Y. M. C. A. SPECIAL EDITION.
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Vol. 15,
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1907.
No. 20
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
SOCIAL CENTER OF CAMPUS.
IS FOUND IN THE ASSOCIATION
BUILDING.
Its
Game and Reading Rooms
Have Already Become
Indispensable.
Twelve months ago the Y. M. C. A.
meant nothing to the students of the
University, now they would not know
how to get along without it. Tin
comfortably finished and furnished
building that now succeeds the struc
ture that stood so long empty and use
less on the campus has become the
natural center of student life.
In the rooms of the Association
building practically all of the meet
ings of student committees are now
held. Such demand is there for rooms
for these committee meetings that
sometimes the building proves inade
quate. Since its completion, too,
most of the banquets held by small
numbers of the students have been
held in the Association building's
reading room. By providing offices
for all the college publications the
Y. M. C. A. building has become also
the news-center of the campus.
As a social center, though, the
Association building has proved its
greatest value. Especially during the
long winter days when the foul
weather has forbidden any form of
out-door sport has its game room
been full to overflowing. Here every
afternoon and night many students
find recreation in playing chess,
checkers, cueroquet, and other games
on tables furnished by the Association.
The reading room, too, has attract
ed many, but its equipment has been
insufficient, and hence it has not been
able to reach the full extent of its use
fullness. It is through the social life
of its game room that the Association
building has come to be indispensable
to the University students.
Our Debates.
The University of North Carolina's
debating schedule stands at present,
as follows: A. series of three anual de
bates with' the University of Georgia,
the first to be held at Athens, Ga., on
April 12th, l'K7; one debate with
George Washington University, to be
held in Washington City on April 12th,
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President G. F. Leonard.
1907; one debate with the University
of Virginia, to be held at Chapel Hill
on April 25th, 1907; one debate with
the University of Pennsylvania, to be
held in November, 1907,
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i Y. M. O. A. BUILDING.
WE ARE SAVED BY HOPE I ATHLETIC MASS MEETING.
THEME OF THE ADDRESS BY
BISHOP STRANGE.
The Spirit Life Positive Hope
the Means Bringing About
Our Progress. "
Bishop Robert Strange, of the. Dio
cese of Eastern North Carolina,
preached before the student body in
the Chapel Sunday night. Bishop
Strange chose as his text, Romans
eighth chapter and twenty-fourth
verse. "For we are saved -by hope".
Life, he showed, would be nothing
without hope, and were that hope for
nothing more than the physical life
would still be nothing. The hope for
a life above, purer, sweeter, nobler,
adds much to life here.
The Almighty intended final peace,
joy, and splendor for every man. To
ward these we progress. Death
means a change in the direction of
this progress; the resurrection a
wonderful change. The life after this
change shall be spiritual with Christ.
Through hope comes progress, de
velopment, resurrection, and these are
all positive. Thus, as the part that
makes life worth living on earth is
positive, then the spirit life must be
positive. Hope leads us forward to
this positive spiritual life,saves us.
Bishop Strange spoke again before
the Y. M. d. A. on Tuesday night.
Following his custom he spent several
days on the Hill for the purpose of
coming in touch with as many stu
dents as possible.
The LaDell Company.
The LaDell Concert Company gave
a most enjoyable entertainment Fri
day evening under the direction of the
University Y. M. C. A. Miss LaDell,
the elocutionist. Miss Crawford, the
soprano, and Mr. Fox, the violinist of
the company are artists whom it would
be difficult to surpass in their lines.
The students are unanimous in pro
nouncing the LaDell Company the best
Lvceum attraction that has appeared
on the Hill this year.
ITS PURPOSE TO OPEN UP
BASEBALL SEASON
Joseffy.
JoselTy, a magic maker of high re
pute, will appear in Gerrard Hall,
March 13, under the auspices of the
Y. M. C. A. Mr. Joseffy comes
highly recommended as an original
trickster and promises an interesting
evening.
Prof. Graham Commends Spirit of
Gathering Dr. Venable Talks
on Athletics.
President Foye Roberson of the
Athletic : Association called a mass
meeting of the student body Monday
night in order to get the men to
gether for the opening of the base
ball season.
Professor E. K.' Graham made the
first address, calling the attention
of the students to the general good
feeling evinced in the. meeting toward
Virginia, our traditional rival, for
whom the feeling- at past mass meet
ings has usually been anything but
friendly. Professor (iraham then
made an appeal for constructive stu
dent criticism of athletics, rather
than destructive. Let each man help
to improve college athletics, best by
going out and endeavoring to make
some team. He then proposed a plan
for making a membership fee of $2
for the Athletic Association, the
amount resulting to be utilized in em
ploying a general director of athletics,
to train the tennis, baseball, track,
and class teams. This proposition
should meet with the approval of
every man in college.
Dr. Venable then announced to the
student body that the matter of the
Virginia games was in its charge,
after which he urged the students to
help themselves further along the line
suggested 'by. Mr. Graham by subscrib
ing for the improvement of the ath
letic field.
The meeting was closed by short
talks from Coach Simmons, who gave
a review of Carolina's bright baseball
prospects this spring, and Mr F. B.
Rankin, who most scientifically
"knocked" the "knockers" of athletic
teams.
The Georgia Debaters.
Messrs. C. .1. Katzenstein, Phi, and
L. P. Matthews, Pi, were chosen in
the Phi hall Saturday night to repre
sent Carolina in the debate against
Georgia in Athens on April 12th.
There were six speeches made in the
contest, and all were of an exception
ally hiffh quality.
THE BUILDING'S HISTORY.
TWELVE YEARS SPENT IN RAIS
. INQ FUNDS.
The Building Free from Debt
Heating System Needed for
Completion.
The need of a Young Men's Chris
tian Association building was felt,
and the desire of it expressed with
more or less hope of its realization be
fore the session of 1894-5, yet this
need and desire first took on tangible
form during this session. Enthusias
tic mass meetings were held in the
University chapel to fix and broaden
the interest in such a building; hopes
ran high, expectations grew lirge,
and it was agreed that a twenty
thousand dollar home for the Asso
ciation should be secured.
Subscriptions were taken, to be
paid in four equal annual payments;
the first installment to be due when
ten thousand dollars had b en sub
scribed. The canvass of the students,
faculty, and citizens of the town was
vigorous and met with very general
and liberal subscribing, yet the
amount secured fell far short of the
condition; the plan proved a failure,
though hope of ultimately -succeeding
was not dead.
The Association took council with
its friends and it was decided that a
more modest building would meet the
special needs of the organization. A
vigorous effort was then made to hold
or rekindle the interest of the sub
scribers to the former building fund,
and to secure subscriptions that were
not conditioned on raising any definite
amount, the first enrollment to be due
one year after date. Many of the
former subscribers headed the appeal
and renewed either in full or for a
part of what they had previously
promised. Then the new subscrip
tions that were secured did not
mount to enough to erect the build
ing last decided upon; yet it was de
cided to begin collecting the pledges
as they became due.
In 1897 five hundred and eighty-four
dollars were collected, and the next
four years of irregular effort raised
the amount .in the hands of the treas
urer to $1,355.
The yearly change in the officers of
the Association, who had charge of
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Y. M. O. A. Jiuildiiitf Fund.
the collecting, complicated matters.
The subscribers did not understand
why different persons would send out
notices that installments were due;
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