Saturday, February 26, 1927
THE' TAR HEEL
Page Three
DEFEATS MANLY
FOR MAT HONORS
Intra-Mural Department Soon to
Close Successful Season.
NEW SPORTS ARE ADDED
S. A. E.'s and Betas Will Fight
for Fraternity Basketball
- Title.
About ten more days and the
most successful quarter of work
ever carried on by the Intra
1 mural Athletic Department will
come to a close according to a
statement issued yesterday by
Frank Butler, director of the de
partment. Soccer has been add
ed to the list of activities and
boxing and wrestling have been
reinstalled during the quarter.
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A great uesu inure sstuuenuj nave
taken an active part than ever
hefnre and officials are verv en
thusiastic over the future pros
pects of this popular branch of
athletics here. . "
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ine lraiermiy uasKeioau
championship will be determined
Monday afternoon when .the
Betas play the S. A. E. quint.
Cameron, Watt, Bowers,; , Wad-
dell and Harvell have been de
fending the Beta cause ' and
Crudup, Ce Grand, and Huggins
are the main-stay of the S. A. E.
aggregation. A good game is
-anticipated when these teams
:. meet Monday. -
- Carr dormitory captured the
wrestling championship by de
feating Manly by the over
whelming score Of 33-0 at the
final match of the tournament
held Thursday night. '
Only three dormitories are
left in the boxing tournament
and the finals will be held about
Thursday. Some good bouts are
being held at each meet. The
dormitories left are" Ruff in, Old
West, and Mangum.
Manly is leading the dormi
tory league in the basketball
fight. It is the only dormitory
that has lost only one game.
Some of the best teams in the
basketball league this year were
Pi Kappa Phi, Delta Tau Delta,
Gamma Sigma Tau of the fra
ternities and Manly, Grimes, and
Old West .were the outstanding
teams in tne dormitory league.
After a few more days of soc
cer training under the direction
of Coach Ellingwood, games will
be, scheduled. A large number
are taking an active interest in
soccer and it is very likely that a
game will be scheduled with the
University ,of Virginia during
the spring. Practice will con
tinue until Easter. v . s
Valuable Set of Law Books
Won By Jeff Fordham
(Continued from page one)
; Corpus Juris. The more speci
fic the answer, the higher the
- grade given. After grading the
papers submitted in the final ex
amination, Mr. L. S. Forrest, in
structor of Legal Bibliography,
declared Fordham's the best pa
per. The American Law Book
Company was then notified of
'the decision, and they have ask
ed Fordham for the address to
;'which he wishes the books ship-
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Throughout the year the stu
dents have been furnished with
materials, questionnaires, and
general information with regard
to the use of this work, the
American Law Book Company
preparing these in order to teach
the law students to turn to their
book for the law. By this meth
od they not only popularize their
work among the future lawyers,
but furnish tle students ? with,
much valuable information. The
Prize has not been awarded here
before, but will probably be an
Annual event inline future,, as
n incentive to the students to
use Corpus Juris (The body of
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AT THE CHURCHES
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Eugene Olive, Pastor :
9:45 a. m. Sunday School. Stu
dent classes conducted by Dr. A. C.
Howell and R. B. Lane.
11:00 a. m. Morning Sermon.
"Sins of a' College Man."
6:45 p. m. B. Y. P. U.
7:45 p. m. Evening Service, "A
New Earth." -
CHRISTIAN -B.
J. Howard, Pastor :
9:45 a. m. Sunday School. ."
11:00 a. m. Morning Semen.
7:00 p. m. Christian Endeavor.
8:00 p. m. Evening Service.
ROMAN CATHOLIC
Mass held on the first and third
Sundays of the month in the Y. M.
C. A. at 8:30 a. m. conducted by
Father O'Brien, ,of Durham. '
METHODIST
Walter Patten, Pastor .
9:45 a. m. Sunday School.
11:00 a. m. Morning Sermtfn.
6:45 p. m. Epworth League.
7:45 p. m. Evening Sermon.
PRESBYTERIAN
W. D. "Parson" Moss, Minister
9:45 a. m. Sunday School. v
1100 a. m. Morning Sermon.
7:00 p. m. Christian Erideavor.
8:00 p. in. Evening Sermon.
" CHAPEL OF THE CROSS
A. S. Lawrence," Rector
8:00 a. m. Holy Communion.
: 9:45 a. m. Sunday School.
10:00 a. m. Men's Bible Class. ,'
11 :00 a. m. Morning Service.
6:45 p. m. Young Peoples League.
7:45 p. m. Evening Service.
CITY FATHERS VOTE
TO PAVE GUTTERS
University Drive, Ransom Street, and
Gimghoul Road Will Be Improved.
The city management has
made preparation to lay con
crete curbs and gutters through
the whole length of University
Drive and part of Ransom street
and Gimghoul road. The three
stretches cover a street length
of 2950 feet, which will require
5900 feet of curbing.
The improvement of the' Gim
ghoul road will extend from the
"five points" corner to ' the lit
tle grass island near Hippol
Castle, and that part of Ransom
street lying between McCauley
street and West University
drive. Curbs have already been
laid along the two blocks of
Ransom street nearest Cameron
avenue.
Coates' Motive in Flunking
Law Students Was Altruistic
(Continued from page one)
I talk to you this morning.
You ask me to be reasonable.
I have been reasonable. I grad
ed your papers without knowing
whose papers I was grading. I
graded them again when I knew.
And the grades remained the
same. I have spent these last
two days and nights in grading
them again. I will bee reason
able now. I will go over with
you the conclusions I have reach
ed and the grounds on which I've
reached them.
But before I do that, I ask you
if you are willing to be reason
able. Is there anyone here who
feels he is so right he cannot be
wrong? Anyone whose mind is
so shut cannot be open to conviction.
Then we will clear the ground
and get down to the issues.
There 'are some preliminary
questions that I want to ask you :
(1) Is there any feeling on the
part of anyone that I have shown
favoritism or practiced discrim
ination between any members of
this class? Then, (2J is there
any feeling on' the part of any
one that the examination itself
was unbalanced or unfair-?. . .
Then, (3) is there any feeling
on the part of anyone that there
any problem raised in any
examination question that was
not discussed fully and thof ough-
ly on class or that on the class
discussiott .throughout the term
any man: raised any issue that I
did not meet?. . , Then, as to
manner of teaching, I know that
I have placed the emphasis on
discussion rather than on lec
tures, on analysis and reason
rather than on - arbitrary -. an
swers or "dogmatic conclusions;
that ; in addition to memory , I
have required thought, and that
many a time a man who has re
lied on , his memory alone has
been left up in the air with only
the path of thought to lead him
back' to earth; but, as a result of
that wayvof teaching (4) is
there any feeling on the part of
anyone that he does not under
stand the law of personal prop
erty, or that he did not ' get
enough from out this course to
pass it?. . . '
Then that leaves two issues
between us : (1) Not can , you
pass, but did you pass? And
that depends on (2) whether I
graded too strictly, whether I
set the standard too high. Do
you agree that these are the is
sues and the only issues? . . .
Alright; then we will settle them
by going through the records.
(At this point Mr. Coates took
them again. I will be reason
on the examination and went
through an analysis of them, and
read answers from the examin
ation papers of what he consid
ered to be some of the best an
swers and some of the worst).
; These things stand out in my
mind from reading these pa
pers: (1) Two or three men
have passed whom I did not ex
pect to pass, and many have
failed whom I had not expected
to fail. Some of you have work
ed hard and have failed, and
some who have worked notso
hard have passed. But shall a
man who passes fail because I
had expected him to fail? And
shall a man who passes fail be
cause I had expected him' to
pass? " - ; '
(2) These papers do not show
that you have done the work re
quired You will recall that at
the beginning of this course I
insisted that unless you had un
failing memories you should (a)
take in notes the gist of class
discussion; (b) ; at the end of
each day's .work to take fifteen
minutes or half an hour to weave,
in your own minds the thread
of the discussions so as to make
them your own; and at the end
of each section to make a final
analysis of the section as a
whole, stating clearly the prob
lems involved, the conclusion
you had reached as a result of
class discussion and your own
thinking and the reasons that
led you to them, n You will re
call that throughout the course
I urged it and required it, and
that at the end of the first few
sections I gave you an analysis
I had made in order to illustrate
my meaning. You thought that
I was bluffing and you did not
do it. It did not show at the
show-down.
T(3) In view of the fact that
most of these papers state con
clusions without giving reasons
and write answers without rais
ing issues, I wonder if you un
derstood what the examination
called for. I am at a loss to un
derstand how that could be. Be
fore the examination I took half
an hour to explain that grades
would be based on whether you
saw the issues, how clearly you
stated them; that the emphasis
would be placed on analysis and
reason and not on impression
and memory. Throughout the
year the emphasis has been plac
ed on those things. The analy
sis I urged upon you "and re
quired of you at the end of each
day's work and of each section
involved it.
Evidently these words did not
carry into your minds the mean
ing that they had in mine. ' If
there is anyone who feels he
made a better grade than he got,
I welcome the opportunity to go
over his paper with him, and
if he, can. show me I was ,wrong
I will change it,, but not other
wise. If anyone feels that he
did not understand the examina
tion required and that if he had
understood he could have done
better, I will take upon myself
the blame for his lack of under
standing and give him another
examination just as hard and no
harder, to be judged by a stand
ard just as high and no higher.
,Youj? committee has asked me
to change your grades to give
A's to the first 1 of the class,
B's to 13, F's to 1. Mr.
Rogers gave me these percentag
es. I worked out with him their
application to this ciass. In ac
tual operation that would mean
that in this class there would be
4 A's7 B's, 26 C's, 7 D's, 4 F's.
That would mean that I would
have to give A to one man who
made B, and to three men who
made C; B to 7 men who made
D; C to 26 men who made D-,
E and F ; D to 7 men who made
F, and F to only four of the men
who made F.
I realize that I cannot grade a
paper to-the fraction of a point;
that I cannot perhaps very accu
rately distinguish between a
paper which rates 95 and one
which rates 94. ButN I think I
can tell an A paper when I see
it, or a B paper, a C paper, a
D paper, or an F paper. And I
cannot turn in A grades when
there are no A papers, or give
B to men who make D's; or C
to men who make E and F. I
think there are men of ability
in this class. They have told me
so. You have told me so. And
I agree with them and with you.
But when A men do not turn in
A papers, can I give them A's?
If men with the ability to pass
do not turn in passing grades,
can I give them passing grades?
I am surprised that they should
make such a request. If I ac
ceded to it I would lose my own
self-respect and I ought to lose
yours.
You may say my standard is
too high. That standard requires
you to see the issues involved
in a case, to state them clearly
and argue them effectively. It
is the standard of the practice
in-law office and in the court
room. Your clients will judge
you by it. I think this law school
should judge you by it. I think
it cannot afford to set a lower
standard tlian-you will have to
meet there.
You have told me that on this
standard I am standing alone.
You have the impression that in
the faculty of this law school
you have found agreement with
your position and support for
the stand you have taken. I do
not question the right of any
member of this faculty to agree
with you. If he agrees with you
I do not question his right to
tell you so, or to back you up.
If there are any such, the issue
is drawn between me and them
as well as between me and you.
Some of you have told me that
by holding to this standard I am
hurting this University and this
Law School. .That is a bitter
thought to me. I would not hurt
this University. It has meant
everything to me. I came here
as an ignorant, awkward fresh
man. I left here with at least
some little sense of insight and
of power. In that changing,
growing process I learned the
meaning of Alma Mater. To
hurt this University would be
' FOUND
A 1927
Prospect High School Ring
See Bill Neal at the Y. M.
C. A. or Tar Heel office.
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like slapping my own mother in
the face.
I would not hurt this Law
School. My hopes and dreams
have centered in it. They cen
ter in it now. I believe we can
build here the Law School of the
South which will give to men a
training that the country can
not beat, It is that belief that
day after day inspires my efforts
in these halls to work into real
ity something of the substance
of a dream. I would not hurt
this Law School.
There is a line from some old,
play that comes to 'me now. It
runs something like this: "Ev
ery subject's, duty is the King's,
but every subject's soul is his
own." That flneans this to me :
my duty is the Law School's,
but my soul is my own. It is
woven into my dream of this
Law School. There are some
things that mean more to me
than your approval, more than
membership in the faculty of
this Law School, And this is
one of them.
Your sole complaint is that I
have set the standard too high.
The issue is clear, clearer than
crystal is. I cannot change these
grades. I will not drop that
standard. But I will give you
everything I've got. to help you
reathlti"-''" "!"v;'';-';
Is there "anyone' who feels that
these grades and the storm they
have raised have aroused in him
a feeling that he can no longer
profit by instruction? . . . I
thank you, gentlemen. .
DR. D. T. CARR
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