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Pcge Four THE T'AR HEEL Saiuidzy, October 6, 1023 T.-nase invites j-ieaasro i Southern ;Education-'-'to' -meet :or Conference Soon President of University Explains! Purpose of Meeting Here October 15, 16, and 17. "There is at present no single Southern agency which brings to gether men and womeifin the teach ing profession, in public life, in busi ness and the professions for a com mon counsel" about general questions of large policy in education", Dr. Harry W. Chase, president of the Uni versity of North Carolina, declared here tonight in explaning the purposes of the first annual Southern Confer ence on Education to be held here on November 15, 16, and 17. -V x : Invitations have been sent to a &q lect body of 1200 people throughout the Southern states and a large num ber of acceptances already have been received, Dr. Chase stated. Among those invited to the Confer ence are state officiate and leaders in education and other public affairs in the Southern states. "This Conference", D. Chase said, "is planned to bring together here not only people engaged in the techni cal "work of education but also men and women who are interested in pu blic affairs throughout the South. It is designed to bring together lead ing Southern Citizens for the purpose of discussion not of the technical questions but of educational policy. . "It has seemed to us that conferen ces which would do, with- regard to present-day educational problems m the South, something like the fine work done formerly by the Conference on Education in the South, are badly needed. With such a thought in mind, we plan to start here a series of an nual conferences, to which leaders in the South from various professions will be asked to contribute." . Dr. Chase announced that the fol lowing speakers had already been se , cured to address the Conference: President Lotus D. Cof f man of the University of Minnesota ; Professor George D. Strayer, of Teachers Col lege, Coulmbia University; Superin tendent Frank D. Boynton, of the Ithaca, New York, Scheols and Presi dent of the Department of Superin tendence of the National Education Association; Dr. Douglas S. Freeman, Editor of the feichmond (Virginia) News Leader; President H. "W. Chase, of the University of North Carolina. Around these speakers the program will be built and at least one session of the conference will be devoted to reports by State Superintendents of Public Instruction on , problems and tendencies in Education in their states. VIOLIN CONCERT Professor and Mrs. T. Smith McCorkle will appear tomorrow afternoon in a violin and piano concert at 4 o'clock in Memorial Hall. The public is cordially invited to:attend. j : University Presents Most Cosmopolitan Student Body -.7 (Continued from page one) unusual individuals. Last year the list included a former Russian naval officer and an ex-county superinten dent of schools returning for gradu ate work after serving ten years as head of . a county school-system. A few years back there was a real Hin du who went around with a turban on tm head, and a few summers back three winsome Chlrese misse3 attend- URivcrsity. J ;. . , : list is more inter nal. There is a native Filipino, a ; brilliant scholar, judging from his past record, imbued5 with all the desire for freedom which is so characteristic of his people, studying to take his American learning back to his people; a Lebanese, not a new world Lebanese, but a genuine Leb anese from the Lebanon of the old country in Syria; an Italian graduate of the University of ( Padua taking .mechanical engineering; a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, first of his race ever to graduate from a North Caro lina college taking graduate work in history; a 40-year old graduate stu dent taking work in Education; a full blooded Syrian born in Beirut but moved to this country at the age of about three; several Cubans; a native Greek born in Turkey but a resident of tins country since the age of seven who is entering as a freshman; a Rus sian with a long string of experiences in the Bolshevik wars behind him, be ginning his second year here; three blind, students, now juniors; and a large number of sons of prominent men. ...... Interesting Filipino Student A Filipino is naturally an unusual person on the University campus. Yet when this young man from the far East was first found by the writer, he was in the midst of a bunch of American freshmen who were slapping him on the back, calling him "Al," in spite of the fact that he bore the formal name of Alfredo Nazareno and was four years their f senior com pletely accepted as a companion. It wasn't long before they had him copy ing drawings out of "Life" on the backs of their, yellow raincoats, for he is a skillful cartoonist. Ont would conclude that Kipling was wrong when he wrote his famous saying about "East is East and West is West." ; ;,f : ; ' X X Kipling was wrong, I concluded af ter five minutes conversation, and proceeded to ask him everything a bout his native land and himself. He was a ready talker. All that was necessary was to furnish him a lead, and he would carry on the con versation in the most engaging man ner. . ' - He is 22 years old and completed 31 units of work at Georgetown Univer sity last year, including the summer more work than the average student does in two years and came to the University here to work for his A.B.- LL.B. degree, because, as he said, some of his best friends in Washing ton told him that it was the "finest University in the South" and he was very anxious to see the South. He has been in the United States three years and .traveled rather wide ly, is a keen observer, very much in terested . in politics and in questions of the day;" and readily icdnversant. Next to Nazareno perhaps the most interesting student found was T. A Libbus, Pharmacy student, born in Lebanon, who came to: this country about 1915 at the age of 10, and has been living in New Bern for the past several years. Lebanese Would Be American Libbus is the direct' antithesis of Nazareno. Nazareno is a native at heart. He desires independence for his country and will always be a Filipino. Libbus is an American, his greatest desire is to become a naturalized citi zen, something he would even "rather have than ' another year in the Uni versity," he explained, and "that is a good deal, although he has a num ber of prominent relatives he is not a wealthy boy and he is very much set on continuing his education in medical school. He would have become naturalized before this had it not been for the fact that his passport was destroyed in the big fire in New Bern in 1922. causing him the greatest difficulty. He filed his application for citizen ship, however, June a year ago, and hopes soon to receive his complete status as a citizen. A tall, straight young man about six feet,- with nothing to distinguish him from a native unless it was his dark features and hair, he would never have been taken 'as a foreigner. In fact he went, through the first two years of the Pharmacy School and became a senior before -almost any one knew that he was from anywhere' but New Bern. An "A-l" Student . Then Prof. J. G. Beard happened to remark that he had a real, genuine Lebanese in his class, net a Pennsyl vania Lebanese, but a real old world Lebanese from the French mandate in Syria and that he was an A-l stu dent. N ' . , A secretary in the Pharmacy Building was asked if she knew where to locate Mr. -Libbus and she went into such a rhapsody of praise over his scholarship and what a fine fel-low-lhe was that she had to be left after 30 minutes -still praising him. He was readily found and turned out to be all that the secretary had said of him. He spoke perfect English without the slightest accent, haying been in this country for 13 years, which he picked up coming over on the boat and after he arrived, and was a ready talker. His father, now dead, was a farmer, and he lives in New Bern with his mother. He had an average of B in the Pharmacy School and expects to receive his Ph.G. degree in June, af ter which he hopes to continue his studies in Medicine. He remembers little of the old country, but still can speak a little of the Arabic tongue which is native to his people. r ; He went to school only 2 years in Lebanon, but that was enough for him to pick out one difference between Lebanese and American public schools methods. "There," he said, "the stu dent is allowed to progress as fast as he can learn; here it is different"; and one could see there that here was the kind of fellow that liked hard work and progress. His brother he said had quit school and ran away from home to America because at the age of ten he felt that he knew as much as his teacher and didn't want to stay and be forced to continue. This same brother, Assad Libbus, later in 1911 adapted the lino type machine to the use of the Arabic language. He died in 1927. Alex Saleeby is another foreign born student. He was born in Beirut, but moved to this country at the age Get the Best Barber Work in Town Haircut Shave . ....... ......... 35c . 20c Chapel Hill Barber Shop Big. Removal Sale Our store was full of cus- ........... t . tomers Thursday and Fri day, but we have many ad vantages left for Saturday and Monday. - Jack Lipman's University Shop Take advantage of the 15 Discount Sale. of about three and a half years, hav ing lived the last several years in Monroe. He is a sophomore., a good student and working for his B. A. degree. ; '-.X ' -X'j "T Pattillo Studies at Forty M. M. Pattillo is slightly . unusual in that at the age of about 40 he is still "continuing his education with all the vim and vigor of the youth of 18 to 22 who frequent the campus. Then there is a freshman of the Greek race Agnostis John Thomas, who, with characteristic American brevity, has- shortened his formal first name to read "Aggie." He was born inTurkey, about 60 miles from Constantinople, came to the United States in 1917 at : the age of seven, and received his high school educa tion in Durham. "Chief Owl Graduate Student The University's Indian student is Henry M. Owl, a full blooded Chero kee, who graduated at-Lenoir-Rhyne College and is now doing graduate work in history here. He is remem bered as a dashing football player at Lenoir-Rhyne, but, of course, he won't be eligible for athletic parti- pation by Southern. Conference rules at the University.- He is a well built young fellow about 5 feet 9 inches in height, neat in appearance, and the most . conservative but fastidioue dresser. Italian Takes Engineering , And there is John Baptist Pittana, native Italian, who after five years of work and graduation in civil en gineering at the University of Padua has come to the University to con tinue his training in mechanical en. gineermg. . . DR. R. R. 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