Armistice Day was celebrated in Chapel Hill by band-playing, a parade, and exercises in Memorial Hall. The principal address at the commemorative exercises was made by R.D.W. Connor, professor of history in the University.
Memorial Hall is a big place, and almost every time that anything happens there the seats are far from filled. But this time there was too big a crowd for the benches, ad scores had to stand at the rear of the hall and in the aisles. Mr. Connor’s speech, in which he spoke of the significance of Armistice Day and made a plea for a continuance of democratic progress, particularly in North Carolina, was warmly applauded.
Dr. Abernethy read the Orange county roll of honor—the names of county men who died in the world war—and P.H. Winston read the names of those who, during the S.A.T.C., died here in the University hospital.
The parade of school children down the main street and through the campus was led by the boys’ band.
W.B. Neal, adjutant of the American Legion post, will probably be explaining to members for the next or so why he summoned them to the school at 10:30 and then let the parade get away before they arrived. (word apparently left out of this sentence) There seems to have been faulty liaison, or no liaison at all between George Denny, who had charge of the program, and the adjutant. However, nobody suffered deeply. The legion members who came to the school at 10:30 and found they were too late, set out singly and by twos and threes for memorial Hall, many of them were greatly relieved at not having to show the public how they had forgotten to keep step to the music.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, Nov. 13, 1924
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