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PROBLEMS IN SEX
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GERRARD HALL 8 :00 P. M.
VOLUME XL
CHAPEL HILL, N. C TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1932
NUMBER 107
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PHMJPSRUSSELL
READS C0R3EDIES
FORPLAMAKERS
-The Barretts of Wimpole Street'
WiD Be Next Monthly
Reading March 6.
Phillips Russell, playwright
and professor, of English here,
A Parcel For King Solomon tion should be so-amended to al
and A Course in Pirdcy, in the low the charging of poll tax for
rornliM PlavmaVprs tWw WOmen SnCe $W have en7
Sunday night, This, will be the
regular monthly; Sunday night
reading for February..
Russell wrote the two plays
some time ago in London, where
they were both published and
produced,. On coming to the
University, he was asked and
consented to- read them to a class
in playwriting under Professor
Koch. The students of the class
expressed such delight with the
creations that Professor Russell
-was persuaded to, read them in
public.
A Parcel For King Solomon ' -
is a burlesque comedy with an
oriental setting. The play deals xx. xv. ioMn ox t
with King Solomon as a poet. n? department, who is sec
It has never been published in tary of the academy an
book form in this country, al- nounced here Saturday Chemis
though it once appeared in the and physics are the field
JomVnrVJnnrr,fll Np.m Masses i romi Which students may Select
The second play, A Course in
Piracy, is a fantasy on the lives
of pirates aboard a British pirate '
ship bound out of London. This
play was published in America !
m a volume entitled nays t or
i -w- n
Strolling Mummers, and has m curing materials ana where have been the smanst causes of Second oldest in point of service
heen produced in many college : mre tlia" !r.ree students in replacements. A break down in ,is Chancellor James H. Kirk
theatres throughout the country. ' scl?o1 submit papers, the school health is "found to be most prom-'T (Continued on last page)
At present Professor Russell!
is writing a full length play de
picting life here in the south.
The setting is believed to be in
North Carolina. 0
i The next play reading is
scheduled for Sunday evening,
March 6, when Professor A. T.
West, director of dramatics at
Duke university, will read The
Barretts of Wimpole . Street by
Rudolph Besier.
DRY ASSOCIATION
WARNS SENATORS
TO OPPOSE WETS
Anti-Saloon League to Fight Re
Election of Congressmen Vot
ing Against Prohibition.
The Anti-Saloon League, in a
letter to senators and congress
men, warns them that the
league will not support any
representative who votes against
prohibition. Quoting, from this
letter, "The League will,, as al
ways, oppose the renomination
or re-election of any member of
congress who votes for , wet or
against dry measures. The
League will consider any
for a resolution to repeal
tne
eighteenth amendment as; a
step toward legalizing liquor
and therefore as a wet vote. The
League does not accept the
theory that a vote to resubmit
the eighteenth amendment is a
neutral vote."
The association
against the
prohibition amendment cites the
attitude of three dry. leaders
"who voiced their opinion in 1914
when the bill was to be sub
mitted to the states for ratifica
tion. All three of these: Bishop
Cannon, Reverend
Dinwiddie,
and Mrs. Ella Boole, then presi- been aroused by his series oi
dent of the W. C. T. U. of New lectures on sex last week, to
York state, now national presi-night at 8 :00 o'clock in torard
dent and spokesman of that or- hall. The number of .Quesons
ganization; favored the submis- that the speaker .has received at,
sion of the proposed amendment j test the interest and. thought
(Common last page) that was provoked.
Phi Will Choose
Speaker This Evening
; The Phi society, will elect the
speaker for the spring term at
7 :15 o'clock tonight in its meet
ing in New East building. Two
bills are to be discussed.
, Resolved, That the policy of
Japan in attacking China in the
Far .East , justifies a boycott of
that countries products.
Resolved. That the Constitu-
all other
privileges of. the male voter.
SCIENCE ACADEMY
WILL OFFER CUP
AS ESSAY AWARD
Totten Announces Subjects Will
Be in Fields of Chem
istry and Physics.
. -
The. North Carolina Academy
of Science, will conduct. its, sixth
2 rr?w
schools this
their subjects.
The essays are to be 2,500
r(s J less, and must be in
the hands of Secretary Totten
h Arl X; Students can re-
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ceive uu irora instructors omy
authorities are asked to select
and submit the three best
papers. The winners will be an
nounced at the annual meeting
of the academy, about May 1,
and the prize, a silver loving
cup, will be presented to the
successful contestant . at com
mencement exercises of his or
her school.
The judges will be selected by
the high school science commit
tee of the academy. Dr. Bert
Cunningham, of Duke univer
sity, is chairman, and the other
members are Dr. H. B. Ar
buckle, Davidson college; Dr. C.
E. Preston, University of North
Carolina: Dr. R. N. Wilson,
Duke university; Di;. C. M.
Heck, State college; and Miss
Lena Bullard, Greensboro senior
high school.
Last year's contest was for
essays in the field of biology and
j geography. The winner was
Walter Burke Davis of the
Greensboro senior high school,
whose paper on "Snakes .of
Summer Township" was pro
nounced distinctly good and is
I to be published in the March
number of the High School
Journal? Winners and subjects
in MViAr vears have been Miss
Hilda-Cook, Sunderland school
i f pnnrd. 1927. biology and
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ge'ology; Henry E. Briggs, Jr.,
Greensboro high school, 1928,
chemistry ; and physics; Miss
Lila Aaron, Lexington high
school, 1929, biology and geol
ogy; Salhpun Pruitt, Monroe
hicrh school, 1930, chemistry
and pnysics.
GROVES TO LEAD
Y FORUM TONIGHT
Dr. E. R Groves of the sociol
ogy department will answer and
discuss questions, which nave
University Presidencies Show
St artlingly Rapid Turn-Overs
O '
Survey by Archie M. Palmer, Associate Secretary of Association
Of American Universities, Shows That Strain of Mod
ern College Duties Is Too Exacting.
:
By Harry F. Comer inent among the causes an-
"How much longer , may we nounced by retiring presidents,
expect men of ability and dis- Frequently the loss of adminis
cretion to consent to take the trati ve control has been cited as
presidency of a modern college the reason for retirement. A
or. university?" is a much fairer number, of retirements, were
question than the-public is con- based on a conflict between-the
scious of, if we are to take president and the trustees over
seriously the findings of the As- educational policies and practices
sociate Secretary of the Associa- arising principally out of a dif
tion of American Colleges made ference in social or, political
public in an article in the Feb-; views: the Mississippi case, for
ruary number of the Journal of s instance.
Higher Education. The most j Of the men now at the head of
startling fact revealed by this j
study is that more than two hun
dred and fifty changes have oc
curred in the presidencies of
American colleges and univer-
sities during rthe past three
yearsi and the number of such
cnanges has steadily -
;Creasin? pa VM, Aa ih(y
jthor comments, such a turnover
as' this in the ranks of the high
est administrative offices of our
institutions challenges serious
attention. Is it not time to in
quire into the reasons for such
a large replacement?
Archie -M.- Palmer, author of
the article, "Displacement and
Replacement," has for some time
been tudying to discover a
satisfactory explanation for this
rapid turnover. He finds that
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aeatn, ana oia age retirement,
Composer Commends Movement
To Develop Native Folk Music
o -
Hilton Rufty Says North Carolina Is Full to Overflowing With
Genuine Folk Music, the Only Permanent Kind, That
- Is Yet to Be Put Down and Preserved.
Twenty-three-year-old Hilton
AUltV, vviiu maiiv uciicvc lis uco-
tined to become one of Ameri
ca's foremost musical composers
and who is the creator of Hobby
on the Green which he played
Siinday afternoon under the ausT
mces of the Graham Memorial
, Concert Series,, subjected him
self to being interviewed by The
Daily Tar Heel yesterday af-
ternoon.
Rufty is in Chapel Hill this
week in connection with Lamar
Stringfield's Institute of Folk
Music Celebration. Incidentally : ness with which the folk singers
he is of the opinion that String- co-operate with you down here."
field is establishing a school at! "Mr. Rufty," The Daily Tar
the University here that is al- iHEEL representative queried,
ready the ideal serving as the I "Can there be any explanation
inspiration of all others, and 'f the hold that jazz has on so
that the standards of work here mny persons in the fact that
provoke the sincerest admira- music has a tendency to become
tion of all lovers of the true in conventionalized and frozen in
musical life.
i
"Jazz is simply a highly re
stricted bastard form of music,
which has already changed tre
mendously during the past five
years," Rufty says,
changed 1 as have
"It has
styles in
mode may
clothes. The new
bring back such old things as
the gavotte, and the polka."
The young composer and pian
ist was quizzed on the subject
of folk music which brought
him to Chapel 'Hill. '
"Folk music is the only, music
which is permanent. There
isn't a symphonic form which
has not learned something from
the folk. The natural and com
munal aspects of this genre
give it' its lasting qualities,
Songs are handed dowii from
grandmother to grandson to
son, and so on, each person con
tributing his best. There is
the twenty-seven universities in
the, membership of the Associa
tion of American Universities,
only four have held the same,
presidency for as long as twenty
years. President Hibben is just
now completing his twentieth
year- at Princeton. Presidents
Butler of Columbia and Bryan
of Indiana have achieved the, re
markable record of thirty years
in their present office, while
President Lowell of Harvard
went into office in 1909. The
remaining twenty-three univer
sities in the association have all
changed presidents since 1912,
some "of them several times. The
oldest college president in point
of service in the country is Wil-
liam J. Boone of the College of
Idaho who was selected at the
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iounamg 01 mat college m iyi.
nothing static or artificial about
AUJJY
Acoustical music, a form
which appeals to the ear alone,
Rufty feels is justifiable but in
trinsically worth little. Music
is based on moods and emotions
he believes, and not on mere
sound. -
' "However, here in North
Carolina the state is literally
filled to overflowing with gen
uine, folk music yet to be put
down and preserved, and what
is most gratifying is the readi-
set forms, as in the case of the
opera where the conventions of
velvet, flashing swords, and tiras
are still carried on?"
"Not at all. As a matter of
Iact iorm does not namper mu-
f A
SJC ln architecture we still ieei
j e tremendous influence of the
Doric, the Ionic, and the Corin
thian, but there is no limitation
in the number of stories we may
build, or all the numerous devia
tions each individual architect
may make. Ask Johnny Weis
muller if he doesn't" feel freedom
in his swimming which most
certainly utilizes form."
Rufty, contrary to many mu
sicians, thinks well of Ravel's
' Bolero, which he considers the
i finest piece of orchestration that
( that master of orchestration has
yet accomplished. He also con
fessed that he doesn't like opera,
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Sigma Xi Society To
Hear MacPherson
Dr. D. A. MacPherson of the
University medical school will
present a paper on "Some Re
cent Developments in Bacteriol
ogy, at the regular meeting oi
the Sigma Xi society Tuesday
evening, February 23.
The spring initiation will also
take place at this meeting in ac
cordance with a new custom of
giving the new members an op
portunity to attend meetings
and affiliate themselves with the
organization before the end of
the year.
MUSIC INSTITUTE
TO GIVE CONCERT
FRIDAY EVENING
Faculty Orchestra Conducted by
Stririgfield to. Appear in
Playmakers Theatre.
The Institute of. Folk Music
will present its last concert-of
the season Friday night at 8 :30
o'clock . in the . Playmakers . thea
tre. Lamar Stringfield, flutist,
composer, and conductor will be
assisted; by the faculty chamber
orchestra in the presentation of
compositions based on "native
folk-lore.
The orchestra is composed of
twenty members from the stu
dent body, faculty, Greensboro
and Raleigh. Earl W. Wolsla
gel, Thor Johnson, D. A. Mc
Pherson, James Thomas, Hugo
Gudiz, all violinists, and Wilbur
Royster, 'cellist, are among the
outstanding musicians in the
group.
The program will consist of
compositions by six composers,
four of which are still living.
The first group of numbers in
cludes Serenade in G Major by
Max Reger, for flutes, violin, and
viola; A Secret Wish by Lamar
Stringfield, for the flute; ' and
two sketches, Ocracbke and
Ramcat by Wilbur Royster, for
two violins, viola, and 'cello.
In the second group the or
chestra will play Symphony No.
1 C Major by Ludwig Bee
thoven; Circassian Beauty by
John Powell; and Hobby on the
Green by Hilton Rufty, who
played in the Graham Memorial
Sunday. ,
All of the living composers
whose works are being played
at the concert will be present,
as will Mrs. John Buchanan,
chairman of the American music
department of the National Fed
eration of Music Clubs. These
people, prominent in American
musical circles will be present
to study the work of the insti
tute. This is the only institute
for folk music in the country,
and its purpose was highly
praised in the current issue of
the Music Club's Magazine.
Admission charge will be fifty
cents, and tickets are on sale at
Alfred Williams company.
GRAHAM TO SPEAK IN
HIGH POINT TONIGHT
Alumni groups will meet , in
High Point tonight and in Rocky
Mount .Thursday. President
Frank P. Graham will speak at
both these gatherings. Parents
of students now in school and
citizens will be invited as well
as alumni of the institution.
Seven in Infirmary
7 C. W. Sensenbach, J. E. Bean
dry, J. S. Young, Claude Sims,
W. T. Logan, L. E. Ricks, and
H. G. May were confined to the
infirmary yesterday.
DEAN VAN HECKE
SPEAKS ON LAW
SCHOOLCHANGES
Assembly Speaker Details New
Entrance Rules and Advises
Prospective Students.
Dr. M. T. Van Hecke, dean of
the law school, spoke in as
sembly yesterday morning, on
the topic of "Preparation for
Entrance into Law SchooL" He
explained three major changes
in entrance requirements which
will become effective September
1, 1932, but which will not apply
to those students who have Deen
enrolled before January 1, of
this year.
.The first of these, stated the
speaker, will make requisite
three years of academic work
for entrance into the school in
stead of the present ruling which
requires only two. Special stu
dents, who niight wish to enter
with requirements other, than"
those prescribed, will be ac
cepted only on a competitive
basis, he announced, . since the
law school may not have a num
ber of special students exceed
ing ten per cent of the average
of the enrollment of two preced
ing years.
The second change, that stu
dents, will not 'be allowed to en
ter at the beginning of the sec
ond semester, was brought about
for the purpose of requiring
every applicant for admission
to take the introduction to law
which is given only in September
and June. In addition to these
two changes, Dean Van, Hecke
declared, the law school has
abolished the two-year pre-Iegal
course. ,
In conclusion the speaker ad
ded a few words about those
courses which a student consid
ering going into law should
take. "Mathematics, sciences
psychology, by all means," he
advised, "and the social sciences
are the branches of study with
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'HARK THE SOUND'
TUNE OFTEN USED
ASALMAMATERS
New School Song Needed to
Avoid Complication Due to
Constant Duplications.
What tune causes more hats
to be reverently lifted in the
United States, than any other?
Tttta Ttcs ontr TrMi' ttrwAvif. A
cording to the Mercer Cloister
it is Annie Lisle which prob
ably means exactly nothing to
you until you are told that it
is the tune of Hark the Sound
as well as the songs of scores of
other universities, including
Mercer, Georgia Vanderbilt,
Alabama, and Cornell, which is
frequently referred to erroneous
ly as originator of the melody.
This over abundance of . col
leges using the tune frequently
causes conflict and embarrass
ment, as in the when two
of these schools meet each other
' on the athletic field. f This hap
pens each year in the case of
Caroliria-Vanderbilt, . Georgia
Alabama, and has caused Caro
lina to look for another air to
which students may. sing 'their
pledge of eternal devotion."
Th Cloister states that; since a
Cornell man has written an; of
fensive parody oh it, called, ap
propriately enough, "Our Com
posite Alma Mater," other col-
Carolina may join in the quest
of a new alma mater song.