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Miss GeorgieB' Baker, Library Extension Service, Main Library (Basement) nhftpei Hill, N.n. . WRESTLING DAVIDSON vs. CAROLINA TIN CAN, MONDAY, 8:30 P.M. PLAYMAKER READING PLAYMAKER BUILDING TOMORROW 8:30 P. M. VOLUME XXXV CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927 NUMBER 57 New Kenan Memorial Stadium Site is in Furor of Activity As Huge'Engine Gnaws at Hillsides All Evidence Points j To Completion for Thanksgiving Game Underground Conduit Wires Will Trovide for Nightime Proclivities. MANY WATCH WORK Actual Construction Work Upon Stands Will Commence About May 1. 5 With the playing field virtu ally leveled, ground cleared, ma terial coming in, and construc tion of seats to begin soon the "evolution of Carolina's new foot ball field is rapidly taking defin ite shape. Already visitors who "trouble themselves enough to ;vwind their way into the forest and watch the voracious steam shovel biting hungrily into huge masses of clay, are readily able "to visualize the Thanksgiving "day nine months off when the Universities of North Carolina and Virginia battle for suprem acy in the classic that will more than likely be used as the scene for the dedication of the $275,000 monument to the Ken an family. Two short months ago the site of the new stadium was nothing but woods and under growth with a tiny stream trick ling peacefully down the center of the ravine, And now after six weeks of working night and day, a huge red hole has appear ed in the earth and the playing field is practically levelled. The contract calls for the com pletion of all excavation by May 1. Immediately following, the actual construction will begin under the direction of TV C Thompson and Bro. There were 55,000 cubic yards of dirt to be moved, the amount being greatly lessened by the fact that the stadium will be built on the sides of the natural ravine. The com pleted stadium will contain 4,000 cubic yards of concrete, the greater part of which will be poured over a base of solid dirt. The earth will be pressed layer Continued on page four) COAXES' MOTIVE IN FLUNKING MEN WAS ALTRUISTIC Law School Professor Explains His Attempt to Raise Standards of School. QUIETS DEFIANT STUDENTS He Would Make This the Lead- ing School of Law in the Southland. VALUABLESETOF LAW BOOKS WON BY JEFFFORDIIAM American Law Book Company Donates Corpus Juris to Uest Law Student. . SIXTY VOLUMES IN SET Is First Time That Prize Has Been Offered Here. ' J, B. Fordham, former presi dent of the student body and present member of the first year law class, has recently been awarded a set of Corpus Juris, a prize given the member of the class in Legal Bibliography for the best work in legal research The set at present contains for ty-one volumes which cover all the law alphabetically from A through Mortgages; additional volumes are issued as soon as compiled. When completed the Corpus Juris will be a complete encyclopedia : of American law contained in sixty volumes. The basis of the award was a problem involving a number of questions in law, the answers to which were to be found in the (Continued on page three) The strained situation that has existed since last week be tween Albert Coates and mem bers of his class in Property now seems certain of a satisfactory and entirely amiable settlement On Thursday morning Mr Coates spoke to the first year Law class assembled in Manning Hall and explained the motive which caused him to issue 15 F's and seven E's to a class of fifty-two members on final ex amination. Two Phi Beta stu dents were among those who failed. Mr. Coates told the stu dents that it is his sincere wish to raise the standards of the University School of Law to a point that will make it the South's outstanding institution in that particular branch of higher education. He told the men that he was willing to give another examination just as hard, but no harden and grade on a similar scale, but no harsh Several meetings have been held between Mr. Coates and the class in an effort to have him rpsrind his drastic method of grading, but with his explana tion vesterday there came a sud den understanding of his posi tion by the students, and instead of a spirit of antagonism toward the instructor there returned an attitude of the deepest respect Mr. Coates' speech to the class was delivered in a masterfu way. His sereneness completely swep the aspiring young bar risters completely away from a stand of defiance which had characterized their actions for the past several days, and those students who had led a move ment to boycott the professor showed a decided change of at titude. : The speech which Mr. Coates delivered to the class was: Gentlemen: At. vour meeting Monday morning you appointed a com mittee to see me about your ex amination erades and report hnoV at a meeting Monday night Thev came. I told them that if they were sent, or if they came, in the way of threat, I had notn ing to say to you. They assured me that no threat was involved; that thev had come to reach an understanding. I talked to them three hours. On that same basis Continued on page three) WRF.STLERS TACKLE DAVIDSON MONDAY Is Initial Encounter of Wildcat Team With Coach Quinlans Men. A match between the David son wrestling team and the University grapplers will be held Monday night, 8:30. The wildcats have made a rec ord this year that deserves much comment and the encounter is attracting the interest of all lo cal sportsmen. arolina Opens Tourney With Easy Victory OLDE SMITHE HALLE TENNESSEE TEAM SWAMPED UNDER TAR HEEL ATTACK White Phantoms, Lead by Van- story and Morris, Ride Easily to a 32-17 Win. TO MEET AUBURN TODAY This old building probably has the most varied history of any building on any , college campus, for it has served as ballroom, library, law building and Playmaker theatre while nineteen college generations enjoyed its use. Its most striking glory was achieved as a ballroom, and in its confines have been held many of Dixieland's most charming and beautiful social affairs. However, since 1885, it has ceased to be the palace where Terpischore reigns and where southern aristocracy and chivalry pre dominated, but instead has been used to house departments of the University. At present it is the home of the Carolina' Playmakers. 1 ' Postpone Track Meet Scheduled for Monday -The indoor track meet which was scheduled to be held in the Tin Can on Mon "day night, March 7, has been indefinitely postponed due to the non-accredited high school basketball championship game which will be played in the. Can on that night. ZETA BETA TAU MAKES FORMAL BOW TO CAMPUS nstallation Ball at Inn Tonight Will Close Initiation Ceremonies. MANY VISITORS ATTEND Virginia and Washington and Lee Chapters Conduct Rites. Tervischore tRei&ned Unsteadily From Close of War Till Nineties The Installation Ball tonight at the Carolina Inn will conclude the celebration of the advent of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity to the campus. The formal instal lation ceremonies for the instal lation of Zeta Epsilon, local fra ternity, as - Alpha Pi chapter were held yesterday afternoon. A banquet at the Carolina Inn last night in honor of the instal lation team from the Univer sity of Virginia and Washing ton and Lee. national officers and other visitors 'followed the induction ceremonies. George MacVi National Executive Sec retary of i the fraternity, is a- mong the prominent fraternity men here for the occasion. Tonkht the climax will be reached at the crowning social event of the week-end the In stallation Ball at the Carolina Tnn. A laree number of girls have been invited to the Hill for the event and the new fraternity is makintr every effort to have its initial dance a brilliant af fair. Representatives of all the greek organizations on the cam pus and numberous out-of-town visitors will be guests in the ball room tonight. The Carolina Buccaneers have been engaged to play for the function. Zeta Beta Tau, the twenty ninth national fraternity to in Continued on page four) By Walter Creech) "Is the dance formal, or do we wear our own clothes?" Once more this eternal question was on the lips of the University students. The gloomy cloud of war had come and gone leaving in its wake the ruin and disaster of reconstruc tion.. The University, after eking out a decadent existence through the dark days of the war and succeeding years was forced to close its doors in 1870. Five years later they were re-opened and again the village became the scene of merry student life. Danc ing came again to the campus. There was little evidence at the commencement of 1877 that the peo ple were suffering the after-effects of a great war. The Commencement Ball is described by Dr. Battle's History as "very brilliant." The news reporter at the ball interviewed seventy-eight ladies and described their dresses at great length (a feat not attempted today by a reporter in quest of news copy volume). The annual ball in Smith Hall, now the Playmaker Theatre, continued to be the crowning social event of the year. The new regime discontinued the ante-bellum practice of having a supper to climax the final ball for financial and other reasons: "other reasons being that the feasts led to rowdiness and disorderly conduct. The waltz, the polka, an occasional reel, and even a new fashioned ger man were danced at the very formal balls of the "mushy seventies." Campus Dancing Taboo Sometime about 1880 there arose among the people of the state an ar dent sentiment of opposition to danc ing on the University campus and the Drotest became so heated that the trustees in 1885 saw fit to forbid any further dancing on the state property in Chapel Hill. Smith Hall, which as a ballroom had been the scene of the gayest times of college life since 1850, beincr in the fatal zone was rendered useless as a dance hall, and this .Greek temple becatas dedicated solely to Dursuits of a library later a law building, and even later a theatre: The politics that year had been quite heated resulting in the election of two separate sets of ball managers. The students finding themselves with a bounty . of officials and an absolute lack of ballrooms, became alarmed lest this harsh ruling terminate their pur suit of the dancing art, and began atritation to hold the commencement ball in Raleigh. President Battle was opposed to their plan and promised the students to get them a ballroom off the campus and after speedy nego tiations, the Alumni contributed money for the erection of a building. The tendency to "beat the devil a round the bush" in evading the rule was carried to such an extent that the building erected on the site of Phillips Hall was only six inches over the campus boundary. This building was a crude structure with most of the money expended on the perfection of the dancing floor which is said to have never been equalled here for its purpose. During the eighties, the German Club was organized to promote danc ing on the campus, and instead of one dance at Commencement there came to be three: the Senior Ball on the night of Commencement and, two oth ers known as Germans, on the fol lowing afternoon and night. There was a Fall German on University Day (October 12) and a Spring Ger man. The Germans, at which, if we Continued on page four) A Colorful Collision Negro's Coupe and White Man's dan Crashed Yesterday. Se- A coupe driven by a negro boy and a sedan driven by a white traveling man smashed fenders and bumper in front of the post office yesterday afternoon about four o'clock. Little damage resulted from the encounter, except to the boy who appeared very fright ened in spite of the fact that he was considered by the specta tors not to be at fault. The white man argued for himself among the judicious' students who championed the cause of the negro. They contended that the white man was driving too fast and ignored the sign of the boy hf attempted to turn a- round the street Bignal. , Dean Carroll Asks ' Senior's Criticism N. C. State is Eliminated in First Round by University of South Carolina. The Carolina White Phantoms, four times Southern Conference champions, easily defeated the University of Tennessee in the opening round of the Southern Conference Championship Bas ketball Tournament at Atlanta, Georgia, yesterday afternoon.' The score was 31 to tl. Billy Vanstory, lanky Tar Heel for ward, was dropping them through the hoop from all an gles of the court, and during the course of the game registered no less than twelve points to ward the copping of the initial encounter. The score at half-time was 15-9 in favor of the Carolina lads, but despite the fact that they were able to roll up 17 addi tional points during the second half, their shooting and defen sive work was by no means equal to that of the first half of the contest. , Worth Morris played his usually brilliant game at the guard, holding his man to a measly three points while he ducked, dived and dribbled all over the court to drop in six points to his own credit. Coach Ashemore started Baggett at the pivot position, but as the game progressed he was taken out of the line-up in order to allow Carr Purser an opportun ity to show his wares. Butcher, playing the center position for the team from the anti-evolution state University, starred throughout the contest. He was high scorer for the Tennessee team. ' In the opening rounds yester day N. C. State was eliminated by the University of South Car olina. The score was 32-26. Van derbilt had an easy win over W. & L., the final score being 44- 32. Auburn was able to capture a hard-earned victory over V. P. I. by the score of 38-33. Uni versity of Georgia rode rough shod over V. M. I. for a 36-14 victory. Atlanta sports scribe in pick ing probable tournament stars placed Worth Morris at the top of their list. Others on the group from which many of the All-Southern choices will prob Continued on page four) Commerce School's Discussion of Teaching Methods Fails to Arouse Interest. At the Friday afternoon meet ing with the Commerce School to discuss present teaching methods in that department, Dean Carroll announced that he would be open to seniors' sug gestions for improvement. In that connection he said that a unity of opinion would be de sirable in order to make any changes. Whatever is done to meet the desires of seniors, it was decided, must result from a united action. Tar Heel subscription is low because of the co-operation of the advertisers. CAMPUS PROBLEMS SUBJECT OF LEAGUE Ten Minute Speeches Will Be Made by Glenn, Watt, and Fordham. University problems will be aired in the Epworth League at the regular Sunday night meet ing, 6:45. There will be three 10 minute speeches by promin ent men on the campus. Frazier Glenn will discuss "Why I Be lieve Drinking is a Moral Harm" ; Laurence Watt will give his "In terpretation of the Honor Sys tem," and Jeff Fordham will ex plain the issue, "In a Political Frameup a Moral Harm." Margaret Eubanks will render a vocal solo.
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