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Wednesday, November 13, 1929
Tar Heel Topics
Chapel Hill's first fire of the
season was not so hot socially,
nor did it furnish the. highlights
peculiar to such events here.
Nossir, Chapel Hill fires ain't
-what they used to be.
Authorities at Stephens Col
lege require the 600 students
there to take a nap every after
noon. Such a requirement is
quite unnecessary here; the Uni
versity students get : plenty of
sleep on their classes.
VII -' '-
inree were killed and 25
wounded in a riot which started
during a pre-election political
parade at Mexico City Sunday
evidently modern efficiency
methods are being introduced in
Mexican politics; heretofore
they always waited until after
the president was elected before
shooting him.
We see by the paper that the
University has a new f ootbal
song, written- by two of the
Wigue and Masque outfit. If
it is anything like those used in
"Mum's the Word" last year, the
Athletic Association . would do
well to cover the stands at Kenan
stadium with asbestos before the
Thanksgiving game.
Faculty
Bootlickers
untjge siuaenxs are queer
birds, but some of the profes
sors and would-be professors are
downright peculiar. ; Perhaps
the most incomprehensible .of
all faculty men are the numer
ous nincompoops who obviously
curry favor with their students
in an effort to secure reputa
tions as popular teachers and
thereby obtain promotions. They
imagine that their students have
the highest regard for them; in
reality most of the undergrad
uates see through their rather
transparent strategems and re-
wv-iv mem wiiu ainuseu con
tempt and even disgust.
"Booting" is practiced assid
uously by many students, who
make themselves obnoxious to
their instructors and classmates
alike. ' Buthe faculty- "boot
licker," who makes a big play
for popularity with his classes,
is even more disgusting to those
among his students who refuse
to be"booted."; '
A wide assortment of jokes,
usually somewhat stale and fre
quently risque, is an indispen
sible part of the stock in trade
of the professorial footer."
Frequent grats and easy quizzes
are among his favorite devices.
He considers it necessary to
flunk few men, but never are
they athletes or prominent cam
pus leaders. The socially ineli
gible, the non-frat men, the ob
scure and mediocre student are
the unfortunate recipients of
the F's that he considers neces
sary to uphold the dignity of his
position. ' " " -
It is true that most really
competent teachers are popular,
but their popularity is based
upon merit rather than conscious
efforts to secure the favor of
their students. On the other
hand, a few of the many faculty
men who habitually "boot" their
classes are so consummate in the
art that they actually secure
some measure of popularity with
the least discerning of the stu
dents. But whatever advantage
the "bootlicking" instructor
gains from his efforts to secure
popularity are more than offset
by the open ridicule that he re
ceives from the more intelligent
of the undergrads.
The Peril
Of Examinations
Now that the season of mid
term examinations is over for
this quarter the thoughts of the
student .body naturally turn to
the subject of final examinations.
Interestingly enough, students
habitually look upon this phase
of college life with a character
istic dread. The writer is in
clined to believe that this atti
tude of dread can be explained
in terms of an incorrect method
of preparation.
Students cram on the eye of
an examination because examin
ations are a nacessary evil
necessary, because professors
must have some way of check
ing up on the work that stu
dents have covered in their
courses, and evil because an un
fair measurement of what the
student has actually learned is
often the result. Although stu
dents readily, appreciate the
teacher's motive in giving an
examination, they are rather
loathe to discover wherein they
themselves are benefitted there
by. The resulting tendency, is
to put off preparation until the
latest possible time before the
examination is scheduled to oc
cur. The method of preparation
resulting from this situation is
commonly known to students
and professors as cramming.
Cramming tends to augment the
evil of examinations an evil
which, though necessary, does
not need to be increased. .
The student who crams on the
eve of an examination is unfair
both to himself and .to the rest
of his class. Intensive study is
a good thing, but cramming may
well be compared to building a
house out of loose straw, or the
Biblical incident, of the man who
built his house on the sand. No
sooner is the storm of examina
tions over than the temporary
knowledge gained from cram
ming becomes a thing of the
past. The customary, sigh of
relief which students utter after
finishing an examination xis
nothing more than the symbol
of the passage of this emergency
information from their minds.
This is the fallacy of examina
tions which we feel is worthy
of careful consideration and
which we believe to be due to
faulty methods of preparation.
Notwithstanding numerous
opinions to the contrary, the
writer of this treatise contends
that all study on the eve of an
examination should be confined
to a review of the main head
ings of the material covered in
the course. Such a process is
obviously a review rather than
the acquisition of new informa-
ion; The workableness of such
a scheme will depend, of course,
upon the adoption of some
scheme for getting students suf
ficiently interested in their work
to produce a reasonable amount
THE DAILY
of study. Generally speaking,
such is the case on this campus.
We, therefore, advocate the !
abandonment of cramming. All
too often an unfair estimate of
what the student really knows is
the, result. All too often tem
porary information is confused
with permanent information by
professor and student alike. J.
C. W.
Are College
Activities Stale?
In a " recent article in the
Atlantic Monthly on "The Con
vention of Going to College"
William, I. Nichols makes the
statement, that "The activity
man' is gradually dying out in
colleges, simply because he is
discovering that college activi
ties are only a rather stale con
tinuation of those at school."
. Oiy the surface this statement
may seem true, but to those who
are intimately acquainted with
college activities, at least in this
University, the statement is not
true. The "activity man" is oh
the increase here., A daily
paper, a semi-monthly literary
supplement, a comic magazine,
and numerous other publica
tions, along with the increased
interest in sports intensified by
the winning teams, are drawing
many more men into "activi
ties." Added to this many na
tional fraternities are just get
ting a strong foothold here; for
a fraternity to "rate" there
must be "activity men," and
consequently every ... pledge is
driven, for a while at least, into
some activity.
As to the charge that college
activities are only a "stale con
tinuation of those; in school" no
student intimately acquainted
with both, could ..make such a
statements In the prep schools
and high-schools that we were
familiar with, the "activities"
were many times so much un
der the supervision and direc
tion of faculty members that
the students really had little
part in them; the principal in
one school was the controling
factor in publications; teachers
often made the activities seem
V-
like regular school work. In
college activities a new attitude
is' developed with no faculty di
rectly in charge ; a man is left
to do what he can, guide him
self, and decide matters for him
self; the fact that the "activi
ties" are not taken so seriously
in college as in high schoo!
make them the more interesting
and the fresher.
It is true, thank goodness
that the rah-rah type of "activi
ty man" is dying out, but in his
place a "new student" is arising
one who is more balanced in his
judgement of sports, one who
takes scholarship a' little more
seriously, -who is more willing to
recognize real worth, who , is a
little more tolerant, and who is
a little deeper and a bit more
thorough.
v J. D. M.
AN APPRECIATION
Editor Daily Tar Heel:
Jbew days ago Dr. Herbert
Gray, the visiting London
clergyman, commented favora
Diy on the courtesy of of the
Carolina students. In this con
nection I would like to relate a
recent episode that speaks for
itself.
Last Sunday my two chil
dren and I were caught in the
terrific rain storm and forced
to seek refuge on the porch of
Bynum Gymnasium. As a shel
ter, this left much to be desired
for the wind blew the rain - di
rectly towards us and we were
soon uncomfortably wet. Some
what isolated from the path and
notice of passing motorists, we
shivered and waited for, the
storm to abate. - Fortunately we
did not have to wait for that,
however, as a student in Steele
Readers' Opinions
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TAR -HEEL
IN THE WAKE OF NEWS
J. E. Dungan
John Mebane is a sadder and
wiser poet, now realizing that
whatever -you say about women
they will always take it in the
opposite way than the way in
tended. .V - .
The business staff of the Yack
ety Yack in its cryptic way an
nounces that all i pictures of
seniors must be taken as soon
as possible, which to the aver
age senior's mind means when
ever he damn pleases.
This Esperanto language,
which has been in existence for
a considerable number of years
and which is just now catching
the fancy, of Carolina students,
aims at simplification, but it is
our honest opinion that were Es
peranto the only language
known, Laurence Stallings, the
author of What Price Glory and
a recent visitor to the campus,
would invent a few "cuss words"
for' his own individual use.
Ray Farris, popular president
of the student body, has been
hobnobbing with Governor Gard
ner lately. Gardner started as
a football player of unusual
ability and it mighf be that he
is interested in Farris as . pos
sible gubernatorial timber for
some future year.
- "V
The so-called Carolina
i
'high
hats" were evidently too much
out of reach for the South Caro
lina ; Gamecocks ' last; Saturday
Psychology in this particular
incident failed to beat good foot
ball.
The United States Marine
band will invade the campus to
morrow and for the sake of
those who don't know what the
band is it is emphatically not
a sea-going organization.
If you read your Tar Heel as
religiously as you should, you
will be surprised at the extraor
dinary amount of useful infor
mation which its columns carry.
For instance, you might have
learned that during the 15th and
16th centuries hair was used to
stuff tennis balls, or that in
1854 there were two professors
teaching mathematics at the
University who wore red beards.
"Good News Is Coming" we
understand. About the only
good news we'd be interested in
is another check, and we don't
care which one of our family
sends it either: .
Tt is said that Coach Collins
is hunting better punters. One
suggestion is to hire a coach to
aid General Collins, the new
coach's duty being to train punt
ers. We have line coaches and
backfield coaches. Why not a
punter coach?
Mack Covington is the official
paddle inspector of the Sigma
Zeta fraternity and believe us he
never lets any frail instruments
get by his vigilant eye.
Stallings To Speak
Lawrence Stallings, author of
"What Price Glory," "The Cock
Eyed World," and other popular
plays, will speak to the play-
writing class at 9:30 this morn
ing. The class meets in 113
Murphey. i
Last Friday Mr. Stallings
paid Chapel Hill a brief visit,
and expressed a great deal of
interest in the dramatic work
being done here.
dormitory saw our situation.
Quickly borrowing a car from a
fellow-student, he came to our
rescue and, in the almost blind-
ng rain, drove us home.
M
A hapel Hillian.
Marine Band Never
Misses Concert Date
According to John P. White,
trumpet soloist with the Marine
Band which appears here Thurs
day, it is the rule of that organi
zation never to miss a concert
date. Mr. White tells of an in
cident which occurred on a re
cent tour.
The band was traveling from
Shamokin, Pa., to Potts town, of
the same state. The private car
in which the organization
travels was switched off at a
tiny junction somewhere be
tween the two "dates." It was
scheduled to be picked up by
another train that would carry
it into Pottstown. But time
went by and no train arrived.
Afternoon waned into early
evening and still no train.
Finally the manager of the band
became desperate and sent a dis
tress call . to railroad head
quarters. Immediately a special
engine was dispatched with or
ders to "Make Pottstown in time
for the Marine Band Concert."
In all its tours the Marine
Band never traveled as fast as
it did that afternoon. The en
gine dashed into the station at
Pottstown with its lone car a
few minutes before performance
time. Bandsmen jumped , to .the
platform as the train ' slowed
down ; ' they were hustled into
waiting busses and rushed to the
theatre.
The audience was in their
seats, perfectly innocent and
quietly awaiting the perfor
mance. , Breathless bandsmen,
hurriedly grabbed their instru
ments and stood up just in time
to acknowledge the applause as
the curtain rose. f
"It's a trying life," says Mr.
White' "when we take the road
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The Students'
Wednesday, November 13, 1929
Infirmary List
Raymond H. Chatham, fresh
man, of Elkin, N. C, is confined
with a cold.
A Glenn Greene, senior, of
Candor, N. C, is also confined
with a cold.'
William D. Croom, freshman,
of Burgaw, N. C, is recovering
from an injured knee.
David A- Nims, senior, of Mt.
Holly, N.' C, is laid up with an
infected foot.
Miss Elizabeth Grant, junior,
of Wilmington, N. C, is recover
ing from injuries received in an
automobile accident last Satur
day night.
but we would do anything to
keep our tradition intact the
band plays on schedule!" The
schedule of the United States
Marine Band includes a concert
here this season.
U. S. Marine Band
CONCERTS
THURSDAY
Kenan Stadium
3:30 p. m.
Tin Can, 8:30 p. m.
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