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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 16, 1910
NO. 38
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
CAROLINA 6- BI NGHAM 2
DR. ALEXANDER PASSES AWAY
CLOSE Of Y. M. G. A. SERIES
CAROLINA SHOWS UP WELL IN
BATTING DURING FIRST GAME
Stewart's pitching, Hackney's bat
ting, Tillers stop, the
features
Carolina opened her baseball season
here Monday by winning-a slow game
from Bingham of Mebane, scoring 6
runs to the visitor's 2.
Prior to the game such a decisive
score was not expected. Rumor held
that Bingham had seven leaguers in
her line-up and came to Carolina in
tent upon her scalp. And when the
visitors trotted upon the field it w.s
found that rumor was not at all wrong.
Sharpe, Doak, Harris, Roberts, and
Howard have already become promi
nent in league ball, and Carroll, Lloyd
and Taylor take their try-out in the
leagues this spring. But "Ked" had
heard these rumblings of rumor and
was more than determined that a prep
school, even tho backed by a wliole
league, should not lower Carolina's
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colors. His pitching was lnvinciuu.-.
Eleven of the visitors fell victims to
his curves. Only three were able lo
connect safely, and all of these came
with two men down.
"Rube" Howard, "the great" whs
pounded all over the field, but his
record of 9 assists, and no errors shows
that he was always on the job. Tay-
lor, who relieved him in the sevenm,
fanned three men, allowed two hits J
and one run in two innings. His
pitching was scarcely more effective
than Howard's.
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Eben Alexander
On the night of Friday, March 11,
two days after his fifty-ninth birthday,
died in Knoxville, Tenn., Dr. Eben
Alexander, Dean of the Faculty and
Professor of Greek in the University
of North Carolina and former United
States Minister to Greece. Dr. Alex
ander was on leave of absence from the
University spending- the early spring
with his son, Dr. Eben Alexander, Jr.,
of Knoxville. He had recently return
ed from New York where he had at
tended a meeting of the senate of the
National Society of Phi Beta Kappa,
that society of scholars in whose ac
tivities he had been so interested ever
since his brilliant student days at Yale
in the'early seventies.
Scholar, educator, diplomat, Dr.
Alexander had in him inherent the
qualities that made him a notable suc
cess along these lines. His family
was one of the oldest and most influ
ential in the history of "Tennessee.;
His father was for fifteen years judge
of the second circuit court of his state;
his grandfather was for five years
member of the National Congress.
His mother's family included members
of the state and national legisla
tive bodies. On both sides his family
had been prominent in the affairs of
the state in whose foundation it had
taken such a leading part.
The first member of the Alexander
family in America was Adam Alexan
der who emigrated from Scotland to
Pennsylvania in the latter part of the
eighteenth century. His son, Oliver
Alexander was one of the first pioneers
in the territory of the present state of
Tennessee. In the next generation
was Adam Rankin Alexander, United
States Congressman 1822-27, who was
the grandfather of Ebeu Alexander.
Eben Alexander was the son of Judge
Ebenezer and Mary McClung Alexan
der, born on the 9th day of March,
1851. His mother's grandfather, James
White, a native of Iredell county, N.
C, was the founder of the city of
Knoxville. Her uncle, Hugh Lawson
White, represented Tennessee in the
United States Senate and received the
electoral vote of several states for the
presidency in 1836. "She was a wo-
ment and beloved for her gentle man
ners and wide charities. Although
she died when her' son was only four
teen years old, her influence has pro
foundty affected his whole life.
The preparatory school days o
E'en Alexander, which were spent in
the University of Tennessee, were o
such fair promise that - his guardian
determined to send him to "Yale Uni
versity. He entered Yale in 1869 an(
the four years he spent there were em
inently successful in every way. His
election to Psi Upsilon and Skull and
Bones bear witness to the persona
popularity he attained among his fel
low students. His high scholastic av
erage, which made him a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, made it easy for him
to obtain an instructorship in ancient
languages at his state university, the
year after he graduated. Thruout his
whole life Dr. Alexander remained a
loyal son of "Yale; he unfailingly at
tended his class reunions and even in
recent years, was always the first man
in Chapel Hill to know the outcome of
Yale-Harvard struggles.
For four years he served as instruc
tor of ancient languages at the Uni
versity of Tennessee and then, at the
unusually early age of twenty-six, he
was elected full professor in this de
partment. The year 1885-86 found
him Chairman of the Faculty and
President of the State Teachers Asso
ciation, but although he undoubtedly
possessed those qualities which caused
a later biographer to characterize him
as "a man of marked executive abili-
:y," he was by preference a scholar, so
in the fall of 1886 he left Tennessee to
accept the professorship of Greek in
the University of North Carolina. This
same year Mary ville College in Tennes
see conferred on him the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy.
At the University of North Carolina
Dr. Alexander performed his duties so
skilfully and faithfully and withal so
pleasantly that he soon became one of
those educational leaders that gave to
our faculty the rank of first among
Southern institutions. In 1893 the
University conferred upon him the de
gree LL.D.
In April 1893, with his usefulness at
the University just attaining its prime
fullness, he was the personal choice of
President Cleveland for envoy extraor
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to
Greece, Roumania, and Servia. He se
cured leave of absence from the Uni
versity and went abroad to spend four
years in his country's diplomatic ser
vice. In every way his career as a for
eign ambassador was a success. Dr.
Alexander was not only a student of
the dead language of the Greeks; he
was a man who impressed the nation
as one deeply interested in the prosper-
MR. CLAYTON S. COOPER DELIV
ERS SOME STRONG ADDRESSES
Series closes with beneficial dis
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Auditorium
The large audience which gathered
in Gerrard Hall Saturday night to
hear the address by Mr. Clayton
S. Cooper was a testimony to the in
terest which college men feel in moral
problems and in the spiritual signifi
cance of life.
The theme of Mr. Cooper's address
was the power of Christ's personality
to transform and uplift human lives.
The thing that counts, he said, is per
sonality, and the test of personality is
its influence. He compared the per
manence and quality of Christ's influ
ence with that of Napoleon, of the for
gotten builder of the pyramids, and of
the philosopher, Kant. Although
these men accomplished great tasks,
they are not today living and moving
realities in the life and experience of
men. On the other hand, Christ lives
and is as powerful today to forgive sin
and bestow peace and strength as
when he dwelt on the earth in person.
The great secret of Christ's influence
was his faith in the Father. And by
such a faith as Christ had, said the
speaker, we can multiply our own
power and usefulness.
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