PREFACE THE purpose of this volume is to bring together in convenient form and to make easily available a number of the more notable addresses and papers on education, culture, citizenship, and allied subjects, of the late Edward Kidder Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, whose death on October 26, 1918, in his forty-third year, brought his distinguished career as educator and scholar to an untimely end. Owing to the fact that the addresses and papers were intended for special audiences and occasions, and did not receive the careful recasting and revision to which President Graham would have subjected them in preparing such a volume as this, certain repetitions have been inevitable. Similarly, several selections, especially those taken from "The President's Reports" for 1916 and 1917, which are removed from a special setting which cannot be fully explained by the notes accompanying them, may seem to begin and end too abruptly for inclusion here. These defects, however, are so slight in comparison with the total impression conveyed by the papers, that they can easily be overlooked. All the papers included in the volume have appeared in magazines or other publications, and definite acknowledgments are hereinafter made at the appropriate places. To Professor H. W. Chase, Chairman of the Faculty, and Professor Edwin Greenlaw, of the Department of English, I am indebted for assistance in preparing the volume for the press. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. LOUIS R. WILSON. |