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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
VOL. 19 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY DECEMBER 17, 1910 NO. 26.
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PHILANTHROPIC WINS DEBATE' PR0F-COBB RECOUNTS SOME STATE HISTORY
IN A DISCUSSION ABLY UPHELD AY BOTH SIDES
PHIS WIN SOPH-JUNIOR
Query: Resolved, That Party Allegiance Is Preferable
to Independence in Politics. Di
Has Affirmative
The annual sophomore-junior de'
bate between the Dialectic and Phil
anthropic Literary Societies, was held
in Gerrard hall last night. The query
debated was: -
Resolved, That party allegiance is
preferable to independence in politics.
, On the affirmative were Messrs. R.
W. Scott and R. A. Freeman, of the
Di Society; on the negative, Messrs.
R. L. Hamilton and L. N. Johnston,
representing the Phi.
Mr. W. C. George presided and Mr.
L. B. Gunter acted as secretary. The
debate was decided by the judges, Dr.
F. P. Venable, Dr. Edwin Mims and
Dr. J. H. Manning, in favor of the
negative by a vote of two to one.
The question was one of unusual
interest, as was evidenced by the large
crowd present, and the arguments on
both sides were of a high order. The
participants in this discussion are
among the strongest debaters in their
respective societies and will doubtless
be heard from in inter-collegiate con
tests.
Practice in Basketball Began
Basketball has started up in earnest.
On Monday the baskets were put up
in the gymnasium ''.and since that time
the candidates for the team have been
practicing every night after mail time
About twenty-five men showed up the
first night and went through the pre
liminary practice of passing the ball
and taking shots at the baskets. This
has been about all they have done so
far. The goal shooting, however, has
not been veiy good, owing to the slick
floor, the bad lights and the extreme
liveness of the backboards. These
backboard are a great deal liver than
any the men have been accustomed to;
in fact they are so live that it takes a
perfect shot to make a basket. But
this is probably a good thing, since it
will make the. men throw much more
accurately than would otherwise be
the case. The names of all the men
trying out could not be obtained but
the following is a partial list:
Smith, Duls, Hanes, Gordon, Floyd,
Applewhite, McNight, White, Long,
Ritch, Voils, Tillett, Carrington, Hal
liburton, Huske, Robertson, Horton,
Ranson, Holmes, Parrish, Jones, Jef
fries, Patterson, Flume, Stewart, Sol
omon, Leigh, Blalock.
Dramatic Qub Selects Players
At the Dramatic Club try-out Thurs
day afternoon, the following made
parts: W. B. Clinard, John Moore, J,
F. Oliver, Speight Beam, E. L. Wil
liams, John Lasley, Laurence Jones,
J. T. Pritchett, Henry Smith, J. C.
Busbee, J. R. Craven, C. L. Cates.
All these are new men but Clinard,
Oliver and Smith. About thirty tried
for parts. The committee to decide
between the competitors consisted of
J. F. Oliver, Professor McKie and
Henry Smith.
Quite a number of students are leav
ing the Hill today.
The Part Played by the University in . the Educational
History of North Carolina
Professor Collier Cobb, in chapel on
Tuesday, said a few words, which
were listened to with very keen inter
est by the students, on the part played
by the University in the educationa
history of the State. The denomina
tional colleges of the State, declared
Professor Cobb, owe much to the Uni
versity.
As a case in point, take the history
of Wake Forest College. Mr. A. J.
Hooper had put on foot a movement
to establish an institution for the
training of Baptist ministers. A com
mittee of five, appointed to look into
the matter, reported favorably. Of
this committee three were University
men, the other two members having
sons in the University. When a char
ter was asked from the legislature,
the granting of it was violently op
posed by Baptist ministers of the leg
islature, on the ground that there was
no warrant in the Scripture for the
supporting of a church-school. The
University men in the legislature all
voted for the granting of the charter
and carried the day. When the ques
tion came up in the State senate, the
charter was here, also, opposed by
Baptist members, including several
Baptist ministers, who were against
the proposition, for the same reason
as was put forward in the lower house.
Every Uuni versity man in the senate
voted for the granting of the charter.
The vote was a tie, and Moser, the
speaker of the senate, who was a Uni
versity man, cast his vote in favor of
the affirmative, thus securing the es
tablishment of Wake Forest College.
The University, concluded Professor
Cobb, has always stood for general
education.
Chapel Period Used by Students
At the request of a number of seniors
the chapel period Friday morning was
given for a talk by a representative
From the student body. Mr. W. A.
Dees, president of the senior class, in-
roduced Mr. C. E. Mcintosh as
speaker.
Mr. Mcintosh spoke of the great
good that could be done by students in
upholding the ideals of the University
in their homes and wherever they go.
The chief characteristics, said he, of
the University man are his truth and
his loyalty. He should exhibit these
characteristics not only while at the
University but at all times and places.
He should especially seek to clear up
the mistaken idea existing in some
communities that the University is a
place of no religion and, therefore, a
dangerous place for young men. Mr.
Mcintosh spoke of the great work the
Y. M. C. A. is doing and of the num
ber of ministerial students now en
rolled, as evidences of the very real re-
igious activity which University
students are engaged in.
Cup For Champion Qass Team
A cup has been placed in the trophy
room of the gymnasium, which will
have inscribed upon it, each year, the
name of the class which wins the foot
ball championship. The junior foot
ball team won the championship this
year and so the junior class will be
first in having its name upon the cup.
DEAN GRAHAM ADDRESSES Y. M. C A.
Tower. ' the Subiect Which He Discussed Betore a
Large Body of Students
The last, regular meeting of the Y
M. C. A. for 1910 was held Tuesday
night. ; ; Perhaps the largest audience
that has gathered in the Y; M. C. A.
auditorium this vear was oresent to
hear Dean E. K. Graham's address on
"Power." The following is a sum
mary of Dean Graham's address:
True cower is the sruasre or sue-
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cess, i we lade power Decause we iacic
life; we
insignifi-
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY MEETS
a vital noia on
life
take
the facts of
as a succession of
etails insead of a portentious
We therefore conceive of
as mechanical, not vital: its
applied to the past and future
er to the present; to others,
urselves; as accidental and not
.1. The primary factor in the
equation of power is the knowledge
that the supreme law or the world is
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laws as
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not to p
essentia
justice,
power
belief
This is thfe foundation of the
affirmative life. The main impulse of
in the' affirmative life is belief:
in God, belief in our State and
belief 'in ourself. No man can be
either happy or powerful who does not
found - his life on belief chosen in ac-
cord wijth the best in his nature."
j Star Course Tonight
The Alkahest Quartette, consisting
of four ladies, which will appear in
Gerrard Hall Saturday night, is re
commended in the highest terms, not
only by the Lyceum Bureau but by
the people who have heard the Quar
tette sing. The program is chiefly
musical, interspersed with readings by
Mrs. Effie C. Palmer. Mrs. Palmer is
said to be a most calented and success-
ul reader and soloist.
The following'introductory notice is
given by the Alkahest Lyceum system:
"The Alkahest Lady Quartette, for
merly the Lyceum Lady Quartette, is
now entering upon its seventh year of
signal success. The desire for harmo
nious blending has been the thought
uppermost in the selection of voices,
and during these years a high stand
ard of quality and excellence has been
maintained. The Quartette last j'ear
had one of its most successful seasons.
Never has the work of the ladies been
more heartily received; and their pop
ularity, as a company well equipped
to entertain an audience, has been
ully proven.
IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PRESENTED BY
DR. WILSON AND PROF. PATTERSON
Winston-Salem Qub
The Winston-Salem Club held its
regular monthly meeting in the Mis
sion room of the Y. M. C.A. building
Thursday night, President Lyman
Whitaker presiding.
The most interesting feature of the
meeting was an able and interesting
address delivered by Dr. A. H. Pat
terson, who is a Winston-Salem man
and an honorary member of the club.
The Winston-Salem Club was organ
ized this fall and is the only city club
at the University. There are about
twenty-five members.
Cigars to the number of 132,210,
33,180 boxes of cigarettes, 52,000 pack
ages of smoking tobacco and 7,000
packages of cigarette papers were sold
to the students at the University of
Michigan, at Ann Arbor, during the
scholastic year of 1809-10.
Subjects of Papers Were: "The Regenerative Power
of Hydroids," and "The Reform of
the Calendar"
The second regular meeting of the
Elisha Mitchell scientific Society was
held Tuesday night with about thirty
science devotees present. The first
paper of the evening was read by Dr.
Henry Van Peters Wilson on"The Re
generative Power of Hydroids." After
drawing a diagram of a hydroid and
explaining briefly its peculiarities as
an animal growth somewhat similar
to the sponge and its ability to grow
a fully developed hydroid from a small
detached piece. Dr. Wilson brought
up the question of what would happen
if the cells were all torn apart so that
their relationship was completely
broken. This experiment was carried
out by finely cutting up the stems and
straining them throuph a kind of silk
bag. Bits of the substance obtained
were then placed upon a microscope
slide and examined. It was found
that some of the cells were fusing to
gether in lumps. One of these lumps
grew( larger, -putting forth an out
growth with a central cavity, later
gowing a knob on the end. This
knob resolved itself into a hydroid
body, put forth tentacles, and formed
a perfect adult hydroid.
This power of dissociated masses to
come together and form large masses,
Dr. Wilson declared to de widespread,
though the power of forming adult an
imals in this manner was confined to
the lower forms. Dr. Wilson closed
his paper with a reference to the mys
terious character of tumors, stating
that there might be some interesting
connection between tumors and hydroids.
The other paper of the evening was
read by Professor Patterson on "The
Reform of the Calendar." Prof. Pat
terson prefaced his lecture proper with
somewhat detailed history of the
calendar, from the earliest efforts at
reckoning time, through the reforms
made by Numa Pompilius, Caesar and
Pope Gregory the Great. These re-
forms were all attempts to make the
natural divisions of time, the day,
month, and year, part of the same sys
tem, so that the conventional year
should agree with the natural year.
It was mentioned that Russia and
Greece, countries which did not accept
Gregory's reform, are now thirteen
days behind the other lerding coun
tries of the world. England only
adopted the reform in 1757.
But the system of Gregory, now in
use, still has some disadvantages in
the unequal length of the months, etc.
Professor Patterson referred to the
several methods proposed for simplify
ing the calendar. The one he re
garded as most practicable is the plan
of adding another month to the year,
letting each month consist of exactly
four weeks. This plan would leave
one day in the year unaccounted for,
which might be set apart and known
simply as "New Year's Day." Of
course, in leap years, a "Leap Day"
must be added. Under such a system,
each month would begin on Monday,
and all holidays fall on the same day
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