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A If ovement of State-Wide Sig
nificance New Educational
Building.
Cmim iiiiiiiIiiiib of Tb. Bntw mnm.
Cbtpel Hill, Nov. 9 A raora
raentof State-wide significance
had its rise at the State Uolver
sity this week in the form of an
organisation of a "North Caroli
na High School Debating Union. "
The two debating societies of the
University evolved the plan, and
expressed aa its purpose the
stimulation of greater interest In
debating and encouragems;it of
inter-school debating arro w the
secondary schools in the St?e,
Towards the accompliihrnaot of 1
this end more that 375 letters
have been sent to the high;
and gwded schools of the
State urging their co-operation.
The plan provides for
a triangular debate H?twafl
schools of the same staading and
convenience of location. Th
two societies of the University
will suggest the query and pro
vide from the University liorary
in pamphlet form, material cov
ering both, sides of the question,
free of cost Each school will
send out a team to debate the
negative side of the query and
keep a team at home to debate
the affirmative side. The schools
winning both sides of the debate
will be entitled to send both
teams to Chapel; Hill, where a
contest will be held to determine
the two teams that shall contest
in the final debate for the
Washington and Lee University,
of Lexington, Va., about the mid
dle of December. The contest
Till be held either at Lexington
or Lynchburg, Va
What is considered to be the
first definite step towards the
restoration of athletic relations
between all the colleges of North
Carolina was taken in Raleigh re
cently in the organixation of an
intercollegiate basketball league.
All of the teadinar colleges of the
State formed the league with the
agreement of playing a series of
two games with each college.
This evident slarn of restoring
athletic peace amongst the col
leges of the State has been re
ceived everywhere with com
mendation and a a sign of good
omen for all interested.
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championship. The school win
ning the debate in the finals will
be awarded the "Ay cock Memo
rial Cup," with the name of the
-school and the members of the
team engraved on it' If a school
should win the cup for two suc
cessive years, it becomes that
school's property.
The new educational building,
a gift of the Peabody Fund, is
nesting completion and will be
rady for occupancy the first of
1913. The Peabody Fund con
tributed 340,000 towards itserec-
tion. Is is a har.dsome struct
ure and will be a credit to the i
educational department of the
University aa well as tcNorth
Carolina.
The preliminaries for Caroli
na's first inter collegiate debate
for the college year will be held
October 19. The debate is with
The cotton rrjill at Manchester,
12 miles from Fajeeville on the
A. & Y. branch of the Coast
line, was burned lust Saturday.
The fire is thought to have origi
nated in the picker room.
The Seaboard Air Line hsJ
made arrangements with the
which was recently extended
from Hope Mills to Fayetteville,
whereby the Seaboard virtually
enters Fayetteville,
Senator Simmons is undergo
ing treatment at Dr. Long's san
atorium in Statesville. He is not
seriously ill but is broken down
aZl ; by overwork during the long ses
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