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Page Two THE T A R HE E L M p Published three times weekly during the college year, and is the official newspaper of the Publications Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub scription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 tout -of town, for. 'the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Walter Spearman ............ Editor Marion Alexander ... Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Managing Editor This Week J. Elwin Dungan Harry Gallahd Assistant Editor M. Broadus H. T. Browne W. C. Dunn . J. C. Eagles R. W. Franklin J. P. Jones W. A. Shelton- D. L. Wood C. B. McKethan J, C. Williams " E. Wilson Reporters G.' A. Kincaid Dick McGlohon . J. Q. Mitchell B. C. Moore K. C. Ramsay P. B. Ruff in Linwood Harrell E F. Yarborough H. H. Taylor E. II. Deming J. D. McNairy ' G. M. Cohen BUSINESS DEPARTMENT . . r . v . ...... Executive Staff " B. M. Parker Asst.' Bus. Mgr. H. N. Patterson '...'... Collection Mgr.' Gradon Pendergraph Circulation Mgr. ' T. R. Kaniker Asst. Col Mgr. Advertising Staff Leonard Lewis Harry Iatta Jack Brook Ben Aycock I. Goldstein M. Y. Feimester J. L. McDonald J. Goldstein Sidney Brick H. Jameson H. Merrell Thursday, November 1, 1928 Forward and Upward Some criticism has been aroused by the . announcement in the Tuesday Tar Heel that The Playmakers were tentatively considering several am bitious projects. Most lamentable of all, in this connection, ;. is the fact that Professor Koch and his asso ciate, Hubert -Heffner, have been the , object of . this censorship and that the story, intended as an independent ef fort to aid The Playmakers in their aim for continued progress toward improvement, has been misconstrued. Friends are, as the adage runs, very frequently the worst .enemies. I wisTi to state at . the outset of this article, however, that I know ; of no individual who can justifiably - ques tion the motives and the sincerity that were behind the. story. I have' no , quarrel with the tenets of Scholasticism but it strikes me that the" power of good for the Uni versity that lies in the Playmakers is-underestimated. I agree that the artistic, or Little Theatre, can be hurt by overpublicity within a restricted area but the idea presented in the story of The Playmakers on a na tional scope is new.' And, the organi zation has advertised the University unknowingly, as a school where initi ative and originality are encouraged. I came from the state of South Dakota with no other recommendation of the fine University L have found than the '. name of The Playmakers. I am certain that , there are a con siderable number here because of the same reason. . . I came here, moreover, not:. as ja stage struck youth attracted by the work of The Playmakers, nor did ,1 come to college - to ' prepare for a scintillating career behind the foot lights. ;If my interests are theatrK cal or literary it. is entirely due 5. to such .men as Prof. Koch. . I assume full responsibility for my commercial journalism in presenting the story in its freshness. My, small background of , commercial journalism I hope always to retain, and; in; :a .. larger sense j to keep faith eternally with the profession I have chosen. . Youth always attempts to advance through the medium of Energy and Speed, and until I shall be tempered ; by greater maturity I shall continue to hold as my watchword Progtess. J. ELWIN DUNGAN Faculty Indifference An inference that most of the Uni versity professors have little or no interest in student - affairs" and even in the students themselves may be drawn from the fact that only twenty out of the more than two hundred fac ulty members are Tegular subscribers to the Tar Heel. .; I V . ;- V .; We don't want to impart the im pression of attaching an over-great amount of , importance to the Tar Heel, but whatever may be its short-' comings the fact remains; that the publication is ; the clearing-house for all . campus happerAfegsrf moment, and it is impossible "tbvkeep in close touch with the student life. here with out reading the campus newspaper regularly. . Too much censure should not be attached to the' faculty men, however, as the circulation system of the Tar Heel is at . present admittedly poor. ; This still does not constitute a totally valid excuse, since a great majority of x the faculty men ' ..' have made no effort whatsoever to have a copy of the Tar Heel delivered to them every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings. '. ,- An effort is being made to improve the delivery of all of the campus pub lications and if the expected improve ments are forthcoming there will re main no shred of excuse , for faculty failure to read the student tri-week-ly. Not that faculty subscriptions Discovery, Is Made Early College Boy No iAngelic Vouth ' What angelic, straight-laced, digni fied little men we college boys have degenerated intor since, ye good old days -when Cotton' Mather used to hold upA his hands in holy horror at the doings of the Harvard boys. The collegians of three hundred years ago would have snickered in scorn at such asininely trivial things as shirt-tail parades past the co-ed house, walk ing on the . grass;1 giving bad checks or playing cards at church. Those Puritan boys really had it on us for fair.' -7 ' ;' " .' v - Brawls,- hazing, wrangling with the faculty, extreme . dress, excess smok ing, the reading of pornographia-, the holding of senseless and disorder ly commencements, religious '' negli gence, free thinking, waywardness all such portentous outbreakings. and disrespectful conduct, which, we are told, mark the spirit of the 20th cen tury! collegiate, played a larger part in the lives of the "college student 3d0 years ago. ' ; r Dr. Henry W. Lawrence, Professor of History at Connecticut College has revealed these facts in his new. book, "The Not-Quite Puritans," the ma- mean anything to , the financial life, terial f or which has been gathered irom such authentic sources as con- of the paper it is simply failing to fulfill that paift of its duty which has to do with bringing about a lessening of the lamentable breach which, ex ists between student, and professor. It, is certainly a discouraging indi cation o'f an unwillingness on the part of the faculty members to keep in close contact with their students that only , about nine percent of them subscribe to the publication that is probably the greatest single unifying factor on the campus.: " . V '"' GLENN HOLDER Permitting , Political Activities ; During this last - week before the presidential1 election the very air is fraught with political propaganda and keen campaign interest. Democrats laud Governor Al Smith, . while Re publicans and Anti-Smithites ; shout the praises , of Herbert Hoover-rrand a few scattered but ' enthusiastic Socialists do not forget Norman Thomas. Although set apart from the rest of the state in semi-seclusion, the campus of f the .University, however, has by no means escaped from a heavy dose of politics. , Thejtwo politi cal clubs have been successful in bringing bef ore this college audience speakers who have expounded long and earnestly and sometimes even intelligently upon the; major issues involved. Anxious that the students should hear all sides of the present situation, the Tar Heel was iristru- . .... - - , . . mental in securing a visit from the presidential, candidate of a :f third party. . ' . . ' This 'political activity on the part of .the students was not hampered in any way by University authorities. Although , the officials of the Univer sity could not extend invitations to' pleaders for any political . party, they wisely saw fit to allow the student body to take necessary steps in secur ing ; political speakers v "whom - they might listen to in connection with the present campaign. -':"-' Permitting the ' students to follow their own inclinations " and wishes in an effort to inform themselves more thoroughly as to the political situa tion, the University merely showed one more manifestation ,of its policy of, student responsibility. ; What a contrast this attitude presents , to those I colleges .which forbid even the slightest demonstration of political permission to hold a political rally at the school. And we have not forgot ten the experience of a school in this very, state which last spring forbade the existence .of a political club" a mong the student , body. . When7 a college is , attempting to train its student members to takr their places , in the, state as. intelli gent and useful citizens, , it 1 is , strange method pursued by denying them the right of political activity Denial of political participation hi college does, not train for intelligent citizenship hi later years. temporary church records, diaries, and histories. "V' ' vi ' 3 " " '; rJ "We. commonly think of the Amer ican college man of the 17th and J8th .centuries as 3 so incurably ad dicted to ;studious piet- that he found little time . and none for dis sipation," writes Lawrence. "It is hard to reconcile with this view such an incident as the following, record ed by one Ezra Clapp, in 1738. 'Last night," this earnest Yale stu dent, has recorded, "some of the freshmen got six quarts of Rhum and about two payls fool .of Sydar and about eight pounds of sugar and made it into "Samson," and envited every scholar in college into Churtis's room, and we made such prodigious Rought that we raised the Tutor, and he ordered us all to our rooms and some went and some tarried and they gathered again and went up to old father Monsher and drumed against the dore and yeled and screamed 'so that a bodey would have thought they were killing dogs there. . . . " Students of Harvard at an earlier date took a strong dislike to the -president of the time, who was Har vard's third, and forced him to re sign by turning "cud-weeds," as . the Rev. Mather writes in his diary, and, by violating the fifth Commandment, "set themselves to travestie whatever he did or said." ( Ministers' sons began to get their reputation as early as 1644, we learn by the following . account: . "Two of our ministers' sons being students in the college, robbed two dwelling nouses in the night of some 15 pounds Being found out, they were ordered by the governors of the college to be there whipped, which was performed by the President him self Yet they were about twenty years of age; and afer they ' were brought into court and ordered to, two-fold -satisf action, ' or to serve so ,long for it. We have yet no par ticular punishment- for burglary." In the diary .of Nathaniel Ames, a Harvard student who entered college in 1758 and completed his course in 1761, we get some amusing, accounts of college life, and note, as well a marked similarity between 18th and 20th century youths: "March 13, 1758 Came to College, began Logick. t, , . . "March. 18 fit with the Sophomore.s about 5 Customs. , , . , - "March 20 had another fight with the Sophomores. "June 13, 1760 acted Tancred and SigismundaA for. which we were like to be prosecuted.. . ' .'it.. "Oct. 1, president sick, wherefore much Deviltry carried on in college. "Oct. 10, 1 scholar' degraded this morning,' 2 admonished, 1 punished, 1 ; "Oct. i0, Kneeland's i and Thayer's Windows ' broke last night. "Dec. .22, Gardner and Barnard ad monished for stealing wood. , "Feb. 26, 1761 lost two pistareens at cards last evening. . ; ; "March 26,' first game of bat and ball. ' . . ' 1 "April 15, - Dependants ' on the Favors of the President and the Tutors sign an agreement to inform of ' any scholar that is ' guilty of pro ianity. ; :y :--.:J: - 1 "May 19, Joseph . Cabot rusticated. As soon as the President said he was rusticated, he took his hat and went jxit of the chapel without staying to near the President's speech out. Af- j. aycrs he bulrags the Tutors at l rate and leaves college. His .'"c'nts at the news. " "May 20. Chapel robbed of the Cushings and Bible Cloths. "July 15. Commencement. - "July 16. "A dance in Town House, Cambridge." " "Petting," Lawrence tells us, was quite as much, if not more, of a prob lem 300 years ago than now, al though it did not play as large a part in the college boy's life, there being no co-eds and few girls' schools, in college 'vicinities. But : despite; the immediate absence of the fairer" sex:, the college fop. abounded; .to such an extent, in fact that laws had to be made to regulate the clothing worn. N NOW PLAYING O R M A TAX MADGE in "THE WOMAN DISPUT ED" - . CAN the great power called love, exalt a life crushed by men and morals? ADDED "Defensive Ends" Showing the correct way to play football - COMING I "LILAC TIME" For instance, in 1754 the under graduates of Harvard College were forbidden to wear silk 'nightgowns." These were a sort of dressing gown of silk or damask, "suitable for printers or importers perhaps, but luxurious for college students," writes Lawrence, for "plain thinking and high living was not to he toler ated by day or night, it might seem." UP TO DATE Girlie, toss your nose in air, You've not got my goat, : You've my last year's love, but there, I've a new fur coat! ' Peter Gray. you're Thursday, November i, jg FREUD WILL OUT Although I love you every hour And see you every day, I sometimes call' you by his:naae And dream ot mm when away. . Of course he nver writes to me You know, dear, I've been true. Of course he never told me but I think he loves me more than y0n . : f Peter Gray' One of the largest colleges is send ing its footbaU team 10,000 miles this year. A football player has to get an education some way. Greenville Piej. mont. - : WEI" A Rain Drop Dialogue "Let's rain!" "What's the use ? They put on their Standard Student Slickers and you can't get near them." Ask for a slicker with this label at Pritchard-Patterson Company the ni J ommercd t ... 1 A majority of the beacon . lights used in airport and . airway illuroination have been designed and manu ' fectuf ed ' by ' the General ' . Electric Company, whose , ; specialists have the benefit. of a generation's experi- ence in the solution of lighting problems. T ?pS; y'.a netork of s -roads bridges On you imagine, this groth-cat electtidty-without Men of vision ate. buUding for increasing traffic of theair Soon, the skies will Hp filu,J iu c or meatr- rMisi JLLaJ JL' J GENERAL A TT- 9504DH E L E C T R IC C O M P ANY, S C H E NEC T rTv'" V- A D Y , NEW YORK
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