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

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Vol. XII UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA 3uUan Sl)aKc$peare (Law IN the address of presentation of the Carr Building to the trustees of the St ate University on Commencement Day, 1900, the speaker thus refers to its donor: Foremost among those who have learned a North Carolinian ' s duty to North Carolina and taught it to the State is the donor of this beautiful building. A native of this quiet village, a North Carolinian of the purest strain, a Tar Heel boy, a Chapel Hill boy, a University boy; who, when battles were to be fought, and marches made, and hunger borne, and privations endured, was a private in the ranks with ragged sleeves, fightmg m defence of his country. He has helped to build up this new North Carohna, puttmg his own shoulders to every forward movement that has taken place in his State in the past quarter of a century. At the reunion held at the Commencement of 19 1 1 , of the Class of 1 868 — the last class that was graduated under the presidency of Governor Swain — there occurs this reference in the address on that occasion : There is another who, though not registered as a member, yet recited with us on certain studies, and we claim him as a classmate. In view of his well-known public spirit, his liberality, his love for his Alma Mater and for the well-being of the inhabitants of Chapel Hill, where he was born and his youth was spent and where his parents lived and died, I would paraphrase the words of Vergil in describing his hero, when shipwrecked on the unknown shore, he is carried by his goddess-mother to the palace of Queen Dido, and sees on the walls of the beautiful temple pictures illustrative of the siege of Troy, and recognizing himself as a conspicuous figure in the group of distinguished actors in that great war, Eneas breaks forth in uncontrolled amazement and exultation : Quis iam locus. Achate Quae regio in ierris veslris Non plena donoris lam fama lotum vulgata per urbem. These words I would apply to Julian Shakespeare Carr.