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THE ALUMNI BUILDING Alumni
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Y A C K E T Y Y A C K students ; money then began to give out ; the Legislature refused to make ap- propriations; and in 1870 the doors of the University were closed. A student, more realistic than sentimental, expressed the general feeling when he wrote on the wall of one of the recitation rooms, This old University has busted and gone to hell today ! The friends of the University were jubilant at the grand fizzle. Hoping to regain control and revive it on the old basis, they began at once a campaign to arouse popular interest. Particularly effective was Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spencer, who wrote letters to everyijody of influence, contributed numerous articles to the press, and in her widely published Pen and Ink Sketches of the University, painted conditions at Chapel Hill in unforgettable phrases. She was supported by many prominent men, chief of whom was Kemp P. Battle. Their efforts finally succeeded in 1873, when an amendment to the Consti- tution was adopted which took the selection of trustees out of politics. A new board, chosen in 1874, assumed charge in 1875, reorganized the University, elected a new faculty, and in September reopened its doors with fifty-nine stu- dents in attendance, and Dr. Charles Phillips as presiding professor. The next year the trustees elected Kemp P. Battle president, and under his direction the University began slowly to climb back to health and strength, free from any taint of politics. From its re-opening to 1931, the University has had seven presidents, each of whom made a distinct contribution to its development. President Battle (1876-1891 ) , who called it back to life amid the ruins of its former greatness, laid a broad and firm foundation for the future structure, earning the title of Father of the new University. His successor, George Tayloe Winston (1891- 1896) , made its campus the dwelling place of dynamic democracy and a citadel against the forces of intolerance and bigotry. Edwin Anderson Alderman (1896-1900), threw open its doors to women, proclaimed its mission to seek out and teach Truth, and interpreted to the people its place as the conservator of learning and culture in the democracy. The architect of her material re- building, Francis Preston Venable (1900-1914), also, by his insistence upon sound and thorough work, inwrought into her standard the ideals of modern scholarship. Taking up the task as President Venable laid it down, Edward Kidder Graham (1914-1918), recognized in the University the most efficient instrument of democracy for realizing all the high and healthful aspirations of the State, and placing this instrument at the service of the State in the solution of its varied pi ' oblems of industry, commerce, education, government, and social development, made the University a great service bureau for the State, eager to serve, and eagerly sought for its counsel. Harry Woodburn Chase (1919-1930), bringing to the University a national outlook, guided it through a period of rapid material expansion and growth, while guarding with jealous care its standards of scholarship and defending its right to freedom of research and teaching. The latest successor of these leaders, Frank Porter Graham, chosen to suc- ceed President Chase in 1930, has been in office so brief a time that one must speak of his administration in the language not of history but of prophecy. Imbued with the high ideals and rich traditions of his alma mater, one may confidently predict that he will rear upon the foundation laid by his predeces- sors a yet greater and nobler structure. R D W Connor Chapel Hill, 1931. [8]
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