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VOLUME XLV
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CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRH) AY, JANUARY 15, 1937
EDITORIAL PHOXE 4151
NUMBER 81
Large Crowd
Hears Scholar
In Talk Here
Shakespeare Authority
Kittredge Speaks
On Characters
An audience that filled the
Playmaker theater to overflow
ing and crowded the aisles and
doorways heard George Lyman
jvitireuge speaK last mgnt on
"Shakespeare's-Villains."
There was standing room, only
in the house and even the pit was
crowded with those who could
find no other place, when Pro-
xessur. jxittreage, proiessor
Triii J
emeritus of Harvard university
and Shakespearean scholar, was
introduced to the audience as the
man who for more than 50 years
has been an inspiration to men
teaching English literature.
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. Sympathetic Subject
The majestically bearded,
white-haired "Kitty" began his
address by saying that his sub
ject should be a sympathetic one
1x most any audience.
Professor Kittredge, while
speaking of Aaron, the Moor,
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said mat line Aaron we are
sometimes "sick in fortune be
cause we have had too much of
our own behavior."
He continually interspersed
"his readings from the Bard of
-Avon's plays with applications
of Shakespeare's characters to
present day life.
Professor Kittredge said that
Shakespeare made the charac
ters live and he found them very
unpleasant - company. - "I -must
say, however, I am a critic, and
when 4I am bad, I am as bad as
the worst of them, but I hope
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Engineers Ball
Will Be Held
HereTonight
Carolina Inn Will le
Scene Ut J?mai
Attair
The last Engineers' ball in the
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held from 9 until 1 o'clock
night at Carolina inn.
Revolving prisms, oscillating
spectra, mirror reflections and I
vari-colored lighting effects have
oeen arrangea ny engineering
students to make tonight's their
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oest social ever.
Last One
Under the consolidation plan,
engineering courses will be
available only at State College
m 1937-38. Next , year's senior
class will mark the close of the
University's school of engineer-'
ing.
Music for the last engineering
hop will be furnished by. Freddy'
Johnson. Each engineer is invit
ing one outside guest.
Town Girls Dance
All town girls interested
in obtaining bids to a dance
to be given by Graham
Memorial on January 29
call by the Woman's asso
ciation room from I0i30 un
til 2 or call Erika Zim
mermann at 3886. The
dance committee would like
to know the number of bids
to be issued those who are
to receive them must leave
their names before tomorrow.
National Pressmen Here Today
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Dr. George Gallup, left,, and Dr.
speakers at today's sessions of
Carolina inn. Gallup, director of
Opinion, will, discuss "Current Trends in Public Opinion." Acker
man, dean of Columbia's Pulitzer school of journalism, will speak
on "The Perspective of American
Newly Renovated Person
Hall Will Be
Museum Of Art Tonight
Dr. Graham, Yale Dean
To Make Talks In
Short Ceremony
By Nancy Schallert
Tonight at 8 :30 in Hill Music
hall, the year-long hopes of the
University art department for a
permanent home will be realized.
President Frank Graham will
formally turn the newly reno
vated Person hall over to the de
partment, which will be repre
sented by Russell Smith.
Dean Everett V. Meeks of the
Yale school of fine arts will make
a short address. The director of
the southern arts project, Miss
Leila Mechlin of Washington,
D. C, will also speak briefly.
Preceding the program Dr.
Schinhan of the music school
will present a short program of
organ music. After the assembly
in Hill Music hall, there will be
a reception in Person hall with
the art exhibit. No formal invi
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Plan Program
Celebration To Honor
Dare Anniversary
For the purpose of completing
plans for the celebration of the
350th anniversary of the birth
of Virginia Dare, first of the
English speaking race to be born
in America, Professor F. H.
Koch and Paul Green leave to
morrow for Manteo, Roanoke
Island.
In collaboration with the Fed
eral Theater projects, the cele
bration is being planned by the
local authorities at Roanoke with
Professor Koch acting as super
vising, director of production
Mrs. Paul Green, the former
Elizabeth ' Lay of the Carolina
Playmakers, with her husband is
writing a pageant-drama for the
event, the leading characters to
be portrayed by professional ac
tors taken from the Federal The
ater projects. -
Special Coins
A umixea nunwer 01 specia
Carl Ackerman are two of the
the state Press institute in the
the American Institute of Public
Journalism.
Opened As
Korn To Talk
Historian Will Discuss
Jewish Pioneers
Harold Korn, eminent Jewish
historian, will address the Hillel
foundation discussion groutf in
the banquet hall of Graham Me
morial at 7 :30 tonight.
For.35 years a student of Jew
ish literature and history, Dr.
Korn possesses a vivid bacKq
ground for his topic, "The He
braic Mortar in the American
Structure."
In his talk, he will discuss the
Jewish pioneers of America, "so
that when the charge is brought
that they are newcomers, introd-
ers and interlopers it is proven
alse by historical facts."
Purpose
The Hillel foundation, new to
his campus this school year, is
attempting to promote an inter
est in and knowledge of Jewish
culture.
In addition to Friday night
discussion groups, Rabbi Ber
nard Zeiger, campus director, is
conducting a class in Hebrew
anguage each Monday, intended
to enable Jews and non-Jews to
read simple passages in the nat
ural Old Testament.
In announcing Dr. Korn's
visit this week, Rabbi Zeiger also
stated that Seymour Moskowitz,
a student, has been appointed to
conduct the traditional services
at Friday night meetings.
A.K.G. Will Appoint
Board For May Day
Fraternity Decides to Give Con
trol of Event to Board
Alpha Kappa Gamma decided
at a meeting yesterday afternoon
to turn over complete control of
May Day to a board to be ap
pointed by members of Alpha
Kappa Gamma.
The first Mav Dav sriven on
the University campus was stag
ed by Alpha Kappa Gamma last
spring, but the fraternity decid
ed that May Day would be more
representative of all if a board
of the fraternity be appointed to
take control.
Board members will be select
ed at the next meeting of Alpha
Kappa Gamma, January 24. Ex
pansion plans were made and
steps were discussed to have
women graduates of the Univer
sity recognized by the A. A. U.
ToHillelBody
McNntt Opens Newspaper
Institate; To Address Campes
At Large At Chapel Today
Indiana Governor Asks
Pressmen To Build
Nation's Morale
Clyde Hoey Speaks
Paul y. McNutt, governor of
Indiana, stuck to a non-political
theme in Hill hall -last night
and pled with journalists attend
ing the 13th annual state Press
institute to 'help build up the
nation's morale."
"I believe in the destiny of
democracy," stated the past na
tional commander of the Ameri
can Legion.
His address opened the two-
day newspaper institute. Carl C.
Council, state press president,
greeted delegates and presented
North Carolina's "new Governor
Clyde R. Hpey, who made intro
ductory remarks. ' ;
No Politics
During and after his talk, Mc
Nutt refused to reveal his per
sonal political ambitions. Recent
newspaper predictions have been
that he is. in line as Roosevelt's
successor. ;
The governor scored "edito
rialized" news. "It is the great
est sin of newspapers today," he
said, after revealing that he was
a united jfressman tor inree
years.
The President, McNutt said,
"has made it his business to
prove to the people that they
had a government which could
govern." He believes that a true
measure of this administration
should be "its scope, spirit, and
vitality."
McNutt confessed himself "an
invincible optimist," and left
with the journalists the plea
that through the press they "aid
in the movement for a greater
American democracy."
Student-Faculty Committee
Changes Date Of Festival
King And Queen Of Day
To Be Selected
By Ballot
Due to the fact that February
10 is Ash Wednesday, the Student-Faculty
Day committee de
cided at its meeting yesterday
afternoon to hold the annual fete
on the ninth of the month.
The Daily Tar Heel will run
blank ballots for a week start
ing January 18 for the purpose
of nominating the queen of the
festivities. Boxes for collecting
the ballots will be set up in each
of the dormitories, fraternities,
and in the Y. M. C. A. and Swain
hall. The nomination will last a
week, and then the pictures of
the ten having the most votes
will be published in the campus
daily, subject to a final electing
vote. .
The girl receiving the highest
number of votes in this final elec
tion, which will run from Feb
ruary 1-3, will be queen of Student-Faculty
Day, and the two
runners-up will be her ladies-in-waiting.
The king of Student-Faculty
Day, who will be a member of
the faculty, and also the court
jester, will be elected by popular
vote on the same ballots that will
nominate the queen.
Nick Read, chairman of the
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McNutt Definite
1940 Prospect,
Says Woodhouse
Local Commentator Sees Indiana
Governor as "Presidential
Timber"
By Gordon Burns
That Governor Paul McNutt
has definite prospects for the
Democratic nomination for the
presidency in 1940 was the opin
ion of Dr. E. J. Woodhouse, Uni
versity political science profes
sor and campus political com
mentator, in a statement made
to the Daily Tar Heel yester
day.
"At this time, Governor Mc
Nutt seems to "have at least as
good prospects for the Demo
cratic nomination 'for the presi
dency in 1940 as any presidential
timber in sight," commented
Woodhouse. "His vigorous ad
ministration as governor of In
diana has pushed him to the
front as a leader apt to suit the
desires of "the more conservative
elements of the Democratic
party."
Labor Protests
"The protests of labor leaders
against his use of national
guards in connection with
strikes have been such by the
claims of his supporters that he
was merely carrying out the
duty of the governor to main
tain law and order and to pre
serve the peace of the state,"
continued Woodhouse. "Many
who class themselves as liberal
Democrats may already support
or may come to support the qual
ifications and availability of
Governor McNutt for the na
tional leadership of the party in
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Union Directors
To Petition For
Additional Fees
Board Also Approves Junior
President's Plan Informal
Dances in Building
The board of directors of Gra
ham Memorial voted Wednesday
night to petition the University
administration to levy a fee of
50 cents per student on all sum
mer session students for the sup
port of the Student Union build
ing. ,
The resulting revenue from
this fee would provide about
$800 for the maintenance of
Graham Memorial during the
summer.
Junior Class President Reuben
Graham's plan for informal
dances to be held in Graham Me
morial was approved as was
Frank McGlinn's request for ad
vertisement posters for political
union speakers. .
The board also voted in favor
of student-faculty teas and is
sued a requisition for 50 chairs
for Graham Memorial.
The auditor made his semi
annual report and a budget was
prepared for operation unti
Carolina Political Union
To Sponsor Leader
Of Democrats
Former Law Dean
Indiana's white-haired Demo
cratic governor Paul Vories Mc
Nutt, picked by various political
commentators as presidential
material for 1940, will address
the student body this morning
in Memorial hall at 10:30, spon
sored by the Carolina Political
union.
McNutt, who is in Chapel Hill
in connection with the North
Carolina Press Association insti
tute, is a past commander of the
American Legion and left the
deanship of the Indiana univer
sity law school four years ago
to become governor of that
state.
State Power
When McNutt quits Indiana's
executive mansion, it will be
with a tight grip on the reins of
party power once held by the
late Thomas Taggart who died
in 1929. As governor, he added
more power to the office than
was enjoyed by any of his pre
decessors, most of whom were
Republicans. He made himself
the first Democratic leader to
have the final word in state af
fairs since the days of Taggart's
domination. - -
While governor, McNutt has
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Institute Men
Urge Visitors
ToConvention
Today's Program Gives
Discussion By Paul
West At 9:30
R. W. Madry, head of the Uni
versity news bureau and ar
rangement committeeman for
the press institute, yesterday
stressed the fact that any stu
dents and professors may attend
meetings of the institute at the
Carolina inn today and tomor
row. The University and Duke, co-
sponsors 01 tne tmrteentn an
nual newsmen's gathering, hope
that as many laymen as possible
will attend, the programs.
Highlights
Highlights on today's schedule
are the discussion of advertisers'
problems by Paul West at 9:30
a. m., a discussion 01 Current
Trends in Public Opinion," by
Dr. George Gallup, director of
the American Institute of Public
Opinion; and a "Perspective of
American Journalism," by Dean
Carl Ackerman, head of the
graduate journalism school of
Columbia University, in the aft-
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Professors
Members of the Univer
sity faculty who expect to
reply to the card-inquiry on
the undergraduate grading
system should send their
answers to the Daily Tar
Heel office today or tomor
row. Up to last night, 112
members of the University
staff had responded.
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