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r Fraternity Bids Distributed 2 O'CLOCK TODAY MEMORIAL HALL Fraternity Bids Distributed 2 O'CLOCK TODAY MEMORIAL HALL 'I i ' i is I 1 1 JJir VOLUME XXXVIII '7 l Hi ( j JSTIf- - M If f ! I fHAPPT. ITTT.T. M TTTTTPQnAV nPTARn? IT 1Q9Q JTTifTrcr of 'S Isadjora Duncan Dancers Provide First Program of Entertain? ment Committee for . 1929 ; Please Large Crowd in Me morial Hall. Displaying a spiritual. rhyth mic charm of the dance to a per fection seldom seen on the stage today, the soul of the famous Isadora Duncan lived again last night in Memorial hall when a troupe of ten of her proteges were seen and heard by an, audi ence which well filled the audi torium. It .was the first program of the school year offered by the student . entertainment commit tee. i Freedonf and absolute control of the splendidly proportioned human body which interpreted and reacted to the heavenly har monies of such master musicians as Schubert, Schumann and Chopin; were features of the per formance last night. Lacking a lot of the spectacu lar of the modern dance as Americans are accustomed to see on tlie stage, the lifelong trained girls in the Duncan troupe more than made up for any alleged shortcoming in the eyes of the audience, by their charm of mo tion and graceful gestures. The girls are direct from the most famous of the schools founded by Isadora Duncan in Moscow, Russia. It is the first time in America for several of them. They were chosen because of their proficiency and leader ship in the noted school of the dance. Their performance last night revealed the minute care -in their years of training, be cause Isadora Duncan's system of schooling for the dance starts when the person is a mere child. There was little, costuming and stage settings, which seemed strange to the audience at first. However,' when the psychology of it was seen (that the whole show was in the graceful move ment in the dance of these lis some airy-footed spirits) , the absence of stage decorations and brilliant costumes was not missed. (Continued on page four) Scribe Interviews Irma Duncan; She Says She Likes Chapel Hill (By George Sheram) "I love this place," said Miss Irma Duncan in talking to a representative of the Tar Heel yesterday afternoon. "I have traveled much over the United States but have never seen such magnificent trees, such beauti ful shrubbery in all my wander ing. "The atmosphere, the very tempo of the town is so much like dancing. It breathes the spirit of nature in all her free dom, in all her glory, and in all her beauty. "Your Chapel Hill is so unlike New York. Everything is so hurried there, so matter of fact ; here it is soothing, quiet; I should love to stay here." Miss Duncan is the adopted daughter of the incomparable Isadora Duncan, and was taught the dance under the tutorship of her foster mother. After Isa dora Duncan met her tragic death two years ago Irma Dun can took over the school in Mos cow and continued the work that her mother had begun. Miss Duncan, like her brilliant and world acclaimed foster mother, has only two passions dancing and her pupils. She is now the head of the Moscow f Dance Pr&n&nt(A HrP! No Grail Dance In answer to many in quiries the Order of the Grail has announced that there will be no dance under its super vision this week-end. This is in accordance with a ruling made two years ago - barring dances on the campus after a major football game. The next Grail dance will be held October twenty-sixth after the V. P. I. game. Pittsburgh Sports Writer Lauds The Beauty of Stadium Max Hannum, writing in his column of the Pittsburgh Press, says of the Kenan stadium: "We have been privileged to see many of the beautiful foot ball stadiums of the country, in cluding the Rose Bowl at Pasa dena, and others, but none can even approach the one of . the University of North Carolina campus as Chapel Hill. Where some of the gridiron structures run to massiveness, attempting to, draw attention by their im posing grandeur, the . simple setting, clever, architecture, and splendid arrangement of the Tar Heel bowl could hardly be matched. s -. . - . "It is a little gem, set in a natural depression of the Jieart of a pine forest. You walk over North Carolina's, campus, pass ing among fine new buildings and others that were erected in 1822, follow signs that direct you to the stadium, and are un aware of its proximity until it looms up before you through the pineees. They surround, it upon all sides. It sits in the little valley, with concrete stands on either side, and entrance at one end and a wonderfully ap pointed field house at the other. The green turf , the luxurious' landscaping and the blue" sky make a sight "that is not easily forgotten. No wonder the Pitt boys were frisky colts when they worked out there before the Duke-Pitt football, game." v school of dancing The artists appearing on the program last night were selected as the most talented and accomplished mem bers of the school. They have been trained since early child hood for the dance; and they have perpetuated not only the great technical knowledge of their teacher, but also the pas sionate love of grace and beauty and the soul of dancing which has immortalized the name of Isadora Duncan. v It was the ambition of Miss Duncan to have every child in the world to take dancing. "We are not professional dancers in the true sense of the word," further stated Miss Irma Duncan, "but we are at tempting to educate the. people of the world in the art of the dance and to 'show that dancing is essential to the body and the soul. "We find the American audi ence very responsive to our dancing. The American people are finding enjoyment in the dance and it is gaining favor over all the country. I wish to establish a school similar to the one in Moscow sometime in the near future, and I feel now that it will be a success." LAW SLiiUUL Slii rwf nt . i -- NEW HIGH RECORD Total Registration is 121 as Compared With 118 Last Year. Enrollment for the 87th term of the University of North Car olina law school has set a new record, according to registration figures announced today by Dean Charles T. McCormick. ' ' . . The total registration is 121, ascompared with 118 last year. The senior class numbers 39, as compared with 15 last year, de spite the fact that University candidates were 100 per cent successful at the bar examina tion last summer. Nineteen of the entering class have college degrees, and the general level of preparation is regarded as unusually high. Eight states are represented, but 90 percent of the students are Tar Heels. A special feature of the cur riculum is the newly added course in the administration of justice. This, course, to be had in but two other law schools in" the country, is attracting wide in terest. The course is designed to pre pare for creative leadership on the part of the legal profession in the , solution of the larger problems of the administration of justice. x Half -day meetings are to be held monthly, by the entire fac ulty, in cooperation with visit ing judges and members' of -the bar. Exhaustive investigations into actual practices are to pre cede each seminar session, which will deal with the important sug gestions now in the forefront of public and professional interest in, connection with the adminis tration of the course. Eacli session discussion lead ers are, to give carefully pre pared reports, followed by gen eral discussion by faculty and students, and any visiting law yers. The first such conference is to be held tomorrow after noon on "Incorporation of the Bar," with Dean McCormick in charge. The schedule for the remainder, of the meetings fol lows: November 14 Prof. Breck enridge, Arbitration and Con ciliation. December 12 Prof essor Mc Call, The Rule-Making Power. January 16 Professor Wet tach, A Ministry of Justice. February 13 Prof essor Mc intosh, New Ideas in Pleading. March 13 Professor Van Hecke Statute Law-Making. April 17 Professor Winston, The Jury System. . Prof. A. C. Mcintosh, several years acting dean, began his sec ond quarter century of law teaching with tle opening of the law school this year, coincident with the appearance in the first year class of one of his second generation , of students, Miss Cornelia Frizzelle, daughter of Paul Frizzelle, . of Snow Hill. Professor Mcintosh has just completed a carefully prepared work on North Carolina Plead ing and Practice, which should be available to the legal profes sion before Christmas. Professor Walker 111 Professor Walker of the school of education is confined to his bed with .influenza. The doctor , states that his illness is very serious. At the time of construction Carr dormitory cost ?18,000. reshmeri Don Pledge Buttons With End Rushees Meet in Memorial Hall This Afternoon at 2 O'clock To Slake Choice; New Sj'stem Tried. After sixteen days of actual rushing, the fraternities have turned in their bids to the secre tary of the Inter-Fraternity Council and the selected fresh men meet today in Memorial hall to signify their acceptance or rejection. The system now in order of bidding freshmen is vastly dif ferent from the one used five years ago. Today . rushees will assemble in Memorial . hall at two o'clock. After being ar ranged in alphabetical order, they will go up individually to J XJ.XOX1.C tllUH CilUlC. XX yCXL U W 111 be given to each freshman on which he will list three frater nities, in order of his prefer ence. He will then receive a slip of paper upon which will be the first of these if he has an in vitation to that fraternity, or if not, the second or the third if he has an invitation to either of those.' After this, the freshman will go out of the back door and go directly to jthe fraternity of his choice without communicat ing with anyone. Five years ago bids were mailed by every fraternity to the freshmen that they wantepL At an appointed time the fresh men would stay in their rooms and representatives of .the fra ternities , would come around to "pledge them up." " This sys tem had two very noticeable faults. Primarily, there was of ten a "post mortem" of bad feel ing due to the fact that the freshmen knew positively how many fraternities they had re fused. Secondly, it was often quite embarrassing to popular freshmen being beseiged by several of the Greek orders at the same time, beseeching them to join their lodge.' As one can see, both of these defects have been corrected. y Freshmen are reminded pf the fact that the Period of Silence is enforced between themselves now, as well as in regard to the fraternity men. This, remains in existence until six o'clock to night when all freshmen will have received their bids. . T ""Dance In Durham The . news that there will be no dance on the Hill Saturday night after the Georgia game was a father devastating blow to those students who had invit ed girls down for the week-end but when rumors that there was to be a dance in Durham were verified by the appearance of posters yesterday, many prob lems were solved. y Every indication is that Chap el Hill will see the higgest crowd in its nistory Saturday and this, very sell out brings to mind a University ruling ' prohibiting dances following games at which the attendance promises to be unusually large. Those who in tend toceiebrate by dancing must do so on foreign floors. ' The dance announced-for the Washington Duke hotel Satur day night has taken on the color land importance of a Georgia- Carolina ' celebration and being the only dance in the. neighbor hood will no doubt be taken pos session of by-the football crowd. The management will have as its invited guests the Carolina and Georgia football squads and a feature of the evening will beN a no-break-dance for these men. :Of- Silence Today Fraternity Notice Fraternities are requested to turn in lists of pledges be fore six o'clock this evening at the Tar Heel office, base ment of Alumni building. In order for these lists to be jmb lished they must contain the addresses of the pledges and be typewritten. The fraternities are also re quested to type the name of the fraternity with the year of its establishment - at the University at the top of each page. Lists must be double spacedi UNIVERSITY MAN AT BROOKS FIELD Dr. ' Otto . Stuhlman, head of the physics department here, has received a letter from Frank L. Smith, a former University of North Carolina man and a for mer student of Dr. Stuhlman's, saying that he had received an appointment as a flying cadet. , Twenty thousand men took the physical examination, which was a very rigid one, and out of that number only fifteen hundred passed it. From those passing the two hundred appointments were selected. Smith was one of the two hundred chosen. He is now located at Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex. The course of study at Brooks Field; includes aerodynamics, maps, navigation and meteorol ogy. Smith stated that his knowledge of physics, gained from the University, was indis pensable to him in his study of these courses. -. In his letter Smith stressed very much the importance in the future development of aviation. He said that there were many instruments to x develop and many problems to solve whose development and solution de pend entirely on physics. University Symbolizes Progress Of State, Says Joseph M. Dixon Assistant Secretary of the Interior and former Senator and Governor Joseph M. Dixon visited Chapel Hill and the Uni versity yesterday afternoon. Mr. Dixon served as Senator and Governor of Montana, His home state, but he is a native North Carolinian, having been born in Chatham county and having lived in ' this state for the first twenty-four years of his life. Mr. Dixon spoke yesterday at the State Fair in Raleigh and came from there to Chapel Hill! in the early afternoon. On his arrival in Chapel Hill Mr. Dixon stated to a Tar Heel reporter that, although he had lived the greater part of his life out of the state, he still had a keen:in terest in North Carolina-and had watched closely its rapid devel opment. 'He also stated that he had for many years been adding to a personal cbllection of North Carolina relics, and expressed a regret that the native North Carolinians were not more inter ested in collecting and preserv ing the many historical relics in which this state abounds. Mr. Dixon recalled an incident in his youth when his grandfather told him of a meeting between his great-grandfather and Corn wallis when the British general was retreating with his army through his grandfather's old home, toward the close of the FRIENDSHIP GRO UP TO HOLD VESPE Freshmen Take Over Religious Activities of Y for Week. v V During the coming week the Freshman Friendship Council of the University. Y.M.C.A. will conduct the daily vesper ser vices that are held at Gerrard hall at seven o'clock every eve ning, Moncfay to Friday, inclu- , sive. These meetings practical ly make up tEe religious activity of the Y, whose primary pur pose on the campus is the pro motion of student aid and activi ties. Various campus groups will be assigned during the year to conduct the exercises. The following members of the Friendship Council will serve, in the order that they appear, as leaders of next week's services: Stratford Donnell, Jerome Harri er, Alex Webb, Henry Parsley, and Thomas Worth. Concerning other activities of the council, the president, Alex Webb of Raleigh, has announc ed that the organization will publish a daily list in the Tar Heel of students who are con fined to the infirmary. They will also post this list on the bul letin board at the Y building. Another bulletin board fea ture to be sponsored by the coun cil will be a lost and found col umn. To facilitate the opera tion of this service Webb has requested that' all notices of lost articles be given to Miss Ames in the Y.M.C.A. office.' Found articles and the name of the finder will also be carried to the same place. 1 ' Dr. Branson Better Dr. Eugene C. Branson, head of the department of rural social economics of the University, who has been ill at his home here with influenza and pneumonia, was reported as being improved last night. Revolution. He stated that his interest in collecting North Carolina historical relics had grown out of the personal part , his ancestors had played in the history of this state. Mr. Dixon visited the old Davie poplar, the stadium, and the new library, and showed a great deal of interest in the his torical aspect and the steady growth of ,the University. Greatly impressed by what he , saw of the University, Mr. Dix on said: "The University of North Carolina symbolizes perhaps better than anything else, North Carolina's amazing progress these last years. From a pro vincial state ; university, inade quately equipped and supported, it has grown, almost within a decade, into one of . America's most distinguished institutions of learning. ' "I was particularly impressed by the beauty and architectural excellence of the University s physical plant. The charm of the old University, as I remem ber it, has been admirably pre served in the new. As a native born North Carolinian I have been gratified to learn that in her. rapid material progress, North Carolina has in ni) sense lost sight of the importance of education and the things of the. spirit."
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