The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-07-12
THE UNIVERSITY.

Since our last we have learned from an undoubted
source, that the Rev. DIR. Wheat has actually re-
signed his Prolessorship of Logic and Rhetoric in
the University Of North Carolina, anu accepted
call to the Rectorship of the Episcopal Church in
Little Rock, Arkansas. We sincerely regret this
second loss to the University The Rev. Mr. Ship,
most excellent and learned gentleman, had just
resigned the Professorship of History to accept of
more desirable Presidency of Literary Institu-
ton in South Carolina And now the University
is to lose one whose labors told with manifest effect
upon the public eye; for the compliments bestow-
ed upon the graduates and other Students at their
public exercises, show that he was emnently sue
cesstul in teaching Execution ana Composition
We learn that there has been great improvement
in those respects, as is particularly manifested
that event in College life known " the Senior
Speaking" when all of the Graduating Class are
required publicly to diclaim speeches of their own
composition. There is another particular in which
the Institution will be u great loser. We hardly
know how to allude to the loss of Lady from
such place but one who was in the habit of
watching by the sick beds of young men who were
far away from the nursing care of their own mo-
thers-one who thus became mother to them,
having no inducement thereto but genuine wo-
manly feeling,-must not allow her delacacv to be
shocked by public allusion to her deeds of love.
Many such cases have we heard of, beginning soon
after the Doctors coming to the University First
she took the Ill youths to her house, and min
istered to the necessities of their fevered frames
sometimes for many weeks at time. Finally her
example induced the Trustees to erect very neat
lnirmary on corner of the Doctors lot, within
100 feet of the dwelling. to which the sick have
been removed from the noise and confusion of their
dOrmtories in the College buildings, and where
they could receive the same kind nursing as in the
Doctors house. We can conceive of no more
beautiful exhibit of woman's nature than this. A
mother naturally for her own sick Children
and often will bestow such upon the children
of her friends but seldom indeed upon the utter
! stranger, perhaps the reckless boy, whose only
claim is that he is somebody's son, and that that
somebody is not near to perform the parents duty.
" Let ME kiss him for his mothers sake" said
New Orleans lady of youth who lay dead before
her, and whose mother was in his native New Eng
land, unconscious of her bereavement. Let me
him for his mothers sake, has even More of
wOman'S nature in it.
But the University is threatened with still an
other loss. The Rev. Charles Phillips, who has
been connected with the University as Student,
Tutor, and Professor, for upwards of twenty years.
and who is one of the most learned, laborous and
effective Professors that the Institution ever had,
"a man in love with learning for earning's sake,
and who has, in high degree, the faculty of i'm
parting what he knows to others,-has been invit-
ed to Professorship in the Union Theological Sc
minary in Virginia We trust that he will not 60
He cannot be spared-FdyetteciU Observer.