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KIRBY PAGE MEMORIAL HALL 8:00 P.M. KIRBY PAGE CHAPEL 10:30 A.M. VOLUME XL CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1931 NUMBER 16 ! NEW AUDITORIUM TO BE DEDICATED FOUNDER'S DAY Governor Gardner and John Sprunt Hill to Take Part in Program October 12th. The dedication of Memorial hall, the new auditorium erected last year on the site of the old building of the same name, will be the chief attraction in the program commemorating the founding of the University on October 12th, 138 years ago. Governor 0. Max Gardner will formally present the build ing to the school at the morn ing exercises to take, place in Memorial hall at 10:30 o'clock. The building will be accepted by John Sprunt Hill, of Durham, representing the building com mittee of the University trus- tees. Stahle Linn, of Salisbury, will speak as chairman of the committee of the trustees of Memorial hall tablets. Academic Procession At 10 :30 o'clock the academic procession led by the University band will enter Memorial hall, and the dedicatory exercises will commence directly. After music by the band and the invocation by Rev. Eugene Olive, pastor oi the Chapel Hill Baptist church, Governor Gardner , will deliver the presentation address. Mr. Hill is to follow the governor, and Mr. Linn will close the dedi cation of the building. Dean A. W. Hobbs of the college of lib eral arts will then read the list of University alumni who have passed away since last October 12th, and a male ensemble will sing "Integer Vitae." The en tire program will be presided over by President Graham.' President's Tea The afternoon activities wil be more or less. informal, culmi- I nating in a reception tendered I by President Graham and his I sister, Miss Kate Graham, to the ; new members of the faculty and their wives. This will take place at the President's mansion and other faculty members, their wives, and town people are in vited. At 9 :00 o'clock in the evening, the Chapel Hill alumni are to hold a smoker at Graham Memorial, closing the local ob .servance of the day. Freshmen and sophomores wil be required to attend the pro gram in Memorial hall, and al 11:00 o'clock classes will be sus pended to permit any other members of the University to - witness the exercises, if they desire. 9 :30 classes will termi nate fifteen minutes earlier than usual. TWO BILLS PASSED AT MEETING OF DI At the meeting of the Dia lectic Senate Tuesday night six new members were initiated and two bills discussed. The chairman of the constitu tion committee, Senator Fleming-Jones, made a report recom mending several changes in the present consitution. The recom mendation were filed to be taken up at a later meeting. Several other reports were. made. The bill, Resolved : That semi annual audits be required to be published' by semi-official organ izations, introduced by Senator Little, was given precedence over other bills on the calendar by the vote of the body. Three senators, Little,- Rector, and Dungan, spoke in favor of the question, and the bill was passed (Continued on page two) Dean Carroll Gives Advice On Studying Instead of attending the reg ular assembly session today the students in the school of com merce met with Dean D. D. Car roll in 103 Bingham hall. Dean Carroll discussed the proper distribution of the stu dent's time. " He urged those who are taking three full courses to spend at least nine hours a. day in the development of the mind, for he considered this the fundamental purpose of coming to college. Besides de veloping the mind, the dean said each student should take part in at least one outside activity, and should devote part of his time to some helpful recreation. The latter part of the period was devoted to a discussion of fraternities, Dean Carroll advis ing the students not to join fra ternities without consideration. Sentiment Varies Regarding Chimes Delicately Nerved Professors Disapprove Night Chimes; Others Are Consoled. . As an experiment to ascer tain the accuracy of the bell ringing in the Morehead-Pat-terson bell tower, the mechan- ism that controls the ringing of the bells at one hour intervals, has been started. The heaviest of the bells is used for the toll ing of the hours. The Chapel Hill Weekly re ports the complaint of various members of the University fac ulty who possess such delicate nerves that they are awakened in the night by the tolling. Quite opposite to these, are the stud ious members of the student body who appreciate the com forting tones late at night when the noise of the dormitories has ceased to keep them company. -Donald Coney, head of the library school, professes that he receives the greatest x actual benefit from the clock for the window's of his office gives a full view of the clock face. You would be astounded at the time that is saved him by not having to pull his watch from his pocket everv time that he desires to learn the time. The final rough grading of the land surrounding the tower has been completed, and the finished grading has been started. A. S. M. E. To Meet In Phillips Tonight A meeting of the local branch of the student's organization of the American Society of Mechan ical Engineers will take place to night at 7 :30 at Phillips hall. The purpose of the meeting is to acquaint the students with the plan of reorganization set forth by the national council of the society last June. In the new plan undergrad uates will become student mem bers of the national organization instead of being merely mem bers of a student organization affiliated with the society. Material benefits are the suspen sion of initial dues at the trans fer of a student member into junior membership of the senior order upon graduation. The development of the plan was prompted by the interest ex hibited by students at a meeting of the society at Birmingham last spring. Three mechanical engineering students of the University school attended along with Dr. E. Q. Hoefer, head of the department of mechanical engineering. Upon This Subject Of Graft 0 AN EDITORIAL Unfortunate and untoward ! single member of any staff. All circumstances having befallen some students intrusted with the care of certain student mon- ies, an eager campus is avidly searching for other evidences of graft or misappropriation. Per- fectly honorable men, who have no other fault than that they have at some time or other, be cause of their own ambitions or that of their fraternities sought public office, are viewed with terrible suspicion. Despite an honor system, which we are told holds for the classroom in a de gree nowhere to be found else where in North America, those men referred to in the vulgate as "the so-called student leaders" are guilty until proven innocent. Now, we have been connected with this institution too long not to have heard of graft, or to have seen suspicious circum stances leading us to conclude that irregularities might arise in the collection, disbursement, or other handling of student funds. Having been at liberty, through an . impecunious condi tion, which interrupted our edu cation for a period of three years between the secondary and col lege stages, to travel some of the states, we can truthfully re port, if our informers be cor rect, that what petty graft sneaks upon our University campus is proportionately infin itesimal in comparison with other institutions of high cul ture and refinement. It is our. desire to point out in this paper this morning that there should be little concern on the part of Carolina students that their money collected for student fees will, under the present system be, misused, as well as to suggest certain further safeguards.. The Publications Union Board is a commission oi tnree amy elected students who serve one year, and two faculty men ap pointed to serve two year terms by the president of the Uni versity. All business of the four publications is carried on by this commission or its agents stu dent managers appointed by it. No expenditure exceeding one dollar may be requisitioned by a Philological Club Hear Boggs' Paper At the meeting of the Philolo gical society Tuesday evening Dr. R. S. Boggs of the. Spanish department read his paper on "Gathering Folk-Lore in N6rth Carolina." A large number at tended the meeting. Harry Russell of the English department was elected : secre tary in place of R. S. Matthews of the German department. It was decided that there would be a meeting of the society in Jan uary, commemorating the one hundreth anniversary of Goethe's death. There will also be a joint meeting with the Erasmus club of Duke university in the near-future. - Following the business part of I thejneeting there was a discus- sidn on the relation between Negro and white folk-lore in which Messers. Booker, Taylor, Hudson, Ericson, and Holmes played large parts. i i i ' n - - - Steele Elects Officers The election and organization of Steele dormitory took place several nights ago, and the of ficers were elected as follows: "Smokey" Ferebee, president ; Clarence Peacock, vice-president; and David Bland, athletic manager. disbursements are by check, orders having to be endorsed by business managers, a bookeeper, j and the treasurer of the board, .Mr. J. M. Lear, whose accounts are in turn each year audited by a firm employed by a vote of the full board. All subscriptions and advertising are audited by Mr. Lear so that all collections, many of which never pass through a business manager's hands at all, balance to the penny the original entries. The attempts on part of in considerate persons to accuse Clyde Dunn and Travis Brown, editor and business manager of the Yackety Yack for the past year, of having directed student funds into their personal ac counts are futile in as much as the mechanicism of the board will not permit of such opera tions, in addition to the high character of the two men being a refutation of such accusations. Class fees are collected by the business otiice. Jtsetore any money can be drawn from these accounts, requisitions from the class presidents and the class treasurers must be presented to Woollen. While the Publications Union Board presents r an audit yearly for the satisfaction of the student body, there have been no regularly audited class ac counts and this practice should be instituted to insure against extravagant or foolish expend! tures. 3 The Y. M. C.-A. publishes in most years a statement of its financial condition. The Athletic Council, so far. as we have been aware, has never seen fit to ac count to the students any of its business dealings, despite a heavy athletic fee. The Inter-fraternity council reports to its membership through its treasurer, but no genuine auditor is employed so far as we know. The Student Entertainment Committee has given out an audit but once during the period of its establishment. The Gra ham Memorial' Fund, newly es tablished, has not had time to expend, 'but should be required , (Continued on page two) French Radio Course Will Begin Today The second series of Radio French X courses, given by the University Extension Division, will begin this afternoon over WPTF in Raleigh, according to Morgan F. Vining of the bureau of lectures and radio. Dr. W. M. Deyy head of the department of romance languages, will open the series with a lecture on pronunciation. Drs. Dey, U. T. Holmes, and J. C. Lyons will each give four lessons. , This year some thirty high school French classes in the state will listen in on the oroadcast which will be given each Thursday afternoon from 5:15 to 5:45. Infirmary List The following students were confined in the infirmary yester day: Vera Beech, Robert Maults by, Lane Coble, and Robert Bernhardt. "E. H." : "E. H." who has been send ing copy for publication in the Daily Tar Heel is asked to meet the editor in the office of the paper at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon. Kirby Page o ; . - - - c : : vv - -.. .. or .v . v. " . . - - : - - ' ' $ f ' " V - v ' I - " ; . : V X f hi v f i Vy V 1 I i : : Kirby Page, editor of 'The World Tomorrow," who speaks in chapel today and also gives a lecture this evening at 8:00 o'clock in Memorial hall. Co-eds Seem To Be Superstitious Upon Investigation Women Stu dents Are Observed to Avoid Ladders and Bad Luck. Whether the co-ed delegation of the U. N. C. campus is sus picious or merely supersitious is problematic. In trimming campus trees, yesterday, a ladder was placed in a leaning position across one of the main sidewalks. A check up, prompted by sheer curiosity, revealed that nine co-eds out of ten carefully walked around the ladder instead of taking the eas iest path under it. That observation subsequent ly led to an investigation of "walk-arounds" on the numer ous iron posts which mark cer tain paths for pedestrian use only. Eight out of ten co-eds made sure to take the same side of the post as did the accom panying men. The remaining two apparently were thumbing their respective noses at fate. Further investigation of co-ed mannerisms led to the conclusion that few U. N. C. co-eds know how to drink out of a bottle. Observation at the campus "dope stand" revealed that more women than men attack a "dope" bottle with the same tactics used by an infant in consuming milk from a nursing-bottle. Debaters Will Meet Tonight In Murphey Students interested in debat ing should meet tonight at 7 :30 in 201 Murphey hall. The meet ing will last only about three quarters of an hour, in order to avoid conflict - with the lecture by Kirby Page. Discussion at the meeting will center around several state ments about debating made by leading Americans. Stephen Leacock once said that American debaters should be taken some where and given a glass of beer and a sausage ; that is they should be deflated and humaniz ed. Theodore Roosevelt said that American debating trained men to make the worse appear the better reason, that it was an enemy to good citizenship. Woodrow Wilson held debating in high esteem. Dr. Meiklejohn, while president of Amherst, said that of all the various groups on the campus, including the Phi Beta Kappa men, the debaters had the most intellectual power and showed the most promise of success. The discussion of the group will be whether these re marks hold good today and are the criticisms valid. NOTED TRAVELER AND EDITOR WILL TALKJCHAPEL Kirby Page Also to Give Lecture in Memorial Hall Tonight at 8:00 O'clock. Speaking at chapel period this morning and again at 8:00 p. m. in Memorial hall Kirby Page represents one of the world's most widely traveled and well informed men. He has crossed the ocean eighteen times and during his travels at these times has visited some thirty five countires. Among the in teresting persons with whom he has talked on his various jour neys are: Mahatma Gandhi, President Hindenburg, Ramsay MacDonald, Bernard Shaw, President Sun Yat Sen of China, and innumerable Euro pean and Asiatic notables. Mr. Page is editor of The World Tomorrow, monthly pub lication, as well as being the author of eleven volumes on international, social, and relig ious questions. His books have been translated into a number of languages for publication in foreign countries. The variety of subjects treat ed by this writer is exhaustive. He has written books on relig ious, social, political, economic, and ethical subjects. He has not found the range of his disserta tions limited, however, by these books but has contributed many articles to, such, leading periodi cals as:' Atlantic Monthly,, Forum,! Tp,(idt.mT)iap.at- TAuinn r '7 J ij Age, The Nation, The Survey, and others. Born a Texan Page has re sided in several states through out his life. For three years he was a secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of Drake university and took graduate work at the University of Chicago, Colum bia, and the Union Theological Seminary. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa while a student and was also a varsity basket ball and tennis player. He accompanied Sherwood Eddy from 1916 to 1918 on his travels among the soldiers m the , war zone, devoting his energies to evangelistic work. Beside being a noted authority on world conditions, Page is well known" as a lecturer, con stantly speaking before influen tial audiences in all sections of the country. The list of colleges and institutions where he has spoken reads like a roster of the nation's leading educational in stitutions. MANY TURN OUT FOR PHI MEETING At a well attended meeting Tuesday hjght the Phi Assembly discussed and defeated by a vote of 31 to 28 the bill: Resolv ed: That the freshmen should have representation in the stu dent council. Over sixty mem bers attended the meeting. . .... . i The bill 'was introduced Dy Representative McMillan, and upheld by Representatives Brown, Winthrow,' Grier, Boyles. Representatives Wilkinson, Hairston, and Beam spoke against the proposal. Speaker Hobgood appointed Representatives Grier, Carmi ohael. and Griffin as members of the Mary D. Wright debate com mittee. Representatives Lanier, Grier, and Wilkinson were ap pointed to the committee on rules. v
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