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"The Tar Heel. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. BOARD OF EDITORS, W. Frank Bryan, - - - - Editor-in-Chief. D. P. Parker, ---------- Man. Editor. A. J. Barwick, - - - - - - Business Manag-er B. S. Skinner. - - Ass't Business Manager. ASSOCIATE EDITORS. C. G. Rose, J. Ed Latta, J. K. Hall Benj. Bell Jr Published every Wednesday by the General Athletic Association. Subscription Price. $1.50 per Year. Payable in advance or during- first term. Single Copies, 5 Cents. All matter intended for publication should bead- dressed to the Editor-n-cniet ana accompamea oj lame of writer. Since the re-opening of the Uni versity everyone has had sufficient time to learn that this is 1900 in stead of 1899, to his complete satis faction whether this is the 19th or 20th century atd to make and break many good resolutions. We will say here that the Tar Heel has tin nw rpsnlntinn to make. It has been our constant endeavor to ive the college the best paper in our power and this shall continue to be our aim. But we must impress the fact that the editors unsupported by the students, cannot make a success of the college paper. We need your active financial as well as moral support. Give this support and we hope. to be able to give you a paper of which you need not be ashamed. We publish in another column the announcement of Principal Horner's gift of a trophy cup to be contested for by college track teamns and I the constitution of theAssociation under whose rules the contests are to be held. Mr. Horner has shown his us ual wide-awake appreciation of the need of development of certain divis ions of athletics and has taken the proper means to encourage this branch of sport, now too much neg lected in this state. So much for what he has done. It now remains to be seen how the colleges of the state will take hold of this and to what extent they will make a success of it. In this we must not be behind but should rather lead in "this as in everything else. Everyone recog nizes that we have strong- men who can enter this contest and win if they will make the necessary ef forts.; This must be done. Let the candidates for the track team get together at once, choose a captain and get down to earnest hard work ior this is necessary it we are to win, and we cannot afford to lose. Dr. F. P. Venable was elected a member at large of the American Chemical Society at the Dec. meet ing in New Haven, Conn. Dr. R. H. Lewis of Raleigh, secretary and executive officer of the State Board of Health was in Chapel Hill last week. Mr. W. S. Wilson '99 has return ed to the Hill and will take Law this year under Judge McRae. PROF. COBB'S LECTURE. The ninth in the series of faculty lectures was given on Thursday night by Professor Collier Cobb, whose subject was "The Yellow stone National ' Park. " Below is trlven as full an abstract as our ...... space allows us to publish. "The Park is in the northwest corner of - Wyoming, lying- two thirds the distance across the conti nent, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Its boundaries overlap a few miles into Montana on the norh and into Idaho and Montana nn the west. The reservation is about sixty-five miles east and west, being- just about the size of Connecticut No valley within its limits has an elevation of less- than 6,000 feet, while many of the moun tain peaks within and adjacent to the Park rise from 10,000 to 14,000 feet above the level of the sea. On three sides the Park is guarded by lofty, well-nigh inaccessible, snow capped mountains, inclosing-an area of the world's most remarkable scenery, where fire and water are ever struggling for the mastery." The speaker described entertain ingly the rivers and lakes and . j .. . i. canyons, tne snow-cappeu peans and the mountain of volcanic glass, the wonderful geysers, paint pots and mud-volcanoes, the sulphur mountains, and the lake with fire and brimstone, all of which make this unique area the wonderland of the world. - The recent volcanic eruption in New Zealand, which destroyed the famous pink terraces of Rotomah- i jl TIT .il. TT A anna, leave tne mamraoxn p.ui Springs of Yellowstone Park with out a rival. They occupy over one hundred and seventy acres, with hirteen distinct terraces and. more han fifty active springs.' "I cannot better describe these springs," said Professor Cobb, "than to use jthe words of Dr Hayden in his geological report for 1871 : 'The wonderful ransparency of the water surpasses anything of the kind I have ever seen in any otner portion oi tne world. The sky, with the smallest cloud that flits across it, is reflected in its limpid depths, and the ultra marine colours, more vivid than the sea, are greatly heightened by the constant, gentle vibrations. One can look down into the clear depths and see with perfect distinctness the minutest ornament on the inner side of the basins; and the exquisite beauty of the coloring and the infi nite variety of forms baffles any at tempt to portray them; too, around the borders of tne springs, espec ially those of rather low tempera ture, and on the sides and bottoms of the numerous little channels of the streams that flow into these springs, there is a striking variety of the most vivid colors. I : can onlv compare them to ur most beautiful and brilliant amiline dyes Various shades of red, from the brightest scarlet to a bright rose tint, also yellow from deep sulphur through all the shades of a bright cream color. lhere are also va rious shades of green from the pe culiar vegetation. These springs are also filled with minute vegeta ble forms, which under the micro scope prove to be diatomes. There are the little streams which flow from the boiling springs great qualif ies of a fibrous, sickly substance apparently vegetable which vi brates at the slightest movement of the water, and has the appeareuce of .the finest aualitv of cashmere wool. Wheu the waters are still these silken masses become encrust ed with lime, the delicate vegetable threads disappear, and a fibrous, soonp-v mass remains like delicate J snow-white coral.' " The speaker told of the eruptions of the p-evsers. like sunbursts of richest jewels; the fountain throw ing a stream of water an hundred feet in the air; Old Faithful play ing at intervals of sixtv-two min utes with a jet one hundred and fif ty feet high,. furnishing more water than the Boston water supply; the Excelsior, breaking out at long in tervals in a stream of water more than three hundred feet in diameter the largest geyser in the world; and numerous others. The grand Canyon with its bril liant coloring and wonderful falls, affording the most wonderful seen1; ery in the world, was illustrated by numerous photographs, along its en tire leng-th. The lecture was prefusely illus trated by means of stereoptican views, from a superb set of photoV graphs taken last , summer and colored by hand from nature in the Park. This trip through the Park was made while Prof. Cobb was in the West as a member of the expedi tion to the fossil fields of Wyoming. Thereturn was through Canada and by way of Niagara Falls, which the lecturer .found tame after having seen the falls and canyons of the Yellowstone. The lecture was in terspersed with pleasing anecdotes and the large audience, went away instructed and well entertained. Dr. Thomas Clarke who has been the assistant in the Chemistry Labortary for the past two years has resigned and accepted a posi tion as chemist with the Tennessee Coal,' Iron and Railway Co. of Bir mingham Ala. He lias been suc ceded by Mr. Mills. TEACHERS WANTED. Union Teachers' Agency op America. Rev. L. D. Bass, D. D., Manager. Pittsburg-, Toronto, New Orleans, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, St. L,ouin and Denver. We had over 8,000 vacanies during the past season. Teachers needed now to contract for next term. Un qualified facilities for plaeing teachers in every paJt of the United States and Canada. 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