North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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1889 1899 Colonel Alexander Quarles Hol- LADAY, LL.D., a real scholar, and a lover of literature, was the first president of North Carolina A. and M. College. He received his education in Virginia and at the University of Berlin, from which he returned to serve in the Confederate Army. After the war. Colonel Holladay studied law. and practiced in Virginia. In the course of time, he abandoned his practice and became an educator. In 1889, he was called from Florida to be- come the first president of A. and M. At the conclusion of his opening address. Colonel Holladay said: While we are striving to make industrious and useful citizens of the young who are entrusted to us. we shall, at the same time do our best to make them good patriots and de- voted lovers of their mother state. Caro- linians have a glorious heritage, and the children of Carolina should learn early to prize it as it deserves. H

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A r THE beginning of the Civil War. Dr. Hol- laday ivas studying at the University of Berlin, in Germany, hut ichen he learned that his beloved Southland ivas in distress, he came quickly to her aid. During a brilliant and honorable service, he arose to the rank of Colonel and was parol led in 1865. A feu. ' years after the ivar. he again returned to edu- cational work to which he devoted the rest of his life.