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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
VOL. 19
UNIVERSITY UP NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C. , WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11. 1911
NO. 39
VARSITY TO OPEN SEASON
FRIDAY WITH OAK RIDGE
be a Nice
Ridge Has Strong Outfit -
: Scrap. . '''
Three-thirty p. m., Friday and the
season will be on. With good
weather the game should be as pretty
a mixup'as anyone cares to see.
Oak Ridge will repeat their usual
stunt ot bringing down a strong out
fit of ball tossers. A Class A League
twirlers, four Class D League men,
and several high class amateurs will
give our buneh a busy afternoon.
However Coach Clancy is not par
ticularly worried. He feels sure that
the bovs will come mighty near mak
ing Earl Holts' semi-pros sizzle before
they get through with them. Maybe
so. You can never tell.
The Coach hasn't fully decided on
his lineup. It will be somethin
like this however: Witherington or
Page ' catcher, Calmes first; Hasty
second; Lindsay, short; Edwaids
third; Hackney, center; McLean
right; Pember or Hancs, left; Lee
Chambers, Duls and Winston twirlers
Nine classy sphere artists can be
selected from that squad nine who'll
give the Ridge gentlemen all they're
looking for, and possibly more.
At any rate Coach is not having any
nightmares over the outcome of the in
itial contest of the season. Ergo
there isn't any reason why the campus
bugs should grow wan and melan
choly.
TO MEMORY OF DR. PALMER COBB
PENNSY'S RELAY RACES ARE CLASSY
Practically All the Large Colleges Will En
ter.
Pennsylvania's Relay Races promise
to be even more important and more
interesting than ever before. Practi
cally all of the big colleges, such as
Harvard, Michigan,' Chicago, Prince
ton, Columbia, etc., have already sent
word that they will have teams in the
meet. This guarantees a repetition
of the magnificent racing that has
made the relays a synonym for all
that is highest class in track and field
sport. Chicago will bring on suchia
wonderful runner as Davenport, who
won both the quarter and half-mile
Western College championships last
June in 48 4-5 seconds and 1 minute
56 3-5 seconds respectively. Michigan
will send on Craig, who won the 220
yard Intercollegiate Championship,
equalling the world's record of 21 15
seconds. Foster, the Harvard captain,
the Sprinting Champion of 1909, will
also run in the sprints. Burdick, of
Pennsylvania, the Eastern Intercol
legiate Champion, will meet French,
of Kansas, the Western Champion, in
the high jump, Chisholm, of Yale,
the Eastern High Hurdle Champion,
will meet Edwards, the Western cham
pion. ; And so it will be in all the
special events, namely, the 100 yards,
120 yard high hurdle, shot, hammer,
discus, broad jump, high jump, and
pole vault.
The College Relay Championships,
will, as usual, bring together the
fastest teams of the year. The suc
cess of' Harvard and Cornell this
winter, together with the fast run
ning of the Western teams in recent
Western sports, guarantee that Penn-
Faculty Publish Resolutions to Express Their
Loss.
The Faculty of the University of
North Carolina desire to give ex
pression to their profound sense of
loss at the premature death of their
friend and colleague, Palmer Cobb,
Despite the short duration of his ser
vice in this institution, his excellent
.qualities of character, his high at
tainments of scholarship, his un
wavering pursuit of the ideals of true
culture had won the recognition and
the esteem of all. ; He had proven his
abilities as a teacher, and the results
of his investigations in German
Literature had already given promise
of future achievements which would
have gained for him an enviable place
in his chosen field of study. The
fact that a man of such aims and
powers was cut off at the very be
ginning of a useful career renders all
the keener the deep grief of his fellow-workers.
His death is lamented
by the Faculty, the students and the
community. j
The Faculty extend their warmest
sympathy to his family in their great
sorrow, nnd assure them of their
hearty appreciation of his services in
the past and of the institution's loss
in the present and the future.
As a memorial to their colleague
the Faculty order that these resolu
tions be inscribed upon the Faculty
record. .
George Howe,
W. M. Dey,
Charles H. Herty.
Chapel Hill, N. C,
March 1, 1911.
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1 DELIVER McNAIR LECTURES
Infantile paralysis has claimed for
its victims two freshmen of Princeton
A colored women has been elected
to the student council at the Univer-
sitv of Kansas. 1
Kansas University has suspended
four students for crooked work in
class politics. i
Flowers are not allowed at any pro
minent function at Yale, the object
being to save men unnecessary ex
pense. !
Chancellor Day of Syracuse terms
the habit of smoking as worse than
"those little sentimentalities of love-
sickness." i
The University of Illinois has re
quested only $5,426,750 of the Legis
lature to run the University for the
next two years. f
Training is everything. The peach
was once a bitter almond; cauliflower
is nothing but a cabbage with a col
lege education. Ex. -
Chicago University has had a call
from the Imperial University of Pekin
to supply three professors to occupy
the chairs of General History,
Civil Engineering and Economic
Geography. ;.
vlvania will have to do almost the
impossible to retain the three cham
pionships she won last year. Cornell,
Harvard, Chicago, Michigan, Illinois,
and Princeton are all out for one or
other championship. In fact, Yale
seems about the only one of the big
colleges that has not at least one team
up to championship calibre.
This Famous Man of Letters Will Give Fourth of the
?: - Series.,,
;Much interest is being manifested in
the coming McNair lectures to be de
livered March 24, 25 and 26, by Dr.
Henry Van Dyke, lately of Princeton
University. Dr. Van Dyke has
achieved world fame as a lecturer,
author, and philosopher, and his visit
to Chapel Hill will be an event long
to be remembered.
He will deliver three lectures on the
following subjects, "The Poetry of
Nature," "The Poetry of Patriotism
and Humanity," and "The Poetry of
the Unseen World."
These addresses will mark the
fourth series of the McNair lectures,
the first being delivered in 1908 by
Dr. Francis H. Smith of the Univer
sity of Virginia, the second in 1909
by President Francis Landley Patton
of. Princeton Theological Seminary,
and the third last spring by President
David Starr Jordan of Leland Stan
ford University.
These lectures are made available
by a . fund established for the pur
pose by the will of John Calvin Mc
Nair of the class of 1849. As stipu
lated in the will, the lectures shall be
to show the mutual' bearing of science
and religion upon each other, and to
prove the existence of attributes, as
fair, as may be, of God from nature. ;
CHICAGO GLEE CLUB GOOD
PRESS ASSOCIATION IS BIG THING
Fifty-Five Weekly Letters Are Sent to State Pa
pers. The University Press Association
which was reorganized last year by
Frank Graham has-grown and expand
ed during the present college year un
til it has become one of the most im
portant and useful of undergraduate
enterprises. The work of the Asso
ciation this year has been under the
management of L. A. Brown. The
membership has grown from about
forty to more than seventy-five. A
few of these members are correspon
dents for daily newspapers and send
several letters a week to their papers.
The large majority, however, are cor
respondents for weekly papers alone.
These men send on an average of fifty
five letters a week concerning the im
portant and interesting bits of news
about the University to their papers.
The importance of this work is read
ily seen. The University belongs to
North Carolina, and 'the State has a
right to know what the University is,
and what it is doing. Nothing else can
do so much to bring the University
before the people of the State as these
weekly letters to the newspapers of the
State. These letters will make the
University more a part of the thought
of the people of the State, and will in
crease the value of its work.
The present work of the Associa
tion is very goo.d, but more of these
letters ought to be sent out every
week. Seventy five instead of fifty
five letters should be published in the
periodicals of the Stateevery week.
More men in the University should
take an interest in the work. The
present manager will probably' not re
turn next year. His work cannot
cease when he leaves but must go on,
Packed House Was Pleased With Work of the
Club.
The Chicago Glee Club was greeted
by a packed house at their perfor
mance in Gerrard Hall Saturday night,
and the appreciation of their audience
was shown by generous applause. Al
together, the Chicago gentlemen
made a pleasant impression, though it
might be said that they performed
under a disadvantage owing to the
tremendous reputation enjoyed by
this quartet A number who would
have been completely delighted with
such an entertainment by an unknown
organization, came away somewhat
disappointed because it fell below
their expectations. A big reputation
is truly a great responsibility.
The songs by the quartet were all
that , could be desired- of a male
quartet, though possibly, in the
classical selections especially, a little
more variety and a little more of
novelty would have enhanced the ef
fect of the selections. The little
piece, "I'd Love to Live in a Lazy
Old Land" satisfied the demand for
originality, and was the hit of the
evening. It was carefully studied
out, and the audience entered into
the spirit of it with zest.
A distinctive feature of the recital
was the trombone selections. These
were given with a high artistic skill
which was in keeping with the repu
tation of the troupe, Few ;in the
audience realized before that so much
real music could be extracted from
these , instruments. The most effec
tive number was the arrangement of
the celebrated walse of Aria.
The elocution part of the show, the
interpretation of the Indiana hoosier,
was skilfully done, the references to
James Whitcomb Riley being . hap
pily brought in. . The acting and by
play all through was carried through
most effectively with the exception of
the last number, where an old man or
"Grandpaw" 'is represented as sing
ing with his boys. This last looked
as if it was meant to be sentimental
but proved to be only pathetic.
The remarkable thing about the enter
tainment was the "team work" of the
performers, the perfect harmony in
which they moved and acted together.
Ex-Congressman Strowd Dies.
William F. Strowd, formerly Con
gressman from North Carolina and a
member of the Constitutional Conven
tion of 1875, died Sunday afternoon at
the home of his son, R. L. Strowd,
in Chapel Hill. The former Congress
man was much esteemed by his friends
in the county, even though differing
from most of them in politics: Mr.
Strowd was a Populist member of Con
gress from 1894 to 1899.
Two hours of colleere credit are giv
en to Syracuse 'Varsity debators.
At a gym exhibit at Iowa Universi
ty a hobble skirt race, and a Jeffries
Johnson prize fight were the features.
By issuing bonds to the alumni,
Yale hopes to secure the funds with
which to build the new $400,000 sta
dium.
A greater participation by the students.
in this work is urjed.