Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / March 28, 1919, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
THE TAR HEEL Offiwd Orta of the Athletic Association of the UaiTtmlr or North Carolina Published Wacklr BOARD OF EDITORS FORREST G. MILES Editor-in-Chief ASSISTANTS J. S. -. Terry . , , H. S. Everett T. C. WOLFE. . .... .Managing Editor i '; : ASSOCIATE EDITORS : :X''A!: E. S. Lindsey i, , r;':W. C. Eaton J. H. Kekr Jr.? M W. H. Hooker A. h. Purrington L. C. Blythe W. H. Andrews . V' i W. . R. Berryhili. H. G. West W. H. Bobbitt C. R. Sumner CD. Beers T. C. Leanard J. W". Foster Miss Elizabeth Lay J. S. MASSENBURG . -Busincst Manager To be entered as second-class matter at A l. 1 m . 1 TT111 Vf lue pusiuiuue ai v.uapei uui, x. Printed by The Si:exian 1'hintert, Inc., uuruuiu, in. j, : Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Year, Payable in AdVance or During the First Term Single Copies, 5 Contai PARAGRAPHICS No man is xoo much of a bore to dodge a greater one. It is the unexpected that always happens, in spite of the I-told-you-so man. Strancelv ftnontrh t.Ss man whn makes headway is the one who gets mere wiw Dotn xeet. You can never tell. The men who are most accomplished don't always accomplish the most. Some people impress us as being aa out ot locus. The closer we get to them the smaller they are. No insult offered to a man can ever degrade him; the only real degrada tion is when he degrades himself. He that voluntarily continues in ig norance is guilty of all the crimes that ignorance produces. Dr. Johnson. He who does not think well of the work he is doing, is made impotent by that very fact. The Snow Man. Things without all remedy. Should be without regard; What's done is done. Shakespeare. Our grand business undoubtedly is, net to see what lies dimly at a dis tance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Carlyle. No man can tell what the future may bring forth and small oppor tunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes. - The student who takes long steps to save his shoes is about as economical as the professor who looks over his glasses to save the glass. Sunshine has accomplished more for the world than anything else. Keep the spirits up and remember no task is hard if undertaken cheerfully. The wisest and best of men, nay the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a per son whose first object in life is a joke. Pride and Prejud'ce. In the spring a voung man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of "things with large eyes and small hands," ac cording to the modern youngster's adaption of Tennyson's worn line. . About October 1 in the basement of the gymnasium a student, who was going through the ohysical 'examina t:on for the S. A. T. C, left a sum of money with Professor Harrer. He may have it by proving ownership. There is a lesson for the University Press Representative in the basket ball game of the 15th. It is never wise to claim a championship until one is sure that the title is incon testible.' The best plan is to play ball and let the championship ' take care of itself. , When a man has sufficient strength of hvnd to rely upon h'mself and suf ficient energy, to exert his abilities, he becomes independent of common re port and vulgar Opinion'. He secures the 'suffrage of the best judges and they, fn time, lead all the rest of thd world. Ennuiu. ; .' 1 . As the season approaches, we are grabbed amidships by a compelling sense of languor. 2. "Work , takes on a forbidding aspect; responsibility grows irksome. 3. We turn over three times in the morning and yawn, and curse the man who invented the Bier Ben. 4. We have seen the robbins on the lawn. The ground hog is a liar and goose bones are futile. 5. From a friend we receive a note telling of pike and big perch and un lawful gill netting, and felonius free dom in the joy of outdoors. - 6. And by these signs and by the women shopping, and by the boys with hats and tops', and the reckless clean- . V ; ing of houses,, we know that spring is immediately adjacent. . Wherefore, we yawn again, and reaching for our hat and ooze into the street, catch a jitney, beat it to Dur ham, and wrap our; weary, souls in the circumbieiit atmosphere. ' The crack of wood meeting leather, the rap-rap-rap of flying' feet on the cinder track, the whish of the leather sphere, the thud of a falling pole vaulter and the whistling of the wind as the jumper goes through the air are sounds to which every loyal (Jar olina man's heart should be beating a lively tune. Are you helping? If Emerson Field and the tennis court offer no attraction for you, then are you out for the forensic battles that are to be staged in the near future " the debates, inter-society and inter collegiate, the junior oratorical con test, which is the leading event .of the Junior week. ....' The college educated man of today is under an obligation to the world. Ihe world is in an unprecedented con dition of disorganization, unrepair, and desolation, and it devolves on men n general and college men in par ticular to bring it back to its normal status and again start it on the road leading to a .higher and better civ ilization. And it is particularly our task because our advantages in edu cation fit us to realize the work in the hope of unborn billions for sever al generations to come. Posterity will call us to strict account. If we enjoy the opportunities and advantages of - . 11 A. il 1 i 1 .. . a college training men lei us De sure that our conscience can never call us "slacker." There is a large majority of people in this world who base their judg ments of other men by the way they conduct themselves before others. This judgment is of course some time at variance with the true state of affairs, for the man in public action is often a different person from the same man in his private thinking. Since mere mortals cannot lift the cover on a man's thoughts at will we cannot blame them for turning to a more objective field of information. Granting then that it is only fair that you should be appraised at the face value of your public actions, how far above or below par would they place you ? That is the uestion each man might profitably Consider. ONLY A WEEK OR SO AGO Questions to the right of me Questions to the left of me Questions in front of me Written and thundered Stormed at with "why" and "tell" Badly I wrote and well; But into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of a cavern Eode my One Hundred. Only a week or so ago the strange spirit of a stranger and peculiar set of exams hovered like a black cloud, an evil foreboding, over the Uni versity. The freshman trembled and feared that he was to graduate from a brief three-months course. The sophomore shuddered. The junior crumpled up his spring calendar and with a regretful air, consigned it to the waste basket. The senior cast his mental eye back over his former mid-year struggles, and wondered if ths would ba as bad. The one phrase that was spoken oftener than any other at this time, perhaps was. "If he gives me a four, 111 be satisfied," or "I'll thank him for a four and bs glad to get it." And the student ut tering these words, all the time hoped that he might do a bit better than merely "get by." these exams struck some hard and allowed other classes to pass by with out any casualties. During the exam period, everyone had contempt for the new system, studying for four and five examinations at the same time, all scheduled tor the same day. was no easy task and then, only an hour in which to answer six or eight questions with any number of sub-questions. One economic professor, we under stand was so enthused over the quar ter system of exams, and such : an ardent supporter of the system, that he actually graded on a quarter ba sis. And many a man, we under stand, fell by one or three quarters of a point. That's "going some" on the part of the professor but "a fail ure to get there on the part of the unfortunate student, and . he might as well have missed his mark a mile. As a result of the professor's pecul iarly close grading some of the weary workers have gone down once, twice, three times. Others have scratched four marks on the sands of time, and a great many have stuck in the mud on the bottom. THE PROPER IDEA The old idea of education was to come to college and endeavor by all possible means to inhale knowledge from books. If at the end of a col lege course, a man knew how J. Caesar died, the color of Cleopatra's hair, - knew that E. Pluribus Unum meant "In God we trust" and could speak familiarly of evolutionary so ciology, he was the highest product of education, y This system produced a thing with a head full of facts, the spirit of a fish, and with a physique that couldn't stand a hard winter in the tropics. As a rule, it parted its hair in the middle, toted its handkerchief up its sleeve, preferred Endymmion to Dead Eye Dick, spoke of football as a hor rid, brutal game, and otherwise car- vpA nil t.ha par marks of "the fjer somfication of ' the sweet essence of knowledge. In the discussion of the spontaneous transmutations of ; ra Hiiim nr fff m ice . rtf ' lierrin'ps "in Africa, he could held his, own, but in anything rougher tnan a cnecicer match, he was a lost dog. Here at Carolina, we propose to raise a different product. We realize thflt. it ia well for a man to know all that he. can, but we alsorealize that bcok-leaining alone does not maice we ideal man. : . There are four sides to every man s th a- Tnont.nl 'nhvairat: moral' and social. Any man who has developed along one of these lines at the ex pense of the others, has failed to make of himself a weii-rounaea man GRIT AND ACCURACY ; Students, as a rule, are apt to im nrvovlir omnlmeiie' ttis imnortAnee of the routine class work in its bearing ... M . . T on tneir . iuture success. oy wns statement it is not meant that we should not apply ourselves diligently to . the details of class work, but rather to call attention to the valuable opportunities in the experiences of college life for the acquisition of an erect and manly expression, and last but by no means least, that grit which enables one to play a seemingly losing game and smile. Every student owes it to himself to avoid that handicap of mental and physical indifference which is known as "slouchiness" and to cultivate ac curacy of thinking and acting. Alert ness leads' to an access of ease and bearing that distinguishes the natural leader from those who make it a habit to follow. Accuracy in thinking is likewise a necessary asset to a successful career. Far too many students are satisfied w'tVi onnfAvimnts nnswprs. PvaptlPG in co-ordinating ideas and expressing 'mi '11 1 them tersely and cieany win De idly reflected ;n the ease with which others grasp the matter which is in tended to be conveyed. firt is rtprhans the cvpatept asset. of all. The ordinary student is not prepared for the rough edge oi nie. TTia -fnolintre are ton pnsilv hurt and he is ready to g'va up the sponge at the rrst loit. ine idea oi cii ne. lnnwa in t.ViA plass-rnnm as wpll as or" the campus and every student should endeavor to acquire that which makes fo real accompl'shments in every walk ot lite, m snort one snouin keep the gcal in mind and nrt re mark the roughness of the road. GNORANCE AND THE PEACE PLANS Notwithstardirsr the utmost inn nortance of intelligently deciding th: aclvisibil'ty of the League of Nations. the crass ignorance of the people as a whole refrardmg this question is very apparent at the present time, "if the propostion of adopting the Dioposed league were to b? submitted to the people at once, the decision would be no more intell gent than the flip of the coin. x For one reason or another the peo ple are in a most pitiable state of ignorance or bewilderment about the Deace settlement. There are six m'l lion voters in the United States and probably not more than a fourth of them could ii telligently discuss the situation. Probably for political rea sons few newspapers of the country have printed bith sides of the ques- t:on. Wide reading is the only method cf becoming well informed. Ignorance is the most expensive thing in the world and if we are to meet the serious problems which are continually to confront us it is our duty to be informed about them and not merely trust to miscellaneous po litical propaganda. With the knowledge of having been the deciding factor in the gigantic struggle the United States should b3 able to handle the peace which was won at so great cost. TICK "We all admit that a postage stamp can be licked. Even at that, you have got to do the job behind its back. Hut a stamp never knows when it s l'cked. Placed on a piece of mail, its one object is to deliver the gods at a prescribed destination. And that is vj(tiy what it does. Through storm and flood, wreck and disaster, it hangs on and never lets go. It sticks, until it gets there." Ex. ' How many of us stick' until we get there ? Circumstances of far less im portance than floods and disasters sweep us ofr of our feet. Why" Be cause we haven't the grit and back bone-to Stick. We throw up the sponge before the fight has begun. And say ' we can't before we have tried to see if we could. Trip, world is full nf" mon unA vunman of this stierna. But t.hns whom wo all admire and want to imitate are the ones who say to circumstance. "So you will break me, will you ? We will see. I am goisg to see this thine thfroue-h. T am croino. tr trot such strength from overcoming my aimcuimes mat tney win make me. The fellow who never knows he is licked, whose one object is to deliver the goods, who hangs on through all difficulties is the fellow who has got old man S. 0. L. backed up in the corner and the other green-eyed monsters begging for mercy. NOTE TAKING To the Editor of the Tar Heel: Experience has fully demonstrated that almost any good practice will in the course, of time be carried to the extreme by many, and have as its result the .. reverse v of that for which it was originally intended. Innumer able instances of this acknowleged fact may j be found with : little diffi culty. No man ever stated that sleep ing is an undesirable practice, yet, he who sleeps too long finds upon read ing the exam that certain develop ments have taken place in the course of which he was not aware. The prac tice of going out for athletics is an excellent one, and yet it is carried too far with the result that some of those who aspire to athletic fame and physical development find that in ac quiring these two benefits, lose al the advantages to be gained from in tellectual development as the result of study. Again it is admitted that the prac tice of note-taking on lectures and recitations is desirable, and in some courses necessary. Notes have as their purpose to assist the mind in remembering facts, and, if properly used, serve their purpose excellently; but when too great an amount of con fidence is placed m the notes, when note taking becomes a kind of reflex mechanical action by which every word reaching the ear, whether of importance or not, is set down, and when the writer himself later after class forgets what he has written, then is the time for excessive note taking to step and for the dorman brain to begin work. The true purpose of the human brain has not been acccurately de cided. Physiologists believe that all thought proceeds from the brain, which in most people is located in the upper part of the head. This ba lref has been questioned, because many people having a brain were never known to have a single original thought. But for the time being, let us accept the fact that the seat of thought is in the brain. It follows that by thing one is enabled to think better. lh:s is one of the reasons for our being in College. Yet many of us Insist on engaging in a practice which is the very contradiction of all exorcise cf thought, that of excessive note tak'ng. For instance, a certain student asks another if Prof, spoke of hardness as one of the properties of rocks. The student replies that he does not remember, but prcbablv has ;j. v ....... . . . ' . it, in nis notes, ine wen-meaning stu dent has written down manv facts: some ci importance, many of unim portance; and having written them roes not know what thev are about. Some would-bc? students automaticaly write the stale jokes of the profes sors' down in their notebooks, and when the time for the quiz is at hand, memorize the jokes and think iiiey arc pa-t of the course. Noto tnkir.g in this manner does not leave the mind open for clear, original thought, but only clouds it by keep ing it from working at all. Note taking should be reduced to a science, the most important facts set down on paper, and minor facts car ried in the head. The verv writing of a fact serves to impress it on the mind; provided the mind is thinking at the time. " Strive to make the note3 be cf assistance in developing mem ory and thought. He that wisheth to rise with the sun should not stay up late with the daughter. Exchange. Tha move vou think ahnnt. mm fh less you think of them. N. G. Good'ng, recently discharged from the army, is on the "Hill." "SAY IT WITH FLOWERS" AND GET THEM FROM 7, J, FALLON, Leading Florist Phone 1290 214 E. Main St. Durham, N C. For the Best Auto Service Ride with "Brock" SCHEDULE LV. CHAPEL H'LL LV. DURHAM 8:30 A. M. ' 9:56 A. M. 10:20 A. M. 12:40 P. M. 2:R0 P. M. 6:12 P. M. 4:00 P. M. 8:00 P. M. Wh en in DURHAM Eet at the GOODY SHOP CAFE U. N C. STUDENTS Headquarters 'Without a Doubt We Feed You Better'" JUST RECEIVED New line of Sunshine Biscuits Hot Peanuts, fresh and delicious S. E. POYTHRESS E.P.CATE Chapel Hill, N. C. DR. Wm. LYNCH DENTIST New Office Over Peoples Bank CHAPEL HILL, N. C. W. B. SORRELL Jeweler and Optometrist CHAPEL HILL, N. C. Pressing Neatly Done Repairing a Specialty 16 Years in Business $1.50 Month ' For tha Best and Quickttt Strvicm Get "LONG BILL" JONES Broadway (Lafe INVITES YOU TO The Best of Eats Served Right GREENSBORO. N. C. THE PEOPLES BANK E. V. Howell... ..President R. H. Ward Vice-President Lueco Llovd... Viee-Prpsirlpnt C. B. Griff en ........Cashier R. P. Andrews Asst Cashier EUBANKS DRUG CO. PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS Chapel Hill, North Carolina WE ARE ALWAYS BUSY BUT YOU'RE "NEXT! THE BARBER SHOP Next door to Kluttz THE DURHAM BUSINESS SCHOOL Fu.ly Accredited Course Approred by U. S. Bureau of Education. Address for particulars MRS. WALTER LEE LEDNUM, Pres't "When in Durham Visit the Roijal (3a fe ZHume of Good (Booking Aat cfvetis fJSetltn HEW 25 CENTS EACH CLUETT. PEAECDYfc; Ca na fCaAeris BANK OF CHAPEL HILL 'Oldest and strongest bank in Or ange County" M. C. S. NOBLE... ..President R. L. STROUD,... ...Vice-President M. E. HOGAN.:.......................Cashier ,QICIES;';:;:' roith Snap and Style 106-108 Wert Main St. butham. N. C. 6at at DURHAM CAFE or Ladies and Gentlemen 217 East Main Street Oppcite Court Home Next to Oraheum TK,lre 1 jHi 41 A" 'yrfiWt Everything New, Neal and Clean Telephone 1 152 Durham, N. C.
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 28, 1919, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75