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TH LAM jljl n 4 JLiUo THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. Vol.9. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C, 1901. NO. 20 , " . , r Calender for the Week. Chapel service every morning at 8:30 conducted by Mr. Watson. Monday Baseball practice at 4: 30 o'clock; Track team practice at 5 o'clock; Historical Society at 7:30 o'clock. ' Tuesday Y. M. C. A. devotion al services lasting1 30 minutes. Ger rard Hall at 7:15 o'clock; Baseball practice at 4:30 o'clock. "Wednesday Baseball practice at 4:30 o'clock; Track team practice at 5 o'clock. Thursday Baseball practice at 4:30; Track tpam practice at 5 o'clock; Y. M. C. A. short prayer service lasting-15 minutes in the As sociation room at 7:15 o'clock. Friday Baseball practice at 4:30 o'clock; Track team practice at 5 o'clock. Saturday English III. confer ence, Section (3), at 11:35 in Eng lish room; Baseball practice at 4:30; Track team practice at 5 o'ciock. Friday night the Managers of the different class teams met and ar ranged a schedule of games. The Law class was represented by Mr. Spears Reynolds, the Med by W. G. Everhart, the Soph by J. L. Morehead, and the Fresh by S. T. Peace. The following is the schedule so far as completed. March 23d, Sophs vs. Fresh 30th, Law, 44 Meds April 3d Sophs 44 Meds " 2th Law 44 Fresh 44 8th Fresh 44 Meds 44 13th Sophs 44 Law 44 20th Fresh . 44 Sophs " 23d Law 44 Meds 44 27th Med 44 Sophs " 30th Law " Fresh May 7th Fresh " Med " 11th Sophs 44 Law The college championship is o be held by the team that wins the largest per cent, of these games. The class teams are better organ ized this year than they have been for some time and it is to be hoped that the college will give them the proper support and take the proper interest in these games. The Catalogue. The new Catalogue will be out toward the. latter part of this week. This is much earlier than usual. Dr. Linscott who has had charge of its publication is to be congratulated on his excellent management of it. Notice. At a meeting of the Board of Ed itors Saturday, it was decided to make this proposition to the student body in order to secure ads. for the "Yackety Yack." Any one in the University who will secure advertisements for the 44Yackety Yack" will be allowed 10 per cent, discount on the same, pro vided they are not of a Chapel. Hill firm and did not appear in last year's Hellenian. Advertising, rates are $25.00 per page,$13.00 per half page net. All advertisements should be handed to the Business Managers. Annual Debate. The Annual debate between the twro societies took place in Gerrard Hall Friday evening. The question was, 4 'Resolved: That the fifteenth amendment to our National Consti tution should be repealed." The first speech was made by Mr.H.H.Shortof the Phi who spoke in substance as follows: Importance of the problem to the South could be solved only by devel oping him industrially and not po litically. Elimination from politics does not mean elimination from citi zenship. The relation of the two races must be that of protector and ward, not equality,if the south is to succeed. The negro is not fit to vote. He is ignorant and his ignorance inca pacitates him from voting intelli gently or independently. Easily led by prejudice. Votes always in a solid mass totally irrespective of principle. Negroes are 12 per cent of population and 3 per cent of crim inals. Bad voter means bad gover meut and bad laws. By their fruits ye shall know them. Sketch of ne gro rule during reconstruction and their ru'e in this state show unfit ness and lack of improvement part of negro. Negro can not reach in four generations the capacity it took the white race 5000 years to reach. Trend of history shows the unfitness of the negro. Conditions in Africa today and 5000 years ago. Modern history shows its failure in Hayti and Jamaica. Negro suffrage was forced upon the South against the wishes of its best people.' Not an outcome of the war, for Lincoln said he was not in favor of Negro suff rage. No need for it at the time President Johnson disapproved of it in his message. Was passed to perpetuate the Republican party and has been a farce at that. Nec essary for the business interests of the South for it would assure good government which would induce capital and immigration. Assure State credit. Necessary for negro interests, for would remove racial antagonism which is bound to work negro harm, Leaders of two races say his future lies in industry, not politics. The amendment is evaded now by state amendments which have a bad moral effect tending to lesson respect for the constitution as a whole. To tiy to make the races equal is to try to overrule God's will. The government admits the failure of negro suffrage, for in giving a gov ernment to Hawaii it disfranchised nearly every negro. Negro suff rage has proven a failure and if we want prosperity in the South the re peal of the amendment must come. The first gentleman who spoke for the Negative was Mr. R. A. Merrittof , the Di. He said: The purpose of the Amendment was to establish a uniform standard of suffrage. The manner of adoption has nothing to do with the question of repeal, for the. negro has really bettered his conditions by the white man's help, and by his own indus try. Such men as Vance and H.W. Grady had confidence in the negroes capacity for betteriug his condition. The negro submitted to slavery when it was thrust upon him and has been loyal to our government in all of our wars, and faithful to his conception of duty. There are re ally some worthy negroes in every town and scattered throughout our country. Booker Washington is one such example. His work and his plans are object lessons of the possibilities of the race. Negroes are citizens and held subject to laws To tax the worthy negroes and de ny them suffrage merely on account of race is unamerican, hence a pure ly race qualification is unjust, be cause the best element of negroes are more fit to vote than the worst element of the white race. Nothing can really be gained by this repeal, but much may be lost, for it would cause discontent of the better class of negroes, destroy their attachment to our institutions and would reduce our representa tion in Congress. It is true that many negroes are unfit to vote, but State amendments.answer the pur pose by taking away suffrage from all such, not because they are ne groes, but on grounds of personal incompetency. There State regula tion of suffrage is secured in essen tial ways while the national guaran tee only protects the rights of the worthy class better than the states might be able to do. For all these reasons it is dangerous to change our constitution upon which our lib erty and progress d:pend. The next speaker was Mr. J. E. A vent of the Phi society. The negro question originated at a time when every circumstance ag gravated its difficulties of solution. But the South .having solved all the questions arising from the Civil war, has the capacity to solve the Negro question. Public sentiment at the South is against universal ne gro suffrage. Various ways are- used to exclude the negro from suf frage. Therefore the negro's act ual political status and his constitu tional status are not the same. These must be reconciled in order to establish the relations of the rac7 es on a basis of orderly government. To do this either the public senti ment at South must be removed, or the Fifteenth Amendment must be repealed. But Southern sentiment cannot be changed. Therefore the Fifteenth Amendment should be re pealed. Suffrage should be kft to the States altogether. The States can enforce its laws on the subject, the Federal Government cannot; be cause Amendments to State consti tutions are being frequently adopt ed to evade the Fifteenth Amend ment. They are not likely to prove to be the final and lasting solution of the question; They are not com mendable because their object is to evade the Federal constitution. (Continued on last page.) Shakespeare Club. The Shakespeare .Club held its meeting for March in the Chaperons Monday night. The meeting was called to order by the president, Dr. Hume. It was announced that circum stances prevented Mr. Rankin from reading his paper at ;his meeting as expected, but he would do so at the next. The first paper of the evening was read bv Mr. F. M. Osborne, the sub ject being: ''Sidney, Lover or Poet?" The paper was a study of the group of sonnets by Sidney, entitled 44Astrophel and Stella." The ques tion is this Did Sidney 4with this key unlock his heart' and pour out his personal feeling and experience or are the sonnets simply the prod uct of a poets fancy and the lively imaginings of this intense chevalier poet? After showing that the first view is held by many good authori ties the speaker presented a con densed form of the argument for the other side given in 44A History of English. Poetry," by Courthope. Courthope says that the theory that the sonnets are personal and bio grapical is opposed by (1) historical facts in the life of Sidney, (2)the character of Sidney, which was such as would not allow the supposed re lation to Lady Rich, and (3)the con ventional character of the sonnets. Te only touch of personality to be seen is found when we look at the sonnets as the assertion of the chiv alrous tradition of Petrach against the Euphuists of his day and as the outpourings of the spirit of the brave . chevalier, who'pbured out his life in a brilliant victory and a glorious . death in behalf of freedom in the Low Countries. Dr. Hume then read a paper on Sidney's Influence on English Prose Romance. The lecture was a care fully considered discussion of Sir Philip's hereditary personality, ex perience as a courtier and knight, with high ideals as a scholar and g-entleman, with the purpose of showing how all these contributed to produce the Arcadia, the.nrst or- iginal prose novel in English. How this affected the' Shakespenan drama was also indicated by inter- esting examples and commentary. As a classicalist Sidney knew how to use his Greek pastorals, his Vir gil, his Plato, his Obid. As a cul: tured Elizabethan he used his Ari osto, his Italian landscapes, his complex love-plots from Spanish ro mances. The English Protestant must color all his store of learning with his Christian philosophy of life. The Hamlet-like soul of Sidney must communicate somewhat of his own speculative, sensitive, idealism to what he wrote. The-soldier friend of Raleigh, fit for deeds of high emprise, by Elizabeth's moodiness confined in the pent-up Utica of in triguing politics, took such solace as he could iii conbining the different (Continued on last page.)
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