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UNION FORUM MEETING
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214 GRAHAM MEMORIAL
UNION FORUM MEETING
9:30 TONIGHT
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YOLUME XLI
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1932,
NUMBER 41
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Student Council To Present
New Campus Government.Plan
Resolution Will Be Brought Up
Before Union Forum in
Session Tonight.
HONOR GROUPS PLANNED
Campus Organizations to Enter
Discussion of Measure in
Meetings Next Week.
ROYSTER AND PROCTOR
WILL DEBATE GEORGIA
At its regular meeting last
Monday night the student coun
cil, after three weeks of care
ful consideration and debate, de
cided upon a proposal to revamp
the University honor system
The resolution, to be discussed
by the student body during the
coming week, is :
Resolved by the student coun
cil: That the following pro
posal be submitted to a vote of
the entire student body at
special election to be called at
the will of the student council:
That, at the begining of each
quarter, each classroom group
shall elect a committee consist
ing of a chairman and additional
representatives in proportion to
the number of the students in
the class. This committee shall
have the following functions and
powers: (1) To serve as an
honor committee for that, par
ticular class bywhich it is elect
ed. (2) To try cases involving
breaches of the honor system.
(3.) To suspend persons from the
"University who are reported and
admit their guilt. (4) To re
port all cases of controversy to
the student council for action.
The professor of each class
shall, at the request of the stu
dent council, act as temporary
chairman for the election of the
honor committee. The commit
tees will consist of from three
to seven members: three repre
sentatives in classes up to fifty
In enrollment, five in classes
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STUDENTS TO HEAR
HENRY I FERGER
SPEAR ON ORIENT
Missionary Has Spent Past
Twenty-Two Years in North
India and Punjab.
Vermont Royster and B. C.
Proctor will represent the Uni
versity in a debate with the Uni
versity of Georgia in Gerrard
hall Thursday night at 7:30
o'clock. The subject will . be
"Resolved : That the American
Legion should be condemned."
The University will meet Geor
gia at Georgia m tne spring
quarter or during the spring va
cation. In the debate last year
Don Seawell and Johnny Wilkin
son won a decision over Georgia
debating the negative of the
question "That Roosevelt was the
best candidate for president." -B.
C. Proctor is well known
for his socialist activities on the
campus and throughout the
state and won his debating
monogram last year."
EXTENSION GROUP
MEETS IN DURHAM
EARLY TOMORROW
Representatives From Eight Institu
tions Will Convene at Wash
ington Duke.
UNION FORM TO
CONDUCT SECOND
MEETLNGTONIGHT
New Proposals of Council for
Student Government Will
Be Discussed.
Reverend Henry I. Ferger, of
JNorth India and the Punjab
will address social science stu
-dents on Ann-TruKn-n -.iiH-l
relations in the auditorium of
.Bingham hall at 7:15 - o'clock
tonight.
The graduate students in the
-economics department, who are
having this speaker for their
Tegular bi-weekly seminar, are
extending, an invitation to grad
uates in sociology and political
science and to all other persons
interested in this topic.
The speaker has spent twenty
two years in the. Orient as an
educational missionary of the
Presbyterian board of foreign
missions. During this time he
has made a close study of na
tive life and of the political at
titudes of the people. He has
prepared moving pictures with
which to illustrate his lecture.
Reverend Ferger, who is the
brother of Dr. W: F. Ferger, of
the University, is to arrive at
Chapel Hill Wednesday morning
and 'to remain here until Friday
night. He will then resume his
lecture tour, speaking next at
-Atlanta.
The Union Forum will con
duct its second meeting of the
year tonight - in room 214 Gra
ham" Memorial at 9:00 o'clock.
All members are urged to at
tend, as matters of considerable
importance will be discussed.
The sole purpose of this meet
ing is to discuss the new pro
posal of the student council con
cerning student government
The reason this issue isto be
presented before the forum first
is because the forum is the most
representative group of the stu
dent body. It represents every
sreosraphical division of the
campus, without discriminations
or restrictions of any kind and
has approximately one represen
tative for every thirty students.
The student activities com
mittee has similar functions to
those of the Union Forum; but
it is composed of the officers of
the various important student
groups and organizations and
the faculty and administration
officials, and therefore does not
represent the entire campus. '
One -of the original purposes
of the Union Forum was that it
should serve as a means of de
termining student opinion on
important pieces of campus leg
islation. It hears and discusses
proposed legislation before it is
put to a vote of the student body.
It mav also initiate and prepare
legislation before it is presented
to the student body. Any prob
lem of student interest may be
AivMcanii Kpfnr the forum. It
UUVUOOtU f.fcw-'w
is not a legislative group but, as
the name implies, a forum m
which conflicting elements of
campus opinion may be heard
and discussed. '
Last-year when certain pro
posals were made to revise the
honor system, the Union Forum
was the most active of all the
groups participating in the dis
Eight institutions of higher
learning will be represented at
the short business session of the
North Carolina association of
college extension to take place
tomorrow morning in the Wash
ington Duke hotel. R. M. Gram
man, director of the extension
division of the University and
chairman of the group, will pre
side. -
This group of extension direc
tors organized in September,
1930xhas adopted for its pur
pose, "to promote co-operative
relationships among the institu
tions of higher learning in the
state in the conducting of ex
tension teaching; to encourage
the development of general adult
education; and to provide for an
exchange of ideas and discus
sions of all phases of college ex
tension work."
The following institutions are
now participating in the exten
sion plans: Catawba College,
Davidson College, High Point
College, Lenoir-Rhyne College,
N. C. State, Salem College, Uni
versity of North Carolina, and
the Woman's College of the Uni
DR. McRAE TELLS
ASSEMBLY ABOUT
CHINESE DIALECTS
Episcopal Missionary From Shanghai
Explains Difficulties of Lan
guage to Freshmen.
Dr. Cameron McRae, EpiscO;
pal missionary from China ad
dressed the freshman assembly
yesterday on the Chinese lan
guage. Dr. McRae is a native
North Carolinian, but has been
stationed in Shanghai, China,
for the past thirty-three years.
Dr. McRae said that the first
thing a missionary must do up
on being sent to China is to
learn the language, which is no
easy task. Two entirely differ
ent languages must be learned,
the written and the spoken dia
lect; these two have about the
same relation that Latin and the
modern Romance languages have
to each other. The missionaries
are taught the tongue by compe
tent teachers in the' various language-schools.
McRae was brought to Chapel
Hill through the endeavors of
Rev. Tom Wright, assistant pas
tor of the Chapel of the Cross.
Hoover Concedes Defeat In Face
Of Unprecedented Electoral Lead
DR. POTEAT TO SPEAK ON
ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM
The faculty committee on the
Armistice Day celebration an
nounced today that it has se
cured Dr. W. L. Poteat, presi
dent emeritus of Wake Forest
college, to deliver the annual ad
dress at the exercises which will
be held Friday morning at 10 :15
o'clock.
President Graham has uthor
ized the committee to announce
that there will.be no assembly
Friday, and that the 9 :30 classes
will be dismissed at 10 :08 o'clock
in order to give those who will
attend the exercises ample time
to get there. The 11 :00 o'clock
classes will not begin until 11 :15
o'clock.
The full program of the ex
ercises will be announced later.
Democratic Candidate Carries
Thirty-Seven States in Late
Returns Last Night.
N. C. DEMOCRATS IN LEAD
Staunch Republican Papers Con
cede Defeat Upon Early Indi
cations of Landslide.
LATE BULLETIN
At 12:07 o'clock (E.S.T.) an
Associated Press bulletin from
Palo Alto, Calif., stated that
Herbert Hoover had conceded
the election to his opponent.
Infirmary List
Yesterday the following were
included on the infirmary sick
list: J. W. Kirkpatrick, J. E.
Honeycutt, and P. L. Onasch.
BAGBY OUTLINES
NEED OF SOUND
THEOLOGY TOT
Psychology Professor Says That
Students Thrive Under Doc
trines of Jesus Christ. "
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL HAS
STRUGGLED FOR CLINICAL COURSE
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Opening With the Preceptorial System in 1879, the Medical School
Has Considered as Late as 1925 a Plan for Adding
Two Years to Present Course.
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Financial difficulties and sec
tional influences have since 1908
prevented the University med
ical school from offering the last
two years of clinical work in its
curriculum. As late as 1925
plans were iormulated to ex
pand the present course to four
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years, out tne attempt was
vetoed by the state legislature.
The plan was conditioned upon
the building of a hospital in
Chapel Hill or on the use of
some other hospital in a nearby
town. When the matter was
presented to the board of trus
tees, it was voted to build a hos
pital as a memorial to those who
lost their lives in the World War.
Morrison Against Plan
Governor Cameron Morrison,
the ex-officio chairman of the
committee, wanted to have the
clinical department established
in Charlotte. Since the general
sentiment was not in sympathy
with this plan, he refused to ap
point a committee to take ac
tion. Finally, the group of men
who later comprised the com
mittee were able to proceed by
conceding that if "they found
that it would be impractical to
have the clinical department
here, they would consider some
other place.
The committee was so com
posed that it was impossible to
overcome the Charlotte plan or
to forward the one in favor of
Chapel Hill. There was alsotfear
of interference with the five
year building plan for the Uni
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History Majors
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tory are required to see Profes
sor F. M. Green of the history
department before November 15.
Weeks Explains Honor System Proposal
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At the beginning of last year the student council started a
movement to revive the spirit of our honor system which has
lapsed in recent years. Throughout the year the council
worked diligently discussing and considering plans that might
bring about the desired result.
Continuing the work of last year, and after three weeks of
concentrated discussion, the student council offers what it
believes to be a solution to the problem.
The proposed plan will not take anything from our exist
ing system; instead it will add greatly to it. Following the
lines of democracy in government, it will decentralize our
present honor system, to a certain extent, and will give the
individual student more responsibility in it. Jt reserves the
right of students to report, at all times, directly to .the stu
dent council in preference to the honor committees if they
wish to do so. On the other hand, it provides a means through
which a student, wishing to make a report, can do so more
easily to more intimate representatives.
The honor committees' functions will not be limited to quiz
and examination hours. They will serve throughout the en
tire quarter, taking account of all breaches of the honor sys
tem arising in .their classes at any time.
The student council requests every student in the Univer
sity to consider this plan, and to attend all discussions of At
so that when the vote is taken, every person can vote with
accurate and adequate knowledge of it.
HAYWOOD WEEKS.
"Some educators in this state
are saying that you won't be a
success , unless you have a thor
ough understanding of a very
complex and confused theology;
but if you adopt the fundamen
tal principles of the teachings of
Jesus Christ, your confusion will
be gone," declared Dr. English
Bagby of the psychology depart
ment Monday night before the
freshman friendship council.
Dr. Bagby 's subject dealt with
the eradication of theological
confusion by th psychological
method of the successfully com
plete task.
Need of Successful Action
"When you're in religious con
fusion,? you should employ the
technique of the- successfully
completed action ; that is, to go
out and do some work with a
social value attached to it, and
one in which you will be thor
oughly satisfied after having
completed it," Dr. Bagby said,
offering a solution to a problem
confronting many University
students.
The psychologist cited one of
the best examples of this action
as one where a Carolina student
felt the need of a successfully
completed action and he pro
ceeded 4o be a friend to a friend
less man one of the most bene
ficial tasks from a social stand
point that can be employed and
and one which at the same time
rids a person of religious con
fusion, according to Dr. Bagby.
Dr. Bagby summed up the
entire value of his speech with
this Biblical quotation: "Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart and thy neighbor
as thyself."
"In this quotation," . declared
the speaker, "lies the entire ob
ligation of mankind."
In the business meeting Jim
Steere, chairman of the commit
tee on freshman work, organized
the members of the group into
several squads to canvass the
the dormitories and to collect
any articles of spare : clothing
they could find for the colored
boys at the Palmer Institute.
By Don Shoemaker
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Democratic candidate for the
presidency, was apparently swept
into the White House by the
largest electoral vote for one
candidate in recent history, ac
cording to returns from only
10,000 of about 125,000 election
districts at press time (1:05
a. m.) .
The last tabulation of popular
vote gave at press time Roose-
veil, i ,tju i ,3ck aiiu nwvci
260,981.
The electoral vote was said to
approximate 51 for Hoover and
456 for Roosevelt.
It was apparent shortly before
midnight that the only states
that the Republican candidate
was given a chance to carry
were Delaware, Idaho, Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Mon
tana, and Pennsylvania.
Papers Concede Defeat
The battle was apparently
won in the evening, according to
Frederick William Wild, Colum
bia Broadcasting company elec
tion prophet, who stated that
with New York in the bag,
Franklin D. Roosevelt was cer
tain to carry the election. Wil
liam H. Hill, chairman of . the
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SONG COMMITTEE
REPORTS ON NEW
SCHOOL ANTHEM
Grail's Effort to Secure New Tar
Heel Song Results
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The committee under the di-'
rection of Haywood Weeks,
president of the student body,
took final action Monday night,
toward accepting the melody and
lyric submitted by Thornton W.
Allen of New York City, for the
new school song being sponsored
by the Order of the Grail.
The song, entitled The Tar
Heel Battle Song, "contains a
military rhythm for marching,
an ideal for singing and play
ing. Allen has utilized a strain
suggesting thePmelody of the
famous Dixie. The well-known
lines, "I'm a Tar Heel born,J'm
a Tar Heel bred," will also be
used.
Professor Dyer returned the
manuscript and the draft of the
words, submitted by the com
mittee, to Allen Monday night,
with instructions that the har
monized version of the song be
sent immediately for final ap
proval. Following thi3 approval,
the song will be published in
New York, and -500 copies will
be delivered to the. Order of the
Grail for distribution on the
campus.
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