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

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candidates who boldly declared against free silver, and, though support- ing Mr. Brj ' an, favored the gold standard. Although defeated, Mr. Hill ran four thousand votes ahead of the Democratic ticket in his district. On November 29th, 1899, Mr. Hill married Miss Annie Louise, daughter of Mr. George W. Watts, of Durham, North Carolina. They now reside at No. 264 West Seventy-second Street, New York City. Mr. Hill is prominent in the social life of the metropolis. He is a Mason, and a member of the New York Bar Association; the Reform Club, Squadron A, the Southern Society, the Colonial Club, the Spanish War Veterans ' Association, and the New York Alumni Association of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He is a member of the Brick Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hill has always kept in touch with the University, and it was by his generosity that the Hill Prize in History w as established. He w as an honorary ball manager of the Commencement of 1900. His thirty-one years have been active ones, and the brilliant success he has attained in the city of his adoption in such a short space of time speaks much for his energy and his ability.

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John Sprvnt HilL JOHN SPRUNT HILL was born near Faison, North Carolina, on March 17th, 1869. His parents, William D. Hill and Frances Diana Faison, were both descendants of families who moved to the eastern part of this State from Virginia in 1770. Here they acquired large property interests, and have ever been leaders in the community. Hill entered the University in September, 1885, at the age of six- teen. He soon was mai ' ked as a man of unusual powers as a student, and as a man of affairs. He joined here the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and was one of the founders of the Order of Gimghouls. He easily led his class in scholarship, graduating maxima cum laudew ' iXh. the Class of 1889. He delivered the Philosophical Oration at Com- mencement, and missed being Valedictorian by a small fraction of a point. Li the fall of 1891, Mr. Hill entered the Law School of the Uni- versity, where he remained a year, leaving here to enter the middle class of law at Columbia. Soon after his entrance, he won a scholar- ship in law. While at Columbia, Mr. Hill joined the legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi. Li May, 1894, he was admitted to the New York bar, and in June of that year left Columbia with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Immediately after graduation, he became managing clerk of a prominent law firm in New York City. In January, 1895, he began the practice of law on his own account. He is now the senior member of the firm of Hill, Sturcke Andrews. At the outbreak of the Spanish War, in the spring of 1898, Mr. Hill promptly volunteered for service, and was chosen as one of the men who composed Troop A and represented the squadron in the field. He did yeoman service in the Porto Rican campaign. In the fall of 1900, Mr. Hill was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Congress from the Fourteenth District of New York. In this campaign, he conducted a most brilliant canvass in opposition to the policy of the administration. He was one of the few Democratic

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Introduction, WITH this issue of The Yackety Yack begins a new movement in the publication of a univer- sity annual. Hitherto, this has been done by the fraternities alone ; The Yackety Yack is issued by the literary societies and the fraternities of the University. The effort has been made to make it representative of the whole life of the University. The editors appreciate the support of the student body, and take tnis opportunity of thanking all who have aided in this work. Good or bad, we give it to you with the hope that it may be the beginning of a permanent University Annual. The Edito.rs.