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I was appointed President of this
The number of students was so small and the prospects so gloomy, that no catalogue was published during that year. The number of students in attendance, the second session however is shown by the records to have been seventy nine.
Fifteen months thereafter (15. April 1837) the cPheeters
"The
Executive Committee have the pleasure to state that although the patronage extended to theUniversity is in no degree commensurate with the resources and intelligence of the state, there is gratifying evidence nevertheless, that it is growing in the confidence and affection of the community. The aggregate number of students at present is but eighty-five: Of this number however more than forty are members of the Freshman Class. No instance is known since the foundation of thecollege of so large a number of admissions into any one of the classes. It will be readily perceived that a likenumber of applicants for admission at the approaching Commencement would make a very favorable change in the condition of our affairs." "In conclusion the
Executive Committee beg leave to remark that in the respects, in which the people ofNorth Carolina can be regarded as least true to themselves is the almost universal disposition to underrate their own institutions and their own citizens."
The address produced a very decided effect upon the public mind. The anticipated
number of admissions at the next Commencement, was more than realized and the
In June 1860, a well informed writer, with the records of the
The results of the Civil War have sadly disappointed this favorable augury. The
number of students at the time to which the writer refers, was greater with a
single exception, than at any similar institution in the
The th of October, repudiated the war debt, broke the
The
Of the unfavorable effects upon our prospects growing out of the war I do not
choose to speak, farther than to say, that during no previous period of my life
were my labours more zealous, faithful, and unintermitting in the service of the
It only remains to intimate, that seeing little reason to hope, from the present
indications of public sentiment