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-JUI Pjie Two 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 clas3 matter at the post office of Chapel HilL N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, ?4.e0 for the college year. Offices ori the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Jack Dungan ...Editor Ed French ..--......Managing Editor John Manning ifosiness Mgr. Editerial Staff EDITORIAL BOARD - Charles G. Rose, chairman; Peter Hairston, Vass Shepherd, R. W. Barnett, Ruth Newby, Oscar W. Dresslar, Louise Pritchard, E. K. Graham, Jr., Sidney Rosen, J. F. Alexander, B. White, Gilbert Blauman, F. J. Manheim, John Wilkinson. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD E. C. Daniel, Jr., chairman; Frank Haw ley, Robert Berryman, Elmer Oet tinger, Claiborn Car, and C. G. Thompson. . - FEATURE BOARD Donald Shoe maker,' chairman; James Dawson, Scott Mabon, E. 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Sunday, December 13, 1931 - Room For Only The Earnest The greatest accusation that has been made against American higher education is that it has developed 'into mass production along with the automobile and the radio. While the old theory of university education called for the intense cultivation of a few chosen for their special in terest and ability, the present de sire is a degree for everyone. This popularization of college ed ucation is responsible for many of the problems that face us to day on the campus. The sending of millions thru our higher institutions has in most cases resulted in a very distinct lowering of standards', permitting the average' man to acquire what was intended for the superior. To be sure a cer tain modicum of knowledge and education should be the right of every man, but too many come to college for other purposes than cultural ones. There are count less young men and women over the country who are in college for social life, for athletics, be cause "every one should have a college education", or for no clear reason at all. As a result the professors and instructors intent on drilling certain mini mum requirements into the av erage student, does not have the time to aicLand develop the man or woman with possibilities - of something to American culture. This question of who should come to college- connects very closely with the problem of stu dent privileges. The attitude of the college in forcing its under graduates to attend, classes, in forcing them to be in at a fixed hour, and otherwise directing them as children, demonstrates a great lack of confidence on the part of the faculty. The position of a university should, be one of desiring to aid those actively in terested in the search of know- ledge. The university should ex tend its counsel and its exerT tions to help those who wish to come of their own free will and partake of the wisdom and cul ture that is availed them. The man or woman who must be co erced into attending lectures and in spending a sufficient time in preparation is obviously not in terested in what a college edu cation offers them. A university that descends to forcing its undergraduates to attend classes and prepare as signments is lowering the pres tige and dignity of education. To push and shove a student thru four years of work and then be stow upon him a degree, is to degrade what was, and should be a mark of honor and culture. Nothing great has ever been cre ated or achieved by men driven to their tasks and this is even more true of .education than of anything else: Give the enthus iastic and earnest young man and woman all the aid and as sistance that they 'need, but let the unwilling and indolent find other occupations where they will not interfere with those who are really accomplishing something that may contribute to the cul ture of the nation J.F. A. Emotions And False Bugaboos , The country seems, to be di vided into three types of peo ple: those who know too much and - say too little ; those who know too little and say too much; and those who do not take the trouble to know enough and yet have it in their power to do too much. The first class includes primarily the adminis trators and business men "in on the know." For material rea sons they do not choose to lose this advantage by a policy of enlightening the public on the subject of what is happening in the inner circles of government and business. The second class includes primarily the editors of partisan newspapers, who know how to appeal to the emotions of their readers but do not know what they should know if they are to recommend what is for the general welfare of the na tion. The third class, of course, represents the average voter. An exemplum of the work of a faction which knows too lit tle and says too much is to be found in a recent editorial of the Raleigh News and Observer. This paper is remarkably broad minded for a partisan paper; it even goes so far as to praise Hoover's administration for cer tain reform measures, which is indeed a generous gesture on the part of a Democratic editor. Yet even this newspaper, which is the epitome of fair treatment in its editorial policies, main tains certain shibboleths and bugaboos which are not totally in keeping with the clear think ing demonstrated otherwise. In this . editorial the writer enumerated certain points which he hoped . President Hoover would bring out in his address to congress Tuesday. Includ ed, in these points was that of free trade and the abolition of all tariff barriers. An econr omist will support this plan; he can show that free trade will bring each nation its maximum profit in the long run, and that tariff tends to cut down on the national profit for the advantage of the particular industry which it protects. But somehow the News and Observer does not spend much time on the eco nomic reasonings but prefers to lower the whole discussion to an emotional plane, where the individual is pictured as suffer ing from the Smoot-Hawley tar iff bill. Continuing along this emo tional trend, the writer digs up two great bugaboos, big busU ness and the gold standard. In big-business, he points out, the individual has no chance and is constantly subjected to epochs of financial depression, such as at present. An economist would prove that if business were big enough to eliminate competitive j over-expansion there would not THE DAILY be a depression today. Still the editor raves on, however, in capable of seeing that the fate of the individual today is inevi tably linked up with that of big business. ' In deploring the single stan dard, the writer of the editorial brings back memories of Wil liam Jennings Bryan, "who," one 'of his associates said, "is like the' Yellow River : a mile wide and six inches deep." The writer's reason for advocating the adoption of the double stan dard is based on some vague conception that more money would make more people finan cially self-sufficing and self supporting. He does not seem to realize that the more money there is the higher prices are going" to be, and that the fluc tuation of gold and silver in rel ative value will tend to cause the less valuable medium to drive the other out of the country and into foreign hands. Economists can easily show that a single standard is necessary to stabil ized business. And so, although these buga boos can be easily dispelled by cold reasoning, we find editorial writers all'over the country emo tionalizing over them and work ing the voters into a zealous frenzy over causes which are not worthy of such treatment. If the people who know would say more, and the people who don't know would say less, the voters would certainly do more thinking before committing themselves to either political faction. W.V.S. Self -Expressed Education The development of self-expression tends to become the keynote of education today.- Uni versities are gradually drawing away from memorization of a certain amount of material as a requisite for a diploma and are laying more stress upon the development of the native poten tiality of 'each student. Minnesota is among the first to offer practical suggestions for the accomplishment of tnis. The problem of differentiating th first year studies -in relation to the students' ability to grasp them is solved by limiting the registration to only those fresh men showing marked aptitude for college work: This plan is commendable but the means in adequate in that it is impossible to test the ability of the incom ing freshman to adapt himself to college life on the basis of his previous " experience in high school. If practical and fair tests could be devised, by which each person desiring admittance to the university would receive proper rating, then the method would be adequate. : Minnesota likewise advocates a more extensive use of compre hensive examinations by which the quality of an . individual's work may be gauged and his in terest in the course promoted, since the ultimate mark receives less stress. This policy is highly advisable for the emphasis now laid upon quarterly examinations detracts from the value of the course. A general comprehensive knowledge of the subject is more highly beneficial to the person launching into a prof ession than are the superfluous details which are often accented in regular ex aminations. Minnesota is con vinced that college is merely fer tilization for the root of indi viduality so that upon leaving the university the student may continue in self -education. To ac complish this each person is free to follow the dictates of his curiosity . and to pursue the course of greatest concern, the faculty, assuming the status of an advisory board, maintaining a personal interest in each par ticular case. c , The ideas involved in the above measures are by no means jnew, but are just now finding HEEL The Market Bashet By John Sehon Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of reviews by student critics of new and worthwhile books received by The Book Market, a University enterprise. The Wild Orchid, by Sigrid VndseU Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Sinee winning the Nobel Prize in 1928 with her magnificent trilogy, Kristin Kavrendatter, and 'her-admirable tetrology, The Master of Hestvikken, the reading public has anxiously awaited the release of Madame Undset's next novel. The Wild Orchid has been well worth the three years' wait. After her two great romances of medieval Norway, Madame Undset lias given us the full length story of a modern young man, dealing with problems no less funda mental -love and religion. The Wild Orchid is the story of young Paul Selmer,, a science student, of his modern every day problems, and, in particular, of his first love affair, with a girl below him in class and edu cation, who possesses a not too savory past. The outcome of this affair proves the turning point of the story. Paul's strug gle between the inborn class tradition on the one hand, and his love for the girl on the other is treated more than ad mirably. In an entirely youth ful way, his "great and only" love overshadows all other inter-, ests. His studies are left to drift for themselves, and Paul, after meeting Lucy, takes on the good old youthful seriousness, confronted at every turn by the world-old question : "Why ex- istr - - ' In many ways The Wild Or chid is not as great as the au thor's two more famous books. However, the scopeof the book practical expression. Educators watch with unabated interest the ultimate outcome of the Minnesota experiment. Tomor row, it is believed, will find at tention still centered upon mass education, but greater emphasis will be laid upon the develop ment of larger group of original thinkers, trained to produce, not reproduce, ideas, L.P. It Out Whoops "WHOOPEE"! When he stepped into the girls' sacred sanctum . ... . he walked right into some thing. He was the sole mate in a solarium! He was an efficiencyexpert, but he couldn't get out of tight places. He gives you more laughs than you got in "Whoopee" . . . with more gorgeous girls to gaze upon . . and more spectacular scenes to leave you awed! "Hold it, Eddie, I just sent to Chicago for a new chiropractic book. what WEDNESDAY NORMA SHEARER ROBERT MONTGOMERY "' ' " in ;.; - - - ' "Private Lives" FRIDAY MARY ASTOR ' ROBERT AMES . in . "Smart-Women"- v s i f Wl kJiA U -Lit widens as the story progresses until many phases of modem Norwegian life are given us. Through, Paul, the narrowness of the "youtnf ul" World is splen didly portrayed. Even when his country passes through a national crisis, (the separation from Sweden in 1906-07), Paul and his fellow-companions are conscious of the situation only when in the presence of older and more mature people. The very full understanding that Madame Undset displays of male psychology is rather amaz ing in a woman writer. In no place does Paul "come out of character" and give way to the author. His problems are those of all youth, but treated from the male standpoint. Some times the. insight is uncanny, and we feel as if tfie writer has placed the humbled - jumbled brain of this Paul before us in a glass jar, then proceeds piece by piece to show us its tickings. From the first realization that life is not one series of day after day enjoyable adventures, this show-brain begins to put hap hazard, illogical thoughts to gether and shapes itself toward that inevitable question : "What is life?" .This Paul, a typical youth, is knocked down time and time again only to bounce back up with unbroken enthusiasm; each new thing seems important at the time, yet time also brings new things, and time also shows forgetfulness. Paul is the younger genera tion. .He breathes new ideas; not precisely . different from those of ..his mother, Julie, but a bit more projected and radi cal. In Julie Selmer we have a superb picture of a woman stay ing young with her children. A business woman, ultra-modern in her ideas, yet with enough in herent' "old-fashioned" tenden cies, to be contrasted with her WE WISH YOU A Most Enjoyable Vacation A Very Merry Christmas A Happy New Year Harry's Grill And Delicatessen It tells you to do next."- - EQDQDTIG rpr3 MON. TUES. WED. 11 P. M. SftZY VERNON in "Un Homme en Habit" All French Talking picture A V Publix Kincey Theatre ( ) ' Sunday, December 13, 193t oldest son, Paul. She is ever fresh and damp-earth-smelling-throughout the story in con trast to Paul's father, Selmer senior, who has settled into his rut; a business man, lagging ever farther and farther behind in the progress of youth (a fore shadowing of what possibly lies in wait for Paul junior). The Wild Orchid is not an enthusiastic book. One reads it impassionately, almost coldly, watching the pressure of Fate upon its characters. Yet, when the last page is turned one does not drop the book with a sigh and immediately go about other things. It is a book to be read leisurely; contentedly digesting the characters, and, when it is finished, to be thought over with a trace of satisfaction that the author has put "you" into print. The whole thing is so charming ly done that one glows with a warm sense of satisfaction while watching Paul live his .lifel It is Jiuman, if 'you will, in every turn; for example, Paul consid ers the question of "what is life" thusly : a Life well,-that meant that he existed and Lucy existed and besides them two or. three mil lions in Norway, inhabitants, as they were called to say noth ing of the rest of thevvvorld hexhad known as much as that in school. And how many had become dust among the dust, and how many more were des tined to" over-run the globe be fore it became uninhabitable, was enough to make one seasick at the thought of it. They all struggled to obtain .what they desired and what they needed to avoid and what' they (most dreaded. Life it may mean or ganic life or -a man's lifetime,, the sum of the knocks he has received or of the capers he has cut between the cradle and the (Continued on last page) OTHER FEATURES "Hitting: -the trail for Halle lujah" a Musical Act. Robert L. Ripley's "Believe It "T M - . or wo' and Faramount News. THURSDAY ; SALLY EILERS JAMES DUNN in "Over the Hill" SATURDAY JOHN BOLES GRETA NISSEN in . "Good Sport"
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