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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

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With the University today stand all the state and denominational
schools, colleges, and the neighbor university. Not in antagonism but
in all friendliness and rivalry in excellence we would work in this
region and build here together one of the great intellectual and
spiritual centers of the world.

Chapel Hill

In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old University, the
first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the midst
of beautiful forests under skies that give their color and their charm
to the life of youth gathered here. Traditions grow here with the ivy
on the historic buildings and the moss on the ancient oaks. Friendships
form here for the human pilgrimage. There is music in the air of the
place. To the artist's touch flowers grow beautifully from the soil and
plays come simply from the life of the people. Above the traffic of
the hour church spires reach toward the life of the spirit. Into this
life, with its ideals, failures, and high courage, comes youth with his
body and his mind, his hopes and his dreams. Scholars muster here
the intellectual and spiritual resources of the race for the develop-
ment of the whole personality of the poorest boy, and would make
the University of North Carolina a stronghold of liberal learning
with outposts of research along all the frontiers of the world. Great
teachers on this hill kindle the fires that burn for him and light up
the heavens of the commonwealth with the hopes of light and liberty
for all mankind.