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The Daily Tar Heel from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • Page 4

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Page Four Saturday, February 26, iy THE TAR HEEL GOING GREAT! Carolina Opens Tourney With Easy Victory (Continued from page one) ably be selected are Moss, Van derbilt; Langen, Georgia Tech; Faber, Maryland; and Howell, Auburn. The North Carolina team, al ways a favorite with Atlanta sport lovers, was pitted against what was apparently supposed to be one of the strongest teams in the meet. They, had already defeated Vanderbilt and Auburn this season, both teams of prov i A I it 7 I i 1 0 0 ever possible, and the grounds will be beautified by woodland walkways leading to the entrance. tXr- Parking space fo cars will provided on the' adjacent Intramural and Freshman athletic fields. They will be far enough from the stadium itself to eliminate the noise and confusion, usual to a congested traffic afeaj and will prevent mutilation', of the grounds immediately surrounding the stadium.

Before the playing field of the new Kenan Stadium receives its final surface of top soil, for the planting of grass, an elaborate underground wiring system is to be installed, Some of the conduits that run under the turf will contain wires for the "flood lighting" necessary to night spectacles. This is in anticipation of the time when the great enclosure may be used for pageants or other entertainments. Visitors to New York who have seen performances in the Lewisohn Stadium, at the City will appre Tennessee en strength. Lineup and summary Carolina R. Hackney (4) R.

F. Vanstory (12) L. F. Baggett (4) C. it Cooley (3) McLean Butcher (9) Rice (3) Schultx (1) B.

Hackney (4) K.G. The are contributing a great deal to the improvement of the quality of music that is being offered Morris (6) All of the ten members are students at the University, and several are earning their college expenses by means- of their musical ability. The L. G. Substitutions: Satterfield for E.

Hackney; Price for Vanstory; Pur members are Kenneth Scott," Wil have become nationally known. The Carolina Club will be remembered as the orchestra that toured England in the summer of 1924, gaining so much favor with the Prince of Wales. The Buccaneers have had several offers for tours of this country and Europe this summer. They present a ten piece group, composed of a violin, three saxa-phones, two trumpets, a banjo, a bass, violin and director; Harold ser (z) for Jtsaggett. Tennessee: Moore for Cooley; Beam (1) for McLean; Moore for Butcher.

Referee, Sulton. Umpire Menton; Little, Hickory, N. John Brandt, Asheville, N. and Jimmie Lyerly, Danville, Va Saxaphones; Alex Men- at dances both on and off the Hill. They played last night for the Engineer's dance and will also play tonight for the Zeta Beta Tau installation ball.

Last week-end they played continuously from six-thirty p. Mi. till midnight, furnishing music for the twilight pledge dance and the Grail dance. The Buccaneers are less than a year old, but their reputation is already made, and they bid fair to follow the steps of the Carolina Club and Hal Kemp's band, student orchestras that New Kenan Memorial Site denhall, Greensboro, N. banjo Karl Moseley, Lorrain, Ohio, drums Zack Williams, Oxford, N.

bass in Furor of Activity Now and drums. It is directed by Ken ciate the opportunity that such a place offers for the develop ment of outdoor drama on a big scale. No definite plans for such spectacles have yet been made, but the designers of the stadium Hasford White, Nashville, and Carr Purser got off to a slow start this year but struck his stride a few weeks ago and is now rated as one of the best centers in' the state. It's going to be mighty hard for him to live up to the basketball record set by his brother Johnny, but if he keeps up to present indications well, just watch him. Harry Mechem, North Wilke'sboro, N.

(Continued from page one) neth Scott, University senior from Wilmington, N. and is under the management of Mickey Block of Greensboro, N. C. trumpets; and "Bo" White, Nash by layer by heavy in order to insure a safe foundation ville, piano. are providing for future contingencies.

It is 'relatively simple to lay the conduits now; it would be difficult and expensive to germans. The completion of Bynum and ample time will be allowed for the fills to settle. I Terpischore Reigned Unsteadily From Close of War Till the 90's Playmaker Reading For Sunday Night The completed stadium will through the generosity of Wil Gymnasium in 1904 removed all difficulties for a place to dance and the development of a more charitable at Will Be By Holmes tear up the field to lay them later on. be composed of two giant sections, each more than 500 feet (Continued from page me) liam Rand Kenan, prominent chemical electrical engineer, of titude toward the gentle ballroom art Tomorrow night at 8 :30 o' had long ago made a dead letter of ong on opposite sides of the the 1886 rule against dancing on the clock in the Playmaker The are to believe the newspapers of the day, "the ladies were never more beautiful, nor the gentlemen more gallant," -were the rage of the "gay campus. atre Professor Urban T.

Holmes will read Rostand's Cyrano de field. There will be 41 tiers of seats in each stand, providing comfortably for 25,000 spectators. Nature, in its rustic The Junior Prom, inaugurated in 1908 by the class of 1909 with Frank Graham as its president, was an event by virtue of the fact that it was the nineties. The Gay Nineties The German, with its iron-clad eti Bergerac as the third Playmaker reading of the year. The electrical installation includes wires for telephones, telegraph instruments, and lighting.

Some of the telephone wires will connect the press box, at the top of one of the concrete stands, with the players' benches and with field telephones along the sidelines. All of this was made possible New York, an alumnus of the University of the class of 1884. The total cost of construction will approximate $275,000, the amount of the gift from the New York magnate. The gift was made as a memorial to the late Mary Hargrave and William Rand Kenan, mother and father of the donor. beauty, is to be" encouraged on Professor Holmes will be re first dance on the campus in many decades not under control of the Ger quette has long since taken its place in the revered category with bustles, all sides.

The upper tiers of the huge semi-bowl will be fringed man Club or the Junior Orders. Since balloon sleeves, turkish corners, step that time the dancing program has proceeded on the campus in a man eoptican Triews, albums, red plush parlor 'furniture, two-seated by pines and oaks. Groves of trees will be left standing where- membered for his direction and acting in the French play Le Imaginaire Invalid given by members of the Romance department last year and by his splendid portrayal of the leader bicycles, bamboo portieres, and all ner very similar to that in existence today with dances at Thanksgiving, ill else characteristic of an era which is no more, however, a description of the dance for the edification of "we moderns" will not be amiss here. The couples evenly divided, lined up Easter, and Commencement. The Turkey Trot The early teens of the present cen of a band of vagabond players A thousand Years Ago, Percy MacKaye's play which was the first Playmaker production this tury with their hobble skirts and "merry widow" hats began to see the each side of the room and when the development of such outrageous inno leader blew his whistle one side would dance.

At the "break" each man would relinquish his partner, year. vations in dancing as the Turkey Trot, the naughty One-Step, the Bunny Hug, and the Boston Dip, which sur FROSH DEBATERS rush to the couples on the other side and choose a girl A novel feature of the proceedure was that the girls might choose their partner from the The Advertisers viving a turbulent period of shocked indignation from self-righteous censors were the valiant forerunners of TO HOLD SMOKER the immortal Fox Trot, to say noth ing of the Charleston, of glorious memory. Election of Officers Will Feature The most significant and epoch Good Will Meeting Wednesday Evening. making event in the history of dances at the University came in 1920 when the Order of the Grail instituted its policy of giving numerous dances At the regular weekly meet ing of the Freshman Debating during the year open to all students. The Grail thereby brought dancing, which for years had been under the authority of the German Club, into Club held Thursday night at the Y.

M. C. A. it was decided to stags herded at the end of the room. All the couples then lined up and were led through the most intricate and elaborate marching figures.

Every third dance was known as the "stag break" when all the young men dancing left the floor and each of the stags came forward to choose a lady for his partner. It was an unforgivable faux pas to break at the last waltz and a fight usually followed any such attempt. The Richmond band, which for over twenty years served in the double role of brass band in the day and orchestra at night, struck up "Home Sweet Home" as the first rays of sunlight appeared through the trees. Late dates were scheduled at sunrise and often comprised a walk to Piney Prospect. The dance on the first night started at about eleven o'clock following the Junior Order hold the quarterly election of officers at a smoker next Wednes the life of each student who cared to partake of its delights.

day night in Gerrard Hall. The story of dancing at the Uni An invitation to attend is ex versity since its foundation has been a glorious one, rich in romantic tradition of past times, illuminating in its revelation of the follies and foibles of another time. Dancing started in the dining room of an old house on 'the site of Garr Building, in the TAR HEEL have made possible the low subscription price that you students of Carolina pay for the TAR HEEL. 'v Without the advertisers' support, the TAR HEEL would be forced to ask twice the subscription rate it now gets from the students. Remember this in the future and give your patronage and support only to those advertisers who support you through the TAR HEEL.

tended to all members of the Freshman class. A campaign to increase the membership of the organization was proposed, and will be discussed at the next meeting. Excellent opportunities' are thence pursued a varied course into diverse accpmmodations, and back again to its original site near the Gymnasium. It may not be a distant day when the Tin Can will become dedicated to Terpsichore. "The old order changeth." offered to all first-year men who wish to learn more of the forensic art, to engage in debates and open forum discussions.

The weekly meetings last approxi mately an hour, and are held in the club rooms on the upper floor of the Y. M. C. A. It has been suggested, however, that the rooms were too small, and a committee has been appointed by the President to look for a new and larger meeting place.

banquets and lasted only until three. This was a period when the desire for dances greatly exceeded the facilities for them. The building used at Commencement was rented to the University as a Commons and it was only at great intervals that the tables were removed, and the linoleum rolled back to make way for a dance. "The reason for the structure of the present Zeta Psi house," says Dr. C.

S. Mangum, "was the fact that the boys were more interested in having A place to dance than a place to live and therefore built a house around a ballroom causing the remainder of the house to be out-of-proportion and Gym Solves Problem The society of the early twentieth century followed the fashion of the nineties with little variation. Germans were still in vogue, couples rode about in phaetons and Victoria carriages, girls were burdened with the title "miss" on all occasions, dresses with "mutton leg" sleeves maintained a phenomenal contraction At the waist and skirts, copiously re-enforced, by lace petticoats, swept dangerously near the floor. Gentlemen, unacquainted with the tuxedo; borrowed long-tailed evening suits, parted their hair in the middle and brushed it neatly down on each side of the face. As in the preceding decade, there vere the fall and spring The smoker next Wednesday night will be held at eight-thirty.

The seventh annual convention Zeta Beta Tau Its Formal Bow to Campus (Continued from page one) stall here, was founded in 1898 at the Jewish Theological Seminary at Cincinati, Ohio. The fraternity at present has nearly forty chapters in all sections of the country. The successful petitioner, Zeta Epsilon, was established here during; the spring of The newly initiated members of Zeta Beta Tau are: Norman Block, Mickie Block, Caesar Cone, all of Greensboro, Henry Weil of Goldsboro, Alvin Kar-tus of Asheville, Joe Berwanger of Raleigh, Bill Breman of Asheville, Charles Brown of Charleston, S. C. The pledges are David Avner of California, Hetf-ry' Sternberger and Louis Solomon of Wilmington.

of the North Carolina League of Women Voters will be held in Chapel Hill March 10, 11 and 12. The call was recently sent out "Support Our Advertisers" by the president, Miss Gertrude Weil, of Goldsboro. In connection with the con vention a school of citizenship will be connected by the Univer sity. Some professors, eminent in that respect, will speak at the school. nil mwwwwmmwiw WWiMNWtlWIIHHHWWWIHlWHWWWHW iil5 MtMMMUiUi.

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