Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-04-23
CHAPEL HILLS CONTRIBUTIONS.
University Notes.-The Chair Of Political
aud Social science-The Negro Question.
ff,orresnondanceo Of the Richmond Dispatch.l

rCorrespondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
CHAPEL HILL. N. c., April 2l;-Rev. Dr.
Thomas Hume, of the English department
mere. will deliver O lecture on the Holy
Grali before the young ladies OF Salem fe-
male Academy, the famous Aoravisn INSTITUTION,
next Saturday, and Will occupy the puipt o.
Bishop kondthaler, in the Old otone chufcn'
sunday morning and evening
The University baseball team Will play OAK
Ridge Institute here Saturday, and viii cross
bats with the Winston-Salcm nine MONDAY.
They showed up well In the recent came WIN s,
trouble, although she did not have tho catcher
ehe expected to play.
Ihe debater's and declsimers medals In the
Dialec,ic Society have been won by Ihomas oei-
feraon Cooper Of Cherokee county, and Mr.. AT
kinson, OF Asheviiie, respectively, and tho same
medals in TIE PhilanthrOpic Society by george
c. Conner. Of Wilson, and c. h. Harding OF
Eastern North Carolina.
iosophy, has extended his course further than IL
has ever gone before here. and further propa-
bly, than Is now pursued by any otner eovtnoIh
colleges, unless the University OF virginia 10 e1-
cepted. Rev. W. 4. Towers, graduate OF "a
padiGn college and an Episcopal clergyman, and
Rev. j. 4. Fogartie, a graduate OF Davidson Coz
Iege, N. c., and n Presbyterian minister, are now
studying Kant Professor Williams Is graduate
OF Yale and German universities.
Professor j. A. Holmes, state Seologist, mas
left with the corps OF the state Geological BUR
vey 10 examine into North Carollna's building
stones, on which he will prepare valuable re-
port. This state is rich with granite, marble,
and other building materials
THE NEW CHAIR.
The DISPATCH correspondent yesterday inter-
viewed President George 4. Winston as to the
mature OF the newly-establlshed chair OF eociol.
ogy here, which DIR. Winston Is TO conduct next
wear, He said: at will DO called the chair OF
political and social science, the present depart
80, lacO XII a III.
1.-The social science or sociology VIII Dc OF D
two-fold character. The lower classes Will be
taught by text books and lectures and the social
subjects taught will probably be education, the
various systems Of public and private educa-
ton the relation Of society 10 education com.
pulsoiy education, &C., &C. Another suplec'
VIII be- temperance. IL will be treated hlstori'
cally, the legislation OF various countries IN 70
soect to IL will be studed and all kinds OF statis
| tics relating to 1t will DO examined. These tws
sub;ecss will be studied next year.
"'rhe advanced classes, besides the use OF text
books and lectures, viii be taught by persona
ohservations, and by studying original matter
| inch as government, census, and state reports
" Especial attention viii DO paid 70 tho negr'
question, different points being assigned 10 dl'
| ferent students. Investigations along this In,
viii be conducted notably by use OF census anc
| state reports, and also by working up various
Tine aim will be, first, to have young roeI
thoroughly grounded In me prinap.es OF pon ~.
| crl economy and thoroughly informed as 10 tn'
history Of the leading nations Of the world II
reference 70 their legislation on matters included
| upder this head. Also, TO instruct them fuliy a.
TO me cardinal principles underlying society, q
make historical and philosophical study OF socia
institutions, and having laid this foundation, tn.
advanced classes viii be lod TO iayestgaae Io
| themselves living problems In our own poiitica
And social lie. II win aim 70 train young mel
40 inyestigate public problems as thoroughly, a,
sc,ent,caily, and impartially as they are trained
| to study problems in mathematics, Languages
! or philosophy"