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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 193T i 1 V ! ht Batlp Car jeel 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 March 3, 1879. Sub scription price, $3.00 for the college year. , Don K. McKee. -Editor A. Reed Sarratt, Jr. T. Eli Joyner- . Jesse Lewis Managing Editor .Business Manager -Circulation .Manager Editorial Staff Associate Editors: E. L. Eahn, J. M. Smith, S. W. Babb. City Editob: C. W. Gilmore.- News Editors: L. I. Gardner, E. J. Hamlin, J. P. Jonas, Jr., H. Goldberg, Newton Craig, L. S. Levitch. Editorial Assistants: R. T. Perkins, Ruth Crowell, Gordon Burns, J. H. Sivertsen, V. Gilmore, R. Miller. Deskmen: H. H. Hirschfeld, C. O. Jeffress, R. Simon, R. P. Brewer, H. D. Langsam. Feature Supplement: A. H. Merrill, Director; J. 3.t Lane, R. B. Lowery, Erika Zimmermann, Kitty' de Carlo. -Reporters: B. P. Dixon, J. B. Reese, C. B. Hyatt, W. B. Kleeman, K. V. Murphy, Nancy Schallert, Elizabeth Wall, M. Rosenberg, S. F. Engs, De Lavolette G. Ruffin. 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. Rolfe, W. B. Davis, C. C. Greer, S. Wilk, F. T. LaRochelle, E. L. Peterson. Exchanges: Tom Stanback, Chief; Norman Kantor, Willis Sutton, Howard Easter. -Radio: N. I. Kornblite. Reviews: W. P. Hudson. Art: Nell Booker, P. J. Sehinhan, Jr., H. Kircher, T. B. Keys. -, Photography: J. Kisner, Director; A. T. Calhoun, Fred ' Sutton. ' Business Staff Assistant Business Manager (Advertising) : Bill McLean. V Assistant Business Manager (Collections) : Roy Crooks. Durham Representative: John Rankin. Coed Advertising Manager': Louise Waite; assist ants, TV Daniels, Lillian Hughes, Beatrice Boyd, . Irene Wright, Mildred Le Fevre. Local Advertising Assistants: Bob Andrews, Stu art Ficklin, Clen Humphrey, Bobby Davis, Jack Cheek, Rod Murchison. Office: George Harris, John Scattergood, GiHey Nicholson. For This Issue News : - Leonard S. Levitch. Sports : John Eddleman To Help Something Better Grow o Increasing Returns At last week's meeting of the Interfraternity council support was pledged for an interfrater nity co-operative purchasing organization advo cated by Authority J. M. Lear. The organization will in" no way be affiliated with the Student Co-operative. It has been estimated that ithe fraternities would be able to save at least 20 per cent on supply purchases. , : Under the expert direction of J. M. Lear, eco nomic authority on co-operative enterprise, we see no reason why collective consumption would prove less successful than mass production. , Besides being financially advantageous, the . co operation demanded might break down some of the destructive competition among the fraterni ties. A.H.M. Here's Where You Will Have Fun Student-Faculty Day m m m : Passes Ctusfn ft St Vr 0 I l - flilljlEJr Here is a sketch of the Student-Faculty carnival layout for the Tin Can. The gala afternoon program as planned by Dr. Harold D. Meyer, Phil Kind, Nick Read and assistants calls for alternating periods of dancing (to one of the Carolina bands in the center square between the basketball bleachers) and circus-going (to the tune of barkers in the thirty-odd stalls around the sides of the building). Admis sion of $0.01 will be charged for each midway concession; so everyone can catch all of the booths for some 30 cents. . ' Campus Correspondence Letters over 250 words subject to cutting by editor; author's name must be on manuscript. 0 Cast Out Our Sin ... To the Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Miss McGirt's contribution to the correspondence columns of the Daily Tar Heel, following close upon that of Dr. J. W. Fes ler, seems to indicate only one thing: namely, that this section of your paper is in need of more careful editing. In such a man ner, trash of the type to which 1 make reference might be elimi nated. It is obvious that Dr. Fesler used extremely bad, taste in the manner in which he presented his argument. Instead of brand ing the work of the columnist in question as gross misrepresenta tion, it occurs to me that it would have been more fitting for Dr. Fesler to present his own ideas as such and allow the read ers of the paper to judge the quality of the various opinions set forth. What better proof of Dr. Fesler's bad example could there be than the correspondence of Miss McGirt which followed his own. Kick It Out Miss McGirt in referring to Hit Of The Week the "Sand and Salve columnist" does not think it fitting to con fine her correspondence to com ments and suggestions. Instead she wishes to abolish this column or at least restrict it in order that it will cease to contain any thing that might be classified as the opinion of the columnist. N It might be wise for some helpful person to assume the re sponsibility of imparting to Miss McGirt information which seems to have been denied her in the course of her education. This same helpful, person would do well to explain first that it is a Columnist's privilege, indeed it is his intention to include in his writings such personal opinion as he sees fit. Were it not for the fact that even in this age of equality a cer- tain amount of chivalry persists, I believe I would classify Miss McGirt's contribution as a none-too-subtle attempt at "boot-lick- mg. Contrary to Miss McGirt, I think that Dr. Fesler is very badly informed, especially in re spect to the privileges . of the columnist and is totally unde serving of the commendation which she heaps upon' him. In addition I believe his corres pondence was far from tactful. L. H. o Five Months to Go In the administration of the country's oldest state university, South building has followed an admirable policy of progress and efficiency. j Not long ago it saw freshmen and sophomores aimlessly adrift. Forthwith came the General College with its advisers to guide academic effort. More recently, many departments have begun the policy of providing students at registration time with the names of professors of particular course sections. One obvious step toward efficiency and econ omy, however; remains to be taken. Three times each .year each student is made to undergo an irritating, an unnecessary, - process of registra tion. . . , They are still made to wait in long, lifeless lines and sit in hot anterooms before their enrollment is ended. Employee efficiency is lost. "Nerves are quickened. The administration has five weeks left to install a new deal before spring quarter registration. Nothing like starting a student off happy. V.G. o Behind the Curtain More than 160 students and faculty members are busy right now. The elaborate Student-Faculty day committee machinery is working enthusi astically these days, polishing off details for the 1937 edition of the annual jamboree. Significant point is this pre-holiday joint en terprise spirit so apparent in the work of the 160 odd planners. A definite nucleus now, this "es prit de corps" ought to swell out wide among the rest of us by February 9. J.M.S. Beale t Suggests Shifting Emphasis From Course Credits To Attainment In A Field; Cites Chicago Results were high and the work hard, their courses were extremely valuable. The whole attitude of student toward faculty would change. Charges of boot-licking against students who sought further aid or showed an interest beyond requirements would dis appear because the instructor had no credit or grade to give. Student and instructor would be working together cooperatively to prepare the student for a test administered by some one else and would therefore be friends, not opponents. Dr. A. R. Newsome Eecently. elected President of the National Society of Archives A. R. Newsome announced last week that the history depart ment, which he heads, will henceforth announce at regis- 'tration time the name of the professor teaching each course section. This announcement by Dr. Newsome follows similar ac tion taken last quarter by the sophomore English, French, German, and Spanish depart ments in making public the in structors teaching each course section in their respective de partments. What the -campus wants is the name of each pro fessor included on the Class , Schedule next to the course he teaches. ' By Howard K. Beale VII . Gradually, over a period of years, emphasis might be shift ed from course credits to tests of attainment in a field where . it should be. Then, too, the test of attainment could be taken from the hands of the person who taught each particular course and put into the hands of the department under our com prehensive system or under a board of examiners as at Chica go and Harvard, or under exam iners imported from outside as at Swarthmore. The effect would be salutary. At Chicago, when attendance was made voluntary and testing and grading were given to a committee, instruc tors who were giving students valuable instruction had larger classes than ever. Many instruc tors competent to do valuable teaching, who did not bother to do so as long as compulsory at tendance and power over grades and credits supplied students however they taught, saw their classes dwindle to nothing, and then made the effort to improve their teaching and gradually built back the attendance in their classes with greatly in creased benefits to all. Some per manently - lost practically all their students, but that was no loss to either students or Uni versity. Some instructors here who have large attendance be cause they give course credits and high grades with little work or on athletic ability (all col-' leges have some such) would lose most of their students be cause their courses were of lit tle value. Other instructors with small courses would find them selves suddenly "popular" be-, cause, while their standards Quill Quips by Mac Smith Prodigal cheap , Carolina Son Thomas Wolfe was humbly explaining yester day that his parents hadn't had a great deal. - Wrote his. mother after the publication of Look Homeward Angel: "If you can do that sort of thing and support yourself, all right; but all of your people had to work!" VIII While the Daily Tar Heel is advocating "voluntary" class at tendance, it certainly ought to urge the putting of extra-curricular activities such as the -Daily Tar Heel itself on a,similarly voluntary basis. Why, in order to get an education in a state institution should a student be forced to pay for athletic con tests, class activities, the Bucca neer, or the Daily Tar Heel? Most students would voluntarily buy tickets to athletic games, but the few who cannot afford to, or do not wish to, should certainly not be required to do , so. A majority of students would certainly read the Daily Tar Heel. More would read it if by being put on the voluntary, basis it urges for classes, it were forced, along with instructors, to improve itself until most stu dents wanted it. Some publica tions -and activities would be greatly improved by making, fi nancial support of them volun tary. Some would disappear en tirely, but the campus would be greatly benefited by the disap pearance of those that can 'only survive by compulsory fees just as it would from forced im provement of others. First Things First Which reminds us that our own dad is a doctor down in Robeson county. When he ap proaches his Scotch Presbyte rian patients with a service rendered statement, he generally gets the assurance that just as . soon as they can manage to pay off Adams, the grocer, and the rest of their "real debts," they'll certainly see him, about the doc tor's bill. . . . Formula , Wblfe was really effectively nervous and humble in his talk to the student group we were in yesterday. He reminded us that, "the way to 'make an English man happy in his old age is to tell him jokes when he is young.,r Shucks!. . We woke up early one morn ing while visitingr. McSween, president of Presbyterian Col lege down in South Carolina, and lay quietly in bed listening to the old fellow outside our room door beating his wife. His voice rang high and mad. It was terrible. We knew his young boys so well. Mrs. McSween was a fine little woman. ... It developed that Brother Mc Sween was just practicing his Baccalaureate Sermon in front of the hall mirror outside the guest chamber. No domestic trouble at all . . , Dr. McSween's really a great man. Fine Points The matter of saying Grace at the table is a fine point for a dis sertation. It took us many years -of intricate conjecture and dis couraging questioning to ever find out exactly what our dad was saying when he asked the blessing. . . . We knew the top-notch plant er who lived in a big house near home. They say he was offering Grace one day when, to his fam ily of bowed heads, he rattled off a flurry of cotton market bids. Archie Bracey married just after he finished high school and moved into an apartment next to our house. He was working f ull . time for the local grocery store. The first night in their new home after the honeymoon Ar chie and Louise sat down to Louise's dinner, bowed their .heads while Head of the House Archie asked the blessing: "ADAM'S GROCERY I" sang out the bridegroom. Somebody Had To The most prayerfully hesitant ' moment we ourselves ever expe rienced, it seems in retrospect, was that time when we were in the Elementary Class in Sunday School and they called for Silent A Prayer. ... We were bowed way down near the front row thinking the man had said Sentence Prayer. A minute 'passed and nothing happened. We were about to believe none of the old: folks were going to take the ini tiative. Should Elementary Boys - begin Sentence Prayers? . . . Finally someone said "Amen," and it was over. -in Mi
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