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THE TAR HEEL Oil sil l Orimm ef die Athletic AnMitlkn f the Uairanitr of IN'arth Carolina PuUialiad W.kly .. am ni". Vi"i'i"r,i "fwrni.!, . " ' r i.i.ma5 BOARD OF EDITORS FORREST G. MILES. ...... ..Editdr-in-Chif ASSISTANTS . '. J.. S. Terky H. S. EverSTT T. C. WOLFE... . . . . . ... Managing Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS E. $. Lindsey W. C. Eaton a J. H. Kerr, J. W., H. Hooks A. L. PURRINCTON L. C. BtYTHS W. H. Andrews W. R. Berry h in H. G. West W. H. Bobbitt C. R. Sumnes C D. Beers T. C Leanard ..... , ,: J. W. Foster Miss Elizabeth Lay i J. 8. MASSENBURGBt(ne Manager FRED MOORE....... ...... Assistant Manager To be entered as second-class ' matter at the postofflce at Chapel Hill, N. C. , : Printed by Thb Sbbman Pbintebi, Inc., Durham,. N. . C. . .. , We, devote our editorial , columns this week to the publication 6f the talks made at the mass-meeting in Chapel, Friday, June 6th. We stand tonight practically at the end of a year that has been without parallel in the history of the Univer sity. ,Jt is possible to think of this year ;ih,,piany . ways;, for my part, I find myself more and more thinking oti as . a. year of victory. It has been a year of victory. in that it has seei the triumph of the forces of de mocracy over the powers that set re liance, on armed force. This is im portant here, just because, if the war had not been won, and won decisively, college education as we know it would have ceased to exist. It would neces sarily have, been replaced by some sort ,Qf niodified. S... A. T..C, by some system- of. ; higher education, that stressed, not the full development of the,,, individual in an atmosphere of democracy, but the production of the efItcient;.oflffcier.',,1.:'-f '".:..:;",' :', . v . J$ut, this has been, our year of vic tory in a, more personal and Intimate way, And that.it has been a, year of victory in this sense $s. due to you men who are here. , Thanks .to you we we have come, through through from the tragedy and heart-break through our, black night into a . new dawn. You made up your minds that Caro lina should come back. And I tell yjii tonight that Carolina has come backV The . spirit of this place-the Carolina spirit is strong and free arid sound once more. Men of Caro lina,, is has been well done. . But we cannot stop with this. It is One thing (to win a victory, it is another to use it after, it is won. You have made the" University safe. Will you be 6ntent if her future holds anything , second-rate anything for which " you must' apologize? (I do not believe for a. minute that you will. I- wohder if you realize the ratoiditv with- which the institution, is develop ing. I. take one illustration, because it is an obvious one. Six years ago we were receiving from the State $87,000 a year. Today the State is giving us $215,000, and. our revenue from .other sources has so increased that we are receiving altogether more than three times as much money as we were six years ago. ..... . , ; ., This increase in our resources means again, that from the education al point of view, as from the material point 6f view, Carolina's future seems sure; The next ten years are going to be years in which every education al institution will be tried as by fire. The University must adjust itself to the ' great new currents of thought that are sweeping through the world it must focus and interpret the new life of the world, or it must stagnate. You; as well as the faculty, have, felt the stir -and drive of new educational ideals. " . , But we cannot, stop here. A keen man of affairs recently said about lis that, if he wanted to know what North Carolina was going to be thinking about ten years . from now, all he needed to do was to come to this cam pus and find out what you men were thinking about today. This is a splen did tribute, but it brings home afresh the responsibility on all of us to think and talk about and do the right things here. This. State is in the early stages, I am convinced, , of one of the most ; remarkable transformations in history. . .Its material resources have doubled and-, trebled in the last four years. Its ; latent sources of power are destined to a remarkable develop ment;. Jts business and industrial life is.jevery. year absorbing more of the best brains and energy of the state. You men must be fitted to play your part, in this amazing material revolution- ' : ' v But this sort of adjustment i3 not our only problem not even our most important problem. It is true that we are destined here in the South to a , tremendous material devlopmefnt, and that you must be fitted to play your part in it. The fundamental question is this: Is this material de velopment to be carried on at the ex pense of the spirit? As we gain the things of the world, are we to lose our, splendid soul ? North Carolina has been rich in ideals while she has been poor in goods. Now that fruit ful years lie ahead of us i3 there dan ger that we shall lose this fine sense of spiritual values? It i3 increas ingly in my thought that right here in, the South, in this State, , there is the promise and the potency of a new democratic civilization such as the world has not yet seen a civilization that shall blend the material and the spiritual as no culture has yet done. And where is the promise of it higher than just here on this campus, with its fine democracy and its keen sense of spiritual values? Right here in Chapel Hill on the campus of this University the elements exist which I believe are destined to make this institution a leader not only in edu cation but in the moulding of this new civilization. This is not exaggeration. We cannot think of the future of this University in any meaner terms. Great as has been the past of Caro lina, her future is destined to be in comparably greater. Men of Caro lina, you are the standard-bearers of her. destiny. t Her material future is assured. You and you alone can make sure her spiritual future. I summon you tonight to consecrate yourselves to this high task. In the same spirit in which you have gone forward dur ing this difficult year that is now at its close, you must go forward during the years to come. Nothing but the best the highest in all that we are and do must content you. . Just as surely as the life on this campus is democratic, and deeply spir itual, and of high ideals, will the life of North Carolina be free, and full, and rich. How you men think about this University, the dreams you dream for her, the hopes you cherish for her, will shape not only her future, but the future of this State. I call upon you in all confidence to dedicate your selves to her service, and through her to your State and your Country. Caro lina is in your hands. What will you do with her? "Dlje Mew Curriculum . There is in these days no more sig nificant movement in education than that movement which seeks , to adopt programs of study to the intelligent desires and real vital needs of the stu dents. The changes which have been made in the , present curriculum and which are to become effective next fall, , I . interpret as . the results of a genuine effort at simplification, liber alization, and expansion of the . pres ent curriculum in order, that the new curriculum may conform more nearly to ,what those who are now .students at the. University, and those who later will . be . students here, really ; want and need. .... f,i( v ,. r,fU , ,- Simplification; of the curriculum is, of.course,,. minor consideration, and yet I believe it will have considerable value, as those, of us who have puz zled over , the catalog in the past can best appreciate. The effort to simplify the . curriculum has resulted so far mainly in the substitution of a course system of requirements . .and credits for the present honor system..; Here after a student working for an A. B. degree will be required to take, in stead of sixty, sixty-one, or sixty-two hours of work, a total of thirty-six courses; a course being defined as five hours' work a week for one quarter. This simply means nine courses each year, or three courses each quarter; this being the equivalent - under the present system of fifteen hours per week. The requirements as to amount of work is thus practically the same, but the new plan has this advantage that instead of our having to calcu late how much credit we shall get, say, for nineteen hours one term, six teen another, and twenty another, we shall simply have to count courses. For example, under the new plan, if a man has completed nine courses in his freshman year and ten courses in his sophomore year, he has credit for nineteen courses, and has thirty-six minus nineteen, seventeen courses to make up in his junior and senior years. Perhaps of more interest and cer tainly of more value to us than, this effort to simplify the curriculum is the effort that has . been made to liberalize it; that is, to make it more flexible by decreasing the number of required subjects ana increasing the number of electives. The requirements as to major and minor in the 'junior and senior years will remain praotically the same. In these two years from six to ten) courses must , be taken in the major department and from four to six in each of the minors. But a considers able and significant change has been made in the course of study for the freshman and sophomore years. The three groups of studies, known as A. B. 1, A. B. 2, and A. B. 3, pre scribed for freshmen and sophomores, have been abolished and there . has been substituted for them one single A. B. course which will place all stu dents in the college of liberal arts on the same footing. - ,, It might seem that the effect of this change would be to make the new course more rigid than any of the old courses, as a matter of fact,' the new course is much more liberal than any of the three it has displaced. Dr. Daggett, speaking a few days ago about the courses in his department, said that it had once been thought necessary for a student to take a good bit of preliminary work in phy sics and mathematics before he could begin the study of electrical engineer ing, but that experience had proved this unnecessary, and that hereafter students would be allowed to begin electrical engineering in the freshman year. It has been thought necessary in the school of liberal arts for fresh men and sophomores to study a num ber of specified subjects before they were equipped to do the work of the junior and senior years. You remem ber that most of the subjects for freshmen and sophomores were pre scribed specifically. But the faculty has come to believe that such inflex ible courses are not adopted to a great many students; and the new course has, consequently, been. made so liberal that, with the exception of a new one-hour course for both fresh men and sophomores, only three sub jectsEnglish, Mathematics, and his tory, are required of freshmen, and only one subject English -of sopho mores. And in some of these pre scribed subjects the amount of re quired work has been reduced. , Perhaps it is worth while to read the course to you. Freshman. Year Ewr. i .... 1 quarter Math. 1-2 2 quarters History 1-2 History 1-2 ........... Select 2 Greek 1-2 Latin 1-2 ... German 1-2 French 1-2 ........ ..2 quarters ..2 quarters ..2 quarters ..2 quarters ..2 quarters ..2 quarters ..2 quarters Spanish 1-2 fieneral 1 hour course... 3 quarters Any one of these - courses except English and the one-hour course may be postponed until the sophomore year and a science botany, chemistry, or zoology taken in its place. Sophomore Year Eng. 3-4 .............2 quarters Select 1 Botany 1-2 2 quarters Chemistry 1-2 .-2 quarters Physics 1-2 2 quarters Zoology 1-2 ..... Continue 2 languages z quarters chosen in freshman year Greek 3 .......... .1 quarter Latin 3 ...:............. .;.....l quarter German 3 ...l quarter French 3 .;,. ; .....l quarter Spanish 3 .. . J. quarter Elective ...... ... 3 quarters General 1 hour course.....3 quarters What the changes amount to will be easier to understand if we con sider the subject separately Eng lish will be required of freshmen only one quarter provided a grade of not less than "3'f is made, and of sopho mores only two quarters. Mathema tics will be required, for only two quarters in the freshman year, and after that no A. B. student need take it. Likewise with history. Only one of , the,. four sciences botany, chemis try, physics, and zoology, neea De studied and that one for only two quarters. Probably most significant of all is the fact that all of the foreign languages have been put on the same basis. No student, no matter what A. B. course he is taking, will be re- auired to take Greek, Latin, or Ger man. Any two foreign languages French and Spanish it desired may be taken in fulfillment of all foreign language requirements. Of course, this does not mean that a student will not be allowed to take English or mathematics or Latirt or Greek to his heart' content. It sim ply means that the curriculum will embody the idea that the demands of modern life-are so varied that, in education, what is good for one man is not necessarily good for all men, and that, while a man should be al lowed, to take the old standard sub jects if he wants to, he should not, for the most part, be required to take them if his talents and interests and needs do not lead him to take them voluntarily. The whole idea is to make more flexible, and thus to vita lize, the curriculum. . . . , Liberalization of the curriculum, however, is not the only thing that has been done to vitalize it. In such times as these,, needs for new, kinds of training are constantly arising. And it is tpe ambition of the Univer sity to meet the needs as far as ana as rapiaiy as its nuttenai re sources permit. . . , . North Carolina is rapidly becom ing an industrial state. Its business interests, are growing each year, And that rapid , development of industry and . business is creating a demand, stronger than ever. before, for thoroughly-trained .business men. That demand the University will attempt to answer by , the establishment next fall of, a school of ,commerce.. This is not to be .merely a new course, but a separate, school, tike the .school of applied science, or the school of law, having its own instructors and giving its own degree of Bachelor of Science in Commerce., The economics depart ment will, give, in co-operation with the new school, courses dealing with vital industrial problems and theories of social reform; the aim of both of these branches of the University be ing to afford such scientific training in the fundamental principles of in dustry and commerce as will produce men able to handle intelligently those industrial and business problems which are even now , becoming acute and upon the proper solution of which depends the unimpeded development of our industry and commerce. The increasing complexity of mod ern life is making necessary even higher training of professional men. The University has in times past in creased its requirements for gradua tion from the professional schools to meet this demand for better trained men; and, in line with this policy, it has decided to increase the require ments in the school of law from two to three years in order that the law department may turn out men more adequately trained to deal with the problems that are going to confront them as lawyers and as public officials. The University has under advise ment the establishment of a depart ment of public health. Nothing defi nite has yet been decided about this, but the purpose of this department, if established, w.ll probably be both to care for the health of University stu dents and also, in co-operation with other departments, to give training that will fit men for public health work in the State. The material, social, and physical necessities of the state are not the only ones, however, that need to be ministered to. There are cultural needs that are important as well. The University expects in, the fall to sup plement its present cultural courses with a department of music in charge of a competent director of music. The purpose of this department will be to offer, as electives, cultural courses in the history and appreciation of music and to enable musically-minded students to develop their talents. Besides this, the department, working through the bureau of extension will co-operate with existing agencies in vitalizing the study of music in the public schools of the State. . This does not pretend to be a com prehensive description of all the changes in the .curriculum. A number of . new courses in existing depart ments ; have been added to which 1 have not had time to refer; still other courses may be added to the curri culum before we return in the fall. I have simply tried to point out to you the most important changes in order that you may plan intelligently your work for next year and that you may go home knowing something of what the University is doing, to meet your needs and the needs of the people of the State. j Not all has been done, to be sure, that the University would like to do; and yet, of what it has done, we may well be proud. I believe I express the sentiment of the campus when I say that every man of us can go home with increasing loyalty to the University because the University is carrying on the Carolina spirit and because it is broadening and intensi fying its effort to express that spirit in the fullest possible way. Rob't F. Mosely. 15 b reatlv Mtovertunt In Wrttlttjj . Men are doing better writing on this, campus than ever before in our university, ,, history. , It , is , not the writer's purpose, to analyze this moye ment, to ,find and state its causes. , ,,The reason, we think,, is f airly ob vious Ten, or, even five year's ago, the general criticism, against college writer.s and their iting, was not so , much , against its technique , and style as against the content. . The .col lege men, is a, rule, simply had noth ing to write about. . ; But , the college men of i Carolina have , passed, through a great adven ture and it is .inconceivable that, after what they have seen and felt, , they should still have nothing to ,,, write about. . This is manifestly the reason for the new standard. The literary work of, the students on this campus this, year has not been sporadic it has assumer .well-defined proportions as a definite creative movement. , Creative I That express es , it! Our , men here are writing about that which they have exper ienced, and they are creating real , stuff. The success of, this new move ment is more than gratifying. : Perhaps the most distinctive work that has been done in this line, is the work done under the auspices of the newly-formed Carolina Play makers Association, that most uni que, but democratic organization which had its inception and is being directed by , Prof. F. H. Koch, late of the University of North Dakota, where he directed a similar organi zation. The purpose of the Playmakers As sociation is, briefly put, the produc tion of original folk-dramas, dealing with the lives of Carolina folk. These plays are written by members of the new Dramatic Literature course; taught by Professor Koch; this course is a part of the Playmakers Organiza tion. Let us consider the tremendous pos sibilities of, this, dramatic movement. These plays, depeh on the folk lore and life traditions of North Carolina Upon its. richness depends much, of the success of this .movement. .There is, obviously, no part of the county more widely endowed , with diversi fied character types or with varied folk traditions than our . own North State. A drama .that draws its pro duction from such a source must be real stuff; it comes directly from the hearts and lives of the people When we consider that the folk-drama has been one of the most important in fluences in humanizing the world; when we see the tremendous influence it had over Greek civilization, we may get some idea of the importance of this new movement. Perhaps that explains the almost amazing success of the playmakers Association this year. Given its birth at a time when the normal activity of our college life was wholly de ranged by the S A. T. C, it has produced in two short semesters, five separate one-act productions, and is preparing to repeat two of these pro ductions this Commencement week. It is not the writer's purpose to com ment upon the success of these plays. Suffice it to say that critical but favorable comments have appeared in two New York dailies, in the Balti more Sun, which also carried cuts of the productions, along with a feat,. article, and, hnally, that a comnZ and cuts of all the plays produced m uo pmii-cu iji wc ucav current Us,, of the American Review nt t..; SU6 In addition, practically all the W ino- st.at.A inurnala a -- j vu cuitoriai The Playmakers Association is i TAndv mnr than n maia . 8' - , , w vtamuus Ay ganization; it is already an organ! zation of the community and it hoped its influence - will shortly h! felt and recognized throughout on, state, and beyond. r n lt seems only fair to say that th. Playmakers ; Association promises tn be one of our moat rfisfinf.f,-,r w pus organizations. Plans have beer! made and are even now being favor ably considered whereby a student will hfi Plven a o-olrl "M f! lent work done in dramatics, as hp ;! now given uw yiu iui maKing an in bercuuege ueuaie. in any event eu ouaic nave come 10 wle tini. The class in, English 21, which last uiiiici ill m it. 1 1 km i.riH wirr rrnnr, Muaibc uigaiuieu inio a reace Cnn xeiuucc, nu , puousnea tneir own Peace Treaty and Constitution of the League of Nations, a document that received editorial comment nf i , , v a X(J. ' orable nature in the New York papers the Nation, the New Republic.the Sur vey, and many others, have this past quarter devoted their efforts to the production of a novel Hpi; the labor problem in a typical Ameri- i can community, excellent work has been done in completing two book of this three-book novel. The course nas a most unique plan mapped out for the next quarter; the writing will concern tne aeveiopment oi our Caro Una state. Writing such as this has had an aoDreciable effect on the fitnHont ntQ ary publications; the magazine hastily organized after Christmna fa Holaj to be equal, if not superior, to any that has ever been produced here. The movement is progressing; the encour aging fact is that greater things shall be done. , To, you who read this, whether ye be Carolina students. or; prospects, let it have this, significance: It may not De out. lot. in our lives here at Caro lina. tO take nart in the mnre anaoto cular, activities of , our college life, in athletics. But if we are not naturally endowed j with : athletic requirements, if we may not go out on the foot ball field nnH onver nnrealvso nnt mud and glory, remember: f hey also serve wh.0, only,. sit and, write. . ;,This movement is, J, think, but one part, of our Universitv' nwift. new progress, let . us, all.. f-. us, attach ourselves ;tto some activity and, aid m , that, progress. . "The old order changeth we are being .carried forward in. the. deep, strong , currents OI our umversitv'n mvmii ni new university, which will add to the Biuijr w vuu jrasi tne greater giory oi uie iuture. i Let us swim with the current. Thomas Wolfe. UNIVERSITY MAKES . radical Advance (Continued from Page l) riarice, In addition to the present staff in the Departments pf Economics and Rural Economics and Sociology, At tempts are now beincr made to secure these men, one cf whom will, be the Dean of the School. Each one of these men will specialize in a parti cular line; one. in Business Organiza tion, ; and ; Management, one . in Ac counting, and one in Commerce and Finance. It is hoped that the Facul ty will be able to announce the Dean of the School by Commencement, and me otner professors will be secured during the summer. See J. S. Massenburg about Summer School Board at Mm. Battle's. PressmsNeadjDooe Repairing a Specialty : , 1 $ Year in business $1.50 Month ' - . .; . For Ihm Bit mnJ Qmickmit Smrvic Cut "LONG BILL" JONES UNIVERSITY BOOK EXCHANGE Y. M. C. A. BUILDING Get Your Share of the Profits SWAIN HALL $13.50 PER MONTH DINING HALL FOR UNIVERSITY" STUDENTS
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