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VOLUME XLVII
EDITORIAL PHONE 4151
CHAPEL HILL, N. C FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1938
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Former Tar Heel
Editor Succumbs At
Johns Hopkins
By JESSE REESE
Thomas Clayton Wolfe, lead
ing American author and grad
uate Of the University, died in
Baltimore yesterday morning at
5 :30 a. m. of an acute cerebral
infection.
Ihe young author of "Look
Homeward, Angel" and "Of
Time and The River" had un
dergone two operations at Johns
Hopkins since his arrival Sat
urday. He became ill of pneu-1
monia during July in Vancou
ver, B. C, but was recovering
in Seattle' when an infection be
gan and spread to his kidneys
and lieart. Wolfe was later
brought to Johns Hopkins to be
under the care of specialists.
Wolfe was born 'in Asheville
in 1900 and early showed the
spark of genius which was to
-set the literary world aflame.
Entering University of North
Carolina in 1916, he showed his
sensitive and "emotional nature
nbecame ihe .brunt of under
raduate" pranks. The youth
changed lodgings many times in
order to avoid his unfeeling fellow-students
and ended the year
by living alone.
Xife at University
Still showing himself thorou
ghly introspective, Wolfe start
ed his sophomore year by living
at the home of Mrs. Eric Ater
nethy. The death of his room
mate made the room there un
' bearable, however, and Wolfe
moved into a dormitory.
In class the Asheville lad was
a problem because of his acute
sensitiveness to adverse criti
cism. Dr. W. S. Bernard,
"Prof" Koch, and Dr. Horace
Williams were among his teach
ers, i
In his junior year Wolfe took
up debating. He proved to be
too subjective and emotional to
make a first-rate debater, even
though he liked to expound and
orate. That year, also, he took
"Prof" Koch's course in play
writing. The six feet seven inch
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Rules Set For Cuts
In Yackety-Yack
"All pictures used in Yackety-Yack
from the 1939 issue
! will have, to be new ones,"
Yearbook Editor Rutherford
Yeates announcedyesterday.
"This is necessary," Yeates
continued, "because it has been
decided to publish all pictures
with white backgrounds. Na
turally, this applies more im
mediately tojuniors and sen
iors, but iff also includes all
-those whos,e pictures will ap
pear anywhere in the annual.
"Girls will be , draped -in
white, arid need not 'dress up
Boys must wear DARK
COATS DARK' TIES, and
WHITEj SHnflV
Unless these rules are ad
hered to,l pictures will not be
made!!!
World Famous Author
New Coeds To Be Honorees At
Dance Tonight
Ball Will Start At
9:30 To Music Of
Freddy Johnson
Tonight at 9 :30, Graham Me
morial, under the, direction of
Bob Magill, will give its annual
dance in honor of the new , coeds-
Known as -the "Graham
Memorial Ball," the dance will
take place in the main lounge
and feature music of Freddy
Magill requests that all boys
receiving invitations to the
ball call at Graham Memorial
early this morning to learn
the name of their dates in or
der that they may get in
touch with them as soon as
possible.
There will be NO SMOK
ING in main lounge of the
Memorial.
Johnson and his orchestra. It
will last until one.
Dates for the dance will be en
tirely blind. A list was made
this past week of 150 prominent
men students ("activity boys"),
and each one received a bid to
attend the affair. One hundred
of the boys were assigned girls
they will take to the dance; re-
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Ghi Omegas Get
National Cup For
Most Improvement
Award Made To President
Virginia Kibler At Convention
At Lake George
Selected from 92 chapters of
Chi Omega national sorority,
Epsilon Beta chapter of Univer
sity of North Carolina was pre
sented this year the silver cup
for the most progress since the
last national .convention , two
years ago. The large loving cup
is presented every two years to
the chapter who has made most
improvement in activities, scho
larship, and achievements.
The national convention was
held the last week of June at
Lake George, New York, and
Epsilon Beta President Virginia
Kibler was Carolina's only dele
gate. The cup was presented at
the final banquet of the conven
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Passes
Thomas Wolfe, 37-year-old
novelist, alumnus, North Caro
linian, who died yesterday
morning in Johns Hopkins hos
pital, Baltimore, of a cerebral
infection. Author of "Look
Homeward, Angel" and "Of
Time' and the River," he will
be remembered for activities
on the Carolina campus that
included editorship of the Tar
Heel.
In Union
PRACTICE TODAY
Rehearsal In Hill
Hall At 5 O'clock
Men's Glee Club will begin its
year's activities this afternoon
at five o'clock in Hill Music hall,
when Director John E. Toms
will, conduct the club in the first
rehearsal of the season.
As business manager, Brooks
Patten, has concluded arrange
ments for a series of concert en
gagements for the glee club,
which promise to bring the men's
choral group into a position of
greater prominence than it has
enjoyed in the past few years.
Plans have been made for the
club to take several trips this
quarter not only around the state
but throughout the South as well
during the Thanksgiving vaca
tion. Freshmen Welcome
Gene Turner, president of the
Men's glee club welcomes all
freshmen who are interested in
group singing, and hopes that all
Freshmen who were invited to
join the Glee club this summer
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Crowded Dorms
Cause Homeless
Waifs On Campus
Students Asked To Live
Three In Room To Help
Relieve Congestion
With twelve men's dormitor
ies and two women's dormitories
filled to normal capacity, many
students, unable to find rooms,
have been forced to assume the
role of wandering nomads. In
order to relieve the situation for
men students the business of
fice urges that occupants of
BattlerV a n c e - Pettigrew, Old
East, and Old West take an ex
tra man in each room. By do
ing this the room rent for each
occupant of the room will be re
duced approximately one-fourth.
Miss Tempe Newsome of
YMCA rooming bureau states
that many students have been
placed in private homes, and al-
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M2S. Dm Bsi!lilniM(DF(E
145th- Session Opsns This
Morning As Registration
Figures Soar To New High
President Graham
Opens Year With
Address At 10;23
With the registration continu
ing to soar to new records, Pre
sident Frank P. Graham will of
ficially open the hundred-forty-fifth
session of the University by
an address in Memorial hall at
10 :23 this morning.
The program will last for one
hour, Dean R. B. House said yes
terday. This will limit all eleven
o'clock classes to half an hour.
At 6 o'clock last night, close
of the second day of fall quar
ter registration, I. C. Griffin,
central records department head,
announced that registration had
reached the record-breaking to
tal of 3,246, already 39 above
registration for last fall.
Authorities confidently expect
that the total will reach the 3500
mark before registration ends
seven days hence, and though of
ficial figures could not be ob
tained, it was thought that fresh
man registration would ; be 850
by the end of the week.
-Wednesday's registration was
1,556. . -----
, Of the 3,207 registered last
fall,' 856 were freshmen, 770,
sophomores, 562, juniors, 596,
seniors, and 40 were special stu
dents, including 297 women. .
1936 figures for the fall ses
sion showed 706 freshmen, 564,
sophomores, and a 3,079 total.
281 women were enrolled.
Coed Orientations To Continue
Carolina's newest coeds this
year have just completed a four
day orientation program, spon
sored by the YWCA, during
which time they have been lec
tured, examined, toured, dined,
and instructed in all phases of
campus life. Libby Spencer, soc
ial chairman of the new YWCA
cabinet, is in charge of the new
orientation program, which is
planned to continue in effect
throughout the first quarter.
Beginning with a general in
troduction party in Spencer Hall
Monday night, the orientation
program continued Tuesday with
physical examinations in the in
firmary and a stunt program in
Spencer in the evening. Second
floor Spencer won the stunt pro
Coach Wolf Expected Home Today But
Fate Of Stirnweiss Still Undecided
Russell Spending
Year In England
(Special to the Daily Tar Heel)
London, England, Sept. 15.
Professor J. C. Russell of de
partment of history and his fam
ily are spending the year in Eng
land where he is studying the
population of r,tvdieval England.
ITor this research which will be
principally in public recdrd, of
fice arid the British Museum he
received grants froiri the social
science research council and
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CHURCHESSPONSOR
FROSH RECEPTIONS
AT 8 TONIGHT
Methodists And Pres
byterian Teas To
Be Held Sunday
Chapel Hill churches, includ
ing Methodist, Baptist," Presby
terian, Episcopal, and United,
are each giving a reception for
freshmen, transfers, and old stu
dents in the church parlors to
night at 8 o'clock.
A tea for students will also be
given in Methodist parsonage
from four to six o'clock Sunday
afternoon. Presbyterian stu
dents also will be entertained
with a tea at the church between
5:30 and 6:30. Arthur Dugan
will present an organ recital in
the Episcopal church at 8 o'clock.
New Baptist Pastor ;
The Rev. Frank Poole, , a gra
duate of Furman university and
Duke, has recently- moved to
Chapel-Hill to become pastor of
the Baptist church. He was for
merly connected with First Bap
tist church of Raleigh.
During the absence of the Rev.
Don Stewart of the Presbyterian
church, visiting pastors will take
his place until January 1. The
Rev. Paul Garber of Duke will
preach October 1.
gram with an old-fashioned
melodrammer, which competed
again in the stunt contest at Col
lege Night Thursday.
Wednesday the new girls went
through the mill of registration
under the guidance of their big
sisters and the orientation com
mittee. Wednesday afternoon
they rested at the first Wednes
day afternoon tea at Spencer
Hall, and that night attended a
formal banquet given by the
YWCA at Swain Hall. Dean
House, Dean Bradshaw and
Harry Comer of the YMCA
briefly addressed the new univer
sity women.
Picture "Show
Campus tours filled Thursday
morning, and in the afternoon E.
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Star Quarterback May Be
Out All Season Due To Diet
For, Stomach Ulcers j
(Ed. Note: Shelley Rolfe, sports
editor of the Daily Tar Heel, and
WUliam L. Beerman, sports reporter,
were in Durham yesterday and had
ah exclusive interview liriih Coach
Ray Wolf and quarterback George
Stirnweiss.)
Watts Hospital, Durham, Sept.
15. Sitting up in bed, surround
ed by members of his coaching
staff and football team, "Ray
Wolf made ready today to depart
from the hospital where her has
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DINING HALL, TWO
DOaiJS WILL BE
PlIThTORYPWA
700,000 Power Plant
To Be Erected Near
University Laundry
Approximately 15,000,000 will
be spent for construction and re
conditioning buildings for the
Greater University of North
Carolina through PWA funds,
Dr. Frank P. Graham answered
when questioned yesterday. ;
A number of buildings have al
ready been constructed or are in
process of being built, and con
struction on several others will
be started this fall.
The Public Works Adminis
tration this week approved the
recent application of $234,000
for two new dormitories and a
dining hall here. Total cost of
construction will, amount to
about $550,000. A woman's dor
mitory will be built to face the
recently-constructed New Wo
man's dormitory, and the men's
dormitory, which will fill the
lower quadrangle, will face
South Hillsboro street.
Power Plant Approved
' Also approved in the Chapel
Hill unit program is a $700,000
power plant which will be situat
ed near University laundry. -t '
Projects authorized at the
special session of general assem-'
bly which met in Raleigh in Au-.
gust called for a total outlay of
$427,000, of which the state will
pay 55 per cent. Projects include
renovation and addition to "the
old medical building, $182,000;.
equipment for old medical build
ing, $20,000; equipment for new
medical building, $25,000 reno
vation of Alumni building, $100,
000; renovation of Bynum gym
nasium, $25,000 ; and renovation
of Gerrard hall, $25,000.
Additional Applications
Application for additional
PWA funds to help finance $880,-
000 worth of hew buildings at
the Chapel Hill and Greensboro
units of the greater university
was made by the council of state
and the university executive
committee.
New projects asked for Chapel
Hill unit include three dormitor
ies, $400,000 and an addition to
Carolina inn, $200,000. A social
center, to cost $120,000, and a
dormitory, to cost $160,000,
were asked for the Greensboro
unit.
Funds were sought to enlarge
Carolina inn to provide space for
a cafeteria, convention " hall,
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S-
Union Reservations
Sought In Advance
Bob Magill, director of Gra
ham Memorial, has requested
that heads of all organizations
desiring to use Graham Me-
; morial will make arrange
ments well ahead of the time
- they wish-to use it. - - V
T in this way there will be no
conflicts of last minute 'diffi
culties in securing the accom-
' modatiohs desired. : ,