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Page Four THE Thursday, December 13, 1923 Flights of a Flea ' -by-EMMETT WILSON i. ; v 1 iu ON TRUANT PROFS ' Monkey Business --;. It is with extreme interest that we note the passage of the so-called . Anti-Evolution Bill in the good old state of Arkansaw (not Arkansas) which forbids teaching "in the public schools that "man descended or as cended from a lower order of ani mals." Now we always thought that the teaching of the doctrine of "monkeyism" was a theory, an hypo - thesis, however the good old South- western commonweallth must have been convinced that some lewd per sons were "stacking "the cards" and "cheating, at the game" of presenting the matter as the Darwinian Theory. There is still some hope left for free - thinkers at that. . AH that is necessary ; for: the erudite now is to teach or di rect research along v the -' lines of theories and conjectures. Of course this is what has been done all the time, but who could convince a cau cus of peanut politicians otherwise after they had effected something for "the general welfare. Our legislators all over the country are determined to bring us int& '"the sheltering fold" by passing laws which give us the right and the ability to improve our morals and to cultivate our intelli- - gence. Memories of Socrates and Plato! How far have we really pro gressed since the time of the truth seeking Greeks?, And have We gained anything due to the fact that Milton did not become a barrister in his na tive England? Since the good state mentioned above decreed, that the act should go into effect on December 6, we wonder what is due to happen to the voca tion of bootleggers, in that state. It is highly probable that a good many of the stomach poisoners will elevate their attack,by centering fire upon the young 'minds of the state. It is to be presumed that a good many will be. found totine evil pictures of monkeys and chimpanzees on the hip and offering them for sale as good . old pre-Dayton cuts. Now if only the Poole Bill had been passed in this state,' we'too could have made a little extra change by using some of the material gained in geology 2, botany 1, andr zoology 1. Easy money is not to be scoffed at; so let us prepare- to storm the gates of the coming legislature at Raleigh, and then earn .a'place on Easy Street! A Place to Exercise There has been quite a bit of agi tation over another thing besides the " current discussions in regard to the honor system, the desirability of fem ininity and the certainty of literary and dramatic criticisms. This is the call for a new gymnasium to supplant the present inadequate one. Several suggestions have been offered to remedy the situation. Then too, it ' is rumored that the next legislature Will be called on to provide funds for a new structure and equipment. How ever we have happened upon a novel scheme for obtaining sufficient ex - ercise for the student body. This is to have pep meetings every day in Memorial Hall and to allow different . men to lead the cheers each day. The traditional old building' would be an ideal place for. such. "Who would, re fuse to work in such an awe-inspiring atmosphere? Anyway we are under the impression that such exercise is already being taken. There is an as signment beat in the Tar Heel office , which has the name of a man who. is to cover daily the "chapel exercise. .Piracy on the High Seas - . We learn that the Student Activi . ties Committee is to meet next month and to consider, among several things, the various polemics held in the hall ways and the drug stores over the " Buccaneer of last year and the . first issue r of this year. We have been told that this committee is only to function in an advisory capacity. Let us all hope that no matter how un V worthy of publication the Magazine and Buccaneer may be that no at " tempt will be made toward directing student legislation ; either for or against these publications. The trend of student demand in .th'e rfature of the magazines cannot be wholly over- looked ere any action is taken. And the futility of censorship, suppres sion, and removal is shown through - out the pages of history. . It is worthy of considering this factor in any dis vcussion of this. sort. Says Professors Are Spending Too Much Time on Research And Lecture Tours and Are Neglecting Class Work. m k t n r r T The Library Dean Addison Hibbard contributed the leading article to "The Outlook" for the last weekV.issue; he wrote on; "The Truant Professors." , Writing from twenty years of ex perience teaching, . D'ean Hibbard gave some very interesting side lights on American Universities. Professors today, Dean Hibbard J thinks, are spending too much time on research and lecture tours and other activities and are neglecting their classes. The modern university require? too much service $othe state from most of its professors. Every time a teacher becomes proficient in his field he then is required to devote a' large part of his time to going over the state visiting rotary clubs, wo men's clubs, giving extension lectures, and generally advertising the uni versity. . The more; contact the uni versity establishes with the people of the state, the more willing they are going to be to pay taxes to main tain the university. However, the dean says, the , students are not get ting what they are paying for. "We are robbing student Peterto pay tax payer Paul", he says at one time. Another great fault the dean finds with the universities is that the ad ministrators do riot reward true teaching. There is not enough com pensation in it to keep t he best men in the field ; . as soon as a man ac quires experience "arid learning enough really to teach, he is .placed in some administrative office. The proposal is made that more chairs of teaching be established so that the best men will get money enough to keep them in the field of teaching although they can get better jobs elsewhere. Dean Hibbard. makes a strong, plea for , the undergraduate. Many pro fessors have a scorn for the under graduate mind; Dean Hibbard would have the best teaching assigned to undergraduate courses. ,..."' Debate Class at Work on Next Tilt Grid Dust from the Grid Pan Last year the problem of training intercollegiate debaters at the Um versity of North Carolina1 was handled with some measure of success by a debate squad. Of f icials of , the De bate Council, however, conceived better plan which they calculated would create a greater interst in de bating. Accordingly,- arrangements were made with the School of Jour nalism for creating 'a debate class which would give, a half course credit. At present this class is serving a double puruose by conducting a class for credit and at the same time main taining the old teams, while the class comprises both the squad and those who are taking the work for credit. For three weeks the secretary of the Debate Council has been conduct ing a program designed to give the class a thorough grounding in the underlying principles of debating. He has done this by securing certain faculty members to address the class on the subject' of debating with re ferences to their , particular fields Thurdsay night ; Professor McKie himself will give the last of these lectures in the form of a summary of the work of the class thus far. "After this lecture the class will turn their attention to the next intercollegiate debate, which will be with Marquette University at Chapel Hill. Although the date for this contest has not been fully decided, it will take place abou Februrary 18. Prof. Beard Attends National Drug Trade Meeting at Capitp ' Professor J. G. Beard, of the schoo of Pharmacy, has gOne. to Washing ton to attend the meeting of the meeting of the National Drug Trade Conference to". be held in the Hote Washington on December $2 and to be present the following day at the sessions of the Joint Advisory Com mittee of the National Pharmaceuti cal Associations that will arrange f or, a comprehensive survey shortly to be made of pharmaceutical education in America. 1 Send the TAR HEEL home, per college year. v $3.00 - This. Pencil Business Before heralding the recent literary arrival at the Library let me air the Great Pencil Problem. For some little time now this institution has i been acting as pencil purveyor extraordi nary to the campus-at-largel . Feeling that, this is in direct competition .with the BooS Exchange we have installed .several neat tin pencil-holders (com plete with chain) at strategic points, such as the catalog. The object-is to provide the loan of a pencil and not a, gift of one. Bets are being freely laid . with odds., heavily against the liklihood of the pencils remaining long in their "holders. One can only hope. "Orlando" (Virginia Woolf) is the headlirier for the week. Mrs. Woolf has been anything but a best-seller for so long that her sudden popularity with this quasi-historical novel must be a vast surprise to her. Space has never meant much to the novelist New York in this chapter, India the next. But neither sex nor time is anything to Orlando's creator. The hero-heroine of this tale is a man to the beginning of the 18th century and then a woman down to date. The book is something of a' literary curio sity being equipped with a preface, index to -proper names, and illustra- ions reproduced from paintings and photographs of the chief characters. Bromf ield's "Strange Case of Miss Annje Spragg" has been talked about so much by now that it has the air of an old sfory, but the advent of. a3 second copy offers a convenient peg o hang a recommendation on. If ,you want something with the charm, of Thornton Wilder. "Cabala" and as redundant with life as anything of Arnold Bennett's this is your book. And while we're at it, let's say that it has more than a hint of Norman Douglas' "South Wind".. Being com posed of several virtually separate stories, each taken up and laid down from time to time by vthe author thoughtful for his readers' comfort, the book is less fatiguing to the mind than many. The story of Aunt Bessie Cudlip is not a moral one, but very amusing. . - of the prince named in the title and an unpronouncable Egyptian lady, Tiy. - ' . The motley crew left on the desk are as follows: (a) two : first-class detective tales, John Buehan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps" one of the best of his Hun-slaying Great War mysteries; and Dr. R. "Austin Freeman's latest AO 1U1C1 111 bllC -tlglll . -1118 guuu doctor, a stout staff on which all con sumers of , detective novels lean, is growing . almost as procreative as Edgar Wallace, who, of course, rivals Caesar in his ability to wear out stenographers. The immortal '. Dr. The South Carolina plantation Ne gro is presented in "Scarlet Sister Mary" (Julia Peterkin) . It is con cerned with the matrimonial and ex tra-matrimonial joys and trials of Mary, whose sins were not black but scarlet. " The historical novel seems to be coming back with a. vengeance: This week we have two, Meredith Nichol son's "The Cavalier of Tennessee" and Gertrude Atherton's "The Jealous Gods." The first is about Andrew Jackson and his " times, centering around Jackson's affection for Rachel Robards. The - reviewers seem satisf ied that . ho . violence has been done the facts of Jackson's life, which is rather unusual' in regard toa historical novel. . . Mrs. Atherton's contribution to the genre which John ErsMne has made notorious is descriptively called "The Jealous Gods; A Processional Novel of the Fifteenth Century, B. C. (Con cerning one Alcibiades)." It appears to be a pleasant way of absorbing the spirit, if not the fact, of undying love Thorndike-works his quiet deductive arid inferential mysteries all through the book, much to the delight of his disciples. " " (b) Of the remainder is Schnitzler's "Theresa: A Chronical of a Woman's Life. This is the first full length novel in several years by the famous v lenese. c ) is wnatever do you think! BaTries "Peter Pan" finally got into print. It is the guess of this here writer that the play's fall from popularity will date from this ap pearance between covers. Too much of Peter's charm lies in the glamour of the amber spot. . However, it is AND SO team. The real trouble comes in selecting four outstanding .backs.' Of course Buie and Warren get two cf the positions, but the remaining posts are still vacant. There are a nosi ox Carolina" backs- who are good, very good. There are Flynn and Kell at Davidson, Murray at Duke, and Mel ton at State, to select from. Of thi With the close of football Saturday mber we Have picked Murray be- Grid Dust becomes a thing of the past, J canse 0f his speed and general work Throughout the past football season throuo-hout the nast season. The we have tried to present things as we f Mount boy .stepped into a have seen them. Often we have been breech caused bv'the injury of Jan- criticized. At times the critics haveK-ncVi and mnre than "filled the not been content with heaping epi- -westerner's place. Begets the full fhets upon the columnists, but have I back's position The remaining half even threatened physical violence. I back goes to Nash of Carolina. .Mag- There are those whose pride may have ner played great ball during the last taken the column as it was meant, J two games of the season, but his per ' but through it all we have continued J formance during the early part of the along the' same lines, that of giving J season was not up to the great finisn the little particles of dust that drift- he madel -Erickson also, stepped into ed off the gridiron to the students as the limelight as did Maus, House, we saw them. . I Jackson, Gresham and otners aurmg Our nolicv has been to avoid unjust the season, but none showed the con criticism,, but to criticize when it was sistency of play that Nash did. His needed. Perhaps at times the criticism work against Wake Forest, Maryland, have been rather raw.1 at other times V. P. I., Georgia Tech, Davidson, and we were not direct enough, but we Virginia was outstanding. In the think, that we -have been just all the other games he was shaded by .some way around. . . ot tn otner oaronna Dacs, uui uc TV.rnnt t,nQ ir.W,wa T, played a. laTge part oi eacn OI niese & . . I J 1 v;t- 4-Tiif been only praise for the coaches. Sames ailu. we u'tlUi . From those who have attended oacn uomns was piaymg mm c nraetices reeTilarlv and who have fol- to a lack "of back field material. i closing our all-state selections that Wyrick of Carolina, Holt of Carolina Donahoe oi uarouna, urum 01 state, Baker of Davidson and several otherj Were worthy of consideration, besides those we mentioned in our selection. lowed the Carolina team through the entire season, there ' can only come praise for Coach . Collins and those who -have helped him mould the Caro lina team of 1928. He has . been un tiring and - he has been patient. At times it seemed that there were un surmountable obstacles in his path, but always he has been there working with the team, t; The team .seems to have assimilated part of his philoso phy, for no one can say that'the Caro lina team has Jet the fact that, they were going against a ar superior team worry them. The bigger the team the harder- Carolina fought. -;So it was with Coach Collins, jthe more injuries the harder he worked. - v Therefore in closing this, the last Grid Dust for 1928, we wish to say, congratulations " to Coach Collins and his team they were never beaten. OUR ALL-STATE Before undertaking this task", we went to the tronble to ask several well known sport authorities through out North Carolina as to the relative merits of several players. We did this-not only to .satisfy ourselves as to the worth of the players we were placing on an all-state team, but also to be able . to satisfy those 'who will object to the selections made by the columnist: " - - : . . ,.- There were this year four excellent ends playing on "Big Five" teams in this state. ,: State had Jordan, David son had Brock and Carolina had Sapp and Holt. If Brock had been playA mg with a higher ranking team, he would undoubtedly, have rated all- state, for he is an excellent defensive player as well as being Very good on the offense. But being handicapped by the record made by Davidson this year and his size he is not quite in the class "of the other; three ends mentioned. We place Jordan and Sapp on the flank positions of our all state team. 'They. are both experienc ed and capable ends. Holt lacks the experience of the other two. At the beginning of the season it looked as ! if there was a dearth of tackles in the state, but with the closing of .the season several players , distinguished themselves with their playing. Not ably among these were Koenig of Carolina and Kistler of Duke. Yet we feel that the playing of Lepo of State and Weatherby of Duke throughoutthe season overshadows the performances of the two 'juniors Koenig and Kistler. Lepo and Weatherby have played consistently good football all fall and, despite the great playing of Koenig and Kistler during the closing games of the past campaign, are' placed on the all-state team. ' . . - The three remaining positions in the line are easy. Just mention Far ris and Vaughn . for the guards and Schwartz for center and one has a trio who are in a class to themselves Metts is good, but he hasn't" the all round ability that Schwartz boasts; and then again he lacks the keen judgement the Tar Heel captain has. 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