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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. .
Published Every Thursday by the General
Athletic Association.
Edward W. Mykns,
Gkorgb S. WiUS,' -W.
R. Wbbb, Jr.," -HarryHoweu,
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A. Gwyn, - -M
H. Yount, - - -
Editor-in-Chief,
Literary Editor,
-'Athletic Editor.
Exchange Editor.
- - Eocal Editor,
- - Eocal Editor,
more of their information on the
subject than he ought to have
known before, by subjecting- them to
a mental strain of several days du
ration, only to find that their paper
shows the same grade as their term
stand? Doesn't it seem useless?
Harry Howew,, ' - - Business Manager
Jas. A. Gwyn, - "Assistant Bus. Manager.
Entered at the post-office in Chapel Hill, N,
C, as second-class inail-niattcr.
The senior class the past week-
have presented a petition to the fac
ulty desiring- them to excuse those
members of the class, who have at
tained a term grade of over ninety
per cent from examinations, if they
choose, and asking- to be allowed to
take their term , stand as their final
grade. It is to be hoped that the
faculty will grant this request, for
there would seem but little doubt
that the amount of study during- the
term would be greatly increased
and more knowledge and mental
training- be the result of this better
preparation, than could possibly
come from a few days' cramming
for examinations, soon learned and
sooner forgotten. As was stated in
these columns last week, the exper
iment has been tried and proven a
success in some of the larger North
ern universities.
The faculty and trustees aim to
make the University of North Car
olina the leader of the Southern
colleges ifa everjrthiilg, members,
thought, grade of work done; let
them be the leaders in the South of
this movement, and broaden out
their views of the University, try
to make it a University indeed in all
directions. Of course the writer
understands that with the present
state of education in the State, the
collegiate department must be main
tained at about its present standard,
but nevertheless the majority of the
students of the college areNmen,
who know what they want, and
such a petition as this one deserves
the careful attention of the faculty,
and they should be thoroughly sat
isfied of its impracticability before
they refuse to grant it. If they
consider only the work which would
be done under this plan, let them
think of this. There are numbers
of men in college who do not care
for any honor at graduation and
who therefore study barely enough
to pass their examinations, and
do not try for any term stand, and
such men always hate the examina
tion period. These same men, if
they had the prospect of being- free
from this, trial, on condition of at
taining a certain grade in their
studies would do their best to get
that grade just to g-et rid of exami
nations, of course learning- more of
the subject than they otherwise
would. This is one class. There
is another class more ambitious
than the first who are habitually
well prepared on recitation, and
having a good knowledg-e of the sub
ject, what does the instructor learn
In looking over our exchang-es
the following- paragraphs in the
Vanderbilt Hustler met our eye
They are taken from the Knoxville
Sentencl which used them in speak
ing- of the University of Tennessee's
prospects for football this Fall:
"The reason the University is short
of 4 heavy men ' this year is due to
the tact that the colleges and uni
versities all over the countrv- have a
standing- fund to pay the matricula
tion of all larg-e men that can be in
duced to enter the school, and as the
University has no fund of this kind
and. as the Knoxville people do not
patronize the games the boys set on
foot, there is no inducement what
ever to attend the University, as
they are not rppreciated outside the
school. The University had a fine
foot-ball team last yeat, and one of
which the boys were all proud, but
Collier and other heavy men did not
return this season and the probabu
ities are that the citizens who wish
to see a g-ame of football this year
will have to leave Knoxville to grat
ify their desire.
The Tar heel would like to en
ter its protest ag-ainst the state
ment made above 4 'that the colleg-es
and universities all over the country
have a standing- fund to pay the
matriculation of all larg-e men that
can be induced to enter the school."
This nhiversity for one" certainly
has no fund for anything- of the
sort, and we are much surprised to
ee that the University of Tennes
see regrets its lack of money to pay
salaries to the members of its teams
Possibly our ideas are antiquated
but we had supposed that colleg-e
athletics were for colleg-e men, bona
fide students of their colleg-es and
not for professionals, but antiquat
ed or not they are the ideas that
prevail on the subject here, and are
supposed were held at all Southern
colleges pretending- to take any
stand in athletic matters. We tul
ly agree with The Hustler in dep
recating- any such statement being-
made throug-h the press as will tend
to cause the unfounded belief that
frofessionalism is wide spread in
college athletics m the South.-
The Election.
THE DEMOCRATS LOSE. THE RE
PUBLICANS GAIN
The returns from the election in
dicate a Republican gain of many
states heretofore Democratic. It
seems as if the Old North State
which has stood by the Democratic
party for' so many' years has at last
been corrupted by the allied forces
of the Populists and Republicans.
The only cause of this seems to
have been the necessary tardiness
of Congress in carrying out the
pledges of the Democratic plat
form. The public mind has for
some time been in a restless and un
quiet state. This the opponents of
Democracy saw, and made use of .
Hence the result was Democracy's
loss and fusion's g-ain.
We admire the so-called unselfish
sacrifice that a 'scrub' makes for
the good of the team. The life o
a 'scrub' is truly hard always de
feated and run over; always work
ed hard and blamed for every thing
But the scrub has two consolations,
one that it is he that makes the team
what it is. and the second is that
he may get there 4 'bye and bye. '
But we often see that it is not an
unselfish sacrifice and that the only
reason that he offered on the field
was for selfish purposes andsel
fish purposes only. Why has there
been no scrub team on the fiel
since the 'Varsitv returned from
their Northern trip? It was
pretty good indication to a man,
who was left at home on this trip
that there were few chances of his
makiug- the team and so he shows
by staying away that it was only
for the sake of becoming- a
member of the team that he came
upon the field.
Now here is a great chance for a
man to show some college spirit and
alsoTto show his unselfishness. He
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knows there is no chance for him
now and if he plays he should and
will win our admiration.
Now fellows those of you who
have stayed away, please remember
t hat we need you and must hav
you. According to the agreement
among the classes no one can play
on the class team and the scrub also
and hence there is no one who will
take your place. So fellows come
out regularly and do all you can to
make a winning team.
The Tar Heei, wishes to thank the
many friends who have so kindly aided
in making the trips such a pleasant
thing- for the team:
The Southern Kailway kindly ran
another special train over to the sta-
A.
tion to connect with the early train
g-oing- west.
At South Bethlehem, the Sigma Nu
Fraternity gave a reception and sup
per to their representatives and several
other friends. There everything flow
ed in plenty, and the invited guests re
gretted their inabiiity to accept on ac
count of their strict training.
That night a box party was give
each of the teams by the manager of
the theatre, and each box was draped
in the colors of the University it rep
resented. ,
At Washington, Capt. Baskerville al
so gave the team a box party at "The
Trip to uninatown, wnicn was en
joyed by all, and was the scene of sev
eral amusing incidents.
The manager of the Georgetown
team showed unusual attention to make
things as pleasant as possible for the
Carolinians. Here they also regretted
their " inability " to accept his invita
tion to lunch after the game.
Many Carolinians were present at
the different games. Rondthaler, '92,
saw the Lehigh game, and there were
many at Washington, among whom, we
may mention Miss Laura Payne and
Miss Taylor.
Last year there appeared an arti
cle in College Topics of the Univer
sity of Virg-inia, in which the fact
was deplored, that while U. Va,
always had a good strong team, she
never developed any material of her
own; her players came for the most
part from other colleges.
Now i Carolina has begun to de.
velop material, having- four regular
class teams, each of which has a
scrub to practice against. The
good of this can easily be seen.
The benefit, which comes from
this most scientific of games, istlnis
secured by a larger number of men;
new material is developed for the
'Varsity and good in every way
comes to all.
Those who have heretofore
thought that the practice of the
class teams was mere child's play
have quite a reversion in their opin
ion by the playing of the Junior and
Freshman teams against the 'Var
sity. Several times the Frqshmen
held the 'Varsity for four downs
and the ball went over, and several
times the Freshmen made gains of
five to nine yards. Seigel made
one beauty of 58 yards before be
ing downed. Neither scored in 20
minutes play and the ball was
about 20 yards in the Varsity's
territory when time was called.
The Freshmen usually lost the ball
on fumbles.
The Juniors next were called, and
they also did splendid work, taking
the ball awaj' from the 'Varsitv on
downs, and only twice losing it or
the same.
Graham, E. and Brem made the
largest gains. They played for
twenty five minutes when the 'Var
sity gained the ball on downs vv:i1
easily scored a touch down.
The playing of both teams was
very good irdeed, and much practice
was given to the 'Varsity.
They lined up as follows:
'Varsity.
R. E. Thompson,
R. T. Baird,
R.G. Sharne,
C White,
E. G. Wrig-ht,
E. T. Pugh,
E. E Stringrfield,
Q. Stanley,
R. H. Moore,
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Freshmen.
Pate,
Walker,
Lake,
Joyner.
Juniors'
Powers.
Gwyn.
Eller,
Craig.
Ferg-urson, Robbins,
Seigel, Coker,
Ferguson, Woodson.
Sams, Eemly.
Pease, Carr.
i Tinci,.,,jii Earner, Graham, E,
F. Graham, G. Roberts, . Brem.
Graham G. captained the 'Varsity: Rodders
of the Freshmen and Graham E. was acting
captain of the juniors.
Little Kemp Battle was saying
his prayers the other night and he
concluded them with these lines:
4'0 God please make George
Geaham well and make Will Gra- Carolinian would do as
ham well; and O God please stop up suggests, and 44take pride in and en
he hole in Tom Steele's tongue." courage the University team."
j We give in another column an ar
ticle on "Southern Football" from
the Raleigh Evening Visitor oi Oct.
29. It was written by a young and
patriotic alumnus, R. L. Gray, ex-
96, who is now a rising young journ
alist, being City Editor of the Vis
itor, and who is making quite a
reputation for himself, and contribu
ting largely to to the success of that
bright little daily, by the way, in
wrhich he writes up the newrs of our
capital city. It is actuated by the
true pride and love for alma , mater,
and we only wish that every North
the article
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