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PHILANTHROPIC ASSEMBLY 7:00 P.M. NEW EAST DIALECTIC SENATE 7:00 P.M. NEW WEST VOLUME XLI CHAPEL HILL, N. O, TUESDAY, OCTOBER. 11, 1932 NUMBER 16 GRAHAM'S SPEECH HEARD BY HI-Y IN ANNUALSESSION President Tells Youth That They Have Privilege in Chance To Rebuild World. "You . young men have the greatest opportunity ever offered a generation to rebuild the world," declared Dr.' Frank P. Graham, president of the Uni versity, at the closing session last Saturday of the second an nual Carolinas' Hi-Y Congress at Raleigh. "This generation lives in -the midst of a great transi tion, unlike any which the world has experienced in many years. Every generation brings a tran sition, but only seldom does one of this magnitude appear." Urges Brotherhood Dr. Graham made a strong ap peal to the some three score young delegates to make their organization one of internation al brotherhood, both in fact as well as ideals. Never has there been a time when the need for this force has been more needed, he said. The speaker gave a -rivid illustration of his point by showing the world as highly or ganized mechanically, resulting: in the formation of a sensitive superstructure, controlled some times by relatively small "but tons." He spoke of the 1929 crash in Wall Street and of the incident in 1914 when a Slavic youth pulled a trigger which did muzh to bring on the World War. "I don't mean to say that the Wall Street crash caused the de pression, or that the shooting of the pistol brought on the World War, but I do mean to say that these incidents released pent up forces, bringing later their ter rible results. Thus, you may see, how sensitive is this super structure at times. "We need spiritual forces to Tun through this giant mechan ical structure and strengthen it. You young men are living in the (Continued on last page) HI TO CONTINUE DISCUSSION OF BONUSPAYMENT Phi Will Discuss Birth Control And FootbaU Rules; Di Dis cusses Tatum Petition. The Di Senate will continue discussion tonight at its regular meeting on the bonus and take action on the bill,' Resolved That the Di senate go on record as favoring the immediate pay ment of the bonus. The second bill will be, That the Tatum petition Is unjustifi able as an attempt to limit lib eral education in institutions of higher learning. The final bill for discussion will be, That the fraternities and social orders initiation ceremonies should be ctrPP.tS Of Chapel Hill. The Phi assembly will discuss these bills- at their meeting this eveniner: Resolved: That the new rules in football concerning the kick- off, use of hands, substitution, and dead ball have impaired ra ther than helned the game and that they should be revised to read as they were last year. Resolved: That the distribu tion of written matter and the giving of advice concerning birth control by licensed physi- cians should be legalized by Lon gress. ' - Wilmington Students Plan Home Town Club An addition to the Univer sity's list of active organizations will be made when a club com posed of students from Wilming ton an,d vicinity will meet to night in 210 Graham Memorial at 7:00 o'clock. It is estimated that twenty-five or thirty stu dents will turn out for the inau gural gathering. The meeting tonight will con sist of the election of officers, the appointment of a constitution committee by the newly elected president, and the preparation of plans and aims for the com ing year. Joseph Newton, soph omore, and Alfred Miller, fresh man, are the two Wilmington students responsible for the for mation of the campus' newest club. SALON ENSEMBLE PLAYS SUNDAY IN FORESTTHEATRE Student Musical Group's First Performance to Include One Of Stringfield's Works. The Carolina Playmakers, in co-operation with the Institute of Folk Music, will present the Carolina salon ensemble, Thor Johnson conducting, in the For est theatre, Sunday at 4:00 o'clock. Since the program is being given for the benefit of the central welfare committee, there will be a small admission charge. The ensemble, entirely a stu dent organization, will give its first performance this season, and the program will last about thirty minutes. After Midnight, composed by Lamar Stringfield, of the music department, will have its initial performance at the concert. The selection is based on Pretty Polly, an old folk ballad. Mrs. J. E. Jones, a ballad singer of long experience, will sing Pretty Polly. Don Juan Overture by Mozart, and Andante Cantabile from Tschaikowsky's fifth symphony will also be played. " During the intermission, Col onel Joseph Hyde Pratt will give a brief talk on "Music for Ev erybody." ALUMNI MEETINGS PLANNED TONIGHT Durham Alumni To Hear House and Albright, and Lee County Alum ni Will Hear Jackson. The Lee county alumni asso ciation will convene tonight at the Wilrik hotel in Sanford for their University Day celebra tion, with a' program for the evening including a talk by Dean W. C. Jackson of the school of public administration, and a talk by Mayne Albright, direc tor of Graham Memorial. Tonight at the Hope Valley country club the annual meeting of the Durham alumni club is planned. The speaker of the evening from the University will be R. B. House, executive secretary. Accompanying House will be Mrs. House and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Saunders. The program will also include various light entertainment fea tures. Classes Cancelled The regular 11:00 and 12:00 o'clock classes will be cancelled tomorrow, University Day, while classes during the 9:30 period will be released at 10:00 o'clock. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS WILL MEET THURSDAY The first meeting of the A. I. E. will be conducted Thurs E day night at 8:30 o'clock in room 206 of Phillips hall. Pro fessor E. W. Winkler, of the. fac ulty will make a report of the national A. L E. E. convention that was conducted in Cleveland, Ohio, during the past summer, to which he was a delegate from the. University. Other members of the faculty and students will have part on the program. Re freshments will be served at the conclusion of the meeting. Medical Students Forced To Rob Graves For Specimens In Nineties - o Many Gruesome Stories Told of Pranks Played on Unsuspecting Freshmen by Students in University Medical School; Certain Antics Nearly Closed School. o To awaken in the morning to find lying in bed with,you a cold, dead body, clammy and dripping with preservative fluid, would be as frightening an ex perience now as it was to an un fortunate Carolina freshman of the nineties. Freshmen of this day need have no worry of such practical joking. But alumni still chuckle over the story of how this particular freshman went rushing into the dawn, un clad and shrieking, a victim of prankish "med" students. Medical students at Carolina in the last century won an un savory reputation for the grue some antics of a few of their number. About thirty years ago, says Dr. Isaac Manning, dean of the present medical school, the alleged activities of the prankish medical men were reported by the Tar Heel in a story which unwittingly nearly closed the medical school. A senator based a successful cam paign platform against orgies which students were reputed to perform over bodies procured for experimentation. The ulti mate result was state legislation to prohibit study of unclaimed bodies from the state hospital. The law has never been repealed, and is still source of as much an noyance to medical students now as it was then. Stripped Graves Necessity of human specimens gave rise to one gruesome story of robbing of graves. Energetic and interested students demand ed first hand anatomy study to accompany the lectures by Dr. Richard Whitehead. Dr. White head, who later taught at the University of Virginia, had ex pressed need of a specimen. When the doctor entered class the following day he noticed an object hidden beneath a canvass on the operating table. Shrugging his small round shoulders, he spat his tobacco into the corner cuspidor, then cautiously circled the slab. With one curious eye on the. table, he began his lecture sans specimen. Curiosity impelled him to throw A. S. M. E. WILL CONDUCT FIRST MEETING TONIGHT A general organization meet ing of the local chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will take place to night at 7:15 o'clock in room 319 Phillips hall. No formal program for the meeting has been made out, and no speaker has, been invited, as the society is meeting only for the purpose of organizing and laying plans for the year's activities. All stu dents in mechanical engineering are invited to be present at this meeting. WILLIAM I. WARD TO SPEAK IN CARRBORO William I. Ward, Republican candidate for Congressman from this district, will speak at the Carrboro school auditorium to night at 7:30 o'clock. The pro gram featuring Ward is pre sented under the auspices of the local young Republican club. Haywood Weeks, president of the student body of the Univer sity, will preside, and John Wil kinson will introduce the speak er. All members of the club are urged to attend, and the public is cordially invited. back the cover. Surprised and delighted students beheld the magnificent physique of a black man, but they shrank with hor ror from the face, scraped free of all flesh to conceal identifica tion. Shocked and amazed, White head reproached his class. T don't know who the poor devil is, nor how he came here, but we had no specimen last night. Grave robbing is a crime. Who ever is responsible, return him." Perplexed students were dis missed. That night the body disappeared and no more has been heard of it. Gruesome Comedy Grim comedy resulted from the following incident. "A gen tleman living in Chapel Hill buried his wife a few days ago," announced a professor in physi ology one snowy February morn ing. "The body has been re moved from the grave and the man swears he's going to kill every . medical student who had anything to do with it. He claims to have tracked a wagon through the snow from the grave to the med building. He's wild with anger and he has a gun. I leave it to you," he said, departing, "to produce the body." Lawson President of Class The students hurried with blank and leartul laces to a meeting called by Robert B. .Lawson, then president of the class, and now a physician and head of gymnasium instruction here. Every man swore he knew nothincr about it. A crazed man out to murder them was to be reckoned with. A flat denial of the whole charge was the only answer, which the students tim idly presented to. the outraged husband. No students were killed. Weeks passed with no clues. Then the mystery was suddenly solved.. "I hope father never discovers that we removed mother from the old graveyard to our new lot in Durham," the man's daughter was heard to re mark. DEAN M. T. VAN HECKE WILL ADDRESS ALUMNI Dean M. T. Van Hecke, of the University law school will leave today to journey to Asheville, where he will , address the Uni versity alumni-club of that city at an informal dinner Wednes day evening, October 12. This meeting will be one of a series of such affairs to take place in this state and in others as cele brations of Founders' Day at the University. A great number of the alumni meetings within the state will be addressed by mem bers of the University faculty. M ore Than Two Hundred Men Pledge Fraternities -s WOMAN'S ASSOCIATION WILL MEET TONIGHT The Woman's Association will have .its first meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Graham Me morial. The president of the association, Mary Frances Par ker, will open the meeting, the feature of which will be an ad dress by Miss Claudia Hunter, vocational director from Hen derson, who will talk about the choice of a vocation. Miss Hunt er, who is brought here by the Woman's Association, will re main in Chapel Hill for a week after the meeting, and will be glad to assist any girl who wants advice or guidance in her plans for the future. STATE SYMPHONY TO BE CONDUCTED BY PAULGR ANGER Committee Decides to Send Invi tation to Artist to Act as Guest Leader. At a meeting of the executive committee of the North Caro lina Symphony Society Saturday in Raleigh, it was decided to ex tend an invitation to Paul Gran ger to come to North Carolina as a guest conductor at the win ter concerts of the state sym phony to be conducted in Jan uary. ; .. Granger, who is one of Amer ica's foremost music artists and composers, had previously announced that he would come if the committee invited him. He has stated that he is very enthusiastic over the work of the North Carolina symphony, and recently said that in his opinion the state was taking a great step forward towards a wider public appreciation of classical and folk music Tentative Programs Colonel, Joseph Hyde Pratt, chairman of the committee, an nounced that plans were being made to include at least one of Granger's own compositions on the series of programs to be played by the symphony. No arrangements were definitely (Continued on last page) GROVES LECTURING THROUGH MISSOURI Sociology Professor. Will Speak Before Mid-West Teachers' Organiza tion During October. Dr. Ernest R. Groves of the sociology department of the University is. to make two speeches in Missouri within the next few days. October 10 he will speak for the state confer ence of the P. T, A. on the title, "The Strategy of Parenthood." He will speak in the Teachers college at Kansas City October 12 on the topic "The Home, the school, and the Child.". Dr. Groves' new revision of Introduction to Sociology which came off the press this month stresses the changes of empha sis that have appeared recently and new contributions that are advantageous to include in1 an introductory course. Recent re sults of research in the fields of psychology and economics are included. Two in Infirmary Two University students, G. P. Millar and Paul Gamble, were confined to the University in firmary yesterday. Number Taken in by Organiza tions Less by Hundred Than Last Year's Figures. BETAS LEAD IN NUMBER Further Pledging Will Be Car ried on Today at 1:30 In Gerrard Hall. After a rushing season of two weeks, campus Greeks were look ing over their crop of neophytes last night which yesterday as pledge day brought to swell their lodges. According to unofficial tahulation 206 freshmen and new men to the campus became pledges, which marks the de crease of ninety as compared with last year's figures. The shorter rushing season, not allowing decision to be reached, within the regular lim it, may have had some effect up on the number of pledges but expense is also seen as a factor. The proportion of freshmen in school and those going to fra ternities is slightly lower when compared with last year. Further Pledging Today Irving Boyle, president of the Interfraternity Council, will be in Gerrard hall today at 1 :30 o'clock to deliver invitations to those first-year men who did not receive theirs yesterday. All freshman pledging at this time must be handled through the In erfraternity Council or the office of the dean of students for the matter to become official. Beta Theta Pi, with twenty one, led the fraternities with the largest number pledged while Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Nu, and Alpha Tau Omega followed close behind. The Daily Tar hel com piled the following list last night, though an exact and full tabula tion could not be made at the time: . Delta Kappa Epsilon: William James Berry, Jr., Durham ; Jack (Continued on page two) EUSHA MITCHELL SOCIETY TO HAVE MEETLNGTONIGHT University Professors Will De liver Addresses at Initial Meeting of Year. The Elisha Mitchell scientific society will conduct its 338th meeting in Phillips hall tonight, beginning promptly at 7:30 o'clock. The program will include lec tures by Professors Sherwood Githens, and W. C. Coker. Pro fessor Coker will lecture on "The Opportunities for Botanical Study at the Highlands Labora tory," and Professor Githens will address' the meeting on the subject, 'The Magnetic Field of a Solenoid Oscillating at Radio Frequencies." Incoming officers of the year will be inaugurated at the meeting. " ' Object of Society The society, which is now in its forty-eighth year, conducts monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of each month for the discussion of scientific subjects. Its object is to encourage re search and to record the results of such work, especially that which concerns the national his tory of 'North Carolina. To this end, it publishes a quarterly Journal, which is the official organ of the society and the North Carolina Academy of Science.
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