THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
The news m this publica
tion is released for the press on
receipt.
NEWS LETTER
Published weekly by the
University of North Carolina
for its Bureau of Extension.
DECEMBER 25,1918
CHAPEL HHX, N. C.
VOL. V, NO. 7
Bditorial Board i B. C. Branson, J. G, deB. Hamilton, L. B. Wilson, D. D Carroll, Q. M. MoKie
Entered as second-class matter November 14,1914, at the iPostoffloe at Chapel Hill, N, C., under the act of August 24,1912.
THE UNIVERSITY IN WAR TIME
THE KEW UNIVERSITY TASK
The University is laying aside its uni
form. In a few days the demobilization
of the Students Army Training Corps will
be completed. The new task of meeting
the broader needs of the peace time faces
US'. The boys here and the thousands being
discharged from the service in other
places must have the way made easy for
them to pick up the thread of educational
training which they dropped at the call
of the nation. The courses of study must
be revitalized and brought into a closer
harmony with the life ahead.
With this in mind, the University is
developing its program of work begin
ning January 2, on the basis of quarters
of twelve weeks each, the second quarter
beginning about April 1. Under this ar
rangement, any one who has had his
course of study interrupted by war ac
tivities can begin new courses each quar
ter, and, by the intensive method to be
followed, can complete them in twelve
weeks. This will make it possible tor a
student in the two quarters and the sum
mer session to complete practically a full
year’s work.
To postpone the continuation or the
beginning of a college course until next
September means the loss of a year. The
University seeks to help in avoiding this
loss by intensifying its methods of work
and adapting its courses so that the prep
aration for the constructive work of peace
shall be no less ready and effective than
has been the training for the destructive
art of war.—D. D. 0.
mately one-third of the student soldiers
in the Southeastern District were depend
ent upon the pay of the Government for
their opportunity for collegiate training.
The University of North Carolina will do
all in its power to aid such men through
its Self-Help Committee and its loan
funds. Application for self-help should
be made to Dr. J. M. Bell, Chairman of
the Self-Help Committee, and requests
for loans should be filed with Prof. M.
H. Stacy, Chairman of the Faculty.
Winter Quarter: Registration January
2 and 3, 1919; lectures begin on Janu
ary 4.
REGISTER AT ONCE
The Students’ Army Training Corps
has been disbanded and the University
of North Carolina will return to a pre
war basis after the Christmas holidays.
The work for the remainder of this col
lege year will be divided into two quar
ters, and the schedule of courses will be
so arranged that a student may begin at
the opening of the winter quarter and
pursue courses as complete units during
these quarters. Many courses hitherto
thredhours per week will be offered for five
or six hours per week, so that full instruc
tion in these subjects may be assured. By
this arrangement it will be possible for
old students to continue their college
work at the point at which they left it.
No advantage will be gained by waiting
until the opening of another college year.
From the standpoint of academic credit,
courses will count for the two quarters
and in the same proportion as in the
past. New students, who are prepared
for entrance to college, may register and
complete two-thirds of their year’s work
instead of one-half,-as formerly.
Rooms for the Winter and Spring
tettns may be reserved at the Treasurer’s
office by signing room contract and mak
ing initial payment of $5 on room rent by
each intending occupant.
The fees for the Winter or the Spring
tenn are as follows:
Academic
Tuition $20.00
Registration fee 10.00
Total per term $30.00
Pharmacy
Tuition $20.00
Registration fee. 10.00
Total per term $30.00
Medical
Tuition $25.00
Registration fee 10.00
Totahper term $35.00
Law
Tuition $25.00
Registration fee 10.00
Total per term $35.00
A damage fee of $2 will be collected
from each registrant who has not al
ready paid this, fee for this year. Lab
oratory fees in each department will ap
proximate for each quarter one-thiid
the total for 1917-1918. Board at Swain
Hall is aeventeen dollars p«r month.
A preliminary investigation by the Di
rector of the Students’ Army Training
Corps revealed the fact that approxi-
UNIVERSITY WAR SERVICE
At the date of the signing of the ar
mistice, Nov. 11, 2,240 alumni and stu
dents of the University of North Carolina
were in the service of their country, ac
cording to the record of the University
registrar, Dr. T. J. Wilson. This record
is necessarily incomplete. Following is a
summary of tlie alumni and students in
service and their distribution by branch
and rank:
Academic students 396
Former academic students 765
Professional students 56
Former professional students 333
Faculty members 26
1,576
Army:
Brigadier Generals 3
Colonels 9
Lieutenant Colonels 4
Majors 24
Captains 74
First Lieutenants 130
Second Lieutenants 380
Chaplains 4
Navy:
Lieutenant Commanders 4
Paymasters 11
Lieutenants 6
Junior Lieutenant .' 1
Ensigns 16
Chaplains 2
Medical Corps:
Colonel 1
Lieutenant Colonels 3
Majors 10
Captains 18
First Lieutenants 144
Naval Lieutenants, 35
Aviation, all ranks 81
N. C. Officers and privates 450
Wireless operators 4
Hospital service 31
Ambulance 12
Navy (enlisted) 101
Y. M. C. A. Work 12
Other branches 6
1,576
In S. A. T. C. (excluding those count
ed above) 664
Grand total 2,240
The Response Immediate
The call to arms with the declaration
of war in April of 1917 brought the con
vincing assurance that every University
man would do his duty. Over 250 alumni
and students rushed to the first officers’
training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, the
University’s representaoion being 10 per
cent of the total number from five South
ern States. The student body, alone.
sent 134 to this camp, including over 60
per cent of the senior class. The Univer
sity of North Carolina Oglethorpe Club
was organized with Graham Ramsay, of
Salisbury, president, and W. G. Bur
gess, of Shelby, secretary. One hundred
and fifteen men attended the second
Oglethorpe camp. From then until hos
tilities ceased in Europe the stream of
University students to the camps was
steady and continuous.
Military training was immediately
taken up on the campus and some 500
students and professors, full of contagious
enthusiasm, in citizens’ clothes, received
military instruction under the direction
of Head Coach Thos. J. Campbell, aided
by Professors J. D. Bullitt and P. H.
Winston, Capt. H. H. Broadhurst, for
merly commandant at A. & E. College,
Lieut. L. P. McLendon, an alumnus of
Durham, and a handful of students witli
previous military experience.
The University at the same time intel-
PEACE AND GOOD WILL
And there were in the same coun
try shepherds abiding in the field,
keeping watch over their flock by
night.
And lo, the angel of the Lord came
upon them, and the glory of the Lord
shone round about them; and they
were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear
not: for, behold, I bring you good tid
ings of great joy, which shall be to all
people.
For unto you is born this day in the
city of David a Savior, which is Christ
the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you:
Ye shall find the babe wrapped in
swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the heavenly
host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in tlie highest, and on
earth peace, good will toward men.
ligently listed and classified its alumni
and students and unselfishly offered its
manpower and resources to the govern
ment. Many members of the faculty
forsook the class-room to hurry to train
ing camps; some volunteed for govern
ment work on expert war boards. The
commencement of 1917, which, with Sec
retaries Baker and Daniels present, will
long be remembered as the most patriotic
in the history of the University, found
65 out of the 161 graduates of the ’17 class
absent in service.
War Extension Service
Not content with merely serving the
student body in the national crisis, the
University through its Extension Bureau,
recognized as affording the most effective
means of reaching the mass of the people
of the State, immediately adapted itself
to war needs. A War Educational ser
vice, centering around study centers, lec
tures, correspondence courses, war infor
mation leaflets, etc., was established
whose chief function was to make clear
American aims, purposes and ideals in re
lation to the World War.
The University believed that important
as organization was, and all forma of di
rectly helpful co-operation with govern
ment in raising men and money and as
sisting in food and fuel conservation and
the like, its chief service in its war rela
tions and its unique service as an Amer
ican institution was in the field of educa
tion.
With this in view University professors
were sent to all parts of the State wherev
er the demand arose to discuss the underly
ing causes of the war and America’s part in
relation to it. Two war study centers
were established at Raleigh and Winston-
Salem. Similar centers have been estab
lished at New Bern, Kinston and Golds
boro this fall. Special lecturers have been
sent to other localities throughout the
State to arouse the patriotic fervor of the
people.
The result in brief is that over 100,000
people have heard lectures on war sub
jects by members of the faculty; more
than 75,000 war information leaflets have
reached North Carolina homes; the war
editions of the University News Letter
have increased to 15,000 weekly; and the
war study centers organized last spring
have enjoyed a membership of 600.
The University Union
The next step of the University was to
enroll as a member of the American Uni
versity Union in Europe, that Carolina
men at the front might be reached, help
ed and enabled to keep in close touch
with Alma Mater. Through this con
necting link the special facilities of the
Union, with headquarters in Paris, Lon
don and Rome, were put at the service
of the University men who happened to
be at these places.
Following up this move, a Carolina
European fellowship fund. was raised by
the alumni to send small packages of can
dy and tobacco to the secretary of the
University Union in Paris to be distrib
uted to Carolina men visiting headquar
ters there, Mr. Herman Weil, of the class
of 1901, of Goldsboro, being the first
contributor, with a $50 check.
Campus War Training
During the summer of 1917 many more
University alumni and students entered
the service. The Plattsburg summer camp
was well represented by University men.
The opening of thp 1917-18 session found
organized military training in full swing,
with Capt. J. Stuart Allen, a member of
the Princess Patricia’s Light Canadian
Infantry and veteran of the first two
years of the fight on the western front,
as director of military tactics, assisted by
Mr. J. V. AVhitfleld, of the class of 1915,
formerly commandant at Horner’s Mili
tary School, and Lieut. Jonathan Leon
ard, of the Harvard reserve officers’ train
ing corps. Some 600 students voluntarily
took the course of instruction regularly,
which consumed twelve hours per week,
approximately nine hours of field work
and three hours of lectures. Eight mem
bers of the faculty also took tlie course.
War Time on the Campus
With tlie introduction of tlie new mili
tary order a war-time atmosphere began
to pervade tlie campus. Tlie curriculum,
where possible, was clianged to meet tlie
new requirements. The football sched
ule was canceled in order to permit more
time for drill. IJkewise the work of the
day was begun at 8 a. m. instead of 8:30,
the first liour being given over to mili
tary work, in addition to two hours, from
4 to 6, on alternate afternoons. At the
same time the high standards of scholar
ship maintained gave convincing evi
dence of a more serious-minded student
body, as shown by tlie average grades of
both the fall and spring terms, the high
est in recent years. The moving picture
show was forced to close for lack of suf
ficient student patronage, the jitney
drivers complained, and Durham play
houses looked for the most part in vain
for Chapel Hill students. Though the
number of students suffered a slight de
cline, 1,113 as compared to 1,250 in 1916-
17, the morale of the student body cor
respondingly increased. The students’
spirit was quickened by the stimulus of
war and the responsibility it placed on
them.
War Department Approval
The work of the battalion from the start
won the highest sort of commendation
and approval from those who visited the
drill field. Early in May of this year the
War department called on the Univer
sity for all eligible members of the sen
ior class who desired to go to officers’
training camps. The first official recog
nition of the military training came early
in June when the government designated
the University as a Reserve Officers’
Training Corps. Recognition was fur
ther extended in July, when 125 students
and faculty members were appointed by
the government through the University
to attend the Plattsburg Training Camp,
for a period of 60 days. Of this number
60 or more were commissioned at the end
of the course, September 16.
Summer War Activities
The elaborate scheme of preparedness
thus inaugurated was continued during
the last summer. The University’s mil
itary training camp at Asheville, Bing
ham Heights, conducted by Captain J.
Stuart Allen and Prof. T. F. Hickerson
with student officers W. A. Blount and
Bingham McKee assisting, extending
through a period of six weeks, June 12 to
July 26, and attended by 125 high school
and college students, was judged highly
successful. The work of the six weeks
summer school, under the direction of
Dr. N. W. Walker, took on a war time
slant. Many new courses designed to
train the teachers specially for war needs
were introduced for the first time.
The University S. A. T. C.
Through the operation of an order is
sued by the War Department on August
24, the University, along with 500 other
institutions of collegiate grade, became a
unit of the Students’ Army Training
Corps. President Graham was appointed
by the the committee on education and
special training at Washington as region
al director of the S. A. T. C. for the
South Atlantic States. Upon this basis
the University campus was converted in
to a military camp, the dormitories into
barracks, the dining hall into a mess
hall, and every one of the 700 students,
in round numbers, inducted into the 8.
A. T. C. on October 1 became soldiers of
the United States army, with the regular
discipline and pay of privates. The Y.
M. C. A. assumed the function of an ar
my Y hut, and the general program of
tlie University conformed to strict mili
tary requirements.
The courses of instruction followed'new
lines. All courses, except those with a
distinct bearing on the war, were dropped
from the schedule, and many new courses
were introduced. Eleven hours of mili
tary training (field work) was required of
all men in the corps, while the remain
ing eleven or twelve recitation hours, ex
cept tliree devoted to the study of issues
involved in the war, were taken from a
list of restricted electives. The men were
thus kept busy from reveille at 6:15 until
taps at 10 p. m.
In addition to the S. A. T. C. unit.
Naval and Marine sections were estab
lished, the former with a quota of fifty
and the latter with 100 as a quota. The
navy’s allotment was quickly filled, but,
due to inability of the students to secure
transfer from the S. A. T. C., the Marine
section fell sliort of its quota and those
in this section were transferred to the
section at the Georgia Institute of Tech
nology in November. Most of the stu
dents not eligible for the S. A. T. C., due
to age or physical disqualification, have
been taking non-S. A. T. 0. military
training under the direction of Captain
Allen and Adjutant AVhitfleld and stu
dent captains S. C. Ogburn and A. H.
Pell. Approximately 160 men have been
taking this drill, consisting of ten hours
per week.
The military faculty this fall was com
posed of seventeen members. Lieuten
ant Colonel G. W. S. Stevens, who was
detailed to the University in July as
commandant in charge, was relieved of
active duty in October, and succeeded
by Capt. Chas. Helmer, who remained
in charge until demobilization.
The students not only offered their ser
vices to the goverment but were ready
with their money. In all the Y. M. 0.
A. , Liberty Loan campaigns and AVar
Stamp and AVar AVork drives the khaki
boys gave whole-heartedly and unre
servedly, according to their means. In
many cases the contributions represented
real sacrifices.
The Faculty in Service
From the start to the finish twenty-six
members of the faculty, past and present,
have donned the uniform and J. Henry
Johnson, of the Eduction Department, has
made the supreme sacrifice overseas.
The record of the alumni, faculty and
students in civilian service is one to be
proud of. No call has gone unheeded for
a moment. And every member of these
three groups from Secretary Daniels, of
the Navy, down to the latest contributor
to the war work fund has reponded with
out stint or limit.
University Casualties
The casualty list of University men,
corrected up to date, contains 56 names,
which are grouped as follows:
Killed in action—-Quincy Sharp Mills,
’07; John Maiming Battle, ’ll; JuniusF.
Andrews, ’14; J. L. Orr, ’17; AV. Dudley
Robbins, ’18; John R. Massey, ’21; Ben
jamin E. Dixon, ’05; John B. Oldham,
’ 12; Bascom F. Fields, ’ 15; John 0. Ran-
son, ’17; Gaston Dortch, ’14; Horace B.
Cowell, ’15; Hubert M. Smith, ’16; Jos
eph Henry Johnson, ’10; David S. Gra
ham, ’01.
Died of disease—Seymour AV. AVhiting,
’14; Hubert 0. EUis,’18; Donald F.
Ray, ’09; John AV. Hutchinson, ’09; B.
B. Bost, ’15; Harold Knorr, ’19; John
Quiney Jackson, ’08; Dr. Charles Gru
ber, ’09; John E, Ray, ’08; Bryan 0.
Murchison, '13; Louis L. Spann, ’18;
James AV. Scott, ’18; Alfred M. Scales,
Jr., ’21; Kenneth M. Scott, ’21; AVilHam
M. Bunting, ’22; Larry Templeton, Jr.,
’22: John B. Bonnor, ’17; Berner C.
Harrell, ’07.
AVounded—I. Roland AVilliams. ’17;
L. L. Shamburger, ’13; Tom Craven, ’14;
Fred M. Patterson, ’16; H. A. AVhitfleld,
’17; Owens. Roberson, ’17; C. AVilliam
Higgins, '17; Earle Johnson, ’19; Dr.
Eric Abernethy, ’06; AVilliam O. Huske,
’ 15; A. C. Campbell, ’10; J. A. Loek-
hardt, ’00; D. G. Fowle, ’05; Samuel S.
Nash, ’10; Chas. AV. Gunter, ’ll; Chas.
AV. Higgins, ’17; Douglas Taylor, ’14;
Jas. Cheshire, ’07: Robert Drane, ’10;
F. K. Dillon, ’18; AVatt Martin, Jr., ’18.
Prisoners—AVilliam H. Oates, ’12; Paul
N. Montague, ’09.
Cited for bravery—Norman Vann, ’13;
S. J. Erwin, Jr., ’17; George Cox, ’14.—
Robert AV. Madry in the News and Ob
server.