THE TAR HEEL
Thursday, January 3, 192
A Prize for Some Student
If the truth were told, however,
Chapel Hill wasn't really dead at any
.time . during .the holidays, although
there were days and nights when the
spark of life burned low, and flick
ered, and almost went out, as Mr. Z.
Grey or the late Mr. J. London would
say of a hellbent cowboy or a
poisoned dog, respectively.
School closed Thursday night. Some
restless souls took immediate depar
ture; by Friday afternoon the seeth
ing mass had cleared out and by Fri
day night Chapel Hill's collegiate
swagger was like the wag of the
proverbial dead sheep's tail. After
Saturday the ranks of the stragglers
thinned fast. The law students held
on longest. , 1
The butch er,: the baker, and the
candlestick-maker began to sigh, and
weep, and make great moan, for
sooth; as did also the clothier, and the
druggist, and the -landlady, and the
dry-cleaner, and the grocer, and the
bootlegger, and the in fact, every
body m the county who had anything
to sell. Business limped on both feet
for the lack of a student to grace
withal. Only the mailman : dropped
a gladsome sigh."1
In the midst of weeping, and wail
ing, and gnashing of teeth Dean
Paulsen was the first to see the joke.
"Hear those freshmen yelling," he
chalked upon his blackboard, "just
waif till they get back after Christ
mas and find exams awaiting them.
Franklin Street wore her crepe with
an air of .unjust suffering. The
heaped merchandise of ' Christmas
lay on the shelves without a buyer.
Boardinghouse apprentices grimly
guillotined the Sunday chickens and
took them to the cold storage plant
Artistic pyramids of Whitman's and
Nunnally's bore placards telling of a
tragic 33 1-3 per cent, discount. Men
spoke to one another in low tones.
Dismay! Everybody gone a week a
head of " schedule time! Loss stark
loss to the town twenty-five thous
and dollars, forty thousand, fifty
thousand, sixty so ran the awesome
estimates.
Then places began to close down.
Miss Cates closed her Cafeteria. One
Saturday evening the "Welcome-In
served its last holiday meal, and the
next day Polly's Coffee Shop stopped
perculating. for a week. Meanwhile
Swain's two tablesful had increased
to three, but wheh the Infirmary
ceased to call for food Swain closed
too. (Note: The Infirmary list
shrank quickly when school closed. It
is said that fever Resulting from the
drinking of ashes in coco-cola is of
short duration. This fact was cer
tainly fortunate for the martyrs.)
The campus proper began to cut
out service. Doc Laws on ran the last
lonely gymnast out from under a
hot shower, turned off the lights, cut
off the water supply, locked the gym
back and front, looked square-jawed,
put the keys in his pocket, got into
his Ford, and left old Bynum Mem
orial to a fortnight's dust, and dark
ness. Then the lights and water were
cut off in our favorite dormitory and
there' were only the showers of bleak
Emerson Stadium left to gambol un
der. Cold down there too!
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practically all of the colleges in the country are competing for the col
legiate plane in essay contest.
Playmakers to Usher in New
Year With Varied Program
By J. E. DUNGAN
The Carolina Playmakers will ush
er in the new year with a genuine
and faithful reproduction of an old
English custom, the Twelfth Night
revel, as their first official act of
1929. The night selected for the in
tellectual celebrating is January 12.
In Elizabethan times the twelfth day
following Christmas was observed by
feasting and drink. In the mountain
districts of the state the Anglo-Saxon
descendants still keep : -Twelfth
Night in the robust style of medieval
days. In Russia the peasants observe
Little Christmas in addition to
Christmas day.
Professor Koch, amiable mentor of
the dramatic group, has been the
chief personage behind the local ob
serving of Twelfth Night. The inter
pretation the Playmakers place on
the event is a general convivial rec
ognition of the holiday season, in 'ad
dition to an effort at maintaining the
contacts the Playmakers have foster
ed...; v-V '.-;:;v.::;: "
Admission to the revelry is by invi
tation only. All the authors, the ac
tors, the stage workers, and all those
who have given time or properties
for the use of the Playmakers are
very heartily urged to attend. There
will be no formal invitations. All
who expect to attend are requested
to appear in costume of the Elizabe
than period preferred. Miss Eliza
beth Farrer, in charge of the pro
gram, will give advice on costumes to
those interested. The addition of
ruffs to collar and cuffs of practi
cally any ordinary costume, . however,
produces the desired effect.
Middle Temple Hall, London, Eng
land, the scene of , the first Twelfth
Night Revel at which the barristers
and law students of London made
merry in the good old lusty manner
that English gentlemen Were so fa
mous for, will be reproduced on the
stage of the Theatre. A .Lord of Mis
rule, and a king and queen of Twelfth
Night are among the functionaries
that will gladden the occasion with
their, wit and jollity.
Already scheduled on the extensive
program is 4 the kitchen scene from
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, in
which Howard Bailey, Hubert Heff
ner, Urban Holmes and Samuel Sel
don will besport themselves.
The healthy play "St.. George," a
pa van, which is a court dance of the
days of "Good Queen Bess," carol
singing, and numerous skits written
especially forthe night are also, in
cluded in the program. ' -
Spearman Returns From Meeting
Of National Student Association
Long before Christmas it was sort
o' lonesome hereabouts. ' Dormitories
all dark and quiet at night; nobody
much down street. Just a few town
boys and the high school gang sit
tin' around the vies at Sutton's and
the Stationery Store.
Walter Spearman, editor of The
Tar Heel, who served as the official
delegate of the University of North
Carolina to the fourth annual con-
f gress of the National Student Asso
ciation of the America, meeting at
the University of MissouriColumbia,
Missouri, returned to his home in
Charlotte December 17.
Spearman was one of one hundred
and seventy-five official college and
university representatives. The pur
pose of the organization is to foster
friendlier relations among college
students, in addition to a program
a,imed at world peace.
December 12, the first day of the
convention, was ocpupied with regis
tration in the morning, the evening
of the first day the congress officially
convened to hear addresses by Gover
nor Baker of the state of Missouri,
and the president of the University.
Thursday and Friday were devoted
to general business. A president to
serve the term of 1929 was , elected,
the position falling to UrseLNarver,
of the Oregon State College. Ed
Miller of Harvard University, the re
tiring president, addressed the body
indicating his faith in the ability of
students the world over to wrestle
with the problems of world peace, and
more specifically, individual problems
of student honor, and governmental
control upon every campus.
Of greatest importance and worth
to the delegates were the seminar
discussions conducted on topics of
vital interest to students, such as
fraternity rushing problems, honor
systems, editorial responsibility for
campus editors.
Spearman attended discussions of
college honor systems, and student
government. A majority of the dele
gates registered their opinions that
their honor systems were failures.
In most cases student government has
no disciplinary powers. Carolina's
government and honor system were
the subject of interest, the delegates
expressing surprize at its complete
Editor Spearman, also participated
in a discussion on journalism conduct
ed by A. C. Field, an ex-editor of The
Harvard Crimson. , Tlie matter of
editorial responsibility - showed the
congress equally- divided into three
classes representatives of schools
where the editors were entirely res
ponsibl to the faculties, those, where
the ' responsibility went back to the
student council and the student body,
and those that had no responsibility
whatsoever. ' J
Hash and Mothballs
By Joe Jones
Chapel Hill lives again! She has
risen phoenix-like out of her ashes, as
the romanticists are wont to say.
By Christmas Eve almost every
body was gone. About the only men
left were Red Wood, Kickoff Rowe,
and Puny Harper. These three were
faithful unto the end; although Red
did slip off home for New Year's Day.
The zero hour came the day after
Christmas. That day saw several
more places closed for the balance of
the holidays; namely, the Owl, the
Carolina Grill, and the University
Book and Stationery Co. Foister's
had been closed for some days. In
'the , way of eating places there was
only Gooch's, the Carolina Inn Cafe
teria, and the Smoke Shop left. The
drug, drygoods, hardware, and gro
cery stores didn't close. The Caro
lina Theatre kept open, but the crowds
were meager. : The Library was
open daily from nine to five.
They are opening up a new jail in
Asheville, and; we wonder-what per
centage of the population remember
the grand headline Will Aiken wrote
over an episode of a former one:
"Buncombe's Boasted Bastile , Badly
Busted by Burly Black Burglars."
Creensbaro News.
University Well
Represented at
; Sociological Meet
The University of North Carolina
was well represented at the recent
meeting of the "American Sociologi
cal Society" at the Hotel Congress of
Chicago. Quite a number of men from
the University department of Soci
ology attended the meetings which
lasted from December 26. to 29.
Dr. II. G. Duncan read a paper
entitled "The process of Assimilation."
Professor Lee M. Jones read a paper
regarding study of isolated families
in certain regions of Kentucky. Dr.
L. L. Bernard was in charge of the
section on Human Ecology. Rupert
P. Vance gave a contribution on
"Cotton culture and social life in the
South". Dr. Howard W. Odum, head
of the department of Sociology at the
University, was elected first vice
president of the "American Sociologi
cal Society". Dr. E. R. Groves was
to .be in charge of the section on the
family, but was prevented from going
by an attack of the, flu.
Di Senate to Hold
Meeting January 15
The Dialectic Senate will not hold
its regular, meeting on the night of
Tuesday, January 8 due to the fact
that examinations will " then be in
progress. The first meeting of the
winter quarter, therefore, will occur
in New West building on the night
of January 15. ;
This will be one of the most im
portant meetings of the entire quar
ter not only because it will be the
first gathering of the. Senate since
the holidays but because the new of
ficers which were elected at the last
meeting of the Senate will take
charge then. These officers are :
president, H. N. Brown, III; presi
dent pro-tem,. J. C. Williams; clerk,
H. P. Caton, sergeant-at-arms, G. A.
Kincaid; assistant treasurer, R. A.
Parsley; critic, H. J. Fox. Dtie to
the fact that the treasurer serves for
three quarters Garland McPherson
will continue to serve in that capa
city. ,
Advertise in the TAR nEEL.
Henderson Names
Great Dramatists
Lists Shaw, O'Neill and Pirandello
In Address before New Drama
League.
The three greatest dramatists of
today are Shaw, O'Neill, and Piran
dello, according to Dr. Archibald Hen
derson, head of the Mathematics De
partment of the University and
biographer of Bernard Shaw, who is
quoted in the New. York Times from
anpaddress he" made in the metrop
olis at the annual dinner of the New
York Centre of the Drama League.
Two of the three, Dr. Henderson
pointed out, came out of the Little
Theatre, whose development he hailed
as the "means of a renaissance for
the theatre in a machine age."
Dr. Henderson ranked O'Neill as
the most original technician in ; the
theatre in the world, and pointed out
that he received his early training
under Prof, George Pierce Baker,
creator of the famous "47 Workshop"
at Harvard and now professor of
dramatic literature at Yale, and later
i at the Pro vincetown Theatre.
Shaw's career had a similar begin
ning, he showed, with the Independent
Theatre and the London Stage Soci
ety. '
Discussing the theory of relativity,
Dr: Henderson delivered one of three
principal addresses at the meeting of
the American Mathematical Society
in Cincinnati, O., last week after
which he went to New York to ad
dress the Drama League.
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Us Democrats have got to raise $1,
600,000. Couldn't we trade Massachu
setts and Rhode Island back in and
get a discount? Dallas News.
.Personally we are tired of elections
held merely for the purpose of vin
dicating The Literary Digest Dallas
News.
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j Three Former Carolina
Playmakers Now Making
i , Good on New. York Stage
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I played the role of Baptista Minola.
Fine Character Actor
Director Frederick H. Koch charac-
terized him as "one of f our outstand
ing character actors" while a Play
maker. He practically created roles,
Director Koch said, in his perform
ances in Prof. W. D. McMillan's "Off
Nag's Head," Prof. Paul Green's
"Quare Medicine," and Frances Gray's
"The Beaded Buckle," all folk-plays,
and also played leading parts in sev
eval of the Playmakeir Forest Theatre
productions. He seems to have at
last gained his ambition in acting
Shakespeare.
- Hodgin received his Master's de
gree in English here in '27, and tried
teaching for a while,, but inevitably
came back to the theatre. He was
also a leading Playmaker, and was
the author of one of the Playmakers'
folk-plays, "Clay" in which he played
the leading ' part.
Director Koch had a letter from
Hodgin just the other day in which
he exchanged reminiscences and told
all the news The Leiber Repertory
Company is playing "Hamlet," "Mac
beth," "Taming of the Shrew," "Mer
chant of Venice" and "Julius Caesar"
on tour, and after winding up at New
Orleans will go on to Texas. There
is a chance, Mr. Hodgin said, that
they will play through the Carolinas
on their way back, and he expressed
the hope that they would make
Chapel Hill. " ' ,
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