The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-01

OF learning upon these ancient AFFAIRS,
the University had been closed and
abandoned for seven years. TO many
il seemed forever closed. But Tor ii
there was and is no death.
Here CASTOR and Hooper had spo-
ken. Polk, Pettigrew, Ransom, Ben
ton and King, had studied, Oimstead,
Andrews, Hawks Swain Phillips, had
taught. Here for nearly n hundred
years, love and beauty and virtue,
courage and courtesy and honor, all
the graces of queenly Womanhood,
and all the strength of heroic man
hood, had eXhaled the fragrance of
the finest civilization of earth. For
such there is no death.
Mr.. President, / shall not infinitely
detail the work of those who revived
cur Alma Mater. 1t came again to
life, happy mingling of old forces with
new. There was a recall OF some who
had gone to complete their education
in universities in other States, Grandy,
Graves and Winston, VINO became in
the new University the ideals and eX
ponents of modern methods and mod
ern learning. With them came Hoop
Ell and Kimberly and Phillips of the
old school. OF these Phillips alone
was on guard when Reconstruction
closed the old Institution. He with
Winston and Graves those Sophomores
had stood seven years before, in
mourning garments amid the ruin
and desOlation attending the death of
the old University. II was fitting that
they should assist in the new birth.
/ need not call the roll of those who
laid these enduring foundations Some
are still here, laboring with zeal, tidel-
ity and modesty. others elsewhere are
UNFOLDING lofty ideals of life and rear
ing other temples of culture. Many
have finished their trials of life, and
returned their talents to the Master
Judge Winston told of many stud
ent FRANKS at the University and
among them we note the following
After Prof. Winston was married he
lived in the house now occupied by
President Venable. 1t WAS his Gus
tom to run uD to the campus oCca-
Sionally when disorder was on to as
certain the cause. His well known
figure coming UP the walk from the
Episcopal church was the signal for
a general disappearance of all Offend
efs. On one occasion he was out OF
town and his absence was taken adj
vantage of by the merrily inclined
students. The campus was wild with
yells. Your speaker, just the size ard
figure of his professor brother, STEP
ped out of the south building, ran
around the library, around the new
east, and suddenly appeared at the
corner Of the old east. 4 student i'm
the scheme yelled "Wincie" coming"
and away went the offenders.
Your speaker was a swift runner
and the race began between him and
General T.. j. Hill. Your speaker
crowded him to the throat latch when
he ran to the rock wall, and leaped
over. falling heavily on a pile of rocks.
| heard his groans and saw him rise
and knew no bones were broken.
rctreated and went at once to his
room and wrote this dogerel on a slip
of paper and left it on his table:
There is a man whose name is Hill
He's run enough to get his FILL
Why he should run and leap the wall,
And on the stony pile should fall
Can be explained, by Scripture, too,
The wicked flee when none pursue.
In ten minutes he was in my room
with the couplet, and pledged me to
secrecy which it has taken this Oc-
casion to break.
The re-opened university found it
self practically without scientific APP
paratus. It's scarcity caused con-
llict between two members of the fac
uity. The Institution owned a dilapi-
dated air pump, which was claimed by
two departments Chemistry and
Physics. The professor Of physics, a
man Of few words, and quick to act
took it to his room in the end of
the old west. In his absence the Pro-
fessor of Chemistry had it taken to
Person hall by the college servant
Professor Graves arrived on the scene
just as it reached the door. He seized
it and had it returned. Professor
Reed inteTfered and they came
mighty nigh fighting" with chemis-
try worSted. And this was in the
days of a struggling college, over an
instrument, which old DR.. Elisha
Mitchell had condemned as useless in
1855, and which had not exhausted
air i'm half a century. The morning
after this occurrence there was seen
over the rostrum in the chapel, a
large drawing in flaming colors. of
two engines approaching each other
Chemistry and Physics. Another
scene told the story. Chemistry was
ierailed and demolished. Every
student was at prayers that morning.
| The interest was manifest. Dr. Phil
| lips WAS conducting chapel prayers
| that week When he entered the
| door he took i'll the situation at q
| glance. When near the bull pen he
f! broke into Il quick run. He was APP
|
| the hanging cartoons, but he failed
/ to reach them, and he tried again and
again He was not without sympathy
| in the student body. How well do |
! recall Their efforts of help and en-
couragement, when with his hand
within an inch of the paper some one
would cry: Just a little more, cop-a-
hoop a little higher But it was be-
yond his reach and he sat down.
Wilson Caldwell, the college servant.
was sent for and the papers removed
and prayers were said. The next
morning the artist put the incident
in another form by having n game
lcock labeled Physics after a crestfallen,
retreating rooster named Chemistry.
| The crowd was eXDectant. The good
doctor saw the cartoons as he enter
| ed the door. He went to the desk
with measured step. He appeared not
to notice it. In the lesson that he
| read appeared this verse.
| Watch ye therefore, for ye know not
| when the master of the house cometh,
at even or at midnight, and here he
paused, "or at the cock growing in
the morning, lest coming suddenly he
might find you sleeping
| And | can see now, the merry
twinkle for a moment seemed to glad
| g., of occin