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Page Four r THE TAB HEEL Thursday, February 24, ig27 An ISiteralus Composes Poultry for the Tar Heel , Continued from page one) it win and you get a dope. If is not published I lose and you tret nothing. The lyric typifies that great American urge for the great open spaces and an eastern vir gin. It, you should find, is writ ten in masterful, sweeping rhythm, Only one other success ful poet uses it, Vachel Lindsay. Now, I admit it should be of fered to the more browish pub lications on the campus, but a sincere feeling that the campus in general would greatly appre ciate an inane diversion from the inanities of Messrs. Cyclone Carroll and Dula prompted me to submit it. , . Waiting patiently, : v. ILLITERATUS Down to the Tournament Checking out of Raleigh on a south bound freight, HunAina toward Atlanta at a bum mer's rote. Shouting hello Governor, and how '.dy State; Pulling friends on and weighting down1 frpight. , . , Sleeping in coal bins and staying up late. Passing through villages and hamlets '. too. . Raising hell in general and booting the crew. Eating hot-dogs and drinking pops, Keeping small town policemen on the hop. Pulling into Atlanta a little bit late; Telling everybody we're from the North State. Dusting our clothes and washing our face, Then down to the arena to watch the race,. Betting out money on the lads in blue, And yelling like hell for N. C. U. Collecting when it's over and coming back in. state; ' .. . , Going to ride a puUman not no damn freight. Won't be in an upper, and that's a fKst; May be in a special car, won't say 'bout that. And if them Georgia peaches crave men with the dough, Carolina students will be the whole show. CURTAIN " (Editor's note to Mr. Illiterates The dope mentioned in yoiir letter is due, and payable at the Tar Hbct. office. " Carolina Defeats Blue Devils by 37-21 Score (Continued from page one) President H. W. Chase .open ed the game by advancing to the center of the floor and after a short talk, tossed the ball to ref eree Knight He spoke a few words of welcome to the visitors and payed a glowing tribute to the Varsity that left today for Atlanta to defend its Southern crown held for the past three consecutive years. GRADY GETS PATS FROM ill SENATE . (Continued on page four) McPherson then moved that .the Senate send Judge Grady a tele gram congratulating him on re signing from the Ku Klux Klan. It was duly seconded. There was no opposition, except a motion made by Senator Brown that the Senate congratulate the Ku Klux Klan on Judge Grady's leaving their ranks. It was out of order. Senator McPherson's motion was then passed, there being only three dissenting votes. long and loudly for what he considers the underdog. The Carolina roster this year is not composed of the steady, consistent, experienced group that hitherto has journeyed to the Gate City of the south and returned so frequently with one of the most sought after crowns in basketball realms v Only two of the eight have faced, the grind of a tournament and one of these cannot lay claim to be ing 8j veteran. A bunch of youngsters-7-invading foreign lands greeted and acclaimed as favorites worried lest they not come up to expectations fear ful of, losing a championship that has almost become a habit. And there is a faint idea of what the Tar Heels are up against. But why all the pessemism? Just this. Many are of the opin ion that all Carolina has to do to march off with the Southern championship is put on a pretty white uniform, draw funny picT tures on the floor when time is taken out, toss a round leather ball into the air at every chance, and dribblejon while all the oth er teams in tfce tournament will stand back awed "Champions". What a word, whatta word! First Dances Included Duels The under -'do? in China is clearly the Pekinese. Tar Heel Fiv Meets the Tennessee Team in Atlanta (Continued from page one) ried about the precedent he must maintain. Then again the crowd is nearly always for the newcomer. The sight of an un known, unheralded team fac ing a team that boasts of one of the finest records in the basket ball world has something ap pealing to the sporting blood of the ordinary fan and he will pall (Continued from page two) color with a Jiigh velvet collar, large silverplated buttons and a white satin vest with blue undervest. The neck was dressed with a layer of four or five three-cornered cravats surmount ed by a cambric stock and buckled behind. The pantaloons of peach- col ored canton crepe were short in order to display the flesh-tinted stockings and low cut pumps. The managers would no admit any gentleman to the ballroom who wore boots or even a frock coat, and although gloves were not a requirement for admission, it was quite vulgar to dance without them. . Hog Killings Once in a great while, other dances were held during the year. Many of these books took the form of corn shuckings, cotton pickings, log roll ings, hog killings, and spelling bees, which ended with a number of rounds of the reel. One February twenty- second, a ball was planned for the celebration of Washington's birthday. A letter telling of the occasion says: "Although the dance we had planned was postponed on account of the death of 'Mr. Phillips, we celebrated in a splendid manner; on that day did we not only give to the world the strong est indications of our love for , the father of his country, but also proved incontestibly that we were hopeful votaries of Bacchus." On July Fourth 1826, there was a grand ball at Also brook's Hotel as a part of the cele bration of the Semicentennial anni versary of American independence, featured by a sumptuous feast and dancing far into the night, which was claimed to have been the biggest affair ever held in Chapel Hill , up to that time. ' In the twenties, when the rule for compulsory boarding at Steward's Hall was discontinued, the University dances seem to have found a setting in the town hotel dining room." Stew ard's Hall, however, must have been the favbrite place for dances, for in 1833 .we have the petition mentioned above, written to the trustees by stu dents chosen at a mass meeting of the student body asking permission to pro cure a room in this building for the Commencement Ball. It contended that the intellectual and gentlemanly accomplishments acquired through dancing would justify a special ball room. The trustees could not stand against the sophomoric eloquence of the plea and the petition was grant ed. The ball managers, in their en thusiasm, sent invitations to all the great men in the state for the ball that year, which is said to have "eclipsed all forerunners."- An illuminating picture of social life in the University of the forties FOR SALE L. C. Smith Typewriter Excellent Condition, Reasonable. J. L. B. 208 Pittsboro Street BEGINNING , MONDAY, FEB. 28 we will close every, evening except Saturday, at 8:30 Jack Lipman's . University Shop is given in the History of the Univer sity. Improved roads and more plen tiful means and modes of conveyance increased .the number of visitors at commencement. There was no ex pressed opposition out in the state to dancing, perhaps because it had come down with the institution from the beginning, and during this period the custom of having three dances instead of one at commencement was intro duced. Two short dances on the first two nights of the exercises followed by the senior ball on. the final night, were held in the dining room of the Eagle "Hotel on the site of the per petually incompleted Graham Mem orial of today. - Whiskey-bought Votes No ladies came to the commence ments forhe sole purpose of dancing but made it their duty and pleasure to attend the exercises and cheer the speakers.- There was no such .cir cumstances as a lady desiring to dance not having a partner, it being the duty of the ball managers to direct the progress of beauless damsels. These managers were chosen in hot ly contested elections with the elec tioneering for the chief ball manager to be selected from the student body often beginning two years ahead of time. To gain votes .'for this office it was the custom totreat constitu ents' wjfn ardent spirits. There were libations to gain the victory and then again to celebrate it, making the elec tions usually occasions for a general spree on the campus. One student who was exceedingly wealthy, gen erous, and politically ambitions, left school $2000 in debt for vote-buying whiskey. The assistant managers, three chosen from each literary soci ety, wore elaborate regalia, a custom which endured for generations; the Phis with a broad silk band of white t6n blue reaching across from the shoulder to the waist, the Dis with the colors reversed. These adornments were then, as now, presented to the favored ladies. ' A negro band of musically accom plished slaves of the community fur nished lusty music and the shouts of the leader, "Promenade all," "Dos-a-dos," and "Ladies to the center," re sounded throughout the wooded halls. Cotillions, waltzes and occasionally a reel were the favorites of these vot aries of terpsichore. Dr. Battle tells of one of the belles who having lost her slipper during the waltz very adroitly inserted her dainty stockinged foot in the vacant shoe on the next round without losing time in "the dance. She was much praised for the grace with which she accomplishes the feat. An elaborate supper- at midnight, prepared by Miss Nancy Hilliard, the proprietress of the hotel, was a feature of the final ball after which the dancing continued until three o'clock in the morning. . ' Free for Alls Before the arrival of an official dancing instructor in 1850, crowds' of students staged knock-down-drag-out stag dances in the corridors of South Building. The uproar caused by these brawls brought forth such maledic tions from the seriously and studious ly inclined pupils that they often end ed in a free-for-all fight 7' James K. Polk, President of the United States, revisited i his alma mater fn 1847 after twenty-nine years absence and more elaborate plans were made for commencement than ever before. The ball managers" exerted themselves untiringly. Signor Georges' Band from Richmond, the first out-of-state band to play on thecampus was engaged. The President, much to the distress of the dancers, left before the ball which, in spite of the disap pointment, was "as usual brilliant and well managed, with cotillions and reels more prominent than the new fashioned waltz and polka." The pleasure was marred by, the bad floor and cramped dancing space in the hotel dining room. The music from Richmond captivated the crowd'with the lilting melodies of such tunes as "Annie Laurie." "A Little More Cider," "Comin' Through the Rye' and "Vive le Vin, Vive 1 Amour." Hoop Skirt Flirts .' In 1850, the completion of Smith Hall, the new library building, now the Playmakers Theatre, revolutioniz ed dancing on the campus. An agree ment was made with the students that the annual ball might be held in it. "An arrangement," says Dr. Battle, "which would have marred the usefulness of the building if the books had been -in demand." It was in this building that the balls were held until 1885. The balls in Smith Hall just before the war at which the demure Southern maids and gal lant young "fireaters"" danced and flirted amid a sea of hoop-skirts,vwere glamorous occasions. When President Buchanan attended the commencement in 1859, the ball was described by the reporter of the Raleigh Standard as posessing "a brilliancy superior to the noonday sun." The correspondent for the. New York Herald, who accom panied the presidential party, : al though indulging in no such gorgeous metaphor was greatly impressed and writes: "To the extent' of the num ber that composed it, I may say that so grand a display of fashion and beauty I never beheld. The costly array of dress and glittering trinkets there exhibited vastly surpassed any idea I had hitherto conceived of the North Carolina people." The com mencements of the late fifties knd early sixties were in reality carnivals of gaiety, youth, beauty, fashion and' manners worthy of the traditions of romance and chivalry attributed t the ante-bellum South. The resurrw. tion of the practice of the dancing art from the chaos of war and reconstruc tion is another story. (To be continued) ' This firm is noted for the quality of the jewelry it has sold for the past half century. Johss & Fr&smr Xhil!fv lrnevJtlonaJbl Sine 'Hfl T me $9 Permanent Display STETSON t(D" Kluttz Building Geo. F. Messnxb - y Wh. H. Rowj Everything on campus in past four rears heated by us Carolina Heating" & Engineering Co. HEATING, VENTILATING AND POWER PIPING Phone 1466 , Durham, N. C. BUDD-PIPER ROOFING COMPANY Durham, N. C. Roofing -and Sheet metal Work mmniiiii:niiit:ntit:i:!innnt:nrmtt "Nationally Known". 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