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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIA
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
VOL. 20
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1912
NO. 17.
EUSIIA MITCHELL
SOCIETY MEETS
Important and Interesting Pa
pers Read at the Meeting of
Scientists Tuesday Night
GEOLOGY, GHEKISTRY AND MATH! TOPICS
Prof. Cobb on "The Meaning of the Fall
Line in the Atlantic and Gulf States ;"
Dr. Bell on the Solubility of Iodine;
Dr. Henderson on "Cubic Surfaces."
The Elisha Mitchell Scientific
Society hed its third meetiug of
the year in Chemistry Hall Tues
day night, assembling together a
select company of scientific devo
tees in all grades of devotion,
from students only becoming
initiated into the wonders of
science up to full professors. A
group of fair faces over on the
right served to give that touch
of femininity which keeps even a
scientific meeting from being
boring. Talks were made by
Prof. Collier Cobb, Dr. J. M.
Bell, and Dr. Archibald Hender
son. Prof. Cobb opened the meeting
with "The Meaniug of the Fall
Line in the Atlantic and Gulf
Coastal Plain. '"The fall line,
as often indicated in geographies,
is not the real fall line at all.
The real fall line goes through
New York, Philadelphia, Wash
ington, Richmond, Weldon, Rocky
Mount, Goldsboro, a little east of
Fayetteville, a zigzaz course be
low Darlington, a little above
Florence, through Florida, into
Louisiana and the northern part
of Texas. Few of the large
towns situated on the fall line
owe their importance to their
proximity to water power, how
ever. For instance Birmingham
owes its importance to neighbor
ing iron ores, New Orleans is a
great sugar market, and Char
lotte is a manufacturing center.
Most of the towns along this line
were originally placed upon navi
gable streams. But a gradual
natural lowering of the water
surface and the cutting of tim
ber, causing streams to flow
irregularly, have so greatly
changed transportation facilities
that the fall line no longer means
what it did.
Prof. Cobb, much to the regret
of some of those present, conclu
ded without .saying where he
would draw the fall line in first
geology. Dr. Herty commented
on the paper. ,
Dr. J. R. Bell followed with a
paper on "Solubility Studies," in
which he considered the solubility
of iodine in solutions of iodides.
Iodide is slightly soluble in water.
Potassium ioddie and iodine form
tri-potassium iodide. Potassium
bromine increased the solubility
of iodide only very slightly. If the
complexes, potassium bromide and
sodium bromide exists at alltheydo
so only in very minute quantities.
Dr. Bell paid a tribute to the late
Melville Buckley, in the course of
his remarks, who assisted him in
making the necessary experiments
for his researches in the solubility
of iodine.
Continued on fourth pp
ILLNESS OF CAPI. ATKINSON
Prevents j Important Meeting of Track Men
Will be Held This Week 'to Elect Class
'Team Captains '
Owing to the illness of Captain.
Atkinson the meeting of men in
terested in track athletics called
for last Wednesday did mot take
place. Coach Cartmell and the
captain, however, do not intend
to let the matter rest in innocuous
desuetude, These men are in
terested, vitally interested, in
track athletics and in the success
of this year's track team. The;
response to the call for track team -candidates
has not brought out .'
an exceedingly large nor promis-j
ing quantity of material. AlLof j
last year's, team who are in eol-l
lege and who are eligible have
come out. Likewise a few new
men. But not enough men have
appeared out of which to build a
Championship team. More men
are needed for this year's team
And besides this, more new men,
more raw and inexperienced men,
are needed to come out and take
"Bloody" Nat's strenerous train
ing in order to form material for
the .teams of coming years.
Coach says a track team must be
built from year to year. The
material of one year must form
the team of next year.
In order to get this material
out it has been planned by the
coach and captain to hold a com
petitive meet this spring among
the classes. Each class is to
elect a captain, and manager if
necessary, to lead the teams. At
a date to be selected soon a field
day contest will be held. A sil
ver cup has been given which
will be awarded to the winning
team. There will probably be
prizes also for individual point
winners. A meeting of the classes
will be held this week for the
election of captains. Work will
be started immediately.
Clancy Has Arrived.
Practice
Begun
Baseball is in the air. The
schedule has been completed, bat
tery practice has begun in the
gym. Clancy has arrived and al
ready daily practice is in full
swing on the Athletic Field.
Now once more will the
side line dopesters and the pea
nuts, apples, and banana venders
come again into their own.
Prophecies concerning the team
are of course at present only of
the haziest kind. Prospects are
tint nf the brightest hue. But
every one here knows what Clancy
did last year with only one old
Varsity man to begin the work
of building a team. He has four
old men this year together with
some good material. C iptain
Lee, Page, Hanes, and "Bur"
Edwards, of last year's team, and
Sloan, utility man, will form the
nucleus of the team. Besides
these. Armstrong, of the 1909
1910 teams, Bailey, Battle, Lanier,
Young, Chambers, Applewhite,
and Tillett, of the 1911 scrub will
form ready material with which
to work. New men who show
promise are Leak, Manning,
Winston, Abernathy, Wood, and
Irby. Clancy will get out all that
these men have,
SOUTH ATlANTICCOL-
LEGES TO ORGANIZE
v
For the Promotidrtf Ath
letic Events on the Track
and Field
VIRGINIA IS THE ONLY ABSENTEE
Meeting at Georgetown ' Attendsd by
Delegates From Most dftLe Leading
Schools of This Section. Plans are to
Inaugurate Championship Meet
Delegates from the' University
of North Carolina, North Carolina
Agricultural : College, .Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, Washing
ton and Lee University Richmond
College, Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, and Georgetown University
met at Ryan Hall, Georgetown
University, yesterday, and organ
ized the South Atlantic Intercol
legiate Athletic Association.
There was no representation from
Virginia, and no cognizance of
the call, but- unofficial informa
tion, .it was stated, was that a
delegate from the Orange and
Blue would be at the next meeting
of the association, whipli is to be
h eld: a tj? ichmond, Wa.' eli.
27th. . .: - ....
From the moment that Joseph
Engl'and, of Johns Hopkins, un
dertook his duties as temporary
chairman the ' meeting ran on
smoothly, and with the greatest of
enthusiasm on the part of all con
cerned, and it was easily seen that
the representatives of the various
colleges mentioned are in earnest,
and intend to make the affair a
success.
j Wiix Hold a Big Meet.
The purpose of the association
is to promote , athletic events on
! the track and field among the col-
leges of the South Atlantic dis-
trict, and for this purpose the
; first annual games of the South
t Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic
Association, will be held some
time in the spring. These games
will undoubtedly become the out
door track classic of the session.
They will be held after the ath
letic councils of the universities
mentioned have come to an agree
ment as to plans. Richmond has
made a strong bid for these games,
-At the Richmond meeting, Feb.
27, the officers of the association
, j j- A j ;
tion will be ratified and adooted.
The forming of this league, its
promoters claim, will mark an
epoch in the history of the de
velopment of field and track ath
letics in Southern colleges There
has never before been such a
leasrue, and the result will be to
make competition between the
colleges of this section of a more
general nature, and with a defi-
nite championship in view. ,
The delegates who attended the
meeting were Joseph England,
acting chairman, of Johns Hop-
kins; Branch B'ocock, of the Uni-
versity of North Carolina; Burton
Ray, of A. and M.; D. Dunlop,
of Richmond College; C. J.
Adams, of V. P. I.; J. N.Holmes,
of Washington and Lee Univer-
sity, and T. S. Smith, V. de P.
Daily and Eugene Darr, of
Georgetown, Washington Post,
I PETITION TO THE FACULTY
i Asked to Give Credit in A. B. Courses io Ed
itors of Magazine and Tar
Heel
The following petition was sub
mitted last week to the faculty.
The petition came as the result
of an editorial in a recent issue of
the Tar Heel and of some agita
tion among students interested.
The petition was referred to a
committee which will report later.
We, the undersigned members
of the editorial boards of the
University Magazine and the Tar
Heel, respectively memorialize
your committee to grant not less
than two hours credit in any one
of the three courses leading to
the degree of Bachelor of Arts to
the editors-in-chief of the two
publications and the managing
editor of the Tar Heel. We ask
that this be done at the beginning
of the next collegiate vear. .-.
Our reasons for asking you to
give this credit are two. First:
in order to make these positions
more worth while and more im
portant, to create in ''; them an
interest greater than that ex
cited merely by a student's desire
for the honor of editing one of
the publications.' We think that
at present both publications Tsho w
the lack of interest on the part
of the entire student body. The
Magazine certainly for the past
two years has had a most preca
rious existence, while the Tar
Heel, though able to live, has
not had the proper hold on the
students. We believe that in
this way alone the interest of the
entire student body can be aroused
in the publications, competition
for places on the boards made
keener, and that as a result, the
publications will become more
representative of the best in the
student body. Secondly: We
think this proposition to be but a
just compensation for the work
done by the editors. The work
of the Magazine and the Tar
Heel, it is true, is apart from the
class room work of the University,
but we think that there's nothing
which represents, or at least,
should represent, better the most
earnest effort and t'ie highest re
sult of student endeavor. At pres
ent there is absolutely no reward
for this work. Formerly the
editorship of the Tar Heel
brought some enumeration, but
now so small is its circulation
among the students and so heavy
.A
its expense, that the
editor gets
nothing save free passes to a few
athletic contests.
If this petition is granted we
know the entire matter of bow
much credit is given and to whom
it is given must rest with the
wuuvicm.au;
wav to assume this responsibility,
and are luite willinS t0 be gv"
erned h? whatever regulations
?ou ma-v make".
We trust that this petition will
receive careful consideration at
your hands,
Signed by the members of the
two boards.
,
One thousand freshmen at the
University of Pennsylvania at-
tended a reception given in their
honor.
REV. H. W. STARR
AT I M C . A.
Delivers the Second Lecture
in the Science and Re
ligion Series
ON "EVOLUTION AND THE BIBLE."
Contrasts Darwinism and Evolution
and Arrives at Conclusion That
While the Bible Contradicts Atheism
it Affirms Evolution
; Reverned H. W. Starr delivered
last Tuesday night before the
Young Men's Christian Associa
tion the second of the; series of
lectures on "Science and Re
ligion.", His subject was, "Evo
lution and the Bible." He pre
faced his address by distinguish
ing between Darwinism or ; Dar
win's theory of evolution and the
general theory of evolution itself.
He said that Darwin's theory of
evolution based upon natural se
lection or the survivial of the
fittest, is merely a single theory
of evolution and that many, while
accepting the general truth of
evolution, repudiate altogether"
Darwin's theory. Mr. Starr then
gave the following objections to
Darwin's theory:
"It would not apply to the
single cellular organism which
was the first form of organic life.
"It is entirely negative and
not constructive, not accounting
therefore for the survival of the
fit. ; Vf '-V.-
"It affirms that environment is
the master force in life and so
does not account for such men as
Abraham Lincoln who have
risen above their environment.
; "It does not count for the men
tal and spiritual part of man,
dealing only with the physicial."
In his remarks on "Evolution
and the Bible" Mr. Starr said:
"Evolution does not seek to ex
plain the origin of life, but mere
ly the development of it , Our
system presupposes a divine mind
which directs and controls the
operations of our universe. There
is no longer any conflict between
science and re'igion. Nearly all
of the eminent modern scientists
affirm the need and reality of a
divine and universal being whom
we call God. Also, theologians
are coming to admit the .general
principles of evolution. The
Bible itself was written in an
evolutionary - manner. God did
not reveal himself all at once to :
man, but by degrees. iFurther
more many teachings of the Bible
of an evolutionary character.
The Bible is not a scientific book,
nevertheless processes involving
natural evolutionary growth such
as the growth of corn, the de
velopment of a bush from a mus
tard seed are described in the
Bible. The Biblical explanation
of the origin contradicts atheisti
cal doctrines, but rather affirms
the principles of evolution. Also
the principles of evolution do not
conflict with our doctrine that in
the beginning was God who cre
ated our universe."
The concluding lecture of the
series will be delivered Tuesday
night February 20, by Professor
E. K. Graham,