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The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 3

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CHARLOTTE DATLY OBSERVER MONDAY JANUARY 8 1012 0 UNIVERSITY GUILFORD Most people are buying now a Suit and Overcoat which cost a little more than one at the regular prices Some mighty good patterns to pick from NOW but at the rate going they last long so come in at once and make your selection We need not mention that they are of the best quality and workmanship as they are the famous Adler-Rochester and Griffon makes Anyone who has worn either of these will jump at this chance Goods and Prices Guaranteed to Please Guilford College Jsn fl Guilford College resumed' operations Thursday January 4 IToirsNor Meredith who I completing Ills work at Johns Hopkins University for hi degree was detained few dujs coining In oil Saturday Professor Mlnford will take the degree also at the same Institution soma time this year uml will return to Guilford tu resume charge of thu department of blolujy at the beginning of the college year next Bxiiteniber spent his vacation Ht his home In New York City IBs work in tho English department bus become very popular HI knowledge of musle ha provnd useful In the gtee club and In other public entertnlninpnts Mlnse Osborne Rusedt and Julia AVhite spent a part of the vacation in cTiarleston and have expressed much delight with their visit MI McDaniel of Bethlehem Fa has been spending a few days visiting her friend Miss Ora llanim at the homo of Dr Hobbs They both Monday for a visit to Florida and thence they will return to Pennsylvania Mr Tom Beinnns of Pennsylvania went home for vacation ilnd returned Friday morning He Is spending the year with I-ouls Hobbs and pursuing a course of study In the college Mr Henry A Doak came In from Dartmouth where he holds position In tho of English Mr Doak ha had a thorough and extended course of solid educational work graduating at Guilford Haverford and Harvard taking at thp last-named the degree Mis Gainey went to her home near Fayeticvlllo for vacation accompanied by Miss Katherine Allen She returned Monday and brought quite a lot of shrubbery for the college lawn The college' bulletin last published 1 called Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Number" being devoted mainly to Interests connected with the celebration to be held near commencement this year Tho paper is largely historical and contains sonic very interesting cuts Of tho old buildings: Notably the old meeting house erected in 1791 and (he first school building erected In 1836 It also contains cuts of various earlv bene-factors as of the distinguished Nathan Hune George Howland of New Bedford and Francis King ot Baltimore One purpose of the present bulletin is to call attention to the effort being made to pay off a debt on the college which was created by the recent repairs on Hal and by improvements in the water supply and In the heating plant The (ommittee in chargb of this import-nnt work has recently met and decided to place In the field Mr Henley a graduate of Guilford CoHege and also or the State University He Is expected to call on the friends of the college for the purpose of securing subscriptions CATAWBA Newton Jan 6 Cards have been received from Prof Buchhelt from Lancaster pa where he Is at the present In the interest of Catawba ork has again been begun on the college magazine The December is-sue is a very creditable publication hm fubscriPtl0ll lt Is small as yet but the many friends or the "Blue and are working In Its be WUh t0 lts flrst The work of raising money to naT off the indebtedness of Catawba cSl hnVS TT t0 the Sclent a A Palmer of the class of spent several day here on hlg wav from home to Central Theological Seminary at Dayton Ohio Cal H- of the c1ass of was at home for the holiday frmn Louisville Medical School where he Is now a senior Miss Margaret Crowell of the so-ntor class was called to her home jn Concord Thursday because of the enhebner grandmother Mrs Ml! holidays Prof Ash ley and Mis Mattie Joe Wattg were mnrrled at Young Harris Colleg in Georgia The former home of Pro fessor Ashley was in tTT ro' North Carolina thaYof MrSffiS in Fairmount Georgia Mrs Ashlev was graduated from Young Uarris in hani sfnrp then has been acting there Professor Ahl? and his bride will reside at the col- (Continued on Page Seven) FOR MEN WHO KNOW tion for tho Advancement of HMenee going lo Atlanta Dr (I Coker mentioned us th most interesting utul significant thing of tho meeting the dlueovcry of Dr 1 flmlth of AVashtiiglon of a cu-rlous and distinct antilogy between a certain plant disease and cancer In the animal Pro I A Pufterspn Was elected ft director in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at Its meeting lit New Yotk Clly although he was nt tha time with the scientist la Washington Dr Charles Dee Rapor professor of economic and dean of ihe graduate department spent tho holidays In ht study In t'hapel Hill reading proof for his book a volume on railway transportation Prof Henry Hornes AVHllnma the veteran prowynor of psyenlog-y when asked how ho had spent the holidays eplled that he hail done nothing Rt all beyond a few philosophical which a every one knew was a very simple matter and required no work at all Dr Edwin Mims protesenr of English say he spent tin holiday making a study of Bernard Shaw Mr A liendmt 1 the new Instructor lit geology to take the place of Mr AV fry who has become minernlogiv and petrograplior to the United States bureau of soils Mr Bendrat is an explorer and ihtfsllga-tor lie ha done valuable work In Europe Venezuela and North America A hard blow wn dealt university basketball In the failure to return to college of Captain and Manager Marvin Pitch of Charlotte rt Is due al-moet entirely to hl efforts that basketball was established at Chapel Hill and recognized by the athletic asso-' chit lott as a varsity sport The eporl had died out so a to be unknown ut the university when Marvin Ultch began to preach basketball In the highways and hedges' and compelled the student to Conte out und try It Considering the newness of the sport a phenomenally good team was do-1 veloped last year This spring systematic practice had baldly begun when the first game was upon the univerMtv (ulnf It was plaved last night with the Durham A Mnlth Dong Tiilett and Carrington seem to be the most promising candidates among the few- who have gone out Probably the longest and hard-t st schedule ever attempted by a Southern tea t- before Carolina in basketball the white and blue triumphs in most of the games it will deserve the hearty acclamations of Its supporters But basketball I firmly established as a varsity sport and Boeoek Is coaching Mrs Davis of AA'ashlngton formerly of Chapel Hill spent the holidays with her parents Cant and Mrs AAT Prttc-hard Mrs Mangum and her daugh ter Miss Etta Mangum have gone to Wilmington to spend the winter with Rev and Mrs If Wilson trinityT Trinity College Durham Jan cArUh a full attendance and everything moving smoothly Trinity College opened the last half of the scholastic year In a thoroughly propitious manner Claas work after having beep suspended for twelve days during the Christmas holidays was resumed Wednesday morning and with the first term examinations but two weeks off everyone is getting to work The mid-year examinations will begin January 19 extending over a period of nearly two weeks and ending February 3 The January number of The Review of Reviews contains a page and a half from the last Fouth Atlantic Quartely In ta department "Beading Articles of the Month" The article selected for comment and quotation Is that by Gamaliel Bradford Jr on After the and under tho heading "Leo as College the'magazlne presents an absttact of part of tins article illustrated by a picture of General Lee During the Christmas holidays Dr AVilliam Glasson outlie department of economics w-as in attendance at the annual 'meeting of the American Economic Association at Washington This year the association met in joint sessions with the American Association for Labor Legislation the American Statistical Society and the American Sociological Society Thursday evening December 28 the two former societies held a joint meeting for the discussion of Conditions In the the leading paper being a statistical one by Dr John Courtner of the United States census bureau Dr Glasson waa also one of the speakers on the program of the evening discussing the advance census statistics and showing an Increase In negro farmers and farm owners In the last decade He also gave an account of the three new lines of work conducted by the Rockefeller sanitary commission during the past year with some of the results thus far obtained The new work discussed consists of the Inauguration of an infestion survey of the school children of the South by counties a sanitary survey of the (arm homes of tho South by counties and the opening of free county dispensaries for the treatment of hookworm disease in North Carolina and other States Sortie of the other speakers of note at this session were: Dr Frlssell principal of the Hampton Institute President Brunson of the Georgia State Normal Prof AV DuBols of the University of Atlanta iPY1 ()! dkt ia W- ACr' v' Chnpol Hill Jail 1) lo Chapel Hill have flocked the 'tight hundred Btudenta of th Unlvorulty of North Carolina many to endure Impatiently the few morn month of study necenaary to maao them soph-omorpH and some to hcjtln the last half-Huaxlon of their colloga oaroer Everybody la busy shaking hands and exehunglriK remlnlHeences of thfl holl-flnvfl Tho Pickwick theater Chaiiel 3 one moving: picture show 1h crowded to Htandirig room capacity every night nine little aludjlng lmn to be done ns yet The general sentiment seems to he that It will he hurt! to get down to work and chase away front the brain memories of the ballroom and Christman tree examinations begin 'll a little Ovr ono ween Monday January 13 and hist through January 25 The professors are dinning Into the ears of their students the necessity for hard serious work and talent activities may he exported to Nlueken till the dreaded period Is oer President Venable Mated with evident gratification that he hud not been obliged to prevent any student from returning to college owing to failure to keep up with his work Tills record Is exceptional lor such painful mulct's usually have to he sent to a few students during the holidays when their woi Is being fhecked tip As many us a dozen have been known to receive notices not to return Ltsl session about a half-dozen received such notice dur-j Ing their Christmas holidays But this time though there were a doubtful cases the authorities did tint tool Justified In excluding any young man from another chain No less than about twenty-five young men spent the holidays In Chapel Hill From all accoums most of them hud a pretty tough time of it since the hear was cut off In the dormitories and imlves- ltv buildings for the greater pui't of the' vacation Something whs done how-1 ever to relieve the monotony fir1 them by the people of the village They were entertained at arious functions notably by Dr Bain professoj of (Jreek Rev A Stan-bury the Methodist church and Miss Mary Drltchard of the C-ape i Hill school Many of those compell-! ed to stay on the Hill Interested them1 selves in the Sunday school Christmas trees and rendered valuable aid to the pastors and resident church members Among those who did not go away for the holidays were students from such distances as California fhhift and Persia At the chapel exercises Thursday President Venable started the machinery of the university to going again by a few words of eongraiula- tion to the body of young men on their record thus far nointing out that less than 4 per Vft pf the academic students could he said to have consistently failed In their work He warned them however that the race was not yet won and urged them to do their work and do It properly Nearly all the sclentllic men of the university faculty have been away attending scientific meetings Dr Henry VanPeters Wilson professor of zoology and president of the Ameri-ian Society of Zoologist presided over a meeting of the society at Princeton University Very few Southern men were present among them being another North Carolinian Dr AV Gudger of the State Normal College at Greensboro Dr Wilson remarked that there seemed to bei much interest In recent years In the I subject of experimental evolution He 1 1CK the lendld $400000 biological and geological laboratory at Princeton Dr DeB MacNider attended the meeting of the American Association of Phamacologists at Baltimore which met together with the Associa- tlon of Biological Chemists and the Association of Physiologists Dr Mae-N der read a paper Action of Diuretics In Uranium in Nephritis" The university sent a delegation of sovon to the big meeting of the Am-1 erlean Association for the Advance-! ment of Science with Its thirty affll-lated societies in Washington about five thousand American men of science being present The State of North Carolina sorit X'rf 'rePrpntatlves to this meeting 4tbp remaining Southern Mates together Those who went from the univer-'1 wer0 Herty Dr A' heeler Dr Beil and Dr a11 of the department of chemistry and Dr AV Coker of ot botany- Prof collier Cobb of the department of gp- Ppnf A' H- Paterson of the department of physics m'nIlertyiread a PaPer prepared in collaboration with Mr yen-able entitled Sehkateloff Method for Reduction and Precipitation of Resin Acids" Dr Wheeler rea two papers one on Walden Tn version" and the other on rher' mometer for Accurate Melting Point Determinations- Dr Hell read i i Mehlnp Buckley on Solubility of Bromine and Iodine in A'rms Solutions of Alkali Bro" tnides and Iodides" Dr a VrLit deiuvityaMertod''T5pEIeCtrlca1' Con' ttul Ammonlttm Citrate Jjab1shpd 'y Drs Hall and Ben of this laboratory Leavlm three papers namely tt Aallev-s of Fleumnn and Subsidences! Along tl Carolina Coast" oM TwiV Well Records front HaUeTa Hand" The first two were read before the American Geographers the last be for 0tosloal 'TlwAoH ppfrsiawifi aeted as toastmaster pr an address upon President Taft addressed h' rf-1 in ii espaeuy as rnavor of saving that AVnshirbl uasning delightful that len Wa" there the longer ta'ed His hearers saw the point Rtay' plauded nt an1 nP- vlslt toAA'afiiliigton stated bis laboratory the city1 was wft Vpry for visitors and that 0pen "'f'l'os pVnlU see What the SOvrnmet Is doTnY a scientific way Perhaps will so large a body of ientm811 meet together one pUcJ'for found difficult to secure suitable halls mV! bodle to meet In ft otter NertT rear ih 1 The Perpetual Building Loan Association Brings This Time To Its Shareholders The Sum Of $132 S00M American Home FIGURES ARE The Association consistent with its past experience again and for the 46th time announces to its shareholders particularly and the public in general the maturity of its 46th series In maturing this series the Officers and Directors feel that they again have reason for gratification as it will enable them to relieve the burden from the shoulders of those who have been struggling to secure their homes cancel their mortgages and secure clear titles to their own and we have 64 of these happy individuals whose burdens amount to $5312350 We feel that this is a matter for which we can justly take credit But this not all In addition to these home getters we have 86 non borrowing shareholders to whom we will pay in cash $7937650 (almost as much as all the dividends paid by the Banks of the City at this time) which is some money to turn loose in the community at one time STARTLING The Safeguard of American SALEM Hut Science- Is Getting Consumption Under Control All the Same When you read that 150000 persons die in this country every year of Consumption think that the disease is getting the better of curative measures from Consumption still high enough goodness knows has been cut in half in two general tions Today we know how to handle Consumption Miith fresh air cleanliness diet and Ozonpulslon we can get the death-rate way down and keep it down Besides forming fat and Improving the condition of the blood Ozo-mulson strengthens the nervous and muscular syptems Its value as a medicinal food en-titles it to a place of honor on the Dili ot fsrp not rnprdy of con- sumptlve but of every one whose waning energy and wasting give warning that tuberculosis near Taste and digestion which rebel against many other fat-forming food welcome Ozomulsion Sample Bottle Free by Mail That those who are seeking health and strength fjir themselves children relatives or friends may experience the life-giving properties of this exclusive Norway gold medal ozodonlzed cod liver oil medicinal food emulsion as well as to know Ozomulsion superiority In being most palatable and easy to a generous 3-oz bottle will be sent by mail to those who send addresses by jwiptcard or letter lo OzomuWnn 648 I earl gt AVinston-Salem Jail With the opening of the term Wednesday of last week all previous records of enrollment were broken Over five hundred and fifty students have enrolled for the term additional students having entered from the States of Tennessee Georgia Ohio South Carolina -and North Carolina Prof A Shirley dean of the music department Is again meotjng with classes a'ter anRness of several weeks Miss Louise AVIPon of Florida a member of the class of 1909 and a graduate In the art department becomes a member of the college faculty taking the position of assistant to Anna Setdenburg head of the art department February 1 in connection with the work In the normal department a special rlas In kindergaren will be opened This work will be tn charge of Miss Emma Srpith of the college faculty who last summer spent considerable time in New York City studying kindergarten methoda Present Rnndthaler left yesterday for New York AVhlle there he will attend the Robert Ogden dinner which is to be tendered the well-known educator The dinner is given under the auspices of the Sphinx Hub of New Y'ork and Is a tribute to the work of Mr Ogden as of he Soul herp Educational Board But this is only a part of the work in which we take so much pride When this Series is paid off we will have paid our shareholders over $300000000 and when it is remembered that this enormous sum of money is the result of weekly payments of twenty-five cents and upward it is almost uubelievtble even tous who have handled the actual money We will dose this Series with the second weekly payment in January and all shareholders in the Series can get their cancelled mortgages or money on and after Wednesday January 17th 1912 On February 1st our books will be opened for our 59th Series and subscriptions for shares and applications for loans can be filed- We' want to build even larger and your co-operation is earnestly desired COCHRANE Secretary Treasurer WEARN Prcddcz 4.

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