If a spirited rivalry for faculty and students should develop between our University here and the University of Virginia, I suggest to President Chase, for the use of propaganda, the following line from yesterday’s papers:
“Charlottesville, Virginia, today smashed the heat record for all time, with 105 degrees.”
It’s a good thing for us that Chapel Hill, escaping notice by reason of its out-of-the-way position, doesn’t get into the statistics.
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Henry Johnston created something of a sensation by appearing at the pool one day this week without a girl in tow.
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I compliment Mrs. Connor Upson on having selected to serve the sherbet at her garden party night before last, one of the comeliest group of young women assembled hereabouts in a long time. The cool mixture would have been agreeable in any case; but when it is brought to you by young ladies like these, the flavor becomes positively divine.
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A squirrel comes across from the campus and eats fragments of nuts, generously laid out for him, on the seat around the tree in front of Clarence Pickard’s store. If we are ever cursed with a “white way” in Chapel Hill, this sort of village scene will be no more. I pray that the “white way” will not come within my lifetime.
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The Daggett family, in which there are six children, is celebrated for the great number of accidents it has suffered—automobile smash-ups, broken bones, mashed fingers, and so on. Recently the pater familias, P.H himself, was a victim. He hurt his hand while installing a radio. While he was nursing it a letter came from Springfield, Ohio, saying that Haywood, the eldest son, had sprained an ankle. And so it goes.
One of the Lawrence girls fell downstairs the other day, and as she picked herself up she said to her mother: “Lucky I’m not a Daggett—I’d have broken a bone sure.”
Editor’s Note: The “white way” mentioned in this column refers to street lights that keep a section of downtown lite at night. By 1926 larger cities have street lights downtown along the main street, but Chapel Hill has been considered too small to install them yet.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, July 23, 1926
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