The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-10-15
F1
DAY
AT CHAPEL HILL

1J1, Junior, 81, senior, .
graduates. %; law, 119; medical, %
and pharmacy. Is. As has been Gus
tomary for years past, President EN-
able made known the messages q
Gladstone greetings received from
scattered all over thu nauoA
foreign countries, one cabiegIam
being read from r. E. Barnett, caro-
lina's missionary at Shanghai, eiAhd.
This message when read eiDltcd up
DlauSe.
Mr.. w. II. Swift. of Greensboro ne
first speaker on the program, cAoSc
as his subject. The J~teldtlo1 OF ms
Alumnus to the University. MT
Swift said that every man who @t'end5
college has certain relations ana s
comes indebted to the INSTITUTION. bS
the very fact Of being at the 'hlsVi-
sitv makes the student indebted to
every person in North Carolina be
cause this is a state Institution ana IS
suppOrted by the taxes OF lie cluztnS
Of the state. Thus every taFOIni
student owes to the Institution ana
State an unselfish debt to invest for
the benefit Of all the people OF Norm
Carolina. For instance, Mr.. swift Salu
that there are manifold pfooitfls OF
state which the people nave j IlSht
to expect University men 90 equip
themselves 10 llS1l DdtlltS y iNthi'R
itv along all lines. 1t is urgent that
a number of strong men be developed
here to stand ~steadfast in time OF the
States need: men who will think Sc
riously. hat will face the future with
tho consciousness that the right will
always succeed.
"The Things that Count in the
Greater University was the theme
Of w. z. Stacy, of Wilmington, the
second speaker. He launched INTO
his speech, saying that * was not the
material things of the University that
he was to speak Of, but Of the fund
amental things in life. Summing up
character as the constituent Of all
| qualities Of good things, and that
characters two component parts are
honor and personality. He said that
| the high sense of honor, of equity
and right is what makes men noble.
In addition to character, h speak
er thought another requisite that
counts in the greater University,
which we must guard with a jeal-
Gus eye is intelligence. Then, too,
man must devote himself to some
worthy cause and push it. Citing an
illustration, the speaker eulogized the
man who bOre the brunt Of the day,
spending h1mself worthily in some
cause he thought the day would
come when the man who earns his
bread by manual labor would come
into his w abundantly. In con-
things constituted the things that
counted in the greater university life
character, intelligence, work anl
Righteousness.
J. K. Wilson, OF Elizabeth City, The
third speaker, termed his subject
COMPETENCY Of Idealism?' 3.
way Of preface he contrasted tn,
HRiV0r0fv nf hio Nn11noa love, oIauny
years ago, deducing the fact that tn
University had made great forwar'
strides. However, he said. wv
would be better il We did not knov
we were SO good" This is the evi
which we should steer clear Of. Fo
instance, we stop short of things her
in the honor system that should b
carried to a fuller work of service
He expressed as his earnest desir
that the University would be brough
into closer touch with h masses c
the State; wanted to see the tim
{ carry its education out into the rurs
communities, doing uplift work !
!, agriculture, Analysing soil and drair
> ing swamp lands. When this stag
1 is reached then We will have
greater University. It is up to ,
y TO get hold of the people Of the Sta
< if we want help.
! George G. Stephens. Of Chariot
. discussed athletics, saying tina tt
= question Of athletics should De mao
n of the principal assets OF II
: University, because at the found
= ton OF its principle is good citizel
10 ship. His division OF athletics "
le that Cne-tenth was knowing h tee
nicalities Of the game. while min
ID tenths was summed up IN the wo
IS. fight" 1t is through athletics th
i the University receives more OF
- D,h1ioifv than fhrNroh onv nf
,p oher activities. hence the studer
a. should welcome the cooperation
RS the alumni in all forms Of athlete
ed This brought h speaker to t
~ point on which he laid SO mu
~ stress-alunni system of coachiI
His praise Of this system came as
= result Of the investigation and d
cussion Of the subject with the alum
[e- over the State. However. his OPP
81 ion was that it would take time
ev. develop a good system OF coachl1
OIL but when once thoroughly under "
tty it would produce far reaching