The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01
CLASS EXERCISES
At CHAPEL HILL
Interesting Papers and
Addresses
THE ALUMNI BANQUET
President Finley the Chief Speaker.
His Subject, THE Relation of Rail-
way Transportation and the South
Address of Mr.. w. H. Swift-Large
Attendance.

Especial to News and Observer.)
Chapel Hill. n. c., May 29.-Nine.
feminine may congratulate itself or
having the most interesting Class Day
in the history of the University. A
$50 a. m. the Seniors met in front O.
Memorial Hall and marched to the
Chapel, where prayers were aid ir
their behalf by the Reverend Profes-
SCR Thomas Hume. LID, who he
always been a great favorite with this
class.
The regular morning exercises be
gan at 1880 with the presidents ad.
dress by Frank Porter Graham on tn
"Relation of the University to the
State a speech crammed full of gooC
sense and worthy of publication in its
entirety. Mr.. Graham is probably
the most popular man in the Univer-
Slty and has certainly been one of the
most active and useful.
The class history was read by Johr
Wesley Umstead, Jr., who has beer
so prominent IN the debates, and was
q gem of its kind.
Charles Walter Tillett, Jr., pre-
Sented h class gift in a few we'll
chosen words. The gift is a sum OF
one which will amount to about
two thousand dollars at the end of ter
Years, when the class will decide to
what purpose the income from the
FUND IS to be devoted.
Francis Edward WinsloW read the
last will and testament of the class
in which he reviewed the Battle OF
Cemetery Ridge, The Whiskey Rebel
lion, the exploits of the Five Brave
Men, and other amusing experiences
Of 1909, closing by b~eQueathing our
very inefficient electric light plant tC
the Institution for the Blind at Raj
eigh.
Lunsford Long was full of clever hits
- ran~ DraFo~-1r v,In;, k,r,,-+-.
Grosvenor, LID. President of the
Phi Beta Kappa of America. gave the
admirable address or the Attitude OF
the Scholar DR.. GrosvenOr'5 aG-
dress was listened to with rapt atten-
ton. and he stopped all too soon fol
his large ana ap~preciative audience.
DIR. G~rosyenOr's Address.
DR.. Edwin A. G~rosvenor, President
Of the United Chapters Of Phi Beta
Kappa, in his address before the Phi
Beta Kappa of the University OF
North Carolina, May goth, on The
Attitude of the Scholar" said, among
other excellent things:
The elective system in determina-
ton of courses is attended by the
faIlibility and imperfectiOn of al
things human. But it is far prefer
able to the stern system OF our Slres
whereby the mind was driven through
an iron groove, with no VOlitlon of Its
own. Capacity of rational choice dis
tinguishes the man from the brute
That the student exercise decision Is
more important than that his declslon
ne wise. Granted the fullest free
dom, not always will he choose that
which is best. But IN the very act OF
choosing, he is ennobled. he IS made
more manly by the dignity and re
Sponsibility of choice.
Jnder the former system were de-
veIoped teachers, physicians, jurists,
theOlOgianS, men OF business n al
fairs, men of patriotism and thought
and action. Under the present sys-
TEN with confidence we look for the
same result in no inferior measure.
To education, as in all the work OF
humanity, the same principle appneS-
No one custom is ~eternally supreme.
During these later years the col
lege has experienced an invasion
from what are called outside interests.
The scholastic monastery with It's
ClOisters, wherein our fathers burned
midnight oil in pursuit Of a diploma
has become a village or city IN when
young men reside. Not the elecliNe
system, but the thrush of activities
unconnected with the class room,
has transformed under graduate lie.
Those activities are m~ultifarlous, hu-
merOus and a~ll-perVading. They are
Of every sort, aesthetic, athletic, ira
ternal, intercollegiate, literary, phli-
antrOpic, political, religious, soc1di.
Their performance is attended not
only by satisfaction and pleasure,
but by a sense of obligation and re-
sponsibility. They divide
with the routine Of a daily lecture or
lesson. Their discharge necessltates
frequent absences from college, es-
pecially on the part Of upper-ciass-
men. There is no question that IN
themselves these activities are leg1t1-
mate and helpful, often disciplinary,