The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-17

Ii has been given to this University
to render wide and definite service for
political freedom and human culture
and character in an age of national
development and trial
/ may not let the occasion pass with
out insisting that the Oldest of all
Southern Universities, and surely one
of the very foremost, the University
of North Carolina, has been great
power for good. a builder for the South
in high things, and has a noble
record, and in its list of leaders, think
erS and doors extending back some
40 years, there are hundreds OF
names to command admiration and to
excite eulogy-from President of the
United States to all of the offices and
places that Southern men have ever
aspired TO- and in which they won
fame. II has been co-WOrker with
the good and true and noble in all
Southland through more than ten de-
cades, in all earnest, we'll deserved ef-
forts to uplift humanity. to protect the
people against uSuperS and perSecu-
tors and to maintain unfiinchingly the
two great, basic principles of any noble
and free people-civil liberty and re-
ligious liberty. That great institution
did q most important work for l1r. AL
derman. helped no little in shaping
his views, training his superior intel
lect placing high moral ideals and OK
amples before him, and making him
her accomplished. able, superbly en-
doWed, most conspicuous and best hon
ored President of his own South and
the equal of any that the North has
in its list of efficient. enlightened, sue
cessful and distinguished heads of its
chiefest educational institutions. No
one knows the merits of the UniVer-
sity of North Carolina better than this
distinguished alumnus, for he presid-
ed over it with very marked ability
and success for several years.
Cicero will always be source OF
profound interest to scholars and
people of literary taste and culture in
all the ages. One of my earliest lit
erary recollections is Middleton's Life
of Cicero" You get q striking, mem
Orable impression of ROme'S greatest
orator in FrOude's very able work on
julius Caesar His letters and orations
are a part of the worlds treasures. His
letters to his GreekiZed friend q.
Athens, Atticus, a Roman, are precious
to the student of literature. Some
time ago eleven Of the "Orations" were
published covering much of his pub
lie career, beginning in 20 3. G. when
VerreS was impeached, and closing
WITH ms nlllln pnlllpplC against MARC
Antony tWenty-SeVen years later. This
last caused his own death. The other
orations edited are for the Manihan
Law, four against Catiline, for Archias
Milo, Marcellus and Ligarius. The
book contains $40 pages, and the price
is low, $1.20. There are notes bearing
on history and biography and gram
mar. 1t has a brief view of Roman
life and the Senate. and gives dozen
photographs of Well-knoWn busts of
Cicero, Caesar, and Antony; of his
torical painting, the Forum, the APP
plan Way, etc, and four historical
maps. Caesar was a far greater man
and was only second to Cicero as an
orator.
l am truly gratified to see that Mr..
Armistead c.. Gordon'S first novel,
1.-THE Gift of the Morning Star, is be-
ing so widely read and so favorably
received by cultured men and women,
and by leading newspapers in the great
North. 1t is recognized as book OF
unusual power and of deep interest,
and written in a style evincing liter
airy skill and invention. Secular and