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The official newspaper of the Publications Union
Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and
the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at
Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of Search 3, 1879. Sub
scription price, $3.00 for the college year.
Business and editorial offices: 204-206 Graham
Memorial
Telephones: editorial, 4351; business, 4356; night,
6806 ...
Don K. McKee
A. Reed Sarratt, Jr
Butler French.
Editor
Manaeine Editor
Business Mmtr
manorial stan ,
'Editorial Assistants: Edwin Kahn, Stuart Rabb,
Mac Smith.
City Editob: Charles Gilmore.
News Editors: Don Becker, Bill Jordan, Lytt Gard
ner, John Jonas.
Deskmen: -Herbert Goldberg, Newton Craig.
Reporters: Voit Gilmore, Bob Perkins, Will Arey,
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Burns, Dorothy Snyder, Paul Jernigan, Joe
Fletcher, Allen Merill. Ben F. Dixon, Catherine
DeCarlo, Jake Str other, Ruth Crowell, Hazel
Beacham. .
Sports: Ira Sarasohn, editor, Ed Hamlin and Ray
Howe, night editors, Bill Anderson, Fletcher
Ferguson, Len Rubin, Graham Gammon, Harvey
Kaplan, Ed Karlin, Bill Raney, E. L. Peterson,
Ray Simon, Tom Hawth.-ne, Tom Tufts.
News Release: H. T. Terry, Bob Brewer, Randolph'
Reece, John Eddleman, Herman Ward.
Reviews: Bill Hudson.
Assistant to the Managing Editor: J, L. Cobbs.
Exchanges: George Butler, Norman Rothschild, Ted
Britt.
Art: John Chapman, Phil Schinhan. .
Radio: Ned Kornblite.
Photography: John Larsen, Alan Calhoun, Jerry
, Kisner.
Business Staff
Circulation: Jesse Lewis.
Collections: Herbert Osterheld. ;
Local Advertising: Eli Joyner. s
Office: Roy Crooks, James Wharton.
Local Advertising Assistants: Bill McLean, Page
Keel, Crist BlackweH, Bob Davis, Marvin Utley,
Bill Lamont, C. S. Humphrey.
y For This Issue
News Editor: Reed Sarratt. Sports. John Cobbs.
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High Finances
To move the Chapel Hill engineering school to
Raleigh and develop there a great center of tech-;
nology necessitates building up the supporting
scientific departments at State College. The ex
tent to which this "building up" must foe carried
was pointed out by the disinterested experts' re
port to the N. C Commission on Consolidation :
... The present nucleus of organization and per
sonnel at Raleigh, while comparatively efficient in
its present sphere of work, scarcely affords the
foundation for a scientific school of notable rank.
The staff includes few men of the first rank. . . .
. The scientific equipment is inadequate for work of
an advanced grade. In general, the plan of group
ing at Raleigh all scientific and technical work at
senior levels could not be recommended for piecemeal
execution.
To transfer Carolina's engineering department
would cost close to a third of a million dollars.
To build up State College to Carolina standards
would necessitate hundreds of thousands a year.
The only source of revenue upon which this
policy of expanding State College into a great
university can hang is the undependable and in
sufficient state appropriation. With a definite
limitation on the funds the Greater University
can coax from the. legislature, any increase in
appropriations to Raleigh will inevitably result in
a decrease to Chapel Hill and Greensboro. Con
sequently Carolina and W. C. U. N. C. will suffer.
And while the Consolidationists use state funds
to build up the scientific departments at Raleigh
contributory to engineering, all the time over in
Chapel Hill will be the very scientific depart
ments they are looking for.
0 More Scholarships
By'last Thursday, 419 of this term's student
body had borrowed from the University a total of
$46,504.46. This means that 17 per cent of the
student body is attending school financed wholly
or partially from the University loan fund.
This money comes from pricate funds set up
under the ibusiness office's administration and
'from the University's own "last resort" financing
fund. Loans made from this last fund are re
stricted to tuition financing in most cases.
Collections for the year up to last Thursday
amounted to $30,327.64; The -deficit for the year
will thus approximate $15,000. The depression
1 effectively "put the skids under" re-payment.
Yet, according to Fund Administrator James
Williams, there is no need for any large addition
to the loan fund capitalization.
For while we are loaning money to almost one
fifth of our student body, we are barely able to
give 75 "scholarships" worth $75 each. In an
institution as large :as ;the :Univrsityrthis is a
pitifully smail number of pitifully small scholar
ships. , t
The University needs scholarship endowments
rather than more loan funds.- S. W. R.
SAND AND
salve;
By Stuart Rabb
INDIRECT VICTORY
Red flags waved in the Cleve
land convention hall and the del
egates were singing the "In
ternationale." Up in front lead
ing the boys was a distinguished-looking
gentleman with the
suave air of a diplomat. Just
now, however, he was directing
the singing with clenched fist
upraised in a Mussolin-like ges
ture. It was the pow-pow's high
spot when Norman Thomas was
selected for the third consecu
tive time as the Socialist candi
date for president. His nomina
tion came as a climax, to the
recent withdrawal of the so-called
"right-wing" socialists.
.Norman Thomas, with his fer
vent sincerity and gentlemanly
dignity has done more to add to
the prestige of "his "radical"
party than any of his contempo
raries, i i Capable of an almost
magical versatility, he is able to
convince intellect in one night's
speech and play upon the emo
tion and superstition of the
ignorant the following evening.
Of course the Socialists won't
win. At least they won't win
-the election. But the winning
parties in the past always seem
to get around to borrowing
from the Socialist platform. The
Democrats almost made a clean
sweep of it last year.
So the Socialists might do
well to conclude their platform
with "MAJOR PARTIES
PLEASE COPY."
Publications Keys
Continued from first page)
R. Weisner, and Ben Wyche.
Two Publications
The names of the. following
students are those who received
keys last year, but who have
worked on another publication
this year and had the name of
the publication engraved on the
same key : W. H. Anderson, Bor
han, Don Becker, C. W. Black
well, J. D. Bobbitt, R. C. Crooks,
Daffe, F. W. Ferguson, J. M.
Smith, I. D. Suss.
An award of distinction was
given, to the following for their
work done during the past year :
W. G. Arey, E. R. Bahnson, R.
C. Berg, Nell Booker Reed
' Clark, J. L. Coulter, J. L. Cobbs,
Ernest Craig, Ruth Crowell, R.
G. S. Davis, Shelby Foote, E.
G. Gammon, V. Gilmore, John
son Harris, J. S. Hayworth, Em
maline Henderson, W; P. Hud
son, H. H. Hirschfeld, F.i W.
Johnson, R. A. Joyner, Harvey
Kaplin, M. E. Karlin, Milton
Kind, W. M. Lamont,; . R. T.
jerkins, E. L Peterson, W. D.
Poe, -N. S. Rothschild,. . Phil
Schinhan J H. Siyertsen, J. J
Str other, J. F. Trqtman, M.
Utley, Louise Waite, E. J. Wel
lons, J. L. Wharton, Thomas Wik
son, Emile Wise, and J William
Wooten. X
Lanier Away
Edwin S. Lanier, self-help sec
retary, has been out of Chapel
Hill for the last few days, since
he was called to his home in
South Georgia where his father
is seriously ill. He ' will return
some time this week.
Behind
The
Wheels
Don Becker
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By Bob Perkins
About two years ago Don
Becker, then reporter and fea
ture writer on the Daily Tar
Heel, was playing around the
Yackety Yack office making
"candid camera shots" for that
publication. Tom Walker, the
managing editor of the Daily
Tar Heel, happened along and
liked the shots so well that he
used some of them for the paper.
From then on Don was staff pho
tographer. Don's pictures have appeared
not only in local publications but
also in the Durham and Char
lotte; papers, the Collegiate Di
gest, and the Newark Evening
News. . ' V '' '
It was this newsphotography
work '. that was instrumental in
landing him a job with the Dur
ham Herald-Sun papers. Becker
begins work when he receives
hisA.B. in journalism.
Magazine
. In addition to his photography
work on the campus publica
tions, Don has written for the
Magazine, and has been one of
the leading columnists on the
Daily Tar Heel. Through "Dip
lomatic Digest," he has had an
outlet to express his views on
his favorite subject, the social
sciences. His abstract of Dr.
Odiim'sbook, "Southern Regions
of the U. S.," was published in
"Plan Age,", a Washington pub
lication. On top of all his other work,
Don during his senior year has
been a news editor on the Daily
Tar Heel, one of the most im
portant jobs on the paper, which
takes from 3 in the afternoon
until 1 or 2 o'clock in the morn
ing. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, A. S, U., Interdormitory
council, one, of the organizers of
the Foreign Policy League, and
has done photographic work for
the Playmakers.
Becker is one of that , group
of students who deserve recog
nition for praiseworthy but un
extoled work on the campus.
G o rresp ond e n c e
Letters Should be Signed and Limited to 250 Words
Modernize Liberalism
To the Editor,
The Daily Tar Heel:
The proposal to introduce the
Honors College system into this
University merits the support of
every student on this campus
who believes that, although U.
N. C. may be the seat of liberal
ism in the South, our present
educational system is out-moded
in many respects and needs dras
tic changes.
The proposed system would
abolish all quizzes, substituting
in ' their place a comprehensive
examination. Courses of study
would be chosen purely on an
elective basis by each student in
accordance with his , interests,
and with the aid of a faculty
adviser. Class attendance would
be optional. v
Benefits
What benefits could we expect
from such a plan? Some of the
courses which are now required,
but in which the majority of the
students taking them are not
interested, would be made elect
ive. These courses, which will
never appeal to some students,
and which are forced on them
because of the educational sys-.
tern, clearly amount to nothing
more than a waste of time. We
must recognize the fact that
.human nature varies from per
. son to person and that no educa
tional system can dictate a blan
ket course of study to a group
of individuals with widely di
vergent interests. Students could
use the increased time available
due to the elimination of these
courses in pursuing subjects in
their particular field of interest.
Quizzes : Bunk
As for quizzes, there are few
persons on this campus who are
not tired of being' buried under
an avalanche of these unearthly
things every quarter in each sub
ject one takes. It is a common
' thing to see students sitting up
all night, neglecting regular as
signments, and cutting other
classes, all to be prepared for a
one-hour game between the stu
dent and his" professor. A good
score in this game depends not
so much upon knowledge, but
JJniversity
Majors
upon chance, the ability to mem
orize a mass of intricate, unim
portant details most of which
will be forgotten in a few days,
and upon the ability to "shoot
him a line," as it is popularly
known. After all, the best that
one can do is to remember the
fundamentals of a course, any
details that are remembered be
ing incidental. Our present grad
ing system sets up the high
mark as an end to be attained,
knowledge of:? the course being
an incidental means to this end.
A grading system by which only
a "pass" or "fail" would be giv
en would turn the emphasis from
the grade to a knowledge of the
f undamentals ' of the course.
Another maladjustment in
our present system which should
be corrected under the Honors
College is the tendency of pro
fessors to insist upon covering
a set amount of ground per
quarter, many times with the
result that half the course is
piled upon the student in the
last two weeks. !
The-Answer
It may be argued that such a
plan would promote laxity in
studying among the students.
There are three answers to this-J
charge. First, .those students
who were thoroughly interested
in their course of study and in
themselves would not be found
in such a group. Second, the
comprehensive would provide a
sufficient stimulus to induce
many of the others to study.
Third, those who did .not study
would generally be those who
come here for purposes other
than getting an education. These
would not matter.
If the student body wants a
plan like this, as I am sure many
do, it will be; necessary fof a
majority of the students to sup
port the plan to make it effect
ive,, as has been pointed out.
Let's modernize our liberalism!
frank Mcdonald.
FOR RENT Studio apartment, 301
Pritcliard "Ave. Available for- first
session of Summer School. For fur-
;'. ther information see Bruce. Thom
ason at above named address.
MATHEMATICS .
By a Staff Member
First of all, the selection of
mathematics as the major field .
of "study should follow a natural
aptitude for the subject. A good
criterion is to take a retrospec
tive survey of one's experience
during the course in freshman
mathematics. If that experience
was pleasant, if dealing in exact
logical sequences and deductions
had an appeal, then one could
safely choose this subject a3 a
major.
To those who qualify on the
first point, mathematics along
with certain other departments
offers a two-fold inducement. As
-the "Queen of the Sciences" it
offers cultural and educational
training in precise reasoning and
reaching logical conclusions that
should mark every trained in
dividual. Ex-president Lowell of
Harvard once said that in his
opinion every person who intends
to enter the profession of law,
for example, should have inten
sive undergraduate training in
mathematics.
Fron the practical stand-
point, the six courses constitut-"
ing the minimum requirements
for a major are analytic geome- .
try, differential calculus and in
tegral calculus and three other .
courses to be selected from a
Specified . group. For those who
would like to choose teaching as
a profession, these courses would
form adequate training for
teaching in high school, or
would be a good foundation upon
which to enter . graduate work
leading toward a college or uni
versity career.
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Businessman Ovens was
here "to glorify business.' " It
isn't glory that we're after,
Brother Ovens. All we want
is a job.
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