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THE T A E H EEL
The Tar Hbbl,
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
BOARD OF EDITORS.
flKRBKRT B. GUNTKK,
F. P. Graham, -
- Editor -in-Chief
Asst. Editor-in-Chief,
ASSOCIATE EDITORS.
M. Robins. K. D. Battle,
O. J. Coffin. S. S. Nash, Jr,
D. B. Tkague.
Business Manager.
, Asst. Bus. Manager,
Thomas L. Simmons,
O. B. Ruffin,
Published once a week by the Genera.
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C, as second-class matter.
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Though there have been times
this year, when the work of publish
ing The Tar Heel has been rather
irksome, on the whole we have en
joyed "getting out the rag-." More
than once we have been face to face
with the newspaper man's problem
ot what to print and what not to
print, the thing was often difficult
of decision, and possibly we have
made mistakes. If so, we regret
it, but we have done our best, and
whatever mistakes we have made
have been those of the head and not
of the heart.
This has been rather a stormy
year in the life of the University.
We have felt it our duty at times
to e-ive expression to sentiments
a
that we knew, would not be well
received by a large number of our
friends, but when the larger good
of the whole student body was at
stake, we did not hesitate to say
things that possibly yet rankle in
the breasts of some of the students.
And we never minced words. Pos
sibly there were times when a more
tactful expression of sentiments
would have caused less trouble, but
we are so constituted that when we
desire to speak of a certain agricul
tural implement we say "spade"
and not "spontoon".
It seems to us now in looking
back over the year's work that we
have been confronted by more prob
lems than usually fall to the lot of
a Tar Heel editor. These problems
grew out of the stormy period.
They grew out of the fact that, as
Prof. E. K. Graham says in the
Yackety Yack, "Every student
feels, I suspect, whether he agrees
with all that has been done or not,
that it has been one of those unus
ual years in which college life rises
above the level of routine monotony
into genuine self-expression." They
grew out of the awakening of a
"national consciousness . . And in
the fights that have characterized
the college life this year we have
had no doubt as to our position, nor
as to the righteousness of our cause,
but it was oftentimes a mighty hard
problem to know what to say and
what to leave unsaid.
But in discussing every question
we tried to maintain the attitude of
frankness and plain-speaking which
has characterized every fight this
year and which did much to increase
the respect of the fighters for each
other. Indeed, at no previous time
in our college life has there been
such plainness of speech as there
has been this year. The leaders
seemed to feel that the time had
come to lay aside the old way of
beating the devil around the stump,
to came out plainly and say what
tbey had to say, to talk to each
other as man to man.
This is, to our mind, a healthful
condition, for though at times in
the thick of the fight the feeling
between the twoi factions was pain
fully acute, yet when the smoke of
battle had cleared away, certainly
the casual observer could not dis
cern that those men who were con
versing in a friendly manner had
lately been fighting each other in a
grim and determined way worthy
of a young Napoleon. And even
after the recent Tar Heel fip-ht.
when the feeling was perhaps more
acute than at any other time during
the year and when some of the stu
dents laid aside their text-books,
the feeling has, we believe, largely
disappeared, and there will hardly
be any evidence, so far as feeling is
concerned, next fall to indicate that
such a fight ever occurred.
And so we come to the conclusion
that, despite the many diagree-
ments, the college has come "into
a consciousness of its solidarity as a
community".
In the presence of this awakened
consciousness we have had this year
unusual opportunities, opportuni
ties which, however, brought with
hem serious problems. These
problems, as we have said, vve tried
to deal with in a conscientious man-
ft t '...a'
ner. Ana it we have done anything-
o help the cause, we shall feel that
we have not worked entirely in vain.
We feel that there are great things i
n store for this University, that it
is now in a better position than it
has been in many years to produce
men. .
We have a feeling of peculiar
adness when vve think of the fact
that our connection with this insti
ution as a student has ceased, but
when we begin the work of chasing
dollars around the arena of life we
shall ever watch conditions here
with a keen interest, in the belief
that they will become better and
better and that the time will come
when there will be neither frat nor
non-frat, in the narrow sense of the
word, but University men.
IT is to be sincerely hoped that
the proposed plan for building an
auditorium can be carried to a suc
cessful end. The plan is that the
classes shall lump their gifts to the
University together, that the socie
ties lay aside a sum each year, and
that the alumni be approached, for
the purpose of erecting a building
which shall contain an auditorium
and halls for the societies. The
need for such a building is self-evi
dent. Gerrard Hall is too small,
the society halls are fast being out
grown, and the University needs
the room that the present halls take
up, inasmuch as the problem of
housing the constantly increasing
number of students is becoming
serious.
With the' proper energy behind
the movement we believe it can be
pushed to success. Here's hoping
that it will and that the University
may have an auditorium worthy of
the name.
Beeore we say goodbye to col
lege affairs we wish to call atten
tion to the fact that the Seniors are
never called before a checking com
mittee of the faculty until during
the examination period in the
spring. This system has, as we
see it, defects that are liable to
cause some of the embryo alumni
trouble and prevent them from ever
getting beyond the embryonic stage.
A Senior is liable to misread his
Catalogue and never know that he
has left out some required subject
until he is confronted by the check
ing committee and told that he is
deficient, ft is true that his course
is appro veil by the Dean, and in
very rare ins.tauces do mistakes
occur, but in the hurry and bustle
of registration the Dean should
hardly be required to go into a
man's whole college history in de
tail to see that he has satisfied the
requirements.
IT was with much regret that
the many friends of Rev. P. B.
Rankin learned that he would not
return next year as secretary of the
Y. M. C. A. Mr. Rankin has made
an excellent secretary and under
his management the association has
had a healthy trrowtli. He has a
free atid easy manner, a hail fellow
well met disposition, withal a strong
sense cf duty and an earnestness
that has won for him a place in the
hearts of many of the students.
Our best wishes go with him to his
new pastorate at Hamlet.
He will be succeeded by Mr. E.
E. Barnett, who comes well recom
mended from Vanderbilt Univer
sity. The chief pencil pusher of The
Tar Heel wishes in this the last
issue this year to express his appre
ciation of the excellent work of the
associate editors. Without excep
tion they have been ready and will
ing to perform the duties imposed
by the editor-in-chief. To Mr. F.
P. Graham especially is he grate
ful, for oftentimes Mr. Graham
sacrificed other things to be of ser
vice. It has been a pleasure and a
privilege to be associated 'with such
men. . ' .
To Manager Plummer and his
force of typos we desire to extend
our thanks for their promptness in
printing The Tar Heel this year.
The editor-in-chief of this paper
knows something of the difficulties
of managing the University print
shop, and in his opinion Manager
Plummer has succeeded remarkably
well. . :, . ,
To The Charlotte Observer we
are largely indebted for the reports
of commencement. They were
gleaned from the reports of the
staff correspondent, Mr. V. D.
Stephenson. To The News and
Observer also we are indebted for
the account of the dances.
Dunn was a Junior here last fall
and Sutton was a Freshman here,
last year. The latter was a broth-
er to F. I. Sutton, who graduated
this year.?; , .: .
The Track Meet.
In the presence of a large number
of people Carolina won from Wake
Forest in the dual track meet held
here May 2 by the score of 85 to 32.
There were 13 events in the meet
and Carolina won 10 first places,
10 seconds, and 5 thirds. A first
place counts 5 points, a second 3,
and a third 1.
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