The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-09
Bingham School

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Inc for the year ending December, 1880, will
..r,hcr considerably over 200, representing
- TaraIities in North Am1qcn 90 Southern
.aj Northern States), one locality In
Zgh iacTJcn, one In EHrOpe. one in 1std.
!. ) Injustice to none to say that both this
armbcr and especially this area of patron
,ra. reJTeSenttng four continents, are unpar-
''TIed in the history of Southern Boarding
shoots for boys. and as far as we can hear
other school in the whole United States
an show such an area or representation.
Those best acquainted with the internal
working of "Bingham's' under its present
engagement are unanimous in the opinion,
.. far a. we can hear, that the discipline and
Instruction are decidedly better, that the
moral status is higher, and that the salts
action given to patron and pupil is decided
Ivgreater, than ever before, while the steady
increase Of the school, Gan average of % a
year for the last FIVE years, shows the ia
yorable Judgment of the public in no doubt
fI terms and the Judgment of the general
rublic about any business enterprise only
re-echoes the judgment of the special public
that patronizes the said business enterprise.
which special public, in the case of a school,
are its actual patrons and especially It's ac-
ruaI pupils, who are by far the best Judges.
The Raleigh OJSercer of Oct. 10, 70,
rives the following very complimentary GER
fcate from LIT. +. F.. Gayle, I'd Artillery,
l.. :. A, relative to the military skill ex-
bibited bv the Bingham Cadets at the last
State Fair
Raleiqh, October 10, 1879. 4 was aston
i.bed at the manGuvers of the Bingham
School Battalion to-day. Their appearance
was magnificent, their drill in the manual of
arms. in the field movements, in the Skin
mi,h. was superb, and their voliey firing was
--l.-t 4nl rHa 80 o-,, that
the West Point Cadets have never done bet
ter. Nothing can be said except in praise
Of the military excellence of this Cadet corps
IN all respects, and their conduct and general
bearing at all tines while in the city Ind
Gates a high moral training which should be
more gratifying to the teachers, and which
!, more valuable to the cadets than even
such unusual military skill.
lSigned) f. Z. GAYLE,
ID Lieut.. ID Artillery, L. S. A.
The Observer then goes on to remark;
while such marked success in one de
partment is very gratifying, 1t is proper to
say that the military feature is made dis
tinctly secondary, and is used only where it
l. subsidiary to good conduct, good scholar
ship, and good discipline and perfect as the
drill Is, it is lone without loss of time, rec
rcation hours alone being used for drill, which
hFtttA bO oOllCt : bCu II Hiuf IhS dSC
ball, football, sc. The great purpose of
the school, viz to make good scholars and
yo3f citizens, was never as fully realized as
oil late, and the success of the Bingham
Boys is more marked than ever before.
Young Bingham (son of the late Col. Wm.
Bingham) won a scholarship two years ago
for the best entrance examination at the
Virginia University, and was the first to win
it in ten years. Young Means, of Concord
e. w.
enty applicants. Young Hughes, of New
bern, applied for the freshman class at
Princeton a few weeks ago, and was put by
the Faculty into the sophomore, with high
encomiums upon his preparation for college,
and young Markham, of Durham, has just
taken the prize for the best entrance exam
nation at our own University.
But after all, the g~entlemanly conduct of
the Cadets is the chief among the many re
concentrations of this school, as indicating
4 high moral culture, which Il the basis OF a
noble character.
I'VE congratulate the State that this North
Carolina school is ahead of any similar en-
terprise in the whole South
The instances ofthc success of Bingham
ties abroad, as given above by our esteemed
cotemporary, though gratifying, do not
quite cover the ground, and do not do full
justice to all parties concerned. Davidson
College, one of our best institutions of
learning, being doubtless Internationally
omitted. Young Bingham had entered the
sOph. at Davidson, took the "monitorship"
first p~ositiOn) in the class ami won the
Rockwell prize and the same year that Mr..
Bingham now an Assistant Professor at the
University of Va entered the Soph. at
Davidson, Capt. NJ. G.. S. Noble. (now a
Professor at Bingham ; entered the Fresh
and took the highest mark In Latin ever
taken in the college. and that too under
Prof. Sampson, for four years a student at
a German University, Leipzig, we think,
and perhaps the most accomplished Latinlst
III the State. Again at a competitive ex-
animation for West Point in rs, held at
among eight applicants two "Binghamites, "
GeOrge Mclver and JOhn Bulla, stood first
and equal, and the decision was made by
lot, and again in 1850 at Scotland Neck In
the 2nd District, Capt Kitchens another
competitive examination occurred for West
Point, IN which, among eight applicants two
B~Inshamites, VIM. McRae and Jas. b.
Hughes, Jr. stood first and second. Mr..
Mekae being under the required age, Mr..
hughes got the appointment and is now at
West Point.
And again W. +. Price, another Bingham
lie entered Harvard in 10 where his sue
cess has been unusual. He took first distinc-
ton throughout, won $685. worth of prizes
III cash during his course; and at the final ex-
animation for graduationthi year, he won az
additional $3.50 prize, standing first among
- able competitors.
Such success sufficiently indicates the
character of the instructions given.
We notice that the culture of the faculty
At Blngham's is unusually broad, represen-
ting the State Normal School, Bingham
School. Davidson EolleUe- and nur UniverSi
y IN North Carolina Locust Dale Academy,
handolph Macon College, and the University
In Va; and the leipzig University in Ger
many. And just at this point we congratu-
,tte the school upon its three new teachers,
apt Amls, an old Bnghamite, direct from
the Virginia University, Capt. Grinnan. a
graduate OF the Va. University in Mathe-
mates, Latin and French, and Capt. Ed
wards, an \. VI. graduate and mathematical
mnedallst OF Randolph Macon in the days of
d'ee ana tsteil, and for seine time a stu
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