Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Thursday, April 28, 1 932 &)t Datlp Ear Qeei The official newspaper of the Publi cations Union Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where.it is printed, daily except -lion-days, and the Thanksgiving, Christ mas, and; Spring: Holidays. Entered as ' second class matter at- the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $4.00 for the college year. Offices on the second floor of the Graham Memorial Building. Chas. G. Rose, Jr. ...Editor G. W. Wilson- Jr...-....Mng. fiditor John Manning Business Mgr. EDITORIAL BOARD Don Shoemak er, chairman, Henderson Heyward, Dan Lacy, Kemp Yarborough, J. F. Alexander, E. C. Daniel, William McKee, Ervin Jaffee, Bon Phillips, Karl Sprinkle. . CITY EDITORS W. R. Woerner, Tom Walker, W. E. Davis, T. H. Brough ton, Claiborn Carr, T. W. Blackwell. FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville, - chairman, Charles Poe, W. R. Eddie man, Joseph Sugarman, A. T. -Dill. FOREIGN NEWS BOARD Frank Hawley, C. G.Thompson, John Acee, Ed Spruill. . REPORTERS J. H. Morris, W. O. Marlowe, E. C. Bagwell, Harold Janofsky, F. C. Litten, N. H. Powell, Robert Bolton, P. W. Markley. Business Staff CIRCULATION MANAGER T. C. Worth. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Assist ants: R. D. McMillan, Pendleton Gray, Bernard Solomon. ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Howard Manning, manager; Bill Jones, H. Louis Brisk, Joe Mason, Dudley Jennings. COLLECTION DEPARTMENT John Barrow, manager; assistants: Ran dolph Reynolds, Joe Webb, Jim Cordon, Agnew Bahnson. Thursday, April 28, 1932 All Imaginary More's the. Pity , J ? One valuable contribution io posterity for which Voltaire was at least partly responsible was the origin and application of the idea of making history an inter esting story of cause and effect from which could be drawn fair ly accurate forecasts of future events rather than just a compil ation of statistical data. Being trained in this type of historical analysis we can observe certain trends from which it is easy to predict the outcome. Let us then witn full confidence in our abil ity snatch aside the- flimsy cur tain of mystery and look on the University of Nor$h Carolina as it will be in 1980. By that time the essential im portance of athletics will be fully recognized. The coach and his numerous stall of assistants and sub-assistants will have the second floor of South building. The mentors of our highly trained and efficient teams will have offices with i?lass topped desks and floors with endless miles of rich plush carpet. These sanctums of sanctums ' will be protected by a series of outer of fices, each of which will be equip ped withr4ts quota of glassy-eyed guards: There will be elevators to save the priceless minutes of these valuable specialists and to conserve their energy. - By that time an enlarged and imposing Graham Memorial will be the center of student interest and activity. . There will be one suite of offices where the main and allbright head of the student body will sit and stroke his beard in ponderous thought. . One di vision of his numerous staff will receive and record the , com plaints of the faculty members concerning study and attendance on their: classes. Of course, these complaints will be carefully phrased and lodged only after deep consideration. If the com mittee suspects that the instruc tor is to blame for lack of inter est it will immediately refer his cae to the student president who will automatically dismiss him from the faculty. Some except tions will be made to this rigid rule if the teacher' in question cajn prevail on some varsity man, on whom he has been particular ly! lenient, to stop by and say a wprd to - the president. This board will seem useless at first sight, because one would think the professors would leave well enough alone and not lodge any complaints. A ruling passed by the .Most High Council of Stu dent Control will explain every thing. This rule will state that a teacher must pass 95 of his pupils. In certain technical and advancedcourses teachers will find it impossible to make quizes easy ' enough or general enough for the required number to aver age anything above zero. The active consciences of some new instructors will make them feel the necessity of calling this sit uation to the attention of the whole student body. Hence this board. If .- the complaint is found justifiable, the class will be given a short lecture by the personal representative of the president of the student body. This will be a great disgrace greatly dreaded by all students. The game room will be greatly enlarged and improved both in variety and class of equipment. Along one side will be many small rooms where men can match their wits over the chess boards in quiet seclusion. Dumb waiters will be arranged so that refreshments can be had with out the annoyance of interrup tion. Bets on all games will be limited to a. hundred dollars. This will be the result of a con cession that the Most High Council of Student Control will make to silence a protest against gambling that will be launched in 1978. Of course, there will be ways, of .getting around this ob noxious rule. .' - jV: , Toward the rear, on one of the sijde halls" Of 'Graham Memorial will be a small soberly furnished roon. Behincl a miniature desk will sit a meticulously-groomed personage. He will be about middle aged. Everything will be in its proper place and carefully tabulated. On the glass of the door will be a sign "Fraternity Union." The duty of this man will be to receive and stall-off all persons presenting bills against any of the various Greek letter groups. His facility in this art Will be remarkable. The assem bled fraternities wiil hit on this idea about 1970. They will find he ' saves them a great deal. Fewer bills will have to be paid and house managers will have much more time for cards. In the limited space of these columns a full picture is not pos sible. Brief glimpses, while nec essarily sketchy, give some idea of the whole. It is, to be hoped that someone can foresee as rosy a period from 1980 to 2032 with as much justification. H.H. A House Divided A graduate student from Miss issippi was talking to a student from Duke University and a stu dent from the University of North Carolina : "The one criti cism that I have to make of North Carolina's two great uni versities concerns the poor spirit that they show toward each' oth er." And the graduate student from Mississippi was not criticizing the spirit of the students in the football stadium and in the gym nasium bleachers. He was com menting upon the lack of cooper ation between the faculty and administrative agencies of J the two universities. "Being only twelve miles apart," he continued,' "Duke and Carolina have the opportunity of creating the greatest cultural and educational center in the country, if they will merge their resources." The University of North Car olina does hot resent the rise of Duke University nor envy its wealth, as is commonly sup posed. We have simply not re alized, here in Chapel Hill, that a" great educational institution las suddenly grown up to replace tiny Trinity College. At Duke, they are havingdifficulty in ad justing themselves to the proper use of vast resources that have been unexpectedly bestowed up on them. It will mean much to the in tellectual renascence of the state and the South when Carolina can forget its surprise and Duke can shake off its bewilderment; when the two universities "can be thoroughly awa"kened to their common purpose, and when they can concentrate their joint re sources upon the attainment "of their common ideal. E. C. D. Oh Wake Me Bright And Early, Mother The crowning of May Queens, hazing, and other adolescent "carryings-on" are well estab lished features of many univer sities and colleges. Although the students look forward to such events and undertakings, the -campus that is free from such is more to be esteemed than the one that has them. The recent publication of the Booloo club lists stands as the only remnant of this adolescent type of behavior. This yearly custom of publishing these elec tions to the Booloo club has been in existence for quite a time and probably will continue in the future, but fortunately it is the only one of its sort on the cam pus at present." The breaking-away d rom these more or less childish traits marks a big step forward in the advancement of the students and the University in general. A few years ago it was quite common to hear the outlandish tales of how . the sophomores hazed the oncoming freshman group. . Fortunately (for the freshmen) it was seen fit to re move this, evil practice and thus it has. become non-existent to day. , . . - . Although it is very unlikely, perhaps it would be quite a worthy idea for the fraternities to abolish the indignant prac tice of beating their pledges. Many of the fraternities - have held national conventions and have made the absence of beat ing conspicuous in their consti tutions. . y". These forward tendencies all combine to show that the mind of the -student ?on the Univer sitycampus is becoming more advanced and looks upon the problems that confront it from a more sane and rational view point. E. J. .. With Contemporaries Grades and ' J Scholarship Tuesday is thevday. The great announcement will be made. , Tuesday Phi Beta Kappa will honor its newest selections at a convocation. There will 'be much joy and much , sorrow. That august group will pick from one sixth to one-tenth of the grad uating class and admit to mem bership because they have the highest grades .in the college. Scholarship is not considered. For many years Phi Beta Kappa has ' been the butt of many attacks. It has been ac cused of poor selection, politics, and . it has even been asked to justify its existence. Phi Beta Kappa has kept silence ' except in a few instances when it dis played bad judgment in an at tempt at justification. It is entirely obvious that Phi Beta Kappa, a society which has for its purpose the further ing of' scholarship, needs no defenses. It is not the society which is wrong, it is the system. Scholarship is an intangible quality. It is difficult to deter mine whether a person has it or not. Intellectuality and intelli gence are qualities which are hard to discern. There is but one manifestation of scholar ship possible in our present sys tem and that is the grades in the courses taken. It is upon these grades which ' Phi Beta Kappa must base their member ship. That is the reason for the accusations. Bertrand Russell hit the nail on the head when he said, "the system of scholarships obtained by competition . . .. makes stu dents regard knowledge . from the standpoint of what is useful in . examinations rather than in the light of its intrinsic interest or importance; it places" a pre mium on that sort of ability which is displayed precociously in glib answers to set questions rather than upon the kind that broods on difficulties and re mains for a time rather dumb And there you have it. The grading system does not permit scholarship, although many scholars find their way into the ranks of Phi Beta Kappa. The fact of the matter is that those who are capable ,of cramming a number of facts into their heads and keeping them there just long enough to pass an examin ation are the very ones who are admitted into membership and classed as scholars. , Why , should there be such a wide discrepancy between schol arship and activities? Why is it that every year the large ma jority of Phi Beta Kappa selec tions are never activity . work ers? Does work in activities signify a lack of brain power or does it mean that in order to make good grades one must do nothing but study? The an swer, of course, is that one must do a certain amount of grind ing to get consistently? good grades and that the time' requir ed by activities is riot conductive to great study. ' ' . ' Who is ahead then? The Phi Beta Kappa or the activity worker ? ' Who has accomplish ed the most? Phi Beta Kappa means only that a student has made good grades, not that he is a scholar or a good worker. , j To everything or everyone to whom even a measure of fame is attached comes criticism. The spotlight always brings friend ships and hatreds. Phi Beta jvappas Will De in meiimeugii Tuesday and they will, be criti cised. There is no help for it, .-... '. it just is. There : have even been instances in the not-so qistant past when students hav : turned down the opportunity to be members. The name has come to be almost a stigma. : That is the situation and it is to be deplored. Phi Beta Kap pa is a fine organization. Its work and the work of a few of its exceptional members is rec ognized. But so long as thev maintain that grades are any thing but . numbers and letters, aiid so long as they cling to the antiquated belief that good grades means scholarship, then just so long will they be criti cised and attacked. Daily Ne braskan. ' , Whattaman ! . . . -v If reports are correct, Col umbia University has Uncover ed one of the outstanding pro fessorial lights of the age.' Con ducting a course in family re lations at Columbia, this oasis in a desert of dry pedagogy is declared to have occupied the class time in expounding the ad vantages of free love to his students. .Such a man intrigues the im agination. Students who enroll inhis course must enjoy the pleasant sensation of drawing in a lottery, never certain of what will come : forth.' The sub ject assigned evidently means nothing whatever to this scin tillating scholar. If he were scheduled to teach French liter ature, he might be expected to regale the hardy souls sitting under him with arguments prov ing the inferiority of Voltaire to Shaw and the consequent fu tility of considering the works of the great French writer. Or, perhaps, the unsuitability of the Gallic tongue for the high er forms of literary art would appeal to him as more pertin ent to the subject. Daily Sun Bath Becomes Popular Diversion On University Campu? . ; ' O Worshippers of Ultra-Violet . Rays Form Near-Nudist Club for ?' Purpose of Acquiring Tarzan Complexion f Jleetings Are ' Conducted on Grass Plots Between Dormitories. . . L ... ' , , " " ' ' - : -: V "Cloudy weather do not-come, for out backs we wish to sun," chant the collesnate sun wor- . t shippers as they go forth to in dulge in daily rites beneath the beneficient rays of the noonday sun. Believing ultra-violet rays to be a boon to mankind, mem bers of the near-nudist club, which has sprung into being on the lower campus with the ad vent of warm weather, disport themselves daily in the sun shine, garbed in the scantiest of shorts. The cult has grown to such an extent, . that often, the entire area between G and I dormitories is crowded with semi-nude, white bodies. Membership Requirements The requirements , for- membership- in the club are simple. The aspirant must possess a pair of shorts and a desire for acquir ing a - Tarzan complexion. The activities of the club are re- , At least, no Columbian ever need lack for novelty in studies while "a ' gem; of this water, re mains on the faculty. The Lord must have broken ; the mold when he madehim, but, since no adequate successor may be, expected, let us pray that he will not soon be lost to our inT telleetual firmament. Long may he live! The Stanford Daily, . Opera in America ; "What is going to become of opera in America ?" people who care for this form of entertain ment are beginning to ask themselves. Every year it has become increasingly difficult to finance opera, and only the larg est of cities have been able to enjoy, this luxury. This year the Metropolitan Opera company faces a loss of . $550,000 for the current season, and unless something happens to make the rich contribute to keep it going, it is hard to say what may - happen. Not only that, but the entire organization of the Metropolitan has become so dead and old-fashioned that those who once supported it have been growing more reluct- mt. Just now the most wide awake opera company in Amer ica appears to be the Philadel phia Grand Opera company. It has behind it a most remark able record of achievement con sidering its age, and it has dem onstrated the fact that there is still an interest in opera. This company has been trying . to work with the new Radio City, and it may be that we shall have to look to Leopold Stokowski Increased Patronage From Carolina Men proves that they like our unusual values. We are always glad to have Carolina Students drop in and browse around whether they in tend to buy or not. : Young Men's Shop 126-128 E. Main St. . 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Enthusiasts predict the growth of the cult during the summer school and even go so far as to assert the probable adoption by the student body at large of the sunshine ensemble as a hot weather costume for general wear. and his organization for a new era in operatic productions. DaUy Kansan. :.hA, : Sixty-five thousand dollars is the value put on-a college educa tion by William - Atherton Du puy, prominent statistician. The average high; v school ; graduate earns $110,000 during his life time, . while the average univer sity graduate may expect to earn at least $175,000. Daily Ne braskan. . . : Wk THRILL MAD I 6Yry 3111 ttiiw u much A warning, to every girl who wants too much freedom ! Dorothy Mackaill Humplirey Bogart also Vitaphone Act "On Edge" "Timely Tunes" An Organlouge Metro Sound News NOW PLAYING r mm " & f u; J Ml m