The Tar Heel,
University of JNortL Carolina.
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Walter Murphy.
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gratitude to our able, wise and
energetic President for his unceas
ing efforts in behalf of the up
building of the University.
Thursday, May u, 1893.
'The Base Ball season has
closed, with the exception of our
two games with minor colleges.
With the team that we haa on
the diamond this vear. we shall
have won the cha7npionship of the
South, but it is over with liow,
and the old adage of spilling
milk rinp-s in our ears, and we
will not mourn, but hope for bet
ter results in the future. We do
not meant to criticize, but we do
think that the game we lost to
the University of Virginia was
lost by the lack of proper coach
ing, i'n base running. In that
resoect our team this year has
been sadly deficient, with the ex
ceDtion of the first game with
with Vermont. A little experi
im 11.:. 1-. 1 j i. 1. L4.
ence iikc mis miuiuu. Lcai;u us wet
ter. The more experience one has,
the better he is prepared for emer
gencies. Next year we hope this
will be corrected.
. The University session is draw
ing to a close as is evidenced by
the appearance of the annual cat
alogue of the institution which
has just appeared. In looking
over the book we are gratified
to see that the attendance at the
University is steadily increasing,
year by year, last year the num
ber of students enrolled was un
der 250, this year it is 316, truly
a wonderful result of Dr. Win
ston's hard work for the Univer
sity, which will not cease until
he has placed it once more on that
plane of supremacy which it
adorned in ante bellum days. We
predict, under the guidance of Dr.
Winston, with his rare executive
ability, unlimited energy and
hard, persistent work in its be
half, that in few more years, the
University of North Carolina will
be what it formerly was, the cen
tre of learning and education in
the South. The people of the
State owe an everlasting debt of
Dr. Pritchard of Charlotte,
one of the ablest divines in the
State, in the last Sunday's issue
of that most excellent paper the
Charlotte Observer, says :
'Some of pur journals are quite
sweeping in condemning college
games base-ball, foot-ball, etc.
There are two sides to this ques
tion, and if we may believe our
college presidents, North and
South, there is much to be said
in their favor. They ought to
know more about this matter
than any one else, and if I mis
take not, a vote of the executives
of our college, generally would
heartily support them. "
Joe Caldwell the talented and
able editor of the Charlotte Ob
server, commenting on Dr.
Pritchard' s remarks, says the fol
lowing in the same issue of his
paper:
"Dr. Pritchard hits it again
when he says there are two sides
to the question of college athlet
ics. It is the fashion to rail
against them, yet who can deny
the advantages of physical any
more than of mental culture, and
who would not rather see the
college boy or any other boy ro
bust, red chested, lithe and cord
ed with muscles than to see him
pale, hollow-eyed, weak and ef
feminate? There is an appeal to
the sentiment of the "pale stu
dent, " who ' 'burns the midnight
lamp," but when it comes to
looking on him in the flesh there
is none of us who would not
rather see the other variety. Be
sides, it is stated as a matter of
fact that those who lead in the
athletic sports are as a rule the
best in their classes. The col
lege presidents generally favor
the college athletic exercises and
they are, perhaps, the best judges
of what is best for the students.
Inter-collegiate match games may
be objected to with reason upon
the ground that they may excite
friction between the respective
institutions, but not, surely, for
1 1 rM
any otner reason. 1 here is an
old Latin maxim about "a sound
mind in a sound body" that fits
somewhere ,in this discussion, and
evidently Dr. Pritchard has not
forgotten it."
Dr. Pritchard and Joe Caldwell
are both sensible men, and the
people of the State will listen to
their opinions of college athlet-
letics much more readily than
they will to the opinions of the
persons who have been so active-
y engaged in condemning Athlet
ics of late.
There are, indeed, two sides to
the question, and any suitable un
prejudiced person will acknowl
edge at once, after becoming ac
quainted with the facts in the
case; that Athletics not only
makes a man a better student,
but teaches him to be quick, self
reliant and independent, builds
up his physical being- and devel
ops what was once a young boy
into a strong, healthy, hardy ro
bust man. We recall several in
stances of young men who have
been at the University of North
Carolina that were thin, sickly
looking fellows, when they came
here, but were hard muscled,
strong, vigorous men when they
left, and they will each and every
one say that it was foot-ball that
made men of them. .Ifoot-bal
has been played time out of mind
at Oxford, Cambidge and Rug
by in England, and the statistics
from those institutions show that
it has always been the best stu
dents that were the. crack players
of their teams. Foot-ball is not
brutal, not demoralizing, does not
breed dissipation and the man
that says it does, not only exposes
his ignorance, but tells a deliber
ate falsehood. Before making
criticisms it behooves people to
acquaint themselves with facts.
Some persons deny that the
men who engage in college ath
letics are the best students. We
are not acquainted with the facts
elsewhere, but here at the Univer
sity of North Carolina, we do
say that generally the best ath
letes stand higher in their classes.
Qf the four men who will grad
uate with the highest honors in
June three were on the foot-ball
team last year, and the fourth is
a member of our base-ball team.
There has been one man viz.,
Eugene Harrell of the North
Carolina Teacher, who has been
unusually severe in his denuncia
tions of athletics at the Univer
sity, m fact he devotes much
space in each issue of his period
ical to hzs "Tale of woe," and calls
our foot-ball team, a real horrid
name, "A peripatetic foot-ball
team. ' ' Poor fellow ! he will make
a glorious martyr in his efforts to
stop college athletics, still he is
going to stem the tide of popular
opinion and have athletics aban
doned, especially the peripatetic
foot-ball team. The best thing
he could do to make people in
North Carolina happy, and joy
ous, would be to do like Judas
Iscariot, go out and hang himself.
The Massachusettes and Wor
cester Institutes of Theology and
Brown University will form " a.
foot-ball league.
Messrs Jas. A. Wilson & Co., of
Wilson's Mills, have been here
this week making estimates on re
pairing the Old East and Old
West buildings. The contract
will be let by the Executive Com
mittee on Monday and work will
begin just after Commencement.
The same style of repairs will be
made as was made last year in the
South building, with the addi
tion of water works which will
be placed in all the buildings.
New patented seats with attach
ment for taking'notes will be put
in all the recitation rooms. This
is certainly a much needed im
provement for some of our reci
tation benches vie with the in
struments of torture of the dark
ages.
The Annual Committee of Vis
itation, consisting of Hon. John
C. Scarboro, Hon. John W.
Stames, Mr. James Parker, and
Rev. P. D. Gold, made their
regular visit to the University
last week. Rev. W. S. Black
was prevented from being present,
by important business. The com
mittee took a thorough view of
the property, and inspected the
University in all its departments.
We know that they could not
have been otherwise than pleased
and gratified with the result of
their investigation.
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