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DI SENATE INAUGURATION' MEETING TONIGHT 7:15 - "f . - TV (fli HI ii c V0LU31E XXXIX i!! TM ii -s- PHI ASSEMBLY INAUGURATION MEETING TONIGHT 7:15 1NAU GURATION GRAHAM PLANNED FOR OCTOBER 12 Board Decides on University Day as Time for Formal Ceremonies. At their meeting March 20 the University trustees decid ed that the formal inauguration of President Frank Porter Gra ham will be held on October 12, 1931, "University Day. At the same meeting of the trustees arrangements were made to institute the new lib rary school next September j -which is founded on a gift from the Carnegie Corporation, ac cepted in June, 1929. Dr. L. R. Wilson, University librarian, -will be director, while Donald Coney, will be assistant director ami professor of library science. The other members of the staff are Susan Grey Akers, Ph. D., Nora Beust, and Robert B. Downs. A recommendation was made Ij Dean C. T. McCormick of the University's law school, that three years' college work be re quired before entering the law school. A committee consisting of H. E. Stacy, A. H. Graham, and W. D. Merritt was appoint-. ed to investigate and report at the June meeting of the bbard of trustees. Among those present at the meeting were Josephus Daniels, who presided; President Frank VP. Graham, R. B. House, ex ecutive secretary; Charles T. Woollen, business manager of the University; Charles Whed bee, A. T. Allen, Walter Mur- pny, James S. Manning, John O'Neil and Masters Visit University George O'Neii, noted poet, who has just finished a life of Keats, is spending some time in Chapel Hill. He arrived a few aays ago and plans to remain i or several weeks. Another prominent visitor to tns University was Edgar Lee Masters, author of Svoon Ri v.pr Anthology and a much discuss ed biography of Abraham Lin coln, who spent a short while here Saturday, coming over from Greensboro with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Douglas. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1931 NUMBER 125 N.C..C.W. ORGAN HEAD WILL PLAY ON GUEST SERIES Professor George M. Thompson Will Give Concert Tomor row Night. Professor George M. Thomn- son, head of the organ depart ment at N. C. C. W. in Grpons- boro, will give the second con- f 1 - - cere oi tne guest series in the music building tomorrow night at 8:15. Beginning his musical train ing at Beaver College, Beaver, Pa., he followed up this work later under Charles N. Boyd of the Pittsburgh Musical Insti-i tute, and Harvey B. Gaul of the same city. At tne age of fourteen he secured his first church position in East Liverpool, Ohio, and was . called to the Ben Avon U. P. Church of Pittsburgh; His early career was partially broken by the World War, FRATERNITY ROW HAS ANNUAL FIRE Deserted T. E. P. House is Spec tacular Blaze But Spectators Are Few. in which he served as a member of V - T- 9 Jt A w PllJllltt V S. Hill, Leslie Weil, A. B. An- i e Coast Artillery. Immediate drews, and H. M. London. PHILLIPS RUSSELL TO LECTURE HERE Prominent Author Will Conduct Conference in Fine Points Of Writing. Dr. George R. Coffman, head f the English department, yes terday announced that Phillips aasseiJ, prominent biographer, novelist, and short storv writer. Jll act as visiting author at University during the sPng quarter. Mr. Russell will conduct a inference at which he will ex Plain the fine points of writing, will not discuss only literary ""an& but will show the cor- xect technique and method fnr Writing anything from a busi es letter to a short story. Phillips Russell is a native of frth Carolina and has been 'esunng in Chapel Hill for the M few months. Mr. Russell s Perhaps best known for his raphies. His life of Benja P n Ffanklin, Benjamin Frank l the First Civilized Ameru H the most popular of his orks, was met with wide :?read approval. His other two aphies, John Paul Jones, thvf Actin, and Emerson, ll es American have also jn Very well received. Mr pdditi0n t0 his biographies, F ?,USSe11 has written The fabler and Red Tiger, a book tatVl! sketches- The visiting hi, ? has had Quite a few of aptv i 68 Printd in O'Brien's tftology of short stories which opposed t yar and is short . -to rePresent the best ,j stones of the current year. tl' RusseH is a frequent Orbutor to the American Continued on last page) ly following the Armistice he went to Chicago to become for three years a student of the celebrated Clarence Eddy, so called dean of American or ganists. Since 1922 Professor Thomp son has gone annually to Paris to study organ under Joseph Bonnet, famous organist of the church of St. Eustache. In the spring of 1923, Mr. Thompson became connected with the North Carolina College, at Greensboro, as head of the or gan department, which position he has held since that time. His annual series of Historical Or gan Recitals at that school has attracted national attention. Miss lone Cates Dies in Washington Miss lone Cates, well-known throughout the state by former University students as the manager of the University Cafe teria in Chapel Hill, died in Washington, D.-C. last Thurs day. Miss Cates was the daughter of, H. M. Cates, prominent citi zen of Graham. The funeral ser vices took place at Phillips' Cha pel in Alamance county Satur day afternoon. The cafeteria of which Miss Cates was proprietor, as well as personal manager, has since be come the Friendly Cafeteria. After building up a thriving business and an excellent clien tele by her efficient manage ment she went to Greensboro to become a teacher in the public schools. Yackety Yack Staff There will be an important meeting of the Yackety Yack business staff this afternoon at two o'clock. All members must be present. The Chapel Hill Fire Depart ment spent a busy time Sunday night fighting numerous fires in the vicinity. At least three broke put, two of which were alarmed and the other was eas ily put out by the smaller en gine when a chimney fire was phoned in to the fire house. This small fire occurred about 1:15 in the morning. Unfortunately both the other fires, which were rather severe, apparently were discovered at the same time since both alarms came in simultaneously. These two alarms were Sent in about five o'clock in the morning just before daybreak. The fire at the deserted Tau Epsilon Phi house on the end of old fraternity row, had gained considerable headway before the fire department arrived on the scene, and since there was the fire at the Alpha Karma Kappa house at 206 Cameron - Avenue, the endeavors of the department were divided. The front of the Alpha Kappa Kappa house was burned from the front door up to the win dows on the second floor. The fire there began in the laundry which was deposited near the door awaiting the arrival of the laundry truck. The cause of the conflagration was not determin ed. JThe. extent of the damage done was not great and after this fire was subdued the entire force centered its activity on the more imposing blaze which was raging in the T. E. P. house. Due to the extremely late hour at which the fires hap pened and the severe cold, few of our devotees of the livid monster appeared to cheer the battling firemen on. Practically the whole roof and the greater part of the second floor were razed, and the .fighters had to break in several windows to ob tain entrance from the outside Since no one was living in the building, Chief John Foister was at a loss to determine the cause of the breaking out of the fire. The historic old fraternity row is fast disappearing now that most of the fraternities are building houses in the various courts and separately along the streets of the village. After the fraternities move into new homes ft is not long before the house becomes rather dilapi dated and invariably a fire breaks out in them. There is now only one house that does not boast of having had at least one fire. This great habit was started in 1918 when the Sigma Nu house had a large fire which completely destroyed the build ing. Since that time the nouses along the row have gradually been depleted until only two remain standing. CARR BUILDING IS BEING RENOVATED Work cn Memorial Bell Tower Is Also Progressing Rapidly. Colds and Measles The infirmary has been treat ing cases of German measles and colds which .are reported to be not exceptionally dane-erous. The following students were on the infirmary list yesterday: D. L. Potter, B. B. Frazer. M L. Cannon, Jr., J. W. Stallings, Jr., R. L. Bernhardt, James Grif fith, R. A. Reid. Geore-e Malone. A. L. Jacobs, U. L. Spence, W. T. Davis, Jr., R. H. Carmichael, M. H. Dunn, and Thorn S. Bennett. Rooms in Carr dormitory will not be open for occupancy until about June 15 due to extensive repairs and renovations. Work was begun about March 15 near the beginning of the sprim? holidays. All rooms were vacat ed in order to ? enable the re modeling to be done thoroughly. The building is to undergo a complete overhauling both ex ternally and internally. The ex terior is now" being cleaned and repaired, while the necessary scaffoldings are already rising to aid in the repairs. It is planned to change the present interior arrangements only slightly. There will be a few more rooms and those al ready in use are to be put in much better condition. The lava tories and other arrangements will be completely modernized also. By this slight increase in the number of rooms the num ber of students that can be ac commodated will be raised correspondingly. Workmen, are giving the roof a close inspection, removing and replacing faulty sections. Many of the window frames, also, are being removed to give way to newer ones. " It is expected by the build ings department that rooms in Carr building will be available for students in the summer school. Work on the Morehead-Pat- terson Memorial Tower is pro gressing steadily. The frame work and scaffolding for the projected, one hundred and seventy-five foot structure has already been reared to the height of one hundred and sixty feet. The main sections of the foundation are now being put in. This tower is to be composed of brick and limestone cover ing structural steel. Beside the bells and chimes there will be a large clock facing four direc tions and a powerful" airplane beacon topping the tower. Work on the project is being pushed as rapidly as possible. Societies Will Hear Inaugural Speeches The Di Senate will meet to night in its first session of the quarter to hear the inaugural ad dress of President K. C. Ramsey. Committees for the quarter will be appointed at this time. Egbert Haywood, newly-elect ed speaker of the Phi Assembly, will also give his inaugural ad dress at the first, meeting of that society. The first bill on the calendar for discussion is on the subject: That the consolida tion of the hundred counties of the state into approximately one half that number would be for the best interests of North Caro lina. TRABUE TO TAKE UP PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT Head of Educational Research Bureau Receives Position with Minnesota Institutes. Dr. Marion R. Trabue, head of the educational research in the school of education at the University, has left with his family for Minneapolis. There at the University of Minnesota he will employ his year's leave of absence, which has been given him by the executive com mittee of the trustees, as execu tive of the committee on diag nosis and training in the Insti tute for Unemployment re search. . KEDROFF QUARTET APPEAR MARCH 31 The fourth of the series of entertainments offered by the Student Entertainment Com mittee will be presented Tues day, March 31, at eight-thirty in Memorial hall. The Kedroff Quartet will be the next featur ed program on the entire year's presentations and the firstf one on this quarter's. The Kedroff Quartet is a Russian organization and has been prominent since 1897. Few nations can claim such wealth and beauty in folk music as Russia, and it is this beauty of music and the idea of as sembling and popularizing these melodies that inspired this or ganization. Phi Sigma Kappa , announces the pledging of Charles I. Nichols of Medf ord, Massachu setts. " Staff Pictures All staffs of the Daily Tar Heel, the Yackety Yack, and the Buccaneer are requested to meet in their respective of fices tonight at seven" o'clock in order that flashlight photo graphs; may; be -taken. This Institute has grown out of the combined activities of the Tri-City labor stabilization com mittee, established last fall by tne city governments and the civic clubs of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth and of the Employment Stabilization In stitute organized last spring at the University of Minnesota. The Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations have provided funds for the conducting of the neces sary research and demonstra tion work. The object of this work is to reduce both technological and periodic unemployment by figuring out the changes needed in the social machinery. This type of work is very similar to that which was done by Dr. Trabue when he was engaged at Columbia University and in the United States Army before coming to North Carolina. As chief psychological ex aminer at Camp Taylor and at Camp Grant during the war, he directed the mental examina tions given more than a hundred thousand recruits and officers During the last few months of the year 1918, Dr. Trabue did a large amount of research work as a special representative of the War Department's commit tee of classification of personnel at various trade test stations and flying fields. For the three years just before coming to North Carolina in 1922, he was in charge of the placement of officers at Teachers College, Columbia University. Since coming to Chapel Hill as professor of educational ad ministration, he has given much of his time to instruc tional and curricular problems in the public schools, with spec ial attention to the elementary schools. DRAMA FESTIVAL WILL BE STAGED DURING TOE-END Tournament Also To Be Con ducted by Dramatic Associa tion Friday and Saturday. The eighth annual festival of the Carolina Dramatic Associa tion and the state dramatic tournament will take place Thursday, Friday, and Satur day, March 26, 27, and 28, in the Playmakers theatre. The pur pose of the Carolina Dramatic Association is to encourage dra matic art in the school and com munities of North Carolina; to meet the need for constructive recreation; to promote the pro duction of plays, pageants, and estivals; and to stimulate in terest in the making of a native drama. The executive committee of the association is composed of: Paul Green, honorary presi dent; Professor Frederick H. Koch, president ex officio di rector of the Carolina Play makers; R. C. Robinson, presi dent, director of the Wavne I Community Players, of Golds- vuiv, utnei ivea, vice-president, director of the Dramatic Art Class, in Charlotte; Irene Fuss ier, secretary-treasurer ; R. M. Grumman, director of the Uni versity extension division ; Sam uel Selden, associate director of the Carolina Playmakers ; Ralph Westerman, bsuiness manager of the Carolina Playmakers: Mrs. Herbert Harris, the Wom an's Club of Seaboard; Kate Hall, director of the Little Theatre in Greensboro; Elba Henninger, director of the Greensboro College Players; Pearl Setzer, director of the Lenoir-Rhyne Playmakers; P. G. Gallop, director of the White ville high school dramatic club; and W. R. Wunsch-director of the Asheville senior high school players. v- In connection with the festi val, contests in play production, in play writing, and' in other dramatic arts, will be held. The club winning the state cham pionship in each of several classifications will be awarded a plaque bearing the signet of the Carolina Dramatic Association. The winners of the special con tests will be awarded complete sets of Carolina Folk-Plays. Towns and cities which will be represented at the festival are: Albemarle. Ashevillp. , 7 (Continued on last page ) FULLER MAY SUE MEMPHIS POLICE Shrubbery Planted The botanical department has just completed -the planting of shrubbery, around Memorial hall, and this week will do the Henry R. Fuller, who is spending a few days in Chapel Hill with his family, is consid ering taking action against the police officers of Memphis, Tennessee, who caused him to be locked up in the . Memphis jail a few weeks ago when he inquired at the police station as to the whereabouts of commun istic headquarters. Competant lawyers have advised him that he has good cause for action on the score of false ar rest and imprisonment, and the American Civil Liberties Union has offered to provide counsel and to bear the cost of the suit. Mr. Fuller is a text-book rep resentative of the Houghton- Mifflin Company, and the offi cials of that company have as sured him of their vigorous sup port. Persons at various South ern institutions where he has sold text books are said to have written Houghton-Mifflin urg- i same for the music building. ing that some action be taken. 1
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