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SPECIAL INAUGURAL' ISSUE GRAHAM INAUGURATION KENAN STADIUM 11:00 A. M. GRAHAM INAUGURATION KENAN STADIUM . 11:00 A.M. - If VOLUME XL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES TO OPEN HERE University To Be Host To Gath ering Which Will Continue Sessions Through Saturday. The American association of universities, generally regarded as the most important educa tional body in America, will be gin its 33rd annual meeting here today. The program, will follow the inauguration ceremonies of Pre sident Frank Graham. The dates were so fixed at the sug gestion of a member of the as sociation's executive committee, who realized most of the dele gates would want to attend the inauguration. The meeting will continue through Saturday when the final business session will be held, af ter which the delegates will he guests of the University at the Carolina-Davidson game. The association holds execu tive sessions, which means that nothing will be given out for publication except what the sec- retary may be authorized to pub lish. Reporters are not allowed to attend the meetings Duke university will be host to the visitors Thursday at a lunch eon as the opening event on the program. Following a tour of the Duke campus, the delegates will come to Chapel Hill for their first session at 3:00 o'clock. The association made up of twenty-nine institutions, that are generally regarded as the fore most in America. Virginia and Texas are the only other two universities in the south hold ing membership, which is insti tutional. The : University was president of the group . in 1925. The University of Toronto is president this year.1 A total of fifty-nine delegates and eight quests are expected. y v The association was formed in 1900 and was originally com posed of fourteen .institution members. According to the con stitution, "it is founded for the purpose of" considering matters of common interest relating' to graduate study." Engineering Groups Meet In Greensboro Dr. Herman G. Baity, dean of the school of engineering, was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina section of the American Water Works as sociation and the North Caro lina Sewage 'Works association which had their annual three days' convention in Greensboro, last week at the King Cotton hotel. Other officers elected were William Olsen of Raleigh, president; A. S. Lyon of Rocky Mount, vice-president ; and I. .J. Lampley of Hendersonyille, treasurer. During the course of the con vention, Charles E. Ray, prin cipal assistant engineer of the ; North Carolina department of ; conservation and development, ; which maintains offices in-Phil- lips hall, read a paper on "Mini : mum ;low of North Carolina : Streams." Dean Baity, was ac companied to the convention by : a group of graduate 'and senior engineering students, wtyo, di rectly following the final session inspected the water purification plants and sewage treatment work in Winston-Salem and High Point. The 1932 meeting of the convention will convene in Winston-Salem. Workman Appointed As Teaching Fellow! C. R. Adams, who has been a teaching fellow in the depart ment of education, resigned last month to become personnel di rector for the Roxboro branch of the Collins-Aikman manufac turing company. He succeed ed G. H. Ellmore, who has been made personnel director of all the Collins-Aikman plants. J. H. A. Workman of Cheery ville, a graduate student in edu cation, will fill the vacancy left by Adams. Workman was for merly superintendent of Cart eret county schools. CARR SPEAKS TO ASSEMBLY GROUP Writer Discusses Diminution of School Spirit With Advent N Of Organized Sports. Lewis Carr, well known maga zine writer and expert on farm problems, spoke at assembly yesterday morning. He declared that he was vitally interested in each student's reasons for com- nS c,lege- J"? the Phi- losopheX's maxim, "Know Thy self," applies to each individual, Carr stated: "College should be a means of finding out what you are and what you will be." The speaker declared that Carolina's struggle for existence had been the main reason for a development here of the live-or-die spirit. He then cited his own reasons for going to Yale, lie admitted that the influence of the Yale "spirit on his home town was one of the biggest rea sons Why he attended that insti tution. Athletics at the time he went to college was a means of de veloping a "spirit of comrade ship, confidence, and teamplay ;" with the adventf . organized sports and paid coaches, Mr. Carr declared, this spirit has diminished. HINSDALE SPEAKS TO N. C. CLUB ON STATE SALES TAX Statistics Reveal This State Stands Forty-First in In come Tax Per Capita. Dr. S. Hy Hobbs, Jr., professor of social rural economics at the University, reviewed the rela tive standing of North Carolina in industries, , wealth, and in come, as compared with other states in his address, "Wealth and Income in North Carolina," before the North Carolina club which convened Monday night. Senator. John W. Hinsdale, of Wake county, addressed the club, submitting his views upon the present crucial financial situ ation of the state and the most feasible means of relieving the present tax burdens upon the agricultural element. The leading exponent of the sales tax during the last ses sion of tKe- legislature advanced arguments for the sales tax. He stated that before the advent of automobiles and other prevalent forms of unnecessary expendi tures that instead of paying tax es each inhabitant shared alike working on the state projects.-. Professor Hobbs read a list of statistics that revealed North Carolina as standing .forty-first in wealth and - income per capita. He advanced as most probable reasons for this, the excessive ruralism, negro population, and large families. CHAPEL HILL, N. C WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER I I, ELEVENTH UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT . So- ' ' . r- V ... 4 i ' ': m . f . -v. . T SS. : .'- s -f. " r- : : - - ' . ,- ' I V.. r.- Frank Porter Graham, 'elected president of the University of North Carolina in the spring of 1930, who will be,f ormally installed in office today as the eleventh head of this institution. New President For Humanizing Qualities ' - o- Graham's Sincerity, Sympathy, and Absolute Simplicity in Speech ? "And Manner Have Won Affection Of Thousands of Citizens Throughout the State. , , .- -o . When Frank Graham was ing not or the ' qualities that elected president of the Univer sity, one of the trustees is . said to have remarked : "We've got a man nobody will ever have to bother about humanizing." Frank Graham is the folksy sort of person who can,, mingle with day laborers with as much ease and comfort to both parties as if he were in a fashionable drawing room. He still goes about the campus . hatless and smiling and waving to this one and that one, just as he did be fore he moved into the big house down on Franklirf street. He is the same today and to morrow. Nobody has yet, been found to accuse him of being moody or high-hat or anyvof the many other things that so of ten are charged against those who rise to greatness. v Democratic, yes, but that is not the - word that fits best, it seems. For so often those who are referred to as democratic are at the same time dubbed popularity seekers. And as one of his closest friends has observed, "the blandish ments of a popularity-seeker are as strange to Frank Graham as the North Pole is to the South." Most Popular Alumnus Why is it then that' allN agree that Graham is the University's most popular living alumnus? What is it about-the man , that so draws men to him and holds their confidence and affections? Louis Graves, who has known him intimately for many years, says that "the love that Frank Graham has inspired in thous ands and their feeling toward him is nothing less is due to ah underlying essence that quite defies analysis. As near, as I can come to explaining it," he, goes 'on to say, "it is a combination of sincerity and sympathy with absolute simplicity in speech and manner. Of course, he has courage and keen intelligence, and these win him admiration; but at -the moment I am speak- Well Known make people admire him, but of those which make them love him." The story is told that when Graham was elected president,' and a committee was appointed to find him and bring him be fore the trustees, they found him riding around in a ramshackly old Ford. Informed that he had just been elected president, he said : "But you can't do that. I am for Mr. Connor." A member of the committee fairly forced Graham to get out of that Ford and into-a handsome limousine and.xride with them to the old chemistry building, where the trustees were, in session. There Graham protested again, but to no avail, for Gov ernor Gardner informed him the choice was unanimous and that the trustees had no idea of reconsidering. As the new president walked from the room, a self-help stu dent, who was busy in the hall way outside the door, looked up. Graham stopped, called the boy by name and inquired about his vacation. Smiling shyly, the young fel low reached into his pocket, pulled out a couple of golf balls, and said : "You still play golf, don't you, Mr. Graham. I found these today and saved them for you." .. - That incident, which was re lated by Miss .Katherine Gran tham, is absolutely characteris tic of Frank Graham's nature. Simplicity of Manner It is this simplicity of man ner and genuine interest in in dividuals, without regard to tHeir .positions, socially or poli tically, which have endeared ihimritb so many thousands of alumni and other citizens. I f tit was one . Saturday ' after- noon not long after he was elected president that he was coming out of his office in the (Continued on page three) 1931 Assembly Of Notables To Gather For Inauguration Of Frank Porter Grahan Student In Accident On Franklin Street Yesterday afternoon at 1:30 a Chrysler driven by George Bryan, student struck the. Ford automobile of Mrs. N. P. Bailey. The" collision occurred beyond the post office on Franklin street toward Durham. The right side of Mrs. Bailey's car was badly dented, hub caps be ing torn from the wheels. LEADERS NAMED FOR FALL DANCES i German Club Elections Run Off Smoothly as Twenty-Eight Positions Are Filled. - The annual fall election of German club dance leaders, commencement marshals and ball managers, took place yes terday afternoon in Gerrard hall, with the German club head, Tom Follin, presiding. The meeting was called promptly at 1:30; it was all over at 1:38. All candidates were ."elected unanimously as there was only rone nomination for each place. -The twenty-eight positions were filled in -the - following order: leader fall German, Os car Dresslar, assistants, Pete i Gilchrist and Lewis Skinner ; leader mid-winter German, Steve Lynch, assistants, Tom Alexander and Bill Draper; leader junior German, Jim Lynch, assistants, Joe Adams and Qene Webb ; leader sopho more German, Win Ham, assist ants, L. P. Tyree and Ed Michaels. Commencement mar shals: Milton Barber, chief, R. W. Barnett, Bill Hoffman, Ar lindo Cate, Vass Shepherd, Joe Pratt, and Henry Conner; com mencement ball managers : George Waterhouse, chief,1 John Park, T. B. Follin, Harry Finch, Bill Myers, Mandeville Webb, Lynn Wilder, and Holmes Davis. EDUCATION CHEAP IN AMERICA, SAYS ENGLMWRITER P. Beaumont Wadsworth De scribes Drug Store as Center of American Social Life. P. Beaumont Wadsworth of Manchester, England, who is the guest of Paul Green, lectured to Phillips Russell's class, on exposi tory writing, yesterday morning. Wadsworth Has been writing since his youth, but he has been doing professional work for only the lastten 'years. He has trav eled extensively and observed life in America as well as many foreign countries. He aid that" northern Eng land looks down on artistic writing, but likes practical writ ing. Wadsworth began his ca reer by imitating Arnold Ben nett, and he believes that one must soak himself in good lit erature in order to write well. American writers have a ten dency to start stories in the same way, according to him. Drug Stores and Beer Gardens N When asked about American education,- he "said that it was "far" too easy and cheap." He discussed the drug store as the center of social life, and com pared it to the German beer gar dens and the - French cafes. NUMBER 45 PROCESSION WILL MARCH TO KENAN STADIUM AT 10:30 Student Body to Have Division in Parade; Record Crowd of Visitors Expected. The largest delegation of edu cational notables the University of North Carolina has ever had as its guests, has assembled in town today for the inauguration of Frank Porter Graham, the eleventh president of the insti tution. The program of the day will be divided into three main parts, the formal induction into office of President Graham at 11:00 o'clock, the inaugural luncheon for delegates and guests at 2:15, and the inaugural dinner f delegates, guests, and faculty at 700 o'clock. Two other at tractive features will be an in formal reception by President Graham and his sister, Miss Kate Graham, in Graham Memorial at 4:00 o'clock, and an organ and glee club recital at 5:00 o'clock. The inauguration will bring to Chapel Hill more than 250 dele gates from colleges and univer sities and learned societies, repT resenting every section of the nation, one of, thev largest dele gations to witness the inaugura tion of a" college president any where. The 250 delegates will repre sent 235 colleges and univer sities, and learned societies. Ap proximately 200 will be institu tional representatives. More than 100 of them will be presi dents of their institutions. The main portion of the pro gram, the inaugural ceremony of induction into office, will take place in Kenan Memorial sta dium, instead of in Memorial hall. This was done in order to accommodate the large crowd ex pected. .' .-, Amplifiers ' will carry Presi dent Graham's message and the voice of the other speakers to all parts of the huge stadium. In case of rain, the ceremony will take place in Memorial hall, as originally planned." ' " Large Procession Change of plans means the procession will start on the 1 walk between Bingham hall and the library and -march directly to the stadium. It will be made up of ten divisions. The alumni will assemble in front of Bingham hall, the class of 1909 east of the library, the supreme court, other state of ficers, members of the general assembly and trustees at the law building, and delegates from colleges and. universities at the library. The representatives of the stu dent body, composing the first section and headed by Marshal William Medford, will assemble to the west of the library imme diately behind the University band, which will play martial airs auring tne marcn. -y , Other divisions will be com posed of delegates from' learned societies and foundations, who will assemble at the library; the faculty, who will assemble" at Saunders . hall, v President Gra ham and' speakers who' will as semble at Smith building, v and the student body which will as-, semble in front of the Y. M. C. A. The various units will meet Continued on last pagi) '
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