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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
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Volff. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL ,N. C, FEBRUARY, 21,1895. " "KoT f
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GEORGE PEABODY.
The One-Hundredth Anniversay
of his Birth.
Y. M. C. A. Blinding Mass
Meeting.
Mr. L' A. Coulter, Y. M. C. A
Monday, February 8th, being- the State Secretary, will be over here
100th auniversity of the birth of the Sunday to assist in the canvass for
great philanthropist, George Pea- a building-. Sunday night there
body, the first hour was consumed will be a union mass meeting-of the
by addresses made in bis memory. College and townspeople at 7:00
Dr. Battle spoke of the incidents o clock in the Chapel. The need
connected with the life of this great and benefits of a building- will be
philanthropist, but more especially presented from different points of
of the relation of the Peabody Fund view
to the University. ' It is expected that President
In 1877, Dr. Siert, a trustee of Winston will speak in behalf of the
this fund, proposed to Dr. Battle University, Faculty" and Alumni
plans for the establishment of , a Mr. Horne will present the question
Summer Normal school at Chapel from the standpoint of the student
Hill. Five hundred dollars were body; Dr. A. B, Roberson wil
contributed annually toward defray- speak for the townspeople, and Mr
ing the expenses of poor teachers Coulter will present the matter
who could not otherwise have at- from a general standpoint. It is
tended. For eight rears this school hoped that all will come out and
was held exclusively at Chapel hear this question discussed.
Hill, and at one time sixty-nine At 3:30 in the afternoon there
counties in the State were repre- will be a g-ospel meeting- led by Mr
sented. After 1885 it was distrib- Coulter. Music will be a specia
uted throughout the State in four feature. The Singing' will be led
places. It was larg-ely through the by the Glee Club and ordestra
Normal School that the University Chancellor Garland.
herame known throughout the
gf.ae , . , With the death of Dr. Garland on
Prnf A Merman snnke of the in- eb ends the life of one of the
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fluence of Mr. Peabody 's example, South's greatest educators. Few
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and something- of the work he had mcn IUIVC CVCI t,penL iue b. Lun VL
rlnne both in Enn-land and America hard' energetic work, or so produc
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for the betterment of the poor. Mr. uve 01 gToavxne om nancenor
Peabody, although a native of Mas- was nearly eignty-tnree years 01
sachusetts and a staunch supporter e nu "moSsl 10 ine very last ne
of the Union, was the first oreat touna mucn tor mm 10 ao
t,:ii,:c. u UroA iuJ "Dr. Garland was born in Nelson
idea of aidino- the South bv encour- County, Virginia. March 21, 1810,
the education of her vouths and graduated at Mampden-bydney
College in 1829. From 1830 to 1833
a 1 lci luc lavages ui givai, uu
War. For this purpose he con- he was Professor of Chemistry in
tributed three and a half million vvunmgion voucge, Virginia, in
dollars to the Southern and South- 1833 he became Professor of Phys-
western States alone. This endow- ics and later President of Randolph
at rn ,i,:t. ,.i t. i.i,i
mentwas created , in 1867, or just WUK-" "cm
two vears after the close of the tor twelve years' KOffl 1W W1
Civil War. The free schools of 66 he filled the chair of mathe-
North Carolina owe their existence matics ai?d Physics in the Umversi
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larg-ely to the influenee of this fund lJ 01 n" wuicu nc uecame
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on education in the State. resiuenx in 1000. ne was next
Professor of Physics and Astrono-
Nearly $20,000 has been donated to th TJniversitv of Missisiooi
the various departments of the Uni- tin lg79 when he wa chosen Chan
versity oi Fennsylvama in the last q VanderbUt UniversitVt
month, T.r x-i.: i- j-
inis city. XDexuie lclkiuj; up nis uu
ties in Vanderbilt University he
travelled extensively in Europe to
x'r 1 j v 1 1 :! 4. u astronomical apyaratus in use in
permanent funds of Yale during-the . . . TJ ,
Amherst has received the highest
award for the finest college exhibit
at the World's Fair.
past year.
Wellesley College has two eight
oared crews who practice regular ly on
the lake within the college ' grounds.
Some exciting races take place as
may be imagined. Ex-
At Dartmouth an annual prize of
$60 is given to the member of the
athletic team who stands the highest
in his class. -
that institution. He resig-ned the
Chancellorship of Vanderbilt a lit
tle over four years ag-o, being suc
ceeded by Prof. J. H. Kirkland."
Nashville American.
The university of Pennsylva
nia has asked the legislature of that
state for $500,000.00, while a pal
try $20,000.00 is begrudg-ed the
University of North Carolina.
The University Magazine.
Cornelia P. Spencer is a familiar
name to the readers of the Univer
sity Magazine, and it is a genuine
pleasure that she g-ives them by
her article on the Mason-Morgan
Family in the February number.
She dwells especially upon that
branch of the family which became
extinct in the death of Mrs. James
P. Mason, in July, 1894. The pe
culiar interest that the friends of
the University have in the family
lies in the fact that Mrs. Mason
and her husband, a minister in the
Baptist church, bequeathed practi
cally all of their property to the
University as a memorial of their
two daughters, who died just after
reaching- young- womanhood. The
permanent historical value of the
article is no less than its present in
terest. There are rather indiffer
ent reproductions of portraits of
Mr. and Mrs. Mason, and of the
Misses Mason.
Wharton J. Green writes of Tril
by a wholly condemnatory article.
He compares it with Uncle Tom's
Cabin, and seems to think that the
influence of the latter in the politi
cal world will be equalled by Tril
by in the moral world.
We beg to differ from Mr. Green
on two points in his review: first,
the Civil War and its attendant hor
rors were not due to Uncle Tom s
Cabin to the extent that he seems
to indicate. The book had a won
derful influence in arousing- an op
position to slavery, and in crystal
lizing the opposition that already ex
isted; but the effect was, at best,
simply to hasten the final conflict,
not to g-ive rise to it. The second
point on which we differ is in the
probable influence of Trilby. And
here we must speak g-uardedly, be
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cause we nave not reaa tne dook
We have, however, read quite a
number of criticisms on it, and we
do not think it is a book that will
exert a. wide or deep influence du
ring- the short time that it will live
Leonard C. Van Noppen, in a let
ter to his brothers, L-harles and
John, tells of his voyage across the
Atlantic and of his first impressions
of England. Mr. Van Noppen was
graduated from this University in
1892. He has given g-ood evidences
of his intellectual and literary abil-
ty, and we shall expect some sub
stantial results from his studies in
Holland.
The department of Anecdote and
Reminiscence has, among- other
things, a letter from W. F. Lewis,
of the Class of 1842, to his class
mate, Dr. Summerell. But two
members of the class now- survive,
Dr, Hayes and Mr. Lewis. This
department, on the whole, is not up
to its usual standard.
Dr. Baskerville gives a short ac
count of The Serum Treatment for
Diphtheria.
We cannot ay much for the poe
try of this issue. The Skies at
Night is a quatrain by Henry Je
rome Stockard. We fail to get the
author's meaning: we can guess at
several things, but have no assur
ance that any one of our guesses is
correct.
Come Soothing Sleep, By Leon
ard Charles Van Noppen, lias a med
itative and somewhat melancholic
touch, as does all of this author's
verse.
Perseverance, by Hight T.
Moore, is too ostensibly didactic.
Let poetry teach all the lessons it
will, but, to the extent that it con
sciously teaches, sermonizes, to that
extent it fails of being- true poetry.
Very lndmerent verse is The
Ideal, by William Thornton Whit
sett. It is too suggestive of a sick
ly, brooding vouth who needs fresh
air and sunlight.
Funk and Wagnalls's Standard
Dictionary, The Schoolmaster in
Comedy and Satire, and The Centu
ry Book for Young Americans are
reviewed under Book Notices.
Mr. Holland Thompson com
ments on The Pearson Meeting,
The Revival of the Societies, The
Loyalty of the Alumni, and The
Value of Coaching. In the Loyalty
of the Alumni, js discussed what
we spoke of a few weeks ago in the
Tar HEEL, that the University
alumni 1 as such, are not formally
recognized in connection with the
institution. We should like to see
the matter taken up and agitated
until this state of affairs is changed.
The College Record is excecding
y brief. The Alumni Notes will
have their usual interest.
Marriage, death, and class notic
es folio w.
The readers of the Magazine
wonder if the "Jap ' articles shave
been abandoned; we hope not.
This issue, in contents, is not up
to the usual standard. The letter
from London, however interesting
it may be to those directly con
cerned, is not in place. The criti
cism on Trilby is written in bad
English, and has, in subject matter,
scarcely a redeeming feature.
We must criticise severely the
mechanical make-up. It is unwor
thy of the Magazine and of the Uni- .
versity. It has the general appear-,
ance of being the work of a "'pren
tice hand," and not of an experienc
ed printer. The typographical er
rors are quite numerous.
As a maid so nice,
With step precise,
Tripped on the ice,
She slipped; her care in vain
And at the fall
The school-boys call
" Third down; two feet to pain.'
-Ex.
The following, taken from a State
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paper, is a goou aescnpium n mc
recent weather:
What a fickle, changing thing
This Winter weather i.s;
It blew, and blew,
And then it thew,
And now, by jinjf, it' friz-
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carried unanTmouslyaiid'Messrs. J no. I
,t Tr-I Papers wrltteTle