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SEMI-CENTENNIAL EDITION SEMI-CENTENNIAL EDITION VOLUME XXXIV CHAPEL HILL, N. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1923 NUMBER 10 CELEBRATE SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF THE RE-OPENIf Fifty Years Since University's MANY COLLEGES SEND DELEGATES Tar Heels Vanquish the Blue Devils on Hones Field Re-opening Following Civil War -a SCORE IS 41 TO 0 TO CELEBRATION Over Ninety Institutions Repre RECONSTRUCTION POLITICS CAUSE sented in Semi-Centennial Celebration. Tom Young's 80-Yard Run in Fourth Quarter Features. UPSET DOPE A BIG SURPRISE PROGRAM OF SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION FORM SIXTH DIVISION CLOSING IN 1871 Colleges and Universities Throughout Country Join in Re-opening Exercises Here Today. Remained Closed Until 1875 MORNING PROGRAM The Academic Procession will form at the Alumni Building at 11:30 and proceed to Memorial Hall.

Today Also 130th Anniversary of Opening in 1795. Over ninety universities and colleges will have representatives here today to participate in the semi-centennial cele EXERCISES BEGIN AT 11:45 bration of the re-opening of the Univer sity in 1875. 'The delegates from the va Hold Only Two Classes Today Students will be required to meet their 8:30 and 9:30 classes this morning but are excused from further class duties after the second period, The academic procession will formin. front of Alumni Building at 11 :30 o'clock and will inarch to Memorial Hall where the exercises will be opened at 11:45. Students are urged by the President to participate in these exercises commemorating the Semi-Centennial of the re-opening of the University.

Today also marks the 130th year since the school opened in 1795. By special agreement the dinner hour in Chapel Hill has been moved to 2 P. M. This applies not only to Swain Hall but also to the various boarding houses. The morning exercises, beginning shortly before noon, will not be concluded until after the regular hour for dinner.

Hon. P. P. Claxton Will Deliver Ad dress This Morning Venable Hall to Be Dedicated in Afternoon. rious institutions will be in the sixth division of the procession this morning.

Below are listed in order of their sen Bonner, Underwood, and Young All Star While Entire Team Piles up Biggest Score Since 1922. With Rabbit" Bonner and Emmctt Underwood playing the stellar roles, Carolina won from Duke Saturday on Mantis Field in Durham 41 to 0. 1 The Tar Heels pulled a surprise party and ran up their largest score since the South Atlantic champions beat Wake Forest in 1922 by the score of 62 to 3. The Carolina cousht-s used a host of substitutes 'during the game, but still the score mounted, the second string men showing up well. Turn YYoung, halfback, played in his first varsity game and worked like a veteran.

His 80-yard run back of the kick-off in the last quarter was a feature of the game. The Carolina line held the Duke backs to seven first downs, while the Tar Heels tallied with 13 first downs. 1 First Half Underwood took the heart out of the' Beginning with the Academic proces iority the represented here sion which is to form at Alumni Build' ing at 11:30 this morning, the semi-cen-centenniar celebration of the re-opening of the University in 1875 will replace the usual simple University Day exercises President Harry Woodburn Chase, Presiding Invocation Dr. Charles E. Maddry, 1903 P.

P. Claxton, Former U. S. Comm'r of Education Music j. University Glee Club Greetings Institutions of the South President Chandler, College of William and Mary Educational Institutions of the State President Few, Duke University The National Association of State Universities President Thompson, Ohio State University The Association of American Universities President Farrand, Cornell University The Matriculates of 1875 Dr.

Baker, 1877, of Tarboro Responses The State and the Angus Wilton McLean The Students of the Barnes Fordham Dr. Charles E. Maddry and will continue throughout the day. University classes will be suspended at 10:30. Re-opened Fifty Years Ago and their representatives.

Harvard University, Dean William Hane Wannamaker, Alumnus. 1 College of William and Mary, President J. A. C. Chandler.

Yale i University, Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Alumnus. University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Hubert A. Royster, Alumnus.

'Princeton University, Professor William Starr Myers. Columbia Professor George B. Pegram. Salem College, Professor Edwin J. Heath.

Hampden-Sydney College, Professor H. B. Arbuckle, Alumnus. University of Maryland, President Al -a A half century ago the University of North was reborn out of the ruins of a devastating war -a war that emptied its classic halls, depleted the ranks of its faculty and consumed its material resources. This was fifty years Blue Devjls at the very start of the first half when he snatched up a Duke fumble and raced 40 yards for' a Tar Heel touchdown.

The fumble on the FREEDOM HERE IS ago, in 1875. first Duke play, when Morehead tackled Frank so hard that the swift-footed Duke half-back fumbled the ball. Un LIKED BY JIMISON AFTERNOON PROGRAM BUFFET LUNCHEON, CAROLINA INN, Following the Morning Exercises University of North Carolina lived through the dark days of the War be tween the States and was the only bert F. Woods. One is Able to "Figger Things derwood scooped it up on the run and skirted the Blue Devils' right end.

Southern College to observe its com University of Georgia, Acting Chan Out" in Peace. Sparrow drop-kicked the point after cellor Charles Mercer Snelling. mencement in 1865, the last and darkest year of the conflict. In that year there were three seniors and of these three, The University of Vermont, Lieuten FLAYS M. EUGENE STREET touchdown and the score proper chalked up Carolina 7, Duke 0.

EXERCISES IN DEDICATION OF VENABLE HALL At 4:00 P.M. Professor James Munsie Beil, Presiding Addresses will be made by Edgar Fahs Smith, former Provost of University of Pennsylvania; Charles Holmes' Herty, President Association of Chemical Manufacturers, and Bertram Borden Boltwood, Professor of Chemistry, Yale University. Carolina kicked off to Duke again and Can be a Baptist, Catholic, Mormon only one was graduated. or Mugwump Here. The picture of the years of tragedy and pathos through which It had Just after several punts the Tar Heels started another drive that ended across the Duke goal-line shortly before the By Tom P.

Jimison" Although the University of North Car passed are graven indelibly on the tab ant Merle H. Davis, Alumnus. Louisburg College, President A. W. Mohn.

University of South Carolina, President W. D. Melton, Dean Leonard T. Baker, Dean Irene Dillard. (Continued on page three) U.N.C.TOMEET close of the first period.

olina is "far kenned and noted" as a (Continued on page three) liberal institution, as a pioneer in social lets that rest here in Memorial Hall. Here stands the names of 300 of the University's sons who paid the final tribute of their devotion. One out of every eight if the living alumni at the outbreak of the war is on this list of progress and as a powerful advocate ELABORATE MUSIC EVENING PROGRAM DINNER AT SWAIN HALL AT 8:00 P.M. Francis D. Winston, 1879, Toastmaster There will be brief talks by ex-Presidents George T.

Winston, Edwin A. Alderman, and Francis P. Venable. Speeches will also be made by Hon. J.

S. Manning, Hon. Josephus Daniels and ex-President E. A. Birge of the University of Wisconsin.

PROGRAM PLANNED Confederate dead. The end of the war found the Univer STATE THURSDAY Sixth Annual Game Since Resumption of Athletics. STUDENTS GET HOLIDAY Concert by U. S. Naval Acad sity's endowment wiped out, students of intellectual freedom, yet one has to Come in personal contact with It, has to personally observe its work and breathe the atmosphere of its campus to really appreciate what it is doing.

A brief sojourn here will convince any one that Carolina is the greatest liberalizing influence in the state. And one no longer 'wonders that Carolina men are (Continued on page eight) few in number, important faculty chairs emy Band on October 22. vacant. The Institution was clearly on THREE ENTERTAINMENTS the brink of ruin. In 1867 came the MacMillan and Saundelius to Appear Continued on page tight) FRESHMEN WILL ORDER OF ACADEMIC PROCESSION Prof.

Andrew H. Patterson, Grand Marshal First Division University Student Body-: O. G. Thomas, Marshal Second Division University Alumni (except Class of 1875) R. E.

Little, 1915, Marshal Third Division University Faculty Prof. James F. Royster, Marshal Fourth Division Later in Fall An elaborate program of concerts has ACT AS GUIDES been planned by the University music department for the coming year. PATTERSON TALKS ON RELIGION AND SCIENCE Final Lecture of Series of Three Delivered Last Night at Chapel of the Cross. at Various Points to At present, the schedule of outside Prof.

James M. Bell, Marshal University Trustees features numbers several concerts which Student Body Will Move to Raleigh i for Fair: Week Game. The North Carolina Tar Heels and N. State Wolfpack will meet on Rid-dick Field in Raleigli Thursday, October 15, in their sixth annual game since the resumption of athletic relations between the two State institutions in 1919. The 1919 "contest was the first after a lapse of gridiron relations of fourteen years.

Reserved seat tickets to the Carolina student section can be secured at the Graduate Manager's office from 2 o'clock today until 5 P.M. Wednesday, October are without superior in their respective Give Information to Visitors. THIRTEEN MEN CHOSEN fields. Four nationally and internation ally known attractions will visit the HiU this fall. The first a concert by the Wear University Emblems for Wil Fifth Division Supreme Court and State Officials Prof.

A. Mcintosh, Marshal Sixth Division Delegates of Universities and Colleges in order of the seniority of their organisations Prof. D. D. Carroll, Marshal Seventh Division THE MATRICULATES OF 1875 Professor Nathan Wilson Walker, Marshal Purpose of Identification.

United States Naval Academy Band on Dean A. H. Patterson, of the School of Applied Science, last night in the Chapel oh-The Cross delivered the final lecture, "The Present Situation, of his series of three lectures, "Religion and October 22, is a drawing curd of unusual Thirteen members of the freshman Science." class have been selected to act as guides and give general information to the visitors who will come to the University John Moore Manning 14. The price of the ticket Is $2.00, but Ernest Patrick Maynard In the first lecture Dr. Patterson told his audience how.

in the old Asiatic and the coupon In the athletic membership George McCorkle today to attend the Jubilee. The selected men will be stationed in buildings and book will be accepted for one-half this amount, if presented by the owner for a Oriental countrie's religion and science seat to be used at the game, by him. Of the six contests since the war, the had practically been synonyms. The priest had also been the astronomers and the teachers. Dean Patterson's second lecture gave his listeners an inkling into other places where large crowds gather and will have charge of information bureaus.

They will have maps to give Visitors which will enable them to find Arthur Arrington Julian Meredith Baker Frederick Proby Barrow George William Britt Aaron William Elijah Capel Lunsford Claiborne Clifton Robert Henry Davis Richard Dillard Malachi Russell Griffin Richard Bullock Henderson Edward Hill William Lanier Hill Clifton Wheat Hunter Fernando Godfrey James Henry Lloyd James Smith Manning (Continued on page two) Neill McKay, Jr. Rufus Grant Merritt Romulus Bragg Parker John Henry Sherrod Henry Turner Spears Alva Connell Springs David Chandler Stainback Edwin Douglas Steele Henry William Stubbj Oscar Gard Thompson Francis Donnell Winston Robert Watson Winston significance. The next, an entertainment on December by the Chcrniavsky trio with cello, violin and piano, will mark the appearunce of three internationally acclaimed artists. The student body and people of the state will enjoy a great privilege in hearing three master musicians who are recognized Individual as leaders of their classes in the world. The third concert will be given by Francis MacMillfan, recognised as the greatest violinist of The date for this feature in January '25.

The last attraction is the reappearance of Marie Sundelius, who was here last summer a year ago. The reception acorded this great soprano then was unprecedented. Her return to the Hill will afford tlie student body and- people of the State an opportunity of hearing one of the' any desired building, or place on or NEW MASCOTS ARE OFFERED STUDENTS the rising conflict between religion and science. After the first great scriptures and philosophical studies had been written by the Israelites, theology com around the campus, and will be able to answer questions relating to the history of the University and its large plant, Eddie Brietz, sports editor of the Charlotte Obterver, Wired the University menced to rely chiefly the written worki science, on the other hand, relied and give other general information, Some of the men will act as guides. The chosen representatives are iden News Bureau yesterday that the Ob mainly on research, experimentation, and the testing of theories.

Eighth Division THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE MORNING PROGRAM Professor Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton, Marshal server would be glad to present to the student body a registerd South Down ram for a He said the ram was tified by the University emblems they will wear. Dean Bradshaw's office in Alumni building will be information hoadouarters. J. A. Williams will be In the concluding lecture, with no mincing of words, the real present day ready to be shipped as soon as instrue tlons were received.

situation was presented and discussed. The stand of several classes of religious greatest singers in the vast realm of vocal art. Miss Sundelius, with her chief of the selected men. The thirteen assistants are as follows! thinkers literalist, conservatives, mod The members of the junior class let it be known at their smoker recently that they would sponsor a movement- to MRS. CHASE GIVES TEA J.

O. Marshall, S. A. Johnson, charming stage personality, is a prima donna of the Metropolitan Grand Opera In her many leading roles. secure another mascot for the student ernist, and ultra-modernist was explained in detail.

The speaker made a sincere plea for tolerance and abeyance of judgment until a thorough study of HONORING DELEGATES Mrs. H. W. Chase gave a tea in her body as a successor to Rameses III, who she has attracted universal comment and praise. The date for this concert Is home yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock in February honor of Edwin A.

Alderman, President of the University of Virginia and former modern problems was made by both the unpredjudiced theologians and scientists. Winding up his speeches he expressed Season tickets for this year will go CAMERON AVENUE NOW READY FOR TRAFFIC Cameron 1 Avenue, which has just undergone a heavy dressing of concrete, is now open to traffic, minus, the top dressing of asphalt. It is the plans of the contractors, Zeigler to begin asphalting the Avenue tomorrow. If warm weather prevails, the work will require only a short time, since the asphalt can be laid without heating if the weather is warm enough. The asphalt can be used for traffic within two hours after it has' been rolled by the packer.

President of the University of North died last summer, and R. M. Hardee was, appointed chairman of a committee which was to try to get ram or a billy goat, to be accepted by the junior class for the student body as a gift or at par value. It has been learned that a ram has been offered by Dan Burns, of Ashe- on sale next week. Reservations for these tickets will be received by Mr.

Lcarolina, and other noted visitors who the hope that North Carolina would not make an inane joke of Itself as did arrived early for the celebration. P. M. Berstein, L. Dalton, H.

L. Merrltt, M. II. Crocker, G. A.

Witten, Albert Jones, D. M. Mcintosh, C. E. Waddell, F.

K. Myers, P. C. O'Neill, and A. J.

Olmsted. SOUTHERN WILL RUN SPECIAL FOR FAIR GAME The Southern Railway System will run a special train to the State Fair game in Raleigh, Thursday morning. The Special will leave from the Pitts-boro Street Crossing at 8 a. and will leave Raleigh that night at midnight. The round-trip ticket is one dollar and a half.

her sister state, Tennessee, in the recent Weaver at his office or residence next Friday and Saturday. The music department has formulated plans by which Among guests present werei P. farcial proceedings there. Dean Patterson's lectures proved so these season tickets will be sold most boro, law student here last year. P.

Claxton, Superintendent oi ocnoois, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and former United States of Education; E. It is felt that either the Obierver't reasonably. Reserved seats for the en interesting that he has been asked to re peat them at the' Men's Bible Class of the Christian Church. Birge, former President of the Uni tire year will cost only $4.00 a reduction of twenty per cent from the usual price. General admission tickets for the versity of Wisconsin? Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University! The next series of lectures at the Miss Harriotte Taylor of Morganton waS( in Chapel Hill for the Toy wedding this week.

or Burns' offer will be gratefully accepted and that a representative of the student body will be dispatched the first of the week to escort Rameses IV to Chapel Hill In time to have him on hand for the game with State College Thurs season will cost a reduction of Chapel of the Cross will be given by Dr. W. deB. MacNider. The title of the second series of lectures will be "Religion and Medicine." ten per cent on the original sale price.

Charges for single reserved seats will be W. D. Melton, President or tne university of South Carolina! and B. V. Bolt-wood, head of the Department of Chemistry of Yale University.

Miss Lucy Lay and Miss Irma Green were here this week as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green. Rev. Theodore Patrick of Plymouth spent Sunday In Chapel Hill.

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