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Public Addresses 129
to rally to the support of their University in this hour
of its greatest opportunity and need.
THE HEART OF A TRUE UNIVERSITY IS
ITS LIBRARY
ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF
THE NEW LIBRARY* OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF NORTH CAROLINA
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
OCTOBER 19, 1929
This is an occasion opportune with meaning, not only
for North Carolina, but for this whole southeastern
section of our common country.
History reveals the significant fact that man's prog-ress
upward in the scale of civilization is marked by an
increasing reliance upon books, not merely as a means
of escape from present reality, but as the familiar and
necessary tools of intelligent living. The course of
progress from savagery to civilization might indeed be
chartered, and with amazing fidelity, from the story
of what men and women of successive generations and
centuries have written and read. For it was not until
man devised a means for preserving the knowledge
gained by those who had preceded him that progress
upward became possible.
It has been said that the true function of a university
is to disseminate truth, to preserve truth, and to push
forward the frontiers of man's knowledge. This defi-nition,
like most definitions, has its limitations, but
certainly any adequate interpretation of the function
and purpose of a university must include an idea of the
* The exercises were presided over by President H. W. Chase. Governor
Gardner presented the library to the trustees and John Sprunt Hill, chairman of
the building committee, accepted it. The library cost approximately 3625,000.
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