The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-02-07
10 the Coming d Gov. Wilson
and Dr.. Van Dyke
CHAPEL HILL IS EATED.
DR.. Van Dyke WIN Deliver the John
Calvin McNalr Lecture In March
Governor Wilson Comes to the Com.
menccment- Miss Louise Wilson
Elected Society Editor Of Tar Heel.

Chapel Hill, Feb. 6.--The university
is looking forward with great deal
OF interest TO the visits OF Governor
Woodrow Wilson and DR.. Henry Van
Dyke this spring. Both are Prince
tonians. Governor Wilson came to
Chapel Hill In 1909 to deliver an adj
dress on Lees birthday. and the legis-
lature, then in session, came TO Chapel
Hill on a special train to inspect the
university plant and to hear DR.. WI
son. who was then president OF
Princeton. AT this time Or. Wilson.
a college president, delivered what
was considered political speech.
Curiosity has been expressed as TO
whether he will reverse matters this
time and as Governor Of New Jersey
deliver a literary address at the 1911
commencement. DR.. Van Dyke will
deliver the John Calvin McNair lee
lures In March. DIR. Henry Van Dyke,
before DIR. Wilson gave mp the presi-
dency OF Princeton to become COVER
nor of his state. resigned his profess
sorship at Princeton because Of some
difference OF opinion with President
Wilson. In spike OF this. II will be
recalled that DR.. Van Dyke wrote a
warm newspaper article In support Of
IGcvernor-elect Wilson al the begin
ring OF the recent senatorial fight III
New Jersey.
The lectures which DR.. Van Dyke
will deliver in March will be the
fourth series OF the McNair lectures
that have been delivered in Chapel
Hill. The three men who have de-
lliyered these lectures thus far are DIR
Francis II. Smith. OF the University Of
Virginia: Ex-president r. L. Patton
OF Princeton. and President David
S,arr Jordan. OF Leland Stanford. Jr.
university. The first and third series
OF lectures have been printed by the
university. but II has been impossible
to get DR.. Patton. who delivered hi
lectures from notes and not from full
manuscript. to write out his lecture.
for publication. The lectures o
President Jordan have just been re
ceived in Chapel Hill in neat. blue
cIothbound book, from the press o
Henry Holt a Company. Their title 4
'sThe Stability OF Truth"
BY provisions OF the will OF JohI
calvin. McNair. fifty years ago. the uni
yersIty authorities we're directed. fron
time TO time. "io employ some able
scientinc gentleman to deliver befor'
the students then In attendance II tn
university a course OF lectures. IN
lobjcct OF which lectures shall be |.
show the mutual bearing OF scienc
and theology upon each other and I
prove the existence lso far as may b
lpossible) OF God In nature"
Dr. Van Dyke Is said TO be a ma
of small stature but 20 be capabl
of overcoming this handicap before a
audience by the beauty Of his though
land language. His name is house
hold word in America for his pros
/. writings and his poetry.
Miss Louise Wilson, OF the senio
class. In student parlunce a 'co-ed
; has been elected society editor Of III
Tar Heel. Miss Wilson is the secon
J "co-ed" who has ever served on n
Tar Heel board. The frat was Nil
Mary MeRae. now Mrs. r. l.. era
: whose husband has been successive
, with the Wilmington Star, Richmor
]. yirginian and Baltimore News, whel
q he Is now at work.
4 The moot court for the law siuden
! has been enlarged TO a Superior con
b and supreme court instead Of the s.
a perior court alone, as formerly. II
, three members Of the law faculty I
Q as judges for the supreme court, a.
one member sits as Judge for the 5
Iperior court
DR.. d. A. Long. the retired preside
: of Elon College. who has come
y Chapel Hill TO live. has conducted I
lchapel exercises this week.