The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31


cial training from the professor Of
elocution. The phenomenal success
of the University in the Interstate
debates has led the societies to ar
range for debates during the coming
year with some of the leading uniVer-
sites of America. The negotiations
for these joint debates are now in pro-
gress and the indications are that
the arrangements will be perfected.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation at the University will soon
have one of the handsomest buildings
on the campus. 1t will fill long felt
want and furnish true home life as
a central gathering place for men of
all classes. The work of this asso-
citation has attracted the attention Of
religious workers everywhere. Not
alone does this association prosecute
(active work within the University. but
under their direction six we'll attend
ed Bible classes have been established
which are centres of interest at Chapel
Hill every Sunday in the college
)year. A number of Sunday Schools
and several churches have been or
ganized through the efforts of the
University's Y. M. C. A.
The new gymnasium, which will
soon be ready for occupancy prom
Uses to be one of the handsome:k
and most useful buildings at the
Varsity. Work on it's construction is
progressing rapidly. The gymnasium
will be under the care of a thoroughly
competent instructor with an able as
sistant and every student at the Uni
vessity, with the exception of the Sc
niors is required to take a regular
course in physical culture. Good
coaches have been employed for both
the football and baseball teams for
the coming seasons and fine schedules
have been arranged already, with
some important dates yet to be filed
but the regular championship games
are settled and are, as usual, full of
interest for lovers of pure athletics.
Prospects are promising for depeti-
ton of the glorious victories Of last
fall.
For a former student of the Uni
versity to write of it's work and of the
great advantages of this beloved in
stitution is a task that | for one have
found too great for me. There is a
feeling that / should devote hour af-
ter hour to planning method and sys-
tenn for handling my theme. for ar
rangement of ideas in their proper or
der. to remember the rules or eHeC-
tive prose composition as they nave
been earnestly taught me under the
shade of the great oaks on that classic
Hill. In the hustle and hustle OF
daily life the rigid rules are forgot
ten, but the memory is as of yester-
day and the effect will last for every
tomorrow. The subject cannot prop
erly be handled by one whose
thoughts are lovingly placed in everv
nook and Granny of the college lib
rary, whose mind must drift constant
ly back to the days when every walk
ways shadow could be pictured on
the mind and who has a longing to
pay a heartfelt personal tribute to
faculty which has dealt kindly and
vet forcibly enough for him to feel
its influence for good all the days Of
his life.
In February of this year the Uni
versity Record published a neat pam
phlet which tells the story in such
words as appeal to those who are in
terested. 1t tells of the history of the
old and the growth of the new uni
versity during the hundred and four
teen years of its existence. 1t is in
teresting to note the wonderful in
crease in enrolment until today when
it is well past the six hundred mark.
The increase in the faculty until it IS
large enough for personal attention to
be given each individual student The
extension of the medical course, the
|, library, the societies, the facilities for