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The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES -Editor
SI.BO i Ttv Be.a Copy
Address all communications to The
Chafel Hill Weekly, Chapel Hill,
N. C.
Entered u aaeond-cten matter
February 28, 1928, at the po*to*ce
at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, under
the net es March 3, 1879.
The Question of a Stadium
Many an argument about in- ;
tercollegiate athletics is still un
settled, but one point on which
there is pretty general agree
ment is this: in all the sports,
as many of the games as pos
sible should be played on col
lege grounds. The authorities
of some institutions hold that
all the playing should be done
there, and throughout the coun
try the sentiment against sched
uling contests in cities, away
from the campus of either con
testant, is finding expression in
regulations against the prac
tice.
Harvard - Yale, Harvard-
Princeton, Princeton -Yale
these are historic and conspicu
ous instances of the year-by
year alternation between home
grounds, and the example set by
these three great universities is
now followed by scores of oth
ers. Four years ago Virginia
and North Carolina took their
annual Thanksgiving Day strug
gle away from Richmond and
decided to place it alternately in
Charlottesville and Chapel Hill.
And now Carolina exchanges in
the same manner with Mary
land, Trinity, and South Caro
lina.
The student bodies here and
in our rival colleges would raise
a howl to wake the dead if the
system were abandoned. And
not only the students approve
it. Alumni and the public in
general givfe every sign of en
dorsing the home-grounds plan.
It is about as certain as any hu
man arrangement can be that
these campus interchanges are
here to stay.
Last week we expressed the
opinion that, all this being so,
here in Chapel Hill we simply
must have an enclosure ade
quate for the accommodation of
vaster crowds than have gather
ed thus far. The Greensboro
News meets this suggestion w'h
a counter-suggestion—that the
monster stadium be built in
Greensboro instead of Chapel
Hill! This betokens a credit
able home-town spirit, but our
friends are on the wrong track.
It won’t do, Gerald, it won't do.
Go ahead with your stadium. It
is a praiseworthy venture, ar.d
here’s hoping it succeeds. As
long as there are two or three
Carolina - Virginia baseball
games every spring, the man
agements will be happy to con
tinue playing one of them in
Greensboro, and there will
doubtless be other events at
tracted thither by the city's ex
cellent central situation. But
that does not alter the fact that
a large stadium is needed here.
The Durham Herald, com
menting on the Weekly's editor
ial, also seems to ignore the
strength of the sentiment for
college games on home grounds.
Under the title, “Who’s Going
to Grab It?” it says: “The first
city in the central part of the
state that erects a big athletic
field with seating accommoda
tions for the largest crowds will
be the city that will attract the
big games.” Well, what is the
matter with Chapel Hill for
central location? For all who
come by automobile, the good
roads leading here make it easily
- accessible from all directions.
And, as was proved this year,
special trains with scores of
Pullmans and day coaches can
toe brought here without delay,
or confusion. Moreover, the
village and the campus have an
advantage over any city in the
plentiful parking space for cars.
If local financing of an arena
were depended upon, of course
Chapel Hill would not have a j
ghost of a chance beside either
Durham or Greensboro. But
thousands of people scattered
over the State are interested in
the athletic e% r ents in Chapel j
Hill, and will be ready and eager
to help along the stadium pro-;
ject. Alumni who are able to
make only infrequent visits to
the campus will not be favora
bly impressed with the idea of
having the big games elsewhere. |
ALUMNI WANT STADIUM
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that half pf either of these
amounts can be raised by group
insurance taken out by alumni
for fof'O each, by a 10-year pay
ment policy.” The bal-mec, a •- 1
cording to Mr. Howard’s plan,
' would be raised by a l »: n. He'
concludes:
“I am heart and soul for this |
bigger stadium, and am not
1 wedded to any particular plan. |
j What we want is results.”
Charles Whedbee
“I think the Weekly’s editor- j
: ial very timely,” writes Charles
Whedbee of Hertford. “It will!
I bring to the attention of the
alumni the great need for some j
i suitable place to stage the;
games. I have not had time
seriously to consider the plan j
you suggest, but it is worthy of
'serious consideration. Just
what plan may be adopted to
carry the thing through is im
material. The great matter is
to secure somehow the necessary
enclosure. I shall be glad to as
sist in any way I can to make
this fine idea a reality.”
Maxcy L. John
“It does not seem to me that!
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there is any way out of it—we
: must have a stadium, or bowl, j
that will accommodate the
crowds that will wish to come
! to Chapel Hill to witness con
test in athletics,” says Maxcy L.
John of Laurinburg. “People
decry athletics sometimes as
some pepole decry large instir.u
--: tions; but when the money is
. offered for healthful expansion
' there is no faculty or board of
•j trustees that refuses the means
to provide for larger attendance,
1 offered the larger attendance.
1 . e* small institution may make
.a virtue of necessity and boa. t
of ii.o smallness-; but it expands
las last as it possibly can, a:.n
i win oe one of the big ones soma
day, if possible.
with athletics, a. he insi.i
--1 tution that can put on satisfac
tory athletics soon finds that it
must do so, and that the whole
student body is helped by the
| wholesome enthusiasms and
' comradeships of clean athletic s,
i Without contests there; will not
' be that enthusiasm that carries
J forward a whole body of young
men toward proper recreation
and physical development. To
get this in its best surroundings
and setting it must be on lhe
campus of the institution, so
that the boy who cannot or will
; not otherwise get the ‘urge’ will
get his impulse in that way, if
no other. Then this means a
“Bowl” for Chapel Hill— or
failure to get the best and most
out of the athletic impulse.
“There will be impulses and
enthusiasms that may carry the
buoyant youth far astray if not
put in the right channel. Os j
course there are mental activi
ties and moral uplifts that must
not be neglected but the pio
bability of not neglecting them
is much improved by a healthy
athletic activity that reaches out
and gets all the student body in
its grip and at least makes every
one want to be strong and ath- •
letic, even if not willing to worJk
as he should for that end.
“Yes, get a bowl, or any old
thing you want to call it, but so
that it will serve adequately.”
( 'Random Shots
BY HAUFAX JONES
I cherish a dislike for the
fashion-fixers who are respon
sible for doing away with hooka
on shoes and runnning the holes
all the way Up to the top. If
the added time and energy that
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millions of men and women have
been forced to expend, because
of this useless and silly change,
could be summed up and meas-;
ured, the waste would be shown
to be enormous.
* * *
For some time now there have
been running in the Saturday
Evening Post, and I presume
other magazines, advertisements
exhorting people to demand
shoes with hooks. Evidently
the hook-makers are carrying on
a campaign to recall to a for-;
getful public the usefulness of
their product. I hope they will
succeed in this. Putting on
clothes day after day is a big
enough bore anyway, and should
not be made worse by the doub
ling of the labor of lacing one’s
shoes.
* * *
A woman I know, let us call
her Mrs. X, drove up in her Ford
to the door of another woman I
know, let us call her Mr 3. Y, the
other morning about half past
nine and said: “Come on and go
to the city with me.” Mrs. Y
replied: “I’m just started on the
house-cleaning, and I’ve got to
see the washerwoman, and
there’s no end of sewing I’ve got
to do. I can’t possibly leave—
just wait a minute till I straigh
ten my hair and get on my hat
and I’ll be right with you.” And
she left her housewifely duties
behind and was off on the ride.
I applaud this spirit. Os course
such desertion, practiced too
frequently, wouldn’t do. But if;
the impulse to truancy we re. not \
yielded to now and then, a lot!
of the pleasure in life would be |
forfeited. There is a flavor
atiout the unexpected jaunt that
one rarely finds in scheduled-in
advance recreation. Then, you
begin to learn after a whib that
you just about never get your
golf or tennis, or whatever your
favorite fun is, if you .wait un
til it fits in perfectly with your ‘
round of duties. You have to
break away sometimes in the
midst of a dozen things that
ought to be done—or you don’t
break away at all.
* * *
Gertrude Atherton, in an ar
ticle in the International Book
Review, has been paying some
compliments to the novels of
Ouida. \\ hat she says paren
thetically about critics seems to
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me to have a good deal of truth
in it. Hear Mrs. Atherton:
“Ouida, with all her trifling
faults, was a very big person,
for genius is far rarer than ar
tistry. There are always, in
every period of literature, rive
hundred artists to one genius.
But genius excites irritability in
the critic. His (well-named) in
feriority complex is uneasy and
resentful in the presence of ge
nius. Artistry he can under
stand, for at a pinch he could
be an artist himself; but genius
is forever beyond him. Else
would he not be writing about
other writers.”
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