The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-05

unfairly read to him all the lessons and
thereby assisted him to get his degree
That was a labor of love on the part OF
those students that cannot be too highly
commended.
The impression prevails here among
those most likely to know, if anybody out
side the selecting body can be said to
know about matter that is to take
place in the future, that President Ven
able may be serving his last term
president Of the University. 1t is well
known that his name has been canvassed
among the three most prominent names
as president of the University Of Vir-
ginia. The belief that he will be chosen
Is largely based on the fact of his splendid
success here, coupled with his broad schol-
arship and his position as the foremost
Professor OF Chemistry in the South. He
is native Of Virginia and his father
was for many years distinguished pro-
fessor in the University of Virginia, where
father and son and perhaps grandfather
also graduated. 1t is believed that, wien
the trustees come to make their selection
on the 18th of June, DR.. Venable will be
chosen. When asked about it, he says
that he does not expect to be elected and
he is making no effort in that
direction. Asked by friends in Virginia
if he would accept the position he re-
piled that he would, his decision probably
being controlled by the fact that he would
feel honored by being chosen president
of the University in which his father
taught so many years and where he OBJ
tanned his diploma. He would leave here
with deep regret, because most OF his
manhood has been spent in Chapel Hill.
He married here and his children are
North Carolinians by birth and maternal
ancestry. There would be genuine regret
among the citizens of this village, as
well as among the faculty if DR.. Venable
should be called to Virginia. The trus-
tees and the people of North Carolina,
who have learned to esteem him at his
true worth, would feel that the University
and the State had sustained a great loss
if DR.. Venable should resign the presi-
dency of the University. The matter viii
be settled on the 18th of June, and when
the outcome is known, it may be that be-
fore the end of the month the trustees will
be called upon to select a new president
of the University. They will not find
man who in scholarship and in all-round
ability and in worth can prove superior
to DR.. Venable.
The remark of Dr.. Holland about the
great ability Of the faculty of the Uni
versity of North Carolina is one that
gives weight to the knowledge that we
North Carolinians have had for years,
to.wit that the faculty Of the Univer-
sity of North Carolina is unsurpassed in
our southern country Men are teaching
here with a salary of $4,000, quite as able
and quite as learned as men in the richer
who get three to five thousand
dollars. The faculty here includes more
than forty teachers,owhose real worth
and power is not fully known except to
the student body, who come daily under
them in their recitation rooms. There
is no more important chair here than tho
Latin Professorship, made vacant by the
death OF DR.. Linscott. The newly chosen
professor, DR.. George Howe, was born IN
S. c. He is a son of Rev. Dr.
George Howe, prominent Presbyterian
divine, and is a nephew of President Wood
row Wilson. of Princeton University. He
his course and took tie de-
gree of A. b.. at Princeton University in
1897. He then taught for three years in
New York city with marked success. lie !
studied for three years in the University
of Halle, Germany, taking the degree Of
Ph. D.. and is at present at Oxford Uni
versity, England. His work III Germany
is spoken of as exceptionally fine. Dr.
Howe's recommendations, coming from a
number Of men prominent in University
and other lines, bear uniform and high
testimony to his attachments as a scholar |
his qualifications as teacher and his
attractive characteristics as man. II
is believed he will measure up to The
high position. If pedigree and testi-
monals count, ne surely will.
One of the best speeches made during
was by Mr. Homer Win
ston, son of Judge Robert Winston, of Dur
ham. He was a representative OF the
Phi Society in the debate There is a
well authenticated tradition that when his |
two grandfathers-the late Hon. Patrick |
Henry Winston and the late Prof. James
H. Horner--were college students here
one of them challenged the other to meet |
him in joint debate Even then they gave |
promise of the greatness unto which both |
In their day Patrick Henry I
Winston and James H. Horner We're I
hn the !