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VOLUME XL.
THE UNIVERSITY OP GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, MAY 10, !»:».*>.
NUMBER 27.
L. P. Goodrich
Elected Dean
Of Law School
Cboice of Board Annouuced
In Atlanta Meeting at Noon
Today
Harmon W. Caldwell, dean of the
Lumpkin Law school, was named
president of the University shortly
before noon today by the Board of
Regents of the University System of
Georgia. He succeeds Chancellor-
elect S. V. Sanford, who resigned to
assume his now office.
Lucian^ P. Goodrich, Griffin at
torney, was named to succeed Cald
well as dean of the Lumpkin Law
school.
Caldwell will assume office as head
of the University July 1, at which
time President Sanford will receive
the chancellorship of the University
system.
Chancellor Resigns
Sanford succeeds Phillip Weltner,
who tendered his iesignation in April,
giving as his reason a "desire to rest
and go fishing.”
The regents’ announcement of
Caldwell’s election was given out
when a recess was declared for
lunch, shortly after 1 o’clock.
Campus sentiment this morning
applauded the regents’ selection of
Caldwell. Although neither Cald
well nor Sanford could be reached
for a statement, faculty members
were emphatic in their praise of the
new president.
Is Youngest Dean
President-elect Caldwell is the
youngest dean in the University and
is one of the youngest it has ever
had. He is 36 years old and has
held his present position since July,
1933. He had been professor of law
here from 1929 untl 1932.
Ce Id well, upon assumng his new
office, will be one of the youngest
university presidents in the country.
President Robert M. Hutchins, of the
University of Chicago, is also in his
thirties.
A graduate of The University of
Georgia in the class of 1919, he was
principal of the high school in Sas
ser, Ga., for one year, and then went
to Harvard Law school, from which
he' was graduated with an LL.B. de
gree. While he was a student at
Harvard he w’as on the staff of the
Harvard Law Review, and worked
with the Harvard Legal Aid bureau.
Practised Law
For four years after he completed
his law studies at Harvard, Mr.
Caldwell practised law in Atlanta,
and after teaching at the University
for three years he returned to his
practise for a year, until his election
as dean of the school. While he was
practising he did part time teaching
at the Emory university law school.
Mr. Caldwell is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi, legal
honor fraternity; the' Lawyers club
of Atlanta; the Atlanta Bar asso
ciation; the Georgia Bar association;
the American Bar association, and
of Chi Phi social fraternity.
Elected President
Alumni Society
Moves to Seek
Federal Funds
HARMON W. CALDWELL
Nine Men Honored
By ROTC Society
In First Elections
A. Pratt Adams, Savannah At
torney, Elected President;
SI,000,000 Loan Sought
Six active and three honorary
members were elected by the Geor
gia chapter of Scabbard and Blade,
national honorary military fraternity,
Thursday, according to Jasper N.
Dorsey, Marietta, president, in the
first election since the re-establlsh-
ment of the chapter March 16.
Colonel H. E. Mann, head of the
military department. Captain H. G.
Holt, cavalry, and Lieut. P. E. Hunt,
infantry, were elected to honorary
membership, and Fred L. Harrison,
Augusta; John Bond, Toccoa; W. Ben
McKenzie, Montezuma; Asa Candler,
(Continued on page 8)
The University Alumni society, a
corporation, moved in its annual
meeting Saturday to obtain federal
funds for University building expan
sion, the project to include slum
clearance and erection of self-liquid-
ating club houses find professors
homes.
Other resolutions provided for in
viting and urging graduates and
matriculates of the old Georgia State
Teachers college to affiliate with the
University society, the development
of a garden and lake on the College
of Agriculture campus honoring Dr.
George Foster Peabody, of New
York, University benefactor, and the
creation of an endowment board.
At the same Alumni day business
meeting, the elections committee re
ported the selection of A. Pratt
Adams, Savannah attorney, as presi
dent for 1935-36. Victor Allen, Bu
ford; John W. Bennett Jr., Way-
cross, and Henry B. Troutman, At
lanta, were named vice-presidents.
James M. Hull, Augusta, and Harry
E. Harman Jr., Atlanta, are new
members of the board of managers.
$1,000,000 Loan Asked
The resolution asking for a $1,-
000,000 federal loan said that "the
University is in position now to go
forward and to acquire lands adja
cent to, and to become a part of, the
University campus, on which land it
is proposed shall be erected a mod
ern apartment house for University
professors, 20 modern brick cottages
to Be occupied by University profes
sors and their families, and 20 houses
to be used as fraternity and sorority
houses, and by other organized
clubs.”
“A part of the work contemplated
(Continued on page 5)
Robert G. Stephens Elected
As Most Outstanding Student
VRA to Send Deputation
Team to Rome May 11
The Voluntary Religious associa
tion of the University is sending a
deputation team to Rome this week
end, Saturday and Sunday.
Two programs will be given: Sun
day morning at the First Presby
terian church, Rome, and Sunday
night at Darlington schools, Rome.
Those on the team are: Jane Mill
er, Rome; Pete Hlghsmith, Baxley;
Billy Maddox, Rome; Jack Flynt,
Griffin; John Bond, Toccoa, and E.
L. Secrest, Athens.
Tower of Babel Was Not Completed—But
"Royal Family’ Constructs 1935 Model
Stafford, Bond Poll Second,
Third in Annual 'X’ Club
Election
The 1936 edition of the Tower of
Babel is under construction at Seney-
Stovall Memorial theater, where the
Thalian-Blackfriars night shift is
hard at work on "The Royal Family
of Broadway,” spring production of
the University theater, which will be
presented at Seney-Stovall Memorial
theater Thursday and
ings, May 23 and 24.
From Rabun Gap to Tybee Light,
from the hills of Habersham to the
valleys of Hall, from the muddy
hanks of the Oconee to the clear blue
waters of Radium Springs come the
members of the cast of the new Uni
versity theater play—and the com
bination results in a continuous
volume of sound which would seem
to surpass easily the aforementioned
Tower.
The widely scattered home towns
furnishing material for the cast pro
duce a wide diversity of dialects and
pronunciations, ranging from the
sharp, crisp tang of the mountain-
the sophisticated city-dwellers of At
lanta as the neighing of the old gray
mare is from the soft purr of a new
V-8.
The “let det at 8(et)” brogue of
the Geechee is found in the unique
dialect of John Dekle and Antonia
Alstaetter, both of whom hail from
Friday even-1 Savannah, and also say "wy” in
stead of why. The conventional
Southern drawl with'all its pictures
que and sometimes exasperating
slowness is exemplified in the speech.
The intellectual accents of a cul
tural environment are found in John
Lester, Montezuma, and the three
Athenians of the cast, D. B. Nichol
son Jr., Richard Joel, and Edwin
Southerland.
Susan Falligant, Albany (or All-
Benny, as the natives would have
you say), has a dialect all her own
—only a visit to Seney-Stovall thea
ter on the night of the 23rd or 24th
will hear rather than read of those
soft, liquid, mysterious intriguing
eers to the slow mellow drawl of I tones which issue so charmingly from
the inhabitants of the flats. From; the petite lips of La Falligant.
the far off corners of the state come; The slight affectation and air of
accents as different from those of | (Continued on page 8)
Robert G. Stephens, Atlanta, was
elected as "Georgia’s Most Outstand
ing Student for 1936” in the annual
election sponsored by the "X" club,
campus service organization, Thurs
day. DeNean Stafford, Washington,
D. C., polled second to Stephens, and
John Bond, Toccoa, received the
third highest number of votes.
A bronze plaque has been secured!
by the campus organization on which
the names of winners of this honor
each year will be inscribed. The
plaque Is now hanging in the gen
eral library but permission to place
the "X" club emblem in Memorial
hall in the near future will be se
cured, according to Wlnburn Rogers,
Milledgeville, president of the club.
Stephens, who Is a senior, has been
active in academic and extra-cur
ricula activities during his four years
at the University. He Is a member
of Kappa Alpha social fraternity, of
which he was president for two suc
cessive years, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi
Kappa Phi, Phi Kappa, Sphinx, for
mer president of the “X” club, Grid-
Iron, Omicron Delta Kappa, vice-
president of Y. M. C. A., International
Relations club, Pelican club, Junior
cabinet, and debate teams.
Stafford is the past Pan-Hellenic
president and is a member of the Sig
ma Chi social fraternity. He Is also
a member of Gridiron, Omicron Delta
Kappa, Economics seminar, Delta
Sigma Phi, commerce fraternity.
Cavalier club, and business manager
of the Glee club.
John Rond is a member of the
varsity football and track teams,
member of Sigtna Nu social frater
nity, Blftad, president of Y. M. C.
A., a junior in the academic school
and active in extra-curricula activ
ities.
Talmadge Will Lead
Pan-Hellenic Council,
Carl Strong Campus
Will Head Creeks
Herman Talmadge, Atlanta, who
was elected Pan-Hellenic president
for 1936 at the general council
election Tuesday.
Georgia Observes
Annual Honors Day
At Chapel May 14
The sixth annual Honors day will
be observed at the University on May
14, with President Harvey W. Cox
of Emory university as principal
speaker. Dean L. L. Hendren has an
nounced.
Exercises will begin at 11 a. m.
and will continue through the 11:20
class period, classes being officially
suspended at that hour. The facul
ty will appear in academic costume,
Dean Hendren said.
The program will bear the names
of those students honored for schol
astic {accomplishments as well as
those receiving special prizes in other
fields.
The following groups will be given
honors; Upper three per cent of
senior class, upper five per cent of
all classes, upper ten per cent of all
classes, those selected for Phi Beta
Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi, organ
ized groups attaining the highest
scholastic average, and individual
winners of prizes.
Honors day was started in 1930
by President S. V. Sanford for the
purpose of stimulating interest in
scholarship and activities. Dr. F. (}.
Richtmeyer, of Cornell university,
was the first speaker on the occasion,
and-in 1931 Dr. George A. Baltsell,
(Continued on page 8)
Progressives Win for Third
Consecutive Year, Placing
Hamrick, Cohen, Maxwell
In Office
Fraternity and campus politics
reached the climax point Tuesday
when Herman Talmadge, Atlanta,
Sigma Nu, rode into the Pan-Hellenic
presidency on the Progrosivo party
ticket, which won for the third con
secutive year, and Carl Strong, New-
nan, was chosen unanimously by the
non-fraternity men as the campus
leader for 1935-36.
Progressive leaders failed to split
the party vote despite the last minute
nomination of Jasper Yeomans, De
catur, fraternity brother of the new
ly elected president, by the Demo
crats. Talmadge won on a strict party
vote, 20-16. The Democratic party
offered no ticket and their only nom
ination was one for president.
Hamrick Vice-President
.1. B. Hamrick, Fair Mount, Alpha
Gamma Ilho, was elected vice-presi
dent; Aaron Cohen, Columbus, Al
pha Epsilon Pi, was named secretary,
and Vivian Maxwell, Atlanta, Chi
Psi, was selected treasurer, all on
the strict party vote.
The Pan-Hellenic council elections
were held in the Commerce-Journal
ism building Tuesday afternoon^.and
the campus elections were held in
the University chapel Tuesday night.
In the other campus elections John
G. Davis, Clayton, defeated Charles
Redmond, Jackson, for the post of
vice-campus leader. Leon Eberhart,
Maysville, was named president of
the athletic association over John
Bailie, Augusta; Henry Harden,
Oslerlleld, was elected president of
the Senior class, defeating George
Bell, Sardis, and Allen Shi, Macon.
Campus Officers
For secretary and treasurer of the
senior class, Tom Scott, Forsyth, was
victorious over Julian Hill, Winder.
Colbert Hawkins, Monroe, received
the election unanimously for vice-
president of the junior class. In the
race for president of the sophomore
class, Hoyt Haley, Hartwell, nosed
out Dyar Massey, Greenville, S. C.
Edgar Rhodes, Alpharetta, was elect
ed secretary and treasurer of the
class.
The president of the junior class,
the vice-president of the senior class,
and the vice-president of the sopho
more class are to be elected from the
ranks of the fraternity men.
Honors Listed
The new council president succeeds
DeNean Stufford, Washington, I). C.,
Sigma Chi. He is past president of the
local Sigma Nu chapter, Demosthen-
ian Literary society, intercollegiate
debater, and holder of both the fresh
man and Demosthenlan debating
keys.
Strong, new campus leader, is a
member of the Biftad club, former
member of "X” club, intercollegiate
debater, president of the sophomore
(Continued on page 5)
100,000,000-1 Chance That Student
Will Die During Year, According to Hill
Hy Tyus Hut lor
There Is only one chance in 100,-
000,000 that there will not be one
death In the student body In a year,
according to Pope R. Hill, professor
of mathematics at the University.
This figure was derived from the
American Experience of Mortality
and was based on a group of 2,400
people at ages ranging from 17 to
21. In nine months the possibility
has been cut down to one in 1,000,-
000 that they will all live. In a half
a year the figure is one chance in
10,000, and in three months, one
In a 100. For the brief time of one
month the possibility has decreased
to only one in four. But for one
week, the possibility has switched.
There is three chances to one that
no person will die within that time.
The most likely number of persons
that will die out of a group of 2,400
in a year is 18. This does not mean
Just the students that die at the
University, but also those that drop
out of school because of some sick
ness or something else and die that
year after they have dropped out.
If the physical condition of the stu
dents at the University is higher than
the group where the survey was made
then this number will not be as high,
but according to Mr. Hill this num
ber will range from 15 to 21.
But do not let this frighten you.
There Is 100 chances to one that an
individual student will not die with
in a year, and there Is 30 to one
chance that he will live the entire
four years of college life.