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DR. -ROBERT A. MILLIKAN JIcNAIR LECTURE MEMORIAL HALL 8:30 DR. ROBERT A. MILLIKAN McNAIR LECTURE MEMORIAL HALL 8:30 VOLUME XL CHAPEL HILL, N. O, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932 NUMBER 150 THREE ELECTED TOMMBERSHIP IN TAUBETA PI Honor Accorded Dr. Alfred Mc LarenWhite, J. E. Hunter, And J. R. Marvin. At the meeting of the local chapter of Tau Beta Pi, nation al honorary engineering frater nity, Monday night, three men -were elected to membership in ihe organization. Dr. Alfred McLaren White, who came to the University in the fall of 1930 to take charge of the chemical engineering depart ment, was elected into member ship in the fraternity, while two juniors, John Emile Hunter of Asheville and James R. Marvin -also received the honor. Since Marvin is away on co operative work at the present, ihe society decided not to con duct the usual formal tapping for the one student eligible. Membership in Tau Beta Pi carries with it the highest hon , or that can come to an engineer ing student. The qualifications are among the highest attain able in scholarship and charac ter. The qualities considered in election of new members are mainly good scholarship, integ rity, interest, adaptability, capa city for leadership, and social qualities. TWO DANCES WILL BE STAGED HERE BY FRATERNITIES Theta Chi and Kappa Alpha to Entertain Friday and Satur day in Conjunction. Theta Chi and Kappa Alpha are giving two dances this week- end in conjunction. The first will take place Friday night in Bynum gymnasium from. 9:00 to 1 :00. The second will be given at the Carolina Inn jfrom 6:00 to 8:00 p. m. The music will be furnished by Jack Baxter. Both fraternities are having house parties also. The dance commit tee of the Kappa Alpha consists of James Blackhurst, Henry Redding, and Tom Watkins. Guests for the house party in clude: Nora and Helen Browning, Littleton; Temperance Brittan, Lewiston; Eloise Garrett, Golds T)oro; Eloise Barwick, Raleigh; Mary Shimwell, Lexington ; Dor othy Davis, Winston-Salem ; Mary Neel Moody, Charlotte ; Frances 'Allen, Charlotte; Mary Best Van Landingham, Scotland Neck ; Elizabeth Strickland, Sel ma; Mary Price, Winston-Salem ; Mary Stronach, Raleigh; Ruth Newby, Hertford ; Alma Ran son, Charlotte ; Merza Louise Tuttle, Margaret Anne Waeche, Pay Reuling, and Peggy Rout son, Baltimore, Md. ; Mintha Ann Weld, Converse College, S. C. ; Virginia Lawrence, Onalene Lawrence, Washington, D. C; Ellen Turner and Jonet Turpin, Richmond; Vivian Verne, New Orleans; Patricia Dunway, Mi ami, Fla.; and Doreen Wicker sham, Ann Arbor, Mich. The dance committee of Theta Chi is made up of Charles Wil pan, Vernon Idol, Jr., Neil Ross, and Joe Giles. Guests for the house party are as follows: Vivian Reed, Alice Buel, Lois Wilman, and Alice Demming, Washington, D. C. ; Elizabeth Shaw, Rockingham; Naomi Ho (Continued on last page) Weil Lectures For This Year Canceled Dean D. D. Carroll of the school of commerce announced yesterday that the Weil lectures have been canceled for this year at the request of the Weil fam ily. The money, which would otherwise be used for the annual lecture, will be transferred to the Student Loan Fund. The lectures are to be continued next year. During the years 1914-1915 an endowed lectureship was es tablished by the University. Af ter the first, year, the founda tion, named "The Weil Lectures on American Citizenship," has been permanently established through the generosity of the Weil families of Goldsboro. CONCERT BAND TO PRESENT OPENING PROGRAM SUNDAY Group Composed of Forty-Eight Members Will Be Directed By Professor McCorkle. The University Concert Band, under the direction of Professor T. Smith McCorkle of the music department, will present a con cert in Hill music hall Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock. This program will mark the annual formal spring concert of the band, and later, as the custom is, other informal programs will be played on the campus under Da vie Poplar in the evenings. The program to be presented is altogether from symphonic literature and ranges from the classic school to the more mod ern composers. Of these modern composers there are yet a few alive whose works will be pre sented Sunday in the program. Assisting Soloists Assisting soloists will be Miss Helen Eubanks, soprano, Thor M. Johnson, violin, and Brooks Fryer, pianist. Miss Virginia Buckles, a pupil of Professor Nelson O. Kennedy, will serve as accompanist. The University Concert Band is a symphonic organization of forty-eight men who are chosen from the personnel of the large band which plays at football games and other outdoor events. It represents thus a finished or ganization of highly skilled musi cians. The present officers of the band are : John W. Clinard, Jr., of High Point, president, and Frank Jacocks, Jr., of Elizabeth City, manager. These officers will retire this week, and officers for the coming year will be chosen at that time. Eight in Infirmary C. K. Carmichael, H. D. Boyd, W. G. Duflock, Jonn Mclnes, Jr., H. T. Dupree, Jr., Ansley Cope, A. J. Baracket, and Emmie Frances Polhill were confined to the infirmary yesterday. Erratum The Daily Tar Heel wishes to correct a statement in the article on prospective Golden Fleece candidates'contained in yesterday morning's paper. Whereas it was stated that the first man tapped auto matically became Jason of the Order, the article should have read that the Jason is elected from the group tapped, the order of selection having nothing to do with the selec tion of officers. GRAIL TO HONOR NEW MEMBERS AT LAST DANCE Organization Decides to Admit Freshmen to Affair Sat urday Night. New members of the Order of the Grail will be presented at the last dance of the organiza tion which will be given Satur day night, April 23, in Bynum gymnasium. The dance will be in honor of the new men, whose names are to be announced later in the week. After much deliberation, the order has revoked the ruling which forbids freshmen to at tend the Grail dances. While the rule had its merits, it is thought that all freshmen should be given an opportunity to at tend dances before finals, spon sored by the German Club. For that reason, an amendment has been made, and freshmen will be admitted to this last Grail dance. The dance will be the climax of a week-end of social activities sponsored by the Kappa Alpha and Theta Chi fraternities and the Grail. Music for all three dances will be furnished by Jack Baxter and his orchestra. President Graham Addresses Society President Frank P. Graham returned late yesterday from Winston-Salem, where he ad dressed the medical unit of the general alumni association at a luncheon for the group. The luncheon was a part of the program of the North Caro lina Medical Society convention which came to a close yesterday. Dr. Robert Millikan's Interests In College Lay Outside Physics o - Famous Scientist Who Will Deliver McNair Lectures Beginning Tonight Did Not Develop Real Liking for Subject Until He Had to Accept Teaching Position. o Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, celebrated physicist, who is to deliver the annual series of three McNair lectures at the Univer sity beginning tonight at 8:30 o'clock, was interested in any thing but physics during his un dergraduate days. His most absorbing studies during undergraduate days at Oberlin1 College, he says, were Greek and mathematics. He was also active in athletic, musical, literary and other extra-curricular activities. Versatile Student He competed in the 100 and 220-yard dashes with some suc cess, was chosen president of his class in his sophomore year, was editor-in-chief of the college an nual in his junior year, acted as student gymnasium director dur ing his junior and senior years, and was chosen to make the speech for his class at gradua tion exercises. And yet schol arship apparently was his chief interest throughout these under graduate days, as attested by the fact that he made Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Millikan did not develop a real interest in physics until he found himself a college gradu ate wondering where to turn for a job. Oberlin had an opening for an instructor! in the physics department. It did not appeal to Millikan, but it was the only position offered him at the time. Physics must have won Milli kan over in a fairly short time, for two years later, after teach SYMPHONY GROUP NAMES DATE FOR FIRST REHEARSAL Head of Organization Reports Progress in Formation Throughout State. The North Carolina Sym phony Society, which was formed here March 21 at a meeting of seventy-five music lovers from all sections of the state, will have its first audition rehearsal here in the Hill music auditorium next Saturday, at which time some of the musicians to take part in the first demonstration concert, planned for May, will be selected, Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt, president of the society, announced yesterday. The audition will begin at 10:00 o'clock Saturday morning and continue until 4 :30 in the af ternoon. All musicians with symphonic experience or qualifi cations and others interested are invited to be present. Chairmen Appointed Applications for auditions may be made directly through the society here or through the following district chairmen: Professor W. T. Sinclair of the Charlotte high school, Professor Earl Slocum of the Greensboro high school, Professor Charles G. Vardell of Salem College, or Professor Isaac L.- Battliri of Meredith College. Plans have been definitely laid for organizing symphony clubs in four other North Carolina towns, Greensboro, High Point, Concord and Charlotte, as the result of visits to those towns of Lamar Stringfield, research associate of the Institute of Folk Music, who is doing most of the (Continued on last page) ing the subject at Oberlin for two years, in 1893, he was on his way to New York to take a fel lowship in physics offered him by Columbia University. He stayed at Columbia until he secured his doctor's degree and then he went abroad for further study it was still physics. Returning a year later in 1896, he accepted an appointment at the University of Chicago and was a member of the Chicago faculty until 1921, when he, accepted an appoint ment as director of the Norman Bridge laboratory of physics of the California Institute of Tech nology, which position he. still holds. -Noted Author Dr. Millikan is the author or joint author of thirteen books dealing with various phases of physics. Most of them are used as textbooks. He has been actively engaged in research work in physics since 1895, and has contributed nu merous articles to the journals of physics, chiefly in the fields of electricity, optics, and molecular physics. k One of his first discoveries to attract world-wide attention was the isolation and measure ment of the electron. One of his recent studies dealt with the na ture and properties of cosmic rays, giving the best evidence yet found for the existence of a very high frequency radiation in cos mic origin, which appears to shoot through space uniformly in all directions. McNair Lecturer z Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge laboratory of the California In stitute of Technology at Pasa dena, will deliver the annual Mc Nair lectures here in Memorial hall beginning tonight at 8:30 o'clock. The subject of Dr. Mil likan's lectures will be "The Changing World." DON BESTOR TO PLAY FOR THIRD ANNUALFROLICS Set of Four Dances Scheduled For April 29 and 30 In Tin Can. The May Frolics of 1932 have been set for April 29 and 30. Music for these dances will be furnished by Don Bestbr and his Victor recording orchestra. The May Frolics will begin Friday afternoon, April 29, with a tea dance given at the Carolina Inn from 4:00-6:00 o'clock. That evening the formal dance will take place from 9:00-1:00 o'clock in the Tin Can. Satur day, the May Frolics will con tinue with a luncheon dance from 12:00-2:00 o'clock at the Washington-Duke hotel in Dur ham, and with tea dance in the Tin Can from 4:00-6:00 o'clock. The last dance of the series will be given Saturday night in the Tin Can at 9 :00 o'clock. Given by Seven Fraternities Seven fraternities, including Sigma Nu, Zeta Psi, Beta Theta Pi, D. K. E., Kappa Sigma, S. A. E., and Sigma Chi, will co-operate in giving the set of dances. The officers of the May Frolics of 1932 are: John Park, presi dent; Fred Laxton, vice-president; Henry Anderson, secretary and treasurer; Bob Carmichael, assistant secretary and treasur er; Harry Finch, dance leader; George Waterhouse, first assis tant dance leader; and Arlindo Cate, second assistant dance leader. Chaperones The chaperones who have been chosen are : Mrs. P. Van Valken burgh, Mrs. J. C. Lyons, Mrs. Fred Patterson, Mrs. J. F. Wiley, Mrs. Robert Wettach, Mrs. W. W. Pierson, Mrs. R. J. Mebane, Mrs. C. T. Woollen, Mrs. W. M. Dey, Mrs. A. C. How ell, Mrs. P. Venable, Mrs. S. E. Leavitt, Mrs. E. G. Hoefer, Mrs. G. M. Braune, Mrs. E. J. Wood house, Mrs. Colin Harding, and Mrs. P. S. Randolph. Music Meeting The last meeting of the music department of the Community club will take place this after noon at 3 :30 o'clock in the Hill music auditorium. Selections from Brahms, a group of vocal solos, and two selections of chamber music will make up the program, which has been ar ranged by Mrs. Fred McCalT. CAMPUS OFFICERS FOR COMING YEAR TAKE OVER POSTS Thirty-Four Men Formally In ducted Into Offices in Cere mony in Memorial Hall. Following the custom begun last year, thirty-four campus of ficers for the coming year were formally inaugurated in assem bly yesterday. Mayne Albright, outgoing president of the student union, spoke briefly of the past admin istration. He stated that dur ing the past term the student government had earnestly en deavored to improve itself and to deal with all students equally. New President Speaks Haywood Weeks, new presi dent of the student union, intro duced by Albright, accepted his office promising to do his best and to have the campus govern ment run by , the students. He stated that the first act of the combined old and new councils was to give a representative on the student council to the engi neering school. He pledged himself as a medium between the students and the faculty. Weeks praised the outgoing council and administration, stating that it was the best in the history of the University. ' ' He, in turn, introduced the (Continued on last page) FIRST DAY'S SALE OF INVITATIONS IS VERY SUCCESSFUL Orders for Booklets Now Being Taken at Pritchard-Lloyd's And at Y. M .C. A. The first day of sale for se nior invitations was unusually successful. The comparatively large reductions in price were responsible for many early or ders. , Invitations this year are of fered in high quality leather booklets in blue and silver, and reasonably priced cardboard booklets in white and silver. The covers of both have the year, University name and seal, as well as a drawing of the Morehead Patterson bell tower embossed heavily upon the outside. The material within includes the names of all candidates for degrees such as fourth year un dergraduates, first year master's candidates, etc. Then the grad uation program, class commit tee personnels, and pictures 'of President Graham, Graham Me morial, Old South, and the Old Well will follow. Prices Reduced Prices have been reduced on. the leather booklets from seventy-five cents each ,to sixty cents each, to fifty cents in half dozen lots, and to forty-five cents each in dozen lots. . The cardboard booklets, which sold for. thirty cents each last year are selling this year for: twenty-five cents singly and for twenty cents in dozen lots. The sale is taking place at Pritchard-Lloyd's and the Y. M. C. A. . during assembly period, and from 1:30 to 4:30 each af ternoon this w7eek. At night they are being sold at Pritchard Lloyd's from 6 :30 to 7 :30. Meyer Speaks to Seniors Harold D. Meyer delivered a commencement address at Wal lace, N. C, to a'graduating class of forty-four students Monday."