The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-30
TRINITY COLLEGE.
what the College OF the Nethodi>te is
Dong.

Doing.
Especial Cor STATE CURONICLE.l
In looking over the State papers no
tica letters from Chapel Hill Wake Forest,
and Dayidson; but have seen nothing
about Trinity except an occasional FLING
at things in general. Some may ask,
'sWhy is this thus2' one reason of our
silence is because we are kept so busy we
don't have time to blow" our BREATH
much less .'our horn. The Faculty have
been resting up this Summer and are now
here with enough momentum to keep the
boys stirring for at least ten months.
Prof HeItman, our close thinking Chair
man besides being burdened with all the
| business Of the College, is teaching Ger
man. Greek and Ethics; and the writer
/ Judges from the WY faces Of the boys as
they come forth from his Office that they
are having all they can manage.
| Prof. GannaWay, with spectacles on
nose may be seen in his room reading
! the Herald during "a .ant bell, when
suddenly gentle tapping of the Old
! bell causes him To lay aside his neWsy
! page, don his pedagogical toga, and call
upon some poor boy to read the very part
of the Latin lesson he has not prepared
Then the unfortunate pupil clears his
throat pronounccS the Latin, and --
wishes for another earthquake, vowng Il
prepare his next lesson. But q man like
Prof. &. who has occupied teachers
chair for thirty years, and read all the
Latin literature, has not failed to learn
all the school boy pranks. Pretty soon
he is elucidating some troublous phrase in
Maiere Norvin or Madame De Stael, be
ing equally fluent in reading Latin or
French Prof e. is thorough scholar
and combines with this rare attainment
the elements of good instructor.
| Prof. Pegram is one among the few men
| have ever seen who can make a boy learn
that does not want to. In his department,
Natural Science, he creates an intense in
tcrest considering this the prime requisite
for successful teaching. In order to do
this of course it is necessary for him TO
be full Of his subject. His methods arc
very practical and his explanations are
such as to render the subject in hand plain
to the dulest hearer.
But Prof Bandy is the one we all dread.
He is a Titan in mathematics. He is the
, man that makes us demonstrate the pons
asinorum the bane of the Freshman's eN-
lstence. Prof b. is well up. and quotes
all the best authorities on difficult points
in higher mathematics.
: Prof. Long has put Props, Freshmen.
: SophS, Juniors, and Seniors on heavy duty
h He is our English Professor, and i mighty
, good one too. He has enlarged our course
= considerably since he came, and has i'll
. troduced parallel readings in the Englisl
q classics, knowing that We must not onl,
! know the correct forms, but must ais,
know how the mas ters use them. He alst
makes Us write literary essays and crit
cisms; thus We learn the tools, see how
they are used, but best of all, use then
ourselves.
Prof. English has charge of the Prepar
e atory and Business Departments, and hi
d reputation for that kind of work is to
- well known to need any further mention
! here.
1 Trinity is on BOOM Our Charma
le informed me that we had the best operin
he this fall we have had for ten years. Th
very air is pregnant with the aroma c
success. The general bearing Of the stu
o dents is such as to assure every one tha
= their object here is work. Their depor
= ment is such as is in perfect keeping wit
er true gentleuess
e There are los enrolled, and many hay
n engaged board and rooms who have nc
. yet arrived. Ii is likely that our numbt
10 will reach 12o by conference. We hay
OF 40 new students. Many new localities al
We represented i'll our own State, and fol
all hail from South Carolina.
! The time for which the present synd
: cate agreed to take charge of Trinity G.
'r- pires this year. The next conference wi
ds be an interesting one for our colleg
cd Something will have to be done. Seven
~ thousand Methodists of North Carolin
90 YOU are the ones to do it. Will you u
III dertake 1t
re Taking everything into consideratiO
in the slowness of some members of the 60
ference, the indifference of many Meth
dists and the opposition OF still NOR
Trinity is the best college out. There
rv no male college that is self-Sustalning, al
i'll yet Trinity still lives without endowmer
rm There is no conference nor commend
all ment that does not give birth to Immune
able bubbles in the shape of resolution
li' li' but none of them ever amounted to niue
he Why Is this Simply because gas nev
nd did do anything and never Will. 1t
Ia goes off INTO resiStleSS air The cry is
-, big men ard they can't pay the men who
'ul they have here. They want a big Pre-
OF dent. Is it just to pay a man a big pri
nd to come here when those already here ha
we not received their stipulated salaries
one finds any fault with the work bel
III. done here now The condition of the c
OF legc is better than it has been for ma
ex years We need money much worse tn
~ big men. Give us an endowment and !
the college debt, then send us all the
~ men you can haul here III tour no
the wagon.
Id, The CHRONICLE has many readers h.
cal who say it is the best paper in the Sta
-, | send you several new names Lang IL
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