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VOLUME ILffl.
NUMBER 21*—ZlO®
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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORG IA, APRIL I, H»:lS.
Changes Made
In Dean’s List
For Next Year
5 Per Cent of Each School to
Be Recognized Honor’s
Day
Beginning with the school year
1938-39, dean’s list will appear once
a year based on the upper 5 per
cent of each school or department.
‘‘The new plan will make the
dean’s list more exclusive and more
of an honor,” Dean L. L. Hendren
said, ‘‘but it will give students in all
departments an equal chance to re
ceive the honor. As it is now, a
student in a department which grades
more strictly than another doesn’t
have an even chance.”
Announced Once a Year
Honor roll for freshmen and
sophomores will be computed as
per cent of the total number in those
classes, irrespective of departments
the students are registered in. For
juniors and seniors the 5 per cent
will be taken separately from each
school or college group.
The new dean's list will be an
nounced once a year on Honor’s Day
in the spring quarter. A student
must be in the University at least
two of the three regular quarters
preceding Honor’s Day quarter to be
eligible. A student who makes the
list will stay there for a full year
unless he fails a course, in which
case he will be automatically drop
ped.
While on the dean’s list a student
will have absence privileges as for
the present dean’s list and extra
course privileges up to a maximum
of 21 hours.
Officials Express Approval
Administration officials expressed
hope that the new plan will promote
scholarship as well as make the
honor available to departments
which are now not well represented.
The winter quarter dean’s list is
as follows:
Roy Adams, Eugene Adams, Mark Adams,
James .Akins, Thad Alexander, Mary Eliza
beth Allen, Ruth Anderson, Virginia Ash
ford, Frederick Atkinson, Virginia Bar-
Held, D. C. Barrow, Inez Barthelmoss, Ida
Barrow, Jane Basel), Edward Baxter, La
mar Beall, Milton Beckham, Ethel Bell.
Newton Bell. Elliott Bluinenthal, J. II
Boatright, Nell Boland, Emmie Bolton
Play Tryouts to Be Held
For Final Spring Show
Open to every student in the
University, tryouts for the spring
quarter production of the Univer
sity Theater will be held in the
Chapel Tuesday and Wednesday
nights, April 5 and 6.
The Tuesday night tryouts will
be reserved for men, while women
are requested to be present Wed
nesday night. The testing will be
gin at 7:30 each night.
All students are eligible for par
ticipation in the play regardless
of membership in Tlialian-Black-
friars.
Greek Council Fails
To Ratify Proposal
Favoring Reforms
Measure May Be Reconsider
ed in Final Vote Follow
ing Spring Dances
Although the proposed University
supervision of the finances of the
Pan-Hellenic Council failed to re
ceive a required three-fourths vote
Tuesday, officials believe that the
measure will probably be approved
by the Council at meetings scheduled
for the near future.
The Council was in favor of the
proposal, but by a majority of only
one vote. Prior to taking the vote
the constitutionality of the move
was questioned and after discussion,
a committee to revamp the proposal
into an amendment was appointed.
Members Favor Amendment
Some of the representatives were
disinclined to favor the change be
cause of the lack of an amendment.
Others did not think it possible to
put it into effect before the spring
dances as was originally planned.
The Council will meet April B to
accept the amendment as presented
by the committee and again on
April 12 they will take a final vote.
Talk of letting the University
supervise the finances of the Coun
cil had been going about for some
weeks and early this week the isr
sue gained momentum. As a result,
the special meeting was called.
The proposed amendment, when
drawn and presented, will provide
Neiv r Y’ Presidents Plan W ork for 1938-39 Spring Dance
Tickets Placed
On Sale at $7
Kay Kyser to Present Special
Program at Tea Dance
Saturday
By Jack Reid
University malo students today
began looking in every nook and
corner for $7 as the annual Little
Commencement dances, this time to
feature Kay Kyser and his band, ad
vanced within seven days of being
a reality and block tickets are avail
able at the customary four sites:
Costa’s, Gunn's, the Co-op lunch
room, and fraternity houses.
Preparations for the four-dance
I series of next week-end have been
furthered considerably during the
past woek by the Pan-Hellenic Coun
cil, sponsor of the affair, with the
most noticeably aided being faculty
j members who, according to Monk
Arnold, Atlantn, vice-president of
the Greek body, will be uble to pur-
| chase tickets at the reduced rates of
| $1. Chaperons, naturally, will be
I admitted on the house.
Arnold also announced that the
Saturday afternoon tea dunce will be
somewhat of a concert, with Kay
Kyser to present a spucial program
along the order of Ills popular radio
program, Kollege of Musical Knowl
edge. There will bo ample seating
room in Woodruff Hall for nil who
desire to see the Bpecial program.
Marjorie Mann. Mcltac; Bob Mcknight, Toccna, anil Marie Richard
son, Atlanta, newly-elected presidents of the Y. \V. t'. A., the Y. M.
A., and the Coordinate "Y” will take over their new duties soon.
Political Parade Rumbles On
With 24 Candidates on Tickets
iK.uinu, , for a vote to place the president and
Mitchell Bond, Pope Booth, Clinton Bow treasurer of the Council on a salary
den, Calhoun Bowen, James Branch, La n(] Connell to make oil
mar Branch, Hallln Breedlove, Mary Brew- dna require tne council to make all
ater, Cecil Brewton, Plott Brice, William purchases and business transactions
Britt, Hugh Broome, Caroline Brosecao. through the office of J. D. Bolton,
Ruth Clark Brown, Virginia Brown, Wll- it„i v -, r(1 i tv tro-murer
11am Brown, Kittln Browning, Martha Bui j Univerisity treasurer,
lard, and Earl Burkhalter. H. J. Stegeman, dean of men, said
Catherine Burkhart, J. Lloyd Burrell, he felt the Council would pass the
garet^Byrum, 8 ’ Helen" cibSufe* Jo“ph ““Sure following the addition of
Camp, Wallace Campbell, William Can the amendment to the constitution,
trell, Ernestine Cargill, Bert Carmichael.;
Lottie Mae Carr, Don Carter, John Carter,
(Continued on page 5)
Committee Appointed
The committee appointed is com
posed of Wingate Dykes, chairman;
Tom Abney, Bobby Troutman, and
Wadsworth McGinty. Dean Stege
man attended the meeting, and Mr.
Bolton and President Harmon Cald
well were present part of the time.
Pete Latimer, Atlanta, president of
the Council, was not in school.
The measure, according to Dean
Stegeman, will definitely stop all
rumors of graft in the Council; will
decrease the cost of dances through
a surplus which will be built up; and
will insure the students cheaper
tickets for better dances.
Noted Radio Choir
Will Sing Saturday
The Guilford College A Capella
Choir, first organization of its type
in a southern institution and noted
for its nationwide appearances and
radio broadcasts, will appear in the
University Chapel Saturday night at
8 o'clock under the direction of Dr.
Ezra H. F. Weis.
Sponsored by the Voluntary Re
ligious Association, the choir, on its
10th annual southern tour, comes to
Athens from Lake City, Fla. Pro
ceeds from the benefit performance
will be used to send students to the
annual Southern Student Conference
at Blue Ridge, N. C. A program
consisting of 15 compositions from \ University students will be given
various periods and types of music! .... . , . , ,
has been scheduled. an opportunity study the develop-
Founded in 1928, the Guilford Col- ment of their state from some time
lege (N. C.) choir, selected from a before its colonization to the present
regular student choir of 60 members, ce ntury through the purchase of the
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Midnight Set us Deadline for
Registration with Campus
Leader Hudson
The political parade started its
rumble forward late last night when
the ticket was opened with 24 candi
dates entering the race for some
dozen campus offices.
Storm and fury will rage to a
louder key this year when all candi
dates will lambast their opponents
at a political rally two weeks prior
to the voting day, tentatively set
for May 9.
With midnight tonight marking
the deadline for entry, the following
candidates had already made their
required registration with Campus
Leader P. J. Hudson this morning:
For campus leader: Alfred ‘‘Till
Bit” Morrow, Decatur; Wilson Still,
Monroe; Mailing Tripp, Eastman, and
Thomas Whitley, Mystic.
For president of the senior class:
Roy Mercer, Gray; Ed Pope, Atlantn,
and Elmon Vickers, Norman Park.
For senior class secretary and
treasurer: Levern ‘‘Coach” Lindsey,
Porterdale; Thurman Giles, Byrom-
ville; Otis Parker. St. Mary’s, and
Hugh Carlan, Commerce.
For president of the athletic as
sociation: John I). Daniel, Claxton,
and J. Benny Olliff, Bristol.
For vice-campus leader: Harold
Hayes, Lewisburg, Tenn.
For vice-president of the junior
class: C. M. Erwin, Aduirsville, and
Arthur Stewart Jr., White Plains.
For president of the sophomore
class; Ernest Hicks, Lavonia.
For secretary and treasurer of the
sophomore class: Ralf Stinson, Fort
Gaines.
Cheer leader (open until the last
day): Frank Seaton, Cohutta; Phil-
more “Ted” Bell, Atlanta, and Jesse
Miller, Cairo.
Radical Reformers (wet
"Red in Fas Ovver IS Otis'*
Radical orthographers who las
wek tout for “shortened reformed
spelin” got red in the fas, for the
sine which the student Websters
put on the buletin bord was label
ed “Notice” instead of the short
ened simplefld form, “Notls,”
which everbody out to uz.
In their public leson on how to
rite simplified Bpelin, the reform
ers omitted to simplify "contain
ing” to “contanin,” "pronuncia
tion” to "pronundashun,” "not
ice” to "notls," and in “such,”
they added a superflus letter to
make it "sutch.”
On the Inside
Sophomore woim-n give aliinial
foot-warmer tonight at !* 3
Editor Carter declares that per
sonal joiirnalism is not dead
and writes a column to that
effect »
Grand Opera Sung
By All-Student Cast
For Music Lovers
i
Regents Purchase DeRenne Collection;
Valuable Papers Trace Georgia History
This collection of Georgia, Con-
icderate, and Colonial lore was re-
_ cently bought by the University Sys-
Washington, Baltimore, Cincinnati, 1 co ‘‘ e . cu °" °
DMiorfoinkio Vow- Vert ritv fe< le*ate, and Colonial lore w,
Philadelphia, and New York
The present tour has included ap
pearances in cities in South Caro- ‘;“ u ‘ ... ...
lina. Florida, Georgia, and North I of Savannah, for $60,000.
Carolina.
tern from Wymberley W. DeRenne
Invitations May be Ordered
From Co-ftp L ntil April 15
Orders for senior invitations may
be placed now at the Co-op or with
Clark Gaines, president of the senior
class. A small deposit is being re
quired to insure delivery and ship
ment.
Orders will be received between
April 1 and April 15. but none will
be taken after the 15th.
A year’s option was extended the
University on the original Confed
erate Constitution for $25,000.
The collection of thousands of
books, pamphlets, maps, and engrav
ings includes confidential letters
The only known copy of the Geor
gia Constitution of 1789 und a copy
of the state's Ordinance of Secession
is also contained in the collection.'
Indexed at a cost of $30,000 by
the late Leonard L. Mackall of Sa
vannah, who was associated with
the Congressional Library at Wash
ington, D. C., for many years, the
DeRenne collection is said to con
tain a complete and orderly record
of Georgia's growth from 1700 to
the present century.
The DeRenne collection will sup
plement the Moore Georglana and
the Telemon Cuyler collection of
manuscripts recently acquired by the
University and will be housed in the
from General Robert E. Lee to Jef-inew wing of the General Library
ferson Davis, president of the Con
federacy.
A photostat file of the first Geor
gia newspaper. The Royal Georgia
Gazette, and complete files of The
Cherokee Phoenix, an Indian news
paper published in the English and
Cherokee tongues, comprise a part
of the library.
It is understood that Mr. DeRenne
will become an assistant librarian in
charge of the collection although his
appointment awaits action by the
Board of Regents.
The library is now in Charleston
and is being checked by Dr. E. M.
Coulter, professor of history, prepar
atory to shipment to Athens.
By Louis Griffith
Grund opera returned to Athens
Wednesday night for the first time
in over four years, and music lov
ers filled the Physical Education
Building to heur the first all-student
operu presented on the University
campus.
Under the direction of Hugh Hodg
son, head of the fine arts department,
members of the Men's and Women’s
Glee Clubs sang Mascagni's one-act
drama, “Cavalleriu Rusticana,” ac
companied by a 35-piece little sym
phony orchestra.
The story of the opera is a tragic
tala of intrigue and passion, laid in
the squulid environment of a Sicilian
village. The principal roles were
capably handled. Martha Emma Wat
son, Macon, soprano, was convincing
us Santuzza, u peasant maid who
loved Turridu, a soldier, sung by
Luther Bridges, Atlanta tenor, who
was in fine voice.
David Barrow, Athens, bass, sang
the rolo of Alfio, the carter, with
gusto; and Jeun Peabody, Athens,
as Lola, his wife, made much of her
aria, “My King of Roses.” Martha
Rauzln, in the role of Lucia, mother
of Turridu, displayed a vibrant, low
voice In her character part.
With the exception of one or two
rough places, the orchestra and
chorus were uniformly good, the for-
I mer reaching the peak of its per-
| formance in the well-known “Inter
mezzo," which precedes the final
(CootlnueU on page 5)
Crawford Long Exercises
Held in Chapel II ednesday
Characterizing Crawford W. Long's
discovery of ether as one of the
greatest American contributions to
medicine. Dr. George A. Traylor, Au
gusta, spoke at the annual exercises
in honor of the famed Georgian at
the Chapel Wednesday. Dr. Traylor
is president of the Georgia Medical
Association.
William Russell, Athens, was
awarded the prize offered by the
Crawford W. Long Association for
the best essay on the subject “Why
I Chose Medicine as My Profession"
by President Harmon W. Caldwell
during the exercises.
The speaker traced the progress
of medicine in Georgia since the
state’s colonization and pointed out
the difficulties and hardships that
have confronted its practitioners.
Weary, ltlcury-oyo<l survivors of
Friday night's o|»eniiig dance of
Hie Lillie Commencement series
won't, have hi worry hImiuI gelling
up for Saturday classes. I lean I,.
I,. Hendren today made his annual
announcement that Saturday class
es will lie suspended for the mcr-
ry-maklng.
Aside from the band, which prom
ises to rival the extreme popularity
attained by. Glen Gray at last spring's
dances—especially In view of the
fact Kay Kyser will play for four
dunces whereas Casa Lomu orches
tra pluyed for but three—the setting
for next week’s dances is very sim
ilar to that of Little Commencement
dunces of past years. Need we say
thut the Phi Eps will entertain fol
lowing the Friday night dance, which
will feature the customary Pan-Hel
lenic lead-out.
The Saturday morning breakfact
dance and the Saturday afternoon tea
dance will feature Kay Kyser and the
orchestra, Including Vocalists Vir
ginia Sims, Harry Bobbett, "Ish Ka-
(Contlnued on page .">)
Landscape Students
Make Garden Tour
Ten landscape architecture stu
dents are now on a live-day Inspec
tion tour of south Georgia and Flor
ida gardens.
In Thomasville and Tallahassee the
group will visit the Payne, Whitney,
Hanna, Wade, Harvey, and McClay
estates. They will see the city park
system in Jacksonville and several
gardens und estates on the St. Johns
River.
IJn the return trip the students
will inspect the Cloister Hotel
grounds and several beach gardens,
and In Savannah they will visit the
Wormsloe Gardens, Ilonuventurc
Cemetery, and several parks.
Those making the tour are: Harry
Anderson, Dallas; Joe Arnold, Wash
ington; Walter Davis, Brunswick;
Thomas Early, Bishop; Max Lindsay,
Atlanta; David Reed, Lexington;
Rex Saffold, Savannah; Mary Staf
ford, Washington, D. C.; George
Stallings, Haddock; John Weems,
Meridian. Miss.; and Susan Williams,
Washington. Hubert B. Owens, head
of the department of landscape arch
lecture, is directing the students.
April 15 Set As Final Dale
In Religious Essay Contest
The time limit on the religious es
say contest has been extended to
April 25. Papers must be in Dean
William Tate's office by 5 p. m. on
the last day of the contest.
Material on the essay, "The Co
operation of the Three Great Re
ligions—Jewish, Catholic, and Prot
estant—in Fostering Better Citizen
ship,” may be found on reserve in
> the General Library.