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THE TAR HEEL
April 13, 1923
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VoL XXXL April 13, 1923 No. 46
A PLEA FOR ART
What interested us in the current is
sue of the Carolina Magazine far more
than the ridiculous contention that the
Tar Heel had so right to publish the
Co-educational Dormitory extra (a ques
tion which we pass on unnoticed to an
intelligent public and accept its opinion
as our defense) was the lead article en
titled "An Open Letter to University
Students," written by Raymond W.
Adams, a University instructor now
studying for his Ph. D. degree. Here,
in our opinion, is about the best writ
ten thing that has appeared in this per
iodical this year. Here, moreover, is
something on which we can well re
flect.
We first heard the piece at a literary
fraternity meeting and immediately
formed "designs on it," but the Maga
zine editor, being somewhat more enter
prising, beat the Tar Heel to it and
we nest saw it when the March Maga
zine finally came from the press. It is
a vigorous message, a sort of Siamese
twins of admonition and advocation,
the nature of which we have long want
ed to put before the student body our
selves, but lacking the nimble pen or
courage or energy or something, we
iave neglected to do so until now. Mr.
Adams does it, forsooth, far better than
the Tar Heel could ever do it, and we
raise our hats in respect to his editorial
and to the Magazine in which it is
printed.
We take it that everybody has read
"An Open Letter to University Stu
dents." If there are ill-bred students
on the campus who do not carefully
peruse the Magazine monthly and have,
perchance, missed this gem, the Tar
Heel recommends action now in cor
recting the negligence and will gladly
lend our copy to any of those who are
unable to secure one elsewhere. The
Tar Heel optimistically trusts that the
campus will not let it "be received' in
silence and sunk without trace" as the
author rather sadly predicts. Surely
the students of this University could
not be thrilled over the platitudes we
could fill this column with on whooping
it up for the varsity team in season or
"nagging" the state for more money
to construct more ugly dormitories and
let a message of this kind pass by as
something in which they have no inter
est, and worse, no desire for any in
terest. Mr. Adams pleads for just a little
attention to a thing called beauty "that
finds its expression in art" and he re
minds us with emphasis and certainty
that "all universities are judged fin
ally by the steadfastness with which
they cleave to culture and to art, the
things that are vital because 'they are
life translated." He realizes that the
process of evolving an appreciation of
beauty will be long and slow. But the
Tar Heel adds, unless we prefer rather
to die in the rut of a materialistic mo
tor truck and ugly dormitory age, we
can begin the process right now by ob
jecting to a few of the grotesque un
pleasantries that are being forced on
us and demand something more than a
factory in which we go to school, and
something more than a machine to
teach us our lessons.
In a suggestion of something real that
can be done now, Mr. Adams has this
to say: "You may be able to do some
thing tangible when you become alum
ni. The present alumni may be able
to do something now. There is need
for a building adequate and beautiful
enough to house the collections of art
that may be offered. From time to time
'fine collections have been offered to this
University that have had to be refused
because there was no place for them.
The most telling thing that you can do
now is to conceive so deep a desire for
beauty that others more able to pro
vide the beauty will heed you."
There is nothing impracticable about
such a suggestion, no more impractic
able than the Harkness Memorial Quad
rangle at Yale which has replaced dor
mitories similar to our own monstrosi
ties recently planned and constructed
by well meaning persons. It will come
in time, just as other artistic buildings
will come and the University will swear
off forever erecting such structures as
our notable Alumni Building. It will
taketo employ a patent observation
many years. But we of the present
generation can do our share in hurry
ing along this creation of beauty and
appreciation of beauty by doing a little
thinking, ourselves, and encouraging
such a venture as that proposed above.
The Tar Heel is not endeavoring to
glibly pose as being artistic or aesthet
ic. But we see in Mr. Adams' article
considerable food for thought, some
thing essentially worth while. We hope
to see the day when the students of
this University will not stand for some
of the outrageous aesthetic violations
that are inevitably coming from fac
tory education and an age of cheap sen- j
timentality and materialism.
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side circles of the nucleus, would be
dislodged. He would then measure the
speed of the separated electrons by
means of electricity; the investigation
of the properties of the electrons was
carried on with the use of equations,
Dr. Stulilman said that he had achiev
ed excelent results in all his investiga
tions; his results checked, he said, with
those of investigators using a different
method. Dr. Stulilman hopes, he said,
to fill the gaps in the spectrum by this
method.
When lie had completed his paper,
Dr. Stulilman presented a letter he has
recently received from a friend in Ger
many telling of the hardships under
which scientific investigators in that
unfortunate country are working today.
The meeting of the Elisha Mitchell
society on Tuesday night was the next
to the lust one that will be held in the
session 1922-23.
GEOLOGY STUDENTS
PROSPECT IN NORTH
MUST PASS THIS YEAR
The building of the new fraternity
homes off the campus brings to our mind
the fact that no action has yet been tak
en on the petition to the Board of Trus
tees drawn up by the Pan Hellenic
Council, requesting a very vital change
in the present system of "rushing' and
-"bidding" freshmen.
We are not acquainted with just what
procedure this petition has to go
through, but we know that action here
tofore has been put off from time to
time, and this is merely a reminder to
those concerned that something ought
surely to be done this year in order
that the new system can be adopted
next year. The reasons why this change
should be made have been so often re
peated that we need not list them here.
We are confident that the faculty and
the-trustees will sanction the request
and return a favorable report on the
petition.
Because of the bad weather that
. seemed likely to come during Easter,
and other reasons, the department of
geology indefinitely postponed the pros
pecting trip it had long planned into
Virginia.
But such a little thing as that could
not deter those bold and hardy lads
whose life work is to be the study of
rocks, indigenous and exotic. E. J.
Alexander and G. F. Ashe set their
faces to the north, and tramped stead
fastly until they reached New York.
They hinted that an occasional trav
eler, out of pure kindness, might have
given them a lift; otherwise their perus
al of the stones, and the long, white
roads, was unbroken.
Hi 0. Amiok and O. E. Miller were
not so ambitious; Aniick going only
so far as Natural Bridge, Va., and Mil
ler going to Gold Hill, where he studied
the various deposits there. All of the
prospectors brought back pictures from
their travels.
DR. HENDERSON TALKS
ON EINSTEIN THEORY
On Tuesday night, April 10, in Phil
lips Hall, the Elisha Mitchell society
held its 264th meeting. The program
consisted of lectures by Dr. Archibald
Henderson and Dr. Otto Stuhlman, Jr.
Dr. Henderson presented a paper on
"Einstein '8 Finite Unbounded Uni
verse," and Dr. Stulilman talked on
"Radiations Lying Between the Ultra
Violet and X-Ray Spectrum."
Dr. Henderson began his lecture by
discussing the theories which preceded
that of Einstein, He showed that all
the theories before Einstein conceived
the Universe as infinite; and how Eiu-
stem revolutionized these conceptions
by assuming the universe to be finite.
Einstein, says Dr. Henderson, arrived
at liis conclusions by testing the funda
mentals of all the old theories. He fin
ally arrived at his theory of relativity
by assuming the following three things:
(1) the mean density of the universe
is finite; (2) the universe itself is fin
ite; (3) the matter of the universe is
virtually at rest (that is, relatively).
From the three assumptions above he
discovered that the space in which we
live is spherical. Dr. Henderson then
touched on the three kinds of spaces,
flat, spherical, and hyperbolical. In
regard to spherical space he showed
that matter travels in curved lines. In
commenting on this, Dr. Henderson re
marked that if a person might see far
enough, he vould be able to see the
back of his head, because light travel
ing in an immense circle would finally
arrive at its starting point.
Dr. Stuhlman 's paper on "Radia
tions" began with a discussion of the
investigations of the spectrum prior to
1921. He then described some experi
ments in this field, lately conducted by
himself and Mr. Wells. He told how
he had contrived to shoot electrons at
such a high speed into the nucleus of
the atom that either the valence elec
trons, or some other ones from the in-
J. M. Bell, head of the department
of chemistry, is away from Chapel Hill
on a trip to all the leading universities
and colleges in the East, South and Mid
dle West. He is making a special study
of the chemistry departments and the
chemistry buildings in all of the in
stitutions that he is visiting, so that
he may make a report and suggestions
to the building committee about the
new chemistry building that is being
planned for the University here.
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