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THE TAR HEEL
Tuesday, January 11, 192T
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Tuesday, January 11, 1927
BEAUTY AND CULTURE
If the: attendance at the con
cert by : Marie ; Sundelius. last
Friday night is a criterion of the
musical appreciation on .' this
campus, then the University of
North Carolina is suff eringr from
a lack of culture and beauty.
The visiting artist indubitably
carried away a negative impres
sion of the place. A iguess at
the number of people who com
posed the audience would place
the figure below the hundred
mark.
No reasonable excuse can be
given for the small audience.
The concert had been well adver
tised. Miss Sundelius had been
heralded as being among , the
first or second principal sopranos
of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, Advance stories had an
nounced that the program would
be a varied one, beginning with
several operatic arias . and . run
ning through a number of mod
ern compositions to a brilliant
waltz, which closed the enter
tainment. ?; Still there was oniy
a "hand-full" of people to greet
the "possessor of a wonderful
voice and a charming artist with
a pleasing stage appearance."
Numbered in - the crowd were
about. a dozen students and a
dozen faculty men, the rest be
ing townsfolk mostly ladies. .
The price of admission to the
concert might be given as one
reason for the small student at?
' tendance, Hhough we refuse to
Relieve that students do . not
squander as much as a dollar
'for less -worthy objects. But
this reason will not hold for fac
ulty men. The ' attendance of
twelve instructors and .profes
sors out of a total of nearly two
hundred does not speak so well
for the faculty of "the greatest
University in the South." : y
The night before the concert
there was a poor exhibition of
basketball given in the "Tin
Can" before a crowd of more
than a thousand people. The
admission to those other than
students was half the price
charged for the concert. The at
tendance at the game was ten
times as large as that at the
concert. Probably at least
half-dozen more basketbal
games will be played here this
winter, but Marie Sundelius has
probably made her only appear
ance before local concert-goers
for several years, if not for al
time. The writer spent about
ten minutes at the game and
nearly two hours at the concert,
and values the two in about that
ratio. Further comment is un
necessary. ' r
How long a time the Univer
sity Music Department can keep
bringing cultural entertainments
here at financial losses is a mat
ter that is baffling. v
The whole affair calls to our
minds the address that Dr.
Douglas Freeman made here
last June at the Commencement.
He talked about beauty, and cul
ture. He asserted that "South
ern industrial progress , and edu
cation have reached the stage
where the South should begin to
consider how they can be used
for cultural development."
The South, he said, must con
tinue to hold fast to religion and
education as its cardinal creeds,
but there ought to be added to
those Creeds "a , third article;
namely, a wider diffusion of sane
culture." He would "seek the
beautiful along with the prac
tical. 1
"College graduates . need no
longer go out with the feeling
that their first obligation is to
create wealth for the upbuilding
of the South," Dr. Freeman said
in part. "The industrial battle
is being won as these young men
come on the field. The South
still needs hundreds of millions
of dollars of capital, but she
probably can accumulate this be
fore many years by more intelli
gent production and enlarged
thrift. For the first time since
the war between the states, 'the
question is not whether the vic
tory over poverty and adversity
can be won, but how it can be
used.'' v:, "; V;,''.- "-
"There is a deal of twaddle a-
bout culture and no little mis
conception both as to what it is
and as to how it may be attained.
Culture of the kind that bright
ens and softens the life of a
people is not superimposed and
it cannot be ordered, f.o.b. uni
versity, for delivery at a speci
fied point on a given date. Cul
ture is the tangible, yet indefin
able expression of a long-continued
attitude toward life. The
element that dominates the in
tellectual life " of a state or
of a city takes that attitude, and
uses a part of its wealth for the
things that reflect that attitude.
In the course of time it may
be a decade, but it is more like
ly to be five men begin to put
in great books or great music
or great pictures the ideals oth
ers have been cultivating. This
is one fruition of culture. It can
not be divorced from an atti
tude of life. ' It cannot be at
tained without a background, a
certain high enthufiasm and,
speaking, generally, without the
basic, wealth that gives men
leisure. ' ( . ' .
"What is this 'attitude toward
life' that would seem to be the
source of the culture that is, af
ter faith itself, the1 most blessed
spiritual possession of man ?
"Is it not, fundamental, a
belief in beauty? Thai belief
is not and should not b"- exclu
sively the credo of arlisfs, and
if it is to help the lifo of the
South, it must not, lie allied sole
ly to thoss thinjn thvX are called
.he 'fine arts.' A belief in beauty
is a conviction that every act,
every object, has at least two
aspects, that there is a better I
and a worse way of doing every
thing, and that one of the chief
ends of life is to seek the better,
the more beautiful way. It is a
belief in . the beauty of indivi
dual thought as well as in the
beauty of that thought's expres
sion in written or spoken words.
It is belief in the beauty of a life
as surely as in the beauty of a
landscape. .
"The appeal is not that the
young men of this nniversity go
out as esthetes, rather than as
industrialists. The very word
'esthete,' though it has. a pre
cise and noble meaning, has it
self become , discredited since
Oscar Wilde's day. Ruskin's de
votees, have made it ridiculous.
The .appeal is for a belief in
beauty along with a belief in in
dustrialism, and in popular edu
cation. The young man who
will come back to Chapel Hill
twenty years from now, with the
surest record of service to. the
South and with . the largest
measure of soul content, will be
the man who has made the con
quest of ugliness a, part of his
life's work along with the con
quest of his economic problem.
He will be the man who has
sought beauty along with a liv
ing. , He. will be the man who
has found that religion itself is
spiritualized beauty. ;
"A belief in beauty, cherish
ed through the years, is one of
the few ways , any, society can
make permanent contribution to
civilization." ,
OPEN FORUM
'My Idea of God" is Theme.
of Dr. Francis Venable
(Continued from page one)
oeba come from? I do not be-
ieve that life could come entire
y from the earth or any of the
esser planets.
"Some scientists say that
everything evolved but I can't
believe it. The amoeba does not
appear to be the final solution.
The only solution I have is that
it came from some outside life
from a source abundant in
wisdom, power and love.
"Evolution offers only an ex
planation of the 'how.'. It has
not settled the question of
where'."
Dr. Venable believes that
love is : the greatest moving
force in the world. All about me
see evidence of love and wis
dom, and I search no further for
a creator. Love made the world
and God is love. All about me
see evidence of His handiwork.
To me He is divine, the highest
authority of life
"I know of no better definition
of the creator than that given
centuries ago: ''God is a spirit,
infinite, eternal, unchangeable,
wisdom, truth, justice, power,
mercy, love, and the greatest of
hese is love.".
Editor of Tar Heel:
When I picked up the Tar
Heel .this morning I was sorry
to note that the controversy be
tween the Golden Fleece and cer
tain members of Sigma 'Upsi
lon had been reopened. I had
hoped that the recent bad feel
ing would die out during the
holidays. But as there seems
to be some who are still inter
ested in the matter, I would like
to call to : their attention the
story of the two old Presbyterian
preachers who were engaged in
a heated argument over theolo
gical matters. The more illus
trious of the two ended a rather
lengthy address with the words
"There is nothing, gentlemen
more pitiful than to see a lit
tie man try to be big and fail."
"Except," was the immediate
reply, "to see a big, man try to
be little and succeed."
J. B. BULLITT, JR
horn", long enough, the Golden
Fleece will waste away and van
ish frpm our campus. It is
doubtful whether his faith is
great enough, his tools are of
the right kind, or he is using the
right methods to do whatyhe has
set out to do. Faith carried too
far, or in the wrong direction,
is liable to be foolish. "Further
comment is reserved for subse
quent issues."
R. L. DULA.
Editor of Tar Heel:
If there be worthy arguments
on either side of the . so-called
Golden Fleece controversy, the
student body , is entitled to, and
should hear them. . Neither par
ty should let the truth remain
hidden, one because it is afraid
that its dignity , might be des
troyed and the other because it
fears that interest has been, lost
in its cause. , Truth should stand,
and a few students, at least, are
interested in our search for it
NORMAN BLOCK
CREDITS FOR STUDENTS
IN HIGH INSTITUTIONS
When the credits for students
in American colleges and univer
sities are properly arranged they
will be about as follows, says
the New .York World:
"It now looks as though we
have neither colleges nor univer
sities, but simply rival football
clubs. Many will deny this.
They will point out that classes
still go on, that the Greek de
partment has , more students
than it ever had, that a grad
uate of the dramatic school re
cently had a play produced on
Broadway. That much we may
grant them. But they will hard-
y deny that football is now the
chief campus activity; that its
coaches are paid more than pro
fessors ; that its budget is larg
er than the budget for anything
else ; that it is almost the sole
interest o'fvthe alumni, and that
any president who dared flout
that interest would lose his job
so quickly he would not know
what happened to him."
Editor of Tar Heel:
Faith is a wonderful thing to
have both faith in one's own
ability to accomplish a certain
result, and faith in different
theories. "Faith hath power to
move mountains, build sky
scrapers and to dig tunnels." But
faith, in order to do things ac
complish results should have
certain tools and use certain
methods. ; Faith, alone, will not
build sky-scrapers. .
Theories are also very won
derful, and many theories are
beautiful, things though some
are not thoroughly worked out,
and some do not work at all.
Ther.e is a theory that "his
tory repeats itself." Some have
faith in this theory and some do
not. It was through faith that
the Israelites, by marching
around the walls of Jericho and
blowing their hbrns, caused
these walls to crumble and fall
But these men had the right
kind of tools and used the prop
er methods to accomplish the de
sired result. ,
The instigator and perpetra
tor of the recent attack on the
Golden Fleece seems to have
faith in the theory that "His
tory repeats itseli, " and seems
to believe that, if he "toots his
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Le Cercle Francais
Recently Revived;
Will Meet Friday
Le Cercle Francais has been
revived. At a recent meeting
of members of the French de
partment, research' fellows and
advanced students of French
amid much enthusiasm Le Cer
cle, which had lapsed into in
activity, since the days of Bob
Linker, was reorganized with
John A. Downs, the only under
graduate present, as president
and George W. Fenjey, graduate
student, as secretary-treasurer.
Le Cercle is organized with the
purpose of stimulating interest
in the French language,' popu
larizing the department, aiding
those who are specializing in the
field, and bringing together
those with a common interest
in the language, the literature
and the people of France. The
success of the French play, Le
Malade f Imaginaire, produced
last year by Dr. Urban Holmes
and spoken throughout in
French was so encouraging that
the need of a medium of some
sort whereby those interested in
French might meet together was
immediately apparent. For this
reason the French drama will
receive especial attention.
The meetings, at which only
French is spoken, will be held
monthly, and Le Cercle extends
a cordial invitation to those who
are interested in French. The
next meeting will be at the Epis
copal Parish House, next Fri
day evening at 8:30 o'clock.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
4:30 p. m. A. A. U. W. Meeting,
at the home of Mrs. Odum: Mr. Eng
lish Bagby on "Personality Train
ing." , .;- ..
' 7:15 p. m. Phi Assembly, Manning
Hall. i ..i ', : .
7:15 p. m. Di Senate, Di Hall.
7:30 p. m. Authors Reading, Play
maker Theatre.
8:30 p. m. Philological Club, Epig.
copal Parish House. Professor Adams
"The Employment of the Grotesque
in the Spanish Romantic Drama."
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12
7:30 p. m. Venable Hall, Moving
Picture, "World's Struggle for Oil."
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13
4:00 p. m. Playmaker Theatre,
tryouts. ;.. V';''
6:00 p. m. Methodist Church,
Chicken Pie Dinner.
6:00 p. m. Dinner for Religious
Workers Gouncil, Episcopal Parish
House.
DR. R, R. CLARK
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Worth Chosen to Conduct
Durham Sewage Survey
A. M. Worth has been selected
to conduct during- the next
twelve months the investigation
of sewage and industrial- waste
for the city of Durham, for
which' purpose the city has
given two thousand five hundred
dollars to the University of
North Carolina.
Mr. Worth received his Civil
Engineering degree from State
College in 1922. Since that time
he has been connected with
North Carolina municipalities in
Sanitary Engineering work and
the United States Public Health
Service. He started his new
work at the beginning of the
winter quarter.
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