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Women To Consider
Advisory Committee
Coeds Will Vote
On Proposals
Tomorrow at 5
Plans for the formation of an ad
Tisory committee to new women stu
devts will be submitted by Jane Mc
Master during the Women's associa
tion meeting tomorrow afternoon, at
5 o'clock in Gerrard hall. Miss He
Master outlined the structure and
function of the committee at the stu
dent government discussions last week,
and will put it to a vote tomorrow
afternoon.
The committee would be composed
of nine rising seniors, both appoint
ed by the new and old sorority and
non-sorority girls, women's councils
hiring' the spring quarter of every
year, she said. These nine girls, three
from each dormitory, would go
through a training period of several
weeks and begin work the following
fill.
Duties of the committee include sup
plementing the work of the YWCA
in the orientation of new students;
familiarizing, the new students with
the women's handbook and the func
tions of the women's student govern
ment; interesting and enlightening
new coeds in the extra-curricular acti
vities in which they may participate;
continuing activities throughout the
year in advisory capacity; and having
monthly meetings to discuss problems
of the new and old students, Miss Mc
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News Briefs
Nazis Reenf orce 'Chute Troops;
Churchill Forms New Cabinet
Roosevelt Offers
Sympathy to Belgium
By United Press
ROTTERDAM, May 11 German
parachutists dropped all around the
city and Nazi marine corps barricaded
two central downtown office buildings.
Waalhaves air drome near Rotter
dam was bombed and fighting was
fierce in battles described by the Brit
ish as the height of the war.
AMSTERDAM German bombing
raid on city killed seven or more and is
reported to have wounded 26 more.
ELSEWHERE IN HOLLAND
Dutch high command orders front
troops to increase resistance to para
chute troops landing in eastern sector.
British advance units move into Hol
land and British troops land on coast.
LONDON Churchill forms a cabi
net of national unity with inner war
cabinet of five members including
Neville Chamberlain with two other
conservatives and two labofites, with
Anthony Eden as War Minister, and
Sir Samuel Hoare and Sir John Simon
oot
Royal Air Force blasts German con
centrations between the Rhine and
Moselle.
FRANCE Seventy German planes
tomb Royal Air Force bases in France.
One hundred and forty-eight civilians
reported killed and 300 wounded in air
atUck yesterday. Severe fighting is
reported in Luxembourg and Allied
troops are over the Belgian border up
to the battle lines.
ROME Intense anti-British activ
ity including a city plastered with
rasters and fierce mob menace against
Sir Noet Charles. A fiery senate
chamber speech against England was
ne by Mussolini.
British sent protests of the Charles
incident.
WASHINGTON President Roose
vlt invokes neutrality act against
KtJeium, Holland, and Luxembourg
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Kattsoffs Announce
Birth of Daughter
Dr. Louis Osgood Katsoff, of
the philosophy department, and
Mrs. Katsoff announce the birth
f a daughter, Anita Lane, yes
fcrday at Watts hospital in Durham.
Poll Shows
Most Students
Dislike Exams
With the approach of summer, one
of college America's nightmares, final
examinations, again makes its appear
ance. For the first time in a national
scientific survey representing all U. S.
college and university students, opin
ions are expressed on finals and the
grading system.
Long a matter of controversy in
both undergraduate bull sessions and
faculty meetings, the final examina
tion as a gauge of learning gets a low
rating from those who have to take it.
They reverse themselves, however,
by almost identical percentages, on the
matter of grading these examinations
or courses as a whole. Some schools
have adopted the method of merely ap
proving or disapproving of a student's
work. Most collegians, 62 per cent, do
not like this system, prefer the old one
of a graduated scale with A as top
mark.
These are the results of the
sampling, based on a carefully-selected
cross-section of the nation:
Do you think final examinations
are a fair test of a student's
knowledge in a course?
Yes - 34
No : 53
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Federation Officer
W. T. Martin
National Student
Federation Names
Martin for Post
W. T. Martin, rising junior from
Raleigh, was recently named to the
executive committee of the National
Federation of College Students, vice-
president and southeastern regional
director of the Southern Federation
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yesterday.
The national federation is schedul
ed to meet in Washington, D. C., June
15, 16, and 17, followed by a student
Leaders', conference. Martin will at
tend both meetings, which are to be
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Gilbert Stephenson
Speaks Tomorrow
In Manning Hall
Mr. Gilbert Stephenson, director" of
the trust research department of the
graduate school of banking maintain
ed by the American Bankers associa
tion, will speak tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock, in the first year class
room of Manning hall, on "Protective
Provisions of Wills and Trust Agree
ments".
Stenhenson is a former officer of
the Wachovia Bank and Trust com
pany of Winston-Salem. He is tfte
author of a number of book dealing
with trust administration.
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Bill Joslin, recently-elected chair
man of the Carolina Political Union,
who will officially assume his duties
of chief searcher for political big
wigs when Governor Lloyd Stark of
Missouri speaks here on May 21.
CAMPUS OFFICERS
TO BE INDUCTED
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Davis, Corbett,
Morrison, McMaSter
Slated to Speak
The annual inauguration of officers
elected in the recent campus elections
will be held Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock under Davie - poplar, W. T.
Martin, chairman of the planning com
mittee, announced yesterday.
With Skipper Bowles and his orches
tra furnishing the musical background
for the occasion, the evening's pro
gram will include farewell addresses
by Jim Davis and Melville Corbett,
outgoing presidents of the student
body and the woman's association, re
spectively,; and inauguration speeches
by Dave Morrison and Jane McMaster.
Martin said that the planning com
mittee would give prizes to the dormi
tory and fraternity having the largest
turn-out to witness the proceedings.
Other members of the committee in
charge of the program are Louis Gay
lord and Truman Hobbs.
Last year's inauguration cere-
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OSCAR WILDE PLAY
TO BE PRESENTED
French Club to Give
Two Shows Thursday
Written in French by an English
man and later set to music by a
German, "Salome" will be produced
in its original form for the first time
in America at the Playmaker theater
Friday by the French club under the
direction of Walter Creech.
Oscar Wilde wrote "Salome" for
the great Sarah Bernhardt in 1892,
but the play was forbidden by the
Parisian censor and it was not produc
ed until 1896 at the Theater de
l'Oeuvre. Its. success was immediate
and Richard Strauss made it into an
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Speakers for 145th Commencement
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Here are the two principal speakers of the 145th Commencement cere
monies to be held here June 9-11.
Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman (left), editor of the Richmond News
Leader, will give the Commencement address at the graduating exercises
in Kenan stadium, Tuesday evening, June 11, and Dr. Albert W. Beaven,
president of the consolidated Colgate-Rochester Divinity school, New
York, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon in Memorial hall on the open
ing day of Commencement, Sunday morning, June 9.
Golden Fleece Taps
In Annual
Seniors Mask Sad Hearts
Behind Drunken Laughter
In Last Fling on OV Hill
By Morris W. Rosenberg
Following the annual tapping ceremonies of the Golden Fleece
tonight, a Senior Week crammed with activities opens tomorrow
night as the Class of 1940 has its final fling on the Carolina campus,
hiding its sad heart behind carefree,
drunken laughter and eyes brimming
with tears and beer.
A Music Under the Stars program
will launch Senior Week tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock in Kenan stadium.
Carefully prepared by DeWitt Barnett,
the musical selections will consist of
both popular and light classical num
bers. A concession stand will be set
up at the main gate to provide
blankets to those seniors who wish to
keep warm while listening to the
music and gazing at the stars. In case
of rain itll probably rain.
Stuff and nonsense begin to really
get under way Tuesday when the an
nual Senior-Faculty softball game will
be held on the coed field at 4 o'clock.
Neither side has released its line-up,
each waiting to see what Hitler's next
move will be.
Senior Banquet and Speeches
At 8 o'clock Tuesday night in the
new dining hall the Senior banquet will
be hell, and there shall be weeping
and wailing and reading of speeches.
Sanford Stein, the man who treats sex
with the subtlety of a marriage lab,
will predict the class future (which
Sherman Smith To Sing Today
In Graham Memorial Concert
Professor to Give
Colorful Recital
Dr. Sherman Smith, who as king of
Student-Faculty day festivities reign
ed with Queen Marjorie Johnson last
February 6, will be soloist at the fi
nal Graham Memorial bunday con
cert this afternoon at 5 o'clock in the
main lounge. He will be accompanied
by Herbert Livingston at the piano.
The popular chemistry professor
will render a program of lively and
colorful Italian, German, French and
English songs. His program includes :
"In Questa Tomba Oscura," by Beeth
oven, "Troppo Soavi I Gusti", by Ca
valli, "Che Fiero Costume" by Xe
grenzi, "Aufenthalt", by Schubert,
"Gesang Weyla's", by Wolf, "Ein
Schwan", by Grieg, "Traum Durch
Die Dammerung", by Strauss, "Der
Sieger", by Kaun, "Le Moulin", by
Pierne, "Au Pays", by Holmes, "Pa
pillons", by Chausson, "Danse Maca
bre", by Saint-Saens, "Pilgrim's
Song", by Tchaikowsky, "Blow, blow
thou winter wind", by Quilter, "Sweet
chance that led my steps," by Head,
and "Love went a-riding", by Bridge.
Sherman Smith has been assistant
professor of chemistry here since 1936.
He received his Bachelor of Science
degree in Chemical Engineering
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Ceremony
doesn't look so hard by the papers);
Bill Stauber, University problem No.
1, will lament the class will and testa
ment; and Morris Rosenberg, who
didn't say no quickly enough when of
fered the job, will stagger through
the class history.
If Stauber gets out of his compre
hensive exam in time, he will conduct a
man-who-came-to-dinner act by carry
ing a portable microphone from table
to table and asking questions of inno
cent young Seniors who only came to
get a free meal. Allen's Service station
has nothing to do with the act.
Sparkling Senior Superlative elec
tions will also be held at the banquet,
with the class selecting the best all
round, most popular, best athlete,
most likely, best scholar, cutest, best
dressed, most conceited, most bashful,
most oomph, screwiest screwball, most
personality, most outstanding, and so
on, into the night.
Charlie Wood will be there with his
orchestra and, in between races, food
will be served.
Wednesday night the Blackout Ball
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Sophomores Begin
Comprehensives
Tomorrow at 7:30
Sophomores will get an idea of
what seniors have endured this week
end, when they get their first taste
of the new comprehensives tomorrow
night at T.6V. All second-year men
must be excused from their Tuesday
classes to take two more parts of the
test at 9:30 and 2:30.
Individuals have been notified as to
where they will take the "test. Those
who have not yet received notice
should consult the general college of
fice as soon as possible tomorrow.
Junior Softballers
Practice Tomorrow
Junior members of the League for
the Prevention of the Seniors' Win
ning the Annual Interclass Softball
Game will hold a practice at 3 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon on the coed field,
Coach Herb Hardy announced in a
press conference yesterday.
All third year men are eligible for
the squad and also all coeds who plan
either to take part or dispense inspira
tion should be present.
"We must prepare. The war in
Europe will be eclipsed by the bloody
struggle when the classes clash,", so
come out for the maneuvers and be
ready to 'blitzkrieg the seniors,"
Hardy said.
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New Men
Tonight
Ritual Begins
Promptly at 8
In Memorial Hall
By Bob Hoke
Black clad figures will roam dark
ened Memorial hall tonight to tap nine
or ten men, selected on a basis of their
leadership, character and service to
the University into the Order of the
Golden Fleece. This thirty-sixth an
nual ceremony of the oldest honorary
society at Carolina will begin at 8
o'clock.
The impressive rites will begin with
a short organ prelude after which the
doors will be locked. The Jason, leader
of the Golden Fleece, whose identity
will be revealed for the first time, will
relate the story of Jason and the
search for the Golden Fleece. Members
then stalk the aisles and with the aid
of a piercing spotlight, single out
those who are to be admitted to the
Order. This tapping ritual will be the
first indication to the new men that
they have been chosen. After the tap
ping a supper will be given at the
Carolina Inn in honor of the new
members.
Jim Davis, president of the student
body; Fred Weaver, assistant to the
dean of the students; Bob Magill, di
rector of the Graham Memorial;
Richard Worley; Ed Megson; and De
Witt Barnett are members of the so
ciety who will take part in the ghoulish
ceremony.
Dr. Frank P. Graham was elected
to the Order of the Golden Fleece when
he was a student here. Other members
of the faculty who were tapped during
their college careers here, are: Dean
F. F. Bradshaw, Dean R. B. House,
H. G. Baity, A. R. Newsome, E. A. Cam
eron, Horace Williams, J. W. Couch,
E. R. Rankin, Dean C. P. Spruill, R. L.
Mackier J. B. Linker, Walter Spear
man, E. H. Hartsell and Albert
Coates.
Phillips Russell, journalism depart
ment professor, is the only charter
member of the Fleece now on the
campus.
The Fleece is the oldest honorary
campus society at the University and,
although several other universities
have attempted to establish chapters,
it has been successful in keeping the
Golden Fleece exclusive for University
of North Carolina men.
CO-OP THEATER
TO GIVE DRAMA
Group Presents
, Shaw Play Tuesday
Carolina students will have the
chance to learn the dramatic story
of the six American corpses who won't
be buried, at 8:30 on Tuesday night
when the Co-op Theater presents
"Bury the Dead," Irwin Shaw's ver
sion of the six soldiers who stood up,
faced their burying detail and asked
for permission to live.
The, dramatic action unfolds only
after all attempts, commands and
pleas issued by the corpses' Captain,
General, wives, sweethearts and mo-
therg are unsuccessfui in getting the
dead to lie down, and editors agree
to publish, against censorship orders
of the war department, the amazing
facts sent in by American war cor
respondents at the front.
Jack Dube, Billy Rawls, - Henry
Moll and Ted Dichter are the soldiers
present at the burying service con
ducted by the Priest, Charles Parrish,
and the Rabbi, Ray Glikin, when the
corpses decide to stand. The Captain,
Alfred Buck, and the Generals, Joe
Salek and Norman Agnew, take com
mand of the situation and call in
the women, Evelyn Matthews, Mar
guerite Goodman, Louise Stiefelmyer,
Cynthia Jane Hemke, Connie Smith,
Mary Lee Wilson, Muriel Neville and
Jean Rossinger. Other participants
in solving the problem are Stanley
Fuchs, Jimmy Schleifer, and Herbert
Altschull.
YDC Will Elect
Officers Tomorrow
The Young Democrats club will
meet tomorrow evening at 7
o'clock in Gerrard hall to elect
officers for next year. All mem
bers are urged to be present.