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I Saturday, October 22, 1927 Pase Two THE TAR HEEL Wz tar eel Leading Southern College Tri weekly Newspaper Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association Published three times every week of the college year, and is the official newspaper of the Publications Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Sub scription price, ?2.00 local and 3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the Building. basement of Alumni J. F. Ashby....... - Editor W .W. Neal, Je... Business Mgr. D. D. Carroll.. Associate Editor EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Managing Editors Tom W. Johnson Tuesday Issue Judah Shohan. Thursday Issue JOE R. Bobbitt, jR........aturday Issue Walter Spearman.......Asssfa7it Editor Walter Creech..-.. - News Editor Staff Andy Anderson J. H. Anderson George Coggins T. J. Gold Calvin Graves D. E. Livingston Glenn P. Holder ' H. B. Parker Harry J. Galland James B. Dawson D. R. McGlohan, Jr B. B. Kendrick F. G. McPherson Oates McCullen W. L. Marshall John Mebane J. Q. Mitchell Louise Medley J. C. Wessell J. J. Parker James Rogers B. A. Marshall W. H. Yarborough Tom Quickel Mercer Blankenship BUSINESS STAFF Marion Alexander Marvin Fowler Bill Breman Bill Wiley R. A. Carpenter G. E. Hill J. C. Beakley J. M. Henderson A. D. Sickles H. N. Patterson Henry Harper Saturday, October 22, 1927 PARAGRAPHICS Howmanymendidyouallget ? How the mighty are fallen. The Greeks once worshipped gods, but now they worship gawky freshmen. Says that literary incorrigible, H L. Mencken: The cosmos is a gigan tic flywheel making 10,000 revolu tions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a ride on it. . . . Religion is the theory that the wheel was de signed and set spinning to give him the ride. King George says that bobbed hair reminds him of horses' tails. No won der the Prince of Wales falls. . . And long hair the queen! The student body has begun to cor rupt the beasts. The other day saw a big ole dog stealing candy out of an honor box. ... This year's student council ain't worth a damn A member of the staff foolishly went to N. C. C. W. while that handsome Lindbergh boy was there. Now he's sore against the whole United States army, aviation in p'tickler. The state association of bootleggers is petitioning the legislature to es tablish another college somewhere. OPTIONAL CLASS ATTENDANCE: IS IT? (D. D. C.) The college of liberal arts, under the leadership of a liberal dean, has extended bountiful privileges to ju niors and seniors. But a defect in op tional class attendance remains to embarrass those upperclassmen who make use of it. We have in tnind the practice of daily roll-calling. It should be obvious to all that fre quent absences, if the attention of the professor be attracted daily to them, have a psychological effect none too beneficial to .the absentees. No mat ter how kindly an instructor" may strive to forget that John Smith has missed twenty classes, he cannot put Satan behind him on the day when he grades John Smith's term of work. f What necessitates the tallying of absences for any classes is unknown to us. That professors are justified in visiting "pop" quizzes on their stu dents is clear. But if the University feels that it should know how many collegians attended Math 40 on Oc tober the tenth, it should be willing to allow the members of that class to submit their own absence slips. This honor system plan is followed by pro fessors at several large-Northern uni versities. Indeed, instructors gladly transfer this task to their wards. As we understand the privilege of optional class attendance, it recog nizes the efficacy of a student's spend ing some class hours elsewhere than in a numbered room. However, there are professors who still openly, or in wardly brand absences as offenses worthy of academic punishment. Since they cast baleful glances at each junior or senior who misses their all important lectures, it becomes evident to the student that the unfairness of a few -men nullifies optional class at-' tendance for him. Few upperelass men can face a grumpy taskmaster and be so reckless as to continue to arouse his choler. Though it is true that there are some classes which are always vital, there are others whose day by day grind is deadly wearisome. Ju niors and seniors learn only to bite their nails, drum with nervous fingers, or squirm about during such bores. Professors might be sued for the bad habits which their forced oratory pro vokes in some students! Others wish to alternate Math 40 with History 21 or with some other study in which they are interested. Why should an upperclassman sur rounded by excellent lectures be com pelled to confine his attendance to one class ? Surely one who faithfully sits on a diversity of classes is worthy of consideration. Hence we appeal, not to the dean, who has already contributed his share, but to those professors who, cognizant of their power to do so, jealously guard the roll. No doubt many have continued to mark upper- classmen absent simply from force of habit. At any rate, roll or no roll, it is to be hoped that liberality in the A.B. school will remain unsullied. FRATERNITIES AND FRESHMEN (D. D. C.) Fraternity men may make higher grades on their college work than do unaffiliated students, but their sys tem of rushing on this campus is an indictment of fraternity intelligence. We believe that the rushing season is far too short. It is almost impos sible for rational groups to choose desirable men during the ( feverish campaigning which now prevails. They are compelled to rely unwisely on the unctuous letters of recommen dation sent them by alumni. The writer ventures to say that 99.44 of all alumni are pure ivory and the rest are liars. On the other hand, the freshmen are incapable of penetrating the superficiality of these social groups within the time allotted them. Be fore Red Riding Hood has a chance to discover the huge teeth in her Greek wolf, she is gobbled up. With feminine logic, ambitious mothers (and fathers) who would not think of sanctioning their son's attempt to select a four-years' wife in one scant month send that same son to col lege to embrace entangling , friend ships equally as long and perhaps more seductive. The present system here makes im passioned rushing so urgent that freshmen and upperclassmen alike are compelled to neglect their studies. The first term of every fraternized American college has become a lark for football games and club-life. Pro fessors lecture to sleepy, unhearing freshmen, agonizing upperclassmen, or empty seats. Again, scions of wealthy or select families are given to understand that their college careers in fact, their earthly and celestial destinies are determined by the bids which they re ceive from social organizations. Nothing remains to provoke enter prise in young Joe College; for his reputation is made by his election to membership in almighty Gamma Tau. If the season of mutual inspection were a year in length, fraternities might discover, before the mistake is made, that their protege was unfit for them. He, in turn, might have time in which to perceive the nigger in their woodpile. Surely when fra ternity brothers room and dine to- gether, and such is often the case here, this intimacy makes a careful selection of members especially im perative. , Further, a prolonged rushing sea son would ' make unnecessary this frantic repudiation of classroom duties. And there are some upper classmen with whom entertainment of freshmen is no excuse for mere aca demic laziness; to them a longer season would be a god-send, First-year men who customarily feel that their success is made on pledge day might not change" their simple minds, but sheer common-sense would force them to realize that a de ferred bid-day would enablev the fra ternities to watch them loaf or work. Hence, they would have a stimulus to maintain a good scholastic, appear ance certainly until the great day had passed. And worthwhile habits once formed are invaluable. . " .. If pledge-day were farther removed from the period of brawn-worship, football heroes would be less over-estimated by fraternities. At present, athletes are lords among the fresh man prospects; their unjustified superiority, early assumed, subse quently exalts them to campus office. Chapters "push" them from the start. More time is needed for cool delibera tion, - ' The Interfi-aternity Council has in augurated some good rules. Let it speak now. NEW STUDENT OFFICERS (D. D. C.) The presidents of the dormitories and their constituents have done much to insure a comfortable year for the University dormitory residents. These leaders, having called and advertised a pow-wow in the respec tive buildings, broached the subject of obnoxious noises after nine o'clock. After some profound cogitation, the members of these dormitories decided to elect silence monitors. These men, subsequently chosen, act in con junction with their different presi dents. The composite group is em powered to expel from the building any resident who becomes unruly af ter 9 P. M. on all nights except Fri day and Saturday. Expulsion, of course, is the most drastie measure. The president of the student body and the duly elected council have wisely endorsed the action of the dor mitory residents. In fact, it takes no discerning eye to perceive that the measure originated in extra-dormitory circles. The inauguration of sil ence monitors is a distinct advance from the barbaric bedlam which once prevailed in university residence halls. However, there may be objections to this new disciplinary agency. Some intimate that it is undemocrat ic, having no origin in the student body. With these quibblers we disa gree. In the first place, the new student officers wTere democratically elected. The meetings at which their selection was made were bill-boarded several days ahead of time. Every member of each hall was given the opportun ity to vote; of course outsiders were not invited to meddle in internal af fairs of this nature. So these moni tors are duly constituted dormitory officers, directly elected. Further, even if the student council had seen fit to appoint these men, or if the elected hall presidents had made such choices, there would have been nothing undemocratic about the business. In our national government the executive department is allowed to select administrators of its will. Since the central council and the in dividual presidents, who represent the policy-making executive phase of our government, are empowered to select subordinates to enforce stu dent, laws. Such a law is the regula tion of unnecessary noise. But must the new dormitory tri bunals tacitly admit that there are times, namely Friday and Saturday nights, when unnecessary noise after 9 P. M. is permissible ? Surely such laxity would defeat the ends of the measure, for it is on these very nights that rowdies are bibulously unbear able. Late hour racket is characteristic of tipplers. What then, is our good old campus going wet on Friday and Saturday nights? Dr. Patterson Tells Brass Plate History Applied Science Dean Shows Chapel Students Historical Brass Plate. In an address on "The Spiritual Values of the University," Dr. A. H. Patterson, Dean of the School of Ap plied Science, exhibited to chapel stu dents Thursday morning a brass plate which had a peculiar history. According to Dr. Patterson, the plate was one which was placed in the cor nerstone of Old East, when it was laid in 1793. It was lost when the building was remodeled, and turned up fifteen years later at a foundry in Clarksville, Ohio. The foundry was under the management of an alumnus of the University, who recognized the plate, and sent it back to its home. Dr. Patterson then dealt interest ingly with the history of the Univer sity after 1875, dwelling especially upon the life arid work of President Kemp Plummer Battle, and the stone seat which has recently been dedi cated to his memory as a student of nature and a lover of the out of doors. Dr. Patterson's lecture will be fol lowed by addresses from Professors Frank Graham, Albert Coates, and Horace -Williams, who will present further traditions of the University and tell something of its alumni. Reviewer Finds Magazine Has Only Meagre Literary Merit; Material Yet to Be Unearthed (Continued from page one) see two translations of the Odes of Horace by the editor who, quite mod estly, has placed them about the cen ter of the book. The first, "in the manner of a pedant," reads delight fully like a poetical paraphrase of the prose translation. The second, "in the manner of a Sophorome," is a lit tle out of date. Don Marquis and Heywood Broun made translations of Horace, Ovid and others into slang about three years ago. Dirl Blethers, a pseudonym for one of out eminent journalists, has bis first bit of poetry accepted. Though the poem probably came out like a ribbon, it lies fiat ia the slush. Joe Mitchell's contribu tion more nearly measures up to that standard set by poets. His Romanti cist and Realist at least conveys a definite idea and the idea is rather well put. Hell's Bells! A Catalogue Examination by Tom Capel is noble. The author must have f spent many weary hours searching for the needed information which was necessary for his endeavor. We con- j sign these questions and answers to j the editor of the University catalogue. We might remark in passing that it would, perhaps, be an excellent in novation to require all freshmen en tering the University to know the an swers to the questions set forth by Mr. Capel. This might be incorpor ated in the intelligence tests. After reading Hell's Bells we loud ly exclaim "Hell's bells, how that boy can write." The "true confessions of a bell hop" ranks equally with A Catalogue Examination in literary value. Part of the article consists of buzzes and room numbers but the rest purveys genuine humor. Mr. Spear man excells himself in this story. We learn how a German speaks broken English, how comical a drunk can be, how bold some women are and how condemning humanity is in general. The author chose a very appropriate line with which to lcose the story. "And so on, far into the night," ori ginated by Briggs who draws the comic sheet Mr. and Mrs., cleverly finishes Mr. Spearman's work. Book Reviews Slump Tom Quickel has been working for about two years on The Geisha, a story of the Philippines, and has at last beaten it into shape. The plot, that of a man torn between love and duty, shows that the author has read Berta Ruck. Mr. Harden's article, Three Chinese Maidens, has no place in a literary magazine. For, newspaper consump tion, it might do very well. 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