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VOLUME XXXVII.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GA., OCTOBER 23, 1081.
NUMBER 5.
Georgia-Vandy Classic
Draws Crowd; Dances
Will Feature Week-end
Honor Society
Initiates Four
This Week-end
Latimer, Mclntire, Smith, and
Strickland Gain Highest
Distinction on Campus
Sphinx, highest ranking honorary
organization on the University of
Georgia campus, this week-end is
initiating four seniors, Carroll Lati
mer, Atlanta; Jimmie Mclntire, Sa
vannah; Vernon Smith, Macon; and
W. M. Strickland, Buchanan. This
is the first of two elections held dur
ing the scholastic year.
Latimer is ex-president of the Chi
Phi social fraternity, president of
the Gridiron club, president of Phi
Delta Phi, honorary legal frater
nity, member of the 1931 Law school
honor council, member of the Pan-
Hellenic council, Ravens, Pelican
club, and captain of the golf team.
Mclntire is president of the S. A.
E. social fraternity, president of the
Pan-Hellenic council, president of
Gridiron, captain of the polo team
for two years, commanding officer
of the University R. O. T. C. unit,
president of Phi Kappa Literary so
ciety for the last term of the 1930-
31 scholastic year, a member of I.
R. C. club, editorial board of the
Pandora and Red and Black, assist
ant sports editor of The Red and
Black 1929, Blue Key council, De
bating council, treasurer of Junior
Cabinet, and member of the Senior
Round Table.
Smith is a member of the Sigma
Chi social fraternity, all-American
and all-Southern football end, cap
tain of the basketball team, baseball
letterman, and lieutenant colonel of
the University R. O. T. C. unit.
Strickland is campus leader, mem
ber of Gridiron, the “X” club, vice-
president of Blue Key, captain of
lacrosse team, member of varsity
basketball team, member of the Old
College club, editorial board of the
Pandora and The Red and Black,
captain of the University Cavalry
unit, and high scorer among the
Southern conference lacrosse teams
last year.
The initiation will start today and
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"X” Club to Make
Initial Appearance
At Football Game
The “X” club, the university’s
newest honor organization, formed
through the efforts of Dean S. V.
Sanford, will make its initial appear
ance today and tomorrow for the
Homecoming event—the Georgia-
Vanderbilt football game. The char
ter members of the “X” club are;
James G. Bryant, Hoschton; James
H. Cobb, Savannah; Prank N. Hawk
ins, Macon; Harold H. Martin, Com
merce; Joseph B. McGee, Decatur;
A1 G. Smith, Waycross; George B.
Strong, Newnan; William M. Strick
land, Buchanan; and Jack Withers,
Atlanta.
The club has many objectives, but
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Georgia Gridders
To Meet Auburn
Georgia’s freshmen gridders usher
In a big week-end of football this af
ternoon when they encounter the Au
burn freshmen on the practice Held
between old Sanford field and the
stadium.
The Bullpups opened the 1931
season with a 20 to 0 triumph over
Mercer’s yearlings, and continued a
successful march by defeating Clem-
son, 33 to 0. Following the game
with Auburn, the frosh meet Fur
man here on Nov. 7, and Journey to
Atlanta for a game with the Georgia
Tech freshmen on Nov. 26.
Sixty Girls in Tryouts
For Places on Glee Club
Elimination is still under way in
the organization of the Girls' Glee
club, according to Hugh L. Hodg
son, head of the music department
at the university.
“Choosing members of a glee club
is similar to organizing a football
team in that each one must be given
time to show what he can do,” Mr.
Hodgson explained.
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New Play, Cast
Are Announced
By Drama Club
"Berkeley Square,” Romance,
Will Be First Production of
Thalian-Blackfriars
“Berkeley Square,” a romantic
fantasy which last year ended a long
run on Broadway, is to bo the first
production of the Thalian-Black-
friars, it was announced Thursday
by Edward C. Crouse, director of the
club.
The play will be presented by a
cast of fifteen, selected from the
membership of the dramatic organi
zation and from the student body
at large during try-outs held dur
ing the last two weeks. The Athens
performance has been set for early
December and will be followed by
a three-day road trip through the
state.
Called “one of the finest plays
from the pen of an American play
wright,” "Berkeley Square” ran con
tinuously for nearly two years in
New York city and Chicago and was
a serious contender for the Pulitzer
prize for 1930. Several professional
road companies are presenting it
this season in other largo American
cities.
Cost Is I.nrgc
The cast is one of the largest to
have appeared in a student play at
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Details of the "four-quarter” sys
tem was the object of a visit last
week-end to the University of North
Carolina by Dean S. V. Sanford and
Dr. L. L. Hendren, professor of
physics.
Dean Sanford, president of the j
Franklin College of Arts and Sci- j
ences, and Dr. Hendren, who is j
chairman of the committee seeking
to adopt the quarter system for the
University of Georgia, interviewed
the dean of the University of North
Carolina in an effort to learn import-
1 ant details of the system.
Consideration of the quarter sys
tem as a substitute for the semester
system, now in use at the university,
was begun last year but the serious
Illness of Dean Sanford delayed and
held up final action on the matter.
Should the quarter system become
effective at the university, the stu
dents will study three subjects
every day for a quarter, and take up
three other subjects on the succeed
ing periods, instead of taking six
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Georgia Faculty Honors
Trustees With Luncheon
The faculty of the University of
Georgia will entertain the Board of
Trustees and other distinguished
friends at luncheon and at the foot
ball game here Saturday, according
to Chancellor Charles M. Snelling.
The luncheon will be held at Me
morial hall at 1 p m , and the guests
will go directly to the football game
where they will be seated in the
special box in the South stands.
Nearly Two Hundred Girls to
Be Week-end Guests of
Fraternities
A full program of entertainment
is being planned for homecoming
guests this week-end as activities be
gin at 9 p. m. today with a Pan-
Hellenic dance in Woodruff hall.
The Georgia team, undefeated as
yet this season, will meet Vanderbilt
Saturduy in Sanford stadium. The
game will begin promptly at 3 p.
m. and is expected to attract a large
group of spectators.
Dornbcrgcr To Play
Charles Dornberger and Ills Vic
tor Recording Orchestra will play
for all the dances, according to
James Mclntire, Savannah, Pan-
Hellenic president. There will be a
Pan-Hellenic dance Saturday evening
in Woodruff hall, in addition to the
Friday night dance, a tea dance Sat
urday, and various smaller dances.
Woodruff hall will be decorated In
fall colorB for the dances and a mod
ernistic note will be carried out, ac
cording to the Pan-Hellenic pres
ident. The football players of both
teams will be guests of the Pan-
Hellenic council at the evening
dances. Admission will be $2.50
for each dance.
House Part Ics Kcuturrd
Almost two hundred women will
attend house parties to be given by
the various fraternities on the cam
pus. Some of these are co-eds,
while many are from other cities.
They are as follows:
H. A. E.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Misses An
na Alton, Atlanta; Mary Latimer,
Atlanta; Mary Meador Goldsmith,
Atlanta; Patsy Porter, Atlanta; Cor-
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Pennington Chosen
To Head Freshmen
At Annual Election
Glenn Pennington, Matthews, run
ning on a combined G. O. P.-fra-
ternity ticket, was elected president
of the freshman class at the annual
election, held in the chapel Thurs
day night, Oct. 15.
Running on the same ticket, John
Carter, Scott, was elected vice-pres
ident, and Hutchins Hodgson, Ath
ens, was elected secretary-treasurer.
After the election, each of the
new officers gave a short speech,
stating their aims and promises of
office.
President-elect Pennington is a
non-fraternity man and rooms in
Candler hall. He is a graduate of
Wrens High school, in Matthews.
Carter is a Delta Tau Delta
pledge, and rooms in Old College.
Hodgson is a graduate of Athens
High school and a pledge of the Kap
pa Alpha fraternity. He is also a
member of the freshman football
team.
All three candidates were elected
with little opposition, a rival party
having withdrawn a few hours be
fore the election.
Homecoming Brings Thous
ands to Athens; Hotels Fill
ed for Big Week-end
Georgia's Bulldogs and Vander
bilt’s Commodores put on the finish
ing touches today for their early sea
son gridiron classic at Sanford field
Saturday afternoon an thousands of
Georgia alumni and supporters con
verged on Athens for Homecoming
Day and Georgia’s first real test of
the 1931 football season.
Georgia’s crucial clash with Van
derbilt at 3 p. m. tomorrow, two
Pan-Hellenic dances, and a Georgia-
Auburn freshman game this after
noon, will feature Georgia's greatest
Homecoming in recent years. The
Georgia freshmen square off at 3
p. m. against the Auburn yearlings.
The first Pan-Hellenic dance begins
at 9 p. m. today, and the other
comes Saturday night following the
Georgia-Vandy classic.
Hotel reservations for the week
end have been filled for the past
two weeks, according to managers
of the Georgian and Holman. In
addition to feminine guests at house
parties this week-end, hundreds of
Georgia alumni and Vanderbilt sup
porters have filled Athens' two larg
est hostelrles. Reservations for the
Georgian were filled two weeks ago,
and the Holman has had requests
for three times the number of avail
able rooms.
Tomorrow’s clash between the
sturdy teams of Georgia and Van
derbilt will be one of the classics
of the Southern conference football
season. Although Vanderbilt was
defeated by Tulane last Saturday,
the Commodores still are one of the
best football teams in the South,
instead of being aspirants to the
conference title, they are now cast
in the role of title-hope killers, a
part Dan McGugin-coached teams
perform ably. Vanderbilt, during
the forty years of McGugin’s reign
as head coach, has always been dan
gerous. Tomorrow the Commodores
will be especially dangerous to Geor
gia's hopes of a Southern confer
ence title.
Three Georgia stars will warm
the bench when the Bulldogs trot on
the field tomorrow. Homer Key, the
mighty midget who ran wild against
Yale and North Carolina, is troubled
with a knee injury that is expected
to keep him out of action for another
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Students W ill March
To Football Games
Starting at the arch, the Univer
sity of Georgia band will parade to
Sanford field for the Georgia-Vun-
derbilt game.
The parade will start at 2:00 p.
m. and march up College avenue to
Clayton, down Clayton to Lumpkin,
and down Lumpkin to the stadium.
The band will be followed by the
Georgia students and supporters. All
students are requested to take part
in this event.
"Ole Grads” Converge on Athens Town;
Boys for a Day. Alumni View Old Scenes
Campus Lights Out
For Edison Tribute
All lights on the University of
Georgia campus were extinguished
for one minute Wednesday at 10 p.
m. in tribute to the memory of
Thomas A. Edison, humanitarian
and inventor, who died last Sunday
morning.
Citizens the nation over honored
the great inventor Wednesday night.
Electric lights, an Edison invention,
over the land were extinguished for
one minute around 10 p. m. For the
first time in history, New York har
bor was in total darkness. A pro
clamation by the president of the
United States requested Americans
to cooperate in honoring a great
American.
From Rabun Gap to Tybee light,
from Augusta to Cu.umbus, the old
grads are beginning to pour in.
Dignified old gentlemen with an
expectant gleam in their eyes are
slamming dow’n roll top desks, stuff
ing their gayest shirts and sox and
ties into bags and hitting the trail
\ to Athens.
Country bankers of the class of
'89, suh, high-powered executives of
I great firms, traveling salesmen
* spread throughout the southland
i ore scooting across state helter-skel-
I ter, business cares forgotten, for one
glorious Sing again as Homecoming
week-end brings together Bulldog
1 and Commodore in gridiron warfare.
Tarnished fraternity pins, unworn
for years, are getting a coat of pol
ish, and arc taking their place upon
. expansive vests.
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Drs. Sanford and Hendren Visit N. C.
To Consider f Tour Quarter” System