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Vol. 14,
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1906.
No. 19.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
AN APPROPRIATE CELEBRATION
Good Speeches And Splendid
Music Mark the Occasion
of Washington's Birthday.
Washing-ton's Birthday received
its usual appropriate and enjoyable
celebration on the Hill last Thurs
day, the order of exercises being
that announced in the last issue.
The celebration, which took
place in Gerrard Hall, began
at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning-,
Mr. W. B. Love acting- as presi
dent. After prayer by Rev. Mar
ion T. Plvler, of the Methodist
church, and music by the Univer
sity orchestra, which was secured
for the occasion through the joint
action of the societies and the Uni
versity, and a brief address by the
president of the exercises, Mr. L
R. Rudisell, orator for the Dialec
tic society, was announced and
spoke.
Mr. Rudisell had chosen for hi
subiect: "The Curtained Corner
in Washington's Life" and his
speech, well wrought out and val
uable for the new insig-ht g-iven into
Washing-ton's character, was espe
cially noted for its beautiful lan
guage and well turned sentences.
Mr, Rudisell pictured the youth
of the Virginia schoolboy, his love-making-
days, the dreams of future
greatness in which every healthy
m W T P t A
bov indulges, rie followed his ca-
reer throughout the war, lifting
the curtain here and there to por
tray important situations typical
of those trying- times, illustrating
especially the simplicity and heroic
fortitude under the bitter criticism
of his policy directed at him by the
supporters of General Gates, who
was a candidate for the position
Washington then held as Comman
der-in-Chief.
The next speaker was Mr. James
Small McNider, of the Philanthro
pic society, who spoke on the sub
iect: "From the View Point of
the Carolina School Boy." His
oration was a well sustained and
timely plea for the instillation into
the North Carolina school boy of
the feeling of pride in his native
State which the achievements of
her sons so fully warrant.
The Massachusetts school boy,
the South Carolina youth, the son
of Virginia each believes his
State is preeminent in all things,
always has been and will be for all
time. Why is it? Because his
teachers from his earliest youth
have related to him the stories of
his State's history and taught him
to reverence and love it.
Mr. MacNider reviewed briefly
some of the bright pages in our
State's glorious history and touched
upon some of the obscure and neg
lected points which are misunder
stood or not noticed at all. No
State has a grander record. Why
shall not our youth be taught this
fact?
Here the orchestra played and
the audience, standing, sang with
feeling, "America."
Then came the faculty address
delivered by Dr. C. Alphonso
Smith, who took for his theme,
"Individuality." Dr. Smith sus
tained his reputation and his speech,
an original treatment of no com
mon subject, while intensely prac
tical and helpful was, nevertheless,
polished, replete with thought and
thoroughly enjoyed.
The development of individuality,
said the speaker, has been a process
of evolution. In the earliest stages
of civilization the clan, the tribe or
some other organization was the
unit. But the coming of Christi
anity, the religion of the individual,
was the greatest victory for indi
viduality in the history of the
world and the Sermon on the Mount
was its grand Magna Charta.
Then after a time the influence of
absolutism begau to be felt again
and this time it was Martin Luther
who stepped forth and won a second
victor'.
The germ of au individuality is
born within eacli one of us and it is
a priceless gift which awaits im
provement. Individuality is the
basis of all character and only in so
far as one develops it can he make
himself felt in the world of action.
Its education is a letting out and
not a pouring in process.
There are three faculties which
are of prime importance to success
and which lie latent in each one
The first is the power of concen
tration. Concentration is the cut
ting edge of personality and the
education which fails to give it is a
failure. The second is the power
of confident and resolute belief, a
facultv which the world seems to
be losing-. Believe something and
adhere to it. The third is the
power of bearing responsibility.
There two kinds of people in the
world. One can stand responsibil
ity and attains success. The other
class is composed, perhaps, of bril
liant and gifted people but, lacking
this faculty, tbey fail. Cultivate,
therefore, this power ,if you would
win.
After a prolonged selection on
which the orchestra did itself
proud, the exercises were declared
completed and ' the ' crowd wended
their way to the postoffice.
No.
To the Editor of The Tar Heel:
Is it true that Messrs. Drury
Philips and James A. Gray, Jr.,
re going to start up a new maga
zine? I have heard that they are
nd should like to know.
Reader.
Our correspondent is misinformed.
The gentlemen in question, while
fully capable of undertaking such
an enterprise, have at present no
such project in view. They are
merely working out a plan for the
publication of a special issue of the
University Magazine by the Soph
omore class. Presumably it is this
which has occasioned the rumor of
which you speak. The Tar Heel,.
THAT ASSOCIATION GAME.
I
The Game Comes Off On Schedule
Time and One Side Beats the
Other, Two To Nothing.
The game of association football,
announced for last Thursday after
noon came off on schedule time, and
was apparently what it was pre
dicted to be, a snappy game. The
crowd might have been a good dea
larger without taxing- the powers
of the athletic park beyond its limit
of endurance. It might also, possi
bly, have been more vociferously
enthusiastic without great danger
its nervous systems or vocal organs
This, however, does not apply to
the players. They went into the
game with uncooling ardor, undiin-
inishing vim and unweakening en
ergy, and paused not to catch their
breath from a half's beginning un
til its end. It is the sort of game,
anyway, which is more exciting to
the player than to the onlooker.
But if it lacked anything of in
terest to the crowd, this was atoned
for by the novelty. .It was so like
and yet so unlike a regulation foot
ball game. There were the two
teams of eleven men each, lined up
opposite each other. There were
the officials. There, looming up at
opposite extremes of the field, were
the fjoal posts. There was the
leathern sphere, always "the cynos
ure of all eyes" and the recipient of
all kicks.
But with the beginning of the
game the difference became appar
ent. Instead of a player grasping
the ball in his arms and dashing
around an end or darting through
a hole in the group of human forms,
each endeavoring to lay hands on
him and fell him to the earth in
stead of this there was kicking,
running and kicking again. To
touch it with the hands was forbid
den. When the ball found itself in
the midst of a group of a dozen
players, each of whom strenuously
strove to send it toward his own
goal, then it was that the game to
the uninitiated w-hich, being inter
preted, is thecrovvd became humor
ous. Apparently shins received
more of the kicks than the ball.
As it darted hither and thither one
wondered how the football players
on the teams could keep from pick
ing up the elusive sphere and, mak
ng a sensational run for a touch
down, settle the business in short
order.
"Who won?" asked an interested
spectator of one of the players as he
leaped over the sidelines.
"The other side," was the dis
consolate reply. "The other side"
was Captain Stevenson's and the
score was 2 to 0. The heaviest
man in the game was 185; the light
est 110; the linesmen were Messrs.
Gardner and J. K. Wilson.
Governer Glenn has accepted an
invitation from Judge McRae in
behalf of the law class to deliver
an address before that class in the
early part of April.
THE PRIDE OF WEST END.
A Fourteen Hundred Pound Speci
men of Hog Flesh Submits to
an Interview.
West End boasts the biggest hog
in seven counties, or maybe eight,
for all that anybody knows to the
contrary. It is the property of a
middle aged negro who lives just
this side of the depot. It is not
merely of late that the animal has
attained his unusual size. For
months he has been an attraction for
the scores of youths who daily
stroll depotwards, seeking rest and
inspiration.
A Tar Heel, man was in a group
of sightseers that visited the place
the other afternoon.
"We're looking for the big pig,"
volunteered the spokesman, to the
colored individual who met them at
the gate.
The man proudly escorted the
party to the rear part of his yard
where, in different compartments,
and in diverse postures of repose
various specimens of the genus
swine reclined.
The negro pointed to one pen,
partitioned off from the rest.
"Dere he is, suh; dere he is."
The crowd rubbered. And, sure
enough, there lay his hogship, calm
ly taking his ease, oblivious of the
petty cares of this trivial, one-horse
world.
'Get up, sir," ordered his owner,
rudely breaking into his majesty's
meditations by punching him with
a miniature fence rail which, with a
fierce growl of disapproval, he seiz
ed in his teeth. He clambered to his
feet awkwardly and with difficulty
and stood, like a mountain of flesh,
glaring sullenly at his tormentors.
"Gosh, a reg'lar buffalo!" ejacu
lated one of the group.
"More like a rhinoceros," inter
jected a second. "Look at the face
and snout."
And, in truth, there was a strik
ing resemblance between the beast
which stood lowering before them
and the awesome creation which
yawns at one from circus posters or
from the cage of the menagerie.
"What does he weigh, uncle?"
was next in order.
"Well, suh, I give him 'leven
lundred, dressed," was the reply
in a conservative tone.
"How about the way he stands
now, without his clothes on." The
nquisitor was the same individual.
"Fourteen hundred, suh. at least.
Not an ounce less."
The brute, by this time, appeared
to divine the fact that there was
nothing going on which demanded
his immediate attention and sank
clumsily back to the earth. The
nquisitive spectator opened his
mouth to ask yet another question,
ut what that question was, no hu
man being will ever know. Just at
that moment there came clanging
over the hills the clarion note of the
supper bell. Hurriedly but not dis
respectfully the party departed,
leaving the hog king to his dreams,