Opis: The Alumni Review, Vol. 11 - Author Unknown

Excerpt from The Alumni Review, Vol. 11: The University of North Carolina

The New Year

On Thursday, September 28, the University got off to a fine start for a new year. Five new buildings were put into service, thirty-two new teachers of various ranks ranging from instructor to full professor joined the faculty group, and a student body of 1800 settled down to the tasks of the campus.

Not only in new buildings and increased faculty and student body has the institution evidenced its readiness for the big job ahead. The equipment of offices, laboratories, and libraries has gone steadily forward, and the requirements for entrance have been held to the fifteen unit minimum more strictly than ever before. All along the line, there has been a distinct tightening up, and from all indications 1922-23 should be, and must be, Carolina's greatest year.

University Day

Thursday, October 12, the University's birthday, is marked down in the calendar of the University and of every alumnus as a red letter day. Although it has been celebrated 128 times in the past, the 129th anniversary will be attended here on the campus with fitting ceremonials, and within the State and beyond its borders, loyal sons will gather to honor the day.

The program for the campus is distinctly worthwhile and will bring many alumni back to the campus. Wednesday night, the 11th, Secretary Grant of the General Alumni Association will bring the class secretaries of the various classes to the Hill for a conference on class organization. The same night the department of music will bring the Russian Symphony Orchestra to Memorial Hall. Thursday morning Walter Murphy, president of the General Alumni Association, will be the principal speaker at the formal celebration in Memorial Hall, and Thursday afternoon on Emerson Field Carolina and Trinity will meet for the first time in twenty-five years at football. Thursday night the alumni, visitors, and faculty will attend a reception given in their honor by President and Mrs. Chase.

Beyond the campus walls, both within and without the State, local celebrations will be held in accord with the ideas of the local groups and the suggestions furnished by the Alumni Association. Emphasis in all of the celebrations will be placed on the opportunity for united alumni service, and it is hoped that the day, from this point of view, will be the greatest in the University's history.

Freshmen Throng the Campus

Freshmen from every quarter of the State, some 700 strong, thronged the campus the first two days of registration, and are now started on the great adventure of college life.

Among the hundreds of problems with which the University is confronted, the presence of these 700 new recruits constitutes the most difficult one with which the University must deal. Receiving them, housing them, assisting them in finding themselves - this is the supreme task of the institution, a task in which the University cannot afford to fail.

To meet the situation satisfactorily, the University has adopted the following new measures: the Dean of Students will devote the greater part of his time to the particular duty of assisting freshmen in making the transition from school to college successfully; three chapel periods each week will be devoted exclusively to them; and forty odd members of the faculty will act in the capacity of volunteer advisers to the new men.

All three of the measures commend themselves to The Review and all will be watched with great interest by the alumni.

The Building Program

On October 12th, 1921, with the Grand Lodge of Masons officiating as on the same date in 1793, the University formally and officially projected the present building program which has already revolutionized the campus. On the approaching University Day, those who return to the campus will not only find that the anniversary exercises are being held in a re-made Memo

Szczegóły: The Alumni Review, Vol. 11 - Author Unknown

Nazwa: The Alumni Review, Vol. 11 The University of North Carolina (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Author Unknown
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332248896
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 36
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: The Alumni Review, Vol. 11 - Author Unknown