The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-02-17
OUR UNIVERSITY.
.4.-.- For the Standard.
An Agricultural School

Has been provided for by the donation of
100000 acres of public land by Congress,
and now our Senators and Representatives
at Washington are laboring TO secure the
full benefit of that. splendid gift to the use
of the University, for the purpose of endow-
ing complete, new, and much needed de-
partment of agriculture and applied science.
1t must be evident to the most simple
observer, that college arranged after the
pattern of the old University. cannot succeed
under the patronage of the Republican party,
and oficercd by Union men, for the plain
reason that the old slaveholding aristocracy
of North Carolina, by whom that institution
was formerly patronizrd, are bitterly hostile
tn the whole policy of reconstruction, as now
embodied in the Constitution of the State
They still entertain deep and deadly hatred
of Union men. Their wives and children
manifest on all occasions the same odious
sentiments in still higher degree. Very
few indeed will be the students from this
class of the community They will crowd
the colleges where rebel Generals govern,
and where rebel sentiments prevail. And
every sectarian college viii receive share
of those who would, in other times, have
: attended the University, Just because this
g great State institution of learning has been
purged and purified of the entire secession
element, and it is now under the control of
true hearted and approved Union men. = 1t'
is, however. singulariy unfortunate, that the
professorships recently filled, are those of the
old system eregusicely, whilst the former
class of students will certainly not attend.
The case would have been very different,
had professors of Agriculture, Mining, Me
tallurgy and Railroad Building. Manufac-
turnig. Book keeping, Photography, Tele-
& graphy, Chemistry, Mechanics and all other
branches of Applied Science, with a good
normal department tor the white teachers
of our common schools, been at once esta6-
Iished in TIE Unicersity Then, the compar-
atively small class of classical students
would have been overlooked, and its halls
would have been crowded from the very first
day of opening, as is the case in the Cornell
University of New York, with multitude
of young men, eager to learn the practical
business of their future lives, with all the
lights that modern science has shed upon the
Usefnl Arts. that minister to the wants of hui
man life, and enrich the condition of the
workman. whilst they augment the national
wealth. and develop the industrial resources
of the State. 21gI -aila., faaH
These departments will, no doubt, be adj
ded when the means necessary for their
support have been secured But, alas this
discouraging commencement will depress
the spirits, and damp the hopes of our
friends, and elevate the pride and
the selfconfdence of our enemies.
Whereas, by placing the useful and the
. practical before the ancient and the alb
struse branches of learning, triumph
might have been had, in the beginning,
which would have made the University
popular and rendered its future. progress
much easier. However, let us hope for the
best, and work together in love. mn tt
DELTA.