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AR rr -rr " it iUo Vol. 13. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C.,' WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1905. No. 14. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THF UNIVERSITY OF 'NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. PHI BETA KAPPA. Installation of the Alpha Chapter. Dr. Bright's Address. The excercises incident to the in stallat'ion of the. Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society were conducted in the College Chapel Friday night at eight o'clock. The address of the occasion was deliver ed by Dr. .Bright, professor of English at Johns Hopkins Univer sity. The meeting was presided over by Mr. T. B. Higdon. the first president of the Alpha Chapter. In opening the exercises Dr. Alexander, through whose efforts mainly the University was enabled to get this chapter, spoke on the life of the Alpha Theta Phi Society here, and then gave a brief history of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and its aims and work. Dr. Smith then introduced Dr Bright, who spoko on the study of the vernacular. Dr. Bright's ad dress was a scholarly presentation of the claims of the vernacular in any thorough course in philology He showed that even in the study of Latin and Greek, the laws of lan guage find their clearest expression and their most adequate interpreta tion in the student's native speech. He began by a well-reasoned dis crimination between college work and university 'work. He congrat ulated the University on its reputa tion as a centre of truly graduate work. He expressed his pleasure at the graduate work now being done in the English language, and paid a beautiful and deserved tribute to Mr. Eugene Morehead Armiield, of High Point, whose donation to the graduate department of the English language would be a bless ing to students for all time to come. Altogether, the lecture was in keeping with Dr. Bright's reputa tion as an original thinker and with the academic association of the Phi Beta Kappa. , Dr. Bright in closing said that the cause of the great influence of the German literature was to be found in their great universities. He predicted that great things were to come to the "JNew feoutli when her universities should carry on this higher work as it is beginning to do. He closed with the follow ing poem to the New South: MERIDES, OR THE NEW SOUTH. Oppressive woes forgot, as if new-born, Resilient, brave, and spirit all unworn, Merides fair now springs to life. A country large, united, battle-tried, Repledges troth to her, the nation's pride, In joyous note of ended strife, n No neutral heaven is her sky of peace, But set with promise of the soul's release From childish fears of cloudy night. No clamorous jargon fills the mind with awe, But humble science re-expounds the law: It is not might but love makes right, in Sweet garden of the earth, and heaven for roof, And wisdom of the ages for reproof, A goodly heritage and wide; And eyes to see God's secrets manifold, And hearts to feel more than to eai be told, Philosophy the while her guide. The Virginia Foot-LJall Game. t The University of Virginia Ath letic Association Advisory Commit tee has accepted Norfolk's proposi tion and made a contract that th game with Carolina shall be played there next year. The Richmond alumni were much incensed at thi and protested vigorously, but with out avail. The students at Virgin ia were apparently not entirely sat isfied with the decision, as is shown in a communication from one o them in College Topics. The fol lowing are. some extracts from the letter: "The recent action of of the Ad visory Doara or tne jr. A. A. in changing the place of the Thanks giving game from Richmond to Norfolk has been criticised and crit icised justly. It has beefl criticised hot only by the alumni but also by the students. "In the first place the students were not considered for one mo ment and no attempt whatever was inade to find out how they stood in the question. In fact the proposed change was left in the background so completely that a large portion of the student body knew nothing at all about it until they saw it in the Topics last week that the change had been agreed upon. If the students had been consulted, there is every reason to believe that the majority of them would have given a decisive answer to the pro posed change. But instead of con suiting them, their wishes were en tirely ignored. "To prove that .the students' wishes exerted very little influence ou the decision, it is sufficient to say that the game has been put out of the reach of most of them. With no idea of going to the game, the interest is apt to flag, and will not this lack of interest affect in a way the players themselves? And th Thanksgiving game, the game of all games, to be thus put out of reach, without rhyme or reason, is more than most of them can realize. "In days gone by the big games were arranged partly for the bene fit of the students whose team it really is, but now all this seems to be changed. The commercial spirit, the desire for the "Almighty Dol lar", has shoved what the students desire into the background of ob livion, and the student must suffer accordingly without murmuring or letting it be known that the team would not exist except for himself. As the time for the game approaches the "Almighty Dollar" will cry out, "Show your college spirit," but how can college spirit exist when its ideals are trampled under foot by the spirit of commercial- . ismr "Prom the standpoint of a stu dent the action of the Board was hasty and ill advised, and should be reconsidered. If the students were considered the action of the Board would be revoked and the game , 1 i tt:i. I i. ' i awaraea 10 rucnmonu wnere it rightfully belongs." ing the action of the Advisory Com mittee. ; It had rather the note of an apology. The proposition made by Norfolk is, in effect: (1) railroad facilities and rates equal to those enjoyed by Richmond; (2) accommodations for both teams while in Norfolk; (3) railroad expenses of the Virginia team to and from Norfolk; (4) a field containing 5000 reserved seats and "unlimited standing room Richmond offered to spend $25,000 in equipping her park, on condition that the eame be iriven her for three years. Norfolk wanted a contract for one year, and she got it The situation now is that Virgin ia has signed up to play her nex Thanksgiving game in Norfolk. I Carolina plays her she must play her there. Thus passes the hope of many that the South might have an annual Thanksgiving game that would be to the South what the Yale-Harvard game is to New Eng land and the North, a game where the students, Alumni and friends of the two great Southern Uni versities would gather and see a splendid contest. The promise of a suitable park in Richmond was a pledge of this. Richmond is accessi ble to everybody and everybody likes to go there, Carolinians and Virginians. A splendid Thanks giving day, a good park, and a game such as North Carolina and Virginia should play. That would never fail to draw a loyal crowd to Richmond. But to have this game in Norfolk means leaving out the under graduates, who have first claim on the teams that are playing for the championship. If Carolina plays Virginia in Norfolk most of the students will witness the game through a telegraphic report. And a game where the under graduate is not on the side lines to back his team is only a part of a game. We can never have the Great Southern Game at Norfolk. The following from the Richmond News-Leader is of interest in this connection: "Between the action of her Ath etic Association in agreeing to play the annual foot ball game for three years in Norfolk, and the general ship of her athletic rivals of the Virginia Polytecnic Institute, it be gins to look serious for the foot ball uture of the State University. "Fearing that their University of Virginia rivals would reconsider heir action and get out of the Nor- olk deal, which they have been warned threatens the ruin of their athletic future, Virginia Polytechnic nstitute men in Richmond and Blacksburg did some quick think- ng and exchanging of ideas, and on Saturday Woodson P. Waddey, Virginia Polytecnic Institute '95, losed a lease which he had .been negotiating with the Broad-Street The name signed to the letter ap- Park Company (Messrs. Bradley pears prominently in the directory, and Donati) for Thanksgiving day The next issue of the Topics con- i for three years. This morning Mr. tained an editorial in reply, uphold-! Waddey transferred his lease to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Ath letic Association. ; "The Virginia Polytechnic In stitute men say they will get a game for Richmond for Thanksgiv ing day equally as attractive as the Vi rginia-North Carolina contest. "This seems quite possible, for there are old rivals, the Virginia Military Institute, with many friends in Richmond; the Carlisle Indian eleven, the Georgetown and other teams to draw on. ' "This blocks any retreat of the University men from Norfolk to Richmond, and is calculated to crip ple the attendance from Richmond at the Virginia-North Carolina game Thanksgiving day in Norfolk. "There is the glee of successful rivalry at Blacksburg to-day. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute al umni in Richmond, headed by Woodson Waddey, and the -'Polytechnic athletic committee feel that they have outgeneraled ' the ' "Uni-' versity crowd", have burned its bridges behind it, and have forced it into a quicksand at Norfolk into which it will slowly sink, leaving the Virgininia Polytechnic Insti tute first in Virginia football, rival ing North Carolina for the leader ship of the South. "Bradlev and Donati, the Broad- Street Park Company, are making arrangements to tear down the present seating arrangements in the park and make the place over new, and up-to-date and better than the UaFayette Field in Norfolk. "It is very probable, by the way, :hat the annual North Carolina- Virginia Polytechnic game, played alternately at Blacksburg and Chapel Hill, will be brought to Richmond a week or two before Thanksgiving day." Dr. Smith's Book to be Used at the Naval Academy. The authorities of the Naval Academy, Annapolis, have adopted Dr. Smith's "English-German Con versation Book", written in collab oration with Dr. Kruger of Berlin, and published by D. C. Heath & Company, for use in their German classes. The students at the Acad emy are taught the modern langua ges by the phonegraph' method. The book has been put into phono graph plates and will be used in his way. A New Prize. Mr. George P. Brett, the accom plished president of the MacMillan Company, the great publishers of New York, together With his wife, visited the University last week. It is with grateful appreciation that e hear of his offer of a prize, of the value of twenty-five dollars, of his best publications, for best work in "The Literary Study of the Bible," a course of exceptional in terest conducted by Dr. Hume.
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