The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-06-10
LABOR DIGNIFIED THERE
Tho Rich and the Poor Meet In It On
Equal and Exact Terms.
IT MOVES FORWARD ON SPLENDID LINES
Craving in Buildings, Teachers, Students and
Influence It Deserves the Best That
North Carolina Can Offer For lis
Value to the State.
Value to the State
(Staff Correspondence

value ~ tic Sldtcs
(Staff Correspondence
chapel Hill, N. c., June Tt has been
o. great week at Chapel Hill, and sitting
here in this early morning on the beauti-
nrf old campus, beneath the shade of its
majestic trees, with stiffness and quiet
ross in control about the University
buildings but yesterday thronged, and
with the hustle of everyday life spring
fn- into being in the streets beyond, the
import Of it all, and the noble history of
Il hundred and seven years comes to me.
What of history this noble institution
Las conserved is known of all men. 1t
has sent out men filled with love of the
State men with high patriotic aims, men
aft splendid morality, men who have
made good in every avenue of life, and
us l sought information concerning the
Ltcsc graduating class could but be de-
lighted at the happy prospects for the
communities which are to be homes for
t,a-a young men and women Of the class
q 1909.
81 is q remarkably fine class and re-
marEable in that Of 81 members 80 per
|fIt Nt' NIul(I IItlllIjcl D.. II ~ ~ hcI-
lay. Morganton, the GLASS statistician, in
lr#snuting the statistics of his class,
-racas that there are in it is Mcthodists,
ID Trcsbytcrians, 9 Episcopalians, 4 Rap-
lists. > Norayians, | Christian and 1
Hebrew. and that 80 per cent of them
are members of some branch of the
Christian church. Mr.. KeTley is a
Methodist.
But there is something more than
fcures in getting at the moral tone of
University life, and I found this in talks
with the faculty, the students and the
merchants at Chapel Hill. Their voices
were unanimous in speaking Of the high
moral tone not alone Of the graduating
class. hut of the entire student body. I
spent much time with the boys in their
rooms, and l find at Chapel Hill a clean,
moral. hioh toned set of fellows.
Mind YOU, don't misunderstood me, l
DON'T mean a namby-pambv crowd. The
fellows are boys full of life ard so, they
.~. not always right in what tbcy do, they
have faults, but balancing everything !
do not think that any school can boast
out of over 500 men any better lot than
those found at Chapel Hill. They are
representative North Carolina boys.
Representative these are in a great
many senses. There were 563 in the col
Iege last year. the greatest number in
it's history. OF these 415 we're academic
students. There was an increase in all
departments and in the medical this
jumped 80 per cent.
The idea that some people have of the
University of its being a college for rich
mems sons. or where only the well-to-do
can get along is an exploded one. The
University is the school of the people
and the young man with brains and grit
has just as much a chance as the follow
with brains and dollars. When cX-Sec-
rotary Herbert asked the honor of a per-
s0n8l Introduction to the four walters at
the Alumni luncheon the other day in
one OF them he found a leading graduate.
These were but representatives OF cign-
teen other student walters who are work
ing their way through COLLEGE, and these
yet again are representatives of over n
hundred who pay part of their expenses
by labor. Some of the leading meE Of the
diversity have either borrowed money
10 come, or are laboring to get money,
and in this number there are in the neigh
"orho0d Of nearly half the students.
Ao"5 this look like Il rich mans uni
Norsltv? Those who work are just as
hIebIy honored as those who don't. In
N1apel Hill it's the man who counts.
thousands Of dollars are earned each
Year by students. Last year over 81 ,2O1
Was divided among tho ~boys-about $
A hGnber-in the printing office. There
are many ways of earning money here
Inc 'sclf-hclp" plan. Opportunities
.'o' as teachers, stenographers, book
~'I'fS, walters. j%aDitors, clothes press
printers, binders, monitors, wood
'FS Wood-SaWycrs, clerks, machin-
BARRIERS, agents for clothing. books,
'"''I' supplies, newspaper correspond
-5.' and many things which bright
fellows, who have a will to help
.'AseiNcs, can find out.
buildings have steadily grown in
.'"".f. without a cent of cost to the
In the past two years for build
"|l improvements, about Sl2o ,0oH
'"|H received. The latest, opened
'."iF and in use now as admiristra-
"'a1qlarters and recitation rooms,
"+ handsome alumni building of
and pressed brick. It cost about
.m. '"l IN 1t a modern physical lab
l, Ipant Will soon be installed. 1t,
'.o other buildings. is heated by q
plant. and has it's hot water and
HSits. There are fourteen build
h.. '"NiH% up the University and the
Sic. ''Iltions are tho Carr dormitory,
r.,. me Mary Ann Smith dormi-
.-r. @''''o. and the alumni building,
...- III the dormitories about $50
.."'5 are ccommodatcd
h4. more than the growth of buildings
The bo mat OF the teaching force. a I
did '' OF the University is that splen-
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