The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-06-12

cent; of the Governors of the State. fftv-
eight per cent; of the Lieutenant Gov
errors ffty-nine per cent: of the Speak
efs OF the House Of Representatives fifty
per cent. of the State officers. twenty
TWO per cent: OF the Judges of the Supe-
nor court, thirty-eight per cent: of the
Judges OF the Supreme Court. fifty-two
per cent. And not only in public life but
IN the professions Of teaching. of agricul-
ture, Of industrial and mechanical en-
deavor, while it is not possible to ex-
press its influence in percentages il is
true to say that the formative influences
in each of these great departments Of
society have come from this institution.
IN war one might silently point to that
long roll inscribed on those tablets.
'Of those whose faith and truth
On wars red tombstone rang true metal"
Yet it can be said accurately that forty
Per cent OF the total enrolment Of this
University from 1925 to 1867 were in the
confederate army. The average enroll
ment OF the New England colleges in the
FeGeral army was twenty-three per
cent, and Of Yale University the highest
OF them all, % per cent. Since the re-
opening Of the institution in 1879 2.S4G
students have matriculated here: five
hundred and sixty-two have graduated
here and entered the various professions
OF life. There is no arithmetic that can
calculate the coed these men have done.
or can estimate the loss to the State
II this army Of trained men had not
been sent out into its life. Ninety
three Der cent Of these matriculates have
come from this State and | dare saw that
there has been no new movement for
good in which they have not been active.
tl1ty per cent Of these matriculates have
been the sons Of men who never knew
the advantages Of college training. Thus
while old family stocks nave been kept
strong and fit, new material has been
sent out to become the heads of cultured
homes and to Dear testimony to their
communities. In such ways is developed
the true aristocracy of republics-char-
acter enriched by learning.
2. The University has managed to ac-
ccmElish greater results on smaller
means than any American institution. Its
income from the State today is twenty
i've thousand dollars annually. It's in
come from all sources is forty-eight thou
sand dollars. It's faculty numbers thirty
live members. It's enrolment of students
is i've hundred and twelve; including
summer school. 612. It maintains q con-
tlnu0us session and summer school for
teachers. Compare this with other South
err institutions and you will find that
this is the smallest income with which
such results are accomplished anywhere
in this State or in the Southern States.
3. The spirit Of freedom an. federation
and equality in it's life. Throe-fourths
OF the students here are the sons Of
poor men, or are here as the result
Of money borrowed or earned. All sects,
arties and conditions meet and mingle
here on an equal footing and love the
Place with an equal love. / have seen
men fighting in unity of purpose for this
place who did not agree with each other
on any other public question in heaven
above or the earth beneath and some
Of them could not agree with themselves
over Sunday. North Carolina yves much
Of the dignity and the freedom from ran
cor Of its public life to the manly spirit
of respect for motives engendered here.
4. The passionate but disorganiZed af-
lection Of its alumni. l know of no
place in which the genius loci exerts
such wonerful influence as it does in
this quiet village. The old alurnnus
thinks of Chapel Hill as Hastings did
Of his home and would like to die here.
The middle-aged man in the strife of life
holds the place in his mind IS he does
the lighted lamp and the gentle faces
gathered about his hearthstone. The
young boy whose feet have. Just faded
from its doors thinks Of it as the sailor
man upon the sea thinks Of mis- home.
The University Of North Carolina is an
honest. faithful force, deriving it's in
SEPARATIONS not from traditions and re-
cords but from the knowledge that it
muSt have 4 hand in the faropfIl Ct T. ,1C o.
gle fer deeper wisdom and heightened
power in all forms of life. Is it fit to
live or die? Is it fit to expand or con-
tract. to grow or to ~stagnate? Is it fit
to become q great University. or to be
come a small college? Do North Carolin-
ians need it as Virginians need their
great school. or Texans theirs, or Lou
isialianS theirs? Has it not earned
through decades Of service and sacrificed
the right to fulfill its destiny? Can it be
denied the means to grow without viola
ting the young manhood of the State, and
such manhood? do not believe a finer
type reaches up into life in America than
the boy Of these regions. In common
with my brother college presidents of
this State, / behold a quadrennial mira
Gle. A boy presents himself in my Of
flee for naturalization. He is hard of
mana, STRONG OIL lace, unS2lnly Oh dutlIeSS,
with the rude disorder Of nature evil
dent in his thinking and in his manner.
But he has a faith, and it is q good faith
shining III his eyes. 1t is the high
Scotch faith in knowledge and culture
from which poverty and hardship stink
away abaShed. And the four years &C
by, and something rich and strange
comes into the face of that boy. some
thing subtle enters into his motions and
his speech-sOme pride of race, some
consciousness Of power, some intlmatlon
Of Immortality, and at last he stands here
erect and free-that nObleSt Of Gods
crCatUrcS-an effective, cultured gentle
man, fit TO beget children and to lead
them truly into life. Can We refuse to
accord growth to such an institution with
out paying the cost in class hatred, in re-
ligiOuS rancor, in town against country
in rich against poor, in agriculture
against manufacture, in corporation
against individual. The mere speculative
contention that the State has no right
to assist in creating its directive power
has no place in my mind in this plead
ing. | deem that sentiment. as a deter
Tort fOrcC a c nvtinnt &c tho TonCtOdOn