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7?y - Mr Installation op Officers monday mosning Memorial Ball Track Csxunosuvn 1:45 This Arnisoox . Fetter Field VOLUME XLTV crrouLraon 4!5i CHAPEL HILL, N. C.f SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1936 tvxam nan cm NUMBER 159 mztl HOIiANDER GIV SPEECH ON MUSIC IN TWO SECTIONS Lecture-Recital Given Color by Accompaniment of Native In struments; Mrs. Bake Aids RECOUNTS EXPERIENCES Dr. Arnold Bake of Holland and Santiniketan, Bengal, gave a talk on the music of the East and the "West followed by a re cital of songs of India antheir Western parallels last night in HiH Music hall. On many of the songs Dr. Bake accompanied himself with native instruments to give an added effect to his interpreta tions. Mrs. Bake accompanied ier husband at the piano for the European songs. Ballad Parallel Dr. Bake presented not only the folk songs of Bengal, Nepal and other eastern countries but gave ballads parallel in struc ture to the eastern songs from Russia, Germany, France, Eng land, Scotland, and his native Holland. AH of his interpreta- . tions are founded on careful re- : search and study. Dr. and Mrs. Bake have trav eled through the many provinces -of the mystic land of India and have visited the closed country of Napal, an independent coun try north of India entirely shut off from the outside world by mountains impossible to cross except on foot. Array Of Talent For Stunt Night Js Awe-inspiring Hangover Performers From Student-Faculty Day to Appear; Co-ed Trios in Again By Pete Ivey Something in the nature of 'command" performances will be presented in Memorial hall "Wednesday night at 8 o'clock, Several of the most applauded participants in Student-Faculty Day stunt night wil appear in similar roles. The senior class 'mellow-drama" is also at that time. Wflllv ThmTiJiTn. whr did such a good job of imitating a lady takine a bath, will this time ao 2l fan dance and may do a bubble dance as an encore. Dances Miss Betty Tandy, Durham terpsichorean artist wno was 'vociferously received last year, will favor the Carolina student l)ody with another exhibition of "her talent. Hester Barlow and Dick Bur- nette are rnncoctme a new (Continued on last page Gussie Guesses: We've heard of Gold Bugs before, but never of Golden Fleas. Tomorrow : Fair and warm er, increasing cloudiness. iWiitiitiii1 Stiideht-Faciilty Open Fleece Tapping, Heart-rending Burlesque, Dance Set High lights of Senior Week Annual senior week activities will begin in earnest Tuesday afternoon when the highly-touted senior ' class . baseball team clashes in mortal combat with the experienced faculty nine on Emerson field. Buflt around the fast-stepping Dr. Frank Porter Graham on first base, the faculty baseball outfit will take the field to avenge the defeat administered it last year when the graduating nine battered its way to glorious victory. Fleece Tuesday night, after the weary warriors have dragged themselves from the scene of this historic contest, the student body will turn out in full force for Golden Fleece's 33rd annual tapping rites, new and myster ious this year, in Memorial hall at 8:30.' Wednesday night the gala senior burlesque show will be staged in Memorial hall, promis ing new and novel entertain ment as the seniors go drama tic and reach the inner depths of the hearts of the audience in the soul-stirring presentation, "Bunk." Address J. Maryon Saunders, genial alumni secretary, is scheduled to address the near-graduates in Memorial hall Thursday morn ing at 10:30 on "Seniors as Alumni." The week's activity ends Fri day and Saturday with the an nual Junior-Senior dance set, with Harry Reser playing. GROVES GIVEN THANKS OF FLORIDA STUDENTS For his series of lectures on Marriage and the Family de liver ed recently at the University of Florida, Dr. Ernest K Groves of the sociology depart- ment has been extended the sin cere appreciation of the Florida student body. Efforts are being made to se- cure his services aerain next year. BI fetzer Pay" . : . . r rxiUUItAlU AI WAV I TKAUK MlliUT WJLLJLi I HONOR COACH BOB Head Track Coach and Athletic Director Now in Fifteenth Year Here By Graham Gammon Robert Allison Fetzer "Coach Bob" to the many ath letes and students who have come in contact with him in the past 15 years at the University will be signally honored next Saturday when the track team from the United States Naval Academy meets the University of North Carolina in the new stadium that will in all probabil ity bear the name of Fetzer field, when the board of trus tees take action on the matter. "Fetzer Day" is being cele brated to honor the director of athletics and track coach at the University since 1921. All mon ogram athletes are being invited back for the occasion and the Monogram Club is handling the program. 1 Coach Bob is known through Game Will Week Program Caps And Gowns Next Saturday will be the last day that seniors will be able to get measured for caps and gowns. All seniors who have not yet done so should report to the Book Exchange to be fitted. No down pay ment is required on the cap and gown, and if after order ing one, the senior decides not to use it, no charge will be made. Ancient Tradition Will Be Continued In May Day Fete Roman Festival Will Be Re-en acted Here When Hester Bar low Is Crowned Queen By Ruth Crowexx, TTT1 . i TT ' " wnen nester isariow is crowned Queen of the May here May 15 the co-eds of the Univer sity will be continuing a tradi tion which started 238 B. C. in Rome. The first May festivities were known as the Roman Floralia, which was celebrated from April 28 to May 3. The crops had not been good in 238 B. C, so the folk held a pantheistic ceremony in honor of Flora, the goddess of fertility hoping to win her fa vor. There were days of feast ing, dancing, and offerings to the goddessr " " ' "A-Maying" The Germanic and Latin peo ples who received their culture from the Romans carried on the festival in the spring with pan theistic ceremonies. And so the idea of May Day came to our English ancestors. The medieval celebrators a rose early on the first of May and went "a-maying," going in to the forests and gathering spring flowers and trees. The procession returned to the vil lage with the evidences of spring and selecting the tallest and most flawless tree, set it up on the village green as the May Pole. A day of dancing, theat rical productions, and revelry (Continued on last page) To Be Observed Saturday COACH BOB out the nation as one of the out standing men in the field of ad ministration athletics and track coaching. His record speaks for itself. Born in Concord, North Caro lina in 1887, Coach Bob attend ed Davidson College where he was an ontstandinsr football player, and received his B. S. de yree in 1907. In 1908 he receiv ed his M. A. and coached the re fit MGUMSECll RECREM10NRCOrl Petition for New Game, Loung ing Room Approved by . University Officials Mangum dormitory has been granted a new recreation room by the University. A first floor corner room will be appropriated for the purpose, opening next September.' It will be furnished with money from the dormitory fee charged each Mangum resident. Mangum is the first of the up per quadrangle dormitories to secure a recreation hall. The lower quadrangle group has such rooms, equipped with game tables and lounging chairs. Petition Allan Knott, president of Mangum, submitted to the Uni versity a petition for the room. Frank Willingham, Fred Weav er, and Bob Magill of the Student Activities Committee were also instrumental in securing it. Members of the petitioning group feel that their victory in getting Mangum's recreation hall is a step toward securing similar rooms for other dormitories. Fleece Consistent In Tapping . Members Of High Calibre, Fitness PHI BETE RITES TO BE HELD SOON Thirty to Thirty-five Men Ex pected to Enter Honor Society Between 30 and 35 Phi Beta Kappa candidates will be initia ted in Graham Memorial on May 14, it was decided Thursday night by the society's executive committee. Installation of officers for next year will also take place at the meeting. Present officers of the honorary society are Barnaby Keeney, president; Da vid Scott, vice-president ; and Charlie Ivey, secretary. Requirements for candidates to Phi Beta Kappa are a scholas tic average of 92.5 percent for eight consecutive quarters and a high moral character. At present there are about 75 members of Phi Beta Kappa on the campus. serve football squad. After Davidson he attended Clemson where he completed his engineering course and coached the freshman football team. In 1909 he received his B. S. degree in chemical and electrical engi neering. Taught Chemistry The fall of 1909 found Coach Bob at Woodberry , Forest School as Master of Science and coach of football and track. He stayed at Woodberry for four years until in 1913 he became connected with the chemistry de partment of N. C. State before going back to Davidson as head i football coach in 1914. After leaving Davidson Coach Bob was connected with the Southern . Cotton Oil Co. and with the State Department of Agriculture in Raleigh. In 1919 he returned to Woodberry Forest where he remained until he came to the University in 1921 as as sistant football coach and head track coach. In 1922 he was named director of athletics. Under the guidance of Coach (Continued on last page) Pharmacists Have Banquet, Dance Set In Weekend Program Dean Beard Principal Speaker at Uanquet; Dance Set Closes With Formal Tonight A banquet given by the mem bers of Rho Chi, honorary phar macy society, at the Carolina Inn last night was the high light in a' weekend of festivities par ticipated in by students of the pharmacy school. Dean J. G. Beard was the principal speaker of the occa sion, which was the seventh an nual affair of the society, and Dr. Glenn L. Jenkins of the Uni versity of Maryland school of pharmacy was the guest of hon or. Dr. Jenkins also spoke to students of the pharmacy school yesterday morning in the auditorium of Howell hall. Among the other social affairs of the weekend was the Phar macy dance given last night in Bynum gym with music by Fred dy Johnson and his orchestra. A tea dance will be given this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock and another formal ball tonight from 9 to 12 o'clock will complete the set. s Survey of Membership Rolls Show Consistency in Qualifi cations Demanded Widespread astonishment has often greeted the selections of the Order of the Golden Fleece each spring, astonishment based on conflicting ideas regarding the qualifications for this high est of campus honors. The Fleece, however, has been consistent in its selections, as a glance at previous membership rolls will show. The society has represented a cross-section of student life which has been as astonishing in its consistency in maintaining standards of leader ship in various fields as it has been startling. Calibre Class officers, social leaders, athletes, editors, debaters, scho lars, and other outstanding acti vities men have been represent ed.- Fraternities and dormito ries have had representation in proportion to the calibre of the current generations in those groups. Last year's initiates included two prominent publications men, two student government leaders, four athletes, and one who was recognized as a leader, an out standing leader, without office. True Picture But such a classification does not give the true picture, for Fleece does not "tap the office." Both publications men were members of Phi Beta Kappa and Continued on last page) JUNIOR COMMITTEES DRAW UP DANCE PLANS The joint dance and executive committees' of the junior class met Thursday night and com pleted plans for the Junior - Sen - ior dance set May 8 and 9. It was announced that the money for the corsages and pic tures of the girls in the figure will be paid for by the class treasury. The figure will be composed of the president of the class, the five members of the dance committee, the six dance leaders, and the three other class officers. MEDICAL AIM TO HEAR GRAHAM AT ANNUAL MEET President to Discuss States of Two-year Med School at State Medical Society Meeting MEETING IN ASHEVILLE Medical alumni of the Univer sity will hear President Frank P. Graham discuss the status of the two year medical school at their annual luncheon during the convention of the State Medical Society in Asheville, May 6, it was announced yesterday by Dr. W. D. James, of Hamlet, presi dent of the medical alumni unit of the University Alumni Asso ciation. Invitations The luncheon is to be held at the George Vanderbilt hotel in Asheville. Invitations were J mailed today to 775 alumni phy- sicians in rtorxn uaronna, more than 500 of whom are graduates of the two-year medical school in Chapel Hill. Officers of the University medical alumni organization be sides Dr. James include Dr. E. C. Judd, Raleigh, vice-president; Dr. E. McG. Hedgpeth, Chapel Hill, secretary; and the follow ing councilmen: Dr. Roy B. Mc Knight, Charlotte; Dr. L. N. West, Raleigh; Dr. R. L. Pitt man, Fayetteville; Dr. J. W. Tankersley, Greensboro; Dr. Julian A. Moore, Asheville ; and Dr. W. R. Stanford, Durham. BAND TO PRESENT OUTDOORCONCERT University Concert Band to Give First Open-air Concert Of Season Tomorrow The University Concert Band under the direction of Earl Slo cum will present the first out door concert of. the season to morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock on the campus near the Davie Poplar. Tomorrow's concert will be given in honor of National Mu sic Week, which is being ob served throughout the country. Feature Cailliet's "Memories of Steph en Foster which has never been played on the campus be fore, will be the feature number on the program. Other pieces to be played in clude Buffer's "Knights of the Road;" FiHmore's "His Honor" march ; Luigini's "Ballet Egypt ian," a suite in four movements ; Ketelbey's Tn a Chinese Temple Garden' and the well-known "March Slave" by Tschaikow sky. The concert -will close - with "Hark the Sound." Delegation Attends Engineers' Meeting Annual Convention of Civil En gineers Held at Pinehurst A delegation of student mem bers will leave Chapel Hill thi3 'morning for Pinehurst to attend the state-wide convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers. North Carolina national members are holding the conven tion primarily for the student members of State, Duke and the University. Dr. Abell of State College is president of the North Carolina branch of the national organization.
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