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Mm wtti Invest in the ' Carolina Plavmakers Buy a Playmaker Season Ticket VOLUME XXXIII WIDE EXTENSION PROGRAM BEGINS WITH THIS WEEK Newly Opened "Greater Univer sity" Enrolls Students from Cherokee to Currituck. 45 CLASSES UNDER WAY University Professors Will Travel to Distant Towns and Deliver Their Lectures in Person. On the heels of Hie announcement of a student body of over 2,000 at the Uni vrsityof North Carolina comes the news of the opening this week (September 29 October I) of the "Greater University." The. Greater University is composed of citizens of North Carolina from Cher okee to Currttuek, who are tuking regu lar University courses through the Uni versity Extension Division, while they are at home or engaged in some full time occupation. Bankers in Raleigh nre studying nego tiable instruments. - under Dr. Atkins. Mill superintendents and oftiee execu tives are studying . industrial manage ment with Professor Matherly in Winston-Salem. School teachers . in Ashe ville are taking a course with Dr. Ter ry in educational tests and measure ments. By coinbinlng extension courses with summer' school work they are ena bled to raise their certificates to a high er class and increase their salaries and ability in two years instead of four years. Members of the. Woman's Club and other organizations in Thomasville are having regular University instruc tion under Professor Meyer. Dr. Knight is giving a course' in the history of edu cation in Smithfteld. Young men and women in business in Greensboro are studying accounting under Professor Ilearn and business English under Pro fessor Howell. These are but samples of 45 University Extension classes which are starting this week. Euch class is met once or twice a week by a regular member of the fac ulty of the University, who makes the trip by train, bus, or in one of the Ex tension cars. TUm nwt .n -- 1 OOO J-ulcmfa XL-hn will this week begin .regular studies in these extension classes. This is a considerable (Continued on Page Four) FROSH ATHLETES PASS THEIR WORK Fraternity Rushing Not Cause of Failures. DEAN ROYSTER'S FIGURES Room-mates Are Big Cause of Flunked Courses. Speaking during the entire chapel per iod last Thursday before an audience largely composed of freshmen, Dean Jnmes P. Royster, of the college of liberal arts, lectured to the members of the freshman class and voiced a grave warning to them. He stated that 71 members of 'the 1926 class and also Tl members of tlie 1927 class failed on all three of their cqnrses In the fall quarter of their first year in college. He sald that he had made a study of these two classes, with special efforts to find the causes (if these failures. . . He pointed out that the high school or prep school preparation of the enter ing students seemed to have nothing to do with their failures." "Men from some of our best high schools flunk in as great per cent as those from the aver age and lower classes of schools In the state," he said. He quoted figures to show that athletics was not the cause. ""The number of freshman athletes who failed all their work was much less in proportion to the number of freshman athletes than those who failed are in proportion to the class as a whole." Fraternity rushing seems also to have a very negligible effect upon the fail ures, according to the speaker. Mr. Royster stated that many people thought that the self-help work caused such a large number of failures. "This is true to a certain extent, for there are many puses where a man has not passed his work simply becuuse he hasn't the' time to study,' but there are instances where the self-help students have gone head and shoulders over the average students. .-Take, for example, during last winter quarter. Of the 29 students of the freshman class who were on the honor; roll, 17 were self-help students, The grades made by all cither self-help 'students during the entire of last year shows conclusively that this cannot be called one of the major reasons." " ( Continued on Page Pour) RUTH DRAPER IS TO APPEAR HERE Charming Young New York .So ciety Woman to Open Playmaker Season. EXPECT A FULL HOUSE Miss Draper Considered by Eminent Critics As Being One of World's Greatest Actresses. Ruth Draper, the charming young Newr York society woman who has cre ated such a sensation in many capitals of Europe and in this country, will ap pear here Tuesday evening at 8:30 in Memorial hall under the auspices of the Carolina Playmakers. , Miss Draper's ability to carry her audienee through comedy, tragedy, fear, despair, love, and anger In the same evening is a gift rarely possessed by individual present-day artists. The test of her greatness lies in her success. From the first she has been heralded by the critics as one of the world's greatest actresses. Not only have the critics been her friends, but everywhere she has played her return engagements draw larger houses. The Playmakers are ex pecting her to fill Memorial hall and have made the prices popular In order to allow everyone to go. In New York she draws capacity houses at $3.00 top prices. Miss Draper has a number of friends in North Carolina who are planning to come to Chapel Hill to see her Tuesday. While she Is in Chapel Hill, Miss Draper will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs: Louis Graves. PROF. KOCH HAS ARTICLE PRINTED ON PLAYMAKERS "Theatre Arts Monthly" Car ries Feature Story by Dr. Frederich Koch. APPEARED IN SEPT. IS'SUE Tells About the Great Work Being Done by the Playmakers and the Popularity That Results Following is reprinted in full the arti cle, "A FoikiTheater inthe Making," by Frederick-If, Kock, which appeared in the September number of ThuaJnr Arti Monthly: . - v. , , " The Carolina Playmakers is a fellow ship of young playwrights, players and craftsmen in stage arts, united by a common interest in the establishment of a native folk-theateri Their plays are the work of student, playwrights at the University of North Carolina. The ma terials are drawn from experience and observation froin folk-tales and the common tradition, and from present-day life in North Carolina. In the six years of their existence the Pluyinakers have produced 38 plays, rep resenting a he variety of scenes, themes, and characters. These plays have been performed not only at the University of North Carolina, but throughout the state. In the season just closed they played to approximately 25, 000 people in 26 North Carolina towns and cities taking the plays back to the peoples often to ' the very locality In which they originated. Seven hundred people came through the rain from iso lated hill-farms to the new consolidated school building at Candler, a mountain settlement with scarcely a dozen inhabi tants In the village proper, to witness a Playmaker performance. In the big auditorium at Raleigh the Playmakers had an audience of 3,000 school teachers from every cove and corner of the state, on the occasion of the annual meeting of tiie North Carolina Educational Asso ciation. In the fashionable tourist re sorts of Asheville and Pinehurst, in the teeming industrial cities of Durham and Winston-Salem; in the historic villages of. Edenton, Hillsboro and Scotland Neck, and in the remote hamlets In the hills they find the same eager audiences for the theater-of-the-folk. In one town whercflKhey played their was the first "show" which, had come to town In six "y ears. - - The Carolina' folk-plays have caught the popular imagination, and the com ing of the little troupe is heralded far and wide. One editor wrote of their performance: "The. home folks took to the home-made drama as to home-made sausage and com cakes on a frosty morning." The eighth state tour, last spring, through the mountains of western North ' (Continued on Pag Four) CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1924 EIGHTY-THREE TO TRAIN FOR TRACK Big Crowd Answers Ransom's First Call. TWO PRACTICES A DAY Cake Race Will Take Place On Octo ber 29th. The ofiicial track call issued for last Tuesday was answered by approximately 83 men. This Includes those men going out for cross-country as well as regular track. It is hoped that a great many more men will show their interest by coming out for fall quarter practice. Present practice offers a good oppor tunity for winning a prize in the cake race to be held October 29. vThere-are two periods of practice the first at 5 o'clock and the second at 5:30 in order that it will not inter fere with the freshman gym period. No official schedule for cross-country meets has been issued but it is believed that meets will tie held during November and the first part of December. About three meets will be arranged for the freshmen and the same amount for the varsity. - ' At present work is being planned for the sprinters, hurdlers and field event men. All those who wish to participate in any of these events in the spring or during the regular outdoor season are urged to get in touch with. Captain Han son, who can be found at the stadium any. afternoon from 2 until 5. ' : Those men who are out at present are: Arlington, M. E.s Barber, N. W.j Byrd, L. N.; Bumgardner; Black, I. ; Branch, C. C.j Brooks, C; Ball, O L.; Baynes, P. S.; Brown, J. M. Butler, W. C; Creech, W. D.; Credle, C. S.; Coe, H.j Daniels, L. F.j Elliott, J. J.; Edwards, J. J.; Evans, J. O.j Everett, J. L.; Friddle, J. H.j Freeman, A. E.; Farmer, R. M.: Fair, J. G.; Franklin, E. W.; Flynn, R, L. Gillikin, A. L. Goodwin, B. H.; Gwi gams, R. H.j Grimes, T. M. ; Giersh, M. S.; Highsmith, J. H.; Hoy t, F. W.j Hayman, J. A.; Hardin, B. H.j Hooks, T.; Johnson, T. R.; Jonas, C. R.; Keely, D. l.i Lumbeth, M. T.; Lippitt, D. H.; Lanier, T. L. ; Lupton, W. J.; Lee, H. N.; Leggett, B, C; Loioinac, H.j Moore, R. P.; McDuffe, L. C.j McPherson, R. A.;vMcSwain, H.j McRely, M. U.j New ton, W. K.j Perkins, A. A.j Patterson, R. K.; Pritchett, H.'B.; Price, W. M.j Parker, H.j Parker, 'H. B.; Parlier, R. L.j Pitts, J. O.j Phillips, K. G. Quinn, J. J.j Roundtree, L.j Riddick, T. M.; Robbins, J. N.j Rambo, C. A.; Scott, R. D.j Strickland, A. G.j Saun ders, J. j Sewell, D. T.j Smith, H. E.; Smith, J. N.j Silver, J. W.; Tucker, L. F.j Taylor, R. B.j Thorpe, G. D.j Wal- stov, C. W.j Whitiker, J. A.; Wilson, B. C.j Wike, C. E.j Williams, Z. M.j Wessels, C. H.j Young, D. A.j Zolle- coffer, F. B. . Miss Lucy Lay Is Head Of Ambitious Co-Ed Scribes. The chairmen of the various com mittees to carry on the- work of the Woman's Association for this year have been appointed by the president, Miss Frazier. i Miss Louise Sawyer will, take charge of the athletics, assisted by Miss Carrie Edmunds, baseball captain, and Miss Daisy Cooper, tennis captain. The girls who are interested in writing have been formed in a group.Jieaded by Miss Lucy Lay. Miss Martha Boswell will direct tlte students in linking up the members with their churches here in Chapel Hill. The self-help students will be headed by Miss Ruth Hunter. Any who wish the service of any self-jielp students can be put in communication by telephoning Miss Hunter at the Roberson House. DeMolay Club Organized On Last, Wednesday Night Last Wednesday night saw the De Molay club definitely organized and of ficers elected. The meeting was held in the Y. M. C. A. at 7 o'clock. Moulton Avery was elected president, M- G. Gaskiil vice-president, and M, A. Fater secretary and treasurer. ; There were, about 25 boys present. The second meeting will be held next Wednesday night at the same hour and place. A discussion will be held as to the possibilities of a Rmoker, to take place some time in the near future. MAGAZINE BOARD MEETING There will be a meeting of the board of editors of the Carolina Magazine in the Y. M. C. A. at 9:30 Monday night. All those in terested in becoming members of the board or in writing for the Magazine are requested to be present. Y REPORTS THAT GOAL UNREACHED Twenty-five Hundred Dollars Have Been Pledged. CAMPAIGN I S STILL O N Faculty and Some Students Yet to Be : V Canvassed. ' Reports coming into the Y. M. C. A. from the financial campaign show that about $2,500 .have been pledged. Re ports are still coming in and the cam paign has not ended yet. . There are still some students and the faculty to be can vassed, ; " ' While the campaign is proving very successful, it is not coming up to the goal that was set.' The "Y" officials had fixed in the budget three items for the social room, a piano, a radio set, and a victrola. They have a piano and a victrola, but it will be necessary to spend about $50 for records If the vic trola Is placed in the social room. On account of not reaching the goal set for pledges, it is impossible to install the radio at present. There was also fixed in the budget $80 for magazines to be placed in the reading room, but It was necessary to cut this amount to $10. Everv year the "Y" receives more con tributions from the students than the preceding year, but with the further de velopment of plans for the benefit and pleasure of the students the "Y" is not receiving a . sufficient amount to carry out the plans to the fullest extent. SIGNAL HONOR GIVEN TO DANIEL L GRANT Named Chairman of the Program Com mittee of the Association of Alumni Secretaries. Daniel L. Grant, Executive Secretary of the General Alumni Association of the University, has been recently named the chairman of the program committee of the Association of Alumni Secretaries and Alumni Magazines. These organiza tions have the most of their member ship in the United States ' and Canada, thoiur'i ,there are some scattered mem bers throughout the world. That this is a signal honor to Mr. Grant is self-evident when it is noted that several other universities and colleges of high stand ing are represented on the committee. The other members of the committee are R. W. Saior of Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y.J Miss Florence) Snow, Smith college, Northampton, Mass. ; Miss Florence Clement, Mount Holyoke college j Carl Stephens, University- of Illinois, Urbana, 111.; Edward N. Sulli van, Pennsylvania State college, State College, Pa.j Wilfred B. Shaw, Univer sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., and John O. Baxendale, University of Ver mont, Burlington, Vermont. This committee has entire charge of the arrangements for the conferences of the two associations which meet annu ally at' some prominent educational in stitution. These conferences last from three to four days, and the next one will be held next spring, probably at Lehigh university, South Bethlehem, Pa, Chairman Grant has called a meeting of his committee to meet with the execu tive committee of the associations in New York City on December 3, 4 and 5. Phi Alpha Delta Initiates ' Tuesday night the Thomas Ruffin chapter of the Phi Alpha Delta law fra ternity initiated three second year and one third year law student. From the second year class are Frank H. -Whit aker, Elkin, N. C.j 3. A. Myatt, High Point, N. C, and Sam J. Pegram, Ashe ville, N. C. George F. Robinson, Wea- verville, N. C, entered from the third year class. Scholarship is a prime re quirement -among those entering this fra ternity, it is stated. - After the ceremonial initiation bad taken place, refreshments were served to the initiates In the Phi Alpha Delta hall, in the Strowd building. , The Dormitory Club Gets Together Monday The Carolina Dormitory club will hold d general get-together meeting next Monday night at 6:30 o'clock in the social room of the Presbyterian church. The presidents, secretaries, and treas urers of each dormitory are Invited to be present. It is hoped by those Jn charge of the affair that the men will turn out and help get the year's program outlined. There will be a general discussion of everything that will help the managers get their dormitory in line with the In- tra-mural activities.' The meeting will be concluded with a big supper. UNIVERSITY DAY CELEBRATION TO . BE A BIG EVENT Preparations Being Made to Celebrate Laying of Old East Cornerstone. EVERETT THE SPEAKER University Alumni Everywhere Are Planning on Making the Occasion a Monster Rally- Day Preparations are being made for the annual University . Day celebration which-- will be the 131st anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of Old East building. Classes will be suspend ed at 10:27 Friday morning, October 11, to permit the students to participate In the celebration. President H. W. Chase will deliver the principal address at the exercises to be held in Memorial hall. Immediately following the last class Friday morning, students and faculty will assemble In front of the Alumni building and march to Memorial hall in a body, led by the University band. The faculty will form one group and the students formed by classes will make another. , ' ' The exercises in Memorial hall are scheduled to begin at 11 o'clock. Dr. Chase's subject for. his address at this time will be "The University i An Inter pretation." W. N. Everett, '86, Raleigh, Secretary of State, who is a member of the University Board, of Trustees and president of the General Alumni Asso ciation, will also address the 'assemblage. Music will be furnished by the band and University quartet. University alumni all over the state will also hold local celebrations, at which some of the faculty members will be chief speakers. ( There are 85 associa tions, according to figures given by Daniel L. Grant, Alumni Secretary, and the greater portion of these will con duct celebrations. Stuart O. Bondurant, assistant to the Alumni Secretary, has just called on the 20 associations in the western section of the state and each of those called on Is .planning for a meeting. He is now in the eastern por tion of North Carolina holding similnr gatherings there. "Outside of the state, meetings will be held at Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D. C, Richmond, Atlanta, Birmingham, Jacksonville, and several other places from which no definite re port has been received. . FRESHMEN MEET VARSITY SCRUBS The Oak Ridge Game Has Been Cancelled. INSUFFICIENT PRACTICE Tentative Schedule Given Out by Graduate Manager. The game scheduled for this afternoon between Oak Ridge and the Tar Babies has been cancelled. and in its place a full game will be staged on Emerson field between the varsity scrubs and the Frosh team. The reason given for the can cellation of the game with Oak Ridge was "insufficient practice." There are around 80 men out for the freshman team, 35 of them being candi dates for the line and the rest backfield aspirants. Coach Pritchard has charge of the linemen, while Coach Lowe is giv ing the backfield men his attention. Although there are not as many men out this year as compared to last year's crew, it is, nevertheless, a hefty looking bunch. " Football togs were issued last Tuesday and dummy practice started the same day, this being the first real day of prac tice that the squad has had. No complete schedule as yet has been arranged for freshman football, but the games tentatively arranged are: October 10 Bingham at Chapel Hill. October 25 N. C State place unde cided. November 1 University of South Carolina, at Columbia, S. C. November 8 University of Maryland, at College Park, Md. November 15 University of Virginia, at Chapel Hill. ' ' Mrs. R. B. Lawson will attend the state convention , of King's Daughters, which meets in Wilmington, October 9 and 10. - LIBRARY NOTICE RESERVED BOOKS. To ac commodate students who have early classes at the south end of the campus the Library extends the time on Over Night Reserved Books to 10:30 A. M. NUMBER 5 VARSITY OFF TO THE YALE BOWL FOR SIXTH TIME Old Eli Said to Be Very Confi dent of Her Power to Win. FETZER HOPES TO SCORE Entire First String Will Probably Be Pitted Against Bulldogs Cobb May Get a Showing. , The. Tar Heels invade the Yale bowl today with the sixth consecutive year's hopes of capturing old Eli's scalp, For five years they have fared forth and tak en defeat but always fighting a god fight. During tills time they have scored upon the Bulldog only once, in 1919, when they made a touchdown as a result of Nemo Coleman's great onside kick which traveled over the Yale goal line and was recovered by the Tar Heels. Carolina sends a much better team this year than that defeated 63 to 0 by the Bulldog last year. Although the inclement weather has kept it from de- , veloping as taf as Carolina followers believe it will before many days pass, it is in good .shape as far as injuries go and is expected to give a good account of itseff. '. Two days of good weather before the team left Thursday night gave the Fet zers a chance to put them through in tensive work in hopes of discovering the cause of the lack of power that was demonstrated in the Wake Forest game. The result of this work leaves the prob able line-up at very much of a guess. Dodderer seems to be showing up well at end and it may be tiiat he will be given a chance to perform. Jack "Spratt" Cobb, of basketball fame, has been hurl ing the bull with speed and accuracy Many dopesters are predicting that the Fetzers will unlease an aerial attack upon the Bulldog with "Spratt" doing the firing. Twenty-four players are be ing taken on the trip and probably many of these will be pluyed. The Yale game is generally considered a test game by both teams with an idea of seeing just what some of the uncertainties can do under real fire. Old Eli has always beaten the Tar Heels by a healthy score, but in 1922 the strong Carolina South Atlantic cham pions went into the Yale bowl and played the big blue teum off its feet for a few minutes. Although beaten 18' to 0, they made more first downs and gained more yards from scrimmage than the Bulldog and it was considered at least a moral victory for the Tar Heels. Northern newspapers were loud in .their praise of the Carolina eleven that year and some went so far as to say that while the Tar Heels were outscored they de feated their opponents. The record that the Carolinians have made against the Ellcs show that they l have very little chance for a victory to day and that if they score it may be considered unusual. The record is as follows: 1919 Yale 34, Carolina 7. 1920 YaIe 21, Carolina 0. 1921 Yale 34, Carolina 0. 1022 Yale 18, Carolina 0. 1923 Yale 53, Carolina 0. . Last year the Fetzers sent what was labeled by the state papers as the sec ond team to Yale. This team was snow ed under by one of the greatest teams in old Eli's historyby the overwhelming score of 53 to 0. While it is hardly hoped even that the Tar Heels, will "win, their followers feel sure that the show ing this year will be much better than that of last fall's representatives. The following men made the trips , Bonner, Braswell, Epstein, McMurray, Calhoun, ( Matthews, Mclver, Jackson, Jeff Fordham, Chris Fordham, Under wood, Dcvin, Sparrow, Merritt, Dodder er, Robinson, Whisnant, Hogan, Far- rell, Hawfield, Cobb, Dill, Donnhoc, War ren. Accompanying the team were both the Fetzers, Dr. Robinson of Durham as trainer, and Manuger Jimmie Poole. Red Bowman and Bill Cox also made the trip and will form an enthusiastic Carolina cheering section. Arboretum to Be Host North Carolina Florists The members of the North Carolina Florists' Association are scheduled to be in Chapel Hill Wednesday, October 22, to look over the Arboretum. " They will be escorted through It by Dr. W. C. Coker, of the Department of Botany, who will tell thera of the origin and development of the 'Arboretum, now conceded to be one of the most beauti fully laid out miniuture parks in this part of the South, from its initial stages to the present time,' ' .. A luncheon will be served in the Ar boretum by the women of Chapel Hill. Paul C. Lindley .will address the asso ciation on "Nurserymen and Florists,"