North Carolina Newspapers

ailp Gar pecl Published 4aily during the college year except Mondays and except Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out of town, for the college year. Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. . Glenn P. Holder Editor V. H. Yarborough, 3n.....Mgr. Editor Marion Alexander Business Mgr. The Daily Tar Heel Makes Its Debut . " ' : Conceived in the sweat of ' a hastily assembled crew of news hounds and a trio of harrassed executives, the first issue of the Daily Tar Heel has made its ap pearance. There are necessari ly numerous deficiencies in the paper, and they will continue until a more efficient staff or ganization can be perfected. The chief function of the daily vill be to bring about a closer unity among the various small groups which constitute the Uni versity. During the past few years there has been a steadily increasing tendency on the part of the students to drift into .Ismail cliques and groups which become to a great extent isolat ed from the remainder of the! practically the sole occasions upon which the mass of students - meet in a compact body. Through the college newspa per, imperfect as it may be -I "1 T ' wnen consiaerea irom a jour nalistic standpoint, the entire graduate and undergraduate bodies have an opportunity for an interchange of ideas and consideration of common prob lems. If the Daily Tar Heel suc ceeds' in welding the various subdivisions of the University together to some extent by pro viding a medium for such an in terchange of ideas and for the dissemination of accurate in- formation about campus events, it will have fulfilled the pur poses for which it was established- The Duke Steps Out - Citizens of the state are ful ly aware of the fact that little Trinity College at Durham has had a new permanent and had her face lifted, as well as mar ried herself into the richest family of the commonwealth. Alumni of the University as well as active members of the student body, while frankly re gretting that the recent flood of riches could not have gone into buildings needed at their school, harbor no jealousy or ill . will whatsoever toward the Duke Devils. In fact, as citizens of the state they r e j oice over the fact that there are now two great Carolina universities to lead the South. . The ,Uniyersityx,because of its traditions, history, and fine fa- culty will continue to serve the state and the South as long as there is a state. The rise of another powerful school can neither add or detract from the name of the institution founded by. Colonel Davie so many, long years ago. The impression is current on the campus of our clos rival that the recent acquisitions of Duke University have caused Carolina men to look with jaun diced eyes upon Durham's pride. It is a happy fact that taste in schools differs as in all other things. Duke will serve a real purpose in the state, that of of fering deluxe education to the sons of our Carolinians who can afford it and desire it. The University, for its part, will continue in the future, as in the past, to make it possible for every man's son, no matter whether he be the son of a plumber or of a bank-president, to acquire the best practical and cultural education to be had any where in the United States. J. E. DUNGAN. Concerning The Newcomer Among the pressing problems of the University of North Car olina none is more pertinent than "What to do with the freshman?" Owing to the fact that they are working with ma terial which in great part de nies any hope of the finished product, this and other Ameri can universities are progressive ly becoming inadequate. Yet despite agitation from all sides the problem seems almost entirely incapable of any satis- factory solution. How can this well nigh universal ambition of going to college be wisely re stricted? This is the question which needs to be answered. American colleges involve a cost per student which is in excess of tuition charges. In Fresh man classes much of this is squandered on unfit human sub jects. - ' Annually" at the close of the Fall Quarter some- forty percent of the Freshman class come to realize that they were never meant y for college men that they have left a life which they never should have left. We feel that such an elimination pro gram seriously cripples the Uni versity and places a damper on its usefulness. In the last analysis, the fault lies with the Freshman himself. He comes to Chapel Hill bent Lon an education but vaguely so. Oftentimes, -he comes to college merely because of the will of his parents. We believe that no system other than a more rigid selec tion of each in-comihg Fresh man class is economically sound. The present practice of making the Freshman year an elimina tion period is clearly an instru ment of great wastea waste which seemingly bounds.- J. C. W. knows no Another Sophomore Becomes Phi Beta s Kappa In 2 Years Winning membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic society, in two years instead of the three ordinarily required is the feat just per formed by Robert Hoke Webb of Raleigh, N. C., a student at the University of North Carolina. Young Webb's high achieve ment was revealed when the year's grades were turned into the University Registrar's of fice recently. The requirment for Phi Beta Kappa is eight University quarters of work, or two and two thirds years, with an average of 92.5 percent or better on all courses. Young Webb did the required work with the required grades in two years. According to tne records :m Dean Addison "Hibbard's office, there have been only two such cases in recent years, W. B. Shu ford of Hickory, N. C, sharing the distinction with Webb. He did his preparatory work at the St. Nicholas School in Raleigh and at Bell Buckle, entering the University in the fall of 1927. He has found time for many other activities to be a well-rounded student. He has participated in the activities of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra ternity, made his numeral "in boxing, and has taken part in the social affairs of the Oerman Club. - . Report all circulation com plaints to Tar Heel office be tween 8:30 and 9:00 A. M. on mornings of issue. - i THE DAILY The Campus By Joe Jones When school closed last ' spring there was the usual scat tering of students to the four winds, southward, northward, coastward and to the hinter lands. Some 2600 Tar Heels sought their native heath by bus, train, Ford, and thumnology. On the afternoon of the last day of exams the great northern trail U. S. Highway No. 1 was strewn from Chapel Hill to New York with the nondescript argosies of U. N C, the Yankee boys' collegiate f livers home ward bound. The mightiest Tar Heel .chariot on the road that day was Bull Durham's seven-passenger Cad die making a non-stop hop from Franklin street to Broadway. Bull himself, Orange county's best known taxi man, was under the wheel, while we seven under-. graduates who had chartered the big " buggy, were tastefully arranged among our luggage. The Cadillac was road worthy and to spare; she made the trip from Sutton's Prug Store to the Jersey end of the Holland Tube, some 500 miles, in eighteen hours, including all refueling pauses for man and motor. ;She left the Hill at 12 : 50 P. M., Thursday ,last day of exams. Before reaching Richmond she had overtaken four fordfuls of Yankee Tar Heels, including Bob Sartwell and his compatriots of Springfield, Mass., Harry Brainard of upstate New -York, Fuchs and Switz of New York City, all in the full blue and white regalia of U. N. C.'s col legiate Fords. (Carolina should be quite well known in the North by now, what with the Playmakers, Gerald Johnson, the football team, Shep Strud- wick, and the spring migration of U. N. C. Fords all taking up that ,way) . We got through Baltimore and up into the Delaware Valley shortly after mid-night. From there on it was extremely un pleasant riding due to the in fernal cold and fog. Got through Phillie about 4 A. M., after ask ing a dozen milkmen the way out of that perplexing city. Passed through Princeton about seven, but we couldn't s.ee a thing for the fog. And so on to Jersey City at 8 :30, with the sun at last breaking through the fog and clouds, and poor Mr. Durham getting dark under the eyes, saying that he was about petered, wished he'd never started such a trip, and tjiat he'd like to be back in Chapel Hill, instead of 5.00 miles away in a Hell of screaming North Jersey traffic. So we bade him goodbye at this end of the Holland Tube, his face turned southward for the long lonely journey home. He said, "See you at the Hill next fall, boys." In a half hour we seven Tar Heels had gone our: separate and. obscure ways in" the metropolis. And now "next fall" has come, and we're back; back from the mountains, back from the cotton farms, from the cities, from the swamp country, from the coast, from the north, the south from Asheville, from Wilming ton, from Florida and New York, from Tennessee and South Carolina, from -Virginia; .all drawn back to one small village by the invisible bonds which reach out from a great Univer sity to her sons and daughters, though they be wonders and astray to the corners of the earth. Other endurance records don't im press the man whose neighbor has a pup that gets lonesome at night. Boston-Post. ULLii covlr usually tea Law Students Make Perfect Record on State Examination Students from the University Law school who took the bar ex amination in August made a hundred percent record, Thirty University students .took the test, regarded as one of the most difficult on record, and thirty passed. Naturally Dean McCormick and the other members of the Law school faculty are pleased immensely. Tho showing is re garded all the more extraordin ary when it is considered that 43 of the 135 candidates failed. The record of this year, how ever, is but in keeping with the tjigh averages maintained by University students in state bar examinations in the past. It is said that no graduate of the Uni versity Law school has ever failed to pass the bar. Some times two-year students (gradu ation requires three years) wishing to take the bar get the recommendation of the Law school, and- while the records for all-time are not complete it is certain that no two-year stu dent of recent years with the recommendation of the Law school has failed to pass the bar. 1 ... V mi Monday ' 'FOUR FEATHERS" breulatov. Methodist Student Bible Class Will Meet Sun. Morning . The Student ' Bible Classes will get under way at the Metho dist church on Sunday morning at 9:45. Dr. W. S. Bernard, of the department of Classical Literature, will lecture to the upperclassmen. Professor Ber nard has been notably success ful in the leadership of this class. The freshman class will hear - Mr. J. G. Phillips, student pastor at the church, Debate Council To Meet Monday Night J. C. Williams, president of the Debate Council, announces that the first meeting of that group will take place at 7:15 Jonday night in 210 Murphey Hall. Every member of the council is urged to be present, as the matter of the proposed Carolina British international debates is to be considered. In addition to this, -the problem of completing the 1929-30 schedule of inter-1 collegiate debates will be dis cussed by the group. I Philo Vance, suave, sophisticated sleuth of "The Canary Murder Case," solves the great est, most baffling, mystery of them all. The sensational crime that threatens a prom inent family with ex termination! ' " "THE GREENE MURDER CASE" -with- William Powell "A murderer never looks like a murderer!". But Philo Vance's un canny power points out the mani acaliller in "The Greene. Murder Case." ' See him! Hear him! Extra Added Attraction "NIGHT CLUB" with Fanny Brice Hot Music! Peppy Dancing! Broadway Favorites Internationally known stars' fea tured in a Broadway night club performance with Jimmy Carr's famous Silver Slipper Orchestra. TODAY viip.' Dr. Basby To Talk At idethoaist Unurch "The Origin of the Indivi dual's Religion," will be the title of a lecture delivered by Dr. English Bagby at the forum hour conducted by the young people' of the Methodist church. The subject will be treated from the psychological point of view, and will consider what it is in the individual's life with which a person deals when he accepts or rejects religion. This is the first of a series of lectures to be given by well known psychologists. ' The hour is 7:00 P. M. next Sunday on the second floor at the Methodist church. ROOM FOR RENT Single room for man near campus. 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