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GERMAN MOVING PICTURE 9:15 P.M. CAROLINA THEATRE vf CHRISTMAS CAROL READING 8:30 P.M. MEMORIAL HALL VOLUME XLI CHAPEL HILL, N. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1932 NUMBER 65 jtf Theatre Will Present Professor Frederick Koch Recalls Occasions Of Reading Dickens' Carol o- Friendship Council To Hear Bradshaw Dean F. F.

Bradshaw will be the principal speaker tomorrow night at a social meeting of the freshman friendship council. The meeting will take place at 7:00 o'clock in Graham Me- FRATERNITY MEN-HAVE CONVENTION AND DANCE HERE Xocal Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi Entertains Nearly 200 Visiting Delegates Yesterday. Starting in North Dakota Professor Koch Has Read "Christmas NOMINATIONS OF OFFICERS MADE BYALMNIBODY Balloting Will Close and New Officers Will Be Announced January 1. Carol" in All Sections of Country Under Varying Conditions; This Is Fifteenth Time in Chapel Hill. ters of the gymnasium and children sat on the floor in front of the platform where he was.

"One time," said Professor Koch, When I looked out into the big darkened room at the close of mi 4-1 TT-1 mc tcx iC vu iu xvxai uyr trio, composed by Wolf or Hum-ghost, I was startled by a row Phrey. Claude Freeman, and Bill of eager childish faces staring at me over the edge of the reading lWln be served during the pro-table." I ornm Traveled Through Snow One more than one occasion Professor Koch was bound in by blizzards and had to drive many miles by sleigh in order to fill an engagement. Once he drove thirty miles in a sleigh to a little town on the main railroad line where he hoped to be able to get a train. He found, when he arrived, that the passenger trains were still tied up. He told his plight to the engineer of a freisrht.

that he had an engagement to readrfular meeting of the forensic Q-nA -h wv, group Monday night, at 9:00 Nearly 200 members of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity convened here yesterday for an annual conclave of eleven chapters in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Business sessions -were conducted at the home of the local chapter yesterday afternoon. Following a banquet last night, the visiting frater-mity men were entertained with a dance at the Carolina Inn. National Head Speaks National head of the organization, Dr. A.

Pelzner Wagner, of William and Mary College, was present to deliver the principal address to the visitors. Dudley DeWitt Carroll, dean of the school of commerce here, ad dressed the convention and scholarship keys to five leading scholars in the eleven chapters represented. John D. Carroll, of Lexington, who is past president of the national fraternity, was among the delegates. Other activities yester day afternoon covered group dis Hussions "of fraternity problems.

The convention took place on the anniversary of the founding of the fraternity. Jack Poole, member of the local lodge, commemorated the founders with an address. Charlie Boulanger and his orchestra, who played for the fall German club dances here, supplied the music for the ball. Sponsors for the ball, with their escorts, were Miss Dorothy Dillon of Raleigh with Graham McLeod of Raleigh, Miss Elizabeth Whitehead of Wilmington ivith Jack Poole of Raleigh, Miss Mary Kinser of Tampa, with Donoh Hanks of New Bern, Miss Page Howard of Greens boro with O. W.

Kochtitzky of, Mount Airy, Miss Charlotte Winborne of Marion with Alfred Williams of Warrenton, and Martha Johnston of Charlotte with Thomas Spencer of jmorial. All members are urged to be present. Among other attractive features of the nroeram will be the rendition of several musical se- lections by the crack Y. M. C.

A. Allsbrook. Light refreshments REHEARSALS TO TAKE PLACE FOR FORENSIC BAHLE Group Will Meet Monday Night; Debate Scheduled Thursday Evening on Nationalism. Preliminary rehearsals for the 'debate with the University of Dublin will be conducted at the o'clock, in 214 Graham Me- morial. John Wilkinson, who participated in the Oxford debate his first year here, and A.

S- Kaplan represent the University, and will present their arguments at the meeting Monday night. has met the University of Dublin. Among the foreign debates of recent years the local debaters have met the forensic squads of Oxford and Cambridge. Debating started in the' University in 1892, and was conducted only in the south. Grad- Ualy.

5t greT wmcn was to iveniucKy. niacn year now the University makes three trips, one in the south, one to the north and one to the west. The debate with Dublin will be conducted Thursday evening, December 15. The subject is "Resolved That Nationalism is Many Educational Headed By audience disappointed. The engineer said, "Are you the fellow that reads the Christmas Carol every Christmas? Well, I've heard you myself and I'll get you there in time." So Koch rattled away in the caboose of the freight to the town where an ex- pectant audience awaited him.

I ine aeDaTe council oi tne um-On another occasion he rode in versity conducts one foreign dean hand-car to keep from break-! bate each year. This will be the ins-an eneaffement to read this' firs time that the University German Movie Tonight Die Reine Wahrheit, a Ger man movie, will be shown at the Carolina theatre at 9 15 o'clock tonight. Dr. Spann of the Ger man department will give ex planations in English throughout the picture, to aid those who are unfamiliar with German. The interest in foreign movies which is rapidly growing throughout the United States is also evident here.

The co-operation of the local theatre with the University's foreign language departments make it possiWe for these pictures to be shown in Chapel Hill. CUNNINGHAM AND McBRYDE WIN IN RHODES CONTEST Davidson and Duke Place Men in Competition for Rhodes Scholarship to Represent State. Duncan D. McBryde of Davidson College and Merrimon Cun ningham of Duke University were selected yesterday by the North Carolina committee of selection as the state candidates for the Rhodes Scholarships. McBryde and Cunningham will appear next week in Atlanta in competition with candidates from Virginia, South Carolina, Geor gia, Florida, and Tennessee before a district committee for the final selection.

The North Carolina candidates for the awards were R. Mayne Albright, Robert W. Barnett, Charles G. Rose, and Beverly R. Thurman, all of the University; Edward O.

Guerrant, Duncan Daniel McBryde, and Le-land McKeithan, of Davidson; Charles K. Bradshaw and Merrimon Cunningham, of Duke; David H. Parsons and Samuel Smith, of Guilford; Everett Couch, of N. C. State, and J.

F. Mathews, of Wake Forest. These scholarships, which are some of the most valuable such awards offered American scholars, are awarded on a basis of character, scholarship, leadership, and athletic participation. (Continued on last page) should be allowed to pursue only graduate courses. Four young ladies registered.

Miss Sallie Stockard, Miss Dixie Lee Bryant, Miss Gayce Dodd, and Miss Mary McRae arrived upon the campus, but, as one old timer puts it, were disdained "with lofty superiority." From the first their presence was re: sented by the male members of the student body, but the young ladies, as the Tar Heel admitted, "assumed a high standing in their classes." In October their forces were augmented by the arrival of a Miss Watkins from Virginia. The women lost no time in en tering the activities of the school. Miss McRae, who later became the wife of Robert Grey, prominent Raleigh newspaper editor applied for a position on the Tar Heel Within a 'few weeKs vacancy occurred andvshe was elected literary editor. Miss McRae capably filled the office until the end of the year, surviv-(Continued on last page) "Everybody ought to read Dickens' Christmas Carol every year oelore Uhristmas com mented Frederick H. Koch, then a young instructor at the state University of North Dakota, to a group of his friends gathered at supper in the university com mons a few days before the holi days.

The dean of women, one of the party, spoke up: "Well if you feel that way about it, you ought to read it for us." Thus, on the Sunday before Christmas, twenty-five years ago, Koch gave his first public reading of Dickens' immortal ghost story. To Read Here Tonight Tonight, at 8:30 o'clock in Memorial hall Professor Koch, now famous for his interpretation of A Christmas Carol will read it for the fifteenth time in Chapel Hill. He has read it in various other sections of the country, from Dakota to New England and throughout the south, in tiny villages and in New York City, in churches, schools and opera houses. Always people crowded to hear him read this famous Christmas story. Professor Koch recalls that in the North Da kota town when he read it for the third time special street cars were run to handle the throngs who wanted to attend the reading students hung over the raf LEADING CITIZENS PRAISE WORK OF STATE INSTITUTE Ehringhaus and Battle Commend Institute of Government; New Officers Inducted.

Public installations of officers last week were in order for over four-fifths of the state's 100 counties, according to reports received here recently by Profes sor Albert Coates, director of the Institute of Government, which sponsored the occasion. This movement has gained considerable favorable comment from political leaders all over the state. This was the initial time in the history of the great state of North Carolina that public installation of officers had ever been conducted in the presence of the people that elected them. Ceremonies took place at various places at different times; and apart from the radio audiences, it has. been estimated that between 35,000 and 40,000 taxpayers and citizens witnessed the presentation of incoming county officers.

Both Parties "Republicans and Democrats joined together without regard to part affiliations and in a number of counties outgoing officers participated in the ceremony of presenting incoming officers. High school and college classes in government were in attendance in many places," said Professor Coates. Two of the University's most prominent alumni, Governor-elect John C. B. Ehringhaus and Kemp D.

Battle, president of the North Carolina Bar Association, have expressed their hearty approval of the work of the Insti-(Continued on last page) Officers for the General Alumni Association of the University were nominated at the Alumni Assembly taking place Friday evening in the Graham Memorial. The ticket named included two candidates for each of the principal officers, and will be submitted to the alumni mem bers by mail ballot at once. The ballotting will close and officers for 1933 will be announced January 1. Named to make the race for president were Agnew H. Bahn-son, of Winston-Salem, and Judge John J.

Parker, of Charlotte. Carter Dalton, of High Point, and Dr. H. B. Haywood, of Ra-" leigh, were nominated for the first vice-presidency, while Leo Carr, of Burlington, and Ray Armstrong, of Goldsboro, were selected as nominees for the office of second vice-president.

Roberson on Council Dr. Foy of Durham, was the only nominee for the expiring position of alumni representative on the University Athletic Council. He will, therefore, be declared selected. Two directors-at-large were elected by the alumni, these be ing John G. Proctor, of Lumber-ton, and Stahle Linn, of Salisbury.

They defeated Ben F. Aycock, of Fremont, and James S. Ficklen, of Greenville. The nominations were made by a committee composed of Luther Hodges, of Spray, chairman Henry M. London, of Raleigh, and Francis O.

Clarkson. Directors of the association to represent districts were elected at the meeting of the alumni board Friday afternoon. These were R. A. Spaugh, of Winston-Salem, and Thomas Turner, of High Point, who were reelected and Ralph C.

Maultsby, of Greenville, S. and John H. McMullan, of Edenton. Institutions University Alumni -0- I. Foust, '90, executive of the North Carolina College for Women since 1907, and recently delegated vice-president of that.

school. Dr. Foust succeeded the late Dr. Charles D. Mclver, '81, the founder of the college.

As might be expected the majority of the alumni who nave become college presidents have assumed charge of North Carolina institutions. Nevertheless, besides President Graham, the only, other University man who heads one of the Big. Five schools is Thurman D. Kitchen of Wake Forest College who attended the University medical school for a year. The coalition effected to form the Greater University of North Carolina seems to have been favorably regarded in educational circles.

At present, in imitation of this alliance, it is projected to merge the Greensboro College for Wpmen and Davenport College, at Lenoir another woman's institution. These (Continued on last page) First Women Students Scorned By Resentful And Jealous Men Present Relations Between Carolina Men and Co-eds Very Different From Animosities Aroused by Entrance of Four Women In 1897; Co-eds Soon Entered Activities. o- University, Women's College, East Carolina Teachers College, Appalachian State Teachers College, and Wake Forest in This State Are Headed by Carolina Graduates. fascinating ghost story. GROUP TO CONFER WITH FACULTY ON VICE-PRESIDENCY Five Prominent Trustees Will Gather Tomorrow to Make Recommendations.

Five prominent North Caror linians will gather here in the President's office tomorrow morn- ing for the purpose of considering faculty opinion on the selection of a successor of President Frank Porter Graham as head of the University here. This committee, established by the board of trustees at their meeting in November and appointed by Governor O. Max Gardner, is composed of Hon. Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, John Sprunt Hill of Durham, A. W.

McLean of Lumberton, A. M. Dixon of Gastonia, and Judge John J. Parker of Charlotte. The group will1 confer with faculty members and receive their opinions on a successor for President Graham.

Nominations Made To aid the work of the group, it was suggested that faculty members turn in written nominations for the position to R. B. House, executive secretary of the University. A number of these nominations have been received and are expected to reduce the work of the body sub stantially. The committee, after the con- sideration here, will make rec ommendations to the board of trustees, and this group will then select the third vice-president of In addition to lawyers, merchants, chiefs, and the remainder of the familiar rhyme, the University has long been active in producing college presidents.

The large number of alumni who now occupy executive positions! various educational institutions amply testifies to this school's worth as a training ground for future educational leaders. Not a few of these figures have lately been brought to the public attention by their frequent appearance in the daily press in connection with the consolidation of the higher" educa- tional system of the state. Chief iof these is naturally, President Frank P. Graham, '09, for the past two years head of the Uni- versity. As a result of his ap- Under President Graham in his new role will be Dr.

Julius The presence of some chic bit of collegiate femininity strolling across the campus domain of the Carolina man no longer brings a quickening of his heart or a palpable feeling of resentment. Co-eds, brightly garbed and occasionally beautiful, have brazenly dared to enter an institution which for over one hundred years was dedicated exclusively to the education of males. Today the women students find themselves mingling with the opposite sex in a relationship that varies from complete indifference upon the part of the men to a situation of apparent equality. However the present co-ed ttay bewail her present rating, is in no wise as severe and Prejudiced as that which the pioneer women students at suffered. Co-eds were admitted to the University for the first time in the fall of 1897.

On February 21 of that year the trustees of the institution ruled that women ere to be enrolled, but that they the Greater University. The pointment to the presidency of board has already picked Dr. E. the greater University, it is pps-C. Brooks for the vice-presidency sible that another alumnus may in charge of State College and called to succeed him at Dr.

J. I. Foust in the same ca-j Chapel Hill. parity at the Woman's College! at Greensboro..