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THE TAR HEEL
Thursday, July 7, my
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Leading Southern College
V Newspaper
Member of North Carolina Collegiate
.Press Association
Published every Thursday during
both terms of the summer school, and
is the official newspaper of the Pub-
. lications Union of the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Offices in the basement of Alumni
Building. Telephone 403.
, J. F. ASHBY
Editor and Manager
Staff
Andy Anderson
W. N. Cox ,
J. R. DeJournette
R. W. Eaves, Jr.
Johnny Harden
Louise Medley
Elise Roberts '
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Thursday, July 7, 1927
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THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY
"Teach college students the
method of co-operation," advis
es Secretary of Agriculture Jar
dine. If one should pass by se
cluded spots on the campus at
night, he would believe this ad
vice is being followed to the let
ter.
The Raleigh Times reports
that some young men have been
taken in hand by John Law for
stealing State College girls and
bringing them to a University
summer school dance. In the
terms of the burglar's jargon,
it must have been a good haul.
HOWLING DOGS INSPIRE
NO ONE
Elsewhere in these columns
appears an open forum letter de
crying the practice of keeping
dogs, howling and violently
noisy, in the basement of Cald-
well building. As the communi
cant points out, , the dogs are
barking early, late and in be
tween times, which disturbs at
once study, sleep and such com
fort as one may presume to en
joy, at this season.
These howling canines have
not always had the mean oppor
tunity to disturb students. Some
have been, may be now, corraled
in a lot at the southwest end of
Emerson Field. Whatever pur
pose the medical school has for
keeping the yelping pack so near
the .summer students domiciled
in five buildings within whisper
ing distance of Caldwell is not
known. The Tar Heel does not
purpose to .instruct the medi
cos as to what to do with their
clinical material. But we rise to
join the harassed occupants of
the buildings grouped so near
Caldwell, and demand relief for
them from incessant yaups of
the dogs.
It is hard enough, as has been
observed before, to study during
this hot weather. For disturb
ing study, the malefactor should
be taken to task. It is difficult
to gain that quiet peace which
brings comfort these sultry and
hectic days. For perturbing the
quietude as it may be, the evil
doer should be punished. It is
labor in itself to win the com
forts of Morpheus these torrid
times. For denying sleep by the
process of howls, yelps and
ceaseless barking, the felons
should be condemned to banish
ment. V
The dogs in the basement .of
Caldwell building should be ex
iled as once from the environs
of the dormitories nearby.
Miss Nell Bowden went
Warsaw last week-end.
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By the way of the Montgom
ery Advertiser comes word that
"in the course of an article deal
ing mainly with Mercer univer
sity, John T. Boif euillet, writing
in the Atlanta Journal, makes
the' incidental remark that may
re-open and we hope it does
an old controversy. He says :
'By the bye; recently; a prom
inent American magazine, in an
swer to a correspondent's ques
tion, which is the oldest charter
ed state university in the United
States, replied that this distinc
tion belongs to the University of
North Carolina. Of course, all
Georgians proudly know that the
University of Georgia has this
honor. The University of Geor
gia was chartered by the legis
lature in 1785, whereas the Uni
versity of North Carolina was
not charterer until 1789'."
The Adviser continues for the
better part of a column:
"Mr. Boifeuillet says nothing
more than this, discussing the
matter by giving the foregoing
dates. All Georgians, he says,
proudly know that the Univer
sity of Georgia is the oldest. At
any rate, it is true that they be
lieve the University of Georgia
holds this distinction. But all
"Torth Carolinians proudly know
or at least believe, that (the Uni
versity of North Carolina is the
oldest. North Carolinians have
said repeatedly that there can be
no doubt about it. But the peo
ple of Georgia have more than a
doubt about it; they have a firm
belief that the honor belongs to
the University of Georgia.
"Now, which is correct? . .
If the University of Georgia rep
resents itself as the oldest and
the University of North Caro
lina does likewise, there is plain
ly a misrepresentation some
where i ' . Again, we propose
a commission to decide the ques
tion. We suggest that the com
mission be composed of the Gov
ernors of Georgia and ' North
Carolina, the heads of the two
state institutions and a fifth
member who shall be an impar
tial person ..
Thus from Alabama comes
news of a strange war now rag
ing between North Carolina and
Georgia which we in our ignor
ance had not heard of. If any
body in this state has torn his
shirt and is waving the tails in
the proud boast that this com
monwealth has the oldest char
tered state university in the
United States nobody else is
paying attention to him. . Curi
ous boasts are made by those
who are honorary keepers of the
sacred list of firsts, and nearly
anything is apt to be said by
some of them. But that does
not mean that they speak the
truth ; it does not even mean that
anybody takes them seriously.
Certainly there is no such
word from the University of
North Carolina itself. The cat
alogue of that institution con
tains this succinct statement:
The university was estblish-
ed in obedience to the first con
stitution of the tate, which wa3
adopted in December, 1776. A
clause of section XLI declared
that 'all useful learning shall be
duly encouraged and promoted
in one or more universities.' The
charter was granted by the gen
eral assembly in 1789, the cor
nerstone of the Old East build
ing was laid in 1793, and the
university was opened in 1795."
That and nothing more. If
the University' of Georgia was
chartered in 1785, which is the
date given everywhere we have
ever seen, its charter is clearly
older than that of the Universi
ty of North Carolina. If the Uni
versity of Georgia was not open
ed as early as 1795, then the
University of North Carolina
was opened first, and that has al
ways been the understanding.
OPEN FORUM
DOWN WITH THE DOGS!
Editor of Tar Heel:
We the undersigned parties,
dwellers in the Carr Building, of
the University of North Caroli
na, do hereby appeal to the sum
mer school officials, to eliminate
from our environment, the
Canine Glee Club and Orchestra,
whose quarters are on the earth
floor of a nearby edifice known
as the Caldwell Hall. We feel
sure that the medical students
have not realized to what ex
tent these individuals annoy the
nearby pedagogues. ,
We realize that most people
have an instinctive satisfaction
for the melodies of music, from
the chirping of the hearth crick
et to the sweet toned nightin
gale of the far away Italian
hills. But it is annoying to lis
ten to the long practice periods
which the canine classes con
duct. These classes usually
range from nine to eleven o'
clock in the evening and from
four until the rise of sun in the
morning, each day in the week,
Sunday included. There are no
holidays throughout the entire
first session.
Not knowing the duration of
time for these individuals to pur
sue their course (chorus) before
going out into the practice
world, or from the hands of the
"medici" are given a passport
to the happy hunting grounds
beyond the Elysian fields, we
shall be glad to have their dom
icile moved to some distant hill
where the vibrant chords, if
heard at all, will only come in a
melodious echo that will not dis
turb the peaceful slumbers in
the early morning hours, ; nor
re-echo with the college chimes
when the lights are growing
dim.
Dwellers in Carr Building
RUSSELL, ALUMNUS OF U.
N. C, WRITES NEW BOOK
Phillips Russell, member of a
distinguished North Carolina
family and an alumnus of the
University, has written a biog
raphy of John Paul Jones.
Brentano's will put it out in
August. This follows closely
upon his book on Benjamin
Franklin, which was acclaimed
by the critics as one of the best
pieces of biographical writing
ever done by an American.
Mr. Russell passed through
Chapel Hill on his way to his
home in Rockingham, where he
will take a short breathing spell
after his completion of the sea
fighter's biography. He has al
ready arranged with his pub
lishers to edit a volume of bio
graphical sketches of famous
Americans. The opening sketch,
on Emerson, will be written by
Mr. Russell himself. The au
thorship of the others has not
yet been announced.
Name Committee to
Prevent Athletic
Schedules Clashes
An attempt is being made to
prevent clashes in the athletic
schedules of North Carolina col
leges, according to N. W. Wal
ker, .Director of the University
Summer School and secretary
treasurer of the Executive Com
mittee, of the North Carolina
College Conference which met in
Durham Saturday.
A special committee, compos
ed of Deans D. B. Bryan, of
Wake Forest, E. L. Cloyd of
State, W. H. Wannamaker of
Duke, Dr. A. W. Hobbs of the
University and the Dean of
Elon College, was appointed to
confer with a standing athletic
commission with a view to a bet
ter correlation of the athletic
schedules.
Members of the. executive
committee are President W. A.
Harper, of Elon, president; N.
W. Walker, secretary-treasurer;
President C. F. Brewer, of Mere
dith; President W. P. Few, of
Duke; President E. C. Brooks, of
State College ; Dean D. B. Bryan,
of Wake Forest.
The next meeting of the com
mittee will be held in Durham
October 25 and 26. A special
feature of the meeting will be
a banquet in the Washington
Duke hotel at which the Univer
sity Glee Club will sing.
Saratoga School
Boss Is Victimized
By Greedy Rogue
There must have been a three
wheeled Chevrolet in Chapel
Hill Sunday night because the
man who owned it probably was
the person who stole the spare
wheel, rim, tire, and cover from
the Chevrolet coach of Mr. W.
B. Barnes of Wilson. The coach
was parked in front of Pickard
Hotel Sunday night. When Mr.
Barnes got up the next morn
ing hi3 spirits were consider
ably dampened to discover that
he had been relieved " of his
Kelly-Springfield balloon spare
tire. The cover bore the name
"Susman Motor Co., Washing
ton,. N. C." V
' Mr. and Mrs. Barnes are
here attending Summer School.
He is the principal of Saratoga
high school.'
CARNEGIE MAN VISITS
UNIVERSITY FOR WEEK
M. W. de Laubenfels, who
has been appointed by the Car
negie Institution of ; Washing1
ton to carry on research work
on sponges in the Tortugas, is
spending a week in Chapel Hill
in consulation with Dr. H. V.
P. Wilson, of the University De
partment of Zoology, regarded
as the greatest authority on
sponges in the county.
Mr. de Laubenfels is' loud in
his praises of Dr. Wilson, whom
he speaks of not: only as the
greatest authority in this coun
try, but as the greatest in the
world equalled only perhaps
by Topson of France.
Mr. de Laubenfels has done
research work along these lines
at Sanf ord, and leaves today
for the Tortugas a small group
of islands southwest of Florida
to continue his work.
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Meantime the Advertiser
might try to start a war in
Pennsylvania where the state
university writes "founded
1740" on its seal. Tar Heels are
more interested in the present
and future scholarship and ser
vice of their institution. Want
to start a war about that?
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