The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-20
Hannis Taylor, Walter H. Page, Rev Walter W. Moore
Edwin A. Alderman, George 7, Winston
and lOhn R. Morris.

| foremost Of his own age an the South
or in the United States, we doubt not.
| He is a thinker as well as man OF
genuine learning, a very successtul ana
| greatly esteemed teacher in theology, a
writer of much purity, persplcaclty, aDll-
| ity and simplicity; Il man of most engag-
| ing character, and we are not at all sure,
| that taking him all and in all he is not
/ the foremost native North Carolinian III
30 years in original and cultivated pow
| ers, and he was born close to the OBJ
| server office in Charlotte. We have
| not consciously exaggerated in the
| slightest his most admirable gifts. We
| do not doubt that scores OF educated
ministers in the Presbyterian church
will indorse all we have said and claim
| more in his behalf. We believe DIR.
| Moore has written a good deal in bulk,
of a learned, reflective quality, in month
| lies and other media, but the varied pro-
| ductions have not been gathered into
| book form as yet, we think.
We have had occasion several times
to write of President Alderman. He is
undoubtedly accomplished. versatile,
| with rich stores of acquisition upon
which to draw at will, with a mind OK
unusual symmetry and beauty-not poet
ical that we know, but artistic grace
full, appreciative, productive. He is
rarely gifted as a lecturer, and his num-
erous addresses for some years in this
and other States have given him fame
and made him many admirers. \ schol-
! arly gentleman who heard him deliver
an address some years ago in Southern
! city to a 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 recalled and
DR. j. L. NJ Curry, a master on the
platform, told us that DIR. Alderman
eclipsed them all, carried everybody with
/ him, and when the address ended. many
men and Indies rushed to the platform
to congratulate him and take him by
the hand He is writer Of such ex-
cellence- so finished, so full of grace and
felicities of expression-that We have
| ventured before to say that we did
not know his peer as To style among
Iliving North Carolinians or a1y age,
and wherever born We merely gave
our own conviction and we still hold it.
| He is a gentleman of education, Of
/ scholarship. of fortunate reading in
bellies lettres, and is of genial and and
engaging manners. HIS presidency Of
! the University of North Carolina has
been strikingly successful, and he com
mands the high respect and confidence
| of all the friends of the venerable and
distinguished seat Of learning now in
the second century of its usefulness and
| influence. We do not admit now that
it is second to any other Southern uni
yersity.
/ DR.. Winston is teacher or much
experience and unquestioned success.
| He is scholarly man of large oppor-
tnnities. His training has been excel
lent, with abundant advantages for the
acquisition Of learning. He is Gistin-
| guished particularly as a progressive;
aggressive educator who has the art OF
building up an institution of learning
by intense zeal, vigor Of pursuit ard
grasp of the surroundings. He is bet
ter as a builder perhaps than as a hold
| er. He is n North Carolinian Of much
success, and deserves a place among the
ablest men of his State in 80 years,
whether it be limited to i've nr TEN
in number He is president Of the Trni-
versity of Texas and has greatly en-.
| larged its usefulness and its patronage.
/ There is still another man we would
name of very fine natural mind. for
| whom the trump of fame has neither
blown so loud nor SO repeatedly. He
is modest man not of any OF the pro-
fessions of which the others are mem
bers, and his name may be quite un-
known TO many who may read this. He
has a superior mind and if fortune had
smiled upon him graciously he might
have been famous ere this.
Unlike the others, he has had none
Of their large advantages of education.
He has not had the privilege of asso-
ciation from boyhOod with the best
cultured men of his times and has not
breathed the inspiring atmosphere of
the university and meditated in the Sc
questered Wales and walks of philoso-
ply and learning and letters. He be-
gan life poor without liberal advantages
OF any kind, and has all his manhood
been constant toiler, traveller, breaf-
winner. We have known him from boy
hood, have met him often times in man
hood, have watched with interest the
growth and enrichment of fine faculties
we early discerned, and have been de-
lighted thereat. If he has an equal in
natural gifts or in actual output from
| MS ulcllUdl uulHL among all the men
born in half century in North Carolina,
and of like opportunities-with the
training and benefits of a liberal educa-
tion-without the aids that come 10 a
gifted mind from scholastic life. ard
because of this necessarily limited in the
range Of his reading and knowledge, we
have not heard of him. We can only
refer to John r. Morris, the untitled,
but the intellectual. He has written
some brilliant articles and verse that is
poetry.
Hon. Hannis Taylor Is a native Of
Newbern; DR.. Moore is native OF
Charlotte; DR.. Page is native Of
Wake county; DR.. Alderman is ma
tive of this city; DIR. Winston is a ma
tive, we believe of Berthe county, and
Mr.. Morris is a native of GOldsboro.
All these are capable of rejecting much
credit upon themselves and their ma
tive North Carolina. Long may they
live.