The news & observer., 1905-12-31


University / find the following in the
Record" that deserves copying as IL
concerns two distinguished North Car
olnians:
1899 Two biographies of Thomas
Hart Benton, who was student here
in 1893, have been published re-
Gently. one, by Joseph NJ Rogers, is
published by George w. Jacobs and
Co. in the American Crisis Biogra-
phies;' the other is by William K.
Meigs and is published by the j. b.
Lippincott Company. The standard life
of Benton has been that written by
Pres dent Roosevelt (Houghton, Mlt-
fin and Co, 1889.
1918 and 1920. Rev. William Mer-
Ger Green, of Meridian, Miss has pre-
sented to the library a Memoir Of the
Rt. Rev. James Harvey Otey, the first
bishop of Tennessee by the Rt. Rev.
William Mercer Green, bishop Of Mis-
sissippi. Bishop Green was graduated
in 1918, Bishop Otey in 1920. me
donor is a grandson of Bishop Green
Bishop Green was born in this city,
and was one of my teachers at the
University. / learned as much from
his instructions as / obtained from
any other professor. / learned much
from him as to pronunciation and how
to read-what is right elocution. /
must take leave 10 copy few edito-
rial items from the Record:
Mrs. Jennie Murchison Carter, Of
Baltimore daughter Of Colonel Ken
meth M. Murchison, has given to the
University $1,000, to be invested and
the income to be used to establish the
Kenneth Murchison scholarship.
Rev. r. II. Marsh, d. d.. has served
fourteen times as President of the
Baptist State Convention. He resides
at oxford He declined another term.
He is a man of ability and stands
high among the BaptiSts.
80. DR.. Charles Baskerville spent
the vacation in visiting the labora-
tories of the principal universities Of
Europe. His book entitled "Radium
and Radioactive Substances; their
Application especially to Medicine"
has been published.
1902. Miss Christiana Busbee is as
sociate professor of Mathematics at
Mount HClyoke College, South Hadley,
Mass.
AT the twentieth annual conference
of State and Provincial Boards of
Health of North America, held in
Washington, May 18th. DR.. Richard
H. Lewis was elected president,
The Record" also publishes a long
list concerning alumni, what they are
doing, etc. 1t gives also the mar
riages and deaths during the last
scholastic year. 1t also shows that
most of the class graduating at last
commencement May 3lst, that num-
bcred sixty, are nearly All engaged
IN useful, commendable toll. The per-
centagc of teachers. as is usual, is
large-siXteen Ten are students OF
law, ten of medicine, and but two are
farming. There were tWenty-onc
deaths among the alumni. Among
them my old friends Rev Dr. n. 3.
Cobb, of Sampson counyt; Rev. DR..
Thomas f.. Skinner, Of Raleigh, and
Peter Evans Smith, OF Halifax county.
Among the dead We're Judge Freder-
ick Philips, of Edgecombe county, and
Marmaduke S. Robins, of Randolph.
both beyond their SEVENTEEN year. An
other old friend of a half century ago
was Dr. John II. Watson, of Nash
county, aged, / suppose, fully eighty
years. The father of the famous Cap
tain Richmond Pearson Hobson, was
James NJ. Hobson. of Davie scounty,
born in 1870 and died in January last.
He was an A. b. at the University in
1861, and was a judge in Hale county,
Alabama. The spring term of the Uni