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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill North Carolina 12# E. Rosemary Tvkphona or Published E'wy Tow*)*? and Friday By TYw Chapei Hill Publidtmr Company, int. Loru Graves ConmbvTmg Ld-.xo- Joc Jonts ,’tf c**£p’.r.f Ld;'-cr Aetkvt. - ,4ssocui!f Ed’*to- Omrcux. C ampee™ General Manapc- O T Watbjo .Advemsme D-ecur- Chaeiton Camper:.i Me chan tea' sup: Tsr*vtrr<L M*r • -■*'<’ * fr 2” • :w the poftoflirf. * ‘ * «:* H.~ Ni-rtr C-arr.,.,:;* tr;g toC*. C' XL,’ . l r ’~ subscription RATES ■ lr. Ciranpt Court? ' ear Si.C'P ((, month* f-- 21 . 3 month 1 II ?>' OnUiOf of Orhr.po County t? tfct 'tear Stato of N C.. 1 1 and £. C 4-M* Other State? and Dwt of C .unr.:.*a t.OC 1 Canada Mexif' South Amer.ta 7.0 C Europe ' • Bn ant's Aririre-v- to the Faculty Club About Trustees’ Ke^p'>nr.ibiluie' Victor S Ir;ai t member i " ■ * *xe tive committee f the University’s Board of Trustees, addressed the Faculty Club at it? lunch*. ’ meeting Tuesday cr. “The Respon.- .binti*-- of Trustees •.- •• J er TT ■r* not being space here for the entire address, bare sunmarH - *f part? of it are presented and parif of have beer, seiected. f r reproduc*. r. Mr Bryant quoted the statute- of 17*9 reciting the power? conferred *>n the Trustee? He Fjeke 'f tr.e ?*par&- tion of the functions of the Trustee and the Administration. He spoke of the responsibility of the Trustee? t obtain from the General Assembly financial support for the Ur versity. He spoke of the Trustee-' ob: gatUr. - tc> the President and hi? administrative assistant?, to the facu ty. and to the st udents. He spoke at considerable length of the Trustees’ obligations to the fa' Tty. One of these, he said, “is to see that an adequate salary schedule is provided for both faculty and administrative officers.” He said: “This schedule should be or.* which will enable the contir .a! recruitment of an outstanding faculty, and at the game time enable the University to retain its present distinguished faculty. No teacher can do his best work when involved in debt and ha massed by bi.l collectors:. We must expect our faculty members to receive offers to go else where, but we should be prepared through financial and other means to fight to hold them. “May 1 d igres- here to pay tribute and to recognize a deep and perhaps unacknowledged debt of gratitude to those of you who have received such offers and who ha-.*- chosen to cast your future lot here with this Univer sity. I know of instances, far, far more, I suspect, than you think I do, in which many of you have received offers at greatly needed financial increases and yet, through your loyalty and confi dence if \r\ this institution, have remain ed here. I can not, however, feel that the Sta!*- has any righpßo profit finan cially from sbeh loy^rty^on your part. The University is under a gr*-at obliga tion to you. I ask that you hold on a little longer, because I foresee a glori ous futur* immediately ahead for this University. I am keenly awar<* that a number of important positions in this University are now being filled on an acting basis. These will be filled, and I believe filled well, with all reasonable dispatch. What might have seemed stumbling blocks will be stepping stones to better days ahead. ’ “The Trustees,” said Mr. Bryant, “must see that the faculty, once it is brought to the University, lives and operates in a congenial atmosphere. To do this you must enjoy academic freedom. It is the obligation of the Trustees to see that you do. It would be an unnecessary trespass upon your time to trace either the background or meaning of academic freedom, except in brief to say that I heartily endorse what I believe it stands for, and this might be fairly summarized in three principles: “First, a teacher should have full freedom in research, and the right to publish the results of his research. No university should presume to circum scribe the boundaries within which a faculty member may search for the truth, although his other duties may limit the allowable time for research. "Second, a faculty member in his classroom should be absolutely free in teaching those subjects which he has been assigned to teach. Os course it should be expected that the instruction which he gives would be of a scholarly nature, and compatible with the dignity f th* profession. Nor should a teacher, in my opinion, take advantage of hi? jK.-.ti -n to introduce ir.tc the classroom prowcative and irrelevant discussions or. matter.- n t rv.ated to his subject. “Third, outside hi- classroom and bey : ; hi? ch• >-en field the teacher has the -ame right t formulate and express his pinions as any other citizen. At times profess-rs fail t realize that their opinion- carry great weight, and that laymen frequently yuag* them as (ffi .... ?p -ae-mer. of the institution regar ios- ! the sub.ee: -r which they n : choose t express the ms* h• - "In tne e:. yroei.t a:.: exercise of a:.. ••: . f rev .Dm It .- itabi* that •m* - y „ wi'.] c .i* with estab lished and orthodox belief- Your views ma; nc< al be offensive t othe rs. T' • may c nceiva; y t • wrong. But r.ght r wr r.g, y j have the right— - met me- tre *•• r. —to f' rm u;at* and express yjr conscientious -». - r-f ♦ imm< To.} or il.-gal. These belief- may be of fen s' ve * me as a Trustee : I would Ire d-v '.■ my duty if 1 fa..ed •*. protect t the fulie-t yur right- under aca (], ' }• r.-edom It m.a - . be ar, unpalat a * . a' :..-.* t r* -' ue s-.m.e academic exbb - bit, wr ha- c •• r ' fioat uy> ?trear. but .t mu-* be -remembered that • -a. . .' r Isaac Newt Roger Ka- r. the Nazarer* f ’he first cen- , tur- and a r w Imp table hb-t of the? tin brai a heretic? \ H« re ar* - -■ • sax- fr'm the ia-t few -a* * - f Mr }f r -ar * - add re--: •. y- ' be don* ■ rtir.g the true r?e f the Ameri car iver-ity. Ir. tr..- <’ ..'.try we have.**' e-r. r.-arked up'.’ ar: exp-r; rr.< nt ir mass educa* l’-T; at the col!»-g« ar.d university level We are -'.ll ir. the experimental v-:g. wr • r the r* - ~'- are unknown and question? are in order We have few guiding pre-cedent-- We know that ■ ”< English uni vers i’ e- excellence in teaching was accomj bed largely because t f the sound secondary educa tional preparation of the English stu dent? and their careful selection, al t'r:‘ jgh p* rhaps t'g 11’tie emphasis was placed u;o.>n graduate work and re search We kre w that in the pre-war Germar ir versitie* there was a com pleteness and solidity with a fruitful rombinatlon of teaching and research. Yet we a’s' k- • w that inelasticity and overload rg and *h* class consciousness cf the German university rendered it impotent to head off the two armed catastrophes which bloodied the pages of history in th« first half of this cen tury. “We know that both the English and the German universities were recog nized a- the repos it* ries of knowledge, and that they achieved, and up to a point retained, an independence and a dignity which made them the great institutions they v,«n-. Neither ever came to grips with the problem of mass education. “Today in America we are pouring money into both the secondary and higher level educational institutions at an undreamed of rate. Doubts have been ex; res.-ed as to the outcome and efficacy of the experiment, but we can not arid dare not stop. In a state-sup ported university the problem of num bers is not as easy to control as in a private institution. Recently the dean *T a well known college said that his institution accepter! only about one out of each eight applicants. As Trustees and faculty members in a state insti tution our answer to this is that wo rn ust fight the harder to see- to it that, the real values in education are given their proper positions. “Certainly you know these- values and their places far bette r than I. 1 recog nize that the- University in many of its aspects is necessarily a social agency, and that social attitudes are extremely important. I should, however, be per mitted to question whether or ne>t the* intellectual efforts in our universities are being subordinated to the social anel evtra-curricular activities of the stu dents. “I also ask whether too many of our students are corning to our University without a clear understanding of why they come. At some point basic instruc tion on this subject would be in order. It appears that some students may be attending the University simply be cause it is looked upon as the next ste*p in growing up. Seime others come so poorly prepared that they spend the first or the first and second years of college being taught what they should have learned before leaving high THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY’ Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from pipe li which have been the object of admiration by hunters and travelers ever since the discovery and settlement of this part "f the country.” At this season there are a p .«od many newcomers her* and sometimes they ask m*. what they can read to.inf rrn them about the Uni *r-:ty and the Ullage. Beside- b - kk-ts that can be • • tained at University offices and at* some of the -t n- there art Kemp P. Battle - 2-'* iurr.e “History of the University of North Carolina'’ and Archibald Render-"!.'- "Campus of the Fir-: St at* University." Bari* - History is i—p out of print. Because of its rar.ty .: may n**t be taken out of the Library but it may be r- a i tht re. Henderson’s bo >k is . ise up to date, having bet n ; bli shed in 1949 as one of the University’s St—-:- ic*. r.tenr.ia! Publications. It can be read in the Library r b tight (I suppose) at a boons! re or (certainly) fr m the publisher, the University of North Carolina Pre-- ir. Bynum hall. I c -mm*: n: it highly to anyone v.: wants t*- learn about the hist tv. and to read de-. r:pt. n- and see ph do graph-. f the University cam; - and buildings since the Tending of the Universit;. I6d years ag- . r F;,r.r g- in and around Chap.-: Hiii ar* mentioned in set era!; .aces ir, the IP-nder- v.* k. (Set the index.) A- with many another growing town where-, in the e* jrse of the y*-ar-, prim.: ■ open space.- have to mak*. ro m. for new building- and bar: - ami p* ultry yard- and pa-tures ha', e to : • a p amUned. tin springs in ('nap*. Hill have been cot *r* o\**r and the streams that fiowi-d from them ha.* ■ •*•:. ran through under ground ; ;>*.-■ For example . gigantic c?r.cr*U pipe and* r tf.< middle of the play.*..• field of Kenan star.urn Carr;*-.- th<- - jtflow from a n‘--id*- Yenabk hail (the chemi-try building); a: : a.thin the last in- nth the outflow from a spring ir, tin* Arboretum has been hidden from view at its uppe r mod, near the entrance of the park, by being run *hr- igh a big pip* just like the one beneath the field no the -tadium. 9 * * 9 Th.e contrast between old-*.me travel and m*»*l* rn t rat el net ceases to inter*-’ r:.< N * doubt this is explained in part the fact * .nat for many y* ar- in my life the only motive pow< r I o-c-d was the -am- that was used in ancient times; that i-, anima!-js.wt-r. Th<- only differ* nee l>etween the Babylonian- • r Kp'ypt :ar.< and iTi*.- was that they had ( arc*-!- 1 wa- m*>t< r«-d by hors*-:- arid mules, and occasionally goat-. I used to mi*- with .Jone. Wats* ’ the mail carrier, over to Pitts boro in a two-v.h<-< 1 back;*--- cart. 1 ns*-»l to go up and Tfown town ar.d ba* k and forth betwot-n her*- and Durham iri buggi*-- and hack- 1 use«i to go hay-riding in springless wagon-. Long after fast trains: were running between the big cities the * nly train I ever saw was the freight car arid th* c<>mbinat on pas sc ng*-r-and-baggage-car pu:l<-d by a <oughir:g and bel* hir,g wfy>d-burning locornot..<- b< twee- (’hap* - Hill and the junction at the University station Automobile were -till rare articles when J went to live in New York in 1902; the city government had just begun to allow them in Central Park, and women w*4e moving along the avenues in neat little noiseh -- electric motored cars which were steered not with wheels but with straight horizontal handles. I read not long ago in a New York paper an article about how a replica of the Mayflower had be* n built in England and was going to repeat next year th* famous voyage of I€2o from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Masachusetts. As it was for the original ship, the only motive power for the 19'>7 edition w ill be the w ind. Jt took the Mayflower of I Gif*> tw>, months to cross the Atlantic. I think of this when my neighbor, Felix Hickkerson, recently back from Europe, tells me of having made the crossing by plane in 1 3V2 hours. Another contrast, that I have been thinking of in the last few' days is between Daniel Boone and f **ll ter Cobb Jr. -between the celebrated frontiersman in g<- irig from North Carolina over the Appalachian chain of mountains to the Ohio Valley and th*- Chapel Hill insur ance and real estate man in going from the same state to the same valley. The perilous journey took Daniel Boone several months, ( oilier Cobb, traveling in In? private plane, got from here to his son’s wedding in Cincinnati in 2'/z hours. That was with a head wind He had a tail wind coming back and made the flight in 2 hours flat. school. I question whether it is fair to take the money of the parents or the time of the student and then see him flunked out at the end of the first, or second year when it should have been obvious far sooner that he was not pre pared for his experiment in higher education. Many people without college education, who appreciate their jobs, are happier citizen* than some with a college education who feel themselves above their jobs and jK*rform their tasks without enthusiasm simply be cause they know of no other means of supporting themselves. “If the excellent secondary educa tional preparation of their students has contributed largely to the strength of the English universities, we should all the more clearly realize that the aims of our University can not be fully achieved unless our students come here with a sound background of secondary school education. Neither you as faculty mem bers nor I as a Trustee can be unmind ful of our responsibilities in this quart er. This is a large but important order. Its importance has been brought home to me as I have analyzed the mortality rates of our students at the end of the first and second college years. We can never hope to build to the high levels of scholarship which we wish to attain without high levels in our preliminary schools.” , From Our Files Be; .. vfwmKrammnrzr---* 3 Years Ajro Robert A. Taft, U. S. Sen a- r fr* ni Ohio and generally thought to be the leading aspirant for the Republican n rmnation f r President in v .. o< v. r the Weil Lec ture? here in Memorial Hall November 27. 2b. and. 29. Arthur Hut thins, the Uni versity'- veteran athletic gr 1 -and- beeper, is being con g*.,t...at<-1 or. th* fine cushion f turf he ha- produced this year or. the football field in Kenan Stadium. 10 Years Ago At th* r me* ting in Raleigh T-e-uay. ve University trus te-s adopted by unanimous •tc a r> ..ten authorizing the off? .al- * f the University i* ex pan*] the two-year medi t ( lapel Hill into a -tandai u-four-year medical .- *,• . "a- soon a- practicable after the (»< r.eral Assembly appr | nat*-- the nece.- ary / » ,• . " l’j 1 ears Ago pete Iv*y, Winston-Salem :. v. wa- here last we* k - r g with old friends. Hi : • e director Os the firahar Memorial, editor of the h . ar.eer. and a member ■if v.e r* vers.itv’- wrestling , ... ’flu- f irst Frost (The New \ *>rk Times) h:i * fi -t comes back in the 1...-, and the fox baik in th* ts ■ moonlight, the owl a-*:- ' .1 von- of the dark !.< - • A-.’umn creeps in, re ■ r.r ~*.*• ring 'he valleys and exp.- • r.g th* tree tops. Crick et and katydid, silent in the - rs' ft ’y evening, return a the < *. at,ate- arid are so<in . : . gam that one knows they are h .rrying to complete .r:f.r.. .* <*l mating calls before the i.m'ji frosts of October put ar: 1 *,d 'v their season. T).u- t >rr. - th*- season, in ■ipeii* - ;.*. 1 morning mist, iri « midoay *;. so deep, so < leai 1 hat on- :■..* see halfway into forever K r-t frost clears the air a- though to enhance the -i.i.rtertir.g pan of daylight and make the abbreviated even ing a time - f rool delight, And • lawn gleam wi'h spider webs spread am< r.g the tall grass is and weed stems as though to trap the tag ends of sum trier. Hit summer is going fast, !t lingers only on a hilltop her* and there, in a ft w seat tered hours arid days. In all green tilings there is a res , ns* if not an actual know ledge and awareness Milk - wi-ni pods now turn to -liver and soon will hurst into silk. There is an o**asioal, tenta tive fla-h of red and yellow .n the maple groves Roadside grasses ripen seedheads. Squir rels swarm through hickory and walnut trees, and * hip ri ,nk- gather thistledown for winter nests, (’rows and jays are more insistent a- the song sters begin to move south ward. Beetles are sluggish and wasps are a trace less trucu lent. ■ Lrost has touched t),« hills and the change sets m I la inooti shadow shows it, and the long evening light The color of autumn and the fall of leaf, the blaze that is October, will soon be with us again. Protection Against Spooks f I<uri!*n National Magazine.) One thing that many brave men re fuse to do 1? to sleep it) a house that is empty of humans and dogs. He might consent to sleep pris on ceTUTiy himself, t*sj>ecially 11 lx- is moved to do so by two burly policemen, but his punishment would be much worse if he knew no fellow criminals were in neighboring cells. Half of the comfoH. of lodging at a hotel is th** feeling that another traveler is in every other room. Even if he had to sleep the night on a bench in the park, he would get along better if there were other hoboes about, A woman may be no protection against burglars, but she is a great pro tection against spooks. Her presence may not have seemed to be much but her absence is something appalling. Men are tempted at times to say chil dren are a bother and their ratHt* arid exuberant vitality get on his nerves. But th«* goneness of them is vastly more fearsome than their presence. Alone in the house man rests all night upon tin* cliff edge of alarms. What ghostly things the wind does with the curtains. What half-heard sounds arouse him to intent listening. Morbid fancies that never get a peep into his mind during the day now come right in, sit down and make themselves at home. ~ # Likv 1 hapvt Hiii -#==ss Harvey Daniel! was serious when he asked the ether morning if I had heard about Banker Bill Thompson's operation. “No! What happened?" I asked. "He’s had his hands unci* nched." Harvey replied. 9**9 ■ Frank Umstead maintains of all the misn mers known to parents theyworst is a “SI ml r Party.** “Why. slumbers?” asks Frank. * * * * “Want to know something good for dandrutf’.”® Frank West asked Hap Perry. “N< pe.“ Hap replied. “1 got dandruff and d> n’t need anything good for it. What I need is something bad for it.” * * * 9 One of Chapel Hill’s dog lovers, who probably would tell you how much he loves his dog—if you'd listen —celebrated the last day of National lk*g Week Ua-t week very appropriately. He tied his dog to the mail box in front of the University Service Plants office on East Franklin Street and went away for more than an hour. Mean while, the dog whined and barked continuously. * * * * Mark Burnham has been in conversation with the Beil Tower on the campus, and has come up with a first person story from that tall and beautifully limit structure. He says: This business of being a stone step at the bote m of the bell tower gets mighty boring at times, but ometimes 1 have hits of fun —take a recent Saturday, for instance. In the fall excitement breaks loose around here and whole troops of folks go across me on their way into a fenced-in ‘ place a human’s throw over in the woods. If I were a little higher in the tower or were a brick, maybe I could find out what goes on over there, but close to the ground as 1 am I can only .see the top of the fence. 1 never have any warning just some Saturdays it happens, and some Saturdays it doesn’t. f\^ Around noon was when it started. Some came and sat on me in the sunshine and ate their lunches. You should have seen those mce looking women all dolled up in their best. 1 really get stuck on on*’. Her kid brother spilled jam on me and she sat in it. When her boy friend tried to brush it off he lost hi- balance and found himself in the same jam. That group left hurriedly going in the direction of Woollen Gym. People are always waiting for someone on me. One gorgeous thing waited half an hour for her blind date to show up, and when he did come all they could talk about was the beautiful be!! tower, and how fine a day it was. Funny thing about humans they don't get down to earth like us stones, but they waste a lot of talk on things we take for granite. • „ A little later a feljow came through walking very unsteadily. 1 didn’t Hunk he’d make it, and he didn't he fell flat on his face and bumjred his head on me. Poor fellow, I think he must have missed the excite ment later on because he was thoroughly stoned. 1 heard a band strike up but it was a disappoint ment. They didn’t, play any of my favorite music. My favorite is rock and roll, and goodness knows 1 don’t I gather any moss. Finally the crowd thinned out. They ail got inside t In* fence, and i haven’t heard such noise since grand ma got caught in the rock crusher. They must have l*een moving something pretty big because they kept yelling to "push ’em back—waaaay back.” When the yelling was over the whole bowlful of humans emptied my way. 1 thought I’d be stamped under. Sometimes 1 wish 1 were a gravestone and could stand up for myself. Alter dark that, night the same gorgeous little thing came back with her blind date—only they were better acquainted then. They sat down on me and it felt good because t hey were human warm. She snuggled up to him and said, “Hold me closer, this seat is stone cold.” I’d like t*. k now what makes humans act the way they do. It happens five times every fall—-the crowd comes and the crowd yells and then goes home. 14 can’t figure it out. Maybe if 1 found somebody with roeks in his head he could tell me, huh? * * * 9 w i And th** pistol’s red glare, The bullets piercing the atr Give proof through the night That Nicaragua’s still there. * * ♦ * Republicans are saying Adlai Stevenson lacks ex perience in international affairs, which, of courser would not seem to him nearly as serious as a lack of votes. * * * * Inherit some money, and you w ill be surpris* d to learn suddenly the high regard everyone has always had for you. * * * • The Republicans are bragging about the abundance of prosperity. The only trouble is that it has had a tendency to bunch. * * * * Some families can trace their ancestry back 1,000 years, but can’t tell you where their children were last night. ♦ * * * “Everything New in Women’s Fashions," says a headline. How can they improve on what’s been there all the time? HOME OF CHOICE CHARCOAL BROILED HICKORY SMOKED BTEAKB—FLAMING BHISKEBAB—BUFFET EVERY SUNDAY Friday. October 5. 19a6