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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Volume XXVIII.
CHAPEL HILL, U. C, JANUARY 1 7, 1 920
Number 12
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Ji OEa
CAROLINA GOES ON
RECORD AS FAVORING
PROPOSITION ONE
STUDENTS BY LARGE MAJORITY
EJNUUKSJS LUAUUtt
OF NATIONS
ALL COLLEGES VOTED ON IT
One of Heaviest Votes Ever Cast at
The University of North
Carolina
The League of Nations Referen
dum at Carolina came to an end Tues
day night at 6 P. M. with Proposi
tion I receiving more votes than all
the others combined. This question of
nation-wide importance has held a
larger place in the student and fac
ulty thought here during the last few
months than any other issue that
has arisen since the war ended? and
since the announcement of the inter
collegiate referendum it has received
a special share of attention. The
vote of the men here is taken to rep
resent not only the attitude of this
State, but the attitude of college men
throughout the South as well.
' Individual expressions of opinion
form an interesting line of argument
for and against the adoption of the
League as it now stands. One upper
classman, when asked for his opin
ion, said that he had more faith in
the wisdom of Pres. Wilson than in
Congress that the League, while ad
mittedly imperfect, was the best that
coudl be made under the circum
stances. A freshman, who is much
addicted to thinking on international
problems, contended that the time to
fix a leaky vessel was while it was in
drydock before attempting the voy
age. If the League covenant can be
likened to a ship it seems universally
admitted that it does contain leaks or
as one professor put it: "No one
would attempt to deny that the in
strument contains faults, it does."
This professor voted for Proposition
I. Another man, a student who re
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Di Society Will Debate
Deportation of tke Reds
At the regular meeting of the Di
Society January 10, the newly-elected
officers for the coming quarter were
installed. There being no previously
arranged program, the hall was giv
en over to general discussion. A fea
ture of the meeting was the inaugu
ral address by Pres. R. B. Gwyn. Mr.
Gwyn pictured in vivid outline the
come-back of the society this year.
The cloud of gloom that settled over
all society activities during the S. A.
T. C. Reign of Terror was happily
dispelled with the inauguration of the
new open forum plan of discussion.
Discussing society work in general,
Mr. Gwyn emphasized the point that
in striving for honors the personal
glory side of it should be second to
the desire to be of real service in the
society. "The ideal of service," he
said, "shoul dbe foremost in the mind
of every man who is selected to fill a
position in the Di Society." He sound
ed a keynote when he said that the
society should be a "living, breath
ing place on this campus for every
thing that tends toward the better
development of the University." He
concluded by stressing the impor
tance of forming an opinion and
taking a definite stand on all campus
Problems, ' and emphasized the need
f a keener interest in this sort of
Problem.
'The program for Saturday night,
January 17, is an open forum discus
sion on "Proceeding to the limit in
the deportation of Reds and anar
chists
With the revival of . the
touch debated Question of the Leaeue
of Nations and its adoption, the so
ciety may confidently expect to see
this topic revived with a fierce fight
ln prospect. In connection with the
recent Referendum on the League in
which it was charged that the Pi
favored Art. I, it is possible that
those who led the fight that defeated
the League and Treaty in its present
should demand a final show
dwn to see just where the society
stands on the question now. If such
would turn out to be the case, argu
ment will not be lacking on both sides
01 the question.
Oratorical Contest Is
Drawing Great Interest
All men who believe themselves
gifted with a fluent line will be given
the opportunity to show it about the
1st of February when the preliminary
for the Southern Intercollegiate Ora
torical Contest will be held.
The Southern Intercollegiate Ora
torical League is composed of seven
of the leading Southern universities,
as follows: The University of North
Carolina, the University of Virginia,
the University of Kentucky, the Uni
versity of Alabama, the University
of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University,
and John Hopkins University. Each
year at some time during" the second
quarter the annual oratorical contest
is held. Each university selects one
representative to compete in the fin
al contest, held this year at the Uni
versity of Kentucky. The prelimin
ary will be held at some time between
the 1st and the 5th of February, and
the final contest comes off this year
on the 5th of March. The contest is
open to all undergraduate students in
the University, and a large number
have already expressed their inten
tion of going out for it. Keen compe
tition is expected for the honor of
representing the University of North
Carolina in this greatest of Southern
intercollegiate oratorical contests.
The winner of the contest will be giv
en a handsome award.
VARSITY LOSE TO DURHAM
Y AFTER HARD FIGHT
GAME WAS PROLONGED FIVE
MINUTES TO PLAY OFF
THE TIE
Capt.. Carmichael's men lost a
hard-fought game to the Durham "Y"
quint in the Bull City last Saturday
night by a score of 34 to 30. The
score was tied when the whistle blew
for the end of the second half and it
was agreed to play five minutes long
er. Durham made four points in this
time, but Carolina failed to score.
Both teams showed plenty of fight.
The individual stars for Carolina
were Liipfert and Carmichael. Per
ry and Mangum showed up best for
the Y outfit. " The line-up and the
score follows:
Durham Y Carolina
Perry, L. F. Shepherd, L. F.
Landis, R. F. Carmichael, R. F.
Knight, C. Douglas, C.
Mangum, L. G. Morris, L. G.
Hefiin, R. G. .Rourk, R. G.
Substitutes Carolina, Griffith,
Liipfert, and Erwin. Field Goals
Durham, Perry, 6; Landis, 2; Knight,
3; Mangum, 4; Heflin, 1. Carolina--
Shepherd, 2; Carmichael, 3; Douglas,
2; Rourk, 2; Griffith, 1; Liipfert, 3;
Erwin, 1. Fouls for Durham, Man
gum, 2; for Carolina Carmichael, 2.
Total, Durham, 34; Carolina, 30.
Referee, White. Timekeper Wood
all. The Junior Class Elects
Marshals and Prom Leadei s
As the Yackety Yack goes to press
earlier this spring than usual, the
Junior Class held a meeting last Fri
day night to elect the Commencement
Marshals and the Junior Prom lead
ers for the year. Heretofore these
men have been elected much later in
the season. It was necessary to have
the election early in order that the
pictures of the men could be taken
for the annual. The biggest honor,
that of Chief Marshal, fell to J. S.
Massenburg, one of the most popular
men in the class. The other Mar
shals named by the class of 1921 are
the following: "'Scrubby" Rives,
"Red" Lineberger, Pat Cummins, C. D.
Beers, Grady Pritchard, "Fats" Ful
ton, and Bailey Liipfert.
To lead the Junior Prom this year
the Juniors chose Pat Cummins, and
as assistants, Jess Erwin and Allan
Wright.
At a meeting of the Senior Class
Monday night the following men
were elected: Commencement Ball
Managers, W. N. Poindexter, Chief;
Allan Gant, Stan Travis, Bill Neal,
Wooly White from the Senior Class
and Bobbins Lowe and Jesse Erwin
from the Junior Class.
APRIL 28TH NEXT
DATE OF INAUGURATION
OF PRESIDENT CHASE
AN ELABORATE PROGRAM WILL
BE CARRIED OUT ON
THAT DAY
DISTINGUISHED MEN ARE INVITED
The Student Body Will March
In Procession With
the Faculty
April 28 has been agreed upon as
the date for the formal inauguration
of President Harry Woodburn Chase
as the eighth president of the Uni
versity. This announcement was
made recently by a joint committee
of the faculty and trustees of this
institution; further details of the
plans have also been announced, show
ing that the exercises will be held
in the presence of equally as a dis
tinguished an assemblage as gathered
in Chapel Hill at the inauguration in
1915 of the late President Graham.
Judge Francis D. Winston is chair
man of the committee from the trus
tees, other members being: A. H.
Eller, Charles Lee Smith, W. P. By
num, and Gen. Julian S. Carr. The
committee from the faculty consists
of Dr. Archibald Henderson, Chair
man, and Professors A. H. Patterson,
George Howe, A. S. Wheeler, Parker
Daggett, de Roulhac Hamilton, L. R.
Wilson, and W. D. Toy. Plans for
this event are being completed by
these two committees working in con
junction. 7)v
Nationally knov'rt' educators and
university heads je included among
the specially invited guests and speak
ers. All of the leading educational
institutions in the United States will
be asked to send delegates, as well as
many of the learner! and scholarly so
cieties. The list o special guests will
include the trustees and alumni of the
University, the faculties of all the
colleges in the State, and the city and
county superintendents.
A buffet luncheon will be served by
the University on the morning of the
twenty-eighth for these guests. Con
trary to precedent the inaugural exer
cises proper will take place in the
afternoon, beginning at 1:30. This
arrangement was found necessary due
to the difficulty in train schedules.
Special pullmans are being arranged
for the convenience of the visitors,
thus making it possible for them to
get away that night.
The academic procession will form
in front of Alumni Building and
march to Memorial Hall. The gen
eral subject will be "The Higher Edu
cation and Its Present Task"; one
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OVER TWO HUNDRED
SCHOOLS ENROLLED
IN DEBATING UNION
Over 225 schools have already en
rolled in the High School Debating
Union to discuss the query: Resolved,
That the United States should adopt
a policy of further material restric
tion of immigration. The triangular
debates throughout the State and the
final debate at Chapel Hill will be
held during April, 1920.
These debates throughout the State
were inaugurated seven years ago by
the Philanthropic and Dialectic lit
erary societies and the Bureau of Ex
tension of the University! Each
school which enrolls is grouped with
two other schools for the triangular
debate, and the school winning both
debates sends its two teams to the
University.
The winning team in the final con
test is awarded the' State champion
ship, and receives the Aycock Memo
rial Cup to be held until the next year.
Durham High School was the winner
of the cup last year and this school
can retain the cup as permanent prop
erty, if it wins in the final contest this
year.
These debates have awakened great
interest in all parts of the State and
it is estimated that 80,600 people
heard these discussions last year.
The enrollment this year has already
begun with a majority of forty-five
more than in 1919, and it is expected
that many more schools will enroll
for the contest.
CAROLINA WAS REPRESENTED AT
PES MOINES STUDENT CONFERENCE
Delegates : Return With Glowing Reports. Kita Praises
University of North Carolina at Cosmo
politan Banquet
GREAT CONVENTION OF
WORLD-WIDE STUDENTS
On December 29, 1919, at 12:30 P.
M. number 21 puffed into the station
at Greensboro pulling the special pull
man car, "Casa Monica" on its rear.
Soon there had crowded into the
twelve seats of the car a score or
more college students, representatives
from the Carolina, the Normal, the G.
C. W., and the Meredith campus! And
they were off for Des Moines!! Days
and nights of traveling through the
beautiful western North Carolina,
across Tennessee and Kentucky,
through snow covered Ohio and across
the icy plains of Illinois and Iowa,
days of wonderful companionship
with real men and women!
Then Des Moines!! The delegates
were greeted by a snow storm, more
and more delegates, more men oh the
job, and Boy Scouts who ushered them
to the registration booths in the city
hall. And Carolina became one
among the many colleges that had
come over the miles to the conven
tion, one among the brotherhood of
eight thousand men and women tur
baned Turks, Japanese, Negroes, Chi
nese, Canadians and Americans.
Long before the appointed hour of
the first meeting of the conference
the streets of Des Moines flooded
streams of delegates into the doors of
the huge Coliseum. And for half an
hour the walls of the giant building
shook with the college yells and songs!
Then came inspiring addresses
from world leaders, challenges to the
college men and women to claim their
world citizenship and to understand
the members of the great human
family, challenges to be men and wo
men worthy of the heritage of the
past to carry the torch of freedom,
democracy and Christianity to the
ends of the earth.
There were fraternity banquets, inter-collegiate
luncheons, cosmopoli
tan .conferences. At one such con
ference Kita, Carolina's Japanese
student, spoke - in Japanese to an as
sembled body of hundreds of dele
gates. He told them of the wonder
ful spirit on the Carolina campus, es
pecially the attitude toward the for
eign students. He appealed to the
men and women to go back to their
colleges and strive to understand the
foreigner instead of making plans to
go to his country to inflict our cus
toms, our ideals, and our religion.
Kita was warmly received by his
hearers and afterwards sought out
by editors of magazines and news
papers of prominence in Japan and
America.
The convention ended on Sunday
night. Then came a rush to the sta
tion where puffed twelve long spe
cial pullman trains ready to carry
away Des Moines' mushroom growth.
And amid shouting and , yelling and
singing the Carolina special pulled
out on its way across Iowa.
The North and South Carolina dele
gates spent ten hours in Chicago on
Monday at which time the Mere
dith girls gave Carolina a Leap Year
banquet an experience that won
completely its share of hearts and a
cheer for "Meredith forever!"
The Carolina Special stopped all of
Tuesday in Cincinnati; so the inhabi
tants of the fifteen pullman coaches
went sight-seeing in that city, visit
ing the Art Museum, the Rookwood
Pottery works, and the theaters.
There was another day on board
the pullman filled with honest-to-goodness
companionship with Carolina
men and women. Then the Des
Moines Student Volunteer Convention
became a big memory in the minds of
its delegates but an everlasting chal
lenge to every man and woman. Caro
lina men will never forget it!
Read the Tar Heel each week and
patronize the firm3 whose advertise
ments appear in its columns.
KITA, CAROLINA STUDENT
PRAISES N. C. TO STUDENTS
Speaking to an audience at the re
cent Des Moines Conference which
numbered well into the hundreds and
represented oyer a dozen different na
tionalities, S. Kita, a well-known
Japanese student of , this campus,
brought to his hearers a stirring trib
ute of praise. Kita is a Tar Heel
through and through, and is proud of
the fact. Other students from for
eign lands, he pointed out, seemed
chiefly impressed with the physical
or academic aspects of American in
stitutions of learning. He, however,
wished to bring forward a message
of a university with a spirit. Lone
someness, a sense of isolation, wound
ed feelings, he said were utterly im
possible to the foreign student who
found his home at Chapel Hill. The
keynote of the Tar Heel spirit he cen
tered in its broad sympathy, and on
this account he affirmed it to be es
pecially well fitted to embrace all men,
of every kith and kin, from every por
tion of the globe. In this spirit Kita
insisted that he was very genuinely
an American student, and the friend
of every other American student. In
conclusion he pointed out that the
surest way to international under
standing and friendship is through
just this sort of whole-hearted sym
pathy and friendship towards stu
dents of foreign soil as is manifested
on the .campus of the University of.
North Carolina.
It may well be taken as ground for
pride that the spirit of Carolina
should be thus ably and earnestly
held up as an example for all Ameri
ca in the matter of appreciation of
students from other .lands.
Varsity Five Schedule
Has Been Announced
Manager Spruill announces a full
schedule of games for the varsity five
in this issue of the Tar Heel. Three of
these contests will be played on the
Hill, and the others will be staged on
foreign soil. All of the teams to be
met are fast outfits, and all of the
contests are sure to be fast and hard
fought. The schedule follows
January 15, Guilford at Greensboro.
January 16, Davidson at Davidson
January 17, Charlotte Y at Char
lotte. January 24, Trinity at Durham. '
January 29, Davidson at Chapel
Hill.
February 7, Virginia at Lynchburg
or Charlottesville.
February 9, Georgetown at Wash
ington, D. C.
February 10, Catholic University at
Washington, D. C.
February 11, U. S. Naval Academy
at Annapolis.
February 17, N. C. State, pending
at Chapel Hill. .
Feb. 20, Trinity at Chapel Hill.
Feb. 27, Virginia at Raleigh.
March 6, N. C. State at Raleigh. '
First Year Reserve
Play Oak Ridge Today
Manager Milton of the first year
reserve basketball team is working on
a schedule which will be printed in
full at an early date. Tonight Capt.
Hanby's men meet Oak Ridge in the
gym. A game with the N. C. State
freshmen is pending. In all prob
ability, a trip through the Old Do
minion will be made during the sea
son. The first year men of Virginia
will probably be met before the sea
son closes.
Coach Bond is whipping a fast
team into shape. With a lot of good
material to build upon, he has been
able to put out an aggregation which
ha3 shown up well in the scrimmages
against the varsity quint. Hanby, a
former star at Wake Forest, is lead
er of the reserve team.