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X - " CLAUDE BOWERS MEMORIAL HALL 11:00 A. M. CLAUDE BOWERS MEMORIAL HALL 11:00 A. M. f1 ; j j ' I! j )J if. I j j 1 VOLUME XXXIX CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1931 i i . - - - - - - - II NUMBER 185 HALL IS PACKED SUNDAY MORNING TO HEAR POTEAT Raleigh Preacher Talks To Seniors on "Jesus and the A Liberal Mind." U. N. C. COMMENCEMENT FIGURES Rev, E. McNeil Poteat, Jr., pastor of the Pullen Memorial Baptist church of Raleigh, chose Jesus and the Liberal Mind" as the subject of his baccalaure ate address before the com mencement crowd in Memorial hall Sunday morning. It was the first baccalaureate sermon to be given in the new hall, and all of the 1800 seats vere filled. The text of the ser--mon was taken from the 18th chapter of John: "If I have said anything wrong, prove it; if I liave said what was true, why do you strike me?" "A great many of the present day liberals are false to the doc trine of Jesus, who was the .greatest liberal of them all," Dr. Tcteat declared. , Many False Liberals "There is today a mood that is falsely called liberal. "In art it is decadent, in lit erature it is cynical, in politics -it is destructive. Its revolt 'is flighted ere it starts by a sus picion of futility and , defeat. -And we must rescue liberalism from such a dismal consequence. Tcr in religion, in art, in morals, in politics, in economics, in every human interest indeed, -true liberalism is the inspiration of progress and the promise of pr-c-cess.. . ..... :; ,..... The liberalism of Jesus, the Raleigh minister asserted, em braced "expectancy, experiment and active protest against er- Tor." Jesus, he said, was al ways willing to condition his cpirJon regarding anything he -wasn't sure about with an "if"; moreover he was always willing to examine, to search for the truth and to admit he had made ,a mistake if he was found vvrcng. And then he never failed to smite error when he -found it. Discussing the present eco- Jiomic distress of the world, (Continued on last page) , v .v:';v;;v;:;v;:::v::::: vivx-:- ! v O v' . v : ' - V , . :::::::-" v. -......-...-.-,.. ..:v:v.v.;.y ::::::::. ; :-:-::-:-:-::?SS: ::::: -. :-:: -& ' i : " V :::::-:-:.:-:.:-..:... . : :: ; .::: : . . : :. .:. , . .v. ' .: .-. ' ;,. . ' i . i:-yy- ...&f2Ve-... - 1 " s ::f.. -::::.' ..-.: s :- . : - .-.-.v . y.-.:-:- . s-: ... : T, .; , ' - m. v ,5T - J i v I - . . ' i i urn" ' MCWILL nrrfe .- v . , c. Portrr, oxoeyrsrns ' U' " - ' 3oW3.S jg. "WrteyTY ffiv5 a rt- i v couuTtHriHrzaesaQooHO is rue " ' I 1 I ' . ; ;J : ' .. r 5 ! v - vsnBf ! ; - v j I . - ; : -.g V f V -V V---- - " - X - f Board of Trustees Will Meet Today The principal meeting of the board of trustees of the Univer sity at which business will be transacted will be at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Bingham hall auditorium. A special meeting of the board will convene at 10 o'clock this morning for the purpose of rati fying degrees which are to be conferred in Memorial hall at the Commencement exercises. This meeting is also in Bingham. TODAY'S PROGRAM TO BE FEATURED BY BOWERS' TALK Gov. O. Max Gardner to Award Diplomas to 364 Graduates In Memorial Hall. MANY OLD GRADS RETURN TO HILL FOR ALUMNI DAY President Graham Makes Prin cipal Address at Luncheon In Swain Hall. Alumni of the University, more than 500 of them, assem- bled yesterday in greater num- Ls of tke jeffersonian Period. Mr. Bowers has taken part in The program of the 136th commencement of the Univer sity of North Carolina will be brought to a close today with the address by Claude Bowers in Memorial hall at 11 o'clock and the awarding of diplomas by Governor O. Max Gardner. Claude Bowers is an eminent author, historian, and editor. Until its purchase by the Scripps - Howard organization, he w7as editor of the New York Evening World, one of Ameri ca's most fearless newspapers. He is the author of several his torical,,, biographies that have attracted wide attention, includ ing The Tragic Era, Jefferson and Hamilton, and Party Bat- MANY EXPECTED TO ENROLL FOR SIMMER SCHOOL "First Session Will Open Thurs day With a Number of New Courses and Features. FRANK. P. GR-Arf-QM Q HEMP ACtViS (J.tfAGiQH SUUOQS bers than tor any commence ment in the last three years, brought back to the campus def inite word that the people of the state wTould be ever grateful that the trustees,- just a year ago, ignored the protest of Frank Porter Graham that he various party enterprises, and on several occasions he has been thrust prominently into the spotlight of the Democratic party. He delivered the famous To Your Tents, O Israel" key note address of the 1928 Demo cratic convention which nomi nated Al Smith and he was the Some of the important figures in the University's 136th Commencement are shown above. Read ing from left to right, top row, they are E. McNeill Poteat, Jr., Pastor of the Pullen Memorial Bap- did not want the job and draft tist church in Raleigh, who preached the baccalaureate sermon Sunday morning; Claude G. Bow- him for the presidency. or nnfpH hinormnhpr nnH priitnr whn is srhpniilpri tn ripiivpr thp ( ommenpempnt address this I PrfloiMont nrolmm mou flio m morning in Memorial hall. Bottom row: President Frank P. Graham, now ending the first year cipient of ovations wherever he Prmcipal speaker at tne JacK- . - I r cm-n I loir Hitinof rho eomzi lroof of his administration with an excellent record; Kemp P. Lewis, president of the General Alumni appeared. At the alumni re- Association, who presided at the alumni luncheon yesterday; J. Maryon Saunders, alumni secre- unions yesterday morning and tarv. who heads un the sreneral Drosrram for the old sxads and is in charge of class reunions, at the alumni luncheon later in and Perrv. E. Seaffle. chief Commencement marshal. the dav. the old ffrads snramr to governor of the state will award J " , - - v , - 0 - -x In f t j il o t J In the ienter is pictured the Old Well with Old East dormitory in the background, the latter their feet and greeted him with Ine aiPlomas t0 ine rau- being one of the oldest college buildings m the bouth. ' - son Day dinner the same year. Governor Awards Diplomas As has been customary the '31 ENDS CAREER' WITHCLASS DAY Horace WiUiams Is Speaker at Senior Prayers Saturday Morning in Gerrard. That applications - for admis sion to the University summer school are coming in rapidly and that the school of engineering "has already enrolled more than twice the number of students it Tiad during last year's summer i;erm was revealed by Director s. W. Walker. The first term -will open Thursday. Besides its regular list of de partments, consisting of the graduate school, the school of education, the liberal arts .school, the school of engineer-4 ung, the school of commerce, and the school of applied science, the summer quarter will this year offer a number of new fea tures. For the first time a course in the organization and administration of junior col leges will be offered by Dr. G. P. Butler, advisor for the "Southern Association of Col leges and Secondary Schools, ;and Dr. Carobel Murphey, of -the Edison high school, Los (Continued on last page) Horace Williams, beloved philosopher of many genera tions, at class day exercises which opened the University's commencement program, used two simple but meanf ul little words, breadth and depth, in preaching to the outgoing se niors of the University, in one of the most inspiring speeches a graduating class has ever had the opportunity to hear. Dr. Williams used a tree as il lustration of his main point. He said that this-tree alone of all its brothers and-sisters stood the stnrm It had depth and breadth, but he said the human need for both these philosophies is much more true. The speaker used illustrations from the past, going back to Abraham, father of the Jews. He stood steadfast against all dis appointments and dangers, ready to sacrifice his son for his faith, and Dr. Williams would put him at the head of the six men su preme in history.. He men tioned George Washington first, and next; praised Aycock, great educational governor of this state, who in his student days here cried out at the hi as sembly: "Do you think I would violate my principles to be elect ed to an office?" Coming closer home, Dr. Wil liams stated : "Knowledge makes for breadth, religion for depth. North Carolina is tremendously interested in breadth, but what of depth?" And then t"he speaker ad dressed the seniors before him. "You. won't be called on to fight the fight that Washington, Abra (Continued on latt page) FIRST OF GERMAN CLUB DANCES TO BE GIVEN TODAY Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians Will Play for Six Dances and a Concert. COLUMBIA GIVES GRAHAM DEGREE Doctor of Laws Upon Uni versity President. Climaxing the spring social season at the University, the annual German Club dance finals will get under way tonight with the formal dance in the Tin Can. Six dances and a concert will comprise the program. Tomor row morning from 11 to 1 o'clock a dansante will be given to be followed by another dansante from 4 to 6 o'clock in the after noon. The ball managers' and marshals' ball will be given to morrow, evening and will be led by Holmes Davis, chief mar shal, with Miss Ruth Davis of Wilmington and Cooper Person, cniei Dan manager, with Miss Frances Person of Pikeville. . Two Dances Thursday The program for Thursday in eludes a morning dance from 11 to 1 o'clock, a concert from 3 to 5 , o'clock in the afternoon and the final ball in the evening. Leaders .for the final ball will be William Boylan Snow, Ashe- ville, with Miss Sara Dorsett, Salisbury; John Bullock, Rocky- Mount, with Miss Kate Jenkins, Atlanta ; and Will Yarborough, i Louisburg, with Miss Elizabeth Nunn, New Bern. During the figure of the final ball the present officers of the German Club will turn over the regalia to the newly-elected of ficials. The present officers are William Boylan Snow, Asheville, president; John Bullock, Rocky Mount, vice-president; and Will Yarborough, Louisburg, secretary-treasurer. The executive committee is composed of Mar (ConiinueS en U,st page) x -J il JJ rrrt - thunderous. -armlausG- when it uaies aiier me auuress. ., xxus was announced that he would number m the graduating class sneak. i ... i , . i Those who kpow- him best niteen aauates in pnarmacy. love him most." President Keimo Beven Bcience, P. Lewis of the General Alumni sixteen doctors oi pnnosopny. Assnriatw rWlarpd in intro. There will be four honorary de- Davidson College Also Confers Cueing him at the alumni lunch- rees presented. eon, and the crowd roared its At ten o'clock m the morning approval. And not long after the U. N. C. news reel will be J-l J- 0 J HT r nrrnin oT-lnTTTf in V f Q T"V1? n O poi -EVonV noTioTv, mo mat oenaiur tamerou iviurnsuii s" "v v this last week honored by two and JosePhus DanleIs heaped theatre Th:s move shows PIc- Doqueis upon ine new presiaexiL. tuics ui .luimw i,ye m .wpci -v t 1 I I rfi 111 f-9 III. ITI ?1 II . Willi lliaiir I J-J-Ali v.. I I t t J! Jl . J.1 I rwAinnmn-n rV C tin tlAYIT rt T MA i.. TT . , j -Tkn:j tne -principal aaaress at me piuwwaiuu iwiuo m .nuuv m urc aiumni mncneon, wmcn was ai- aiumm uvxnn, t, tended bv a crowd that filled band playing in front of Memo- The degree from Columbia Swain hall, said that the Uni- rial hall, the faculty and grad- rtii i ijiil t - . . .... was one oi tne iour wmcn tnat versjty community had accepted uates will file into the building. University conferred this year. in ff0od ST)irit the 10 per cent O i The ceremony took place last cut in facuity salaries voted by Tuesday. Charles bears uam- the General Assembly. win, who presented Dr. Graham for the degree, said of him: "Native of North Carolina; "That 10 per cent reduction cuts across the arteries and veins of a great University, but we graduated from the University will it jn r00d spdrtsman- of North Carolina with the class shl-n aTld do the best we can to of '09 and made Master ot Arts hol(i on for a better day. at Columbia in lyib; at once We have been assured on re taking a position of leadership SDOnsible authority that the Uni through wealth of personality, versity will actually get the high intellectual ability, strong $721,000 which the General As- unbounded STRONG FACULTY IN LAW SCHOOL DURINGSUFiEIER Two Supreme Court Justices and Several Specialists to Supple ment Regular Faculty. The summeilaw school will iJ.i U J .-r, -r--r I - . . , , UUCU CliC 1UOI VJJL HU fcV-""tF coiivicuons, unuuunucu cucigj semblv abDropriatea ana not - v.4. rtnu cAjjLiuiicti cacvuuvc suffer the horizontal cuts oi tne pacity ; a thinking and an active past two years. We mean to use American liberal; now trusted and admired president of that university whose origin is to be found in the provisions of the notable constitution of North Carolina which was written in the year of the Declaration of the Nation's Independence." " Davidson college presented the president with the fourth degree conferred upon him this season: last Wednesday. Presi dent Lingle read this citation: "Son of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, that cradle of human liberty. A lover and ser vant of your .fellow men. An advocate of the right and liberty of men in all walks of life. A true patriot and educator, presi dent of the University of North Carolina." Two other degrees were given (Continued on last page) show two Supreme Court jus tices and several nationally prominent specialists supple menting the local teaching staff. During the first term, June 15 Professor Richard V Cell vvao a. v,unuu" " i , , . . . . , -ii ,wun- nnhlic Powell, Columbia university, will OiaiC UIO UIUWUUkJ I I , . . T TTT schools. For the people of the waen state go up or down with the "T" public schools. I know of no the additional funds to repair and restore where there is dan ger of greatest waste' "Th ficrht fnr education this I year was a common fight for all JuIy man who is going to have a more trying task in the next two years than Superintendent Allen." Josephus Daniels in his ad-1 dress said that President Gra ham's speech before the appro priations committee in Raleigh, when he rose from a sick bed to plead the cause, of education, would take equal rank with the utterances of Newton Baker be fore the Democratic Convention in Nev York City and of Claude Bowers before the Democratic Continued en last page Court, constitutional law ; Pro fessor William R. Vance, Yale university, insurance; and Pro fessor M. T. Van Hecke and F. B. McCall, of the University will teach personal property and common law pleading, respec tively. During the second term, July 25 to August 29, Percy W. Phil lips, Washington, Dn C, former member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals, will teach federal taxation; Profes sor Roscoe ,B. Turner, Yale, (Continued on page three)
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