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17PI7QUMI7M ! COUNCIL GROUP IN ANNUALBANQUET Graham Stresses Qualities of Friendship in Talk to 118 Members of Class of '35. One hundred and eighteen of the freshman class met in the banquet room of Graham Me morial yesterday evening at 6:30 o'clock for the purpose of organizing the Freshman Friend ship Council of ; the class of 1935. This was :the largest group ever to attend an ex-Hi Y banquet which has been spon sored annually by the Univer sity Y. M. C. A. - McLeod Toastmaster Graham McLeod, president of last 'year's Friendship Council, acted as toastmaster. He intro duced Billy Arthur, cheerleader, who led the group in several yells. Following this dinner was served, the blessing being asked by Rev. Eugene Olive, pastor of the Baptist church. ' . After dinner, each man intro duced himself, giving the name of his home town. Toastmaster McLeod then introduced several members of the faculty and stu dent body: F. F. Bradshaw, dean of students ; R. B. House, executive secretary ; H. D. Meyer, professor of sociology; Reyr A; S;Lawrence,7Teetor"Cf the Episcopal church ; Noah Goodridge, manager of Graham Memorial;. Mayne Albright, president of the student body; Jack Dungan, editor of the Daily Tar Heel; Frank Hawley, treasurer of the Y. M: C. A., Edwin Lanier, chairman of . the self-help bureau; Ed Hamer, chairman of the Freshman Friendship Council; Harry F. Comer, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. ; and F. M. James, presi dent of the Y. M. C. A. James Welcomes Class 'Tardner" James welcomed the class, and recalled to those present incidents of his fresh man days. He spoke of the old tradition of every one speaking to all whom he passed, stating that this custom was gradually dying out. President James asked the class to do all in its power to revive this custom. He urged them to put every thing possible into, the University and its life, and to do his utmost to remain in school for four years. In concluding he issued a chal lenge, "What will your contri bution of the University be?" (Continued orilatt page) , DR. SPANN WILL INSTRUCT GERMAN On the resiemation of R. S. Matthews the German depart ment was able to secure the ser vices of Dr. Meno Spann as in structor in German. Dr. Spann has the doctor's degrees from the University of Marburg, Ger many, For two years he was in structor in v German at Cornell university and last year he held the position of assistant profes sor of German at the University of Oregon. He speaks English fluently. ;( f Besides being a trained schpl ar Dr. Spann is very much inter ested in athletics. He is an.ex pert swimmer, boxer, and wrest ler, and pays some attention to tennis. At the University of Marburg he held the champion ship for middle-weight boxing. Rhodesia Student Is Studying Here Now George Stark has come from Southern Rhodesia, self-governing British colony in South Af rica, to the University to study educational and racial problems in the South. He is one of six students awarded fellowships for studies in America by the Colony. The fellowships are offered every year by Southern Rho desia to University graduates holding government appoint ments in a British dominion or colony. Mr. Sark is required to travel through the United States for three months and at the end of that time make a re port back to his home country on his research. Dr. E. W. Knight is directing his study here. MANY UNCLAIMED INVITATIONS MAY BE HARAT SOUTH Absence of Local Addresses Causes Fraternity Cards to Be Left in Dean's Office. Quite a number of fraternity invitations have been handed in to the dean of students without any local addresses and ' have therefore not been delivered. .The following men may come -to 205 South building and get their invitations : First List H. D. Adams, William Ballad, B. F. Barham H. R. Bassoff, Richard Barr, Steve L. Barden, Harold Barker, Edgar Bagwell, Charles F. Beaudry, Eyger Ber tram, John T. Best, John Betts, Walter Bradflock, William Brad- dock, George Brown, Benton Bray, Steve Borden, Ross Carr, Frank Causey, Frank Cothren, Billie Davis, H. L. . Dodge, R. DeVane, Hubert Ellison, Wil liam Emerson,, Tom Evans, B. T. Falls, David Felmet, D wight File, Lewis Fisher, Dick Fountain.''-. A. M. Gibbes, John Gillespie, Bernard Gilmer, P. R. Goodwin, James Gwinn,' Rufus Hairston, Samuel Hanff, Slade Hardee, Kirk Hardie, John Hedge, Keel ing Hefflin, Howard hHewitt, C. G. Hill, John Humphries, Chase Idol, Rayf J6hnsdn; William Johnson, Eugene Kelley, Fred Lennon, Edward Lewis, Robert Lewis, Odell Lindsay, James Little, J. M. Little, William Lloyd, Newman Lockwood, Ray Lockwood. Gaston McBride, Beverley Mc Ewer, E. J. McLaurin, Lyles McNairy, Ernest McPhail, John Morrison, Stanley Mortimer, John Meekin, C. L. Neal, Albert New, John Nutt, W T. Old, M. T. Orr, Frank Parker, Walter Payne, Glenn Peterson, Jim Pitt man, William Powell, Thomas Prosser, Rene Prud'hommeaux, James Rice, William Ridenhour, Bartram Robeson, J. D. Royall, Scott Royson, L. A. Russell. Paul E. Saywell, James Scott, L. S. Sloop, Raphael Slung, Eugene Smith, J. L. Suttle, Frank Thompson, B. O. Turnage, Zeno Wall, Hal Walton, Joel Whitaker, Myers Whitaker, Bradford White, De Forrest Whitehurst, William Willis, Thomas Wilson, T. P. Wiley, E. A. Wolslagel, Sanford Young. Second List J. G.f Anderson, J. A. Bailey, Continued on page two) FOUNDER'S DAY TO BE OBSERVED BY MANY1LUMNI Executive Secretary Saunders Announces Plans for Gala Celebration, October 12. University alumni will cele brate founder's day on October 12 with more alumni meetings than have been held in several years, according to plans made by J. Maryon Saunders, execu tive secretary . of the General Alumni Association. ! Alumni groups in approxi mately fifty communities in North Carolina and in alumni centers outside the State are preparing for October 12 meet ings next month, according to Secretary Saunders who has just completed an extensive tour of North Carolina towns, during which he held confer ences with officers and other interested alumni of local alum ni groups. To Dedicate Auditorium Exercises in Chapel Hill in celebration of the University na tal day will take place in the new Memorial hall on the morn ing of October 12, and will also include later in the day the ded ication of the new auditorium. New Memorial hall, the suc cessor to -the oddly shaped Memorial hall torn away over a year ago, was used for the first time last January. Plans call for a supper meeting of Univer sity alumni in Chapel Hill to take place in the evening in Graham Memorial. Towns Represented Members of the faculty and prominent alumni will be invit ed to address the local meetings of the University alumni. Among towns in which meetings are being planned are: San- ford, Rockingham, Southern Pines, Raef ord, Fayettevile,Sel ma, Goldsboro, Kinston, New Bern, Wilmington, Lumberton, Warrenton, Henderson, Oxford, Raleigh, Rocky Mount, Tarboro, Wilson, Roanoke Rapids, Bur lington, Greensboro, High Point, Lexington, WinstOn-Sal-em, Mount Airy, North Wilkes bora, Hickory, Lenoir, Ashe ville, Morganton, Marion, Lin; colnton, Gastonia, Charlotte, Concord, Albemarle, Salisbury, Statesville, Durham and Chap el Hill. Cities outside North Carolina in which alumni gath erings are contemplating in clude : Norfolk, Virginia, Atlan ta, Chicago, New York,, and San Francisco. In a letter written to presi dents in local alumni groups, K. P. Lewis, of Durham, president of the General Alumni Associ ation, strongly urges that local alumni meetings be arranged this year. "The University is living through a very critical period, when heavily cut bud gets are making it difficult to run at all, and it would be greatly cheered by having the alumni display this fall an un usual interest in our Alma Ma ter," he wrote. Loan Funds AH students needing loan's from the University loan funds who have not yet made applica tion for such assistance are re quested to meet in Gerrard hall at 10 :30 this morning. FRESHMEN GIVEN TALK BY COOPER ON FRAMNITIES President of the Interfraternity Council Defines Rushing Rules Effective This Year. John Phil Cooper, president of the interfraternity council, ad dressed the freshman-sophomore assemblage in chapel yesterday morning on the subject, "Fra ternities." He was introduced by Henry Johnston, Jr., assis tant dean of students, who pre sided over the chapel program. "Hark the Sound" was sung by the group after which John ston made announcement of the Freshman Friendship Council supper which occurred in Gra ham "Memorial building last night. The assistant dean of students then introduced the speaker. No Antagonism Cooper began his address by making it emphatically known that there is no antagonism be tween fraternity and non-fraternity men on the University campus and advised those fresh men who did not receive an invi tation to visit a fraternity house not to feel offended. He then gave the cost of fraternity life, stating that it was merely a college - luxury, absolutely - an extra cost from other assess ments. In defining "rushing," the interfraternity council pres ident said that it involved enter tainment of freshmen by frater nity men as engaging in social conversation or any other ways of entertainment, stating that no fraternity men were to pay for any entertainment of freshmen. Three Considerations itr There are three vital things to be considered by the fresh man who is planning to join a social fraternity," stated the speaker. These three were point ed out as: the personnel of the local chapter; the local standing of the chapter; and its national standing. Cooper urged every freshman who is contemplating joining a lodge to consider care fully these three points. ," Concluding, the speaker told the group that rushing rules as set forth by the interfraternity council must be strictly obeyed and that there was to be no rush ing during the Carolina-Wake Forest football game or at meal time. As a future reference for the new men who might want further advice on the subject, Cooper recommended Dean Francis F. Bradshaw, dean of students. Everett Dormitory Elects New Officers Everett dormitory elected of ficers for the year, Thursday evening under the supervision of "Slim" Medf ord, vice-president of the student union. Mil ton Freiberg and Frank Eric co were unanimously elected president and vice-president, re spectively. William Liebowitz will serve another year as ath letic manager. Immediately following the dormitory elections, student councilers were chosen by the various floors. They are : Otto Steinreich, Tony Oliverio, Har old Baumstone, Cy Kroch, Ed Egan, and Bert Flusser. N ew tiuliiis Is y Dean If . Thirty-five Enroll . In Library School Thirty-five students from all parts of the United States have enrolled in the new University school of library science which has Louis R. Wilson, University librarian, as its director. The new University project has been subsidized for five years by the Carnegie Corpor ation. The staff of the new school includes : Donald Coney, assist ant director and professor of li brary science; R. B. Downs, as sistant librarian and associate professor of library science; Miss Susan Grey Akers, associ ate professor; and Miss Nora Beust, assistant professor. Two lew Men Added To Psychology Staff The psychology department announces the addition of two men on its staff, O. D. Knight and A. G. Bayroff. Mr. Knight, formerly of Mercer university, Georgia, takes his place as in structor. Mr. Bayroff received his Ph. D. last year here, and then won (.a national research council fellowship. He is work ing on the problem of the orien tation of white rats. Professor J. F. Dashiell," head of the department spent part of his summer attending the an nual meeting of American Psy chology Association. Mr. Dash iell is on the council of direct ors of the association and at the last meeting was chairman of a seminar. V Professor H. W. Crane con tinued his work, during the summer, on the state board of charities and board of welfare. Mr. Crane is now entering on his eleventh year of this work. He has for his main work the subjects of mental adjustment and correction. Sixty men were turned away this year when they applied for freshman psychology. There are now 100 men registered as compared to r one hundred and twenty last year. - Magazine Writer Is Attracted By Books : : .a . " . Because of the inspiration de rived from books .by E. C. Branson, head of the University department of rural-social eco nomics, Lewis Carr, magazine writer, is now visiting Chapel Hill to meet the man who wrote them. Before Mr. Carr began mag zine Work he was a newspaper man and farmer. It was while he was on the staff of a Day ton, Ohio, paper that he read the books and articles by E.SC. Branson, which prompted him to come to Chapel Hill. Last week's issue of the Sat urday Evening Post contains an article written by Mr. Carr in colloboration with Charles E. Kettering, vice-president of the General Motors Company,- en titled, Industry at the Cross roads, Infirmary List The following students were on ther sick list at the infirmary yesterday : E. L. Mawbermilk and Ralph Morgan. ileiioiinoeri TV Van Hecke GRAHAM SPEAKS AT CONVOCATION MMA1MHALL President in His Address De scribes Lawyers as Crafts men and as Citizens. For the first time within five years, a professional school of the University will depend up on the discretion of its students to attend their classes and will make class-room attendance a student obligation. Such a change, together with the pro cedure by which law students are certified for the state bar examinations, was announced at the annual convocation of the law school yesterday morning in Manning hall. Students in professional schools enjoyed this privilege up until five years ago when au thorities in all of them abolish ed optional attendance. x Jun iors and seniors in undergradu ate schools were also free from attendance regulations until last jyfar a11 cuts were limited almost to a minimum. This program of the faculty has met with such opposition since the limitation, buij the law school is the first to leave the matter to the student's discretion. New Men Welcomed Allen Langston, president of the law school association, wel comed the new students and in troduced Dean M. T. Van Hecke. The speaker told the law students that regular atten dance in classes would continue to be a student obligation but no attendance records would, be kept and class attendance would be incident to the student's work. Mr. Van Hecke stated that this action had been taken with the unanimous consent of the law faculty which expected the new . plan to work better than the old system which reduced credit after sixteen absences. The speaker is reported to have stated that the law school in structors were no policemen. Certification Limited Mr. Van Hecke then announc ed that after September, 1932, the law school would certify no (Continued on last page) FIRST PEP RALLY IS WELL ATTENDED A large crowd of students, filling the new Memorial hall, attended the pep meeting last night in preparation of cedebra fing the Wake Forest game to day. The meeting was led by Billy Arthur, cheerleader, who had planned the program. B ob House, executive secre tary of the University, "Dean" Paulsen, Dean Bradshaw, Ray Farris, and President Frank Graham were the speakers of the evening. Mr. Graham's talk was on the Carolina tra ditions, and he urged the stu dents to not only back the team to the utmost, but to play the game in the Carolina way, the fair way. Between each speech there were several yells and the meet ing broke up with the singing of "Hark the Sound.'-'
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