This-from archaeology
(Editorial in The News and Observer)
, Young Walter Dellinger, chairman of the Men’s Honor Coun
cil at Chapel Hill, really stirred up the snakes or aroused the
angels when he said that the archeology courses of Dr. J. P. Har-_
land appealed to “‘the lowest element in the university.” Evident
ly what Dellinger, meant was that the courses attracted those who
were seeking good marks in easy courses without very much work.
The young man’s remarks, made in connection with some dis
closure of cheating in the professor's classes, however,' . have
brought a roar of protest. Former Chancellor Robert B. House
not only defended as excellent Dr. Harland’s course in the arch
eology of the Bible. Also he lit into Dellinger as "a very unin
formed young man." Joining Dr. House in the defense and adding
beauty to debate was Mrs. Kay Kyser, the former “gorgeous
Georgia Carroll” and Zeigfield Follies star.
Whatever the facts may be the argument is good. It does
seem a little odd that the cheating should have been disclosed in
courses said to be easy rather than some known to be hard. Al
so the debate emphasizes the fact that easy courses may some
time be the most valuable ones. The writer of this editorial long
ago took Rural Economics because Dr. Samuel Huntington (“Hon
ey”) Hobbs Jr. was noted for his charity in grading. But across
the years that course has remained for him one of the most val
uable he took at Carolina. * * . ’
The tough professor is by no means always the best teacher.
His grudging grades may indicate stodginess not standards, and
a kind of academic sadism rather than a desire to share the rich,
good world of learning. Sometimes courses are “easy” because
the teacher is interesting. That should be no crime.
After more than 35 years of contented classes at Chapel Hill
this argument, will not hurt Dr. Harland. He does not need the
clamor of “defense. Certainly it is not necessary to violently chas
tise young Dellinger for his youth in order to protect the vener
able professor. It is good sometimes to get out of archeology in
to lively argument and, right or wrong, young certainly, misin
formed maybe, Walter Dellinger has accomplished that for Chap
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College tests
to be offered
by draft board
Applications for .the Selective
Service College Qualification
Test to be given on April 18 are
'* now .available to college students
at the Selective Service local
boards throughout North Caro
lina, according to C. O. Reitzel,
Chairman of the Orange Coun
ty Local Board.
The test will be given at more
than 500 colleges in all 50
states, Puerto Rico, and the Ca
nal Zone. In Orange County the
test will be offered at Chapel
Hill, University of North Caro
lina. " ‘ ~
Scores made on the test will
provide local boards with evi
dence of aptitude for continued
undergraduate and graduate
study. The scores will not of
themselves determine- eligibility
for deferment, but are consider
ed with other information by
the boards in determining whe
ther to defer individual regis
trants for further study.
Applications for the test must
be postmarked no later than
midnight, Thursday, March 28.
Eligible students may also ob
tain information about the test
from any local board.
MRS. WILLIAMS BETTER
Mrs. W. E. Williams of Carr
boro underwent major surgery
at Memorial Hospital last Mon
day rooming and is now able to
have visitors. She is feeling bet
ter and hopes to be home by
next weekend.
ADDRESS MITCHELL
SOCIETY
Dr. Erie Peacock, Jr., Asso
ciate Professor of Surgery, and
Dr. Edward Barry, Association
Professor of Botany, will, ad
dress the Elisha Mitchell Scien
tific Society next Tuesday, Feb.
12, at 7:30 p, m. ip Room 265
Phillips Hall, on the University
campus.
'Surprised to see Chapel Hill behind Bogota, Chile . . .
Fluoridation held as nutritive
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as iodized salt/niacin in bread
The enriching of water sup
plies with fluoride to prevent
tooth decay is just as sound and
important a nutritive process as
the enriching of bread with Nia
cin or the enriching of salt with
iodine, a Harvard nutrition ex
pert told an audience at the Uni
versity School of Public Health
here last week.
Dr. Frederick J. Stare, profes
sor and chairman, Department of
Nutrition, Harvard University
School of Public Health, said
that “fluoride is recognized as
an essential mineral nutrient—
needed for the development of
tough tooth enamei to fight de
cay.” Used in suburban commu
nities, it has reduced tooth de
cay among children by as much
as 60 per cent and it continues
to act beneficially through
adulthood, he said.
Describing a program in Latin
America with which he is asso
ciated and noting that Chapel
Hill was still in the middle of
a fight about fluoridation, he
said “I am surprised to see that
Chapel Hill is behind Bogota,
Chile,” where fluoride was re
cently introduced into the public
water suply.
Dr. Stare said that four-fifths
of the world suffer from some
sort of malnutrition, either as a
result of the over-indulgence
practiced in “over-developed”
countries like our own, or as a
result of basic deficiencies in
diet in the under-developed
areas of the world. “This has to
be the concern of all of us,” he
said. “The evidence before us of
sudden death, as from heart dis
ease in our own over-developed
land, and slow death, as from
protein lack in those that are
under-developed, should show us
that the relations between nu
trition and health present acute
problms.”
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