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

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IN MEMORIAM Laughlin McLeod Kelly, ' 05 David Spier Whitaker, ' 00 Rich. Alexander Urquhart, ' 92 Cornelius Furman Dowd, ' 61 David Stern, ' 02 J. W. Murry, ' 96 Harvey Allen Lambeth, ' 03 Mrs. Mary Groome McNinch, ' 02 William Oscar Temple, ' 91 J. B. Oliver, ' 64 Alexander Boyd Andrews, Trustee John M. Faison, ' 93 Alexander Lacy Phillips, ' 80 Edward H. Farris, ' 05 William M. Sugg. ' 89 James M. McGuire, ' 88 J. L. McConnaughey, ' 59 Elbert Alfred Moye, ' 93 Neill Ray Graham, ' 04 Ernest Cofield Ruffin, ' 08 James Wardlaw Scroggs, 05 Julius Johnston, ' 79 Fred G. Patterson, ' 99 William Rufus Edmonds, ' 10 Fred Nash, ' 59 Emmett R. Wooten, ' 00 William Richardson, ' 64 Leonidas Polk Wheat, ' 62 F. H. Holmes, ' 93 Bertram Swift Davis, ' 87 Augustus Tompkins Graydon, 16 F. A. Woodard, Trustee Edward Barham Cobb, ' 91 Joseph Austin Holmes, Professor F. E. Mayo, ' 10 J. H. Bornemann, 01 ft wS ll ftWfi B 1 ::;

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American Chemical Society. High honorary degrees, — notably Doctor of Laws by the University of Pennsylvania and Doctor of Science by Lafayette, among others, — were conferred upon him in recognition of his eminence as scientist. As the successor of Dr. Alderman, he was unanimously elected to the presidency of this University on May 5, 1900. It was self-confessedly from a sense of a higher call for ser- vice that he gave up his life work to undertake the less congenial duties of the presidency. During the fourteen years of his incumbency as president, he saw grow and rise to splen- did proportions the University to the upbuilding of which he had dedicated himself. En- dowed with natural ability as an organizer, a confirmed believer in the efficiency which connotes scholarship, he set vigorously to work to build a memorable foundation and stable substructure for the destined greater University of the future. The material progress and numerical advance achieved during his administration indubitably wrought the trans- formation of the institution from a college into a university. During his administration, the number of students increased from five hundred to nine hundred, approximately; of faculty from thirty-five to eighty-seven, of buildings from ten to twenty-four; of courses offered from one hundred and eleven to three hundred and forty four. The value of the plant trebled, and the endowment was well nigh doubled. In addition to the widening of the meaning of the function of the university in a democratic state, the enlargement of its activities through the definite organization of the graduate school and schools of applied science and education. President Venable threw the weight of his influence toward the stimulation of research in the University, and in a measure throughout the entire South. It was through his efforts, aided by a faculty of high and varied abilities, that this insti- tution came to assume a position in the forefront of American State Universities, and won an enviable reputation for the soundness and authenticity of its scholarship. Today as the occupant of a chair of chemistry, the science which he has so genuinely furthered in America, a chair appropriately named in his honor, he gives lavishly of his genial personality and wide learning to the instruction of youth— a task to which he has already allotted the best years of a lifetime. Though young in years and young m spirit, may he realize the enviable distinction already almost achieved, of the longest term of continuous service ever rendered to this ancient and honorable institution. ARCHIBALD HENDERSON.

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TO THE LOVING MEMORY OF CHARLES WESLEY BAIN, M.A., LL.D. PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Born at Portsmouth, Virginia. June 24. 1864. Son of George Martin and Willie Frances Bain. Student University of Virginia (1885). Headmaster Sewanee Military School (to 1898). M.A. University of the South. Professor of Ancient Languages in the University of South Carolina 1898-1910. Professor of Greek in the University of North Carolina 1910- 1915. Died March 15, 1915. Member of Virginia Beta of Phi Beta Kappa. Alpha Chapter of the Chi Phi Fraternity, Eli Banana (Virginia), Order of Gimghoul (North Carolina), Golden Fleece (North Carolina), Omega Delta (North Carolina). LL.D. University of South Carolina. 1910.