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Tfc /? T Professors Inve Methoc v . ? , > V 4 * ' " ' ' * " i Association Of University Professors Makes Careful Study Of System s .1 Is any one method best for all college teachers in all subjects at all times? What are the relative merits of the lecture method and the laboratory or experimental method? Is there any place in higher institutions for the practice or drill method? Is the personality of the instructor as well as the type of subject matter inextricably bound up with the method of presentation? These are some of the questions | to be stuaicd and answered by the ' American Association of University professors who are making a careful study of the methods of teaching now employed in the colleges and means for its improvement. The organization, aided by 11,000 instructors, seeks to answer questions frankly with the aim of eliminating weaknesses and inefficiencies. Special phases of the investigation will be performed by some of these members toho have been especially active in the affairs of the organization during the last few years. j Profs Engage ' In Research U. S. 0. Professors Do Varied Research Work During Summer Several of the University's professors were engaged in literary pursuits of various types during the summer. Professor H. C. Davis spent a great deal of the summer doing research work in the library of Congress in Washington. He is particularly interested in the war record of Edgar Allan Poe. Dr. S. M. Derrick's book on county government, a basic study in this field, will appear from the North Carolina University press in November. Dr. Derrick has done considerable research work in preparing the book, having spent the entire summer delving into the study of county government. Dr. E. L. Green, of the ancient language department, is working on a history of Richland County. Mrs. Walter E. Rowe spent the summer in Berlin in preparation for her work at Columbia Cbllege. Mrs. Rowe is a very capable teacher and has an enthusiastic group of German students at Columbia College. u. i. o. Mrs. Fitz Fizzet: "I was never so mortified in my life. Here everybody heard you snoring during a pause in the singing." Mr. (supply it yourself): "Snore 1 Great heavens, woman, that was my bass solo." Magician (sawing girl in half): "Now, ladies and gentlemen, when this pirl has been sawed in two, hfer brains will be given to the medical college and the rest thrown to the dogs." Gallery Gang: "Woof, woof, bow wow II" ADVE II The Ga: Best Adverth on the < i J Circulati 1 T If , &j8? ? v. 7 . . 1 ' . stigate is Of Teaching Band Plays For Game Forty U. S. 0. Bandsmen Play At Sewanee Game Day After Registration The University Band came out in full force last Saturday at the Sewanee game in spite of the fact that registration had been completed only the day before. Forty men, half of whom were new men stepped out on the field and surprised the crowd by rendering Sewanee's Alma Mater song in salute tox the opposition and also a program of inspiring marches during the game. According to Dean Olson, about fifty men are trying out for places in the Band this year and as there are instruments and uniforms for only forty men, competition will be keen in the various sections. The football trips this year are especially attractive. The first out of town engagement will be the Wake Fore3t game at Charlotte a week from Saturday and the next week will be filled with practice in drilling and the letter formations which were used last year. A new drum major is to be selected this year as Piute Wimberly who acted last year is now Director of Wentworth Academy Band in Kansas City, one of the highest ranking Military Academies in the United States. D. I. o. Bold Yeggmen Rob N. C. State A few fingerprints are the only clues police have to the yeggs who robbed the treasurer's office at N. C. State College Sunday and escaped with $8,000. Police are not sure whether the fingerprints are those of the robbers or of some employee who used the safe prior to the robbery. A check is still being made. . . The thieves entered the office by cutting a screen and raising the window. The safe was opened with tools and without the use of explositives. The money comprised $7,000 in registration fees and $1,000 in receipts from the Appalachian-N. C. State football game Saturday. About $500 was overlooked by the robbers. Police expressed belief the robbery was executed by professional crooks. Dr. E. C. Brooks, president of the college said the office was partly covered by insurance. u. I. o. It doesn't pay to be crooked.... Just look at the corkscrews that are out of a job. They guffawed when I sat down at the machine-gun, but in a few moments I had them all silenced. We've heard about the postman taking hikes on holidays, but .when we saw the other day a medical student at a burlesque show?Weill "You remind me of a flying machine," said the farmer to his college son. "You're no good on earth." JRTISE N mecock nrtg Medium Campus 'on 2350 I"*-' . t ' . . .... . Glee Club Will \ Travel Widely Cuban Jaunt Planned ! Sixty Try For Places; Jazz Or- : chestra Will Be Organized To * Accompany Club With an unusually promising array of talent, the University, of South , Carolina Glee Club bids fair to eclipse all its former triumphs, and they arc ' many, during the current season. 1 About sixty boys are trying out for \ the club, and of this number approxi- 1 matcly thirty will be so fortunate as 1 to make the grade. ' "I am very encouraged over the prospects", said Maurice Mattison, director of the club, today. "The 1 voices this year are of unusual quality ' and if they can be blended as I hope the effect should be most gratifying." * Plans are now on foot to organize a 1 jazz orchestra which will accompany ' the club and help defray the expenses * of the trips by rendering concerts of 1 a popular nature and playing for j dances here and there. Boys who can 1 sing and who can also perform on musical instruments are especially urged to get in tou<ph with Mr. Mattison and arrange to try out for the club. 1 Plans for the Cubarf jaunt which the songsters will take are shaping up slowly because of the difficulty entailed in booking the desired pas- , sage from Miami to the Cuban capitol. . A concert has been booked in Havana for December 18 and it was hoped that the difficulties could be ironed out and the appearance made as scheduled. ' U. B. O. Lab Conducts Press Bureau The University Press bureau will be conducted this year by the journalism laboratory cla.'-s, No. 35, it was announced by J. Rion McKissick, dean of the school of journalism, yesterday. The bureau organized last year, has its objective the spreading of items about the University and university affairs throughout the State. This is accomplished by sending press dispatches to the various newspapers of the state. Instead of performing the usual exercises in the lab manual, the students of^jo.urnalism 35 will be given actual piactice in news gathering and writing, thereby killing two birds with one stone. u. s. o. Students Live Simple Lives Small Ohio Quaker School Untouched'By The Latest Educational Fads Few American schools have undergone as few changes in student activity or clung to tradition so tenaciously as Olney college, a small Quaker institution located at Barnesville, Ohio. Ever since the school's founding in 1876, Olney students have plodded along the same course of recreational and social enjoyments as their predecessors, disdaining new movements in collegiate activity. A co-educational school, Olney has yet to schedule its first prom or arrange its first inter-collegiate athletic schedule since students here neither dance nor accept sports on an equal rating with their curriculum. Smoking is unknown among male students just as cosmetics are alien to the co-eds. Jaz music is spurned; petting parties unheard of and drinking entirely beyond the realm of Olney comprehension. Athletics are carried on but only in a restricted form. Contests between classes provide the "big moments" on the sportive calendar. But despite the dearth of activity which normally attends American college life, Olney students strike the appearance of being more contented. Residing as one large family, students and faculty mingle with an affection that i9 rare beyond the family hearth. With the exception of Urbana college, Urbana, O., which has less than 50 students, Olney probably is the smallest college in the country. 1 U.I.O. Dr. Williams To Make Address to Rotarians Dr. George Croft Williams, head of the Sociology Department, will address the Columbia Rotary Club on October third. Dr. Williams has been appointed Chairman of the Joint Committee on Unemployment for the State of South Carolina. Directory To Appear Soon f " Now Being Prepared New Directory Dedicated To Dr. Schayer Will Be Off Press In Short Time The Blue Key student directory, which is now in process of being prepared, will be out in a short time, t was learned from John Bolt Culbertion, editor of this year's issue. The ssuance of the book is being somewhat delayed by late registration. An iffort is being made not to exclude myone from the directory. The book this year will be dedicated lo Dr. Isadore Schayer, head of the fiygcnc department. In,jhc directory will be the names of :he students, together with their home md campus addresses, telephone num>er, year in college, course being aken, and fraternity affiliation. The lames of the professors, with comitate information on them, are also ncluded. tj. h. o. i Maid: "Shall I take this little rug )ut and beat it?" Man: "That's no rug; that's my oommate's towel." "Izzy, vere iss my glasses?" "On yer nose, fadder." "Vy must you always be so indefinite Izzy?" R sin^ than t Every Mon Vet and Marl rhythm . . . Rivuh himsel And while erfield. Enj mildness and / They're mi' Chesterfield Rt days, FridaysSaturday*?9 j Ql THE . CIGARETTE THAI ...THAT TASTES ? 19)2, Ltccrrr ft My*** Tobacco Co* , . ,v. Symphony On Plan, Delta Zeta Gives Tea Rushees Entertained At Sorority House; President And Advisors Receive Beta Delta chapter of Delta Zeta entertained rushees with a tea Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock at the Delta Zeta house bn Green Street. Receiving were Edythc Carlisle, president of the chapter, Marguerite Able, advisor, and Sara Calhoun, last year's president. Margaret Patrick pinned on each guest a rose, the sorority flower, tied with a green ribbon monogrammed with a pink "D. Z." Mrs. Mills, one of the sorority patronesses, poured tea. Sandwiches and mints were served by the pledges of the sorority. W. 8. c. Mistress: "Did you water the rubber pljmt?" Dufnb D.: "No, ma'am, I thought it was water proof." FIVE POINTS Call Us?And See Ho1 PHONE Curb Service IVER Srr/y /u& l&zy Y)o *s it better V he Bos wells? day and Thursday... Connie, iha, in that bubbling Boswell as irresistible as 01' Man f! you listen, light up a Chester their fresh fragrance, their better taste. Id . . . and yet they Satisfy. % *dio Program?Mondays, Wednea? 10 p. m., Tuesday*, Thursday*, pan., E. S, T., Columbia Network. |j \ vl :hestra ' | s First Concert i Matte son Quartet Will Feature Program Of Entirely Oriental Music The first concert of the University Symphony orchestra will be given November 3, on the campus, it was announced by Madame Felice de Horvath, conductor, at the first regular meeting. It was also stated that the Matteson quartet, composed of Mrs. William Furtick, Mrs. William Sweeny, Mr. Robert Lafaye, and Mr. Maurice Matteson, will be guest singers for the concert. The program is to be entirely oriental with Goldmark's Sakuntal Overture representing the Hindu music, Lelmans In a Persian Garden, representing the Persian (quartet) and the Gini Ballet Egyptian representing Egyptian music. Plans were discussed of making an out-of-town trip next month. Any student interested in entering the orchestra is asked to stop in at the Violin studio on the campus for a hearing. 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