The JH iit
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
BOARD OF EDITORS
F. P. Gratiam,
D. B. Teague,
- - Editor-in-Chief.
Assistant Editor-in-Chief.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
T. P. Nash
C. 0. Robinson
C. B. Ruffin,
A. II. Wolfe,
W. M. Gaddy
Cyrus Thompson
0. W. Hyman
. - . . . Business Manager
Assistant Business Manager
. Published once a week by the General Ath
letic Association.
Entered in the Postoffice at Chapel Hill, N.
C, as second class matter.
Printed by The University Press, Chapel Hill
Subscript ion Price. $1.50 per Year
Payable in advance or during first terra.
Single Copies. 5 Cents.
Saturday night the Dialectic
and Philanthropic Literary Socie
ties will have their annual initiation
of new men. According- to custom,
the eastern men join the Phi and
the western men the Di. Canvas
sers for members have already been
at work and have secured the
names of a large number of new
men. It is natural and good that
they have, for certainly the useful
and historic past of both should
commend them to every one. But the
worth of the Societies, we are glad
to say, is not a thing- of the past.
Grounded as they are in the tradi
tions of this University their proud
past merges into a prouder present,
and this in turn will give way to a
more useful future.
The Societies are the great train
ing grounds of the University. It
is on the floors of the Societies that
the student acquires the power of
ready thinking, of poise and self
control, and learns the lesson of
the utilization of knowledge. It is
there that he brings from the class
room the facts of science and histo
ry, the subtleties of mathematics
and metaphysics, the principles of
economics and logic, the beauties of
art and literature, selects, arranges,
and utilizes them in a direct manner
for a practical purpose. In short,
through the societies knowledge
acquired becomes knowledge uti
lized. From these two training camps
have gone into the state and
the nation, men fully trained and
equipped for service in any deliber
ative body from town council to the
United States Senate. Wi lliam
Rufus King first learned in the Phi
Society the rules of parliamentary
procedure which he observed with
such dignity as president of the
United States Senate. James K.
Polk got a training as president of
the Dialectic Society which stood
him in good stead as speaker of the
House of Representatives during
some of its stormiest sessions. To
call over the names of the distin
guished men who received their
training in one of the two Societies
is simply to call the honor roll of
the Old North State. The old Di
and Phi, trainers of men and gen
erous contributors to the life of the
state, surely, these two mightv
buttresses of the University deserve
the support of every student at the
University,'
The advertising spirit is in the air
T4 . .. . . - ...
very wnere there is a sign, bill, or
poster to attract the attention of the
hurrying student. Device succeeds
device, the novelty of today is the dis
card of tomorrow. Red ads., blue ads.,
and green ads., big ads., and little
ads. all try. to arrest reluctant atten
tion. In this day of important ad
dresses, society gatherings, and class
meetings, not to mention thrilling
stories and clothing agents galore, the
publicity mania has become rampant
Slight at first, it has, with the hours
and the days, reached the point of
hysteriaaintil now the bulletin board
has become a veritable checkerboard,
every post is lost in the deluge of
J posters, and every breeze that sweeps
over the campus is laden with myriads
of bills, like so many leaves, rustling
and even murmuring such sounds as
Lemmert, Strouse, Walker, Traytnore,
Burk, until all become confused, and
distinctness is lost in the Babel of
rustlings. And all the while the trees
full of a thrilling story untold "in ac
cents disconsolate answer the wail of
the breezes."
In regard to this publicity mania
we would like to sav that we ourselves
are the most maniacal and hysterical
of all. The other day in going the
rounds of the advertising points (of
which by the way there are legions)
we came to the Chapel door, and O
Temporal O Mores! we posted a bill-
a measly, clothing bill on that sacred
door! No rest for this vandalic sinner
that night! Long after the "drowsy
beetle had rung night's yawning peal"
we tossed sleeplessly and restlessly.
We thought we saw amid the faint
glimmerings of the night the shades
of the illustrious dead rising to plague
this iconoclast and seeming to say:
"Young man, your impious and com
mercial hands have desecrated a por
tal hallowed by our touch."
The morrow morn we arose a sadder
and a wiser man with the firm resolve
never aerain to paste a bill on the
Chapel door. Resolve you likewise,
vendor of clothes and heralder of
meetings, lest you too. may murder
sleep,
"The innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravelled
sleeve'of care."
Apropos of this, we might say that
any such poster of bills is now liable
not only to a loss of sleep but also to
o loss of five dollars, which in compli
cated cases of pecuniary ill-health,
may produce permanent insomnia.
We wish to congratulate the
Editors and the business managers
of the Magazine and the Yackety
Yack upon their determination to
make these publications better than
they have ever been before. The
Editors-in-chief of both publica
tions are hard at work but they
feel the need of every student in
college. If you can scribble a
verse or two, or touch up a campus
happening don't hesitate to contri
bute such to the magazine. If you
are good at drawing, or an adept in
the gentle art of "butting" by no
means fail to hand some product of
of such proclivities ,to the editor of
the Yackety Yack. The more
general the contributions are, the
more expressive and representative
the publications will be. Let each
one of us make a contribution of
some sort, and both books will be
worthy of the University life of
which they are an expression and a
representation.
The Wake Forest game is only
two days off. This game is of pe
culiar interest for two reasons: it
is Carolina's first game of the sea
son, and it is Wake Forest's first
game of recent years. At this
game we will see our, as yet, un
settled eleven adjust itself and feel
its strength; we will see Wake
Forest College, after a lapse of sev
eral years again take up the great
game of the gridiron which she
once so manfully graced. Let us
all turn out with lusty lungs to see
this first, yet significant game.
The Freshman Election.
The class of 1912, auleJ and aboitcu
by the Dialectic and Philanthropic
Literary Societies, met Saturday night,
under the beneficent auspices of Rob
ert Watt and Oscar Hamilton, and
elected officers. Soon after the doors
of the Societies had been closed for
the night's deliberations, the daring
members of the Freshman class, to the
number of about seventy-five, stole
forth from their fastnesses, and unmo
lested gathered on the class athletic
field to ballot for class officers.
After considerable confusion and
wrangling, about the time of the ad
journment of the Societies, some of the
more knowing Freshmen became ro
mantic and suggested that they all
leave the staid, conventional athletic
field and repair to "Piney Prospect,"
the scene of daring adventures and ro
mantic legends. The suggestion at
once grew into a romantic moveimnt
and the few seeming exponents of
staid and conventional classicism, with
no great reluctance, joined in this now
triumphant romanticism and all sped
on their way over rivulets and through
jungles to "Piney Prospect."
Here the now militant forces were
marshalled by Grotesque Watt and
Hugoesque Hamilton. Many nomin
ations were made but the name of
"Shorty Jones" rose clear above the
tumult. On the first ballot he received
a majority of votes and on the next
ballot his contestant also received a
majority of votes, but Watt, who was
ex-officio chairman of the meeting,
ruled that, on account of priority of
time, Jones was the ekct of the
the Freshman rabble. According to
such observance of romantic procedure
the other officers were elected as fol
lows: vice-president, Murchison; his
torian, Barker; secretary, McAden.
O
Y S!
Now is the time, Kluttz's is
the place to buy your new
Fall Hats,
Shoes, Shirts,
Neckwear
and everything in men's Fur
nishings. Big cash reduction
sale on. New and up-to-date
goods. Prices that cannot be
beat. Call early, to avoid.' rush.
F
liana
usical
Concerts
New selections 8 to 9 p.m.
Respectfully,
A. A. KLUTTZ
doctor William Lynch,
DENTIST,
Office in Kluttz Block - - CHAPEL HILL
Defoe LeVy
The Durham Tailor, will
be here again next Spring.
Look over his samples be
fore you purchase.
A NEW DENTIST
I will be in my office in the Brockwell
Building on and after September 15. I j
am prepared to do all kinds of operatic
and mechanical dentistry, using only j
modern and practical methods. College j
boys wiii make their headquarters in my
office. :
DR. C. S. BOYETTE
The Athletic Store !
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Invites the students to give it the same
liberal support in the future as they have j
in the past. I
We carry a complete line of
GYMNASIUM GOODS
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Carries a full line of the best Cigars,
Cigarettes, and Tobacco. Agent for
luyler's Candy. Count on us to fill your
prescriptions promptly.
26 years in the drug business.
E. S. M ERR ITT, Manager
Give our manager your order for a
pair of Regal shoes.
J. M. Neville, Manager
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