Opis: The Alumni Review, Vol. 10 - Author Unknown

Excerpt from The Alumni Review, Vol. 10: The University of North Carolina

The New Year

Thursday, October 6, begins the University's new year. In spite of the fact that it is the 128th, there is something new about it, something untried, unusual, that separates it from all the others that have gone before and that will follow after.

In his opening remarks to the faculty, President Chase emphasized wherein the difference between the new year and the last lay: namely, that whereas last year the University looked to North Carolina to come to its support and strengthen its hands for doing a great work, this year the State looks to the University, its trustees, its president, and its faculty, collectively and individually, to utilize to the limit the increased resources made available.

It is, distinctly, a new year of challenge, of opportunity, a year in which each member of the University has the chance to make his work distinctive, a year in which to do the job is to achieve a double success for the University and the State.

Think in the Terms of the University

In enlarging upon this theme President Chase urged the faculty to approach its work not only with an unusual determination to make it highly distinctive, but to think of it in the terms of the University as a whole and of the service which the University should render North Carolina - advice that is eminently sound and if followed will result in a more perfect functioning of the institution in the civilization which it was established to serve.

Opening of the University Delayed

Owing to an unprecedented drought and consequent failure of the water supply of Chapel Hill, President Chase, on September 20, announced the postponement for one week of the opening of the 128th session of the University and notified all prospective students to remain at their homes until October 4. In reaching this decision, President Chase was acting upon the advice of the local health authorities assisted by Dr. H. E. Miller, of the State Board of Health.

For the first time in the experience of the present generation there has been an almost total lack of rainfall since the middle of May, with the result that Chapel Hill has been unusually hot and until recently has been dry as a bone. Gardens and crops have simply withered away, hundreds of shrubs, particularly the hydrangeas, lilacs, and evergreens in the Arboretum and village yards, have died, and even pine and oaks in the forests along the roadside have succumbed.

Strowd's Creek, from which the present water supply is secured, has been reduced to the size of a mere branch, and the bed of the second creek two miles northeast of Chapel Hill on the road to Durham has not had a drop of water in it for the past six weeks. To meet the situation thus produced the trustees have authorized the laying of a temporary special six-inch pipe line to Morgan's Creek on the southwest with the expectation that this will relieve the famine until the autumn rains set in. Later, when the emergency is relieved, and increased funds are secured for the enlargement of the water supply and power plant, the temporary line will be made a part of the permanent installation and the intake and reservoir on Strowd's Creek will be abandoned.

In order to make up for the time lost on account of the delayed opening it is proposed to eliminate the holidays scheduled for the Thanksgiving vacation. The faculty also was instructed to report for duty on September 26 for its first meeting of the year, to hold departmental meetings, perfect committee plans, and take care of all preliminaries essential to getting underway without further loss of time when the session did open.

University Day

Wednesday, October 12, is destined to be another red letter day in the history of the University. It will mark the 128th birthday of the University and will not only be celebrated throughout the State and

Szczegóły: The Alumni Review, Vol. 10 - Author Unknown

Nazwa: The Alumni Review, Vol. 10 The University of North Carolina (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Author Unknown
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332248872
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 40
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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