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VARSITY BASKETBALL i : .- .CTTZ;;-T -(f . SATURDAY NIGHT (. I j ( 6S J U 0 I f KV f i I DUKE vs. CAROLINA ,; SyS- ' ( X - V ( 1 V VARSITY BASKETBALL SATURDAY NIGHT DUKE. ts. CAROLINA ( .fx VOLUME XXXVIII "THE SHOW-OFF" : WILL BE GIVEN AGAIH01GHT Presentation of George Kelly's Comedy Will Be Given By Playmakers Here. AGAIN SATURDAY NIGHT The Carolina Playmakers pre sented their third production the season, George Kelly's "The Show-Off," in the Playmate theatre last night to an appreT dative audience. The play wili be repeated at 8:30 tonight and Saturday. : . "The Show-Off," since its first presentation in New York in 1924, has been widely acclaimed as one of the finest American comedies. The author, George Kelly, won the Pulitzer prize with this play which he called ' "A Transcript of Life." The simplicity of its theme and the everyday characters and setting , of a suburban family give it an undeniable appeal. The cast is as follows: j Clara, George Wilcox ; Mrs. Fisher, Penelope Alexander; Amy,- Sara Falkener; Frank Hvland, Eveland Davies; Mr. Fisher, Joseph P. Fox; Joe, Whitner Bissell; Aubrev Piper, Richmond P. Bond ; Mr. Gill, Descnm B. Roberts; and Mr. Rogers, George E. Stone. The University faculty orches tra is providing the musical program. QuiVV Tanking: Of Partin Saves House More than a score of Dekes might have been cold today, if the olfactory nerves or one - of them had not been so well de veloped. " Wednesday morning, asa fire burned merrily in the fireplace of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and its members were hurrying; to classes, one of thenT smell ed burning wood and it seemed to be a different wood than that used for fuel. - Frank Partin, of the Chapel Hill fire department, was sum moned, and found that the wall of the fireplace had been built so thinly that a hot fire had caused a smouldering of the walls behind the fireplace and mside the brick veneer. There was a miniature wreck ing scene, and the fireman ap plied chemicals to the embryon ic conflagration. Partin is of the opinion that if the house had been deserted, and the fire become well started, it would have been difficult to locate and extinguish, and might have de stroyed the house even while the fire department drenched the outside walls. ' Home Department Community Club Meets With Mrs. George Mrs. J. M. Couch reviewed Coital Furniture in America b" Logwood before the home department of the community cln vpoferday afternoon at the borne of Mrs. W. Critz George. There will be a special meet in of he entire, club this after noon at 3 :30 in the Episcopal Parish house, at which .time im port business- will be dis- BR. NOBLE VISITS HERB M. C. S. Noble. Jr., of the ofan nrment of education at of his father, Professor II. C. S. ! Noble of the school of education, j Senior Smoker To Be February Sixth The date)f the senior class smoker has been set for Thursday, February 6. The smoker will be held in Swain halL Tentative arrangements have been made with a speak- x er, but- a definite acceptance nas not yet been received. At the smoker, the most im portant of the year, the senior superlatives whose names and pictures will be placed in the Yackety Yack will be chosen, and other matters taken up, for which a complete class at tendance is necessary. Cafeteria Suffers Little Damage In Early Morning Fire Prompt discovery and quick, effective work by the fire de partment prevented a disastrous fire at the Welcome In Cafeteria early yesterday morning. . Damages were confined entire ly to the furnace room, and these were quickly repaired by a corps of R. R. Benson's plumb ers, so that the popular eating place was able to serve luncheon on schedule. "There will be no necessity of closing down," Mrs. W. E. Trot- man,, proprietor, said last night. "Thanks to an efficient fire der partment, our kitchen and din ing room were not damaged at all, and the damage to the fur nace room was but slight. "We shall do what little re pairing is needed today and to morrow, and will be able to stay open without missing a meal." The fire, which broke out around the furnace, was discov ered by Mrs. Trotman, who had the alarm turned in before the fire had made great headway. The cafeteria force formed a brigade, armed . with kitchen utensils, and were . deluging the fire with water when the fire men arrived. . The firemen arrived on the scene and quickly had the situa tion in control. The fire is thought to have caught from rubbish in the cellar. Ray Farris Praised According to a letter received by Glenn Holder, editor of the jTar Heel, from Ursel C. Nar- ver, president oi me iNauonai Student Federation Association for 1929, Ray Farris, Carolina representative at the 1929 meet ing, played an important part in the discussions and work of the recent Congress at Stanford University. Narver'says in his letter : "The past officers and execu tive committee of the National -1 A J1' XTJ.i 1 Student Federation of America want the students of the Univer sity of North Carolina to know that your delegate, R. S. Farris, took a prominent part and made valuable contributions at the re cent Congress at Stanford Uni versity. "In addition to presenting 11 &Alinrr campus proDiems anu unum their possible solutions in con ferences, delegates enthusiastic ally set up a program of exnan ,iori for the Federation. T?q nrncrrn m pstablishes a central office, an executive secretary and provides for the creation of a !n-al N. SF. A. committee on each campus. This action makes risible obtaining cons?derWe A"t?;de snnnort, the brtrfit of virh v-ill be f eU nr te cam pus of every member irtHtut?nn. "The new officers will armre ciate your continued F'wort CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRIDAY, JANUAR7!? ALUBif loyalty FUND COUNCIL TO MEET IBM TODAY Leslie Weil, Chairman of the Council, Is. To Preside at V Meeting. TO BE IN CHASE'S OFFICE The annual meeting of the Alumni Loyalty Fund Council will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the office of Presi dent Harry W; Chase, according to an announcement given out yesterday from the office of Felix A. Grisette, director of the fund. Leslie Weil of Goldsboro, chairman of the council, will preside at the meeting. Reports of the activities of the fund during the last year, togethefwith a discussion of its plans and policies of procedure for the coming year are expect ed to occupy the attention of the council members, the announce ment said. I In addition to Mr. Weil, other members of the council are H. G. Baity, Chapel Hill ; Allen J. Barwick, Raleigh; Dr. Chase; Burton Craig, Winstoh-Salem ; Alfred W. Haywood, New York City ; Dr. J. -G. Murphy, Wil mington; Ira W. Rose, Rocky Mount ; J. M. Saunders, Chapel Hill; W. T. Shore, Charlotte; C. R. Wharton, Greensboro ; and Dr. L. R. Wilson, Chapel Hill. STUDENT LOSES FATHER THROUGH RECENT DEATH " Oscar Dresslar has returned to Chapel Hill to resume his stu dent m work, after having been called to his home in Nashville, Tennessee, on account of the ill ness and subsequent death of his father, Dr. F. B. Dresslar, in structor in health building at George Peabody College in Nashville. 1 The elder Dresslar, who se cured his bachelor's and mas ter's degrees at Indiana, and his Ph.D. at Clark in 1895, was a classmate of President Harry W. Chase at the latter institution. Dresslar was an advisor of the United States government in the construction of the new type rural schools in the south. . Phi Delta Theta announces the pledging of Claude Dailey of Orlando, Florida. -I : : Newspaper Institute As A Wet Gathering Was A Complete Flop By R. W. MADRY "Well, I see you're going to have a press convention over at Chapel Hill next week, and I suppose that means that you'll have a bunch ofdrunks on your hands." Those words were uttered by a newspaper friend of mine as we sat in the Sir Walter Hotel lobby one night fiveyears ago discussing everything in gener al and nothing in particular. "Well, I don't know," I replied. "I haven't been back nvthe state long, , and-I've yet to attend my first newspaper convention. But you come over to the Hill next -repk and we'll see what hap pens." "All right, I'll be right there." he responded, "but I'll bet it's going to be some more wet party VI The following week the annual v ewspaper institute convened , to arouse my curium iy . -We at the sW University, ' .wing to work in New York I nnd, in view of my friend's ad- had spent two years on an mitkm. I was a bit surprised American newspaper m Paris, to find that at the onening ses- which fact likely was an addi tion, which was on a Wednesday : (Continued on last page) Knight Writes Tale Of Noted Southern Negro, John Chavis Professor Edgar W. Knight recently had an article in the Baltimore Sun Magazine on John Chavis, said to have been a full-blooded, free-born negro who was prominent in North Carolina early in the last cen tury. There is a tradition that ha was educated at Princeton. Although there is no evidence tofsupport the belief that he was a jpudent there, the institution has listed him as one of its nqn grjaduates. Ther is a record, however, which shows x that Cnavis attended what is now Washington and Lee University. H was an able and highly re spected minister in the. Orange Presbytery ; by which he was licensed. Chavis had a" school in! Raleigh to which some of the bebt families sent their sons. RUSSELL POTTER I TALKS TO FROSH tThat the ideas of the student and those of modern business may vary on the sub j ect of grades was shown in a short chapel talk by Russell Potter, as sistant dean of the graduate school, yesterday morning. Speaking on the subject, "A Gentleman's Grade," Mr. Pot ter, instead of defining the term himself, called attention to com mbn meanings those concerned have placed upon it. He related some incidents to show the stu dent viewpoint. Students have been ' known to content them selves with D because it is a "gentleman's grade." Others, however, have more recently raised this more or less uncer tain standard to C. - A Daraerranh from a letter from Proctor and Gamble Com pany climaxed Mr.Totter's talk. The cdntent of this paragraph was to the effect that Proctor and Gamble Company is inter ested in employing college grad uates who have an average of at least B. This statement Mr. Potter named the demand of modern business. - - -Without commenting on the fixing of a material standard, the speaker offered point-blank and left for comparison by the individual these definitions of a "gentleman's grade. night, everybody appeared to be cold sober. As It Was in New York At the time I had not long since returned to this state from a sojourn of two years in New York City where it was an open secret that liquor did, and, I understand, still does flow quite freely wherever folks were accustomed to get together for banquets or conventions and the like. I don't recall having seen liquor on any of the menus, but as a rule aperitifs and follow-ups were quite accessible to all who indicated a desire. v My lob as a reporter for one of the New York papers required that" I attend . a considerable number of these banquets and conventions, and I soon became p.o sccustomed to the little ante room conclaves that accompanied jte main events that they ceased Soph-Frosh Fight The executive committee of the freshman class, asks that all of the class of '33 come out in full force this morning during chapel period in order to make good the challenge to the sophomore class to a snow ball fight. The fracas will take place between Old East and Old West. . ' All sophomores who are in terested in answering the challenge of the freshmen to a snowball fight are asked to gather in front of the Well during chapel hour. The chal lenge calls for a fight for that .'time 'to take place in the vicin ity of the Well. . FARRIS RECEIVES COMMUNICATION FROM VA. GIRLS Ray Farris, president of the student body, received a letter from the president of the stu dent government of Sweet Briar College to the effect that all Carolina students who have dates with students at Sweet Briar leave the campus at the appointed time, and bring their dates back punctually. : According to the president of the Sweet Briar student body, the girls are responsible for. the actions of .their dates while on the Sweet Briar campus and that the gi rls will be he! d re sponsible for any, misdemeanor of the boys while on the grounds of Sweet Briar College. In relation to this, a clipping from the Washington and Lee Ring Turn Phi is of interest: "An official communication from Sweet Briar authorities states that through a vote of the student body, the girls have as sumed . individual responsibility for their dates, and under these conditions Washington' .and Lee men are restored to their for mer status on the Sweet Briar campus. ' . Lewis Powell has said that since this is the only word re ceived from the Lynchburg school he would infer that the ban had been lifted both in so far as Washington, and Lee men's going to Sweet Briar is concerned, and as the girls' com ing here is concerned. "Although dates have been ex changed' between the two schools since the Christmas holidays, this is the first formal word or the subject. The communica. tion read as follows : "President of the Student Govt. "Dear Sir: "The student body of Sweet Briar has voted to take the re sponsibility for the conduct of their dates while on the Sweet Briar campus. ' We would ap preciate it if you would com municate to the students " that this step has been taken, and impress it upon them that any misdemeanor on their part will go doubly hard on the girls whom-they have come to see. Sincerely yours, "Alice Blake, secretary." A Correction As a result of an error on te rart of the make-up men at the print shop, Joe Jones' regular weekly column "The Campus" was run in yester day's Tar Heel under the 1ox head fnrj. C. Williams col- uian me iaiupus oiuip&iiui.. "We wish to offer our sin cere apologies," the printers declared last night. WILLIAM BEEBE LECTURES HERE IN SWAM HAI Noted Deep Sea Authority Gives Illustrated Talk Under Aus pices Student v Entertainment Committee. HAS LARGE AUDIENCE William Beebe, noted lecturer, explorer and naturalist, pre sented ari illustrated travelogue, "Beneath Tropic Seas," last night in Swain hall as a feature of the . student entertainment program. ' The speaker enhanced his talk greatly by showing fascinating moving pictures and colored lantern slides of scenes recorded on the voyages of the Arcturus to remote places of the wrorld. Mr. Beebe received the coopera tion of the -Bell Telephone Co. and the U. S. Marines for his explorations, and these aided in the difficult task of securing rare deep sea specimens. Thus the divers were able to telephone their discoveries to the surface, while the marines used aero planes to rush delicate fish to laboratories for investigation. Mr. Beebe is a very entertain ing author, and many of his books such as "The Arcturus Adventure," " Galapagos World's End," "The Edge of the Jungle," and ''Jungle Days," may be found in the University library. ' , Fraternity Averages For Fair Announced The fraternity scholastic av erages for the fall quarter of this year were announced yesterday by the registrar's office. Of the 36- fraternities . and sororities, 26 of them had aver ages, higher than that of the general academic average of 3.48 while 16 of them attained average grades of more than 3.32, the fraternity average. The sorority, Chi Omega, led the list with an average qf 1.67. Their, membership, however, is extremely small as compared ' to other organizations. Among those in the first ten in order. of their scholastic grades for the fall quarter are, in order : Chi Omega, Sigma Delta, Acacia, Pi Beta PhiZeta Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma,- Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Phi Gamma Delta and Chi Phi. For the corresponding period in 1928, 3.21 was the average grade for the fraternities, while 3.44 was the average academic grade. V No Chapel Today Freshman chapel exercises will not be held this morning, according, to an announcement by Dean Francis F. Bradshaw last night. '.. 10 : 30 a. m. Frosh-soph snow ball fight, Old Well. No chapel exercises this morning.- .; ', , ; .. '".'- 2:00 p. m. -Alumni LoyaHy Fund Council will meet in President Chase's office. :30 p. m. The community club will meet in the Episcopal parish house. 7:30 p. m. Chapel Hill high school will play Mebane high school in a basketball 'double header. 8 :30 p. m. The Playmakers will, present "The Show-Off" in the Playmaker theatre. J What's Happening
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