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WEATHER FORECAST: PARTLY CLOUDY AND SLIGHTLY COLDER A. R. NEWSOME LECTURE ON ORIENT GRAHAM MEMORUL--S:K v.vs VOLUME XL CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1932 NUMBER 109 (f I ) I .'35T z yf M I l J A.JL I 11 MANY ENROLLED FOR UNIVERSITY EXTENSION WORK Director Grumman Reports That Fourteen Hundred Students Are Taking Courses. According to figures released irom the annual report of Di rector R. M. Grumman, of the extension division, to Presi dent Frank P. Graham, fourteen hundred students enrolled for courses in the bureau of corres pondence instruction during the year ending October 31, 1931. Of the 2,038 courses for which students had registered, 1,576 were completed, making the number of courses completed seventy-four per cent of those registered for. Sixty-five mem bers of the faculty assisted in instructing the courses to those enrolled in the 154 courses offered. Faculty mem bers corrected 35,020 lesson as signments. Svery county in North Caro lina was represented in the en rollment as well as twenty-five oiher states and Alaska. While teachers and students were the largest number seeking instruc tion through these means, prac titioners in nearly every other occupation were represented. The new correspondence in struction catalogue lists addi tional courses to the former cur jkulum of 154 courses in fifteen subjects. In commerce, Profes sor R. H. Sherrill has charge of two new courses in accounting, to be taken without credit. In troductory course in school ad ministration has- been prepared by Professor Howard and the (Continued on last page) WALKER WILL GO TO CONFERENCES AT WASHINGTON ikan of Education School Will , Attend Meetings of Educa tional Institutions. At the opening of the national department of superintendence arid the twenty other educational institutions whose convocations will take place in Washington this coming week, the University education school will be repre sented by its dean, Dr. N. W. Walker, and a group of its fac ulty. This meeting is the one time when teachers from the whole ration congregate to discuss educational problems and make plans for the future. Including all the different organizations that are holding their conven tions at this time, more than ten thousand American teachers from almost every college and school of the country will be in Washington. Dean Walker will also attend the bi-centennial celebration of Washington's birth at George Washington university and the Afferent educational pilgrim ages offered especially for this casion. Press Will Offer Exhibit On Education in Washington The University Press will have an exhibit in Washington at the national education con ventions meeting there this coming week. At this time the most complete exhibit on Ameri can education will be shown. I. C. Griffin of the education school will act as representative of the Press. HARLAND RETURNS FROM NORTHERN LECTURE TOUR Dr. J. P. Harland, professor of archaeology, has returned from an annual northern lecture tour under the auspices of a scientific foundation. He ad dressed audiences at New York university, Essex Fells, N. Y., Princeton university, and in Pittsburgh, on ancient Hellinic culture and on recent excava tions in Greece. ' While in. New York Dr. Har land spentv some "time studying in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was the guest of Gov ernor Wynant of New Hamp shire, who graduated from Princeton with him. IRISH PLAYERS ARE FIRST ATTRACTION ON STUDENT BILL Student Entertainment Tickets Will Not Be Given Till Spring Registration. Because the appearance of the Irish Players here on the student entertainmesnt . series has been billed for March 21, the first day of the spring quarter, pass books for the series will be released to students during the week of registration for the spring quarter, it was made known Tuesday at a meeting of the Student Entertainment com mittee. Lennox Robinson, famous dramatist whose directing made the Irish popular at the Abbey theatre in Dublin, will lead the troup here for" the presentation of Far Off Hills. This is the first American tour of the play ers since their appearance in this country in 1913-14. Since this appearance will take place on the first day of the quarter, it will be more conven ient to give out the pass books during registration. The re maining part oV the meeting Tuesday was taken up by con sideration of attractions for next year. A. D. McDonald, of Atlanta, representing the Columbia Booking corporation attende'd the meeting Tuesday. Artists whom he is booking are Albert Spaulding, violinist,, the Berrere little symphony orchestra, and Grace Moore, Metropolitan A TTT opera soprano. uean a. yv. Hobbs, of the committee, an nounced that he would be glad to accept suggestions for next year's presentation and criti cisms of the program this year from members of the student body. . Law School Dances Set For This Week "Jelly" Leftwich and his or chestra from Duke university will play for three dances in Bynum gymnasium this week end; the evening dance and tea dance given under the auspices of the law school association Friday night - and Saturday afternoon respectively, and the Grail dance Saturday night. Students in the law school who have not yet secured their bids may get them from the presidents of their classes. Tickets for the Grail dance will be on sale o'clock tomorrow Pritchard-Lloyd's Book Exchange. after 10:30 morning at and at the Phi and Y. M. C. A. Pictures A retake of the picture of the Phi assembly will be made to day during assembly period on the steps of South building. METHOD OF CATECHISM EMPLOYED IN GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOKS OF 1864 o Extract From Old Schoolbook in North Carolina Section of Library Shows That Students Were Not Given Opportunity To Eat Apples During Recitations. - o - iveaum . wrran. ana arun- metic, all taught to the tune of a hickory stick," according to the old verse, shows a part of the method by which' "schoolin' " was accomplished fifty or seventy-five years ago. Another part of the education of the "young uns" at that time are shown by textbooks found in the North Carolina collections in the stacks of the library. Many persons -are familiar with the method of teaching events of the Old Testament by catechism, but they usually learned the finer points of geog raphy from the maps and pic tures of a big book, behind which one could easily and peacefully eat an apple. But a method of catechism, and not apple-eating, was used to teach geography about 1864 at those places where Mrs. M. B. Moore's Geographi cal Reader was in vogue, as is shown by an extract from the book: "Q. What is said of her gal lant sons?" (referring to Ken tucky). "A. They are fighting for Southern Independence." "Q. What is the present con dition of Tennessee?" "A. She is oppressed and trameled by the enemy." "Q. Have the Confederate States any commerce ?" "A. A fine inland commerce, and bids fair sometime to have a granjl commerce on the high seas." "Q. What is the present draw back to our trade?" "A. An unlawful Blockade by the miserable and hellish Yankee Nation." These last words were modi fied in a later edition, the author undoubtedly feeling such pro- Extension Division To Sponsor Contest The eighth annual state high school Latin contest, sponsored by the University Extension JJi vision, will take . place in Chapel Hill, February 26, fol lowing a precedent of seven years' standing, arranging con tests in mathematics Spanish, and French, for March and April. Durham high school was 'the winner in 1931, 1930, and 1929. Other victors, since the inaug uration of the Latin contest in 1925, have been Charlotte, Lil lington, Wilson, and. Roxboro. Since entries f or this year are not completed, no announcement of the entrants can be made. The instructors of each high school entered grade the three nighest papers from their school. Those considered the best are sent to the University where members of the Latin de partment make the final deci sions. . Di Senate Pictures Members of the Dialectic senate are requested to meet on the steps of the Law building this morning at 10:30 to have their picture made for the Yackety Yack. Four Confined to Infirmary Students confined to the in firmary yesterday were: J. S. Fathman, M. F.. Page, J. S. Young, and Claude Sims iannv narmtui tn tn vounev "Q. What may be said of the United States?" "A. It was once the most pros perous country in the world." "Q. What is this conditfon now?" ' "A. It is tumbling into ruins." "Q. What brought about this great calamity?" "A. The injustice and avarice of the Yankee Nation." That the younger generation and prohibition were problems in the ante-bellum days is re vealed in The Dixie Elementary Speller, by the same author, pub lished in 1825. "A boy must not drink a dram. Drams will make a boy's face red. The boy who drinks drams is apt to make a sot. A sot is a bad man who drinks all the drams he can get. A sot is apt to be bad to his wife and babes. No one loves a man who gets drunk and heats his wife and babes. Girls must not fall in love with boys who drink drams. But some girls drink drams too. For shame ! I hope I may not see so sad a sight. Now if a sot gets a wife who loves drams they will both get drunk and a sad pair they will i UtJ. From The Introduction To The English Reader by Lindley Murray, published by J. Gales & Sons, Raleigh, 1828, there are the following enlightening ob servations : "To be good is to be happy." "Deliberate before you prom ise." "Deceit discovers the little mind." "Nev-ver tell a lie for this is a great sin." "No one can tell how long he can live." Dr. A. R. Newsome Will Speak Tonight At the meeting of the Inter national Relations club in Gra ham Memorial at 8:00 o'clock tonight, Dr. A. R. Newsome, secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission, will dis cuss the situation in the Far East. Questions such as "What is behind the present clash be tween the powers in the Orient?" and "What will be the outcome of the Japanese policy in China?" will be taken up at the meeting. Dr. Newsome has lectured on the Far East situation at both State and Meredith colleges and has been asked to discuss the topic for the Foreign Relations club of the Raleigh branch of the American Association of Uni versity Women. Gifts To Loan Fund Previous total $12,892.81 Campus canvass 24.45 Rotary club (addi tional) 20.00 Community 6.50 Faculty 114.00 Presbyterian ladies ' mission'y society 10.00 Pi Beta Phi Alumnae club 5.00 Total to date $13,072.76 The former gift of the Ro tary club to the loan fund was $212.50 instead of $208.50 as announced in The Daily Tar Heel previously. DELTA TAU DELTA WILL OPEN CONVENTION TODAY The Southern Division Con ference of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity opens today for a three day session at Duke uni versity with the Delta. Kappa chapter as host. Seventeen chapters will be represented. Dr. Harold D. Meyer, of the de partment of sociology, who is president of the southern divi sion of the fraternity, will be one of the officiating officers at the convention. v The conference delegates will be guests of the local chapter Saturday at a barbecue and tea dance at the Chapel Hill coun try club. STRINGFIELD HAS VARIED MSICAL RECITALPLANNED Lamar Stringfield and Faculty Orchestra Will Present Con cert Tomorrow Night. The concert to be given by Lamar Stringfield and the fac ulty chamber orchestra tomor row night in the Playmakers theatre will feature music writ ten for combinations of instru ments ranging from trios to full chamber orchestra. Open ing the program will be a trio for flute, violin and viola, by Max Reger. Following the first number, otringneia win piay nis own composition, The Secret-Wish for flute alone. This composi tion was written during the summer of 1930, and is dedicat ed to Paul Green's daughter, Lucy. The third group on the pro gram is made up of two sketches, Ocracoke and Ram cat for string quartet, by Wil bur Royster of Raleigh. A former professor at the Univer sity, Royster is known to be an exceptionally versatile artist. Opening the second part of the program with the First Symphony by Beethoven, the full chamber orchestra will then play Circasian Beauty (from "At the Fair" suite) by the world famous pianist composer, John Powell, who will be pres ent for the concert. Following this number will be Hobby on the Green by Hilton Rufty, a young Virginia pianist-composer who is spending the week with Stringfield and will also be present for the concert. Many requests have been made to add the Moronique Danse by Herbert Hazelman, University freshman, which made such a tremendous impres sion on the audience at the con cert in January. Stringfield is undecided at present .as to how this number can be included without disturbing the form of the program, as already design ed, but he promises to use his best musical judgment about adding this interesting com position. Tickets for this last concert of the season by Stringfield and the faculty chamber orchestra may be obtained for fifty cents at Alfred Williams, Co. Opera Broadcast The radio broadcast of the Metropolitan opera i will be heard in choral room of the music building at 3 :30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The pro gram will consist of the third and fourth acts of Verdi's La Trdviata, with Lucrezia Bori and Giuseppe de Luca playing in the leading roles. TTTMTniC & UillUilO OmJliUl DANCE LEADERS FOR SPRING BALL Class Contributes to Loan Fund And Pledges Support to Honor System. The announcement of plans for the "junior-senior dances, the election of leaders for the -affair, a contribution to the Emergency Student Loan Fund, and a resolution pledging active support to the honor system were taken up by the junior class in their business session smoker in Swain hall last night. Sparks Griffin was elected chief leader for the junior dance while Tom Wright, J. E. Steere, H. G. Connor, Bill Hob erts, E. C. Daniels, and Percy Idol were chosen as assistants. Ben Campen, chairman of the dance committee, reported plans for the affair. The committee, which has has been working in concord with the senior committee, have according to the chairman, set April 29-30 and May 13-14 as possible dates for the annual junior-senior set and have un der consideration as orchestras Kay Kisar's, Isham Jones', Johnny Hamp, Emerson Gill's, and Ted Weems'. The possibil ity of a tea dance was also men tioned. The class authorized the treasurer to pay $35 as the jun iors' contribution to the Emer gency Student Loan Fund and passed a resolution repledging the class' full support to- the honor system. Billy String fellow and his university band furnished music for the smoker. TED BLACK WILL PLAY FOR ANNUAL WINTERFESTIVAL Orchestra for Dances Has Played Numerous Engagements Here and Abroad, j Music for the winter festival, annual dance set sponsored by Phi Delta Theta, A. T. O., Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Pi Kappa Phi fraternities, will be furnished by Ted Black and his Victor recording orches tra, NBC radio stars. Decorations in Bynum gym nasium for the dances, February 26 and 27, will be arranged by John Idol and his assistants, under contract to the festival committee, headed by Moseley Fonvielle, Phi Delta Theta. There will be three dances in the Festival set; Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Satur day evening. Black organized his band in 1923 and since that time has earned increasing recognition. His first major engagement was at the Little Club in New Or leans, one of the smartest club3 in the country at the time. After New Orleans, he was successful in New York, going from there to Paris. While there he won the singular honor of. haying his orchestra selected to play at Princess Mary's party Jnt the British embassy. Dyer Children DI Kimball and Virginia Dyer, children of Dr. Harold S. Dyer of the music department, were stricken with ptomaine ' poison ing Tuesday. Mrs.. Dyer is, at present, out of town, attending her mother's funeral.
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