"Tlie Tar Heel.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
BOARD OF EDITORS
N. W. Walker,
L. L. Parker,
Editor-in-Chief.
. Man. Editor.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS.
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L. S. Holt,
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T. J. Gold
W. E. Pharr
- Business Manager.
Ass't Business Man,
Published every Saturday by the General
Athletic Association.
Entered in the Postofflce at Chapel Hill, N.
C, as second-class matter.
The great work the Young- Men's
Christian Association is doing here at
the University, the noble principles
the organization stands for, and its
pressing needs for more room are well
known to all the students and faculty.
But to many of the friends and Alum
ni of the institution in this and other
states, this great work and these press
ing needs are not known.
This issue of The Tar Heel has been
got out to tell the friends of the Uni
versity what this noble band of young
men are doing, to set forth their needs,
and to publish their plans for securing
means to erect a building that shall be
equal to the demand for more room and
adequate to the most efficient service.
It is with great pleasure that the
editors of The Tar Heel turn this is
sue of the paper over to the manage
ment of the Y. M. C. A. for the pur
poses above named. These young men
are deserving the highest praise for
the hard, earnest, untiring labor they
are expending in this noble work. We
can commend them most heartily.
May their efforts be crowned with the
highest success, and may our campus
soon be graced with a handsome Y. M.
C. A. building that shall stand as a
monument to their noble work.
N. W. W.
Special attention is called to the ex
tract from the Alumni address of Hon.
John Sprunt Hill, on the last page
under the head "A Good Beginning
for the Building." This is indeed an
excellent, beginning, and brings the
cash part of the building to about two
thousand dollars. The speech and
gift are doubly appreciated first for
their face value, and then again because
they serve as a glad introduction to
the movement to lay the foundation of
the building in October.
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During the summer a canvass of
the most prominent towns in the
state will be made for the Y. M.
C. A. building, but many of the
Alumni in our state and all
outside the state will not be
seen. Then again many who re
ceive a copy of this issue who are
not Alumni but who are interest
ed in this movement will not be
called on personally. We there
fore appeal to each one who re
ceives this notice for help. Send
all subscriptions and address all
communications concerning the
movement to Mr. R. M. Harper,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
As there can be no special church
organization connected with a State
University bow shall we define and di
rect its religious life? Churches fully
alive environing the school, we firmly
believe, must be behind any vital move
ment. But such churches in a rural
community cannot find the resources
for meeting all the requirements; and
the student is sui generis and moves in
a little world of his own. The College
Christian Association organized on the
basis of the creed common to all that
invisible church who believe in the one
Lord and Savior, Christ, meets him on
his own ground, bears witness to the
spiritual unity insists on religion in
everyday life and offers opportunities
for practical and missionary activities
which develop the gifts and graces of
the young Christian. It should have
its rallying ground, its appropriate
home-place, not only for proper ser
vices and Bible and Mission classes, but
for all that fellowship and social life,
for all those satisfying recreations for
mind and body which parent and teach
er, common sense and Christianity,
must combine to put in the place of
false and hurtful amusements. Im
perious nature, the expansion of the
whole man in the growing boy, pleads
for a building; noble comfortable, at
tractive, a refuge, a cosey place, a home
for soul and body, the centre of the
social and spiritual life of the Univer
sity of the people. Thomas Hume.
Prof, of Eng. Literature.
I note with pleasure that a move
ment has been inaugurated to secure a
Building for the University , Associa
tion. The work of the Young- Men's
Christian Association, being as it is,
such a part of the college life, exerts,
directly or indirectly a permanent in
fluence for good upon the individual
life of every University man, and such
an emphasis to the work as a modern
Association Building would give could
be had in no other way.
Geokge Stephens.
TJie Young Men's Christian Associ
ation has greatly promoted the relig
ious training of the students of this
University. Its regular meetings for
prayer, discourses and singing of
hymns, its classes diligently engaged
in Bible study, are efficient aids in in
spiring high and serious views of life.
If it could have a suitable building for
its exercises its influence for good would
be greatly enhanced, by its being more
attractive. I strongly recommend the
movement for such a structure as of
signal benefit, not alone to this Uni
versity but to the state.
Kemp P. Battle,
Prof, of History.
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I do not believe that it is possible to
spend $10,000 anywhere in North Caro
lina to a greater advantage than in the
construction and equipment of an at
tractive Y. M. C. A. building upon the
University campus. Already more
than six hundred young men gather
here annually, and within a few years
the number will be more than a thous
and. This constant stream of the
State'syoungmanhood flowing through
the gates of this institution bears the
impress of University training out into
every walk of lite, into every section of
the state. Shall we not rear amongst
these wild walls a Christian temple
the incense of whose constant ser
vice shall sanctify all the splendid
training of this institution to that
noblest of conceptions of life? It
will be an investment lor the ad
vancement of church, the ennobling of
homes, the strengthening of state an
investment in civilization and Christ
ian manhood. Chas. Ross.
SOME HISTORY AND AN ARGUMENT.
The history of the critical period of the Young Men's Christian Assoc
iation of North Carolina offers one of the best arguments for the general sup
port of the University Association by our people. Organized Christian effort
for young men was at a low ebb in 1885-6. George B. Hanna, James H.
Southgate, Eugene L. Harris, and a few other choice spirits were behind the
movement in the towns. A half dozen of them met the faithful few of the
college men at the University in March 1886 with twelve dollars in the State
treasury and little reason for hope except in the promises of God. L. D. Wish
ard, the remarkable leader in the religious awakening in India and other
Eastern lands, urged that Dr. Thomas Hume, who had just become Professor
of English Language and Literature in the University, should undertake the
reconstruction the Association work in towns and colleges. He gave his
services for five years and consecrated University leadership, aided by David
son and other colleges, helped Hanna, Harris, A. G. Brenizer, David G. Worth,
Southgate, N. B. Broughton, W. A. Blair, J. P. Rogers, J. R. Young,(how shall
we give the complete roll of the worthies?) to re-awaken spiritual life. H.
P. Brockman, John R. Mott, Claus Olandt, L. R. Coulter, H. P. Anderson,
we must not omit the names of Weston Gales and R. G. Pearson, came to the
rescue. Olandt's wonderful vitality met with a wave of revival power
amongst the students that bore scores of them into earnest Christian living.
It was not strange that our spiritual leadership here took advantage of the
Student's Volunteer movement and that more than fifty young people dedi
cated themselves to foreign missions, of whom Lacy Little, W. A. Wilson,
George Worth, our own students, followed our R, T. Bryan and went to
China and Japan. With renewed conservation came more money and the full
organization of the work now so efficiently conducted by the State Committee.
For several years Dr. Hume superintended an intercollegiate visitation plan
by which University students and men from Davidson, Trinity, Wake Forest,
Guilford, Elon and other schools, two from each institution, would ex
change visits at their several college homes, talk of "the things of the King
dom," spur one another to duty, and call for volunteers for the great world
field who should report to their own church societies for service. Our As
sociation paid the outgoing expenses of one of these missionaries. It is no
undue claim, but occasion for gratitude and mutual sympathy, that God's
Providence used our organization in this work of reconstruction and inspi
ration. The self-sacrificing benevolence of Charlotte and Wilmington in the
erection of noble Association buildings sent a thrill into these young College
societies and was comforted and strengthened by their responsive touch.
what some other associations have done.
No. of Students
. . . - 183 --
- - 651 - - - -
- - - 768 - - - -
Hamilton College, N. Y. - - - -Johns
Hopkins University - - - -Dartmouth
College, N. II. - - -
University of Tennessee 721
Cornell University - - - - - - -2,980
Syracuse University 1,800
pavidson College ------- 175
Cost of Building.
- - - $25,000.
- - - $20,000.
- - - $15,000.
- - - $18,000.
- - - $55,000.
- - - $25,000.
- - - $7,000.
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