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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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