The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-10
Editorial Correspondence


Chapel Hill, N. c., June S.-The most
modern building on the campus here is
the new Carr Building, finishing compile
ton. 1t was presented to the Univer-
sity by Hon. Julian S. Carr, native OF
this village, who has been the Universe
tvs best friend since the re-opening in
1875 To the Alumni Building he was the
largest contributor, and of the $4,000
raised to establish he gave 100000 Prior
to that he had given a large contribution
to the building of Memorial Hall. The
handsome Methodist Church here was
built chiefly by Mr.. Carr.
He crowns his gift to his alma mater
by the splendid Carr Building which will
be finished before the opening of the next
term.
1t was formally presented to the Uni
versity today in a speech by Col. w. H. S.
Burgwyn. COL Burgwyn said:
Mr.. Chairman One hundred and five
years have passed since the Governor OF
the State Orchard Dobb SpaighD on a
cold, drizzIy day in March, as the signing
of the watery wind whistled through the
leafless branches of tall oaks and hlck-
DRY and poplar trees that surrounded
him, in the presence of several members
of the corporation and of the General AS
sembly formally declared that the man
dates of the Halifax Congress of 1776 had
been obeyed and the doors of the State
University were opened for the reception
of students
The contrast in the surroundings be-
tween the opening of the doors of the
University on March 18th, 1895, and the
opening of the doors of this building on
this quiet summer day in this beautiful
grove of majestic trees, flanked by these
stately buildings and in the presence of
this large audience, is not greater than
the contrast between the equipment of
the University in 1895, when a two story
brick building (Old East and one un-
painted wooden residence, red hole in
the ground which marked the site of the
future chapel, village without houses
and with it's streets oyergrown with for
est trees, represented it's plant. A soli-
tary professor constituted it's faculty
and the student body numbered nine-and
it's equipment of today, with faculty OF
thirty-thr professors and teachers
where all the humanites, science, law and
medicine are taught to more than five
hundred students. An University indeed
Forts ct in Sc ipse totus tereS atque
rotundus."
1t would be a grateful task to pause
and pay tribute to those who were the
actors in this great development, but the
proprieties of the occasion do not per-
nit. therefore, crave your indulgence to
some thoughts suggested by these exer-
ciSeS.
FIRST GIFT OF ITS KIND.
The gift of this building is not only the
first of it's kind to a State institution of
learning in North Carolina, but it is the
largest individual gift in the concrete
form ever made the University. There is
NO selfishness in such gift. 1t is not
to advance or propagate religious doc
trine, political policies, or school of mod
ern science. There are no conditions at
tached to it. No control as to it's man
agement, for the government of the Uni
versity is by trustees elected by the leg
islature and includes persons of all reli-
gious beliefs, of various political views,
the rich and the poor alike. 1t is free
gift by native North CarOlinian to the
people of North Carolina. 1t comes with
clean hands. The money that built 1t
was made through honest methods and
the donor did not wait to make it by his
last will and testament.
BELIEF IN THE GREAT FUTURE OF
THE UNIVERSITY.
This donation representing many thou
sand dollars is an evidence of trust in
the present management and of belief
in the great future of the University. This
trust and belief is justified by the past
history of the institution. We have seen
in the brief space of life, governments
come and go, dynasties have risen and
disappeared, our own fundamental law
that called it into being has changed. A
mighty Civil War fought, and our social
system destroyed, the former civilization
supplanted by new and yet the Univer-
sity survives and fiourishes. Even when
it's classes were depleted to fill the ranks
of it's armies and the halls resounded
with the tramp of conquering soldiers it's
glory was that it's doors were never closed
and that students ever answered the old
college bell as it sounded the hours for