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A Thursday, February 25, 1965 THE DAILY TAR HEEE Vfitr For Campus Literary Magazines: .Long History' Off Ups And Downs By ANDY MYERS DTH Feature Writer (Ed. Note The new edition of the Carolina quarterly will go on sale in several weeks. One sold morning in March 13 44, the 200UNC students awoke to find a small five by eight magazine shoved under their doors. "Kind Reader:" the page one editorial cautiously began, "The first number of the North Caro lina University Magazine is be fore you." It continued: "And now, after the vascillations of labor all the alternations of Hope and Fear from the fiery ordeal of anxious prepara tion, the Magazine is introduc ed to you, with all the uneasy gawkeries of a blushing Debu tant." Looking back over the 121 year history of UNC literary publications from the "blushing Debutant" to the Carolina Quar terly, the magazines have al ways reflected the history of the University itself. No Pictures The first University magazine contained no advertising or pic tures and the print was almost unreadable. Little variation was used in the sizes of type. Some featured articles includ ed a dissertation on American poetry, a euology of "Judge Gaston" by Judge Battle, a sto ry on the life of Lewis Cass, and a report on Biblical resear ches in Palestine. The goal of 500 subscribers was not half reached by July, and during the four months of publication very few students had made contributions. Reluc tantly, the editors stepped down and for the next eight years the magazine lay dormant. 'Classic Period' The next period of publication, from 1852 to the Civil War, has been termed the "classic per iod" by Martha Brandis, who has done a thesis on the ma gazine "The new editors were more bold than their predecessors," she wrote, "since their names are listed in their publication." Finances were tight during this period although the list showed over 500 subscribers. In 1859 the editors gave the subscription list to the printer "to collect what he could." The magazine began to gain strength again until 1861 when less than 100 students appeared at the Un iversity at the start of the war. Publication was halted for a second time. After Reconstruction the Uni versity reopened in 1875, and three years later the magazine published eight issues, unfortu nately of "poor quality," accor ding to Miss Brandis. Because of the pood quality the magazine died again in two years. But in 1882 the campus literary societies began pressur ing for a publication to provide "an outlet for whatever facility of expression or power of thought." 'Lifeless Paperback Renamed the University Mon thly, the magazine was slow to gain student support. One critic called it "a lifeless little 16-page paperback." In 1884 the name was changed again to the North Carolina University Magazine. It improved slowly until by 1893 it had gained the reputa tion of the 1869 "classic" per iod. That year it promised an "attempt to be a .literary ma gazine with an emphasis on stu dent writing." By then circula tion had risen to over 2,500. But always on shaky financial grounds the magazine again suc cumbed to student criticism in 1895. They compalined that stu dents were not given the chance to contribute to the magazine. The magazine was lost for on ly two years. Unearth Talent In 1897 the magaine came out in December promising to award prizes in order to "un earth creative talent." But these were changing times, and student creativity was on the wane. The bitter editors wryly obser ved that "out of 400 academic students now in college only one voluntarily contributed to this issue." A majority of the stud ents never read the magazine, but circulation sometimes rose to the thousands. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, who was ..it. is'',- ' : - the Carolina Mag. All Humor was dropped from the Mag, and students stopped contributing. In a surprise move in 1948 a bill was introduced to Student Legislature calling for a referen dum on the magazine question. The voting was: retain Tarnation, 504 combine both magazines, 500 Keep both magazines, separ ately, 267 abolish all magazines, 169 alternate publication of each magazine, 90 retain the Carolina Mag, 22 Since more students voted to have to have no magazine at all than to retain the Carolina Mag the general opinion seemed ob vious. But two days later a pe tition appeared with 1,400 signa tures asking for the establish ment of a literary quarterly ,al most as many who voted in the entire referendum Appropriated $2,000 The next March Student Leg islature established the Carolmr Quarterly to carry on the tra dition of a campus literary ma gazine, appropriating $2,000 to launch the publication. The Quarterly has existed for 17 years with the same tribula tions of all of its predecessors Like all earlier campus literary magazines the Quarterly is pla gued with small circulation, low . . . Last of a Long Line of Literary Magazines budgets, inconstant staffs, and rdtv 3 X :f ' 'A CAROLINA QUARTERLY Morehead Foundation To Host Prep School Representatives Representatives from 14 pri vate preparatory schools through the country will visit campus this weekend in con junction with annual final inter views, of candidates for 1965 Morehead Awards. While the John Motley More head Foundation's Central Se- Mayes Leaves For Mid-East Dr. W. Fred Mayes, dean of the School of Public Health, will leave Thursday to attend a sem inar in the Mid-East. He will join with deans of the 11 other schools of public health in the U. S. for visits to schools in Cario, Egypt, Beirut, Leban on, and Ankara, Turkey. Mayes hopes to visit a school of public health in Goudar, Ethi opia, and to spend some time in Malawi, where the School of Health is now conducting a training program. Geography Lecture Tuesday In Mitchell What world geography used to be like will be the subject when an American Geological Insti tute visiting international scien tist speaks here at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Mitchell Hall. rr TTpinrieh K. Erben, pro fessor of paleontology at the Un iversity of Bonn, Germany, and nnp nf AGT's visiting scientists will discuss "Lower Devonian Paleography of the Old World." lection Committee and Board of Trustees are conducting inter views Friday through Tuesday the private school visitors will be guests of the Morehead Foundation. They will visit classes and meet with UNC officials. The 14 schools that will send representatives to UNC this weekend are among 16 private preparatory schools eligible to nominate candidates for More head Awards. - Morehead' Awards provide four-year, all-expense-paid edu cations. For the first time since the awards were established in 1951, John Motley Morehead will not make the presentations. The 94-year-old UNC alumnus and benefactor died in January. UNC Department Head To Speak At U. Of Detroit Dr. George M. Harper, chair man of the University of North Carolina Department of Eng lish, will be a guest speaker on the University of Detroit cam pus Thursday and Friday, Feb. 25-26. On Thursday, he will talk to graduate students in English about the Yeats Centennial Celebration in Sligo, Ireland. On Friday, he will present a paper entitled "Yeat's Vision of Ed en" to the University of Detroit Friends of the Library. i II- simoon J. JL The JLJLxZ'HJw u V Fund Drive 1 VJ I "3 NOW PLAYING to be governor of North Caro lina from 1933 to 1937, was busi ness manager during this per iod. Continued Strength The magazine continued to be strong, however, even after 1917 when the United States entered World War I. An alert staff kept publishing throughout the war. In 1920 a new Carolina Maga zine emerged, printed on slick paper with large headlines and sub-heads in newspaper style. There was some candid photo graphy and the pages were twice the size of its predeces sor. Jonathan Daniels, now editor of the Raleigh News and Obser ver, and playwright Paul Green contributed during this era . In 1923 a publications board was created to appoint business managers for the Carolina Ma gazine, the Yackety Yack, and the Daily Tar Heel. Students elected editors of all three pub lications. Trouble Brews The Associated Press carried a story in October 1926 about the Carolina Magazine titled "Student Editor Assailed." The UNC student council had asked for the resignation of Julian S. Starr, editor and R..K. Fowler assistant editor because the cur rent issue carried a story re garded as "indecent and impro per." The AP said, "The name of the story, writted by Fowler, is 'Flades' and deals with the re lations between a white woman and a mullato." The highest point of excel lence in student writing occur red from 1926 to 1929, accord ing to Miss Brandis. The stud ents voted in 1929 to make the Magazine a literary supplement to the Daily Tar Heel. It be came a tabloid and was printed on rag paper. Breaks From DTH Tn 1934 the magazine broke from the Tar Heel and resum- j ,.Ki;oHnn in US OWIl. it t'U uuiiv.u" Photo by Jock Lauterer the nation and Chapel Hill chan ged overnight from a sleepy col lege town to a war training cen ter. At the University things began moving rapidly. Students were leaving daily for both sides of the world. The Carolina Magazine was shortened to the Carolina Mag. More photographs appeared, sex appeal was added, and a new streamlined face was adopted. It seemed that all tradition had been dropped. Also in 1941 all the students who could write were writing for the Daily Tar Heel and the Ma gazine at the same time, "with the jargon of the newspaper for cing literature back into the background." Magazines Merge In. this atmosphere the Caro , lina Mag merged with the cam pus humor magazine, Tar an' Feathers; which began in 1940. It was probably this union with humor which kept the "Mag" alive during the war. By 1947 there was a renewed increase of pressure for another humor magazine. One reviewer remar ked that the "Mag had long ago lost its sense of direction." Lat er that year Tarnation, a new humor magazine, came to the Carolina scene. - Tarnation spelled death for student apathy. What's in the future for the Carolina Quarterly? Some say perpetual anemia, unless adver tising and sales can be made to suDDort the magazine. But they rarely have. The last issue had less than 200 circulation, most of them sold to libraries around the country. There is no one answ er for the perennial poor show ing of literary magazines, but one may be that they are "al most totally literary," according to Dr. Lyman Cotten of the De-j partment of English. ,No Sales Appeal ' There is no intrinsic sales ap peal to a literary magazine for the general public. Jessie ren der, creative writing professor, says she feels that it is the com petition of other media which has a constant stranglehold on literarv iournals. Perhaps Bill Scarborough, once editor of the Quarterly, has " made the most succinct obser vation: "However it might have seemed to falter , at times, the Quarterly is symbolic of a crea tive itch at Carolina, an itch that persisted even after .the Carolina Magazine . . was aban doned in 1948 in favor of a hu mor magazine, which died af ter eight years. An independent group of students founded the Quarterly to take the "Mag's" place; and it has earned the right of succession." continued through the depres sion with occasional attempts to th humor. In December 1941 war rocked J DON'T MISS THIS SCHOLAR'S LIBRARY! Church History Here are the books to which a scholar turned when he wrote HIS books. Theology ICWctfrrnri Definitely Protestant, with some good material on Luther. The Reformation Here was a period when theology and history met with a bloody bang. Our scholar got as close to the fireworks as books would allow, and you'll enjoy joining him. You can afford to. Prices start at less than $1.00. Don't Miss This ' Scholar's Libr ary! The Old Book Corner The Intimate Bookshop 119 East Franklin St. Open every day until 10 pjtu f You're missing a lot when you own a Volkswagen. A VW has fewer parts than other cars because It needs fewer parts. There's no bulky drive shaft to transfer engine power to the rear wheels. 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This semester, three students, Rosa Maria Reyes Casanova, Lorena Lopez Perez and Iriza bela Bruixola de los Santos, who are preparing for teaching careers in Mexico, have come here to study professional edu cation and to observe in North Carolina public schools. During the summer, approxi mately 12 UNC students and professors will travel to Mexico City to study the teaching of foreign languages at the Escue la Normal Superior and tour places of cultural, archeological and historical interest. OMOMZJ graph records of typical Amer ican music and of Mexican folk music and symphonies, profes sional magazines, student news papers, art work and books, some of which are by such North Carolina writers as Thom as Wolfe and Paul Green. In addition, eacn school is presently making color motion pictures of their respective acti vities to be exchanged later this year. The project has reached at least 2,000 persons in its seven years of existence. It promotes a better understanding between the U. 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In Mexico City, they! have had to converse, prepare) lessons and lectures entirely in! Spanish, and have carefully stu-j died Mexican methods of foreign language instruction. The Mexican students, in ad dition to the professional in struction they are receiving, al so carry back to their schools an increased knowledge of the English language. Supplementing the exchange of students program, the two un iversities have also sent each other tape recordings, TV slid es with tape recordings describ ing teacher education, phono- CHEESE ADDICTS Once You Buy Cheese from Hickory Farms Just Can't Shake the Habit ! "America's Leading Cheese Stores" Home of the Famous Beetstick HICKORY FARMS Open 7 Days a Week EASTGATE SHOPPING CENTER -You ! Support The DTH Advertisers CHAPEL HILL'S FINEST 1 V Capezios campus favorite Sports a built-in personalitj- plus for the on-the-go campus crowd. This good looking- skimmer shows a dashing buckle on a low, low flat brown heel. 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