The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-06-07

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feeders or off-shoots. for in his
massive structure will be c~ongregated
I'll the recitation and lecture rooms. Be
sides it is to be at commencement times
Il veritabIe home for the Alumni.
Spite at the good fortune of others
had Il place here and never will
have. Mud-hooks We're never a part Of
our equipment. We faced and rode ont
storm. ever deeming the craft sea-
worthy. and have been through more
than a century %Singularly fortunate in
commanders ard pilots. ! think history
viii bear me out that this IS Il claim cap
able of the fullest veriication. and GER
tainly it is in no boaStful spirit that
present it now.
Your selection of Il speaker in my per-
son was not in all respects fortunate. yet
in one point | MAJ With You say that
YOU made no mistake.
You secured Il lover. if not a man of
letters. for | am i native here and
breathed this air during all my early life.
The giant oaks in which You take 50
much just pride were my childhoods first
friends. the wide streets III which YOU
take your afternoon walks and drives
have each Of them for me Il hundred
memories sacred. solemn, witllal sweet
~ kisses after death or those 10y hope
less fancy fcigned on lips that are for
others
".Nictory or a place in the Abbey.
Nelson is said To have cried rs upon one
occasion he went into battle. Your alb
hey is Memorial Hall. and if the future
can be booked from the past, YOU Of the
young set. who now listen to me are
sure Of 4 place there, ii You Win the
victory.
The basis of cost was $4,000. of
| ,-I;LI, .-,,-,l.,. ,,n.D H.. +h,,.l lar
been paid III. Presenting. rs | must. that
the residue of the subscription Will be
met as called for. | am informed that
about $4,000 is vet needed to make the
list tally with the estimate of eNpendi-
lures. That by classes or by individual
members Of the classes, this deficit viii
be subscribed at once | DO not doubt for
one moment MI the past negatives Il
doubt as to this.
We must call attention to it. tho press
must advert to it. the scattered members
Of our organization must be advised OF
our needs and when this has been done. |
feel that the result Will be III accord
With our highest expectations.
"AnI referring to the press | pause to
say. that the University III all the host
Of her friends numbers no more Loyal
ones than the States editors. In the re
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learning has been subjected ut the hands
of the enemies of higher education. the
press of North Carolina with compara
tive unanimity stood forth in behalf OF
the States reputation for conSeryatlvt
wisdom and progressive development
with both Of which the University is
bound up in lasting links The result
WAS. the blow intended for her breast.fe
to the earth unnoticed and uncared 70
ly even the most time serving OF tn
politicians. and over the exploded shell o
scctarian spite and with the p~laudits 0
good men in all political parties. our III
cirnt banner was carried by those worth
successors of Swain. Stevenson. Hattl
and Caldwell. George +. Winston and |
\. Alderman.
".\ll honor to them and their co-Worl
crS wherever scattered.
I'm all wars the University is at th
front. The mchiliZed camp at Isalci@
is freely sprinklcd With her chiidler-Is
many indeed that it would be i|nvidiou
, to name them Chips of the old block
; are they. ScionS Of fathers. some {
whom We're here With me, 50 swiftly doe
time throw its shuttle.
: Those were happy days to me. thong
the great civil conflict was at its heigl
and soon interrupted our students wit
II tiIl- NIlINil l'ii' III 'ti II hlt
of hearing arms could or would RESTS
And 50 from students we became soldier
and gave to this dear Southland the hes
service of which we were possessed.
Yet the bell on the Old South col
ltinucd to call together for morning praH
cr and recitation Il handful Of Wha
President Swain used to call the see
corn. even when the village saw for tn
first time the blue coats Of the Nolthcr
+ cavalry.
But what war could not do recon
Struction most clfcctually accompliShc,
and under It's whitening blight the be
ceased to sound over the ampHs IN
town. Wherever else reconstruction ma
= be forgotten it IS likely to be remembers
here in the then desolated village. /
Numbered libraries. in mouldered walls
in ruined groves and defaced buildings
I'm the village Of Domremy in Franc
for more than three hundred years tn
taX-gathcrer wrote words opposite III
F.; list. which on being translated mean>
nothing on account Of the Maid. lht
did the Bourbon remember Joan of -Ar'
II was her poor wish in return for all he
mighty service to the monarchy.
I'VE sometimes hear criticism of tn
~triiing aid given 10y the State to thl
scat Of learning. ! say boldly that if on
- Nina Mater uat never Fclltelcd -Nolt
Carolina other service than the tralnm
ana presentation to her of our gre;
war governor Icbulon Baird Vance. til
e Lawmakers might well write III their G:
innate of appropriations anything tn
, University wants on account Of Vance
.Such would have been the wish ncal
est the noble heart Of him who WA
in war and peace our great dellNeft
from foes without and foes within. frol
= caIamities more CALLING than death frol
! diellonored statehood. from 4 tnrnlll
back of the dial of our Saxon clVlllI;
ton.
..\Il honor to his knightly life. oil ho1
or to the school that trained hum an
men like him.
In conclusion. Mr.. President. perm
me to again tender through your dlstll
@uiShed self. to the Honorable Board t
Trustees, this binding. rs Il token OF til
devotion and loyalty Of the Alumni {
he University Of North Carolina. tie
- bless every one of them and their sWet
memories.
In the fIower-clad plain. not far frol