The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-06-27

date of graduation from the uuiver-
sity. The oldest class is that of
1921, represented by Lieutenant.
General Leonidas Polk, and the last
class is that OF 1864, represented by
its boy Lieutenant. William 81. C.
Webb. The class of 1861 graduated
eighty-seven men, of whom every
one volunteered in the Confederate
army. Of that eager band the
names of thirty are inscribed upon
the roll of Confederate dead. At the
reunion of this class in 1889 the
eleven members present upon the
platte IN in Memorial Hall bore upon
their bodies the marks Of twenty
three wounds. Such was war to the
South.
The storm of civil war did not
destroy the university. A small
band of professors. with scarce pro-
vision for food and clothing, heroi-
cally stood at their posts and
trained the three or four score lads
whom the tide of war had not yet
swallo we'd But wreck and ruin
came with the night of reconstruc-
ton. The bell was hushed that had
rung for three-quarters of a century,
and the lecture-halls were quite
! deserted. The ''carpeu-bagger" took
pos session, but learned in two or
three ars that universities cannot
exist without students. Again the
doors were closed, and the campus
grew up in weeds until 1875, when
loyal alumni and patriotic citizens
donated sufficient money to make
the buildings again habitable, and
restore books and apparatus that
had been stolen or destroyed.
From the modest beginning in
1875, with seven teachers and sixty
two pupils, the university has grown
to have thirty-fve teachers and four
hundred and seventy pupils. It's
management is broad-spirited, liber-
al, and progressive. Fully one-third
of it's faculty have been educated
abroad. and nearly all are young
men enthusiastic for thorough work
| and development along true lines of
| culture. It's graduates are more and
more seeking the special training of
German universities, of Harvard,
Yale, or the Johns Hopkins. The
| rigid standard of requirement APP
| pears from the statement that not
% per cent. of q Freshman class
| succeeds in graduating.
The most remarkable thing about
the University of North Carolina is
the prudent and economical spirit
that characterizes not only it's adj
| ministration, but also the daily life
of it's students. The entire univer.
sity income does not exceed $4,000,
and yet with this pittance it pays
it's professors, maintains an excellent
library of 10000 volumes, equips
and keeps up we'll provided labora
tories in chemistry, physics. geology
and mineralogy, keeps in repair and
| good order fifteen buildings and a
campus of fifty acres. Here is fnan'
ciering of a hi Oh order. The average
students expenses for a year, includ
ing every thing, does not exceed
$500. and many students who re
ceiye scholarships live on less than
500. Nearly 10 per cent. of the
student body support themselves by
labor of some sort even while pnr
suing their studies. The university
offers no employment, but the
students find it in the village and
among themselves. The whole insti
tuition presents a remarkable
spectacle of self-reliance and econo-
my. But living is cheap where gooC
servants may be had at So a month
aud eggs retail at ten cents a dozen
where houses with ten rooms rent fol
SIS month, and acre lots may be
had for two or three hundred dollars
The endowment of the university
i,u no hx
annual expense account has pre-
vented any accumulations. In 1879
the alumni donated money for it,
revival; in 1884 they erected
Memorial Hall at cost of 81 900
in 1890 they endowed a chair o
History. Four women have giveI
SGT 900 within ten years, mainly tC
establish scholarships. The tota
4 invested funds are less than 500.
900. Not dollar of invested funds
has ever been lost, either principa
or interest, since the revival of the
university in 1875. Students o
very limited means are aided by
loans of sums as small rs twenty
GoilaTs, and the number of those
aided goes far up into the hundreds
yet there are NO losses. The iBtiuenct
of the university upon the State il
most marked and salutary. 1t is
serving as powerful force to builo
up system of public schools, te
lengthen the school terms, tC
improve the teachers, and tC
strengthen the profession. 1t has G
department of pedagogics for the
training of teachers, and a summer
school for teachers who cannot
attend the regular sessions. TIE
work of the institution is largely
hampered by lack of funds; anc
ignorance, prejudice, and sectariaI
fanaticism have again and agair
sought to cripple or destroy it. But
it stands for popular education. fol
broad culture, and for human
| progress in all directions, and il
must win the battle eventually.
Love Yourself Last.
| From the New York Herald.
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