The Tar Heel.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
- BOARD OF EDITORS.
S.' S. Lamb, - - - - Editor-in-Chief.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS.
E K, Graham, - - - W. H. Baoujy,
P. C. WHITI.OCK,' - - - - R. E. Follin,
P. D. GotB, - - - - - -'-E.E.Sams.
F.'O. Rogers, - Business Manag-er,
W. T. BOST, - - Ass't Bttsiness Manager.
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Athletic Association.
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Salutatory,
The Tar Heel with this issue
makes its first appearance for the
fall of 1897.
An effort has been made bv the
business manager to place a copy of
this issue in the hands, of every stu
dent of the University. Copies have
moreover been mailed to r:iany of thej
alumni. j
We confess candidly that our ex
pectations of an enlarged constitu
ency this year have been builded high
And our hopes do not seem to be
based upon an unsubstantial foun
dation. In good truth this collegi
ate year bids fair to be one of the
most prosperous in the latter history
of the University.
With a larger number of post
graduate and undergraduate stu
dents upon its registration rolls than
at any other time within its whole
history, and with the additional ed
ucational facilities afforded by the
newly created chairs of Pharmacy
and Pedagogy, together with the
influx of femininity into the post
graduate departments, the Univer
sity is grandly enlarging its sphere
of usefulness, the result of the
broad and progressive policy of its
president.
And it would indeed seem strange
if with such favoring influences the
Tar Heel, should not embark upon
a more than ordinarily prosperous
and successful voyage.
And so it is that we would impress
upon every new man the lasting
truth that a subscription to the Tar
HEEL is absolutely essential to his
identification with the interests of
the University. Should he at the
outset of his college course the
most momentous event of his hither
to perhaps uneventful life omit
this most important incident of his
welfare he will remain throughout
the whole of his college career "a
youth to Fortune and to Fame un
known," And as for our alumni, true and
tried friends who have stood by us
in our hour of need, who even now
and then, we do not deny it, may
have watched the pesky pigskin
take its flight towards the region of
our goal, and who wrapped about
with sombre thoughts have many
an eventide turned homeward with
depleted pockets, bear with us yet
a little!
We speak to you in no uncertain
terms by George, this Pegasus has
run away with himself. He evidently
intended this for a speech when we
say that never in all the history of
athletics at the University, save
now and then, have our prospects
been more brilliant.
And so we have to state in conclu
sion that the books of the Tar Heel
are now open, not for inspection
but for subscription, and that the
sooner your name is upon the list
the better for the both of us.
. We have spoken. The business
manager will greet you with a smile.
In The Matter of Education.
The history of the University dur
ing the past week bears upon it a sad
stain.
It has placed itself upon record
as having turned from its inhospita
ble doors a youth who like the
Preacher strove for Truth and
found it not!
He came from the grand solitude
of his mountain home athirst for
knowledge and it was denied him.
In the solitary wanderings of his
mountainous youth he doubtless felt
within him the stirrings of mighty
purpose! He sought an education
and yet when he presented himself
at the portals of an unsympathetic
university the opportunity was de
nied hi in. He asked for bread and
was rewarded not even with a stone.
It is a sad reflection upon a sys
tem of advanced education that it
had failed utterly to provide for the
needs of this youth. He had in him
undoubtedly the making of a man.
Simplicity and grandeur were the
distinguishing characteristics of his
being. And yet he was turned from
the doors of a hard-hearted univerr
sity, which he had doubtless desired
to claim as his ALMA MATER.
His sole crime was that he; could
neither read nor write.. ', r
A Mistaken Policy.;.'
The negleCt of the Athletic Asso
ciation from year to year to develop
a closer interest in athletics be
tween the University and the pre
paratory schools would seemingly
indicate a shortsightedness on' the
part of the Association, falling little
short of total blindness.
The criticism cannot be stamped
as unjust when it is said that fin
comparison with thev methods of
other universities and. Colleges the
policy of the Athletic Association
at the University of North Carolina
for years past has been of blind
chance. The value of the lower
schools in their relation to the ath
letic development of. the University
cannot be over-estimated. The im
portance of their position must
necessarily have occurred , to every
man interested in the record-making
of the University.
And yet in spite of all we drift
along in the same hap-hazard
method of making every fall a foot
ball team composed partially of men
who have to be taught the first rudi
ments of the game. That this
should be the condition of affairs
when the remedy lies clearly within
our own power is a matter of some
little amazement.
The Tar Heel does not consider
itself infallible in the matter of its
editorial policy. Far from it. And
yet when it was suggested last
year that much good would result
directly to the University by an an
nual arrangement of a series
of
games with the principal schools of
the state, it was thought that the
management and advisory commit
tee .of the Association would' at
least consider the matter of its im
portance. The schedule of foot ball
games in another column bears an
adverse testimony.
Gentlemen of the advisory com
mittee, the matter is deserving of
your consideration. Coach Reynolds,
from an abundant experience, will
declare to you the value of the prep
school in athletics. The plain fact
of the matter is that the lower
schools constitute the only sure
foundation for any permanent posi
tion of superiority or importance in
the athletic worlds The policy
that ignores ' the preparatory
schools resolves itself , in,to one of
chance, pure and simple.
Dr, Alexander's Return.
After four years of distinguished
diplomatic service as Minister to
Greece, Dr. Eben Alexander again
occupies his old position in; the fac
ulty of the University, from which
he had obtained leave of absence in
order to accept the appointment ten
dered him in April '94 by Ex-Presi
dent Cleveland. .
Since his departure the quick
wheel of college time has turned
into a new generation of students
and there are few among them now
who remember the kindly professor
whose life has of latter years been
devoted to the service of his country.
It was a happy appointment now
that he is back 1 again happy for
himself and for us. Certainly it
had been bard to find a man of more
brilliant attainment in his peculiar
branch of learning than was Dr.
Alexander when he left; but the in
timate association with the tongue
of Modern Greece cannot but have
broadened and enrichened the treas
ure house of his mind.
But more than', that.V the Tar
HEEL points , the " students of the
present-day to a man. Those of
them who may be tnore; closely as
sociated with him in the class room
are" to be envied among their fellows:
they will find in him dignity inviting
approach; sympathy that under
stands; advice; that does not sting.
Perhaps ho professor was ever
more popular, certainly none more
loved than was he during his term
here. The old college town has
never seemed quite the same to those
who knew him; and now that he is
back, his quiet figure and gentle
voice and kindly eye fit into the
scenes of the campus and the life of
the University as though their con
nection had never been severed.
The Law Class Election.
The members of the Law Class
of the Fall Term of 1897 met in the
Law Room on Friday-morning.
The offices of the Moot Court
and of the Class were distributed
as follows:
President, 2JF. Curtis
President, W. S." Ho ward,
and Treas. , C. E. Jones.
MOOT COURT.
Judge, S. B. Shepherd,
ate Justice, Jones Fuller.
Wescott Roberson. Solicitor, W.
G. Cox. Sheriff,' J. C, McRae.
Judge Brown Shepherd announces
that the Moot Court will, convene
three times each month, and that
the first session of the Court will be
held Saturday night.
Vice-S--cy.
Associ-Clerk,
; The,class of naughty-naught are
very naughty, but the freshmen are
the naughty ones.
Meeting of the Elisha AUtc' u
'0 Scientific Society.
The Elisha Mitchell Scientific
Society met in the Chemical lecture
room on Tuesday evening the 2ht
instant,. Prof. Cobb presiding. j
Wilson presented an interesting
paper on the Development of the
Lateral Line. The paper embodied
the results of work begun several
years ago by' Dr. Wilson, and car
ried on since in the biological labora
tory of the University by J. at
tocks, '95. A portion of the work
was embodied in' the thesis which
Mr. Mattocks presented for his
master's degree a year ago, and aa
outline of the work is soon to ap
pear in the Anatomischer Auzei-er.
It is gratifying to note that several
times during the past few years
work done in our scientific depart
ments has been noticed and publish
ed abroad.
Di Baskerville gave an entertain
ing account of the recent meeting
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science at Detroit
and the , British Association at
Toronto, both of which meetings he
attended. The University vvasgreat
ly honored in the election of Dr.
Baskerville as secretary of the
chemical section of the American
Association for the coming year.
Mr. F. B. Areudell of the staff
of the Raleigh News ami Observer
is in town to "write up" the Uni
versity, for his paper. He will re
main here several days.
Miss Mary McRae of Fayctteville
N. C. is stopping at Mr. R. S. Mc-'
Rae's. She is taking a course in
the University.
Some of the Class of '91,
Allen is teaching in the Stutes
vi lie Graded School.
Belden is taking Ph. D.
Candler is teaching at Caldwell
Instituted
Caruiichael has been elected prin
cipal of the Durham Graded School.
Fletcher is teaching in Gibson.
Graves is Librarian, U. N. C.
Lane is teaching in High Point.
Lentz is in the Concord Graded
school.
Mclver has gone to Harvard.
McNairy is teaching in Chester,
S. C.
Shepherd is back taking law.
Smith has a position in the Grad
ed School at Winston.
, Whiteher is teaching in Hickory.
Wiliiams is back taking a medi
cal course. '
. Wray is in Georgia teaching.
XVright, R. H., is teaching at
Stanhope, Nash county, N. C.
John Andrews is working in the
Southern Railway freight oflice at
Raleigh.
. "Tobe'1 Connor is studying law
in his father's office at Wilson.
, Fab Haywood is teaching in Wil
mington. .
Newby is teaching in Northamp
ton county.
Of the medical class of 'l7 Hart
will study medicine in Baltimore
this year,
Herring and Kirby will take
medicine at the University of Mich
igan. ,
, Zacluiry has j) t-d the state
board ajul is now ; working in :i l,()S"
pit;d atjWilmlrigtoB. f
Jovncjr, Pollock, Wimberly and
Nobles will attend the Jefferson
Medical college this year.