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T II E TAR H EE L
Thursday, January 3, 1929
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enough to stay at home with it.
There are few victims on the campus,
and the Infirmary shows "no signs of
being overrun any time in the near
future. . '
The week lost before Christmas
will be made up by a curtailment of
the spring holidays and the extension
of the spring term further into June.
All time lost now on account of the
influenza will be made up in full later
.on in the year, so it behooves us to
see to it that a second closing, is not
made necessary or expedient..- The
prospect of spending-the Fourth of
July still paying for time -lost in
December and January is by no means
pleasing. ..
Down with the flu and on with
school, say we exams to the , con
trary notwithstanding!
Reporters
M. Broadus
Sherman Shore
W. C.'Dunn ;
J. C. Eagles
J. P. Jones .
W. A. Shelton
D. L. Wood
C. B. McKethan
J. C. Williams
E. Wilson
Gil Pearson
B. G. Barber
J. E. Dungan
G. A. Kincaid
Dick McGlohon
J. Q. Mitchell
B. C. Moore
K. C. Ramsay
Linwood Harrell
E. F. Yarborough
II. HTTaylor
E. H. Denning
J. D. McNairy
B. W. Hitton
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
. Executive Staff
B. M. Parker ..... Asst. Bus. Mgr.
H. N. Patterson Collection Mgr.
Gradon Pendergraph Circulation Mgr.
T. R. Kirriker Asst. Col. Mgr.
"Advertising Staff
Leonard Lewis- Milton Cohen
Harry Latta Sidney Brick
Ben Aycock H, Jameson
Kermit Wheary ' II. Merrell
Thursday, January 3, 1929
PARAGRAPHICS
Among the carryovers from the
holidays is that famous Christmas
song, "I Can't Give You Anything
But Love!" . .. . -
Carryovers are all right, but it is
considered . more courteous not to
mention the hangovers.
Favorite Christmas pun: Santa
Clans failed 'to arrive on time be-j
cause he got caught in the flu.
Saturday morning we will find out
whether the flu is actually caused by
exposure to - cold or by exposure to
exams.
It's somewhat hard on the habitual
makers of New Year's resolutions not
to have a new term to experiment
with. Exams call for so much more
than mere resolutions.
Back :
Again
The holidays are over and now on
ly the memory of Christmas trees
and mistletoe., of turkey and cran
berries, of fruitcake nd eggnogf of
Christmas cheer and Cnristmas spirit
remain to tide; us through, the coming
ordeal of postponed exams.
Gold ; watches, Chrysler cars, golf
clubs and all the " other eagerly wel
.corned paraphernalia from Santa's
pack may serve their respective pur
poses well, but unfortunately they
are of no avail when it come to the
matter of passing off French 3, His
tory 7, or English 59, - In fact, the
one gift that would, come in most
usefully at the present moment is
the ability to do three months work
;in the three days time allotted for
review. , ",'--
Saturday ushers in the first day of
Avjmiinations. L.est tnere De waning
and moaning and gnashing of teeth
as quiz books come in sight, there
must be intensive study in prepara
tion. Three days of grace have been
granted us. Make ' them count. '
Down With
(The Influenza J i
Dire predictions followed close up
on the announcement that the Uni
versity would reopen its doors on the
second of January. Students who
ardently desired to prolong the Christ
mas holidays, for another week or so
declared that the Infirmary would
immediately be filled with new cases
- - . i " ' - i . 3
of the tm ana tnai classes wouia
have to be suspended again. '. ,
Fortunately, such is not the case.
If many students are still suffering
from flu, they were at least discreet
Two Days
To Go
There is., a decidedly bad taste in
the mouth of the average Carolina
student as he returns from the free-
dom and pleasures of the exception
ally" long holiday period and finds
the formidable spectre of examina
tions hovering just three days off.
He is mentally and physically below
par as ji result of the inevitable after
math of the holidays. If he is an in
dividual subject to, depressed moods
he is particularly apt to find himself
in a most unfortunate condition, and
this condition will necessarily detract
from his efficiency on examinations.
The. whole situation is unfortunate
that three full weeks have elapsed
since the abrupt suspension of classes,
that the many events of the Christ
mas season have intervened to' aid
in driving all memory of the particles
of knowledge gleaned from the quar
ter's work out of the student's mind,
that the authorities saw fit to begin
examinations Saturday instead of al
lowing the week-end for a period of
much-needed review, and that! such a
' . ..- ..... - .
short period only three- days of
regular classes is allowed for the
student to overcome the effects of the
holiday reaction and settle back into
the usual routine. V ;
We are heartily out of sympathy
with the whole state of affairs, but
.we see no way o alter it and there
fore we hereby heave a tremendous
sigh, resign ourselves to our fate, and
commence a Herculean effort to put
ourself into shape for the ordeal. We
have always considered examinations
as basically unfair from the student
point of view and doubted their value
as absolute indicators of the amount
of knowledge possessed by the stu
dent. , We wish some one would in
vent an electrical apparatus to pain
lessly determine the knowledge or
ignorance possessed by that much
maligned object known as the. student
body but that is beside the question
We don't approve of the faculty
action in beginning exams Saturday,
but there is nothing we can do about
it. We shall simply try to make the
best of- a bad situation and buckle
down to intense work during, the
next couple of days. They may be
the saving of us who knows?
GLENN HOLDER
University Alumni
Hold Meetings
During Holidays
There were several holiday meet
ings of University alumni , despite the
prevailing influenza scare, reports J.
Maryon Saunders, alumni secretary.
; Asheville alumni banqueted at the
Battery Park Hotel Saturday -eve
ning, December 29th, and heard Gen
eral Theodore F. Davidson speak of
"My Recollections of the University.
General Davidson is , distinguished
for a life of public service in North
Carolina. He is a veteran of the war
between the state, and was for years
attorney-general of North Carolina,
Dean Dudley D. Carroll was the
principal speaker at a meeting of
University alumni and students in
Surry County, at Mt. Airy last Mon
day night. Members of the all-State
high school football team were guests
of the University folk at this ban
quet.-
New Bern alumni held their annual
holiday . meeting Saturday . evening,
December 29th, and had Frank P
Graham as chief speaker.
Gaston County alumni did not have
banquet, but met for the election of
ffieer3 for the new year two Fri
days before Thanksgiving. The Gas
on alumni are planning a big cele
.ration sometime in the near future.
Let Lie Introduce
. - by
J. MARYON SAUNDERS
Alumni Secretary
ma
HONORS DR. KANE
Is Elected to Membership of
Royal Academy of Science,
Literature, and Arts of Cor
dobaIn Recognition of His
Rook. --,
V Judge Samuel E. Shull
Dr. Venable, who was president of
the University from i900 to 1915, re
ceived recently a letter from his
former student "Mike" Shull in" which
was contained this sentence : J' We old
Chapel Hill men feel it a duty and
find pleasure as well in 7 reporting
from time to time to some of those
from whom we drew inspiration or
received instruction while at the Uni
versity."' And "Mike" Shull had a
fine report to make.
Newspaper dispatches recently
told of how the bar association of
J,udge Shull's' home district met in
special session to !ask 'Judge Shull,
who has been on the Pennsylvania
bench for eleven years, to become a
candidate . again for his office. Since
1917 he has been a. presiding judge
of the 43rd judicial district of Penn
sylvania, a court which corresponds
to North Carolina's superior court.
In that time Judge Shull . lias never
had a decision reversed by the appe
late court. His associate legalists
exercised good judgment , in asking
that he run again for office, and de
claring that "no good citizen . should
oppose such .candidacy." : f ;
Between his graduation from the
University Law School in 1900 with
the LL.B. degree : and his ascension
to the bench, Judge' Shull practiced
law in his home at Shroudsburg,
Pennsylvania. In college he played
on the football teams of 1897-98-99.
In the latter year he was captain. He
was a member of Delta Kappa Epsi
lon fraternity. In alumni affairs
Judge ghull has been prominent,
sponsoring several gatherings of Uni
versity alumni in and around Phila
delphia. He was on the alumni
board of directors for several years.
Carolina Theatre
Uses Disinfectant
To Protect Patrons
; ) ; . . ,
Special steps being "taken to disin
fect the Carolina Theatre in the
emergency of the influenza situation
render the local amusement rendez
vous as safe a place as. the streets,
according to Manager E. C. Smith,
who explained the system in use to
a Tar. Heel reporter yesterday.
The disinfectant used is a highly
powerful but comparatively sweet
smelling preparation perfected es
pecially for such use by the labora
tories of the Publix-Saenger Company
and is being used in their theatres
throughout the country.
It is pumped in via fans moving
slowly and is constantly in circula
tion in the house. Eight dollars worth
of the preparation is used daily in
the effort to make the theatre the
safest place possible. '
Health officers throu ghout the
country have passed most favorably
on the disinfecting system. The Dur
ham County health officer inspect
ing the same system being . used - in
Durham declared that it made the
theatre as &af e a place as .the streets
or as safe as anywhere could be with
people mingling together.. : . '
High recognition and honor have
just come to Dr. Elisha K. Kane, of
the Spanish Department, in the an
nouncement that he has been selected
to ' corresponding membership in the
Royal Academy of Science, Literature
and Arts of Cordoba, Spain.
The Academy has but few foreign
members, and Dr. Kane is the first
American invited to membership. The
announcement was received ; here to
day, it being in recognition of Dr.
Kane's fine literary work on Gongora,
the "Spanish . Homer" of his day, en
titled "Gongorism and the : Golden
Age", which was brought out recently
by tha University of North Carolina
Press. ' ' - ' 1
In announcing Dr. Kane's selection
to membership the secretary of the
Academy wrote, in part : "Your book
on 'Gongorism and the Golden Age'
is of great interest. . A member of
our Academy has made a summary
of the same which he ' read at. the
meeting of our corporation on the
10th of November, receiving unani
mous applause from all' the members
of this body. ' He has also sent this
summary to the 'La Gaceta -Literaria'
of Madrid in which it will be publish
ed ; , . : - v .:r::-";;
Dr. Katie's hook has been most
favorably reviewed in -all the metro
politan papers, book .review sections
and has .drawn much praise. It is a
survey of the (gongoristic movement
in poetry, drama, sculpture, architec
ture, t painting and music and shows
clearly the relationship of the grotes-
guerie of this golden age to that of;
our own time.
Gongora was to admiring poetasters
of that day the "Homer. of Spain" and
the "Swan of Cordoba", but today his
name has become 'a symbol for a dy
ing art and a debauched literature,
pr Kane evaluates the whole gongor
istic movement and traces the de
velopment of a craze for fantastic
art, quite similar in essence to that of
the present,- but in a period three
centuries perspective, admirably
linking the work up with present day
eccentricities in .art. :
br. Kane decorated the book him
self, it containing twenty half-tone
plates illustrating the text and ap
propriately decorated head and tail
pieces.
J. P. II. McNatt was on the Hill
for a day or two the first of the week,
Hwhen he narrowly missed having nis
hand shaken, off by his many old
friends and acquaintances in the Uni
versity. McNatt, when he graduated
last spring was one of the most well
known men on the campus. He is at
present studying Theology at Ober
lon. : : , : y
Di Calendar
The following items appear on the
calendar of the Dialectic Senate:
1. Resolved, That the Dialectic
Senate go on record as favoring the
plan of issuing the Tar Heel six
times per week.
2. Resolved, That the Dialectic
Senate go on record as approving the
plan offered by J. M. Booker for
re-organizing student government at
the University of North Carolina. '
3. Resolved, That the Dialectic
Senate go on record as advocating the
abolition of chapel for Sophomores.
4. Resolved, That the Dialectic
Senate go on record as stating that
the Ku Klux Klan is a menace to the
general welfare of the public.
5. Resolved, That the Dialectic
Senate go on record as opening it3
doors for membership to the women
of the University. '
Send the TAR HEEL home. $3.00
per college year. -:
In a household' budget the mathe
matical problem is to make V eqal
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A HAPPY
NEW YEAR
Welcome back and we sure
ly are glad to have you.
Hope you escaped the "flu"
and are feeling fit and fine
to start the New Year off
right.'
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