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THE TAR IIEEL
Thursday, August h, 1927
Leading Southern College
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 (Jaroana, Chapel Will, JNI. (J.
Offices in the basement of Alumni
Building. Telephone 403.
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Staff
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Problem of Freshman Again
Besetting Colleges
Entered as second-class mail matter
at tbe Post Office, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Thursday, August U, 1927
Automatic System Will Remedy
Punk Telephone Service
The' announcement' that Chap
el Hill, and the University, is
to have an; automatic telephone
system, which will be in use by
Christmas, brings joy and glad
ness to the heart of the bleary-
eyed, fretted patron of the pres
ent. obsolete, serviceless system.
The time had come in using,
or attempting to use, the present
system when Chapel . Hill pos
sessed a noxious first, which irri
tated and galled one by the slow
service, confusion in getting con
nection and the synchronous
chatter all the while one is sup
posed to be using a private party
line. The switchboard of the
old "ring" type of telephone
which we now labor to get a fair
degree of service from has be
come so worn that a connection
without getting , a "hear-in' on
the other fellow is well-nigh im
possible. Clanking, buzzing and
thumpings are customary greet
ers when the receiver is placed
at the ear. v
When the automatic system is
put into usage the above condi
tion will be reversed. . In install
ing a modern telephone system
the TJniversity Consolidated Ser
vice Plants, which owns the tel
ephone company, is justifing its
ownership and placing Chapel
" Hill telephone service on parity
with that of neighboring towns.
"Hark the Sound" in Danger of
Becoming Common Jazz Tune
... It was Aesop who at the end
of one of the famous fables mor
alized to the effect that famili
arity that breeds contempt..
When Hark the Sound -the
University anthem to which ev
ery Carolina man, past, present
and to be, .comes to ' attention
when. 'played was written' it
was intended to be a song of'
praise that was to be played
only on such occasions as would
merit it. ,One knows well that
a song played continually, sung
any time" and as common as
Pack Up Your Troubles soon be
comes common in worth and ap
preciation, thus losing its sanc
tity and -value in expressing the
gladness and praises of one for
his or her alma mater.
With the common practice of
including Hark the Sound in a
group of three numbers to be
played at the end of every dance
given in the gymnasium this
summer, the University anthem
becomes nothing more . than a
terpsichorean selection and noth
ing less than a substitute for
a jazz: tune. Sticky couples
sway wildy emotional to the
sacred notes; observers remain
seated ; all admit that it makes
as good a dance number as the
Washington and Lee Swing. '
News from the University is
to the effect that the incoming
freshman class will be far and
away the largest on record. Pre
liminary applications on ' file
show this conclusively. Regis
trar Wilson estimates that the
student body of the Fall Term
will be close to 3,000.
This is but emphasis on a Con
dition which has for several
years been facing every insti
tution of higher learning. It in
volves, of course, greater and
ever ,greater expenditures. , It
means new construction, larger
facilities, mass methods of man
agement. If these, incidentals
of numbers completed the prob
lem, it would be one whose dif
ficulties would inspire. But the
numbers are a symptom that
may be aggravated into a real
disease. ' t ";
The fault is with the fresh
man. He comes from every
where, vaguely bent on acollege
education. In the great major
ity of cases he represents the
parental virtues of pride and
willingness to accept sacrifice.
He is the real "typical Ameri
can, m that he is the sign of
democracy cashing its check of
equal opportunity." But as the
freshman becomes less selective,
as he becomes more and more a
fashion, his pink cheeks and
eager eyes and untrained, grop
ing mind -suggest a menace.
Litejally, something like fifty
per cent of, the hopeful fresh
men find out in. one college year
that they were never meant to
be college men. Tney take quick
ly what experience they have ob
tained, and are reabsorbed into
a life they never should have
left. But not wholly reabsorbed,
and their number when they are
making the experiment seriously
cripples the college.
What to do about the fresh
man is a question that is going
to worry every college head
more and more. College plants
are progressively becoming in
adequate, because of him. ' They
are working with material that
in great part denies hope of a
finished product, ..Yet how can
this almost universal ambition
be denied or restricted wisely?
Colleges are too large. They in
volve a cost per student far in
excess of tuition charges. In the
freshman classes, at any rate,
much of this cost is squandered
on unfit "human subjects. But,
what to do ? The 'average col
lege these days is growing be
yond all reason and beyond all
health as the . unfortunate
whom an overly excited gland
turns into a giant whose statue
is his weakness. The Raleigh
Times.
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SEEP1NGS
BY ANDY ANDERSON
. Twice as many women as men
attended the first summer school
Perhaps that's why there are so
many less women how.
We see that casts have been
chosen for two summer plays to
be given by the Playmakers. We
hope that they're nice, new plas
ter casts and they put 'em on the
right one in time.
Honor students from England
are to study . here at Carolina
next year. Perhaps some of the
jokes that stalk about over the
campus will feel safe in this di
rection anyway.'
This will -probably eliminate
the Prince of Wales as subject
matter from the Buccaneer.
There's no use buying from a
mail, order house when you can
get much better stuff at home,
it, the home of so many good
looking girls and so many good
looking girls without homes.
Some people come to collitch
for an education others come
to study.
Someone told us the other day
that experience was a dear
school. i "" .
But fools learn to neck in noJ
other. v
We don't approve of this so-
called fast set. We often won
der what's holding 'em back.
' From, what we hear from the
reformers and see in the movies,
this place college must be a ter
rible place. Personally, ' we're
glad that we. are not in college
PICK CONTRACTS
FOR BIG SHOWS
. .
Local Theatre Claims It Will
Get Best Releases from
Hollywood.
i This nnnor ctntoa Vinf fVioro
will be approximately 700 fresh
men on the campus. Where's
that guy that said everybody
was leaving the farm?
Mrs. Moore, Florida Lady,
Leaves to Visit in Virginia.,
Mrs. Gertrude Ellis Moore of
Florida, who has been spending
sometime in Chapel Hill, will
leave today for points in Vir
ginia. , v
', Mrs. Moore is great, great
granddaughter of Judge John
Whitaker of Jamestown, Va.,
and later of Wake county, North
Carolina, who was a prominent
figure during the Revolutionary
War. :V:. -vA''
Men have been elected as presr
identsof 129 local parent-teacher
associations in Ohio. School
Life. . . :'
Seeing . as how the sassiety
column has went down in inch
es space, there must be a power
ful little goin' on about the Hill.
Them gal-children editors should
get awake. Why only last Tues
day, I think it was, didn't I take
that gal of mine down an' buy
her a ice cream sodie? An' there
warn't a single reporter thar to
review me.
Somebody told me the other
day that our own, dear, biology
department had discovered that
a single fish lays over a million
eggs in one year. But they left
out an essentiality.' They have
yet to discover how many eggs
a married fish will, lay in one
year. . r ;
You have no ideahl Just the
other day we were in Durham
and saw a couple of women with
sox on. Really, right out on the
street.; There's an example of
what women are coming to when
their husband's don't give 'em
enough money to buy enough
clothes with. , ' ,
The Pickwick Theatre an
nounced yesterday that it had
signed contracts which would
bring to its screen during the
coming 'year "one group of the
finest motion pictures emanating
from Hollywood studios.
The contracts just negotiated
by the manager of the Pickwick
Theatre were with Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer
Distributing' Corp.,
which has record of such suc
cesses last' year as "The Big
Parade," "Ben Hur," "Rookies,"
"Flesh and the Devil" and other
outstanding film fare.
On the screen of "The Pick"
during the coming year movie
fans of Chapel Hill will' see pre
sented pictures starring John
Gilbert, .Renee Adoree, Greta
Garbo, Ramon Navarro, Marion
Da vies, Norma Shearer, William
Haines, Karl Dane, George K.
Arthur,, Aileen Pringle,. Jackie
Coogan and other favorites. C '
Among the outstanding, spe
cials which patrons of the Pick
will have an opportunity of see
ing will be ''"The Big Parade,"
"Een Hur," "Mademoiselle from
Armentiere," "The Crowd, "The
Cossacks," "Rose Marie,"
"Bringing Up Father' "Quality
Street," "The Prince of Grau
stark," "Annie Laurie," "Garden
of Allah" and others. "
The Pick will also present all
First National Pictures with
such stars as Milton Sills, Rich
ard Barthelmess, Johnny Hines
Ben Lyon, Colleen Moore, Paul
ine Stark, Corrinne Griffith,
Charles Murray, Constance Tal
made, Norma Talmadge, Lewis
Stone, Harry Langdon and oth
ers. . ' .
Among the outstanding spe
cials which, the patrons of the
Pick will have an opportunity
of seeing, coming from the First
National lot, will be "Breakfast
at Sunrise," "Camille," "The
Private Life of Helen of Troy,"
"The Shepherd, of the Hills,"
"Convoy,", "Lost at the Front,"
"The Gorilla" and others.
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Which' reminds me :
Mary had a little lamb;
She didn't have no calf.
And the kind of legs that Mary
had , ..
Would make a blind man laugh
Chapel Hill is to install auto
matic telephones or some new
fangled contraption. But a more
sure way of getting your party
is to hire a taxi. .
' If you find him out, go down
in his cellar and follow him.
Be sure you're tight,. then go
ahoad. 1 v-V; :;
Rotarians and Kiwanis al
ways sing Pack Up Your trou
bles before going vto the more
pleasant gustatory duties.
Must Hark the Sound be piay
ori every occasion to satisfy the
emotional soul of the Sheik and
Sheba? ' . :
Hark the Sound is in immi
nent danger of becoming a com
mon jazz tune.
The editor asked tee to tell all
the Tar Heel readers that if
they have any old clothes, he will
be glad . to receive them in his
office from eight 'till nine every
morning. This announcement
applies only to the male students.
'Or so the editor says.
,-' It, is rumored that the reason
New York is so populous is that
so many people live there.
. Personally, we believe that
somebody is just trying to pull
the wool over our eyes.
We know the real reason. It's
so close to the twelve mile lim-
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