University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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organization of all the County Clubs. The work devolving upon this newly-created organization of Association of County Clubs is aptly expressed in the preamble of the Constitution adopted by the Association: The members of the County Clubs in the University, being keenly aware of their obligation to the State that is training them, to the communities in which they have been reared, and to themselves as individuals in a demo- cratic society, and knowing the difficult problems that stand in the way of progress of the variou s counties and the State; and being eager to serve intelligently through a more accurate knowledge of conditions, do organize this Club, to be known as the North Caro- lina Civic Association of the University of North Carolina. The officers of the organiza- tion are: I. M. Bailey, of Smithfield, pres : dent; Frank Graham, of Charlotte, first vice- president; G. B. Phillips, of Trinity, second vice-president; F. W. Morrison, of Spencer, secretary; E. M. Coulter, of Connelly Springs, treasurer; Prof. E. K. Graham, C. L. Raper, and M. C. S. Noble, executive committee. University Law Class Wins Prize The Univers ' ty Law Department numbers its leaders in councils of State and Nation by the thousands. Each year since the founding of the school more than a half- century ago its sons have been products of the best legal talent in the State or Nation. The class of 1912-1913 will add a memorable chapter to this proud record of fifty years ' standing of the Law School. The class, through its display of legal talent, has already obtained national recognit on through the medium of the mock trial contest of The Case of Jennie Brice as instituted by Everybody ' s Magazine. Other than receiving the h ' gh honor of national recognition, the class was awarded the first State prize of $100.00 in the Union-wide contest. Credit for th ' s distinct triumph is duly attached to the following young attorneys: John W. Hester, of Hester; James W. Morris, of Tampa, Fla. ; W. L. Warlick, of Newton; Horace E. Stacy, of Shelby; George H. Ward, of Waynes- ville; L. A. Swicegood, of Salisbury; J. J. Henderson, of Mebane; and W. F. Taylor, of Faison. The University Dramatic Club Convincingly true is the contention that athletics and debating are vitally essential in the make-up of student activities; just so has dramatics an important role in the develop- ment of student life. Revived and rejuvenated, dramatics as expressed in the very best dramatic talent picked from a wide range, embracing a hundred or more candidates, has contrbuted abundantly to the things that have made the year an eventful one. The single production of the comedy, What Happened to Jones, alone will outdistance the bounds of a brief college year, and set a high standard for dramatic talent of the years to follow. Other Changes There are many other history-making events in the college year 1912-1913, that ends with the crowning event of a visit from Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, that are of equal significance as those already treated separately and somewhat in detail; but TIVEN7 Y-FIVE

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Commenting on this home-source revenue plan, Frank Graham, writing in the Alumni Review, says: With this more substantial financial basis, and with concentrated respon- sibility in an efficient council to supplant what proved to be desultory, inexperienced, and unbusinesslike management, athletics at the University are on a foundation for gradual growth into greater effectiveness. The Greater Council Paitly as an outgrowth of the stu- dent council proper, and in a large measure a branching off into a distinct field of its own, the present college year has given birth to a student organization known as The Greater Council. The function of this new creation, arising to meet the demands of the increasing con plexily of college life, is not of judgment for the rightng of grievances or the punshment of evildoers, but is an organization of rep- resentative students striving to offer solutions for the problems of student life — endeavoring to associate harmoniously the units of college life, relate them, and thus promote interests of the University as well as student life on the campus. A typical illustra- tion of the work undertaken by the Greater Council can be ascertained from a para- graph in the November issue of the University Magazine, by the president of the council, Walter Stokes, Jr., under the nom de plume R. J. Sekots Retlaw : We are striving for perfect social health. The social health of our community is more solid now than at any previous time during the writer ' s sojourn in it. Yet we must evolve further if we would have perfect social health. The whole, composed of systemat ' zed, well-balanced units, may be a forward step. Then Mr. Stokes proceeds to offer a salient remedy towards bettering social life by making the academic classes the units of the whole through the medium of having the classes room by themselves. This is only one of the many problems of campus l ' fe to which The Greater Council will direct its careful attention; and its activities in many fields of reform imke it unmstakably certain thai it has a mission in college life, and is an organization here to stay. This year ' s Council is composed of the following students representing the various classes: Regular Council, W. G. Harry, Frank Graham, A. L. Hamilton, J. N. Tolar, D. H. Carlton, Phillip Woollcott, and Walter Stokes, Jr. ; Graduate Class, P. H. Gwynn, Jr. ; Senior Class, M. T. Spears and G. B. Phillips; Junior Class, Leno : r Chambers, Jr.; and S. W. Whilmg; Sophomore Class, W. P. Fuller and T. C. Boushall; Medical Class, J. S. Milliken; Law Class, J. T. Johnston; Pharmacy Class, C. L. Cox. The Central Organization of County Clubs Analagous to the other definite movements of the college year toward weaving the University and the State into a Siamese-twin relationship, is the perfection of a central TirE.XTr-FtTR

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Y-YACK the briefness and incompleteness of an article of this nature makes it not feasible to expand further than giving a few sentences to each of the other steps contributing to the making of a Greater University. With the rapid expans on of the institution in increased number of students, and the annexat ' on of new branches of work, the year has recorded the erection of three new buildings. The first of these, the Caldwell Hall, has provided sufficient accommodations for the growing medical school. The new dormitory, whose three sections are named after Pres. K. P. Battle, Gov. Zeb B. Vance, and Gen. J. J. Pettigrew, has been com- pleted, and contains quarters for seventy-two students. Then, too, the erection of a new educational building, made possible by the Peabody Fund, will mark the rise of the school of education. The activities of the faculty have set a standard unsurpassed in previous years. This standard was voiced by a younger alumnus in his speech on University Day, when he asserted that there was a prevailing sentiment in the State that the University should, like the University of Wisconsin, spend itself more directly in the service of the people. It is doing this, in solving the problems of public health, in bringing about better methods of taxation, in giving expert advice to townships and counties engaged in the construction of highways, in carrying literature on all kinds of everyday, actual problems to any citizen in the State who might be in need of special information; in doing all those helpful, needful things embraced under the head of intelligent University Extension. TWENTY-SIX