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VOLUME XXXIX fw '1" BY MR .ill Fit EH Xtaveiier to tipeak in Play makers Theatre Tuesday Ni s Aii- Next Tuesday evening at 8 :30 in the Playmakers Theatre Mrs. Ella Rush Murray will give a talk on "The Theatre in Soviet Russia." Having just returned! from a second visit to- Russia in the interests of the American Russian Institute, Mrs. Murray is fully informed of the latest de velopments there. After the lecture all those who wish may ask questions about the theatre or any other phase of Russian life. The chief object of Mrs. Mur ray's talk will be to show how the arts, particularly as united in the theatre, are an integral part of Russian civilization to day. Not only in the cities like Moscow and Leningrad but throughout all the country, theatres are presenting worthy plays to eager audiences. It is not unusual for an ordinary town to support two playhouses in addition to a cinema. Well stocked bookshops are patroniz ed by the people in spite of the high cost of books caused by the paper shortage. Indeed, the arts apparently nourish the spiritual life of these people, and they, demand a high grade of perfection. This contrasts strangely yet admir ably with their supply of neces sities, for though there is plenty of wholesome f ood-lo-be had, at is not always the particular kind desired. Mrs. Murray can tell of many amusing incidents of the shops, where one may ask for apples and get pickles or vice versa depending on the sup ply that day. But the Russians understand the market condi tions and accept the situation ! cheerfully. However, their thea tre supplies them with-productions worthy of their discrimin ating attention. All of their plays are not done in the new constructive style, and every drama is not a vehicle for propa ganda, as may be supposed from the greater publicity , given the more novel works in" foreign countries. The old form of bal let, and realistic productions still continue, but the masses generally prefer the newer, ex- penmental presentations mi which greater freedom of ex pression is secured with more imaginative effect. Mrs. Murray believes that much could be learned by hav ing the productions of Meyer hold and other Soviet directors brought here as well as sending American plays to Russia. This exchange of arts is one of the objects of the American-Russian Institute, and Mrs. Murray's talk should be particularly in teresting by informing us as to what we mav exoect from a - A truly Soviet play presented in a truly Russian manner. FORMER UNIVERSITY MAN IS NOW A TREE SURGEON Thomas W. Brown, former student of the University, has returned to his home here in Chapel Hill for a vacation. At present Mr. Brown is working with the Davey "Tree Expert Company. Brown took a train one night in 1928 and wen' to Ohio. There he secured a job with the Davey company, and has been with the concern ever since. iid U ZITHERS ON WILL , APPEAR BEFORE STATE CHEIJISTS Ohio Mail to Speak at American Chem ical Society Convention at Duke. Dr. William Mcpherson, pro fessor of chemistry and dean of the graduate school at Ohio State University, will speak be fore the North Carolina section of the American Chemical Soc iety at Duke University Decem ber 1 at eight d. m. ' The group will come together for a supper in the Duke Union! at six-thirty before the meeting. 1 Dr. McPherson's talk will be on the "Organic Compounds of Ti tanium." - Dr. McPherson's whole life has been devoted to the study of chemistry. He studied under Nef at the University of Chi cago, receiving his PhD. degree from there in 1899. In 1927 he received his LL. D. from Wit tenberg. For thirty years he was head of the department of chemistry at Ohio State Univer sity. He was the co-author, with William E. Henderson, of a series of textbooks in chemistry. He is a fellow in the American association for the advancement of science and vice president of section C, in 1908 and 1909 and again 1915 and 1916. During the war he served as Lieutenant Colonel in the chemical warfare service. Mrs. McPherson will be with him on his trip. The chairman of section C, before whom Dr. McPherson will speak, is Dr. L. A. Bigelow of Duke and the secretary-treasurer is Dr. H. D. Crockford of the University of North Carolina. Several professors, instruc tors, and graduate" students at the University, who are members of the society, plan to attend the Durham meeting. Paul Green To Read His Fantasy Tonight Paul Green will read his latest play, "Tread the Green Grass," at eight-thirty this evening m the Playmaker Theatre, This play is a philosophical fantasy in the form of a musical composi tion. It is scheduled for produc tion in New York sometime dur ing the winter season. Music for4the fantasy has been prepared by Lamar ' Stringfield and will be played by a string quartette and flute under String field's direction. The fantasy shows the con flict of romance and fact. In the mind of a seventeen year old girl the factors of romance, religious personifications, and behet m fairies struggle with morality and reality in life and fact and common sense triumph. MECHANICAL ENGINEERS TO MEET TUESDAY NIGHT "The American Society of Mechanical Engineers will con vene at seven-thirty, next Tues day in 206 Phillips Hall. The meeting will be devoted strictly to business, and President R. C. Plummer announces that several important business matters will be settled at this meeting. Mem bership cards will be issued. Refreshments will be served at the close of this meeting. All members are urged to attend the meeting and to take advan tage of the opportunity provid ed by the social part of this meeting to become acquainted with . their fellow-members. Freshmen taking mechanical en gineering are especially urged to be present. CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUTvDAY, X0VE:IBI:R 2C, 1CC0 n n ' f .. f 5 I ; Oft T O Wt 5,OW.V, In recognition of his 'thirty one years of valuable service to the University, Dr. T. J. Wilson, Jr., registrar, has been honored by the board of trustees with the title of dean of admissions. 7V J, Wilson Honored With Title Of Dean As Symbol Of Service By R. W. Madry j The University of North Car olina has a new dean. He is none other than Dr. T. J. Wilson, Jr., member of the University faculty for the past 31 years and Reeristrar for 22 of those years. i Dr, Tommie, as the Carolina students often affectionately re fer to him, will continue to be University registrar, but the University trustees, in recogni tion of his years of fine service, have bestowed upon him a new title. From now on he is to be not only registrar but dean of admissions ' as well. Dr. Wilson's new title will not affect the nature of his work. He will continue to be the "de mon of admissions," as some of the boys call him, who sits in his office here in the south east cor ner of the South building and makes hair-breadth decisions as to who is and who is not eligible to enter the portals of this 137- year, old institution. The trustees wanted to honor the man and his -work, and so they asked him to accept the new rank of dean. Ten years ago when the stu dent body numbered little more than a thousand, Dr. Wilson could meet any student on the campus and call the boy by name, although it was more than likely that the only time Dr. Wilson had seen the youngster previously was when he regis tered him in September. The campus used to marvel at the man's memory. With a student body of approximately 2,800, it is doubtful if Dr. Wilson could call every student by name to day, but he still possesses an un canny ability for carrying in his memory an infinite number of details,, which makes him a man of extraordinary value to the University. Dr. Wilson was born in Hills- boro fifty-six years ago, the son of Thomas James and Margaret Douglas (Ross) Wilson; secur ing his preparation in a private Chapel Hill school, he entered the University and won his bachelor's degree in 1894. In 1896 he took his master's and two years later he won his doc torate. The following year he taught in the Charlotte schools, it being said at the time that he was the first man with a Ph. D. de gree to teach in a North Caro lina graded school. Doctor Wil son taught the ninth grade, and Alexander Graham, father of the present University president, Debaters To Licet State College In Trade Discussion Tuesday night at 8:30 in Ger rard hall, a Carolina varsity de bate team composed of C. A. Shreve and J. C Williams will meet a team from State College on the question: Resolved, That the nations of -the world should adopt a policy of free trade. Both Shreve and Williams are experienced debaters, and in view of the present depression, which has" been blamed in part on the high tariff, it is expected that the debate' will be well at tended. , The audience will be the judge in this contest. Each per son who attends will be given a ballot upon entering the hall. He will mark this to show on which side he then stands. Af ter the debate, he will vote again. was then superintendent. After a year in Charlotte Dr. Wilson came back to Chapel Hill to accept an appointment on the University faculty as in structor in Latin , and Greek. Three years later he was elevat ed to the rank of associate pro fessor. In 1903 and 1906 he did graduate work in the University of Chicago, having been granted a leave of absence. He was ap pointed University registrar in 1908, but continued to dosome teaching until about 15 years ago. Doctor Wilson- has attained high rank in his field. He is the author , of a number of articles on the work of registrars and registration procedure. He has served as president of the A merican Association, of Colle giate Registrars and. as presi dent of the North Carolina branch of that association. About eight years ago Dr. Harry W. Chase, then president of the University, started a movement in North Carolina colleges looking toward unifor mity in the matter of admitting students. He and President W. P. Few of Duke University call ed a meeting for the purpose of organizing the admission of f i- cers of the various colleges. That was the beginning of the North Carolina branch of the Ameri can Association of Collegiate Registrars. It also marked the beginning of an organized effort on the part of the state depart ment of public instruction look ing toward the designation of regular accredited schools. , In the matter of evaluating -high school units for college entrance things had been in a rather chaotic condition prior to that time. . - Doctor Wilson is generally re garded as the godfather of the University chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, national scholar ship fraternity. The local chap ter of the Phi Beta Kappa grew out of a local fraternity known as Alpha Theta Phi. Dr. Wil son was the first president of the old organization, which was formed in 1894, and he has been corresponding secretary of the Alpha of North Carolina chap ter of Phi Beta Kappa ever since it received its charter in 1904. The new University dean is a rare type of individual in more ways than one. Although mem bers of the University faculty are entitledto sabbatical leaves for one year out of every seven, (Ceit'-Med on, last 2j8) ECONOMICS CLUB WILL CONTINUE FARM PROGRAM L O. Schaub To Address North Caro lina Club Monday Night. Director I. 0. Schaub of the North Carolina State College ex tension service will address the North Carolina Club tomorrow night on the subject, "Safely Balanced Agriculture in North Carolina." His talk will be con cerned mainly with a system of agriculture designed to retain farm wealth. Mr. Schaub directs the activi ties of all the farm and -home demonstration agents in the state and all extension activities of the State College, cooperating with the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. This year the North Carolina Club is concentrating on an agri cultural program. It is working in cooperation with the North Carolina Conference for Social Service and other agencies which have joined forces in a study of our agricultural con ditions and possible improve ments. Mr.VSchaubTas head of all agricultural extension work, is the key man through whom suggestions for improved agri culture must be passed on to the farmers. ' . The North Carolina Club .meets in the library quarters of the department of rural social- economics in the library build ing, at seven-thirty o'clock to morrow night. The meeting is i open to the public. Four Events Are Listed for Week Events of this week will be gin with the author's reading of Paul Green's Tread! the Green Grass at the Playmakers thea- re at eight-thirty tonight and will end with the Gimghoul dance Saturday night. Tomorrow night I. O. Schaub, director of the North Carolina State College extension service will address the North Carolina Club on "Safely Balanced Agri culture in North Carolina." Tuesday in Gerrard Hall the University debaters will meet State College on the topic of universal free trade. At the same time in the Playmakers theatre, Mrs. Ella Hush Murray will tell of drama in Soviet Rus sia. The remainder of the week's program will be taken up with the Thanksgiving holidays, and the Thanksgiving dances given under the direction of the Ger man Club. 'Jones Chosen To Debate Cambridge In the tryout to select the team to represent Carolina in the de bate with Cambridge, last Thursday night, McBride Fleming-Jones was selected to uphold the negative side of the query Resolved: That the emergence of woman from the home is a re grettable feature of modern life. The tryout to select the Carolina representative of the affirmative side of the question will be held in Murphey 201 at 9:30 tomor row night. In this detJate each school will have one man on each side of the question, he debating council expects this system to bring out the differences in point of view between Englishmen and Ameri cans, and give the Tory humor another outlet. Delta Tau Delta announces the pledging of Chelley Sims of Washington, D C, NUMBER 57 AiiSJL JX JLX1 AJL i. tmm set v. ma. iuuj Officially Tagged Men to Visit Students in their Rooms Starting at 9:30 O'clock. Tomorrow night has been the evening set aside for the can vassing of the campus for a Thanksgiving offering to aid the Orange County poor. The drive will begin with the ringing of the bell in Old South building at nine-thirty. The students are asked to cooperate in making this campaign successful, and are asked to be in their rooms at this time. The campus will be covered in about an hour. The students who will go around collecting the money will wear a special insignia, stating that they are officials in the re lief campaign. This is being done so that the students may be sure to whom they are giving j their money, and it will also save time. Fraternity men have been approached through representa tives of their own fraternities. Anyone who is not approached, but who wishes to give should leave their contributions in the county welfare office in Alumni building or at the Y office. Students are not asked to give any definite .amount, but it is hoped that they will give at least a minimum of fifty cents. The situation all over the country has been rather bad as Lilt; papcxs nave pui-ULtu uui, aiiu many colleges are helping in the relief. The Orange County ? situation is getting serious now, especially in the mill sections, with winter approaching the con dition will get still worse. Be cause of the lack of funds to deal with these new cases, the college students have been asked to contribute. CHI OMEGA IS HOSTESS AT INN FRIDAY NIGHT The Chi Omega sorority en tertained informally at a beauti fully appointed buffet supper Friday night at the : Carolina Inn. In the center of the room there was a long table which was decorated with red and yel low tapers with a large bowl of yellow chrysanthemums in the center. At each end of the table tall red candles burned. Between these attractive de corations there were large gar nished platters containing potato salad, roast beef, cold chicken on toast, sliced ham with sauce, fruit salad, pickles and olives, sandwiches, hot rolls and ice cream. ', Scattered over the room were small tables for the guests which also were arranged with candles and chrysanthemums to carry out the color scheme. Chaperones for the delightful occasion were Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Mackie and Mr. and Mrs. T. C. McKinney. There were forty invited guests. Staff Meetings Thexregular weekly meet ing of the Daily Tar Heel reportorial staff tonight will not last longer than ten min utes. The city editors will meet promptly at 7:00 p. m. in the basement of Alumni building and any absence whatsoever will cause an edi tor to be dropped from the staff. Reporters will meet at seven-fifteen in room 204 of Alumni. Tn?..7n!?i?m
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