Dances Suspended
Until After Close
GENERAL ORDER
Action Follows Conduct Dtir
ing Thanksgiving Dances.
INCLUDES ALL ORGANIZATIONS
Mandate Issued by President Prohib
its All Campus Orders from
Giving Dances.
All dances at the University of North
Carolina have been suspended until after
the Easter recess. The order, handed
down by the President of the University,
comes as the result of unsatisfactory
conduct on the part of students and
visitors at the recent Thanksgiving
dances given by the German Club.
Not only is the giving of dances by
the "German Club forbidden, but like
wise the Order of the Grail, all other
campus organizations and orders, and
all Individuals are prohibited from giv
: ing dances on or off the campus during
this period. Following the Easter holi
day, which ends on April 12, the normal
social activities may be resumed. Con
duct of students and visitors at these
dances will determine' whether or not
the German Club will be allowed to give
a final set of dances during Commence
ment. Officials of the Order of the Grail are
at a lost to understand why it should
have been included under the sweeping
mandate issued by the University. No
complaint has been heard against the
three dances given during the fall and
the action of the University in placing
the Order under the ban is taken by
-many of the Grail members as an un
warranted insult The Grail claims to
have striven conscientiously to make its
dances measure Up to the University
regulations and, until Wednesday's no
tice from Ute President to the German
Club, had received no intimation that it
had failed in its efforts.
As a result of drinking here during
the holidays, eight or nine men have
been placed on conduct and class pro
bation for the remainder of the school
year. The Vigilance Committee, acting
on its own behalf, sent letters to twelve
students warning them against further
misconduct Six letters were sent to
out-of-town visitors notifying them that
they would be barred from attending
dances here for periods varying from
six to twelve months.
The. letter from Dr. Chase to the Ger
man Club, and the order suspending
dances here until after the Easter re
cess follow:
9 December 1925.
To the German Club of the
University of North Carolina! .
Three years ago conditions arising in
connection with certain dances at the
University were so unsatisfactory that
the German Club was told that unless
it was willing to assure responsibility
obtaining at dances, and gave the Uni
versity sufficient guarantee to that ef
fiect, dancing at the University would
be suspended, The result of this situa
tion was the present plan for the con
duct of dances, put forward by the
Club, and in operation since that time.
It is obvious that any plan will be
effective just in proportion as it reflects
a genuine sense of responsibility on the
part of the club officialy and of its
members as individuals. Such a real
sense of responsibility the present plan,
at the time of its adoption, did seem to
reflect.
I have before me statements from the
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KOCH WILL DELIVER
READING NEXT WEEK
Annual Reading of "The Christmas
Carol" Will Be Given Monday
and' Tuesday Nights.
Professor Frederick H. Koch will de
liver his twentieth annual reading of
Dickens' immortal- ghost story, The
Chrittmae, Carol, Monday and Tuesday
nights at 8t30 o'clock in the Playmakers
Theatre. The reading will be given two
nights because, judging from the past
enthusiasm shown in this reading, the
small theatre would not accommodate all
of those who would like to attend. Mon
day night will be primarily for the stu
dents, since the following night is the
last before the examinations. Everyone
is cordially Invited to , be present on
Tuesday night
Throughout the reading Christmas Car
ols will be sung by a Community Chorus,
with George Lawrence as leader. This
will be the Christmas celebration for the
University, and the Theatre will be suit
ably decorated for the occasion. .
Of Easter Recess
Suspension Order
Receives Welcome
A hearty welcome on the part
of the state press was accorded
the announcement' sent out from
the ' University News Bureau
that dances here had been sus-
pended until after the Easter
holidays.
The Charlotte Observer appar
ently extended itself greatly in
its reception of the dispatch. A
streamer running entirely across
the front page announced the
action taken by the University.
The heavy headline attracted
much attention on the part of
' students, many of whom thought
at first sight that another world
war had broken out and were
cruelly disappointed when they :
discovered the real import of the
spread.
The Greensboro News gave the
story a two column head-line.
The News and Observer and ;
Durham Herald carried the arti
cle as an ordinary one column
story.
The, story, released from the
President's office at 3:30 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, was pre
pared for publication by the
TAR HEEL and dispatched to
Durham on the 6:15 bus. This
story, and other valuable copy,
was never delivered to the Dur
ham office and for this reason
failed to appear in Thursday's
issue. Much trouble has been ex
perienced all the fall in getting,
copy to the Durham printing
plant and the failure of the car
rier Wednesday night is not the
first with which the TAR HEEL
has had to-contend.
DEBATING MEDAL
IS WON BY CREW
Acclaimed by Judges As Best
Speaker on Winning Side.
AFFIRMATIVE SIDE WINS
Phi Assembly Awarded Decision Over
Di By 2-1 Vote. . s
The Mary D. Wright Debate on last
Monday evening was won by the Phi
Society on the affirmative of the query,
"RESOLVED, That the Japanese ex
clusion laws should be so amended as to
allow the Japanese to enter tin United
States on the same basis as other nation
alities."
J. W. Crew, of Pleasant Hill, a sopho
more, was awarded the Mary D. Wright
Gold Medal as the best speaker on the
winning side. His colleague on the Phi
team was R. W. Noe, also a sophomore.
There was a crowd of somewhat over
fifty out to hear the debate between the
two Societies,, which was considered a
fair sized crowd with another entertain
ment on at the same time. This audience
was well repaid, however, by a very in
teresting and spirited debate.
The president of the debate was S. G.
Chappell, who is to be complimented up
on opening the debate exactly at the time
scheduled, 8:30 P. M.
The first speaker for the affirmative,
J. W. Crew, gave a short history of the
question and attempted to show why the
bill excluding the Japs from the United
States entirely was wrong, and was both
a diplomatic and commercial mistake,
M. I, Mogulezcu, as the first negative
speaker, declared that the Japs were of
a race that cotdd never assimilate with
the American people, and therefore,
should be excluded from this country.
He did not attempt to show that the
Japs are an inferior race, but rather
that they arc more industrious, living on
a lower standard, and should be excluded
for that reason.
R. W. Noe, of the Phi and affirmative,
suggested that the Japs be placed on
a quota basis as are all other national
ities; that is, two per cent of their num
ber here in 1890. He showed how, this
would give Us the continued friendship
of the Japs, and would entirely clear up
the serious diplomatic and commerical
complications that have arisen because
of the 1921 Immigration Law. He as
serted that the United States seems to
have overlooked the great potential value
of the Japanese friendship in the Orient.
As the last negative speaker, H. B.
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GOOD PROSPECTS
FOR FROSH QUINT
Call for Candidates Will Be
Made-After the Holidays.
EXPECT NEARLY 100 MEN
Many High and Prep School Stars
Among Prospects.
, Candidates for the .freshman basket
ball team will not be called for until
after the Christmas holidays. Last year
the aspirants for the Tar Baby five were
practicing several weeks before the Yule
tide holidays and as a result they lost
much valuable time that they could have
put on their examinations. This year
they will be given a chance to study as
much as they please.
Prospects for a winning team are
unusually bright this year. Among those
who are expected to try out are num
bered several of the best high and prep
school stars of North Carolina and Vir
ginia. It is expected that nearly 100
candidates will answer the first call for
practice.
Although last year's team lost the
state title to Duke, it was one of the
best first year aggregations that has
ever represented the University, winning
a large majority of the games and losing
only one game on an extended trip
through the Old Dominion State.
Among those who are expected to re
port to Coach Carlisle Shepherd when
he issues the coll for practice are such
men as Hackney and Satterfield, mem
bers of last year's Durham team, which
won the state championship and later
made a creditable showing at the na
tional high school tournament which was
held at Chicago; Schuler, of Salisbury;
Beam, of Shelby; Marginoff, of-Charles-
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UPPER CLASSMEN WILL
REGISTER NEXT WEEK
Freshmen and Sophomores Will Regis
ter After Holidays As Usual Pen
alty for Delayed Registration.
The registration for the winter quar
ter this year will follow the same general
plan as was used last year. AH upper-
classmen will register during Exam week
and the Freshmen and Sophomores will
register after the holiday vacation per
iod. Registration for the underclass
men will be held in Memorial Hall from
9 A. M. until 5 P. M., January 4, 1926.
All other students will register dur
ing exam week according to the follow
ing arrangement:
Wednesday, December 16 Undergrade
uates, names beginning L-R inclusive.
Thursday, Dec. 17 Undergraduates,
names beginning S-Z inclusive.
Friday, December 18 Undergraduates
names beginning G-K inclusive.
Saturday Dec. 19 'Undergraduates,
names beginning A-F inclusive.
Graduate students - and students ' in
Law, Medicine, and Pharmacy may reg
ister on any day during the period Dec
ember 16-19.
All students who register before
Christmas are asked to secure a full
statement of procudure from the regis
trar's office before registering. The
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Widely-KnownPlaywright
To Give Lecture Tonight
The author of the Pulitzer Prize play
of 1924, Hell Bent fer Heaven and of
the successful Broadway runs, Wake
Up, Jonathan! and Ruint, will lecture
on "The American Theatre To-Day" in
the Playmakers' Theatre, . tonight at
half past eight o'clock.
Hatcher Hughes, a Garolina alum
nus, resigned an Instructorship in Eng
lish here at the close of the academic
year 1909 to plunge into the literary
whirlpool of New York. He found his
feet first as a teacher of play writing in
Columbia University. His classes there
have grown steadily in numbers and
popularity.
But it is as a playwright that Mr.
Hughes has become best known. His
first play Wake Up, Jonothanl showed
the awakening of a self-centered and
self-satisfied American capitalist to
the fact that dollar victories represent
ed only the small winnings in the sum
total of success. His wife, who makes
Candida's choice between Jonothan
and his romantic rival, was played by
none other than Mrs. Fiske in as sub
tle a piece of acting as she ever graced
the stage with.
Hell Bent fer Heaven won the Pulit
zer prize of 1924 over George Kelly's
he Show Off after a controversy among
the judges that finally broke out in the
Press. The controversy was raised from
the level of recrimination to that of
history by the ground on which the final
MAJOR FISKE TELLS
OF TENNESSEE DAMS
Engineer Speaks to Scientific Society
On Power and Navigation Possi
' bilities in Tenn. Basin.
A large and interested audience at
tended a lecture delivered by .Major
Harold C. Fiske before the Elisha
Mitchell Scientific Society at its 284th
program last night in Phillips Hall, on
"The $600,000 Power-Navigation Survey
of the Tennessee River and its Tribu
taries." Prof. Saville, of the Engineering
Department, introduced the speaker,
stating that Major Fiske, of thcCorps
of Engineers, the United States Army,
for three years had been conducting the
most elaborate and extensive river sur
vey ever undertaken.
In the beginning Major Fiske review
ed the early navigation of the Tennessee
River and its importance to explorers,
stating that the bad placess were un-
navigable. He pointed out the enor
mous value that dams would nave In
making navigation possible and in yield
ing much power. He continued, "Such
storage dams as those of which we have
made surveys would take care of excess
water in winter and discharge It in sum
mer, thereby doubling the primary power
at ull seasons. There would be a gain
by the increase in secondary power. When
Congress granted the appropriation to
us, it questioned our conception of pow
er, navigation, flood control, and indus
trial development."
Major Fiske stated that at the be
ginning of the survey existing records
and old inefficient maps were used to the
best advantage possible. New and larg-
scafe maps being necessary, aerial
photographs were made. He brought
out that while the maps, which cover
over two thousand square miles, might
not make a complete map if put togeth
er, they contain the needed information
to a high degree of accuracy. He later
illustrated the accuracy and the visible
ness of the maps by slides. -
"The dam of Cold Creek Reservoir will
be two hundred and twenty-five feet
high and will generate 600 million kilo
wats of power, more power than is used
in the whole state of Tennessee with the
exception of the two extremities. The
water, in flowing from Cold Creek Res-
ervoir to Muscle Shoals, .will generate
more power than the two combined," ex
plained Major Fiske, demonstrating the
possible power yield from dams. He
further showed that the expenses of de
velopment could not be borne by navi
gation alone but very well by navigation
and power combined.
Of the thirteen dams investigated on
the Tennessee River and its tributaries,
twelve, have been" applied for by the
power industries!. By virtue of the
dams, the Tennessee River basin power
can be distributed over a radius of three
hundred and fifty miles.
RHODES COMMITTEE WILL
MEET IN RALEIGH TODAY
Dr. Chase, chairman of the commit
tee on the selection of Rhodes scholars,
will go to Raleigh today. His committee
will decide the Rhodes scholars to be
chosen this year. The five candidates
from this University are R. B. Rainey,
C. R. Jonas,' W. J Cocke, J. F. Cooper,
W. B. Pipkin.
award was made, namely, that in Bufe
Pryor Hughes had created an entirely
new character a religious fanatic who
can work himself into the hallucina
tion that God for His own glory
prompts and guides the devilish ma
chinations he employs to gain his ends.
Ruint $ shows a scion of the idle rich
philandering with the affections of a
mountain girl. The philanderer is not
understood either by the girl or by her
equally forthright mountain kin; in
deed the mountains eject the trifler as
indigestible matter, with some violence
but more mercy.
Of special interest to North Carolin
ians is the fact that the stuff of two of
these playsthe two last is taken from
the life of our Carolina Mountains.
From this life, regarded as rather grim
by the unknowing, Mr. Hughes has
drawn some as fine comedy as one can
find on the American stuge today.
The Playmakers are to be congratu
lated upon its policy of introducing to
The Hill men who can talk of our own
drama with authority and experience,
and upon their success In bringing three
such lecturers In a row as Barratt
Clark, Frederick Ward, and Hatcher
Hughes.
Mr. Hughes will be entertained by
the Odd Number Chapter of the Sigma
Upsilion Literary Fraternity at 6s30
tonight in the Presbyterian Church so
cial room.
PHARMACY SCHOOL
LARGEST IN SOUTH
Recently Moved Into Renovated
Chemistry Building.
HAS ADVANCED RAPIDLY
Enrollment Has Quadrupled In Last
.. Six Years.
The School of Pharmacy, having re
cently moved into the former chemistry
building, now has the distinction of be
ing the largest school of pharmacy in
the South. With the single exception
of the University of Maryland, the Uni
versity Pharmacy School had the larg
est enrollment last year of any south
ern school.
The present school of pharmacy was
first established by Dean Vernon How
ell in 1897. At that time the school of
pharmacy consisted of 17 students with
one lecture room in New West building.
During the last six years its enrollment
has quadrupled, jumping from 36 to
148. It has a staff of twelve instruc
tors. . .
The former chemistry building has
been renovated and prepared exclusive
ly for pharmaceutical instruction. It is
to be called Pharmacy Hall. This
building of three floors, contains lec
ture rooms, labratories, a library, mu
seum, an herbarium, private research
labratories, stock room and offices. The
value of the building is placed at ap
proximately $150,000.
The museum and library on the second
floor, occupy the same room for the
sake of convenience to the students
studying the specimens on display.
The museum contains not only the ex
hibits of pharmaceutical specimens, but
an extensive exhibit of crude drugs and
manufactured drugs.
The curriculum of the school has
kept pace with the physical development
The minimum course in pharmacy now
covers a period of three years instead of
two as heretofore. The degree awarded
at the completion of this three-year
course will continue to be the standard
and accepted Ph. G. degree-.- The two
three-year courses that have led hereto
fore to the degrees of Pharmaceutical
Chemist (Ph. G.) 'and Doctor of Phar
macy (P. D.) have been abandoned
and one four-year course carrying the
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy de
gree has been substituted in their stead.
The present School of Pharmacy was
established in March of 1897 as the re
suit of repeated requests from the mem
bers of the North Carolina Pharmaceu
tical Association that instruction in
pharmacy be offered at the State Uni
versity. The trustees, after thought
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GUILD ORGANISTS
HOLD CONVENTION
Annual Meeting of N. C. Chap
ter Is Held Here.
CONCERT THIS MORNING
Christmas Selections Will Be Played
At Episopal Church.
The annual meeting of the North
Carolina Chapter of the American Guild-
Organists which began here yesterday
will continue through today.
The state chapter Is holding this meet
ing under the leadership of Dean Fran
cis P. Womack, of the Reidsville Chap
ter. During its comparatively short ex
istence since its organization by P. J.
Weaver, of the University Music De
partment, the North Carolina branch of
the National Association has done much
to promote co-operation between the dif
ferent agencies connected with church
service Mr. Weaver's previous experi
ence in the West as an officer of the Mis
souri Guild was of much value to state
organists in the formation of their body.
Membership in the organization Is re
stricted to those musicians who pass an
examination given yearly by the Uni
versity of New York. Successful candi
dates win two types of degrees: Atto
ciated American Guild of Organists (A.
A.A. G. O.) equivolent to a bachelor's
degree in music, and also Fellow Ameri
can Guild of Organists (F. A. G. O.)
which is equal to a doctor's degree in
music. At present the state chapter in
cludes about fifty members.
Dr. Frank A. Scaley, of New York,
the national president, is attending the
convention. Other celebrities include two
North Carolinians who need no introduc
tion to music lovers in the state. These
two organists, Dean H. A. Shirley, of
Salem College, and Chas. G. Vardell,
Jr., head of the piano department at
Salem, give a concert today at . 11:00 A.
M. at the Episcopal Church. At this
hour suitable Christmas selections will
be played by the two well known musi
cians. The University Glee Club will
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QUERY DECIDED
UPON FOR HIGH
SCHOOL DEBATE
High Schools of State Select
Query for Fourteenth An
nual Contest.
TAKES PLACE IN SPRING
State Championship Is Decided Here
and Aycock Memorial Cup Is
Awarded Winner.
The query which will be discussed In
the 14th annual contest of the High
School Debating Union of North Caro
lina is, Resolved That North Carolina
should levy a State tax on property to
aid in the support of un eight-months
school term. The query was decided
upon for this year's contest by the cen
tral committee after it had received the
largest vota in the balloting on the
query, which was participated in by 308
high schools. The question as to whether
or not North Carolina should return to
the policy of a Slate tax on property
to aid in the support of an eight months
school term is a question of public im
portance in the state, and the committee
considers that it will be of considerable
profit, not only to the debaters and high
school students, but to tlus citizens of the
state generally, to have a comprehensive
State-wide high school debute on the
query which has been chosen.
This query, with slightly different
wording, was chosen from a group of
thirteen subjects which were submitted
to the high schools of the state. 308
schools took part in the balloting and
136 of that number chose the selected
subject. The other schools were wcU
divided over the remaining twelve sub
jects. All of these queries were based
on subjects of current Interest and im
portance.
Every secondary school and high school
in the state is invited to become a mem
ber of the High School Debuting Union
and to participate in the contest which
will be held in the spring of 1926. Every
school that enters will be grouped,.-us-in
the past, with two others for a trian
gular debate, each school putting out
two teams, one on the affirmative and
the other on the negative. ... The negative
team of each school will debate the af
firmative team of one of the other mem
bers of the triangle at the school of the
latter. The schools willing both debates
will be entitled to send their teams to
the University to compete for the state
championship and the Aycock Memorial
Cup. The school which shall win the
debate, thus flnully held shall have its
name inscribed on the cup, together with
tlie names of its two winning represen
tatives. Any school which shall win in
the finul contest for two successive years
shall have the cup for its own property.
A bulletin of about 100 pages in length
containing articles bearing on both sides
of the query and references to sources
from which further material cun be se
cured, will be sent free of charge to all
schools which are members of the High
School Debating Union. This bulletin
will also obtain explanations and limi
tations of the query stuted above. Bul
letins will be furnishsed by E. It, Ran
kin, secretary of the union.
The Debating Union was inaugurated
13 years ago by the Dialectic and Phi
lanthropic literary societies of the Uni
versity and the University Extension
Division with the co-operation of the
high schools of the state. Thirteen de
bates on questions of great importance
have been held. It has been estimuted
that an average of 75,000 listen to these
debates each year.
Following Is a list of the winners of
the Aycock Memorial cup in the past!
Ihe Pleasant Garden High School,
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1AYMAKERS PRESENT
THREE PLAYS ON TOUR
Will Appear Before the College Dra
matic Conference of Virginia At
Hollins College Tonight.
The Carolina Playmakers are now on
a tour which calls for their appearance
In Reidsville, N. C, at Hollins College,
Va., and In Lynchburg, Vai In all of
these places they are to present three
folk-plays, namely, Quare Medicine, Fix- .
Mi, and Oaiui and Oaiui, Jr. The first
stop was made at Reidsville, where they
presented their plays last night.
The outstanding feature of this trip
Is that the Playmakers are tonight play
ing for the College Dramatic Conference
of Virginia, which Is now in session at
Hollins Cullcge. This afternoon Prof.
Koch is to address the Conference on
Making Our Own Playt, and George
Denny is to speak on Workshop Meth
od). . . . ,
From Hollins the group will go to
Lynchburg, Va., where they will give a
performance Monday night.