The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-12-08
Voice Of Fat u,ty.
Continued from Page one.)

from two Latin words meaning with
out wax, the reference being to clari-
fed honey--honey freed from all inn
purities A metaphor pleasing in it
SELF it appears more striking when
| we reflect that with the ancients
honey wa1 both food and physic. With
pleasure to the palate it nourished
and strengthened while at the same
time it healed
The Greeks had several words in
dicating sincerity. The most slgnih-
cant was that meaning judged by the
splendor of the sun, suggested doubt
less by the test to which the Jeweler
subjected the precious stone, determ-
lining its value not by the ingenuity
ana laoor OF its cutting or the bril-
Iiancy of it's polish, but by holding 1t
up between his eye and the sun, to
look into it and through it, TO see .
, that its quality ana color were per-
feet and uniform.
Thus a man of deep, great, genuine
sincerity is not a polished pebble.
but a ruro diamond. albeit IN the
rough: mt giideG. but goldi not
a splendid and FURNISHED plating out
side to cover some baser metal with
in, but all the way through to the
heart what he outwardly appears to
be-" His soul is open to the inflow
of light, and to the outflow as well.
1 think of as distinguishing this man
is his robust and radiant hopefulness
There is O. story that away Dack IN
the nursery of our Mother-tongue into
the tangle of roots that flower into
words there fell one seed, from Whlch
sprang family of roots expressive
of expectancy in the young of animals
and birds and insects upon the irti-
nation of the maternal presence or
apIroach One Of these stood for the
Opening wide of little birds mouth;
whence our cape. Another pointed
to the opening wide of the little child's
eyes: whence otir hope. And to this day
the less comeIy does service for the
more seemiy sister. as when one IS
agape with expectation.
I May not our friends Astounding
hopefulness have some connection
with his we'll known bias for brains
and birds and buzzing things? Do
not his eyes open wide at the crickets
chirp or the sparrow's twitter? And
do they not "look eagerly towards the
Infinite in the expectation that there
is in God and His good Providence
that which will be to them that wait
on Him what the mother-bird, poised
on the spray or shooting like q flash
to her place. is to the helpless Hedging
in her nest?''
Are we not safe then in predicting
for the possessor of these sturdy vir-
tues, this hater of hypocricy and the
foe of pessimism, a policy and an ad-
ministration marked by minimum
of friction?
But the sincere man must some
/ times tell another of his faults. The
college president who is sincere Will
certainly not be without occasion to
do this Standing square confronting
life and conduct he must reprove, re-
buke, exhort.
The hopeful man must encounter
many crooked things and take hand
in Strengthening them. In that micro
cosm-that little world-known as q
College Community. there come times
/ when the powers of darkness are ram
pant. Then may relations between
president and faculty as Wei as pc
tween faculty and students De
strained to the utmost.
But the safeguard of our presidents
virtues is their subsection TO the law
/ of Christian love, that grace that
never faileth, 'Whose hand is SLOW TO
smite and loath to deal blow, ano.
if it must will wound tenderly. never
harding its arrowheads, nor dipping
! them in poison"
| Under the able administration that
i has lust closed our college moved
inward marvellously.J Under that just
beginning we expect the upward trend
erandly to be maintained And among
it's trophies we think of nothing more
sure than this, that it shall have beau
tifulIy illustrated "how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
| together in Unity"
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Administrators Notice.
Having qualified as administrators OF
Mrs Premeline FaiSon, deceased, L