Eavesdropping and Interviews
Athletic Notes
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."What gets me about this place
is the fence," said the fat man in
a loud voice.
The little man with eye glasses
stared across the gridiron at the
bench where the V. M. 1. team sat
wrapped in blankets and then on
into the depths of Battle Park, his
: black eyes searching diligently for
the object of their discussion.
, "What fence?"
''There isn't any fence. Looks
to me like the people around here
'must believe in the honor system.
Just a few wires strung around
.the field. What's to keep people
from crowding into ; those woods
and watching the game for noth
ing t The thing that gets me is
that there isn't anybody over
there."
''The University man is a free
man." Yes, that sentence is quot
ed from Horace. For the benefit
of Freshmen be it added that the
Latin gei)lJntan"is not intended.
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ever, a slave to convention, prece
dent, and regulation compared
with the University Co-ed, In the
very act of entering the University
she has cut herself away, from the
majority of her kind. Neither
can she unite - in full fellowship
with the brethren. ; She is left
free to follow her own desire, and
her desire, strangely enough, is to
study. It is for that and for that
alone that she comes to Chapel
Hill. She cherishes no fond am
bitions to become a Tackle or a
Quarterback, to break the record
batting average or to be" a great
Southpaw. She doesn't expect to
compete for the Tennis Champion
ship, to lead in any debate, to sing
in the Glee Club, nor yet to play
the Leading Lady in the Dramatic
-Club. Societies, fraternities, even
the Y,...M. C. A., form no part in
her career. Lectures, Lab. work,
themes, theses and outside read
ings instead of being necessary ad
juncts of University Life, are to
her the very substance thereof.
For this reason the Co-ed discovers
as few other students are likely to
discover, how ; fascinating and ab
sorbing studying can be and is.
.Now and then she approximates
the joys' of scholarship. She never
kuows the glory of the football
field but from time to time she
celebrates a little private victory
hver a Greek root or a chemical
equation.
The brethren lead a life on the
Hill which the Co-ed observes from
afar, at times, it is true, somewhat
wistfully. This life is to her un
known, impossible. Yet her own
is quite as real, quite as interest
ingnot "College Life" in gen
eral, but College Life individually.
We play V. P. I. today at Roa
noke, a team which outweighs us
and has been playing first class
football so far. What are we go
ing to do about it, those of us who
stay at home ?
The yelling last Saturday
sounded as if the people in the
stands were telling each other secrets.
The members of the squad still
retain their ability to get injured
and stay so. Bellamy is still out
of the line-up. Fitzsimmons' knee
still debars him from scrimmage,
and Clarvoe nurses his ankle with
tender solicitude. Even the Fresh
men have contracted injuritis.
"No, Ah didn't know of your
mother-in-law's death and Ah read
the funeral notices every day."
"Oh, ah didn't put dat under
Funeral Notices' : dat went un-
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der 'Public Improvements.' "
Princeton Tiger.
WHAT MAKES A GOOD FOOT
BALL PLAYER
If any one should ask you, What
it takes to make a good or success
ful football player, no doubt you
would answer at once, Nerve or
courage. You would be partly
right. But nerve isn't the main
asset of the game. Love of the
game is the real secret of football.
I've seen men who had fine hus
ky bodies, with as much nerve as
anybody, and who knew the theory
of playing the game, yet were not
good players. They only tried to
play a short while ; then gave it
up. They did not love the game.
That's the thing that makes a fel
low, after being tackled so hard
that he sees stars, and being so
fatigued that he can hardly walk,
yet as soon as the pain eases a
little is ready to start back at the
opposite team and fight every inch
of the way. !No one who shrinks
at the hard knocks he gets, and is
thinking about how to save himself
from getting hurt, ever makes a
good football player. He must
love the game.
It isn't the so-called yellow
streak that causes them to give it
up. For you will find on a broad
average that one man is about as
brave as another, or would be un
der the same conditions. Courage
in football is often spoken of as a
rare quality, whereas it is one of
the most prevalent qualities in the
game. :k There are few in the game
who are without it. Efficiency in
the game is not only a rarer quali
ty than courage, but it is also to a
large extent the producer of cour
age. There are times, tho, when
courage is overplayed. The best
instructors in the game start in to
make their men competent, know
ing that most of the time compe
tency will develop courage. '
You have heard a lot about
Yale's "bull-dog pluck." Yale last
fall went against Harvard ready
to die if necessary to redeem the
blue. Yale undoubtedly started
with all the grim courage she could
carry, but of what use was this
"bull-dog pluck" against efficiency
and a competency that over
whelmed ? 1 . ' .
This isn't intended as any poke
at courage, gameness or grit. The
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Just when you get home in the evening,
after a long, hot, sticky day and you're
tired and thirsty THAT'S the time to
say "PEPSI-Cola " to "friend wife."
That long, thin, tinkly, "ice-bergy'V glass
just seems to sharpen up appetites for
dinner and gee ! how it does drive thirsts
away !
Just try it any fountain serves it and
any grocer can leave a case at home.
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point is that courage as a winning
characteristic can ha overplayed;
that it will not get you very far
v itliout something else. The Da-vidsonian.
To the Joke column of the Tar
Heel"
CROSSED SIGNALS
W. W. It. (on Math - Quiz)
"Write the conjugate of (a ib).
Freshman Math Bull "Sing."
' First Person (a ib)
Second Person (a -f ub)
Third Person (a heb) etc.
thru the entire Indicative, Past
Indefinite and Ablative Supine.
This joke is subject to change
by the editors as they see fit, or
by a vote of three-fourths major
ity to be submitted to the waste
basket. .:,
THE AUTHOR.
Note This is perfectly original.
QUALITY TELLS
All your life you have heard that ''v easy to tell
; QUALITY ;'f
in FOLKS, in MERCHANDISE, in EVERYTHING
How about in the CIGAR?
Regular Smokers Will Tell You
THE EL-REES-SO CIGAR CO.
THE GOLDEN RULE
Clothes make the man pay !
Washington Courier. Ex.
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One buck, an iron man, one
spndulic, a minor portion of a
wampum, twenty nickles or twenty
"downs," forcefully announces
the Indiana Student is the carfare
to the annual Indiana-Tufts foot
ball game at Indianapolis.
If the Eskimos had the eight
hour system they'd have to start
for work about 500 times a day.
Chicago American.
Chapman "I ought to call on
a certain professor tonight."
Bystander "Why?"
Chapman "Because he has
called on me twice a week for a
month and I think I ought to."
Does the plowman : homeward
plod his weary way? Nix, bo.
He rides back to the house on his
tractor cultivator, and two or
To Carolina Boys
We Have Got It!
If it's a Trunk, , we've got it.
If it's a Suit Case, we've got it. "
If it's a Pistol, we've got it.
If it's a Diamond Ring, we're got it,
If it's a Watch, we've got it.
If it's a Gun,' we've got it. .
If it's a Ring, we've got it.
Last but not least If it's a $,
have it.
The only licensed Pawn Brokers j
the City of Durham, N. C.
Union Loan & Pawn Cl.
112 E. MAIN STREET
three neighbor boys with him.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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