Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-12-20

be called an Abolltlonst.
Only a single member of the
dartmouth class of 1899 was pub
licly known as a protesting Christ
ian.
Thru the discovery of oil on its
campus the University of Texas,
Austin, Tex, has profited to the ex-
tent of over II millions.
Columbia University got her
valuable lands in Manhattan be-
cause Hamilton College, desiring to
obtain permission for a lottery,
was anxious to pacify Columbia by
having land given to her some
where in the woods of Manhattan
Island" The land is now worth
millions of dollars, constituting a
large part of Columbia's endow-
ment.
William Richardson Davie, Re-
evolutionary soldier, who was dub
bed "father' of the University of
North Carolina years before JEFF
ferson's intellectual child, the I'm
iversity of Virginia was born, was
che first recipient of Cardinals
honorary degrees.
In 1880 President Louis Marshall,
of Williams and Mary College, VIII
l~iamsburg, Va, abolished classes by
| groups, having the students meet
the professors at any time. Pres.
Marshall was seeking to develop
untrammelled individualism; the
plan was a failure.
In 1928 President James Carna-
han thought of recommending the
closing of Princeton, since the en-
rollment had dropped from 12o to
20; designations were frequent i'll
the faculty, standards were lax, and
divided counsels rent the admins
tration.
! In 1918 a Yale graduate, Pier
pont by name, was refused the the
Masters degree on the ground that
he had insulted the government of
the college. He used the college
/; but failed to secure the degree.
The faculty of the South Caro-
lima Medical College in 1924 had to
provide its own equipment to teach
classes.
Secret dissections were practiced
at Harvard, tho it was against the
law even for 60 years later in
Mass.
Temple u, Phila., Pa. has raised
funds by a Penny Talent scheme.
Four thousand persons were given
one penny to invest and put to
work in various ways, the profit
ACQUIRING to Temple U.
William H. Prescott, the his
%torian, lost his eyesight at-+
ward because of horse-play. Some
one strucp his eye with a heavy
crust of bread, rendering both eyes
useless for reading.
William H. Prescott occupied
the same room at Harvard as did
his father before and his SON after
him.
Two brothers were the first
presidents of two colleges. The
Rev. DR.. Samuel Smith was the
first President of Hampden-Sidney
in Virginia, while his brother, the
Rev. John B. Smith, was the first
President of Union College, Schen-
ectady, N. Y.
Yale graduated Eli Whitney and
Prof. Graham Bell, inventofs of the
cotton gin and the telephoner res
pectively. A Yale professor, Ben
jamin Silliman, Jr., was among the
first to analze scientifically rock
oil, when he pointed out the value
of petroleum and the mode of treat
ment which would yield the most
useful results to man. While the
germ of the invention of the cleo
trio telegraph was given to Samuel
Findley B. Morse while attending
the natural philosophy lectures of
Prof. Jeremiah Day of Yale. The
practical developing of the idea was
carried out at the University of the
City of N. Y. w. where Mr..
Morse was Prof. of the Literature of
Design.
An Oberlin College graduate,
Oberlin, Ohio, has been credited
with the invention of the American
process for reducing aluminium by
electrolysis in a bath of cryolite, an
obscure mineral from Greenland's
icy mountains.
'Detur"-a word now appearing
in the dictionaries-was invented
at Harvard. 1t means: A book, or