. The life and speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock. h to learn the name of the candi-date agreed upon. When the society met and receivedthe report of the Faculty, McLean tendered his resigna-tion, after which the President called for a few minutes there was an intense stillness, eachside waiting for the other to move first. Then amember rose and nominated one of the President asked if there were other nominations,and Neal Arch McLean, addressing the chair, spokeplainly his opinion of the Facultys action, thankedhis friends for their support of him, and then wit
. The life and speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock. h to learn the name of the candi-date agreed upon. When the society met and receivedthe report of the Faculty, McLean tendered his resigna-tion, after which the President called for a few minutes there was an intense stillness, eachside waiting for the other to move first. Then amember rose and nominated one of the President asked if there were other nominations,and Neal Arch McLean, addressing the chair, spokeplainly his opinion of the Facultys action, thankedhis friends for their support of him, and then with avoice full of emotion said, *There is one here who canserve you better than I, and I, therefore, nominateCharles B. Aycock. The opposition was dumfounded,the vote was taken, and Aycock was elected. Astudent rushing out of the hall downstairs to thecampus where the Dis were waiting to hear the news,yelled * Ay cock! which the crowd received with tri-umphant shouts and cheers, while the college bellchimed in and lent its voice to the > B < c I OF CHARLES B. AYCOCK 29 At Commencement in June, following his election,relates Judge Daniels, whether by the procurementof some humorous friend or some jealous rival, or by-one of those accidents which defy explanation, as heled the academic procession, arrayed in all the gloryof Chief Marshal, the band struck up the then populartune, See the Mighty Host Advancing, Satan lead-ing On, much to the amusement of his friends andsomewhat to his own discomfort. Thus within a single year Aycock had become theleader of the largest and most influential group ofstudents in the University. His leadership had comenot through scholarship, though he was by no meansdeficient in scholarship, but through the larger andricher life of the campus, where the college manscapacity for leadership is tested and is nothing less than world-life in miniature,and he who would lead the one, as well as he whowould lead the ot
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