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TI-lcs Tear Heel. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. BOARD OF EDITORS. Ralph H. Graves, - Editor-in-Chief. ASSOCIATE EDITORS. T.L.Wright, - - - W. J. Bellamy, Burton Craige, - - - W. S. Myers, S. S. Lamb, - - - - - S. W. Kenney. F. O. Rogers,. Business Manager. Published every Saturday by the General Athletic Association. fecrlptU Price. 1.50 per Yer. Payable iv advancb or during first term. ' i Sinolk Copies, 5 Cents. A.U matter Intended for publication should be ad 4ressed to the Editor-in-chief and accompanied by iane ef writer. Entered at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N, C as second-class mail matter. The establishment of a Universi ty Magazine has been extensively discussed of late and some steps for the accomplishment of this idea are being made by two committees from the literary societies. We must have it, and the only way to make its publication a suc cess is to have it con trolled and reg ulated by some rigid and well defin ed organization. Individual support or even control by the unorganized student body at large, is unsafe and unreliable. The venture must be undertaken by some organized body of men whose very organization will be a surety for its success. Our classes have no such organi zation, nor has any other set of men in the University except the literary societies. They must take the matter in hand or else it will collapse. If they have their own interests at heart, they will do so, because such a publication, with its editors elected entirely from the so ciety members, will attract men in to the societies and conduce in a great measure to their influence in college life. furthermore, all members of the societies, who have the University's best interests atheart should assist in carrying out the project. Shall wea loheof the great universities be with out some such publication through whose medium our literary efforts may be stimulatad and their results preserved? No, it must not be so. This side of our University training has been neglected long enough al ready. Now is the time to make a start in this direction, and the way to do it is to establish a University Magazine. There have so far been two gymnastic contests, and both of these were pn such stormy days that it was Jmpossible to have any out-door exhibitions. Why is this? If the track team was scheduled for some races, pole-vaulting and such like exercises, these occasions would be much more attractive, yUe sis is, they are witnessed by very few students and small no tice is attracted to them. Why not pick out sunny days and have some thing that will increase interest in gymnasium work, instead, of these boring indoor performances which interest no one except the partici pants? Rope-skipping may be very amusing to the skipper, but what a dead bore to the spectatorl Vanderbilt Letter. Vanderbilt University, Feb, 2, 1897. At last the students at Vanderbilt are breathing easy. The examina tions of the first term are over. Some are congratulating themsel ves on their passes, and are in a good humor with all the world. Others are regretting that they "rushed" society too much in the past, and have determined to lead hermits' fives for the next five months. , There is very little of interest going on in athletics just now; and all are either reviewing the past football season, or speculating as to our strength in baseball in the spring. This was an off season in football with Vanderbilt. Several games were lost in the earlier part pf the ' season on account of the ianje amount of new material in the team; but by hard work a winning team was put in the field op Thanks giving Day. Several of the old men will be back next year; and with O'Connor as captain, a very suc cessful year is expected. The University of Georgia is to be , congratulated on its enviable record in football last season. Geor gia played always a clean and scien tific game, and well deserves the championship of the S. I. A. Asso ciation. Vanderbilt was honored by the annual meeting of the S. I. A. A. in December last. This was a very important meeting and many meas ures for the good of athletics in the South were passed. It was also de termined to hold the annual Field Day of the Association at Vander bilt. The stand taken by the Southern colleges in refusing to play the per ipatetic "Yale" team of "barkers" pertainly is deserving of much cred it. It is to be hoped that the yery cold reception given to teams of this sort by Southern colleges will stop these money making trips. Lately Prof. E. E. Barnard, an alumnus of Vanderbilt, was honor ed by a medal from the Royal As tronomical Society. Prof. Barnard has has had charge of theXick Ob servatory, and now is at the Yerkes Observatory at the University of Chicago. Vanderbilt is becoming a very popular place for fraternity conven tions. Delta Kappa Epsilon held its convention here last fall, and Kappa Alpha, Sigma Nu, and Beta Theta Pi expect to meet here dur ing the Centennial Exposition. Dr. H. C. Tolman, with Prof. Harrington, of the University of IN. ! Cm has just brought out a book on Greek and Roman Mythology, a publication that the South may well be proud of. Dr. Baskerville has contributed his "Southern Men oJE Letter Series."- Vanderbilt's prospects for base ball are very bright. Our pitchers and catcher of last year's team will play again, and some very good ma terial is in the University. The University of Va. is to be fe licitated on her recent acquirements by the Fayerweather will. Capital is so very scarce lately with South ern colleges that a hundred and fif ty thousand is noi to be sneezed at. Jt is unfortunate that the distribu tion of the estate has been so long delayed. The Hustler. Psychology. Communicated. This is a word fraught with a multitude of fears and misgivings for the Freshman and Sophomore, and a still greater multitude of woes for the Junior and Senior. We would ask, why is this thus? Is Psychology the bugbear of un dergraduate studies? Is it the "Jo nah" of the college curriculum? In deed it js both of these, so far as getting a grade is concerned. Then we should ask, why is this thus? Is Psychology so deep and impenetra ble that only the chosen few can pomprehend it; or is it simply that the head of the department wishes to make it appear so? If the for mer be true, does it not seem proba ble that the chosen few would be the brainiest and most studious men in the class, the men who have pro ven their talent, ability and zeal by their previous record? But this is, as a rule, not the case. A lage proportion of the men who pass on psychology do poorly in other de partments, and many of . the men who fail have, only once or twice before," fallen short of the honor mark. ' It might be argued that this is because psychology requires a dif ferent or, some might say, a higher function of the intelligence. II this be so to the extent to which the marks seem to indicate, it should be stricken from the college curricu lum, and only those Who possess this very peculiar "subjective indi viduality" should pursue the course. To prove that the marks on psy chology are, with few exceptions, just indicators neither of brains nor industry, we will cite two instance which we think representative. One man in a class of recent years, who has since proven by the marks pf the Professor that he possesses this peculiar individuality, studied every lesson thoroughly, became in terested and read one or more paral lel articles on every subject, besides discussing the questions freely on plass. He obtained grade "4." Another man who has never had a reputation for brilliancy, read over only one lesson during the whole term, did no parallel reading an4 took no part in the discussions pn class, but "crammed up" for ex amination, and he also attained to grade "4." What does this mean? Is the Pro fessor partial? ', We have never heard him accused of it. The prob lem seems unfathomable. Bright and industrious men, who are interested in the subject cannot "get through" or at least can't get a grade which represents their tal ent and application. Is it the fault of the teaching? The Professor, is an excellent psy chologist, as far as we are able to jud,ge. He is always logical and concise, goes to to the root of every problem, and his lines of argument are almost invariably clear and im pregnable; but sometimes, just be fore he gets to the point, he jumps, or at least if he doesn't, we can't see 'what he steps on. Again he sometimes makes an illustration without stating the analogy: yet iu spite of this, he often puts the ques tion to members pf the class, "How does your illustration illustrate the point?" However, in justice to him, we must say he often asks if the point is clear to all, and invites discus sion. But if every man in the class were. to ask every question which occurred to him (the way the, more persistent men in the class do, and these seem to be t h e success f ul ones), the progress would be at the rate of about ten "pages a month in stead of ten a day. Furthermore it is not at all pleasant to a man of the average make-up to air his opinions before so large a body of students When the examination comes, the Professor tells his class to "answer the questions in such a way that they will be intelligible to the ordi nary wayfaring man. " We should ike to ask him how much of the text-book which he uses' is "intelli gible to t he ordinary wayfaring rnan?" He might say in reply to this, that if the answers were as clear as Mr. Dewey he would be satisfied.' But he must remember that all Juniors do not possess the same command over the Eno-lis, language that Mr. Dewey doesand might not be able to express them selves with absolute clearness, even on a point which they perfectly un derstood. We contend that he should not psychologically transform himself n t o the "ordinary wayfaring r-man" when he corrects papers, but if he can see from the answer given that the problem is thorough ly understood by its giver, he should grade him perfect, and not refer it to the above-named animal for con sideration. In this course it seems to be more necessary for a student to made a study of the Professor than of the text-book. We should prefer a lit tle "more Psychology and less Wil jiamsology. Whether our views with regard to this important question are cor rect or not, the marks show that there is trouble somewhere, and wherever and whatever it is we de mand ofthose in authority that it be removed, even if the course has to be abolished from the curriculum. ; This latter we by no means ad vise, for if properly taught, and properly pursued, we think it would be one of the best, is not the best pourse in college. . . Student. The Homer men of the Universi ty on Wednesday of last week or ganized a club for the purpose of perpetuating pleasant memories of days spent at this renowned institu tion, and for keeping up a feeling of attachment between those who en ter here from this school in the fu ture. The officers and members are Burton Craige, '97, President, Stuart Carr, '98, Vice-President, J. S. Carr, '99, Sect. & Treas. Jones Fuller, '99, Toast Master. Eatman, Stanly, Bellamy, W., Belden, Craige, Rogers, Carr, C. S., Carr, J. S., Carr, J. R., Lamb, Fuller, Kluttz, Harris, W., Harris, R., Moore, McKee, Woodard, Lips comb, Collins, Howard, Bellamy, ,rMitchell Scientific Society. . On last Tuesday night the Mit chell held its regular monthly meet ing. The time was taken up by Professors Cain and Cobb, who discussed respectively "Highway Bridges," and Links." "Some Missing A Prize. A prize is offered by the Itellcn tan to the student who will hand in for publication the best article, either serious or comic. The prize will consist of two. copies of e Annual.
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