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schools, and Morehead to build railways to bind the East and West
in bonds of iron; Swain, in whose time the University advanced to a
high leadership in the South, and who, in the closing war days and
reconstruction, was a conciliatory spirit in an age of hate; Battle,
dauntless father of the reopening of the University, deviser of a
separate group of graduate courses in the curriculum fifty years ago,
and founder of the first university summer school in America, whose
gay kindliness will ever pervade this place and whose noble spirit
still walks in these woods; Winston, lying stricken in this village
today, a casualty of the life militant, champion of religious freedom
and educational democracy who synthesized the classical and scien-
tific, the cultural and vocational, in his own varied and brilliant life;
Alderman, lately and deeply lamented, who in his last days with
something of a premonition of the end returned in filial memories to
alma mater, her sons, and her scenes where his eloquence long stirred
the creative imagination of the people of a commonwealth and caught
the ear of the people of a nation; Venable with his passion for sound-
ness of scholarship and integrity of life, the symbol of the group of
scientific scholars whose research and teaching won recognition among
the scholars of the world, with us still in modest retirement these
later years gathering dowers from his garden for his friends in the
village where he once gathered truth from test tubes for all mankind;
Graham, major prophet of university extension and interpreter of
culture and democracy to the people, his name memorialized in a
students' building on the campus whose ideals he helped to mold and
whose life he passionately extended all over the state as he identified
a democratic state university with the life of the people whose sus-
taining power has returned a hundred fold since his going; and
Chase, under whose leadership came the greatest material expansion
and intellectual advance, whose administration gathered up the mo-
mentum and values of the past, added high values of his own, and
worked a synthesis of many, champion of the freedom of scientific
inquiry in testing times, genial, leader and friend, now president of
the University of Illinois but always at home in Chapel Hill. These
chieftains and the hosts of her sons always muster in spiritual power
in every hour of her need. Into the soul of the place has entered the
spirit of an heroic woman, symbol of all mothers and women whose
hopes and prayers have wrought mightily under these oaks.