One Week
Before Exams!
One Week
Before Exams!
Volume XXXI.
Chapel Hill, N. C.t Friday, May 25, 1923
Number 58
FRESHMAN TRACK TEAM HOLDS
FIRST TELEGRAPHIC MEET IN
HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION
Bull Pups Defeat the Tar Heel
Yearlings by One-Sided
Score of 83 to 43.
SEVERAL GOOD EVENTS
This is One of the First Meets of
Its Kind Ever Held in
the South.
By THE HAY-SHAKER)
If yon see some poor stude stagger
ing around the campus an incidentally
catch n smell of tlie sacred oil exhaled
in his breath, according to the honor
system you are supposed to turn this
man up for censure, not take a drink as
would be the perfectly natural course
of action. The same rule applies to
cheating, stealing, and various other
offenses, which J. O. Harmon could list
better than myself. In other words,
Carolina has an honor system.
Probably the greatest addition to the
honor system, and an example of the
elasticity of the priuciple, was the tel
egraphic meet held between Georgia
and Carolina 's track freshmen last
Thursday afternoon.
It was probably the most novel event
held on the campus this year. As each
event was completed, Carolina would
wire in the result the time of both the
first and second plaee man. Georgia
did the same thing. It was a rac9
against time. And if you don't know
what that is, it was the same thing that
the. Hay-Shaker performed on the Emer
son track during the last N. C. State
game. Georgia scored 83 points to
Carolina's 43.
Probably the outstanding events in
this proxy meet were the middle dis
tances. The Georgia man ran the quar
ter in 51 1-5 seconds and the half mile
in the great time of 1 minute 59 sec.
Carolina won only two first places and
tied for two others. Her firsts were in
the broad jump and javelin, and the
ties were in the low hurdles and the
high jump. Fordham's and Barber's
work in the javelin was especially good.
The summary follows:
100 yard dash: Kilputriek, Georgia;
Windham, Georgia; Goodwin, Carolina.
Time 10 1-5:
120 high hurdles: Hitchcock. Geor-
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The following men were initiated
into Amphoterothen, local literary
organisation, last Monday night: 0.
A. Peeler, W. J. Cocke, Jr., 0. A.
Holshouser, L. T. Rogers, C. B. Col
ton, W. C. Proctor, W. W. Gwynn,
Edward Scheidt, J. M. Saunders and
G. Y. Eagsdale.
0EPAR1ENTOFPHIL0S0PHY
ANNOUNCES NEW COURSES
Two New Men Will Be Added to the
Department Next Year Paul
Green Is One.
BISHOP PENECK LECTURES
BEFORE SfVIALL AUOiENGE
His Subject Was "The Bible and Its
Interpretation in the Modern
Line of Thought."
Bishop Peniek, of the Western North
Carolina diocese of the Episcopal
vhureh, gave a very interesting lecture
in Oorrai'd hall last Wednesday evening,
and although the attendance was not
large, those who were present were well
repaid for their time.
The Bishop took as the subject for
his lecture "The Bible and Its Inter
pretation iu the Modern Line of
Thought." The lecture was divided
into four parts; namely: (1) God re
veals himself in many ways, but the
form in which Ho does it does not mut
ter. Some of the ways in which He
chooses to do it are through nature, his
tory and the Bible. Even people who
have never beard of God have some
((inception of what is right and what
is wrong. Though the Book of Esther
does not mention God, its value is as
great as that of some of the books of
the Bible whieh do. (2) The desire and
search for truth, no matter how it is
conveyed, is the thing which is to be
sought. The noun "Bible" is singu
lar, but the book's contents are plural.
(3) God reveals himself progressively.
As we learn more and greater truths it
becomes necessary for us to discard
some of the beliefs of childhood. The
Old Testament is merely a history of
the progress of the Jews in the worship
of God. The Bible gives testimony of
slavery and polygamy, but modern so
ciety cannot justify such practices. The
writings in the BiMo are contempo
raneous with tho customs of the times
in which they were written, and must
be read with that in mind. (4) The
Biblo must be read with an understand
ing of its form of literature. It is in
spired, contains the word of God, and
is God trying to reveal Himself to the
world.
This lecture, which was the first of
a series which are to be given here, was
thoroughly enjoyed by everyone iu the
audience.
Ail important announcement has just
been made by the Department of Phil
osophy relative to the personnel and
courses of the department for the earn
ing year. Two men, Mr. Paul Green
and Dr. Harold Smart, will be added
to the teaching staff. Mr. Green is a
Carolina man who established an envi
able record as a student while on the
Hill and especially active in his work
with the Carolina Playmakers. For the
past year lie has been taking intensive
work at Cornell in philosophy.
Dr. Harold Smart has been assistant
for two years to Dean Creighton, sage
professor of logic and metaphysics at
Cornell. He is a man of highest abil
ity and promise.
Mr. Green offers for next year the
following courses:
1. Ethics. A study of moral ideals
and the principles of human conduct.
Open to sophomores by permission.
Three hours a week through the year.
2. Elementary Aesthetics. The his
tory and philosophy of the fine arts.
Open to sophomores. Three hours a
week through the year.
3. Philosophical Tileas in 19th Cen
tury Literature. Open to sophomores
by permission. Three hours a week,
Winter and Spring terms.
4. Plato. A detailed study of Plato's
philosophy. Two hours a week, Fall
term.
o. Aristotle. A detailed study of Ar
istotle 's philosophy. Two hours a week,
Winter term.
6. Medieval Philosophy. From the
rise of Noo-Platonism, through Scholas
ticism to the Death of Daute. Three
hours a week, "Winter and Spring terms.
T)r. Smart offers the following courses:
1. History of Philosophy. Three
hours a week through the year. This
will begin with the Greeks and conn
to the present time.
2. Readings in the History of Philoso
phy. This course supplements the above
course. One hour a week through the
year.
3. Contemporary Philosophical Tho't.
Three hours a week for the year. This
course will offer an opportunity to study
such men as Bradley, Bosanquet, Royce,
Alexander, James, Dewey and Bergson.
4. Kant and His Predecessors. Open
to graduates only. Three hours a week
for the year.
5. Seminary in Philosophy. This will
be conducted ly the full staff, hours
:-;:d subjects to be arranged.
OR. BRANSON WHITES TO
FRIEND ID TELLS HI
OF AFFAIRS IN EUROPE
Professor Reports That He Has
Met Nothing But Courtesy and
Kindness While in Germany.
HER FACTORIES RUNNING
A letter having on the envelope
stamps worth 450 marks, before the
war worth over $100, was received thi
week by S. H. Hobbs, associate profes
sor of Rural Social Economics in the
University, from E. C. Branson, Kenan
professor of Rural Social Science in the
University, who is now traveling in
Germany, accompanied by his wife and
daughter. At present they are making
their headquarters in the German prov
ince of Wurtemburg. They will make
a side trip into Switzerland, and about
the middle of June will go to Den
mark, where the greater part of their
year in Europe will be spent.
"During the next month or so," Mr.
Branson wrote, "we shall be guests of
Baron van Der Lippe, in the Sehloss
gut Eugelburg, which crowns an emi
nence overlooking the little farm village
of Winterbach, 20 miles east of Stutt
gart. A companion guest is the charm
ing wife of Professor Herman Staab,
a distinguished member of the faculty
of the University of North Carolina.
Their names are an open sesame to
everything in Wurtemburg, Baden and
South Germany in general."
"We have met nothing but courtesy
and kindness," wrote Mr. Branson. "If
the Germans harbour a grudge against
America, we have not yet discovered
it."
Mr. Branson found German industries
going at full speed, and general condi
tions remarkably better on the surface
than one would expect. "Hamburg is
a beautiful city and clean beyond be
lief. And it is a busy city, busy with
the business of all Europe, for all Eu
rope is Hamburg's backyard for busi
ness. Everybody is busy; no loaters or
bums are on the benches of the public
squares; everybody is good humored,
iind everybody is courteous."
From Hamburg the Bransons made a
14-hour trip through western Germany
.i -3 i . il- !
homering tne area occupied ny uic
French. They found no signs of a dis
ordered train service in this part of Ger
many, but left Hamburg, made two
changes, and arrived in Stuttgart, ex
actly on schedule time. Of this trip
Mr. Branson wrote:
"The way along the road is thickly
set with towns and cities. Almost with
out exception they are manufacturing
centers, and apparently none are idle.
But whether the town be large or small,
industrial or not, the soil is cultivated
right up to the factory walls. Almost
every inch snows vogewiuics, jhui.-
(lowers. Always the crops of the open
fields reach the railroad right-ot-w.iy,
sometimes the right-of-way itself is
ultivated, and occasionally the space
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A MATHEMATICS SECTION
IN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
He Also Delivers a Lecture on
Einstein's Theory Before the
Recent State Meeting.
SESSION AT GREENSBORO
"Archibald Henderson, president of
North Carolina Academy of Science, de
livers masterly address on Einstein's
theory," proclaimed the headlines of
the Greensboro Daily News in report
ing the recent meetings of the Acadomy
of Science at the North Carolina Col
lege in Greensboro. The address of
the retiring president, professor of
mathematics in the University, was said
to be "the high light of the day at
the meeting."
Dr. Henderson organized at this meet
ing a mathematics section of the acad-
emv. Chemistry ana pnysics sections
were already in active existence. A 25
per cent increase in the membership of
the academy was largely the result of
the organization of the new section.
At the meeting of the section, two pa
pers were read, one "On the Curvature
of the Manifolds," by J. W. Lasley, of
the University mathematics department,
and the other, "Aspects of Constant
Curvature," by Dr. Henderson. Mr.
Lasley was elected president, and K. B.
Patterson of Trinity was elected secretary.
The academy elected Dr. Henderson
a member of the executive committee
for three years. This was the first time
that the academy has ever elected any
one for more than one year.
In the course of his address on Ein
stein's theory of relativity, Dr. Hen
derson told of the study he and his
students at the University had made in
the field of spherical space and the uni
verse, in relation to Einstein's theory
that the universe was "finite but un
bounded." Using the distance from the
earth to the sun 93,000,000 miles as
. measure, he figures the radius of the
universe to be one million times ten
million times the distance from the
earth to the sun. This universe is the
space in whieh sidereal bodies are found.
Choosing the milky way as a yard stick
of 30,000 light years, he said that it
would take 10,000 milky ways, laid end
to end, to give the diameter of the uni
verse. It would take a ray of light, he said,
traveling 1SH,000 miles a second, one
billion years to go around the universe.
It would take the fastest aeroplane
three quadrillion years, or an express
train, traveling 60 miles an hour, 11
quadrillion years.
"There is no space," Dr. Henderson
quoted Einstein as saying, "without
matter and energy. It is possible that
other universes exist independently of
our own. They may remain forever
optically isolated from us. We are
doomed to dwell within a finite universe
a thousand times greater than that now
ac-cessible to astronomical observation."
CALENDAR
Friday, May 25:
President Chase in Chapel.
Satyr Carnival, Byiium Gym.
Senior class meeting, Davie Poplar.
Saturday, May 26:
Phi Assembly Smoker, Phi hall.
Grail Dance, Bynmn Gym. Music
by Carolina Club Orchestra.
Sunday, May 27:
Union meet ing of Young People's
Inter-Denominational Union of
Chapel Hill at Christian church,
7:30 p. m.
Monday, May 28:
Last "Y" meeting of the school
year, 10 p. m..
Tuesday, May 29:
Carolina vs. State, Raleigh, N. C.
YACKETY YACK BANQUET
IS PULLED IN BIG STYLE
Second Annual Yackety Yack " Wake"
Was Featured by the Large
Number of Speakers.
Tennis Teams Keep
Up Winning Streak
The champion Tar Heel raequeteers
concluded tlicir spring trip by winning
meets with George Washington Univer
sity and Catholic University on the
lfith and 17th, respectively. The Caro
lina team won every meet that they
played in on the trip, and have brought
back five of the six cups given in the
Southern Intercollegiate tournament.
The match with Georgetown, sche
duled for the 15th, wns cancelled on ac
count of rain.
The scores of the George Washington
University meet were:
Singles
Van End (G. W.) vs. Coxe (N. C),
6-3, 6-3.
Jemigan (X. C.) vs. Law (G. W.l,
10-8, 6-2.
Bruton (N. C.) vs. Kelilier (G. W.),
6-1, 6 4.
Johnston (N". C.) vs. Pitts (G. W.),
6 2, 6-4.
Bnllinger (&. W.) vs. Smith (N. C),
6-2, 7-5.
Doubles
Coxe and Jernigan (N. C.) vs. Van
End and Law (O. ), 7-5, 4-6, 6-2.
Bruton and Johnston (N. C.) vs. Bnl
linger and Oten (G. YV), 6-1, 6-4.
Fetzers Crete; To Face The
WolfpacK Again At 'Raleigh
Exhibition Game Will Be Played With the State Nine at Techs
Commencement Tuesday.
Like a she-wolf that mourns her two
de.id whelps the Slate College Wolf
pack stands with bared and sharpened
fangs before her West Raleigh lair and
hays long and defiantly at Coach Bill
I'etzer's firmament of bright and par
ticular stars, commonly and jestingly
known as the Carolina baseball team.
Twice defeated by her ancient enemy,
both at home and abroad, lean from the
lack of nourishing victories, with her
eyes bloodshot and her ire aroused, the
fighting pack makes one last stand in
her own back yard next Tuesday, May
28, when the University team battles
her for the third time this season in
the second of a series of six commence
ment games.
All her sons will be gathered from
fur and near and with Pa, Ma and Sis
in the bleachers. Captain Redfeam and
his crew will take one last effort to
retrieve a little of their lost glory and
avenge their shattered championship
aspiration which were sitting pretty
until Casey Morris slammed a lonely
hall far over Riddiek Mountain and
gloriously spilt the beans.
The game itself is a simon-pure exhi
bition affair so far as tho University
is concerned, but a nifty victory will
be so much sugar when the champion
ship judgment day comes around and
the Carolina record, already besmirch
ed with two official losses and one tie,
is brought before the bar and placed
along side Trinkity's fond hopes. To
Mate College the winning of the game
means just about nine-tenths of this
beautiful and green universe of ours.
The line-up will probably be as ever,
thus:
State Carolina
Ruth, If McDonald, ss
Gladstone, 2b McLean, 2b
Johnson, rf Bonner, If
Correll, cf Shirley, lb
Redfearn, ss Morris, c
Faulkner, c Sweet man, cf
Lassiter, lb Carmichael, rf
Holland, 3b Starling, 3b
Allen, p Fcrebec, p
Curtis, p Bryson, p
Mr. Weaver attended the American
Legion Day exercises at Spray, N. C,
last Wednesday afternoon.
The Order of the Nautilos, local
geological fraternity, initiated G. E.
MacCarthy, C. H. Walker, E. B. Cau
dle, O. S. Johnson, and C. E. Miller
last Wednesday at the Acacia house.
The initiation was followed by a
banquet, accompanied by speeches by
Drs. Cobb and Prouty.
The second annual Yackety Yack
wake, which was held last Monday
night, came off to the satisfaction of
every one concerned. As all present
seemed to be in a talkative mood, there
was no little amount of pedigreed bull
sluitg to the four walls of the Cabin.
Out of 22 present a total of 13 made
orations of various lengths, and it is
to be presumed that the reason for the
remainder not making any remarks was
the shortness of the night. Six of the
cultivators of the barnyard art were
arranged for by the program commit
tee. They were O. C. Hendrix, who
spoke on the "Art of Sponsorship;"
Tom Turner, "And He Said Tomor
row;" Bob Pickens, "Work for Art's
Sake;" George Ragsdale gave a disser
tation on the "Alligator's Adenoids,"
and C. D. Drullard issued the second
installment of the "Bull From Buf
falo." Tom Howard rendered the
"Card of Thanks."
The other speakers of the evening
were left to gain a place upon the floor
in the best manner they could. From
tho variety of their subjects it has been
impossible for a list of them to be
made, but whatever they are, their au
thors are these: J. T. Barnes, Ed. Mat
thews, C. B. Yarley, Jim Phipps, Wright
Lankford, Jake Wade and Abrain Weil.
On the back of the program was
printed the names of those who hold
certain notable offices in the Yackety
'ack family. Tho ofliec of Chief
Mourner was accorded to Tom How
ard; Olin Hendrix and Tommy Turner
were inscribed ns "Certain Rich Men,"
and the honor of wearing "The Only
Smile in the Crowd" was given to Ed
gar Owen Drullar, the representative
from the printery.
Evidently those who mude out the
program did not intend to make them
selves u part of it, for at its end was
placed the phrase, "There is an end
of all things Thank God for that."
An apt group of words for the footing
of th" program for such a session.
Thieves Steal Mayor
Robinson's Chickens
SENIOR BANQUET LAST
WEDNESDAY NIGHT WAS
TREMENDOUS SUCCESS
Dr. Chase Spoke to Seniors and
Tom Turner Responds Archi
bald Henderson Also Spoke.
AN ENJOYABLE AFFAIR
(By J. OSLER BAILEY)
"The play is over. Whilo the light
Yet lingers in tho darkening hall,
I come to say the last good-night
Beforo the final Exeunt all."
Tho last smoker that the Class of '23
will ever hold as a Senior Class has
been; the curtain has begun to ring
down; bouquets are being thrown now,
and the tired but happy actors are be
ginning to think already of the time
when they will next appear, made up
as loyal alumni, men "in our midst,"
and boosters for the University.
The senior bauquot was hold in Swain
hall, transformed with the red and
white of '23, on Wednesday night. The
predominant feature of the symposium
was, of course, tho banquet itself. When
the class was seated it found the table
laid with grape-fruit, cherry-centered
and delicious; after this came a more
substantial course consisting of chicken
salad, Smithfleld ham, Saratoga chips,
pickles, Parker House rolls, cheese
straws and tea; the last course was of
Neapolitan ice cream, and cake; after
which came salted almonds, mints and
smokes.
President Mule Shirley arose to serve
as toastmastor, and after tho custom of
toastmasters made excuses for not hav
ing a good talk and then he proceeded
to make a noat little speech. Ho said
that he appreciated the way in which
the class had helped him out during the
year. In this, the last feed they would
have as seniors, he said he was very
glad to have Dr. Chase to speak to the
class.
Dr. Chase, referring to his able side
kick, Dr. Henderson, said that "tonight
is the third time this week Dr. nender-
son and I hnve been happy to bo at the
same plneo. On Monday night, wo were
both present at the Playmakers' Repast
they chose to call it. a "repast," but
it was very nearly a banquet. Last
night, as I started to an Engineers'
Banquet in Phillips hall, I was very
much dismayed to find on one of the
programs for tho woek, posted around
the campus, Dr. Henderson was sched
uled to speak on 'Hyperbolic Functions'
also in Phillips hall. With a good deal
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MAY GIVE LETTER FOR
WRESTLING NEXT YEAR
The Athletic Association is Seriously
Considering Putting Wrestling on
S?me Status With Other Sports.
.ow is tne tune tor nil aspiring
young Ilawkshnws to come to the aid
of their Mayor. Who stole Mayor Rob
inson 'k hens?
Saturday night at 10 o'clock Mayor
l.'olieison was relieved of two fancy,
female fowls of the aristocratic Silver-Spangled-llanibiiig
clan. The thieves
were evidently well versed in their art,
for they took the lay of the land and
chose a time for their dastardly deed
when nil the members of the TCoberson
family were away; however, they made
one false step, which might have play
ed havoc with their elaborate plans:
they neglected to ascertain that Mrs.
Roy Mason, the mayor's sister, was in
the house recuperating from a recent
operation. Mrs. Mason was aroused
by the heart-rending squawks of the
bens but she was unable to interfere.
On returning to the house Mayor Rob
erson found plenty of footprints, two
eggs, but no hens. All investigations
proved fruitless, for the marauders had
flown the coop.
The only information as to who the
thieves were was tho information given
by Mrs. Katie Brockwell, who stated
that she had been kept awake nearly
all night by students having a chicken
roast near her house. Of course no stu
dents could be guilty of such a heinous
crime; so tins clue might as wen be
thrown out.
Devotees of the nit of wrestling will
be interested in the niinoijiie'oment that
the Athletic Association is seriously
considering taking this sport under its
wing and of putting it on tho same
status with other sports at tho Univer
sity. The Athletic Council has n-i-oin-
mended that such action be taken, and
the matter is now being considered by
the Athletic, Association.
If this recommendation is acted on
favorably, the student, body as a whole
will no doubt take more interest in the
sport, for the consensus of opinion
among students is that wrestling should
be tinder the protection of the Associa
tion. There re many advantages that
would be realized from such a step. A
further inducement would be added to
get men to come out for tho team, for
the coveted XC monogram will be the
reward of those who will "stick in
there and fight." This should entice
many good men out to try for a berth
on the squad.
There would necessarily be an in
crease of attendance at the matches
when the door tax is taken off. A
heavy schedule would bring out many
wrestling fans, and it is rumored that
matches arc pending with Washington
and Lee, V. M. I., Virginia, and other
colleges outside the state.
HALIFAX COUNTY CLUB MEETING
The Halifax County Club met Satur
lay night in county club room of the
' Y. " The election of officers for the
coming year resulted as follows: F. D.
Burroughs, president; W. M. Saunders,
vice president; Win. C. Hunter, secre
tary and treasurer. After the business
a smoker was held.