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

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office and Governor Gardner delivered to the newly inducted president the seal and char- ter of the TTniversity. President Gi-aham in his inaugural address dedicated his life to the high goal of mak- ing the University a stronghold of learning and an outpost of light and liberty among the frontiers of mankind. In a complete review he then explained the functions of the arious departments of the University of North Carolina and gave his conception of the ideal university. The first greeting to the new official came from Dean John C. McLennon of the University of Toronto, representing the learned societies. He pointed out the oddly as- sorted types of people with whom the new president would have to deal, and the difficul- ties arising from widely differing views and opinions. On behalf of the universities and colleges of the South, President Frank L. McVey of the University of Kentucky stated that a university jjresident must be a far-sighted thinker and touched upon the long and honoralsle history of this University in which is taken a justifiable pride.

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The Inauguration of President Graham ' I HE inauguration of Frank Porter Graham as tlie eleventh president of the University of North Caro- Hnn was held in Kenan Memorial Stadium the morning of November 11, 19 ' 31, befoi-e an audience of over five thousand people. A most impressive ])art of the ceremony was the long and colorful ])rocession which gathered in groups from all parts of the campus to the starting point in front of the librarv. from which it jjassed beneath the new Morehead-Patterson Memorial carillon and ])roceeded on to Kenan Memoi ' ial Stadivun. In this procession appeared rcjirc- sentatives of the student i)odv, members of Dr. (irahanrs graduating class of 1909, Uni ersitv ahunni marshaled bv Judge Karle Rives, officials of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, state officers and members of the (icneral Assemi)lv, University trus- tees, several hundred delegates of iniivcrsities, colleges, and learned and professional so- cieties tiu-ougliout the state and nation witli several i-e])resentati cs from foreign coun- trii ' s, tiie faculty of the Univei ' sity, Dr. Graham and the various speakers, and the student body. Bishop J. Kennctli Pfohl opened the ceremonies with an invocation, after which Gov- ernor O. ] Iax Gardner, who was j)residing, introduced Haywood Parker, representative of the trustees, who in turn presented Dr. Graham. The Honorable W. J. Adams, As- sociate Justice, in the aijsence of Chief Justice W. P. Stacy, administered the oath of

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President Walter T . I inglc of Davidson broufiiht greetings from the institutions of the state, cliaracteriziiig President Graliani as a lover and servant of his fellow men — a man of (iod. Su})erintcndent A. T. Allen for tlie state puhlic school svstem thanked the new president for his eoo])cration and assured liim of the heartv support of the North. Carolina ])ublic scliool teachers and pu])ils. Re])resenting the ahunni, Kcmj) I). Battle praised Frank (iraham ' s ability as a leader and cniiiiiasiy.cd the dependence of the l ni ersity upon his personality. layne Al- hriglit, ])resident of the student ixidv, })ledged the undivided suj)} ort of the students in the fight for a nobler Tniversity and for a greater state. On behalf of the faculty Dr. H. W Vilson brougiit tlic last greeting in expressing the confideiu ' e of tlie faculty in their new leader. A benediction l)v Bishop I ' foiil coiu ' luded the program at the stadium and tlic day ' s events were completed l)v a lunclieon at which I ' residents James Rowland Angcll of Yale and Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern spoke, and an evening banquet presided over by P ' resident llarrv Woodljurn Chase of Illinois, and predecessor of Dr. Graham as presi- dent of the l ' ni ersit ' of North Carolina. Tiasxmy mmHRHB WUf ffitSU