The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-04
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Chapel Hill, N c., June 3.-Dr. HoI-
lands speech made a profound impression
on al lwho heard him. He is deep think
er and a gifted orator. The people COM
posing the audience were so attentive that
the quiet and stiffness which then resign
ed supreme could have been broken by
the noise of a pin dropping
DR.. Holland was prepared for the Uni
vresity just before the war. but this great
catastrophe prevented his entering the
walls All the same he is considered a
loya lson of Carolina's great university
DR.. Holland spoke in part sfollows:
DIR. w. D. HOLLANDS ADDRESS.
''Mr. President, Gentlemen Of the Uni
yersity, Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t is with
feelings of pleasure that stand before
you this morning. While by the accident
Of birth l first saw the light Of the sun
under the skies of the tropics I am
North Caroinian. my father having been
at the time of my birth citizen of this
State, descended from one of its early set
tiers.
MY home was in your State in my boy
hood. I remember the terrible years OF
civil strife, which rent our unhappy land
a generation ago, and among your citi-
zens there are a multitude of those whom
deem it high honor to claim as the
friends of my youth, for whom l cherish
the warmest personal friendship and
esteem.
I'm casting about for subject upon
which I might fttingly address you on the
present occasion, l have taken counsel of
several of your distinguished faculty, and
have resolved to speak to you in relation
to the opportunities and duties of edu-
Gated men In relation to the South of the
future.
GAS the possession of wealth, political
power, social influence, brings Opportuni
ties and creates obligations, so also the
possession of a cultured mind and the
power to think clearly brings with it
duties and of necessity begets opportuni-
ties. Learning, trained intellect, are gifts
for the proper stewardship of which So
ciety justly holds men accountable The
man who lives merely for the sake of
getting, whether his acquisitions be gold
or knowledge, misconceives the whole of
duty. To give and to give freely as we
have received, is the law of the highest
life. Kingship is found in service. He who
is greatest is he who is the servant of all.
United in one body what is done in one
part of our land necessarily affects the
people of other parts of the land. We
are, so to speak, members one of another
If one member suffers, all the members
suffer with it, if one reioices, all the
members rejoice with it, You will not
deem it an impertinence if /, one of the
children of your dispersion, long resident
in the greatest manufacturing centres Of
the world, turning my face again to the
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men, who are just entering upon the ac
tive duties of life in reference to some
of these questions which it seems to be
must inevitably present themselves for
your consideration in coming years.
Your State and the Southern States
as a whole, are exceedingly rich in ma
terial resources There are magnificent
opportunities which will come and are
waiting here. and now in this Southern
land for men Of brain, of enterprise who
will seize these opportunities. Let me
dissuade you, young men, from imagining
that because you have heard of successes
achieved by others in far away places
that it behooves you to forsake your
present environment and in distant por
tions of the land make your home.
know that Northern men of capital are
beginning more and more to think that
right here in the South are fortunes await
ing those who have the power to make
them More and more in coming years
| think you will discover that capital will
look toward your section OF the country
as furnishing a fruitful field for invest
ment.
Let me ask of you, young men, that
you will encourage all right movements,
which tend to develop and to preserve
lie resources of this fair section of our
Union.
"In this connection permit me to plead
with you to use your best efforts to second
The endeavors Of those-some of them
Identified with the faculty of your own
Uniyersity-who have in recent years been
endeavoring to impress upon the national