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VOLUME XL CHAPEL HILL, N. CSUND AY. MARCH 27. 1932 xttmrfr
PHOTOGRAPHS OF
STUDENT UNIONS
DISPLAYED HERE
Views of American Universities'
Student Centers Shown in
Graham Memorial.
Through the courtesy of the
American Association of Uni
versity Unions, the management
of Graham Memorial is display
ing a set of photographs show
ing different views of student
unions in the country. These
pictures are hung in the banquet
room of the building and will be
on display for the coming week.
The association of student un
ions, of which Graham Memor
ial here is a member, lends these
photographs for exhibition pur
poses. Noah Goodridge, mana
ger of the building, has secured
them for a short length .of time.
Unions at the universities of
Rochester, Utah, Alabama, Kan
sas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Cali
fornia, and Toronto, and Iowa
State college, Cornell, Michigan
State - college, and) Brkwn uni
versity are shown in the display.
The Iowa union building, the
Williard Speight hall at Cornell,
and the Hart house at Toronto
are pictured in detail, showing
handsomely equipped lounges
and cafeterias. Two photo
graphs of the theatre connected
-with the union at Cornell are
shown and the auditorium of the
Iowa State building is also
shown.
Graham to Speak to Alumni
President Frank Porter Gra
ham will be the principal speak
er at an annual banquet of the
Cabarrus county alumni associ
ation of the University to take
place Tuesday night in the ball
room of the Hotel Concord, Concord.
John J. Parker Narrowly Missed
Place On Supreme Court Bench
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Unsuccessful as Candidate for Governor, Prominent University
Trustee Nominated for Seat in Highest Tribunal But Failed
To Receive Confirmation by Close Vote of 41-39.
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One of the younger men in
public life, John J; Parker, judge
of the fourth United States cir
cuit court of appeals, has seen
both sides of Fortune's face. He
has experienced defeat after
defeat as the candidate of the
minority party in the state, only
to emerge from political gloom
as a member of the second high
est court in the nation.
Unsuccessful at the polls as
a candidate for congress, for
the attorney generalship of the
state, and for governor, Judge
Parker has been recognized as
a brilliant legal and political fig
ure by those who have appoint
ed him to high positions. Five
years after his gubernatorial
campaign of 1920 in which he
received the largest vote ever
given a Republican candidate in
North Carolina until that time
President Coolidge appointed
him to his present office of
United States circuit court
judge. He was also selected in
1923 as special assistant to the
attorney general in handling
war fraud cases.
Nominated by Hoover
Judge Parker was President
Hoover's choice for the vacancy
in the Federal Supreme Court
two years ago, but the senate
refused to confirm the appoint
ment by the close vote of , 39
to 41. A nation-wide controver
sy raged over the Carolina jur
ist's qualifications, because of
the charges of reaction and
Y. M. C. A. Officers
To Be Nominated
Tomorrow Night
Additional nominations for
the Y. M. C. A. officers for the
coming year will be made tomor
row night at 7 :15 at the regular
Y meeting. All three cabinets
will meet together to make the
nominations, and then will ad
journ to their own rooms to hold
their regular programs. The
voting will take place Tuesday
in the Y from 10:30 to 5:00
o'clock. The new Y. M. C. A.
constitution makes any student
eligible to vote who has attend
ed at least six meetings of one
of the cabinets during the last
two quarters, or who has paid Y
dues to the amount of two dol
lars. . .
Nominations which have al
ready been made for the senior
cabinet are Billy McKee for
president; Jim Steere for vice
president; Roy MacMillan for
secretary; and Ike Minor for
treasurer. Nominations for of
ficers in the rising sophomore
cabinet are Locke Sloop and
Claudev Freeman for president;
Ed Martin nd Blucher Elring
haus for vice-president; Mason
Glbbes and Simmons Patterson
for secretary; and Bob Bolton,
Henry Emerson, and Gene Bag
well for treasurer.
Staff Meetings
A reorganization of the en
tire editorial staff of The
Daily Tar Heel for the spring
quarter will take place tonight
at 7:00 o'clock in the Graham
Memorial 'office. New men will
be given tryouts at this time.
The foreign, news board,'
feature board, and the city
editors will - meet at 5:00
o'clock. The editorial board
will convene at 5:30.
prejudice which were advanced
against him.
His candidacy was bitterly
opposed by the American Fed
eration of Labor which assert
ed that he had shown hostility
toward the working classes in
his decision as circuit judge
upholding the use of injunctions
in strikes. Negro influence also
contributed to his defeat in the
senatev when colored organiza
tions assailed him for refusing
to organize the Wgro voters
during his campaign for gov
ernor. Supporters of Judge Parker
refuted these claims by declar
ing that the Supreme Court
would have reviewed the labor
decision if it had not been sound,
and that his attitude in 1920
was in the interest of harmony
between the races of the state.
Despite the thousands of friends
working on Parker's behalf, the
senate repudiated him.
Influenced Party Policies .
In addition to having been
the standard bearer of the Re
publican party in numerous state
campaigns, Judge Parker ' has
been active in moulding the na
tional party policies. He has
served on the state executive
committee: and was a national
committeeman in 1924. He went
to the national convention of
that year as a delegate at large.
He considers himself neither
a liberal nor a conservative, but
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Modern Scholars Trained But Not
(Really Educated Believes Foerster
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Advocate of New Humanism Asserts That Scholarship Is Too
Much of a "Product" in Following Article Written
Especially for Daily Tar Heel Publication.
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By Norman Foerster
(Director of the School of Letters,
University of Iowa )
Many of the best students in
the English departments of the
universities are in revolt. And
with good reason.
Most of "the. undergraduate
work and all of the graduate
work has been geared, to use an
appropriate mechanical figure,
for the production of "contribu
tions to the sum of knowledge."
Our objectives in the study of
literature have been borrowed
from science. It is not only that
we have aped the method and
spirit of science. We have even
succumbed to " the ideal that
science has proclaimed, the ideal
of Progress through Service.
Whatever the validity of this
ideal in science, in the field of
literature it seems to me mostly
ballyhoo. We take the young
lover of literature and gradually
put him .through the mill in
order to shape him as a research
er capable of rendering some
pitiful service in the endless
progress of knowledge. We make
of him a specialist, a tool for the
advancement of science, narrow
ing his intellectual and emotion
al life, starving his higher na
ture in order that he may be able
to do his bit for the great cause
of learning. He is to sacrifice
himself in the service of . pro
gress. '
Advocates of the prevailing
system will perhaps deny that
they disregard the student's in
terests for the glory of science.
I can only answer that the facts
are against them. The student
needs mare than good will, but
NEFF TO ACCEPT
PRESIDENCY OF
TEXAS COLLEGE
Former Governor of Lone Star State
Becomes Eighth President of
Baylor University.
Pat M. Neff, who was unani
mously elected by the board of
trustees of Baylor university at
Waco, Texas, as president of
that institution, has formally
announced his acceptance of the
position.
His letter of acceptance to
Judge W. H. Jenkins, secretary
of the board, follows: "Mindful
of its responsibilities, conscious
of its obligations, and apprecia
tive of its ever-widening oppor
tunities, I accept, to assume
work at late date, the presidency
of Baylor university, my Moth
er of Learning, as a challenging
call to duty and . service." .
Becoming the eighth president
that Baylor has had in her
eighty-seven years of scholastic
activity, NefF has behind him
many years of service to his state
and country in'various public of
fices. He has been chairman of
the Baylor board of trustees for
the nast twenty-five years. Hei
was president of the General
Baptist Convention of Texas for
three years, and was governor of
the state for two terms. He act
ed as labor mediator for the
president of the United States
at one time, and is now chair
man of the Texas Railroad Com
mission. No Monday Assembly
There will be no assembly to
morrow. Harry F. Comer, sec
retary of the Y. M. C. A., will
be in charge of the program
Tuesday.
he is not getting it.
He needs culture, the cultiva
tion of all his faculties, since all
of them are relevant in literary
study. We talk endlessly and
thoughtlessly about method,
technique, research, contribu
tions, progress, and service. But
who talks about culture? Well,
they still talk of it in France at
any rate. When M. Desclos, for
instance, visited us here at Iowa
recently and conducted a round
table on French university edu
cation, we asked him whether
the object of the French univer
sity was research or culture, and
he replied that it was culture.
Not research in a specialized
subject, but the cultivation of
the mind and personality of the
student.
What does this mean, specifi
cally, in the case of the literary
student? It means, it seems to
me, the development of the
whole set of powers that should
be active in the study of litera
ture. It means the development
not only of a ense of fact and a
sense of time, the two things
that we are aiming at in Ameri
ca, but it means also the develop
ment of aesthetic responsive
ness, of the ability to handle
ideas, of taste and judgment or
the critical sense, and the power
of writing and speaking in the
sensitive language appropriate
to literary discussion. What is
needed is encouragement of all
of these powers, along with rec
ognition of the special aptitude
of each student. In terms of
subject matter, literary culture
demands that we give attention
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Carleton Brown, Alfred Dashiell, and Jacob Zeitlin
Profess Unfamiliarity With Aim Of Humanism
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Illinois Professor Thinks Liberal Attitude Is Gaining Ground Managing Editor of "Scribner'3
Magazine" Calls It "Retreat Within Academic Shell"; Secretary of Modern Language Asso
ciation Declares No New Principle for Guidance of American Scholars Established.
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(Th ese articles were especially contributed to The Daily Tar Heel)
By Carleton Brdwn
Secretary of the Modem Language
Association of America
' Iam unai)le to understand at
all clearly the actuating princi
ples of Dr. Foerster's program,
even after reading . attentively
his recent books and articles.
None of us, I imagine, believe in
"dry-as-dust" scholarship, and
if. this is what CDr. ' Foerster
means by literae inhumaniores
then we will enthusiastically sup
port his crusade. On the other
hand, we do, some of us, still be
lieve in exact and truth-seeking
standards in the pursuit of schol
arly as well as of scientific inves
tigations. There has been a sus
picion in some quarters that
those who were exalting the
New Humanism were really en
deavoring to bring into disrepute
this painstaking effort to discov
er the solid basis Qf fact, which
should be the object of literary
study. If Dr. Foerster recogr
nizes the necessity of scientific
accuracy and the need of patient
investigation, then do not see
how any one will take issue with
him. Nor, for that matter, do I
see that he has established any
new principle for the guidance
of American scholars.
Moreover, I am somewhat non
plussed that Dr. Foerster should
include my name among the de
fenders of "the present system"
as opposed to the "broader ideals
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Dr. M. C. S. Noble, retired edu
cation dean and pioneer worker
on state public school systems,
is the new chairman of the
North Carolina Historical Com
mission, succeeding Judge Thom
as M. Pittman, who died last
month.
School In Oklahoma
Will Audit Records
Of Student Activities
Explaining its action as "de
mands of representative students
in the form of a petition for a
complete investigation," the col
lege council at the Oklahoma
Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege has announced that it will
conduct an audit of all the fin
ancial records of the student
government association and of
the student publications.
No information was advanced
as to what formed the basis for
the complaints or as to who made
them except that attention was
called to the fact that the con
stitution of the student associa
tion provides for an audit of the
accounts, of any student organi
zation at any time by the college
administration.
' By Alfred Dashiell
Managing Editor of Scribner's
Magazine
I welcomed the humanist con
troversy because I was glad to
see people get excited about
ideas again, despite the fact that
the New Humanism represented
the galvanization of an old doc
trine in the attempt to capitalize
the trend of the times; some
thing' like the silver issue in poli
tics. -
There seems to be no agree
ment among the humanists as to
what humanism is, but the ar
ticle "Romanticism and the Ori
ent," by Irving Babbitt in The
Bookman (December 1931) con
tains one important clarification.
"Quite apart from tradition
and purely as a matter of psycho
logical analysis, the underlying
opposition in all this clash . of
tendencies is that between those
who affirm in some form the in
ner life and those who corrupt
or deny it. Among the latter
are those from Rosseau to Lenin
who have discredited the higher
will on which the inner life fin
ally depends by their transfer of
the struggle between good and
evil from the heart of the indi
vidual to society."
This seems to me, despite Pro
fessor Babbitt's qualification
concerning humanism and reli
gion, to mean that humanism
teaches in yeffect "Trust in God
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NOBLE ELECTED
HEAD OF STATE
HISTORY GROUP
Dean Succeeds Judge Pittman as
Chairman of North Carolina
Historical Commission.
Dr. M. C. S. Noble, retired
dean of the University school of
education, was elected chairman
of the North Carolina Historical!
Commission, at a meeting of the
group Friday in the Raleigh of
fice of Dr. A. R. Newsome, sec
retary. Dr. Noble, who has been
a member of the commission
since 1907 and winner of the
Mayflower Society Cup in 1931,
will succeed Judge Thomas M.
Pittman oi Henderson, who died
February 8.
Pioneer Educator
The education dean has been a
pioneer in public school work in
North Carolina along with the
late Edwin A. Alderman and
Charles D. Mclver. Although
advanced in years and relieved
of administrative duty, he has
been active in writing school
books and articles on North
Carolina history.' His compre-
nensive mstory of trie tuoixc
Schools of North Carolina pub
lished by the University press
won the 1931 Mayflower Cup,
established last year as an an
nual award for the best work
published by a resident of the
state.
The Commission chairman is
charged with the collection, pre
servation and publication of the
invaluable source materials of
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Noble's many years of research
and authorship, as well as his
active membership on the His
torical Commission throughout
most of its existence, make him
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By Jacob Zeitlin
University of Illinois
I am not at all certain that
among teachers of literature
there is a sharp line dividing the
champions of "the present sys
tem" from the followers of Dr.
Norman Foerster. If, indeed,
we conceive of these two oppos
ed groups as standing respec
tively, and with mutual exclus
iveness, for the discovery of
facts and for humane, interpre
tation, then I doubt whether
many simon-pure specimens of
either breed will be discover
able. No true humanist, or even
neo-humanist, would question
the importance of sound and re
liable knowledge, and there are
few serious investigators who
do not try to make their re
searches subserve some idea or
who ignore the human values in
literary study. Both points of
view are indispensable 'in the
proper teaching of the subject.
It sometimes looks as if it
were only a conflict between
Utopian fancy and sad-eyed
reality. When Professor Foer
ster assumes in the student,
preparatory to his entrance on
graduate work, a
cultural background
"sufficient
in such
fields as history, philosophy,
science, and language and litera
ture," he is not, I fear, speaking
in terms of experience but
rather of unfulfilled-desire. His
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