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With this issue the direction of
the publication of the Tar Heel
passes into new hands, as is seen by
a glance at the heading" of this col
umn. To the retiring- Editor-in-Chief,
Mr. Bellamy, we would of
fer a word of praise for the very
creditable publication which has
been got out under his direction,
and for the difficult standard which
be, has set tor future editors to
measure up to. Having seen some
thing of the internal workings of
the Tar Heel and appreciating
full well the difficulties the former
Editor-in-Chief had to contend with,
we would respectfully ask the asso
ciate editors of this paper one and
all to lay aside any false impres
sions they may have had in regard
to the Tar Heel being a concern
run exclusively by the Editor-in
Chief, and to make their presence
on the board appear useful as well
as ornamental. It is' not just that
two or three out of half a dozen ed
itors should do all the work and re
ceive no more credit than those
who do absolutely nothing. So al
though we will strive to our ut
most to keep the Tar Heel up to
its present high standard among
college weeklies, we would urge
upon our brother editors the fact
that upon them rests largely the
responsibility for our success or
failure in maintaining that standard.
In another column will be found
a programme of the approaching
Commencement which promises to
be' one of the best in the history ' of
the University. One feature of the
Commencement, which we think a
most important one, will be the in
itiation of the plan set on - foot by
President Alderman to have reun
ions of the different classes which
have been out of college five, ten,
fifteen, .twenty . and twenty-five
years. This time the plan is to
have reunions of the classes of '79
and '89 respectively, and as this is
the inauguration of the movement
for class reunions its outcome as to
its success is watched with great
interest.
their training for these reasons. As
now is the critical point in the base
ball season, a time when a general feel
ing of, laziness and apathy seems to
seize all, we should see to it for this very
reason that we grow not negligent in
our athletic, training. For the time
will shortly come for Carolina to
go "marching through Georgia," and
we would not have the proper training
wanting on that occasion in making
that march a victorious one.
jTYThree games were played with the
University of North Carolina and two
of them were actually stolen, while
the other was a farce pure and simple
The games were played under 1898
rules (the home team claiming that
the 1899 rules had not penetrated that
remote region); and in every one the
umpire was not only ignorant of base
ball but was very decidedl' prejudiced
in favor of North Carolina in the last
game he was actually an alumnus of
that institution. In the second game
game, it was clearly seen that the
game would go to Carolina, no matter
what our team did; Captain Grace,
therefore, called the men from the field
at the end of the fifth inning, the
score being" two to two. In order to
secure the guarantee, however, nine
innings had to be played, so our men
were sent back with instructions to al
low Carolina to score whenever she
chose. Consequently, no record of the
game was kept, audit will -not be
counted as part ot the team's work.
Undoubted this treatment was the
worst ever accorded a Lehigh team,
and we hope that in the future no
games will be scheduled with North
Carolina. Lehisrh Brown and White.
"Undoubted this treatment was the
worst ever accorded a Lehigh team,
and we hope that in the future no
games will be scheduled with North
Carolina."
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Barring the grammar of the above
quotation from the article copied above
from the Lehigh weekly, we heartily
endorse it. It may be that the '99 base
ball rules "have not penetrated into
these remote regions" but the spirit o
true college ethics has, and the same
cannot be said of the college which
can send out such an- editorial as the
above in its weekly paper. We cannot
stoop so low as to attempt to dis
prove the base falsehood that we
stole two games from the Lehigh
team. Our team's record as gentle
men is too well established to justi
fy us in attempting such a proof.
We agree with the article in that
he Greensboro game was a "farce
pure and simple." The score N.C.
8, Lehigh3 , is proof of that state
ment. The statement that Fletch
er Bailey of U. N. C.'s team for four
seasons and well known in college
base ball circles, is ignorant of the
game is too red iculous for serious
comment and the same may be said
of the charge against Mr. Crawford
ex-Captain of Trinity College team
of '98. It is very strange that Car
olina in her games with Lehigh
should be subject to such adverse
criticism, when her games with
more friendly opponents have al wa ys
passed off pleasantly strange and
inexplicable that we should resort
to unfair umpiring when it was evi
dent to all that we would . win any
way by our superior playing. No sort
r . . .
Alil , ,oi umpiring can assist a team to pile
Although bad weather, circuses and :1in wnfl7 tUr.M u-.
other things have in a measure re-! UP ftwentree hits on an oppon
tarded the daily base-ball practice for ,ent s crack pitcher and hold that
the past few days, we think that the opponent to a few scattered ones,
team should not let up altogether in We have suffered defeat as well as
enjoyed victory in our baseball his-1 dictate the terms of peace. In the treaty
torv, but we are thankful that we
are able to say that we left the urn
piring excuse for defeat behind us to
our successors on .the prep-schoo
teams. We are sorry Lehigh has
not done the same thing
We feel that this much is due our
team for the manly way in which
they acted even though playing bal
with a crowd of unruly, children
Otherwise the article would not
have been noticed.
Bonds Belonging to the Uni
versity.
Perhaps' it may be of interest to our
readers to know that the report that
the Supreme Court of the Unifec
States had by a recent decision invali
dated the Wilkes and Stanly county
bonds to the value of $14,000 belong
ing to the University, is untrue
The decision was not on the merits
of the case.
Capt. Price, Attorney for the bond
holders, is confident of gaining the
cases which involve the validity o
the bonds issued by those counties.
Prof. Toy on Prince Bismarck.
For an hour last evening in Gerrard
Hall, beginning at 7:30, Prof. W. D
Toy, lectured to a large and attentive
audience on. "Prince Bismarck." He
began by mentioning the "Iron Chan
cellor's" prominent place in history,
being one of its collosal figures. The
predominant passion of his whole
career was his love for Prussia. The
Bismarck family is an old and con-
spicuous one, found especially fln war.
The influence of both father and
mother on the chancellor's character
was clearly pointed out by the speak
er. At the age of seventeen he enter
ed a German University, While there
he distinguished himself at duel-fight
ing; and his respect for authority was
rather weak. But even at this early
age we find him planning the combi
nation of all Germany into one united
fatherland.
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After a short military service in which he
had shown his bold and reckless spirit, in
1847 he began his political life which was
to last for more than forty years. He
was fond of the country, and often from the
heat of public duties he would retire to
his country home to enjoy for a short while
its quietness. Soon after his entrance into
political life he was married to a noble wife
who exerted considerable influence on her
husband's life. Bismarck maintained the
prerogatives of the king against the demo
cratic spirit. His first political efforts were
to gain for Prussia instead of Austria su
premacy in the German Confederation.
In 1862 he was called home from Paris and
made President of the Prussian Diet. Then
the new era for his country beg-an. Prof.
Toy pointed out very clearlj' Bismarck's
great diplomatic skill displayed in connec
tion with the Schleswig-Holstein question
which was indeed his great masterpiece of
diplomacy, and how in a masterly way he
managed to expel Austria from the German
Confederation. As Bismarck himself has
said, he was wedded to one plan; his only
plan was in the pursuance of his own end.
After he had defeated Austria in a brilliant
ly conducted war of seven weeks' duration
he refused to allow Napoleon III., of France,
that was made Austria was left out, of the
German Confederation. The South German
States were also left free, but in reality Bis
marck had -already made a sceret treaty
with them, which, when it was made known
led his enemies to say that he had broken
the Treaty of Prague before it was ever
signed. '
He saw that France and Germany must
close in deadly strife; so selecting his most
opportune time for. the good of Prussia, he
seized on the first pretext to bring it about.
Asa result of this war, William I. was
crowned Emperor of all Germany, and
Bismarck was for twenty years the supreme
power in the control of affairs. Then came
the mistake of his life; his struggle with
the Roman Church was a failure. Later
he showed the same iron will which had
characterized his former actions in dealing
with the Socialists. He advanced Germany
to an important colonial power; he conferred
a lasting benefit on Europe by so arrang
ing its diplomatic and political condition as
to render war improbable.
In 1890 the world was amazed at his dis
missal from power bv William II., but in
1894 a reconciliation between the two took
place. But his greatness was not to be af
fected by the favor or disfavor of rulers; it
was the "arduous greatness of things
done," for which the German people hold
his name in high and deserved honor.
The lecture was illustrated by stereopti-
cou views, which aided Prof. Toy much in
delivering his scholarly and thoughtful lect
ure.
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