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$ORORITY OFFERS TO AID BABCOCK MEW MEMBERS ELECTED Alpha Kappa Gamma Will Spon sor Program Of Boys' Glee Club Aloha Kappa Gamma, honorary leadership sorority, met Wednesday afternoon at Melton Hall for the pur pose of electing new members. The following were elected into member ship: Misses Virginia Muller, Lucy Coleman, Mayre Wall, Dorothy Pen land, Elizabeth Carson, and Mary B. Taylor. The second initiation of the year will take place in the near future. The sorority voted to volunteer its services to Dr. Havilah Babcock dur ing high school week, which is to be held in Columbia during the early part of May. The members are to sponsor a pro .gram of the Boys' Glee club of the University, the first performance to be given in Columbia this year. Members of Alpha Kappa Gamma are: president, Miss Harriet Baker; secretary, Miss Eloise Shepherd; treasurer, Miss Gertrude Rigby; and Misses Elizabeth Jones, Elizabeth Freeman, Margaret Lyon, Mildred Cone, Rosalie Turner, Floride Stod dard, Margaret Aycock, Alice Mikell, Foy Stevenson, Anne New, and Edna Earle Kirton. LIBRARY SHOWS CURIOUS RELIC OLD ELECTRIC GENERATOR Machine Bought By University In 1858 In LeCont's Adminis tration On entering the University library one will notice an antebellum relic of much importance and interest. This object is known as an electric genera tor, and the product of this machine is called static electricity and is gener acted by friction. This electric generator, known as the Holtz machine was bought by the University in 1858, probably during the adminis tration of (Dr.) John LeConte. Due to the kindness of Professor Carson it has been moved to the library where it has created quite a little curiosity and not a little interest. These machines were the only methods of generating electricity as dynamos were unknown. At that time electricity was a thing of curi osity rather than a thing having prac tical use. Many people still think that electricity from the modern dynamos are generated by friction, howvever this is not the case. The old Holtz machine was used in Physics lab in performing experiments. A favorite experiment wvas to mnake students hair stand up. A number of parts are still owned by the University, but the machine at present is only of historic value because better methods of gen erating electric sparks have beeni found. The first Gamme Ring dynamo brought to the U. S. was one brought to the University of South Carolina.' This machine was loaned to the museum in N. Y., and after being repaired by the General Electric Co., was then placed in exhibition by the Engineers Society in N. Y. Due credit is given by that Institution to the Uni versity. In the early years of the University, a fairly large appropria tion was given to the science depart ment and scientific teaching was in troduced before some of the Northern universities. The base of the Holtz machine is of veneered mahogany, and pillars of the same thing. The cylinder is made out of brass in order to insulate elec tricity. The librarian hopes that stu dents will not handle this beautiful old relic, as it would be very costly, if not impossible to replace any ED NEI Y HEARS BELL ON VOCATIONS Girls Hear Talk On Importance Of Choosing A Vo cation R. G. Bell, secretary of the Young Mens' Christian Association, gave a most interesting and instructive talk at the meeting of the Y. W. C. A. Thursday night. The subject of his discussion was "Choosing a Vo cation." The discussion was divided into three questions to be considered in choosing a vocation. 1. Capacity Am I better suited to do this par ticular thing than anything else? Will I make a success of it, or would I be more successful at some other work? 2. Opportunity-Is the best opportunity offered to do this or that? Which task or work has the greater prospect and outlook? 3. Attitude Will I like the vocation which I am choosing best? Will I be happiest doing it? It is the purpose, or should be the purpose, of every one to live the best and most creative life pos sible. Though few pause to realize it, the vocation which a person pur sues largely determines his happiness. In conclusion, Mr. Bell urged those present to enter upon any vocation, that they might choose, with enthusi asm. He further urged that people consider more seriously an item that would play such a part in their life. Little Nothings Yesterday I heard someone making fun of my chief sport, which is eating. In the arena of eaters I rank among the mighty and can hold my own in any company. To have this, fine art so degraded and dragged in the dust was enough to make my blood boil. Many a poor door became the in nocent victim of my increasing rage. Finally to quiet my fit of anger it was necessary to put me in a tub and hold me down-I hope many of you will bear with me in upholding that best of arts-the art of eating. The first point that my pen seems to notice is the material side of life. Food is necessary for the human being to live. The survival of the fittest is ascertained by this method. The only way to assimilate food is by eating. ''he second point is that eating is a real joy and a pleasure. To the Epicurean life is just one apple dump ling after another. He lives for a good time, and how better can that dlesire be satisfied than by eating ? ? I Oh! that I had a thousand tongues that I might acclaim the fine points of this greatest of arts. I try to ex plain but my eyes fill with tears, and I am able no longer to contain myself. Eating as a recreation? (re-crea tion). Certainly, about all the exercise many hard working students obtain is their brisk walk to and from the table. If you (divide the day into three equal parts you can readily see that two-thirdls of your time is spent either in preparing or earning your dainties. Hunt said1 that his idea of Heaven upon earth was plenty of sleep, a book, and roast duck after roast duck. Come on students, let's introduce an intercollegiate eating match. This will not only create a new interest in eating, but will renew that old vigor that was the heritage of the cave man. It will create a bond of friendship that is more personal, more common, and more lasting, than sports like football and "Tiddley-winks." As instigator of the idea I will serve as coach. I was just wondering how many of our students are ancestor worshippers. Once in the dear dead days beyond recall I can faintly remember a chum who had a mania for recalling in stances from the lives of his beloved family-tree. TIhis student of ancient history followed his "genus"~ from state to state and from city to city. He once bragged that on his fathers side he had descended from th grea VS HOLLAND SPEAKS ON JOHN GREEN Intere8ting Talk On North Caro linian Heard By Euphro. syneans Miss Mabel Holland gave an inter esting discussion of the well-known playwriter, John Paul Green, of Chapel Hill. Miss Holland knew Mr. Green last summer at Chapel Hill and was thus able to make her talk all the more enjoyable by adding little inci dents in the life of the writer. She told of the boyhood and education of Mr. Green, his early efforts as a school teacher, his life in the army during the World War and his almost instan taneous rise to prominence. The thea ters in New York are very anxious to have Paul Green come there but he says, "New York will have to come to Chapel Hill and not Chapel Hill go to New York." Ever since entering upon this work, he has been with the Playmakers at Chapel Hill. Mr. Green was a Playmaker when he was in school there and it is thought that it was there that he received the inspiration to be a playwriter. The last play of Paul Green won the highest prize and honor that is offered for a play in this country. The prize carries with it $1000 in cash and one year of study abroad. This year, Mr. Green accompanied by his wife and two children, is studying in Paris but he expects to return to Chapel Hill where he will lead the Playmakers to greater success. L'. s. c. William of Normandy. Gosh! think how many ancestors he must have had, how many cutthroats among that old bunch of pirates. But then calm yourself and think how little of that Viking blood really coursed in his veins. My young friend, for self gratification, traced back a couple of generations or so, finally finding a couple of his noble race the victims of a neck-tie party. Soon his ardor vanished and now this creature can not stand to hear ancestors mentioned. 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