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. t -v, rf JNXi1- . PHI 'ASSEMBLY NEWEASTV 7 O'CLOCK in) DI SENATE NEW WEST 7 O'CLOCK f H S VV y VOLUME XXXIX CHAPEL HILL, N. O, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1931 NUMBER 3 ''is ?" GLEE CLUB WILL SING AT HOMS SATURDAY NIGHT Three Other Trips, Within the State, Remain on This Sea- ; sen's Schedule. The ; University glee club, un der the direction- of Dr. Harold S. Dyer, will go to ; Hollins Col lege, Hollies, Virginia, where the members will give a concert Sat urday night They will be en tertained by residents of Hollins and Roanoke Saturday night and Sunday morning, when they will depart for Chapel Hill. The student body, as well as the faculty of Hollins, have ex tended .friendly invitations to the glee club, and regard Caro lina, according to their letters, in an amiable light. The spon sors of the concert guarantee a packed house. It has been the policy of that college to have the University glee club appear there on alter nate years. Since the .last per formance was given in 1929, the club goes again this year. Thirty men have been selected to make the trip, and these will be trans ported in cars belonging to the members of the club., They leave the campus early Saturday morning, from the music build ing. H. Li. ; Knox will accompany the group as piano soloist and accompanist The managerial duties are Under the supervision of C. B. Overman, who schedules the performances. " 7 The program for the Satur day evening entertainment con sists of several types of vocal music. It will include folk songs of Russia and also France. In addition to these there will be one group of chorales and another group of American songs. Special rehearsals have been found necessary since the re gular hours all this week have been occupied by the Maenner (Continued on page two) CO-ED AND GRAIL DANCISTLANNED Woman's Association To Enter tain Friday Before Grail Dance Saturday. Two dances are scheduled for this week-end. the winter co-ed dance Friday nigfit, February 6, and a Grail dance, Saturday, February 7. v' The dance to be given Friday night by the Woman's Associa tion will be the second of the academic year. . The dance will in Spencer hall between the hours of nine and one o'clock. Jack Wardlaw and his Carolina Tar Heels have been engaged to Pay for the dance. Keeme Moore, president of the Woman's Association, has the bids now and she would like for the girls who live out in town to get them from her within the next two days. the Grail dance Saturday nght will be the second spon sored by the order during the winter quarter. It will be in Bynum gymnasium from nine o'clock until twelve. Music wil be furnished by Ty Sawyer and "is Carolina Buccaneers. Tickets for the dance will be n sale Friday and Saturday at l"e Book Exchange and a Pritchard Lloyd's drug store. The third dance of the quar will be given Saturday, Feb ruary 28, the night following the law school dance. DI WILL DISCUSS CORPORATION TAX A bill regarding the recent re port of the Wickersham Com mission is to be discussed to night when the members of the Di Senate meet in their regular weekly session. Fifteen minutes prior to the opening of the meet ingPresident Little requests that all of the officers of the society be present for a special conference. The regular meeting convenes at seven o'clock. The bills are: 1. Resolved : That the results of the Wickersham Commis sion's investigation do not justify its expense. to the United States government. 2. Resolved: That the tax on foreign corporations should be increased to help raise the state's revenue for 1931. Resolved : That the University should own and equip a modern laboratory school for the better ment of school conditions in the state. PLAYMAKERS GIVE NEW PRODUCTION "East Lynn" Will Be Presented Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The next production by the Carolina Playmakers, according to . Professor Koch, director, is to be "East Lynn," scheduled for Thursday, Friday, and Sat urday of this week in the Play- makers theatre. ,; "East Lynn" is dramatized from the novel by Mrs. Henry Wood, and is a classic favorite of the old stock companies. It is highly successful with Tent and Hall Repertory companies. The drama will be done in ultra modern dress. Professor Samuel Selden, technical director, has designed some interesting and original scenery for the production. He is attempting as an experiment to bring out fresh values for the modern audience by presenting the play against a background of psychological scenery. The action of the tragedy is represented as taking place m the cage of Fate. Over the scene of struggle throughout the play hang two abstract masks which symbolize the duel forces acting upon and determining the des tiny of the tragic heroine, Lady Isabel. The entire cast follows: Sir Francis Levinson, Everett Jess ; Archibald Carlyle, Whitner Bis sell ; Lord Mount Severn, Horace Ward ; Justice Hare, Elmer Oet- tinger; Richard Hare, Ernest Deans; Mr. Dill, John Zimmer man: Officer. Pendleton Harri son; Little Willie, D. D. Carroll, Jr. ; Lady Isabel, Madame Vine, Bess Jones Winburn; Barbara Hare, Jo Norwood; Miss Carlyle, Alice Walker ; Joyce, Hazel Bow- ers; wnson, Aaeiaiue xvceu. v-rv.i k -l.l-.'J. T ,3 The Faculty Chamber orches- tra will play between tne acts . j under the direction of Lamar Stringfield, Thursday, February 5. Friday, February 6, and Sat urday, February 7. The Thor Johnson Septet; will play Satur day night. ; This is a production of the Playmakers regular season program. Reserved seats may be secured at the Student Sup ply .Store. Season tickets may be exchanged for reserved seats. Starts Extension Class Dr. English Bagby is starting an extension class in Siler City "Tka Pcwhnloerv ' of Personality." MNESOTA FACULTY MOVES TO it ABOLISH 'SPOON-FED' SYSTEM Six Proposals Deal With Improvements Recommended for Course Of Study in Liberal Arts SchooL - o- By J. B. Johnston Dean of Arts and Sciences The colleges are busy making over the system of higher edu cation. The University of Chi cago has spread its announce ments and now Yale comes for ward with "the most important step that has been taken by the college in the last 30 years, cer tainly so far as the curriculum is concerned." Minnesota makes its reforms one step at a time, but is always moving. The faculty of the College of Science, Literature and the Arts Monday evening took action which indicates an intention to move along certain lines. The proposals have to do with fitting the work of the college to the needs and interests of individual students and with making the offerings of the college contri bute more definitely and effec tively to the development and strengthening of whatever pow-r ers the student possesses. Improve Exam System First is to be carried forward the differentiation of studies in relation to the abilities of the students to grasp and use. This is already in progress and invol- ves "the use of all legitimate means of increasing the number of entering freshmen and of transfer students who give high promise and of reducing the number of tEdseTrwlio do not show aptitude for college work." Second is the improvement of the system of examinations. Al though no decisions, regarding details have been reached, the - m m proposals under discussion in clude both changes in course ex aminations and the addition of comprehensive examinations, such as to introduce certain Murchison Gives Clear Analysis Of Cotton Industry In New Book There has recently come from the University of North Caro lina Press a book containing what is generally regarded as a remarkably clear and unbiased analysis of the causes of the present depression in the cotton industry. The author also pro poses a method of correction, featuring a plan of vertical com binations, which he says has proven successful in practice. Dr. C. T. Murchison, director of research in the University's School of Commerce, is the author of the volume, which bears the significant title "King Cotton Is Sick." Already the book has attracted attention far and wide, and most of the re views have been highly f avor- able. have been highly favorable. The Manchester Guardian, one of the best known English jour nals, recently carried a two- column piece that concluded that Dr. Murchison's line of ap proach is "novel" and "is reach ed by a. piece of analysis which is fresh in its point of view, in tensely realistic, and vividly portrayed." The Manufacturers Record calls the book an "important contribution to the subiect of cotton manufacturing." The New York Herald Tri bune refers to Dr. Murchison's analysis as a "lucid and sure diagnosis." The Athens (Ga.) Banner Herald called it "an able and ex haustive discussion of the tex- principles not now operative: the principle of deferred exam inations which will require the students to hold to the end the products of a prolonged period of study, since this favors assi milation as distinguished from mere memorizing ; the principle coordination of the results of study from two or more points of view or by several methods ; the principle of adaptation of types of examination to students differing in traits and skills ; the principle that intellectual ability shall be combined with mastery of the subject. Perhaps other aims are to be sought also. For the development of the new sys tem the faculty has provided an Examining Board. Third, it is hoped to do away with spoon-feeding by the fa culty and hand-to-mouth living by the student which are the consequences of the present sys tem of courses and examina tions. The present objective of too many students is to pass the courses, count the credits and forget both the content and the sad experience. This should be replaced by consciously directed efforts of the student to culti vate his native powers ,to edu cate himself, not merely to get a diploma. Discover Student's Capacity Fourth come renewed and ex panded efforts I to discover the capacities and needs of the in dividual student and to assist him to find among the facilities of the college the medium for his self-expression. While print ed regulations may still be ade quate for the mass, for those stu dents who have both ability arid individuality tne faculty pro- ( Continued on last page) tile industry." Prominent textile men have been practically unanimous in acclaiming the volume. ' H. R. Fitzgerald, president of the Riverside and Dan River Mills of Danville, Va., says it will prove to be a constructive in fluence in the whole textile situa tion." Spencer Love, of the Burling ton Mills, says "no broader, better-informed or more unbiased resume ever came from any source." Writing in the Virginia Quar terly Review, Gerald W. John son says "no man, in the South or out of it, ought to presume to discuss the problem of the cotton mills until he has read this book. That is my considered opinion of its importance." Bernard Cone, head of the Proximity Manufacturing Com pany of Greensboro, says, "This little masterpiece contains not only an illuminating; picture of the situation confronting the textile industry at the' present time, but with an analysis al most uncanny, diagnoses the major causes of present condi tions and . proceeds , to offer some very constructive sugges tions for bettering, these condi tions. I think every cotton manu facturer will find it of value, and that part of. the general public which is interested in the prob lems of the cotton textile indus try will certainly find in this book a clear and graphic descrip tion of those conditions." POSTPONED BILLS ON PHI CALENDAR Due to the fact that consider- ible time was consumed in select ing a new speaker for tne rni at the last meeting, discussion of the bills was postponed until tonight's meeting. The bills to be discussed are: 1. Resolved : That the Phi Assembly is of the opinion that the public highway , bu3 service in North Carolina and commer cial . freight hauling by motor vehicles in the state should be thoroughly and impartially in vestigated, all the facts found to be submitted to each member of the 1933 General Assembly at least sixty days before that body convenes. 2. Resolved: That the Phi Assembly go on record as favor ing a full, impartial investiga tion and study by some legally authorized body of the produc tion, distribution and costs of electrical power in North Caro lina. EDUCATION GROUP ORGANIC TODAY Commission on Adult Illiteracy Meets at Carolina Inn To Begin Work. The state commission on adult illiteracy, appointed recently by Governor Gardner, meets at the Carolina Inn today for the pur pose of perfecting' the organiza tion and setting up a state-wide program. This committee will continue the s work started last year by a similar committee which broke up due to resigna tions of several of its members. Adult illiterates of the state will be educated by several civic organizations, which will hold classes for this purpose. Assist ance will also be rendered by the University Extension division. As North Carolina ranks among the first 'ten states having the largest number of illiterates in proportion to population, a com mission of this sort was needed badly, according to Governor Gardner. An official chairman will be selected at the meeting. Mr. Luther Hodges, of Spray, is act ing chairman of the commission, which includes from this com munity Dr. Howard W. Odum,T. C. Griffin, and R. M. Grumman. REGISTRATION AT STATE IS 1,695 W. L. Mayer, registrar of North Carolina State College, announced Friday that forty- nine students were not allowed to register in the institution for the winter term because of fail ure to pass the required amount of work during the fall. Although nearly fifty students failed to return this term, the enrollment of the institution is larger by sixty-five than the winter term enrollment last year. f The total enrollment is 1,695, of which number eighty- four are co-eds. . " Mr. Mayer states that women students will increase each year and cites the great increase in the last five years to substanti ate his opinion., Last year there were seventy-five girls at State and nine were graduated. According to a copy of the Red and White of September 30, 1903, co-eds were attending the college twenty-seven years ago. An article from that paper said, m part: "We are glad to say that this year we have two lady students with us. It speaks well for the college,rand we hope they will continue to come." PANISH DANCER HIGHLY PRAISED WHEN IN LONDON Carola Goya Appeared Before Numerous Social Leaders in Dance Recitals. Carola Goya, who is to appear here as the first performer on the school of Liberal Arts winter quarter entertainment program, was a wonderful success in her London engagements last year. Not only did she make extend ed appearances at the Coliseum and Alhambra Theatres, but she was chosen to dance at a charity function under patronage of Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of York, in the great hall of the ancient Middle Temple, being the only dancer to perform in this hall since the days of Queen Elizabeth. Also Miss Goya re presented Spain at the Interna tional Garden Party given by the League of Nations under sponsorship of Viscount Cecil at Hampstead Heath, and was hailed in the London press next day as "Spain's beautiful pro pagandist of . peace." Other not able appearances in London were a recital at Steiner hall and an invitation performance at Runnymeade house arid at the Royal Academy of Music, each under distinguished patronage. The London Daily 'Chronical says, "Carola Goya, renowned in many countries as being the finest Spanish dancer of the time, made her first London ap pearance on this auspicious oc casion (before the King and Queen of Afghanistan) . She made an unf orgetable riot of color and whirl of movement as she danced in the national way of Spaintangos, fandangod, jotas, garrotins,and bulerias." RED CROSS QUOTA HALF WLETED Intensive Drive Organized To Raise ; Remainder of Village's Contribution. Contributions to the Chapel Hill quota of the Red-Cross re lief fund have reached a total of $297, and the local committee ex pects the full $600 to be raised this week. A short talk with reference to the campaign is made each night between perfor mances at the Carolina Theatre. The town is now being canvass ed by a special committee, and contributions may still be left at Eubanks Drug Store, the "M" store, the bank, and with Mr. Hill at the University Consoli dated Service Plant. A chart has been placed in Eubanks and is kept each day, showing the number of subscribers and the increase in the total amount. Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt, chairman of the Chapel Hill chapter, wishes the people to understand that the smaller contributions of twenty-five and fifty cents are j ust as acceptable as the large subscriptions. So far the gifts range from one dollar to twenty-seven. Subscriptions to the national ' fund are coming in faster and the total is over $4,000,000. Dr. William DeKleine, direc tor of the medical and health service of the Red Cross, who has recently returned from a two weeks inspection trip in the drought area, observed that di versified farming to replace the traditional one-crop practice will be introduced in the drought areas of the lower Mississippi valley and the Midwest when (Continued on last page)
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