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THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO So We re Superior (Today's guest editorial, condensed below, was written by Ed Kent, Chairman of the Yale J)ail Xews. It- is a commentary on tlie Holi day article which proclaimed the superiority of hy League Colleges to all' others and among other regrettable phrases referred to state Universities as "rabbit warrens of edu cation." Editors.) To judge by the, c ommunications which have received from , non-Ivy League col leges recently. Henry Morton Robinson's re cent article in Holiday magazine on the "Nat ural Superiority ot the Ivy League' has prob ably done as much to set back the cause of the liberal : i ts (Mr. Robinson supported them) as any other single publication this year. An eloquent representative of the lost generation (15 A Columbia, 1923). Mr. Robinson imposes grandiloquent rhetoric upon a jumble of partially comprehended educational theories and practices to achieve a brash if scarcely convincing synthesis the superiority of the Ivv League. A true son of his gencraion, Mr. Robinson's faith in this ideal seems to be as hollow as his own brand of Ivy League self confidence. He concludes his article ' In the intellectual Armageddon now looming over Amei ic a, the enemies of higher education will attempt to destroy all cultural standards but their own: and if they succeed our final state of mediocrity will be infinitely worse than anything that has yet been seen . . . the con ferring of meaningless PA degrees on students who couldn't possibly have earned them un der the present high standards of Ivy League education." The mock heroic romanticism of the twen ties so capably exemplified by Mr. Robinson is a valuable historical study for our present generation bec ause it represents a weakness which we ourselves must overcome. In the early decades of the twentieth century our Ivy League predecessors were emancipated from traditional cultural controls by the rel ativistic discoveries of the social sciences. Un fortunately, the zeal with which Our forebear ers attacked old cultural values left them scftrely sufficient time or energy to discover hew ones. Freedom can be a dangerous god dess, and for many of our Ivy League parents it was associated with negative reaction from values rather than positive selection of the best values for the individual, the acceptance of (responsibility which follows in'escapably from freedom . 1 '.' i It is as unjust to categorize alt Yale students as intellectually immature as it is to '-call them socially adolescent but ,a quiet conversation witlany'frat'errtity steward or New haven taxi kjjxfmy--i,U iSMon convincevy that Yale's prep5 'prottua is as naive about the facts ot social ine as tnc - ei a"c in,vli school junior, or forci-" Hulent aged 12. Thejnust obvious sympn -1 of this immaturity is the typical I bf nity . attitude towards . drink.ins. &ny civilized man knows that Uherc isj a proper time and place for drinking, tnat'qiiality, not quantity determines drinking enjoyment. However, possibly at a loss for conversational subject matter due to their immature ap proach to education, all too many of our fraternity brethren are thrown back upon that alcoholic oblivion which they hope per haps will disguise their lack of individuality and intellectual ability. We would not mourn their loss scarcely so much if they did not im pose their weakness upon others less fortunate than themselves, namely their dates. It seems to have become an acceptable Yale practice, for some of our young heroes when the even ing is notoing so well to exit via the bottle " t For the future of Yale it is encouraging to .note the increasing population trend which should permit Yale to be more selective in its entranc e requirements. . And perhaps, too, dates ct :i come to Yale with some assurance of meeting men rather than boys. To alter Mr. .Robinson's sentiments somewhat, maybe we wil extend Ivy League standards such that we will no longer need to confer BA degrees on students who couldn't possibly have earn ed them! Carolina Front. 'Other Than That, We Got Nothing' . 1 " UVE- Afurnni Cheer, Critics Jeer The Big-Time .Louis Kraar ' ' 1 mnM ::i.;ii;S 'JjiiiSs? , i Roundabout Papers, amotion: Satire Is Hard EVERY TIME someone calls for a bit of sanity in college ath letics, the cry goes up as If led by rows of alumni cheerleaders that the critic is a traitor. This reporter, finding himself in that position at the moment, has observed that it's no longer a lonely stand. Others, distinguish ed educators like President Gris w old at Yale, hold the same view that college' athletics should be amateur. I like football. I like Carolina. And I enjoy seeing Carolina win football games. But: I don's like to see coaches fired simply be cause they can't win all thefr games, students in school just because they can play football, and enrohasis pn winning so strong that it obscures all else. ' OTHER VOICES have been raised lately about this winning fever. None seem as frantic as big-time football's ardent defend ers, but many sound more reason able. The University of Missouri stu dent newspaper put it this way: "College football has ceased on the 'big-time' level to be an ama teur sport. At many colleges, football players are scouted all over the country. Large gifts and scholarships are paid for the ser vices of promising high school athletes. All . this is done with one thing in mind an undefeat ed football team that brings fans and folding money into the kit ty." Then, if prefer a more South ern point of view, take the Uni- versify of Miami. It's paper de clared recently: . . . Overem phasis on football has in far too many instances split the team from the student body in all but name. Except on game days, the players are about as remotefrom t the student body as the Board of l 1 'Trustees.-' - j ,"AIl;but drowned in the cheers 'bf :the: old 'grads and the down town quarterbacks are a few - voices pleading that the first IN READING GOVERNOR HODGES' "Report to function of a University is edu- the People," one cannot help being stricken by A Hod F fCQnc ges ' snari - ' r i i ' : If Looks lor At 1 eopie - 1 Yves Laulan do so. Fred Powledgo IT WAS NICE, I think, of the University to send its men out in the cold Friday morning to sprinkle sand on the walkways so students and professors wouldn't slip. There was a forecast of sleet and icy walkways, and some ice did develop early in the morning. The University's sand certainly aided negotiating the brick walks. There was even some sprinkled on the fire escape beside Caldwell Hall which the political science students use a lot. FOOD AND DRINK in Chapel Hill seem to be getting worse than ever. 1 0 Once, someone once told me, coffee was real coffee. It was ground, then rushed in steaming, sealed bags to hotels and restau rants for making and serving and drinking. People who make coffee at home . ground their own. It is said that coffee loses its power and richness of flavor rapidly after be ing exposed to the air. Modern cof fee manufacturers have allegedly skirted this problem by sealing their products in vacuum-packed cans. That's all right for home con sumption. In fact, when I went home over Thanksgiving holidays I found our can of coffee, resealed rapidly after each coffee-making, was really turning out good stuff. BUT BACK TO Chapel Hill. Here, it is impossible, unless you go to an eating place outside the town limits or to the higher-class, coat&tie places in town, to get a good cup of coffee. Chapel Hill, known worlcf-round for its "libera alism" and quaint atmosphere and all the funny people,doesn't have a'v good cup of dime, coffee to .its name. Nor does, jt, even have, a bad cup of 'coffee for. a nickle. - r suspect some, restaurants 'and cation. They deplore the prac- the 'weakness of Ue, reasons he givcs in favor of ' tices that present fierce competi- his '. program fr a; voluntary segregation pfjschools. tion has led, to such as double It is very", easy1 ! to pbintj,out he support of. "some The official student publication of the -Publi-ations Board of the University 0f North Carolina, """ CX where it is published O V (V aaiiy except Monday vacation Deriod an summer terms. Enter ed as second class matter in the nnst of fice in Chapel Hill, N. ! C, under the Act of I March 8, 1879. Sub 1 scription rates: mail- j ed, $4 per year. $2.50 1 m J .1.'. 1 f 1 y ILditnrs .Managing Editor News Editor Business Manager Associate Editor, Sports Editor "! academic standards, alumni sub- prominent Negro leaders, so long as tneir num- sidies and other, special deals bers and names are not revealed. It is equally ." easy to assume that the "colored citizens will in Finally, the aristocratic mind- time realize the benefit of such a program," all ed Cavalier Daily has spoken out the more as they are not asked to voice their against the evils of, big-time ath- opinion for it. In fact, one might question whether letics. The University of Virginia segregation of the educational system can really paper put it this way: "Of course be efficient, fair or simply democratic, athletics must be an integral part ECONOMIC ARGUMENT of the life of a University, as jt is no use to consider the constitutional issue must social activity and many uhich this program raises, for this question has other areas of development for already been discusssed again and again; but the the student. But none of these can economic grounds of such a program appear at the rival or overshadow the primary, outset rather unsound. This report acknowledges object of the school; when such a graVe deficiency in school building in the state, occurs through overemphasis, it a situation common to the whole of the United can only weaken the complete states; on the other hand, it is also admitted that structure." the economic and financial' situation is not so good, fr " ' fc since its improvement this year is due "to some other states' misfortune rather than our good for- NATURALLY THERE'S another tune" in the very words of Governor Hodges. Be side to the story. sides, it is well known that a twofold educational At Iowa State College, one of system is about twice as expensive as a single the football coaches teaches an integrated one. It thus follows that the separation informal spectator class in big- of the schools will impair the improvement of edu- time football. According to the cational means on the one hand, and add to the Iowa State Daily, such classsroom financial difficulties of the state as well, training on "various offensive FAIR OR EQUAL? i and defensive systems on the Even if the principle of segregation, to be dis- blackboard" will give a "more cussed further on, be granted, can it be seriously lasting appreciation for the fall contended that such a system will provide for fair sport-" and equal chances? It is well known that the And at the University of Texas, standard of colored schools are not equal to that the paper contends that only at 0f the white ones; this is due partly to a staff of a footbalLpep rally will one find poor equality so that they provide, so to speak, for- the "great sense of institutional a second rate education, probably because of a feeling, felt in the books and ideas lack of financial support". and the ambitions, but embodied It might be added that which everyone acknowl- only in Saturday , afternoons of edges: tiiat the degrees delivered by such schools young autumn." or universities are not deemed equal to those issued -A- ' by vvhite coIIees or universities. This 'can hardly be called "a fair chance," since it appears as a SUCH IS the situation at other moral treachery to the individual who has under schools. I have mentioned these gone long and hard labor to be finally rewarded at length because I think they .for his efforts. Likewise, it is not in accordance lend some pespective to what wilk-with the purpose of that program which? is sup happen here this week. . ' posed to raise the colored population to a level Unless my guess is wrong (and to the equal to that of the white people by edu- it's not .'really my siuess). t-he cation. BASIC CONTRADICTION This precise issue enables us to expose the basi renewed, as the officials put it. contradiction which underlies the principle of seg- Coach George Barclay probably relation in any field. Segregation has its roots will be the victim of big-time foot- in the postulate that the white' and black people ball at Chapel Hill. That decision are .inveterately unable to live together. There is up to Chancellor R. B. House, is of course no rational ground to justify that as- who will rule with the advice of sumption, but rr.ther instinctive reactions: "Thv J. A. C. DUNN Jhe alumni ' dominated Athletic have no morals.", the soundness of which need - Coluncil and the Facultv Com- nnt h fiicm.ori fv, o 1 " WAVMT TJTCTTr. . . . OUU.C pCUpiC give IUS- ji.oiivir jinnee on Ainieiics The logical corollary of that; assertion is; ; that there must be .'a radical separation of both races eatjn2 riaces mafce a bis batch of in the intellectual, social, political fields; which . coffee ariy in the morning and does not mean that the help of the colored peo- use it all day At any rate, by the . pie ' will be discarded in , case of, war, or when timQ j drink it thc coffee'is old. cheap labor is needed. Segregation must paiticu- , larly be applied to schools, perhaps for fear that -j - if ...... in utter innocence- and sincerity of youth, the , . , children should realize the likeness and preju- THE WORST COFFEE in town dices should be unable to grow and strengthen can be bought for a dime at Grah- in them. am ajemorial. It comes from a ma- SUBJECTION chine, and if there is anything that It is, then, hardly possible to conceal the fact disgusts a real coffee drinker, it that the real purpose of segregation in all respects is geUing his coffee from a damn is to keep a set of people in a state of inferiority machine. and subjection' to another. Indeed the idea that it is possible for two races living on the same spot -of ground to keep separated is basically wrong and illusory. It is obvious that the fundamental social functions and institutions must be unique and untied; there cannot be two ad ministrations, two diplomatic bodies or two gov ernments; -and since the educational system pro- the purchaser by delivering about yides for those functions there cannot be two dif- four ounces, and it always cheats ferent educational systems in a democratic coun- him by delivering bad coffee. It is try. Otherwise, the members of those two races so bad that three cups of it will will not have access to those functions, and will ruin my system for the whole next be thus deprived of both their individual and social day, and I swear I can feel melted rights. There is very little likelihood that it will paraffin go down my throat when I It comes in a wax paper cup, six ounces, and it allegedly comes with your choice: Black, cream alone, sugar alone or sugar and cream. Any way you drink it, it is bad. The machine sometimes cheats be the white people. Reader's Retort: Band ' 'Music Hall Orchestra'? drink it. No amount of sugar or cream of faucet water will take away its own distinctive' taste? Once you drink it, it has you. at(j ar Heel $8 a year, 53.50 a se LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER present football coach will be fired will not have his contract FRED POWLEDGE JACKIE GOODMAN BILL BOB PEEL Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Coed Editor ' Circulation Manager Dick Sirkin Carolyn Nelson Peg Humphrey Jim Kiley Editors: "Whether we Mike bands or not, we must put 1 D0N'T EXACTLY know why up with them: let us therefore, in self-defense, 1 sa' all this about coffee. Maybe help them to make themselves fairly efficient. lVs because to m some others, It is certain that they are not so good as they good coffee remains one of the might -be at present and that as long as. they never ncer things of life, hear anything better than their own music they It is easy to dunk. It can hold will (remain much as they are." G. B. Shaw its warmth long enough so you Eyidently, complaints about bands are not new, can put it down for a minute, then but they are becoming more frequent after eacl 11 rink some more. Good coffee pro home football game. On these occasions the banc okes conversation, and it marks performance grows more and more offensive withfthe end of a meal or the end of a its half-time entertainment attempts. In these hard day. fiascoes the band has repeatedly chagrined the student body by attempting to stage "half-time 11 wakes you "P in the morn spectacles" without benefit of material or imagi- inS-and it (for me) goes well with nation. , , . studying at night. It is informal, It seems that the football band has renounced yet U is sodal its original '.purpose and ' has adopted that of a But you cant get it in Chapel music hall orchestra employing acrobat chorus Hill unless you brew your own. girls, dramatic sketches,, "pop" and semiclassical , music fro dazzle the spectators. - - This undertaking is successfully accomplished by some schooLs such as Michigan, Ohio State, etc. but unless itcan be done well, why inflict poor attempts oh a captive audience. The Lenoir High School band illustrates that a military band which plays marches without hesi tation and drills with perfection can be a great credit to the school. - ' , Thus, a proposal is made to the band to return Night Editor For This Issue Curtis Gang torical reasons. ("Those fell OW5 WPrp nur slavps I hope the Chancellor makes some hundred years ago"), which do not imply iiiv x 1 11 11 l. iirriMiiri 1 mh 1 1 ri 1 n 'j r t h-ir t i- -.-, . r-. i i.i 1 -v . . . . his learnprf m 7 .a7Z Z oi ght aa iurther- to a mission of adding spirited music and drill tell htm f best , thKa.1- Jome u200 ea:s Americans to the games and abandoning inadequate attempts Ire irS,- Bu C he lan be st ont ZT U crown,, and some 20,- to delight the crowds Aith enchanting little imi- are stron0. But he can be strong, 000 years ago, our ancestors lived in caves, -which- tations of . Broadway extravaganzas. - . does not necessarily imply that we still , should ' William Elliott SILLY QUESTION The social worker, visiting the inmates of the local workhouse, asked a variety of questions as she went from cell to cell. Finally, of one prisoner enjoy ing a long rest at the state's ex pense, she asked;. "What it your love of liquor that brought you here?" "Heck no, lady," answered the inmate. "You can't get nothin' Jn here." Tracks. "WELL, HERE ve are again.. with cheery optimism, albeitV'.V first sentence .of the editorial i'l 5 the year, and goes on to outline frenzied summer it spent v-r'',r' . uate havoc in' ' s wide variety 0? Nort:- Africa 1, .. t Mountains. - 'J - : iusl Iik Life"?: I "A God Sae ! , Find. .. FurthPrj.' Purpose of its mg the instruct;,';" -rr"' in the lifter SJ : lina Way of Life, and the editor;; lacing its editorial fingers co!v -with a somewhat suppliant, he3ll that "the above" is an attemnt to -- voter 6 ; With the tone thus set, the F. -camera grinding, as it were, I held - " plunged on. rAur. ai-v 1$ nui lunny, nor is i; -lists of places to take one's date arc ous, though often useful, as Tarn There is also a cartoon on page six. "Ham On Wry" is, while smooth:-.' fortunately unlaughable except p;--story about the three med students a: All T r-n.. nV,1l,f "IT. . rv 11- .. Vli x vtii m.v auuut iicun w!l rv ( through it waiting for the next artidt I admit that finding good short job quips, and whatnot is a rough job, b to thin jokes is that if they're thi: not to be printed. Also there are a- "But Sir . . .", a satire of the advisor, is well written and readable. lA I tried awfully hard to laugh, and a!:; at the "Yoho the Crow" scene, k just wouldn't come out. I craned my neck and read "SKOLU of pome," but it all seemed awfully with sorrow in my heart, I could r.;; there is a cartoon. AT THE risk of boring the reader.! to say thali; "The' Blackguard Jurrb. farcical ', treatment ' bf classroom be back' of the1 mind of the author of v. .3 lurking shadow , of J. S. Perelmai: either., A ,bitr overdone. Miss Ms;-. liked, but the fact that a female c i,"Hack" five times is, tot ray mind 2 son, for-approving a whole farce. I. a captoon. , Twin Eill" is a line idea. A r. ' on the three sets of twin coeds r.; the, campus tandem style is some'.:.; Tar Heel should have done aheadyir have done so, though I can't rcmenibe: BURIED IN a welter of jokes ments is the familiar form letter. ; crosses out the undesirable wordi ly doesn't have to write a stroke m an informative letter lo send hor;.e one's name happens to be Tom, Dick bara, Jean, or Betty). There are s:: too. The Tarnation Book Section is t: original idea in the magazine. "Is T: in' Year" reviewed by Max Hymen : Time For Poets is OK, I guess. It itself from time to time, but an exce- A 1 m 41,:1. T', nnillt fn SKiP - "Carolina Cookies," you'U dead J parodying a local columnist and h. i the editorial We is a good idea. I J; writing sounds much like me (exce? and I myself would have laughed i been called "J. X. Y. Z. -Ra:e.'" cake has icing (as I believe the Co-' page 35). Also a cartoon. The "sneaky preview of the Can). l .... -T'-.f tage of. I liked particularly Abelard Came Down With rsori3-;- EXCEPT FOR Charley Daniels ca the four-shot necktie sequence. U book is something I have laughed 2 ; lv'nunipi'c iHoac am extremely0- will no doubt turn out an excels his drawings (which are good little polish. . t.. On the whole, I was disappO""-1. Tarnation. I wanted to lai'g'-. DJl ' somehow. However, Editor Bill Rag?da;e discouraged by an adverse revieV.. if T u-orn rHi'finrr o humor Vtio-"01" O know where to start looking tor editorial says, good satire is har preciate the problem of finding v- ly, though with some r3ther sta.u- and there. One gets the imprest '' oMvhite space throughout Ue are you going to put in a maga-" got anything to put in a magazine- r 4V, r ...u:v, T t'v.nk tn? nation are to be compliment 15 point in sinking to the qucstiona . just because there is nothing e the Tarnation staff has taken a ra by refusing, in the face of an o ' would haul right off and flatly c Sortie t; A good editing job. a nation, but it lacks sparkle the college humor line might be ' And ' now for the Carolina " should rock the stands within . u
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