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It has been stated

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 about ten percent

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of the men in the country develop into leaders.

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But a leader that, the man that

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 has natural qualifications for

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 leadership and an education

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 as well is vastly superior

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 to the man that depends upon his natural

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gifts without training

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 and education.

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A personal opinion expressed by John
 Motley Morehead,

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 one of our nation's leading creative
 industrialists who,

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in combination with the University
 of North Carolina,

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 established a unique scholarship
 program.

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The Morehead Awards.

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[music]

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Opening its doors shortly after our war
 of independence with England,

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 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 is our nation's oldest state university.

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The first enrollment consisted 
of some forty eager

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 students and two brave professors.

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One hundred and seventy years later, over
 ten thousand students,

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along with hundreds of outstanding educators
and instructors,

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 are easily absorbed within

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 the spacious, tree covered campus.

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[music]

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Through the years an air of stability
 and solidarity has been established.

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However, there is always a strong
 undercurrent of new

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 concepts and ideas originating from

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 student and teacher alike.

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Freedom and academic excellence summarize

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 the meaning of the total Carolina experience.

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For this university seeks for and stresses

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 superior performance.

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[music]

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Freedom permeates the university
 community.

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No semblance of thought control is
 imposed upon

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 any faculty member.

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Professors are free to investigate,

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to pioneer, and speculate, and to stress

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 their academic convictions.

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[music]

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As a professor is free, so is the student

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 in almost every area of his life.

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A minimum number of rules 
and regulations exist

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 with the respect to his personal conduct.

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The University, through its honor system
 and student government,

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 seeks to develop self-possession and
 self-control in its students.

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[music]

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The University of North Carolina boasts a

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long list of distinguished alumni.

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One president, James Polk, one vice president,

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 many senators, congressmen,

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 diplomats and educators.

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More than half the governors of North
 Carolina were University

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 graduates.

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In the arts: Thomas Wolfe, 
Paul Green, Dick Adler,

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 Sidney Blackmer, men who have
 distinguished themselves

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 not only in North Carolina, but all over
 the world.

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[music]

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As is true at all universities,

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many students come here on scholarship.

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Any student who has a satisfactory
 academic record

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 and is definitely in need of aid may
 qualify

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 for financial assistance from the
 university.

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Also at Chapel Hill, there exists a
 unique foundation

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 which annually grants merit awards

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 with no regard to financial need.

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The Morehead Foundation has adapted,
 partially,

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 the scholarship plan of the Rhodes
 Scholarships to Oxford University.

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However, the Morehead adaptation

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is at the undergraduate level at Carolina.

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Open to selected graduates of North
 Carolina high schools

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 and selected preparatory schools,

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the Morehead Awards each year bring an
 outstanding

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 group of young men to the Chapel Hill
 campus as

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 Morehead Scholars.

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Students seem to thrive on an 
academic diet of tradition,

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 a workable honor system with
 distinguished faculty members

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 explained by the President

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 of the University of North Carolina,

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William C. Friday.

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In back of me here

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are the Old Well and Old East building,

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two of the shrines of the University of
 North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The red top building is Old East, which
 is symbolic

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 of the founding of the University, which
 was the first

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 state university to open its doors in
 our land.

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During our history, we've had, of course,
 thousands of students

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 come here from all over the world and
 from every state in the Union.

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Four hundred and twenty four of whom have
 been Morehead scholars.

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These men have studied here and lived and
 worked under the

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 honor system of the university and
 presided

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 over their affairs through their own
 student government.

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The students have been taught by many
 distinguished scholars who've

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 come from all of the major universities
 of the land

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 and who are men who have done
 significant work

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 in research and are distinguished teachers.

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We, of course, like all institutions, are
 very proud of our alumni.

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And among these

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 we are most proud, of
 course, Mr. John Motley Morehead, 

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who through his benefaction

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 established the Morehead Foundation.

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He and five generations of his family

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 have been to the University of North
 Carolina.

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 And in establishing the foundation

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he expressed the desire that by providing

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 these scholarships, he would continue

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 the noble and great tradition of this
 university

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 in service to the state,

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the southern region which he loves, and
 the United States of America.

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[music]

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A long line of Moreheads have had
 distinguished careers.

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Governor John M. Morehead, 

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noted for building railroads, roads, and
 public schools.

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James Turner Morehead, father of Uncle
Mot,

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Confederate officer, and industrialist.

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 John Motley Morehead III of
 Rockingham County, North Carolina

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and Rye, New York, was graduated from the

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University of North Carolina with a Bachelor of
 Science degree in the

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 class of 1891.

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Scientist and author, corporation
 director,

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 diplomat, designing electrochemical
 engineer,

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 philanthropist.

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 Uncle Mot retained his great love 
for his alma mater.

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He made many gifts beneficial to the
 state and the University.

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[music]

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With each gift, such as the 
Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower,

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 care has been taken that the gift
 consisted in whole

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 or in part of something which the
 University

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 could not provide for itself.

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[music]

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This sundial, surrounded by a beautiful
 rose garden,

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 was something which the taxpayers of the
 state would not have to supply.

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By its addition, the campus of the
 University has taken

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 on an added luster, a showplace,

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 and a thing of beauty.

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The sundial stands adjacent to the
 Morehead Building,

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 which houses the Morehead Foundation offices,

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the Genevieve B. Morehead Art Gallery, and the Morehead Planetarium.

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The Morehead Planetarium is the first in
 the world

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 owned and operated by a university.

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The spectacular productions 
staged in the planetarium

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 portray exact heavenly configurations

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 from thousands of years past or [?].

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It is visited annually by thousands of
 school children and adults alike.

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Astronaut John Glenn and his colleagues

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 visited the planetarium in preparation
 for orbiting the earth.

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But the greatest gift of all has been
 the Morehead Foundation,

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 which inaugurated and administers the
 Morehead Plan.

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The Morehead Program is so simple it is

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 often misunderstood.

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Its sole purpose at present is to attract

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 to the University of Chapel Hill

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outstanding young men who will add to the
 distinction

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 of the University while students

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and who as alumni will reflect

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 credit on the university and the state.

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The Morehead Award is tendered solely for
 outstanding merit.

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Financial need is not considered

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and no obligation of any kind other than

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 to make the most of one's opportunities

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 and to be a gentleman is incurred by
 its acceptance.

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Each fall, Uncle Mot welcomed new Morehead Scholars

[00:08:34.880] 
 to Chapel Hill at the annual freshman party.

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After dinner, the business of the day.

[00:08:42.920] 
 Seniors are introduced with costumes,
 setting the tone

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 of the evening's program.

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[applause]

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Those entering the Morehead Program, the
 freshmen

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 are introduced.

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 Then on to the entertainment with a skit

[00:09:02.760] 
 written, staged, and produced by the
 seniors.

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 Familiar personalities and standard
 procedures

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 or lampooned to the delight of all.

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[music]

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While visiting Chapel Hill,

[00:09:30.000] 
 Uncle Mot and John Lindsay Morehead,

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who for years was Vice Chairman and Principal
 Administrator of the Morehead Program, 

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discuss the Morehead Awards and the
 reason

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 why they felt the program would be good
 for the University of North Carolina.

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Well, it seemed to be very successful in
 England.

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Very shortly after I graduated here, I spent

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 quite time in England

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on business

[00:10:02.320] 
installing electric machinery and

[00:10:06.440] 
 became quite well acquainted with a
 number of

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Oxford students.

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 I was impressed by the success that they had

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 and it occurred to me that

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 whenever I got [?]

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I'd follow that as much to an extent as I could.

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[music]

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The trustees of the Morehead Program have
 gone to great

[00:10:35.280] 
 lengths in their selection of schools to
 nominate candidates

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 for Morehead Awards.

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Schools are visited, headmasters are
 interviewed.

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In turn, the headmasters and members of
 their staffs are

[00:10:47.520] 
 invited to visit Chapel Hill

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to assure themselves that the Morehead Program is
 conducted as represented.

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The nominating school is then invited to
 participate in the Morehead Program.

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Each spring a select group of young men 
is invited to Chapel Hill

[00:11:04.600] 
 for the final selection of new Morehead
 Scholars.

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Prior to this time, they had been
 interviewed by committees

[00:11:10.960] 
 on a local or regional level.

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A file has been compiled on each
 candidate with complete

[00:11:16.120] 
 background information.

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Our candidate meets the board of trustees
 next.

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This is an informal meeting.

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The members talk with the candidate about
 a variety of subjects

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 so as to become better acquainted.

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Talk to you about a few lighter subjects,
 perhaps.

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I understand that you're a duck hunter?

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That's right.

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Did you ever miss one?

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I've missed a whole bunch.

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Well we have something in common there.

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I noticed from your record that you attended a

[00:11:48.520] 
 southern school for two years before
 transferring

[00:11:51.200] 
 to a northern preparatory school.

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Did you find this transition difficult?

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 It was. It was it was very

[00:11:58.960] 
 interesting to come from

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 the south and to go to the north because
 there are different,

[00:12:04.880] 
 different attitudes

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 about different subjects 

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in the north, in the south.

[00:12:11.520] 
It was interesting to compare the two.

[00:12:13.920] 
I think I've gained a great deal of
 valuable experience.

[00:12:17.520] 
In short, the question is not

[00:12:19.160] 
 only what will the university do for the
 young man,

[00:12:22.640] 
 but what will this young man do for the
 university?

[00:12:26.640] 
[music]

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After all the interviews are completed

[00:12:33.400] 
Vice Chairman of the Board, John L. Morehead,

[00:12:36.040] 
informs them that they have all been accepted

[00:12:37.360] 
 and tells them what is expected of them.

[00:12:41.800] 
The Morehead Award

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means anything and it will mean
 something.

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It will mean what you gentlemen make it
 mean.

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There's nothing we can do about that.

[00:12:55.520] 
And unless you intend

[00:12:58.480] 
 to pull your weight in the boat, do your
 part,

[00:13:03.520] 
and make your fellow Morehead Scholars proud

[00:13:08.480] 
that you

[00:13:10.440] 
are a member of their group

[00:13:13.640] 
don't accept your award.

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Turn it down.

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If you're coming to college, to use

[00:13:22.440] 
 this university as a good winter resort

[00:13:26.000] 
 for the next four years, and you can do
 just that,

[00:13:30.840] 
but don't come as a Morehead Scholar. 

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It isn't fair to your associates.

[00:13:37.160] 
We don't care.

[00:13:38.400] 
There's no way you can hurt us,

[00:13:41.440] 
but you can hurt yourselves 

[00:13:43.440] 
and you can hurt the other people

[00:13:46.040] 
 who have been, are, and will be

[00:13:50.520] 
Morehead Scholars of the future.

[00:13:52.720] 
You'll have problems, all of us have.

[00:13:55.771] 
To that end,

[00:13:58.040] 
we maintain a staff, a full time staff,

[00:14:02.560] 
of four people in the foundation offices.

[00:14:06.840] 
Mr. Armstrong, Coach Bob [?],

[00:14:11.600] 
Mrs. Jackson, and Mrs. Perry.

[00:14:14.920] 
All of them know their way around this
 university.

[00:14:18.080] 
I counsel you to take advantage

[00:14:22.080] 
of the opportunity to know these people,

[00:14:24.840] 
 to make them your friends and for you to
 be their friends.

[00:14:28.680] 
You will profit immeasurably thereby.

[00:14:34.040] 
We are very proud of you

[00:14:36.920] 
else we wouldn't have selected you.

[00:14:40.320] 
We are grateful to you for

[00:14:42.720] 
for undergoing the inconvenience,

[00:14:47.400] 
expenditures of time and trouble,

[00:14:49.720] 
 to travel down here and

[00:14:51.000] 
submit to the many questions

[00:14:54.040] 
 which have been asked you.

[00:14:56.200] 
We hope very much

[00:14:59.160] 
 that you have found your trip rewarding

[00:15:02.240] 
and that you've enjoyed your visit to
 the university.

[00:15:05.143] 
[music]

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By accepting the Morehead Award, these

[00:15:10.640] 
 young men represent a widening circle of
 outstanding

[00:15:13.400] 
 schools sending their best to Chapel
 Hill.

[00:15:17.080] 
 On a statewide television program
 originating from

[00:15:19.640] 
 the University's own television station,

[00:15:22.240] 
they were welcomed into the Morehead
 Program with a personal

[00:15:25.040] 
 greeting from Uncle Mot.

[00:15:27.229] 
[music]

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Morehead Scholars come from varying
 backgrounds

[00:15:37.200] 
 from many schools in North Carolina and
 out-of-state.

[00:15:40.360] 
 Christ's School, Woodbury Forest,

[00:15:43.120] 
St. Albans, [?], Andover,

[00:15:45.920] 
 Exeter, Deerfield Academy,

[00:15:48.600] 
 and other outstanding preparatory
 schools.

[00:15:54.720] 
Academic proficiency alone does not
 qualify

[00:15:57.240] 
 one to become a Morehead Scholar,

[00:16:01.720] 
nor does athletic ability alone qualify.

[00:16:07.360] 
Polish and charm alone will not suffice.

[00:16:10.480] 
The Morehead Scholar is a combination of
 all these

[00:16:13.680] 
 character, honesty, ambition

[00:16:16.480] 
 and promise of achievement.

[00:16:18.760] 
He is a young man trained to accept
 responsibility

[00:16:21.840] 
 in the world of tomorrow.

[00:16:24.071] 
[music]

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The University of North Carolina is among
 the nation's most beautiful.

[00:16:31.320] 
 The campus is on a

[00:16:33.840] 
 hill set in the midst of beautiful forests.

[00:16:36.640] 
 The mid-south climate is ideal.

[00:16:39.520] 
And in the fall, when the air is nippy, it's

[00:16:42.120] 
 time for torchlight parades accompanied by

[00:16:44.880] 
 pep rallies heralding the football
 season.

[00:16:50.280] 
It's an ideal college atmosphere
 sprinkled with football weekend.

[00:16:54.280] 
[music]

[00:17:15.265] 
[music and applause]

[00:17:37.041] 
[music]

[00:17:50.271] 
[music and applause]

[00:18:30.713] 
[music]

[00:18:34.440] 
The warm golden days of autumn

[00:18:37.200] 
stretch slowly into late November.

[00:18:41.000] 
The leaves have barely fallen 
when a glorious

[00:18:43.560] 
 spring bursts upon the campus in early
 March.

[00:18:47.560] 
[music]

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At Chapel Hill, approximately one fourth
 of the

[00:19:26.440] 
 undergraduate male students are
 affiliated with twenty-four

[00:19:29.240] 
 social and four professional
 fraternities.

[00:19:32.320] 
These organizations provide an
 opportunity for the student

[00:19:35.000] 
 to identify with a small group for
 mutual

[00:19:37.840] 
 benefit and support.

[00:19:39.760] 
Each fraternity has a program of social,

[00:19:42.320] 
 athletic, and self-governing activities.

[00:19:45.160] 
And here, too, considerable stress is
 placed upon the importance

[00:19:48.200] 
 of academic achievement.

[00:19:50.157] 
[music]

[00:19:53.960] 
University residence halls provide
 housing for more

[00:19:56.640] 
 than half the students.

[00:19:59.280] 
This experience in daily living often 
has profound influence

[00:20:02.240] 
 on individual growth and development.

[00:20:04.857] 
[music]

[00:20:09.480] 
The University of North Carolina provides
 a program

[00:20:12.040] 
 of honors study for exceptionally well
 qualified students,

[00:20:14.760] 
 many of whom 
are Morehead Scholars.

[00:20:18.000] 
The program is invitational and highly
 selective.

[00:20:21.280] 
Each year, fifty entering freshmen are
 appointed.

[00:20:24.440] 
 They are placed in special reserve
 sections of required

[00:20:27.280] 
 general college courses, [?] and
 fundamentals

[00:20:30.440] 
 is left largely to the students in these
 sections.

[00:20:33.640] 
Successful completion of the freshman
 honors program

[00:20:36.640] 
 brings an invitation to participate in
 the sophomore honors program

[00:20:39.400] 
 in which students continue to

[00:20:42.000] 
 enroll in advanced sections.

[00:20:44.129] 
[music]

[00:20:49.200] 
After successful completion of
 undergraduate work at Carolina,

[00:20:51.720] 
 a student may be admitted
 to the graduate school

[00:20:54.640] 
 or to one of the graduate
 professional schools

[00:20:57.480] 
 located on the same campus.

[00:20:59.643] 
[music]

[00:21:02.960] 
The Morehead Award is currently a grant of

[00:21:05.560] 
 money for undergraduate study at the
 University of North Carolina.

[00:21:09.560] 
When an award is accepted, funds are
 immediately

[00:21:12.480] 
 earmarked for a four year course of
 study and

[00:21:15.040] 
 placed in a savings account.

[00:21:16.880] 
Hence, the award cannot fail for lack of
 funds,

[00:21:20.040] 
 nor can it fail for lack of candidates

[00:21:22.560] 
 with a never ending search for the
 outstanding young man.

[00:21:26.157] 
[music]

[00:21:29.960] 
It takes the boy has

[00:21:32.560] 
 graduated some years to get some sand

[00:21:35.200] 
 on the rail and show what he can do,

[00:21:38.480] 
but some of our early graduates are certainly

[00:21:41.040] 
 showing what ordinarily would pass for juniors.

[00:21:44.960] 
How much of that is about

[00:21:46.200] 
 training and how much of it is natural ability?

[00:21:48.760] 
 Why nobody can say.

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But we do see that without a higher education

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why,

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 the boy just, just hasn't got a chance.

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You're just like someone

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having their ability.

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And that we have tried to get

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 superlative men

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 by getting the gifted boys,

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 and the boys with the most capacity,

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 and adding to it their educational features

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 which we,

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 right up to the

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 minute really, in this

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 class of education.

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The Morehead Awards, an idea

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 nurtured into reality cannot help

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 but have a lasting influence on the
 future

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 of our state and nation.

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