THE TAR HEEL, JANUARY 14, 1921.
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Vol. XXIX Chapel Hill, N. C, Friday, January 14, 1921. No. 28
PRESENT PROGRAM NOT J today. To delay further would be
AN OVER-NIGHT OUTBURST ! tragic, for one part of the system
BUT IN A GREATER SCHEME, is slewly, but surely going forward.
f ' If we delay much longer to provide
(Continued from Page One) . j for the balance of the system, we
latest to which .1 have access) tne jn which it will be well-nigh mi
University of North Carolina in 1918 possible to disentangle ourselves,
was able to spend on each of its stu- The great shame of the present sit
dents the sum of $264. During that uation is that some feel that these
same year Iowa was spending $323 ( demands are a sudden outburst,' and
on each of her students; Florida, to to resist the demands for awhile and
the South of us, spent $347 on each tey will die down that they will
time that we were providing for our
own people who are demanding this
opportunity, eveh though they
never conduct our own system.
When all pf these, and the School
will soon find ourselves in a tangle of Medicine, the Pharmacy School,
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION
The proposal of a "North Carolina
Collegiate Press Association" has
met a responsive note among the
college editors of the State which
only demonstrate the already con
scious need for such an organiza
tion, and assures its success. The
immediate service that such an or
ganization will render is that of
bettering the service of the college
newspapers of the State, and through
this process of 'unification of interest,
of knowledge of each others' prob
lems there can be an infinite amount
done for the cause of higher educa
tion in the State. This battle just
getting under way in real earnest
must continue.
Letters signifying approval, and
pledging hearty support has already
been received from the editors of
the Old Gold and Black, The Trinity
Chronicle, the Davidsonian, and the
Salemite. In a few days another
statement will go out from the Tar
Heel, embodying the suggestions that
have come in, and making some sug
gestions around which the beginning
of a definite organization can pro
ceed We shall be glad to get from
any of the college editors of the
State any suggestions that will facili
tate the work of getting the organiz
ation under way.
A suggestion has come from Edi
tor Cassell of the Davidsonian that
the literary publications also be in
cluded in the organization, which has
met the enthusiastic approval of the
Editor of the Carolina Magazine,
Tyre C. Taylor. Perhaps in the im
mediate thing that the organization
seeks there is no very definite place
for literary publications, but in the
ultimate, the complete realization
of the idea, there will be a very de
finite place for them. We shall be
glad to have the opinions of the
newspaper editors with regard to
this.
Pledging should be permitted in the
early part of the term. This would
serve to stimulate the freshman to
pass his work. In lieu of passing all
the first term's work, a certain num
ber of laws should be required of
freshmen who fail a subject, before
being eligible for a fraternity.
This change, it seems to me, would
be best for the University and all con
cerned. The long-drawn-out rushing
season takes considerable of the time
and energy of the fraternity men
and likewise the freshmen who are
rushed. Sometimes group animosi
ties are aroused over particular men
that several groups may be rushing.
The time and energy saved by
shorter rushing season could be used
to improve the scholarship and par
ticipation in college activities of the
fraternity men. A more congenial
and friendly spirit would exist among
the fraternities themselves. The
freshmen, whom the present rule is
dsigned to benefit and does not
would be saved considerable time and
distraction from their studies, which
the present system demands.
It seems contradictory that here
at Carolina, where freshmen even are
allowed the most liberal kind of self-
government that they are not consid
ered as being of sufficient maturity
to join a Greek-letter fraternity,
wnat about trying a change? It is
needed!
Wm. D. HARRIS.
Law '21
APOLOGYS TO PEPYS
STUDENT FORUM
FRESHMEN AND FRATERNITIES
Editor Tar Heel.
Dear Sir:
It is a much disputed question as
to whether the present system of not
allowing freshmen to join fraterni
ties is so satisfactory as the system
followed in the overwhelming ma
jority of colleges and universities,
where freshmen are permitted to join
fraternities. A happy medium would
seem to give better results than are
obtained at Carolina at present,
where the situation is decidedly un
satisfactory. I believe, to the great
majority of those concerned, a plan
Whereby a freshman is required to
pass his first term's work, or a major
portion of it, before being admitted
into a fraternity has been followed
with good results in many schools.
Up early at seven by the bell in
the castle tower, with a dark brown
taste insoluable from recent meet
ing of the Onion Club. So to classes
where all the morning doing business
and thence to dinner at Swine. Did
observe many new ties and it very
strange withall, why wear them when
donors may not observe? mine own
collection hereunto no unpacked.
Journeying hither and yonder did
shake beaucoup des mains and noted
great sufficiency of pre-exam-hid-den
decks resurrected. To a camn-
fire supper where one did inquire if
that day Swam Hall served onions,
so at best leisure wrote resignation
to aforementioned club which receiv
ed much moralizing on life in a co- 1
ed college. Did read in the Carolyna
Journall of stacked beds and from
much pedlar experience gave disser
tation to skeptics proving stage not
set for pictures. Interrupted by
divers and sundry wails from room
mate who that night had eaten be ins
at S. H. neither raw nor cooked. He
soon eased and did secularly dis
course of microscopic reduction of
board bill. Strove not with hin. but
after writing sad letter did to bed
late.
STEVENS INSTITUTE
The approach of the swimming
season finds our team nearing per
fection. The first meet has been
scheduled with Johns Hopkins for
January 7th, while arrangements are
being made for a trial meet with
the Montclair A. C. as early as this
Friday, the 17th
of her students; (almost $100 more
ner manh Michigan spent $300; Vir
ginia spent $320; and
sent $371. During that year the
enrollments were a bit lower than
was expected when the appropria
tions for maintenance were made,
and it is possible that some institu
tions were able to spend a few more
dollars per man than usual. But the
significant thing is that North Caro
lina was far below the average.
For the past year the University
has spent roughly .242 dollars on
each of her students upon an average,
while the amounts spent by the other
colleges of the State ranges from
about $130 per student by one of
the colleges for women up to $271
that Trinity spent upon each of her
students. At the same time we find
that Haverford College (of Penn
sylvania which corresponds to the
Guilford of North Carolina) spent
about $775 upon each of its stu
dents; Wesleyan (the Trinity of
Ohio) spent $400 on each of its stu
dents and Williams (the Wake Forest
of Massachusetts) spent close to
$500 upon each of its students.
And thus it is easily seen that the
work that the colleges of North Car
olina have been doing is about on
an equal scale with the work that
has been going on in the public and
high schools. In fact the recent ad
vancement has been much faster in
the public and high schools than it
has been among the higher institu
tions of learning. That's why it was
necessary last fall to turn away from
the college doors a number of ap
plicants that has been variously esti
mated at anywhere from to be 1,500
to 5,000. It would be serious enough
to have to turn away one man, but
when it is "hundreds," it comes to
the point where it is compelling.
The high schools are going forward
this year. The recent report of
Superintendent Brooks is perhaps
one of the greatest records of public
educational advancement that the
State has been able to record. And
if the colleges of the State do noth
ing to take care of this rising tide
in the public and the high schools,
they will not only be deluged with
applicants, but will even be sub
merged. The colleges and the Uni
versity must push forward. It is
inevitable. The only remaining ques
tion is: Shall we meet the situation
now, or wait until it becomes worse?
And right in the midst of this
overwhelming situation comes an
obstuctor who poses as a public edu
cator (and who chooses to call all
those who are fighting for the cause
of education in North Carolina "pro
moters") and suggests that all that
we need in North Carolina is more
junior colleges, or not so much junior
college as a half-breed, a cross be
tween a high school and a college,
In his lengthy statement he seems
to be unable to see that the several
parts of our educational system are
units of a large whole, but who would
divert the attention of North Caro
lina from an immediate and pressing
proposition, and who would waste the
money of the people of the State of
what might be called in common
parlance a half-baked proposition."
He contends that he is pleading for
the cause of the public and high
school system. That is being cared
for by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, and is already more
adequately cared for than are the
colleges of the State. There is no
man in North Carolina who is fight
ing for the cause of higher education
to the discredit of the public and high
school system; there is no man, I be
lieve, fighting for these higher insti
tutions that does not realize that
their growth is dependent upon the
public and high schools, and that the
future welfare of the State is de
pendent upon the complete and suc
cessful carrying out of a whole
system. All must go forward to
gether. And any man who tries to
meet a great, organic situation with
a make-shift must surely fail to ap
preciate the full significance of the
situation.
North Carolina stands in a maze
of obligations to herself. She can
not prosper one part and neglect the
other. Education is the foundation
for a fuller life. She cannot carry it
forward in bits. And in this time of
depression, she cannot afford to spend
her money on a temporary measure.
She can only proceed on the basis
of permanency.
And the thing the greatest thing
for the State to do is to become
thoroughly conscious of where she
stands; is to become thoroughly con-
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But this demand
spend itself
Kentucky : oniy as it realizes it must be met.
It is possible to delay it, but not
even that for much longer. You
can't suppress a volcano.
It is unfortunate that right now,
o ir present needs, and past unmet
obligations should have banded them
selves together to be met at a time
when North Carolina is depressed,
at a time when the people of the
State are experiencing a loss of two
hundred million dollars in the period
of a year. But during the past five
years the State has gained about
five billion dollars. When the pre
sent situation has passed over, and
the chaff has been cleared away,
North Carolina will find that she is
abundantly able to provide the neces
sities of her own life. When the
present pangs have released their
grip upon the people, they will re
turn to the thing to which they were
coming when the present situation
atruck them providing for the thing
that contributes more than all others
the Law School, the School of Public
Welfare, the Engineering Schools,
etc., have been enabled to meet the
present demands made upon them,
and are prepared to meet the increas
ing demands of the future, there
will still be other things that we
must accomplish in the field of edu
cation, A broad expanse lies ahead
of us that we must explore.
We have no school of fine arts of
any sort We have no school of archi
tecture, landscape or building. We
have no divinity school in the State.
We have no school of dentistry.
Last year North Carolina furnished
far more than fifty per cent of the
students of one of the best Southern
dental schools, and sent hundreds of
others to other schools. All these
we must ultimately provide for ourselves.
And so, we might look farther, J
and farther and see the things with
which we are to be faced. But I
feel sure we have gone far enough
to indicate that there is something
before us to be done. I hope I have
gone far enough to show that the
oresent appropriations that the State
has been asked for are only to meet
a present condition, and that the de
mand upon the State for educational
-mpport is going to grow heavier,
and ever heavier. And' that the
again shirk it, and pass it on, letting
it ever increase in size, while the
State continues to suffer because of
its unmet obligations to self?
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greater compliment than to be loved."
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to a full life education. We must j present need, with' its ever constant
iee throuerh the chaff, and meet the increase, must sometime be met.
present needs.
And as this present demand is met,
or postponed, we should realize that
this demand is only to meet the pre
sent, urgent situation. And that
there is a vast field beyond the pre
sent reach of the fullest pretense of
our present system that yet remains
to be approached and ' dealt with.
We must travel the full road that
lays before us. We can skip none of
it.
For instance, we have at the Uni
versity the School of Commerce,
the School of Journalism, the School
of Music that are all in their in
ceptive stages, and which must be
allowed to realize. To do this will
require time and money over-and-above
the present demands that have
been presented to the State. There
are today enough people leaving this
State to study these subjects to peo
ple fair sized schools, and by the
time that these several schools can
be thoroughly developed there will
be hundreds upon hundreds of stu-
Wents that will present themselves.
And these students will come out
of North Carolina life. These
schools are already started. They
must grow.
But the school that is perhaps less
self-sustaining than all others is the
Graduate School, which is just now
getting under complete way. The
University must provide for students
who propose to go further than the
four years it must provide for at
least three or four years of more
advanced work before it can really
call itself a University. To give this
advanced instruction is expensive.
But this sort of work must be pro
vided for, or else we must continue
to send our graduate students be
yond the State, and continue, as it
has been necessary for the last sev
eral years, to draw our faculty
members from other States and other
institutions. , It is high time that we
were training our own men who are
to conduct our own system. It is
The cause can't be defeated. No
one wants to defeat it. Its respon
sibility accumulates and grows.
The financial depression makes it dif
ficult to meet today. It will be still
more difficult two years hence. The
responsibility is heavy now because
others have shirked it. Shall we
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