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JOIN THE RED CROSS JOIN THE RED CROSS r VOLUME XXXIV CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1925 NUMBER 27 PLAYMAKERS WILL DEDICATE THEIR THEATRE MONDAY ;, A . , : t . 1 Illustrious Past Centers Around This Unique Building. THREE PLAYS PRESENTED Plays of Gray, Boswell and Green Scheduled. The Playmakcr's theatre building which is to be dedicated Monday night luis a historic and an illustrous past. Smith Hall, the name by which the building was formally known, was built , in 1852 and named for Governor Ben jamin Smith, by whose generour dona tion it was erected. At first this struc ture was the home - of the University library; next It housed the law school; and now it is to be dedicated as the first state theatre in the country. The theatre has undergone a complete renovation, inside and out, during the past year and is -modern in every re spect. No one who has seen the in terior of the . remodeled building has failed to comment upon the cozy, quaint, and at the same time gorgeous appear ance of it. Of particular beauty are the chandeliers which have just been added to the interior furnishings. The chandeliers are very tasteful, and are five in number, one large one in the center and foutj smaller ones, near the four corners of the ceiling. Consider ing this building in its entirety, one would have difficulty in finding a pret tier one. The plays which were selected '. for presentation at this ' dedication are un usually appropriate for the occasion, since they are typical Carolina folk plays, and since the first play has as its setting the. portico of the theatre build ing itself. A gist of the three plays which represent both the old and the new North Carolina, follows: Out of the Past was. written by Fran ' cis Gray of Raleigh, the reminiscences of whose grandmother impelled her to write this touching play. The building in which this play will be presented was, in 1861, the center of the social activity of the University; it was there that the dances were held. The play is cen tered around a romance of college youth at that time. The characters of the piny are: Steve Lawrence, a Senior in the ' 'tftMrp1ty71rihWffliBrBoB' Grimes, a class-mate of Steve's, by Robert Harper; Jim Williams, a Soph omore, by Walter Creech; Tom Carter, a "cake-eater" 'of that period, by Wal ter Kelly; "Bull Eye" Payne, a profes sor in the University, hv Genrite. V. Denny;' Adeline, his beautiful daugh ter, by Margaret Ellis ; Dorothy, her little sister, by Helen Leatherwood, and Jerry, a young negro slave by David Britt - ' yon Side O' Sunk Creek is a realistic tale of the mountains of North Carolina by Martha BosweH, of Brevard. In this play the spirit of the old ballad of The Lexington Murder has been well preserved by the author. The cast of characters for 'this play are: Sheriff Belk by B. C. Wlson; Deputy Tude MacGuireby D. L. English, Jr.; Pa Revis by Russell Potter; Ma Revis, his wife, by Ellen Mellick; Angie Lou, their daughter, by Ethel Crew; Hughie, their (Continued on page four) NEW ALUMNI HANDBOOK WILL BE ISSUED SOON To Serve As a Guide to All Branches Of Alumni Work Throughout the State. - In a few days Dan' Grant, Secretary of the General Alumni Association, will , send to the press the1 copy for' a new handbook on Alumni work which will be a new departure for the Carolina Asso ciation and a great aid to efficiency In all alumni activities. The handbook will serve as a guide to all branches of the work throughout the state, i The books will contain approximately two hundred pages and will be bound in blue cloth, the style being the same as that of the Alumni History issued last year. The total cost of publication will be about $1,000. It has been made pos sible by the gift of one alumnus who has offered to assume the entire cost. His identity will be revealed within a few days. " , . The handbook will be a general discus sion of all types of alumni work, taking into account every agency doing any ork with an alumni group. It will serve to relate the various branches and bring the work before the alttmnfof the state as a whole. It is expected to aid ma terially in the development of the work from now on. The various chapters will deal with the different phases of the work as es tablished and supervised by the office f the General Secretary In Alumni (Continued on page four) Annual Red Cross Drive Opens Soon i , The annual Red Cross roll call in the University will be inau: gurated Monday night by a can vas of all the dormitories and will last through to Thanksgiv ing. To arouse interest a bulle tin board will be placed in front of Old South and the percentage of each dormitory will be posted each day. Each student is urged to 'join and do his bit towards helping the work which the Red Cross is now doing. Several colleges have finished their membership drive and among those of highest standing are Princeton, University of Vir ginia, Yale, etc. The University of Virginia went ninety-five per cent of the student body while Princeton went one hundred per cent. For the first time the roll call among the students of the coun try is being operated separately 1 from that in the communities, and hence the University has a chance to make a great showing. PLANS DISCUSSED FOR ALUMNI MEET Informal Dinner at Inn for Dis cussion of Alumni Gathering CONFERENCE MEET HERE Probable Dates of the Big Gathering Will Be January 28-30. Tuesday night at an informal dinner at the Carolina Inn plans were dis cussed for a large part of the work of the Alumni Association for the coming year. The meeting was attended by President Chase, Daniel L. Grant, R. W. Connor, W. S. . Bernard, Albert Coates, and Francis F. Bradshaw. In the absence this year of a field secretary for the General Alumni As sociation this group of men will assist Mr. Grant in his program" of visiting all the seventy local alumni associations throughout the entire state. At least one u year will be paid to each of these associations by "one of these men. Presl- dentlChase has offered to give five weeks of his time during the winter and spring months in traveling in the interest of the General Association. At the meeting Tuesday night plans were also laid for the general alumni conference, which will be held -under the auspices of the general association in January of 1926. The ' exact dates of the conference will probably be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday the 28, 2!),, and 30. of January. The confer ence will bring together in Chapel Hill approximately 200 of the leading alum ni of the state and will be the biggest event of the year in alumni circles. This January meeting will have a two fold purpose. As the assembly in charge f all alumni work it will discuss all features of the work. And part of the conference will be an alumni school, the faculty of the University being on hand to furnish the old grads with any data about the University which may be useful in their work. All alumni pro jects, such as the Graham Memorial and the Alumni Loyalty Fund will be in volved in the meet. The two hundred men whom Mr. Grant expects to have in attendance "will represent every branch of the work. There will be representatives from about sixty-five local associations, forty class organizations, the board of directors (Continued on page two)' "Y" CABINET TO HELP LOCAL HI-Y MEMBERS Cabinet Men Will Act As "Big Broth ers" to Students In Chapel Hill Hi-Y Club. i More members were present at the meeting of the "Y" cabinet Monday night than have been present at any meeting held so far this year. Plans were worked out by which members are to serve as "big brothers" to members of the Chapel Hill Hi-Y Club, excellent re ports were received from various com mittees, and Mr. Zerfoss, "Y" secreta ry at Washington and Lee, made a short talk. -V Twenty-two cabinet members volun tarily consented to serve as "big broth ers" to the twenty-two members of the Hi-Y Club who will in turn be "little brothers". 1 The "big brother" is to vjsit the "little brother" from time to time, take him to the Pick or for a walk on Sundny or, in short, be a friend to him like any big brother really should. The "big brothers entertained the "little (Continued on pagt four) TAR HEELS AND CAVALIERS WILL CLASH THURSDAY Each Team Has Suffered Only One Defeat This Season. THIRTIETH ANNUAL GAME Record Crowd Expected to Witness Most Important Game On 1925 Schedule. The Tar Heels and Cavaliers will meet next Thursday in the thirtieth renewal of their annual football battle. Twenty-nine times since 1892 the two teams have met on the gridiron,' with the Cavaliers winning nineteen times, the Tar Heels winning eight times, and the games ending in a tie score on two occasions. All pre-game information leads to the conclusion that the thirtieth : annual scrap will be the most glorious battle of all. Both the Tar Heels and Cavar liers have had successful seasons. Each team has suffered defeat once during the present season, Carolina lowering her colors to Wake Forest in the first game of the season, and Virginia going down before the onslaughts of the Washing ton and Lee Generals. Coaches Bob and Bill Fetzer, of Carolina, and "Greasy" Neal, of Virginia, are point ing their charges for the big Turkey Day clash, and the eighteen thousand football fans that will pack the stands on Emerson Field next Thursday will be treated to football of the most up-to-date variety. First Game in 1892 Way back in 1892 the two Universities began (the feud that has been renewed each year except for occasional interrup tions due to such little international disturbances as the World War. After losing to the Cavaliers in the first game in 1892 by the score of 30 to 18, the Tar Heels came back and. won from the Virginians in Atlanta in the final game fo.r the Southern championship by the count of 26 to 0. From that year until 1898 the. Vir ginians won every game, but in 1898 the Tar Heels turned on the Cavaliers and defeated them 6, to 2. The 1898 team was coached by Reynolds, a form er Princeton star, arid Howell, Tar Heel halfback, ran forty yards through the entire Virginia team for the winning touchdown. - The 1899 game was cancelled due to the death of one of the Virginia team in an early season game, but the series was renewed the next year with Virginia winning' by the count of 17 to 0. Vir- ( Continued on page three) DATE CHANGED FOR DISCUSSION GROUPS Will Be Held Tuesday Night Instead of Wednesday Groups In Race for Banquet. Bible discussion groups will meet n the various dormitories on next Tues day night at 8:30 o'clock instead of on Wednesday night, as , the Thanksgiving holiday begins Wednesday at 1:00 o' clock. This will be the last of the series of discussion groups that have been held every Wednesday night for the past five weeks under the auspices of the "Y" and the direction of Walter Criss man. , Seven or eight groups are still in the race for the banquet that is to be given at the Carolina Inn to the group having the largest percentage of its enrollment present at all of the six meetings. Among the groups that are showing up especially' well in regard to good work and large attendence are two in Carr, one on the second floor of "D", one on the first floor of "J", and the one in Smith. ' Crissman says that there' has been a higher percentage of attendance at all of the five meetings held so far than there has ever been in previous years. Around 450 were present at the first group of meetings and at the fifth or the ' last one more than 300 were still attending. The committee " in charge of conducting the meetings feels that they have been a real success, which is especially manifested by the reaction of the students to them. It is very like ly that another series of similar meet ings will be conducted during the winter quarter for a six week period but noth ing definitely has been decided upon. ' Professor Schapiro, of the Spanish Department, delivered an illustrated lecture Thursifny night in Conway, N. C, on the subject, "Impressions of Spain." This lecture was given at a locbl Chautauqua sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association. Dr. W. M. Day, of the Romance Lan guages department, lectured Wednesday afternoon in Greensboro, before the Wednesday afternoon book club, on the "Plays of Rostand". ANCIENT RIVALS MEET TOGETHER Di and Phi Hold Joint Session Tonight at 7 O'clock. WILL MEET IN PHI HALL Program Including Important Resolu tions Has Been Arranged. The Phi and Di will hold their first joint meeting of the year tonight at 7 :00 o'clock in the -Phi Hall. The Senators and Representatives had one joint meet ing last year, which proved very success' ful. - . .. , The program, framed by joint commit tees from both houses, will include the following resolutions: 1 Resolved: That the Di and Phi in joint session go on record as favoring a change in the regular meeting night from Saturday to some other night of the week. Amendment to the resolution: That it be changed to Tuesday night. 2 Resolved: That the Di and Phi in joint session favor the nomination by the Democratic Party of Governor Alfred Smith for President of the United States. The President of the Senate, by rights the Vice-President of the University, desires to see more Senators out for the meeting than Representatives. It is also urged that the House of Represen tatives present the stronger force, since this is the custom in all other important law-making bodies. i RESEARCH SHOWS JOINING CAMPUS r- .. - . - Reporter Finds Student Can Belong to 100 Organizations. ALWAYS WANTS TO JOIN Organizations of All Kinds Are Rep resented on Campus Here. By J. N. RoBBiirg Some one recently made a remark to a Tar Heel reporter that this seemed to him to be the most "joining" campus that he had ever heard of. Seeing In this the possibilities of a good story, the cub went to work amongs the rec ords and found that there are now no less than 150 orgaizations here that a student Gan befong to and hardly a stu dent on the Hill is not "a member of at least on4 of these. . There are 100 organizations listed in the latest Yackety Tack, the Catalogue, and the Freshman Handbook. How ever, while handling reports of club meetings for the Tab Heel this year, the writer has found that there are at least 50 organizations that are not rep resented in either of the above publica tions. For instance, there are only 17 county clubs represented in the Yackety Yack, and as practically every county in the state has students here who are organized into county clubs, there must be many more that are not represented in the annual. There are also many de partmental clubs In the University that are open to students and of which only the members know anything. The state ment that there are 150 clubs to which a student can belong is very conserva tive, indeed. While the "Y" has a professional staff, it is distinctly a student organization as represented at Carolina. The "Y" offers opportunity for any student who is looking for special training with the view of going into missionary work or other religious activities. ; Fraternities head the list of organiza tions In the Yackety Yack, with a total of 43. Doubtless many other have been organized since the last annual went to press, but no figures are available. About one-sixth of the students here are fra ternity members. This is perhaps the most popular and the most exclusive type of organization here, as elsewhere. The most of those here are social orders, while many are professional or honorary: The class of organization which has the greatest membership is the county club. . Where there are not enough stu dents to form a club, the students from two or . more counties sometimes band themselves together into a club. Carolina takes especial pride In her various music clubs. Every one is fa miliar with the splendid showing made by the Glee Club, the Band, and the Or-, chestra last year. All of these reflected credit in plenty on their alma mater and are continuing to do so this year. The greatest of the dramatic organi zations is, without a doubt, the famous Playmakers. Since Professor Koch came here from the University of South Da kota to take charge of dramatics at Car olina, a great organization that is fast becoming known throughout the country has been developed. This year 'they are making an ' appearance in New York City. The Wlgue and Masque is an organl (Continued on page four) CAROLINA NETMEN MEET VIRGip HERE TUESDAY Tar Heel Racketeers Won High Hon ors in State and Southern Colle giate Circles Last Year. The Tar Heel tennis team will enter tain the Virginia racketeers here Tues day afternoon as one of the preliminar ies to the big Thanksgiving football classic. This fall tennis meet has be come an annual feature on the net sched ules of the two Universities, and it will bring together some of the best ten nis players in the two states. Carolina won Viiirh honors in the state and south ern collegiate circles last springj and left behind them on their northern trip the reputation of. being one of the strongest tennis teams in the East. Vir ginia has won . the last two fall meets from the Tar, Heels, and Captain Whi aker will be leading a hard driving ag gregation that is determined on revenge, This year's team, with Captain "Hap" Whitaker and Duncan Elgin as a nu cleus, bids fair to be up to the standard set by the Tar Heel racketeers during the past few seasons. The team that meets the Cavaliers her next week will probably line up as follows: In the sin gles Captain Whitaker will play num ber 1, Duncan Elgin number 2, Roland Geddie number 3, Caesar Cone number 4, and Billy Harvell number 5. In the doubles Whitaker and Elgin will meet the Cavaliers' first pair, while Geddie and Cone will play the second team of the invaders. REPORT MADE BY DEAN BRADSHAW Given to the Personnel Re- search Federation NATIONAL ORGANIZATION University Among Famous Institutions Belonging to Federation. The committe on vocational informa- Hon, consisting of F. F. Bradshaw, chairman; J. F. Dashiel, of the psy chology department; Dean Carroll, of the school of commerce; Dean Hibbard, of the College of liberal artsj M. R. Trabue, of the department of education ; and H. W. Odum, of the department of. jsociology; held a very interesting meet ing JWednesday;i. November 1 , 18th,,. In addition to the regular members of the committee A. M. Jordan, of the de partment of education, and English Bagby, of the department of psychol ogy were present. At this meeting it was decided to submit a report to the Personnell Re search Federation, of which the Uni versity of North Carolina is a mem ber. This Federation has as its members such famous institutions as' Bryn Mawr, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Dart mouth, Harvard,' and the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. All of the members of this Federation co-operate through the national organization to keep" everyone in touch with the work of the others. The following report, made out by Mr. Francis F. Bradshaw, representa tive of this Federation from the Uni versity, shows very well the work that the University of North Carolina is do ing along several lines and should prove very interesting and instructive. "I ! have been muking, for the last four years, a study of the organization of vocational guidance in colleges, such, for instance, as Dartmouth, Northwest ern, and others. We are' experimenting with two or three, approaches to the problem here, from the point of view of organization, rather than from the point of view of the effectiveness with the students. f "A committee on Freshmen mortality has,; for two years, been studying the mortality In various courses and depart ments in curricula, compared with Otis Test Scores and scores In the Co-operative' Tests prepared by the American Council on Education. "In co-operation with research, men in the School of Education and the De partment of Psychology, the Eitglish Department has, for four years, been experimenting with sectional classes; the Romance Language Department did some experimenting and later aban doned it; the Department of Economics and the School of Commerce Is planning under this same supervision, a try-out with students in Elementary Economics. ' "For two years now the University has given the Co-operative Intelligence Test to its entering class, and has be gun work up correlations between those tests and success in various courses and schools. . ' t ' "Several departments in the Univer sity have become Interested in the devel opment of objective content, examina nations. The English department has been pioneer in this, particularly In the use of placement tests. The Depart (Continued on page four.) X. C. LIBRARY ASSOCIATION HAS TWO DAY SESSION Representatives of College and Public Libraries of State Attend. CHAS. B. SHAW PRESIDES Talks Are Made By Number of Speak ersDinner Given at Carolina -...- Inn. V v The North Carolina Library Associa tion opened its tenth biennial meeting here Thursday afternoon with a general session at two o'clock at the Carolina Inn. There were in attendance at this meet ing about seventy-five representatives from both public and college libraries from all over the state. President Charles B. Shaw, librarian from N. C. C. W., presided over the meeting. 1 The first speaker of the afternoon was Miss Henrietta Smedes, of the University library, who gave a talk on "The Rural Sociology Collection of Books" which, she said, is one of the most unusual in the country. The next speaker on the program was Dr. Archibald Henderson, who spoke about "The Renaissance - of Letters-in the South". Dr. Henderson In his speech declared that Mencken was destructive and harmful to the renais sance of the South. He declared that the pretense of any Southerner that Mencken had anything to do with the outpouring of creative genius In : the South is entirely wrong. "Moreover," he said "it has come in spite of Mr. Mencken, who has sown a distrustful, false, and derogatory attitude toward every phase of our culture." He ex plained that this renaissance has come as the result of the efforts f a small group of scholars who have devoted themselves without thought of personal comfort and without shouting aloud from the housetops, and also from the normal course of social evolution. Dr. Hender son stated that the result of the South's present wealth Is that there is more lei sure and time to devote to reading, writ ing and participation in the creative arts. He said that the two most important factors in Southern cultural rebirth at present are the Reviewer, published here, and the Virginia Quarterly, a publication of.,-the University of Virginia. The speaker pointed out five southern writers. who have made real contributions to southern culture but who have -not re ceived the credit due them. The writers mentioned by Dr. Henderson are Edgar Gardner Murphy, William G. Brown, William Edward Todd, C. Alphonso Smith, and Edward Mims. He paid a compliment to, such organizations as the Carolina Playmakers, which are contrib uting a great deal to the cultural devel opment of the South. , Dr. A. T. Allen, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, also addressed the meeting. He deplored the status of North Carolina's reading public and urg ed that we should have more than 32 pub licly supported, libraries. He said that the libraries should be more accessible and that North Carolina must get out of ,the class of states that do not read. Thursday night there was a dinner meeting of the association at the Carolina Inn. L. R. Wilson, University Libra rian, -was toatsmaster of the meeting. (Continued on page two) WRESTLING TEAM IS ROUNDING INTO FORM Four Letter Men Form Nucleus Around Which Team Will Be Built Call or More Men. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons about 40 candidates for the wrestling! team are going through a stiff work-out in the Tin Can. They have been training for several weeks and are now' rounding Into something like id-season form. As yet no coach has been secured for the team, but Captain Zack Waters and other letter men have ' been giving the new men some valuable pointers. Some very promising men have been noticed among the freshman candidates and it is highly probable that they will in time develop into real stars on the mat. ( 1 Among the candidates, there are four letter men who form a nucleus around which the team will be built. These men are: Heafner (119-pound class); Motsinger (129-pound class); Waters (119-pound class), and Warren (175- pound' class). As Warren is on the football squad, he has not yet reported for practice, but he will be out as soon as the pigskin season Is over. In ad dition to these men, there are several who were on the squad last year but who did not make their letters. It is too late now for new men to come out, and If there are any who have any ability as wrestlers they are urged to report for practice at the Tin Can.
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