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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Wfc ilatlp Car Heel Tha official newspaper of the Publications Usion Board of the Unhrersfty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matt. . at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C under act of Inarch 2, 1879. Sub scription price, $3.00 for the college year. Don K. llcXee. -Editor A. Reed Sarrstt, Jr. T. Eli Joyner Jesse Lewis , -Managing Editor -Business Manager -Circulation Manager Editorial Staff Associate Enrrosa: E. L. Kahn, J. M. Smith, S. W. Babb. City Editob: C. W. Cilmore. News Editors: L. I. Gardner, E. J. Hamlin, J. P. Jonas, Jr., H. Goldberg, Newton Craig, L. S. Levitch. Editorial Assistants: E. T. Perkins, Bnth CrowelL Gordon Barns, J. H. Sivertsen, V. Gilmore, R. Miller. Deskmen: H. H. Hirschfeld. C O. Jeffress, B. Simon, R. P. Brewer, H. D. Langsam. Feature Supplement: A. H. Merrill, Director; J. J. Lane, B. B. Lowery, Erika Zimmermann. Bepobters: B. F. Dixon, J. B. Beese, C. B. Hyatt, W. B. Kleeman, K. V. Murphy, Nancy Schallert, Elizabeth Wall, M. Rosenberg, S. F. Engs. Sports: R. R. Howe, Editor; J. Eddleman, W. G. Arey, Jr., E. T. Elliot, Night Editors; F. W. Ferguson, L. Rubin, H. Kaplan, E. Karlin, W. Lindau, J. Stoff, S. Rolf e, W. B. Davis, C. C. Greer, S. Wilk, F. T. LaRochelle. Exchanges: Tom Stanback, Chief; Norman Kantor, Willis Sutton, Howard Easter. Radio: N. I. Kornblite. Reviews: W. P. Hudson. Art: Nell Booker, P. J. Schinhan, Jr., H. Kircher, T. B. Keys. Photography: J. Eisner, Director; A. T. Calhoun, H. Bachrach. Business Staff Assistant Business Manager (Advertising): Bill McLean. Assistant Business Manager (Collections) : Roy Crooks. Durham Representative: John Rankin. Coed Advertising Manager: Louise Waite; assist ants, T. Daniels, Lillian Hughes, Beatrice Boyd, Irene Wright. Local Advertising Assistants: Bob Andrews, Stu art Ficklin, Glen Humphrey, Bobby Davis, Jack Cheek, Rod. Murchison. Office: George Harris, John Scattergood, GiHey Nicholson. The Comprehensive Examination Should Be Reformed,- Beale Suggests Plan For Guidance Of Juniors, Seniors For This Issue News: John F. Jonas, Jr. Sports: Will G. Arey, Jr. To Help Something Better Grow Let's Make It Unanimous The University administration has granted Graham Memorial's request for a 50 cent tariff per student during each term of summer school. Fall, winter, and spring quarter students will no longer have to bear the expense of operating the Union for summer visitors. For its boost to fairness we thank the administration. Graham Memorial is the only building on the campus not maintained by the University. Even the Y. M. C. A., housing the Book Exchange, gets repaired and painted by the University. If the Union were relieved of maintenance, it could use the money we all pay to the greater enjoyment of the student body. Maybe the ad ministration will make their score 100 per cent. We'd like that. S.W.R. By Howaed K. Beale The third of a series of contributed articles) ' ; 'V : m ; ' ' ' The comprehensive examina tion system could be used effec tively. At present in most de partments it tends to be merely a rehash of courses offered ; the preparation for it is largely a "cram" process, a boning up once more on old lecture notes. If it is merely to reexamine in courses already passed, it is scarcely worth the effort. It should be made really compre hensive, that is, an examination that ' covers the whole field, whether courses have been offer ed or not, that cuts across course lines and deals with sweeping questions involving interpreta tion and correlation between courses. Students with no prep aration other than passing six often unrelated courses in the department are, however, un prepared for such an examina tion. The comprehensive exami nation should be reformed, not abolished. It could be made to serve as an incentive to both stu dents and faculty to emphasize interpretation and integration in a whole field that would give it meaning and make a student the master of a field of knowledge rather than the mere holder of six or eight course credits in it. Courses could do much more than they do in this direction if emphasis were shifted from drill ing in facts to discussion and in terpretation of those facts, though of course students would then have to acquire the facts for themselves, and that would mean work, and most students prefer spoon-feeding. A full tu torial system is obviously impos sible. Yet many of its benefits could be obtained with our facili ties. A permanent comprehensive committee could be set up in each department to experiment and give continuity of effort. Stu dents should be assigned to that committee at thei beginning of the junior year for guidance. They could then be apportioned to individual members of the de partment for conferences per- Underground Passage Dr. Berryhill smiled at the infirmary yesterday. The workmen had finished installing his new "steam table" for keeping the patients' meals warm. Food for the infirmary inmates is still being prepared in Swain hall as before now; but with the modern cafeteria system affording the doc tors much more menu flexibility in providing for their patients, and the new "steam table" insuring the food's ever-readiness, the old howl over cold, inadequate hospital trays should fade to a mur mur ... Even murmurs won't be allowed long. Dr. Ber ryhill assures us, if present prospects materialize. State appropriations for the new infirmary annex are now under legislative consideration. "Shop talk" includes plans for an underground tunnel to connect the Swain basement and the annex base ment. Steam rollers will speed the warm foods, to the infirmary kitchen where they'll be held in the new steam table until the patients are sittin' up in bed, napkins tucked in. . - More clever proposals: perhaps by next year the University can have added a full-time dieti cian to the staff of Swain hall. The menii-man-ager would arrange the regular dining hall offer ings and assist special students who need indivi dual attention (who can't afford it at present, or who can't find the proper foods even when they know they should be dieting). Also the Univer sity dietician would see that Berryhill's sick boys get just what they need, to the Nth degree of liquidity . . . From all the unannounced prospecting it ap pears somebody else besides last spring's student body is worrying about infirmary food. And the rest of us who are well aren't being neglected in the proposals, either . . . Proposals, yes; and ev erybody's holding four leaf clovers. J.M.S. SAND AND SALVE By Stuart Rabb haps once a month. In those con ferences questions of interpreta tion could be raised for the stu dent to think about, readings could be suggested, the student would have an opportunity to discuss things he had been read ing or was interested in in a way impossible in a course, and he could be encouraged and helped to pursue subjects that particu larly appealed to him further. Gaps between courses could be filled in by suggested readings. The system should be kept vol untary, something offered the WPA BUDGET EXPERTS Between Employers Franklin Roosevelt and Alfred Sloan there could well exist a bond of sym pathy. Both are having labor trouble. Mr. Sloan's General Motors plants have been closed by "sit-down" strikers. But Mr. Roosevelt's govern ment employees are not sitting down. People living off the tax payers' money or after it have a habit of marching into Wash ington and flourishing banners. Remember the bonus boys? Now it's that WPA parading. They tell Mr. Roosevelt that $790,000,000 isn't enough for them and demand $250,000,000 more. It is strange that there are so many men' in the WPA who are able to deal in terms of billions of dollars and who know enough about the federal budget to be sure that $790,000,000 will not be enough for them. It couldn't be .that, whatever salary they get, they want more, could it? Or is someone whisper ing in their ears? student but not required. It should be flexible in accordance with the need and capacity of the individual student. Here could be a chance for deempha sizing course credits, for aiding the best students in self -education, for getting all students to think about their subjects, and for providing the benefits of a little personal teaching of a kind not feasible in many courses. IV A change of emphasis in the (Continued on last page) Quill Quips - Mac Smith Notice Will the fellow who told the following please come by the of fice: The Robeson county farm er's son, Alec McKenzie, was re ceiving his diploma from the University many years ago. As the then governor of North Carolina solemnly read out Mc Kenzie's full name at the gradu ation exercises, the hulking fig ure of the boy clambered up on the platform and grabbed the handsome scroll. "Thank God, I got it," he yell ed, waving his arms. "It took me four years. ..." Freedom Sequel to the above, Sopho more Voit Gilmore reminds us, is the legendary tale from the 1820's when all : University sen iors, upon graduation, were re quired to make a public address to the commencement audience. One liberal-minded fourth year man had announced his topic some time before June, but the president of the University back thin" definitely forbade our friend's speaking on such a sub ject. June came: the graduation program at hand, the governor, the University president, and all the faculty dignitaries were as sembled before the Gerard hall audience gathered here to see the Sons of the State get their diplo mas. Our Senior Friend arose and announced his topic. There was a distinct scuffle in one corner of the rostrum as the University president rushed forward. "My son, I have forbidden you to speak on this subject, you well know. You cannot proceed. . . ." "All right, then," shouted the defiant student. "I have prepared my speech and am ready to give it. I'll be under Davie Poplar in five minutes if any of you in the audience would like to hear. . . ." A mad rush out of Gerard in a flash, the president, the gover nor & party were 'left alone and forgotten on the platform. P. S, Don't ask what the boy was going to speak about. I don't know either. Maybe he believed that Violin ist Albert Spalding shouldn't have played on the campus be cause he had received pay for advertising, via radio, Fletcher's Castoria. You know, the "babies cry for it." Uncomfortable Sedate Erika Zimmermann, Carolina senior and daughter of the "Kenan Professor of Ec 11," is no mean journalism student. She embellishes her natural lit erary efforts with juicy classical allusions which are just as cute as pie. Last spring, taking Walt Spearman's course in editorial writing, Erika chanced to draw upon the muse for the expres sion: "rising from the arms of. Morpheus (in the morning) ." Unfortunately, Demure Miss Zimmermann spelled Morpheus just the way you spell Murphy. Demanded Professor Spear man and her classmates next day: "Who is this Murphy out of whose arms thou dost arise each bright morn . . .?" Own Toes After a heated argument with his government prof over the case of Hammer vs. Dagenhart, in which heat he fiercely de nounced Mr. Hammer, Old East er Hal Walker belatedly discov ered that same Mr. Hammer was his ownrgrandfather! The Grist Mill The dean of Yale college, Dr. Clarence Mendell," writes U3 in answer to an inquiry on atten dance regulations, "In answer to your somewhat peremptory note, which might, it seems to me, have been accompanied by a stamped " and return envelope, I am sending you a copy of our regulations. " From our office went this re ply: "Dear Doctor Mendell: Thank you very much for your letter. Enclosed is a three-cent stamp. "Due to an oversight on our part, Dean Hanford of Harvard must have been sent the stamp intended for you. For this we apologize!." It seems that Harvard, in keeping with past performances, continues to get most of the fin ancial support. Score: Harvard 6 Yale 3. We are trying to remember who it was that told us that Bob Wilkins claimed a letter which came to the Pi K. A. house ad dressed to the "Cutest Boy in Rocky Mount." Somebody told us that Bob is from Wilson, but anyway it's a good story. "Disgusted" Carl Pugh is even more disgusted-now. His "con fined friend" emerged from the infirmary and Carl was visiting her. The Methodist minister and his wife happened into th& room where Carl and his Nico lette were sitting. Carl was ad vised that he should attend church more often . . . Especially here at college. The minister's wife thought he needed it more than ever. RALPH MILLER Correspondence O "Ars Gratia Art is" To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: It was unfortunate that for the sake of a whim, a number of people equal to the privileged au dience was denied the opportu nity of hearing the great celeb- , rity and Shakespearean scholar, . Dr. George Lyman Kittredge Thursday evening. I refer to the fact that, in spite of fervent pleas to change the site of the lecture from the Playmaker the ater to Memorial hall, hours of contemplative anticipation were ignored. . To hear Dr. Kittredge those with the most fragile con stitutions would have braved the reported dampness of Memorial (Continued on last page) Debaters Answer Open-Forum Letter Written By "J. E. B. O Yellow Whiskers To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: A dishonest anonymous letter to the editor appeared in Satur day's Daily Tar Heel under the bogus initials of "J. E. B." Though "J. E. B." may deserve no attention, the magnitude of his misrepresentation does. He begins by saying that "Professor Bill Olsen's public speaking class has again turned its gullet-muzzles on the Tar Heel." This and his subsequent statements remind me of 'the well-known definition of a crab as a red animal that walks back wards, which is correct except that a crab is not red, is not an animal, and does not walk back wards. Just This I have a high regard for the Daily Tar Heel, and, as a mat ter of fact, a short talk by a stu dent the other day was the first critical speech that I recall in a, year. An athlete criticized sports write-ups and a few. other mat ters, and then admitted that when he didn't get the Daily Tar Heel he missed it. An asso ciate editor of the Daily Tar Heel in the class then made a pleasant one-sentence refutation by saying he was glad the speak er "missed" the paper. That was all. "J. E. B." (he may break out with another pair of whiskers any time) speaks of "your paper" as if he were not con nected with it. He is, in fact, on the Daily Tar Heel staff. He drags in several irrelevant mat ters by the tail, including a ver bal protest long ago by a mem ber of the Debate council to an editor not for criticism of an activity; that is anybody's right but for a misstatement of facts. The editor expressed his regrets or the errors. No one but "J. E. B. ," the man with the purple whiskers, brought this up. He says that students pay $1.25 for debate fee, whereas they pay 17 cents per quarter. He says that "McKie, Olsen, and company are jittery when fees are brought up.". Bunk! Debat ing means one evening a week . (Continued on last page) n.9 O "Underhanded Epistle' To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: The debate council has no quarrel with the Daily Tar Heel. Nor was it anything but incidental that in a class con ducted by Mr. Olsen criticism of some Daily Tar Heel 'policies should be delivered by a student. So most of the rambling tirade of the anonymous "L E. B." in Saturday's paper is entirely without provocation. It was not Mr. Olson nor any of the council who uttered this criticism.- And it is difficult to see why "J. E. B." found it nec essary to twist the supposedly sincere remarks of a detached third party into material for an attack on debating in general; on the Debate council in parti cular ; and further on debate fees and disposition thereof. Fee Wrong: Furthermore, "J E. B." is either maliciously or ignorantiy mistaken about the amount of "the debate fee. "You pay $1.25," he says. This is not true. The , (Continued on last page)
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