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

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a To Old Chapel Hill? 7 — ' O those of us who stay in school will come back the recollec- tion of our last spring on the Hill when we lolled on the grass or strolled about the campus, increas- ingly aware of the sound of march- ing feet around us. For we would soon leave the peace of Chapel Hill for the determined and noisy hub- bub of the many service camps throughout the country, and then on to stake our lives on the battlefield, that the beauty and peace of a thou- sand Chapel Hills might never again be threatened.

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President ; OTHING is considered settled at Chapel Hill until Frank Graham gives it his own unique touch. This is just, because he is head man, but not oppressive, because he always trans- lates authorit) ' in terms of democratic freedom. It is fruitful because he never fails to open fresh vistas in any situation. It is delightful because he is lovable and elicits Christian charity as the constructive way for persons. His genius in the personal field is total ; a rag picker or the President are to him nothing less nor more than persons. His technique is that of teaching. His influence runs through Chapel Hill, the Consolidated University, the General Assembly, the State, and more and more through- out the Nation. Clashing interests, in his method, become cooperating persons. His process is Nature rising to Spirit. He is as alert to practical opportunity as a Syrian peddler, infinitely patient of detail. He is hard as a rock on moral principle. He is orderly as the stars in in- tellectual analysis and synthesis. He is instant as the lark on the wings of his imaginative theme — a world more economically productive, more socially satisfying, more spiritually beautiful. Like Spirit he can be in two places at once. His work goes well in Washington and in Chapel Hill. His office is open and hospitable; his light still shines on Sunday nights for freshmen. His hand- shake grips the needs of the person present and the values of all persons everywhere. DEAN ROBERT B. HOUSE. 15