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

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attempt to use the water in a hydraulic ram. Mrs. Spencer wrote a neat poem, The Lament of the Naiad of Roaring Fountain, complaining of the desecration. President Winston replied with the Answer of the Dryad, through the mouth of a croaking bull-frog. We are now near Battle Park, so called because the paths permeating it were cut by a former president of the University with his little hatchet as a recreation from his anxious University work. Seats may be found here for loving couples, bearing such romantic names as Trysting Poplar, Anemone Spring, Fairy Vale, Lion Rock, The Triangle, Over-stream Seat, Vale of lone. Glen Lee, Wood-thrush Home, Dogwood Dingle, Flirtation Knoll. One of the loveliest walks that can be found is through the southern edge of the Park to Piney Prospect, then by a winding path northward to the brook, then up its meanderings to the village, about two and a half miles in all. The cemetery is not well kept, but has some inte resting monuments of students who died far away from their homes, of venerable men and excellent women, of a gallant Confederate colonel, Edward Mallett, a son of the L ' ni- versity, killed in one of the last battles of the Civil War, and buried in his bloody uniform. His swords are hanging in the Library. Taking a road running in a southerly direction near the east wall of the cemetery, and, after following it for three-eighths of a mile, deviating to the right by a path through a growth of young pines, the pedestrian will reach a most romantic spot, the Meeting of the Waters, where Chapel branch and Rockspring branch come together among num.erous gray rocks. The dense shade of the lofty trees, the musical murmur of the tumbling streams, the high bluffs covered with mosses and ferns, hepaticas and heart-leaves, the rustling of the leaves of the tree tops, and the perfect calm below, make this an ideal place for lovers of Nature. I close this paper by pointing out two more places of interest. One is the Mineral Spring, near the point where Professor Holmes ' beautiful, well-graded new road curves away from the steep and rocky old Durham Road. The other is the Point of Rocks, about ten steps on the west of the Hillsborough Road, a little north of Mr. John Ward ' s dwelling. It is on his land, but he is a most kindly man, and I am sure will not object to visitors enjoying from its summit a most charming view of rolling hills and lovely vales, and all the many-hued beauties of forests and the setting sun. Kemp P. Battle (1849). 19

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historical jMemorabilia. 1776 — The State Constitution instructs the General Assembly to provide the University. 1789 — Charter granted. 1792 — The site selected. 1793 — October 12. The corner-stone of the first building, the Old East, laid. The village of Chapel Hill established. 1795 — The doors opened for students. Rev. David Ker, D.D., afterward a judge in Mississippi Territory, the Presiding Professor. Hinton James, the first student. The Dialectic Society founded ; James Mebane, first president. The Concord Society founded ; David Gillespie, first president. 1796 — The Concord changed to Philanthropic Society. 1801 — Vice-President Wm. R. King at the University. 1804- — -The first president, Joseph Caldwell, elected. 1812 — Dr. Caldwell resigns the presidency. Robert Hett Chapman, D.D., elected president. 1 8 14 — South building finished. 1816 — Dr. Chapman resigns. Dr. Caldwell again elected president. 1817 — Chair of Chemistry established ; Denison Olmstead, the first professor. 1818 — President James K. Polk graduates. 1824 — Dr. Caldwell sent to Europe for purchase of apparatus and books. Old West building finished. 1825 — Elisha Mitchell, D.D., professor of chemistry. 1826 — James Phillips, D.D., professor of mathematics. Chair of Modern Languages established; Nicholas M. Hentz, professor. 1835 — President Josesph Caldwell dies. Governor David Lowry Swain succeeds. Chair of Political Science established ; President Swain in charge. 1837 — Gerrard Hall finished. 1842— The North Carolina Historical Society established. 1844 — The North Carolina University Magazine first issued. 1845— The University Law School established ; Judge William H. Battle, professor. 1847 — President Polk attends the Commencement. The Caldwell Monument erected. 21