The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-08

! Eugene Nj. Armneld, OF High GOllli,
| n c.. an aiumnus Of 1883, has do
mated 10 the University the sum of
$4,000, the annual revenue from which
/ will go to the purchase of books for
| the advanced study of English phil
| oIogy.
''AlI equipment for specialized study
/ is costly, and the University mas hith-
/ erto been unable TO buy the more ex-
/ tensive works needed for the study or
| the earlier periods of the English Ian
| guage.
Ii is the first donation of its kind
! i'm all the South. 1t is also announced
/ that Mr.. James Horner Winston. q son
| OF eX-Judge Winston and grandson or
| The late eminent teacher Prof. j. ii.
Homer. IL. D.. of oxford, n. c., was
selected, on June IS, as the first hold
! er of the Cecil Rhodes scholarship
| from North Carolina. He is now at
oxford. England a 'sudent at Christ
| Church.
AS usual the faculty have been in
| dustrious in delivering lectures and
| addresses. During 1904 twenty OF
| the alumni have passed away, the
! most distinguished ofethem being Sen
! ator NJ w. Ransom, Col. Hamilton G..
/ Jones, of Charlotte, and Hon. Kerr
Craige, of Salisbury, aged respective
| Nv rs, CT and 81. / may mention IN
this connection that / received from
Il
dress before the Alumni Association
of Lafayette College, Easton, Penn
sylvania, on the 21St of June, 1909. 1t
is wise, practical, thoughtful dis.
/ course and full of suggestion, interest
and point. / make three very pfiel
| selections:
WHAT avails it to sit on the broken
-shards of your cherished plans and
| croak out the pending ruin OF your
country2
There are grave problems con-
fronting our nation to-day-dangers
that threaten the integrity of our insti-
| buttons and the very existence of the
repdblic. Among these are the proper
assimilation and absorption of the vast
influx of foreign races.
| "Oh. YOU who come from the
schools teach the people that there
| is no liberty without knowledge. The
| Master has said: 'Ye shall know the
| truth and the truth shall make you
! free Teach them to know and love
1 the truth and scorn all lies. Teach
| them that the highest liberty comes
from q knowledge of the laws OF lie
and obedience to them Lead them In
Ia liberty which is not license and q
freedom which begets no wrong.
AS very sincere friend of our great
educational centre. the old University,
] would rejoice to see the prosperous,
and rich friends of ii, rallying to Its
support in strong force with ample
pecuniary help. 1t needs, and should
have, a half million dollars additional
endowment at once. If there is no
lfriend of colossal fortune like Rocke-
feller who gave some eight million
dollars to the very imperfect Univer-
s;ty of Chicago a Seething pot OF
false ideas and absurd speculations.
there ought to be found some friend
to bestow $50e and other less fav-
ored friends to give $40, 600 each, and
lat least twenty to give $4,000 each
and twenty-five to bestow So, 600 each.
and 81, 900 contributions without invi-
tation The thing TO do is to raise the
fund The South should learn to give
for educational purposes as many
Ncrtherners give for that important
end. Rally to the help of our Uni
versity. Give it a half million dollars
more. and in five years it will be ac-
knowledged first among all Southern
rivals.
know nothing special of Rev. +. T..
| Hopkins pastor of the Pilgrim Con-
| gregational church in Chicago. But
in a sermon preached before the presi-
dential election, he turned on the light
! that startled if it did not amuSe, that
Instructed if it did not reform. He
twas perhaps severe. but he was WIDE
awake: and evidently was disposed 10
tell the truth dsagreeabie as it may
} have been. l give Il brief extract from
his talk:
an our city we have had nearly a
hundred instructions in the past eight
months, called strikes Ard enploy-
er and employee still regard each
other in a way that invites more of the
same sort. We know Their are at least
ten thousand hungry persons IN this
town as a result OF eight weeks war
~ L., IL L..
our hearts we are glad we humbled
Spain, eoDbled up Porto Rico, hold the
, Whplash ever Cub1. n>esT. To '3eycl-
Cp the Philippines, and that millions
of men hope to elect as our next Pres
| ident man who climbed to his pres
ent emnence on what somebody has
: called a ladder of swords For all
these reasons We discreeJly held our
tongues when the peace advocates
We're IN Chicago
1t is a fact that in the great bb-
buloaS country CT Germany there is a
! genuine and earnest movement in be-
; half of reform in the drink habit. II
| ever. goes farther. and the moTenle nt
is for real total abstinence, all that
|, and nothing less. Well, well, VINO
would have thought it? In England
, there are signs also of drink reform
as to the agmy--that the British sol
, der shall sober up and stand forth
a sober as we'll as brave and efficient
man of arms. The Turkish army is
enc of great sobriety. ani that is q
great rebuke to the so-called Chris
tan natious that love to drink like
fish and wallow in their filth. The Ger
man movement is reported to be rlak-
ing "headway against universal and
u nveterata habit against ignorance,
tpl ejudice. and the love of beer" Fro
, fessor Bunge, of Basil, was the very
first man in 1888. who urged reform
and stood for total abstinence. Sever
4 al professors afterwards opposed the
temperance cause. Professor Kraep-
lin, of the University OF Heidelberg,
in 1892, began a series of experiments
| to ascertain the real effects of alcohol
upon the mind and body. The young
er men as well as older came under
the experiments. The results were
surprising to old foolish fathers and
indulgers in the drink habit. Prof.
Kraeplin's extended experiments, as
Werner A. Stille, writes, from Hanam,
Germany, to the New York Nation, :
showed that the sensation of increas-
ed vigor and aIertness after drinking a
moderate quantity of wine or beer is