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4 a SENIOR SMOKER SWAIN HALL 9:15 TONIGHT SENIOR SMOKER SWAIN HALL 9:15 TONIGHT I A .A - " N" VOLUME XXXIX Y WILL SPONSOR FOREIGN SERVI CONVENTION HERE Junior-Senior Cabinet Plans for State Student Volunteer Meeting in February. At the meeting of the junior senior Y cabinet last night ten tative plans were made to hold the State Student Volunteer Convention here the middle of February. The convention will be attended by about 250 dele gates from all the colleges in the state. It will last three days. The student , volunteers are students, who are interested in all kinds of foreign service. They are sent out by the church boards, the Y, and all such or ganizations. y It is distinctly an organization of youths and every profession is represented. Mr. Comer says of the organization, "It goes on the norm of sharing life and rendering service.",, A preliminary committee meeting to consider plans for the convention will be held in Win-ston-Salem October 18. The Carolina delegates to this meet ing are B. C. Moore, Sam Gor ham and Doug Kincaid. The sophomore cabinet meet ing was devoted to a discussion of their program. They plan to hear two speakers a. month, and to discuss the substance of the talks at their third meeting. The freshman friendship coun cil decided to revive the "Hello" tradition on the campus. Pat Patterson, senior advisor of the club, suggested the motion to the council and it was adopted by the 60 freshmen at the meet ing. Patterson told the group that the spirit around the cam pus was growing more and more like that of less friendly colleges. The group decided to try to speak to everyone on the campus and create a spirit that prevailed at the University some years ago. - Dr. G. T. Schwenning gave a short but interesting talk on in dividuality. He stressed the idea of being yourself and not becoming a "stamped" or "trade marked" person. Several committees were ap pointed and the time for their respective meetings announced. EXPERIMENT IS TRIED OUT WITH FRESHMAN CLASS .4 This year an experiment was tried in the romance language department in order to facilitate the nlaciner of freshmen. Place- j. o ment tests were given in French and Spanish. Formerly, a stu dent entering with 2 units credit in French could normally take course 3. These tests show just what work the student can do. They showed in many cases that the preparation of the freshmen was so good that he could take a course higher. This will prevent the waste of time by the student in. taking a course he already knows. The professors in the depart ment think that these tests will prove valuable in placing the freshmen where they belong, both to the advantage of the stu dent and the professor. e T A it G ! All persons wishing to try out for cheerleaders' jobs are asked to attend a meeting in Kenan stadium at 4 o'clock this afternoon for the purpose of trying out for the squad. Senior Smoker A program combining the appearance of It. B. House, ex ecutive secretary of the Uni versity, and Ty Sawyer and his Carolina Buccaneers, will feature the initial senior smoker of the year at Swain hall tonight at 9:15 o'clock. INCREASE MADE M I7AT1 DATTM17MT UN J&MU Graduate School Members Found To Represent Twenty-Three Different States. According to Dean W. W. Pierson, the enrollment of the graduate school in the fall quar ter is encouraging. The number is 223 as opposed to 204 of the corresponding time last year. This enrollment' shows on analy sis that the students came from twenty-three states, and shows also academic training in under graduate work drawn from one hundred institutions. Eighty of these graduate students already have masters' degrees. There are sixty-eight women and 155 men. The departments in which enrollment is heaviest are : Eng lish, fifty-two; history and gov ernment, thirty-two ; chemistry, twenty-five ; education, nineteen ; sociology, eighteen; romance languages, sixteen; economics and commerce, eleven. From June 1929 to June 1930, there have been 731 different registrations in the graduate school; 454 in the summer ses sion of 1929, and 277 in the regular academic session. In the summer session of 1930 there was a marked growth in enrollment, the number being 578, or an increase of 124 over that of the preceding summer quarter. Since June 1930, therefore, the graduate school has had an enrollment of 801 students. The University, through the school, has awarded during the last year,- 115 degrees, a greater number than ever before. Of these twenty-seven were Ph. D. degrees. , Mr. 'A. C. Howell, associate professor of English, is the new assistant to Dean W. W. Pier son. Dr. R. C. Mills, Ph. D., who is economics professor and dean of the faculty of eceno mics in the University of Syd ney, Australia, is a Carnegie visiting professor in the school, assigned to the University of North Carolina for the fall quar ter of 1930. Dr. Mills will give lectures to the students in the department of economics, the school of commerce, and the de partment of history and govern ment. Phi Mu Alpha Makes Plans For The Year .' , . Meeting Sunday night for the first time this year, Phi Mu. Al pha, musical fraternity, made plans for its work in the near future, with the purpose of identifying itself prominently with University musical activi ties. The meeting wa held in the music building. At present, the fraternity has 29 active members, including five faculty men: Dr. W. M. Dey, of the French department, Professor Fred McCall, of the law school, and Professors Dyer, McCorkle, and Kennedy, of the music department. The next meeting will be m the form' of a smoker, to be giv en sometime early in November. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930 Hazing Seen To Be Stand At The N. S. F. A. News Service All over the world during the few hectic weeks, the Class of 1934 has found itself alternately paddled and patted on the back. It has been deluged with advice from deans and from seasoned upperclassmen about where to' eat and what courses not to take. A few important facts stand out from the whirl, the first is that there are more freshmen than ever this year. Colleges in the middle west and jon the Pacific Coast note that the busi ness depression did not have its expected effect- on the enroll ment, as the class of 1934 will probably be larger than any previous one. The attitude toward freshman hazing seems to be changing gradually. At the University of West Virginia, the Student Council has officially abolished hazing, and has provided instead for a Freshman Court to work with the Traditions Committee in enforcing freshman customs. Which means that freshman rules are under the charge of a definite group, and riot any up per classman (sophomores being traditionally the most ardent) cares to take a hand. Bucknell has "gone still farther, and is attacking not only.". hazing, but the freshman traditions them selves. In a letter to the editor of the Bucknellian of September 18, a freshman declares : "I have no come here to revert to the antics of my pre-school days . . My purpose is and has got to be serious." And this attitude is supported in an editorial in the same issue which denounces the time-honored green caps and compulsory acrobatics as "silly and childish." But hazing is still far from a CORONER'S JURY ACQUITS NEGRO Claude Reaves Is Freed in Acci dental Shooting of Fletch er Strowd. The coroner's jury reached a verdict that Fletcher Strowd young fourteen year old negro who was' shot by a pistol in the hands of Claude Reaves, eigh teen year old colored boy, met his death accidently, and Reaves was freed following the inquest Friday afternoon. , Strowd. was killed Thursday afternoon when the pistol with which the two were playing was discharged and a bullet entered the head of the younger negro. He died later ina Durham hos pital where he was rushed fol lowing the shooting. The jury reached its decision after more than three hours of testimony. Officers Hern and Sloan were among the witnesses and testified that when they ar rested the negro he told them in an excited manner that he point ed the gun at Strowd and it went off. ' Reaves testified that he re moved the magaizne from the pistol, which was an automatic, and did not know there was a bullet in the barrel. The pistol, he said, was near his hip when it accidently went off. Coroner S. N. Nathan was in charge of the hearing and J. A. Giles was attorney for Reaves, while John R. P. Carawan re presented the family of the deceased. Making A Last Principal Colleges lost art. At Park College, "ori ginality and humiliation" are still the purpose of the fresh man rules. The Trojan (Uni versity of Southern California) describes "some new and parti cularly effective ways of making the frosh respect their univer sity," ranging from freshman tree-sitting contests to remov ing painted remarks from the sidewalks with only "bricks and elbow-grease." At Creighton, the freshman wears a green cap with a bright red bill; at the University of Wichita, garters with socks that do not match. The student in Holland who is a candidate for one of the Uni versity corps mut shave his head and enter his clubroom by the window. The new Corps member, needless to say, is eas ily recognizable for several months. . An . interesting device for helping the bewildered newcom er is the Harvard Crimson's Confidential Guide to Courses, which is a really frank appraisal from the student's viewpoint, of the value and interest of various fields of study. As a Crimson editorial puts it, "The faculty js amply represented in the cata logue and the various conferen ces with Jnstructors . . . This is a defined undergraduate opin ion. It offers a means of ascer taining just how well the var ious instructors accomplish their aims as teachers." One has a mental picture of the Har vard faculty peering in trepid tion at the Crimson's very out spoken comments on certain courses; but in spite of its in evitable shortcomings, the Con fidential must certainly be help ful to the harassed freshman facing, as he is so often told, "the whole field of knowledge. ILITARY SCHOOL MEETS THURSDAY Enrollment for 1930 School Will Be Conducted in Davie Hall. ' Captain D. B. Floyd, of Ral eigh, will conduct the first meet-, ing of the military troop school for this year in the annex of Davie Hall at 7:30 Thursday night. Captain Floyd, who is an officer of the regular army, has been secured to conduct these meetings every two weeks, be ginning with the Thursday night session. The purpose of this troop school is to study military sub jects, and all those attending will be given credit toward a commission. Those who have already secured a commission in the reserves or who are working for a commisison are requested to attend these meet ings. Members of the O. R. C, the Enlisted Reserve corps, the Na tional Guard, C. M. T. C, and others who care to attend will be expected to be present at the first meeting, in order that the school may get underway as early as possible. Persons desiring further in formation nay see H. R. Totten in his office in Davie Hall. A. I. C. E. To Meet The . student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will hold its first meeting of the year this evening at 7:15 o'clock. Dr. A. M. White, the new head of the department, will speak on the subject, "What Is Chemical Engineering?" Reporters Attention - The following reporters are asked to meet with the man aging editor at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Daily Tar Heel office: D. L. Cobbs, Phil Liskin, D. Edmunds, W. D. Tennant, Clayborn Carr, WT. Powell, C. Roberts, F. Brough ton, Frank Edmundston and Louis Slung. SEATS ORDERED FOR MIC HALL Southern Desk Company Gets Contract for 792 Chairs To Be Delivered Soon. The contract for the installa tion of the seats in the new music auditorium has just been awarded to the Southern Desk Company, of Hickory, which was the choice of the committee from bids of four other compan ies. This contract calls for de livery and installation by Octo ber 30, which will allow the final voicing of the organ to be begun at once by the factory ex pert, Jake Schaeffer. The dedi cation ceremony will take place soon afterthe voicing, and Pro-4 fessor Harold Dyer, head of the music department expresses the hope that everything will be in readiness for the exercises by the week of November 9. The seats ordered are to be much more comfortable than the average theatre or auditorium seats and will harmonize with the French style interior of the hall. The panels will be con structed of full Jacquard vel our, and the seats themselves of imitation leather set on a spring Structure. The back and side panels will be done in a selected design of contrasting colors, to conform with the rest of the color scheme. - ' The seat itself is to be 20 in ches ' in width, 3 inches wider than the standard theater seat, and the committee, composed of Mr. Charles T. Wollen, Profes sor Dyer, and Mr. - Weeks, of Atwood and Weeks, feels that it has selected the best seat in re- t gard to comfort as well as beauty Another added conven ience of these seats will be a wire hat-rack set under each one, seated in hard rubber to prevent vibration. The toal capacity of the hall is 792 seats, and shipment of the material is to begin soon. v Senate And Assembly Meet Again Tonight The Phi Assembly and the"Di Senate will meet tonight in their respective meeting halls at 7:15. The program at the Phi will be the initiation of-the new men. A report from a special com mittee on the re-organization and present status of the Di Senate is to be the chief part of the Dialectic society's program. Persons desiring to join the Phi are requested to be present before 7:15 if possible. Philological Club Will Hear Adams And Howe The Philological Club will meet in the lounge of the grad uate club on Tuesday evening, October 7, at 7 :30 o'clock. Contributors to the program and their subjects are: Mr. Raymond Adams, of the English department, "Transcen dental Translations." Mr. George Howe, of the clas sics department, "The Develop ment of the Character of Aeneas." NUMBER 16 HENDERSON WILL 'ADDRESS CROWD a m rT?T Ymn a mar ill UlLllDimilUi University Professor Is Well Versed in History of Battle Of King's Mountain. Dr. Archibald Henedrson will be a speaker at the sesqui-cen-tennial celebration of the battle of Kings Mountain to be held today on the battlefield in York county, South Carolina. At this meeting, President Herbert Hoover will be the guest of honor and the principle speaker. For many years the question was brought up as to who fired the first shot in the battle of King's Mountain. In an article to, the Charlotte Observer Dr. Henderson gives as a record of the first shot an affidavit by Philip Greever who served in the company' of Commander Campbell and who is supposed to have fired the first shot. The gun used was , a heavy, long barrel, smooth bore musket with a short curved stock. It is kept by a defendant living in Chilhowie, Va., and is a highly prized heirloom. For fifty years the old battle ground was silent and the dead slept undisturbed, but today people from all over the World come to visit the famous battle ground where the independence of the American people was de cided, for many say that with out that battle American inde pendence would not have been. It was on that famous spot that Ferguson was killed and the British were forced to sur render. Ferguson -had said when he stationed himself on the hill that the Almighty him self could not dislodge him. He had counted on being surround ed, but he had not taken into ac count the courage and strength of the mountaineers that faced him. When he found himself defeated he made an effort to break through the lines of Commanders Campbell, Shelby, and Williams, but this effort cost him his death. His second in command was forced to surren der. This checked Cornwallis's advance into North Carolina and determined the outcome of the war. SETTE COMMENDS U. N. C. FACILITIES Professor Francis J. Sette, of the department of sanitary engi neering at V. P. I. was in Chap el Hill over the week-end and visited the sanitary engineering laboratories of the University. While here Mr. Sette discussed the laboratory facilities and the organization of the sanitary en gineering department. He seem ed pleased with the equipment and said it was very modern and complete for college instruction. Mr. Sette, who has been at the University of Porto Rico as head of the civil department, is now working with the Virginia department of health and is act ing as head of the sanitary en gineering department for V. P. I. Glee Club Trials The first group of try-outs for the University Glee Club will end this Saturday, according to Professor Dyer, head of the music department. Buccaneer Meeting The art and editorial staffs of the. Buccaneer will meet at 7:15 tonight in the Buccaneer office in Alumni building.
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