THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Tuesday, October 17, 1933
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CITY EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: PHIL HAMMER
Tuesday, October 17, 1933
Mama ,
This Man's Here Again
. Two and three mid-terms on the same day
have been the order long enough here at Caro
lina. It is; high time some efficient system be
instituted which would do away with the exist
ing one., .-
The . Daily , Tar Heel, after consulting some
University officials casually on the .subject, has
the . following suggestion to make; in regard to
the handling of . mid-term examinations. t ' We
suggest first that mid-terms be announced suf
ficiently anead to permit adequate preparation.
Further, that the examinations be given one a
, day 8:3G's; 9:30's, ,ll:Q0's, 12:00's, and all
afternoon classes- on successive days covering
a period of approximately one week, without, in
terrupting the regular program of classwork, .
Under this: plan; those professors, who attach
only the minimum importance to the mid-term
tests can still refrain from giving them. "Using
some plan' like this; would eliminate the possi
bility of two or three examinations coming on
the same day. Of course, some members of the
faculty would have to make , up two sets of
quizzes,, but since the students are . the ones
being tested, they alone are to be" considered in
this case. ..
No Praise--Mer&y
Gratitude
"Feeling that his presence in North Carolina
is so essential and necessary to the cause of edu
cation arid the success of the University con
selidatiori now in progress," the executive com
mittee of the board of trustees earnestly requested-Dr.
Frank Graham, president of the
University, to decline1 the request of President
Roosevelt that he head an educational drive for
the NRA. That Dr. Graham bowed to' the senti
ment, of the committee in the face of what he
might consider a duty is a cause of heartfelt
gratitude to the people of the state. . -
; The action of the . executive , committee here
Saturday was in no way final and its resolution
definitely stated that it had no desire to stand
in the way Of a personal, feeling that' he" should
accept;: The committee .realized the opportunity
that such a petition', would be open for Dr. .Gra
ham .and .the possibilities for good work, an, ac
ceptance by.hirh would contain; yet it was even
mere forcibly aware of; the fact tnat Dr. Gra
ham was needed, by North- Carolina and that
the value he might render this state by remain
ing .would be far greater than that he might give
to the nation. . ,.j :. : . .
:. The. offer was an honor to Dr. Graham, and
had he accepted he would have gained even
greater national. recognition than is his at pres
ent. But whatever doubt might have remained
in his own mind as to which road he was to f ol
low , was . removed by , the . appeal of his alma
mater that he give his talents ' to her during
her time of. stress. We feel that we need not
praise Dr. Graham for a sacrifice of his per
sonal ambition for with such a man personal
ambitions piay no part. There was out one
road open to him and he took it. V.C.R. .
reached under Kay Kyser. Just credit should
be given to those who have exerted their efforts
so successfully in bringing about this renais
sance of Tar Heelia.
The students themselves have made this de
sirable change possible and the group which has
given its fullest cooperation the freshmen
should share in the credit. The. upperclassmen
have done remarkably well in shaking off, the
dreary remembrances of cheering as it has been
through a part of their undergraduate days.
The days of the "rah rah collegian" are fad
ing in the past and the new spirit of Carolina
has its basis in a sentiment widely felt among
the students and throughout the state that the
University simply lacked in spirit. The build
ers of this new spirit should be congratulated
along with the students for the excellent atti
tude of sportsmanship which has been shown to
our opponents. ; ?
The revival of spirit has not been cut short
by Georgia's crushing defeat last Saturday. In
stead, the students will continue to give then-
full support to those teams which carry Caro
lina's colors on the athletic field. W.R.E.
bor, to which some of the dis
satisfied ones would transfer.
Great buildings are Duke's, and
a great professorial staff. For
hose athletically inclined, they
have a great football team. And
they have money. What more
could you want? You could
want something they will never
have during this generation, or
the next, or the next. It is an
intangible , something that can
not be sold, or bought, or trans
ferred. And , they cannot con
sciously acquire it, for Wash
ington Duke would have pur
chased it had he been able. It
is tradition. And they will not
have that until . the ivy has
reached the pinnacle of their
highest tower, and dwelt there
a hundred years.
William Howard Wang.
Misdirected
Labor
We - note that a fund, of . $85,000 has been
established at Yale. University, the; income from
which will be used to enable students to work
their, way through school by jobs more suited
to their capabilities than the old standby of
waiting on tables in dining halls. ; Since the
base pay rate is higher than, the average cam
pus part-time job, the. jobs constitute a form
of scholarship. Such an arrangement is of in
estimable value to those students who must
labor outside of class to pay their college ex
penses. .
Too many college students today are doing
part-time work which has no relationship to the
work which they come to school, to prepare them
selves for. Specialization has gone to such ex
tremes that competition in the professions is
greater today than ever, before. To achieve suc
cess in any field. and to use most efficiently a
talent, one must concentrate his early youth on
becoming, proficient in the direction of his in
clinations and not waste time .or wear out his
ambition in toil which: is apparently fruitless. ,
The American public likes nothing better
than going in for fads and notions; and not the
least false of such notions is the. prevalant idea
that any one who wants it bad: enough can get,
and profit by, a college education, no matter
how such an education is , acquired. A college
diploma is not an ,open sesame to the nearest
hall of fame. It may mean a great deal and it
may: mean nothing more than . four years of
misdirected effort, hard physical labor' and
money spent for nothing.
If more attention and thought were given to
the type of self-help work in colleges the world's
work could be more skilfully and efficiently car
ried on. R.L.B.
Bloody
But Unbowed
The cheering of students has improved im
mensely this year ' and the spirit Of Carolina
seems to be rising to soar again to the heights
Speaking The Campus
Mind
The Growing of
Ivy Does It
A prophet is not without honor save in his
own country. Some students here at the Uni
versity have been prone to condone their mis
take m coming to such a "degenerate" Univer-
versity by saying , that they heard of it in 1930,
when in the height of its prosperity, new build
ings were rising, on the campus, a great foot
ball team had j ust completed its , greatest sea
son, and new men .were, coming here to teach,
who were known far; and wide.
"l think I'll transfer to Duke next year." So
called "damn Yankees" have been known to
voice their opinions thus. "They have money,
and fine buildings, and a nationally known foot
ball team7
May we say that we earnestly hope that those
dissatisfied members of our. student body will
follow their. desires; , We, ourselves, come from
the north. .We came to Carolina because of the
fame of the Playmakers, because, we had read
the works of the famous men, who teach here
because we had heard of the great and. glorious
tradition that is to be found under the ancient
oaks that cover our campus. And we are not
disappointed. . ; i v .
Did . some of these mournful ones expect to
find tradition sold in bottles in . the Book Ex
change during chapel period? Did they await
the sight of musty professors in all their dignity,
strolling, book in hand; through the arboretum
If they did, let them leave before their disap
pointment reaches greater bounds. They wil
not find them. , : .
We have not lost anything. Read the intro
ductiori to the 1930 Yackety Yack; and see what
Europe thinks of us. Go to any library shelf
arid take down the works of the brilliant men
who have helped to place us in the position we
now enjoy. : . ,
We have all respect for our illustrious neigh
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"Weird Schemes' of
Fancy Theorists"
As best I can make it out, the
chief point in the article by
JJ.S. in, Friday's Tar Heel, is
that schools , of education, that
at the University of North Caro-
ina in particular, are to be rele
gated to the bone yard because
their teachings . have proved
visionary and ineffective. Thi3
type of argument is that most
familiar and often fallacious
"post hoc ergo propter hoc" rea
soning. To explain the change
of the University's school of
education to a department in
volves very complicated factors.
the simple explanation offered
by J.J.S. and his conclusion that
the whole movement will "crack
up" can hardly satisfy those who
prefer to think . deeply. . It . is
generally. , true that when econ
omies are effected, that which
is new suffers , first, For the
past two years the office of edu
cation in the United States de
partment of interior has be6n
publishing data showing that
the new "subjects and activities
have been the ones to be elim
inated in the attempt to balance
school budgets. A city school
system in this state recently an
nounced that its budget will not
permit a program of physical
education, music, and art, the
fads and fancies of modern edu
cation, if you please.
To take a few fundamental
nsvcholosrical principles which
are accepted by most . students
of the educative process and call
them "trick plays devised in the
main by Teachers' College of
Columbia University!' is but to
betray one's ignorance. Such
sentences as the following, Al
most as soon as these: pet ideas
were installed in the school sys
tems over the country they were
bitterly attacked and summarily
found slightly ridiculous and
pestiferous" is merely a , gross
misstatement. Anyone with a
cursory , acquaintance ; with pub
lic education in the United
States knows .that, the, philoso--phy
of John Dewey, popularized
by William; .Heard Kilpatricki
and the psychology of Edward
L. Thorndike are definitely in
fluencing educational practices
and pupil guidance in' classrooms
throughout the land. Among
those fads of J.J.S. is what is
called the integrated program.
It may not be beside the point
to say that the reorganization
program of the University of
Chicago centers around this
idea. Just this week a state
ment of recommendations from
the president's office of this Uni
versity suggests indorsement of
a more integrated program of
studies.
It would , be foolhardy to con
tend that everything which .pa
rades under the banner of pro
fessional education is sound. A
new r science advances , by the
process of ; trial 'and error. Also,
over-enthusiastic supporters fre
quently claim for a subject more
than the facts warrant. But to
brand the whole field of educa
tion as "weird schemes" and
"fancy theorists" in characteris
tic of non-professional students
of education.
E. C. HUNTER.
Registrar Ignorant Of
(Continued from first page)
The students in the Univer-
cifir havf fnr RAvp.ral vpara
pressed a desire for a definite
schedule for mid-term examina
tions somewhat like the sched
ule for the final tests. As the
plan works at the present, some
t aminations on the same day.
i Several manifestations of stu
dent discontent have been made
fhrmicrh the onen forum column
of The Daily Tar Heel.
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