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CHEMICAL ENGINEERS' DAY
TOMORROW
LECTURES SEMINARS
DEBATE TRY-OUTS
TOMORROW
MEMORIAL HALL
VOLUME XLI
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1932
NUMBER 59
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Council For Student Expression
To firing Lecturers To7 Campus
pive Clubs Pool Efforts to Se
cure Prominent Speakers on
National Problems.
XIST CONTAINS EIGHT MEN
Powers Hapgood, Ernest Greun
ing, Gordon Ward, and Nor
man Thomas Included.
PHI DEFEATS DI IN
ANNUAL DEBATE
L. H. Fountain Phi Representative,
Wins 'Mary D. Wright Medal
"As Best Speaker.
Eight lectures prominent on
the social and political nor izon
will appear on the lecture plat
form here during the winter
quarter if the plans of the new
ly organized Council Student Ex
pression meet with contemplated
success. Five campus organiza
tions have recently banded to
gether to form the Council,
which, in cooperation with the
League for -.Industrial Democ
Tacy, will launch a series of lec
tures running from January 12
to March 2.
Men of such importance '. as
Powers Hapgood, Ernest Gruen
ing, Hubert C. Herring, Gordon
Ward and Norman Thomas are
on the list of speakers who will
present various views on taxa
tion, unemployment, utilities,
and trends in industrial organ
ization. It is planned to obtain
local and state speakers to pre
sent conflicting sides of the
question at each of the lectures,
-and a tentative list of men and
women prominent in the affairs'
of the state has been drawn up
by the Council.
t Sponsored by Five Clubs
Organizations sponsoring the
-movement at present include the
Dialectic Senate, the Philan
thropic Assembly, Epsilon Phi
Delta, the Y cabinets, and the
campus Socialist club. Numer
ous other organizations have
signified their willingness -to
join and it is expected that more
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DRAMATISTS WILL
GIVE FOUR SHORT
. PLAYSTfflS WEEK
Playmakers' Second Public Play
Bill Consists of Original
One-Act Pieces.
FORENSIC SQUAD
TO TRY OUT FOR
DUBLIN CONTEST
Group Will Meet in Memorial Hall
t Tomorrow Night to Prepare for
Debate December 15.
The try-outs for the Dublin
debate will take place tomorrow
evening at 9:00 o'clock in 213
Memorial hall. The preliminary
contest is open to all students of
the University and contestants
will deliver five minute ad
dresses. Although in the meeting with
the Irish debaters, December
15, University men will uphold
the negative side of the question,
Resolved : That nationalism is a
Debaters from the Phi assem
bly, C. W. Griffin of Williamston
and L. H. Fountain of Tarboro,
were victors in the annual Mary
D. Wright debate between the Di
and Phi societies, conducted in
Gerrard hall last night, defeat
ing the Di team of Bill Eddie
man of - Gastonia and E. R. Oet
tinger of Wilson. .
L. H. Fountain, speaking last bar to peace and progress. Those
for the victors, was awarded the speakers trying out Monday may
medal as the best speaker. The take either side of the question.
following query was debated, Three judges will select two
Resolved : That the nations oi tne university speakers to oppose
world should disarm all forces the two representatives of the
riot needed for police purposes. University of Dublin. The judges
The Di spoke on tne amrmauve nave not been dehnitely an
and Phi representatives on the nounced but it is probably that
negative. ' N they will be members of the fac-
Prof essors E. W. Metzinthin, ulty committee on debating who
E. E. Ericson, and R. B. Sharpe are Professors W. A. 01sen,-E.
were' judges for the contest. J. Woodhouse, and G. M. McKie.
COMMITTEE WILL
MAKE SELECTIONS
HERE THIS WEEK
Candidates to Represent North
Carolina " Will Be Chosen
By Rhodes Group.
I The Dublin debate is tne big
gest event of the debating year
at Chapel Hill, and previous
years have seen a very heavy
attendance at the event, which
will take place this year Decern
ber 15.
The North Carolina state
committee for the selection Of
N. B. Adams To Speak
To Philological Club
Members of the Philological
club will convene for the third
VAN HECKE WILL
EXPLAIN REVISION
OF CONSTITUTION
North Carolina Club Will Conduct Dis
cussion on Proposed Changes
Tuesday Night.
R. B. House Wins Tar Heel Poll
For University Vice-Presidency
Lectures Tomorrow
The next meeting of the North
Carolina club will take place
Tuesday night at 7 :30 o'clock! in
the library room of the depart
ment of rural social economics.
The feature of the program will
be a discussion of the report re
cently submitted by the consti
tutional revision committee for
proposed changes in the consti
tution pf North Carolina. This
discussion will be lead by Dean
M. T. Van Hecke of the Univer
sity law school.
Van Hecke will explain why
the constitution needs revising
and will discuss the merits and
defects of the particular changes
under consideration.
The purpose of these meetings
of the North Carolina club is to
discuss questions of special im
portance in the state and mem
bership is open to all students
and members of the faculty who
are interested in the economic,
social, and civic affairs of the
state.
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Friendship Council To
Sell Christmas Seals
Christmas seals will be sold
by the freshman . friendship
council this year in cooperation
with the local Red Cross, of
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wnicn ivirs. v . i. .uamister is
personal director. The proceeds
Dr. Webster N. Jones, director
of the) college of engineering in
the Carnegie Institute of Tech
nology; will be the principal
speaker at a Chemical Engineers'
Day celebration to be staged at
the University tomorrow.
NOTED CHEMISTS
LEAD SEMINARS
HERETO10RR0W
Chemical Directors From Car
negie and Michigan Guests at
Chemical Engineers' Day.
Present Executive Secretary
Leads Nearest Competitor
By Twenty-Two Votes. x
THIRTY MEN NOMINATED
Dr. L. R. Wilson and Dean H.
G. Baity Are Secqnd and
Third in Balloting.
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Rhodes scholarships, will -meet meeting oi me year m uiu Kitu-
Saturday morning, December 10, uae lounSe ai,: C10CK 1 ues"
in Graham Memorial at 9:30 aa- UT-1N- a- Aaj' m tne
o'clock. At that time nomina- Romance language department,
tions will be made by the com- Wlil read a PaPer on JNotes on
mittee for the two candidates 'to plays in Madrid in the 1830 s.
represent North Carolina in the Dr- w- J- Wil' also of the Ro"
mance language department, win
speak on "The Sixteenth Cen
tury French of Ovid's Arts
Amatoria."
The Philological club meets
The second public production
of the Playmakers regular sea
son will be a group of four orig
inal one-act plays presented De
cember 8, 9, and 10.
These four nlavs. represent
ing.the work done in playwrit-
ing courses under Professor F.
H. Koch, were chosen by the
Playmakers' staff from ! ten
experimentally produced last
month, and since that 'time have
been in constant rehearsal.
Four Plays Offered
The first j)lay, Davy Crockett,
by John Philip Milhoiis, is a
drama of the southwestern fron
tier. The cast is headed by Fos
ter Fitz-Simons as Crockett.
Supporting him are Marion Ta
tum as Mary; Alfred . Barnett,
Tim; Eugenia Rawls', Kate; Bob
Proctor, Uncle pick; Betty Ba.r
nett, Martha; Bill Boriyan, Be'n;
Frank Mcintosh, Bill; Joe Nel
son, Agent; Phoebe Barr, Sal;
Edward Martin, Man; 3o Oren-
dorf, Woman.
In Stumblina in Dreams, a
comedy of Tin Pan Alley b
Ceorge Brown, parts are taken
by Rnhprf Nrxrina as Leiv; El-
mer Oettinger, Ray Smith; Wal
ter RasaoI TJarru: George
Brown Toseoh Eisner,
Schwartz. "
Cast for Creek Swamp Nig-
ser, a negro tragedy by Harry
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final election of the district in
Atlanta, Monday, December 12.
These scholarships, which
are some oi xne most vaiuaoie
ones offered American students,'
are awarded on a basis of char
acter, scholarship, leadership,
and athletic participation.
Friday' night, prior to the
election on Saturday, the thir
teen candidates representing six
institutions will meet with mem
bers of the selection committee
at dinner in the Duke union.
Candidates
The North Carolina candi
dates are : R. 7 Mayne Albright
of the University, Robert W.
Barnett of the University,
Charles G. Rose, Jr.,,.of the Uni-
once a month, at which time
papers on literary and linguistic
topics, embracing the humani
ties, are read. Classics in Eng
lish, 5the Romance and Germanic
languages are discussed.
A celebration to be known as
of the sale will be given to. the Chemical Engineers' Day, which
state fund for use in the fight may- be made an annual event,
against tuberculosis. will be staged here tomorrow by
i
At the reerular meetinsr of the the chemical engineering stu-
council tomorrow night, each of dents of the University.
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tne tnirty-nine memDers win oei Tne celebration will comprise
assigned a floor or section of a seminar discussions and formal
dormitory on the campus for his lectures. Venable hall will be
territory to which to sell the thrown open for inspection. The
seals. The Y. M. C. A. is also public is invited to attend any or
seeking to get the cooperation all of the meetings. Special in
of the fraternities on the Hill in vitations have been extende.d
subscribing to a generous . por- members of the North Carolina
tion of the Christmas stickers, section of the American Chemi-
The sale has been, annually cal Society, the American Insti-
carried on by the freshman tute of Chemical Engineers, and
group for several years, and the Sigma Xi society,
gratifying results have usually V '. Day's Speakers
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Professor Webster N. Jones, di
rector of the college of engineer
ing at Carnegie Institute of
Technology, and Professor A. H.
White, head of the chemical en
gineering department of the
University of Michigan. - N
Professor Jones will address a
Receiving almost double the
votes cast for his nearest op
ponent, Robert Burton House,
executive secretary of the Uni
versity won The Daily Tar
Heel's straw vote for vice-president
of the University. The
tabulation taken yesterday show-"
ed only light balloting.
The large number of men put
forward and the small number
of votes received would indicate
that there is a wide divergence
of student opinion as to who
should succeed President Gra
ham. It also indicates that there
is not among the students of the
University a great movement to
promote any one candidate.
Sought Student Opinion
The object of the poll was to
register student opinion on the ;
choice of a vice-president of the
greater" University to succeed
President Frank Porter Gra
ham as head of the University
in Chapel Hill.
, Dr. L. R. Wilson, former
University librarian, now dean
of the graduate school of library
science at the University of Chi
cago was second with 25 votes,
being led by House by 22 ballots. '
- " Dean H. G. Baity of the en
gineering school was third with
21 votes while 17 were cast for
Professor E. E. Ericson of the.
English department and 15 for
Dean of Students F. F. Brad
shaw to make them fourth and
fifth respectively.
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Research Into University Files
Exposes Early Student Pranks
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Kemp Battle Blames War of 1812 for Recklessness of Students in
Period Between 1815 and 1830; Escapades Are
Reminiscent of Hallowe'en Jokes.
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DR. PELL RESIGNS
OFFICE AT SOUTH
CAROLINA SCHOOL
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Graduate of University Retires
After Thirty Years of Ser
vice at Converse
Carolina men. were apparent-
versity, Beverly R. Thurman of ly not all gentlemen in the 'first
the University, Edward O. Guer- part of the nineteenth -century.
rant of Davidson-Duncan Dan- The complimentary term was
iel-McBryde of Davidson, Le- evidently won after a term in
land McKeithan of Davidson, Carolina's history which might
Charles K. Bradshaw of Duke, almost be called a period of
Merrimon Cunningimm of violence. Judging from sketches
Duke, David H. Parsons, Jr., of pertaining to the lives of stu-
Guilford, Samuel Smith of Guil- dents in the years following the
ford, Everett G. Couch, Jr., of War of 1812 until about 1830,
N. C. State, and J. F. Mathews misconduct of students was a
of Wake Forest. ' . - constant, worrisome problem
The members of the selection for the professors, who f re-
committee are: Josephus uan- quently sunerea irom tne mis-
iels, chairman, s Dean W. Cjchievous and often malignant
Davison of Dukt University, pranks of reckless young men.
Professor G. R. Vowles of Dav- It was no uncommon occur-
idson College, President H. S. rence for a group of students-to
Hilley of Atlantic Christian Col- band together on a night to
lege, and Professor C. P. Spruill,' make "raids" on the property of
Jr., of the University. a teacher whom they particular-
At present, there are two ly disfavored. Usually the gate-
North Carolina-Rhodes scholars post of the fence around his
at Oxford: Grady C. Frank of home was stolen and destroyed.
Duke University, elected .in Often the pickets of the fence
1930, and Dean Rusk of David- were broken off. There is one
son . College, elected - in 1931. instance where the buggy of a
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Frank, who is specializing miprotessor was removed from his
mathematicsrhas not only made
an excellent scholastic record but
was elected captain of the Ox
ford" tennis team last year.
barn and hidden.
Faculty Suffered Injuries
Unpopular professors were
in constant danger of having
aroused their desires for re
venge. Fighting among the students
was not unusual. It seems- to
have been the fashion between
1815 and 1820 to do bodily in
jury to one's school-mates for
actual or fancied insults. Al
though it was strictly against
the rules of the school to possess
firearms, irate students occa
sio6ly secured them and set out
to avenge wrongs against them
selves. It was not considered
derogatory to a student's repu
tation to attack an antagonist
with a club without warning
him. One T. D. Donoho, a stu
dent at the University soon after
the War of 1812, in a letter to
a friend who had felled one W.
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the glass of the windows of seminar group in v enaDie nan at
their home broken out in the 9:30 o clock tomorrow morning,
dead of night by flying missiles. an.d will deliver the principal ad
Sometimes the glass was shot dress at a dinner meeting at
out with guns. One common 6 :30 o'clock in Graham Memorial
prank of particularly reckless that night. ,
students was to procure a door- The toPic for Professor Jones
mob, fill it with gun-powder, and morning lecture will be "What
leave it with a lighted fuse at Industry Expects of Young
the door of some unsuspecting Chemical Engineers," to be giv
teacher or student who had en m Venable hall, and his sub
ject for the night address wil
be "The Processing of Rubber.;
. Professor White, who will
speak at an 11:00 o'clock semi
nar in Venable hall, will discuss
"Recent Developments in Fue?
Gas." ,
Other seminar meetings will
include lectures by Professor A.
M. White of the University on
"Aeitation, a Little Understood
Unit Operation"; and by B. L
Johnson, a graduate student of
the University, who will discuss
"The Structure Method of Crys
tal Analysis."
Interfraternity Council
There will be a meeting of the
interfraternity council Monday
evening at 7:00 o'clock in Gra
ham Memorial.
With a record of some thirty
years of splendid service behind
him, Dr. Robert Paine Pell, a
member of the class of '81 of the
University, has resigned the
presidency of Converse College.
Dr. Pell, a' classmate of other
distinguished educators such as
Aycock, Alderman, Mclver, and
Noble, will become president
emeritus of the South Carolina
institution January 1, and by
act of the Board of Trustees he
and Mrs. Pell are to have a home
on the college campus as long as
they live. The board gave
lengthy exposition of his work
and appreciation of his influ
ence in announcing his resigna
tion. Served Thirty Years
Dr. Pell was president of Chi
cora. College, known as Presby
terian College for Women dur
ing his regime, from 1896 to
1902 ; and he has served as head
of Converse ever since that time.
J He contributed materially to the
development of high standards
in both institutions; and he
early developed Converse from
an institution of high school and
commercial grade work with two
rears of college to a standard col
lege ranking as one of the best
female schools in the nation.
Born at Washington, N. C,
Dr. Pell received his bachelor's
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