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v-r TEAM. SEND-OFF SWAIN; HALL 6:30 P.M. VOLUME XL CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1931 NUMBER; 40 TEAM SEND-OFF SWAIN HALL 6:30 P.M. ' ST WW ROYAL LOVE PllOT Affair of Elizabeth and Essex Is Theme of Drama ,of Renaissance England. Maxwell Anderson's dramatic success, Elizabeth, the Queen, which will be presented in Mem orial hall, November 16, under the auspices of the Carolina Playmakers, mingles history and romance against the colorful background of Renaissance Eng land. Anderson has chosen as the foundation of his play that weird, mad, provoking love af fair between Good Queen Bess and the handsome young Earl of Essex. There are few person ages in history more glamorously theatrical than England's royal enigma. Her private amours and her undoubted genius as a ruler have provided inspiration for innumerable stories and con troversies. And Essex is a close second to his queen in capturing the public's fancy as a gallant lover 'and an adventurous youth. Magic of Theatre . Into this promising material the author is said to have poured the magic of the theatre so ' that an animated, intriguing, glor iously human drama has result ed which places him in the very front rank of American play wrights. ' Campus theatre-goers do not have to be .introduced to Max- (Continued on last page) - BUSINESS TAKES UP MOST OF DI SENATE MEETING Mary D. Wright Debate Scheduled to Take Place December 8. Is The meeting of the Dialectic Senate Tuesday night was for the most part taken up with dis patching the current business of the society, so that only one bill on the calendar was discussed. i ne benate received two im-i portant committee reports at this meeting, one on the Mary D. Wright debate, and the other from the committee appointed to investigate the possibility of an annual audit for semi-official organizations on the campus. Senator McKee of the former committee reported that the date for the debate had been set for December 8, and that the Senate would uphold the negative side of the question: Resolved: That the University of North Caro lina should abolish the extra tuition fee charged to out-of-state students. The latter com mittee reported that, since they had already found a committee of faculty and students formed to consider the question of the audit, they recommended that the Senate committee be dissolv ed. Both reports were accepted. The one bill discussed, by the Senate was : Resolved : That stu dents of the "Big Five" colleges of the state should be charged only a nominal sum for admis sion to athletic contests between these colleges. Senators Black well, Silverstein, and Lyons aid- ,ed the passage of the bill, Sena tor Flpminor.Jnnf'st offering the opposition. Five men were initiated into the membership of the Senate at this meeting : Bob Woerner, Saul Schneider, Jack; Guyton, Alex Webb, and George Steele. u& liCH READY SOON ii'zu"00 nave been -, re ceived jfcr the annual publica tion of the bulletin entitled "Re search and Progress" published under the supervision of A. C. Howell, of the graduate school. This will include all research work, and published works, such as text books, and pamphlets, produced by the University fac ulty throughout the year 1930 31. The publication in its final form is scheduled to appear shortly. MUSIC INSTITUTE GimXONCERT Sponsors Lamar Stringfield and Others in Programs of Local Folk Selections. The plan adopted by the In stitute of Folk Music of presenting- chamber music concerts throughout the south, featuring Lamar Stringfield and a group of musicians is proving to be very satisfactory. A number of these concerts have already been given in North .. Carolina. Tuesday, Stringfield went to Marion, Vir ginia, where a concert was pre sented under the sponsorship of the Marion music club. This con cert was given with the as sistance of Mrs. Adeline McCall and Miss Amy Newcomb, pianist and cellist. Stringfield has ac cepted the chairmanship of jroung orchestras of the Federa tion of Music Clubs. -Friday, Stringfield will speak before the convention of the North Carolina Association of Education in Durham. He will use as his subject, "The Rela tion of School Music to Musical Activity within the College and University." He will deliver the third lecture on folk music in its relation to the music of the present day, Tuesday at 4:00 o'clock in Hill music hall. LIBRARY EXHIBITS RENAISSANCE ART The University library has opened an exhibition of Renais sance art in the reserve reading J 1 1 -.-P room, uutstanaing examples uj- architecture, sculpture, painting, and engraving of this period are being shown. From Italy there are repro ductions of architecture, paint ing, and sculpture by Michelan gelo, and paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Titian. Dutch painting is represented by Rembrandt, Flemish painting by Rubens, German painting and engraving by Durer, and Span ish painting by Murillo and Velasquez. This exhibition forms part of the Carnegie art collection. own ed by the library. Henderson Leads Graduate Seminar Dr. Archibald Henderson, head of the mathematics depart ment, met the mathematics sem inar yesterday'af ternoon at 3 :00 in Phillips hall. . He presented another alleged demonstration of the trisection. of the angle. The subject was submitted .to the seminar for consideration of er rors, and fallacies in the proof. Following Dr. Henderson's ad dress, Dr. E. T. Browne and J. W. Lasley, of the mathematics department, offered proofs of the fallacy of the former alleged proof by Dr. Winecoll. " " The seminar is composed of the staff of the mathematics de partment and graduate, students. Baby Hlaines Mid-Term Hep oris On Stricter Faculty Supervision -o University Psychologist Believes Students Fail Due to Their Poor Ability to Express Themselves or Inability to Absorb Studied Material. A greater strictness on the j part of increasingly serious minded instructors, with com- pulsory attendance possibly also having some unclearly defined relationship to the ten year low record in grades, is the chief reason for more than one thous and students receiving mid-term warnings in one or more sub jects, thinks Dr. English Bagby, of the University psychology de partment. Economic stress af fecting teachers has moved them to an intense concentration on effective teaching, while stu dents have not increased in ser ious mindedness in concurrence with the faculty. Unconscious ly, perhaps professors' have be come more rigid and consequent ly courses have become more dif ficult to pass. Grades and Cuts The usual rule under optional attendance, according to Dr. Bagby, is that the failing stu dent takes six or seven cuts per quarter in psychology. Students averaging D take an average of about five cuts, while C and B grade students generally take three cuts in psychology. A stu dents average less than one ab sence per quarter. "Apparently compulsory attendance has not brought lower grade students NEW FRATERNITY IS UTOPIAN ORDER , Attractively t engraved cards have been sent out announcing the foundation of Beta Lambda, a new local fraternity. At the top of the announcement appears the seal of the organization,1 which consists of a composite of the family crests of the ' three founders of the group. An in scription below the embossed crest reads : "se no e vero, e ben trovato." ' The fraternity holds no meet ings, has no definitely stated hierarchy of officers, observes no code of regulations, and is called by its founders an Utopian or ganization. It is a social, hon orary, and Epicurean brother hood, basing its memberships upon considerations of wit, in telligence, ancestry, and the abil ity to. extract the most possible good from a given set of un favorable circumstances. Mechanical Engineers Meet Next Thursday The student branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will meet on Novem ber 15 in room 315 Phillips hall. The feature of the program is to be an illustrated lecture on the life and works of Thomas Alva Edison Burnett,, member of the organi- zation. ' PROGRAMME FOR THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT FRANK GRAHAM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 10:30 a. m. Academic Procession. (Delegates are requested to assemble at Graham Memorial building at 10:20.) 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p. m. Inaugural ceremonies in Memorial hall, Governor O. Max Gardner presiding. 2:15-3:00 p. ml Luncheon to the delegates and guests in Swain hall. 4:00 p. Ki Informal reception Graham Memorial building. 5:00 p.m. Organ and glee club recital in Hill music auditorium. 7:00 p. m Inaugural dinner to delegates, guests, and fac ulty in Swain hall, Dr. Harry W. Chase, Univer sity of Illinois, toastmaster. higher. But for many men who have perfect attendance . the marks are the worst that I have ever seen under any circum stances." Dr. Bagby is certain that the experiment of compul sory attendance, has not shown that the rule is not responsible for the thousand warnings from the past half quarter. Ordinarily most students fail for one of two reasons ; their poor ability to express them selves or inability to absorb studied material. The rushing season of course contributes its usual hindrances to study. In creased subject matter for fresh man required courses, which number four instead of three as was ihe case last year, adds the weight of worry to the new man, in spite of only three classes daily. Courses Harder Dr. Bagby admits that his own psychology course is increasing ly; difficult . due to harder texts, but he attempts as far as pos sible to grade by his same stand ards and not show an increased strictness. However he says that this is the first year that he has ever had to give failure warnings to students who are consistently present at class. ARTIST ATTRACTS MUCH ATTENTION .Mrs. Cecil Johnson, wife of a member of history department of the University, attracted a great deal of attention from the students yesterday morning. Mrs. Johnson was painting a picture of the old South building in water colors, and she soon found herself the center of a group of interested spectators. She began in the early part of the morning in order to catch the shadows of the rising sun, and all morning the students came and went, drifting in and out. Mrs. Johnson has spent sev eral years in the study of art at Limestone college, South Caro lina, Yale, and Columbia univer sity. She was also a student under the well known etcher Al fred Hutty, for a time. Mrs. Johnson is interested in the pos sibilities for color effect in a painting of South. Stringfield Lecture Is Postponed Again Lamar Stringfield's lecture on folk music, which was to be given at 7:15 this evening in Graham Memorial has been post poned again. This time it is due to the governor of yirginia ask- the late ; ing Stringfield to be in Rich by R. T.fmond today to present North Carolina's lead in work. folk music STUDENTS DISTURBED I BY MIDNIGHT MUSICALES Midnight recitals seem to bother the students rooming near the Hill music hall. Very often they are awakened in the small hour of the morning by a sound resembling a woman's shrill scream. These queer sounds are probably a part of one of Bach's or Mozart's prom inent symphonies, but the stu dents do not appreciate these classic compositions, when they are studying for mid-terms, or trying to sleep. NEGRO ARTIST TO VISIT UNIVERSITY J. Langston Hughes, Well Known Poet, Sponsored by YJVI.C.A. for Lecture November 19. J. L.angston Mugnes, negro poet ! and artist, will visit the University campus Thursday, November 19, to deliver an ad dress in Memorial hall that even ing. His visit is under the aus pices of the Y. M. C. A. The sociology department will use him on several of their classes. The poet is only twenty-nine years of age, and received his education at Columbia univer sity and Lincoln university, Pennsylvania. He has , worked as a seaman on voyages to Af rica and Europe and has lived in Paris, Mexico, and Italy. His most prominent works are Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew. Hughes was the win ner of a prize offered for the best poetry contributed to Opportun ity r magazine by a Negro. He was also the successful contest ant in the Witter Bynner. under graduate poetry contest. At present he serves on the editorial board of Fire, negro art quarter ly. TWO DEBATES ARE LISTED FOR FALL The debate squad, which meets at 7 :30 tonight in Gra ham Memorial, has scheduled a meet with the British debaters from Oxford university Decem ber 17 on the question of Rus sian versus American civiliza tion. The tryouts f or this and for a meet with North Carolina State college, in the first week of De cember, will take place within a week or two. The subject for the debate with State will be some variation of the Pi Kappa Delta question on present indivi dualistic control of industry versus some central control. To be eligible for any particular de bate a man must have attended at least half of the Thursday night meetings devoted to that particular question. Trees And Pot Plants Set Out At City Office The town of Chapel Hill has recently set out some dogwood trees on the sidewalk around the city office. Ferns and other pot flowers have been placed in the front windows of the office. City manager J. M. Foushee thinks the trees and flowers' will beau tify the office a great deal. BYNUM HAS PNEUMONIA Professor Jefferson Bynum has been confined to his home for several days with a severe case of double pneumonia. Two nurses are in constant attend ance. During his absence his classes will be taught by Kenneth Byer- PROCESSION YILL CONTAIN SPECIAL ALllMSECTION Graham's Class of 1909 Is Also To Have Special Part in Inaugural Parade. . Alumni of the University will form a separate section of the inaugural procession in the for mal installation of President . Frank Porter Graham next Wed nesday. A special section is also being reserved for members of President Graham's class, the class of 1909. All alumni who do not march with such groups as the class of 1909, the, trustees, the legis lature, etc., will be expected to join the special alumni section. This general alumni group will form at Graham Memorial build ing at 10:20 o'clock, and with Judge E. Earle Rives, of Greens boro, as marshal, will march in the procession to Memorial hall. A reunion committee of Presi dent Graham's- class has been writing to the 104 graduates of that class and all other members who did not remain at the Uni versity four full years. John W. Umstead, secretary of the class, is making arrangements for a large attendance. Other members of the reunion commit tee are : Colonel John Hall Man ning, of Raleigh, class president ; Kemp D. Battle, of Rocky Mount ; James G. Hanes, of Winston-Salem ; and Charles W. Tillett, of Charlotte. ' REINSTATING OF BRANCH FAVORED BYPHTSEMBLY Thirteen New Members Are In itiated by Society at Tuesday Evening Meeting. Tuesday night the Phi assemb ly by an almost unanimous vote passed a resolution introduced by Representative Kelly asking that Johnny Branch be returned to the football squad of the Uni versity. The resolution was as follows : Resolved: That the Phi assembly go on record as approv ing the complete, reinstatement of Johnny Branch to the football squad of the University of North Carolina, as we believe that he has paid a sufficient price for his disobedience of training rules. The resolution was ably up held by Speaker Hobgood, Rep resentatives McDuffie, Campen, Winslow, Carmichael, and James ' while Representatives Beam, and Poole spoke against it. All the speakers favoring the bill approved the observance of training rules by football play ers and found no fault with Col lins for suspending Branch, but all of them believed that Branch should be given another chance. Representative Greer made a report for the Mary D. Wright debate committee. He stated that the query selected by the committee of the Di and Phi for the annual debate between the two societies would be: Resolv ed: That the University of North Carolina should abolish the extra tuition fee charged out of state students. Representa tive Greer stated that the Phi would uphold the affirmative side of the question while the Di would have the negative. The time of the debate will be 7 :30, Tuesday evening, December 8. Previous to the regular pro cedure thirteen new members were initiated. V
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