Excerpt from The North Carolina University Magazine, 1899-1900 The schooling in those days was of an intermittent and old fashioned sort, and made up in variety of effort what it lacked in continuity. The men had gone to the war, and the women reigned supreme, as was but natural and right. The truth is that as the great struggle drew towards its close utter demoralization set in. No one was sure of to-morrow, some were not even sure of to-day. It was enough that bread and molasses and rye coffee could be had at breakfast; what the day should bring in the shape of dinner and supper Was another story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.