The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-05
DAvIDsON's QUIET SUMMER.

| Dr. Shearer's Coming Series Of Lectures
| DIR. McIver's Eloquent Speech-A
| Nice Summer Resort With Sward
Broken Only by Drives.
| Davidson, n. c., Aug. 4.-(SpeciaU-
| The summer at the college thus far has
| ,een very quiet and uneventful one. A
| much larger part of the faculty is spend
| ng the vacation at home than usually
| 5 the case. The stay-at-hOmes and the
! lbsentees are about equally divided
| Dr. and Mrs. Shearer come and go. July
they spent visiting the Nashviles EXPOSE
| ton, Gainesville, their old home, and
other points in Tennessee. After a few
days stay at home they leave for the
Biblical Assembly in Asheville, for
| two weeks sOjOurn. DR.. Shearer will
| deliver a course of ten or twelve lee
lures during its sessions. DR.. Shearers
scholarship, accurate knowledge, perfect
| familiarity with the Bible of which he
| has been long a hard student and
| faithful teacher, is perfect guarantee of
| a more than interesting series of talks.
DR.. Harrison and family are summer
| ing at Waynesvile. DR.. Martin and
| bride are at Blowing Rock, where they
| are keeping house in their cottage. Mrs.
| Martin, ST., and daughter, Miss Mary,
| find Asheville the favOrite place of their
choice this season, while Miss Lucy Mar
| tin is at the seaside near Wilmington.
DR.. Smith has been so busy attending to
| the finishing touches of his handsome
new house which has just been complet-
| ed, that he has found no time to leave
| the Hill except now and then to make
a speech and keep up his very enyiable
reputation and record as public lecturer.
| Just now, however, he is off on brief
| trip with his wife and son, on visit to
| his father in Greensboro Drs. Vinson
| Grey and Harding can only be charged
| with occasional absence, such as July and
August picnics would explain, and de-
mandS for few addresses here and
there. The college and community have
| been really rejoiced by DR.. WILSON'S rapid
| recovery from an attack which at one
| time looked as if it must prove fatal.
| He had some heart affection.
| One could hardly ask for pleasanter
place in which to spend a vacation than
the college offers. The campus is moth
| ing less than a large, beautiful park,
with magnificent shade trees and long
stretches of green sward broken only by
winding drives and walks. The quiet of
| NIldSe lie, Will just eHouSH VI Socidi
gaiety to prevent dullness, invites one to
daily use of the fine college library and
reading room. Fruits abound and vege-
{ bles are in profuson. Very fiattering
ITS are received here concerning Mr.
| L. w. Lingle, of the class of '93, who,
after two years course at Cornell has
| been continuing his studies in Germany.
| There he has met with success that
| he was lately elected one of the class
| lecturers and that too after only one
year in the use of the German language.
at the close of his first lecture his pro-
| fessort old him that he had made only
one mistake in his diction. He hopes to
| take his doctors degree in another year,
either at Cornell or in Europe.
DR.. Munroe expects to leave next week
| for short stay in the New York hospit-
| ais studying and familiarizing himself
with the latest methods in surgery. He
| expects a fine opening in September for
| the North Carolina Medical College.
DR.. McIver made a very eloquent and
powerful speech near here to-day at Zion
church, in advocacy of the school tax.
II is a great pity that larger audience
could not hear him and Prof. Grey,
county supervisor, in their able argu-
ments lDr better schools. The opposition
apparently doesn't go to be convinced
and won over. If they turned out to hear
many one would see the matter in a
different light.
The fine rains in the last day or so
have refreshed nan, beast and crops and
strengthened the hope of bountiful har-
| vest of everything not yet matured.