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Page Two Zt.BaiVp Car Xpert The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mon days and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and Spring Holidays Entered as second class matter at the post office of Chapel HilL N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. ' Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Jack Dungan... ... ....Editor 'Ed French....Managing Editor John Manning......lBusiness Mgr. ' Editorial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD Charles G. --Rose. chairman: F. J. Manheim, , Peter Hairston, Vass Shepherd, R. W. J5arnett, J. M. kittle, A. j. atatir. FEATURE BOARD Donald Shoe maker, chairman; James Dawson, Robert Berryman, Scott Mabon, and E. H. CITY EDITORS George Wilson, T. W. Blackwell, Robert Woerner, Jack Riley, Tom Walker, William McKee. DESK MEN Frank Hawley, W. E. Davis. SPORTS DEPARTMENT Thomas Broughton, Jack Bessen, editors; Phil Alston, Morrie Long, assistant editors. NEWS MEN William Blount. HEELERS J." S. Fathman, Donoh Hanks, Peter Ivey, P. S. Jones, J. H. Morris, L. E. .Ricks, Walter Rosen thal, Joseph Sugarman, A. M. Taub, C. G. Thompson A. G. Leinwand, J. D. Winslow. Business Staff CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Tom "VYorth, manager. , BUSINESS DEPARTMENT R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, and Ber nard Solomon, assistants. ADVERTISING s DEPARTMENT James Allen, manager; Howard Manning, assistant; Joe Mason, Nathan Schwartz, Jones. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, . manager; H. A. Clark, assistant; Joe Webb, Henry Emer- son, Randolph Reynolds. SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT R. H. Lewis. Thursday, October 29, 1931 Narrow-minded . Critics The University of North Carolina is again criticized for being too radical. It . is not the first time that this institution v has received such criticism from persons who have made a survey of the existing conditions with a prejudiced mind. They hear that Norman Thomas and Be trand Russell have been allowed to speak to the student body, and immediately these narrow minded conservatives turn against the University. They condemn the president, the fac ulty, the trustees, and all per sons connected with the institu tion in any way. . ' It is peculiar how "such critics look at the purpose of an educa tion. They seem to think that the students should . come in con tact -with only those- persons who believe "thus and so," and never ought the students be al lowed to hear the. radical side of any question. They should never be given a chance to think for themselves, but rather should be told what they must believe and be willing to accept that as final. If such a system of education has ever existed, it has now long been out , of existence. Educa tional centers today favor the plan of presenting both sides of every question and leaving the decision up to the student him self. And it was with this pur pose in view that such men .as Thomas and Russell were brought to the campus. It is unfair to the student to tell him what he should believe without giving him a chance to think for himself. If anyone has reached college and is still un able to make his own decisions, it is. not the fault of the college but rather the early training of the student. A student who is in such a predicament certainly cannot learn to make choices by being presented only one side of a question. He must see all the facts, and then come1 to some " conclusion. Persons who are opposed to this University's presenting all sides of every question are not only trying to narrow the stu dents' education, but are brand ing themselves as antiquated old-f oggies who are satisfied to leave the world as it stands to day. ' C.G.R. Touche! "Stupidity is the quality of robust sanity," Mahomet has told us in laying an antediluvian foundation for the widely quot ed adage "Ignorance is bliss, etc., etc." Thus it appears that stupidity is really an attribute in these days when every man expects his neighbor as being a "happy moron," as the term has become so generally used. If we take Mahomet's words at their face value (for who are. we to decline thegems of that saga cious prophet), we may adopt them to a group or to the teem ing millions of semi-hapless in dividuals on this planet of which we are an integral, if not an em bryonic representative constitu ent. Boiling this mass down we find among the dregs of hetero geneity a minute mass of stupid, but sane college sophomores, verily, they who compose that sorry body on this very campus. It is a peculiarity of the ro bust sane, for this mental classi fication is undeniably established once they are publicly dubbed stupid, to suffer an injured ego when alluded to as unequipped to handle semi-weighty subjects of imported chapel speakers. Our cause is therefore lost, and our relentless search for knowledge is shattered when it becomes evident that, after all, we are not possessed of the in tellect or sense of the finer and more basic things in life to ap preciate an enlightening address on -something of paramount im port. Henceforth we shall creep into our chapel seats witn bowed heads, accepting the in evitable and concentrating on ejaculations of two; syllable di mensions, knowing full well that we 1 may never parry with the bigger things in life. D.C.S. x Student; Evaluation In the all-important "bull-ses sion," the relative worth and ability of various professors are discussed. From these opinions, other students may be enabled to avoid instructors considered boring. But the criticisms go no further. It is an obligation, on the part of the student that these criticisms should go furth er; he owes that much to ,his University. The student may sit on a class and be bored to death'; he may be flunked without reason and have no redress. Again, the boring, the unfair, the indifferent pro fessor may be left to harass fol lowing generations of students. Or, on the other hand, a profes sor may understand his subject well and may be a master of the rudiments of teaching ; yet, there is the possibilty he will spend his educational life teaching unim portant courses. The student should have some way to communicate with the head of his department, or his dean, or the President of the University, his own opinion of every instructor and the way a course is conducted so ' that those in authority may have a luide in appointments in dismis sals. The standards of instruction would certainly be raised by stu dents forming definite ideas of the worth of instructors and professors attempting to meet the criterion demanded oy their classes. It is ever va student obligation and a student privilege to criti cize constructively every in structor so that the instructor, the head of the department, and the President of the University may have a real - standard to judge the merits of instructors. G.W.W. Extra-Curricula Connections Everything is merely a-matter of organization. If a grqup, however, small,-sets out on any purpose, however great, they can accomplish it by means of this keynote to success. The social, or group, sense is, upper- most in the individual of today. No one dares to do, to say, or to think without first consider ing the group. At the University, the mod ern trend is severely "followed. Tne erection - of the Graham Memorial building was an In spiration for the establishment of several new clubs, including, as we hear, an anarchist organ ization in addition to the in numerable old clubs that exist ed. - There is room for each person on the campus to belong to at least seven such groups, each of which urge him to be present at each of the weekly meetings. Beyond that number, and there are many who do belong to more than that, the meetings must come at different hours on the same night. This a beautiful example of the attitude of the University toward study. As a general principle, the class work is more important that the extra-curricula activities, but each indi vidual feels that the particular activity which he is engaged in should take precedence over all others. 1 The faculty is willing to praise students for the work that they have done on the outside, yet severely punish, absences resulting- from the time taken to do this work aside, of course, from the out of town trips which are w- r r r Nj It is . hard to say what are-J worthy . and what unworthy causes for combination; yet it seems to us that the time for some action has come, and that organizations should be required to have some kind of permission before they can have regular meetings. P.W.H. SPEAKING the CAMPUS MIND Waiting For A Ring Old Joe" College is back' in town, this time assuming the person of Mr. Practical Joker. This type of wit should be quite exhausted by four years of high school life in the old home town. However, there seems to be a hangover, remarkable for its crudity. The telephone has long been the instrument of tortured and painful humor, but rarely by men and women of mature age. We are reminded of the youths who formerly called the grocery to ask if there were any "loose" pickles, but, of course, you re member the rest. A sad epi demic of this primitive wit seems to have been revived. Dapper youths still get a kick out of pre-war stuff, we find. Knowing his charm and dash ing brilliance, Old Joe has hit Spencer hall a hard blow. Many fair maidens are languishing away waiting for the date that never turns up. "What are you doing on Fri day nite? . . . Nothing? Swell !" Bang goes the receiver and an other female is disillusioned. The old Spencerians receive this freshman crassness with gay repartee and the younger ones are gradually becoming in itiated. A11 Spencerites are banding together to snub ef ficiently all such jeeters and to ostracize them from fair co-ed society. "May I see you on Friday nite?" "Not if I see you first " Bang. . A. L. The trouble with a lot of go ing toncerns is that they are gone before you have a chance to collect from them. Jackson News. A student at the University of Michigan held thirteen diamonds yet was unable to take the bid. One of his opponents bid seven spades. j J The Low-Down By G.R. Berryman Much Ado About Co-eds (Children under 16 positively not admitted.) Co-eds co-eds co-eds ! in my ramblings about the campus that's all I hear. "What's the matter with the co-eds that they should cause so much talk?" thought I. I asked Shoemaker who sits at the typewriter next to mine in the Tar Heel office. He made a wry face and shuddered. "Don't ask me about co-eds," he screamed. "They're my pet abomination !" So I went to Jimmy Thomp son, man-about-campus. "Co eds? Sure, I know all about them. What do you want to know?" he asked, at once mas ter of the situation. , "Well, in the first place, why do they come to a man's school?" "They come here to look for hus bands." The Souls of Women Are So Small, That Some Believe They've None at All. A co-ed is a woman. You can't get away from vthat fact. So all the . inconsistencies 01 women are possessed by co-eds including a few more they have thought up for themselves. The co-ed pushes herself into an institution where, the majority do not welcome her. Is she properly humble? Not a bit. She acts as though she were one of v the trustees. If a professor flunks her on a course she thinks him no gentleman. If Ladies Be But Young and . Fair, , " , They Have the Gift to Know It. The main argument against co-eds seems to be that, they are all snobs. Every one of my readers can furnish countless of his own illustrations of this fact. My Only Books Were Woman's Looks, And Folly's AH They've Taught Me. . Most University men think that co-eds are all right in their place. But each one hopes that his classes will be without the female element. One of my pro fessors, at the beginning of the year, looked over the class and said: "Well gentlemen, I see we have no co-eds." Under his breath he added two words which every member of the class heard: "Thank God !" And I can prove it. For the Defense It is not, of course, the co-ed's fault that she is not as intelli gent as the man student. Both man and woman sprang from monkevs. but man snrang far- v j ther. A man constantly gains in wisdom with each additional year of life ; a woman stops growing intellectually at about the seventeenth year. As long as we are cursed with co-eds, let them use all beauty aids at their command to make themselves attractive. A cam- pus filled with co-eds who' are ! beautiful and dumb is infinitely more desirable than one filled with co-eds who are only dumb. To House-break a Co-ed Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite. Girl to Pay Tuition at Texas College by Renting Ponies. Headline. These are small saddle-horses, however. -Arkansas Gazette. It might be possible to popu larize the slogan, "Buy until it hurts," as a means to end the depression, if we did not hurt so easily. Boston Globe. . The Musical University By Scott Mabon Mary Garden sang night be fore last to a large, responsive fhp sDacious and M UVUVUVV ' i . . i it J. n An acoustically excellent jragc iu - ditorium of Duke university, Her recital, the first of the sea son's concert series at Duke, was likewise one of her first appear ances on her present eight weeks transcontinental tour. The program, carefully chosen with respect to the limitations and possibilities of Miss Gar den's voice, could not have failed to fulfill the expectations of all who came the slightest bit pre pared to hear from this excellent artist and rather glamorous per sonality. . Mary Garden's so prano is a voice with definite bounds and not unlimited power, but a voice of great richness and purity within its - range ; ' and hers is a personality capable of creating all sorts of moods and of catching her hearers in her spell in a way that no other singer, to our knowledge, can quite do it. i Mr. Sanford Schlussel, Miss Garden's accompanist, played two groups of selections during the evening, thereby winning for himself a large slice of the au dience's esteem. As might have been expected, his touch is de licate and sensitive rather than powerfully decisive, and well adapted to give a sympathetic emphasis to Miss Garden's mood. Miss Garden sang first a group of four songs in French: Nebbie,-by O. Respighi ; Reverie, by E. Moret; Le Rossignol, by A. Gretchaninow,afid Ouvre tes yeux, by J. ' Massenet. Possibly the least well adapted to 'the singer was the first, by the cele brated modern Italian. It ' de manded a bit more power than Miss Garden could muster, and the result was a slight "straining on some of the high forte tones. AnoV possibly because it was the first number on the program, the singer's breathing was more au dible than it should have been. Moret's Reverie, a song well suited to her rich tones, was marred slightly by a little care- less sliding. Le Rossignol gaver r T Twrj rf-- T:4. 4. (tendency to slur the notes to- Miss Garden an opportunity to use the strong, sensuous timber of her middle' register. Mas senet's song, a charming thing demanding considerable vocal flexibility, was sung with a sat isfyirigly delicate artistic re straint. For an encore Miss Garden sang, to the delight of everyone, Comin' Through the Rye, in which her vivacity and playfulness were matched by Mr. Schlussel at the piano. Next to be heard was a group of two piano selections: a Gavotte by Gluck-Brahms and a Polonaise of Chopin, played by Mr. Schlussel. The Gavotte, one familiar to almost everyone, was delightfully done, revealing a pianist with a liquid, fluent, graceful touch,, and an airy musical sense. The Polonaise, a pianistica and fairly technical piece, was played rather lightly with a -nice timing of phrases. For an encore Mr. Schlussel played Lehrhart's A Little Old Fashioned Music Box, daintily enough. The next group of songs, , to this particular listener the least interesting of the program, was made up of The Steppe, by A. Gretchaninow ; Little Boat and The Swing, by R. Hahn, Ghosts, by C. Warford, and Serenade by J. A. Carpenter. This group, ranging in mood be tween the passionate dreariness of the Russian song-, the childish playfulness of The Swing, the rather washy dramaticism of Ghosts ("The Ghost called Life, the Ghost called - Death, the Ghost called Memory"- it's bar gain day,t take your pick) and j Mr. Carpenter's politely passion ate Serenade about "the kiss that burned my throat with bliss" af l-Fryr1aA Hfieo Clnyrl uiuvu vjh giana op. j portunity to display her person- ahty and her showmanshin For an encore she sang the CaballerO from Carmen to an audience that was by this thor oughly enjoying itself. The first group following the intermission consisted of j. Szule's Claire de Lune and two songs by Debussy, Beau Soir and Green, and was easily the most rewarding group of the re cital. The first,, a love song, gave ample freedom to the rich, sensuous tones and dreamy vol. uptuousness of Mary Garden's voice. The piano accompaniment made excellent use of the mor? modern harmonic effects. Beau Soir, the finest thing on the pro gram, was superbly done. Miss Garden, as an interpreter of the submerged, smothered, restrain ed, exotic emotion of Debussy's music is probably unmatched. Green, rich as its title would sug gest in subjective tone color, made slightly too great demands upon Miss Garden's higher tones, which are a triflle thin in forte. The encore, Artnie Laurie, was charmingly and beautifully sung. ; - For his second group of selec tions, ' Mr. Schlussel played Claire de Lune by Debussy, and DeFalla's Danse Rituelle du Feu. Like Miss Garden he is a fine in terpreter of Debussy, whom he played with a beautifully soft and liquid touch and a keen abil ity to emphasize the richness of the tonal quality, partly by a skillful use of the pedal. De Falla's extraordinary composi tion, although it was received with great enthusiasm by the au dience, was not quite done jus tice.' Mr. Schlusselr who had studied under DeFalla, had the correct idea of the composition in his head ; but he failed to com municate it adequately by sheer lack of power in his hands, which he seemed to wrant to overcome by "an excessive use of the pedal. His timing and ward the end instead of main taining the staccato, was inter esting and effective. As her final selection Miss Garden sang the air from the beginning of the third act of Louise, a choice which surely must have delighted many lov ers of this old favorite. Her singing of it was a fitting close to an evening that gave pleas ure to a great many people. One was left wishing that there were only something that this re markable and captivating wo man could have sung from her greatest opera, Pelleas et Metis ande. PATRONIZE OUR . ADVERTISERS When in Atlanta for the North Carolina vs. Georgia Tech Game, Stop at the - ATLANTA BILTMORE 'The South's Supreme Hotel" The Biltmore will be headquarters for the North Carolina team. It is the nearest hotel to Grant Field but is only a 30c taxi fare to "Five Points," the heart of the down town business section. 600 rooms, each with pri vate bath and circulating ice water. Rates: Single, $3, $4 and $5 ; Double, $5, $6, $7 and $8.
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