February 9, 1923
THE TAR HEEL
Page Three
OF CUSS OF 1928 DIED
AT LILLINGTON MONDAY
Generally Recognized as the Most
Popular President of Student
Council Carolina Ever Had.
HAD PROMISING CAREER
(By J. M. SAUNDERS)
In the death of John Pipkin Wash
burn of the class of 1920, the Univer
sity loses one 01 its most promising
sons. He died at his home in Lilling
ton Monday, a victim of tuberculosis,
which was contracted in China. He
was sent home last June and was
thought to be getting along very well;
in fact, it was thought that after spend
ing a period of time at the sanatorium
he would be fully recovered. However,
he suffered a relapse and finally sue
climbed to the malady.
Washburn entered the University in
the fall of 1916 with the idea of finish
ing in three years. He left the Univer
sity one of the best liked and most
promising young men that nave ever
been graduated here. The. Yaekety Yack
of 1920 explained his popularity in this
wise: "John possesses that indefinable
charm personality. In him we see the
'jolly good fellow' and the serious
minded president of the Student Coun
cil mixed in exactly the right proper
tions. "
He did not spring into prominence on
the campus until his junior year, when
he gave up the idea of completing his
college education in three years. He
was elected president of his class by
a majority of one vote. From then on
strength in his class. As president of
strength ni his class. As president of
the senior class he was president of the
student council, and in this capacity
he served with such rare judgment and
unceasing determinateness that he was
generally recognized as the most popu
lar president of the council that Caro
lina has ever had.
In speaking to the graduating class
011 Monday morning of commencement
week in 1920, as the last religious ser
vice of the class was being held in Ger
rard Hall, Professor Horace Williams
said of Washburn: "As the leader of
the ideals of the University, the head
of the student council, he has lifted
the life of the University consciously
toward the perfect. Through his firm
ness, his gentleness, his common sense
and feeling of humanness, he has
brought us almost to the point where
the honor system administers itself."
Aside from being president of his
class and of the student council,' he was
an active worker in the Philanthropic
Literary society and was elected to be
president in his fourth year. He was
also on the Junior Oratorical, editor-in-chief
of the Magazine, associate edi
tor of the Tar Heel, Y. M. C. A. Cab
inet, German Club, Amphoterothen,
Epsilon Phi Delta, charter member and
largely responsible for the Grail, class
baseball and Golden Fleece.
He received one of the appointments
to the National City Bank and the sum
mer of his junior year was spent in
New York on his appointment. His
senior year he held an assistant's place
in economics here. After he was gradu
ated he spent some time in New York
and was sent by the National City Bank
to the International Banking Head
quarters in London, where he spent
about six months studying his business.
From there he went to Shanghai, China,
as the representative of the banking
house. Here lie contracted tuberculo
sis and was sent home for recovery.
He was well liked by every one both
in liis home town and at Carolina. He
was very devoted to his mother. The
Harnett County News printed a letter
that was written by him to his mother
on Mothers' Day, 1920. It was only
aftor much coaxing that Mrs. Wash
burn allowed the editor of the News to
carry the letter. The message showed
the wondertul devotion ot the young
man for his mother.
Soon after Commencement in 1920
when he was preparing to leave his
home for London and thence to China,
he was given a huge farewell party by
the people of Lillington. The party
was in the form of a barbecue dinner
and was held on the courthouse square
of his home town. Practically the whole
adult population of Lillington turned
out to bid one of the favorite sons of
the town a farewell and a God-speed on
his departure.
For such a promising young man to
be deprived of life, and his relatives
and friends of such a source of com
fort and rejoicing, is but one of the
many mysteries of Him who rules su
nremelv in the regions bevond. Yet
in his life he has left a shining exem
plification of nobleness, gentleness and
manliness of character.
The president of the student body,
J. O. Harmon, left Tuesday for the
home of the deceased to pay final trib
ute, as a representative of the student
body, to one who was a living example
of that which is noble in man in our
colloquy the true Carolina Spirit.
March I U Date Set For
Annual Carolina Smofter
All Organizations, Including Co-Eds, Asked to Give
Prize for Best Stunt According
to Popular Vote.
'Stunts"
The annual all-inclusive Carolina
Smoker, given under the auspices of
the Y. M. C. A., wil be held this year
on Thursday night, March 1, it was de
cided at the weekly meeting of the
"Y" cabinet last Monday night. Each
of the four classes, the co-eds, the pro
fessional schools and every other large
and notable organization on the Hill,
is expected to pieparo and present a
stunt.
The commitee this year has decided
to offer a prize to the organization
which presents the best stunt. The
method of deciding what organization
is entitled to the prize will be to let
each of the spectators cast a vote.
The object of the Carolina Smoker is
to give to the students some wholesome
and amusing entertainment for as lit
tle cost as possible. The " Y" does not
expect to clear anything from the
smoker. The price of admission will
be as little as is consistent with the
meeting of expenses, those depending
largely on the food served.
L. V. Phillips, chairman of tho Y so
cial committee, is in charge of the
smoker. Other members of the commit
tee are Hi D. Meyer, J. M. Saunders,
J. M. Foushee and H. D. Duls. The
Carolina Smoker last year was a howl
ing success, both in the manner of pre
sentation and of its reception by the
student body. Mr. Phillips plans to
make it even more so this year.
SCIENCE HALL
Dear Professor:
I have studied
Under you since first we mot
And I drop your highest courso, sir,
With the keenest of regret.
For I've dipped into the science
Far as human eye could see;
Studied frogs, and cats, and crawfish
And the humble bumble bee.
Skinned an earthworm, laid his kidney
Underneath the microscope;
Found within his pickled carcass
More than I had dared to hope.
Made a slide of lizard muscle, .
Cut a slice of human bone,
Stained a smear with red eosin,
Smear of human blood, my own.
Set some eggs and cut them open,
Took the little chickens outj
Drew a June bug's painted eyelash
And a San Jose scale's snout;
Drew a cell of Tradescentia
Taken from the rootlet's tip;
Took my net upon my shoulder,
Caught a horse-fly with the pip;
Drew the agile Paramecium,
Also modeled him in wax,
Made a cartoon of 'the volvox
And the Ameba Umax;
Took the brains of senseless dog-fish
And tho stomach of a snake;
Made a paste of Pasteur's fluid
And a section of yeast cake.
But I've never yet attempted
Living microbes for to draw,
And I simply cannot help it -I
just hold all germs in awe.
I can see them playing marbles
In the sterilizing can,
Wouldn't they play bloody havoc
With the insides of a man?
See that big bacillus yonder
Sitting on the autoclave;
Once inside your lung he'll send you
Straight to an untimely grave.
There's a chain of fearful monsters
That to touch were suicide;
See they're eating healthy slices
From the cake of bichloride.
Watch that cluster of small cocci
Lurking on the doornob's rim,
Give them but a half a chance, and
They'll attack your eyes with vim.
No, sir, I can stand dissection,
Think that skinning cats is fine,
Even like to draw the froggie
But at germs I draw the line.
Selected.
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Church "Building 'Program In
Chapel Hill If Ambitious
Immense Baptist Structure Will Be Ready for Occupancy by Easter
t?: i: 1 nr-ii i:i ir:n
HijJlStUpcUlclUS aim ivieuiuuibis Will
Begin in Near Future.
(By W. M. SAUNDERS)
The churches of Chapel Hill are striv
ing to keep pace with the miraculous
growth of the University. And they are
maintaining their stride in an unexpect
ed, yet nevertheless admirable, manner.
Tin- quadruplieation of Carolina's stu
dent body in the last few years is nec
essarily bringing about a corresponding
materia! growth of the school and com
munity. It seems that the day of realiz
ation of Edward Kidder Graham's hopes
for a greater University is fast approach
ing. Clearly understanding that if (hey
are to give adequate religious Instruc
tion to this greatly increased student
body, and to the more populous com
munity which has risen out of it. they
must enlarge their facilities for the
task ; the churches, of the community
have begun a building program which
when completed will give Chapel Hill a
group of the finest and most modern
louses of worship of any town of like
size within the state.
The Christians and Presbyterians have
already completed their building 'pro
grains. While the Baptists, Episcopal
ians, and Methodists have either begun,
or are working on plans for, tho erection
of modern and suitable buildings. The
Haptists are building on Columbia street
a .12I,M(0 structure of classic Greek
architecture. It is built of grey brick.
The front has six huge Doric-style col
umns which gives it a very impressive
look. The building will meet every de
It will include a main auditorium with
mand made upon the modern church,
a seating capacity of (MM) and a balcony
which will accommodate 200. The audi
torium will be furnished with birch
pews with n mahogany finish. The win
dows will be of art glass. There will
lie class rooms for all the classes in tin1
Sunday school, and special rooms for
H. Y. P. U. organizations. For the
bi'liclit of the student there will be it
library, reading room, kitchen, assembly
hull, and social rooms. Then' will also
be a study for the pastor, and an office
.for a student worker. The building will
lie completed and ready for occupancy
1 lie finning Easter. The architect is
Herbert L. Cain, of Richmond, Va.. ami
1 be contractors are Salmon, Shipp and
I'oe, of Durham.
The Episcopal church, although it will
continue to bear the name of the Chapel
.if the Cross, will lie a memorial given
by V. A. Erwin, of 'Durham, in memory
of his grandfather, W. It. Unit, who
graduated from the University with the
class of 1S17. Only tentative plans have
been adopted, however within six weeks
the plans will be submitted to contrac
tors for estimates, after which the work
will begin immediately. The type of
building has been finally decided upon.
It is to lie of the lute perpendicular
Gothic. The new church will be an ad
dition to the old. There will be two
buildings connected by the large two
story parish bouse. The present build
ing will be used as a Sunday school as
sembly hull. The main auditorium of
the new church will be a great deal larger
than that of the present. There are
many attractive features for the student
in the proposed parish house. It will
be four times the size of the one now
111 use. It will contain a hall which
will be open to students for recreation
at all hours. There will he open fire
places, and also various comforts which
will help one to pass the time either in
profitable study or in wholesome enjoy
ment. The hall will be well furnished.
Rooms for each grade of the Sunday
school have been provided for. Tin
architect for the Episcopal Chinch is
Ilobart P. Upjohn, of New York. Mr.
Upjohn is well known throughout North
Carolina, having drawn the plans for
the Spruut Memorial Presbyterian
Church, Chapel Hill; the Parish house
of Christ Church, Raleigh ; the Roanoke
Rapids High School, mid many other
outstanding structures in tho state.
The proposed Methodist church will
probably be the best looking of the new
churches. It will be built of red brick
with wood trimmings. One feature tljnt
will give it distinct and impressive look
is its tower and spire which will rise
210 feet from terra firma. The church
which will replace the old Soton Bar
bee house will he of Colonial type. The
plans as adopted call for a building to
cost approximately $200,0(10. It will pos
sess all the conveniences of the other
churches, and in some ways surpass them,
James Gullible Rodgers is the architect.
Mr. Itodgers has a national reputation
as a leader in his profession. He de
signed the Ilarkness Quadrangle at Yale
University, and is consulting architect
for the University. He Htuted that he
greatest in the country, from an archi
tectural standpoint. The tower will rise
hopes to make the spire one of the
above the main building forming three
sections and three distinct types of archi
tecture. First, there will be the Doric,
then the Iambic, and last the Corinthian,
Above the Corinthian tower will rise
the magnificent spire on which will rest
a cross.
"LORD DELIVER ME"
IS PRAYER OF FROSH
(By W. S. BEERYHILL)
"Lord, deliver me from the sopho
mores and snow," is the prayer of the
freshman since the sudden change in the
weather.
Tuesday night the senior got first hand
information on the way the members of
the younger class of the University re
gards the snow question. He chanced
by a freshman's room just as that par
ticular notable was preparing to retire,
and hearing a strange noise as if pro
ceeding from someone in mortal agony,
he stopped and stepped to (he door. The
sound increased so in loudness and
earnestness that the senior, lieing con
vinced ihnt some person beyond that door,
was in moi'tiil distress, opened the door
iiinl stepped into the room. A strange
sight met his eyese a freshman, in his
pajamas, was kneeling before an en
larged picture of his mother, every
muscle in his body taut, his hands clasp
ed beneath his chin so tightly that his
knuckles were blue, and his face turned
toward the firmament had the look of
one accomplishing a heavenly deed. The
voice of the freshman, trembling with
emotion, was excitedly raised in suppli
cation for the safety of his class's honor
should the (b ended snow come : the es
sence of the fervent prayer is embodied
in one sentence "Lord, deliver us from
sophomore and snow."
When the prayer was finished the
freshman arose from his trembling knees
with an angelic expression of bis divinely
beaming count eniincc and turned bis
eyes upon the motto on the wall, "He
that coiiirolleth life eoutrolleth the
elements."
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