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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1942
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Famous Lecturer
Mims to Speak Here
Former Professor
Returns for Talk
Here Tuesday
Dr. Edwin Mims, internationally
known interpreter of literature, author,-
lecturer and English professor
here from 1909 to 1912, will return
to Chapel Hill Tuesday night for an
address in Graham Memorial
Dr. Edgar Knight of the education
department will introduce Dr. Mims.
The speech, beginning at 8 o'clock,
will concern "Humanities and the
Present War."
Seventy-year-old Dr. Mims, still re
membered on the Carolina campus as
one of the most popular University
faculty members, was invited to speak
here by Dean of Administration Rob
ert B. House.
Public Reception
A public reception for Dr. Mims
will be held in the Student Union im
mediately following the address.
The eminent educator retired last
month after a lifetime of service in
educational fields. Dr. Mims began a
15 year career as English professor
at Trinity college, now Duke Univer
sity, when he was 22 years old. He
then transferred to this University
for '"three famous years." From Caro
lina Dr. Mims went to Vanderbilt,
where he was head of the English
department for 30 years, and taught
more than 8,000 freshmen.
Although he is now retired, Dr.
Mims insists that "I'm not through,"
predicting that he expects to live at
least 20 years longer. Tuesday's
speaker returned to Duke this year
as a member of the summer school
faculty.
The former Carolina professor still
preaches his theories of education
"of the increasing need for cultural
and classical training in the liberal
arts to balance vocational training."
High School Group
To Give Concert
In Hill Sunday
In its first concert the All-State High
School Orchestra, in Hill Hall Sunday
at 5 oclock, will feature a program
of light, short works from the masters.
The orchestra of nearly forty young
musicians is made up of students en
rolled in the seventh annual All-State
High School Music Course of the Uni
versity. This year the sixty-five stu
dents taking the course have come
from eight different states in this sec
tion of the country. Those enrolled in
the six-weeks school will receive pri
vate instruction as well as experience
in playing with both the band and or
chestra. One unit of high school credit
is offered for completion of the course.
Earl A. Slocum, director of the
course, and Edgar Alden, violin teacher
of Meredith College, will conduct the
orchestra in its afternoon appearance.
The complete program is as follows:
"March from Lenore," Raff; "Pavane,"
Ravel; "Prelude to the Deluge," Saint
Saen3; "Country Dance in C," Bee
thoven; "Choral Prelude," Bach;
"Valse Triste," Sibelius; "Valse Gra
eieuse," German; "Hungarian Dances
No. 3 and No. 1," Brahms.
Three Dance Events Scheduled for Weekend
By Student Activities Office Leaders
Three dances under Student Activi
ties office sponsorship will cover the
campus this weekend.
A square dance will begin tonight
at 8 o'clock in front of the YMCA
building, the first Naval cadet dance
the "Solo Hop" is slated tomorrow
night in the main ballroom of Gra
ham Memorial from 8 o'clock until
10:30, and another dance will . be
staged simultaneously at the Y court
tomorrow at 8:30. The informal dance
at the YMCA was arranged for cadets
expected to be turned away from Gra
ham Memorial and for University stu
dents. Graham Memorial will conduct an
Students Between 18-20
To Register Tuesday
War time registration of all Uni
versity students between the ages of
18 and 20 will be held Tuesday in Me
morial hall from 7 o'clock in the morn
ing until 9 at night, W. D. Perry, vo
cational guidance director, in charge
of the registration announced yester
day. The registration, ordered by Presi
dent Roosevelt, will not subject those in
the 18-20 age limits to immediate mili
tary service. It was announced how
ever, that all those who have become
20 since January 31 through June 30
will be subject to immediate call for
military service.
An estimated 250 students will regis
ter during the 14 hour period. Perry
announced that he would be on hand
in Memorial hall to answer all queries
concerning the registration.
He explained that all students,
whether they do or do not wish their
registration cards to be transferred
to their home draft boards, should
register at the University in Memorial
hall. Transfer of cards to local boards
is taken care of by the University at
the students request, he said.
Navy Ranks
Swell to 770
New Contingent
Is Inducted
Fledgling aviators numbering 285
arrived in Chapel Hill yesterday to
begin their three months preliminary
training for the Naval Air Corps.
Yesterday's unit was the largest of
the three groups to arrive here, the
other two containing 242 and 243 men
respectively, and swelled the present
complement to 770.
The new men came mostly from
northeastern section of the country
and included special college groups
from such institutions a3 Cornell, St.
Johns, Hamilton, Syracuse, Colgate,
and the University of Rochester.
While in training here, .the new ca
dets, mostly college graduates, will
stay in their own separate groups. .
Met in Durham
They were met in Durham by spe
cial busses and were transported over
to Chapel Hill where, upon arrival,
they were assigned to dormitories and
uniforms were issued.
Today the new cadets engaged in
their first formal drilling and a gen
eral program of indoctrination was
mapped out for them. They began
their classes in renovated Caldwell
hall and in the afternoon underwent
a heavy sports program.
New groups of cadets are expected
to arrive every two weeks until the
complement of 1,875 is completed
sometime in the fall.
Meanwhile work is going ahead on
renovating the dormitories of the
lower quadrangle for occupancy in the
near future.
The 285 new cadets will immediate
ly undertake the Navy's exhaustive
physical program, designed to turn out i
the best fitted men in the world. '
open house for Naval cadets tomorrow
afternoon from 2 until 6 o'clock. Ac
cording to Miss Helen Dugan, Student
Activities , (fice director, coeds from
Spencer and Steele dormitories will
serve as hostesses and provide refresh
ments. Sunday's schedule features a Uni
versity symphony orchestra concert in
Hill hall at 5 o'clock, weekly vespers
in Gerrard hall at 6:15, "Music Un
der the Stars" in Kenan stadium at
8:30, and an organ recital in the Epis
copal church at 8:30.
Freshman Friendship council will
stage a picnic in Battle park Monday
evening, beginning at 6:30. Regular
Coeds Allowed
In Frat Houses
Under Ruling
Agreement Signed
By Coeds, Frats
Effective this week-end, coeds will
be allowed to enter men's fraternity
houses during the summer session for
the first time in the history of ' the
school.
The Inter-fraternity Council, with
Buck Osborne as president, the new
Women's Honor Council, headed by
Mary Lib Nash, and Mrs. M. H. Stacy,
dean of women, have cooperated in
setting up a more lenient set of rules
that will effect all coed students and
fraternity men. The new agreement is
not intended to be a permanent one;
it is merely a trial, and future plans
depend on present actions, says Mrs.
Stacy.
Coed Meetings
Coed house meetings were held
Wednesday night in the eight women's
dormitories to discuss the new meas
ure. It was emphasized that only the
fraternities that have so voted to ac
cept and abide by these privileges may
be entered.
Buck Osborne, Inter-fraternity pres
ident, announced yesterday that the
following Greeks have agreed to the
new rulings: Kappa Sigma, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Alpha, Zeta Psi,
Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Kappa Ep
silon, Chi Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma
Chi, Zeta Beta Tau, Saint Anthony
Hall. Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Theta, and
Tau Epsilon Phi.
Although Phi Kappa Sigma and
Phi Gamma Delta are not considered
in the above fraternity groups, they
have been granted equal privileges fo?
the summer.
Coeds and fraternity men have had
the following rules read and explained
to them, and each student will be re
sponsible for keeping them:
1. Fraternities may entertain wom
en students only in the social rooms,
halls, porches, and dining hall on the
first floor of their houses. The con
duct of both men and women must
always be in accordance with the Cam
pus Code and as ladies and gentle
men.
2. No alcoholic beverages may be
served in the presence of coeds who
are fraternity guests. ,
3. Every person usiner a fraternity
house and all coeds who share in the
privileges of this agreement are the
enforcing parties and should report
any suspected violators to the Fraternity-Coed
Council. The Inter-fraternity
representative of every frater
nity signing this agreement is on his
honor to report all persons and fra
ternities whom he suspects of violat
ing this agreement. Failure by the
Interfraternity representative to ful
fill his obligations will subject him
to trial by the student council.
4. Every fraternity is responsible
for any violations of the agreement
which occurs on its premises or in its
house, regardless of whether or not
the individual violator is a member
of that fraternity. In case of con
viction of such a violation, a frater
nity automatically loses its coed en
tertainments privileges for the sum
mer and is subject to such other pen
alties as the Fraternity Coed Council
shall deem fit.
5. The Fraternity-Coed Council,
See RULING, page U
Monday-to-Thursday dancing classes
will be held on the terrace behind
Bowman Gray pool from 7 until 8
o'clock.
Graham Memorial's lounge will be
the scene of a bridge tournament Mon
day night at 8 o'clock. The contest
will be directed by Mrs. Victor Hug
gins, well known for her bridge tour
neys at the Carolina Inn.
The art department has announced
its sponsorship of a tea in Person hall
at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Tues
day night Dr. Edwin Mims, former
Carolina English professor, will de
liver an address in Graham Memorial
at 8 o'clock. A reception for Dr. Mims
will follow.
'South Is the Hope of US',
Knight States in Address
Dr. K W. Knight
Legislative
Group Named
Webster Names
Committeemen
. To facilitate and speed-up summer
legislative activities, Terrell Webster,
speaker, this week appointed an execu
tive committee to replace all previous
committee of the legislature.
Appointed at a legislative meeting
Tuesday night, the members of the
committee are Ray Stroud, chairman,
Terrell, member ex officio, Frances
Bonkomeyer, Ike Manly, Buck Os
borne, and Larry Johnson. No other
business was taken up at the meeting,
the legislature having hot yet begun
to function fully.
Webster inaugurated the new plan
in an effort to install more efficiency
and dispatch into routine legislative
activities. In addition, the work of the
regular committees1 during the sum
mer is so small that all functions were
concentrated into the executive com
mittee which will direct the summer
work of the. student governing body.
The entire legislature will not meet
on a regular schedule, but will convene
on pressing issues beyond the scope of
the newly appointed executive com
mittee. All business brought before
the entire legislature, however, must
first come through the executive com
mittee. Activities Schedule
Today, June 26
Square Dance Y court 8 :00.
Tomorrow, June 27
Open house for cadets Graham Me
morial 2 :00-6 :00.
Cadet Dance Graham Memorial
lounge 8:00-10:30.
Music and informal dancing Y court
8:30.
Sunday, June 28
Symphony Orchestra concert Hill
Music hall 5:00.
Vespers Gerrard hall 6:15.
"Music Under the Stars" Kenan sta
dium 8:30.
Organ recital Episcopal church
8:30.
Monday, June 29
Freshman Friendship council picnic
Battle park 6:30.
Dancing class Poll terrace 7:00
8:00. Bridge tournament Graham Memo
rial lounge 8:00.
Tuesday, June 30
Art department tea
Person hall
5:00.
Dr. Edwin Mims address Graham
Memorial 8:00.
Reception for Dr. Mims Graham Me
morial follows speech.
Geology Department
Offers War Course
To aid with the war program, the
Geology Department will offer in the
Fall a new course entitled "Strategic
Area in World Conflict." The course
will be fairly important to every one,
and students are urged to consider it
before definitely planning their courses
for next year, it was announced.
Special to the Tar Heel
RADFORD, Va., June 25. "Educa
tionally and culturally the South is
the hope of the United States," de
clared Edgar W. Knight, Kenan Pro
fessor of Education at the University
of North Carolina, in an address be
fore the faculty and students in the
summer session of State Teachers
College here, oday, on "Some Tasks
and Opportunities of Education in the
South."
"If the integrity of American edu
cation is to be preserved, it must be
preserved by the South," Dr. Knight
said.
Conservatism
"The educational conservatism of
the South, so often viewed by outside
uplifters as a sign of . backwardness,
is in reality one of the most vital
and valid qualities of Southern civil
See KNIGHT, page 4-
CA A Prepares
Applications
Mann to Receive
Applicants Thursday
Applications for the new and greatly
enlarged CAA program, being spon
sored by the University, Army and
Navy Air Corps, and Civil Aeronau
tics Administration will bet available
next Thursday, W. R. Mann, local
CAA coordinator announced yesterday.
The new program, embracing an in
creased curriculum of ground school
and flying work is placing special em
phasis on the foundations for military
flying and will include such courses as
Mathematics, Physics; Civil Air Regu
lations, Navigation, General Service
of Aircraft, Radio Code, Military and
Physical Training, Aircraft Identifi
cation, Military Science and Discipline,
and Meteorology.
Trainees enrolled in the course will
be required to be enlisted either in the
army or navy air corps reserve and
will be subjected to an eight weeks
course covering 244 hours of classwork
as contrasted with the old program of
72 hours over a period of sixteen weeks.
Each applicant will be subjected to a
stiff physical examination, and those
who pass it will be enlisted in the
naval air corps as combat pilots. Those
who don't make the grade, and those
men between the ages of 27 and 37, who I
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pass a screening xest wm De eiigiDie
for training as army glider or liaison
pilots. Liaison or Utility pilots will
work as service pilots, instructors,
transport pilots, cargo and mail pilots,
tow-target pilots, flexible gunnery ex
perts, and basic instructors.
Coker Publishes
Book on Fungi
Dr. William Coker, professor of
Botany, announced that his new book
on Fungi would be released soon. The
book is the product of twenty years re
search. It will contain five colored
plates and will be of vital importance
to those connected with this field.
Negro Show Style Pilfered
For Sound and
By Billy Webb
Sound and Fury sinks its roots deep
into the tradition of the Old South
to draw out material for its minstrel
to be presented next Friday in Memo
rial hall.
Initiated by the Negroes in the delta
region of the Mississippi about the
middle of the nineteenth century, the
minstrel was subsequently taken over
by the "white folks" who retained
the Negro elements and even blacked
their faces for the performance. The
minstrel has evolved into an art form
congealed over the years as the Negro
traditions were rigidly adhered to.
A minstrel consists of two parts,
the familiar black-faced chorus and
endmen who are interrogated by "Mr.
Interlocutor" and the not-so-familiar
oleo which is composed of a comic
play presented by the entire cast.
Accompanied by an eight piece
dixieland band sparked by hot trum
pet man Peewee Pierce, Sound and
Enlargement
Of Facilities
Anticipated
Main Room of UDH
Closed to Students
By Paul Komisaruk
L. B. Rogerson, University business
manager, denied reports, yesterday
that Lenoir Dining hall would be
closed to students as a result of the
Navy's "occupation," but at the same
time admitted that dining facilities
would be extended at other locales on
the campus to ease the growing press
ure on Lenoir hall. At 12 o'clock lunch
yesterday the main room was closed to
students.
Other quarters frankly believed
however, that Lenoir hall could not
adequately serve the full complement
of 1875 Naval cadets (not expected
to arrive until late fall) and a mini
mum of possibly 2,000 students.
No official figures could be obtained
on the dininer hall's eanacitv. It is
known though, that the carets con
sume approximately two-and-a-half
times more food than the average stu
dent. It is reckoned then that the
dining hall would be required to serve
close to 15,000 meals a day if it were
to serve both the Pre-FJight men and
the students.
Operating at present plant capacity,
the dining hall can not possibly serve
this number of meals per day.
Rogerson stated furthermore, that
closing Lenoir Dining hall's plant to
the students had "never been contem
plated. As long as students want to
go there it will be kept open to thenov"
he said.
He looked towards the turning over
of ten University dormitories to the
Naval school as a possible solution to
the' dining hall problem. The empty
dorms, hs pointed out, mean that stu
dents have moved to different sections
of the campus and only the lunch
hour should prove to be a period of
congestion.
With students occupying other re
See LENOIR, page U
Harriet Adams
Slated to Give
Art Talk Tuesday
Miss Harriet Dyer Adams, curator,
will climax a week's exhibit of silk
screen, prints by explaining and dis
cussing them for the interested pub
lic on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock
in the Person Hall Art Gallery.
Following the lecture, a tea for the
Art department, students and faculty,
will be sponsored and -arranged by the
Summer School Activities office, under
the direction of Miss Helen Dugan.
The exhibit of silk screen prints has
attracted considerable attention in
that this new form of art is a recent
innovation of creative artists. The
prints were composed by a group of
New York artists. The type of work
involves a blending of many paints and
colors, from dull grey to bright hues.
Only stenciling materials are required
for the prints.
Fury Show
Fury's minstrel will feature as end
men buxom Tiny Hutton and the di
minutive Jack Dube in addition to
others. All end and chorus men will
be blackedout and with their white
gloves perform the intricate knee
crosses of the true minstrel.
Climax of the show is in the hila
rious oleo which will be a cleverly
written parody of. "The Shooting ,of
Dan McGrew" by Robert W. Service. ,
The poem will be elocuted in the soft
southern drawl of Whitey Lander,
highly popular performer in the re
cent amateur show, while the players
of Sound and Fury act upon the stage.
Cast in a Negro honky-tonk instead
of the frozen North, the acting will
not be pantomime but colored with
the earth language of the Negroes.
Dangerous Dan has not been cast,
but "the lady named Lou" will be
portrayed by Pat Fuller. Boogie
woogie pianist Awldert Root will play
the honky-tonk music for the production.
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