8 Anniversary Supplement Thursday, February 23, 1978
Old edits never die; the newsprint just fades away
Appearing on this page are excerpts from
editorials which have appeared in the Daily
Tar Heel during the 85 years of its existence.
We begin with a "Love Letter to a
Newspaper," in which 1959-1960 editor
Jonathan Yardley expressed his feelings
concerning a topic dear to every editor's
heart the Daily Tar Heel itself.
Your spirit belies your age. When most men
and women reach 68 years their salad days have
long since receded into the musty past of their
youth. Such intemperance has not atfected you;
time has left no scars to blemish you; time has
left no scars to blemish you.
You have weathered the storms of the ages
with a sense of humor; you smile as well now as
vou did on that wintry day in 1893 when you
first emerged, blushingly black and white, onto
the consciousness of Chapel Hill.
Bo s and girls who read your first words grew
to be men and women; they left Chapel Hill to
live and die. You have lived on, growing not
old and senile but ever younger and more gay.
You laugh at the ages and dry with mankind;
with a crocodile tear you watch the passage ot
time and man, knowing that there is a kind ot
permanence in your blustering bravado that no
man can achieve.
It is so strange that the artifacts ot man hnd
in their sympathetic being a timelessness that
transcends the lives of their creators; perhaps
this is why you laugh at our pompous
seriousness and self-satisfaction. Otten, to be
sure, you are cruel to those who have loved you
and given themselves to your betterment; you
demand from them much and give little in
return, always holding forth the promise of a
goal yet to be gained, a prize yet to be won. No
woman, be she as capricious as a kitten, can
hold forth the promise of such unrealized
desires as you daily offer to those who serve
you.
For generations you have served a
community of people and you have served it
well; occasionally, in a moment of whimsical
folly, you poke the sanctimony of those who
regard you with such solemnity. The tricks you
play are, when you come right down to it, cruel
and unwarranted. The words you childishly
misspell, the paragraphs gleefully deleted, the
phrases left uncompleted what foolish
games are these you play on those who love you
so?
But if your whims are often cruel and
senseless, how wonderful can be the pleasures,
glories and vanities you carefully bestow on
those who please your inconsistently doting
fancy. A well-turned phrase, a perfectly
selected word, a handsome page these, when
placed upon you, assume a dignity and grace
difficult to find.
For all your foolish ways we love you. For all
your rare delights we serve you. For all you
pains, we bless you. Live long, and live well.
Protest when you must, laugh when you will;
praise when praise is due, damn when
damnation is required. Hut never lose your
grace, dignity, charm or, most of all, that
mysterious appeal that holds those who make
you like it or not , damn you what you are.
Jonathan Yardley, Feb. 23, 1961
We don't want the facts, sir we want the
truth.
statement to Dean of Men
William Long by Wayne King, 1962
It now seems obvious that no agreement can
be reached while student leaders must deal
with Dean Henderson, Dean Long and Dean
Carmichael. Unfortunately, none ot them are
to be trusted by the student representatives.
We will not call names or throw insults...
David Ehtridge and Gary Blanchard, 1963
Something is rotten in South Building.
Rolfe Neill, 1953
The purpose of this University is to get
people to think, to ask questions about their
environment, to doubt their former Gods, and
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in short to find themselves. Once having found
this-self they ought to have the opportunity to
pursue that self, in terms of its principles and
beliefs in an atmosphere of freedom and
tolerance.
Curtis Gans, 1959
An endless string of morning classes and
afternoon labs does not make a University. Nor
does golf in the afternoon, nor the late show at
the Carolina, nor architecture, however
quaint, nor administration, howeveretficicnt.
It takes teachers and students both willing
to involve themselves iii learning. This is the
historic work of the world, the grasping tor a
greater truth.
A rebirth of this spirit is clearly needed by
the University, where the high ideal ot
education is so often reduced to the dimensions
of ennui and meaninglessness. And it is not the
University alone which requires new
dedication.
For today, amid darker shadows than have
ever before been perceived by men, the spirit of
liberal learning becomes the ascendant,
essential work, the world's hope, the world's
requisite if life is to continue apace.
Charles Kuralt's farewell editorial, 1955
Our leader is dead and we, momentarily, are
lost. Just now we cannot perceive, as did he,
that fine ideals can never be shackled to the
finiteness of one man, nor to the finiteness ot his
people and their epoch in transient history. And
so our present state ot mind presages naught but
fear, and melancholy, and darkness. We need
but to remember an essential truth spoken most
eloquently in his own words; We have nothing
to fear but tear itself.
Robert Morrison, in the
only "Extra" edition ever
printed by the D77, on the
death of Franklin Roosevelt, 1945.
This morning's Tar Heel is an average one.
Someone's notice has been left out. The night
editor let three errors by on the back page.
Some of the news hasn't gotten enough play.
Students will raise hell if their name was
forgotten; faculty members will wonder why
their meetings weren't announced; meticulous
readers will find fault.
But that will be no different from usual. This
is the last issue, the journalistic swan song, but
it is still from nameplate to margin the Tar Heel.
Vernon J. "Bucky" Harward, on
cessation of publication "for
the duration," 1943.
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