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VOLUME XXXIV. UNIVERSITY OP OKORGIA, ATHKXS, GA„ SEPTEMBER liH, 1028. NUMBER I. MUSIC DIRECTOR With the opening of the season less than ten days off, the 1928 Georgia Bulldogs are hard at work preparing for the Mercer game. Every day since the tenth of Septem ber Coach Mehre has been holding daily workouts at Sanford field and the team for this year is beginning to take form. There are almost sijrfy candidates out for the varsity, and of these, thirteen are letter men of last year. The returning letter-men are: Hooks, Dudley, MoCraTy, Johnson, and Rothstein in the ,baokfield; Bo land and Lanford, centers; Haley and Jacobson, guards, Lautzenhiser, Stel- ling and Frisbee, tackles, and Henry Palmer, end. Huff, Bryant, and Red Smith are also out for the team and they all had varsity experience two years ago. Last year’s freshman team was one of the weakest the University ever put out and little material is to he gotten from it to use on the varsity this year. Preliminary work ended last Sat urday when the varsity and fresh men engaged in the first scrimmage of the current season. The showing of the varsity was frankly very poor, and while the freshman material is admittedly good this year they should not have been able to make (Continued on page 8) Press Institute Holds Sessions Here in Spring Sponsored by the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and the Geor gia Press association, a Press Insti tute of all Georgia newspaper men and women will be held at the Uni versity of Georgia during the spring. Dean S. V. Sanford has announced. Miss Emily Woodward, editor of the Vienna News and president of Music Offered For First Time A music department, under the direction of Hugh Hodgson, promi nent Athens musician, has been estab lished for the prseent session for the first time in the history of the Uni versity. Courses for which college credit will be given are offered to all students, with emphasis to be placed on the individual students and the development of their talents for choral work and glee clubs. A new organ has been installed In the chapel to be used in developing music appreciation, the primary cul tural object of establishing the de partment. The organ will be used for chapel services, public assem blies, and radio broadcasting. Mr. Hodgson desires to make a musical survey of the University. All students with musical talents should see him at once and give him this information. Hugh Hodgson, prominent musician ami director of the University Glee club, who lias become head of the new music department. BUI.LD0GS COMING | INTO SHAPE FOR GAME NEAT WEEK the Georgia Press association, has written Dean Sanford that the exec utive committee of the Press asso ciation has decided to accept the University’s invitation for the hold ing of the institute in Athens. The exact date will be announced later. Designed to bring the practitioners of journalism in Georgia together for lectures, addresses, and round table discussions devoted to the prob lems of the press, the Institute’s schedule will resemble that of the university student in that there will be something doing all hours of the day during the period of the gath ering. The sessions will be held in the new Commerce-Journalism building which was completed last spring at a cost of $215,000. The Henry W. Grady School of Journalism occupies the ground floor and half of the ! main floor of this structure, and in addition to class rooms and an audi torium has an editorial laboratory, a printing laboratory, a reading ■ room, and a morgue. Offices of The i Red and Black, campus newspaper, also are housed in this building. The first press institute sponsored by the Georgia Press association was held at Mercer University, Macon, j last spring. Classes for “the appreciation of music" will be held each Thursday night at eight o’clock in the chapel. Students taking Music 2 will be given credit for the course. All other students and Athens citizens are invited to attend these informal gatherings. Opening Dances Begin October 5 The opening dances of the Univer sity of Georgia will be held next week-end, October 5 and 6, on the same date Georgia opens her foot ball season with the Mercer game. The Carolina Gamecocks, a twelve- piece orchestra that made Glynn Is land famous, will play for two night dances and two tea-dances to be held in Memorial Hall, sponsored by the Pan-Hellenic council. The Friday night dance will last from 9:30 to 1 o'clock and the Sat-| nrday night dance from 9 o’clock to midnight. The tea-dances will be from 5:30 to 7 o’clock. Freshmen will be allowed to attend the open ing dances, according to an old cus tom. GENERAL LIBRARY I NEW FACES SEEN ON FACULTY FOR ’28-’29 SESSION The University opened September 19 with many changes and additions to the faculty and improvements in departments and courses. The Home Extension division has been enlarged and a degree course in landscape gardening established at the College of Agriculture. One of the finest organs in the South has been placed in the chapel where recitals will be given by Hugh Hod(gson, who 'is head of the newly created depart ment of music. The School of Com merce intends to make it thorough study of the business and industrial conditions of Georgia through in tensive research. Two changes in the Lumpkin Law school have been made. Dean Ed munds, who is still acting in his former office in the law school of the University of South Carolina and was director of athletics there, is the new dean of the Law school in Athens. The second is Alton Hosch, who received his B.S. at Georgia 1924; M.A. at Georgia 1925; and L.L.B. at Harvard in 1928, Ernest Camp, Jr., hus come to the Henry W. Grady school of Journal ism as instructor. In 1927 he grad uated there with an A.B. in Journal ism and he has since been state news editor in the Atlanta office of the Associated Press and associate ed itor of the Walton Tribune. The five instructors added to the school of education in the extension department include adjunct profes sors J. Perrin Anderson in education (Continued on page 7) Greeks Pledge 163 Under New Rushing Rules One hundred and sixty-three fresh men and upper-classmen have already been pledged to the Greek letter fra ternities on the campus. This year is the first time that the new sys tem of pledging adopted by the Pan- Hellenic council has been tried. Written bids were received by the freshmen Saturday, and they were allowed to move into the bouses on the following dayy. The sororities are also pledging by a new system this year. Rushing did not begin until this week, and they will not be allowed to pledge the first year girls until Sunday. (Continued on page 2) LIMITED NUMBER 1928 PANDORAS ARE ON SALE A limited number of 1928 Pandoras are on sale at $5.50 each. Those students desiring copies of Georgia's first year book done in colors may secure them at the above price from either Professor If. M. Heck man. faculty manager of stu dent activities, on the second floor of the Commerce-Journal ism building, or Ben H. Hardy, Jr., former editor of The Red and Black, now connected with the English department on the third floor of the Academic building. NEW LAW DEAN Ib-an II. X. Edmunds, Columbia, S. who has recently taken complete charge of the Lumpkin Law School. System Revised In Law School The Lumpkin Law school of the University of Georgia opened its 1928-29 session with H. N. Edmunds of the University of South Carolina us Its new dean. Mr. Edmunds comes to the Uni versity from Columbia, South Caro lina, where he has been professor of law in the University of South Caro lina for the past ten years. He was born near Columbia In 1876 and has made his home there. After receiv ing his Bachelor of Arts and Bach elor of Laws degrees from the Uni versity of South Carolina he attend ed sessions of the University of Chi cago and of Northwestern University. Mr. Edmunds has practiced ex tensively In the courts on the civil side. During two cases he was city attorney for the city of Columbia and he has acted as special referee in the federal courts. He was also special associate justice of the su preme court of South Carolina. At present, Mr. Edmunds Is secretary of the state democratic executive committee of South Carolina. He 1h a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Alpha Epsilon as well as a member of Omricon Delta Kappa, (Continued on page 8) Palace Features Vitaphone Shows With the presentation of “The Jazz Singer” before packed audiences at each performance Monday, the Palace theater blossomed forth with its newly installed vitaphone which will bring to Athens all of the big feature vitaphone movies that At lanta, New York, and other large cities have been seeing for some time. Athens Is the smallest city in America to install this modern equip ment and the waiting list for in- stalation no earlier than next spring includes many much larger cities. The new reproduction machines have been installed during the last few weeks without any interruption of the regular programs, and from (Continued on page 8) ENROLLMENT FOR GEORGIA EXCEEDS PAST YEAR HARK Total enrollment of the Univer sity Tuesday afternoon had reached the 1,560 mark, an increase of 105 over figures on the same date last year, records in the office of Regis trar T. W. Reed show. Registra tion of new students will continue, and it is expected that the total for the present scholastic year will be over 1,750. Enrollment in all departments except the law school has Increased, and the decrease In the latter de partment is due to rnising the en trance requirements, according to Registrar Reed. Two years of aca demic work now is the prerequisite to law. Following the custom inaugurated a few years ago, freshmen were re quired to report a week In advance of the other students. During fresh man week, from September 12 to 13. the first year students were regis tered and were helped to orientate themselves at the University. Dr. S. V. Sanford, dean of the Uni versity; Harry Mehre, football coach; coach; Dr. W. I). Hooper, head of the Latin department; Dr. R. E. Park, head of the English department; and E. L. Secrest, Y. M. C. A. secretary, were among those who addressed the freshmen upon various phases of college life. R. 0. T.C. Units To Be Organized Into Cadet Corps For the first time since the estab lishment of two units, cavalry and Infantry, in the R. O. T. C. of the University, the cadets will be organ ized into a cadet corps with one colonel and his staff in command of the entire unit, according to Ma jor A. T. Colley, commandant of the University military department. Within the corps, the infantry and cavalry units will be organized also with their own cadet leaders and staffs. The cavalry will be organized into a regiment, a colonel commanding and a lieutenant-colonel as executive officers together with a regimental headquarters staff. There will be three squadrons of three troops each. A major and an adjutant will be assigned each squadron. The usual troop officers will be appointed for each troop. The Infantry unit will be organ ized into a battalion of four com panies, with a lieutenant-colonel commanding and a major as execu- j live officer. A complete staff will assist In commanding the battalion. Each company will have a captain and four lieutenants. Offices have been fixed in New College for cadet officers on the staff and each staff officer will ac tually do the work required of him and not be a mere figure-head, ac cording to Major Colley. Appoint ments of all officers and non-com- i missioned officers jwill be perma- i nently made and announced early In October. University of Georgia ATHENA GEQKGIA
