University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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Jan. 6. Jan. 6, Jan. 7. Feb. 22 May , May 30 June I, June I, June I, June I, June 2 1896. Aug. ji to Sept. J, 3londay to Saturday, inclusive Examinations for the removal of conditions. Sept. 2, J. 4, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday Examinations for admission into the College. Sept. J, 7, Thursday, Friday . Registration. Sept. 5, Saturday Assignment of rooms. Sept. 7, IMonday Lectures begin. Oct. 12, Monday University Da}-. Oct. 12, Monday President ' s reception. Nov. 2g, Thursday Thanksgiving Day. Recess from December 23, 1896, to January 5, 1S97, INCLUSIVE. 1897. Jan. 5, 6, Tuesday, ]Ved iesday . Examinations for admission into the College. Uednesday Registration. Wednesday Assignment of rooms. Thursday Lectures begin. , Monday Washington ' s Birthday. Saturday Senior orations. , Sunday Baccalaureate Sermon. Tuesday Meeting of the Board of Trustees. Tuesday Anniversary of the Alumni. Tuesday Orations by representatives from the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies. ' Tuesday Senior Class Day. Wednesday Commencement. 13

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Xtt uguration of president Hld i . ONE OF THE most important events in tlie history of the UniversitA ' , probably the most important, was the inauguration, on January 27, 1897, of Edwin Anderson Alderman, of the Class of 1882, as Presi- dent of the University of North Carolina. The Legislature adjourned over for the ceremony — an event without precedent in North Carolina — and more than one hundred members came from Raleigh to Chapel Hill bv special train in order to be present. The hall was tilled to overflowing with a dis- tinguished company, and the exercises were of the most dignified and inspiring character. Col. Thomas S. Kenan, 1857, was master of ceremonies. Ex-President Kemp P. Battle, 1849, to whose efforts is due the revi al of the University in 1875, delivered an address of welcome on behalf of the faculty, and Mr. Robert H. Wright, 1897, spoke on the part of the students. The President was inducted into office by His Excellency, Daniel L. Russell, 1861, Governor of North Carolina. Professor Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, New York, delivered a congratulatory address as representing his University and the institutions of the East. Among the visitors present were : President C. D. Mclverand Professor P. P. Claxton, of the State Normal and Industrial College, and Misses Bing- ham and Massey of the same institution ; Professors D. H. Hill and W. H. Riddick, of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College; Professor W. L. Poteat, of Wake Poorest College ; President C. F. Meserve, of Shaw University, and the superintendents of the city schools of the State who had met at Chapel Hill to do honor to one of their profession who had never engaged in any work but that of a teacher, and had come through fourteen years of successful experience in puljlic school work to be the head of the State ' s greatest public institution. The enthusiasm that prevailed was most significant, and President Alder- man ' s inaugural address was a marvel of lucidity, force and eloquence, which held the undivided attention of his audience for more than an hour and a-half. When the Presidency of the Uni ' ersity became vacant last Summer, with remarkable unanimity the people of the State, particularly the teachers, and the faculty and students of the University, looked to Professor Alderman, and he was the unanimous choice of the Trustees. His experience of four- teen years, and his management of the University thus far, have justified the the wisdom of his selection. 12

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Cl ' ip l Rill and X s Vicinity. THE SITE of the University was once called New Hope Chapel Hill. It was nearly all densely covered with forest, a favorite with hunters, who had their deer stands along the paths leading between the valleys of the creeks to the nort and south of the ridge. The road from Petersburg and that from Newbern crossed one another somewhere in or near Mrs. Graves ' garden. In the northeast corner of the cross was a chapel of the Church of England, attached to St. Matthew ' s Church, Hillsborough. The minister, Parson Micklejohn, adhered to the British in the Revolutionary War, and hence the chapel, losing its preacher, went to decay and ruin. The wife of Rev. Dr. James Phillips remembered seeing some of the fragments strewing the ground in 1826. The Trustees of the University, in 1793, established a village out of the lands donated to them, and called it after the second half of the original name. The hill is an upheaval of granite belonging to the Laurentian system, i. c, the system of rocks about the River St. Lawrence, or St. Laurentius. It is a part of the coast line of a primeval arm of the ocean, some 250 feet lower than the country west of it. This arm is here sixteen miles wide ; the eastern coast is lower than the western. In the course of time the bottom was elevated by some subterranean force and became dry land. Durham is situate on this ancient sea bottom. The rains falling on the Chap el Hill plateau run off by numerous brooks into two creeks, that on the north being Bowlin ' s, and that on the south, Morgin ' s Creek. These brooks and creeks have cut up the land into deep and sinuous ravines, and, therefore, there is a vast wealth of lovely flowers, gray crags, noble trees, graceful curves of hills, and beautiful, diversified scenery. PiNEY Prospect. — The village is about a mile from the primeval sea. The eastern extremity of the ridge on which it is situate is like a promontory, overhanging the sea. It was by General Davie, the father of the University, called Point Prospect. In old times point was pronounced pint, and hence, the neighbors, seeing on its summit some lofty pines, changed the name to Piney Prospect. From this summit is one of the loveliest views east of the Blue Ridge. In the distance can be seen the steeples and chimneys of Durham, the lofty 14