The farmer and mechanic., 1912-07-02
(By S. r WINTERS.) }

Chapel Hill, June 29.-"It was or
dered that the equipment Of the Uni
Versity Press, consisting Of printing
material, ETC., be offered for sale
The foregoing excerpt from the pro-
Ceedings of the board Of trustees Of
the University, in session June 4,
marks the closing chapter Of an
eventful history Of the second oldest
printshop esta blished in connection
with university in the South, Johns
Hopkins University Of Baltimore
alone claiming priority. For eighteen
years the University Press has been
closely Identified with student life,
and sons of Carolina at home or
abroad Will learn of it's abolishment
with sense Of regret. The printShop
has been the medium Of giving en-
plOyment to more than two hundred
needy young men, ambitious Of a col
lege education; it has furnished a
technical business training for a large
number Of now eminently successful
professional and business men; then,
too, it has turned out long train Of
the Horace Greeley type of newspaper
men, that sleep on newspapers and
eat ink"
It's History
The history of the University Press
and that Of The Tar Heel, the first
newspaper published at the Uni
VerSity, runs along parallel lines. The
Tar Heel was launched in 1898 as a
fOrerunner of the Press, which dates
its birth on March %, 1894. Thus
its foster parent, The Tar Heel, tells
of the advent of its sister institution
and worthy co-worker in this wise:
The University is always progressive
On last Monday afternoon there was
q meeting of subscribers of stock in
this new enterprise, when initial steps
were taken towards the proper or
Sanization Of company for general
and job printing. Committees were
appointed, though no officers elected,
to secure a charter, order presses
type, etc, and rent a building. The
company is patterned after the Col
umbia College Press.
This new and great advance is the
direct result of the prot5reSsiveness of
some of our progressive professors
1t will indeed supply a slong-felt
want, besides enabling those having
printing done to have direct super
vision over it. Its good is even more
far-reaching than this, as it Will fur
nlsh occasional employment to many
poor students, who can by this meth
od help earn their support while at
college"
Some two weeks later the machin-
IN full swing and an air Of business
and enterprise could be observed or
the ground floor OF the new west
building. An extra edition of The
Tar Heel, appearing in fancy dres.
and boX-car type, heralded the birtf
Of the Press in this happy manner
"Mr. q. T. Broughton, Of Greensboro
has arrived to take charge of th'
University Press Quarter
have been fitted up in the new ives
building for the Press and the plan
began work this week. 1t will do al
the University printing.
Officers of the Press have bee
elected as follows: President, Dl
John Manning; secretary, Prof. Col
her Cobb; treasurer, Prof. j.
Gore; executive committee. Prof.
A. Alderman, DR.. r. II. Whitehea
and DR.. r +. Nenable.
The capital stock is $4,000, an
all the shares found ready sale. Tn
is one Of the evidences of the stead
growth of the University, and muc
credit is due Professor Cobb for n
untirinG energy in projecting and a.
cOmplishing the enterprise.