Excerpt from State Normal Magazine, Vol. 18: February, 1914It was dark when the car passed through beautiful West ern North Carolina on the way to Kansas City; so the pleas ure of seeing this was postponed until the return trip.Perhaps the one thing which contributed most to this spirit was the Christian love fostered by prayer services held morning and evening on the cars. Leaders of these services impressed upon the delegates the responsibility which rested upon them as representatives at this great convention.But to come back to the journey itself, for the delegations are yet some distance from Kansas City. Very early Tuesday morning, December 30th, Danville, Kentucky, was reached. The trip following this was beautiful. The View of the coun try made lasting impressions upon the delegates. The old southern songs of Kentucky life came to the minds of all as across the blue grass country they caught glimpses of old colonial brick homesteads.About noon on the 30th, the train bearing the delegations of the two Carolinas reached Louisville. Here there was a big treat in store, for the delegates from all the Southern States were to meet and spend the afternoon. Dinner and supper were served at the beautiful new Y. M. C. A. Building, and the afternoon was spent in seeing the city. About seven o'clock all the delegates left Louisville. Now there was such a big number that a special train had to be made up. Imagine if you will a train of a dozen or more cars filled entirely with people bound for the convention. It was then that college and state spirit was at its height. Groups of people went from car to car giving yells, and singing stirring college and state songs. Every one was happy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.