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STUDENT ENTER. COM. 2:00 P.M. 102 MURPHEY HALL Kfi r 1 I VOir'X UNIVERSITY CLUB 7:00 P.M. GRAHAM MEMORIAL f I r 2 GLEE CLUB HEAD ANNOUNCES FIRST GATHERING TODAY No Experience Singing Is Necessary; Good Material Found in New Men. Grady Miller, new director of the University glee club who succeeded H. S. Dyer, announces that there will be an important meeting of the glee club this af ternoon at 5 :00 o'clock of an hour's duration. This meeting will be the first of those which are scheduled for every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday after noon at the same time, .Miller emphasizes the fact that no experience in singing is necessary and states that he has already tried out 20 new men and has found excellent material in some- of them. Revive Spirituals Because the singing of negro spirituals was so popular a few years ago when the glee club became widely known through the singing of them, extra ef forts will be made this year to revive this type of singing in the club. It is hoped that the added folk interest will bring back the ""spirit and enthusiasm that ex isted four years ago". : If all plans go through there wiD be several out of town con certs given by the club this year which will probably include Bur lington; N. C. C. W., at Greens boro; E. C. T. C. at Greenville; Winston - Salem, Charleston, S. C.,' " and several other " towns. Anyone who expects to become a member of the glee club must appear at every meeting. ENGINEERS WORK ATTRiWIGCMIP Eight Students Spend J3ight Weeks at Camp Sapphire Working on Degree. This past summer the en gineering school conducted a camp for field experience at Camp Sapphire, Brevard, N. C. Eight students attended under the guidance of R. M. Trimble, the director, and Walter W. King who was elected chief -of -party by the students The summer encampment is required for a degree in civil engineering and is ordinarly taken at the close of the sopho more year. This year it was of 8 weeks duration, lasting from June 11 to August 5. Summer camps are a recogn ized curricular activity among leading universities, several of which maintain fully equipped camps for the benefit of their students. The University hopes to have one of its own in the near future, but until then, Camp Sapphire serves the pur pose. Surveying Main Work The work principally consist ed of highway and railroad sur veying, although an inspection trip of hydro-electric plants in both North - Carolina and Ten nessee was included. Among plants inspected were the San teetlah and Cheoah plants in North Carolina and the Calder wood plant in Tennessee. The engineers spent eight hours a day studying stream gauging, land surveying, and hydro-electric development lay outs. . They also erected a wea ther bureau station, according (Continued on page two) Broadway And Summer Theatres - - . .. Empl oy Many Former Playmaker Dr. Morrison Injured By Accident In Home Dr. Roy W. Morrison, associ ate professor of, education in the extension department of the University, recently met with an accident in his home which re sulted in an injury to his spine, and confined him to the Mission hospital in Asheville. Dr. Mor rison, who has just organized a class in education in Forest City, makes his headquarters in Ashe ville. NEW SOPHOMORE PRESIDENT NAMED . Morty Ellisburg, who was elected vice-president of the sophomore class last spring, was appointed permanent president yesterday by Harper Barnes be cause of the failure of Russell Mickle to return to school this fall. Jake Austin was appointr ed secretary to fill the vacancy caused by Vance Young's fail ure to return to the University. As soon as the registrar's of fice compiles the number of stu dents returning to school, '. a special election will be run off to determine a new editor for the Carolina Magazine to re place E. C. Daniel. In the mean time, Bob Barnett, former edi tor, is. acting as temporary edi tor Graduate Club Meets .At First Gathering The graduate club held its first meeting Tuesday night, electing several new officers and making plans for the work of the coming year. , In May the following men were elected to office: Henry Farr, president; H. B. Whit- more and G. W. Blackwell, mem bers of the governing board ; "Mitch" Wells, University rep resentative. The vacancies created since the last meeting were filled last night. These were vice president, secretary, treasurer, chairman of enter tainment committee, and Ger man club representative. At present there are forty two members of the graduate club representing all parts of the United States. The club will sponsor an aver age of two dances a quarter, the same as last year. Other social functions are also planned. SED ALIA SINGING GROUP RETURNS FOR PROGRAM The Sedalia Singers of the Palmer Memorial Institute have been engaged for a return pro gram in Memorial Hall on Sun day afternoon, October 24, at 4:00 o'clock. The singers will be remem bered from last year when they were accorded a warm welcome by an audience of about a thou sand students. Congratulations ! A son, Donald Lee, was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Vance at Watts Hospital Saturday, Sep tember 23. Mr. Vance is a mem ber of the sociology department of the University. Committee Meets Today There will be a meeting of the student entertainment commit tee at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon ,n tho office of Dr. J. P. Harland at 102 Murpheyhall. CHAPEL HILL, N. C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933 "" ' ' . . . . . Marion Tatum, Former Play maker, to Appear Here in Repertory Company. In person! Miss Marion Ta tum, former Carolina Playmak er, will appear in Madame Ham mer's Ibsen Company when it comes to Memorial hall as an of fering of the student entertain ment series. This past summer, Miss Tatum directed plays and taught dancing at Carolina Pines, in Raleigh. Now she lls about to commence her tour with this well known stock company. Chapel Hill will see her in "The Master Builder" and "Ghosts." Marion Tatum is not the only Playmaker . who has lent talent to the professional stage. There are more than a dozen of Prof. Koch's protegees making their way in the theatrical world, de spite the fact that many Broad way stars are jobless. Proctor Also in Group Bob Proctor is also with Ham mer's group; his position is that op stage manager. In addition he has a few "bits',' in the vari ous plays. The Cape Playhouse, Mass., had him as their stage manager last summer. Eugenia Rawls, of Little Eva fame, is acting in New York with the Clare Tree Major Com pany, which produces plays for children. Mary Diraberger, mistress of the Bull's Head, and George Pierson, Playmaker electrician worked this summer with the Repertory- Playhouse Associates in Putney, Vermont. She act ed as technical director, and (Continued on page two) Unusual Scientific And Social Research Fruit Of Geology 1 pur Sixteen Students Conducted on Interesting Field Expedition West Virginia by Dr. W. F. Prouty; Lighter Side of Life Was Not Neglected on Trip. o - " No friend was the N. R. A. ! to the students of Dr. W. F. Prouty's geology, tour this sum mer. Wages were non-existent and the working hours kept in creasing. - When questioned further, a chuikle and an accompanying glint were all that these taci turn scientists would volunteer. It has, however, been rumored that these sixteen "eligible" young ; men didn't neglect the social side of the curriculum. It has been the practice of the University geology department for the past twelve years to sponsor camping trips to enable the boys to put their theories to a practical test: These trips have included three transcon tinental tours. Credit - Given However, this year a plan was innovated to make only three stops and to remain for two weeks in each place. It was de cided that this would allow more thorough work to be done and would be less expensive. The courses undertaken were Geo logy 49 for beginners and 148 149 for those who were more advanced. It was possible to get credit for two courses. The first stop was in Blue field, West Virginia, where they camped on the Bluef ield college grounds. The truck with the supplies seemed no more anxious to get there than the ambitious students. It sputtered along for two days before it finally reach ed there. On the return trip the clutch and the brakes succeeded ASSEMBLY PLANS FOR SOPHOMORES WILL BE DECIDED Executive Committee of Second Year Class Will Bleet With Brad shaw For Final Step. Plans for holding the sopho more assembly once a week sepa rately from the freshman class assembly were discussed by the sophomore executive committee and Dean F. F. Bradshaw, yes terday morning. This plan for a separate as sembly, for the sophomores has been suggested in order that the class may put on programs more to their own interest. Under this plan the combined first and sec ond year classes will still meet in special occasions when there are programs and announce ments of interest to both. The sophomore committee will meet again this week to discuss the question. Next Wednesday the members of the committee will meet with Dean Bradshaw and present to him their sug gestions and criticisms. SOCIOLOGY PROFESSOR IS WRITING NEW BOOK Professor Harold D. Meyer of the department of sociology is working on a new book - "The Sociology of Leisure Time", the publication date of which has not been announced. Dr. Meyer has been ; active this summer, on the compilation of the work in addition to his regular duties as professor and chairman of the state Parent Teachers; association. 4- - It is expected that Meyer's book will not be ready for pub lication until 1935. to in burning themselves out. Campers Get Soaked There turned out to be plenty of excitement the first night when they were inaugurated in to real camp life by a cloud burst. The water rose over an inch in the tents but nobody cared because the blackboard was ruined. ' A silver lining as far as work was concerned I At Bluef ield they studied es pecially the lower paleozoic rocks. From there they went to Rich Creek, along the New River in Virginia where they worked with the higher paleozoic rocks. Their final stop was made at Spruce Pine, North Carolina, where they completed a study of the most important rocks by working with these of the ig neous metamorphic type. They were given practice in practical field work, which included pro blems in surveying, both geo logical and engineering, and pro jects in making geological maps and structures. They taught the correct use of instruments. Geologists at Play One boy, on being asked about the trip merely laughed and said, "Everything we studied on that trip wasn't fossilized!" He would commit himself no fur ther. From all reports, Eric Metzenthin took first place as the ladies' man but he was run a close second by "Chip" Prouty. In Bluef ield the entire group was given bids to a cotillion club dance at the Hotel Bluefield, af ter having spent the day visit (Continued on page two) Public Administration School Has Established Unusual New Course Season Tickets Are Sold By Playmakers Season tickets, costing two dollars and good for six perfor mances of the Carolina Play makers went on sale at the Play makers theatre yesterday. The first production will be Paul Green's successful play, the "House of Connelly," which is now being made into a movie. The play will be produced on No vember 2, 3, 4, with tryouts to be held on October 9. P. U. BOARD MEETS THIS AFTERNOON The Publications Union Board will meet this afternoon in Bing ham hall at 12:30 o'clock with editors of each campus publica tion to determine the advisabili ty of giving salaries to addition al members of the staffs. ; The primary consideration is the payment of salaries to city editors of the Daily Tar Heel. The plan as suggested last week specified the basis of regular self-help wages of twenty-five cents per hour. Several other important mat ters, including presentation of budgets and recommendations for improvements in the various offices, will also be brought up. Audit Board Changes To New Office Site , The. Student Audit Board will be located in the cage formerly occupied by the cashier of the Publications Union Board in Graham Memorial, it was decid ed yesterday at a meeting of the board of directors of the memor ial. Following a protest by Wil liam Eddleman, president of the P. U. Board, regarding the con fiscation of the cage for use by the audit board, the directors de cided to pay the P. U. Board the cost of the construction of the cage. The office in which it is located is used by the publica tions rent free. An attempt was made by Ed dleman to retain the cage for use by Ralto Farlow, circulation manager of the Daily Tar Heel. Farlow, however, will now have to locate his office in the editorial or business rooms of the paper. The directors of the memorial favored giving the Daily Tar Heel use of a storage room for files. FRESHMAN BAND LEADER MAKES DEBUT SATURDAY G. C. Courtney, freshman from Lenoir, will make his debut as official University band lead er Saturday afternoon at the Davidson-Carolina game. E. A. Slocum and T. Smith McCorkle are training the musi cians for the forthcoming ap pearance. Only one marching rehearsal has taken place so far. Eight in Infirmary The following were confined to the infirmary yesterday: Thomas Walker, C. W. Collins, Dan Lacy, C M. Ward, W. L. McKeithan, Bortum Roberson, Edwin Cerr, and J. D. Winslow. Club to Meet Friday Mrs. D. D. Carroll announces the meeting of the Community club Friday afternoon at 3 :30 o'clock at the parish house. NU3IBER 6 To Give Students Practical So cial Work Is Slain Object Of Modern Course. A new course, which is based on the modern laboratory plan of education, has been establish ed by the school of Public Ad ministration of the University and will be conducted under the direction of Dr. Roy M. Brown and George Lawrence. This course features active social work in the state. The students in the class meet for regular three course class work during the first three days of each week, "working morning, noon and night," according to Lawrence, to complete the regu-" lar curricula. After the last Wednesday class each student is assigned to various relief units for work as assistant case-worker and is paid by the respective counties, their transportation expenses, also included. Students are assigned to that county where it is believed they can get in full time work in the relief set-ups.. The members of this class are carefully selected by the director and whole hearted cooperation has so far been evident according to Law rence. The purpose of this course is to furnish, to sociology students concentrated training in social work in as short, time as possible and to fulfill a much-felt need for more social relief workers in this : state, as - there is more work than can be done by the available workers. Although there were 300. ap (Continued on page two) REGULATIONS SET FOR DORM ST0R1 Self -Help Committee Announces Rules About Accounts and Canvassing. The University self-help com mittee has announced its regu lations for the dormitory service rooms. These regulations con cern charge accounts, canvass ing, and the handling of clothes for pressing and cleaning by lo cal establishments. They are intended to insure a more efficient and uniform ser vice in the service rooms and to clear up some of the difficul ties encountered last year. Charge accounts for individ uals are limited to a two dollar maximum, the service room agent being solely responsible for the collection of all charge accounts which he allows. A ser vice room may sell to anyone, -but may allow charge accounts only to residents of the dormi tory in which it is situated. No Canvassing No canvassing of dormitories is allowed without a permit by the University superintendent of buildings. Any pressing club may collect and deliver clothes through the dormitory service rooms during service room hours. These clothes shall be routed through the service rooms to the press ing establishment designated by the owner. The service room shall receive a fair remunera tion to be settled between them and the pressing clubs. All pressing clubs have the right to; complain to the self-help secre tary at any time concerning the procedure. li A
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