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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Sat nr day, May 7, 193.
Xhe Datlp Ear rjtei
The cScial 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.
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Graham Memorial Building.
Chas. G. Rose, Jr. ....... Editor
G. W. Wilson, Jr. ....Mng. Editor
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er, ' chairman, Henderson Heyward,
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CITY EDITORS W. R. Woerner, Tom
( Walker, W. E. Davis, T. H. Brough
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FEATURE BOARD Ben Neville,
chairman, Charles Poe, W. R. Eddie
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FOREIGN NEWS BOARD Frank
Hawley, C. G. Thompson, John Acee,
Ed SpruiU.
REPORTERS J. H. Morris, W. O.
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. Cordon, Agnew Bahnson.
Saturday, May 7, 1932
En
Avant
Under the guidance of Dean
Addison Hibbard, Northwestern
University's college of liberal
arts took a radical step forward
Wednesday to abolish majors
and minors, and to grant honor
and pass degrees to undergrad
uates in its folds. Fields of con
centrated study are opened, com
prehensive examinations are of
fered and reading periods are
provided before examinations
through the revised curriculum
, adopted by the Illinois institu
tion.
Most striking is the 'pass and
honor system, to be used as de
grees. Already employed in
some Canadian universities and
in use on the continent, the sys
tem provides that each junior at
the outset of his year shall chose
between working for an honor
degree and taking a pass degree.
The former will require special
research with the privilige of
optional attendance on advanced
courses and independent study.
In the words of Dean Hibbard
the new curriculum ia intended
to accomplish three purposes :
"To give the student added in
- centive and freedom in working
out his own education.
"To distinguish between the
serious, superior student inter
ested in securing an education
and the average, or socially
minded student who goes to col
lege largely because it is the
thing to do."
"To add greater, unity ahd
consecutiveness to the students'
program of study." .
The Daily Northwestern's
cataloguing of the new plan is as
follows :
(1) Two degrees are specified
an Honors and a Pass degree.
(2) Fields of concentration
replace the former major and
minor requirements. Each can
didate for a degree from the col
lege must, elect a field not later
than the beginning of his junior
year.
(3) Each candidate for an
Honors degree must pass a com
prehensive examination cover
ing his field of concentration, the
examination to be given at the
close of the senior year.
(4) Reading periods before
examination periods are provid
ed for students in advanced
courses. Social events, student
activities, public lectures will be
restricted by the college during
the reading periods.
(5) The present work in in
dependent study will be further
developed.
(6) Correlation courses to
give unity, sequence and coher
ence to the work in the college, I
eventually will be offered.
(7) Proficiency examinations
for freshman and sophomore
courses may be taken by stu
dents who have particularly
trained themselves for those
courses. Students passing these
proficiency tests may be excus
ed from formal requirements.
(8) ach department will
prepare an outline' of each
course offered, stating the ob
ject of the course, content, or
ganization, and principal prob
lems dealt with in the course.
Educators are unanimous in
their praise of Northwestern's
step, and it is hailed as the
greatest achievement in modern
education in its class since the
innovation of the Univeristy of
Chicago plan established by
President ' Hutchins several
years ago. It embodies the ideals
of highly concentrated educa
tion, education that permits the
undergraduate to seek out for
himself and at his convenience
that which he earnestly desires.
If Northwestern's fight was long
and hard to gain such a system,
it has not gone unrequited.
D.C.S.
High Powered
Standardization
That education is tending
toward standardization has been
manifested frequently in the
last few months. Nothing more
clearly exhibits this than the
examinations that were given
Wednesday and Thursday to
various members of the sopho
more class.
Just a few months ago the
Spanish instructors banded to
gether and through the Univer
sity extension division published
a small booklet giving the mini
mum requirements for high
school students preparing to
take advanced courses in Span
ish in college. The purpose of
this booklet is that when a stu
dent comes to a large college
and has a higher degree of
knowledge in the language he
is going to enter, he can take
an examination based upon the
book and with the results, the
instructors can ascertain if he
really deserves this promotion
or not.
- The quizzes that are being
given to the one-third of the
sophomore class are for the pur
pose of rating the sophomore
class of the University in rela
tion with the sophomore classes
of other universities. These
quizzes cover, very specifically,
the cultural, scientific, and his
torical side of the necessities of
a well-balanced education. From
the reports that various students
have been heard to make, it
would seem that these quizzes
are rather "stiff" and a bit too
highly specialized, but that may
be due to the student's failings.
Although the benefit of this
standardization does not appear
evident at the present, in the
years to come it will become
more apparent. Even if the
sophomores feel they are being
run through the gauntlet, .they
are really martyrs for the cause
and will probably realize this
when the years give them the
proper perspective that is neces
sary to observe when consider
ing such extensive programs for
educational ' standardization.
E.J.
A Champion
At Last
Overnight John N. Garner
has been raised from the ranks
of favorite sons to a real power
in the race for the democratic
presidential nomination.. Defeat
ing both Roosevelt and Smith
in the California primaries,
Garner has profited from the
rift between the two New York
ers. He will control some ninety
votes in the democratic, conven
tion ; and although this is far
from enough to make him a real
contender he may hold a veto
power over the aspirations of
others.
Garner has risen to public
recognition with meteoric speed.
Until he was made Speaker of
the House of Representatives,
the Texan was practically un
known outside of his own state.
His sound record, his dodging
of the spotlight, and his aver
sion to oratory have conspired
to deny the recognition that is
due to him for his long record
as a public servant. His com
mon-sense, management of the
flighty House during its latest
session has finally brought the
publicity which a politician must
have to achieve distinction in
the eyes of the people.
While Garner deserves the
confidence of California, it is
very doubtful whether he could
have made even a good showing
had not the ' unfortunate quar
rel arisen between Smith and
Governor Roosevelt. The Cali
fornia result showed that this
rift has injured both men, and
if either of the ' New Yorkers
is nominated it may hurt their
chances a good deal. The fact
that Smith declares that he does
not have confidence in Roose
velt's ability will influence many
voters ; and may procure the
election of Hoover if Roosevelt,
the leading Democratic candi
date at present, is nominated.
The Democrats had better take
heed of the California result,
ancUsee to it that their presi
dential candidates seek the
nomination on the strength of
their own merits rather than by
stressing the weaknesses of the
other leaders of their own
party. B.P.
Calling the
Kettle Black
Editor, College Topics,
Sir:
During the past week end I
had occasion to be at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. While
talking to one of the students of
that University I broached Ahe
subject of the relations between
the fraternities. I was much
surprised to learn that there
was rivalry bordening on hatred
among the several fraternities.
On further inquiry I learned
that this ill feeling was a result
of the politicing that prevails
at all elections.
In the last two years at this
university I have noticed that
there are certain groups that
are allowing their owxi selfish
wishes to override their better
judgment. Men have been elect
ed as a result of th concentrated
effort of a few and not because
of their own qualifications to
hold office. I hear rumors that
small political Machines are in
action to swing the coming elec
tions. This I view with alarm,
I fear that we too will find our
fraternities and other groups in
a situation similar to that xat
North Carolina.
If the persons who intend to
conduct such an election twill
persist in spite of the results to
the general good feeling that
prevails at the university at
present, it would only seem fair
that they would announce their
intentions so that there will be
a fair race; otherwise it would
be very easy for any organiza
tion to elect the most ill-fitted
men in college to serve on the
Honor Committee over a more
worthy opponent.
Respectfully,
JOHN CUMMINGS WYLLY.
U. of Virginia College Topics.
The Thirty
Commandments
The Northwestern Daily,
heretofore known as the official
voice of 15,000 students at
Northwestern University, has
received its second set back
within as many months with
With
Contemporaries
the drafting by the board of
student publications of a set of
thirty limitations and restric
tions by which the Daily must
abide if it hopes to maintain its
existence as such. They have
yet to be ratified by the faculty
board of supervisors of student
activities. If this ratification
takes place, and it undoubtedly
will, the Northwestern Daily
seems doomed to vacate its posi
tion as a true and unhampered
champion of student opinion,
and become a mild, passive, and
trite exemplification of the al
mighty power of the faculty to
control what students say, if not
what they , think.
In effect, the powers that be in
the faculty body have dictated
to the powers that were in the
Northwestern press that :
"Thou shalt not suffer any
printed matter to be published
in ridicule of the university ad-!
ministration or curricula ;" and
at once they have stripped the
students of any choice in the
manner and means by which
they will receive their education.
True, a line might be drawn
somewhere between ridicule and
constructive criticism, but that
line could be made so dim on oc
casions that the unfortunate cri
tic could quite easily be depriv
ed of his offending pen.
"Thou shalt not refer to birth
control and pertinent subjects,"
and in so commanding they have
effectively silenced representa
tives of a generation that is fast
becoming sensible toward the
real things in life, merely be
cause of the taboos and the pre
judices of a fast disappearing
code that will not countenance
its progress.
"Thou shalt not mention Al
Capone or other gangsters."
Thus is the master of crime giv
en absolute immunity from any
derogatory . statements that
might be made concerning him
in the university newspaper. It
must be proof that America's
worst scourge, the gangster, is
really invulnerable when one of
the largest educational s institu
tions tells its students that they
must hold their tongues, because
the chief hoodlums, who are in
their happiest hunting grounds
close by, might hear.
And so on, for thirty com
mandments does the faculty
board proceed to curtain the
freedom of the Northwestern
press. The regulations vary in
their degree of justice from
rules that are perfectly fair and
reasonable, and are a necessity
to every college newspaper, to
demands that no straight-thinking,
straight-writing promulga
tor of ' student opinion could
countenance and still retain his
original qualities of thought and
expression. Purdue Exponent.
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over left ear and tail. Last seen
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They're Here Again!
GEORGE SIDNEY
CHARLIE MURRAY
in
"The Cohens and
Kellys in Hollywood"
. ALSO
Comedy Novelty
NOW PLAYING
UNIVERSITY GLEE
CLUB LEAVES FOR
RICHMOND TODAY
(Continued from first page)
E. L. Midgett, L. B. Mann, S. C.
Isley, J. W. Slaughter, Nutt
Parsley, Paul Somers, L. David
se, John MiUer, Wofford Humph
ries, Al den Shahr, L. V. Ander
son, J. C. Goodwin, S. A. Wright,
William Hunt, Walter Noe, C.
G. Stumpf, R. W. Barnett, Ed
Conrad, P. H. Barrett, J. P.
Templeton, Tommy Teer, Paul
Bauer, J. H. Clifford, and Henry
Pearson.
The program is as follows:
Now Let Every Tongue Adore
Thee, by Bach; With Heart Up
lifted, by Constantine Schvedov;
My Beloved, by Deems Taylor;
and Ave Maria.
Weil Lecture Funds
Bring Notables Here
(Continued from first page)
Hopkins University spoke on
"The American Citizen and his
Economic Welfare."
Hon. Robert Goodwyn Rhett,
ex-president of the Chamber , of
Commerce of the United States,
spoke in 1919-20 on "American
Citizenship." Professor' Wil
liam Bennett Munro of Harvard
University succeeded him with
an interesting series of lectures
entitled "Personality in Poli
tics." He discussed notable
American mayors and political
bosses of the past generation. In
the third of his series, "Person
ality in Reform Politics," he told
"Why Reformers so Often Fail."
Dr. John Huston Finley, well
known associate editor of the
New York Times, selected an
unusual topic for his lectures in
1921-22 entitled "National and
Planetary Consciousness." The
series comprised "Copernican
America," "The Televictorian
Age," and "Planetary Consciousness.";''.-
'.'-j..-"' .
The lectures of 1922-23 were
given by Fabian Franklin, Ph.
D., LL. D., publicist of New
York City. Franklin talked on
"The Rule of the People."
Following Professor Edward
Alsworth Ross' lectures in 1923
24 were talks on "Some Cycles
of Cathay," given by William
Allen White, editor of the Em
poria Gazette of Emporia, Kan
sas. In the next year Henry
Noble MacCracken, president of
Vassar College, talked on sub
jects including "The Complaint
of the Times." During 1926-27
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no lectures were given.
The speaker of 1927-23 was.
Professor, William. H. Kirkpat
rick of Columbia University.
Although there was no speaker
in the following year, Dr. Will
W. Alexander of the Inter-Racial
Commission lectured 1929-00
on "What is the South?"
The last Weil lecturer to date
was Dr. Harold J. Laski of the
London School of Economics.
Dr. Laski spoke on "The Expert
in Modern Democracy."
Alexander Andrews
Aid To Universitv
(Continued from, first page)
ago. During the course of the
speech . Andrews stated "Then
think of the living alumni in
various professions and occupa
tions' Think of the successful
men who have gone out from its
halls to add to the learning, the
wealth, and the happiness of
people. Think that you also,
have the same training and
some guidance in college that
they had. Recall how they re
flect credit on Alma Mater. Then
let us try to emulate their ex
ample. Be a Master Builder,
even' though it is only of small
things."
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