The Period of Silence, innovation of the newly adopted rushing system, will begin at midnight Monday when the Old South Bell tolls. At the first stroke of the bell fraternity representatives and rushes must part company. The period will be brought to a close late Wednesday by a second tolling of the bell—after all men have received their bids and have been directed to the fraternity of their choice.
Fraternities must place their bids in the hands of Dean Bradshaw by 11 o’clock Tuesday morning. Special messenger will be sent to all men who receive bids, informing them of the fact and requesting their presence before the Dean. Upon presenting himself before the Dean or his assistances, the man will give his first choice of fraternities. In case he has received a bid he will e immediately directed to the organization that he chooses. In case he failed to get the bid, a second choice will be necessary, and perhaps a third and fourth before the freshman will know what fraternity he is to “go”.
Attention of both fraternities and the rushes is again called to the fact that their honor is being called upon to abide by the regulations covering the Period of Silence. The compelling of old men rooming with men expecting bids to move out, and the posting of a hundred dollar bond as a guarantee of good faith is regarded as a mee formality. The real thing at stake is not the hundred dollars, but the honor.
Fraternities are besieging rushees with applications for the final two hours Monday night. The last minute period is regarded by many as the key to success and the “sweet talking” that will take place Monday night between 10 o’clock and the first stroke of the bell in Old South will probably not have been equaled by any such pouring fourth of heart and soul since the day that General Davie tied his horse to a little sprig of a poplar in the middle of the campus.
Despite the prevalence of mid-term examinations, a great migration from the hill is taking place during this week end and trips to beautiful homes, rides in handsome cars, visits to pretty girls, and football games and dances compose the program., Rushing is being carried to foreign fields. If a prize freshman leaves the Hill to escape the rush, the rush persists in following him. If he remains to brave the storm, the storm attempts to get the jump on its rival cyclones by spiriting him away to a more favorable peaceful stronghold. It is rumored that Virginia speed cops will do big business this week-end if they are on the watch.
Monday night it will all be over, all but the rejoicing and the weeping. The increased epidemic of cut-throating and stabbing that is gracing the last days of the 1925 hunting season will soon end and the campus will soon settle again to a state of fagged-out normalcy.
From the front page of The Tar Heel, UNC-Chapel Hill student newspaper, Saturday, Oct. 31, 1925
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