Excerpt from The University of North Carolina Record, Vol. 74: Alumni Bulletin Number 3; October, 1909 As a close student of the University for the last two decades, I consider myself a competent critic of the institution. I am pleased to say that in every case my criticisms will be complimentary. During the period that I have been able to study the University, there have been great forces for progress in the South. The last forty years have seen an enormous industrial and intellectual growth among the people of the Southern states. In every move ment for development made in the South, the Commonwealth of North Carolina has stood at the head. In a period of beneficial change she has lead in the change. Her economic, industrial, and intellectual institutions show a greater growth since the civil, war than do those of any other Southern state. In this time, N orth Carolina has done many creditable and glorious things, but not one can be compared with the attainment of her present State University. 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.