Vol. 13.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, K. C, . WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8. 1905.
No. 19.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
MEETING OF THE ATHLETIC
ASSOCIATION.
Gratifying Contributions to the
Baseball Team Mr; Tow n send
Elected to the Advisory
Committee.
A meeting' of the1 Athletic Asso
ciation was held Friday night for
the purpose of acquainting" the
students with the condition of the
treasury of , the Association and of
soliciting contributions for it
President Venahle gave a statement
of the financial" results of the last
football season. Most of the
money that was cleared, he said,
had been set apart for the. purpose
of enlarging- and improving the
athletic field, The remainder
would have to be saved to equip the
football team at the beginning of
next season. , Consequently there is
do money available for the baseball
team. The team has practically no
uniforms and but little other equip'
menl. The team must have individ
ual contributions from the students.
He closed his remarks by offering
to duplicate - the amount that had
been raised in a canvass of the col
lege a few days before.
Prof. Noble then made a strong
statement of the case. He referred
happily to the great pitching
Coach Lavvson had once done for
us. He was followed by Coach
Lawson, who earnestly asked the
students to back him up in his effort
to develop the team into a w inning
one. Speeches were then made by
Manager Jones, of the baseball
team, Capt. Newton, of the track
team, and Mr. McLean.
After the speeches, contributions
were made in cash and by subscrip
tions that were very gratifying.
The amount was not so large as it
should be, but was much more
respectable than the amount given
last Spring.
At the close of the meeting Presi
dent Kenan announced that there
was a vacancy on the Advisory
Committee caused by the election of
the undergraduate member, Mr.
Jones, to be manager of the ball
team. Mr. Townsend was unani
mously elected to the position.
Before declaring the meeting ad
journed President Kenan stated
that there would certainly not be
another massmeeting this- year to
ask for money. The purpose of
massmeetings, he said, is to get the
students together for a good time,
to show their appreciation of the
teams and to .rejoice with them in
what they do. The successful
massmeeting is the one where every
body goes; where everybody is
there everybody enjoys it. He
as'ed that we might have many
stch this Spring.
with the men of the University, and
especially with the men of his own
denomination, so that when they
get out into the life of the State he
may know them from his acquaint
ance with them here. In ord,er to
be able to see any man who cares to
speak with him, he has been staying
from 2:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon
and from 9 to 10 at night in the Y.
M. C. A. room. He wishes any
man who would like to. speak with
him to come there at those hours.
On Tuesday night he addressed
the Y. M. , C. A. at its regular
meeting in: the chapel. A great
many students! were in t attendance.
He spoke on the care of the ministry
as a life work. His address was
short but very much enjoyed.
The Historical Society.
The Historical Society held its
regular meeting for March in the
History room Monday night.
Mr. John H. Vaughan gave a
very interesting account of his re
search work during the summer.
He gave a brief description of Fort
Caswell which was built in 1826
and which was surrendered to the
Federal government in 1861. He
stated that this fort was worked
over in 1897 and consists of five bat
tenes, ana is or some interest trom
the fact that it is the only garrisoned
fort in North Carolina. He then
gave a sketch of his work in five of
the eastern counties.
Mr. Vaughan spent most of . the
summer in those counties doing re
search work for Dr. Raper and it is
evident that he did his work well.
Dr. Raper then gave a short re
view of Dr. Fitch's book entitled,
"Some Neglected Points in N. C.
History." It is a strong defense
of the Regulaors, and holds to the
idea that the battle of Alamance
was the first of the Revolution
While it claims to deal with neglec-
Bishop Strange Here this Week.
Bishop Strange, of Wilmington,
Who preached 1 the University ser
D1n for March last Sunday night,
Will remain here the most of this
I'eelc. Hereafter he expects to
coiiif here for a few days each year.
His object is to become acquainted
ted points it is simply a restate
ment of the general views of
various writers. It is extremel7 in
teresting but strongly partisan.
He gave also a review of a pam
phlet on the "Internal Improve
ments in North Carolina" ' recently
issued by Dr. Charles Clinton
Weaver, President of Davenport
College. The principal points
brought out in this pamphlet are
that improvements began by private
companies, but. that in 1815 the
State began to aid in the work.
The West sought to build railroads
while the East wanted canals, thus
giving- practically' a sectional set-tine-
to the efforts. The author
makes the point that a central
market was needed most and that a
railroad connecting eastern and
western sections was the best solu
tion. He refers very interestingly
to ' the ideals held by President
Caldwell. The last point is the
part taken by private companies
and corporations in the development
of railroads from their beginning to
1860.
The meeting was one of the most
profitable held this year. i
Governor Bob Taylor.
It was a large audience that
greeted Governor Bob Taylor in the
chapel Saturday night, and his
jokes, oratory, and songs were thor
oughly appreciated. Governor Tay
lor is well known throughout the
State, and those that had never
heard him knew that a pleasant
hour was in store for them. And
the speaker was up to his best in
his new lecture, "Castles in the
Air." It was a combination of
oratory and humor seldom seen in
a public speaker, tiis castles in
the air were beautiful pictures
drawn with the power of a master
orator. Mingled with these pic
tures and yet necessary to them
were the many jokes which have
made the Ex-Governor famous. His
forte lies in his combination of pas
sionate eloquence and broad humor.
The one contributes to the other
And Governor Bob knows when the
climax has been reached, knows
how, by introducing a joke, to bring
down the house in applause
Governor Taylor's introduction
was very happy, and caugfht the
audience at once. He said that
when he visited the University ten
vears ago it had three hundred and
sixtv students. That now it has
six hundred and sixty, and that he
hoped that by the end of the next
ten years it would have twenty-six
hundred and sixtv. But that, he
said, was a mere castle in the air.
tt i r it
tiis lecture rrom then on was one
air castle after another. The cas
tie of Adam in the garden was the
first one. His next castle of
younir man wooing his girl on the
river and in a swing was well done
The animal band was a splendid
structure. His air castle of the
boy was probably enjoyed more
than any of his pictures. His pic
ture of the man who buil t air cas
tles as against the man soured on
t he world was good. But his humor
after all was the main part of his
lecture and that will not bear de
scription.
Reflections Suggested by "Castles
in the Air."
The student who found Sunday
morning that the laundry agent had
not returned his collars and cuffs
was constrained to remark, "Even
the laundry man was blowing soap
bubbles last night."
A party were exchanging their
views on the lecturer when one man
said,
"Yes, he is a strong man. Only a
mau ot power could reduce the
glory of ancient Egypt
to 'a bone, a stone, and
hair.'"
"But what bothers me," re
turned another, "is where did he
get that hank of hair?"
A provoking laugh was the re
sponse.
as he did,
a hank of
The povver a freshman wields
when he has Bob Taylor to back
him up. There is something to
think about. To see it is worth
the price. The unfortunate aver
age man has to wait until1 a joke
is told before he laughs. Even if
the transparency of the joke reveals
the point prematurely, regard for
the speaker and for the part of the
audience who might not have heard
so distinctly restrains him from
going at once into a state of thun
derous ectasy. Not so the fresh
man the bright one, we mean.
Just let a joker say, "Once when I
was a bare-footed bov," and the
bright one scents afar the joke, and
sends forth sucii a clapping and
such a shouting that the joker is
overwhelmed, the luckless jokelet
frightened back to cover it might
have been a joke, or it might have
been a sad. sweet tale of a boyhood
love, there is no way of knowing
and the unfortunate average man
who has not a front seat decides
that he paid to hear not the jokes
but the freshman. Such is the per
suasive power of the freshman
when backed up by Bob Taylor.
It takes a bright freshman to do
this, however, and they are not all
bright. Unbright some of them
are. At least three hours and
twenty-five minutes would be neces
sary for them to catch a joke that
was told under circumstances the
most favorable. They sit in silent
wonder and amazement at the per
spicuity of their fellows who finally
subside from exhaustion into a semi
silence and gaze proudly at them
selves. The joker, taking advant- '
age of the lull, makes another at
tempt. The average man's hopes
rise. Crash! they're gone. One
of the unbright has at last decided
that he must have let a joke go by
surely his-cheering classmates saw
something-. So with a clapping or
hands and a vigorous stamping of
feet he calls hb unbright fellows to
their duty. He cheers, they cheer,
the bright ones cheer, and even
others join the noisy throng, bo
the joker is scared and the joke is
lost and the average man gets cheat-
d. Such is the power of a fresh
man when backed up by Bob Tay
lor.
Bob Taylor got ahead of one
man, and he did it well. Only Bob
could have done it, but he did it to
a finish. The man who was "did"
goes to every show m the chapel
and sits always in the gallery. Evi
dently he spends most of his time
calculating jujt the moment when
the show will be over. He has not a
second to lose in the chapel. VI
course after the show he will spend
a quarter of an hour around the
ront door, and then loaf in some
body else's room till the lights go
out. tfut that is auother matter.
The time he spends at. a concert or
ecture is valuable. So he watches
carefully for a sign that the end is
coming. He uses all his knowledge,
acuteness and experience in detect
ing this. As he is a man of wide
knowledge and one who spent quite
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