The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-20
THE UNIVERSITY,

THE UNIVERSITY.
Some write and speak of this in>
stitution as though the temporal sal
walton of the state depended upon its
existence as great high free school.
Now if any are laboring under such
hallucination, we say to them, we
believe firmly, candidly that the
state is not based upon the Univer-
sity as its corner stone, and that if
from the over zeal of it's friends 1t
should topple and fall, the old cons
monwealth of North Carolina, will
still hold her proud place in the gal
axy of states. 1t seems to us that
the friends of that institution are
persuing a policy not the best for its
success. Some people who are op.
posed to the free tuition feature are
honest in their opposition, yet the
friends of that feature, denounce all
opposition as ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
prejudlces, and arising from igno-
rance We shall not undertake to
discuss the motives which be
get the opposition.
1t is enough for us to know, that
it exists. and more than it's friends
want to know. We are opposed to
the free school part of the University,
and weexpect to fight it as long as it
exists. We are individually in favor
of turning the University over abso-
lutely to some denomination
upon the express conditions that 1t is
to be kept off of the shoulders of the
tax payers. No one will be damaged !.
The state will be benefited.
And the only objection We can Just
now see to this, is that our brethren
of the other denominations might
not be satisfied, and there might be
some injustice in doing so much
more for one church than for another.
Now if tie University cannot he given
away We must manage it as best we
can.
In our opinion lift cannot be made
University in fact as we'll as III
name, it would be better for the pros.
perity and unity of the state to abol
ish the Institution altogether. For
the State to run an institution in
competition with the private lnstitu>
lions of the State which belong to in
dividuals and religious corporations
is bad enough, to give free tuition at
the expense of the State and in com
petition with the high schools, Acad
emies and Colleges Of the State is
worst still, but to give the free tut
ton out upon the principles of lot
terry and favoritism is intolerable.
One says if you don't give free tut
ton, what will you do with the ST.
500, the interest on the fund, from the
land.script? Every tax payer of the
state can answer that question. A
way.faring man though blind and a
fool can answer it. Reason, Justice
and common sense would say paw
the current expenses of the college
with it instead of giving it out by
lot or favoritism in the shape of free
tuition, and collect that much less
from the tax payers.
The same writer says they teach
the same things at the Johns Hopkins
University and University of Virginia
that are taught at our University.
Admitted. But do they teach
the same things at our University
that are taught at the former?
Now everybody knows that all these
Universities have some parts of their
curriculum the same, but no well in
formed person either knows or be-
lieves that student can now be ad-
vanced as far in the higher grades of
learning at Chapel Hill as he could
be in the Johns Hopkins. Heretofore
Chapel Hill has been on a level with
the other colleges of the State. How
twill be since the trustees have added
two Baptists, one Methodist, one