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"rirae T0.1- Heel UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. ' , Published Every Thursday by the General Athletic Association. ,y v .v - Edward W. Myers, - - Editor-in-Chief. Gkorgb S. Wii,i,s, - - - literary Editor. W. R. Webb, Jr., - - - - Athletic Editor. Harry Howem,, - - - Exchange Editor. Jas. A. GwynN, - - - - - Local Editor. M. H. Yount, - - L,ocal Editor. Harry Howem., - - Business Manag-er. Jas. A. Gwynn, - Assistant Bus. Manag-er. Entered at the post-office in Chapel Hill, N. C, as second-class mail-matter. A Rare and Valuable Gift. I The University has been made the recipient of a very rare and valuable gift in the' shape " of a plaster cast of the head of Napoleon I. made from the original death mask of the great military leader of the French. The cast was brought to New Orleans by Dr. Antomarchi surgeon to Napoleon, and of late years it has been in the possession of Lieut. F. S. Bryan, of St. Louis, to whom the University is indebted for the gift. This cast is one of the three in this country and is therefore of interest not only from its rarity but greatly more so from its historical interest. All admirers of the great Napoleon should see this cast, for fromit a better idea of the man be formed than from reading- many pages of biography. One can see much of the character of the man in the low, broad brow, the thin bridged, high arched nose, high cheekbones, firm mouth and resolute chin, even though the calm of death is on the face, First Game of the Season. On Friday the 12th, the 'Varsity eleven lines up, for the first time this year, in a match game with the A. & M. team. " ! J This will be a very , important game to , us, as it will show the strong and weak places on our team and have great influence in deter mining who will fiir the positions; The A. & M. team will arrive I on the preceding night, and the game will come off at the Athletic Park in the afternoon. The rainy days of the first part of the week hindered practice, but it will be nevertheless an interesting contest. At any rate every student should witness the game, give the visitors a good reception and our boys a nice send off in this their first ap pearance. Let every one come out and show more spirit in cheering the plays than we have in the past. : , i Thomas H, Battle, A. B, '80, is superintendent of the Rocky Mount Cotton Mills, one of the largest in the South, and has lately been elected president of the Rocky Mount National Bank. . Rev. L. W. Crawford of Trinity , .College, preached two fine sermons in the Methodist church on Sunday, which were heard with pleasure by the large number of students that were present. " , Foot Ball Notes. Sharp at centre is putting up a fairly good game. He has at times shown his ability to get out into the interference but usually fails to do so He is not quick enough in breaking through. The most promising ones for guard are Wright, Collier and Gui on, . The , first named is a very willing worker but does not know the position. He will improve with time. . Collier interferes fairly well. He is slow in breaking through the opponents' line, and when he does get through is apt to overrun his I man. Guion also gets into the inter ference pretty well. He is a hard, aggressive player but expends a great deal of strength and energy uselessly. Moore is working hard for a posi tion at tackle. He is by no means a brilliant player but puts up a steady, consistent game. Hart sell's playing is very erratic. At times he plays a very good game while again his work is very medi ocre. Pugh has only begun to train and has not regained his old form. He will improve every day. Among the several candidates for end it would be hard to make a choice. None of the men can be re garded as first class players. Greg ory and Rankin are at present play ing on the 'Varsity but may at any time be transferred to the "Scrub." The former is a hard player - but needs coaching very badly. Tur ner is playing a good' game. .His tackling is slow and sure, String field has been out and is an un known quantity. Quarter is the weakest place on the team. Slocum is a hard player and tackles very well but his light weight is a great handicap. Sever al other men are being tried but do not give much promise.. : The half backs all have the same general faults. 'They are slow iii getting started, and when , they meet an opponent, show a tendency to stop and try to dodge instead of running with the head down and diving forward. They also fail to help the line out in defensive work, Baskerville will probably hold his old place at full. He is by far the most aggressive player on the field. Graham is a hard worker. He runs low and hits -the line hard, but is slow in getting started and when giving signals does not give them quickly or distinctly enough. Atkinson, who has been playing full on the "scrubs,'! hits the line hard and seldom fails to gain. ; Considering the team as a whole, there has been slight improvement during the past week, but a very great deal remains to be done. Every one is miserably slow in starting. The line fails to get down the field under a kick and in both offensive and defensive work show great lack of spirit and ag gressiveness. , It is true ten men have been somewhat handicapped by lack of a leader but the election will remove this drawback and from now on there should be a rapid improvement, The Nashville Student. It is with great pleasure that we note the reception of the first num ber of the Nashville . Student. It is one of the sad features of South ern journalism that the proper place is not given to college news. Our papers , give short notices of ball games and athletic events with an occasional reference , to Commence ment exercises; but to devote a col umn or even a half to college notes in general is an important feature that has up to this time been omit ted, The Nashville Student steps in to fill this vacancy. Its object is to give news of all the sides of life in. the chief colleges of the South and North. Correspondents have been secured in many of these who will keep them posted on the de sired matter. : The first number, is very neatly gotten up. The cover has a picture of the Vanderbilt campus and also a drawing showing a co-ed. with her racket, a football player, a study table, and a temple, suggest ive of the various fields to be cover ed by the paper. There are sever al very good sketches, one in negro dialect on "The Mistakes of a Night. ' ' Another very well de scribes the feelings of an unsuccess ful candidate for entrance. The ob ject for which the paper is publish ed, and its plans are set forth in the editorials. , It has the exchange and the Ath letic departments and "Among the Magazines." To start such a paper is surely a step in the right direction and th TAR HEEl extends to it wishes for even a better success than is hoped for by its editor. ' Exchanges. The Sezvanee Purple begins its fourth volume improved in many re spects. It is a newsy paper with all its articles well written and neatly printed. It is one of the best we receive, , The Vanderbilt Hustler is still the same bright sheet, full of news Just now, it can not say enough of the team that Vanderbilt will put out and is jubilant over the pros pects of winning the Southern championship. The Nashville Student is a new departure in college journalism. It will have local editors in all the col leges in and around Nashville, and such others as Yale, Harvard, Prin ceton, U. Penn., U. Virginia, andU. N. C, and will be strictly an inter collegiate publication. Mr. W. R. Webb, Jr., is editor at U. N. C. We wish it all prosperity and suc cess.. . Other exchanges are as f ollows Lehigh Brown and White, Lehigh Burr, Amherst Student, Franklin and Marshal Weekly, Ohio Univer sity Lantern, and Mt St. Joseph Collegian, about which we shall speak in a later issue. At a meeting of the foot ball team on last Monday night Mr. Chas. Baskerville was unanimously chosen captain of the team for '94. This is a choice that will give general satisfaction and under his guidance the Tar HEEiy predicts a success ful season for the team. In Memorium. Dtcd, on Friday afternoon, Oct 5, at the home of his uncle, Prof. U. A. Alderman, in Chapel Hill, N. C., James Alderman West, of Newton, N. C, in the seventeenth year of his age. It is eminently proper that we should pause in the rush and hurry of our everyday life to pay due tribute to those that pass away from among us. James West was boru in Novem ber 1876. He was prepared at Ca tawba College, in Newton, and would have entered the University last session, but was hindered by the failure of his eyes. In fact, he had always a weak constitution, but did not allow his physical frailties to deter him from his studies. He entered the A. B. course of the Sophomore class at the opening of the University in September, and immediately showed signs of a very bright intellect. But for several months a deadly disease had been slowly fastening itself upon him, and it began to have its effect. Dur ing the month he was in crllege, he was able to be at his books but about half the time; and during the whole time his body was racked with acute pains, yet he went on his classes as long as his strength lasted, and only gave up with great unwillingness. The torture and agony that he suffered in his illness was terrible; but by his Christian fortitude and endurance he bore it well. And shortly before his death, when told that he could not recover, said that he was resigned, as he was sure of his salvation. The post-mortem examination developed that he died of peritonitis, and that nothing could have saved his life. It is unfortunate that every Uni versity student did not know James West; tliose that were so privileged were greatly benefitted by his ac quaintance. A more overpowering ambition for a college education has never been possessed. In conversa tion several days before the sad end, he spoke piteously of his sore disap pointment in being compelled, on account of his sickness, to postpone his college work for another year. He loved the University, and his great ambition was to secure a di ploma from it. What a lesson to those of us that have the opportu nity and make such little use of it ! He was a good boy in every re spect, with a noble, manly, Christ ian character, and gentlemanly de portment. In the moments of his most exquisite pain, he murmured or complained not a time; was al ways grateful for the services ren dered him; and even apologetic for the care that had to be paid him in his illness. His patience in suffer ing and quiet composure in the face of death can furnish example to the oldest and most tried of God's saints. Wm. H. Wills, '91, is on the city staff of the New York Sun Dr. John C. Kilgo, President of Trinity College will preach the first of the series of monthly sermons for this year before the Y. M. C. A. on the second Sunday in November.
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