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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Volume XXIX.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, DECEMBER 3, 1920
Number 21
BASKETBALL QUINT
GAINS STRENGTH BY
ADDITIONS TO SQUAD
MEN FROM FOOTBALL SQUAD RE
PORT FOR BASETBALL
PRACTICE
TWO OLD LETTER MEN REPORT
Strengthened by the addition of
several new men from the football
squad, the basketball squad has been
hard at it this week endeavoring to
get in shape for the early games.
Manager Person announces two games
to be played before Christmas, the
first next Tuesday with Durham Y.
M. C. A. in the Bull city and the
second on the next night with Ra
leigh Y. M. C. A. here.
From the football squad comes such
promising material as "Fats" Hanby,
Captain of last year's freshman team,
Liipfert and Griffith letter men of last
year's Varsity, and Woodall and Lewis
on last year's Varsity squad. Cart
wright Carmichael, star of last year's
freshman team, Morris, and Douglas,
both letter men, who have been lining
up on the varsity in the early prac
tices will be ineligible to play before
Christmas. But with MacDonald and
Shepherd as forwards, Liipfert center,
and guards picked irom Rourk, Han
by, Erwin, Coach Boye has a strong
quintet for the two fall games.
Indications point to a most success
ful season for the 1920-'21 five. Handi
capped by a late start, Coach Boye
will have his squad working overtime
beginning next week. After Christ
mas when all the candidates hope to
become eligible it is believed that one
of the fastest quintets in years will
represent Carolina.
BR. MOSS DELIVERS SERHON
BEFORE TEACHERS' ASSEMBLY
DR. MOSS MAKES POWERFUL SER
MON AT MEETING IN
ASHEVILLE
Reverend W. D. Moss, pastor of the
Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church,
preached the Thanksgiving Service in
the First Baptist Church, at Asheviiie
last Thursday, November 25th. The
Church was packed to the doors with
delegates to the North Carolina Teach
ers Assembly that was in session in
Asheviiie last week.
Taking as his subject, "He taught
as one having authority," Dr. Moss
gradualy likened' his theme to that
of the average school teacher.
"One must know the truth before
teaching it," he pointed out, "Truth
must be part of his being."
Co-operation was one of the points
stressed by Dr. Moss. Academic facts
then were linked up with the very
life of the teacher.
In describing just what he meant,
Dr. Moss used a story told by Irvin
S. Cobb, newspaperman and author,
to illustrate his theme.
The story told by Cobb pictured an
ld physician who gave up so much
of his time to treating poor people
who could not pay him, that he later
in life was forced to move his office
to a tenement attic. Having no funds
with which to pay for an office sign
the old doctor scrawled on a shingle,
"Dr. Schultz, Upstairs." He contin
ued to make his rounds, until one day
was missed. Some one knocked at
"'s office door, and not receiving a
Response, tore down the door. He
found the doctor prone on the floor,
having died of starvation.
The poor people, hundreds of them
who looked upon the doctor as their
only friend, then sought to raise mon
ey with which to erect a monument
over his grave. Unable to obtain the
funds, one poor man then suggested
that Dr. Schultz's office sign be placed
at the head of his grave. This was
done, the sign resting at the head
of the doctor's grave mutely crying
forth to the world:
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BUY CHRISTMAS TUBERCULOSIS SEALS NOW
FACULTY CONSIDERS A
NEW RULE REGARDING
UNEXCUSED ABSENCES
WOULD DEBAR FROM EXAMS ALL
HAVING MORE THAN TWO
SUCH ABSENCES
EXCESSIVE GRATS ARE CAUSE
Discussion of after-holiday absences
featured a recent meeting of the fa
culty when it was decided to with
hold decision until report was receiv
ed from the standing committee to
which the matter was referred.
It is reported that members of the
faculty advocated a plan whereby all
students having more than one un
excused absence during the quarter
would be debarred from taking the
final examinations, citing in support
of this view the fact that several large
universities, notably those in the west
have used this system for sometime
with beneficial results.
No decision of the Committee to
change the present ruling will be made
effective for the present quarter, how
ever, it is stated.
Faculty members assert that the un
usually large number of unexcused
absences from classes this term was
provocative of this meeting in which
an earnest effort was made to find
fair means to check the growth of
absences, which are larger this quarter
than any quarter of last year.
It is generally assumed that should
the present proportion of unexcused
absences increase, it will be deemed
necessary to take certain steps of this
nature.
It is a question naturally beyond
the scope of the Campus Cabinet or
other student organizations, and the
faculty, in facing an admittedly grave
problem, are .carefully weighing facts
before instituting any change.
THREE BLIND STUDENTS IN
ATTENDANCE AT UNIVERSITY
STUDENTS ARE GRADUATES OF
THE STATE SCHOOL FOR
BLIND
There are three blind students in the
Sophomore class of the University
this year, namely Sam Cathey, W. M.
Holloman and B. B. Worsham. Cathey
and Worsham are candidates for the
A.B., LL.B. degrees while Holloman
is working for an A.B. Cathey is from
Buncombe County, Holloman from
Hertford County and Worsham from
They graduated, in the spring of
1919, from the State School for the
Blind, at Raleigh, in a class of six.
Of their classmates one is at Elon
studying for the ministry, one is teach
ing Manual Training and the other
(a girl) is at Flora McDonald.
Their lessons, even Mathematics
and Physics, are worked in their heads.
They have a student read to them on
an average of three and a half hours
a day. They use the embossed type
system and write out their work on
typewriters. They are here to fit
themselves for useful lives and not to
be just doing something out of the
ordinary.
The oldest one, Sam Cathey, from
Buncombe, age 26, lost his sight on
1913 while working for a Tennessee
constructing company. His boss one
day told him to go light a fuse,
saying that it was not lighted. Cathey
went and sat down by the fuse to
light it when suddenly the dynamite
exploded in his face, blowing him 40
feet into the New River' and totally
blinding him. After a while at home
he became a student at the State
School for the Blind where he finished
the academic course and learned .type
writing and the embossed type sys
tem. His aspirations are to study law
and to practice in Asheviiie. He and
B. B. Worsham, his roommate, are
planning to practice together.
W. M. Holloman, from Hertford,
age 24, was subject to an attack of
La Grippe when quite young, which
weakened his eyes to such an extent
that he was forced to leave school for
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CAROLINA HAS TWO MEN
ON WARREN'S SOUTH AT
LANTIC TEAM
Carolina receives two places
on the South Atlantic team in
the following line-up chosen by
Head Coach Rice Warren of the
University of Virginia:
Name School
L. E.
Parrish .... .............. V. P, I.
L.T.
Hammet Davidson
L. G.
Summers .... V. M. I.
C.
Jacobi ......... U. N. C.
R. G.
Weathers . A. & E.
R. T.
Moore W. & L.
R. E.
Michie Va.
Q. B.
Lowe '. U. N. C.
L. H. B.
Rheinhardt ........ Va.
R. H. B.
Leach V. M. I.
F. B.
Flavin Georgetown
Honorable mention was made
of the following:
Ends
Newman Va.
Drewry V. M. I.
Herndon ....... W. & L.
Morris U. N. C.
Tackles
Harrell - U. N. C.
Holt Va.
Carter Richmond
Center
Hankins . Va.
Q. B.
Silverstein W. & L.
Stuart V. M. I.
H. B.
Shepard Davidson
Shepherd Davidson
Oppleman Va.
FALL DANCES NOW IN FULL
TILT WITH GANG ALL HERE
WIEDMERYER AND THE GIRLS
MAKING THE OLD TOWN
FESTIVE SPOT
Final arrangements for the fall hops
are being completed as the Tar Heel
goes to press. The ball managers are
working overtime decorating the gym
nasium, and putting the finishing
touches on all the preparations, in an
effort to make the events the most suc
cessful and nicest in Carolina's social
history.
Securing accomodations, making out
cards, arranging transportation, and
getting together the full dress outfit
for the greatly anticipated dances has
consumed the time of German Club
members during the last few days.
Everybody now is waiting for the
girls to arrive, and then the fun will
begin.
As for the girls, according to those
who know, there will be plenty. The
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U. N. C. WILL HAVE GOOD
MATERIAL FOR 1921
Since the 1920 varsity has
passed into history it is time to
look forward to Captain Lowe's
1921 team. Of this years team
a very good proportion will re
turn to the Hill. "Toddy"
Spaugh, and Ed Tenney of the
backfield, Harrel and Hanby,
tackles will not be back. Coch
ran, end, and Fritchard, guard
graduate this year but in all
probability will return. Of the
other men on the squad Shep
ard, Morris, and Crayton, ends;
Poindexter, guard; Kernodle,
tackle; and Jacobi and Linney,
centers of the line and Lowe,
Hutchins, McGee, McDonald,
Pharr, Abernathy, and Hardin
will return. These sixteen men
with the various scrubs will con
stitute the nucleus around which
the Carolina coaches will build
the 1921 machine.
YOUTHFUL MUSICIAN
WILL GIVE RECITAL
HERE MONDAY NIGHT
HELEN PUGH COMES UNDER AU
SPICES OF JUNIOR MUSIC
CLUB
HIGHLY GIFTED CHILD PIANIST
Helen Pugh will give a Piano re
cital in the Chapel Hill School House
on the night of December the sixth,
under the auspices of the Junior
Music Club. Miss Pugh is appearing
here largely through the efforts of
Mrs. George Denny.
Little Miss Pugh has been variously
called a prodigy, a genius, a wonder
child. Although only twelve years
old she. plays with so much knowl
edge and skill that she has been de
clared by many to be the greatest
child pianist. This youthful pianist
has given recitals throughout the
South and everywhere she has de
lighted and astounded her audiences
not only by the very youth of her
but by her knowledge of technique
and her deep musical feeling.
Miss Pugh has attracted the favor
able comment of such well known
members of the musical world as
Walter Damrosch, Josef Hofman, Dr.
Thaddeus Rich, Percy Grainger, and
Wade R. Brown. All of them have
been highly favorable in their criti
cism of her playing and have predicted
for the young player a brilliant fu
ture. Reithbend, Va.
The little girl, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Pugh, of Asheviiie,
is without doubt the most gifted child
who has come to the notice of the
musical world within the generation.
She plays the lengthy and difficult
works of the great masters with the
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GRAHAM TALKS IN CHAPEL IN
BEHALF OF RED CROSS SEALS
TELLS. OF GREAT GOOD DONE BY
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
ASSOCIATION
"It is a known fact that the laundry
that the students of this University
send out to colored people's homes to
be washed has been spread out to dry
on the beds of people afflicted with
Tuberculosis," said Prof. Frank
Graham in Chapel Wednesday morn
ing, December 1st, speaking of the
conditions of Tuberculosis prevalent
in North Carolina and elsewhere. The
object of his talk was to secure sup
port from among the students for the
Christmas Seal Campaign waged for
the purpose of securing funds to wipe
out the great white plague.
In 6 years 1800 lives have been sav
ed through the efforts of the North
Carolina Chapter of the Anti-Tuberculosis
Association. There are 25,000
people in North Carolina afflicted with
Tuberculosis. Professor Graham ap
pealed to the students to buy seals and
to present the afflicted people of the
state and community with a Christmas
gift that will help them, who cannot
help themselves, to eradicate this
dread disease. Five per cent of the
sale of seals will go to the National
Funds, 20 per cent will go to the State
and 75 per cent wil go to the local
chapter in Chapel Hill to help them
to wipe out the disease in this com
munity. Dr. Hanford finds that all is not cut
and dried in the reading of examina
tion papers and he certifies the fol
lowing quotations as "English as she
is sometimes wrote in 3 English."
"The poem Lycida's is a pastorial
elegy bemoaning premature and
tragedical death of a dear friend of
the poet."
"The poem starts with the author
gathering berries to make ink to write
in praise of Lycidas."
"In the introduction to this algeriac
poem we are told of the death of
Lycidas."
Sworn and attested by J. Holly
Hanford.
CHAPE HILL MEETS
MONROE ON WAY TO
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
CHAMPIONS OF EAST AND WEST
TO MEET HERE SAT
URDAY CHAPEL HILL HAS SLIGHT EDGE
The Monroe and Chapel Hill High
Schools who have carried off the
honors in the west and east will
meet here Saturday for the deciding
game of the championship series.
In a hard fought game played in
Monroe Tuesday, Greensboro was .
eliminated from the championship
series by a score of 2 to 0. The
safety was scored when Greensboro
punted from behind the goal line
and the ball struck the crossbar and
bounded back. All the playing was
in Greensboro's territory, Monroe
getting in scoring distance a number
of times but never being able to
carry the ball across. Greensboro at
no time threatened Monroe's goal.
Unofficial news has been received in
Chapel Hill to the effect that Greens
boro intends to' protest the game on
the grounds that Monroe was playing
a professional athlete.
In Wilmington the Chapel Hill boys
out weighing their opponents by at
least twenty pounds won by a score
of 28 to 20 only after a fiercely con
tested game. The game was hard
fought and the final result was not
known until the last minute of play.
Forward passes by the Wilmington
team netted all their scores while line
plunges by the heavier Chapel Hill
team gave them their scores.
The game to be payed here Satur
day will be one of great interest
throughout the state and it is expected
that numbers of High School enthu
siasts will come to the Hill for the
game. The Chapel Hill eleven is the
favorite and the general opinion is
that Chapel Hill will have an easy
time with the western visitors.
EXOTIC LADY OF TROPICS
IS NOW LIVING IN SMITH
PURCHASE OF PIQUANT POLLY
PLEASES PRIMNESS OF PRUD
ISH POSSESSORS
Smith Building is now the proud
parent (by adoption) of a beaujtiful
South Carolina parrot of the green and
red variety. The boys bought her as
the results of a whirlwind campaign
in which each Freshman contributed
fifty cents and each upper classman
contributed his sympathy. This i3
boasted by the Smithsonians as being
the only successful campaign on the
campus this year.
However she was got, Poll is cer
tainly a charming young thing at a
distance. At close quarters she ex
hibits a rather shrewish and unmanly
inclination to bite. This affords great
sport to her wardens, who also get
fine exercise chasing her when she is
attacked by the wanderlust. Poll i3
very modest and feminine about her
vocabulary to the great disappoint
ment of her owners who expected a
blood-thirsty, swash-buckling, parrot
of the Long John Silver variety that
could chew glass and outswear a mem
ber of the U. S. Shipping Board.
The supreme problem in North
Carolina today is to reconcile two
mutually contradictory facts: the
splendid circumstance that North
Carolina in agricultural resources is
fourth from the top in the United
States and the humiliating circum
stance that North Carolina in illiter
acy is fourth from the bottom in the
United States. Our problem is to
bridge over this hideous gap, this
yawning crevasse, between progress
and reaction, between our financial
wealth and educational poverty, be
tween our agrciultural glory and our
cultural shame. Archibald Hender
son. Dean Reese "Virgil, do you attend
a place of worship every Sunday?"
Virgil "Yes sir, I am on my way to
her house n aw." Orange and Blue.