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TO CREATE A CAMPUS PERSONALITY A JOURNAL OF THE ACTIVITIES OF CAROLINIANS WsM hp VOLUME XLin 61 the Editor We talked to Dr. Graham yesterday morning about the MILKY "WAY dormitory and fraternity situa tions, stressing 1 the need for a practicable plan of dormitory improvement, one which would ..not cost too much for this Uni versity but would be workable .and effective where the Everett 3lan is notably weak. Graham realizes the needs of the dormitories and with his aisual appreciation of the situa tion, set down two definite and immediate wants: social rooms d or each dormitory and a coun cillor system comprised of se lected men attracted from all over the nation for this particu lar work of advising students. We must, of course, work first "with our present facilities as well as possible. But we better Tiitch.our wagon to a star and llan for bigger things in the fu ture, which financial rehabilitate lion might make possible for our undergraduates. The Order of Gold FLEECE CHOICE en Fleece will make its annual tapping ceremonies next Thursday night, culminating the year's program of student activities and achieve ments. In former days, the Daily Tar Heel ran a list of possibili ties for the highest of campus honors, becoming a prognostic as well as a review journal. The policy, however, seems a foolish one, insomuch as the Fleece is doing the choosing and needs no help from anyone else. We recall the fate of one edi tor who played up the pre-dope with giant streamers, featuring himself as an outstanding can didate. After being overlooked on tapping night, however, his newspaper didn't even run the story of the tapping. Which proves that the Fleece had its collective mind made up long before the power of the press started to tell the Argo nauts how to vote. tt7at The American SUBJECT JT1 CounciI' of wmcn our own re lix A. Grisette was recently named' president, awarded first place to the local Alumni Review in the 1934-35 contest for the best editorial appearing in alum ni magazines during last year. Under ex-TAR Heel editor Maryon Saunders, the Alumni Review has come to occupy an integral part in alumni-Univer sity relations. Presenting not only campus news but also com plete alumni activity, Mr. Saun ders' journal is recognized as one of the best of its kind. The particular editorial which won the prize was entitled "Prof. Composite Offered Job; Not a Fairy Tale." It appeared in the February issue and applied particularly to our underpaid f aeulty situation. This is perhaps the first and only instance where the cut in local faculty salaries has result d in anything profitable for anyone in Chapel Hill. It's ex pensive editorial matter, to say he least. EDITORIAL PHONE 43 J 1 FHOLICERS FINISH ANNUAL PROM SET IN TORRTOTIN CAN Dancers Melt and Wither under the Combined Heat of Ab sorbed Sunlight and Music NEED: COOL AIR SYSTEM The sixth annual set of May Frolics wound up last night at midnight with the final formal evening dance in the stifling heat of the Tin Can, which had turn ed every nicely starched dress shirt in sight into something re- mbhng a thoroughly saturated dish-rag. Red Rhythm Bug Someone up north must have put a bug in Irving Aaron- son's ear that southern dancers took to red-hot rhythm, because most of the numbers presented by the Commanders was just that. The one thing they failed to take into account was the weather. When the prom-trot ters filed out of the building afT ter the final strains, they looked more like a group of starving Armenians going into exile. The series continued yester day with a luncheon dance at the Washington Duke hotel in Durham, the second tea dance in the Tin Can in the afternoon, and ended with the dance last night. That is, except for the late dates early this morn ing. Figure At Last The figure was presented last night with Charlie Shaffer, D. K. E., escorting Miss Charlotte Winborne of -Marion ; Sherwood Hedgpeth, Kappa Sigma, with Miss Carrie Marshall Young of Charlotte; Agnew Bahnson, S. A. E., with Miss Barbara Ful ton of Knoxville, Tenn. ; Buddy Upchurch, Sigma Chi, with Miss Louise Brown Michaels of Greensboro ; Bruce Old, Sigma Nu, with Miss Pickette Kendall of Raleigh; Dick Lewis, Zeta Psi, with Miss Marion Gwalt ney of Lincoln, Ga.; and Trip Rand, Beta Theta Pi, with Miss Sarah Badham of Edenton. Heat Hurts f The Frolics on the whole proved to be an enjoyable set of dances except for the heat. They had all the necessary ingredi ents beautiful girls, good mu sic and the festive spirit- One big thing it did prove to Percy Promtrotter a crying need for an air-cooling system in the Tin Can- Glee Club Today The Carolina Glee Club will offer a concert of numbers ar ranged in five groups this after noon at 4 o'clock in Graham Me morial. Paul Gyles of Greens boro is to sing two selections as guest artist for the perform ance. The Club, 25 strong and boasting such voices as those of John A. Walker, tenor, and Har old X. Gavin, baritone, expects to appear before a large audi ence inasmuch as there is no ad mission charge and the program today is the only one to be pre sented in Chapel Hill during the current season. INFIRMARY The following students were confined to the infirmary yester day: Earl Huth, Joseph Davis, Miles Winslow, Allen Darden, June Hogan, John Klingman." CHAPEL HILL, N. C., Departing Pedagogue mm Nelson O. Kennedy (above), assistant professor in the de partment of music, who recently resigned from the teaching staff of the University. The resigna tion win become effective at the end of the spring term. T SENDS GROUP TO VISIT CONVICTS 1 An unusual feature of depu tations will take place this af ternoon when the Y. M. C. A. sends a group composed of Don McKee, Bill Yandell, and George MacFarland to the convict camp at Hillsboro, R. F. D. 1. Yandell stated that "we feel that we have something to share with the inmates of the convict camps in the vicinity of Chapel Hill, and we will try to present programs that will be entertain ing as well as educational." The team, leaving at 2 :30 this afternoon, will present a pro gram as well as plan with the camp directors for riext year: Regarding Everett Below are printed excerpts from a report which Dean of Stu dents Francis F. Bradshaw drew up for the Daily Tar Heel yes terday. The report arose from a question which this newspaper brought up regarding a recent investigation by staff members into the Everett plan and the validity of a questionnaire which the administration circulated in that dormitory. A full explanation of the administrative action in the matter is included in Dean Bradshaw's report: "Last summer, in August, as I recall it, a suggestion came, prin cipally, I believe, from a Trustees' meeting, that the University consider requiring all freshmen to live in dormitories. In part because students sometimes ask to be released from their room contracts because of poor study conditions in the dormitories, it seemed to the administration wise to experiment with ways of improving such conditions before making the comprehensive change in policy involved. "Everett Dormitory, which had not been filled the previous year, was selected for the experiment (arising from Board of Trustees action), and Mayne Albright was asked to manage the experiment. He appointed, with the approval of the administra tion, six assistants. The original intention was to use graduate students and possibly some seniors, and to limit the dormitory entirely to freshmen. Neither of these two features of the plan could be carried out, however, on account of the speed with which the arrangement had to be set up. Only a little more than half of the residents of the dormitory are freshmen, and most of the resident advisers selected were known at the time not to be in position to give much assistance in studies. "Mr. Albright and his assistants were given the general re sponsibility of doing whatever they could to improve study and living conditions and scholarship of the dormitory. However, the dormitory was to be organized as a self-governing body, just as are all the other dormitories, the responsibility of the advisers was definitely understood to be advisory rather than supervisory "At the end of the fall quarter the grades of the Everett fresh men were compared with those of freshmen in adjacent dormi tories. There was some difference in favor of Everett, but inves tigation showed that Everett freshmen had a slightly higher ap titude rating. It was discovered, however, that, whereas 22 of the freshmen in adjacent dormitories moved from their dormi tories at the end of the fall quarter, only 10 of the Everett freshmen moved. This difference seemed large enough to have some significance. The winter quarter grades of Everett fresh men improved more than those of freshmen in adjacent dormi tories, but here again the freshmen remaining in Everett and the new freshmen moving in appeared to have decidedly better apti tude test scores. This might mean that more studious freshmen were choosing Everett, but did not appear to mean that condi- (Continued on page four) SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1935 KENNEDY RESIGNS POSITION HERE AS MSICPRfESSOR Well-Known Organist, Teacher Will Leave Ranks after Com pleting Spring Term. RUMOR IS SUBSTANTIATED Assistant Professor Nelson O Kennedy, instructor . in har mony, sight-singing and ear- training, has resigned from the ranks of University pedagogues, it was learned yesterday. Kennedy, who is well known for his Sunday afternoon organ recitals and his solo work at the Ghapel of the Cross, will con tinue with his official work un til the end of this quarter, but will not return next fall. Substantiates Rumor Although the administration as a rule makes no official an nouncement of resignations and appointments until the year's termination, an official state ment of Kennedy's forthcoming demise was released yesterday when the Daily Tar Heel sought to substantiate rumors that he was leaving. The organist will probably study and teach at some other institution next year, it is re ported A new instructor will be secured for this University during the summer months, al though Dr. Glen Haydon has made no official statement of his plans for next year. Kennedy has been a member of the University faculty for al most a decade. BUSINESS PHONE 43 S6 President .v.'.-.v,. Dr. A. Byron Holmes of Fair mont, president of the medical alumni of the University, who will preside at the luncheon of University alumni-physicians at Pinehurst Tuesday. MEDICAL ALUMNI. GATHER TUESDAY Medical alumni of the Univer sity will meet for luncheon Tuesday at Pinehurst during the session of the North Caro lina Medical Society. Dr. A. Byron Holmes, presi dent of the medical alumni, will preside. A survey by Dr. E. M. Hedge peth, secretary of the alumni group, which will be given at the meeting, shows that more than 1,300 doctors have received their training in the University. 1,200 Sawbones Of this number approximate ly 1,200 are living, many of them residing and. practicing in North Carolina. The organization of the medi cal alumni, which is a division of the Alumni Association, in cludes in its membership alum ni who studied medicine else where as well as the 1,200 grad uates of the University medical school. Officers of the organization are: Dr. A. Byron Holmes of Fairmont, president; Dr. J. B. Wright of Raleigh, vice-president; Dr. E. M. Hedgepeth of Chapel Hill, secretary. Y' Cabinet to Attend Joint Quarterly Meet The new plan of joint meet ings once a quarter of all Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. cabinets of the Greater University will be further carried out tomorrow evening on the campus of the Woman's College in Greensboro. All cabinet members who can make the trip are expected to at tend, and students will be pres ent from the Woman's College, State College, and Carolina. The meeting will be held at 6 p. m., in the Y. W. C. A. hut. This plan of quarterly gather ings has only been in effect for one year, the first meeting hav ing been held during the fall at Chapel Hill, and the second at State College. Library Gets Ritual The ritual of the Union League of America, published in 1870, a secret political organi zation of the North, was given to the library recently by Mr. A. B. Andrews of Raleigh. This league was formed during the Civil war to check dissatis faction with the U. S. gov ernment and "to make loyalty effective." It was organized like The Southern Ku Klux Klan of a later date. This booklet des cribes a wierd , initation cere mony. NUMBER 162 LEAGUERS TO AIR POLITICS TAUGHT IN CUSSES HERE Virgil Lee Will Report at Meet ing; Durfee Spikes Socialist "Repression Rumor. PLATFORM IS DRAWN UP Members of the newly organ ized Carolina chapter of the American Liberty League will hear Virgil Lee report tomorrow night on the dissemination of political propaganda in the class room at the University. This report is in keeping with the first plank in the local Lea guers' platform: To make public the names of those who expound their political beliefs behind the classroom doors and to analyze their teachings. Socialist Repression Rumor Meanwhile it was rumored in campus socialist circles that the American Liberty League in tended to adopt a policy of re pression. One prominent pro fessor was quoted as having said the League wished to deny the right of speech to the more radi cal elements. Newly-elected League Presi dent Winthrop Durfee made it clear, however, in a statement last night that the League here would stand for the free discus sion and airing of political ques tions. He pointed to the section of. the local League's platform in which the members pledge: "To debate and discuss governmen tal problems with any foes of (Continued on page four) BAND OPENS LAWN MUSICALES TODAY University Band Will Present First Outdoor Program at 5 O'clock Near Davie Poplar. Opening its series of open air concerts in honor ,of National Music Week, the University, band will present a variety pro gram this afternoon at 5 o'clock near the Davie Ponlar. For the first time in several years the student body . and Chapel Hillians will hear a se ries of lawn concerts rendered by the band during the months of the spring quarter. Ample seating arrangements for to day's concert and the others will be providd by the build ings department. Join Big Five After their series of outdoor presentations here, the mem bers of the band will join other bands from the Big Five col leges to participate in the state musical festival to be held in Raleigh May 19. Under the baton of Earl Slo- cum, the 40 student bandsters will present a program suitable to anyone's musical palatje : marches, overtures, and a bal anced blend of concert and clas sical music will be played throughout the series. The program which the band will present this afternoon will consist of 10 numbers. NEWS GOES OUT AGAIN The second release of the Daily Tar Heel News Service will be mailed out tomorrow af ternoon to high and preparatory school newspapers in and around North Carolina. Eighty educational institu tions will receive the service this week, 48 high schools . and 32 preparatory schools.
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