. North Carolina University Magazine. THE C. A. IN THE UNIVERSITY. BY FRANCIS M. OSBORNE. The engravings herein printed give a general idea ofa new building- which it is hoped will soon adorn the Uni-versity campus. The building proposed is under the man-agement of the Young Mens Christian Association of theUniversity and is designed to be the headquarters of thereligious and social life of the college. The long felt needfor such a buildingcannot be questioned,and in this demandthe building ideaoriginated and hasbeen sustained, veryweakly sustained attimes it is true,though never
. North Carolina University Magazine. THE C. A. IN THE UNIVERSITY. BY FRANCIS M. OSBORNE. The engravings herein printed give a general idea ofa new building- which it is hoped will soon adorn the Uni-versity campus. The building proposed is under the man-agement of the Young Mens Christian Association of theUniversity and is designed to be the headquarters of thereligious and social life of the college. The long felt needfor such a buildingcannot be questioned,and in this demandthe building ideaoriginated and hasbeen sustained, veryweakly sustained attimes it is true,though never or six yearsago under the dili-g e n t managementand exertion of cer-tain students andmembers of thefaculty a schemewas projected forerecting a building BASEMENT PLAN. t0 COSt n0t leSS thaBL twenty thousand dollars and to this end half the requiredsum was subscribed mainly by the faculty and students inthe University. To the first call for payments on subscriptions the an-swers were encouraging, but for some unaccountable reason. 198 University Magazine the matter rested there and all now depends upon the re-vival of the scheme in a modified form to carry forwardthe work to a successful end. The building as nowplanned is to cost ten thousand dollars and this amountwill furnish a building- suitable to the present needs. These needs are apparent. For religious purposes thebuilding is designed to have a chapel on the first floor forthe religious meetings of the Association, three smallrooms for Bible classes and parlors, and an office for com- m i 11 e e such an occa-sion as the visit of aUniversity preachera place can be fur-nished where he canconveniently meetin private the stu-dents of the will be head-quarters for all suchwork among the stu-dents and will be tothe University o fNorth Carolinawhat t h e PhillipsBrooks House is toHarvard. An inspection o ffirst floor pi,an. the plans will show that on the first floor the parlor, chapel, game room, an
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