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THE TAR HE E L
Tuesday March 5, 1929
Leading Southern College Tri
weekly Newspaper
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
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Tuesday, March 5, 1929 t
PARAGRAPHICS
" Somebody -told "us yesterday thai
except for the cuts and . the jokes
the new Buccaneer really wasn't so
very dirty.
The Duke basketeers sort. of two
timed Carolina's White Phantoms in
the tournament two times" 17 is 34!
Dean Bradshaw "tells ' the "freshmen
that "college habits are life habits."
Yes, and for some people the college
habit becomes a life habit before they
ever graduate!
Add to the similes of the season:
As successful as the Di dance.
And while speaking of that delight
ful dance, it might be well to an
nounce that the ancient senators
didn't step out of their picture frames
and down from the walls after all.
They rather seemed to enjoy the
novelty of the gay occasion.
A new excuse .has been discovered
for the growing of insipid little mus
taches; their owners can twist the
corners to prove their nonchalance
it's much , cheaper . than buying
Murads.
Instructors Who
Fail To Instruct
Of all the handicaps suffered dur
ing the ' educational process of a
freshman the saddest is the lack of
competent professors. The man who
has just graduated from high school
or prep school arrives at the Uni
versity expecting instruction of
superior worth and receives as his
teacher the newest, most inexperi
enced and weakest member of each
department.' This is not always the
case, of course, but it happens to at
least the well-known "four out of
j every nve" freshmen.'.
The irievi table result of such a
course, is that the best freshmen stu
dents become disgusted at the ig
norance and inability of their in
structors and form the habit of let
ting their work slide along in some
slipshod manner. And the weaker
students drift aimlessly along the
educational stream without that bit
of inspiration somehow imparted by
a master-teacher which often ' serves
to start the pupil on. an earnest and
fascinating quest of knowledge. ;
No doubt it is necessary, for aca
demic instructors to secure-valuable
experience in teaching, but it is un
duly hard on the freshmen to make
them the victims of unpracticed and
unskilled novices. The first year of
college life is important to a man, I
for that -year molds his attitude to
ward education, toward, professors,
and . towards college as a whole. If
his impressions are to be made in
the freshman year then, it is high
ly important that he be given the best
the University can- provide rather
than low-man from each department.
Then, too, a great " percentage . of
students get no farther in the educa
tional game than the first year. -They
need the best ' instruction possible if
they are-to leave college "with only
one year's training, so why not give
them a chance at the 7 professorial
cream of the institution rather than
compelling them to subsist solely up
on : skimmed-milk-instructors ?
After the crucial first year, the
real student begins to do his work
to alargedegree upon his own ini
tiative. Then he needs " the . advice
and the help of professors more than
actual lecturing or quizzing. But the
freshman, just embarking upon his
journey, is in sore need of the best
to behad. Give him the pick of the
history, English, math, and language
departments for the fatal first year
and he will bevso well launched' that
he can carry on well enough forjthe
other three 'years. -
All Praise ; ' : "
To the Rain -
Rain, a gentle, monotonous1 down
pour. . The jniversity presents a
bedraggled appearance? South; and
the dormitories are like plump old
maids with water-soaked skirts cling
ing to their ample forms. Every
where is Chapel Hill mud, famous for
its gooey consistency and clinging
qualities. In the past few years the
Ground Committee has made de
termined efforts to rid the campus of
squashy underfooting in wet weather,
by means of gravel and grass. But
Chapel Hill mud is not easily con
quered. -More gravel on all the walks
and more grass on the campus, are
needed especially "between South and
! the railroad tracks and back of the
library.
Running diagonally across the
campus from Old West to Alumni
there is a great ugly red-clay gash
in the campus, left when a careless
ditching crew did not cover up traces
of its work. This gash- ruins the
appearance 6f the entire campus in
the vicinity; it should be turfed over.
With all the unpleasant appurten
ances of the almost continual rain re
cently, it is, however, a blessing, in
the guise of , a curse. Exams begin
Saturday week, and who can deny
that the rain has a certain soothing
effect that is conducive to study? All
the temptations of ctieerful spring
days to idleness and casual pleasures
are removed by the gloomily soothing
rain. All praise to the rain, or it
is the foe of spring fever, and spring
fever does not consort with good ex
amination grades. -4
GLENN HOLDER.
Optional Attendance
Not Working Well
At Other, Colleges
Optional class attendance is gain
ing ground all over the country, but
it seems that, like many other innova
tions, it has its seamy side; in this
case chiefly" due to professors who
like regular attendance whether or
not is is made optional by the higher
ups. '. ' i :
The New Student says, "One ad
mirable college reform that is making
considerable headway this winter is'
optional class attendance.1 Over , a
dozen colleges have granted it to
favored groups' since the college year
opened. Students who manage to get
this measure accepted 'in principle' by
theauthorities are reminded that very
often what the dean giveth the college
professor taketh away. The Barnard
Bulletin complains that althougn this
was to be a year of experiment in
senior freedom from compulsory at
tendance, some professors have prac
ticed nullification. 'Almost immedi
ately we were warned of the psycho
logical effect absence from class would
have on professors. ... To climax the
whole attitude, we know at least one
instructor who has gone to the extreme
of giving an extra examination to all
seniors who have overcut.' " - "
There are times when we question
the' pronouncements of the learned,
but one of the things we have de
cided not to prove for ourselves is the
recent statement of a prominentma
turalist that lions are near-sighted.
Neio York Evening Post.
john mebane -
A Note on the Young Intellectual
"Always perhaps young ' intellec
tualism but more markedly in recent
years. It associates itself with the
J azz Age, . Flaming Youth, the daz
zling effloresenee of overgrown chil
dren. We ask: Progress or Disinte
gration? Everything is moving, but
where to ? Heaven is above, hell be
low. '
- Pseudo-intellectualism is lampant.
The club, I believe, is called the In
telligentsia and -exists noticeably on
college and university campuses. Pre
requisites seem to be: contorted ex
pressions, gargantuan vocabularies
and awkward gestures. These re
quirements, of course, are too lenient,
and the ranks steadily swell. Their
purpose, so it seems, is to further .the
revolt against standardization and
convention this particularly in literature.
feeble thanks. I might have mistaken
him f or an imposter. :
, When the dreamy-eyedreads this,
he will exclaim; "My God! Are all
people so unintelligent?" And I shall
be forced to take shelter behind pseu
donyms and remain in ''obscurity at
least beyond the range of verbal brick
bats and gestures from the inkpot. .
High Basketeers To
Close, Season Tonight
Hugh Morson High and New Hanover
High Teams to Clash in Dunn.
James Joyce. is their deity, James
Branch Cabell, the right-hand man,
and Robinson : Jeffers completes the
god-head about which drift in'' ecstasy
angels with expressions resembling
those - of Eugene Jolas, Gertrude
Stein, E. E. Cummings, Archibald
MacLeish, Hart -Crane, Theodore
Dreiser, and Sherwood. Anderson; and
occasionally H. L. M. himself dons
the feathers and may be seen drift
ing casually among the lot. And so
the young intellectuals genuflect with
due reverence before the throne of
their masters. Prayers are sent' up
to the omnipotent thrice daily four
times on week-ends. - . . .
Wandering about in a daze, self
intoxicated, is ! delightful I do not
deny it. Only, sometimes, big automo
biles run
drunk.
over the usually-lyrical
This, we call, the Age of Transition,
the passing from the old literature to
the new. And though the ferry is
over-crowded, Charon poles faithfully
and steadily on. We wonder some
times about return tickets. I haven't
an idea . of what is on the further
shore I presume, that there is a shore
somewhere in the distance but,- hav
ing a rather vivid imagination, I
often believe that I might venture a
prophecy were I not afraid of the
caustic ridicule of the1 dreamy-eyed.
The basketball championship . con
ducted by the Extension department
under the auspicesof the University
is coming to a close with Hugh JMor
son'high school of Raleigh and New
Hanover high of Wilmington playing
tonight in Dunn for the eastern high
school basketball title of the state.
Both. have a strong team and are ex
pected to play one of the best games
of the season. 1 - . -
Asheville and Charlotte played last
night in Asheville. The winner of the
contest will meet Winston-Salem in
Salisbury WTednesday . night for the
western championship. The western
champions will meet the eastern
champions in the Tin Can Friday
night for the state title. " Admission
will be fifty cents. A large crowd is
expected from the communities send
ing teams down for the final .game.
The county clubs in . the University
will entertain the winning teams be
fore the game Saturday night.
The teams still remaining in the
I contest have an unusually fine record.
Interest has. been as high in the cham
pionship race this year as any ever
conducted by the University. The
final game is expected to see two of
the best high school teams ever gather
ed together playing here. : f
An invitation has beeii extended to
the state basketball champions to
compete in the national tournament
to be held .at the University of -Chi
cago on April 2 to 5. Several state
champions in former years have at
tended the national meet and shown
up quite well. ' :
The -most radical changes are
found in poetry, or ratherf verse. I
am dubious about attempting a defini
tion of modern verse; I would be cer
tain to exclude someone's. To say
that it is unreadable and incompre
hensible is to pay it the most subtle
compliment. Gertrude Stein's "poetry"
has been explained to me on various
occasions by exuberant clansmen, and
I nod, smile . gently, and assume pro
found interest. But I am too dull,
perhaps, to distinguish between her
poetry and her prose, (She has, writ
ten both; they tell me, and plays, too).
Yet, I am certain that these inter
preters endeavor to make themselves
perfectly clear. -For instance, I pon
dered over this for half an hour:
Put it here in there "there where
they have iff ; ,
Put it there in there there and they
halve it .
Put it there in there there and they
have it , ' '
Put it there in there there and tfiey
, halve it
I haven't quite grasped the idea yet.
There is no idea, they tell me. Her
poetry is abstract and I agree silen
tly. '
E. E. Cummings, too, has been ex
plained. In fat, I think that I read
a book in which Laura Riding under
took an excellent defense of him, and
of'Gertrude Stein, too, if. I remember
correctly. But, upon reading that, I
could shake my head, breathe a deli
cate sigh, and turn gently to Rossetti
or Meredith ; for there were no promp
ters to re-explain that only the time
sense has history.
These young intellectuals have
rather filled days. Before breakfast,
Ezra Pound; Eugene Jolas is sipped
with coffee; Joyce finds his way into
the classroom carefully concealed be
neath the cloak of John Ruskin; at
lunch, Cabell is gulped down' with a
bowl of soup, and MacLeish is saved
for desert, in the afternoon, Edith Sit
well is- more casually perused; and
J ef f ers suffers the fate of steak at
supper. Then, Hart Crane, Marcel
Proust, D. H. Lawrence, and so far
into the night. .
"Why hell!" exclaims the intellect
ual, "I'm damn .good." And so he is.
I think, perhaps, that "the barbers
voice the - main objection to the liter
ati; "their- scissors- need to be inces
santly sharpened. Clothing stores,
too, jutter occasional words they
dislike to, go' in mourning. "Why
bother about ; what others think?"
interrogates the sombre-garbed. "I
am myself." Apd at this I mutter
President Hoover
Praises Military
Training Camps
i 1 -.
Voicing not only , his own opinion
but also that -of organized labor, of
capital and of religious and educa
tional bodies, President Hoover saidj
of the Citizens Military Training
camps, , "The experience of : eight
years has thoroughly justified the es
tablishment of these centers for the
voluntary training of the youth of
the nation. They have made their
own place . in our plan of democratic
government, and I look with hope and
confidence to their continued and in
creasing" usefulness."
During the .eight years the growth
of the camps has-been so great, and
so pronounced and obvious have been
th benefits that no effective dissent
ing voice - has been raised against
them. Opposition to them is gen
erally considered to be about the same
as opposition to good citizenship, and
it is felt that so long as the young
men of the, country show such inter
est in- the C.M.T.C. peace and pros
perity will not result in a soft gen
eration of man's mental, moral, and
physical being. .
So great has grown the list of-ap-plications
that many of the later ap
plicants now v have to be denied the
privileges of these camps. Today a
marr must apply early, and he must
comply with all the requirements for
acceptance. The date he fulfills these
requirements is the determining fac
tor as to whether or not he goes to
camp. 'Many young men lost then
place last year because they did not
promptly submit evidence of satis
factory inoculation against typhoid
and vaccination against smallpox.
Young men from North Carolina
can secure information concerning
these camps and submit -their appli
cations to C.M.C.T. District Chief,
420 Farmer's National Bank Bldg.,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Little Returns
s Dr. Malcolm ' Little of the Exten
sion Division has returned from
Cleveland "where he attended the
meetings of the National Association
of Education. , ' ,
The meetings in Cleveland were
the mid-winter .conventions of the
superintendents' and principals' divi
sion. . -. . .
Grover Whalen, the new police
commissioner of New York, is in Flor
ida for a rest Incidentally, rwe are
all getting the. same thing while he
is gone. Richmond Times-Dispatcli.
. SUBMARINE
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Popular Player fciu
Big Film Hit at
Carolina Thursday
Charles "Buddy" Rogers whose. Tise
to 'movie" fame has been nothing
short of sensational has one of the
featured roles, in the picturized ver
sion of Anne Nichols' "Abie's Irish
Rose" at the Carolina Theatre Thurs
day. . ;. i-
Rogers has been in motion pictures
a little over two years, out -in xnai
short space of time has been herald
ed by all movie fans.
His first role in "Abie's Irish
Rose" will serve to increase his pop
ularity. ' He portrays the role of
Abie, the Jewish boy who falls , in
love with Rosemary, the little Irish
girl. The role of Rosemary is filled
by Nancy Carroll. She has . red
hair, blue eyes, and speaks" with a
tinge of brogue. . - -
Send the TAR HEEL' HOME.
Presentation of the Harvard dra
matic club play, "Fiesta" at Boston
has been forbidden by the mayor, be
cause of its "objectibnal"; qualities.
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FOR LOVE!
then a lover of "the
" East offered her the
romance she missed in
marriage. .
Greta Garbo, most fascinat
ing of screen stars, shines
through this amazing drama
of the Tropics like a gem in
a setting of jewels! T
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