The gold leaf., 1899-07-13

Carolina.
Rev. DR.. Moore, professor of Hamp-
den-Sidney, is a preacher OF exceed
ing charm and rarest simplicity.
We once heard him with pressed
delight. We never heard an able man
who was so charmingly simple. easy,
and yet impressive withal. scholarly
and pure in style. He is a profound
scholar. among the foremost of his
own age in the South and in the
United States, we doubt not. He is a
thinker as well as a man of genuine
learning, very successful and great
ly esteemed teacher in theology, a
writer of much purity, perspicacity,
ability and simplicity; a man of most
engaging character, and we are not
at all sure, that taking him all and
in all he is not the foremost native
North Carolinian in 80 years in origi-
nal and cultivated powers, and he
was born close to the Observer office
in Charlotte. We have not conscious
ly exaggerated in the slightest his
most admirable gifts. We do not
doubt that scores of educated minis
ters in the Presbyterian church will
indorse all we have said and claim
more in his behalf. We believe Dr.
Moore has written 4 good deal in bulk
of learned, reflective quality. in
monthles and other media, but the
varied productions have not been
gathered into book form as vet. we
think.
We have had occasion several times
to write Of President Alderman. He
is undoubtedly accomplished, versa
tile, with rich stores of acquisition
upon which to draw at will, with a
mind OF unusual symmetry and
beauty-not poetical that we know,
but artistic, graceful, appreciative,
productive. He is rarely gifted as a
lecturer, and his numerous addresses
for some years in this and other
States have given him fame and made
him many admirers. A scholarly
gentleman who heard him deliver an
address some years ago in a Southern
city to large crowd of educators,
when very distinguished men, famous
as speakers, were among those who
''held forth''-a very gifted professor
from Cornell (name not recalledD and
DR.. J. l.. M. Curry, a master on the
platform, told us that DR.. Alderman
eclipsed them all, carried verybody
with him, and when the address
ended, many men and ladies rushed
to the platform to congratulate him
and take him by the hand. He is a
writer of such excellence-so finished,
so full of grace and felicities of eX-
pression-that we have ventured be-
tore to say that we did not know his
peer as to style among living North
Carolinians of any age, and wher-
ever born. We merely gave our own
conviction and we still hold it. He
is gentleman of education, of
scholarship, of fortunate reading in
bellies lettres, and is of genial and
engaging manners. His presidency
of the University of North Carolina
has been strikingly successful, and
he commands the highest respect and
confidence of all the friends of the
venerable and distinguished seat of
learning now in the second century
of it's usefulness and influence. We
do not admit now that it is second
to any other Southern university.
DR.. Winston is a teacher of much
experience and unquestioned success.
He is scholarly man of large oppor-
tunities. His training has been eX-
| cellent, with abundant advantages for
the acquisition of learning. He is
distinguished particularly as pro-
gressive, aggressive educator VIII
has the art of building up an institu-
ton of learning by intense zeal, vigol
of pursuit and grasp of the surround
ings. He is better as a builder per.
haps than as holder. He is a North
Carolinian of much success, and
deserves place among the ables'
men of his State in so years, whether
it be limited to five or ten in nun Der
He is president of the University o.
Texas and has greatly enlarged its
usefulness and it's patronage.
There is still another man We
would name of very fine natura
mind, for whom the trwmp of fame
has neither blown so loud nor so re
peatedly. He is a modest man not O
any of the professions of which tn,
others are members, and his name
may be quite unknown to many who
read this. He has superior min,
and if Fortune had smiled upon hin
graciouslv he might have been fam
Gus ere this.
Unlike others, he has had none o
their large advantages of education
He has not had the privilege of asso
citation from boyhood with the bes
cultured men of his times, and ha:
not breathed the inspiring atmos
phere of the university and mediateC
in the sequestered wales and walks o
philosophy and learning and letters
He began life poor without liberia
advantages of any kind. and has al
his manhood been a constant toiler
traveller. bread-winner. We hav
known him from boyhood. have me
him often times in manhood, hav
watched with interest the growth am
enrichment of fine faculties we earl
discerned, and have been delightc'
thereat. Ii he has an equal i
natural gifts or in actual outpos
from his mental mint among all tn
men born in half century in Mort
Carolina, and of like opportunities
: without the training and benefits OF
liberal education-without the aid
5 that come to gifted mind from schc
: lastic life. and because of this nece,
! sarilv limited in the range Of hi
2 reading and knowledge, we have nc
: heard of him. We can only refer
: John X. Morris, the untitled, hut th
; intellectual. He has written SON
e brilliant articles and verse that
. poetry.
: Hon. Hannis Taylor is a native
5 New Bern: Dr. Moore is a native
: Charlotte; DIR. Page is native
G Wake county; Dir. Alderman is n
4 tive of Wilmington: DR.. Winston is
n native. we believe, of BERTHE count
: and Mr. Morris is a native of Gold
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