. especial interest was the appearance These muscians are all artists and Df symbolism and quaint conceits their renderings were first class. ever recurring even beyond George jt js a matter of regret that our Herberts fantastic melodies. We students do not appreciate good were led to note luscious and path- mUsic more and it is hoped that the etic grace of the Stabat Mater, the next tjme tnjs company appears it thunder-tones of the Dies Iral, the may nave a larger house, haunting cadency and trills of Jeru salem the Golden, the mystic fervor and evangelical simplicity of the German sonars. How far art may lelp sentiment and true religion, what effect the Latiu hymns had on the development of English rhymths and rime-schemes, how we may test the popular hymns, some estimate of the weird African chants, were amongst the subjects methodically and instructively discussed. Reci tations helped us to feel that certain iymns are great poemsand while we were still ecturer made his effective close in There is, however, each year in 1 A 1 our toot nan mstorv one game which means as much if not more to Virginia than all the rest, and that is the Thanksgiving Day con test with our friends from Chapel Hill. They have, it is true, suf fered a number of defeats at the hands of Virginia but the)' have on several occasions overthrown our calculations and turned the trick on us and have always proved foemen under their charm the worthy of our.steel We are not believers in overconfi- i summary that proved the essen- ial unity of thought and life in the at "cnmonu next wk, yet we nvisible church of the ages as ex- w . nOUlin . , . .ressed in our great hymnals. make !t certa,n' 1 ltt's e"a' ine' rooting is necess iry. vioou, naru, Dr. Baskerville went to Greens- systematic Virginia rooting. boro Monday. ' College Jopics, JNov. .ust. 1 1 i.. ! l! 'i r i S'! 5 3" I K At' i :". Jt,-
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