The news & observer., 1905-12-31

last Legislature was wise enough to
Increase its appropriation to $4,000,
and also made the first appropriation
the State ever gave to the erection of
a building, since by legislative action
| it was created Very strange and mar
vellous indeed! Some one hundred and
twenty five years ago the State created
it by enactment, but failed to make
the needed appropriation for the con-
summation Of the useful work prom
| sed. 1t is now in its 111th year of
actual life, and the appropriation of
$50, 900 to build a chemical laboratory
marks the first gift of the State In
furnishing the many and important
buildings In spite of indifference on
the part of the State. the University
has now some seventeen good, brick
buildings. / believe.
Last year-ending in June, 1905
was the most prosperous, the enrolled
students numbering 667, the largest
number in the long and instructive
history of the University. Some
changes have taken place lately that
show advance. improvements have
been made. The present Freshmen
class is the largest Of all, and several
new professors and assistants have
been added to the already strong
faculty. The average age of the
Freshmen class is 10 years. months
and days When l entered in June,
1847, / was IS years, months old,
end / was one of the oldest in the
class Now the average of a large
class in nearly 19 12 years Ninety
two per cent of the students are North
Carol'nians. l give some interesting
statistics.
South Carolina sends 15 Virginia
10, Florida 7, New York A. Tennes-
see 3, Georgia 2, Pennsylvania 2, New
Jersey 2, Montana /, South Dakota /,
and Texas l. That is, fifty students
are from other States, as compared
with forty-siX in 1904-'05.
Counties represented by 10 or more
students: Orange 35, Mecklenburg 80.
Wake 28, Guilford %, Buncombe 10,
Edgecombe 49, Forsyth 16, Wayne Is,
II, Rowan II, Sampson II, Cumber-
land 10, Durham 10.
Statistics in regard to the religious
denominations represented among the
students will be of interest. There are
213 Methodists, 1876 Baptists. 113
Presbyterians 80 Episcopalians, 13
Christians, Lutherans, Roman
Catholics, Moravians, Disciples 6
German Reformed, 3 Friends, 3 He
breWs, / ongregationalist, / Re-
formed Dutch.
Several of the faculty during the
past scholastic year displayed ac-
tivity in contributions of the pen in
many directions. DR.. G. Alpl- onso
Smith leads in such labors and in
addresses and lectures. They number
some ten or more. DR.. Bruner was the
next most productive in writings. The
Record" gives the following inter-
esting information.
"At the request of the Morehead
family, DR. Smith has written a sketch
Of John Motley Morehead, graduate of
the University Of North Carolina and
Governor of the State from 18419 TO
1S45. The sketch will appear i'm the
Biographical History of North Caro-
lima, and also in the South Atlantic
Quarterly for January, 1906. His
Studies in English SyntaX Will be pub
lished In December or January. He is
now at work upon Language Lessons
and Grammar, book Introductory to
his Modern English Grammar. The
latter book has been adopted without
dissenting vote by the Louisiana
school board for exclusive use in the
public high schools of that State"
Concerning eminent alumni of the