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

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,r iHHErioRiAri.i Baker, William Arren Barnhill, Roscoe Thomas Bason, George F. Battle, Turner Westray Bryan, William Shepard Douglas, Stephen Arnold Exum, James H. Graham, Joseph Gray, Robert Percy Hyman, Herbert Shield Johnson, John Monroe Lleuelyn, J. R. Dobson McRae, Samuel Hinsdale Meares, Oliver Pendleton Palmer, Robert R. Simmons, Enoch Spencer Skinner, Thomas Gregory, Jr. Story, Romy Weaver, Wiley C. page five]

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in his junior year he forged rapidly ahead. He had found himself now, and studies that had hitherto baffled him, began to give way before the steady pres- sure of his methodical habits and unconquerable will. In the athletic life of the University, on both gridiron and diamond, he soon stood without a rival. In his freshman year he was elected captain of his class baseball team ; learning that there was opposition to him, he promptly resigned and took a subordinate position rather than imperil the harmony and efficiency of the team. In the meantime, he was familiarizing himself with every detail of football, and training himself by rigid discipline to play in any position. In his sophomore year he became a member of the Varsity football team. In his junior year his primacy in both football and baseball was no longer questioned, and the student body stood back of him to a man. If he had lived to return to the University last September, he would have been captain of both teams. He lived long enough, however, to establish the most brilliant athletic record ever attained at the University of North Carolina. Success and applause were powerless to mar the beauty and dignity of Romy ' s character. In the class room, on the campus, or returning from some victorious contest, with his name blazoned in the head-lines of the daily news- papers, he was always the same modest, unassuming gentleman. No profane word ever passed his lips, no bad habit is linked with his name, and the slogan of Victory at any price found no place in his creed or in his practice. He will not be forgotten. His name and fame will linger as a benediction upon our University life and as an inspiration in our athletic contests. That rivers flow into the sea Is loss and waste, the foolish say, Nor know that back they find their way. Unseen, to where they wont to be. — C. Alphonso Smith.

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FOREWORD IN the get-up of this book it is our purpose to leave the class room and enter into that part of the University life which is more enjoyable, that part which makes an institution like ours truly great. ' e intend to picture to you our life, so that you will know the kind of atmosphere that surrounds us. But there are some things that a picture cannot tell, and we are frank to admit that this University life is far too grand, — far too magnificent — for us to do justice to it in this necessarily small volume. While we cannot tell all or unfold to you the whole, we will attempt to give to you as nearly as we can the University as it appears to us. And if we fail to emphasize some parts as much as we do others, we beg those of the departments thus neglec5led not to be too hard on us in casting their blame, but to bear with us yet a little while and remember that we do not claim the art of perfection. We hope that when you have read our little book, that you will know us better, know our life, and most truly we hope that you will like us and our life. If you do not we have failed in our attempt. As to our success we leave you, our reader, to judge. Editors.