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

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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

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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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