The Alumni Review, Vol. 4 PDF Download

Author: Alumni Association
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332248827
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Get Book Here

Book Description
Excerpt from The Alumni Review, Vol. 4: October, 1915 Begin to plan now to be present to witness their success! During the three years of its existence The Review has had but little to say about itself. As it begins its fourth year, it does not contemplate breaking this rule, but it wishes to ask the hearty, thoughtful co-operation of all the alumni to make it more effective than it has been. It wishes to request particularly that the alumni send notes concerning themselves or other alumni for publication, that more letters and original papers be contributed, and that subscriptions and advertising be secured for it whenever possible. The Review is in receipt of an announcement from the University of Virginia Alumni News that it has ceased publication because of the fact that it was not self-supporting. The Alumni News began publication soon after The Review was started. It contained twelve pages of printed matter per issue and was issued fortnightly. The subscription price was $2.00 per year. Splendidly edited, and attractive in appearance, it was easily one of the most interesting of the alumni publications on The Review's exchange list and The Review genuinely regrets its passing. A Record Year Begins The One Hundred and Twenty-first Year Formally Opens With 166 More Students Present on the Opening Day Than in 1914-15 The formal opening of the 121st year of the University occurred in Memorial Hall at noon on Thursday, September 8, with 998 students registered, the number being 166 greater than that at the same time in 1914. Rev. W. D. Moss. of the Presbyterian Church, offered the invocation and Preston H. Epps, led in singing the University hymn. Before presenting Dean Stacy, who spoke upon the theme of making the year memorable by fidelity to tasks and by keeping the vision beyond the daily task clear, President Graham recounted the changes in the faculty and gave brief statistics concerning the registration. The most significant facts growing out of the registration were that the total registration was at that hour within two of the thousand mark and that the freshman class numbered 322, a gain of 66 over the class entering in 1914. In his address President Graham professed his belief that the year ahead held the promise of being the greatest in the University's history. In giving his reasons for this faith he spoke in part as follows: President Graham's Address We begin today what gives promise of being the greatest year in the almost century and a quarter of the University's history. All of the factors in a vigorous and healthy life are actively and consciously co-operating in its support. It has the respect of its sister institutions throughout the country, the confidence and esteem of the people of the State, the enthusiastic loyalty of its alumni, and the intelligent and whole-hearted love of its rapidly growing student body. It is not unnatural that we should rejoice in its growing strength and size and, conscious that no compromise of any standard has been made, we have no disposition to apologize for this evidence of its success. There are those who advocate the superior virtue of a small college, and certainly none of us here confuses mere bulk and true greatness. Smallness has its associated virtues. I do not need to name them. Growth has its problems. Switzerland is an admirable country in its fine way. It has many advantages not possessed by the United States. It is untroubled by many of the complex problems that vex this great country. I should not argue, however, that it is great because it is small, nor hope for any sound conclusions from an argument founded on its miniature and fixed proportions. I trust that the time will never come when we shall rejoice in size for its own sake, nor sacrifice a detail of our standards for the sake of false growth; but I do rejoice that the University of North Carolina reflects in its g