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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CIMPEL HILL, K. C, January 31, 1900. SO. 14.
BASEBALL PROSPECTS
Are Bright for a Successful
Season.
The outlook for the coming sea
Ion is quite promising, much more
othan it was last year. If the
earn that we put out last year was
tie that made for itself an excellent
ecord we expect a much better one
bis season in every way. Five of
ast season's team are readv to do
heir part better than they did then
Some of the "Scrubs" will show up
well this year and then there are at
east a dozen new applicants, among
whom there is much gfood material,
Capt. Lawson's twirling- will be
f possible, better this season, as he
Jiad cbnsdierable practice during
.he latter part of the last base-ball
ieason. He has been doing his
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fiest trying- to get out a goon team
Ibis vear. The team is bound to
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mx eacn man tonows ms example
In regularity of coming- out and in
ard work.
Graves is ready to hold down his
orner of the diamond against all
ompetitors.
Woodard will try ag-ain for his
lid position at "short."
Lambeth has retured for this
spring and will try to hold his own
!f third.
MHson will do his part in left
eld, better than before.
For the other four positions there
ire numerous applicants and a few
or the positions now held by old
aen. The new men should come
ttitfrom the first, to the last of the
season, for not only does regularity
jo. a long way towards getting
or you a position, but also if you
lave only a slight chance toward
Inaking the team, yet by so doing
rou make the men ahead ot vou
ork harder and in the end make
or us a better equipped team.
The places now rilled would all be
Sayed. better if there were three or
our applicants for each one. You
Fe to some extent sacrificing your-
elf, but you are making- the team
Nmuch stronger.
Although practicing- has to. some
stent been hindered by vaccination
pd the torn up condition of the
eld, yet it is hoped that in a .few
rvs we can be getting down to
ard and steady work. The arms
lv'll be well in a short time and it
s hoped that the field will be clear
up in a still shorter time. It
"as once hoped that we could oc
"Py the tiew athletic field, but for
Pis season, at least, it is quite im-j
sible.
A. good many have been out al-
ready and many more will come out
ls the season approaches. The
puof 1900 must be tnade up and
H may be out of it, sq come out
eady to do your best!
ow that we failed to hold our
tampionship in foot ball, let us
pke a desperate and determined ef-
0rt to have ourselves recoirnized as
base-ball champions.
Dr. Alderman at St. Mary's.
JUast Friday evening President
Alderman addressed the young
ladies of St. Marys in the school
parlors. His subiect was "Two
Great Achievements of the Nine
teenth Century the Discovery of
Childhood and the Freedom of
Womanhood." Though rather a
novel subject for our President to
undertakeyet it shows his versatil
ity as the address evinced careful
study and as usual he captivated his
audience.
By way of introduction he sketch
ed the tremendous forward strides
made in every department of mental
and material activity within the
past hundred years, and declared
that the reform of social conditions
was even greater than these. He
quoted Gladstone's motto for the
century, "Unhand me" as best ex
pressing the spirit of the century.
In treating the first part of his
theme he spoke of the child's influ
ence upon the Home. 1 hen he pass
ed to the neglect of childhood in
literature until Wordsworth and
Dickens in his novels discovered' and
naturalized the child, and now he
forms the soul of every drama and
storv. This elevation of the child
to his proper place has an im
perative bearing on our domestic e
conomy, ami he is now to be care
fully studied.
In dealing- with his second theme
the lecturer showed the great ad
vance in public sentiment where the
rights of woman are concerned. He
illustrated the development of
woman -by showing the difference
between the heroines of the novels
of seventy-five years ago arid of to
day, then she' was always compared
to the clinging- vine, absolutely de
pendent, now she is strong self-re
liant, helpful.
The increased field of work for
i . . a
women ana their success in these
new tieids were pointed out as were
the increasing recognition of their
value as a workers.
In conclusion Dr. Alderman
stated that the function of woman
was to educate not only the child
but man, through the manifesta
tion of her subtle graces. Man can
not compare with her in tact, refine
ment, agilitr of mind and sympa
thetic touch. Her mission is to add
to the beauty and grace of civili
zation. All who heard the effort pro
nounced it a great treat and Dr.
Alderman has gained new laurels as
a speaker.
DR. LINSCOTT'S
ADDRESS
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University Preachers.
The custom of having prominent
ministers of the different denomina
tions in this State to come here and
remain a week in each month act
ing as University Preachers, will
again be in vogue this year.
So far only two ministers have
signified their intention of accept
ing and they are Rev. N. M. Wat
son of Greenville, ho will be here
in February, and Dr. K. R. Swope
of Biltmore. who will be here in
May.
he Beautiful Story Told of
"Rome A World Romance."
One of the most charming of the
ntire series of Fortnightly Faculty
ectures was that given by Dr.
Linscotton "Rome-A World Ro
mance." i
As he said, the story of Rome is
so wonderful that it hardly seems
to belong to sober history. Far
back a little g-roup' of shepherds,
who had dwelt to the north, subject
ijo attack and plunder by the ma
rauding mountaineers, moved south
ward to the banks of the yellow
Tiber. Here they found a curving
valley, subject to overflow by the
river, damp and unhealthy. But
here on the two hills, hard by the
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river, they settled despite the dis
advantages, and here they builded
their city and named it Rome from
the name of the river Rumon, they
qhosea chief to whom they gave the
name of Romulus, the man of Rome.
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x his was April zist. it6 ri. k., an
important date in the. world's an
nals. Poor, ig-norant, weak, they
set themselves to carve their desti
ny in the firm rock of history, and
the world knows how well they
wrought.
The speaker divided Roman his
tory into four chapters; first,
comparison of the work of England
with that of Rome shows the real
greatness of the latter. The im
mensity of her task is seen from the
fact that one little hamlet grew to
rule the world, Rome was the
nation. But the work of conquest
was only the beginning. BArom a
heterogeneous mass, a composite
whole was welded, g-iving it her
civilization, laws, lang-uageand etc.
Even this did not' complete her
work. From the conquered Greeks
she learned culture, disseminating
it over the broad world. Her third
great contribution was to make the
world Christian.
Dr. Linscott then called attention
to the difficulties under which Rome
labored in accomplishing her great
work, difficulties almost inconceiv
able, all of which she surmounted.
Pwxpansion went on even amid the
terrible civil strife, when Roman
was against Roman as well as a
gainst the world. The impulse of
necessity's laws urg-ed her onward
despite Romaii conservatism. This
strife brought out the greatest of
them all, the versatile Julius
Caesat who re-formed the world
and died by .the hand of a friend.
The work of conquest was matched
by the matchless growth of the
city itself, from a few huts bv a
fever haunted river to the Eternal
city, the greatest municipality the
world has ever known.
The last creation of Roman
genius to which attention "was call-
the early strug-irle for national ex
istence. He pointed out their des- ed' vvas the Language, from an un-
perate plight surrouded as thev couth sPeech to the lantfuae ot Uic-
were by powerful enemies. He ero and Viri ' for sixteen centuries
showed how the struggle with their an universal languag-e.
enemies, the wild beasts, nature. The lecture was closed by an ap-
raan, brought out the stern Roman Peal to take a more general view of
virtues of dkrnitv. iustice. and con- Rome's place in history, to see how
stancy. The chastity of these ever.y PeoPle of Kur0Pe and of A"
parlv npnnlp wnt pmnhlrl ti,Jmerica as well, owe to her, and
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fact that for rive centuries there with the wartlim? that when Rome's
w9 nnt n ri;i- in Rnmo tl J monument shall fall the scroll of
a divorce in rcome.
growth of the little city to a world
dominion was explained by the fact
that these early years developed a
race of men, pure, unostentatious,
dignified self-centered
T.he second chapter deals with
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tne wars ny wnicn an Italy was
Romanized, and the third, treated
with the second, the Romanization
hi tory shall be rolled up.
The fourth chapter deals with de
cadence, ruin and death, twelve
hundred and twenty years after its
foundation Rome fell as falls some
great selt-centered man, whose
strength is wasted by ag-e and dis-
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ease, as was predestined at nis
birth bv the unevitable law of
of the world. To accomplish this are; a ntting close to a noble
latter task Rome had to contend r''
Rome
with three elements, savayerv. tvr- Kottle tiaa ",ven
annv and inrllvId.K.iitv r, l world and there was nothing left to
equivalent to anarchy, the Teutonic. suPPort her mvn flSTen" bo(1-v
the Semitic and the Greek races. ease attacked her weakened
"Att rla.M f p,'o i n-i i and hastened the end. Her
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natal day she looked upon a world vvas done.
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without law and administration: it is idle to attempt to give any
at the noontide of her power she adequate conception of the beauty
e9W -nnf nf nhaAe u wrnriri iri,i and force of this address. We can
her all to the
Dis
frame work
into a unit of an empire; and with
the setting sun of her imperial
splendor she might have raised her
drooping- eyes, to look upon a world
the better that she had lived."
From a few mud huts to imperial
spendor, seems a far glance but it
all came within the scope of a few
centuries. In 390 B. C. Rome was
sacked, in 27 B. C. Augustus was
crowned emperor of the world. A
only say that all who did not hear it
missed an intellectual feast.
Election of Chief Marshal.
The Junior Class met last Sat
urday to elect a Chief Marshal.
Mr. Eramett C. Gudger of Ashville
was placed in nomination and elect
ed without opposition. He an
nounced as his Subs: Benj. Bell,
Eben Alexander, A. W. Graham,
P. II. Busbee, C. P. Coble and J.
C. Hobbs.