CHARLES DUNCAN McIVER, eldest of nine children of Matthew Henry McIver and Sarah J. Harrington, was born in the community of old Buffalo Presbyterian Church, near Sanford in Moore County, North Carolina, September 27th, 1860. In this thrifty Scotch settlement, noted for godly living and a high standard of intelligence, the McIvers bore an honored and influential name. They were men of culture, and their large estates, though personally directed, were worked by a well cared for body of slaves. Their homes were comfortably furnished in good taste, and liberally supplied with the best books. Matthew Henry McIver was one of the influential men of his community. He was a successful farmer of excellent judgment, an elder in Buffalo Church, and highly esteemed by a wide circle of friends. After being fitted for college he gave up his intention of entering the State University in order to assume the management of his father's estate. This step he afterwards regretted, and he early impressed upon his own children the error of his youthful decision. On his return from cavalry service in the Confederate army he taught school for a brief time, and through life gave personal attention to the studies of his children, and provided at individual expense for their proper instruction. Evander McIver, father of Matthew Henry and grandfather of Charles Duncan, was familiarly known as Scotch Ever McIver. At the age of eight years he emigrated to North Carolina from the beautiful Isle of Skye, home and final resting place of the celebrated Flora MacDonald. By inheritance, and by successful industry, he became one of the largest land-owners in Moore County. He was an exceptionally well-read and well-informed man, and the owner of a library that would be considered large even in this day of many books. Dr. W. S. Lacy, in his historical sketch of Buffalo Church, pays high tribute to the “strong character and wide influence” of this able man. The mother of Charles D. McIver survives her distinguished son. She, too, on her maternal side is of Highland Scotch ancestry and her mother's family name, McNeill, fills an honored place in the annals of both Scotland and America. The Harringtons, her father and his kinsfolk, were of English descent. They were prosperous people of high social standing, whose name may be found in an official and legislative capacity in the historical records of our State. Sprung from this noble ancestry, of which in his democratic sympathies he said little even to his most intimate friends; inheriting with strength of mind and body a reverent faith in God; and early taught by a cultured mother the dignity of manual labor and a love for what is best in human achievement;—Charlie McIver grew up a fine specimen of vigorous, self-reliant young manhood, strong in the determination to wear worthily an honored name and to be of some service to his State and generation.

In the fall of 1877 young McIver entered the University of North Carolina. Among the students in attendance there and destined to be intimately associated with him in his educational labors of later years, were Charles B. Aycock, Edwin A. Alderman and James Y. Joyner. McIver entered with characteristic zeal upon his new and broader life. He kept himself clean in mind and body, made wholesome progress in his studies, grew steadily in the estimation of faculty and students, won special distinction in Greek, Latin and French, and was honorably graduated in 1881 with the A. B. degree.

The fall of 1881 found him filling an assistant's place in a private school at Durham. A few months later he became principal of the school. During the spring of 1882 a movement was inaugurated at Durham for the establishment of a public school system supported by local taxation. When the opponents of the movement, thinking of course that a private school man would be quick to oppose a measure so adverse to his own interests, invited McIver to unite with them in accomplishing its defeat, they were amazed to hear him reply, “I shall not oppose it; on the contrary, I intend to vote for it and to do all in my power to see that the election is carried.” The election was carried and the progressive young educator was called upon to assist in the organization of the system, and to serve as the first principal of the Durham Graded Schools. Eighteen months later he was called to Winston to perform a similar work of organization for the newly-established graded schools of that city. There he remained from February, 1884, until September 1886, when he became principal of the literary department of Peace Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Meanwhile, Professor McIver, as he now came to be called, had associated himself with the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly and henceforth took all active part in all its deliberations. Every summer vacation was devoted to county institute work. He was thus gaining a more intimate acquaintance with his fellow-teachers and familiarizing himself with the educational needs of his State. More important still as affecting both his happiness and future career, he was married in 1885, to Lula V. Martin, a graduate of Salem Academy and one of the most successful teachers of North Carolina. She it was who first directed his attention to the inadequate facilities for woman's education, and at her suggestion he made, before a teachers' institute at Winston, his first public speech in behalf of the higher education of women. At the time of her marriage she was a teacher in the Winston schools. Later she was lady principal of a seminary at Charlotte and was actively associated with her husband in his institute and campaign work. She had a mutual part in formulating the plans which led to the establishment of the State Normal and Industrial College, and gave valuable assistance in all the details of its organization.

Meanwhile the husband grew more and more zealous in the cause of education, especially public education. He magnified his calling, emphasized the dignity of teaching as a profession, urged better preparation and advocated the establishment of a State training school for teachers. For five years he now labored with apostolic fervor for the higher education of women. The school teacher, he declared, is our most important public official, and the proper training of women is the strategic point in the education of the race. He became the recognized leader of a new movement and as such was appointed by the Teachers' Assembly chairman of a committee to urge upon the General Assembly the necessity of establishing a State school for teachers. He urged, he pleaded, he wrote, he argued, addressing schools, clubs, institutes, general audiences, and the Legislature. The first bill presented to the General Assembly failed of passage by a few votes. Mclver knew no discouragement. Another Assembly would meet in two years, and he would in the meanwhile carry his message direct to the people. His earnest labors had already caused the dawn of an educational renaissance. Provision was made for two assistants to the State Superintendent of Education. Charles D. McIver and E. A. Alderman were called to the work, their duties, briefly stated, being to conduct teachers' institutes in every county and to thoroughly arouse the people to the necessity of education.

Now began one of the most important campaigns ever conducted in the State, and perhaps one of the most interesting in the history of public education. For three years, from September, 1889, to September, 1902, winter and summer, these men preached a crusade in behalf of unversal education. In every county and in every important city and town in the State, by lectures, by teaching, by public addresses, by conferences with teachers and school committeemen, by talks with farmers, editors, county officials and politicians, by every approved method, in short, known to advocate and reformer the work was diligently and vigorously prosecuted. And through it all and at the base of all and dominating all was the keynote sounded by McIver: “The cheapest, easiest, and surest road to universal education is to educate the women, those who are to be the mothers and teachers of future generations.”

The work was done as it had never been done before,—as it need never be done again in North Carolina. In 1891 Chairman McIver and his associates were again before the Legislature with a bill for the establishment of a State institution for the higher education and normal training of women. The bill passed almost without opposition and Charles Duncan McIver was elected president.

Now it was that this people's servant entered upon the work of building a people's college, an institution that should be worthy of the great State that gave it birth. It should be an open door of opportunity to every worthy white girl within the borders of the Commonwealth—a means of fitting her for good and useful citizenship. A woman's college for North Carolina women it should be, characterized by sound learning, liberal culture, earnest living and high thinking. The best that a State could give should be theirs; the best that educated women could give should be the State's. In this spirit was the institution conceived, and in this spirit the State Normal and Industrial College lived and grew anad prospered, presided over, inspired, guided and led by one who gave it all that man may give.

It is doubtful if any other public institution was ever in so true a sense the product of the unselfish love and labor of one man. As to him in largest measure are owing its conception and creation, so to him are due the policy which characterizes it, and the success which it has achieved. And this is true not merely in the larger matters pertaining to its general management, but in the many details relating to its work and administration. The college plant and its equipment, the departments of instruction, the courses of study, the various organizations, the ideas for which the institution stands, the spirit it exemplifies, the work it seeks to accomplish, all these are of his creation and this not through mere formal oversight and official dictation, but through the living spirit of creative work and fellow-service.

The hand and heart and brain of Dr. McIver were felt throughout the institution, but most, perhaps, in what may be called the spirit of the College. Its spiritual and mental atmosphere was a life-giving tonic, an impulse to noble endeavor and unselfish service. Courage, patience, tolerance, self-reliance, patriotism, faith, self-control and, above all, a laudable desire to extend a helping hand to others—these were fruits of the spirit, priceless in value and immeasurable in influence. This was the College as McIver founded it—not a local habitation of brick and stone, but a power in human life.

Important as are these services they constitute but a part of the labors which won for Dr. McIver State and national recognition as all educational leader and statesman. “He was,” to quote the words of one editorial and the substance of hundreds of others, “the State's most useful citizen, a leading force in every movement looking for progress in North Carolina.” Appreciative estimates appearing in our national journals, such as The World's Work and The Outlook, referred to him as “McIver of North Carolina” and declared him to be “the son of the forward movement in his region.”

Of the extent and wide variety of Dr. McIver's public service space does not permit us to speak. Nor may we even give a list of the honors conferred upon him, or the names of the scores of organizations to which he belonged. Some of these latter, such as the North Carolina Reunion Association and the Women's Betterment Association, he organized; many of them, including the National Educational Association, the Southern Educational Association, the Southern Educational Board and the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, he served in all official capacity; and all of them, local, State and national, felt the guiding influence of his wonderfully helpful and inspiring personality.

Beginning with his first educational labors at Durham in 1881 and continuing to his lamented death, September 17, 1906, Dr. McIver gave to North Carolina and to humanity twenty-five years of active and beneficent service. Who shall estimate its value? Who shall reckon its ever-continuing and ever-multiplying influence? The General Assembly has seen fit to erect a memorial building in his honor. This is well, for it adds to the efficiency of an institution whose mission it is to serve the people of North Carolina. Others have said: “The College is his monument. Look about you—all this we owe to McIver.” This is true and we do well to bear it in memory. But in a truer, larger sense, the ever-living McIver memorial is the blessed influence of his life in others. It lives today, when we who knew him, and loved him, and leaned hard upon him gratefully recognize its abiding influence; and it will endure—such our faith and consolation—till time shall be no more.

Charles Duncan McIver . . . . . 5 Editorial . . . . . 13 Editorial Staff . . . . . 14 The Faculty . . . . . 17 Senior Class . . . . . 34 Junior Class . . . . . 55 Sophomore Class . . . . . 62 Freshman Class . . . . . 67 A Toast (Poem) . . . . . 73 Commercial Department . . . . . 74 Adelphian Society . . . . . 80 Cornelian Society . . . . . 86 Marshals . . . . . 89 Normal Magazine . . . . . 90 Y. W. C. A . . . . . . 92 Athletics . . . . . 97 History of Athletic Association . . . . . 99 Champion Team 1910 . . . . . 100 Senior Team . . . . . 101 Junior Team . . . . . 102 Sophomore Team . . . . . 103 Freshman Team . . . . . 104 Special Team . . . . . 105 A Camp Supper . . . . . 106 CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS Glee Club . . . . . 110 Orchestra . . . . . 111 Rowan County . . . . . 112 Gaston County . . . . . 113 Cleveland County . . . . . 114 Lenoir County . . . . . 115 Wayne County . . . . . 116 Edgecomb County . . . . . 117 French Club . . . . . 118 The “Furriners” . . . . . 119 The Artists . . . . . 120 The Cats . . . . . 121 The Belles . . . . . 122 DRAMATICS A Midsummer's Nights Dream . . . . . 124 Famous Heroines . . . . . 128 She Stoops to Conquer . . . . . 130 Girls of 1776 . . . . . 131 Reveries of a Freshman (Poem). . . . . 132 Social Events . . . . . 133 The Adelphian Initiation . . . . . 136 Cornelian Initiation Banquet . . . . . 137 Sophomore Entertainment . . . . . 138 Reception to Senior Class . . . . . 139 Tree Day (1910) . . . . . 142 Tree Song (1910) . . . . . 143 Tree Day (1911) . . . . . 144 Class Song (1911) . . . . . 145 Examination Bells (Poem) . . . . . 147 Aunt Edith's Story . . . . . 149 College Dictionary . . . . . 154 Senior's Soliloquy—That Graduating Essay . . . . . 156 The Power of Music . . . . . 157 (?) . . . . . 159 The Turning of the Tide . . . . .161 A Revolutionary Heroine . . . . .166 Judge Not . . . . . 169 An Experiment in “Human Chemistry . . . . . 174 Some Books from our College Library . . . . . 175 Alumnae Association . . . . . 178 Statistics . . . . . 183 Senior Characteristics . . . . . 192 Jokes . . . . . 195

WE present to you, our readers, the first volume of “THE CAROLINIAN.” Through this medium we offer you a glimpse into our College life, with its many duties and its equally numerous pleasures, with its work and its play—a life of countless opportunities made possible by the generosity of our beloved Old North State; and if by a perusal of these pages you are brought into a more appreciative knowledge and a more sympathetic understanding of the “Normal” as we know it and love it, we shall have attained the goal of our labor.

We wish to thank all who have helped in this work, especially, those members of the Faculty and the students of the C mmercial Department who have worked so untiringly with us.