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THE TAR HEEL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1920
THE TAR HEEL
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DANIEL L. GRANT Editor-in-Chief
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JONATHAN DANIELS Managing Editor
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Tuesday, December 7, 1920
To be entered as second-class matter at the
postoffice at Chapel Hill, N. 0.
The article run in last Tuesday's is
sue of The Tar Heel under the cap
tion "Philosophy Club tackles Caro
lina Spirit" has been checked up as
to fact, and the Club approved the
write up. Our interest in it is as a
news item.
The following men were at this club
meeting: J. L. Aycock, Nat Mobley,
I. J. Stephenson, P. E. Greene, H. C.
Heffner, B. C. Brown, D. R. Hodgin,
T C. Taylor, C. J Taylor and C. T.
Boyd.
CAROLINA SPIRIT
On Thanksgiving Day, the Univer
sity registered another football vie
tory over North Carolina, but it is
good to know that no number of de
feats will dampen the enthusiasm of
the Tar heel supporters, nor take the
fight out of the elevens that will face
us on the Thanksgiving days of the fu
,ture. Modest in victory, the Carolin
ians are even more to be admired in
defeat. Their hopes of victory spring
eternal, and, as a lost game is chalked
mp,t they turn their eyes and hearts a
year ahead, confident of success.
'. At one time during the game last
Thursday, Virginia was penalized fif
teen yards for holding. Quick as a
flash the Carolina cheerleader called
out to his rooters: "We don't cheer
penalties!" Just such a remark sums
up the spirit of the men from Chapel
Hill, and it typifies the feeling which,
we trust, will always be maintained
between the University of Virginia and
the Unversity of North Carolina.
Such spirit, and such feeling of mu
tual respect, vindicate our stand for
clean athletics. They make us look with
vscorn on the little, yapping curs, who
are constantly snapping at our heels
on account of our athletic policy.
College Topics, University of Va.
As further illustrating the magnifi
cence with which the students who
.went to Charlottesville got behind the
team in the Thanksgiving Contest, we
should like to quote the following
excerpts from a letter that a professor
: of the University, who went to the
game, received from President Alder
man, of the University of Virginia:
... "Another little thing. I do
hope you will somehow get it to the
ears of the splendid young man that
led the cheering for Carolina that
everybody in the University is singing
his praises. His pep, and devotion,
and pluck from first to last made him
popular here. I don't know his name.
I would like to send him my love and
good wishes."
. . . "It is needless to tell you
how much we appreciate the spirit
and fineness of the Carolina men. They
are easily the most popular rivals that
this University has, and our feeling
for them is not only one of respect
but affection. This feeling pervades
the entire student body."
Such statements, coming from our
dyed in the wool rivals and oppo
nents can't help but lend a sort of
glory to us, for the manner m which
we fought, even though in defeat, and
lift us above the defeats that the sea-
son chalked up against us. There is a
philosophy that says the glory of life
comes in intent, in manner, rather
than in accomplishment. For the mo
ment, we almost wish we could accept
METHOD
Following, apparently, Goethe in his
argument when he asked, "Do I gain
by calling bad bad?" some have crit
icized the Tar Heel for exposing some
of our weaknesses. We are glad of it,
because we believe that it is by criti
cism and examination that we pro
gress. But by our criticising some of our
faults does not mean that we have de
n:ed all the good that is ours, as some
of these critics contend. We are charg
ed with leaving the impression that all
the University is going to the bow
wows. Far from it.
We all know that Carolina is sound
at bottom not only sound, but better
than most institutions of learning.
We know that we have something in
our honor system that is unique and
know that we have an exceptional
group of men in our faculty, that it is
a privilege for us to come in contact
with. All in all, we know that the Uni
versity is the finest institution of
higher learning in the South; or at
least we firmly believe it, and has a
great future before it. If we did not,
we should never have come here; or
have left and gone elsewhere when
we concluded that there were other
places better.
But with all that, Carolina is not
perfect. She is in a transition stage;
and is in the second year of her life
with the "size" problem on her hands.
And when we persist in studying our
selves, in criticising our weaknesses,
we in no way deny the part of Caro
lina that is high and fine. When a
court uncovers a scandal in a single
home, it does not mean that every
home in North Carolina is corrupt;
when one man is shipped, it does not
mean that every man in the University
should be shipped; when one professor
tells his students that he is going to
be sick on a certain day, it does not
mean that every professor in the Uni
versity has told his classes that he is
going to be sick on a certain day. And
when he choose to criticize a single
spot, it does not mean that there are
not ninety-nine spots in the Univer
sity life that are sound.
Like most flashy statements,
Goethe's is only a half truth. One of
the very men that was criticising us
for our critical method, ended by ask
ing if a certain thing, that we have
called attention to, should be remedied,
would we (the Tar Heel) write a com
plimentary editorial ? Sure we will for
then we will have accomplished our
object. That in itself, is a partial vin
dication. But it is possible that the whole
trend of editorial comment in the Tar
Heel has been a bit unfair, if it is to
be considered a mirror for University
life at present, in toto, and from it
people are to gather their complete im
pressions. The news stories are the
mirror, or, at least, should be. When a
thing is fine, and complete, the edi
torial column has paid it no particu
larly great attention.
We have faith in Carolina just
as much as anyone. And the only pur
pose of this statement is to make our
method clear, for we also have faith
in our method. ' And the things that
have been said about it, are a vindi
cation, rather than ' a condemnation.
We should like to close by saying,
as we have before, that the columns
of this paper are open to both faculty
and students. We invite opinions, es
pecially of the Tar Heel.
THE DANCES j
The Fall dances are over. They
were the highest toned, we believe, of
any dances of this college generation.
They were an illustration of the fine
in Carolina's life, and a full vindi
cation of the faith expressed recent
ly that they would be placed on a
high level when University men inter
ested themselves in this question. Nor
is this a sudden outgrowth. For the
last two or three years University
men have directed their efforts toward
removing the last vestige of the un
desirable in the dances. Though at
first hampered by some of our own
men, and later by visitors who were
beyond our .control, the effort to make
the dances high and fine has persisted
until its realization was epitomized
in the dances just over.
About a year ago, according to re
port, some ladies of a nearby town in
terested themselves in University
dances, and expressed great anxiety
because our dances were not as they
would have them. Since that time the
public dances of their own home has
been stopped by official decree, while
the University dances have moved
upwards. And we only wish that those
ladies could have attended the recent
dances.
This is a great achievement one of
the finest, we believe, of this student
generation.
The music furnished by the
Weidemeyer Saxaphone Orchestra was
uniformly good, and the members of
the Orchestra lent every co-operation
in making the dances a success.
FACULTY STILL AT WORK TO
PREVENT GRATS OF STUDES
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mittee in its discussion of holidays. It
has asked "Scrubby" Rives and Tyre
Taylor to meet with the committee at
that time. The committee is especial
ly anxious that a system of holidays
be worked out that will enable a stu
dent to do his best work under the
best possible conditions of recreation,
and at the same time will enable the
entire college and community to move
with precision from a period of work
l to a period of recreation and back to
a period oi wont again.
Peru is to have a National Poly
technic Institute. A special commit
tee comprising leaders from all other
national institutions have the plans
in charge.
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Our stock of Toys for the little ones is complete from
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sizes, styles and shapes. Now is the time to buy mirth
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For catalogue and full information, address
THE DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
TIME TO CHECK UP! -
It's examination time for you and it's exam
ination time for us. It's time to check up and
before you go home Christmas we want you
to make a guess at the amount of life insurance
the University Agency has written on the lives
of Carolina men since June 1st. When you
are down for the mail "come around the corner
from the post office" and leave your guess
with us.
And If You Win It's Christmas Money!
It's fifty dollars for the nearest guess, twenty
ve for the second and ten dollars for the third
guess.
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And Here's Hoping You'll Win the Fifty!
The University Agency
CY THOMPSON, Jr., Manager
Nat Mobley
Bill Andrews
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