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COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
11:00 O'CLOCK .
GERMAN CLUB
FINAL DANCES
JUNE 10-12
VOLUME XXXVIII
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1930
NUMBER 185
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Address By Dr; Finley Today
Concludes 136th Commencement
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GARDNER IS TO
AWARD DIPLOMAS
Commencement Speaker Is Man
Of National Prominence, Edu
. cator, Editor, and Author.
SOME 350 TO GRADUATE
The 136th annual commence
ment of the University will come
to a close this morning when Dr.
John H. Finley, editor of the
New York Times, will deliver
the final address and 0. Max
Gardner, governor, of the state,
will award diplomas to some 350
seniors.
Except in event of rain, this
morning's program will be car
ried out in the shade of the ven
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yavits.iropiai. xue se-
mors wm xorrn tneir procession
at Alumni building, close by the
ropiar. anouia rain tnreaten to
interrupt the exercises, the
Methodist church auditorium
will again be pressed into ser
vice.
Dr. Jbinley, the commence-
ment speaker, is a man of activi -
ty and national prominence
During his career of educator,
author, and editor he has been
identified with innumerable in
stitutions ot nationwide scope
and has held positions of re
soonsibility and influence.
The list of honors that he has
received in nis rise xo xne ecu
"torship :-of ... tKo largest-and most
efficient news gathering agency
in the world reads as a page
from fiction.
After receiving his A.B. and
M.A. degrees from Knox Cof-
lege he was given other honorary
fitatinna fmm fifteen institu-
tions. As an educator he has
taught at Princeton University,
Vino been nresident of Knox Col-
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MOSS CONDUCTS
SENIOR VESPER
SERVICES SUNDAY
Advises Seniors To Be Wise As Ser
pents, Harmless As Doves.
"Be ye wise as serpents and
as harmless as doves," was the
admonition Dr. W. D. Moss, pas
tor of the Chapel Hill Presby
terian church, gave University
of North Carolina seniors in a
special message he delivered to
them at the. annual Vesper Ser
vices under the venerable Davie
Poplar Sunday evening.
Dr. Moss has conducted this
feature of Commencement for
many years, and it seems fit
ting that he should do so, for
Chapel Hill has never had a pas
tor who has been held in more
affectionate regard by students
and townspeople alike than "Par
son" Moss. He has served as
pastor here for 20 years.
The service was made all the
more impressive-by the fact that
it was held at twilight, just as
the settingjsun cast its shadow
over the campus.
"The serpent has a head full
of knowledge. The dove is in
terested in living," Dr. Moss ex
plained. "In the injunction,
therefore, of Jesus, , the serpent
stands for the process of edu
cation and the dove for the pro
cess of living."
Dr. Moss said that living, like
that of the dove, divorced from
knowledge, issues in all manner
of foolish things. Knowledge
like that of the serpent, divorced
from the gentle art of living,
becomes a hard and fast and
formal thing. Hence the injunc
tion of Jesus.
Today's Speaker
v..
Dr. John H; Finley, ; (above) ,
distingUished educator and edi
tor. will deliver the Commence.
ment -address here this morning
at 11 o'clock. Dr. Finley, who
is now editor of the New York
Times, has served at different
times as president of New York
University, of the College of the
City of New York, and of Knox
College, and as Commissioner of
the State of New York. ,
GEORGE GOFFMAN
HEAD OF ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT HERE
Scholar of. International Repu-
tation Accepts Offer of Uni
versity; To Leave Boston
University.
Dr. George R. Coffman, head
of the department of English a
Boston University for the last
five years, and a scholar of in
ternational reputation, has been
elected to succeed the late Dr.
James F. Royster as head of the
department of English here,
President Harry W. Chase an
nounced recently.
A University faculty commit
tee consisting of George Coffin
Taylor, chairman, Addison Hib-
bard and W. F. Thrall has for
several months been considering
various scholars for the impor
tant post left vacant by the death
of Dr. Royster, and Dr. Coffman
was the first choice of that com
mittee. Dr. Coff man has the
unanimous endorsement of the
English department. He was a
member of the Summer School
faculty here two years ago, and
all who met him then were very
favorably impressed.
The election of Dr. Coff man
will come up for approval at the
commencement meeting of the
University's trustees, but in this
instance that is regarded as a
mere formality.
Dr. Coffman is regarded as an
international authority on medi
eval drama He is secretary of
the Medieval Academy, of Amer
ica, and has been given chief
credit for the organization of
that famous institution. In re
search and administrative ability
he is said to rank with the fore
most scholars in the country.
Dr. Coffman is a native of
Montana, is married, ana" is 48
years of age. lie won his doc
torate at the University of Chi
cago. Before going, to Boston
University he had taught at
Harvard and at Grinnell. He has
been spending the present schol
astic year in Europe on leave of
absence. " '' -'
The new head of the English
department has achieved con
siderable reputation as a writer
and magazine contributor.
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LANG IS WINNER
MANM
Oratory Contest, Class Day Ex
ercises, and Senior Banquet
Given Saturday.
Ideal weather prevailed and
the University's 136th com
mencement got off to a fine start
Saturday.
Following the senior prayers
Saturday morning, the members
of the graduating class gathered i
for class day exercises in Ger
rard hall where the merits and
foibles of the seniors were laid
bare in good-natured humor.
Johnston Alexander, of Char
lotte, gave the history of the
class: Cy Edson, of Tampa.
Fla., gave the prophecy; Bill
Bobbitt, of Rocky Mount, pre
sented the statistics, and John
Mebane of Greensboro read the
class poem. Ralph Greene, class
president, presided. ;
Wins Oratory. Medal . j
John Lang, of Carthage, was
the winner of the , Mangum
medal contest in oratory which
was held Saturday afternoon jn
Gerrard hall. The other speak
er was G. P. Carr, of Teacheys.
Mr."" Lang's subject was
"Whither . Young America?"
while Mr. Carr spoke on "World
War . Debts and the Present
Economic Depression." ,
"Young America has problems
to solve and difficult situations
to meet which are just as vital
andjmportant to civilization as
the problems of any other age,"
Lang ; declared.' "The younger
generation is feeing told by many
of its elders to wait until better
times before it tries to domuch
toward helping to solve these
problems, i oung America in
tends to face the world with open
minds, resolute action and with
a strong determination to bring
about the most satisfactory set
tlement of every problem that
concerns our age," he asserted.
The judges were Dean C. T.
McCormick, of the law school;
Prof. W. A. Olsen, of the Eng
lish department, and Prof. S. A.
Emery of the philosophy depart
ment. ,
History of Medal
The Mangum medal was es
tablished in 1878 by the Misses
Mangum, late of Orange coun
ty, in memory of their father,
Willie Pearson Mangum, class of
1815. The award is being -con
tinued by his grand daughter,
Mrs. Stephen B. Weeks and his
great grandson, Julian Turner.
Commencement Dances Recall
Interesting
(By Walter Creech)
On Tuesday night, when the
music from Guy Lombardo's or
chestra floats out upon the air
as hundreds of happy couples
take the floor in the first of six
University Commencement danc
es, the setting will not be in the
gymnasium, as for years .past,
but in that large athletic build
ing known as the "Tin Can,"
which will be artificially cooled
by refrigeration. To accomo
date the record number of danc
ers expected, science has been
called into service to keep par
ticipants more comfortable than
in years past, when luck and
the weather played a predomi
nant part. This year the air
in the "Tin Can" will be kept
scientifically at the proper tern
perature.
A few years ago, such a sug
gestion would have been termed
absurd, impossible, just as the
STRONG
FACULTY
FOR LM SCHOOL
Summer School Course to Have
Many New Men as Teachers;
Dean Moreland of W. & L. To
Be Here.
Dean William Haywood More
land of the Washington and Lee
University law school has been
added to the summer faculty of
the law school, according to an
nouncement by Dean Charles T.
McCormick. ' '
Dean McCormick has an
nounced also that other members
of the summer law, faculty will
be Judges W. J. Brogden and
George W. Connor of the North
Carolina Supreme Court, Prof.
James M. Landis and William
E. McCurdy of Harvard Univer
sity, Prof. Oliver S. Rundell of
the University of Wisconsin,
Prof. Armistead M. Dobie of the
University of Virginia, and
Profs. R. H. Wettach and Fred
B. McCall of the University of
North Carolina-law faculty.
-Dean Moreland will take the
place of Prof.' M. S. Brecken
ridge, who as accepted a job
with the government in Wash
ington this summer.
Dean Moreland is to teach the
introductory course in proce
dure in the first term of the
summer law school. He is re
garded as one of the outstanding
teachers of that subject in this
section of the country. He prac
ticed for eight years in Norfolk,
Va., and has been for the last
seven years dean at Washington
and Lee.
During the past several years
the Law School summer session
has been' attracting an increas
ing number of students from
this and other states, who are
interested in the opportunity of
taking courses under men who
are selected as leading exponents
of their subjects, chosen from
the entire country. The summer
session offers likewise the unique
opportunity of studying' under
distinguished appellate judges
who bring from the bench direct
ly their acquaintance with law
in action. '
The summer session also
brings to Chapel Hill a goodly
number of men who, by begin
ning the study, of law in the
summer and continuing their
work winter and summer, can
complete the regular law course
for the degree in slightly more
than two vears instead of the
usual three years. , i
Events of the Past
payment of a fabulous sum for
an orchestra would have been
hooted as unheard of.
Dancing at the University has
gone through many changes
during its growth in popularity,
until , today the girls of this and
many other states look upon the
Commencement dances here as
an outstanding event of the kind
in the South. Dancing has had
its set-backs also.
How They Began
Dancing at commencement
runs back to the first few years
of the University. It is true
that "the first Commencement
tvas a staid and dignified occa
sion without dancing and par
ties to appeal to young people,
Dr. Kemp P. Battle says in his
"History of the University of
North Carolina." But it was on
ly a few years later, in 1804,
when the faculty allowed a com
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Trustees Select Krank ; , , .
Graham for Presidency
, ; -s
Elected President j
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Professor Frank Porter Gra
ham (above) was selected yes
terday by the board of trustees
to succeed Dr. Harry W. Chase
as president of the University.
'OLD GRADS' HEAR
SEVERAL TALKS
ON ALUMNI DAY
Chase Delivers Farewell Ad
dress; Parker, Weil, Daniels
Speak Also.
BINGHAM -DEBATE HELD
(By Gabriel M. Cohen)
Respectable gentlemen of the
80's and 90's ; proud middle
aged business men of the early
1900's ; fledgling alumni of 1929 ;
and the thrilled class of 1930 ;
followed by their friends and
relatives, thronged the Univer
sity campus, yesterday to rejoin
hands in the ancient Carolina
fellowship.
The ceremonies opened with a
general meeting of the reuning
classes in aged Gerrard hall.
General information of the
event of the day and joyous
handshaking and renewing of
"auld" acquaintanceships were
the order of the meeting.
Sad because of his parting
from the University, and reluc
tance to break the ties of friend
ship formed in his long career at
Tthe University, Dr. Harry Wood-
burn Chase, retiring president
of the University, made his fare
well speech in a . voice . tinged
with repressed tears. "I feared
with' reluctance this parting mo
ment," President Chase said.
Interspersing a note of opti
mism with the regret over his
departure, President Chase
prophesied future greatness for
the University. He thanked the
alumni and the faculty for the
co-operation shown him at all
times while many m the audience
touched their eyes with handker
chiefs. '
An inspiring talk by Ju dge
John H. Parker, immediately
following "the report of the
Alumni Loyalty Fund by Leslie
H. Weil, dissipated the feeling
of regret left by Dr. Chase's
farewell. "The adversity of this
year may be good for the Uni-
versity," Judge Parker stated,
Subtly .chiding the' alumni i Or
wishing a. "god" for president of
the University, Josephus Dan
iels, former secretary - of the
Navy, maintained that the good
work of the University shall go
forward regardless of who shall
be chosen president.
The reuning classes met at
class banquets fast night with
the majority of the affairs at the
Carolina Inn.
POPULAR HISTORY
PROFESSOR WILL
SUCCEED CHASE
Prominent as Teacher, Scholar,
Speaker, and Reform
Leader.
TO BE 11TH PRESIDENT
(By Billy McKee)
At the meeting of the board of
trustees in the pharmacy build
ing Professor Frank Porter Gra
ham was elected president of tk-3
University. Mr. Graham has
been for the last sixteen years
a member of the history depart
ment, and has been connected
with the University for twenty
five years altogether. He suc
ceeds Dr. Harry W. Chase and
is the eleventh president of the
institution. .
President Graham comes from
a family of educators, and his
cousin, the late Edward Kidder
Graham, was a former president
of the University.
He entered the University in
1905, graduating four years la
ter with an A.B. degree. He
war known as an all-round stu
dent, being secretary of Phi
Beta Kappa, member of the
Golden Fleece, Gimghouls and
"many other activities. Both
during his student days and
since he has had the peculiar
knack of being able to associate
with every element in the stu
dent body and win its confidence.
In 1914 Mr. Graham accepted
an appointment as instructor in
the history department of the
University, and after returning
to Chapel Hill after the war he
was made assistant professor,
also' serving for two years as
Dean of Students. , In 1921 he
was appointed associate profes
sor .and received a leave of ab
sence to study. - . ,
He won the Amherst Fellow
ship entitling him ' to . a, year's
study in America and one in Eu
rope. . Returning to the Univer
sity he was made af ull professor
in 1927- .
President Graham has a large
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RUSS BOLIN PLAYS
FOR ALUMNI BALL
Affair in Tin Can Precedes President's
Reception.
- Russ Bolin and his Ohio Cotton
Pickers played for the Alumni
Ball here last night. This or
chestra has been popular in this
section in recent months, play
ing at a number of college,
dances.
The Alumni Ball is one of the
high spots of the Commence
ment program each year. All
alumni were invited to the ball,
which followed President Chase's
reception to the alumni. No in
dividual invitations were sent
out this year.
The ball was held in the Tin
Can where the regular German
Club finals will begin this even
ing. Cooling and ventilating
devices are being installed there
to make the indoor athletic field
comfortable. "
In charge of the Alumni ball
were the alumni marshals, with
Dr. Hubert Haywood, of Raleigh,
chief marshal, ; directing. As
sistant marshals include : G.
Claiborne Royall, Jr., of Golds
boro ; Henry P. Foust, of Greens
boro, and James R. Patton, Jr.,
of Durham. Some of the State's
most popular matrons accepted
invitations to serve as patron
esses. '