' WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 193S
PAGE TWO
To Help Something Better Grow
V
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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.
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Don K. McKee
-Editor
A. Eeed Sarratt, Jr.
T. Eli Joyner
Jesse Lewis!
.Managing Editor
.Business Manager
.Circulation Manager
Editorial Staff
Associate Editors: E. L. Kahn, J. M. Smith, S. W.
Rabb.
City Editor: C. W. Gilmore.
News Editors: L. L. Gardner, E. J. Hamlin, W. S.-'
Jordan, Jr., J. F. Jonas, Jr., H. Goldberg, New-
ton Craig.
Editorial Assistants: R. T. Perkins, Buth Crowell,
Gordon Burns, J. H. Sivertsen, V. Gilmore.
Deskmen: H. H. Hirschfeld, C. 0. Jeffress, R.
Simon, 2. T. Elliot.
Sunday Supplement: A. H. Merrill, Director; C. W.
Gunter, Jr., J. J. Lane, R. H. Leslie, R. B.
Lowery, Erika Zimmermann, E. L. Hinton, B. H.
Roebuck, Elizabeth Keeler.
Reporters: B. F. Dixon, Dorothy Snyder, J. B.
Reese, J. K. Harriman, R. K. Barber, J. S.
Currie, Sarah Dalton, S. P. Hancock, C. B.
Hyatt, W. B. Kleeman, Mary Matthews, R
Miller, K. V. Murphy, R. M. Pockrass, Nancy
Schallert, Irene Wright, W. B. Stewart, Eliza
beth Wall, Jane Wilson, M. Rosenberg, J. Han
cock, J. C. McCail.
Sports: R. R. Howe, Editor; J. Eddleman, L. S.
Levitch, W. B. Arey, Jr., Night Editors; P. W.
Ferguson, L. Rubin, H. Kaplan, E. Karlin, T. C.
Tufts, W. Lindau, H. Langsam, J. Stoff, S.
. Rolfe, W. B. Davis, C. C. Greer, S. Wilk.
Exchanges: N. Kantor, E. L. Rankin, Jr., T. M.
v Stanback, W. A. Sutton, Jr.
Reviews: W..P. Hudson.
Art: Nell Booker, P. J. Schinhan, Jr., H. Kircher,
T. B. Keys.
Photography: J. Kisner, Director; A. T. Calhoun,
H. Bachrach. '
Business Staff '
Assistant Business Manager (Advertising) : Bill
McLean.
Assistant Business Manager (Collections) : Roy
Crooks.
Durham Representative : Bobby Davis.
Coed Advertising Manager: Mary Lindsay; assist
ants, Louise Waite, T. Daniels, Lillian Hughes,
Beatrice Boyd, Virginia Burd.
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Andrews, John Rankin, Stuart Ficklin, Milton
Connor, Clen Humphrey.
Office: George Harris, Jack Cheek, Rod Murchison,
John Scattergood.
For This Issue
News: Lytt I. Gardner. Sports: E. T. Elliot
Acorn -
IN THIS ISSUE Dr. William M. Dey, chairman of
of the Division of the Humanities here, sets
forth the Honors program now offered outstand-
ing students in his division. v
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Under this program the Honors student may
receive credit for as many as three reading cour
ses; on these three courses he is exempt from
class attendance and the regular course require
ments and does independent study with the guid
ance of an adviser. To complete the Honors work
he must pass a special comprehensive examina
tion in his senior year.
Exempting the student from only three out of
the 18 required courses in his junior and senior
years, our Humanities Honors set-up does not go
as far as the Swarthmore, Smith, or Buffalo plans
whih release exceptional men from all class
room regimentation in the last two years.
But Dr. Dey's honors provision does free excep
tional students from the perfunctory time-serv-t
ing requirements of one-half the number of cour
- ses required for a major. Individual attention from
an adviser, too, is unquestionably valuable. The
program stimulates considerable independent and
creative work and gives wider flexibility to out
standing students It is a step in the right direc
tion. Our regret is that the Humanities, according
to the catalogue, is the only division of the Uni
versity experimenting with Honors work.
V Ten Minutes !
YESTERDAY the Student council stood firm on
its drastic ruling discrediting class budgets
not approved by half the class. The sophomore
petition, coming after two quorum failures, met
council rebuff. There'll be no sophomore dance un
til the second-year men can produce half their
number in one room at one time!
General campus unrest following the regula
iton and the subsequent inability of the sopho
mores (test case) to do business heard the coun
cil's reply yesterday. That unrest defied the coun- .
cil : "if the sophomores have to try another meet
ing they won't even get the 175 they had the last
time. Boys aren't going to keep going to meetings
when nothing happens. There's ,gonna be an aw
ful stink when the sophomore dance doesn't come,
off!"
The council is determined to force the classes to
recognize their responsibilities their existence
as classes by requiring approval of half the en
rollments in all money matters. Giving away to
the sophomores would have nullified the new rul
ing for all classes and the council's ultimate pur
pose would have become immediately impossible
of accomplishment ... by this method. J. M. S.
SAND AND
SALVE
By Stuart Rabb
nrnars a wolf at the bacs dooil tooi
ANOTHER DUKE GAME
To the city of High Point Sat
urday came joyful tidings from
Washington. The city's agents
had put through a $2,595,000
PWA grant for the construction
of a municipal power plant and
dam.
Public power had virtually
crawled into the lap of the Duke
Power company. f ;
The important feature of the
High Point project is that the
municipal power plant will pro
duce 10,000,000 kilowatt hours
more power than the city can
use, plus more than 30,000,000
KWH in secondary power.
What will the city do with its
surplus power? That is what the
Duke Power boys would like to
know. These private interests
are prepared to go to the courts
in order to find the answer to
that question.
There are two things you can
count on: Duke power rates are
going to be plenty low and the
Duke publicity staff will have
you believe that Duke is Scandi
talian for Santa Claus.
Arc We Becoming
Educated?
DR. COFFMAN CONTRIBUTES
: The following definition of a
liberal education, written by
Thomas Huxley, was submitted
to usrecfintlx.by Dr. George R.
Coff man, head of the depart
ment of English:
"That man, I think, has a lib
eral education who has been so
trained in his youth that his
body is the neady servant of his
will, and does with ease and
pleasure all the work that, as a
mechanism, it is capable of;
whose intellect is a clear, cold
logic engine, with all its parts of
equal strength and in smooth
working order ; ready, like a
steam engine, to be turned to
any kind of work, and spin the
gossamers as well as forge the
anchors of the mind; whose
mind is , stored with the great
and fundamental truths of na
ture and of the laws of her op
erations; one who, no stunted
ascetic, is full of life and fire,
but whose passions are trained
to come to heel by a vigorous
will, the servant of a tender con
science ; who has learned to love
all the beauty, whether of na
ture or of art, to hate all vile
ness, and to respect others as
himself."
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G o r r esponde it ce
. ': Letters Over 250 Words Subject to Cutting by Editor
NOTE OF THANKS
To the Editor,
The Daily Tar Heel:
I should like to take this op
portunity of thanking the per
son Who returned my lost
French! Jbook to my room this
afternopn. ...... V - -'
This jis 30 cents worth Qf the
$13.80 In . articles my roommate
and I have lost and had stolen.
I am glad to have definite and
personal proof that there are
honest (people on the campus in
spite of the "Honor System."
1 Manual Korn.
be better than these funeral ses
sions we have been having every
Saturday afternoon at the
games? At Davidson a visitor,
not a student, remarked that the
Carolina student body was the
deadest thing that he had ever
been around except the morgue.
.Ted Cochrane.
To theEditor,
The D.ILY Tar Heel : ?
Sinc the Daily Tar Heel
is pTone to start retformatory
campaigns, I can think of no
better ifield, for its noble work
than the organization of a com
mittee to either abolish South's
bell, or to consider some meth
od of rj throttling the cursed
thing. The occupants of Old
East and West would be im
measurably glad to assist if phy
sical violence were heeded. The
anarchists contained therein
have already planned a bombing
binge. Recently when J. W.
Bailey poke, the thing rang for
some 15 minutes. You couldn't
talk, you couldn't listen, you
couldn't write, you couldn't
read, you couldn't even think.
All you could do was listen to
the. incessant clang sent to you
through the courtesy , of Politi
cians Promissory Pills for Purg
ing Purposes. If the usual time
the bell is rung is sufficient to
call people to class, why isn't
the same time sufficient to call
people to listen to political blah?
Personally, I fear it is an obliga
tory device to force students
to listen to party blurbs, for ev
en the most tenacious will give
up, after so long a time, and go
to Hades (for the censor's
sake) ' to escape this noise.
Please Mr. Editor,, try to get
the high and mighty to cheer
our . despondent spirits with
such melody only eight hours of
the day, instead of the usual
12. '
Fretfully,
Bob Barrett
DEAD AS A MORGUE
, To the Editor,
The Daily Tar Heel:
... I am sure that J. B. did
not wish the students to spring
from their seats and bellow like
insane lunatics; he merely
wished that the University
could and would have an organ
ized : cheering section. The
"Cheerios" we're once famous
here why can't they be started
anew? At least anything would
WHICH WAY, SOUTHERN
CONFERENCE?
To the Editor,
The Daily Tar Heel :
As the situation now stands,
it seems very probable that the
eight schools who favor the re
tention of the present athletic
policies of the Southern confer
ence will prevail at the annual
meeting of that body in Rich
mond, December 11-12. If For
est Fletcher, president of the
Southern conference, fails to se
cure enough support to have the
existing rules changed, the per
sons who will have blocked his
proposals will come away from
that meeting under the impres
sion that they have done a great
thing for their respective
schools, and will have made an
other step forward in the solu
tion of the problem of American
college athletics.
If, however, the Southern con
ference does not modify its un
precedented hardships 'on its
athletes, it will have taken an
other step backward, from the
real solution of the problem of
American collegiate athletics;
that is, allowing young men to
openly use their athletic ability
as a means of securing their edu-
(Continued on last page)
Between Covers
Read Any Good Books Lately?
By Maky Helen Frazier
a Now that football season's
about over you'll need a conver
satibn starter. Why not talk
about books? Good books. After
ally this is book week. Buy one
for yourself, for your cousin
who just had his tonsils re
moved, for your sister's birth
day, for a friend taking a trip,
for a Christmas gift. Only 34
more shopping days. There's a
book somewhere to suit every
personality.
The library is full of book se
lection aids. The "A. L. A. cata
log" gives books in all fields. A
description of the book is given
and it represents the opinion of
no one person. Look, for your
book under the general subject
The "Cumulative Book Index"
has an author, title and subject
index and lists all books in print.
, "The Booklist" has a current
classified list, also a fiction and
a children's list.
The "Wilson Bulletin" gives a
very selected list of reviews and
criticisms of the books taken
from other reviews.
"The Publishers' Weekly"
gives you the latest. Here you'll
also find out of print books and
rare editions advertised.
Look them over.
The WHY
And WHEREFORE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
, ... A committee of students inter
ested in public affairs has been
formed here at the University
for the purpose of cooperating
in the work of the League of
Nations association.
The local committee is con
cerning itself with two principal
objects (1) The stimulation of
interest in the principles and ac
tivities of the League of Nations,
with special reference to the pos
sible advantages to the United
States from membership in it,
and (2) The establishment of a
permanent local organization as
a foriim for the discussion of
these questions.
This committee is cooperating
with the American League of
Nations association which is fos
tering a nation-wide study of
the principles of international
cooperation for the maintenance
of peace.
Ernest Vanderburgh,
President.
Dr. Dey Announces Honors Plan
In Division Of Humanities Here
ZEfe -'.. ?.:driser assigned to the
chairman of the Division of the Hu- student by the honors committee,
inanities, to explain the honors pro- Thp hftnnr cfl r-a.
gram of that division. The Hnmani- ' . nnors Student may re
ties is the only University division ceive credit for as many as three
ZSt co- Such courses,
ACiupnuu xrom ciass at
tendance -and the requirements
of regular courses, should usu
ally be taken during the first and
second quarters of senior year,
though the departmental com
mittee, on the recommendation
of the special adviser, has power
to modify such a procedure.
The Division of the Humani
ties has devoted a great deal of
time and serious thought to the
program for honors work. This
program, which is in line with
.what is being done in other in
stitutions of high standing,
should appeal to especially well j
equipped students, and the divi-'f
sion hopes -that such students I
Will avail thmsplve3 vF fViia
students. Ed. Note.
By Dr: W. M. Dey
The attention of the members
of the junior class is directed to
the program for honors work
which is explained on pp. 4M0
of the current catalogue of the
College of Arts and Sciences. If
a student who has had a good
record in the General College de
m sires to become a candidate for
honors, he should consult with
the head of his major depart
ment or with the chairman of'
the departmental committee on
honors. The program offers an
excellent opportunity to acquire
an intensive understanding of a
special field under the guidance
portunity. I
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