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

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During our second year, many kinds of amusement served to break the monotony of student life. It would be an injustice to the Class to leave the impression that there was anything done contrary to the wishes of the Faculty, although we frequently have been alluded to as the Naughty-ones. ' We were Sophomores, and acted as such. AVhen we returned for the third year, our Class was much reduced in numbers. Some had entered the professional schools — others did not return. We had left the previous year our feelings of Sophomores, and were thinking of more serious things — more serious than Conies, even. But there were yet some things which troubled us. One was, The Study of Ourselves, catalogued as Psychology ; another obstacle in our way was, The Study of the General Properties of Matter, or The Study of Energy. No new theories were advanced, or any original ideas heard of. But the December examinations were posted, and some said : It is better to be born lucky than rich. Others said : It is better to get a five than a six. The spring term came and passed, and our Junior year passed into history. With fresh courage and renewed energy, we came back to the University last September to resume our studies. There are iifty-two of us. In athletics, our men have always stood well, furnishing some of the strongest men for the football and baseball teams. On the track team, our men have aided in winning honors for the Univert ity. In the Inter-Society and Inter-Collegiate debates, we have been well repre- sented. Intellectually, the Class is very good, having furnished a good number of men to the Alpha Theta Phi. Now, fellow classmates, the time of parting is drawing near, and we who have spent four years at the University, standing together in victory and defeat, must say farewell. It has passed into a proverb that success is reached through failure — repeated failure has come to all. We have made many mistakes. Man, at best, only moves towards what is perfect, and the goal is reached through the lessons taught by repeated mistakes. We leave to take part in the larger world. We shall alvv ays think of our Alma Mater as the Mecca for North Carolina. Historian. 26

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Senior Class History. THE Class of 1901 has the honor of being the first to go out from this University in the new century. We spent most of our university life in the nineteenth century; we leave, having passed only a few months in the twentieth. It is fitting to review, in part, the work done, and to say a few words of the life of the Class during the past four years. As we look tack over our four years of university life, there come up memories and associations which we are unable to keep back. We shall speak briefly of the more important events — those which have impressed themselves so indelibly upon us. The Class of 1901 entered the University four years ago, one hundred and fifty strong. This was one of the largest classes in the history of the University. In many ways, we were like other Fresh classes which had preceded us, and not very difierent from those which have followed. It did not take us very long to get acquainted with some who are always willing to assist new men. There was one class which we did not wish to know that we were here, but they, too, soon found out that some new men had arrived on the Hill, so they, in welcoming us, made special inquiry where the Fresh were from, and, in an indirect way, wished to know where each new man roomed. The medicine usually applied to Freshmen (not internally, however,) did not fail to have its eftect on us. The time came for the annual watermelon feast, a collection was taken up, and we were especially invited to attend. We paid for the melons, but failed to participate in the feast. The remainder of the fall term was an uneventful one until the December examinations. When English I was reported, a new supply of red ink was ordered. Iji the spring term, as it has for the past century, Washington ' s birthday came around, and that historic holiday found us, for a part of the day, at least, in Memorial Hall receiving our well deserved medals. As time went by, the spring examinations found us in a better condi- tion than the fall examinations had. We were becoming accustomed to our surroundings and getting better acquainted with each other, and we breathed a little more freely, until the annual visit of the Sophomores, commencement week. 25

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Class of ' 01. Colors. Blue and Gold. Motto. Aut vincere aut mori. Statistics. Alexander, Eben, Jr., A. B. . . Chapel Hill, North Carolina Age, twenty-one years; weight, one hundred and forty-two pounds; height, five feet eight and one-half inches ; Medicine ; 2. A. E.; 0. N. E.; Gimghoul ; German Ckib ; Dialectic Society; Class Treasurer (1); Marshal Washington ' s Birthday Exercises (2); AvENT, Joseph Emery, A. B. . . . Raleigh, North Carolina Age, twenty-three years ; weight, one hundred and thirty-five pounds ; height, five feet eight inches; Teaching; Philanthropic Society; Junior Inter-Society Debater (3) . Senior Inter-Society Debater (4) ; Class Orator (2). Bell, Benjamin, Jr., B. S. . . Wilmington, North Carolina Age, nineteen years ; weight, one hundred and eighteen pounds ; height, five feet eight inches ; Journalism ; Dialectic Society ; Young Men ' s Christian Association ; His- torical Society; Shakespeare Club; Secretary of Class (1); Tar Heel Editor (3) ; Tar Heel Editor (4); Secretary and Treasurer Press Association (3); President Press Association (4); Secretary and Treasurer General Athletic Association (4); Marshal Georgia-Carolina Debate (3). Blackman, Neill Robert, B. S. . . . Jesup, North Carolina Age, twenty-nine years; weight, one hundred and seventy-five pounds; height, five feet eleven inches ; Teaching ; Dialectic Society ; Shakespeare Club ; Historical Society ; Young Men ' s Christian Association. Brooks, Baird Urquhart, B. S. . . Nashville, North Carolina Age, twenty and one-half years ; weight, one hundred and thirty pounds ; height, five feet six inches ; Medicine ; Philanthropic Society ; Shakespeare Club ; Assistant Librarian (4). Busbee, Philip Hall, A. B. . . . Raleigh, North Carolina Age, nineteen and one-half years ; weight, one hundred and forty pounds ; lieight, five feet nine inches ; Law; Z. i ' .; H. 2.; 9. N. E.; Gorgon ' s Head; Second Vice-Presi- dent Class (I); Secretary and Treasurer Athletic Association (3); Philanthropic Society. 27