The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-12-11
THE UNIVERSITY
FINAL EXAMINATIONS.
SCHOOLS OF LAW, ENGi-
NEERING, AND MEDT-
CINE, LARGE LAW
CLASS.
The Coming University. Mrs.
Spencer's First Step i'm North
Carolina, History &c., &c.


Spencer's First Step i'm North
Carolina, History &C., &c.
Chapel Hill, Dec. The cam
pus looks brown and bare, and the
buildings which, in summer, are
hidden from view ON Franklin street
now are clear-eut, cold, and white
amid the leafless trees.
The final examinations of the
term have begun and show decided
progress. The examinations of the
Law School are already faradvanced,
and are highly gratifying to allcon-
earned. There Is very gentleman
IL and srolarly class, always winning
merit for study and department..
The ESPRIT Do CORPS is admirable,
and this year scores, at Chapel Hill,
the largest number of students that
ever attended any law School in the
State in one year. The catalogue
OF lSS9-90 will show a law class Of
ever forty. DR.. Manning deserves
credit, for he has worked up the
law school from almost nothing to
its present prosperous and prosper
ing condition. He has all the ardor
and enthusiasm and progress of
ysung man with all the wisdom that
comes from age experience.
Maj. VIM. Cain, the newly elected
Professor of Mathematics, will open
in January, a school of civil and
Mining Engineering. He is not
simply q theoretical engineer, but
has had also large experience IS
practical engineer. Tt is believed
that this school of engineering will
be equal to those of any of the uni
versities.
A school of Medicine will lie
opened in September 1890, with rr.
Jno. Whitehead as Professor. lie
said to be every way admirably
qualified for the place. The neces-
ssry arrangements could not be
made TO open caller.
All the special schools of the
University are TO be pushed to their
utmost efficiency, and the coming
University is casting its shadows
before. Itsesms now certain that
we are to have a veritable Univer.
sity.
/ have been charmed beyond
measure With Mrs Spencer's First
Steps in the History Of North Caro-
lima" II reads like a romance: the
story Of the Old North State is told
With singular clevernsss, aud ones
interest never flags from beginning
10 end.
hoOresschool History was framed
10 teach the doctrine Of secession
which never had a corporal's squad
OF followers in the State. It is an
outrage to require the children of
Henry Clay Wings and Andrew
Jackson Democrats to memorize the
Ordinance Of Secession, and recite
thst the convention Of 1866 REPEAL
I'D the Ordinance Of 10th May 1861.
There Is no foundation for such an
assertion. IL was the last thing
they ever Intended TO do. They de-
elarsd that the secession ordinance
always had been null and void. and
never pretended 10 REPEAL it-not
even using the word REPEAL at all.
Mrs. Spencer, in The period Of the
civil war. has been loyal to the truth
Of history. She sets North Caro-.
Ina in her true light: shows her
great efforts 10 stay the fiood.tide of
secession on the one hand and 60.
srcion and civil war On the other.
We were not secessionists At ali.
nor dlsumiOuIsts; the causes which
led North Carolina into the war. are
clearly and truthfuIIy set forth. and
she did not desire to cloak her ac-
ton under the thin and fIimsy vail
Of lawful secession.
She calls things BY their right
name. when she means Rebellion. {" |
che says 30. That was just what Il |
was, just ~ much 80 ~ the Rebel. |
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