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Animated Session Yields An Array Of Nominations POLITICIANS BUSY Nominations Will Be Concluded At Chapel This Morning. MANY LONG WIND ED SPEECHES New System of Secret Balloting Will Be Used for First Time This Year. Such an outburst of nominations greeted Jeff Fordham, president of the student body, when he opened the meet ing for the nomination of candidates for the various student offices for next year in chapel yesterday morning that he found it necessary to call a truce at the end of the regular period and announce that the nominations would continue through today's chapel. Many upsets and surprises culminated with this morning's nominations. Poli ticians and would-be politicians who have for the past several weeks been holding secret councils, and whispered inter views began to see their work taking definite shape and prognostications are already to the effect that about three men are certain to be president of the student body and all the publications will have a.t least two editors-in-chief in the running., ' Long-winded, speeches extolling the virtues of the various candidates took practically the entire time of the meet 'ing, although the nominations sent in by the Publications Union and the Y. M. C. A. served to expedite matters con siderably. : Had each of these nominees been the subject of such extensive praise the meeting would have hardly been fin ished yet. The center of the greatest competition and sharpest speech-making centered around the office of president of the student body. When some public spirited gentleman finally rose to the point of action and moved that the nom inations for that office be closed there were five names before the meeting. Although spirited, the nominations for members of the Publications Board did not bring forth such keen rivalry. The retiring board submitted a list of nom inees and three more came from the floor. The editors of the Tak Heel, Carolina Magazine, and the Yachety Yack were recommended by a vote taken by the editorial board of each. In addi tion to these candidates there were fur ( Continued from page three) COOPER ASSUMES DUTY AS SPEAKER Phi Speaker Goes Into Office at First Meeting of Quarter. OTHER S INAUGURATED Small Gathering Hears Short Debates On Several Resolutions. The first meeting of the quarter was held by the Phi Assembly at the regu lar time Saturday night. The meeting was not as well attended as its import ance and instructiyeness merited. Speaker Chappell assumed his former position at the beginning of the meet ing, but soon asked that Representative Matthews lead the speaker-elect, J. F. Cooper, to the rostrum, at which time he formally assumed the duties of speaker, of the Philanthropic 'Assembly. The other officers who were inaugurated at this meeting were as follows: K. O. Warren, speuker-pro-tem; Carl Kelly, sergeant-at-arms; Walter Kelly, reading clerk, and T. E. Clemmons, chairman of the appellate committee. The only motion on the desk provided that the Assembly adjourn at 8:15 so that any members who wished could hear the Swarthmore-Carolina debate. It was then Resolved, That the Phi Assembly go on record as favoring the election of Mr. Reynolds to succeed Lee S. Overman as United States Senator from North Carolina. The resolution was introduced by Representative Dees, who stated that Mr. Reynolds- as quite a young man which very forcibly con trasted with the advanced age of Sepator Overman. However, he did not at all Question the capability of either of the two men, but thought that it would be a wise move for North Carolina to send Mr. Reynolds to Washington. Chappell, Strickland, and others up held the re-election of Mr. Overman, revealing the fact that the longer one remains in office the more efficient he becomes. Since no one knew the merits W the platform of either of the two men, (Continued on page three) 8 First Grail Dance Set For April 17. No German Club Dances will be given this Easter due to the University's temporary ruling against dancing which was made last December. The ban how ever will be lifted immediately upon the close of the holidays. The Order of the Grail will give its first dance of the Spring Quarter on Saturday, April 17. Classes begin on April 12 and it is understood that the Alpha Kappa Psi Commerce is to give a dance on Friday, April J6. The Grail is permitted to give three dances each quarter. Every precaution will be exer cised by members of the Grail at its dances during the spring in maintaining the highest order of conduct. The ban upon dances came as a result of the Thanks giving series given by the Ger man Club, in which the Order, of the Grail had no part. BABBITT TO SPEAK ON 'ROMANTICISM' Howard Professor Guest of Uni versity Lecture Committee This Evening. GERRARD HALL AT 8:30 Visiting Speaker Has Erstwhile Repu tation As Authority on Romantic Literature. Irving Babbitt, professor of Romance languages at Harvard University, and an intellectual leader in-the country, will give a public address here tonight at 8::30 o'clock in Gerrard Hall to which the public is very cordially invited. Prof. Babbitt has achieved great dis tinction in the language field and will speak here on "Romanticism and the Orient." He will give special reference to Kipling and is expected to bring an interesting message along this line. His latest book is Democracy and Leadership in which he deals with the widely felt need for leaders today. We have much to, learn from the Orient, Babbitt asserts, in our standards of democracy. Earlier books of the lan guage, professor include Literature and the American College, The Laokoon, Masters of Modem French Criticism, and Rousseau and Romanticism, As a modern interpretator of the hu manistic tradition dominant in the Oc (Continued on page three) DRAMATIC INSTITUTE WAS GREAT SUCCESS Wunsch Elected President, Miss Knott Vice-President, and Miss Rockwell Secretary and Treasurer. Over 150 delegates attended the third conventions . of the Carolina Dramatic Institute which came to a close here Saturday. The convention, which lasted three days, busied itself with presenta tions of high school and college plays, lectures by visiting notables, and the ap pointing of officials for the coming year. W. R. Wunsch, director of dramatics in the Greensboro high school was elect ed president, succeeding W.. R. Taylor, director of dramatics at N. C. C. W., who has been president of the Institute for the last two years. Miss Gertrude Knott, of Chowan col lege was elected Vice-President, suc ceeding Mrs. K. F. Ashber of North Wilkesboro. Miss E. T. Rockwell, of the University, was elected Secretary Treasurer for the third successive year. At the business session, President Tay lor gave the results of a survey made of all the colleges of the country, This survey showed that 60 per cent of 347 colleges hud courses in play production, 35 per cent had courses in play writ ing, and 70 per cent gave credit for such courses. This survey clearly indicated that dramatics are growing in favor as an accredited subject, he said. Prof. Koch is very enthusiastic over the convention, anLsays that the success of 'state-wide dramatic conventions can be no longer doubted. DARTMOUTH GAME TOOPEN SEASON HERE WEDNESDAY Big Green Will Take on Tar Heels in Southern Trip. ; LINE-UP STILL UNCERTAIN Coach "Duke" Duncan May Send Same Team in That Played Freshman Saturday. 1 ' i Dartmouth's big green team invades the Hill Wednesday to help the Tar Heels lift the lid off the season of base ball inactivity. The Hanoverians are taking a long southern trip to get the benefit of early training in the balmy South and to prepare for the later strug: gles with the big northern nines. Their strength is an unknown quantity, and Coach Dundan's Tar Heels will be see ing their first action; so the final out come defies prediction by the sports prophets. Coach Duncan sent his varsity tossers into action Saturday afternoon for the first time this season, matching them against the Tar Babies in a seven-inning game that went to the varsity by the count 'of 8 to 3. Both sides exhibited ragged play at times, and the Tar Heels showed woeful lack of punch with the big bat. Steve Ingram,' a lanky black huired freshman, took the hillock against the Duncanites and for fou innings held them in the palm of his right hand. Not a single clean hit was garnered off his delivery, though the" varsity push ed over three runs in the fourth on errors and a walk. The only bingle reg istered off Ingram came in, the second frame when "Bear" Webb popped a high one over second base and four frosli fielders ran together and allowed Webb to get safe. Henry Satterfield, freshman football and basketball star, who was playing sTiortstop for the Twenty-niners, was injured in the mix up and will probably be out of the game for the early part of the season. Coach Lowe pulled Ingram in the fifth and sent Thomas, former Wood berry hurlcr, to the mound, and he held the varsity outfit to three hits in the final three innings. Two of these hits, (Continued on page three) FINAL PREPARATIONS MADE FOR HI DEBATE Triangular Debates of 14th Annual High School Debate Will Be Held Evening of April 2. High schol debaters in 250 high schools of the state are now making final prepa rations for the triangular debates on April 2 of the North Carolina High School Debating Union. Representing these 250 high schools, which extend from Hayesville in the. west to Poplar Branch in the east, one thousand student debaters will speak in the triangular contest next Friday on the query, Resolved, That North Caro lina should levy a state tax on property to aid in tht support of an eighfr months school term. '".. The triangular debates will mark the culmination of a great effort, extending over the past several months, which has been put forth by the yduthful contest ants in the race for the Aycock Memorial Cup. Sources of information from far (Continued on page four) LATEST COACH iMfiiti 0mm f- lIlliwlKillil James N. Ashmore, recently named head baseball and basketball coach and assist ant in football at the University. He starred in football, baseball, and basket ball at the University of Illinois and has coached successfully in several western universities since leaving college, Dur ing the Howard Jones regime at the University of Iowa, Ashmore was head baseball and basketball coach and as sistant in football there. CAROLINA MEETS DUKEHERETODAY Emerson Field Scene of Clash of Cinder Artists. FROSH BASEBALL PROGRAM BIG ONE Fourteen Games Already Sched uled and Three More , Pending. TO TAKE SIX DA Y! TRIP Open Frosh Season With Mars Hill Here Friday Afternoon. With fourteen games already definitely scheduled and three pending, the fresh man baseball schedule is one of the most elaborate ones that the yearlings have ever had. The card includes games with all of the Big Five first year teams with the single exception of -the Davidson Wildkittens and also a six-day trip into the Old Dominion state, including games with Washington and Lee, Virginia Mili tary Institute, Woodberry Forest, V. P. L, Virginia and Augusta Military Acad emy. The, season opens Friday afternoon when the Mars Hill team comes here for a game with the Tar Babies and closes on Way 18 with a contest with the State Clubs in Raleigh. The complete schedule is as follows: April 2 Mars Hill at Chapel Hill. April 13 Duke at Chapel Hill. April 22 Greensboro High School at Chapel Hill. May 1 Wake Forest at Wake Forest. May 3 Washington and Lee at Lex ington, Va. May 4 V. M. I. at Lexington, Va. May 5 Woodberry Forest at Orange, Va. May 6 Virginia ut Charlottesville. May 7 V. P. I. at Blacksburg, Va. May 8 Augusta Military Academy, there. May 10-11 Oak Ridge at Chapel Hill (Pending). May 12 Duke at Chapel Hill. (Continued on page four) Catalog of Century Ago Compared To New Issue By Bill Neal The catalogue of the University of North Carolina for 1826, one hundred years ago, was a pamphlet of only 13 pages. The 1926 issue clearly marks a century of rapid growth. It is a volume of over 300 pages. It is now off press and is ready for distribution from the Alumni Secretary's office in Alumni building. The volume, which Is number 232, contains announcements for the year 1926-27. The 1826 catalogue was a-small yellow backed booklet which bore the title "Cat alogue of the Faculty and Students of the University of North Carolina, Sep tember, 1826." At that time the cata logue, was published in the fall. It was printed in Hillsborough (now Hillsboro). As the title indicates, most of the space in the book -was devoted to the faculty and the students. A complete list of each was given, and this took up most of the pages of the pamphlet. Require ments for entrance to the University of that day were simply the study of 13 books. There was no choice in the course of study, so the subjects taught at the University required very little space in the catalogue. Each year of the college course was divided int6 two semesters and each student was required to study certain subjects each semester. It was interesting to notice that the fall semes ter began in J uly in those day of a century ago. Matters are different to day. Instead of a strict required course of study each subject has the privilege of entering the College of Liberal Arts or eleven different schools. In these he may study business, medicine, law, phar macy, teaching, engineering, and many other subjects. In addition he has a wide range of choice of subjects within each school. In 1826 there were only six professors and three tutors in the faculty of the University. Dr. Joseph Caldwell was president at that time and he is num bered in the list of the faculty. Dr. Caldwell taught moral philosophy while the other instructors taught mathemat ics, natural philosophy, chemistry, min eralogy, geology, ancient languages, modern languages, and rhetoric. This (Continued on page four) INITIAL DUAL . CONTEST Both Have Strong Teams Carolina Contenders Not Determined Yet. This afternoon at 3:30 the Carolina track team and our neighbors, the Duke team, are to stage a cinder pushing con test on Emerson field. It is the first track meet for both teams, but support ers of the two old rivals claim that their athletes are in mid-season form. There are bound to be some interesting contests staged, and, if nothing else, the age-old rivalry between the two institutions should cause plenty- of fur to fly. The Carolina athletes have been work ing hard for over a month. A fair exam ple of their ability and what we can expect was evidenced in the intra-mural meet Saturday. A comparison with the inter-class meet staged at Duke a few weeks ago shows that Duke is slightly better in the weights. Caldwell, foot ball star weight and man of the visi tors, is going to have some keen com petition from Fordham, Williams, and Newcombe. Other capuble performers for Duke may be found in the jumps and in the distances, Coaches Bob Fetzer, Dale Ranson and Quinlan have not definitely decided on who will be the honored wearers of the "blue and white", but they will make their choice out of the following men who have all been showing up well: In the hundred yard dash are: Mc Pherson, Woodard, Giersh, and Har rison; one milers: Elliott, Pritchett, Thorpe, and Underwood; 220 dash men: McPherson, Edwards, Harrison, and Smith; 440 men: Edwards, Watt, Mc Daniels, and Wyrick; 120 yard high hur dles: Pearson, Watt, Buck, and Johnson: 220 low hurdles: Giersh, Huggins,. Watt, and Smith; 880 yard run: Jonas, Rrine- bart, Henley, Evans, and Russ: 2 mile: Goodwin, Daniels, Henderson, and Brown; Pole vault: Cirbett, McFavden. Johnston, and Kenney; Shot: Fordham, Williams, Jenkins, Newcombe, and Light; High jump: Ambrose, Pearson, (Continued on page three) TAR BABY NINE BOWS TO VARSITY SATURDAY Duke Duncan's Team Licked Frosh Ag gregation in Fast Practice Game By Score of 8-3. Although Coach "Runt" Lowe's fresh man baseball team was defeated by the varsity Saturday afternoon by the score of 8-3, they showed great promise of having one of the best first year teams that has represented the University in several years. Had the yearlings not blown up in the fifth and sixth stanzas, it is highly . possible that tliey would have emerged victorious over their more experienced opponents. Coach Lowe sent Ingram to the fir ing line and the lanky hurler pitched one of the prettiest games ever witnessed on the Freshman field. For three in nings Captain Jones and his men were kept away from the plute by the superb pitching of the Tar Baby ace. The only hit which was garnered off his delivery was a freak single in the second canto by Webb. The varsity third sacker sent a Texas leaguer over second base which three men made desperate efforts to catch, t They all ran together and Satterfield, freshman shortstop, was severely injured. He was removed from the field in a semi-conscious condition and was later taken to Walts Hospital in Durham. In the fourth frame, a base on balls, seyeral bobbles on the part of the Tar Baby infielders, and one or two errors of commossion all combined to give Coach Duncan's men three markers. Up until this time, they had been on the small end of a 2-0 score which the freshmen had piled up as the result of several hits and good base running. The varsity tallied another marker in the sixth canto and the freshmen added another to their total in the fifth in ning and this ended the scoring for the day. The contest was witnessed by a fairly large crowd of spectators who, despite the cold weather, seemed to enjoy it very much. They all seemed to be of the opinion that the varsity had a good field ing team but that much improvement would have to be made in their stick work if they expect to get anywhere in the state championship race this year. The freshmen seem to have a well-balanced nine and if the pitchers deliver they will give all the yearling nines of (Continued on page three) ALL-UNIVERSITY TRACK TOURNEY HELD SATURDAY Meet On Emerson Field Under Auspices of Injra-Mural . Athletics. OLD WEST IS HIGH SCORER "J" Dorm Follows Close Behind John , ny Pearson Led Lawrence Watt by Half Point. Sport followers of the University of Nortli Carolina got their first taste of a real track exhibition this year at Em erson field, Saturday. At first it was the general opinion of many onlookers that ' the Southern Conference meet had been moved up about eight weeks. It was not an unusual happening for an interested by-stander to be heard asking, "What college is that guy from who won that lust heat?" It seemed impossible that such a galaxy of stars could all be from the same institution. Over 200 students participated in the competition, about 60 more than entered last year. There were various and sun dry costumes worn Some arousing quite a bit of comment. Old West, with the stellar aid of Law rence Watt, duplicated her victory of . last year. She led the "Juy" boys by a margin of only seven points, the final score being: Old West 49, "J" 42. Ruf fin, led by the mighty Johnny Pearson, finished in third place with 29 points, only 13 units behind "J." Old East and the Alpha Tau Omega frut pushed one another for fourth place with 20 points each.v A. T. O.'s showing was particu larly commendable on account of the fact that their entire team was composed of only four men. The rest of the dorms were strewn out in haphazard fashion. High scoring honors for the meet go to one, Johnny Pearson by name, who hails from Apex, N. C. Pearson's title was by no means easily won, and "John ny" is still nervous from the scare given him by Lawrence Watt, of Rcidsville. N. C. The final count was: Pearson, 17; Watt, l's. Quite u bit of excitement was aroused over this race for individual honors. The last event of the day the broad jump rolled around and Watt was 2Va points ahead of Pearson. Pear son had to get a third place (3 points) or better in the jump in order to win out. The final result shows how glori ously Pearson came through. : With such a wonderful array of tal ent on display, it is not at all surprising , (Continued on page three) NEGATIVE WINS IN FORENSIC CONTEST Carolina and Swarthmore Mix Representatives in Open Forum Debate. ON CURTIS - REED BILL Chappell and Partus Represent The University Before Small Audience. The second 'open forum debate of the year was staged Saturday night be tween Swarthmore and Carolina in Ger rard hull. The query of this forensic contest was: Resolved, That this house approves the Curtis-Rccd Bill providing for a Federal Department of Education. The discussion, in spite of the timely naiire of the subject and its particular tangency on an audience of this type, failed to inspire a very large attendance or sufficient enthusiasm to do more than to gain a few scattering questions from those who attended. The debate itself was enlightening and in spite mounted into the realm of interest and spontane ous wit. Dr. Horace Wijliams, presiding officer,' called for an expression by. the audience of their position on the ques tion preceding the discussion iit order to ascertain after the speeches "how much mischief would be done." The audience registered a two-to-one vote in favor of the affirmative side of the query. Then after the constructive speeches had been presented, the questioning and cross-examining had been carried through, a sec ond primary was held and the final count was declared to favor the negative af firmative 22, negative 24. : Orrick Metcalf, of Swarthmore, intro duccd the debate and the affirmative ar gument with a pica for better under standing of the importance of education and for more widespread educational advantages and facilities in this country. He deplored the fact that 65 per cent of the population are illiterates and that 54 per cent of the teachers have not had normal school training. The speaker de clared that it is a purpose of this pro (Conlinued from page four)