The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-08
LABOR DIGNIFIED THERE
The Rich and the Poor Meet In It On
Equal and Exact Terms.
1T MOVES FORWARD ON SPLENDID LINES
Growing in Buildings, Teachers, Students and
Influence u Deserves the Best That
North Carolina Can Offer For lis
Value to the State.
(Staff Correspondence

sStuO W uC SkdW'
(Staff Correspondence
Chapel Hill, N. c., June TIT has been
a great week at Chapel Hill. and sitting
here in this early morning on the beauti-
full old campus, beneath the shade OF its
majestic trees, with stiffness and quiet
ness in control about the University
buildings but Yesterday thronged, and
with the hustle oI everyday life spring
ing into being in the streets beyond, the
import of it all, and the noble history of
hundred and seven years comes to me.
What of history this noble institution
has conserved is known of all men. 1t
has sent out men filled with love of the
State men with high patriotic aims, men
Of splendid morality, men who have
made good" in every avenue of life, and
as l sought information concerning the
latest graduating class I could but be de-
!. lighted at the happy prospects for the
communities which are to be homes for
these young men and women of the class
O 1902
1t is remarkably fine class and re-
markable in that of 81 members 80 per
.. vi ~. u.
ley, Morganton, the class statistician, in
presenting the statistics of his class,
states that there are in it IS Methodists,
10 Presbyterians. 8 Episcopalans, Bap-
lists, Moravans, 1 Christian and 1
Hebrew, and that 80 per cent of them
are members of some branch of the
Christian church. Mr. Kerley is a
Methodist.
But there is something more than
figures in getting at the moral tone of
University life, and 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, but of the entire student hody. l
spent mu:h time with the boys in their
rooms, and l find at Chapel Hill a clean,
neral. high toned set of fellows.
Mind Won, don't misunderstood me-
don't mean namby- PANTY crowd. The
fellows are boys full of life and so. they
are not always right in what thcy do, they
have faults, but balancing everything I
do not think that any school can boast
out of over 500 men any better lot thar
those found at Chapel Hill. They are
representative North Carolina boys.
Representative these are in great
many senses There were 500 in the col
lege last year. the greatest number in
its history. OF these AS we're academic
students. There was an increase in all
departments and in the medical this
jumped so 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 chance as the fellow
with brains and dollars. When cX-Sec-
rotary Herbert asked the honor of a per-
sonal 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 a
hundred who pay part of their expenses
by labor Some of the leading men of the
University have either borrowed money
to come, or are laboring to get money,
and in this number there are in the neigh
borhood of nearly half the students.
Does this look like rich mans uni
versity? Those who work are just as
highly honored as those who don't. In
Chapel Hill it's the man who counts.
Thousands of dollars are earned each
year by students. Last year over 81 200
was divided among the boys-about $
in number-in the printing office. There
are many ways of earning money here
ON the "self-help" plan. Opportunities
come as teachers stenographers, book
keepers, walters. janitors, clothes press
ers, printers binders, monitors, wood
cutters, wood sawyers, clerks, machin-
lists, BARRIERS, agents for clothing books,
athletic supplies, newspaper correspond
ents, and many things which bright
young fellows, who have will to help
themselves, can find out.
The buildings have steadily grown in
number, without a cent of cost to the
State. In the past two years for build
ings and improvements, about $3.50 000
has been received. The latest, opened
in January and in use now as admiristra
;ioE headquarters and recitation rooms,
granite and pressed brick. 1t cost about