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Yackety Yack [Serial] m@i THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLEVIANA C378 UPy 1901 c. ^ Form No. A-369 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.archive.org/details/yacketyyackseria1901univ BoUmie €>ne fiintttm €>ne ito mM^ mck PUBLISHED BY THE FRATERNITIES AND LITERARY SOCIETIES OF THE lln^ifsitu 0f ^OYik 0{arolina. Press of The Stone Printing and Manufacturing Company Roanoke, Virginia. Co 31ol)n fe>prunt l?iU, W\)06t brilliant profresional career anli tuljose true lopaltp to W '^Iran. plater probe l)im an Sllumnufi luorti)? of our esteem, tue tieiieate tbts boofe. JOHN SPRUNT HILL John Sprvnt HilL SPRUNT HILL was born near Faison, North Carolina, on JOHNMarch 17th, 1869. His parents, William D. Hill and Frances Diana Faison, were both descendants of families who moved to the eastern part of this State from Virginia in 1770. Here they acquired large property interests, and have ever been leaders in the community. Hill entered the University in September, 1885, at the age of six- teen. He soon was mai'ked as a man of unusual powers as a student, and as a man of affairs. He joined here the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and was one of the founders of the Order of Gimghouls. He easily led his class in scholarship, graduating maxima cum laudew'iXh. the Class of 1889. He delivered the Philosophical Oration at Com- mencement, and missed being Valedictorian by a small fraction of a point. Li the fall of 1891, Mr. Hill entered the Law School of the Uni- versity, where he remained a year, leaving here to enter the middle class of law at Columbia. Soon after his entrance, he won a scholar- ship in law. While at Columbia, Mr. Hill joined the legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi. Li May, 1894, he was admitted to the New York bar, and in June of that year left Columbia with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Immediately after graduation, he became managing clerk of a prominent law firm in New York City. In January, 1895, he began the practice of law on his own account. He is now the senior member of the firm of Hill, Sturcke & Andrews. At the outbreak of the Spanish War, in the spring of 1898, Mr. Hill promptly volunteered for service, and was chosen as one of the men who composed Troop A and represented the squadron in the field. He did yeoman service in the Porto Rican campaign. In the fall of 1900, Mr. Hill was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Congress from the Fourteenth District of New York. In this campaign, he conducted a most brilliant canvass in opposition to the policy of the administration. He was one of the few Democratic candidates who boldly declared against free silver, and, though support- ing Mr. Brj'an, favored the gold standard. Although defeated, Mr. Hill ran four thousand votes ahead of the Democratic ticket in his district. On November 29th, 1899, Mr. Hill married Miss Annie Louise, daughter of Mr. George W. Watts, of Durham, North Carolina. They now reside at No. 264 West Seventy-second Street, New York City. Mr. Hill is prominent in the social life of the metropolis. He is a Mason, and a member of the New York Bar Association; the Reform Club, Squadron A, the Southern Society, the Colonial Club, the Spanish War Veterans' Association, and the New York Alumni Association of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He is a member of the Brick Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hill has always kept in touch with the University, and it was by his generosity that the Hill Prize in History w^as established. He w^as an honorary ball manager of the Commencement of 1900. His thirty-one years have been active ones, and the brilliant success he has attained in the city of his adoption in such a short space of time speaks much for his energy and his ability. Introduction, WITH this issue of The Yackety Yack begins a new movement in the publication of a univer- sity annual. Hitherto, this has been done by the fraternities alone ; The Yackety Yack is issued by the literary societies and the fraternities of the University. The effort has been made to make it representative of the whole life of the University. The editors appreciate the support of the student body, and take tnis opportunity of thanking all who have aided in this work. Good or bad, we give it to you with the hope that it may be the beginning of a permanent University Annual. The Edito.rs. CALENDAR. «» •» 1901. September 9-14. Monday to Saturday. Examinations for the Removal of Conditions. September 9, 10, 11. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Examinations for admission into the College. September 9, 10, 11. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Registration. September 12. Thursday. Lectures begin. September 14. Saturday. Assignment of Rooms. October 12 Saturday. University Day-. October 12. Saturday. President's Reception. November 28. Thursday. Thanksgiving Day. Christmas. Recess from December 23, 1901, to January 2, 1902. 1902. January 2, 3, 4. Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Registration. January 2. Thursday. Assignment of Rooms. February 22. Washington's Birthday. June 1. Sunday. Baccalaureate Sermon. June 2. Monday. Debate by Representatives from the Dialectic and Philan- thropic Literary Societies. June 2. Monday. Meeting of the Board of Trustees. June 3. Tuesday. Anniversary of the Alumni. JONE 3. Tuesday. Senior Class Day. June 3. Tuesday. Senior Speaking. June 4. Wednesday. Commencement. Summer Vacation from Commencement to the Second Thursday in September. lO Trvstces. CHARLES BRANTLEY AYCOCK, Governor, President ex officio. RICHARD HENRY BATTLE, Secretary and Treasurer. Members of the Board. 1901. Alexander Boyd Andrews, Wake Jacob Battle, Nash Richard Henry Battle, LL, D., Wake Joseph Pearson Caldwell, Mecklenburg Julian Shakespeare Carr, Durham William Henry Day, Halifax Warren Grice Elliott, New Hanover Henry Elias Faison, Sampson Augustus Washington Graham, Granville Alfred Williams Haywood, Alamance Edmund Jones, Caldwell Thomas Alexander McNeill, Robeson Thomas Williams Mason, . Northampton Paul Barringer Means, Cabarrus Lee S. Overman, Rowan James Parker, Gates Thomas Buckner Pierce, Duplin Louis Julien Picot, M. D., Halifax John Andreay Ramsey, Rowan James Sprunt, New Hanover Standing Committees of the Trustees. Executive Committee. ' Governor Charles Brantley Aycock, Chairman. Alexander B. Andrews, Thomas S. Kenan, Richard H. Battle, Richard H. Lewis, Fabius H. Busbee, Frederick Philips, Julian S. Carr, Virgil S. Lusk, John W. Graham, Zebulon B. Walser. Committee of Visitation. John W. Graham, Chairman. Paul B. Means, Claudius Dockery. II Francis Preston Vcnable, Ph. D. rRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE, Ph. D., was born near Farra- ville. Prince Echvard County, Virginia, on !N"ovember 17th, 1856. His father was the late Charles Scott Venable, a member of General Robert E. Lee's staff. Professor of Mathematics, and for a long time Chairman of the Faculty of the University of Virginia. After finishing his preparatory education in the High School of Charlottesville, Virginia, Dr. Venable entered the University of Virginia, where he graduated with high honor in 1877. For one year he was assistant in the University High School at New Orleans, alter which he returned to the University of Virginia and completed a year's post- graduate work. In 1880, he went abroad and studied at the University of Bonn. After he had cimipleted two semesters, he was elected Professor of Chemistry in the University of North Carolina, which position he tilled, in a very al)le manner, until elected to the presidency of the institution on June 5tli, 1900. The spring following the year in which he was elected Professor, he spent at the University of Gottingen, where he received the degree of doctor of philosophy. The reputation of Dr. Venable as a chemist is well known. He has been regarded as the leader of Southern chemists. This fact is shown by his election to numerous offices in the section of chemistry of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is now a fellow of the London and German Chemical Societies. Dr. Venable has published over sixty contributions to scientific knowledge. His most important works are, " Short History of Chem- istry," " The History of the Periodic Law," and " Inorganic Chemistry According to the Periodic Law" (the latter in conjunction with Prof. J. L. Howe ). Endowed by nature with great ability, splendid opportunities coupled with close application on his part, have made Dr. Venable a polished scholar and a cultured gentleman. To this he has added the character of a Christian. Of splendid executive ability, admired and respected by all that come in contact with him, the record of his first year as president a brilliant one, it is confidently expected that the University, under the control of Dr. Venable, Avill continue as it has in the past, the head of the educational interests in the State. 12 FRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE, Ph. D. Faculty and Officers of the University of North Carolina. Francis Preston Venable, Ph. D., President of the University. Ph. D., Student of the University of Virginia, 1874 ; University of Bonn, 1879 ; A. M., Berlin, ; Fellow of the London University of Gottingen, 1881 ; attended University of 1889 for Advance- German Chemical Society ; American Association Chemical Society ; Member Philanthropic ment of Science ; Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina ; Society ; A. K. E. Kemp Plummer Battle, LL. D., Professor of History. M., 1852 A. B., University of North Carolina, 1849 ; Tutor in Mathematics, 1850-54 ; A. ; of State LL. D.; Member Convention, 1861; President of Chatham Kailroad ; President Professor of Agricultural Society ; President of University of North Carolina, 1875-91 ; History, 1891 ; Dialectic Society.
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