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J. STITT WILSON CHAPEL LECTURE MEMORIAL HALL 10:30 9 J. STITT WILSON 8:30 P.M. GERRARD HALL VOLUME XXXIV CHAPEL HILL, N C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926. NUMBER. SI WHITE PHANTOMS BOW TO HARVARD IN EXTRA PERIOD Lose to Crimson by Score of 40 to 37 Monday, Night. WAS CLOSELY CONTESTED Cobb Is High Scorer, Tallying ' Points Coombs of Harvard Is Second. 14 Old John Harvard rose In his grave Monday night and mustered all his forces, home guards and militia too, to repeal-the second annual" invasion of the Southern Champions, and for the second successive year it took all the forces tTie old gentleman could muster to turn back the "White Phantoms" of the Uni versitv of North Carolina by the count ' of 0 to 37. Five whirling -white dervislies came in on the wings of the south wind, bring ing all the pep and drive that cham pionship clun could need, and threw a scar.' into (lie camp of the Crimson that will be felt for months to come. For 1 a full forty minute game the invading Tar Heel tide met all the rushes of the Crimson attack with an offense that never faltered, and the two teams stood on even terms at 22-all when the final whistle blew.'- It was the second successive night that the North Carolinians had been de feated in an extra period of play. Sat urday night they carried the Middies of the Naval Academy to ride for two ex tra periods, and they invaded Harvard .with a reputation to uphold. All of classic Cambridge gathered to pack the bleaches and galleries of the Memorial Gym for a glance at the "wonder ! quint from the sunn South, and throughout the game they held their breath while "Sprodie" Cobb and the re mainder of the Carolina tossers dropped in goal for goal with the Crimson basket eers. Soon after the game began the Tar Heels got off to a firing start. With Cobb, Dodderer and Hackney featur- .jug iu the drive they jumped in and led Harvard quint to the tape in the first semester by five- points on a 22-27 score. The Carolina tossers worked like so much oiled machinery during that first half, and they fuly justified their "pep' as the All-Southern quint. (Continued on paga three) x REVIEWER FINDS BUCCANEER CRUDE Nursery Rimes and Bedtime Story Have Misleading: Titles. NEW FRATERNITY NAMED Beachcomber Slighlty Puzzled by Men tion of Epsilon Upsilon Epsilon. W.V Tub Bkaciicombkr Htviewing the , Buccaneer is a wuste f time. The magazine hns to he re viewed because no one reads it, and some means must be available whereby the average student can tulk about it Intelligently-. The Buccaneer, being more on the mental plane of the aforesaid average student, is more or less read and appreciated more or less. However; here it is. The Cover, the nursery rhimes, the caver, the play on Miles Standish, the cover, and The Good Jokes, the cover. The editor seems to aspire to the glories of those martyrs who have gone down fighting and slinging mud for (Continued on page four) Wrestling Squad Will Meet V. M. I. Tonight . The Carolina wrestling squad left the bill early yesterday morning in the charge of Coach Quinlnn, en-route to Lexington, Virginia, where they will lock horns with the V. M, I. Cadets to night. From Lexineton they will pro ofed to Charlottesville for a tnssel with 'he University of Virginia Cavaliers on Friday night. The team Is in the pink "f condition and with 'three straight Victories nnd nn Antonio Ita rrerlit should give their opponents plenty of competition In their first engagement off he home mat. The following men made 'he trip. 119 pounds: Thompson ; 129 pounds! Motsinger; 139 pounds: Clem- 'nonst 119 pounds: Learyj 162 pounds: Taylorj jig poun(js. Blakenship, and '"illmited weight: warren. - , , Paddison Pretlow has returned to the University at Chapel Hill after a visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pret of Wilmington. Mr. Pretlow was dcd h, returning on account of Ill ness. ., ' 1 N. Y. STRING QUARTET IN CONCERT TUESDAY The New York String Quartet, which has been secured by the Music De partment fori a concert in Memorial Hall Tuesday evening, the sixteenth, comes to the University with an en gagement record highly lauded by foremost critics of the country. Richard Spamer, the famous music critic of St, Loius Globe-Democrat, paid high tribute to the performance of this organization, when it played in that city last Spring. "Although the organization known as the New York String Quartet has not been in existence very long," wrote Mr. Spamer, "the first performance in St. Louis of these stringed instru ment artists gave promise of a bril liant future. It is evident that this concert, the fourth and last of the series sponsored by the Music Department in its en gagement of national artists for the year, will bring to Chapel Hill a quar tet of unusual rank in the musical world. Tickets will go on sale Sat- day morning at Sutton and Alderman's Drug Store. ELMA MITCHELL SOCIETY MEETS Scientific Society Held Monthly Meeting Last Tuesday Evening. MOUNTAINS ARE GROWING Collier Cobb Says Blue Ridge Range Is Still Developing " The program for the 286th meeting of the Elisha Mitchell " Scientific Society was rendered, last Tuesday night at seven-thirty in Phillips Hall. Dr. Otto Stuhlman, Jr., was the" first speaker of the evening, delivering a very interesting lecture on "Developing Ultra-Violent Spectrum of Iron by Electruin Bombardment" in the be ginning he . said, "it is possible to generate optical spectra by bom barding a metal with low speed electrons? If so, then optical spectra can be classified as a continuation of X- ray spectra through applying the' theory of quanta to origin." Dr. Stuhlman developed a critical potential method in which he used the discontinuities in a grasp to mathemati cally interpret the wave length. In this way be' found that a valence elect romn could be torn loose from the atom when the iron atom was struck by an 8.1 volt velocity electron and the second valence electron could be torn loose at 11.2 volt velocity.1 r He also showed that if a normal iron atom is bombarded by means of elec trons, the electrons will lose energy in passing through the atom structure. Such losses occur at definite velocities,' which when interpreted by the quantruin theory give you spectra ' exactly like optical spectra as seen through a spec- trascope. i . The Society was then .favored by a, talk by Dr. Collier Cobb on "The Sand Dunes of Niigata". Before presenting his rcgulnr paper of the evening Dr. Cobb announced the results of a trip to Rutherford County, made a fortnight (Continued on page four) WILLIAM BEACH GIVES MEDIOCRE CONCERT Winston-Salem Baritone Soloist Sings Twenty Numbers at Seventh of Series of Sunday Concert. i'he seventh of the current series of Sunday concerts was given in Memorial Hall on February 7. The visiting ar tists Was Mr. William Breach, baritone soloist from Winston-Salem. There yere twenty numbers on his program, ill rather short and falling into clearly lefined groups. . The first group consisted of four re ligious songs, none of which were well known. it Master Ilaih a Garden, by Geoffrey Gwyther, was probably the best although Mr. Breach spoiled the ffect a triflle by a prolonged trilling of certain words. This fault of over em phasic was also evident in The Cry the First Mrd during the bird song portions. Group two was a series of unfamiliar, semi-classical songs which failed .to make a favorabloj impression. Their lovenient as a whole was slow and the interpretation correspondingly list-less. Only Borowski's Song of Tristram showed a touch of life. In the third" division, that of folk songs, Mr. Breach did his most com mendable work. Each of the selected melodies Una a spirited swing ami whs (Continued on page four) . PIPKIN REVIEWS PHI BETA KAPPA .Honor Freshmen to Be Guest At ' Wednesday's Smoker of Alpha Chapter. EMINENT AMERICANS Sesquicentennial This Year of Found ing at William and Mary. Several weeks ago at' a meeting of the local Chapter , of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternnity the Chapter request ed that Dr. A. C. . Howell and Presi dent Benton Pipkin prepare a state ment for publication -concerning the fra ternity. It was considered fitting that such a statement be prepared at this time since this year the Phi Beta fra ternity celebrates the sesquicentennial of its founding, it being the oldest of LAmerican fraternities. In accordance with the wishes of the chapter, Dr. How ell and President Pipkin have written the following paper for publication in the Tar Heel. "It is fitting that the students of the University of North Carolina should know that the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is preparing to celebrate the sesquicentennial of its founding. The following paragraphs tell briefly of the birth of this, the oldest American fra ternity, and give an idea as to its Ideals. "Xext Wednesday evening North Caro lina -Alpha chapter will hold a smoker for those freshmen who made the honor roll last quarter. After the annual election of members a Phi Beta Kappa address will be delivered at an open meeting of the society. Plans are now underway to celebrdte adequately the founding of this historic organization. "One hundred and fifty years ago this year, a group of men met in the old Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg, Virgin ia to form a society whose influence has never ceased to be felt in American col lege circle. They were students of the college of William and Mary, and they met to organize a society which was soon to become known as the "Society of Phi Beta Kappa". At the historic first meet ing on December 5, 1776 men, under the leadership of John Heath, adopted 'mot toes, principles, and medaj." During the next four years the society was in . a formative period, and fifty . men who were iniated during that time are well known as founders. Thus was es tablished the first fraternity in America. In 1779 charters were issued for chapters to be established at Harvard and Yale; the way was paved for the perpetuation and growth of the Society. ' , . "These fifty men, who set for them selves the highest ideals of scholarship and service for which Phi Beta Kappa has always stood, carved for themselves1 names of distinction in our early nation al history, a have many Phi Beta Kap pa members since. TJiey led a distin quished and auspicious procession of great national figures, members of this society. Of the fifty pounders, two were justices of the Supreme Court, Bushrod ; Washington and John Marshall, who as - associate and chief justice, served for over a third of a century during one of the most trying periods of our national history. "Many of the other members of the historic Virginia Alpah Beta Kappa men, members of constitutional convention of 1788, that Virginia ratified the consti tution. Others served as officers in the Revolution as represetatives in the Vir ginia assembly, and in various capac ities in the national government. "To give even a partial list of the emi nent American's who have been members of Phi Beta Kappa would be indeed tire some. At random, it might be mentioned that 10 presidents and $ vice-presidents have been members of the society; 28 members have been honored with tab lets in the Hall of Fame, or 44 percent of the total number; 26 members of Phi Beta Kappa have been honored by ap pointments to the Supreme Court, or over 40 percent of the total number to hold this office. Five of the chief just ices have been members of the Society, and at no time has there been less than two on he Supreme Court Bench! . "Among distinguished individual mem bers of Phi Beta Kappa are enrolled the names, of Webster, Emerson, Morse, Iongfellow, Hawthorne, Irving, Mann, Beecher, John Quincy Adams, Lowell, Holmes, Phillips Brooks, Motley, Agas-j sin, Marshall, Taft, Wilson, Roosevelt, Coolidge and hundreds of others. ! "And so the roll might go on through all the . professions and walks of life were college men are found. Among the lenders will always be found wearers of the Phi Beta Kappa key, upholding high standards of this unique organization, which hns had such an Incalculable in fluence on our national life by uphold ing Its ideals of scholarship, service and leadership for its members" Grade Averages Are Given Out A comparison of the scholastic averages of different groups in the school for the past quarter has been reported by Dr. Henry. The grades have been changed from A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in order to compute an average. ( . The average from the academ ic school is 3.62. The freshmen fell slightly below this with an average of 3.82, while upperclass men reach 3.1. The fraternity average is -3.22. Among the fraternities Pi Beta Phi leads, Sigma Delta is sec-' ond, and Chi Omega is third. X STITT WILSON BEGINS LECTURES Forceful Californian Speaks on Three Dimensions. LECTURES AGAIN TODAY Will Make Spiritual Life of Man ' His Topic. f' : The "third diraension"of man will be the theme of Hon. J. Stitt Wilson's lec tures here this week he stated in Chapel yesterday before the regular attendance of "freshmen and approximately 150 visitors. The Chapel period was extend;, ed to 11 :30 o'clock, the lecturer taking the complete hour for his address. Mr. Wilson, tall, rather imposing, with steele-gray hair, and eyes which capture the attention of the audience from the first, began his enthralling lecture upon a blackboard where lie illustrated the three dimensions of mathematics, length, breadth, and thickness. Mr. Wilson. then proceeded to draw a precise and aston ishing analogy between these and man. The three-fold nature of man, a time worn subject for speakers, was present ed, but in such a new and vigorious style that the audience at no time could ac cuse Mr. Wilson of triteness. He began with the psycho-chemical composition of man, in all his weaknesses and strength, stating that he thought this side of man was being stressed too much today. The desire of pleasure, drinking, and vice, were placed under this category. Man's "knowing'' nature is his second dimension, Mr. Wilson stated. Reason, decision, perception, memory, and other" attributes of mental side of man are developed in this dimension. ' It is the third dimension of man, how ever, which the visiting Californian ex pects to bring to the Carolina student body, he stated yesterday morning. Man' moral life, or better still, his spiritual .or religious life are being sore ly neglected, he' said in part. Just as It takes three dimensions in mathematics to make a solid or a universe, so it takes all three of these dimensions to make a man. - ; '' ' Not only did Mr. Wilson make use of a blackboard pon which he illustrated the three dimensions in geometry . and tlie graph of a human being, but the lec turer often came down into the audience walking between the aisles and speaking in shoulder to shoulder fashion Still he is not sensational; every utterance carries with it a sense of power and pure logic. Mr. -Wilson lectured again last Fri day night in Gerrard Hall, and will be here through Friday night, appearing in Chapel each morning and at Gerrard Hall each night at 8:30 o'clock. t A. I. E. E. to Have Dinner This Evening At 8:30 Tlie members of the A. I. E. E. will enjoy a dinner in Phillips Hall tonight at 8:30.o'clock. This is something aside from the regular program and all of the members are looking forward to the event with much pleasure. It is quite probable that Prof. Parker Daggett will favor -the society with a short talk. Other brief speeches are also on pio-gram. Classes -and the regular meetings do not permit the individual acquaintance of all Uie members of tlie society. Since it was thought that a feed would serve the purpose, the dinner was arranged with that intention. The meeting should prove quite beneficial to the new mem bers. - ' GERALD JOHNSON RESIGNS POSITION According to Unconfirmed Re ports in Circulation Here. PROFESSOR JOURNALISM Will Join Baltimore Sun at Close of Present School Year. . TAR BABIES ARE GETTING' IN Made Poor Showing Against Tech Yearlings. SEVERAL HAVE FLUNKED (iernld W. Johnson, professor of jour nalism in the University of North Caro lina, has tendered his resignation and will join the editorial staff of the Balti more Evening Sun at the close of the present scholastic year, according to re ports in circulation here. When questioned tonight, Professor Johnson refused to confirm or deny the reports. President Chase is out of town, and official confirmation could not be ob- tainpri fmiti nthpr finlirppfi- 'The reports bear all tlie lar-marks of truth. It is known that when Hamilton Owens, editor of tlie livening Bun, was here recently , in aftendance at the State Newspaper, Institute, he told several per sons that Professor Johnson f would he with the Sun next year. Mr. Owens spent several days in Chupel Hill at tile time as the guest of Professor Johnson, who said then that he was not in position to discuss the offer. It is understood that Professor Jolm son goes to the Sun at a salary of $6,000 a year and that he will find time to continue the magazine work that he has been doing. As holder of a full profes sorship here, his present salary is $4,- 000, .and it would be limited to $4,300 for the nine months he teaches. It is un derstood, however, that the increase in salary . is not the primary consideration A Virginia paper offered him a salary that matches the Sun' offer more than a year ago and he turned it down. De spite the universal impression that Pro fessor Johnson's classes have found great favor among, tlie students,-it is known that he does not consider himself primarily a teacher and has been con sidering for sometime various offers to return to active newspaper work. Professor Johnson's going would be regarded as a big loss, not only to the University, but to the entire State.' As an all-round practical newspaper man he is ranked at tlie top, and his maga zine contributions have won for him na tional reputation as writer. He came to the University a year and a half ago from the Greensboro Dailu New, where he was associate editor and with which he was connected in various 'capacities for a number of years. He got his first newspaper training on the Lexington DUpatch, at Lexington, N. C. . , ' As head of the University's newly cre ated Department of Journalism, he has filled a most difficult position to tlie sat isfaction of everybody here, and already the effectiveness of his stewardship has revealed itself in tlie work of his stu- deutsv-.The University campus hopes that ' reports of his going are prema ture. . ''( INTERDENOMINATIONAL UNION MEETS SUNDAY Mr. Wilder Will Give Report on Evans ton Student Conference and Con duct Forum Discussion. There will be a meeting of the High Point Club tonight at the !'Y". There will be a meeting of tlie Geol ogy Club this afternoon from 2 to 3 in No. 1 New East Building. The Deutsche Vereln will hold its reg ular meeting tonight at I1:) In Gerrard Hall. The quarterly meeting of tlie Young People's Interdenominational Union will be held in the Presbyterian church Sun day evening at 6:30. All young per sons of the town and University, wheth er they are church members or not are invited to be present at the meeting. All the denominational young people's ' or ganizations of . the local churches will cancel their regular meetings in order to attend -in a body the Y. P. I. U. gathering. ' " The meeting this quarter will be of especial interest in view of the fact that Mr. Wilder, a graduate, student in so ciology who holds a fellowship in the University, ' will give during " the first part of the meeting a brief review of tlie inter-collcgiiite inter-denominational student conference held during the Christmas holidays at Evanston, Illinois. The latter part of the program Sunday night will be given over to discussion of the topics mentioned by Mr. Wilder from the floor. Speciul music will be pro vided for the occasion. The talk by Mr. Wilder on the Evans ton conference should be of particular interest to young and old, church goers and others. . There were about one thou sand college students at the Evanston conference, representing every denomi nation and from all parts of the country. Students from almost every college and University in the United States and Canada attended the conference, in which were freely discussed religious questions of particular interest to stu dents, Among the questions which were discussed in a candid unbiiscd matter at tlie Evanston conference may be men (Contintted on page three) Leave Sunday Night on Five Day Northern Trip. Conch Carlisle Shepherd's Tar Babies, after receiving a drubbing at the hand? of .the State yearlings, are now rapidly improving and before the curtain lowers on the 1926 season they are expected to be as formidable an aggregation as any first year quint in the state. The team was very much handicapped due to tlie fact that practice did not start until several weeks after all the teams bad been playing games. As a result of this, the team is just now rounding Into ear ly season form. The fact that the Tar Babies are a greatly improved team was demonstrated In the contest with "Icky" Calhoun's "Y" aggregation last weck. Tlie team Hint entered this game tu a much smoother working machine than the one that had taken the floor against ' the Tech yearlings. 'In the second half of . this game the freshmen simply ran wild against their larger and more ex perienced opponents. 'Couch Shepherd hns been working un der many handicaps and has done won ders with what material he had oa hand. At the beginning of tlie season prospects for a creditable first year team were very gloomy on account of the fact that a large number of the best men In the" freshman class "flunked" their work and were ruled ineligible. In spite of this fact, Shepherd went quietly to work with what material he had on hand and now his efforts are beginning to bear fruit Due to this splendid coaching, several of the men on the squad have developed re markably since the start of the season and show great promise of making great basket bull players. The team, including eight men, th coach and the manager will leave Sun day night on a five-day trip through Vir ginia, playing Washington and Lee V. M. I., Augusta Military Academy, and Woodberry Forest. Last year Captain Morris and bis Tar Baby five, after play- - ing rather mediocre basketball lri the state, made a trip through Virginia sod, minus the services of Art Newcouib,' who was out of the game with an injured am " klc, literally ran away with the best freshman teams in the Old Dominion, (Continued on paga femr) ' TOMMY CAMPBELL NOT INTERESTED Former Carolina Coach Will ' Not Consider Job. "TOO MUCH WORRY IN IT" & Applicants for Fetzer'a Position Have Been Narrowed to Twenty.' ' . Tommy Campbell, formerly University of North Carolina football coach, now in the bond business in Boston, who has been mentioned frequently as the most likely, successor to William McK. et .ct as University athletic coach, la not interested in ' the proposal of several alumni groups that he return to North Carolina, it was learned here yesterday Campbell told those who were inter ested in bringing him back to the Uni versity campus that he had quit the coaching game for good and intended re maining In business. ' . . ; There is too much worry connected with college athletics," he is said to have written a prominent alumnus. "The stu dents want One thing, the alumni anoth er, and the faculty still another. And (Continued on page two) Bible Discussion Groups Will Not Meet Tonight - No Bible discussion groups will meet tonight, as the regulur time for the meeting conflicts with the lecture of J. Stitt Wilson at 8:30 in Gerrard Hall. Attendance at the lecture, by members of the groups will count just the same as if tlie discussion groups were held. Each group leader is requested to get a record of the attendance of the meal-. hers of his group' at the lecture and turn it in on the regular report cards which will be sent out today. There seems to be great competition for the banquet which will be given at the and of the quarter at the Carolina Ina to the group having the highest percentage of its members present, taking into cob- deration the men available in the sec tion assigned to each particular -group. Therefore, in order to keep up their record each group must be well repre sented tonight, t The question for discussion will be sent nut as usual next week for the fourth of the series.