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PCT2 Two Published daily during: the college year except Mondays and except Thanks giving:, Christmas and Spring Holi days. The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription price, $4.00 for the col lege year. r 0See3 in the basement of Alumni Building. JACK DUNGAN. .Editor ED FRENCH... .....Mng. Ed. H. N. PATTERSON....;.Bus. Mgr. EDITORIAL STAFF Editorial Board J Charles G. Rose ... Chairman J. M. Little Frank J. Manheim Harper Barnes Wex Malone J. C. Sitterson Robert Hodges W. M. Bryson Will Yarborough Alden Stahr Oscar Dresslar Bob Barnett Assignment Editors Otto S. Steinreich Dan Kelly, Assistant Sunday Editor Charles G. Rose City Editors Bill McKee George Wilson Peter Hairs ton Desk Men Frank Hawley ' T. W. Blackwell W. R. Woerner Don Shoemaker Sports Staff Jack Bessen Sports Editor Assistants T. H. Broughton "P. Alston Librarian Sam Silverstein .' News Men E. M. Spruill F.W.Ashley McB. Fleming-Jones W. E. Davis Charles Poe Bob Betts Alex Andrews . Clayborn Carr Reporters Saul Gordon Vass Shepherd D. J. Olive Bob Reynolds Ronald Kochendorf er Dilworth Cocke Woodward Glenn M. V. Barnhill, Jr. , BUSINESS STAFF Hal Worth................. ...Circulation Mgr. Harlan Jameson. ..Ass't. Bus. Mgr. John Manning .Ass't. Bus. Mgr. Advertising Department Al L. Olmstead....: Advertising Merr. Pendleton Gray............Advertising Mgr. .Bernard boiomon Ass't. Adv. Mgr. R. D. McMillan, Jr.: Ass't. Adv. Mgr. James N. Nowell H. A. Clark Collection Department Jack Hammer....... ...Collection Mgr. John Barrow Frank S. Dale Stokes Adderton Jack Stokes Correspondence Department Ed Michaels, Jr....Correspondence Mgr. Wynn Hamm Ass't. Cor. Mgr. Sunday, April 19, 1931 To the Class Of 1934 Never has there been such a sincere, wholehearted, and purr poseful demonstration on the part of a single -class as that which "Ike" Minor and the other men of the class of 1934 staged Friday night. It was ad vertised as a smoker, but it was a revival. In a year marked by its apathy, this was a refreshing exception. Freshmen are al ways better cheerers, and more enthusiastic than we upperclass men who have reached man's state a state which we full well know doesn't permit of such childish things as "boosting' However, this aggregation of first year men nave a drive and efficiency that points toward permanency. When they want a famous football coach to ad dress them, they get him, even though he may refuse radio au diences the pleasure of hearing him. Friday night the members of the class of 1934 for all intent and purposes became upper- classmen. The juniors and seniors of this institution have but a brief pause to make on the threshold of the outward swinging door, until they will have ended forever the evanes cent life they have been leading here. Their aspirations, uni versity ideals, hopes and plans are as good as ended. It is to these men of 1934 that the in stitution now looks to carry on, to progress with, and to realize these ideals, aspirations, and plans. Becoming upperclassmen, these freshmen have unconsciously assumed obligations of great proportions. Frank Graham, the greatest president the Uni versity has ever had, has said the students in this University at this time owe it to the strug gling tax-payers and : their equally burdened relatives to get the maximum good out of every one of their college courses and days They are obligated to see that every penny of student fees are legitimately spent, and that a reduction be effected shortly. It is their pleasure to inculcate within themselves and the college generation which will follow deep love of the Univer sity, a desire to serve commun ity, state, and nation on . the part of honest, tolerant, and educated persons, and to accom plish a revival of the more serious activities which repre sent the intellect more and the senses less. Great classes have been dis covered in the freshman unit before; and they were great classes. Somewhere along the road, however, has lain devas tating influences which have vitrated all the abundant energy, the altruistic enthusi asm, and serious minded intent. A World In Itself Collegians hear much of pre paring themselves for "life" af ter leaving school. A sudden metamorphosis is said to take place in one's daily habits upon completion of the final year of four spent supposedly, in prep aration. Observing the fallacy of such a surmise, others vigor ously assert that college exis tence is as truly life itself as is any period of the life of an in dividual. But in reality it seems, as well expressed in a recent class smoker address. that college is a world in itself. Many are the elements and factors going to make up the ordinary routine at any of America's institutes of higher learning. Intense interest and loyalty in regard to athletics and scholastic teams, f rater- J nity and other binding group affiliations, association with those striving toward a common end and attracted by similar pursuits, tne pervasion 01 a spirit of friendly cooperation and mutual desire, and above all the sense of carefree existence and irresponsibility these and other features, not to be found in just such relation anywhere else, combine to set apart in a category peculiarly its own the ordinary activity of undergrad uates. Probably never after ward will the average student encounter from authority over him the leniency accorded the cutting of classes, big week-ends, and youthful escapades. It is extremely unlikely that any such. friendly regard for his welfare and individualism as is accorded him there will be ex tended by subsequent coworkers and associates. It is no doubt with a somewhat wistful feeling of longing that alumni look back on the joyful days spent at col lege as belonging to another world. J. M. L. Scholarship Demands Precision An harmone is a gland secre tion. An excellent illustration of a prevalent and adolescent cnaracteristic 01 tne average student is found in an anecdote told by a psychology professor here. It was in a test that the question was asked, "what is an harmone?" The answer was. "When a bunch of fellows sit around, and start singing ; if it sounds good harmone." ' In commenting, the professor struck upon an important fail ing in the character of our aver age student. The illustration was exaggeration of the point but it does make clear this need. The average student is stand ing in crying need for precision,; in his scholarship and for a deep sense of personal respon sibility and a desire to be thor oughly true to himself. THE DAILY I am sure that without excep tion there are groups in every prep-school anywhere which not only indulge in the high are of "bull-dozing" but find an un paralleled delight in seeming to be familiar with something which in reality is quite beyond their vaguest comprehension. n 1 j n.xuoerance, ana care-iree in difference and irresponsibility forbid seriousness but to find tne same pnenomenon among college men is cause for concern in this modern day of science, speed, knowledge, and precision. T" I 1 I t TT1 -m m it indicates intellectual irre sponsibility, laziness, and a tendency to be untrue to one self. A dramatic living out of this quality of preciseness and of the spirit as in the parting words of Polonius to his son, "to thine own self be true" is found in the life of Michael Pupin, the richly spiritual scientist, whose life was the very epitome of scholarship, criticism, intellect ual and physical energy and stamina, of honesty, and nobil ity. There is everything to be gained by severe intellectual criticism, nothing by clever verbose indifference. There is hope in severe personal honesty, there is hope of simplification, organization, and growth. But in adventuresome cleverness there can be-nothing but the consequences of intellectual and moral chaos. R. W. B. With Contemporaries Friends In Need Thomas years ago : Carlyle said many "The true university of these days is a collection of books," in his famous essays on "Heroes and Hero Worship' The same statement contains more of an element of truth as the years roll by and the need for larger and larger libraries to keep up with the advances made in literature and science becomes increasingly evident to the university 'officials of today. Most college and university li braries are maintained and op erated largely through the gen erous support of alumni or friends of the institution. In several instances these people have organized societies or clubs with this aim as a standard for the firroun. Oxford has its Friends of the Bodleian Library, founded by the late Sir William Osier, former curator of the li brary at Oxford .University. Harvard has its Friends of the Library, a group of alumni who organized at a dinner in 1925 and have since" presented the library at Harvard with $216,742 in gifts for the upkeep and payment of books. In 1928 the Friends of the Columbia library was formed with annual assessments for each member of $5. Since then they have donated to the library its private collections of econo mics and mathematics, probably the largest in the' world, as well as other useful donations. The Friends of the Princeton Library was formed last April arid accepts all who are inter ested as members. They publish an annual review, Biblia, and without active campaigns, raise sufficient funds to present the library with occasional gifts. The newest library friends so ciety is the Yale Library Asso ciates, organized last December by Professor Tinker, keeper of rare books in Yale's new Ster ling Memorial Library. Through the associates, the library has just acquired an important ad dition to their rare books a sum mary of Einstein's relativity theory, written in his own hand. and valued at $25,000. Dartmouth remains singular ly along among the large east ern college without "friends" TAR HEEL The Sunday Hangover By Wex Knowing that everyone would high school debaters, I looked it, ran into this one. Ray Farris reports that as he was walking by Old East he saw a youthful couple coming out of that vener able building. Evidently they had invaded the privacy of the in mates. The girls asked Ray wiiere the debating room of Old East was, explaining tnat tney nad an hour. The Playmakers wish me to make the following apology con cerning their performance last week-end. For some unknown reason the scenery shifters went off on a jag and mixed up the sets. Always a Bettm Man should have been laid in the fra ternity nouse, and Ulue Kemembered Hills should place on the roof of the insane asylum. Even columnists have their Grey was tactless enough to tell just how really lousy my column appease, I submit the following poem, which was inspired, not by the spring weather or the Pi Phi tea, but simply by the sudden realization that I was flat broke. A POEM IN PRAISE OF PRACTICALLY SOMETHING An expensive venture in the field of free verse By Wex Malone, the Edgar Lee Masters of Chapel Hill (With apologies to my ancestors) I want to take this opportunity to holler About the virtues of the almighty dollar, To praise the filthy lucre That buys our bread and salt That inspires the plot for the So often heard on the Vitaphogny, About poor dad who worked till he landed in the hearse, And his darling daughters who To those radio speakers who extoll poverty I would add this P.S.. That the stuff they hand out is mostly all B.S. Why, the radio would never have been invented by Mr. Marconi If he hadn't been backed by some capitalist's moni. These fellows who give the dollar so many damns Are probably speaking on advertising programds. And when they're through, to say the least, They will talk to you for twenty minutes about Tasty Yeast, ' And they'll tell you about the vitamins it has stored away, And advise you to buy three bars today. If it weren't for money we'd have no alumni donations,- Nor be able to holler about inadequate legislative appropriations. There would be no wise guys to make bright suggestions As to when we'll be out of our economic deprestions, Nor any exciting World War clashes, Nor October stock market crashes. We'd have to stop indulging in the pastime of having bluesies If there were no money to provide financial excuses. Ever since the twenty-second of July, 1924, I've wanted, to give the hee-hee, To the bird who wrote that song iree. He sings about the free spring breezes, And forgets they bring on coughs and sneezes That necessitate a trip to the A. 7 And free love means the obstetrician. So, all in all, I am quite adverse To the bird who praises the empty purse. for its magnificent new Baker Memorial Library. Occasionally, individual bequests for gifts are made. Sometimes old libraries and private collections are of fered -to the College. In these instances the cost of putting the books in the stacks does not war rant the expense, in view of their value to the students. No one knows a library's needs any more than the trustees of the building. If presented with gifts of money they can buy new or rare books which wilTprove a real asset to the College. Baker needs a group of interested alumni or friends who will have as their purpose in . organizing, the collection of funds .for mak ing monetary gifts to the li brary. Th&Dartmouth Truly Great Novels When the balmy days, of spring attempt to coerce all ideas out of one's head, it is sometimes a difficult thing to at tempt to start an argument, to discourse upon the day's news, or in any manner elaborate at length upon anything. ' With that thought comes the idea of arguments in general, and we note with innate glee the haranguing and debating which has already started over John Galsworthy and his list of greatest American novels." One of the easiest ways in the world to start a heated argument among the literati is to produce a list of the best American nov els. Regardless of what books Malone be expecting a gag about the around, and as luck would have! been looking for it more than half . have taken blue remembered moments. Mac me what the rest of you feel, is. In a final frantic effort to and sucre, bologny ended up wearse. about the best things in life are familv Dhvsician r are selected, there will always be a generous coterie of people to disagree, and since there is no way of proving or disproving the correctness of such lists, the ar guments may go on and on as long as anyone feels like argu ing. Galsworthy, who is surely one of the greatest living novelists, recently named "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, "The Scarlet Let ter" by Hawthorne, and "Mc Teague," by Frank Norris, as the four erreatest Amen'ran novels. While we sit back in our easy chair and wait for the various critics to fall upon their choice as a vulture seizes a T-Bone pro vided vultures especially like T- Bone steaks it might be inter esting to complacently review Galsworthy's list. Easily the most notable thing Since our reduction in prices we have been using the same good quality of material and will continue to do so. THE UNIVERSITY SHOE SHOP Phone 3016 for Good Repairing Leave Your Kodak Films With Us for 6-HOUR SERVICE Sutton's Drug Store Sunday, April 19, 1931 about his list is that it complete ly ignores great writers of the present day. Hawthorne belong far back hr an earlier, almost forgotten, generation. The pres ent generation usually list him with the great unread, barring excerpts found in the Fifth Reader. Mark Twain, likewise. although far from being ignored today, represents a vanished era. Only Norris comes close to the present, and even he concerned himself with the San Francisco of the nineties. But where are the writers of today those writers whom ear nest critics exalt mightily, as if they and only they, among all Americans, had been permitted to see the true inwardness of things? Where are the great ex ponents of frankness, the sober wreighers of tragedy, the acidul ous of American hypocrisy and immaturity, the Nobel prize win ners Where, to be specific, are such men as Lewis, Cabell, or Drei ser? Galsworthy has evidently ignored them, and above such books as "Babbitt" and "Jurgen" and "The Genius" he places a simple tale of colonial New Eng land, 'two romances of the pre war Mississippi, and a story of Polk street at the turn of the century. We may assure ourselves that Galsworthy's selections are not final, as there are many, many- qualified judges who are quite convinced in their smug certain ty that Dreiser and Lewis have more to say to the world than had Twain or Hawthorne. The English novelist's list at least re minds us that American litera ture was not born after the World War. Indeed, the present epoch of history-making literature has often been classed as a renais sance of American wTriting, but we must cautiously aver that there were able writers in the country before most of the pres entrday reading public were born, and it is quite plausible and possible that some writers of the present generation have received a trifle more generous praise than they really deserve. O'Collegian. IRA ROSE ADDED TO FACULTY LIST (Continued from first page) has nela numerous committee assignments in the association. In making the announcement Dean Beard said: "Mr. Rose will bring to the pharmacy stu dents at the University a rich experience in the very sort of work they will, as graduates, encounter and be expected suc cessfully to perform. Possessed of high professional ideals he is nevertheless a practical retail owner who -knows the varied na ture of the drug business of to day and' he can be expected, therefore, to inculcate in his students a fine appreciation of high standard and at the same time show them how to apply themselves to the stern task of blending professional and com mercial practice in such a way as to render a fine public service without financial sacrifice." Some take a spring tonic for that run-down feeling, but pe destrians need a stretcher. Florence Herald.
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