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Page Four DR.W.L;LINGLE DELIVERS SERMON TO SENIOR CLASS New President of Davidson Col lege Speaks Sunday On "Service." Preaching the baccalaureate sermon at the University's 136th Commencement here "Sunday morning, Dr. Walter Lee Lingle, who this past week -was inau gurated as presidentof Davidson College, took the ! '.much ' ' over worked theme, of "service! '.and presented it from such' a fresh and original viewpoint' that his message was declared'Ohe of the. most inspiring;-delivered" at ,Unir versity" finals, fri ' years ;v " : . The'services AYere' held in the large auditorium of the new Methodist church which was well filled. - Dr. Harry W. Chase,, re tiring president of the Univer sity, presided. Dr. Lingle took . less t;han 40 minutes to deliver his message. 1 He told the 350 outgoing graduates that the best way to attain immortality, was through unselfish service to others. "Cultivate the will tojvvork for men," he urged. ' Dr. Lingle took his text from III; ouui .vcioc jx mc iota ciiap- ter of the Acts of the Apostles : "For David, after he had served his own generation by' the will of God, fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers." Dr. Lingle urged "the Univer sity graduates to emulate the life of David. The seniors had come to the cross-roads of .life where they must make a very impor tant decision, he said. He showed how one road pointed to a life of selfishness and self-ag grandizement and how the oth er led to service to mankind. David chose the way of service, "and that's the way all great men and women have chosen," the Davidson president asserted. The difference between, the two roads is the difference be tween pagans and christians, h said. Jesus judges men and wo j men by the service they render their fellowmen, and the great est service that a human being can render another is to bring him to Jesus Christ, he said. Dr. Lingle told of reading an epitaph which said: "He loved God and served his f ellowman." Dr. Lingle said he would' rather have that sort of inscription as his epitaph than the most high sounding one in Westminster Abbey. , The life of John Randolph, about whom Gerald Johnson has just written a notable biography, was cited as that of a man who was able to serve others utterly without thoughts of self. Ran dolph, therefore, will never be forgotten. Through service he , achieved his own immortality. "The greatest temptation of people of this present age is to think only in terms of our own little world," Dr. Lingle de ' clared. "Let the world be your path," he urged. Seated in the pulpit with Dr. Lingle were President Chase, Rev. C. Excell Rozzelle, pastor of the Methodist church, and Rev. W. D. Moss, pastor of the Eres . byterian church. Reverend Roz zelle offered the invocation, and Reverend Moss read the scrip ture lesson. - Several excellent vocal selec tions were rendered by a com munity choir under the direction of Prof. Harold S. Dyer, head of the music department. BINGHAM DEBATE HELD LAST NIGHT Representatives of ' Di and Phi Meet In Annual Encounter. The Bingham medal, donated by the late Colonel Bingham in 1899, was awarded the best speaker in the Bingham Me morial Debate held last night in Gerrard hall. The subject of the debate was, -"Resolved that- the government of the United States should recognize the Soviet Union of , Russia." The affirmative side of the question was upheld by J. A. Wilkinson, and E L. Haywood, representa tives of the P14 Assembly, while the negative side was upheld by E. R. Hamer and J. M. Little, of the Di Senate. . Green-Black The engagement" of Miss Mary Francis Black, of Dalton, Geor gia, to Dr., Fletcher M. Green of Chapel Hill was recently an nounced. The wedding is to take place in August. Trustees Select Frank Graham for President (Continued from first page) personal' following throughout he state. He has been connected with the University for about twenty-five years and there are few men who have passed through its doors that do not know him and admire him. He has made hundreds .'of speeches of one sort or another through out the state before various or ganizations, and. the result of this activity has been to bring him in close touch with a great many influential people, who never went to college. He is first and last a scholar, a teach er, and. an able- speaker with deep religious" convictions. Address By Dr. Finley Concludes 136th U.N.C. Commencement Today (Continued from first page) lege, of the University of the State of New York, and of the College. of the City of New York, has. been commissioner of edu cation in New York,-has lec tured at the Sorbonne in Paris has served, on the American Army Educational, Commission, and has been president of the Immigrant Educational Council. He' has been editor of Chari ties Review, Harper's Weekly, Nelson's Encyclopedia, and v is now editor of the New York Times, since 1922. His writings, other than magazine contributions and the like, have been: The American Executive and Executive Meth ods and Taxation in American Cities and States (both in col laboration with Richard T. Ely) , The French in the Heart of America, French Schools in War Time, A Pilgrim in Palestine, and The Debt Eternal, not in cluding any recent publications. For these activities and oth ers too numerous to continue, he has been decorated and honored by the Order of the Rising Son (Japanese) and the Legion of Honor (French) ; has been com mander of the Order of the Crown of Italy; has been made a knight of the Holy Sepulchre; has been commander of the Or der of St. Sava (Serbian) and of Polonia Restituta (Polish). He has also been crowned by the Academie Francaise and. has been given a medal by the Geo graphic Society in Paris. Dr. Finley is 67 years old and is a native of Grand Ridge, Illi nois. Cong ratulatioos, Seniors a i I C AR THE 'DAILY - Governor O; '. Max Gardner, who is to award the diplomas, has been active in state politics in the Democratic party. He has served in tne :state legislature and as lieutenant governor. He is a veteran of the Spanish American War. He was educated at State Col lege and at the v University, where he studied law... He is. a trustee of State College, is - a member of : the American and North Carolina. Bar Associa tions. In college he was a mem ber of Sigma Nu fraternity. Commencement Dances Recall Events of Past (Continued from first page) mencement ball as an official part of the program. At that event, according to Dr. Battle, two students fought with knives and. were seriously cut after one of the two had trod upon the toes of the other.1 The first Terpsichorean activities of the University, community iiu those primitive days, prior to 1804, were confined to cotton picking parties, which ended in hilarious frolics with reels danced to the strains of a fiddle played by a lone negro; Students w:ere pro hibited from attending such frolics. . In fact, the first stu dent to be expelled from the University was sent home due to attendance at' one such event. Even that time, hp-vyevea, the objection was not ' to ' dancing but to the frolic,, as 'a dancing instructor 'was allowed to teach students the Terpsichorean art at that time. Secret Duels Fought The first dances at the Uni versity were held-at commence ment only, never during ' the rest of the college year. Com mencements then were real oc casions for the tiny village, with many a belle of those days com ing from long distances, hun dred miles or more, in a four horse stage-coach over - roads which would be considered im passable .in this day and time. Back in that. gay past, the belles of the state attended and actual ly listened to every word of the Commencement program, for the ball came as a grand finale in the dining room of Stewart's hall, a big residence where the present Carr building now stands. In those days, the stu dent body was" made up of half a hundred students, French wines were served and secret duels' fought. , And so for Years, the Com mencement ball grew in popu larity, in numbers of attending girls and state dignitaries, un til the building would not ac comodate the. crowds, when the Eagle hotel, situated where the incompleted Graham Memorial stands today, became the scene of the Commencement . dances. It was about that time, some where in the forties, that the program was broadened and three dances were given at Commencement Back in those days, too, the position of dance manager called for many activities. Such posts were highly sought after. These men saw to it that all beauless damsels were provided with partners, and spirited contests were conducted to gain votes for such positions. One young man spent, so the story goes, over $2,000 for whiskey to ob tain votes and left the Universi ty when he could not pay that amount. Darkies Furnished Music At that time in the history O L.IM:,.1K.I.,C:LEANI "Student Service to Students" TAR . HEEL of this institution, there were no high - priced - orchestras, brought in from out of the vil lage. Negro slaves performed for the cotillions, waltzes and occasionally a reel. In 1850, up on the completion of the Smith hall, then the new library, later the law building and now the Playriiakers Theatre, dancing was revolutionized. The dances were held there until 1895, on an adequate floor and between brick walls with space enough for the increased number of at tendants. Dancing waned when the Civil War drew the students from the University to the bat- tlefronts but, with the war over, Commencement dances again became even more popular. Up to that period, a . supper went into the, discard and the hour for ending such events was lengthened intdvthe wee small hours.. However, sentiment in the state gradually grew, in dis favor of the dances, resulting finally in enactment of a law against the holding of such events on state property. This was in 1885. But the dance went on when President Battle obtained money from alumni and a ... temporary structure was built just six inches outside of the campus v It was about this time also that the German Club was organized, with a fall Ger man dance on University Day, October 12, and a Spring Ger man. Late Dates Then The idea of late dates is not Friendly G Chapel Hill High Point S&d "tO X)0v3!3ftC3. isnes Qd Best W necessarily a modern trend, for back before tjie Spanish-American war it became the custom to begin .such dates at daylight, after the dance was over. Back about the same time also, at many of the Germans, girls did the "breaking," an innovation which modern : dances might otherwise claim as only a very recent "special stunt." In 1920, another big step for ward was made when the Order of the Grail instituted ifi poli cy of giving numerous ' dances during the year, open to all stu dents. The Grail system has broken down the social barriers which had been built up and has eliminated feeling between fra ternity and non-fraternity stu dents. . . X Strode! Motor Company Extends Best For A Successful Future FRIENDLY Cafeterias join heartily in cele brating Carolina's Commencement. IT is the University's 136th, Friendly's first but Friendly feels none the less that it is al ready a part of the University. WE thank students and townspeople for our hearty reception, and extend a cordial invita tion to old grads to make our place alumni headquarters always. , GREETINGS, ALUMNI CONGRATULATIONS, SENIORS Greensboro ior ure : im lui Tuesday, June 10. i830 Very Orderly Now f Although the history of dan C ing here has been checkered, i j has been glorious in traditioi from the time, when the de-1 votees of Terpsichorean hel forth in what the modem belli woum consider shabby and m suited halls, up to the nrPf I when a scientifically heated building will be elaborately dec orated and cooled for the en. i. j? i i juyment ui nunareds. The' dances, which began almost with the University's starting, when wine and whiskey and brawls were not uncommon, have pro gressed until complete order is maintained through the cooper ation of the various organiza tions interested, with the cooper ation of the faculty. of Wishes y A. aieteria Winston-Salem Durham !
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