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PLAYMAKER READING PLAYMAKERS .THEATRE TONIGHT 8:30 PLAY3IAKER READING PLAYMAKERS THEATRE TONIGHT 8:30 VOLUME XL CHAPEL HILL, N. C SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1931 NUMBER 64 Pica BOOK BY NOBLE WINS AWARD OF MAYFLOWER CUP Tributes Paid Dean of Education School by Literary and His torical Association. Romance Language Department Is Handicapped By Over Stringency Wins Mayflower Cup Dr. M. C. S. Noble, dean of the school of education in the University, was presented the Mayflower cup at the thirty- first annual session of the State Literary, and Historical Associa tion. This cup is awarded to the North Carolinian adjudged to have written the oest pub lished work during the year -which was won by. Dr. Noble's book, History of the Public Schools in North Carolina Josephus Daniels announced the award and paid tribute to s Noble as the eldest of five great s men who graduated from the University in the Ws. He sketched the life of these five men, Edwin Alderman, Charles B. Aycock, James Y. Joyner, Charles Mclver. and M. C. S. Noble. Daniels Praises Noble "Two of these men remain with us." said Daniels. "Dr. Joyner, under whose leadership as State superintendent on pub lic instruction, deep and broad foundations were laid, and Dr. Noble, long dean of the depart ment of education in the Univer sity." Speaking of Dr. Noble's book, Daniels commented, "Dr. Noble lias told in imperishable words the story of public education in1 North Carolina. He is the his torian of the group and could truly say, referring to educa tional development of more than two score years and ten, 'all of which I saw and part of which -was." Dean Since 1913 The winner of the Mayflower award is a native of Franklin county, was a student at David son and the University, and was first superintendent of the pub lic schools of Wilmington. Since 1898 he has been connected with the school of education and has been dean of that school since (Continued on last page) mh. . , ... IlllS " ;' s i If if mm'wmMm Dr. M. C. S. Noble, dean of the school of education, is the first winner of the Mayflower Cup, awarded Friday night in Ra leigh at the closing meeting of the State Literary and . Histori cal Association for the best book published by a North Carolin ian during the year. , CAROLINA PRESS BUSY ON HOMICIDE TREATIS Homicides in the . United States, a new book in which Dr. H. C. Brearley, Clemson univer sity, treats the cause and statis tical effect of the prevalent American murder, has been promised for release by the University Press by February. The volume culminates long study by Dr. Brearley of the homicide problem in this coun try. His findings and observa tions are anxiously awaited. The author is former student of the University. Although a native of South Carolina he did much of his work here toward pl drwvfcor's decree. He is at present on the faculty of Clem son university of South Carolina. Fourth Survey. Made by Daily Tar Heel of Liberal Arts Courses. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The Daily Tar Heel continues today its series of de partmental surveys, as a euide to stu dents about to register for the winter quarter. Opinions offered in this series are not necessarily those of The Daily Tar Heel.) With two primary objectives in view, the department of Ro mance and Germanic languages functions this year as one of the largest divisions of the liberal arts college. Dr. U. T. Holmes, professor in the Romance lan guage department, defines the purpose of the department as ( 1 ) tomake Spanish, French, and Italian a part of the equip ment of every graduate, and (2) to teach the elementary divi sions as a tool, hoping that stu dents will continue in the study of the slanguage specialized in with a literary end in view. The influence and importance of French, Spanish, and Italian lit erature on history and civiliza tion is noted in the first. Language Objectives Dr. Leavitt lists a similar quota of objectives involved pri marily in the Spanish division of the Romance languages de partment. For the elementary courses, Spanish 1-2-3-4 he de fines the objectives as (1) to ex pect a reasonably good pronun ciation of Spanish and (2) a com prehension of the essential ' prin ciples of Spanish construction. He included a fair working vo cabulary in the former and adds an ability to read moderately difficult Spanish in the latter. The whole department as an instructional unit, with the ex ception of several instructors, -is ranked high, according to a con- (Continued on last page) SCOUT EXECUTIVE SEMINAR TO MEET HERE TOMORROW - Wyland and Myers Are Leaders At Conference Arranged by Extension Division. Albright, Dunn Gain State Choice In Competition For Scholarship Boy Scout Executive j Twenty-Eight Aspirants from North Carolina Examined Here by Rhodes Committee. Epsilon Phi Delta - Epsilon Phi Delta cosmopoli tan club will meet for the las time this quarter at 9:00 tomor row night in room 215 Graham Memorial. Chiang Kai Shek Anxious To Free China From All Russian Influence 0 .. Chairman of National Government Represents Country Fighting ' Not 6nly Against Militarism and Segregation, But Against Illiteracy and Economic Inefficiency. 0 ; ' Ray O. Wyland, director of educational service for the Boy Scouts of America, will be the headliner among- a crrouD of speakers who will address a Boy Scout Executive Seminar to con vene tomorrow, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Professor Harold D. Meyer, of the University's sociology de partment, who is Boy Scout edu cational director for this state, has arranged the program in co operation with the University extension division. . A native of Kansas, Wyland was graduated from the Univer sity of Illinois in 1915 and took post-graduate work at Chicago and Columbia. He has been connected with the educational service of the Boy Scouts since 1922. As director of this serv ice he supervises the training of 4,000 volunteer leader sand 600 professional leaders each year, travelling some 20,000 to carry on this work. The seminar will offer three days of intensive training for Scout executives, ad the work will count toward a degree. Sev eral members of the University faculty are listed on the pro gram. Professor Meyer, Kenneth G. Bentz, and Ray O. Wyland will welcome the Scouts ' executives at a fellowship luncheon tomor row. Other speakers for the day will be Dr. Mason Valentine, of the University zoology de partment; W. E. Vaughn-Lloyd, B. W. Hackney, R. H. Schiele, Claude Humphreys, A. W. Al- (Continued- on last page) f '. t l- f V t i "- - - ' - 4 - , ' '' J . . j A , - '; - v :::-:-" v.-yy.-y.-jT if K V , -. I i &yyyyyyyyy.-yv? . . :-. 4 FINAL TESTS IN ATLANTA Ray O. Wyland, director of educational service, the Boy Scouts of America, will be the main speaker at a Boy Scout Executive Seminar, which is 'meeting here tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday. He has served as leader of Scout activities for the past ten years. Two Men from Six Southern States Will Be Selected December 9. STATE WINS SECOND SWOPE DEBATE TILT STRINGF1ELD AND BOGGS SPEAK AT RALEI5HMEETING Chapel Hillians Are on Program Of North Carolina Folk Lore Society. DAILY ANNOUNC NEWLY CREATED SERVICE BUREAU E. C. Daniel, Jr., Will Be Qhair z man of Foreign News Boarcf In Charge of Exchanges Carolina's debating team, ar guing the affirmative for the Swope plan, was defeated Fri day night in Raleigh by State. The meeting constituted the sec ond part of a dual debate, the first of which was recently con ducted at Chapel Hill. State's victory was accredited by a small margin, too close to be con sidered a , definite decision. Stokes and Gill spoke for State while John Wilkinson and Edwin Lanier represented the U. N. C. team. A debate of this nature is an annual affair be tween the two schools.. The Carolina delegation were guests of honor at a luncheon which preceded the forensics. By R. W. Barnett For various reasons members of the family of western powers have refused to give China co operation through the years in her internal and international problems. For this reason China has had to turn from time to time to her closest blood rela tion among the westerners, the Russians. But these relations have been far from satisfactory for the Chinese and from time to time they have been aroused to fury "by the subversive, icon oclastic, violent methods of Rus sian influence and advice. China's Problems Today the problem is particu larly acute for the Chinese peo ple. Internally they are torn by conflicting leadership, famine, destruction by flood, interna tionally they are being wrecked by an aggressive Japan allowed to move unrestricted by a timid and powerless allignment of bi lateral states. , This makes the situation particularly difficult for China as sbe has two choices to make; one, to woo the assist ance of communistic Bussia at the expense of her home-born ideals written into the San Min, two, to plod along helplessly, suffering unassisted the confu sion of her incipient transforma tion from the status of an an cient state to a modern power. There is one man who towers above all others in present day TTa has been for the VlilliM Chinese what Kernel Pascha has hppn for the Turks. He has uni fied and builded the Chinese Re nublic as it stands today, far from nerfect, but still infinitely sfrnmrpr and more desirable v.. w "o , than the China of twenty years ago. Chiang KaL Shek The story of his life reads like the' story of an ancient Greek hero, some protagonist in a great and noble movement. For Chiang Kai Shek, chairman of the National Government,, is a man of the people. He was born in 1888, was married at fifteen, studied at the Paoting military academy, studied t fur ther in Japan, was an intimate of Sun Yat Sen's, was soldier (Continued on lart page) Dr. Ralph S. Boggs, professor of Spanish in the University, and Lamar Stringfield, research associate of the Institute of Folk Music, were speakers at the twentieth annual session of the North Carolina Folk-Lore Soci ety in Raleigh, Friday. Boggs used as his subject : "North Carolina Folk Tales, In ternational and Local." In his discussion, he pointed out that ghost and "hant" tales predom inate in the collection of fifty folk tales which he has gathered in the state. Stringfield spoke informally on "Folk-Music in America." He observed that the fault of Ameri can composers was in the fact that they do not base their work upon -American . folk music, whereas the masterpieces of the world were based upon native folk music. Stringfield insisted that there was basic folk music in North Carolina, and that America boasted the greatest source for stories of any coun try. In conclusion, he spoke of of the work which is being done by the Folk Music Institute. v SPeace Talk Professor E. C. Metzenthin, of the German department, will talk tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Presbyterian church on the topic of "Peace without Justice and Honesty Since the War." The state selection committee for the Rhodes scholarships met yesterday in Graham Memorial and from twenty-eight aspirants from the colleges of North Caro lina chose two members of the University, William Clyde Dunn and Robert Mayne Albright Jr., to represent North Carolina in the final selection to take place at the Atlanta-Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, December 9. Both U. N. C. Graduates Albright and Dunn, both mem bers of the class of '31, are now taking graduate work. Albright, president of the University stu dent union, is taking advanced courses in history and govern ment, while Dunn, last year's, editor of the Yackety Yack is enrolled in the Harvard business school. - . These two men are representa tives of North Carolina, along with two each from South Caro lina, Virginia, Tennessee, Geor gia, and Florida, twelve in all, make up a district group from which the Rhodes scholars are chosen. These twelve are ques-. tioned and then four are chosen as the final ones. Their scholar ship begins onx October 1, 1932. State Committee The state committee is com posed of Josephus Daniels, edi tor of the Raleigh News and Ob-. serverchairman; Dr. W. C. Davison, dean of the Duke school of medicine, secretary ; Professor G. R. Vowles, Davidson college; President H. S. Hilley, Atlantic Christian college ; and C. P. Spru. ill, of the school of commerce of this University. The members of the, committee, with the ex ception of Daniels, are all former Rhodes scholars and Oxford graduates. Each of the twenty-eight can-1 Continued on last page) Red-Headed Boys All students interested in forming a red-headed .boys' club are asked to meet in Ger rard hall tonight at 7 :00. The Daily Tar Heel having had in mind for nearly a quar ter the establishing of a special board or bureau ior tne purpose of rendering its readers greater sevice in the matter of fresher and more significant news and feature articles having a more national aspect, the board of con. trol of the publication announces a new Foreign News Board. This department will be a clearing house for all corres pondence with other publica tions, will hare charge of the ex changes, will be responsible for symposiums of thought, will fol low the exchange items clipped from The Daily Tar Heel which appear in other papers, and will write original stories concerning the University for publication in other journals as requested, in addition to having direct charge of what little telegraphic ex changes The Daily Tar Heel en gages in. E. C. Daniel, Jr., has assumed the duties incumbent upon the chairman of this board. As sisting him in establishing this work will be: Frank Hawley, E. Oettinger, Robert Berryman, Claiborn Carr, and J. D. Thomp son. The newly annouced Foreign News Board will convene this afternoon at 5:00 o'clock in the offices of the Daily Tar HeeL Forgotten Graves Behind Swain Hall Contain Mitchell Children o Single Monument Erected by Dr. Elisha Mitchell Almost, a Hun-, dred Years Ago When His Home and Garden Were on Presenl Site of University Dining Hall. o Rearing itself from among a group of blackened trees in a little fence-enclosed plot of bare ground behind Swain hall is a marble obelisk, monolithicly tapering to a pyramid five feet above the surface to mark the graves beneath. Students wan dering from the beaten baths sometime notice vthe strange monument, conspicuously out of place even in its hidden recess among the trees behind the stu dent dinning hall. Some stu dents stop to investigate the lonely little column and discover four mysterious names chiseled upon each of the four sides. Astonishingly, all four names dates ana ages show the plot to be a crave yard of children and ! infants the children and grand children of the great Dr. Elisha Mitchell, surveyor of the moun tain which bears his name, and renowned professor of mathe matics in the University many years ago. Strange Monument This strange weather-worn marble monument,, standing over a cemetery of children of a cen tury past, fires the imagination of the curious. Why did the people of the early days of the University , bury their departed children in the heart of the cam pus? Who' are the children buried there? Are there others buried in the paths of the green? On the spot where Swain hall now stands there stood until less than "two decades' ago a great v house that was originally built to serve the president of the University. But for many years here lived Dr. Elisha Mitchell, who was called from Connecti cut and Harvard university in 1811, at the age of twenty-four, to head the newly established department of mathematics, and to serve as a geology professor. Mitchell divided his time be tween his professional work, his laboratory across the street on the present site of the Peabody building, and his garden, which was behind the house. In this garden was the little cemetery alluded to above. , Begun by Dr. Mitchell The graveyard in Dr. Mit (Continued on last page) i I i i i 1 t. f ' ! : Si i i 1! : - i
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