Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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Home of Professor Robert L. Fritz There is no man on our faculty who is so much a part and parcel of the very heart and soul of the college as Dr. R. L. Fritz. When it was launched here at Hickory, he was the young and distinguished professor of mathematics. For eighteen years he was its hard-worked and sacrificing presi dent, giving unstintinglv the best that was in him of brain and blood for its growth and development. Under his painstaking man- agement it grew from a small institution to one of recognized standing and A grade rating. No man ever connected with the college has a larger circle of real friends and admirers than he. H a 19

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Delightful task! To rear the lender thought. To leach the young idea how to shoot. To pour the fresh instruction o ' er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.

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Rev. W. P. Cline Mrs. V. P. Cline Rev. Prof. William Pinckney Cline, Ph.B., D.D. Professor Emeritus of Latin and History Ph.B., University of North Carolina; D.D., Lenoir College, 191 3 ; Founder and Principal of Holly Grove Academy, near Lexington, N. C, 1884-1891; Professor of Latin and History, Lenoir College, 1S91-1901; Professor Emeritus since 1924. The above pictures of Professor and Mrs. Cline were made while they were in charge of Holly Grove Academy. In the founding and op erating of the academy and Lenoir College the labors and sacrifices of these two loyal workers have made a great and lasting contribution to the religious and educational uplift and development, not only of this section, but of the entire South, for all of which they are most worthy to be held in appreciative remembrance. The Senior Class and the entire college finds a special fitness and pleasure in thus honoring them.