Saturday, Febrcary IS, 192S
Psre Two
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Saturday, February 18, 1928
PARAGRAPHICS
Senator Reed, discovering that he
Is not wanted, will not speak in Char
lotte. And we can't blame the sena
tor one bit.
Probably the Dinamite Senators had
better limit their political discussions
in the future to the choice of sub
assistant wrestling managers.
An Asheville . editor eloquently de
mands that the" good old U. S. pay
- more attention to its foreign ' policy.
Who the devil, -we demand, said we
have a foreign policy?
Reports say that there is a religious
cult in Southern Mecklenburg county
that believes the end of the world is
near. But nary a' word was there
to advise us if Tom Jimison was one
of the leaders. ' ;- :
Defenders of the six N. C. C. W.
girls who were suspended for buying
a ' Ford at $36, driving it towards
Gibsonville and then bumping a tele---'phone
post, says that' it was only a
youthful escapade. ; And a ' good day's
escapade at that.
Once the , Greensboro Daily News
writ and printed a piece about: the
coming and going of. robin redbreasts
in some section of the state. Numer
ous letters from various points have
poured into the News, telling when
the birds first roosted in such a spot.
Which raises the question, when were
the- cedar-birds first seen around the
arboretum ? . '
FRATERNITY HOUSING
The board of trustees of Davidson
College in session have voted to abol
ish fraternity houses at the. Presby
tenan institution. Tins does not
mean that fraternities are banned at
Davidson, but" that hereafter students
will room in the college dormitories,
and "that unit houses will be built by
the college at a nominal cost which
will be either leased to the local or
ganization or which can be purchased
by the fraternities."
It is not known whether a recent
abuse or an accumulative series' of
errors on the part of those occupying
fraternity houses at .Davidson have
led the board of trustees to abolish
the practice.' There is no intention
here to infer or to hint that irregular
practices have been taking place in
the fraternity houses of the institu
tion. The board of trustees" may
have seen evils and errors in the fu
ture, and attempting to obviate these
they set the foot down before the vi
per hath time to grow into an age of
perniciousness. But is there a viper?
Davidson's action on the, matter of
fraternity housing brings the ques
tion closer home. Here at the Univer
sity ' the policy has been to let the
fraternity house a large part of the
student body. Offhand 'it anight be
estimated that xearly a thousand stu
dents live in fraternity houses. This
13 something like two-fih3 of the
entire student body. Though there is
at' present a serenity and cordiality
of conditions that verge on perfection,
the question of fraternity housing
and its abolition i3 not unknown here.
Occasionally, there rises some stal
wart whose interest is equal to his
delusions and sees rack and ruin
for the young generation if they be
permitted to live free and apart
from paternal supervision iri frater
nity houses.
Fraternity houses have gone a long
way in helping to solve the housing
problem here. With all of its facili
ties, the University could hardly sum
mons more than seven or eight hun
dred room accommodations for its
students. This may lead to the de
duction that we have fraternity hous
ing because it is a necessity. Granted
in a manner to a certain extent. Why
should the University invest its
building appropriations in dormitories
when students are being satisfactorily
accommodated in other ways ? Hous
ing is but one of the problems of an
educational institution There is the
faculty, classrooms, laboratories, re-
SQ&rcYi. equipment and a multitude ol
other "expensive necessities. .
But the practice of fraternity hous
ing permitting the students to live
independent of faculty supervision in
groups to themselves carries with it
something more than the mere solu
tion of a problem. There is above
all the spirit of an university sym
bolized' in the policy. The institution,
recognizing that its primary purpose
is to train intellectually and not
morally, assumes that its students
have passed the age1 when supervision
and moral guidance should be taught
be close oversight. There is some
thing about this admission of trust
that creates independence, self-reliance
and teaches the student to be
master of his own faith.
NOT THIS SURELY, ED.
One University student, Algernon
L. Butler, has written to a state daily
and asks that the fair world behoiC
what is seen as a mild degree of col
lusion, corruption yea, indolence and
dereliction on .the part of the fac
ulty that in turn annually mulcts the
students heavily, yet -unnecessarily.
Mr. Butler - calls the attention to the
fact that recently much has been said
back and forth about the proposition
of raising the" cost of tuition.' But
here is a means of saving more to
the student Who pursues, or wishes
to pursue, an education as cheaply as
possible.
It is the proposition of changing
text-books with the student bearing
the expense, f There is seen an annual
expense that digs a healthy slice from
the "expense account" of the ' students.
And it is. said that it is so unneces
sary. ; Anyway, one gets the mental
picture' that a student leaves yearly
with a veritable traveling", library,
which he neither wants nor needs. The
cause for all this? There is the prop
osition of royalties, prejudices", lazi
ness of the faculty,' and general' in
difference to the welfare of the stu
dent particularly his pocketbook.
There has been a lot said lately
about beating' rides, bumming. It
might be that if "the student did not
have to . pay out so much for books,
he would not have to beg rides in
going home week-ends to' see his peo
ple. But don't get the Tar Heel
wrong here. "We have a fair collec
tion' of books, their only utility being
to serve as material evidence that cul
ture and knowledge has been pursued,
if not gained.
It naturally follows that there is a
remedy suggested to effect a cure. A
textbook commission .would do the
trick. Of this Mr. Butler writes:
"The remedy which immediately
suggests itself is &' textbook commis
sion for the university similar to the
one which now governs the adoption
pf textbooks for the public schools of
the state. ; The purpose of the com
mission would be to investigate the
books required for the various schools
and colleges of the university, make
appropriate selections and approvals,
and then require the instructors and
deans to show a valid and adequate
cause why there should be any chang
es in the future.
"I say a textbook commission sim
ilar to the one which now governs the
adoption of textbooks for the public
schools of the state. The statement
may be misleading. Let the commis
sion for the University of North Caro
lina be composed of competent educa
tors who-will familiarize themselves
with the books which they must pass
upon, and who are capable of making
appropriate selections, who are. free
from any outside influences, who have
no aptitude for boot-licking, but are
interested solely in providing the best
books at the minimum cost." V
This places the Tar Heel in a very
prosaic, if pleasing, position of de
fending. The suggested remedy brings
back; the conventional question and
plea : In the pursuit of 'truth and
knowledge may we hot have freedom?
Is it necessary to have a commission
to map out the books that may be
bought;- for each and every' course? : cheerfully reminds us - that the . Finals'
Cannot we trust the common honesty are not so far away, and we'd better
and sincerity of the faculty to con- study. He is still alive.
aider the student's welfare as well asi J- 1 ; -
liis own wishes in selecting the mate- j We're beginning to learn this here
rials to be bought for the study of his new colyumist trade. A lot of 'em,
course? I we find, fill up space by using dots,
In standardization there is stagna-1 Iike tMs : 'We e to re
don. Forbid the day when a state rt to such scurvy tricks . :. . ex
commission will have control over 'the 1 cept 0DCe 111 a hiIe- - '
textbook selection of the University t
save the students a few paltry pen
nies! ,
jClje Calf's Heatj
By H. J. Gotland
A Weekly review of news of the
Bull's Head, the University book
shop.' ' ,
We've been rambling around among
the books the past week or so, and
we've come to the conclusion that this
is one of the best ways to read. When
you have nothing else to do and pick
up a book at - random and glance
through it, you seem to come across
many little items you would miss if
you read seriously through, from be
ginning to end. Sounds strange,
doesn't it? Well, blame it on the
lateness, of the hour this is being writ
ten. Anyway, we'll give ou a specimen
without going any further into details
of why and how we enjoy gathering
these choice bits which tickle us. We
discovered recently that Erasmus,
that' great scholar of the Ren no,
that great scholar of the Middle Ag
well, anyway, that great scholar,
wasn't such a dry old boy after all.
In fact, we've sort of adopted him as
our patron saint.
Here's what he wrote: "Ye tender
ness of 'my years hathe so affushed
me that I have not apply ed me unto
the lettres as I ought to have done."
Me too, kid, me too!
Looking around the Bull's Head the
other day, we found a pleasing little
poem in Louis Untermeyer's "The
Forms of Poetry." It is the shortest
poem in the English, or any other,
language, and was written by Strick
land Gillilan: '
Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes
Adam
Had 'em.
There is, we seem to remember, an
other even shorter,, but we can't seem
to think of it. Yes, yes, we know it
that crack was entirely . uncalled
for. At any rate, if you know, one
that is shorter and really makes sense,
send it in to this column, care of the
Tar Heel, and if we can use it, we
will donate a prize of two genuine and
usable tickets to the Carolina.
Everybody these days is reading
biography. A casual glance at the
shelves shows the Bull's Head is not
behind the times. Among others, the
following people are represented : Vol
taire, Bismarck, Brigham Young, Poe,
Napoleon, Jackson, Disraeli, Wood
row Wilson, Stephen , Crane, Roose
velt, Henry Ford, Heinrich Heine, U.
S. Grant, and Cleopatra. Of them
all, Napoleon and Bismarck by Emil
Lidwig are the most popular, here as
elsewhere. .
Did you know that any fiction book
in the shop can be rented for a nomi
nal sum? . Here's your chance .to get
the absolutely latest. If there is a
reasonable demand for a certain book,
it will be ordered.
Various poets are represented in
pamphlets of their best work, well
printed and beautifully arranged,
which are on sale at the Head.; The
pamphlets are sold for the price of
a Pick, otherwise known as two bits,
and Edno St. Vincent Millay, Walt
Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Witter
Bynner, Hilaire Belloc, William Blake,
and others are represented. In one,
called the New York Wits, an anthol
ogy of poetry, we found this:
In Explanation
, Her lips were so near
That what else could I do?
You'll be angry, I fear,
But her lips were so near
Well, I can't make it clear,
Or explain it to , you",
But her lips were so near
That what else could I do?
The name of the writer of the poem
is Walter Learned. But what Walter
learned, we can't imagine. Can you?
The political ruckus being raised
around the campus lately causes the
name of Alfred E. Smith to be used
quite a bit. If you want the inside
dope on this most interesting man,
don't miss Pringle's book about him,
called, for some reason, "Alfred E.
Smith."
Now that Mid-Terms are, as some
one has put it, a Thing of the Past,
our worries are over. Oh, yes, they
are ! We'd like to meet the man who
invented term papers some dark night.
Anyway, our smiling room-mate
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