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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
VOL. 20
UNIVERSITY OP NORTI CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1912
NO. 21.
BY M. O'KELLY
Of Tabernacle'Baptistwch,
Raleigh, in Gerrard Hall
Last3Sandiy Morning
LARCErcRbWb i1ears kgellent Mmon
Oughtto Show That However Short of
Realizing His Kingly Self Man May
Come, Jesus Christ Came on Earth
to Bring Man to That Realization
The second University Sermon
for the spring" term was preached
last Sunday morningMn Gerrard
Hall by Dr. T. W. O'Kelly, pas
tor of the Tabernacle Baptist
Church, Raleigh. The chapel
was crowded with students, mem
bers of the faculty, and towns
people, who listened attentively
to an excellent sermon delivered
in an impressive and earnest man
ner. Each ' one of the three local
pastors assisted in the opening:
exercises. The lesson "was read
by Rev. II. W. Starr. Air. W. A
Slanbury led in the opening
prayer. Dr. W. R. L. Smith
presented the speaker.
Dr. 'O'Kelly took'histext from
the Epistle of Paul to the He
brews, part of the eighth and
ninth verses of the second chap
ter: "But now we sec not yet all
things put under him. But we
see Jesus, made a little low
er than the angels for the suffer
ing of death, crowned with glory
and honor: that He by the grace
of God ' should taste death for
every man." The sermon sought
to show that however short of
his ideal realization man may
come, the mission of Jesus Christ
on earth was to bring man to that
realization. Dr. O'Kelly first
showed how the majesty of God
is in man, how the purpose of
man's creation was to make him
the king of all things, and how
far man had yet to go before
reaching his ideal. Finally he
showed that Jesus Christ became
a man to help man to reach his
high destiny. In part Dr. O'Kel
ly spoke as follows:
"It is doubtful if any of us
have a real conception of our real
greatness. God made man great.
He made man after He had com
pleted all other things. After
the world, the heavens, the uni
verse had been created God made
man the crown of all, the lord of
all. Into man he breathed the
spirit Of a king. Something of
the divine, of God is seen in
things created. The Psalmist
looked out into the starry heavens
and saw God 'All thy works
shall prove thy name'. We see
evidences of power and majesty
in nature but there is more of
God in the face of a babe breath
ing with His own divine life than
in all nature. Crowned with
glory and honor man is the lord
among all the majesty of created
things: 'For thou hast made him
a little lower than the angels,
and hast crowned him with glory
and honor. Thou madest him to
have dominion over the works of
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THE EDITORIAL OF LBT
WEEK CRITICISED
Said by Member ;of Sophomore "Class to be an
Unjust &rai&metf ofWtiassas '
a Whole ,
In response to the general
scathiug condemnation of the
Sophomore class as a whole for
the disgraceful affairs that took
place on the night of the Sopho
more banquet I wish to submit
the following remarks if the edi
tor willkindly allow me space.
It is not my purpose to shield
the guftty parties or in any way
uphold lawlessness in any form or
by anybody, be they sophomores
or what not. I heartily concur
in the sentiments expressed by
the editor in his condemnation of
the dastardly deeds committed by
the culprits whoever they Were,
ahd I believe I express 'thie senti
trients of the class: but ' when he
nikkefc the u'n Qualified statement
that the whole Sophomore class
is responsible for the misconduct
of a few of its members, I say it
not only "seems unjust" but it is
unjust. I wish to go a step
further in my disapproval of a
part of the night's revelry than
he did. "Notethat after comment
ing on the "singing, blood-curdling
yells, shooting guns, etc,"
he denotes it as "noisy but other
wise innocent fun" tIn my opin
ion fun' is all right, but when it
consists in a fusillade of pistol
shots, making the campus ring
out with a noise approaching that
of an Indian skirmish in border
warfare, it is no longer fun, and
in itself, merits condemnation,
because it is an open manifesta
tion that a State law is being
violated. Such fun is more like
ly to breed lawlessness than good
citizenship.
Now, as to the expulsion of
these "outlaws" by the Sopho
more class, the Sophomore class
docs not constitute the Student
Council, nor does it constitute a
court of justice, nor does it have
the power to expel a student from
the University. This must be
done by the Student Council rep
resenting the entire student body,
or by the faculty. The first thing
to do in order to get rid of these
outlaws is to catch them. After
they are caught, let them be de
spatched in due order, and the
community will be better off.
The editor seems to base his
argument on the assumption that
the Sophomore class is protecting
its guiity members, and conveys
that idea wherever the 1 ar Heel
is read. This is not the case.
If there are any members who
are shielding the guilty, they
themselves are in a great measure
guilty and should be punished
accordingly, but the vast maionty
of the class is not guilty of abet
ting any such conduct.
These "villainous" members of
the Sophomore class are also
members of the student body as a
whole, and if the members of the
Sophomore class are to bear the
sins of its individual members,
then the members of the student
body must bear the sins of its in
dividual members. Therefore all
classes are equally guilty. Ac
cording to the theory of our pa-
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REGULAR MEETING OF
EUSHA MITCHELL SOCIETY
Interesting Papers Presented by Prof. A. H.
Patterson and Mr. Ben
drat The Elisha Mitchell Scientific
Society met last Tuesday night
Papers were presented by Prof.
A. H. Patterson and Mr. Bendrat.
Prof. Patterson's paper was on
"The Accoustics of Memorial
Hall," being a report of some in
vestigations made last summer
by Professor Patterson, head of
the Physics Departmentand Mr.
Alexander L. Feild. The method
pursued was that devised at Har
vard some years ago for a similar
investigation of a building, the
accoustics of which were noto
riously bad. The trouble with
Memorial Hall was found to be
mainly reverberation, which was
found to be practically the same
in every part of the hall. The
experiments were made with a
special kind of horn. As it was
sounded from the platform, a man
in the hall with eyes closed would
snap a stop watch, holding it till
the last bit of sound died away,
thus measuring the echo. The
reverberation was markedly di
minished by having the windows
open. It was calculated that it
would take several hundred square
meters of window space to absorb
the sound sufficiently, while the
building has only two hundred
square meters of window space.
The polished marble tablets
which adorn the wall have very
slight absorbing power, and re
flect the sound strongly. The
best sound absorber in the hall is
the cork carpet on the floor.
Some years ago when two large
State flags were hung in the
dome, the audience could hear
very perceptibly better. Dr. Pat
terson recommended that heavy
curtains be hung behind the
speaker at the back of the plat
form and that very large heavy
flags of all nations be hung in
the dome. Of course, the marble
tablets on the walls could not be
covered up, since they are what
the building is primarily for. If
funds were availal le, the most
complete improvement would be
the padding of the pine panels,
the upholstering of the seats, and
the laying of more cork carpet.
These suggestions will doubtless
be received with much satisfac
tion by those who have attended
commencementexercises in Memo
rial Hall. Though one of the
most conspicuously majestic struc
tures on the campus, some have
gone so far as to say that the old
cathedral-like edifice should be
torn down to make room for a hall
with modern accoustics.
The second part of the program
of the Elisha Mitchell Society
consisted of an illustrated lecture
by Mr. Bendrat, instructor in ge
ology, about his explorations in
Venezuela in 1908-1909. .He
planned the course of the Orinoco
river, making a map of the re
gion, about which little had hith
erto been known. He showed by
means of the lantern the various
flowers on the banks of the Ori
noco, consisting of every sort of
tropical vegetation. He explained
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NEW SERIES OF LECTURES
begun at ' y. a.
Religion and the Social Unrest Discussed
by Dr. C L Raper Last Tuesday
Night
A Religion and Modern Problem
series of lectures conducted by
the Y. M. C. A. was begun last
Tuesday night with an address
by Dr. Charles Lee Raper on
"Religion and the Social Unrest."
The address was an earnest and
thoughtful consideration of the re
lation of religion to wide-spread
sbcia1 unrest of the present time.
The following is a summary of
Dr. Raper's address: "A religious
life is one in which the individual
is responsible .for his conduct
both to God and man. The ideal
life is that every individual or
class of individuals shall be re
sponsible for his conduct to those
With whom he comes in contact.
This ideal is very frequently
broken. At present the great
Wage earning class is becoming'
active and even violent against
the class of employers. Also the
class of poor is becoming active
ly hostile to the wealthy or prop
erty holding class. The matter
has gone so far that the restive
classes have become hostile even
to the government under which
they live. In some countries they
have become hostile 4o the Church
because it is supposed to be allied
with the government and the
property class. Thus the har
monious relation between the
classes no longer exists and is
tending to become serious. This
situation has resulted from the
extreme rapidity of the develop
ment of education among the
working classes. During the last
fifty years education for the
masses has developed almost to
maturity in the most enlightened
countries. By this development!,
together with the low postal
rates, and the facility of com
munication the working classes
have been enabled to organize
and make concentrated struggles
in an attempt to get more pay
and fewer hours of labor.
"Religion is associated in the
matter in the respect that the re
ligious ideal in regard to relation
ship between the classes is broken.
It it the duty of the representa
tives of religion, the churches, to
repair this breach and restore the
harmonious relationship. The
Church of to-day is not of the la
boring class. The problems of
the workingman are not discussed
in churches as a rule. The
churches haveonly lately come to
realize the situation, The Cath
olic Church has worked moire
actively among the working peo
ple than any other. It has a few
great men such as Cardinal Gib
bons who have tried to meet the
situation. The working classes
need sympathy and unless some
sympathetic force intervenes they
will become much more violent
than they have been. It is the
duty of educated men to ' turn
their attention to this question
and assist in making whatever
change that may be . necessary
gradual sc as to prevent any pos
sible sudden violent revolution in
our system."
CAROLINA WINS
THE FIRST GAME
Pfrkefton for the Cadets
Holds the Varsity to a
Single' Hit
WOODS SHOWS UP WITH THE GOODS
Varsity Unable to Score Until the
Eighth When Two Bases on Balls
' Followed a Single Put One Over the
Plate
! Two bases on balls in the
eighth inning followed by the
only hit Carolina got in the
game scored the one run needed
to defeat Horner's Military
School Tuesday afternoon. For
seven innings the members of
the team went down : before Per
kerson one after the other, almost
in order, without the vestige of a
hit. In the eighth the prep,
school pitcher seemed to lose con
trol of the ball for a moment.
After two men had been retired
by the usual . route strike out
and pop up Baily and Woods
walked. It was the only time
during the game that Carolina
got two on at one time. Amid
calls from the grand stand and
bleachers, for a hit, Bill Young
sent what looked at first like an
easy fly ball in short center field.
The .ball dropped harmlessly to
the ground, however, and Bailey
scored from second base.
The pitchers did the preater
part of the work on both sides.
The game, if . , anything, was a
duel between Woods and Perker
son with the advantage slightly
in favor of the former. Woods
was in good form and was at all
times master. His blinding
speed seemed to dazzle the cadets.
Ten of them croaked at the plate.
Only four, balls went to the out
fielders. In the sixth when an
error and a clean two base hit
put two on after the second out
had been made, he was able to
retire the next batter on an easy
chance, second to first. Woods
did not field his position well.
Two of the three errors made by
the team are charged to him.
Perkerson for the cadets pitched
a good game also. Except in one
inning he had perfect control.
At all times he had plenty of
speed arid a good curve. He
fanned seven men and fielded his
position well. Faison Withering
ton, who received his offerings
behind the bat, worked him to
advantage. The "professor"
played a good game..
' Both teams played well in the
field, but Carolina was a little
th'e steadier. One error is charged
to the infield, ; this an excusable
bungle by Edwards. Bailey on
second accepted six chances with
out a miscue. . Irby at short had
nb chance to distinguish himself.
Whitaker played his position at
first in good form. All three of
the outfielders gathered in with
ease what came to them. In the
fifth, Page made a pretty running
catch of Witherington's short fly
to center. ... v The , only fielding
errors were Edward's fumble and
two poor plays by Woods, one
when covering t first he failed to
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