Excerpt from The University of North Carolina Record, Vol. 81: Alumni Bulletin Number 4; The Mid-Winter Record; April 1910 Such conditions made rather for blind contentment and stag nation. There was no incentive to change or growth and no knowledge of each other's working so as to determine the best lines of development. The Splendid growth of the last quarter century has come through closer contact, rivalry and competi tion. I do not believe that any really important institutions can now claim that the local conditions surrounding them are essentially or materially different from those found in other' parts of the country, though many of us in the South have formed the habit of claiming this as an excuse for delayed development. Poverty, indifferent preparatory schools, and lower ideals of education are the conditions most often mentioned, but these have notably improved, and I hold it to be the duty of the college to work against such and not be lowered by them. 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.