This Tar Heel
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W. T. JOYNKR
R. T. Webb
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The managers of the class football
series have informed us that no games
have been arranged between the fresh
men and the other classes for this fall.
The freshman team, we understand,
r is to have a schedule of its own and is
to play such teams as the Bingham
team which they downed University
Day. For some years past the powers
that be, in 'athletics, have realized
that it is a rare occurrence for varsity
material to be developed out of any
class team except, the freshman. This
explains the partiality toward the
freshman team that has been growing
for sometime. The class.series has its
usefulness and does a great deal . of
good but it does not help much in
developing men who may represent
the University on the football team.
A great many men get fine exercise
on the sophomore, junior, and senior
teams but it is nearly always the
freshman team that sends men to the
varsity and scrub squads. It generally
happens that the-men on the freshman
eleven are too young and inexperienced
to make first-class football players al
tho they have the physical ability. To
make these men fit material for the
varsity it is necessary to give them
more experience than may be afforded
by the three or possibly four games
of a class series. Thus the schedule
with the leading prep school elevens
is being arranged for them. ; Most of
the games will probably be played on
the Hill but it is expected that the
team will also take several trips. The
first game of the series went to the
freshmen easily but some of the games
are going to be rather stiff and hard
iougnt. r tne iresnmen wisti to win
all their games they will have to work
hard, and there is no excuse for their
not working hard. Having such
a coach as "Farmer", Moore and being
allowed to use the varsity field and to
line up against the varsity teams, they
ought to develop.
southwest corner room of the basement
of the Alumni Building, seem to be
the most popular places for the display
of such witso called and of class
spirit. So far as we know the only
marks on these walls that
have been made since the walls
were repainted are certain hieroglyphic
scratchings evidently intended for
1913. If there is a freshman in the
university who thinks that these afore
mentioned walls are fit places for him
to erect a monument to the memory o
his class he ought to keep his thoughts
to himself. His classmates wont ap
predate his position in the matter.
The walls of college buildings are evi
dently very unsuitable places to com
memorate one s class there are so
many classes that one class cannot
hope to keep a prominent place before
the oublic stare for more than two
. i t i 1 - J
years. As tor tne wit mat is expenaeu
in decorating these walls, we have oth
er uses tor it. l ne editors 01 me
Yackety Yack and the magazine grow
pale to their teeth when they think of
all the sparkling, mirth-pulling wit
that is every year pointed out and lost
to the human race. The strange part
about these witticisms and outbursts
of class patriotism is that the geniuses
who accomplish so much in this line
are not croud enouerh of the master
pieces to let their authorship be known
It really seems to us that the walls
might remain clean if all the embry
onic humorists in college could get it
into the cavity of their head that pub
lie places are not for the display of ob
scene wit, nor for the erection of mon
uments to some fool's outbursts of
class pride.
Lvery year the authorities of the
University see to it that, during the
days of vacation, all the walls of the
buildings here are cleansed of all the
unseemly marks and writings on them
Every year some of the students of the
University see to it that, during the
days of recitation, all the walls of the
buildings here are covered with these
same marks that have just been taken
off. This fall the ravagers who are
always possessed with the unconquer
able desire to write that well known
couplet about fools' names and monk
eys' faces on every clean wall they can
discover in any public place have
been unexpectedly listless in beginning ;
their j work. The partitions, in the
From the account of the V. M. I.
William and Mary game, which we
have reprinted in this issue, it would
seem that V. M. I. has not a very
strong team this year. "We may ex
pect then that Carolina will not have
much trouble in winning the game
this evening. However, there is al
ways a grave danger in going against
these seemingly weak teams. The
stronger team nearlv always becomes
over-confident and does not do its best.
Last Saturday we beat Tennessee and
the Tennessee team is consiqerea a
right strong aggregation. Tociay we
play V. M. I., a weak opponent, and we
must win again or else where do we
show up in comparison? We have got
to get all these apparently unimport
ant games to make the season satisfac
tory. What satisfaction will there be
in going home and telling about ( how
we downed Tennessee if we can't
answer the question, "Why didn't you
beat V. M. I?" One year not long
ago, even in the memory of men here
at school now, we had quite a success
ful baseball season, but we were beat
en by a very weak team just one time.
You could not mention that year's suc
cess to any man except a Carolina man
without that one lost game being re
called. If we should loose to V. M. I.
and yet win the big majority of our
other games it would be that game we
Jost that would attract the most atten
tion. The public seems prone to re
member those unfortunate occurrences
that happen now and then and to for
get that these are not the real test of
ability. We have got to have the
game this evening. We intend to go
through this season with a goal line
uncrossed. Let us also make up our
minds to have no tie scores, they are
entirely unsatisfactory.
Lexington, Va., October 9. The
cadet eleven of the Virginia Military
Institute defeated William and Mary
College this afternoon on the parade
grounds of the former by a score of 6
to 0. The only scoring was done in
the first half after some strenuous play
ing on the part of the cadets,
showed up weak on defensive work.
Both teams were very light, and show
ed lack of systematic playing. In the
second half neither team was able to
score, although the cadets had the
ball on their opponents ten yard line.
The star players for the cadets were
Caffery, Mosely, Kinsolving and Da
shiel, and for the college, Barnard,
Driver and Parker. :
Something Doing
It was about time for the dinner
bell, and we were in the print shop
putting on the finising touches before
leaving. "Mack" and Charlie were in
the press room hurriedly straightening
up things in general, and we were con
cluding a little spiel for the copy box,
when unexpectedly the place was lit
up by successive flashes of light. It
had been a srloomy day, and at first
we thought it was lightening; but a
glance through the window at the pale
blue sky dispelled that idea. A conti
nued sputtering overhead caused us to
look up. The light above the table
was flickering and snapping as if it
would burst on the instant. . We
thought this peculiar behavior for a
light in daytime, but we resumed our
story without further comment. In a
few seconds we heard a shout in the
press room, and ran to the doorway
just in time to see Charlie and "Mac"
scampering out of doors with fright
ened faces. The cause of their sudden
departure was plainly evident. The
light connection in the middle of the
ceiling was on fire, and a flame over
half a foot long was shooting down
ward, scattering charred pieces of
wire, insulation and wood over the
room. In a tew seconds the wire con
nection was burned in two, and fell to
the floor in flames. The ceiling was
on hre and burning ongnuy.
Then the sputtering blaze ceased, and
we boys hurried to put out the fire.
In the power plant the new dynamo
was being tested, and its 2300 volts
had been switched on the 16-candle
power light of the print shop. Natu
rally there was something doing.
Dean Graham at Harvard
Professor E. K. Graham spent last
week at Cambridge as the representa
tive of the University at the inaugura
tion of Dr. Lowell to the presidency of
Harvard. The exercises lasted through
out the week and were participated in
by representatives from 30 foreign uni
versities and 216 institutions of learn
ing in our own country.
To Prof. Graham, the most impres
sive part of the celebration was the sol
idarity of the educational forces of the
world. The greatest and most famous
universities of both hemispheres were
there met together through their rep
resentatives, primarily to do honor to
Harvard and to show the place of dis
tinction that this institution holds.
But a person seriously looking for the
real significance of these exercises
could not fail to perceive that it lay
not in pointing out Harvard's position
in the educational world, but as giving
expression to the spirit of co-operation,
of unity that exists between the great
universities of the world.
A secondary but to many a surpris
ing impression upon the visitors to the
celebration was made by the display of
power that the state universities offer
ed. The representation which 216
American institutions had sent fur
nished an exhibition of strength, that
gave our state colleges a much more
important place in the estimation of
all who witnessed the ceremonies.
.The two most notable utterances of
he week of oratory came from the
mouths of Presidents Lowell andSchu
man. Both of these men made force-
ul pleas for a stronger and more unifi
ed undergraduate life in our American
colleges.
Great State Fair
RALEIGH N. C.
OCT. 18-23, 1909
Greater Midway than ever. Larg
est display of live stock; complete ex
hibits in agriculture and horticulture
and farm implements. More free at
tractions than ever before. ' The Fair
this year will be the largest in its
history.
Jos. E. Pogue, Sec.
J. H. Currie, Pres.
D r. Isaac N. Can
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