TAR HEEL MEETING
SPEAKER: R. B. HOUSE
GRAHAM MEMORIAL 7:00
TAR HEEL MEETING
SPEAKER: R. B. HOUSE
GRAHAM MEMORIAL 7:00
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VOLUME XL
DEAN BRADSHM
COMPILES RECORD
ONPOORGRADES
His Statistics Prove Mid-Term
Reports Are Inconsistent
With Final Grades.
Since various persons and or
ganizations of the campus have
taken "shots at the mid-term
, warnings and conclusions which
may be drawn, Dean F. F. Brad
shaw has made a careful survey
to find some facts about the mat
ter, he revealed to the Daily Tar
Heel yesterday.
His first conclusion is that the
number of men on the registrar's
black list does not indicate the
scholastic standings of the Uni
versity. Dean Bradshaw's second con
clusion comes in the fact that
freshmen are carrying four
courses this year, and their
chances of getting on the list is
greater. They have four courses
to fail this year, while last year
they had only three.
Statistics Compiled
According to an estimate of a
certain percentage of the stu
dent union taken for the present
fall quarter and last fall, quarter,
10.04 registered warnings, as
compared to 10.2 this year.
4.12 of the 1930 upperclass
men received X's while 3.9
showed this mark in 1931.
Counting W's, the estimate runs
. as follows : freshmen last year
14.8; freshmen this year
18.6 ; upperclassmen last year
8.84 ; upperclassmen this
year, 12.0. This estimate was
taken Upon the number of "cours
es instead of number of men
which Dean Bradsliaw consid
ered a fairer comparison. A
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FRANK GRAHAM DESCENDED FROft
LONG LINE OF FAMOUS EDUCATORS
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University President-Elect Is Admirably Fitted for Position
Through Years of Tireless Training and Experience; Has
Spent Over Half His Life in College Service.
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By R. W. Madry
The University of North Caro
lina finds itself in the unique
position of being about to install
as president a man whose selec
tion has met with such wide and
popular acclaim that four hon
orary degrees have been con
ferred on him by other institu
tions since he was elected.
Drafted by the board of trus
tees at their commencement
meeting in Jurie, 1930, despite
his own repeated protests that
he be not considered for the po
sition, Frank Porter Graham, at
the age of forty-five, as to be
formally inducted into office next
Wednesday, November 11.
He will be the- University's
eleventh president, succeeding
Dr. Harry W. Chase, who re
signed to accept the presidency
of the University of Illinois:
Family of" Educators
Frank Graham brings to his
new task a rich background of
training and experience. He
comes of one of the state's best
known families of educators. His
father, Alexander Graham, superintendent-emeritus'
of the
Charlotte schools, and still active
and healthy at the age of eiglity
seven, is credited with establish
ing in Fayetteville the first grad
ed school in the state. Mr. Gra
ham's mother, who was Miss
Katherine Bryan Sloan, is also
living. A first cousin - the late
Edward Kidder Graham, -was
president of the University from
1914 until his death:inJ 1918.
Alexander Graham, the fa
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Pictured above are two of the principal figures in the inaugura
tion of Frank Porter Graham as eleventh president of the Univer
sity, and also scenes repesenting the old and the new on the Uni
versity campus. "
Top left: Mr. Graham, who on next Wednesday, November 11,
is to be formally inducted into office.
Top center: The University's new library, which, with more
than 200,000 volumes, houses the largest college book collection
in the south, this side of Texas. The library is the central feature
of the new development known as the south campus. .
ther, was born in Fayetteville.
Prepared by able instructors, in
a private school near Fayette
ville, he spent a year in the Con
federate service before entering
the sophomore class in the Uni
versity in 1866. Two years la
ter the University was closed,
and Mr. Graham again entered
the teaching profession. He had
taught school even before com
ing to the University. Later he
attended the Columbia univer
sity law school, receiving there
the degree of LL.B. in 1873.
For three year3 he practiced his
new profession in Fayetteville,
but again re-entered the teach
ing field, becoming superintend
ent of the Fayetteville' school in
1878. His interest in public
schools led him to make special
tax speeches for organizing
graded schools, and he spoke in
fifty - towns in the state in that
interest.
Professor Graham received his
master's degree atthe University
in 1885, and in 1888 he was elect
ed to head the Charlotte schools,
a position which he held until
1913, when he was made superintendent-emeritus.
He continued,
however, to teach local and
North Carolina history in the
Charlotte schools, and his
courses have been described as
"bread-and-butter subjects" for
a generation of Mecklenburg
public1 school students. In 1920
the University; officially recog
nizing his valuable service, be
stowed upon him its honorary
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1931
SET FOR INAUGURATION OF FRANK GRAHAM
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Junior Smoker
Lieutenant-Governor Fountain Secured
As Main Speaker Friday Evening.
. Lieutenant-governor Richard
T. Fountain has been secured as
the main speaker at the junior
class smoker this coming Friday
evening at 9 : 00 in Swain hall.
Fountain is one of the three
men now left in tne field who are
trying to secure the Democratic
nomination for governor of the
state. Besides the lieutenant
governor several other speakers
will appear on the program, in
cluding Coach Collins.
The juniors are the last class
in the University to have their
smoker this quarter, and will
probably be the only meeting this
quarter. V
Bill Stringf ellow and his or
chestra has been secured to play.
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MODERN HERCULES AT UNIVERSITY
Orville Goodman is the modern Hercules of the Univer
sity of North Carolina campus. Goodman, a self-help student
in the employ of the buildings department, has often lauded
the physical abilities of the manhood of Avery county, his
ancestral seat, and was called upon to prove the truth of his
statements Friday afternoon when he accepted a wager made
between himself and ten of his co-workers in the buildings
department by which he was to carry four planks of lumber
sixteen feet in length four inches wide and an inch thick
, weighing , approximately eighty-five pounds from Memorial
hall on the campus to Durham, a distance of eleven miles.
Under the agreement Goodman was not permitted to lay
the planks down at any point along the way. He was so;
confident that he would succeed that he covered the ten dollars
put lip with ten dollars of his own. t
J Goodman was paced by Lester Lloyd who was to see that
the terms of the agreement were kept. Four cars filled with
spectators followed the Carolina Hercules.
The eleven miles were traversed in 'four hours and three
minutes," the first four miles being covered in fifty minutes?
Goodman is here in1 the University occupying the D: A. R.f
ressay scholarship which he won last summer py having writ- 5
ten the best paper in the state upon the life of Jefferson Davis.
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Top right: Dr. Harrv Woodbum Chase, president nf th TTni-
; versify of Illinois, and President
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Lower left: Old East, oldest state university building in the
country, the cornerstone being laid in 1793.
Lower right: South building, the official home of President
Graham and other University administration officials. President
Graham's offices are on the first floor, at the left.
The building scenes are made by Don Swann, the artist, for the
General Alumni Association.
Sophomore Hop
Second Year Men Will Present Annual
Dance, Friday, November 13.
The sophomore hop, which will
take place in Bynum gymnasium,
Friday, November 13, is to be
one of the outstanding social
events of the fall season. As it
will be presented on the night
preceding the Davidson game,
and will be followed Saturday
night by the Grail dance, an un
usually large crowd is expected
for the week-end. Jelly Left
wich and his Duke university
orchestra will play for botji
dances.
Heretofore the hop has been
given in the spring, but this year
the executive committee felt that
a class dance would be more suc
cessful in the fall when fewer so
cial affairs are staged.
Graham's immediate predecessor.
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DAILY TAR HEEL HOPES TO REVIVE
INTEREST IN JOURNALISTC AWARD
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Ben Smith Preston Cup, Announced Every Year in University
Catalog Among "Medals and Prizes," Has Not
Been Presented in Ten Years.
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After ten years of sleep v in
the coffers' of the library, an
nually una warded contrary to
the yearly announcement in the
University catalog, the Preston
Cup for journalism excellence
has been rediscovered by the
Daily Tar Heel. With famous
names engraven upon its silver
side, which still gleam through
the tarnish of a decade of stor
age, the tri-handled cup "has
been produced from its place of
rest since its removal from the
old library. Loss of interest in
this valuable award in 1921 re
sulted in its being misplaced and
forgotten by the campus. Dis
covery of the cup may impel a
renewal of the custom of the
annual award to the best jour
nalists of the University.
Listed as Annual Award
Listed in the 1931 University
catalog under "Medals and
Prizes" is the Ben Smith Pres
ton Memorial Cup for journal
ism, given in 1910 by Honl E.
R.' Preston of Charlotte, in mem
ory of his brother, for whom the
memorial is named. t Ben Preston1 j
died a few years, previous to
that while reporting on the At- j
lanta Georgian It is i surpris
ing that for. a whole decade, with
an announcement in the Record
constantly before the campus,
no one has seen fit to revive or
even investigate the cause of the
award's not being given.;
In 1910 Brevard Doty Stephen
son was the first receiver of the
Preston award. '' Stephensori has
since enjoyed a successful edit
NUMBER 43
C, NAGEL WIRES
DAShTELL SEEKS
PUBLICITY SPOT
Famous Psychologist Called "Ob
scure Individual in an Out
Of Way Place."
Defending the motion picture
industry against the attack of
Dr. J. F. Dashiell,' head of the
University psychology depart
ment, who stated in an interview
that "movies are made by mor
ons for morons' Conrad Nagel,
well-known cinema actor and
vice-president of the Motion Pic
ture Academy of Arts and Sci
ences, alludes to the North Caro
lina professor as one of a group
of obscure individuals in out of
the way places who frequently
attempt to attract attention" to
themselves by obviously exag
gerated attacks on movie artists,
in a telegram to the Daily Tar
Heel yesterday. ,
" Dr. Dashiell is, however, con
sidered to be the best author
ity on conservative behaviorism
in the country.
Nagel Opposes Statement
The psychology professor's or
iginal statement, contained in an
interview with the Daily Tar
Heel, brought about a refutation
by Nagel in the national press
Thursday in which he stated thai
Dashiell was "up to an old pol
itical trick . . . It is probably
something akin to the old polit
ical trick of obscure persons
who attack people of national
prominence -in order-to attract
attention to themselves." To Dr.
Dashiell's remark that "produc
ers and directors generally are
wise boys without brains," Na
gel stated that "this is an utter
ly erroneous and unfair state
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orial career with many eastern
American newspapers, making
his start on the New Bern Sun in
1913. The second annual winner
was Lawrence Nelson Morgan,
who later became a college pro
fessor. According to the ac
count in the Tar Heel of May 9,
1911, Morgan was a junior when
he was awarded the prize.
Other winners of the Preston
Cup, in the order of their win
ning it, are : James Lawrence
Orr; Joseph Lenoir Chambers,
now prominent Virginia journal
ist, Walter Pliny Fuller, one time
editor of the St. Petersburg
Times, Robert Charles Vaughn,
lawyer, Charles Lee Snider,
farmer, William Tannahill Polk, '
lawyer, Richard Leonidas
Young, newspaper reporter and
editorialist until the war, Na
than Green Gooding, former
ly editor of the New Bemian, .
and William Edwin Horner.
There was no award in 1919.
Editors of the Tar Heel who
won the cup, . numbering ;; only
four, were Morgan Chambers,
Fuller, and Polk.
Description of Cup
The Preston Cup is of sterling
silver, gold plated on the interior
of the bowl, which is nearly sev
en inches deep and as wide at
the mouth." Resting on a. ped
estaled silver base of five inches
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in diameter, the cup has a height 7
over all. of . nine inches. Its'
three- handles doubly attached (
are about seven inches in lengtn. -
The engraved inscription, be-
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