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Page Two T H E T A It HEEL Thursday, March 14, 1925 Leading Southern College Tri weekly Newspaper Published three times -weekly dupng 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 basement of Alumni , Building. ? Walter Spearman Editor George Ehrhart Mgr. Ed Marion Alexander ... Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Harry Galland Assistant Editor Glenn Holder Assistant Editor John Mebane . Assistant Editor Will Yarborough . Sports Editor Reporters M. Broadus Sherman Shore W. C. Dunn J. P. Jones C. B. McKethan J. C. Williams E. H. Denning J. E. Huffman J. C. Eagles Browning Roach . J. E. Dungan D. L. Wood Dick McGlohon W. A. Shelton E. F. Yarborough H. H. Taylor ... J. D. McNairy J. P. Huskins Henry Anderson B. W. Whitton George Dannenbaum BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Executive Staff B. M. Parker Asst. Bus. Mgr. Leonard Lewis Adv. Mgr. Sidney Brick ......... Asst. Adv. Mgr. H. N. Patterson ... Collection Mgr. T. R. Karriker ... . Asst. Col. Mgr. Gradon Pendergraf t Circulation Mgr. Ben Aycock .... Subscription Mgr. -. Advertising Staff Harry Latta H H. Jameson Jim Harris Tom Badger Merrel " J. - Schulman J. G. deR. Hamilton, Jr, W. G. Boger Thursday, March 14, 1929 PARAGRAPHICS We saw a boy walking across the newly planted grass path from New Dorms to Old East the other day, but couldn't decide whether he was a freshman, a moron, or just a cow out for an, afternoon's grazing. Our campus cynic declared that Wlgue and Masque had selected the wrong title' for their musical review. "Bum's the Word," he maintained. But after all, "Hotter than Hot" described more than one of the fea tures in the show and we still like Carolina chorus girls, we mean we really lo! Examinations are just around the corner, so we are told but then that's all right for we always did be lieve in going straight instead of turning corners. With elections so near at -hand, it's a strange thing that no more open forum letters have come in. They used to be considered just as effective as stump speeches and big black cigars. ' - That Eternal V j Game of Bridge "Three diamonds," ' "Four clubs," "Bye Me," "It's your lead," "Try to finesse me, will you?" "Play on the board !" goes the continual chant around dormitories and fraternity houses. Mr. Shakespeare and Mr. Milton or even Mr. Dreiser and Mr. Cabell may be neglected; bu Mr. Work and Mr. Lenz will be quoted from morning to night as to which card South should play if East has led trumps. Books are relegated to the book case and athletic equipment to the closet: Tuxedos hang in darkness and girls go undated. But Bridge; the kingly favorite, rules supreme Shall we go to the show or pitch horseshoes or do parallel reading or take a walk? Oh, no, indeed! It's always "Let's catch a few hands of bridge." , And so it is that students gather round the table and deal out the cards, inspect their hands with anx ious eyes, and commence the daily pastime. All afternoon they play, eaeerlv following the luck of the cards, and then go at it again when supper is over. Hour after hour p the night slips away, and still the bridge fiends stick to their table their cards, and, their score. "Why waste so much valuable time in such a futile way?" inquires the puzzled novice. And t the addicts shout in reply: "Why, Bridge is stimulating, refreshing, restful, in vigorating, inspiring, educational, healthful, soothing, exciting it calms the mind after a hard day's study, it rests the body after a hard day's exercise, it benefits the soul, it encourages friendships, it strength ens the intellect, it quickens the re actions. Indeed Bridge is a mental, moral, physical, and psychical ne- v. cessity for the college man!" So be it. But still we wonder if some of those thousands of hours spent every college year upon the game of bridge might not be used to better advantage. Autocratic Confiscation The autocrats of the University Business Office have refused, with their usual haughty disdain, to re fund any portion of room rents to those who are leaving the University at the end of this quarter. About twenty or twenty-five dol lars jemain in room rents to the ere dit of all students residing in the dormitories. When classes were re sumed after Christmas room rents ,1 . ' ' were paid for. the remainder of the school year, in accordance with the customary ultimatum of the Business Office to pay up or get out. The unfortunates who are compelled to leave school for financial reasons, through the insistence of the Stu dent Council, or what not, are out of luck. The loss of twenty-five dollars is not to be taken lightly as any stu dents here will attest, and the petty tyrants of the University financia staff are utterly indifferent to al requests for rent refunds. "We must rent the rooms- in ad vance. When a student leaves in the middle or at the end of the quarter it is then too late to find other occu pants for the rooms; they would re main vacant and there would be no chance of a return" upon them if we refunded the rents." Plausible enough on the surface, if this argu ment is considered from a strictly business standpoint. But numbers of dormitory rooms have been vacan all this year. If vacated rooms can not be rented at the beginning of the new quarter the chances are that it would have been equally impossible to have rented them at the beginning of the year. Ethically speaking, the University is confiscating money that rightfully belongs to the students when it re fuses to make room rent refunds The student is in effect forced to pay in advance for a room, and if cir cumstances beyond his control pre vent him from occupying it he re ceives no return for his money. He has every right to demand a refund "Give us our money back," the students say. "Run along and forget it," answers the autocrat behind the barred win dow in Old South. And what can the students do about it? .Nothing! - GLENN HOLDER ter, we venture to say, are helped ; along the path to the big black F by worry, and would - have had a reasonable chance to pass if they hadn't sat down and figured out how hopeless it all is. Co-eds are much more susceptible to worry over exams than the usual run of carefree males. But the male of the species studens does a generous and foolish amount of hair-graying also. One gets nowhere by such actics. Either one knows his stuff, or he does not, and if not the only way to-remedy matters is to sit down and get it. Nervousness in the Exam room accounts for much weeping and wail ing and gnashing of teeth later when the grades are given out. It can be controlled, and should be. Grades are not the most important thing in if e, and it is no calamity to make a C instead of a'B because of a ques tion that escapes the mind at the moment. Worrying over that single question, though, is very likely to pull the grade down much further. Futile worry over exams, which are never so bad as they are ima gined to be before they are taken, is not only foolish but actively detri mental to work. Stay cheerful and do your damnedest there is the best formula for Exam Week. H. J. G. Music ' Hath Charms Music, says Webster, is "any com bination of simultaneous sounds in harmony," or "the art of combining sounds in a manner to please the ear.' But such a cold, and even cruel defi nition insults the composer. Music is infinitely more than harmony and mellifluous beats. Music throbs with vitality. Music .transports listeners to realms forbidden to mechanical ve hicles. It can soothe, comfort, - im passion. Music is the life, the soul, the heart throbs of an artist. There are' musical recitals fre quently at the University; yet it is but seldom that students attend them. The University band giyes concerts; individuals present recitals. The greater number of them are free. Perhaps students hold to the belief that unless they pay to hear a concert that they will not get their money's worth! Or perhaps they are content to sit in their rooms and listen to the strains of "I Faw Down and. Go Boom" issue from the sound box. Or they may . object to the fact that at concerts they are not allowed to hear the music as casually as they might wish. But, at least, one has the satis faction of knowing that he doesn't have to get up and turn a record as soon as the music stops! The music played at these concerts and recitals is good music the type that one seldom has the opportunity to hear. An appreciation of music does no one a great 'amount, of harm. J. M. the proficient "cribbers" in his class ranked high. Little had been said on the subject by his professors, who usually preferred stationing guards about the examination room to trust ing in the honor system. " . These were the first steps in the evolution of a cribber. University- Daily. Open Forum ..... , FIGURE IT OUT? The Campus ' By Joe Jones "Ain't No Use Worryin' " Listen in on any group of students these days when exams are impend ing, and you will eventually and in evitably hear one of the number say "Gash, I'm losing two pounds a day worrying over my exams. I'm scared stiff this quarter don't know how I'll get by!" "Well," nods one of the group, "i m not putting on any weight, myself." And there follows endless comparison of notes and mu tual consolations. , It is true that the lot of the poor student at the end of the quarter is not easy. Beset on all sides with visions and spectres, there is little sleep for him. All, his professors are undoubtedly searching carefully for just, the questions which he, and he alone, will never think of spotting. AH the book reports in the world, with a few dozen term papers thrown in on the side, are due by next week. Well, what can one do about it, ex cept worry? Nothing, and so your average student wears himself out worrying. ' There is nothing so demoralizing as worry. Ninety per cent of the stu dents who flunk exams every quar- Clipped L ' t JOHN STUDENT IN COLLEGE John Student entered the Univer sity as a freshman. The first three professors who met his first three classes started out by telling him, first, that he was now a University student and able to shoulder his own responsibilities ; second, that the grad ing system was devised for the sake of the student; third, that the utmost fairness would be exercised in the as signment of work and in the giving of quizzes; fourth, that what the stu dent got out of a course was more important than the grade he received in it; and fifth, that he did not receive late papers. John gained a confused impression that he was to be treated as a man and allowed to run his own affairs and that he was bound by a number of formalities and a great deal of red tape. After the mid-semester examina tions John had a serious talk with his adviser and gained some " new ideas. Grades were not chiefly for the benefit of the student, but the University took a great interest in them; there are many points of view as to what fairness in the matter of examination questions is; the idea that the knowledge gained was more important than the grade was not generally held and cheating was a not infrequent refutation of this view. John received very mediocre grades for the first semester, while some of To The Editor: ' - With the retirement of Mr. Joseph Mitchell from the arena of campus criticism, a new and prolific school of critical thought would ' seem to have arisen. There were some who thought that Mr. Mitchell's expres sions of opinion had rather begun to monopolize the field, and hence the inevitable result of terminating his function was to unleash the tradi tional flood of pent-up yearnings for utterance, hitherto suppressed. All the lads about the place , who had managed at one time or another to read a book or to sit in on a current portrayal of folk hardships at the local theater decided that their criti cal faculties had too long lain dor mant and that perhaps they were neglecting an unsuspected forte. Let us pass over the immediate result with a graceful wave of the hand and a delicately elevated eyebrow. But out of the smoke of battle and the chaos a: more interesting situa tion seems likely to emerge than one might at first anticipate. In short, some of the boys are not so bad. There have been one or two reviews of recent date that are conspicuous for honest, forceful, and intelligent treatment of the matter at hand. If this unforeseen critical millennium should continue . and should spread, well and good. Nor is there any pressing reason why it should not do so. if it were not for one unfortunate and significant feature which this writer, for one, regrets. This con sists in .what seems to me to be a rather severe conflict between local patriotism and the reviewer's good sense. "He and She," by Rachel Crothers, was a thoroughly alien pro duction, and as a consequence no dif f iculty was experienced in treating it as it well deserved, for the perform ance was indeed rather bad. But when the thing to be reviewed is of local inception, locally handled, there is brought about an almost piti ful struggle in which the young cri tic, painfully conscious that the play (or whatever it may be) is really pretty awful, is yet seemingly com pelled by some misbegotten' sense of local pride not only to gloss over the rough spots, but finally, triumphant and perspiring, to emerge from the .carnage flaunting the conviction that, after all, the thing is a work of art. I do not in any way refer to the review of "Mum's the Word" which I think fully deserved the praise that was accorded it. I am merely speak ing in general of earlier abortive at tempts to wring some virtue out of what is worthless so long as it . be local. This is a little too much for even the most long-suffering reader, especially when the aforesaid reader has also seen the . undernourished chef d' oeuvre in question, and, un prejudiced by considerations of lo cality, has, learned sincerely to regret that art is indeed so long and time so fleeting. V D. M. WILSEY North Carolina Club Listens to Talks On Recreation in State At its regular fortnightly meeting Monday night in the main lecture room of Saunders Hall, the North Carolina club heard a discusion of the amusements and recreations of the various sections of North Caro lina. - si The discussion, entitled "North Carolina at Play", was conducted by Mrs. Loretto Carroll Bailey and Mr. William D, Perry. Mrs. Bailey's discussion was rela tive to the sports and modes of enter tamment peculiar to the people of the western section of the state, and Mr. Perry told how the eastern Carolin ians kept time from hanging heavily on their hands. Learned men are saying that there must soon be a let-up in the terrific pace of extra-curricular, activities which are overshadowing the scholas tic work of our colleges. It is cer tain that a man can easily be driven under by too wide participation in these multitudinous activities, and it is also certain that they often play a great part in the determination of what a college man's friends and ac quaintances think of him. For in stance, let us consider the cases 'of Bill, Jack, and Tom, who entered school together four years ago. Bill's father sent him to school to get a degree and an education. The boy himself came for that purpose. He knew little and cared less about extra-curricular activities; they were not part of his conception of an edu cation. During the first quarter of his freshmanhood he studied hard, took his courses seriously, and made good grades. Being a conformist, he was duly initiated into a frater nity immediately upon fulfilling the requirements, and by this time he had come to realize that one's studies aren't the only, worth while thing in college; that to be an all-'round fel low he should "go out for something", do this and that. He became an as sistant manager of baseball, joined the business staff of the Tar Heel, and, being a singer, he became a mem ber of the Glee-Club; he dabbled in this, had a finger in that-things which would swell the list, of activi ties under his Yackety Yack picture. Before the end of his sophomore year he was almost swamped in the f toils of extra-curricular activities. He had to let something slide, so he gave less time to his studies. They had become a side issue in his education; to be a well known man on the cam pus was more to be desired than high grades, and besides, these activities gave more training than his academic work.. fices, and wears a letter. But also from that first day he has studied hard and made excellent grades. Ho-w he was able to handle all these things and to keep his health and happiness is somewhat of a mystery to men cf lesser capacity. But handle them he did, and next June he will graduate with both the high scholastic standing of Jack, and the outstanding extra curricular record of Bill, without be ing either a fifth year ..senior or a bookworm. " May it not be said that he is smarter than those two men? His father, and the dean, and the boys, all say that Tom is a mighty fine fellow. Next year Bill will be a fifth year senior. The dean says he played the part of a fool, and that he lost sight of what he came for; Bill's father says the same thing. The boys say Bill is a fine, smart fellow. " To Be Representative At Education Meeting Miss Nittenna Strobach will repre sent the Carolina Playmakers and Bureau of Community Drama at a meeting of the North Carolina Edu cation Association in Raleigh March This is the first time that dramatics have been given a place in the state education program. Heretofore dra matics have held a minor -place under the English section. However, this year there" will be a separate drama tics arts section with which Miss Strobach will be connected. , Jack, too, came to college for an education. He came to study books, he studied books, he never did any thing else but study books, and he didn't care about anything that wasn't in a book or a lecture. "Always at work from , morning till night; Dear God, it was a depressing sight." Jack will graduate at the end of this quarter with an exceptionally splendid scholastic record; yet some folks say he's a natural born fool. Some, even say he hasn't found out what a college is for. The throng of students here con tains dozens of groups of distinct types, the largest by far being made up of the somewhat colorless men who shine neither in studies nor activities, probably the remainber may be rough ly divided into the Bills, the Jacks, and the Toms. The prototypes are seen on every side. Then there are the men who apparently have nothing to do but study, and yet who flunk courses and are placed on academic probation and thereby hangs another point. How is it that some men-can carry a load of activities, including self-help work, and at the same time do splendid work, while some other men who don't carry any activities nor do any self-help work can't seem even to get by on their courses? - Is it that their abilities are so far below the Toms' abilities, or is it simply laziness' and indifference? In either case a state university is hardly the place for them. , . University Frosh To Debate Davidson The Debate Council announces "that definite arrangements have been made for a Freshman debate with David son. College. There is also a proba bility that the contest will be a tri angular affair between Carolina, Davidson, and Wake Forest. In either case Carolina will be repre sented by both- an affirmative and a negative team. Any Freshman who is interested in the matter should see Professor George McKie at once. He can be found in 210 Murphey daily at the chapel period. The query of the debate ' is : should be abolished in civil cases." system should be abolished in civil cases." ; ' ' FOUND ' " A fountain pen one day last week on East steps of Saunders Hall. Owner can get same by calling at Dean Carroll's office, 106 Saunders, and, describing property. 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