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CHAPEL HILL, N. C, OCTOBER 15, 1920
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PRESENTS PORTRAIT
OF GENERAL DAVIE
ON UNIVERSITY DAY
REV. WILLIAM WAY PRESENTS
PORTRAIT; GIFT OF MRS.
BALL
PORTRAIT WORK OF CHRETIEN
In presenting to the University of
North Carolina to be hers perpetually
the only life-sized portrait of (her
illustrious founder, Gen. William
Richardson Davie, who 127 years ago
laid the corner-stone of Old East
building. J. Alwyn Ball, of Charles
ton, S. C, set October 12, 1920, on a
pedestal of prominence in Univer
sity annals second only to that auspi
cious date when the Virgin Univer
sity was dedicated to the service of
the State.
The presentation services were sim
ple and impressive. Rev. William
Way, of Charleston, in making the
presentation address detailed the his
tory of the portrait, and in accepting
on behalf of the University, J. 0. Carr,
of Wilmington discoursed on the poli
tical prowess of Gen. Davie. At
eleven o'clock the acadamic proces
sion formed and wound slowly past
the place where the Pavie poplar
stood towering in stately dignity slow,
ly filing into Memorial hall came the
august assembly of cap and gown
followed by the student body. After
invocation by Rev. W. D. Moss, of
Chapel Hill, the Rev. Wm. Way traced
from the time it was made in Paris in
1800 when Davie was a commissioner
sent by President Adams to the French
government down through the Davie
family until it became the possession
of Mrs. Ball. For many years it re
mained at "Trivoli," the family home
of the Davie's in Chester county, S. C,
where it belonged to Davie'sf son,
Frederick William Davie. During the
Civil war the portrait, with other
family possessions, was buried on the
banks of the Catawba river. From
Frederick William Davie it descended
to his wife, Mary Frederick Fraser
Davie, and from her to Emilie G.
Fraser, who married J. Alwyn Ball,
the donor. Mrs. Ball died in January,
1920.
The portrait, Mr. Way said, was the
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CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT
I OF '24 BREAKS TRADITIONS
S. M. TURNER, OF NORTH WILKES
BORO, ANNOUNCES HIMSELF
AS CANDIDATE
An old Carolina tradition .was shat
tered Wednesday when S. M. Turner,
'24, speaking from the steps of Swain
Hall and later from Smith Building
announced his candidacy for presi
stand for equilibrium in the class,"
said Turner, "I nominate myself for
President of the class of '24 and I
accept the nomination." A wet plank
was later inserted in his campaign
as he stood on the steps of Smith.
Crowds of students flocked around
Turner wherever he went and cheered
his speeches till the welkin rang with
Turner's fame. Berryhill was finally
called to dispell the mob in order
that classes might not be cancelled
for the afternoon.
When interviewed by a . reporter of
the Tar Heel the candidate was not
inclined to make a front porch speech,
but modestly stated he would stand
y his platform as stated in front
of Swain Hall with the exception of
the wet plank which he received in
front of Smith. He was putting on a
dry shirt when the interview took
place.
He states his campaign received a
severe check this morning when Bobby
Wunsch refused to announce his can
didacy in Chapel, but he off-set this
disadvantage by a series of nifty
posters round-a-bout the campus.
S. M. Turner is a native of North
Wilkesboro. His running mate, Jack
Patrick, is from Greenville.
"Music is the maple syrup of the
soul." Opie Read.
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Mr. Jbhn Alwyn Ball, of Charleston,
South Carolina who presented to the
University on the 12th anniversary of
the laying of the corner-stone of Old
East Building, the oldest State Uni
versity building in America, a Life
size profile of General William Rich
ardson Davie, "the Father of the Uni
versity of North Carolina."
BROCKWELL APARTMENTS
BECOMES ADVENTURE LAND
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ON
APPROPRIATION! FOR A MORE
GENERAL SEARCH FOR A 7-
TICS EXPECTED
To those of the readers of the Tar
Heel who do not know the Brockwell
Apartments let this be a first notice.
Doubtless everyone has seen, heard
of, or read of, the select apartments
along Riverside; but I insist tjhat
these Brockwell Apartments have
more than one point worthy of men
tion. At our University, located as
it is here in Chapel Hill, it is quite
an opportunity to enjoy the experience
of apartment life. Now these apart
ments are almost near enough to the
campus for convenience, and do not
miss affording the inmates (used ad
visedly, in that they can't help being
there) the benefit derived from living
on the campus to a very great degree.
To be exact, and it might be of bene
fit to some one who might some time
be called upon to investigate the ac
tual living conditions at our great Uni
versity, these apartments are to be
found over the Andrew's Cash Store.
If for no other reason than that of
adventure, a trip to the second and
third stories of this edifice will yield
splendid dividends. One cannot miss
the perfect "Alice in Wonderland"
thrill as one mounts, yes, mounts,
the series of boards which encourage
a special kind of genuflection, called
by the unitiated, in all probability, a
stairway. Now this stairway has this
in its favor: it reminds one irresisti
bly of the Medieval architecture; in
asmuch as it aspires upward, upward,
upward, and one seems to pray a little
somehow as one rises. All in all, how
ever, it is possible that this stairway
is not so bad after all as it is en
sconced between two brick walls it
has this promise of stability. These
walls doubtless serve to hide watever
the caviler might call ugliness in the
stairway. Indeed it is a mentionable
temptation to call these boards a star
way; since the stars are right there
overhead as one looks up while taking
the risk by night.
When Pocahontas "went the bail
of John Smith" and when Daniel Boon
raised the stock of the then West, it
was making toward a new order. Yet
there were perforce aborigines. So
were, there aborigines in the Brock
well Apartments prior to the invasion
fo the light of the age. The species
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TWO-THIRDS OF STUDENT
BODY PLEDGE $2100
The Y. M. C. A. financial campaign
which is only two-thirds completed
has now reached a $2103 level
Manager Erwin intends to complete
the campaign at once, if possible.
An account of the scattered student
body it is difficult to reach old men.
FLOOD OF TELEGRAMS
BRING HEARTY WISHES
ON 127TH BIRTHDAY
U. N. C. ALUMNI EVERYWHERE
REMEMBER ALMA MATER
ON BIRTHDAY ; '
ALL PLEDGE HEARTY SUPPORT
A flood of telegrams of birthday
greetings, with loyalty, enthusiasm,
and deep and earnest determination
written all over them, poured into
Chapel Hill on University Day from
alumni from all parts of the world.
From Montevideo, Uruguay, three
young alumni, Jack Powell, former
baseball captain, Bob deRosett, and
Elliott Cooper shot under the ocean
their "Greetings from Montevideo,"
and from Bahia Blanca, also in South
America, another alumnus, V. Whit
field of the consular service told Pre
sident Chase "I have faith you wilhat
tain your vision for a greater Univer
sity." Dr. and Mrs. Dey, now in Paris, sent
greetings, and two 1920 graduates,
John P. Washburn and f Emerson
White, both with the National City
Bank, of London, cabled their alma
mater. From Seattle, just before he
sailed for the Orient, Professor Col
lier Cobb waved his hand across the
continent, and down in Baton Rouge,
La., his son, William B. Cobb, reflected
the family enthusiasm with further
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E. M. Coulter, professor at the Uni
versity of Georgia, and Prof. N. W.
Walker, now studying at Harvard,
added to the enthusiasm; Edgar Tur
lington and Mangum Weeksiin Wash
ington, were heard from, as were also
Albert Coates, at Harvard, R. B. Gwyn
and G. D. Crawford in New York,
Bruce Carraway in High Point, and
R. M. Wilson, L. L. Lohr and H. H.
Simpson in Rocky Mount.
R. D. W. Connor, president of the
alumni association, now at Columbia
University, joined with eight other
alumni in the hope, "May the state
rally to her support as fully as her
past; services and future promises de
serve." Alumni at Harvard and at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania sent their best
wishes, the North Carolina Club at
Harvard adding, "All here take pride
in Carolina's splendid showing against
Yale."
Inside the state, alumni associations
one after another poured in their con
gratulations. . A few of them follow:
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INVISIBLE ORDER STYGIANS
OUIJAS CONTRIBUTION TO Y
ELEVEN FIVE-DOLLAR BILLS AND
ELEVEN NICKELS FROM
STYGIAN CAVE
In addition to putting up posters
all over the campus in the interest of
the Y. M. C. A. urging students to
subscribe to the "Y" Campaign for
funds, the Invisible Order of Stygians
that mysterious body that no one
knows anything about, have added
another chapter to their activities for
the Y. M. C. A. in the form of a letter
found recently on the Bureau of the
Treasurer's room in the "Y". The
letter stamped on the back with a
smoked question mark and burned on
all corners and both sides read as
follows:
Abyss of Tartarus
Cocytus, Phlegethan
In the course of human events it
becames necessary that .
The Invisible Order of Stygians
communicate
with the world of humankind. It here
with encloses its contribution to the"
Y. M. C. A.
The Invisible Order of Stygians.
Enclosed were 11 five dollar bills
and 11 nickels making a total of
$55.55.
It is significent in that it comes
from a group of men who would lend
their aid to a big work yet withhold
their names, says the treasurer of
the campaign who adds:
More appreciated than the gift it
self is the motive that prompted it.
THRUOUT STATE ALUMNI MEET
IN RESPONSE TO UNIVERSITY'S
NEED ON HER 127TH BIRTHDAY
NEW YORK TIMES GENEROUS IN
PRAISE OF CAROLINA ELEVEN
SAYS YALE WAS OUTCLASSED
DURING HALF OF CONTEST;
PRAISES LOWE
The impression that the Carolina
eleven made upon the northern foot
ball world is shown particularly well
in the story, by the special corres
pondent of the New York Times, of
the contest between Yale and Caro
lina at New Haven.
: The story as it appeared in the times
paid glowing tribute to the Carolina
eleven. The Times goes on to say:
"Although outplayed nearly half the
game by the light, doughty and ver
satile University of North Carolina
eleven. Yale possessed enough of a
punch to send three touchdowns over
the line today and finally won 21 to
0. The southerners did not repeat
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GRAHAM MEMORIAL BUILDING
CAMPAIGN ENDS IN DECEMBER
$130,000 HAS BEEN SUBSCRIBED
OF DESIRED $150,000 FOR
BUILDING
According to an announcement mad"
by Dr. L. R. Wilson, chairman of the
faculty committee on the Student's
activities building to be erected in
memory of the late President E. K.
Graham, the campaign for subscrip
tions will end on December the thirty
first, and as soon thereafter as plans
can be completed work on the badly
needed building will be begun.
As a result of the campaign direct
ed by Mr.- A. M. Coates prior to his
entrance" into the Harvard Law
School late in September, $130,000
had been subscribed of which approx
imately $30,000 was underwritten by
the student body, and $100,000 by
the Alumni and friends. At least $20,
000 is to be subscribed before the
committee will feel that an adequate
amount is in hand for erecting the
sort of building desired and a deter
mined effort is now being made to ex
ceed the amount as far as possible.
Dr. Wilson announces that letters
have just been sent to local directors
in a number of North Carolina towns
in which subscriptions have not been
secured urging an immediate effort
to wind the campaign up, and indivi
dual letters will soon be forwarded to
every alumnus who has not had an
opportunity to sign a pledge card.
While an architect has not yet
been chosen and a site selected, plans
for the building have been carefully
studied by members of the committee
and a number of student activities
buildings at other institutions, nota
bly those at Michigan, Pennsylvania,
and Harvard have been visited. Re
commendations from the student body
have also been received as to features
which the building should contain.
All this data is being done over care
fully as soon as the campaign for
funds is concluded the actual build
ing will be gotten underway.
U. N. C. WOMAN'S
ASSOCIATION MEETS
The U. N. C. woman's association
held their first regular meeting last
Thursday. Plans for the work of the
association for the year were discuss
ed and at the end refreshments were
served.
Ex-Service Men to Attend
University of Wisconsin
At least 1,400 former soldiers,
sailors, and marines and nurses are
expected to take advantage of Wis
consin's soldier educational bonus
law to attend the University of Wis
consin this fall, according to informa
tion in the office of the university
officer who advises soldier bonus students.
PROFS. HENDERSON, BERNARD,
GRAHAM, AND PATTERSON
SPEAK TO ASSOCIATIONS
ALUMNI GIVE LOYAL RESPONSE
It i Essential That the State Improve
Living Conditions in Its
Institutions
On Tuesday, October twelfth, the
Alumni Association of the University
of North Carolina met at the request
of Dr. Chase to discuss plans for a
bigger, better University. The day
of meeting, University Day, was par
ticularly appropriate as a time of
meeting for the sons of the Univer
sity. The purpose of these meetings
was in Dr. Chase's words: "What
theme would be more fitting for this
meeting, commemorative of the Uni
versity's glorious past, than a discus
sion of how her future may be made
even nobler and greater."
Several members of the faculty
went at the request of alumni associa
tions to their meetings. They dis
cribed the conditions prevailing at the
Univrsity, the crowded dormitories
and dining halls, the overworked and
underpaid faculty, the inability of the
University to meet the needs of the
youth of the state under the .cramped
conditions under which it (is comw
neljpd to work.) They told of the needs
of the um??rltyi new dormitories,
new dinning halls, nrms,
a larger and better paid faculty7anci""
pointed out the way to an enthusiastic
alumni towards a University of
greater and more far reaching powers
for the education of the state.
The Wake County alumni associa
tion of the University celebrated the
127th anniversary of University Day
with a banquet at the Yarborough
Hotel, Tuesday night. Dr. Bernard
who was the chief speaker of the even
ing, showed that probably a thou
sand prospective students had been
turned away from the University this
year for lack of room. He predicted
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CAMPUS CABINET CHOOSES
HEAD OF CLASS ATHLETICS
ALLEN ANDERSON CHOSEN BY
CABINET TO DIRECT CLASS
ATHLETICS
The Campus Cabinet announces that
Allen R. Anderson, second year medi
cal student and tennis champion, has
been selected as director of .class ath
letics for the year. Mr. Anderson
comes to us from Trinity. The ath
letic Committee composed of 'John
Kerr, Chairman, A. M. McDonald, Al
lan McGhee and M. W. Nash, working
in conjunction with the director, will
have charge of all class athletics.
The committee will plan an elaborate
schedule of class athetics, the result
of which will be announced later. The
football schedule will be announced in
the next issue of the Tar Heel. Bulle
tin Boards will be placed about the
campus on which will be posted an
nouncements of the Campus Cabinet
and the results of the games. Pen
nants will be awarded the winning
teams and numerals will be given
those who play in a certain number
of games, the required number to be
announced later. Games to be under
the control of the committee are foot
ball, baseball, basketball, tennis, soc
cer, and track. The committee is now
considering the advisability of having
dormitory teams and their report will
be made public at a later date. Rules
governing class football, and schedule
will be announced during the coming
week. The Cabinet has an appropria
tion from the University for class ath
letics this year and a good program
will be forthcoming that will have an
immediate effect on the classes. A
room as headquarters for the class
athletics activities will probably be in
the gymnasium but at present this
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